How I stay ‘in shape’ as a food vlogger

I've been receiving lots of comments recently asking how I am able to eat so much in my videos but stay in shape - here's a video showing you a day in my life when I'm not travelling or filming a food video! Enjoy!
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[@Johnwalkstheworld]

Haha, I have many new subscribers already. Thanks Blondie. My channel is pretty simple and not nearly as professional as yours. Your editing skills are so on point! Also I am so happy you have such wonderful neighbours. Please give them a hug from me and maybe make them a spag bol Daddy style.❤️❤️❤️

[@violetviolet888]

😊

[@chensonic4879]

Already subscribed!

[@Qantz]

Can I be part of this family? 🤣🤣

[@matpk]

@@violetviolet888 Get Chinese Passport and citizenship in your next video🎉😮

[@tomrhodes7771]

This would be an amazing sequel to this video!

[@heavenlyhashbrown1]

I love this insider's view of your daily life. I think you'd be a great daily vlogger if it's in the cards :)

[@xtasLOCO]

The rice rolls prepared with a bunch of sauces is 混酱肠粉. I had it in Hong Kong and was initially confused by the different flavors but then quickly came to love it!

[@marcc1830]

I think the more common name for it is 街邊腸粉/街頭腸粉 or something along that line. Usually the regular 腸粉 in a restaurant have meat (pork, chicken or beef) or shrimp in them. The Street version is more or less kind of street snack with a mixed of Hoi Sen and Seasame source, hence it comes with the big "toothpick" because you don't have chopstick when you are on the street. The place you went to (like many places in Hong Kong) love to play with the pronounciation that sound like something humorous or swear word. Mix source 混酱 has the same pronouciation as 混帳 which transliterated to "mixed accounts" but is use colloquially express bullcrap or nonsense, yeah accounting swear words, how stereotypical Asian can one get 🤣. Many time, especially in Hong Kong Style (western food) restaurant the menu item uses swear words sounding item. eg. A drink that mix Ribena and 7up is call 利賓七(Riben-7) but it sound like "You stupid d**k" in cantonese. Some get offended by the bawdy humor, most laugh it off.

[@lauragrt]

Yes, neighbours in Hutong are the best! I grew up in Hutong, we shared food, they took care of me when my parents were not home, you didn’t even have to lock the door when going out, coz nothing could escape from your neighbour’s eyes🤣

[@abiii8462]

Blondie, I'm glad to hear that you are taking care of your digestive system so we can all continue enjoying your food adventures 😄😂Keep up the good work!🥰 Ps: your neighbors are so sweet ☺️

[@user-hm8hd2nc6u]

frankly, I don't think her food portion is anywhere near large plus she is still young

[@christianhansen3292]

she got a banging body!

[@elixshu1709]

Watching your videos gives me so much fun Amy! You got that sense of humor in your own way which I can totally relate! Appreciate you so much!

[@yingkeinlin8562]

I love the variety of contents on here and watched every single video without fail since the pandemic. They are informative and educational; it opens my eyes about different regional food and culture. Carry on with the good work and look forward seeing more video, Blondie.

[@haleydonovan3421]

so wonderful to see this side of you, Amy. Big fan from Canada!

[@selinajuse1852]

You are such a trooper! I love watching your videos and all the authentic Chinese food you eat.

[@kialim]

What a wholesome video. Your lifestyle, your daily routine, it's just awesome!

[@kcleung888]

I Love your walking videos,the sights are so much fun the food is awesome too !

[@weiwu3108]

I really appreciate this video! Thanks for sharing your daily life which is mostly off the camera. Mental health is so important and I'm really happy for you that you're taking care of yourself and you are doing great!

[@ishabrown]

Your new community looks amazing, the hutong and coziness of it all looks amazing and you have great. I wouldn't want to leave xx

[@crestianne_]

One thing I love about watching your videos is that I get to be updated with the latest trends or happenings in China through your first-hand experiences. ❤

[@jerometsowinghuen]

It may feel hard to cope with the pandemic in life, but glad to hear that you are trying to stay smooth as a food vlogger/blogger, Miss Amy. Keep it up the pace. 💖

[@jimmywang1079]

massive fan... honestly you're not really friends with anyone until you've shared an awesome poo story. Thanks for making us all feel like part of the fam

[@BlondieinChina]

❤️❤️❤️💩

[@matpk]

@@BlondieinChina Get Chinese Passport and citizenship in your next video🎉😮

[@davidckk2]

@@BlondieinChina Amy, I saw banana in your fridge. Just thought of sharing that banana is not suitable to be put in a fridge.

