Why Do Chinese People Seem to Eat 'Everything'? - Why Chinese (E1) 

If Adam and Eve were Chinese they would have eaten the snake. And we would still be in paradise.

Alien life: exists China: If something's back is facing the sky, it's for people to eat.

But you have to remember that china mostly eat Pork, beef, chicken and duck meat. It's really the basics of Chinese cuisine the rest is quite exotic even for Chinese people!

" I'm eating a murdered turtle right now " bruh ... Almost everything non veg you eat is murdered.

1:19: "to try some common Chinese dishes". Then the video shows snake soup. I am Chinese and grew up in China. I don't and won't eat snake soup. If I ask other Chinese people around me, I can guarantee you that people who are interested in or like eating snake soup won't be higher than 1%.

They forgot to mention the mass starvation during the People's Revolution in the Mao Communist Era. People had no choice but to eat insects and rats to survive.

I sometimes think it was due a famine that caused people to do the extreme into eating other animals for survival. Then they found out it is good so they made it into a delicacy.

You are missing a huge factor in Geography, it's the limitation of protein sources in China. Chinese has less arable land than European/American per capita, unlike vast plains in Europe, only about 1/3 of Chinese lands are plains. This means very few lands can be allocated for animal product industry, the rest are all used to grow foods people eat. Therefore it's natural to find alternative protein sources we view as "exotic" today. It's a similar story all across the world, you can find snail in French cuisine, camel in Dubai, alpaca meat in southern America, etc.

Some people here seem to skip every "most of Chinese people eat pork, beef and chicken like americans" part for some reasons.

7:45 Ignorance? But dogs are eaten in China. There's actually an annual Lychee and Dog Meat Festival or Yulin Dog Festival during which thousands of dogs are eaten. Just because you're embarrassed by it doesn't make it not true.

i have mad respect for your visual team for making this a lot more interesting

Most of us eat wild animals. In Sweden we eat moose, reindeer (wild-reared though owned and tended by the Sami), different kinds of deer, birds, all kinds of aquatic creatures from fish to molluscs. Lobster is a delicacy around the world. The fact that China has a diverse fauna and has gone through long stretches of famine only means that they have has a chance to try and learn to appreciate/tolerate a more diverse diet.

I’m Chinese and I’m a Northerner! We don’t eat those weird things at all! Also my mom is from western minority region so she eats mostly lamb and beef instead of pork. China is a really big and diverse region so please don’t generalize us.🙏🙏🙏

Some stuffs is meant to shock you. Like turtle jelly. Most likely just Chinese herbs. Turtle jelly are quite expensive. The stuffs you see at a local Chinese supermarket is just Chinese herbs with very little or none of it. And fried scorpions on a stick are for tourists. Locals (I’ve seen them in old Shanghai) don’t eat them.

China is huge, and the culture, diverse. China is more like a civilization rather than a modern nation state. Languages vary from region to region, so do food and customs. In this vast land mass, everything is possible. I am Chinese but Russian ethnicity, one of the 55 minorities.

It’s like some Australian eat kangaroos and some Swedish eat wild moose. What’s hard to understand?????

I mean, if you go to rural areas, even in the US, they eat more "unusual" meats, compared to beef, pork and poultry. Some areas, even in the US, they eat horse, iguana, and alligator, which sound pretty odd to me.

"I am eating a murdered turtle right now" In his normal dinner: "I am eating a murdered pig/cow/chicken/lamp/fish/shrimp/abalone/crab/lobster right now"

Easily the weirdest people on earth

What is she talking about “born out of ignorance” ? It is an absolute fact Cat and Dog is eaten in China and has been forever There are tons of videos of their meat markets

Every country have a taste for weird things. If your starving, you’ll forage for anything that walk, crawl, fly, burrow... Why is it only now that this is news? People who live and eat these things are immune to their environment. Why now? What changed?

I remember trying gator tail in Arkansas, moose in Alaska and my grandfather liking rattlesnake. I think people eat interesting stuff all over the place (and that’s not necessarily a problem imo,) China just happens to be the scapegoat due to COVID, historical and current racism. I was so ready to be upset with this video, but found myself pleasantly surprised at how informative it was.

