ENDLESS Chinese STREET FOOD Tour - Beef Rolls, Five Layered Pork, Slippery Wontons | Hangzhou, China

After arriving in Hangzhou, China, I met up with my friend Jamie, the owner of UnTour Food Tours, who took me on a sneak peak of their newest Hangzhou tour!
First up was a traditional pancake that contains preserved mustard greens, green onions, and minced pork! It was served steaming hot and had lots of delicious, flaky layers. All it needed was some sauce!
Next, we had beef rolls wrapped in tofu skin at a Muslim snack shop. The beef was bursting with five spice flavor. It was so different to anything I’d had in China so far! The layers of tofu skin and spices complemented the juicy beef!
We briefly stopped at the Phoenix Mosque, one of the four largest mosques in China, before visiting an open-air wet market, where we saw bamboo shoots, razor clams, freshwater eels, and dried meat! The dried meat looked so delicious!
After trying a clear, watery, and floral honey, we bought a spicy pancake-like dish and saw some baijiu, a fermented alcoholic drink that has an alcohol content above 20%. It cost about $2 U.S. for 500 mL!
The pancake was almost like a Chinese pizza that had been cut into squares. It came slathered with a flavorful, glazy, red sauce. I loved the contrast created by the sesame seeds!
After a walk along a pedestrian-friendly street, we visited a multigenerational pickle shop! The aroma inside was very potent. We bought a flowering herb called Solomon Scroll that looked almost like a worm as well as a pickle that contained daikon, ginger, and cucumbers.
Then, we had slippery pork wontons, which were super thin and paper-like and served in a soup! They evaporate in your mouth and slip right down your throat! Next was an insanely tender and juicy Hangzhou specialty called Beggar’s Chicken, which is wrapped in a lotus leaf, covered in mud, and baked, as well as delicious, al dente noodles with sliced bamboo and pickled mustard greens.
After our meal, we flew down an ancient street lined with stores, restaurants, and souvenir shops to get to a traditional medicine shop selling huge mushrooms, ginseng, and other traditional medicines. The building gave me a real feel of China from centuries ago!
Up next was a hike to work off our meal! We headed up a hill to get to the Medicine God Temple at the top. You pray to the medicine god if you’re sick. Inside the temple is a tea house where I was treated to epic views of the city and the massive West Lake! It almost reminded me of Bosnia!
There, we tried Dragon Well tea, the most famous green tea in the world. As we sipped out tea, we also tried pickled daikon radish, which was really refreshing! Then was the Solomon’s Scrolls, some sweet rolls, and dried ginger, kumquats, and plum. They were so good! We finished up with a strong Chinese fruit wine!
Then we headed through the garden and made our final stop at a traditional Hangzhou snack shop, where we tried more local specialties, including fava beans, a caramelized pork belly with a red sauce, and glutinous and sweet rice balls.
The fava beans reminded me of edamame and had dried chilies in them. The caramelized pork belly was super thick and fatty and unbelievably tasty with the sauce. The soup was like a sweet egg drop soup with rice balls. It wasn’t my favorite, but only because I’m not really a sweets guy.
Wow! What an incredible food tour. I have to thank Jamie and UnTour Food Tours for showing me around Hangzhou and giving me the opportunity to sample so many local favorites. I had such a great time!
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ENDLESS Chinese STREET FOOD Tour - Beef Rolls, Five Layered Pork, Slippery Wontons | Hangzhou, China
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Davidsbeenhere Welcome to China, but please don't steal China's 5G technology, artificial intelligence and big data technology!

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David, can I ask you brand and model of your watch? I'd like to get one of those. Thnx!

[@dipakratlani7152]

Hey David which has better chicken flavours India or china???

[@ericliume]

This woman really knows Hangzhou well. WOW She really has a good taste on the authentic Hangzhou cuisines.

[@emmok7039]

that girl is a really knowledgable of Hangzhou's culture

[@rishabh9389]

China is so beautiful. Love from India

[@rafikingkong]

This lady ist super informative! I like her！

[@aipooalice]

Great tour! That view is amazing 😍

[@shawgu9835]

欢迎来到杭州。带的姑娘已经是本地老饕了。 都走的老杭州路线。

[@jessietorres9324]

Dude awesome video, food looks delicious..