[@howoddmerekat]

Yay Brandon Sanderson! This was a great peak into your daily routine - thanks! I'm studying Chinese right now and daydreaming about getting to travel someday, and your videos are such an inspiration

[@philclock6361]

Amy, from what you have described your routine of work, rest, food etc, I believe you are a highly motivated and disciplined person. 👍👏

[@Bimbambommel]

Hey Amy, thanks for your videos. Your fluent Mandarin gave me new motivation to learn Cantonese more seriously, just wanted to tell you thanks for that :)

[@CLONDONH]

Amy, great to know that you're enjoying your time in Beijing all well and safe! I've been binge-watching your older videos (and those with your parents too). Perhaps it's time to revisit the idea of trying the same dish across time-space difference between Beijing and Sydney. lol really miss seeing your family featured in your videos too!

[@malc121]

Great insight to your normal daily life,keep having your food adventures,lovely to see your neighbours,take care and stay safe ❤️

[@RespectOthers1]

What a harmonious routine for the mind, body and soul. It ticks all the boxes! :D

[@condorX2]

You again 😂

[@TY-ob7fz]

You are such a sweetheart, Amy. Thank you for insight into your life and always looking forward to your content. Btw, anxiety is being alive -is part of life no matter what hierarchy in the food chain you’re at. Love you 🙂

[@megaiang8133]

4 mins into today's episode, i am already laughing my hat off! No offence! So hilarious especially from a person having, lets say fragile gut as well. Now the look on on the dog went in seeing all your business is carved into my mind and would not go away, just like the dog.

[@jeffrey5602]

Also a thing I would go buy in case of an eventual lockdown: a proper tea set for gong fu brewing and some nice varieties of Oolong and Pu'er tea. I recently got into the gongfu cha game and it has been so great for calming down and feels like a meditative practice. Like you I usually prefer running / walking over actually meditating. Hope though there wont be any lockdown ofc :)

[@sabrinastraveladventures4263]

I’m so glad I recently came across your channel! Really enjoyed this, as a vegetarian I struggle at times to watch you eating certain things and I was pleasantly surprised seeing you having such a healthy fridge😜 It’s funny I too look like a strong super happy bubbly personality but I struggle with chronic fatigue and anxiety people have no idea what a struggle it is just for me to just get out and fooling them with my smiles and happy vibes… quite inspiring to hear your story Take care and really hoping it gets contained and you don’t have to go into lockdown Sabrina🇫🇷🇬🇧

[@hallee9975]

It's inspiring that you take care of your mental health and that you are able to be so lively and fun even when you have anxiety issues. I know this firsthand -- I also have anxiety issues, but generally speaking nobody knows it but me. Good job!

[@rogerchang1806]

Amazing epsiode as always, you're surely a Chinese food expert. A great ambassador for Chiness food and cultual.

[@brucehuang4231]

It got to be miracle for you to keep your good shape. Really unbelievable!

[@enchantedmindmeditation]

I love your videos!! Thank you for making them :)

[@beggerking]

watching your vlog relaxes me. it's truly awesome and relaxing

[@aimeexu7817]

Thank you, Amy. Just viewing your video brings back a massive wave of nostalgia for my childhood because I grew up in Beijing” Hu Tong”.

[@bolt69420]

Amazing to have an inside look into your life! It’s just amazing to see how you are off camera. I can’t stop obsessing over your channel!! Really good video!

[@BlondieinChina]

Aww thank you so much!

[@matpk]

@@BlondieinChina Get Chinese Passport and citizenship in your next video🎉😮

[@solh8844]

Awww promoting your dads channel is just the cutest haha and aww seeing your sweet neighbors was so sweet, I live in a tiny complex and still don’t even know what my neighbors look like hahaha

[@user-ek4nh8oq8f]

Amy: thanks for sharing a Day in your Life. You're amazing!

[@apolloyang1036]

this reminds me of the A Yi(aunt) that offered you the Hot water back then. The bonding between people, wherever they are from, is always the most touching thing in the world. Covid may distants people, but kindness surely bring them closer and closer.

[@billng6526]

Your apartment looks really cozy and comfortable. Thanks for sharing your daily livelihood, By the way, you look great and beautiful as always!

[@agneszheng2893]

Love your videos Amy! The actual name of the rice roll thing is 混酱肠粉 or 三酱肠粉. It's a popular street food since I was little :)

[@mattlee7059]

I love your videos. good quality and always happy. actually, I'm under my hotel quarantine in Nanjing for 7 days. I love to watch your food vlog and put them play on my TV. It can make me not feel alone and think about what kind of food I will eat after release.

[@jacobrocks7]

Great neighbors are a blessing. Glad you take care of mental health. So important. Awesome at home vlog. Hey I have seen Nico vlog.

