 You guys eating kidneys yeah, we can get it scared All right, everybody in this video We're about to go on a Hutong breakfast tour and a lot of these dishes that we're about to eat are not really easy to find Outside of Beijing and a lot of the recipes are hundreds of years old. Check it out Different form of yo-tow yo-tow and this is like the bracelet version You know what reminds me a little bit in Fujian. They also have a ring version of two loving Yo, is that the Chanel bracelet? This is pickled radish. This is doger the Beijing exclusive, right? And then we've got the Round don't have bracelet, but I noticed it's not as spongy as yo-tow because it's fried all the way through So it's really crispy and it kind of snaps. Oh Oh, that's crunchy Local's like to do is crunch everything up and eat it like it's here. It's different first. Okay. Yeah And then so this is Jiao-chua All right, this is the first Jiao-chua in culture Visually I thought it was like black sesame It's not it's not it's not black sesame. Tell me what you taste it in here Okay, it's not that bad after you take a second bite kind of Tastes like some sour milk sour milk So the sourness goes away really quickly it washes down super fast, but that first initial one second you're like Oh, man, Beijing people know how to wake up in the morning, bro. You need some of that. You're just Oh my gosh, this looks like this looks like a cinnamon churro cereal. Cheers guys Kind of like an iron-type vibe like From the potassium or something Mmm delicious. That was a great appetizer really woke me up my taste buds are all firing. Let's go to the next spot Over here we have Yotiao, which is basically Chinese fried churro and it's plain So you can just dip it in the soybean milk Tell us more about this tofu Nars in northern part like especially Beijing it is savory But in the southern part people like it to be very very sweet along with like, you know Red beans and sugar and even in Chengdu they would put in like pig brains in there So that's why it was initially called tofu now, which means tofu brain And that is how you'll be it's Literally say that's you tell about with brown sugar Oh, yeah, okay Chinese donut and soy milk. There's like a roasted sweet flavor To the dojang. I wasn't expecting that. Mmm. No, you know what? I wouldn't say it's salty or sweet It's like a stronger soy bean flavor. I've never had soy milk that tastes like this You can see the brown sugar cooked on the inside Tong you'll be I love this. This is good with coffee Very sweet pastry something light on top with honey, right? I was like a piece of toast with honey This is surprisingly not as oily as one would think they cook things a little bit differently here I think it's kind of the same thing pretty much, but the details are different though. No, here we go That just tastes like a hot and sour soup except with tofu in it. Yeah, and it's not sour or hot So maybe a sweet vision You know what though? I'm your big man. How's that level of sweetness really? Sweet savory No, that don't know ours not funky. That was cool. The next stop is steamed dumplings and Third Beijing Hutong breakfast spot. So here we have jumped out with your steamed dumplings and falls which are So they have the same feelings. It's both made of pork. The only difference is that the dough for the bauzi has yeast inside whereas the steamed dumplings don't so they have different kind of Textures and they also have different kind of stories behind it as well So before that yet you guys can put in some black vinegar. Who wants chili? So not only this is breakfast people drink it for a late-night snack and hangover Heavy breading More than the beef. I would say that that is 70 percent bauzi 30% Shaoling bau Jalses. Oh, that's good. The skin is too weird. It reminds me of the Hangzhou Jalses, but just minus the juice What did you guys prefer? I actually prefer you guys. I'm going with the Zheng Jial, the steamed I like this so much more. I like the jalses. Yeah So do you guys know more about fruit culture? Where do you think dumplings originated from? Near Shandong province there used to be a general and The weather was too cold and his soldiers used to get frostbite all over their years He bounced this you know medicinal herbs So he made it into like a ear shape and then he put it in soup and it just magically cured everyone's you know frostbitten ears On that note, I think I think we got to go to the next spot We're gonna get some marinated halal beef. It's actually my favorite stuff on this. It smells so good. Marinated halal beef Excited and they have all other stuff like cow intestine and Lamb face it's not cheese. It's just like the face you guys want soft part or the hard part. I would like to try both Let me stick a little it looks super Taiwanese, right? Yeah, like a night market thing. Yeah, you guys this is a very Traditional way dish way are one of the two different groups of Muslim Chinese people Okay, I like it because there's like this garlic sauce she put on top. There's cilantro onions There's onions so there's so there's two kind of types of beef. One is a little bit more adventurous a little bit harder Xinjiang Nero aka halal beef. Wow. Mmm. It's like pastrami Wow, right cold meats messing with that. Mmm. Hmm. Yo, this one this piece is fire It does kind of taste like the um So banquet the banquet dish, you know the cold beef that comes in that comes in like the eight treasure appetizer But but with more flavor though. Yeah, you guys are having the kidney. This looks like a hoot home brick. You guys eating kidneys Yeah, we can I'm scared Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that It's very irony, right? I'm gonna chase it down with a fatty piece right now. Yeah, that's really good. The