Shanghai’s White-Collar Workers Broke, $0.13 Cheap Snacks Sell out in Frenzy

[@murrowboy]

If anyone has learned anything from this channel, it's that cheap chinese food are probably dangerous. You're not being smart by buying cheap food.

[@chesucat]

I worked with a old guy that wouldn't eat chinese food. He said, he doesn't eat dog or cat.

[@nelsonta00]

​@chesucat There were stories and videos before about men in white van or bike abducting house pets in the past. This might see a huge surge again

[@Zarozian]

If it’s all you can afford to eat and you gotta eat then you buy Chinese. 😊

[@PsyrenXY]

Fake meat and gutter oil

[@maskanipoa5348]

Avoid anything with meat and greens. Stick with noodles and beans even though they might be contaminated plus soak overnight like you would do with dirty rags that need cleaning to dilute contaminants. Stay safe.

[@Labyrinth6000]

Lining up for 5 hours for cheap food? That’s not something to brag about, that’s a failed state.

[@tukkajumala]

A failed state of mind, at least. If they worked those 5 hours they spent in queue, they could make a lot more than what they saved on food.

[@mikesixx7655]

Exactly lmao. That's bread line nonsense

[@Labyrinth6000]

@@tukkajumala that’s the lack of self-awareness, a major weakness with Asians in general.

[@zt8985]

I am Chinese,wait 5 hours just for popular food, but indeed China economy is real bad！

[@TheZeek011]

I'd be scared to eat anything in China, after all the fake food videos I've seen.

[@ivantsang2156]

Your not the only one…

[@be6386]

Oh god yes!!! Even Indian food seems safe compared to to this

[@maskanipoa5348]

I would eat only what I grow with my own hands plus smuggle some fish from Vietnam or Cambodia

[@genez2157]

Read the ingredients of any item in the bakery section of an American supermarket. I refuse to eat the fake sugar and wax like after taste from the hydrogenated oils. Hell, look at the ingredients in the other aisles.

[@ivantsang2156]

@@genez2157 a lot of American food won’t get pass by the EU food laws

[@JerBuster77]

Don't ask where they get the cooking oil from...

[@mah7961]

Here’s a hint for those of you who don’t know. It rhymes with butter, but you can only use the letter G.

[@jimshoe402]

Never again for me DONE..

[@manoyski3555]

Storm drain

[@HextorBane]

it's the famous "sewer oil". So healty!

[@badshootykat5574]

Spit Oil good for forcing a stronger immune system

[@unitednoobies898]

I’m afraid of breathing the air in China let alone eating cheap food.

[@jamegumb7298]

Gutter oil boosts the immune system.

[@goverlord]

@@jamegumb7298 and ruins the liver and kidneys

[@noirhorror197]

I won't even pop my bubble wrap anymore cuz I think it's air from China.

[@cadmean-reader]

It's cheap now, sure, but the cost of the habit will be paid for in health issues years down the line

[@azmodanpc]

Yeah but China is a communist country so healthcare is free right? 😂

[@o0oGhsto0o]

They never learn. Every single time they have a tourism boom we get videos of the locals extorting all the tourists. Also I'm very concerned what those .13 meat sticks are really made of.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Those "oreo crumbs" are totally diluted with dirt

[@sparklestonebro]

Bold of you to assume it's not pure dirt

[@samsonsoturian6013]

​@sparklestonebro have to maintain flavor

[@RizzyGyatt]

gyatty

[@ahhmm5381]

Some roughage to give your system a workout

[@gregwaters8480]

@@sparklestonebro 🤣

[@oliverz6581]

Unfortunately its all cheap because the ingredients literally come from the gutter.

[@susank4878]

This is what happens when the dictator of a huge nation which depends on selling manufactured goods to richer countries threatens to make war on their biggest customer.

[@DiscountKiller]

"High Quality" I bet their Waste Water Management stations are getting overwhelmed from the the mass botcholism and diarreha epidemic.

[@brysoncherry9884]

Waste management You mean product to recycle?

[@ChinaConsultingTravelBlog]

I always laugh when people try to save money while eating out. You aren't saving money if you go out to eat. You can cook at home far cheaper and healthier.

[@MONOTHROPITE]

Shockingly, a lot of Chinese don't have a kitchen.