[@Fuallz]

Really like the positive energy in your videos. Keep it up.👍

[@miraaims]

That Bialetti (a brand) is a moka pot! I was also introduced to it when I was living in the Netherlands, as a lot of my European friends use moka pot to make coffee. I gotta say I've never turned back ever since. Love love moka pot coffee!

[@AL-lh6gi]

Love your videos. Thanks for sharing the snippets of your life in Beijing ❤

[@felixluk3167]

Hi Amy, the rice roll you had is usually called 斋肠 (plain rice roll), as opposed to rice roll with stuff inside. Usually you can choose from a number of sauces, including soy sauce, sesame sauce, seafood sauce and spicy sauce. XO sauce fried rice roll is also a really good dish. Please try it some time.

[@hailey0302]

As a Cantonese I call it 猪肠粉 instead. Rice roll without stuff inside is simply called 斋肠 🤣🤣🤣

[@theprincess1808]

I really love your wooden decoration，which is simple and pretty.

[@JoelBergmark]

Your channel had grown more on me a lot, positive and very nice editing, I'm here for the China and food part (as a veggie though) :p

[@uniotter2662]

Wow, it never occurred to me that your regular diet would be largely vegetarian/vegan, but that does make sense. I admit to marveling over how you stayed in such good shape when eating so well in the videos. :D And it's unusual to find someone with a mainly veggie diet who will also eat all the "parts" you do! *LOL* Loved this little look into your off-camera life....thanks for sharing!

[@bpbk546]

I love your neighbor, they look so nice. And I also love that you have all these fresh vegetables in your refrigerator, that shows how much you love your life ❤️

[@Nicofilms]

OMG I forgot how good those rice rolls and noodles were, such a taste sensation! Can't wait for the next food adventure!

[@leom.4555]

this is so amazing, looking forward to the new video notification already

[@gohfai]

hi from hongkong fan.What you eat with your two friends are so popular food in hongkong.Enjoy so much watching and learn some Australian accent English.Support and keep up with your wonderful vlog in china!

[@angeliquekellerman6939]

Day 33 of being locked in my apartment. I agree with keeping active. Been using Downdog (HIIT, Yoga and Meditation) the whole lockdown. It’s really helped a lot. Thanks for book link.

[@bamboohistorypodcast5250]

Great insight into your life behind the scenes! All that walking through Beijing and around the Chinese countryside would certainly keep you in shape! Not to mention that squat toilets = leg day at the gym :)

[@brianm1907]

And why do ab crunches when the ab can crunch itself with SOME chilli?

[@Runningbowels]

You should be called Awesome Amy! Great choice btw on the Beef Chowfun - can't beat that wok essence/aroma.

[@jaydenligamingandothergame]

Love to watch all of your videos 🥰

[@kattehh]

Love your channel and yes on the books! Definitely waiting on that third 😬

[@BlondieinChina]

Arghhhh feel like we will wait forever!!

[@matpk]

@@BlondieinChina Get Chinese Passport and citizenship in your next video🎉😮

[@yellow6ird]

Oh girl can I related!? That 3rd book I've almost accept it'll never come... it has been so many years. Loved the first 2. The Slow Regard of Silent Things was interesting too.

[@maybe6389]

Great to see you Amy, wow, those last 2 minute's made me really hungry!

[@yannikin]

“Come with me on my walk and hear about my poop story” haha😂 that escalated quickly.

[@haowang8890]

Your house is so cozy. Everything looks clean and neat.

[@angli3788]

Stay safe Amy. Love your content.

[@violetviolet888]

Blondie, thanks for the insight and letting us hang out with you!

[@peterzeng1243]

Like your positive attitude.

[@rickyli9957]

Very healthy life style. I could also include a bit of this into my routine as I’m working from home as well.

[@julysan3225]

Greetings from Melbourne! Love your videos & the bathroom story cracked me up XD

[@carmenchen3588]

after not watching your videos for a while, you put me back into watching more china vlog

[@FernandoCarddoso]

Hey, I love your channel, I'm trying to learn Chinese by myself, your content is really amazing

[@ethanz3175]

Hi Amy I’ve been watching your videos for a very long time. (All of them at multiple times to be clarified..lol), I just hope you will always keep healthy, please don’t flow with the extreme food to get more views, I know that’s most of popular mukbangers are doing. Actually most of us can’t even handle the extreme food….Wish you more wonderful trip and food adventure back in china. 🙌🙌

[@pdpdude82]

Thanks for the Taobao recommendation. We live in Macau and physical English books are not hard to find but expensive. I just ordered the Chronical of Narnia for my 10 year old thanks to you.