As someone from Asia I am particularly interested in a periodic history of diseases with ties to consumption of wild or non domesticated species

How ironic when people talking about freedom of speech cant really understand cultural difference

when you have 5000 years of unbroken civilization, you're bound to try everything at least once.

And for me, it's because of the famine they experienced, they learned to eat everything they can find.

Japan and Korea eat just as much weird and exotic food, and Southeast Asia too (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia)

That Chinese saying is a Guangdong saying. I lived there for 8 years. "Chinese people don't eat dog" isn't true. Saying that SOME Chinese people eat dog, that's accurate.

Disappointing reasons. Read Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter. Chinese eat everything because they had a prolonged history of starvation.

It should be mentioned that some food habits might be result of the last decades of poverty in China. My parents tell me that before they immigrated, their lifestyle back then wasn't nice at all. The access to the common meats that we know now was hard, so mostly of the families ate what they could get in the wild (farm rats, snake, pangolins, etc.) and some were self raised animals that they even get to consider as PET. The traditional medicines teaching was also a primary reason to eat this meat because back then (30-40 years ago) the access to modern medicines was also difficult, so it was easier for most family to try traditional ways which was a more available method to treat their health matters. Nowadays the traditional medicines methods is still very ingrained in chinese traditions so some people still consume these meats. And also, after they have tried other ingredients that have resulted to be a delicacy, it is not strange that nowadays there are still some foreigners considered strange meats eating habits in Chinese culture.

I think another reason that there are many kinds of food that Chinese people eat is that the population pressure in China has always been relatively large, and ancient times has always been a farming society. Therefore, we need to find more sources of food, grow many edible plants, and also we are very good at cooking. Another point is that this year China has issued a new policy to change dogs from domestic animals to pets (i.e. forbidden to eat). This is also to respect the values of other countries in the world. Do hope we can understand and respect each other more.

I won't argue but Chinese did have the capability to cook everything tasting good.

It's totally ok to eat anything in my opinion as long as its not any kind of endangered species. Better to eat hunted deer than pre-packaged pork chops from your supermarket, filled with antibiotics and cruel farming conditions. The only thing we have to make sure that markets are kept clean and enough hygiene is in place. I heard a virologist talk about how keeping specific kinds of animal species near to each (that would for example not live in the same habitat) other can spread viruses between them.

I ate some cool stuff in China, the Chinese guy I was with said, "Chinese don't eat that, it just for tourists" when I ate a rat. It wasn't as good as the tarantula.

This video was very informative especially the medicinal and religious element that are not widely understood in westernised countries because we have lost those values from colonisation. People here at home in New Zealand can be very ignorant about other people's culture and food. I follow many popular Chinese food vloggers and you can see that food is a 'treasure' from the land or water to the plate. Yes there are strange things in the wet market that I haven't seen the vloggers I follow cooking, now maybe I can understand they might be for medicine or a regional delicacy, I know food is very different region to region. The main thing I get from this is don't be a racist 'betch' about it, which I wasn't to begin with.

not just chinese, but korean, vietnamese, phelepines and more other countres

China had a mass starvation back in the 60's. Millions were reported death. And people would have to resorted any possible way to find food. That had passed on to the survivors for open mind about their food source. Even though i am a vegetarian but I can understand how they come about.

“A new disgusting animal exists” China: time for dinner

"If something's back face the sky. It is for people to eat" Me ( Who Sleeps lying on his stomach) to chinese girls : You know what~ I am pretty hot.

Australians eat kangaroo, Peruvian eat guinea pigs, Floridians eat alligator, French eat snails, Thai eat ants. Culture is crazy.

Honestly I am Chinese and I agree to some parts of the video but food is food? The dog and bat,etc eating is a bit weird for me BUT there was a famine when my mom's parents were younger and there was NO food so eating your pets was acceptable. I really like eating sea cucumbers and some "exotic" foods but to assume every Chinese person is "barbaric" and eats dog and bats is horrible.I would never eat a bat. But the fact that everyone is pointing at Chinese people for eating "weird" food is just racism bc A TON of countries have their own "exotic" food but it seems like bc of the COVID-19 China is bad.Wait. Its not even the fact chinese people eat everything which caused this pandemic but everyone transmitted it to each other.