[@denizaydemir6756]

@@MONOTHROPITEexplain

[@chadmiesterDonovan]

They buy bottled water. Its that bad over there. I am surprised they are still alive. I bet the Chinese can outlive a nuclear world war.

[@chookitty5219]

​@@MONOTHROPITEsource? 😮

[@MONOTHROPITE]

@@chookitty5219 My source is living in Beijing for 3 years and seeing people rent what I would call a "bedroom apartment." Not hard to find pictures online.

[@D0NU75]

despite the infamy of chinese fast food and cheap ingredients, it warms my hearth seeing people wanting to learn how to cook their own stuff.

[@yuricopperhooves]

I find it absolutely disgusting that they smother everything in chili oil. Making every food spiced to the max by default is the laziest thing in cooking.

[@SEEKER_Of_CULTURE]

They are obsessed with it

[@jackytan378]

Because covering everything in oil hides the lack of spice and herbs , probably all artificial flavouring.

[@cosmicmuffin322]

It's the way to hide the taste of the ingredients. I read somewhere that Japanese food is designed to show off the taste of the ingredients, and Chinese food is designed to disguise the taste.

[@masExz]

they need to disguise the taste of gutter oil somehow

[@oscargrainger2962]

Spices were discovered in India to mask the smell of bad meat. I don’t think anything has changed.

[@gammaarmy9547]

Garbage in, garbage out

[@Unflushablepiss]

delicious!

[@RizzyGyatt]

gyatt

[@MartelloClaudio]

Ruixing = Lucking Coffee (similar concept as Starbucks). Lucking Coffee was kicked out of New York Stock Exchange as they provided fake data about their business

[@craffte]

Great comment. Spot on.

[@rhyswong8976]

If the economy is taking a dump, prices of everything rising everyday everywhere, and boom this food is ridiculously cheap... dont trust it. Ive worked in F&B in my country long enough to be amazed and horrified methods behind these foods. I cannot imagine what they doing in Chyna.

[@JL-GHK]

High Quality food with Low Price? In China? During an economic crisis? Ha. No.

[@WadmanP]

Given the previous video about gutter oil, fake food, and contaminated ingredients? So yummy I’m sure.

[@singlefather01]

High quality poison

[@Zarozian]

Better than eating cereal for dinner in the US.

[@JL-GHK]

... I would rather eat cereal for Dinner in any Western country.

[@Zarozian]

@@JL-GHKYeah but that’s such a great insult from corporations especially from Kellogg’s CEO. That’s why we boycotted the company into bankruptcy and then bought it out.

[@yifeihu8447]

30,000 monthly is not middle class. less than 1% in China makes that much

[@oscargrainger2962]

About 3400 pounds sterling.

[@F3arlessWarriorMindset]

I’m not sure why China people are complaining. From what I see, Xi Jinping is still having a good time leading the nation. 😂😂😂

[@_JackNapier]

I feel so bad knowing that those "snacks" are anything but "hearty"☹️

[@vanessali1365]

Bad foods stalls deliberately outside schools to ruin their youngster's health 😢

[@dliu115]

Unemployment is alot higher than 20%. Probably 45%

[@KatsuraKotonohaKuroki]

Actually 60% from china*

[@dustinmiller2775]

Communism taking the L, as usual.

[@Mr11ESSE111]

and capitalism usa are begg that china buys their debt

[@astralclub5964]

The girl at 1:18 could make major money if she “applied herself” in the “hospitality” biz!

[@alphach1mp]

No, they call this a win...

[@larrymcardle]

@@alphach1mp These aren't bugs, they're features!

[@RMwhite]

@@astralclub5964creepy guy

[@movinon1242]

Yuan-wise and bowel-foolish. There is, at best, a 50/50 chance that what they're eating from those ¥1.00 shops and stalls is technically meat (i.e., muscle and fat from a land animal) to bein with. But you can bet 99-1 that whatever meat they are selling for ¥1/$0.13, is not what they are advertising on the tin. You can only hope that whatever substance you're consuming is, at least, fit for human consumption; that its non-toxic; and it isn't rancid or rotting... or worse. These Red Chinese know all about getting a good price, but they really have no understanding of the concept of "value".

[@nmtl5721]

😂 so true. The concept of value left when Mao came in.

[@bchompoo]

True. They are children of Mao.