[@sleepandrelaxation3395]

Walking is one of the best form of exercise, I personally won't mind longer videos with a bit more of sights and sounds as you walk or travel to various places. Would be nice if the link to your dad's channel is included in the description, those are quite nice. ;)

[@jamesyao1690]

As Chinese, watching your video about Chinese food in Australia is a complicated feeling, haven't been back to China for 4 years because of study, work and Covid and what I miss the most is the authentic and delicious Chinese food, great video though!

[@canyonsan]

A rice noodle roll is a Cantonese dish from Guangdong Province in southern China can also call it as chee cheong fun in Malaysia

[@willaodefey3969]

Been waiting on Patrick Rothfuss for so long!!!! I just put my boyfriend on to him so was pleasantly surprised to hear you mention him!!!

[@halnicholas3791]

Such cool neighbors! Daily vlogger, food vlogger, I think any video you do will be great.

[@aprilye6171]

I love your healthy lifestyle and your home is very cosy.

[@kinchong1]

Amy, on the Cantonese dinner, you ate the steamed rice roll. That's a type of Cantonese QIANG2 FEN3 (in Pinyin). There are 2 types, one being softer and the other being harder (which is the version that you ate). Cheers!

[@CjxJamie]

Chang2 Fen3. I love the soft type.

[@isabellahudson8287]

You are so pretty! I love your personality

[@michellezhu1559]

同款花生酱 好开心❤🎉 I got so excited because we fancy the same brand of peanut butter lol

[@andrithio]

i love that same peanut butter too, especially the crunchy ones. I love having them on 2 pieces of bread, one bread with peanut butter, another with nutella, put them together like a sandwich... another hack, do the same thing on crumpets

[@internetgirl3099]

Omg the part where the dog came in!!! LOLLLLLL I can’t hold my laughter anymore

[@sunflu]

Had a very stressful day. Your poo incident made me laugh for the first time of the day. Thank you so much Amy. 🤣

[@taylorz7875]

the part with the hutong toilet cracks me up, you are very good at telling stories.

[@Chuckme888]

Glad you are doing well...stay well.

[@joannehui3322]

Hi Amy, that rice roll is called 腸粉（肠粉）and you can buy them in wet markets in HK. The ones you ate in the video are usually eaten as a snack or breakfast in snack shops or at home. But in the yum cha places, you eat rice rolls that are thicker and with meat or prawns or a 油条 which is called 炸兩.

[@jonec8437]

thanks for bring the happiness to us

[@bensiagel]

Omgggg we have the same taste in books and authors! And yes, the waiting game with King Killers sheesh

[@JoelBergmark]

Awesome bookadvice, scifi and fantasy is great and I listen 5o it when I sleep currently listening to star trek due to lack of books so need to check your advice out! Also your cooking sauces is identical to my wife's lol

[@PeterLiuIsBeast]

There is that massive book store that's underground in Xidan. It has quite a lot of English books. I remember buying "Fahrenheit 451" there.

[@GabrielePastoreAlchemikal]

The tastes like Chinese cuisine from back home topic is quite Interesting Lol coming from Italy, before moving to China 3 years ago, Chinese food was very broadly represented in my mind by Shanghai/Zhejiang cuisine, because most of the Chinese immigrants at that time came form Wenzhou 😄 there’s the occasional Cantonese but a lot of Italians don’t associate Chinese food with char siu, baozaifan, or even dim sum at all (which is a pity!). In 2022 of course things are different, at least in major cities.

[@starcloak]

You got some lovely neighbors there, such sweet people. Not sure what everyone else is saying but me and my family refer those rice rolls as cheung fan as well like the ones that you already had on the channel. From a guy who has family from Hong Kong and the Guangdong area

[@hkgemini5750]

The rice roll is called 腸粉, it is famous street food in Hong Kong. It is delicious and usually goes with difference sauces together（混醬）

[@janeyuin4594]

Hi Amy😍I really love your cosy comfy home. Adore n admire your lifestyle in Beijing. Really great time. 🤩

[@johnnyjai6804]

一個簡單美麗而舒適家 a simple beautiful and comfortable home

[@kimso-hyun7694]

God I’m so in love with your content of eating D:

[@j0hnappls33d]

AMYYYYYYY i love your videos

[@kathyzhao539]

My favorite peanut butter brand too. Just bought one bottle today (half price at wollies), dark roasted is the best😊

[@PatriciaFreddy]

YOu are so brave and adventurous!

[@Mariobrownio1989]

Thanks for sharing how you keep healthy and happy

[@KHHBBC]

Rice noodle roll is "cheong fun" which is what the Cantonese call it. What you had was the plain variety which usually has a bit peanut butter sauce as well.

[@singmantkpss]

You can tell how genuine the neighbours are :)