It is awful to think why we still try control people's minds and bodies according to imperialistic point of views. People in China eat a varied diet because throughout history in many moments due to poverty and food scarcity wild foods were the ones available. Because of that they learned to prepared these foods and regularly consume it. It's funny that many people are quick to point the health risks of game meat while ignoring the proved risks of high-processed foods, of pesticides or industrial foods that can also be contaminated and cause deaths. This is a war on culture identity and not food safe issue. Other populations in Africa and South America also ate wild animals and they are also mocked, accused and offended for doing it.

Thank you for sharing the Chinese perspective on so many sensitive topics. I do not necessarily agree with everything but I do value learning about Chinese culture and opinions!

Really strange..vast geography means eating anything..if somebody from desert says this..I can agree..also medicine can also be made from a vast variety of plants..and nobody is killed..we call it ayurveda :)

So for them (Chinese) basically if it cast a shadow it's good to eat.

A chinese man heard the story of Noah's ark and thought a new buffet had opened up

I remember I head to learn about western cuisine fast so I would have a defense when the kids made fun of my lunches. I would ask them what bolonga and hotdogs were made of, or that blood pudding, bread pudding, haggis exited and sauerkraut was just "spoiled" cabbage. I'd ask them why would they eat raw eggs, or vegetables that were not cooked, or slurp oysters, pickled eggs or ask them if they've ever seen the type of fish their fish sticks came from or what part of the chicken was a chicken nugget, but by far if they said eating an animal for all its parts was disgusting and i was hurting an animal, I'd ask them why Americans would throw and waste all these parts of the animal and only eat the meat part. Needless to say I would get in trouble for defending my culture and "mad mouthing" theirs, and they never got into trouble, even when one threw my lunch into the garbage three days in a row. Grade school was a riot back in the 90s.

Here are three exceptions in which in any culture or people that should be universally applied when it comes to eating: 1.) Boiling/Cooking animals alive, regardless of place or region is pretty unethical if you ask me. At least have the decency to kill the animal first before eating it. 2.) Endangered animals should NEVER be eaten especially if you are trying conserve wildlife. 3.) Sanitation

Sees animal World :- how cute China :- yumm

Thank you for doing all the research and putting together these series. I have watched two so far. They are fascinating and enlightening.

The thing is that bats are notorious disease carriers. That's why people don't eat them.

Very very very rare of us eat bats. Lots of us eat snakes. Some of us eat dogs. Bad tradition and meaningless to eat some many kinds of different wild animals. I am now living in NZ, people also eat wild deer and boar(caught by themselves). The main problem is not eat them but selling them in the market. It is not legal in China but lack of supervision.

America Only eats Burgers.... as long as we don't see what the burger is made of right?? OR know for that fact. LOL

So why does Americans eats rare bloody beef?

Let's hope they tone it down a bit after the bat incident

Cherokee people, we do too...but we don't have a high population.

I eaten most of these just growing up here in the midwest of America. Food is food and when your hungry you eat anything. Great subject hard for most to get there head around sumthings.

Everyone talking about why Chinese people eat everything, but I'm more interested in the ASMR keyboard clacking sounds, damn those switches sound good.

Snake and gator is delicacy in Florida , go to Indonesia they eat bats too

This channel is so underrated it deserves more attention.

As a Chinese, I would like to say there might be a small portion of people feeling curious about trying something like snakes, bats, insects, etc., but the food are absolutely strange for most people. People around me never eat those.

we don't eat everything we havent eaten aliens yet and planets

Not to mention, bat, dog, cat, turtle, etc also as delicacies in Indonesia.

I'm Eurasian and grew up with a foot in each culture .... Europeans eat *blue cheese* and things like lampreys, they really don't have a leg to stand on in criticizing Chinese cuisine.

Barbaric? Excuse moi? When Chinese using fork and knifes and the west were still use their hands... when Chinese using chopsticks and the west started to use fork and knifes... Chinese people switched for chopsticks because they think using knifes at dinning table is not polite and considered as barbaric.

Why? It’s because they’ve experienced thousands of years of conflicts and famine and starvation. So they’ve had thousands of years to develop ways to survive. They’ll survive way longer than closed minded westerners who will die if any significant catastrophe comes to earth.

Just because of their culture or whatever we are suffering from covid, I lost my relatives and I was also suffering from this disease and still I feel weakness.

Its almost as if culture shock exists...

