Imagine a Chinese soldier walking up to a wounded Japanese pirate while looking down on them and munching on bread.

I grew up in this town (Fuan) and packed 10 of these things for long school hike....

I’m just imagining a soldier eating his bagel necklace while fighting a Japanese soldier 😅

Japanese pirate: *stealing* Chinese soldier: "hey, what're you trying to do?" *munches off bread necklace*

1:35 Who else wants a bread necklace? 😃

Ok but can we just take a solid minute to appreciate how *smooth* these things are?!

You say Chinese bagel, I say European Guangbing

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.

That looks like the most perfect 'bagel' I have ever seen. Wish I could try one guang bing

Fyi, the original version is a bit harder, so it will stay for longer

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

1:13 when my friends be acting up

No wonder why it won a war, that bagel looks so good

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.

“General, how will we ever defeat these pirates?” *B R E A D N E C K L A C E*

Pov: you keep watching it over and over because of how smooth the bagel looks.

The bagel effect

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)

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,

thanks to the person who still makes guang bing. hopes guang bing continues forever

Imagine being a Japanese soilder and seeing a bunch of soldiers with bread necklaces run towards you 😭💀

I just want to say congratulations on the documentary, its fantastic.

"Oh no...." "What is it Captain?" "They've unleashed their secret weapon.." *Chinese Bakery: Grand Opening*

I just love how the owner explain his bagels❤

I thought the title meant “Letting a bagel sit for 500 years can save ur life” Thx for 100 likes

1:13 "he said it!"

I love bagels, never heard this history before. Thank you!

The bagel effect.

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.

The mystery of the hole in the middle of a donut / bagel has been solved.

"Wait, what the hell? Is that a literal.. uhm. 'Bagel' necklace?" "Yes."

He sounds like he’s speaking on a radio

“it’s shiny it round it has a hole in the middle” best way to explain

that bagel hit the spot

i cant stop watching the videos, really interesting and fun too!

Huang has such an awesome personality

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.

Love it keep on making it!

“Bagel” -Sun Tzu art of war

They kinda look like doughnuts 🍩

"An army marches on its stomach" ( Napoleon Bonaparte - France).

Beautiful storytelling

This Video's Animation and sound effects are priceless. Makes the video so much more enjoyable seeing bread necklace soldiers lmao.

“General, we’re out of ammo” “It’s time..., take out the bagels”

Nobody: Seriously nobody: Me: *who thinks that they would throw the bread at the enemies in the war*

Wow! Didn't know that guangbing can differ much in different region. I also have guangbing in my hometown but it's totally different.

Imagine the ancient bagel sandwich: A century egg between two halves of a 500 year old guang-bing

Atleast we know that the shop is never gonna close down since alot of people buy this bread and the legend can continue.

if you are wearing headphones the sound design is POG CHAMP

omg- i just noticed this was posted in my birthday lol

imagine seeing everyone at the war eating the bagels 👌🏻

1:13💀

I recommended this bread to my friend who really likes bread for some reason

What a fascinating vid!

Idk why but i watched almost all of this channel's videos..

I’m literally drooling after seeing this 100 times

Bread necklace? The way to truly get this bread

My dude looks so wholesome I love it

Literally the most smoothest bread ever

1:13

“Wisdom is better than strength.” ~Ecclesiastes 9:16

the graphics are so cute!

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

0:13 grandpa sound is like near to the micro phone

It looks so delicious! 😋

love this video

looks really good!

The outside of the bagel looked like a glazed donut.

1:42 lol chopin minute waltz

1:13 what did he even say lol

I need its skincare routine

My guy with the hickies at the end though 😂

I actually never tried this before and I go back to Chia to see my grandparents every

A peace offering can end a war - water, food and energy.

Guang-bing: exists NYC and Montreal: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary

Soldiers in 500 yrs ago: We Got BAGELS!!!! WUUUUUUUU

No way, that’s wonderful!

The subtitles in this are really helpful. (Speaks in foreign language)

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.

any chances of making video on Konpeito and shokupan ? that would be awesome,,

Literally looks so Flippin delicious

Be honest, we all thought they were donuts at first.

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

1:38 Huang Yiling: ...Yao Yao Yao... hahahaha He's speaking the language of the gods

2:01 *Someone requesting a midnight snack wants to know your location* (no offence).

that bagel makes me soooo hungry right now

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.. )

Bro.....this thing looks so satisfying

Everyone: talking about how bagels help this war Me: how smooth is that bagel?

Everyone: haha bred go brrrrrrrrrrr Me: ngl those bagels look a lot like the bagels at the supermarket

Imagine a Japanese person enjoying guang bing

the story is amazing and they look soo tasty😋😋😋

Me: Turns on caption expecting captions. Captions: [ *SPEAKING FOREIGN* ]

Music starting at 1:43: Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 “Minute Waltz” by Frederic Chopin

Throw the damn guang-bing in the enemy

that hole is so small but perfect

Why does it look so good, I need one

Interesting. Somewhat similar to traditional bagels minus the boiling. Is there any evidence which suggests the european bagel descended from this similar to pasta?

Captions: speaking in foreign language

I searched one video of bagel now my feed is full of bagels all over the world