- So check this out, it's Trevor James,
and today I'm in the outskirts of Chengdu
near my new apartment,
a place that I wanna take you to here
when you come visit me on Couchsurfing,
little local market.
We're gonna go for a walk around, see what we can find.
Let's take a look.
(slow techno music)
- Handmade dumpling skins here.
Fresh shar.
These are the fresh Chao Shou
she makes by hand every day here.
Pork filling.
(speaks in foreign language)
Oh, yeah, look at that.
We're gonna see what else we can find here.
So you can bring these home and boil them,
and you have to add chili oil.
If you wanna come visit me,
I'll take you to one of these markets,
we'll have a good time,
but please make sure you've got your flights
and your visas and all your travel arrangements first
before you make a request, and then I'll check it.
Ting Ting might be helping read some of the messages
and reply, 'cause I've been overwhelmed lately.
I really wanna meet all of you, though.
Look at that chili oil.
Okay, we're gonna learn to do it.
- (laughs) Mine is not very pretty compared to hers.
But I will be learning how to do this
at Sichuan Culinary School over the next couple of years.
- Oh, it's plump, look at that,
it's oily and filled with a soft, gooey filling.
I've never tried this before, look at that.
That is really good.
Mm.
- Oh, yeah, look at that.
There's a nice sticky rice, thick layer of sticky rice
in the inside, we gotta go a little deeper,
but I can taste sesame and peanuts and sugar in that.
Mmm.
That is magical.
(laughs) Look at that.
That is so good.
That peanut sesame filling is like gooey and soft and sweet,
and this sticky rice layer
is a real, real soft and heavenly
texture with the nice crispy golden sesame texture skin
on the outside.
So one of the fun things we can do together
when you come visit from Couchsurfing,
we can explore for food together like this.
- Look at these big, wide noodles.
So these are, this is pu gai mian, like bed noodles,
and they make these by hand.
You've basically got these huge noodle sheets
that they boil for you in a
Big pork bone broth.
In a big pork bone soup.
Whoa, look at those big noodle beds.
MSG right on there.
Green onions.
Look at this.
So, look, you've got all this zha jiang, that is like--
(speaks in foreign language)
This is zha jiang,
that's like the mixed pork sauce, ground pork.
Mmm, look at that big noodle bed.
Mm, mm.
That's okay.
This one is quite average.
Mm.
It tastes like an earthy, slightly salty bowl of
these big noodle pians, noodle beds.
That's okay.
You can come up, we can rent a bike,
we can come up to this peach blossoms area,
enjoy the natural scenery.
It's about a 30 minute bike ride up the hill.
The entrance to this road is 10 minutes
from my new apartment.
You gotta come Couchsurf with me, send me a request.
I really believe in Couchsurfing,
it's one of the best things for travelers.
You can meet people from all over the world
and have great experiences like this.
So thank you so much for watching my food and travel videos,
just had a wonderful ride
up into the peach blossoms here,
just a 10 minute ride from my house up the hill.
It's completely beautiful.
I wanna invite you here, I want you to stay at my place,
I wanna meet people from all over the world,
and that's what Couchsurfing is about.
So, read my Couchsurfing profile for more inforamtion
about how you can make the request.
Please read that, okay?
'Cause it has some instructions about what you need
to do before making that request, okay?
Thanks a lot, guys, beautiful up here.