What to eat in China’s TROPICAL CAPITAL?!!

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What to eat in China’s TROPICAL CAPITAL?!! | Xishuangbanna food vlog

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Hello from the beautiful, tropical, and sunny Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture!!! Loving everything about this region, the weather, the people, the food - and oh boy what a food adventure this was.
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@TomWuQ Жыл бұрын

I was in Ban Na with my mom and dad during the winter of 2020, as she completed her surgery and two chemotherapy sessions. This was the last trip I took with her, and I still miss her today.

@ben8718 Жыл бұрын

I don't know what is happening recently, but both my girlfriend's mother and my cousin's wife's mother got cancer, both chinese women in their early 60s...I have lost count on how many people around my family and their relatives and friends who got cancer just last year...so painful to go through with this.

@Heartadia Жыл бұрын

China is truly amazing. It is both an influencer and the influenced. This food looks amazingly good.

@joycegoh8628 Жыл бұрын

How interesting…. This is like a mini Thailand in China! The crackling pork, chilli dip in metal pot, sticky rice on banana leaves and night market simply remind me of Chiang Mai

@xiax1734 Жыл бұрын

This is a mini Thailand without the sea

@kimjong-un8361 Жыл бұрын

“Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century.” from wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand

@chencd4356 Жыл бұрын

他们在这里的时间，比泰国都早。可不是近代历史形成的。可以看成古老的民族，比泰国人，还传统。

@ima7333 Жыл бұрын

You certainly show in this video just how big China really is. From the cold northeast of last few weeks videos to today’s video all the to the tropic south. I mean i always know China is big and diverse but only now i realize just how big it truly is. Thank you, Amy.

@zhangalan243 Жыл бұрын

OMG welcome to my hometown! I have been watching your videos for years, and I always hope to see if one day you could visit here. YOU NOW MADE IT! I hope the next step if with your parents hahaha, I cant wait to see how your dad reacts to the 'bug' buffet.

@arafsadventures Жыл бұрын

The food looks so good 👌 That's one of the many reasons I'm in China ❤️

@jennychow9548 Жыл бұрын

Wow China is so diverse in the food or culture even in climate, interesting to see Brandi’s video.

@ningster Жыл бұрын

Who's Brandi?

@twlamSG Жыл бұрын

@@ningster Blondie's twin maybe 😂

@user-xz7hx2yc1m Жыл бұрын

Right. The South Sea is a part of a China. You are lucky or unlucky we didn't invaded your homeland 500 years ago.

@Veronica_Boer Жыл бұрын

Oh my, China is really a treasure trove for many wonderful food and cultural experiences. The food you had in this video was mind-blowing. Amy, I wish you a pleasant stay and hope for more content from this beautiful region, please...

@dylanknight8964 Жыл бұрын

I met Blondie in XingGuang market of xishuangbanna before CNY. She was looking for video contents there, finally this video comes out. Good job 👍

@dragonfly02490 Жыл бұрын

This video makes me want to visit Xishuangbanna. Thanks Amy for showing us.

@pal2011 Жыл бұрын

Dai is a transliteration of Thai, so the Dai of China are related to Thai people of Thailand. What a fun place to visit, definitely on my list. Waiting for tourist visas to China to open again...

@chencd4356 Жыл бұрын

傣族，你可以看成比泰国人还要传统的族群，不管谁早谁晚。傣族保留着，最传统古老的文化，文字，还有一些仪式。

@iWantPeace838 Жыл бұрын

Fact that the city is so close to Thailand, I can see a lot of Thai style things in your video. The food won't look out of place in a Thai restaurant neither. Tourism has truly picked up its pace in China during the CNY.

@user-vp1vl6yp9t Жыл бұрын

@Adora Tsang Yes! The border today is really a western concept. Asians don't draw their borders as precise as the westerners do.

@benwang9401 Жыл бұрын

The Dai people in China，are acually Thai, they are related.

@soonpohtay4794 Жыл бұрын

@@benwang9401 more closer to Lao ppl and Isaan ppl. Quite similar culture...

@kevinwu8751 Жыл бұрын

Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan.😂😂😂

@kevinwu8751 Жыл бұрын

@Adora Tsang Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan. Thailand was formerly part of the Dali Kingdom of China.

