What's at this Traditional Chinese Farmers Market ?

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What's at this Traditional Chinese Farmers Market ?

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8 ай бұрын

Step into the heart of Kunming, China, where tradition meets modernity in a bustling farmer's market unlike anything you've seen in the West! Join me on a journey through this vibrant market as we explore how the Chinese prefer to buy their food, especially meat, in a way that's deeply rooted in culture. Discover the fascinating contrast between these lively markets and Western supermarkets. Get ready to be amazed by the vibrant sights and sounds of Kunming's food scene!
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@Self-funded50Cents 8 ай бұрын

The food varieties and cooking methods are simply crazy in China. When you live in the states, u travel from east coast to the west coast, basically you’re gonna eat burgers, salads, pizzas and BBQs, don’t matter where u go. But in China, if u travel from city to city, the variety of food selections are totally different, it’s like you’re traveling in different countries 😂 never get bored

@Oskiibandz 8 ай бұрын

在我们伟大的中国跪下乞求西方魔鬼的那一天到来之前，所有西方人都会让母亲和父亲埋葬他们的孩子

@gangyang6189 8 ай бұрын

Yes，you are right!

@Q_QQ_Q 27 күн бұрын

It's different ethnic minorities selling different food.

@LizzieQuinterosLeon 8 ай бұрын

8:28: es un paraíso para los que gustamos del te ..que variedad y hermosos empaques.. 🤗🤗

@hujustin1156 8 ай бұрын

Kunming is my hometown. People are very kind and nice there. thank you very much for sharing this video.

@Sathish_12 8 ай бұрын

I saw a television series "Meet Yourself" showing Yunnan province❤

@sabrinachan1833 8 ай бұрын

what a place to walk around. 😊

@FernandoJamesFX 8 ай бұрын

Hey Barret !!!! I Have Been There 3 Weeks Ago MAN !!!! Lovely Place ! Thank You Man ! Fernando

@Anonymous------ 8 ай бұрын

You tell it as it is, nothing added or removed, unlike some arrogant foreign vloggers with personal bias or ignorance.

@xyyyyx3247 8 ай бұрын

These stall always allow you to sample their wares, although I was too shy to try them. Also in Macau. Whether it was sweets, chilli sauce, dried meat (sliced jerky), etc.

@stanbimi 8 ай бұрын

When people think about China in geopolitical terms, 1.4 billion people boggles their mind. How to feed, house, clothe, educate, employ and care for so many people? That's for Xi and the CCP politburo members to figure out. China's big cities are roughly tiered by population. Tier 1: 15 million or more; Tier 2: Between 3 and 15 million; Tier 3: Between 150,000 and 3 million. Even for a smaller city like this one in Yunnan, south-east China, it's still a big job to make sure everything runs smoothly, including the farmers markets. Xi and the top brass are many layers removed from the street scenes. It's the job of local officials. Not many Chinese are engaged to make computer chips to break the US choke-hold. But every Chinese person is doing their part. It's a marvel that China somehow managed to run an orderly society, pulled those in abject poverty out of misery, and improved the lives of so many people. Impressive.

@arafsadventures 8 ай бұрын

Love some fresh meat 👌 I go to the markets here in China a lot!

@hongluong3427 8 ай бұрын

i would LOVE to spend time in that tea shop!!! all those tea accessories 🥰😍🤩

@davidlazarus67 8 ай бұрын

Farmers markets are increasingly popular in the UK, plus many towns still have their old open markets.

@Diesel735 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting! I always thought food came in a can.

@davidchung4691 8 ай бұрын

This kind of wet market can be found in many Asian and Southeast Asian Countries! That dark coloured egg is known as 皮蛋pronounce as pee-tan also known in the West as century old egg though the truth is only being fermented in kind of ashes for a few weeks!

@bldomain 8 ай бұрын

It is much cleaner and more organized in China than in Southeast Asia.

@wayne1977wl 8 ай бұрын

@@bldomain真的，看起来比起马来西亚的市集干净很多，不会湿答答然后角落都是一堆垃圾

@judithafholland 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting. They also do this in Russia. It has to be wood ash. It's an effective method of preserving eggs through winter when the hens stop laying due to to short day light length. You can't get through Easter celebrations without a hard boiled one! So I'm fascinated whether there has been some cultural exchange in the distant past, or whether they discovered this independently. (Europeans never worked this out although wood was the only available fuel until the industrial revolution)

@Q_QQ_Q 27 күн бұрын

@@bldomainyea small cities in china looks like south east asian cities but much cleaner and organized .

@lizz7805 8 ай бұрын

the produce looks so fresh, i really miss chinese food market

@hagankeys3610 8 ай бұрын

The western media say there is shorts of food in China. Thank you for sharing it.