This video is so education... i hope racist , verbal abuse and killing case will reduce

We should not discriminate. People started eat everything partly due to poverty. Then it evolved to culture. Later it became commercialisation. The question I would asked is not why it started, but rather the demands for their long existence. If we dropped the demands collectively, I reckon the supply will ceased eventually. If you don’t buy, there won’t be supply.

Thanks China for gifting us COVID-19

I once heard a saying that goes : "in China, we eat anything that has legs, except chairs & tables... and anything with wings, except aeroplanes" LOL

Which I understand that depends on which part of China and depending that region of food source. People gotta survive right? So what you have than what you eat!

Bruh “I’m eating a murdered turtle right now” most animals that you eat were murdered

The style of editing in this video is so unique.

I grew up in China, but all the foods such as snake or turtle, I don't know where to get them, never saw in my life. My hometown is in Northwest.

i always find it baffling when people yell at random asian people who dont eat any "exotic" meats yet in different parts of america they eat possum, snake, alligator, horse etc.

that ROC flag in vid!!

Imagine someone eating a bear

One time I was in a Mexican restaurant in NY,and a waiter asked me where I was from, and I told him I was Chinese, then he asked me, do you Chinese people like to eat mice🥲

I can't continue read the comments 😤😤 So racist...I don't have more words

They eat everything literally and some of you justify with "Oh certain people here eat this then certain people there eat that". Open your goddamn eye. Those Chinese are literally devouring everything that's breathing

少数人吃这些东西，大多数人都不吃的，我看见蛇会害怕😨

The only "weird food", I eat us century eggs. They must be paired with pickled ginger or rice porridge so it won't have smelly taste to it.

They eat anything and everything alive

As long as you are breeding certain things you consume, there's far less risk involved with consumption of a given species. The issue then stems from the diseases that have been breeding in a given kind of creature up until it is domesticated. For that reason, a bit of research can make many animals safe to eat by eliminating the diseases they have, and might spread into the human population. But whether or not you are alright with eating animals, or would just prefer they live free, wild lives, that pool of disease is still there, still unexplored, and canceled out (like we've nearly canceled out polio), and so, whether you domesticate them, or not, the risks will remain until studied and removed. My question for you guys is what are your thoughts on stories involving people in the mountains eating wolf berries and living to ridiculously old ages? Do you know how that kind of thing might work?

when you put this question as your video title, i can totally understand it's full of bias for chinese people, my chinese friend don't eat cat, dog and snake, on the contrary my friend who is from vietnam eats cat, same , Chinese can't understand why European like blue cheese,

Okay... So Chinese people eating everything is a stereotype. But it is true that a small portion of Chinese people will consume exotic meat at some point in their lives whereas the rest of the world survives on beef, pork, and chicken. Wow, those Chinese are really brave and smart because eating a diverse range of food is actually really good for you. Though, I think they should invest to clean up wet markets so there is more stringent health and safety protocols to that blood contamination from other animals are less likely, assuming if Wuhan is wanting to continue their operations.

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Great video man

In Iran we have Asian Cheetah, Leopard, Lion, Flamengo and many other animals but we do not eat them. its not about culture its about respecting the enviorment and nature, staple meat in Iran is beef, chicken and lamb and fish other meats are not consider "delicacy" or other excuses.

Occam's Razor: Poverty = less accessibility to meats like pork, beef, chicken, ducks. Hunger drives people to eat things they would normally not prefer to. That's how people get used to eating bugs and stuff over time. The food may look intimidating, HOWEVER, the Chinese are creative in the culinary arts and make almost anything palatable or even the best thing you've tasted in your life.

I'm Chinese and I don't eat everything!i eat normal people food .

I always wonder why some Americans eat wild boar, squirrel, turkey, and bison. It’s just difference in culture and history,

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

China: I eat everything Everycountry: Yeah i bet you also eat stuff like Iron or Wooden 😂

What a lame excuse to justify their nasty habits

Not just Chinese, Indonesian also eat weird food and Japanese can eat anything that is moving in the ocean.

I have no problem as long as it's clean I just wish Some people would be more thorough with checking for diseases it has before gobbling it down and that goes for every country.

My wife who is Chinese said that Chinese will eat anything with legs...... except for a table..Peace and JaYoe