[@yananneteoh9818]

Wow, HANGZHOU FOOD LOOKS INCREDIBLY GOOD! THANKS FOR SHARING DAVE.oNE COULD FLY THERE JUST TO EAT!

[@yingli7386]

Food list：梅干菜饼（cake ）、干炸响铃（fried bells ）、酱香饼（cake）、小馄饨（wonton）、叫花鸡（chicken）、片儿川（noodles）、小咸菜 （Pickles）、龙井茶（green tea）、酥饼（ cake）、话梅（plum）、杨梅酒（yangberry Liquor）、东坡肉（Dongpo pork）、蚕豆（Broad beans）酒酿圆子（Glutinous rice dough） 。sorry maybe not accuracy。😂😂😂 I live in hangzhou ，welcome！

[@ericliume]

I just realized they ate a lot. omg

[@kenyup5424]

All tour guides were good,I gave a thumbs up to them,they’re impressed

[@ricardotongol567]

Hmmm, hello David in Hangzhou. Nice scenic blog and lot of good food. Yumm

[@dingydan187]

Wowww beautiful city, great food and amazing guide 👏👏👏

[@melissataylorowens3016]

Awesome view 😎

[@FollowerOfJesus1111]

Dang who is this woman, she is so smart and remembers and knows alot

[@gregghanson6095]

she's a tour guide!!! It's her job to know a lot!!

[@priyasatam8252]

Amazing food.

[@jiayicheng7782]

She is so informative!

[@tarzanjr6894]

Awesome man.... Can't wait for tomorrow's video....

[@okevino]

i like this girl alot. she really has alot of knowledge about hangzhou,

[@eChineseLearning-school]

Very informative food tour. Our Chinese language students would love to see this. Thanks for your effort and thorough introduction to Chinese street food. Come learn Chinese with us online!

[@wmystica]

Beautiful, thank you for the video. I'm going to Hangzhou soon and I would like to have the location of the places.

[@justinsandu894]

I saw jinhua ham in the video, a famous food from my hometown Dongyang. Hangzhou is a really beautiful city , also may be a super megacity in the future

[@Bueryule]

Good video

[@ramit439]

🍁Typical guy with more food on the face than going in!😮..Great video, David, thanks.☺

[@govindkrishan192]

Super food my brother

[@sonaisamanta5081]

Very nice

[@ybyltycycxylyct]

she is amazing

[@madisonhuang2960]

it's great

[@vikssingh4159]

I don’t think David like sharing. People that show him around always look at him while he’s eating like “bro we was meant to share that, but you eating it all” lol

[@user-np3cv9ii8w]

she knows her stuff so well

[@user-np3cv9ii8w]

this women is amazing

[@naegwut]

Fun!

[@jacobberg5584]

There is a famous restaurant on the west lake, Lou Wai Lou. And a famous temple Ling Yin Temple.

[@TeeJaay8888]

man that restaurant is a blast .,.. so many good dishes...definitely worth to try

[@emale1437]

17:35 those flower looking on the glass cabinet is call "lingzhi". is very very expensive, just like ginseng, because some may grown/age more than 100 years. The place is a time travel experience, beautiful and well keep, just like those in the ancient time movie. the green tea "dragon well" is drink and named by Qianlong Emperor. The bottle drink is awesome, it help to cool down the inner heat in the body, after one day long hour under the sun. Chinese also say Hangzhou is a best place to stay in China. Great video, TQ

[@BBwoan]

Woah! Look so good!! And I'm pleasantly surprised to see so much muslim influence in southern China. I learned something new today :)

[@mantapdjiwa9768]

Muslim influence mostly just change the pork to beef. Like the first dish, i eat pork version at home every chinese new year.

[@jacobberg5584]

Please visit a small old town Nan Xun or Wu Zhen, not far from Hang Zhou.

[@SydneyKong]

the chongyaobang. love the chongyaobang. the green onion pancake

[@vijaykujur8542]

I LOVE JAMIE...

