The Insane Amount of Work Behind Shanghai's Best Crab Soup Dumpling

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I really like the style of this video but can’t help but feel the main presenter is a bit awkward on camera and in the voice over

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I thought he did a fine job! Presenting like Anthony Bourdain doesn’t come overnight

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@@dee_tee_11364 It's possible that you misunderstood my comments; I was complementing the presentation

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Exactly - stuff that is not even delivered by Discovery now...

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The scale of operation for something so delicate is mind-blowing. Real craftsmanship! 👨‍🍳🦀

[@saintcavish]

100000%!!

[@hpph1744]

Real crab-manship. Ftfy.

[@JC-life-is-good]

All of us who enjoy these fantastic food items have to appreciate the work that goes on behind the scenes. The crabmeat pickers use their bare hands to get every morsel of meat out!

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The production quality of your content is amazing! The B-roll, interviews, lighting, sound, simply the whole thing. I’ve lived in china for 8 years and happen to co-owned two restaurants in Shenzhen. I’m an investor not a chef but throughout my experience just dipping my toes into the F&B I gained tremendous respect for people in this industry specially Chinese chefs. They are some of the most disciplined and hard working people I’ve ever meet. Thanks for showing the world what’s hiding behind the curtain of great culinary experience. You’re a master storyteller.

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I find it amazing that you cultivated this relationships with the owners for years and yet you were able to distill it into a video that's barely eight minutes long. Excellent work! In both content and presentation in reminds me of Anthony Bourdain visiting a duck farm processing facility in Canada that produces foie gras.

[@saintcavish]

thanks so much for the kind words! this one has been a long time in the making. you can't just walk into a place like this and film...

[@junlim6023]

@@saintcavish Amazing, thank you for your hard work

[@CP-jk3tc]

Also notice he's the only one walking around leisurely in the food processing room without a hygiene mask. What an absolute disrespect to the food hygiene standards.

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@@dee_tee_11364 So you like food poisoning/contamination?

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thanks so much!

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the best Chinese food channel on KZbin. Thanks for the amazing work

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Literally just went to Shanghai last weekend and had the most mind blowing xiao long baos (before watching your video.) Thanks for sharing this story, it’s incredible!

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thanks! where'd you go?

[@IHWKR]

The language barrier this guy had was zero. Impressive.

[@user-gi6pp6tl7m]

Lived in Shanghai for 9 years. This place (莱莱） is hands down the best for crab soup dumplings (蟹粉小笼包). They’ve got seasonal ones that have no pork, just pure crab (male 纯蟹膏or female 纯蟹粉) goodness. It’s so good even Roger Federer was pictured waiting in line during his visit of the city.

[@ardenjacob4341]

I'm from Shanghai but I never knew how hard it would be for restaurants to make crab xiaolongbao! I did have crab xiaolongbao before but this video makes me wanna try lailai's!

[@geraldine3636]

This is crazy, if not for this video i would never know the insane processing behind those little dumplings!

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I've just been through all of your videos and I love your channel. I'm loving asian cuisines as a someone who wasn't born into them and cook them at home regularly, but now I want to really delve into the specifics of each culinary cultures. I'm discovering the abyssal depth of Chinese cuisine and your channel makes me even more curious about it all. I'll be looking forward to every single video you make, keep up the good work !

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I can "tell" they are delicious just by looking at the wrap's texture, the aromatic flavoring, on and on...wished KZbin was available back in the day when I lived in Shanghai for a while, could have saved myself a few bad meals...

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Every single one of your videos deserve way more views. Insane shots.

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Really appreciate that, thanks for watching!

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This is amazing to see the people and economy behind a business. The farm to the farmers to the shuckers to the chef to the staff at the restaurant ❤

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Finally a channel worth following

[@PWCDN]

These standards are considered fine dining in the West.

[@saintcavish]

exactly! you get it...

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There is some element of marketing bs in "fine" dining but people still buy it, just like diamond.

[@toress999]

Exactly

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you made my week. 感谢你们！

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@@saintcavish Now watch a slower NHK Doc and feel, really feel how this is too fast. Find a middle ground.

[@sinori008]

Thank you for showing us what goes on behind the scenes!

[@kedardes]

Immediate subscribe! Thank you for creating content like this with a strong focus on the people and the food!

[@KokoB1883]

I remembered when the hairy crab exploded in the CA delta in the late 90’s and now years later they’ve all disappeared! Now the CA delta has the golden mussel spreading now.

[@saintcavish]

any idea why/how they disappeared?

[@KokoB1883]

@ I have no clue ? Maybe the natural predators feasted on them. They were in such abundance that a few people even wanted to commercial fish for them to help the problem.

[@ZhaoshiLee]

The price of the crab dumpling is crazy. More than 100 yuan (nearly 20 usd) for 4 top-tier crab dumplings. But the pork dumplings Lailai sells are also tasty at no more than 20 yuan for 8 dumpling. Every tasty for everyday taste.

[@linayr8]

100 yuan is 14 usd you are off by 30%

[@SiriusLight-vc6sk]

螃蟹太贵了，做成小笼包就更贵了.........但我觉得值得，这一口太诱人了

[@jayzee316]

佳家汤包 you can get 100 yuan for 12 pure crab dumplings, or pay 50 for 6.

[@JA.MMP274]

Give me 50

[@黄瓜-d6h]

that's crazy amount of work. respect for the craftsmanship

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Your videos are always so helpful, thank you!

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Love your documentary style videos on food. I’m going to Shanghai in may, defo putting this down on my list after watching the process!

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Incredible work!! Super quality documentary

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[@saintcavish]

感谢！

[@XiaoJi379]

0:47 这地图就过不了审😂

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​@@XiaoJi379他用那个地图只能讲他不做作不刻意迎合我们搏流量，他们从小接受的观念就是这样你有什么办法？没必要给这种干净的视频上政治元素。过两年打下来了就谁都用正确的版本了

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[@saintcavish]

thanks, hope we get them!!

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Lots of respect, love and prayers for this person

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Awesome video, looking forward to the next one!

[@thegrynne]

Hairy crab season is a big deal in Shanghai! When you buy the live crabs from farms, my parents tell me the real deal are all bar-coded and QR-codes.

[@saintcavish]

there is a ton of fakery, very well-documented in the chinese media, and very sophisticated. it's an expensive product, so not surprising really... the counterfeiters are always outrunning the vendors and figuring out new ways to pass off average crabs as the expensive ones from the expensive, famous lakes.

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the video production quality is amazing!

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This is my first time hearing about "crab dumplings"; it's awesome to see how dedicated and hard-working are the people who make it.

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Amazing how much dedication and hard work. Wow!!

[@xoleth115]

superb content and quality! i love all the work done for this video and the level of craftsmanship of both from your team and them. now i have added another one to my list to try when i'm in shanghai! crab is just my all-time favorite🦀

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Very well done video. That's a crazy amount of work goes into these dumplings.

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Production quality was very high, I feel like I was let down though because I wanted to see you eating the dumpling... oh wait, last scene.. bingo. Flawless. Subscribing.

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