@juandenz2008 Жыл бұрын

Being Australian I'm not surprised you loved the BBQed Prawns ! Xishuangbanna seems like a bustling and interesting place to visit.

@fatdoi003 Жыл бұрын

so interesting to count Thai/Lao style cuisine as Chinese food as well..... i'm not sure which other country has such diverse styles of foods

@user-qv6xe7cu5e Жыл бұрын

泰国，老挝，缅甸都有傣族，云南也有很多傣族。他们有傣族风味的食物，云南也有。

@scotttan6377 Жыл бұрын

Amy's videography and editing is so well done ! China offers such diversity of cultures, geography, and architectures - mind blown for taking us to Xishuangbanna !

@taytay2046 Жыл бұрын

Xishuangbanna is my hometown. It has been over 7 years since last time I went home. I spent my whole childhood there. I can’t wait to go home this year since the COVID restriction has been lifted. I miss the food, the scenery and my family terribly. Thank you for making this video. I find out that most of introduction of my hometown is in Mandarin. Now I can finally show my husband this video. BTW if you don’t have this planned, you might want to try some local desert / drink store, like 冰冰凉，缅丽, they have many interesting desert there like 睡印椰。And there are a few very famous bbq shop in 勐海，which is very different bbq style than 景洪

@jerometsowinghuen Жыл бұрын

Ordering what the waitress recommends is a great service. Not just mind-blowing, but also appetizing from the barbecue platter, I think I am going to enjoy this.

@ningboflyer3871 Жыл бұрын

When the China-Laos railway direct-through passenger services begin, I think Amy should drop a visit to both Yunnan and Laos, that must be very interesting.

@hallee9975 Жыл бұрын

That's really cool. Reminds me a lot of Thailand, though that's not surprising since Dai and Thai are, I've been told, basically the same ethnic group.

@shanshan8129 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but actually the culture of xishuangbanna’ dai ethnic group is more similar to Myanmar’s, even the taste of food and the language is also quite similar, just different tones😂

@ishikawananda3688 7 ай бұрын

@@shanshan8129 *Shan to be exact. The Dai's here are named Lue Shan (လူးရှမ်း) in Burmese.

@a9udn9u Жыл бұрын

The food diversity in China is out of this world.

@sabrinastraveladventures4263 Жыл бұрын

Great vlog once more! I cannot wait for next vlog with this amazing night market it looked incredible Take care Sabrina🇫🇷🇬🇧

@jennifer_who Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, I should never watch your videos when I'm hungry 😭 On another note, I'd love to see what the other less touristy areas of the region are like, it must be super interesting!

@luisanthonychau Жыл бұрын

That place has a wide range of weather in different regions making it the warehouse of Chinese herbs.

@stevesenick Жыл бұрын

If you don't already.....subscribe to Dianxi Xiaoge, rural, non-touristy. Her family name is Ah, she is Ah PenJie. This is the part of Yunnan province that I love. By the way, everybody talks about Xishuangbanna's elephants, but the rain forest is also home to several rare species of almost magical wild cats!

@rabbitazteca23 Жыл бұрын

you are literally one of my favorite china vloggers in all of youtube..

@olezemin6658 Жыл бұрын

I had been Banna more than10 years ago, nice place for travelling and relaxing. Got to be there again with my family, hopefully soon.

@user-wl5ro7jj6q Ай бұрын

I love your content about ethnic food niches that we don't normally experience as visitors. More, please!

@eviejynx4550 Жыл бұрын

China is so gorgeous and cool seriously like the amount of culture is so cool

@chsu915 Жыл бұрын

i love xishuangbanna when i visited years ago. I remember the BBQ being so good that i kept going back to the vendor to buy more. super jealous of your huge platter of food. Can't wait to see your next episode.

@maradon385 Жыл бұрын

They even have the popular Indian flat bread called roti prata ( in Singapore) or roti Chennai ( Malaysia) at 10.40.