[@user-gg6oo2sh3b]

welcome to my hometown

[@qingfanzhou2707]

i live in hangzhou,welcome!

[@jaic.1364]

May I ask the name of the restaurant where you ate the beef rolls wrapped in tofu skin? I want to go there and try it, too.

[@ArifGilgitiVlogs]

Love from Hunza Pakistan

[@muyyek]

When will the UnTour food tour of Hangzhou become available? I'm going to be there for one day at the beginning of December, and if she's got some sort of evening night market tour or something, I'm definitely down.

[@karanamaditya5118]

oh dude! she seems to be very talkative. :P delicious foooood!

[@gregghanson6095]

she's a tour guide. Of course she's talkative It's her job

[@richard4685]

drinking the tea when watching you drink tea, lol

[@hanchen3932]

这个女的好厉害

[@electrified3379]

太亲切了，身为一个浙江人

[@electrified3379]

响铃 家乡的味道

[@user-rt3jp1dc1k]

welcome to India love from china！

[@jacobberg5584]

Please visit the house of wealth merchant Hu Xue Yan. and causeway across the west lake.

[@SatnamSingh-bd9ns]

Waiting.in Suriname series.

[@rafikingkong]

天哪，导游带了杨梅酒！真是懂行啊！Well done， lady！

[@hong3170]

The amazing thing is he eats so much but not fat at all.

[@user-gy4rk3du8q]

吃货与吃货的合作

[@daniellxia]

Actually I found Yang Mei in Paris early this year.

[@ashwinisharma413]

Hello David, have you been to WUXI? Also have you found vegetarian food in China?

[@ashwinisharma413]

@Doe Jason Thanks! Can you help me out for vegetarian food in WUXI.

[@ashwinisharma413]

@Doe Jason Okay! Thanks for your reply.

[@afunguynamedkawhi7959]

The girl is sincere and non pretentious, my type of beauty.😍😍 She seems low maintenance too.

[@wanghaoyu886]

You don't have to say the second sentence. She is so sweet!

[@gregghanson6095]

She's a tour guide. It's her job to be pleasant. They are not on a date!!!

[@loveloveyy1027]

A very big difference between the previous tour guide and this tour guide

[@mingtangwu2716]

You like to eat spicy food. It is the most correct choice to eat Sichuan cuisine in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

[@user-cw2eh1qs2d]

黄山的梅干菜才是最出名的，特别是梅干菜烧饼，还有五城豆干，正宗的五城豆干是很小的一块，上面有辣椒，但不太辣，很少在外地看见正宗的

[@ericliume]

中国这么大，即便是同一种食材，每个地方都有自己的风味。喜欢就好。

[@user-ux1ox1bf4m]

我发现你吃辣椒和醋真的很厉害，

[@tuitam5474]

Another great Video 👍 PS. Please could you reply for my request? 🙏 It will be ok 👌? If I’ll use 20 sec. of your Bangkok drone footage for my video from Bangkok? I’ll be really appreciate 🙏 many thanks in advance 👍🤩🎞

[@longmarch8896]

这些导游都好棒

[@chetnadethe8172]

Good to see some Chinese Muslims

[@dboy8295]

You misplaced the grass and the other word with winter and summer.

[@jerrybhai6559]

Cmon try her also dude

[@zhenyutao2782]

杭州是上海人最喜欢去的地方之一，因为杭州是一个有历史，有文化，浪漫的城市，我一年都要去几次杭州，如果推荐你，上天竺（Shang Tian Zhu）是一个我最喜欢的杭州的地方，只有本地人，没有游客，很多寺庙，非常美！祝你旅行愉快。

[@user-qx5vm1mc2r]

吃混沌加点醋味道更佳

[@sualliu257]

奥里给，赶上了，三分钟前的视频。

[@muzisop]

對不起！咸菜就茶葉水讓我笑了...感謝你對中國進行的旅行宣傳。Welcome to China

[@user-bc5ln6gd9e]

配稀饭

[@yoyo-wc9tm]

他还挺会玩的，每期都找个人带他

[@gradyzyner7423]

What happened to your cool pink and blue shoes?