[@gagamba9198]

_'The price of sewer oil is too damn high!'_

[@0Zebadee0]

Believe me, you do not want to eat any of that food ... or the doctor at the hospital will complain about why you keep coming back every 2-3 days. I feel sick just watching those people eating it @05:42

[@vanessali1365]

Agree with you. They have absolutely no idea how to look after themselves.

[@Mystickrage]

theses prices they are worried about is astonishing 9 yen is .059 cents.

[@petewilliam4295]

9 yuan is $1.2

[@danielbrown8943]

They can always boil stones with chili sauce, Chinese won't starve! I say this while tucking into my Peking duck and fried rice and spare ribs and chili shredded chicken with seaweed.

[@brodude9652]

China really be living on Veteran Mode

[@ankitaharwal5886]

What is veteran mode, are they in survival mode

[@Fanta....]

They speed ran past prosperity to bug eating.

[@brodude9652]

@@ankitaharwal5886 ever play cod black ops? well on veteran mode difficulty you will not survive

[@janstolk486]

i only fry in gutter oil ! and save on laxatives by the by !

[@bonniebrock5109]

LOL ............and if needed go to the hospital emergency room with severe food poisoning!!!

[@vexium8127]

This is going to be a major health problem in the future.

[@mah7961]

The one business that is going to make serious bank there is going to be toilet paper business.

[@Michael9-23-15]

Ya, but not sure they all use it?

[@fpscanada3862]

Except most of them dont use tp lol. You should seee the state of toilets in china everywhere but the 3 or 4 major cities

[@wolverine89893]

Yeah and idiots in the US already had a run on that in 2020 😂

[@armorforinnocence]

I wouldn't eat a damn thing out of China.

[@maapaa2010]

Easy to get sick from such unhygienic stalls..

[@MarineRX179]

unhygienic stalls are the least of the worries, comparing to what the "foods" are made from...

[@rollyherrera623]

Looks more like "Hot Slop..."

[@j562gee0hdeewestsdegethemuLa]

Officials scheduled emergency meetings to dicuss next step, but when home buyers are scammed and ripped off they are nowhere insight. Most likely counting the profits from payoffs

[@pmshah1946]

What % of this cheap food is actually safe for human consumable? From other videos I have seen this is not fit for even garbage.

[@qwertyqwerty-qf6qt]

Don't touch it, the foods are expired

[@0Turbox]

If it's food ;)

[@MarineRX179]

@@Netizen_101 I think what he meant is the foods are literally made from expired ingredients (i.e. sausage meat are made from long expired rotten dead animals).

[@Lightos]

The Culture of spending is so different from the West and Asia. Asians is all about saving. the West all about spending.

[@Ashystar067]

I love the narration and the slides. Well-researched and presented ☺️ thank you 🧡💛

[@homerj806]

In America, the title "starving college student" is a badge of honor.

[@shirleyalston3074]

What generation?🤔

[@homerj806]

@@shirleyalston3074 To all college students who didn't have their parents pay for EVERYTHING. Especially those who put themselves through college. My parents only paid my tuition, have to get a job to pay rent and everything else. All of my student loans I paid off myself like many graduates. It is common in America. If a person never said that then someone paid for their education. Have you ever have to work for minimum wage while trying to balance studies and work hours.

[@anthonyboone6843]

Are you sure it is really meat?

[@ibuyufo]

I ask the same thing about the meat products in the US. Unlike Europe, the US adds so many fillers to cut cost and maximize profit with no benefits to the consumers.

[@aeris...5389]

@@ibuyufoi ask the same thing what happened on june 4 1989 in china

[@movinon1242]

There is, at best, a 50/50 chance that what they're eating from those ¥1.00 shops and stalls is even technically meat (i.e., muscle and fat from a land animal). But you can bet 99-1 that whatever meat they are selling for ¥1/$0.13, is not what they claim it is. You can only hope that its at least non-toxic or rotting... or worse

[@fialee8ca132]

Lol... this is interesting, as this channel always tells us much of the cheap foods are fake (plastic), use gutter oil, or used substitute meat (rat meat).

[@j.dunlop8295]

Shanghai was considered upper crust living! Nope, not so much anymore?

[@j.dunlop8295]

"Where will it All end?" Xi's taking care of the people, but his only people are CCP's elites!😅😢

[@russiachinanorthkoreastatetv]

China is squeezing its people AGAIN😂

[@meskonyolsen6657]

Gutter oil Foods be very high demand.