@quokkakola1722 Жыл бұрын

Your uploads are my favorite thing about Mondays 💕

@riennor1682 Жыл бұрын

Very southeast asian vibes, maybe Dai people have same ancestral roots with SEA people. Even the fried cow skin , in Indonesia, its a famous and loveable snack called rambak, 100% same. Some area like Kudus region in Java even have specialized "rambak" made from water buffalo skin. Also, you can put rambak in gulai/curry (became a dish called krecek) or boil them with clear soup, let them for some time and it will blow your mind because it will have similiar texture and flavour of fish maw (yi phiaw), maybe because of the rich collagenous tissue inside.

@miniwu66 Жыл бұрын

Amy you are so sweet and fun! it’s always so enjoyable to watch your food adventure!! ❤️

@derektoronto1 Жыл бұрын

That’s a big cup of lemon tea! Yum!

@bunnyfreakz Жыл бұрын

Xishuangbanna is underrated tourist destination. It is like smaller Bangkok but less chaotic.

@elkinshiner5066 Жыл бұрын

Wow, even the architecture resembles that of Thailand/Laos/Myanmar. Quite different from Northern China’s architecture. I’d love to go back one day.

@nepaleseinchina Жыл бұрын

Beautiful place and warm weather right now...

@tommos1 Жыл бұрын

Crazy you can go from the northern heavy spiced hearty food all the way down to zesty light thai stuff in one country.

@lexij2398 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for blessing my feed with a new video. Much needed after a long day 🎉🎉

@welcome2stp Жыл бұрын

That sauce paired with the beef skin looks so good! 🤤🤤🤤🤤 And the bbq platter looks soo yummy!

@EuroTravChannel Жыл бұрын

It is such a relaxed pleasure watching your video. The Dai food looks fabulous! Thumbs up! 👍👍👍

@winterburden Жыл бұрын

Everything looks so good, thanks for sharing!

@mandyxinchen Жыл бұрын

I had my worst food poison with Dai barbecue when I was a kid about 15 years ago😂 But the restaurant you are visiting seems nice. Hope you enjoy your trip🎉

@RespectOthers1 Жыл бұрын

Really delicious food to Dai for!😋:D

@Moksha-Raver Жыл бұрын

Wonderful humor!

@hangtuah888 Жыл бұрын

@joeyp1927 Жыл бұрын

Blondie, you have discovered a veritable food paradise! This seems like China's San Diego, with food and culture powerfully influenced by the peoples living just south of the border. Thanks for reminding us of China's diverse cultures and geography. Maybe you could zip on a train and show us the Harbin Ice Festival: now that would make viewers' heads spin! Sitting in a steamy-hot bamboo hut one day, then in an ice castle bar the very next!

@TAL142 Жыл бұрын

Good cheap food and reasonable housing prices outside the big cities.. And you can go everywhere by train or planes and even autoonmous taxi in some cities nowadays. Never thought I would say it but it would be hard to move away once you have lived in China.

@weifan9533 Жыл бұрын

The food looks very delicious and appetizing. I hope to visit Sipsong Panna someday and experience the Tai Lue culture.

@WushuTaz Жыл бұрын

4:10 This looks similar to how Thai's make somtum. Makes sense since it's pretty close to Laos and Thailand.

@yogaterapi802 Жыл бұрын

Amy, the Dai foods seem similar as Thai foods, even there is a Tae tea (Thai tea) coffee shop. Great video! Always healthy, happy and success! GBU 🙏🏻👍🏻😍

@jamesz5816 Жыл бұрын

Do you also feel that Dai and Thailand have similar pronunciations? Yes, your instinct is correct.

@multiplierfx6429 Жыл бұрын

I'm guessing Dai IS Thai.

@benwang9401 Жыл бұрын

@@multiplierfx6429 exactly

@kevinwu8751 Жыл бұрын

@@multiplierfx6429 Thailand itself was founded by Dai chiefdoms from Yunnan. Thailand was formerly part of the Dali Kingdom of China.

@samyang5873 Жыл бұрын

Travel , Explore , Seeing , Tasting , Interaction , Learning , this is the BEAUTY OF LIFE ❤✨🎇🎆!!! Cheers !!! 🍻

@cc-rz7er Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Always looking forward to your videos!!! The food looks delicious!!!!! I miss traveling so much!!!!!

