I Live In Shanghai: Shanghainese Food

[chloe365]

I love it and I'm from Shanghai! :>

[lang09uk]

no vegetable at all!! this video was long time ago, u must have tried a lot of street foods!

[mammamate]

what do you do in china..whats your job? I want to come and teach any other opportunities?

[langstaffboy]

how do you get youtube in china?

[edwardtang1977]

you can buy dumplings from anyone and put it in the freezer. All you have to do is boil with water till they float . It is an easy option especially in the winter. They last for a week. Ginger and soy sauce to go with it.

[KoolJayJ]

what exactly are all these skinny geeeky white dudes doing in china or any asian countries anyway??

[dmeiske1]

It's so cheap to hire a nanny/housekepper in China. You just have to be very carefull to hire a nanny/housekepper. Me and my wife visited China three years ago. We hire a housekepper cost us $1.00/hour. We had her to clean our place for the whole time we were living there. I love it so much. You can ge that cheap here in US. Man, it cost to much to hire a housekepper in US.

[carrieb1986]

This is a very informative video. Thanks. It is difficult to find information about real Chinese food on the web, as many websites claiming to have "authentic" reipes still list dishes such as General Tsao's, etc.

[carol715nana]

actually,it is seen to be very impolite to take the food into your bowl in China ...you should ask the local People to take you to eat the real tasty food in Shanghai...

[Zergcerebrates]

@carol715nana

I don't know what Chinese you are but we all but foods into our bowls with rice.

[carol715nana]

@Zergcerebrates We may have different custom,,, I was educated that if you put all food in your bowl , another people may not have enough food to eat ..just be equal .. 在家可以无所谓，但是在外面和别人吃饭就比较会注意..

[xoTezBearxo]

at 1:40, if that food, not the pork, but is vegetable like and a bit crunchy depending on how long they soak it for, it might be the food called wood ear, google it and that might be it

[bepolite2]

there's no fork and knife? even in your own apartment?

[bepolite2]

there's no fork and knife?

[jzha9558]

the mysterious dish is made of eggplant. 2:38

[jiaer2009]

I Love You Shanghai!

[gangsterfromdaghetto]

I may go to Shanghai and do my A levels at an international school.

Anyway...please can anyone tell me what the laws are on dogs in Shanghai?

What breeds and sizes can you keep.

Documents which are needed when importing a dog into Shanghai etc.

Thankyou.

[danielmeller]

@gangsterfromdaghetto Officially you can only have small dogs in Shanghai but I have seen all sorts. You need a dog license from the police station and that is about it. Of course it it a bit complicated to import your own dog, but I know people have have done it successfully. Prepare to be separated from your dog for a least 4 weeks.

[gangsterfromdaghetto]

@danielmeller

Okay, thanks man.

[greenuni]

Hi, there. Just give you a quick lecture on that "paper towel" you were talking about. In Shanghai, It is very popular, it is called "bai'ye". It is made of soy and kind of like dry Tofu kind of thing, it is not noodle.

Hopefully, you are enjoying you life in Shanghai.

[maomei]

u have a good appetite for 1 meal <3

[aznboieiji]

shanghai food is so so so so greassssssy!!!

n u r so silllllly!!!

[maomei]

i love the way u eat chinese food:D

im going to shanghai in jUne. Im so excited

[QiNNayWasHere]

Shanghai FTW~!

[chucki3unl3ash3d]

傻瓜

[jimmyjamesWang]

That 'paper towel' thing is actually dry tofu skin. It is made the same way as how cheese is made, except it is tofu not milk.

[WillonFire87]

I... Need.. to... go... to... Shanghai... again! :P I was born in The Netherlands and I've visited Shanghai only 3 times in my life :( i would love to live there, trying to get internship over there, it's silly to think of me being chinese and consider myself Shanghainese because of my heritage (language, food, screaming shanghainese mother :P ) and having to find a way in to my own country lol! but ONE day I will buy a house there! YES!

[bangoramas]

is tihs a cat at 0:28?? :(

[bbly096]

@bangoramas dog is eaten all over china but cats are only eaten in Canton and Hong Kong. China now bans the eating of cats and dogs (wont make a big difference anyway) . Oh, and he thing at 0:28 is a fish.

[737flyguy]

i went to Shanghai and Bejing and got married to my beautiful Shanghai girl. Chinese girls are awesome. She arrives he in 10 days I can't wait to see her again. I told her I would live in Shanghai if she wanted. I love the food! I'm Australian btw! :)

[blueangel2191]

OMG i'm so hungry right now.