[@winfredluo6001]

really painful for me to watch that you slurp/bite/drink whatever that are still boiling hot. just wait a few seconds... and some stuffs like xiaolongbao, one does not need to finish it in one mouthful... don't burn your tongue ~

[@Henrynerdcore]

At the end of the video my bf says the guy has A glogged face poors but I see a gold ish glitter

[@stanleywei1148]

We actually call them winter caterpillar summer grass.

[@ZoeCuiM]

The amount of stuff the guide made up or got wrong. Whoa

[@uhohhhsteven]

^ been to china once, thinks they know everything lmao

[@afunguynamedkawhi7959]

Don't be too picky, the audiences are foreigners.

[@wanghaoyu886]

No, the guide is so sweet and well knowledged. Don't be a snub. Be humble!

[@Lightworkps]

Ok Zoe, I presume you’re from there then with a name like Zoe? You must know everything Chinese

[@moonshadow--1207]

I couldn't do that. I'm one of those pick through your food with your fingers kind of eater. I would have to ask for two forks to eat that chicken. I can't just take a bite out of something I haven't taken apart first unless its soup. Looks like most of what you eat is slimy.

[@angelsharma5318]

David u r good! I am a regular viewer of ur videos but one thing is bothering me! Why so many adds???? It irritates sometimes 😖

[@chnegsi]

龙井配咸菜😂

[@xiaozhang5433]

25:38 Su Dongpo is mostly recognized for his achievement in literature and art not just being a mayor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Shi

[@mahanteshnaragatti3421]

That is India 🇮🇳 food dosa famous in china🇨🇳

[@jbjr8628]

this dude has a iron stomach lol

[@indraneilbiswas]

marco polo took the chinese pizza to italy n hence the pizza was invented.

[@EbefrenRevo]

Marco Polo inspired many things in Italy, but not the Pizza. The first pizza as we know it was made in Naples near the 1700, but the name "pizzas" can be find in historical documents since 900 AD (way before the Polo voyage). The basic dull have a ancient Roman and Egypt origin (offa). So, Polo didnt import the pizza.

[@rxycrashed]

Pray for ASSAM

[@user-hr1nr7ye8e]

有人带就是不一样

[@yingli7386]

泡面微剧场 哈哈哈哈没错，菜市场都去了

[@zongmianli9072]

Regional specialties and snacks are countless in China. One can never taste all of them.

[@muteth3rage539]

this white guy eating so wild 哈哈哈

[@jacobberg5584]

Please check out blondie in China on KZbin, She is a good guide.

[@calimedazh1939]

Hard to ignore that smudge on David’s mouth after he had the beggars chicken

[@Davidsbeenhere]

jjajajaja yea dude!

[@zhengpepe]

Could you please reduce the number of ads by half??? They are too many:(((((

[@liaqataliliaqatali773]

David your tour food liaqat ZAIB SASOLI Pakistan

[@richard4685]

when eat the pork, should take the rice, that's better

[@sonishravan6722]

Nothing best China

[@richard4685]

foreigners in China , we called laowai, you should learn some local language, if you are in Shanghai, we have wechat group of laowai, can join us for more local culture

[@allacerz2289]

吃菜不配白飯 那些菜餚都會顯得過鹹過於油膩 記得下次點碗白飯配著吃！

[@chk25984]

南方人吧？

[@allacerz2289]

@@chk25984 你們北方配饅頭！？東坡肉這樣吃又鹹又油膩 不配點東西不好吃！

[@wenchengjiang2251]

Northern wantons is much better than southern s

[@user-hv8fw1hb1n]

You two need a cup of tea to get rid of the greasy.

[@yikanghu]

Would you consider having a manicure? Close up views of your fingernails can be distracting from the food you’re trying to show (this video isn’t as bad as some others before). Like your sense of adventure. Happy travels!

[@jackyc6593]

You eat too much. I can feel the "full" for you.

[@sergash2013]

I like Jamie, and you brother eat less. lol