@tue1981 5 ай бұрын

I married at Tai Lue Sipsongpanna woman in 1996. Loved your video, thought you nailed it by saying that the food was a mixture of herbaly, peppery/spicy, and sour. My brother-in-law and his wife are really good cooks. Lived in N. Thailand 19 years, in the north so more sour food than sweet trending Bangkok fare.

@VeePixie-i8x 5 ай бұрын

I love love sticky rice with mok het, kao karb, and keb moo. I grew up eating this in my Lao culture. This looks amazing and I need to go visit this place.

@fancyname9909 Жыл бұрын

How can you not get fat after eating so much good food episode after episode... Incredible! You are beautiful! Keep up the excellent work. ❤

@beatsmanvan 4 ай бұрын

if you're looking for the nanmi dip/sauce, search for 'nanpie' instead. took a while to figure that one out. also, it's a pretty broad term, it's basically a catch-all for all sauces within the dai flavor profile of sour, sweet, acidic, herbaceous and pungent. if you make something in a mortar and pestle and it ticks those boxes, you can call it nanpie.

@whisper6330 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been binge watching your content since last night, I’ve been looking for ages for a channel just like yours - instantly subscribed,

@timberlyobrianz Жыл бұрын

Here in Africa starving watching blondie Making me salivate 🤤

@annieberry4008 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 🤤 video! Everything looks yummy 🤤

@user-fd8tj8zn4z 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Looking forward to go there in January

@newperspective5918 Жыл бұрын

I saw Xishuangbannan and I thought, well you better get yourself some Pu'er Amy! And so happy you did :) . I am hoping to go visit some day, so many nice Pu'er mountains in Xishuangbannan like Pasha, Yiwu, Jingmai and Bulang.

@yuqin405 Жыл бұрын

It is about your creativity of putting any two things together or everything together.

@watcharadachoponchai8545 9 ай бұрын

As a Thai, how could I never heard of this region in China! So eye opening. I am sure to visit it at least once in my life.

@vincenteng7473 Жыл бұрын

Looks like that place would be a great place to visit. Looking forward to that next video.

@KeepLearing 2 ай бұрын

Girl, you were born to do this ❤

@Zerpentsa6598 Жыл бұрын

China is so diverse and fascinating. Chinese are so lucky.

@mrkenwu1 Жыл бұрын

Hi Amy! We've missed you! Nice to see you again and knowing that you are safe and well!

@mingdynasty3852 Жыл бұрын

Explore Kunming ,visit Spring City Golf and Lake Resort in Kunming.

@VerhoevenSimon Жыл бұрын

Some interesting foods, and some sunshine in the winter must have been a treat.

@thethirstypig3601 Жыл бұрын

Just found your YT channel. And I am thoroughly impressed with your Chinese and your openness to trying to foods and culture. Keep on truckin'! (or youtubing!)

@asl6304 Жыл бұрын

Everything looked so tasty!

@alexgaoding2800 Жыл бұрын

Actually Dai people are the Thai people, they are the same ethic group, that's also why 傣(Dai) and 泰（Thai) look similar. You may find out that lots foods look the same with Thai food.

@kevinwu8751 Жыл бұрын

Just a country that was carved out of China during its weakness

@weifan9533 Жыл бұрын

@@kevinwu8751 Nope, much of Thailand had never been under the direct control of any kingdom that had historically being located in China. The Dali kingdom only ruled the northern fringes of SE Asia.

@EricChien95 Жыл бұрын

@@kevinwu8751 uh... fuck off, we did officially recognize 郑昭 as the King of Siam. This is not the same case as territory that were carved away by the eight nation alliance.

@ishikawananda3688 7 ай бұрын

Sort of related, both are from the southwestern Tai bench but Dai is similar to Shan & Lao rather than Thai.

@Woodland26 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for showing a part of China that I have never seen before.

@barbaray3961 Жыл бұрын

Really good video. Another place added to my bucket list

@BenjiSun Жыл бұрын

This all lookss amazing!