[@censorbleep3018]

There is nothing in life for which one has to wait in line for five hours.

[@canuck21]

Living condition in Canada has also dropped.

[@tamara_diamonds422]

I hope those stalls are letting elementary kids have priority. Now that you broke you want to go where the little kids have been eating.

[@Trumpisaraypest2024]

Gutter and spittle oil.

[@totallybtm]

12:00. Shop signage reads dog meat restaurant selling dog meat with its skin intact. 15:00. video shows Japan not China

[@clarkisaac6372]

One thing adds to the clip: 155 Chinese billionaires have also been wiped out of the ranking.

[@paulbriody297]

Cheap food is terrible quality.

[@markgarin6355]

Next steps....tax the crap out of them, make fake food....

[@nishantahvan]

How can Chinese eat out when fake oil, fake meat, fake milk, fake food are rampant. Like how ???

[@zacksmith5644]

Indian talking about fake ? 😆 🤣 😂 😹 is this April fools

[@nishantahvan]

@@zacksmith5644 Did you got your 50 cent ?

[@zacksmith5644]

@@nishantahvan 2rs pajeed

[@HcCh-sm8kk]

Spicy hot pot set the city on fire, are you sure is the city and not their butt. 😂

[@ayinxx16]

small gathering=3 days/big gathering=5 days, equals bankrupt😂

[@ScottLucian]

What communism does to a country 😢

[@San-yh4zi]

tbh america doesnt look much better

[@Qwairy]

If you think china is communist you are pretty ignorant

[@Poleriwi]

​@@San-yh4zi it does look better, way better, doesnt mean its good

[@aeris...5389]

@@Qwairypretty sure they are communist look at there flag its a communist flag

[@aeris...5389]

⁠@@somebodyspecific2410yes. Mao declared it a communist country in 1949. The red represents the Chinese Communist Revolution. The five stars and their relationships to each other represent the unity of four social classes of Chinese people, symbolized by four smaller stars, under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), symbolized by the large star.

[@klausao]

I've seen it all here in SH, there is a lot of work to do to stop this from happening. It is all about education...

[@snoopy5515]

You get what you pay for, I would be hesitant to try extremely cheap food in China as you don’t know what you’re getting

[@williss1192]

That's what I was going to say! Usually when it's cheap Chinese food you know something up. But maybe this is particularly special? Eating scraps they could at a lower-health risk?

[@j562gee0hdeewestsdegethemuLa]

"Government has opened parking lots to accompdate the surge, officals have held emergency meetings to dicuss next steps " Im assuming the meetings were about how to make more profit by either reducing quality with watered down reused cut ingredients , or increase tax or paid parking

[@21darkster]

Lord, I pray you help these people with whatever needs they have and take away the greed and pride of those causing this poverty

[@Hongsta]

Fake oil fake noodles fake meat fake soup fake all I wouldn't buy it no matter what the $ is 😂😂

[@novakingston3180]

Gutter oil.... can't take that out of my mind 🤢

[@minibeefcake]

GG 4:04 I'm sure that hand is super clean! That food probably work better than the disgusting fluid you have to drink the night before colonoscopy

[@zeussuez240]

a whole nation of hysteria people

[@o0oGhsto0o]

China is 40 trillion in debt and accumulated that in like 30 years or something ridiculous. This isn't hysteria on their part. They print more money than we America do and they're doing that in what amounts to a nearly closed economy.

[@Zarozian]

What is the US then? Trump better win or we might. It even recover.

[@Jack-It-UP]

Great reporting. Thanks

[@dsadik666]

It's got to be very bad if the Chinese are not even spending.

[@judah7162]

This is going to last another month at best. Then the government is going to mess it up like they did when they got involved in street vending. Same goes for the new vendors that are going to dilute this new venture just try to make some fast money from this.

[@F510C]

The difference from USA. In USA people will just go into debit. They will scale back but no where near China levels of scaling back spend.

[@0Turbox]

That overall debt will some day slap you in the face.

[@koolaidbomber]

They do? This American didn't get the memo.

[@HannahJoy333]

We’re very soon going to be forced to scale back and the credit card debt is closer to max every single day. Soon, Americas also won’t have a choice to experience this type of collapse…

[@craffte]

@@HannahJoy333 Where are you from?

