It’s more like the first Chinese MRE. It’s time consuming to cook rice in the field and it’s hard to travel with them. The Japanese pirates were constantly on the move so in order to keep up with them the Chinese army made the guang-bing in advance and carried them with strings.
Yeah that's what I just thought!! I was about the comment the same thing mentioning how similar this concept is to a modern day MRE used by militia. But then I saw ur comment while scrolling down through the comments.😊
@@icodestuff6241 Qi JiGuang famously defended the coast of “south” China, it’s in the video. 0:44 Guangbin is also considered a southeastern Chinese cuisine, because of Qi JiGuang’s campaign down there. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Jiguang
@@fajarsetiawan8665 Uhhh chewy? Based on you name, you're Indonesian, right? As Indonesian, you should know that this kind of baking method produce a hard bread. Know about bakpia? Nopia? Etc. These stuffs are hard. Not soft bakery. It's weird if you never know about bakpia or nopia and this kind of baking technique if you're Indonesian. Edit: plus, just watch this video. It clearly not a soft bread. It's hard bread. Crispy outside and hard inside. Not spongy.
@@DBT1007 yes, is a bit chewy We have those in flores island, if you go to Labuan bajo you should try it, but careful if you don't eat pork, some bagel(kompiang) have pork inside
I used to see these sold in my hometown when I was a kid, and my dad loved to tell the same story 😂. I’m surprised to see this featured here, since it’s very regional and old fashioned. I’m not sure if kids nowadays even had this. Thanks for sharing this. Brings me back to my childhood
A little more clarity in the story would be great. The Wakou or Wokou, literally Japanese pirate, were a group of pirates comprised of multi-ethnicity from Japan, Korea, South East Asia but mostly, Chinese. Earlier Wokou were mainly poor Japanese islanders who took advantage of Mongol invasion to raid poorly defended coastline. These pirates were poor people turning to banditry to survive then thrived. Their end didn't come just from the Ming's success against them, but also from the Japanese lords subjugating their bases from their islands, eliminating their hideouts. Their encounter was also the opposite. Fearing the Ming main force, the Wokou were evading their pursuit by looking out for cooking fire at night and continue raiding. They were recorded to have the advantage of bringing salted rice balls with them for mobility. The Chinese responded by adopting military ration, these Guangbing, so their soldiers can avoid lighting fire for cooking and carry ration with them.
We call them Kompia or Kompyang here in Indonesia. Why ? Because it originates from Hokkien-speaking Fuzhou and most of our ethnic Chinese originates from that particular region. So we are more familiar with their Hokkien name (Kong Pia) instead of their Mandarin name (Guang Bing)
@@justinxplayz2863 lol he did not said the n word but a similar word to the n word and also that comment i make was meant to be a joke notice the "XD" there
I went to that place and buy it on the way to the airport from China to Boston. And then my family drive a 1 hour way home to Maine. And I bring 70 Bagles to my school to my team. I even got graded for that because I talk about what are these for.
Btw on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year in 15xx, Japanese Pirates invaded Town of Fuan and slaughtered every single person within the city wall. To this day, every year, the second day of Chinese New Year, people of Fuan stayed at home and paid respects to the dead,
ThatOneAsianBroChick I'm Japanese. I don't see myself disrespecting any other culture. Please, if *you're* going to disrespect *my* country, my culture, tell me a reason why you would think that all of us would suddenly stand up for any disgusting act.
At my place Sarawak, they are known as kompyang. But with meat. I had eat some at Sarikei where my mother taking me to the a restaurant. But my own hometown, Sri Aman, wasn't have any of these. Only at Sibu and Sarikei have them but I recommend any of you to try both regional kompyang.
I love this cause i from the place where this was made the first time. There are 2 types of this Guang bing and seeweed guang bing so yum Btw when i went to fuzhou i ate this everyday breakfast
Interesting. Somewhat similar to traditional bagels minus the boiling. Is there any evidence which suggests the european bagel descended from this similar to pasta?
@@jonahs92 where do you think European Jewish names came from? Does my full last name Rosenzweig sound Israeli or middle eastern to you? They're german. Check yourself.
@@sydrose13 I'm well aware. But Jews aren't European. Many Jews were forced to live in Europe for several millennia. They aren't, and have never been, European. They're Middle Easterners. Hence, bagels are a Middle Eastern food.
dude it kinda looks like the love child of a macaron a donut and then it's step dad was a bagel who tried to be relatable the bagel went to work comes home to his macaron wife and his step son now the macaron donut never associated with bagel but bagel tried and tried but he was still shunned by his step son
When I first saw the title I thought the Chinese made bagels too hard that you could throw them as weapons. Yes, I imagined a war scenario where Japanese pirates got bagels to their heads.
I love how great big story makes this kinda stuff so interesting. I've been in China for 2 years now and they have this kinda stuff & these kinda stories everywhere man. To me it sounds like a big heap of crap from some poor baker, but it's quite interesting in this video! ( we are talking about local lake ghosts because people drowned there etc.. )
