Changsha Pedestrian Street, Hunan Cuisine, China 🇨🇳

[@张良-m8m]

Support, I love Changsha. Steam food YYDS.

[@tuckereats9146]

🙌🙌🧧 Great city, great food!!

[@zhangjin7179]

@@tuckereats9146 confucius says: you are not a grown-up until you eat stinky tofu in china. that is your rite of passage

[@lynchlee7207]

Your gesture of holding chopsticks is very standard, even surpassing many Chinese people. Not bad!

[@tuckereats9146]

Wow! Thankyou for the compliment ☺️

[@lizz7805]

i appreciate your open-mindedness, not many westerners would try some of those "bizzare" food

[@tuckereats9146]

Thankyou ☺️ I’m mad for it! More to come

[@MrMfp12]

Hunan is my favorite, even more than Sichuan. I like its spicy flavor in a very direct, explosive way.

[@tuckereats9146]

Yes I agree. Hunan is my favourite Chinese cuisine, Szechuan a close second. Though Indonesian cuisine is very different, I love it for the same reasons, strong unapologetic flavours, punchy spicy that’s balanced with the profile of the food. It’s food heaven!!

[@joemichael9885]

welcome to changsha china ~~!

[@tuckereats9146]

Thankyou ☺️

[@ericliume]

Nice video.

[@tuckereats9146]

Thankyou ☺️

[@ivyshy98]

the stuff you had at the restaurant are what you would call rice topping dishes. they are usually too oily, salty, spicy, etc to be eaten by itself but with white rice it's a perfect combo. rice topping type dishes are a cheap way for the working class to fill up, a lot of rice with a little bit of heavily concentrated flavors. nowadays they sell this kind of stuff canned so you can just nuke it and mix with white rice. better than plain canned tuna with soy sauce we use to eat during my college years lol.

[@tuckereats9146]

Good intel, thanks Ivy ☺️

[@wxh2225]

They actually forgot to give you a small rice bowl! Hunan cuisine is usually quite salty and must be eaten with rice. Every time they passed by you, they would glance at you, and each time I hoped they would notice that they hadn't given you a bowl. However, perhaps because this small shop seldom has foreigners come in, they seemed more curious than anything and never noticed the issue.

[@tuckereats9146]

Wow, good observation! You know my Asian friends often are surprised that I eat the salty and spicy foods without rice. I love carbs, but limit my intake to keep my calories in check.

[@jimlam227567]

First time see video introduce travel to Chengsa ❤

[@tuckereats9146]

Woo! Awesome 🙌

[@viniityap2779]

YUMMY ! eating all the way.

[@tuckereats9146]

Sure was! A great food day!! The next great food day was in Kunming (3 episodes in the future)

[@shilongtang549]

There are eight major cuisines in China, among which Hunan cuisine is very famous.

[@tuckereats9146]

I think it’s my favourite Chinese cuisine. What’s your favourite?

[@birdyashiro1226]

You go to the right city for food

[@tuckereats9146]

Yeah I wish I had more time to explore further in Changsha!

[@birdyashiro1226]

It's bone soup they pour in tofu I think. 15:04 there were more soybean powder than peanut powder I suppose

[@tuckereats9146]

Ah soybean powder, interesting, that never occurred to me but it makes sense. As for the bone soup, it could be, someone else suggests it was tofu broth which also made sense, but now I’m not sure again!

[@alphaomega1969]

The mystery white juice is tofu broth

[@tuckereats9146]

Smart, it took me a good month to figure that out 😂 I saw a chef use it on KZbin!

[@Sarah_Dandelion]

The only thing that caught my eye was the child holding a cigarette. 😂 Thanks for giving a tour of my birth place. I enjoy watching your travel channel.

[@tuckereats9146]

Haha! Oh nice, did you grow up in Changsha? Or just born there? It’s a nice city

[@AB-sy9tf]

Chairman Mao lived in Shaoshan about an hour or so away. You can actually still visit his boy hood home and adjacent museum. Dongshan Academy in Xiangxiang can be visited as well where he went to school and organized his early days of Communist ideology. It still operates as an elite academy. Worth the visit.

[@tuckereats9146]

Good intel, thankyou! I planned to spend longer in Changsha but by the time I got there I had changed my plans to explore Yunnan so unfortunately I didn’t have the time to explore the places of Chairman Mao’s past!

[@AB-sy9tf]

@@tuckereats9146 time.... there never is enough when traveling..

[@violetviolet888]

12:30, You're supposed to have a bowl of rice (like the person in the background) and eat the sausage, & beans WITH the rice by each mouthful TO TASTE. This is why the ingredients are so flavor packed, you're supposed to moderate them by each bite with rice in our mouth. Not eat them straight.