[@drewmurray2583]

I hate the smell of hot pot. That spicy red oil or whatever makes that odor. 🤢

[@shab3134]

Question: Where are the scrapes coming from?!?! 🤔

[@choctaw2sticks193]

folks in the states are cooking more at home as well. I sure know my family is. eating out just cost too much . . . also, you get what you pay for.

[@0Turbox]

I only go out, if I can't cook that specific meal by myself.

[@koolaidbomber]

Same. I also meal prep and have saved a lot. The cost to eat out is crazy.

[@nelsonta00]

How much is a pound/kg of meat or a bag of rice in China? $0.13 snacks are awfully cheap

[@HKim0072]

Avg income is about 1/5 of the US. Maybe a 1/4.

[@reisslane1327]

China is like open prison in a country

[@richardouvrier3078]

It is good Chinese are pulling in their belts. That’s great. I will too.

[@georgebarker2703]

Nobody buys food, its all rented! In one hole and out another!

[@marconius101]

when you can get a dish for three for only 30 Yuan, i would be very careful. the production prize for a KG pork is about 15 CNY/kg . Are you sure you get what you ask for. or do you get some mystery dish.?

[@goyoy6433]

They are professional when it comes to saving money.

[@SuperDarkrock]

They sound like such an exiting people.

[@bennyboy5374]

1:40 20 yuan for lunch is what I also pay here in Norway

[@Crazybirdlady23]

Imagine what’s in it ….

[@well-blazeredman6187]

The most stylish lady ever to appear on this channel? 1:14. Good video.

[@Mrblazed420]

I spend more on just energy drinks than they spend all day

[@CAMICAZE007]

When I was I'm school and working. Potatoes and Cereal..was my life...

[@KnightArt708]

Yeah, that frying oil straight from the sewer

[@candidate3512]

0:20 bro, as a person that like to buy cheap food especially the near expired food. I am not mentally strong enough to buy such thing :)) We have inflation, we have cheaper food, w/o increasing in paycheck we cant buy a house. I got paid 1$ per hour in my homeland and a 1$ meal is enough to make me happy. The Chinese: 0.13 and its not just any food, its your favorite food

[@Eltipoquevisteayer]

Why do you blur the subtitles? Are you making up the text?

[@KurdtMk2]

That hot pot looks delicious....

[@Ukie88]

But is the food safe?

[@Clancydaenlightened]

They should take the money buy seeds and plants, go find some empty land nobody uses, and nobody around Then just reposes it for a small private farm, and don't let nobody find it,and if they do nothing gonna really happen, arrest someone for growing food? Problem then is getting real meats, that's when countryside contacts and connection can help, again private market... Fish probably is the best option if you can find a pond lake or river that's not extremely polluted

[@Clancydaenlightened]

America style

[@Clancydaenlightened]

Chinese government is communist The economy is a weird split between a socialist and capitalist market economy I guess that's why china is starting to stagnate like daddy USSR Lack of infrastructure and economic reformation

[@abc2390986]

There are just not enough farming land in China despite China is huge. Tbh I was surprised af to learn that Japan and Korea having far more suitable farms than China despite they are like 30 times smaller countries. The extreme lacking in farmland of China doesn’t even start with CCP. It has been like this for dozen centuries. There is a reason why famine hits China like every few decades.

[@anonymousidn777]

This is why we have less chinese tourist in Bali nowadays

[@gribbler1695]

Good, but still plenty of Russians there.

[@anonymousidn777]

@@gribbler1695 Yeah, cant deny that one

[@바보Queen]

i can relate, ive been saving money eating cheap hot dogs and sandwiches i make at home, i aint paying 20 dollar meals eating out

[@bruh_hahaha]

that 🦇 s o u p will F’ you up!😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@MZMA85]

Frugality is the cheap way of life, bro

[@melvyncarrot4741]

The last thing to ever save on is buying and eating cheap food, especially in countries like China, where sanitary and food hygiene standards are often overlooked and unregulated. The risk of health complications with these food might end up causing them more than what they have to pay for on healthcare expenses in the long term.

[@ulatbulu8524]

Same as in other countries except JP, SK, AU, US and EU

[@cometanet8389]

are they genuine foods or meat?

[@ENGRAINING]

americans pay their street food workers a premium price for low quality food, and chinese street food require a small price for high quality food. in western eyes this mean they are better! 😂

[@rs646dd]

But then again, how can you have so many bad stories one after another?