Alright guys check it out
It’s Trevor James
And today, we are continuing our great silk road journey west
To the west of China in Xinjiang province
And we are in Xining, making our way to Turpan
Another stop along the Silk Road
We are going to find a lot of delicious central Asian cuisine over the next moth
This is going to be the trip of a lifetime
The Silk Road is something I’ve always wanted to see
So we set off on a 4000 km journey
From Chengdu to Kashgar overland
In search of delicious central asian muslim halal Chinese street food
Alright here we are
This is the high speed train in China
These go really fast
Oh yeah look at this
The journey west
Are these our seats
And the journey west begins
We continue our way
You excited?
It’s going to be really good
So I just started editing
And I’ve got some photos of Xining to post to our Instagram
And we are in a tunnel right now
So it’s pitch black outside
But I think there is a bit of surprise outside
Wow
We are rolling
And it is snowy
We must be at high elevation now
This is awesome
And we are going at high speed
We must be going about 150/200km per hour
There it is guys we are going 190 km per hour
And we must be super high elevation because it is super bright out there
And it is just pure snow
We must be in the middle of nowhere
This is so cool
We are arriving in Turpan
Wow
It’s totally
Fresh!
A desert
It feels like a desert with mountains in the background
And grapes
Arriving into turban felt like a different world
It was dry and hot
And the people are mostly Uighurs and Hui Chinese
With a whole different set of cuisine
We set off to find one of the most famous dishes from Xinjiang
The Dapanji, AKA big plate of Chicken
This is really nice to come here
I’ve always wanted to come to Xinjiang
And we have a big Dapanji coming up
I just cant wait for the Dapanji we gotta go right in
Oh yeah
That is really juicy
Not quite as tender as I would have hoped but that cumin and chili flavour is just infused in there
And they give you a large piece of meat because they are 5 kuai each
It’s huge
It’s full of potato, chili
Huge slices, huge chunks
Thats a huge plate of chicken
Thats what the name literally means
Big plate of chicken
Look at this
Huge chunks of chicken
Oh yeah
And big potato slices
Lots of garlic
And then the real secret
The real treasure is at the bottom
Oh, there is hand pulled noodles at the bottom for when you finish your meal
Oh guys, this is huge
This is true joy
Oh
Oh yeah
It’s like a spicy cinnamon
There is quite a strong cinnamon and star anise flavor in there
Theres this treasure of noodles on the bottom
Hand pulled heavenly noodles
That soak in all of that sauce
Now that is a top quality dapanji
The cinnamon and star anise flavor is really bold and strong
The chilies are not too spicy
It just gives it a nice little touch of love
And these hand pulled noodles, the texture is really perfect
That’ll bring you to a new level of noodle heaven
And Ting found a chicken foot in there
Alright guys
I just want to give you a quick update
Right after we finished that dapanji
I came back to our hostel here in Turpan and began editing the first video from this series
Which was from Chengdu to Xining
And I didn’t have a backup of it
And the hard drive crashed
And it is now 2 days after that happened
And we spent all of yesterday here in Turpan at a center trying to get it off
And this is our hostel right here
And it’s up to luck right now whether we get that data back
Otherwise the journey is going to have to start here in Turpan
We are going to stay positive
And keep moving forward
And it’s just the begining of our journey of the Silk Road
So stay tuned
To the next episode
Which is going to have a lot of delicious food here in Turpan
We are going to start filming today
It’s going to be good
Thanks guys