[@tuckereats9146]

I just had a similar comment from someone else. And yes I have heard that if you change the ratio of rice in each mouthful then you can control the strength of the flavour. It’s ok though because I love the strong flavour. A ratio of 1/0 (dish/rice) is a perfect ratio for Tucker Eats ☺️

[@yumedoesntgohere]

Man miss you mr tucker, failing media without you sir m(_ _)m!! But fr looks so good enjoy ur retirement 🫡

[@tuckereats9146]

Thanks mate. Miss you too ☺️ A little trick for you to pass Media…… try…… 😂

[@yumedoesntgohere]

@@tuckereats9146 im so hurt sir it isnt the same without you new teacher cant even compare! I only did yr11 media because you were teaching it😔 now who will i share my anime merch collection with

[@tuckereats9146]

Aww sorry mate, your new teacher is my friend, he’s a good guy….. maybe you could share your anime collection with him 🤓

[@zephyrwestern3056]

I ate my fair share of smelly tofu in Shanghai which is white. I don’t know what this black thingy is and I don’t look forward to trying it😂

[@tuckereats9146]

Yeah that sounds like the variety I ate in Taiwan. To be honest, if you can handle the white version then the black version shouldn’t be a problem for you.

[@joeche3545]

hi Tucker I love watch your channel 👍Have you not washed your hair for a long time?forgive me just curiosity

[@tuckereats9146]

Hi hi, thankyou for your support ☺️ I hope to become KZbin famous someday so I can make some money from it and then buy some shampoo 🤣

[@tuckereats9146]

Just jokes, my hair is washed, I assure you, just looks oily right!

[@joeche3545]

@@tuckereats9146you’re so handsome 😁look forward to see your next video have a good day

[@tuckereats9146]

🫣

[@小清新-n8v]

From China, how long have you been in China? Food lovers, let me give you some common sense. Every province and region has its own dozen or so representative gourmet food. If you want to try all the delicacies in China, you will have to spend 100 year 。Explore China cuisine bit by bit!

[@tuckereats9146]

I think you might be onto something here. The food culture runs deep and the diversity is immense. I spent 2 months in China, next on my adventure is Yunnan and the food there impressed me greatly! I will return soon and explore other parts of your amazing country.

[@小清新-n8v]

@@tuckereats9146 Believe you~you will get a lot of delicious local food. Don't leave china. Just eat delicious food in China.💗

[@tuckereats9146]

Sounds like a very good idea. I’ll just make a quick detour thru Jakarta, then a small trip to India and maybe some sashimi in Japan and then….. then I’m free to possibly explore more of China! 🇨🇳

[@小清新-n8v]

@@tuckereats9146 OMG India. There have been a lot of foreign bloggers getting food poisoning in India lately, so be careful. They were in India 2.0 for ten days and got food poisoning twice. Blogger@Jack Aynsley Travel TK~~~~

[@小清新-n8v]

@@tuckereats9146 OMG. actually going to India. Be careful of food poisoning. Jack Aynsley Travel This blogger has been in India for ten days and got food poisoning twice. You can read TK. Take care.

[@georwoogle]

😀😀😀

[@shijiegong-u1y]

i really miss hunan cuisine,but now i can't back to my hometown😢

[@tuckereats9146]

Awww, do you live far away? Hunan cuisine is sooooo good!

[@KhloeLy]

hooray!

[@tuckereats9146]

Hooray!! 🙌🙌🙌 wait…. what?

[@marsonchow2747]

我家乡~~~~有一起看这个视频的河西乡里别吗？出来打个招呼呀，哈哈哈😃~

[@birdyashiro1226]

It was not Sichuan dish...Spicy food are everywhere in Chian ;P

[@tuckereats9146]

Was it a Hunan dish? It’s just the red oil made me think Szechuan. But honestly, I have no clue and I’m still learning.

[@MrColanzar2007]

I like China but that place where they fry live animals should be banned.

[@tuckereats9146]

Interesting, I didn’t see that. In Vietnam I remember a restaurant where they were skewering live prawns, then grilling them 😱 That was a bit much for me tbh. It turned me vegetarian for 10 to 15 minutes 😂

[@lcb8888]

not easy to give food review, it is very subjective and depend on a person flavour choice, i myself as a malaysian chinese untill today still can't take stinky tofu to eat

[@tuckereats9146]

Yes absolutely! My palette is really demanding of strong flavours, so my preference is for Hunan, Szechuan and Indonesian food. However most of my friends prefer a less punchy flavour profile. As for stinky tofu, my first experience was in Taiwan 2019 and it was a struggle….. but now, when I smell it, I can’t resist!! Same thing with durian I guess. What’s your favourite cuisines/foods?

[@rebeccakuang4097]

you been a lot of places, better than me.

[@tuckereats9146]

I have been to a lot of places, but I’m definitely not better than you 😜