I'm shanghainese and love all the food!

btw, the towel things are made from beans, just like tofu ^_^

[NGxREALITYxFANTASY]

I find it funny that im shanghainese ive never lived in shangai/china i know how to speak it but my cousin who has lived in shangai all his life only understands it but doesnt know how to speak it...hes line 10 now. xD and ive eaten most of the stuff in the vid. cant say i like all of it and ayi is like aunt in english but can be used for stuff like nanny.

[snowpeach12]

I felt so nostalgic when i saw your reaction to the fish. My entire family is shanghainese, so when me and my dad visited a relative in hong kong, she made the mistake of only preparing 2 fish for 4 people to share. My dad and I both ate one fish each, but that wasn't enough so she watched as we devoured the skin, bones, fins, and brains originally intended for four people. The next day she prepared 4 instead of 2 fish for 4 people. My dad and i both ate 2 fish each.

[sheisbrunette]

if u dont like all the food then u should go to the supper markets and buy some food or go to a restaurant..i use to live in china well i llived there for 10 years ..but u should deff eat some dimsums and sups and try everything

[HalifaxHercules]

I went to Shanghai two years ago for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and I have to say that while Wu Chinese food is different from American Chinese, its definitely delicious.

I fell in love with China so much that I want to go back there some day.

[YingGong0417]

im a shanghainese and i miss shanghai. but i cant go back this xmas u just made me miss shanghai so much

[jEnJeNN128]

I'm shanghainese...but it's sad cuz not very many people speak that anymore...it's all mandarin. =]

[gobipie]

It's better like this. It keeps the language more secret, more exclusive, more "special". =) Secret code lolol.

[jEnJeNN128]

I've never thought of it that way...

it is secret code...cuz people can't understand. xD ahaaha

[jessicaz08]

im shanghinese :D

your making me hungry!

[utubeazn123]

its not pork flakes...its like...a very soft type of noodle flakes

[michigofang]

That ``paper towel`` thing u called is actually tofu product.... ,Shanghainese prefers sweet food. Bty, for whoever says that Chinese torturing or eating pets, i dont have a damn clue of how that possible. well at least, that sounds really crazy to Shanghainese.

[dechestret]

I've never been to China but after watching some terrible videos with torturing animals started to hate China:-(

What can you say about that problem living there?

[wildkeny]

Also wanna let you know that terrible torturing did happen, and I hate them as much as you do. But this is not because of Chinese culture. And we can try to educate those people instead of hating them, right?

[wildkeny]

BTW, I never see such things happening in modern city like Shanghai though. Shanghai was once colonized by UK and France. It was sad, but also brings some western viewpoint into the dedicating Jiangnan (Southern Yangtze River) cultural, which Shanghai originally belongs to. And I welcome you to my hometown so that you could have a real experience about China.

[dechestret]

Thank you.I will come to China when I'll have enough money.Hope soon...I'd prefer to visit Hainan first:)

[dechestret]

Daniel,are you sure you don't have cat or dog meat in your plates?

Seriosely,have you ever seen how terribly chinese treat animals?What do you think of it?

[wildkeny]

Some of these videos are fake. Actually we never eat cats but yes, some places they eat dogs, but very rarely. (China is a big country and thus has various cuisines in different places.) US people and Chinese all eat pork right? But Muslims think that is crazy and unacceptable. So in the end it's all just culture difference.

[bandit1200cbr600]

I move to shanghai again in three months after living there already in 2003 - 2004. Me, my daughter and my beloved lady will stay there for 4 years. I am so much looking forward.....

[icirobin]

Very creative edit. Thanks for giving us the foreigner side of the Chinese food experience in China. I went through the same steps while I was there.

[Glashan]

some of those are shanghai food, but if you really want to taste real shanghai food, go on the streets or go to a shanghainese family

[yizn74]

it's fantastic.

[angrrrla1]

and wow, youre crazy for leaving on the saran wrap while microwaving...

[angrrrla1]

that "PAPER TOWEL" thing is not noodle....it's a sheet of bean curd that's been tied into a knot...

[MrFlatmate]

What you were eating are:

凉拌海蜇皮(Mix jellyfish, It's good)，炒面(Pan-Fried noodle, once I order this once a week, it's like 5 yuan, about 80 cents)，煎包(Pan-Fried Dumplings. one of my favorites back then)...

You miss out dude... packaged food usually sucks...