good Yeah, the kidney. Mmm. Yeah, the good knee. Yeah, the good knee. Okay Mmm Before our next spot we got to stop and get some jianbing If you guys have seen I actually did a jianbing episode in LA in Pasadena There's a spot called me and crepe and I made my own jianbing. Oh, that is hot May I say that this is Very neat. Yeah by the cleanest looking jianbing I've ever had jianbing jenbing jenbing It's actually really well done I like how it's still very crispy. The crepe is really really soft and the inside is crispy, but it's not too crispy Mm-hmm good amount of everything in there chili the sauce the green onions. All right, you want let's try the really spicy one now This is like mega deluxe. Oh my gosh version of a denby. You can see why this is a breakfast favorite It's kind of like equivalent to a breakfast egg McMuffin with the carbs the meat some vegetables You throw some cheese on there. I think that's like a breakfast burrito right there jianbing jenbing Let's pick out some fruit. I would say that just going around some Hutos Maybe realize that New York's Chinatown specifically is actually not that different from China So we're gonna try some egg filled pancakes And the most interesting thing is that they have a magic not magic, but like a really cool oven So basically they pan fry the stress and then they would slide the pan out inside There's like a there's like a fire oven, so they would put it in there So it gets like really crispy and really really what culture is this thing from Han nationality There used to be a lot of jidang guanbing carts But since it just takes up a lot of time and energy to make these because you have to roll the dough like a million times And then bake it for like a million times So there are not not a lot of vendors who choose to sell this is a jidang guanbing. What a contraption Wow I hear a little bit less of this This is a little bit less because it's a little bit less A little bit less is a little bit more difficult to see Yes, I don't know how to sell it What do you want? Everything but the kidneys and plate Yeah, no kidneys, please They've got the jidang guanbing So this is called canned egg Biscuit right? Canned egg biscuit It's like a taco or a I should say a gordita. Oh, it's hot Wow, whoa that Is honhao It's gonna look like a tonyo being right but much thicker wrapped around everything else We're gonna try some lamb soup Chinese people swear by lamb soup because in the summer You eat this and you sweat all the heat out and in the winter it keeps you warm How would you do a lamb soup commercial? What would it be like? Zhenhao He so delish What is your experience with lamb soup? So this one actually there's no this is not a yang rou tang meat. This is just yang rou tang Yeah, I just want to add some condiments. We have ground black pepper Definitely This is MSG All right guys, this is the lamb soup, yang rou tang This is gonna give you warm in the winter. Yeah, I feel like there's so much calcium in this bone broth Do you know how long it's been? stewing for or boiling for? The original soup that keeps getting reused to build on the next day's soup is 10 years old So there's a chance that there are molecules from when I was here A lot's changed in Beijing over 10 years, but not this bra Yeah, it does actually This is really good this reminds me of dipping in the salt in Korean barbecue strips tofu skin with sesame seed oil I would almost call this like tofu leather Flavor wise amazing. I don't think this is the traditional way to eat it, but I'm not a traditional gay We don't have noodles in this soup. So we use the tofu with noodles some of the foods that I thought were funky Whether it's lamb soup or the don't you know, it's a tofu brain. It was less funky We got the vermicely grow How is it does it change it add to it. It's an addition in my opinion taste closer to the Korean selling Tom than it does You guys must already all know that coffee culture is not that big in China This place is called Bear Brew and it's called Bear Brew because the owners here look like big friendly All right, everybody that wraps it up for Hu Tong breakfast crawl shout out the last plates for hooking it up Shout out to Nicole without supervision. You're probably not making that happen even as an expat ABC foreigner here I do not know any of the places that Nicole took us on this food tour and you live in the Hutos. Yes, I do My micro takeaways just that the food was less funky even the things that theoretically should be funky things that were fermented things that people find gross it actually wasn't that gross a big picture takeaway is that People are still really like that to almost live a small village life in a big city is very interesting It's very charming. I think my micro take on it was everything that we ate that was ready I thought it was gonna be oily, but on the contrary not my macro take on it was that Breakfast is universal. We had all breakfast food But most of it had dough most of it had eggs and we all love that in the morning I would say you can tell how hard Chinese people work by what they eat for breakfast here But yeah, I think it's really cool that in a city like Beijing and they're not actually poor They're just like down to live a simple life and they have nice some of them even have like I see some nice cars parked Yeah, it could be a rejection to Modern-day capitalism or I don't think it's a rejection. I think it's just a preservation Of a lifestyle that's outside of that. So cheers guys to the Hutong so much to the Hutong All right guys That wraps it up for our Hutong tour in the comments below Let us know if there are any other interesting tours we should take around Asia and definitely specifically China too until next time We are Beijing. Bye. Yeah