Hey Hey it's Katie here and Happy Spring Lantern Festival
It is Spring Lantern Festival here in China today
We are just heading up to Ancient Culture Street, which is just behind our apartments actually,
and we're going to see how they celebrate it.
Right, so we are on Ancient Culture Street and this place is mental.
we didn't expect it to be this busy
they have airport security styled, security things at the front
and they also have, I mean there's a line of Police behind me
I like their flashing lights though.
So one thing I find being an expat here in China is that locals stare
they're staring quite a lot at the moment - I don't know why
Xièxiè (Thank you)
So we just picked up some quail eggs
I've never tried these before actually, they seem quite popular here
So I thought I would give it a go!
They're really nice
She put on like a sauce with a powder on it.
I was really worried it was going to be spicy, but I think it's just like a soy sauce type mix with cumin
It tastes like cumin but it's nice
So our intention was to pop by here, check it out then go get dinner afterwards
there's so much delicious looking street food, I'm not sure if I'm going to make it to dinner.
I have got some dumplings
I think they are sweet ones, she had like biscuits, pictures of biscuits on the wall
I'm not quite sure what is in them but we'll see
I was completely wrong!
They're not sweet ones
that's one problem in China because we don't speak Chinese
we don't understand what is in any of the food
because she had pictures of what looked like biscuits on the wall but it's not, there is meat in it.
but it tastes nice
Right so here in China they have this food on a stick and we're still not entirely sure what it is
When we were in Xi'an they have one that was like a yellow colour cake thing, like a fruity yellow thing
on a stick
when we tried it, I wasn't a massive fan
but here they have one, that are slightly different, they're like a brown colour with some white stuff at the bottom
I'm not giving a great description right now
It smells really fruity, I think it is meant to be like a cake thing
let's try it
hmmm
yeah...
No
it's not for me
Calum, you can try it though...
So, like I mentioned before, our apartment building is literally just here, around this area.
so it is literally just opposite our apartment building
is this Ancient Culture Street and I am not pretending it's not a tourist attraction here in Tianjin
it is quite popular with Chinese tourists that come here
but it's never normally this busy
like we've been here in the summer, we've come here at Christmas but it's never normally this busy
there is so much security, there is so many people but it's great,
whenever we walk around here we look and you've got these cute little shops
that are tiny, that are in the area,
and I always kind of wander do they even make that much money to survive?
because there are people that visit here, but there are so many shops compared to how many few people that actually do visit here.
but it's great, so like, every shop is busy, every shop is packed
which I think is fantastic
because it's like a growing city, we're here in Tianjin, it's a growing city and it's great to see so many people in one area
So my hair attire has developed a little bit further
I hope you liked this video today, it was a very short video at the Spring Lantern Festival here in Tianjin
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