@Jdeparagoat 8 ай бұрын

everything looking delicious

@nanyanguo1 8 ай бұрын

? ? didnt know raw uncooked meat can be delicious?

@wunxue 8 ай бұрын

Strawberry is expensive in winter because it is not the season for it. It will become much cheaper in the coming spring, say, March.

@xingganrewu 8 ай бұрын

China has so many items

@AshleyMcIntosh-zz7kr 8 ай бұрын

Nice video lee.looks great..nice tea shop.

@Brick-Life 6 ай бұрын

The markets in China has so much variety of products at such fresh and cheap prices

@joey3291 8 ай бұрын

Actually, most if not all of the price tags wrote 'Kg' or '公斤' , not 斤(0.5Kg). This was also true for the strawberries, I think it's a mandatory requirement from the market administrator.

@001sepwsp 8 ай бұрын

Yes you are right, otherwise 50 RMB for 0.5 kg strawberries is way too expensive.

@edukid1984 8 ай бұрын

Huh? I thought the dominant unit of weight used by local Chinese in their day-to-day grocery shopping is 斤(500g)? Surprised that the mkt admin forces sellers to use kg instead.

@joey3291 8 ай бұрын

@@edukid1984When using Jin (斤) as unit, some sellers scammed consumers using excuses like 'we are using short Jin (slightly smaller than 500g)'. So in many places, local governments issued regulations to standardize the units to the metric system.

@edukid1984 8 ай бұрын

@@joey3291 Ah, that makes sense. In Malaysia the Chinese community here still use the nearly 600g version of 斤 often (grocers just round to 600g for simplicity), but otherwise all wet market trades are typically in metric units too.

@baskjhdgkasgd 8 ай бұрын

@@edukid1984 This farmer's market is located in Kunming. Kunming generally uses kilograms (1000g) as the unit, unlike other parts of China that use jin (500g) as the unit. For example, Xinjiang is also measured in kilograms (1000g).

@woojongson5431 8 ай бұрын

Very nice video!

@edcerpenetrante2862 3 ай бұрын

I love China

@jtang8768 8 ай бұрын

I miss farmer's market so much, Shanghai used to have some, now all disappeared, so sad

@John_259 8 ай бұрын

It intrigues me to see commodities which have been bought and sold since antiquity being paid for with mobile phones and QR codes!

@AhnWooseon 7 ай бұрын

Interesting video, thanks!

@teckkweetan4391 8 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

@graceliang2227 8 ай бұрын

It is hard to feed 1.4 billion food everyday,can people imagine that? Chinese government try their best to satisfy people's life there, how come some bad media always said it is bad country??

@tay7366 5 ай бұрын

Chicken liver pate is the best . Great market , we really miss out in the uk

@baskjhdgkasgd 8 ай бұрын

This farmer's market is located in Kunming. Kunming generally uses kilograms (1000g) as the unit, unlike other parts of China that use jin (500g) as the unit. For example, Xinjiang is also measured in kilograms (1000g).The price of strawberries is 50 yuan/kg (1000g)

@theinfralink6598 8 ай бұрын

That’s still very expensive for strawberry. Maybe it’s scarce and perishable.

@baskjhdgkasgd 8 ай бұрын

@@theinfralink6598 The price of 25 yuan/500g is considered a cheap strawberry in China. And there are a lot of fruits in China, so you can buy other fruits instead. For example, the price of watermelon in summer is mostly below 1 yuan/500g.

@trevornorman7563 8 ай бұрын

reminds me of my youth when my grandad had a farm. When any local farm used to slaughter any live stock the farm would go around the other farms to see if anyone wanted some meat no payment was ever made just a swap of different types of meat. (grandad had cows the farm down the lane pigs and the one up the lane had chickens/turkeys)

@xyyyyx3247 8 ай бұрын

Black egg, are preserved eggs, know either as 1000yrs or 100 yrs egg. One use is in Congee with pork meat.

@billhearing3355 8 ай бұрын

very interesting. Your camera was moving too fast. I didn't get to see what really those items are. I think I will eventually have to travel to China for a better look of many of these items that I have never seen. Thank you for your effort. its a thumb up for sure.

@MrDavidc 8 ай бұрын

Those strawberries are expensive. Here in Jinan, Shandong Province, we pay about 25 yuan for half a kilo. We usually get them in spring, so maybe they're grown in poly tunnels? My wife and I are coming to Kunming for a few days next week, hope the prices have gone down by then. Great to see you communicating with the market people. Any cafes in that market?

@sciagurrato1831 8 ай бұрын

In California where I live there is only one type of strawberry available. Seasons don’t change the type of strawberry sold. These strawberries are enormous, red in color, but white on the inside. They have no flavor or scent. They are just used for garnishes unless you add artificial chemical flavoring. And they’re all the same everywhere: Ralphs, Vons, Whole Foods, Hispanic markets - all the same.