[bigdogITbiker]

danielmeller, what do you do for work in Shanghai China besides eat Shanghai foods.

[jskrilla28]

you guys are slamming me for not wanting to eat fat with my rice...i dont eat fat its gross ill have plenty of time to eat chinese food ill be there for 6months

[asian12329]

lol you just love jay chou ehh

[jskriIIa28]

I'll tell you what I truly love. Men. Lot's of men force-feeding me rice. Then I like to poop in their mouth, but other than that... yeah.... you obviously have no taste buds.

[jskrilla28]

that all looks nasty!!! im going to work as an esl in shanghai this summer....needless to say ill be eating italian and japanese food everyday

[sleeevy]

jskrilla28, thats just sad. Chinese food is amazing and Shanghainese is one of many great Chinese cuisines. Dont like Shanghainese? Eat some other sort of chinese cuisine. Don't diss Chinese food.....local food is always best wherever you go, especially in one of the culinary centers of the world.

[ZhangMingXuanIsABabe]

i dont think so

chinese culinary is one of worlds big 2 or 3. there are many different types of food and falvours and shanghainese native food is just one of them (xiao long bao, guo tie, you tiao etc xiao chi)

japanese and italian cuisine on the other hand lack variety (tomato and some seafood plus rice thats it) and it gets boring and similar for every meal. also the lack of oil makes it hard to poo especially sushi

[asian12329]

chinese cooking is the mother of all cuisines buddy

[christinasc]

hey man.... this ain't shanghainese food... you really missed out on the good stuff. You poor american kid. When you come back to the USA, write me and i'll get you the right stuff. LOL

[IheartPRETTIboys]

I don't really like shanghai cuisine...savoury dishes taste so sweet.

Sichuan cuisine is SO much better imo.

[shangadelic]

your noodle thing is made from bean product

[Star8day8]

i hope u get used to this chinese cuisine coz i love it myself. if not, there are plenty other western rests in SH.

[xtjc]

2:35 egg plant

[jackjacka87]

Hail Mighty China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liuwenjie6678]

hey amigo ya watch Gordon Ramsays?!...oh boy,he surely would say "beep" me,this is not even "beep" food in defination...

[alleywatson]

Shanghainese food is sweet because of the French.

[jackjacka87]

u r retarded

[alleywatson]

yeah i must be i only lived there 3 years.

you must think your the only lao wai to fuckin live there. Gang DU !

[pinpoint654]

...there were french ppl there?

i never heard of that... n ive been there..for a long time.... @_@

[Crapidiot]

"Shanghainese food is sweet because of the French. "

^^

lol no

heard of zhejiang and jiangsu food = sweet. shanghainese is influeced by those flavours

ningbo = salty

haha not french

[alleywatson]

hmmm Ok, so how do you explain the sweet dish called Gu Lao Rou, ? and when my mother in law serves tomatoes, the big ones what does she sprinkle on top, SUGAR.

[tomlovegod]

@Crapidiot Guangdong food is sweet because of the british. This is right. Shanghai is not the case.

[lilOldMe12]

gotta correct you on a couple of stuff...the thing you called "beef with huge chunks of fat" is actually pork and the "tissue paper tied in knots" is actually a dried-tofu kind of thing...made of soy beans...it isn't a noodle...lol but nice chop stick skills!

[madhoyden]

You reminds me of a brunette Simon Woods. :o/

[madhoyden]

Appetizing. Microwaved frozen takeouts.

I'm vegetarian but I love Shanghainese food.

[neothemagical]

The cost of the stuff that he said, if it's in yuan, is like 2 cents American money. Shows you how long you can live off the streets in Shanghai with $100 straight out of the airport.

[lilOldMe12]

um actually 1 us dollar is equal to about 8 yuan...not 2 cents

[neothemagical]

shoot rofl I meant 2 bucks

[neothemagical]

Actually I meant like 5 cents... I actually have no idea what I was thinking. Note that I'm not talking about the pork or rabbit.

[yellowtrees]

"paper towel knot" lmao!

[shoppinggirl125]

The thing that you never figured out what it was , was eggland. It's just cut in strips. My grandpa cooks them all the time. Sooo good.

