HUGE thanks to Patrick for joining me for today's video! You can follow his RU-vid Channel here: youtube.com/@patrickkoellmerinchina?si=XJ7TJEtrOaqcbwY8
It’s super interesting seeing the Chinese-ified version of all these Korean dishes (although not sure if they’re more North Korean style vs South Korean style) It all looks so delicious! Really want to visit now.
Yanji feels so far away all the way to Korea, but I didn't realize there was so much food and would love to have the opportunity to experience it. I also grew up in the north, in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the local mutton, snacks siu mai, including milk tea are different from the south, with Mongolian characteristics, meat is abundant, welcome Amy and Yuxiang to visit！😊
in the southern tip of yunnan province.. we have the dai people...the original dai (thai people) that ancestors remained in China regardless of wars on mainland China during the mongol invasion in the 1300-1400s. At harbin, we used to have lots of russian refugees that escaped lenin revolution that toppled the russian empire..there are still some russian with Chinese citizenship at the north eastern provinces of China, also some at xinjiang..russians + tartars.
Many of these cuisines are very reminiscent of traditional Korean cuisines where you mix in the rice with the crab inners or food wrapped with lettuce or other kinds of leaves. Also the mijiu is the same as the Korean Makgeolli rice wine where it is also drink from bowl. I guess none of these should be surprising considering the location proximity to Korea. You can also get many of these similar cuisines in South Korea as well.
yueah, there are literally millions of ethnic Koreans that live on the Chinese side of the border, to the extent that as she said it is an autonmous prefecture. The long history of Koreans in China is very interesting, including that more recently, during the 20th c. the Korean resistance to Japanese occupation ended up becoming based in Norther China.
korean culture is closely related to Chinese cultures. The son learn alot from the father. problem start when the son start claiming that its all theirs and the father (chinese) copying 'their' cultures.
This vid literally makes me drool and smile at the same time!! So glad that you and Patrick showed us how varied and distinctive food in Northeast China is!! I'm planning to make a trip there soon and your vid is so gonna be my guide when I'm there!! Apparently, another draw is how cheap and cost-effective eating out is in Dongbei!! As a Chinese, I'm so jealous of all your food adventures across China. Thanks for all the great vids so that I can live and eat vicariously with you!!~lol
@@Crystalbomb321 No it's because the people making this food are literally ethnically korean... Do you think there's Korean writing everywhere in this video for no reason?
The crab reminded me of our great meal at Harry’s Walsh Bay crab restaurant. I wanna go again!!! So yum. This is not an ad but I’m happy to be sponsored 😂 Can’t wait to do some food adventures with you again
Oh damnnnnnn! I have kept saying this quite a while ago whenever I saw an Amy’s food vlog of Changchun or Dongbei. I even commented once under one these videos like “so shocking that you’re based in Changchun but still have NOT been to Yanji which’s in the same province and Yanji is one of the most popular, if not THE most popular city of having amazing food in the trio provinces of Dongbei! And yes again, Yanji is my hometown.
the thing about yanbian is that a lot of cuisines were brought back from south korea as a lot of chinese koreans went to work in south korea in the past decades. i grew up on the countryside (收登站) in jilin city at my grandparents and they were surrounded by korean neighbors. i grew up playing with their kids around my age, and when i went back to visit my grandpa this year after covid, all the korean neighbors were gone, and i been told ALL of them moved to south korea, like all members of the families. Crazy! but I was hoping to see some of my childhood friends, but well.
I felt like halfway through the episode it switched to Korean Englishman and I missed it. Naengmyeon, maekgolli, bo ssam. I mean I know you said the Chinese words for all of these but like, that's a Korean meal. Awesome.
well even native speakers have grammar, spelling, and all other sorts of issues in their own language to master. Amy is phenomenal not just for her language mastery (which is incredible) but for her genuine love and respect for the locals she connects with.
It was very interesting to see Chinese cuisine with North Korean influence (cold noodles) and Korean influence like the ssam (lettuce wraps). Amy got it right with the one bite ssam! 🙌
Really great video showing different food from Yanji! I’d love to try them all! Especially that prawn/rice/seaweed combo haha also Patrick is so handsome I instantly subbed to his channel😂🥹
This is all Korean food! The lettuce wrap is called saahm, the corn drink is called makoli, and usually more like 11% alcohol. It’s rice wine. Your bottle even had it spelled out in English! This is so interesting! The cold spicy noodles is bibim myun. The cold one that ur used to is probably neng myun. This is so interesting! 🤯
I am from a nearby city called Tonghua ,those sea food are from Russian, that crab is called snow crab.Yangji has lots of amazing food there,but the price is a bit expensive compare to my city
i like how he was so uncomfortable speaking english in the other video and now hes used to it lol patrick your german accent is fine dont be embarrassed ;)
Gosh, that food looked so good! Here in Hawaii Korean restaurants serve a cold noodle called "naengmyeon," which comes with a soup (spicy or not) made with shaved ice. It looks just like you the noodles you had and is so refreshing in our hot climate. I see someone mentioned it below....I always order it with the bulgogi he also mentioned, which comes sizzling on a cast iron plate with sliced onions...yummy!
As far as I can tell, the shells used to hold the meat are actually reusable. They are like plates. They won’t give the food on it a different taste.😂 I once saw this kind of thing on Taobao.
It's interesting that the bao fan restaurant chooses to display the number of years it's been open as opposed to simply the year it was opened. They must have to pay to have the sign changed annually haha
Watching this while I’m having dinner in my uni dorm, and I realised how much I miss having seafood rice bowl, a staple dish in my hometown. Now I’m studying in the UK, and we hardly have any fresh seafood at the locals :(
Yeahhhh my Chinese is better then my English that is true 😂😂😂 over the years of making so much content in Chinese a got really comfortable of using Chinese to describe everything
Whenever I was in China, I always ordered sea crab boiled in plain water; any ingredients, especially anything with a strong flavor, mask the true natural flavor of the crab meat.