@edukid1984 8 ай бұрын

Someone commented above that for this particular market, the administrators made it compulsory to list prices in KG instead of 500g (jin). If true, then those strawberries actually cost abt the same as Jinan.

@lloydglyn6831 8 ай бұрын

Always aTopvideo Barrett👍😮

@BarrettYT 8 ай бұрын

I try

@mariacristinag.santos3448 5 ай бұрын

The black eggs are called Century Eggs.

@PeterSzeto-es6em 8 ай бұрын

Those black eggs are called century eggs, or pei-dan in Cantonese. They are eggs preserved in clay or ash, usually duck egg but can be chicken or quail. About lamb: it's generally regarded as winter or cold weather food in China, hence, people in the south only eat lamb once or twice a year. Interesting video as always. Thank you for posting.

@syncmaster915n 8 ай бұрын

Chinese like to do their grocery shopping daily. Nice walkaround, Lee 👍👍

@tonytsuihulk 8 ай бұрын

💪🏻👍👋

@dodododo1761 6 ай бұрын

I think the dark egg is a century egg

@shuwang7644 7 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@arthurvandeman 8 ай бұрын

brilliant

@lordumas 8 ай бұрын

Chicken feet more expensive than chicken breast!? Truly a China moment haha

@k-fm4zx 8 ай бұрын

You can think of China as the unified European Union, because China is almost as big as Europe. The climate between the north and the south is very different. Each province has its own language and food culture. At the same time, the food in each place is fundamentally different. There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and minorities The 55 ethnic groups have different food cultures and languages. Mandarin is spoken throughout the country, so there are so many types of food in China that you can’t imagine. You can eat different foods for every meal. It is a paradise for foodies. The most important thing is that it is the same day and night. Lively and very safe.

@georwoogle 8 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@judytse246 7 ай бұрын

The huge Alaskan crab costs ¥480 per kilo, not ¥480 each.

@BarrettYT 7 ай бұрын

Yes, I realize now...

@STOP_FAKENEWS 8 ай бұрын

8:00 century egg i think? great with congee

@user-hg9ij7rf1f 8 ай бұрын

Pretty

@cobyho4103 8 ай бұрын

Prices for everything are expensive in Mexico

@mariapalustre1514 6 ай бұрын

That is century eggs.

@andrewlin6136 8 ай бұрын

So you're a British citizen ?

@ElmoChan43 8 ай бұрын

A lot cleaner than what wester media portrays it. The dude placing the cleaver on top of a sewage/drainage grate at the 14:46 mark is questionable though.

@junzi2022 8 ай бұрын

What is said to be "lamb" is actually goat meat.

@richardho9535 8 ай бұрын

The black eggs u seen are name century eggs mostly preserve duck egg .

@darth.severuss 8 ай бұрын

When I visited my mum, the chicken I was eating was alive 3 hours ago.

@silverfox8915 5 ай бұрын

You would be brave eating anything in China,

@user-le9te3ur9y 8 ай бұрын

All is my favor 😂

@jeffreymilla9531 8 ай бұрын

Hello, did you guys made a new channel where you and your son went to South Africa 🇿🇦. I don’t remember the video. Please and thank you.

@cosmoray9750 8 ай бұрын

16:40 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen love Mushroom.

@beautifuldream108 8 ай бұрын

Sorry to tell you, the market is quite the same all over Asia, South East Asiaalso the same. Local also go to those places.😂😊 anyway, your videos is great 👍👏👏👍🧠👍🍀🎄😁

@bk3289 8 ай бұрын

The ‘black’ egg is the ‘century’ egg

@user-wy6tr8jt6z 8 ай бұрын

Black ones are century eggs.

@briandopking35 5 ай бұрын

I notice the meat isn’t refrigerated - no thank you.

@jeremiahlee6335 6 ай бұрын

Covid24 in the making.

@Moeflyer6213 8 ай бұрын

Your face in this video's thumbnail looks like some internet meme.

@islamicreminders3090 8 ай бұрын

Is halal meat accessible?

@BarrettYT 8 ай бұрын

Yes, there are many muslims in China, and Halal meat is available in many places

@islamicreminders3090 8 ай бұрын

@BarrettYT thank you for clarifying . Really enjoy your content. Keep up the good work.

@johnxiao2981 8 ай бұрын

Century old eggs it is. Where’s your son?

@user-tk8vp7be4g 8 ай бұрын

You dare to eat,, with all the fake foods

@allandsundry247 8 ай бұрын

Not much of a life for the crab. China is not known for animal welfare.

@jefflai6077 8 ай бұрын

Animal welfare? Tens of thousands Palestinian people died because of genocide, ethnic cleansing and colonization. Where are the bleeding hearts? Don't be hypocritical.

@user-ce6zp7pg1n 8 ай бұрын

at least we dont condone genocide