[hazelnazel123]

im from dublin, going to shanghai for ten days on friday, can't wait! wanted to know what kind of food they did there, looks good..... most of it...?! im hoping the jellyfish was a joke! :)

[lilOldMe12]

the "jellyfish" pictured in this video is a type of I guess you can call it jello kind of thing made of potato starch or something...nothing to do with jellyfish don't worry....although they do eat jellyfish in China...it's REALLY good

[Liuhuayue]

I'm Shanghainese, but I've never eaten jellyfish. Nice video, I usually see things more orientated on Mandrin and Cantonese. "Yu" is the Mandrin word for fish. Fish in Shanghainese sounds like "Ngh". Weird, right? ~Love the fried shrimp~

[SoundwaveSuperior373]

shanghainese represent i grew up in a shanghainese household n even lived in shanghai on the first 3 years of my life i eat this kind of food everyday

[berettam92s]

whada hell is shanghai"nese"? the word ended with a "i" u just dont add a "nese" on it.

it makes way more sense with "shanghaier" or "shanghian"

[sleeevy]

berettan92s, Shanghainese is the widely used and accepted term for people from Shanghai.

Nice vid! Most popular Shanghainese dish I ate while there was xiaolong bao. Heavenly...

[berettam92s]

but we r talking about english here arent we?

[kutelittlekittykat]

noooo. how disrespectful you are, taking away the name of our language >:(

[supergod58]

OO that makes me hungry.

[bjzhandui]

haha, the song, 七里香，pretty good

[carolololol]

do you speak shanghainese? that'll be beast.

[LN13RN]

your blog is so cool !!!

but i can't live there because im a vegetarian ... LOL

[codeagent47]

Shanghainese Food is good,, but too little! i know because my grandmather is Shanghainese,, and she have adopted to the northern China customs!

[SpardaPowa]

I live in Shangai Too

[logitechsucks]

those paper towel things are tofu melted and molded into a different shape they don't have too much taste because tofu looses a lot of its taste in soup for some reason.

[lqlw]

the thing at 2:35 is eggplant,at least it looks like it.

[amanijuu08]

great video. very interesting! i'd love to travel to china just to sample all the different amazing dishes across the country.

[thistlepanger]

the pork stuff you mentioned before the soup is hong shao rou...red cooked pork and the dried veggies in it is a chinese veggie thing..i forget the name, but it tastes so goood :D

[sleeevy]

Yum :) I loved eating Shanghainese soup dumplings, a fond memory I have of China. My favorite will always be the food in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia though. But yup, China was wonderful. nice vid!

[bushangels]

you are absolutely adorable!!!

[purplehermitcrab]

I think the "pork" dish you talked about at the beginning, i think it might be gluten and black fungus it's really good, cause my mom's friend makes it for us

the thing that you said you never figured out, it's eggplant, like eggplant with garlic sauce i think

the "noodles" are actually like tofu curd...

ahhahah i just thought that you might wanta know

Your videos are so cool ^^

[onegoodman66]

Danny, you should make more videos.

[znrctrnn]

Thank you for the "Eating Chinese 101 for Western Newbies" course.

[hangzhouML]

I think that "mulch" thing in the beginning may be pork steamed in a kind of salted vegetable.

[hangzhouML]

I LOVE your videos! Thank you sooooo much for the up load!

[revoltac1210]

jay chou woot.

[bowensu]

You'd better cook for yourself, you will feel better.

[bowensu]

Do you eat the take-out everyday? I'd better cook for yourself

[kittykate82]

seems to be delicious

[Shortyaznkid88]

NICE! you should definitely have more videos

[endlsswing]

interesting blogs. how long are you staying in shanghai?

[danielmeller]

Indefinitely..... I'll be around.

[conwayjunk]

Hey, I think those tied-up paper towel things might be tofu skin （豆腐皮）...my mom would make those sometimes. I really like your posts!

[mickeyfang]

love to watch your videos! pls post more...

[antVally]

coool

[Suertsje]

dude! you're funny! ... I need to go eat somethin' right now... :)

[advectorz]

What I can say is that some or most of the food are not Shanghainese's traditional food. Unfortunately. However, now most Shanghainese eat these kind of food, which is used to be the food of western or northen China.

Traditionally there is no spicy food in Shanghai menu.

Anyway, very interesting video. Enjoy your life in Shanghai.

[rezz2015]

dude u rock! great video. This is from a Chinese student living in the U.S.

[chinacar]

Great video,I love it.

[hot12lips12]

even though you have a blog and stuff, are you still going to upload videos on youtube?

[danielmeller]

You betcha! I injured my knee a while ago and have been on crutches. But many more videos to come when I can walk!

[hot12lips12]

Hope you get better soon!Have a great time in Shanghai!

[hot12lips12]

i luv your videos!!

[Fettarsch90]

Great! Ayis are the best!^^