@seamusobrien2675 Жыл бұрын

Looks very different, I wounder how hard or not is the region to get to and where from? Yum Yum and thanks for your unending positive orientation to all things China. Whatever can be done to lessen political tensions should be, because it is the ordinary people who always suffer most.

@antiemtran Жыл бұрын

Love u blondiiieeee!!!!! We watch ever week ~ see you next week😊

@BigTravelBigFood Жыл бұрын

The BBQ looks delicious. Can't go wrong with shaokao

@user-wv1rk3mc8d Жыл бұрын

China is amazing，there are Thai style，korean style and lots of other ethnic groups

@huili3088 Жыл бұрын

I miss when Amy used to due content other than food. Because every time I watch your new videos it's always so late at night here and I just get so hungry!

@peterkramar6555 Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@martinebonita2658 Жыл бұрын

Didn't she just do a video about cycling? And hiking with her boyfriend? Lol...

@jliu2397 Жыл бұрын

Finally, welcome to Yunnan, the best place in China

@user-wp8gi9ck8q Жыл бұрын

老外闷逼了，到底有多少个中国最好的地方？😅

@user-be7mz4ju1y Жыл бұрын

哈哈哈哈，各有特色，很难分胜负，哈哈哈哈哈，全是最好。

@garluns Жыл бұрын

I’m drooling 🤤

@yunyunchang4 Жыл бұрын

keep the great work!

@Yuxuan2016 Жыл бұрын

视频质量太高了❤

@MandyCaputo Жыл бұрын

That was a nice vid'. I mean; Holy moly!

@shirleywang425 Жыл бұрын

love you video style!!

@chengdelee3078 Жыл бұрын

I want to go too

@JaniceWithTheTarlovCyst Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, you made me so hungry! I'm eating a veggie burger on a stale bun and it's not appetising in the least. Cow skin sounded delicious as did everything else. Thanks for these beautiful food vlogs; it's a highlight of my day when you upload. Sorry if there's any typos, I just got a new phone and it's giving me grief 😂

@jessiezhu9692 Жыл бұрын

You’re finally in Yunnan🎉 I’m from Kunming the capital city of Yunnan. Yunnan has a lot to offer food wise. Hope you enjoy your trip there!

@junruibeto8989 Жыл бұрын

Hey Amy, Yunnan also produces coffee beans now! Thanks to the adequate sunshine in that region, the coffee beans have great quality. I highly recommend you to try it!

@ExpatNatt Жыл бұрын

This waitress has good taste clearly 😅 looks amazing! ❤

@hangtuah888 Жыл бұрын

The fought a war to stop slavery. Do you want to bring it back?

@EricChien95 Жыл бұрын

@@hangtuah888 wtf? what does that have to do with what he said

@tyw1444 Жыл бұрын

very big northern Thai vibes here!!

@oneplanetearth Жыл бұрын

wOw AMAZING China ✌✌✌

@user-xq8qx6bg2j Жыл бұрын

❤Hi Amy, I know your mates Nico, (who is drying out in Auckland,) and Jack, (probably freezing his rear off in UK, ) will almost be green with envy of your environment as well as your sumptuous food. Well, you’ve got it.. just flaunt it. We are all dying with envy.😱🤢🤢🌷🌷😘😘

@dingdanny5745 Жыл бұрын

Nico and Jack will back to China this year.

@liamporter1137 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@josephchan888 Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the episode, well done Amy

@bingli8775 Жыл бұрын

Yes, the Ethnic "Dai" in China actually share the same ancestor with "Thai" in Thailand. They are same Ethnic group. Similar, the Ethnic group "Ke Er Ke Zi 柯尔克孜族" actually is the same Ethnic group with "Kyrgyz " in Kyrgyzstan. The Ethnic "Sa La 撒拉族" is the same Ethnic group with "Turkmen" in Turkmenistan etc. etc. There are many other examples as well.

@roberttan6418 Жыл бұрын

Very similar to the south east Asian countries.. The weather, the culture and the food is so SE Asian.

@vinniekay0967 2 ай бұрын

Must have missed this episode ! First time hearing about this part of China, and it's Definitaly a 'crossover' cuisine! Heavily influenced by the neigboring countries 😉 Also nice 2 C U eating the whole prawns, i like them best that way too..