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It’s Trevor James
And today I’m in Leshan, deep Sichuan
We’re going for a full on Chinese street food experience
I came here to eat
And I’m hungry
This is Leshan
Deep in Sichuan
It’s a street food mecca
It’s packed with unique specialties
That you can’t find in other parts of China
I came here to eat it all
And enjoyed 8 unique Chinese street foods in this video
Starting out bright and early
I went to try a Chinese street breakfast
With a steamed beef pocket
The fenzhengrou is a steamed spicy beef
It’s found all throughout Sichuan
But here in Leshan they make it into a breakfast pocket
It’s first steamed with chilies and rice powder
And then they add a little pickled radish
And some sliced potato
Oh and some Sichuan pepper
Look at that, that’s raw ground Sichuan peppercorn
That’s going to be a great morning
Oh it’s like a little pocket of glee
She’s just going to plop it in there
That is pickled radish and…
It’s stuffed in a Chinese mo bread
This is a Chinese Leshan breakfast sandwich
I was not expecting that
The bread is so soft
And the fenzhengrou is really soft too
There is that steamed rice meal on it
Which has a nice super soft mouthfeel
Spicy, it’s a little sweet
That’s what is unique about this one
I’ve never tried a fenzheng niurou like that before
And next up, I went to try another specialty Chinese street food found in Leshan
The hongtangbing
It’s a dark brown sugar pastry
Quickly crisped
And then baked in a coal oven on the stressed
That looks really good
Careful
Look at that fresh coal oven
Look at that hot coal oven
Oh, put it right in there
You can smell that
This is exciting
Come to Leshan for food and you won’t be disappointed
Oh that gooey brown sugar
Oh wow
Look at that, look on the inside
It’s all brown sugar
Oh it’s like a pocket of gooey brown sugar
I gotta go in
I gotta go right for the kill
Oh you can taste that thick, super sweet brown sugar
And this bread is really soft
It’s like super soft, almost delicate like bread
With that smoky aroma from the coal
It’s dripping
It’s oozing with ultra sweet sticky brown sugar
And now we’re getting to the good stuff
Next up is Leshan’s specialty own hand made steamed dumplings
The shaomai, you can find shaomai in Cantonese cuisine too
But here in Sichuan, the specialty is in the way they are wrapped
Being pinched rather loosely
So they almost look like a flower
Pork and onions!
So we got it all here
Look at these beauties
This is special shaomai from Leshan
I had no idea you could come all the way to Sichuan to get Shaomai
Just like in Hong Kong, but these have to be much different
You have chili oil here
They also give you pure MSG if you want
To add to your chili oil, and salt
But I know already I don’t need those
I like the pure flavour
So we’re just going to dip that Shaomai
It’s not beautiful, but that’s what’s beautiful about it
The skin on here, it’s almost papery
So it has a really unique texture
It’s kind of papery here, and soft here
What’s really nice about this is the hongyou, the chili oil
It tastes like homemade, smokey, and very xiang
As they say in Chinese
That’s what it’s all about
This homemade hongyou chili oil
It’s fresh with packed chili flavour
Smoky and delicious
In these nice, juicy, plump, papery shaomao
A little later I passed by a shop serving blade sheared noodles right there on the street side
And I couldn’t resist but to stop for a bowl of their beef noodle soup with bamboo shoots
That red braised sauce is so spicy and flavourful
To die for
We have some classic daoxiao mian here
Blade sheared noodles
Right on the streetside in Leshan
Honestly the street food scene here is off the hook
That is what it’s all about
Look at these beef blade sheared noodles
Let’s try that
That is -
That is spectacular
Take me to the next level noodles right here
Look at how thick that hongshao sauce is
It’s oily as well
So it sticks on to the noodles
And you get a mouth
You get a mouthful of flavour that just coats every tastebud you have
And after that came a spicy lunch feast of Boboji
The special skewered cooked veg and chicken innards and organs
They are soaked in a cold spiced oily soup
With 2 special variations
One is a clear peppercorn broth
That is spicy and numbing
And the other is infused with thousands of chilies
So it’s spicy and fragrant
You just take what you want
And don’t use chopsticks
And then they pass it on to the next customer
So it’s all the chicken innards
Chicken pieces
Chicken feet
Kidneys
Organs
Wings
Everything
And then there is a few vegetables here as well
And I have a couple cute kids watching me here
That is colourful
It’s like christmas
They have red and green fresh chilies
In an ultra numbing
Tengjiao oil
Which is raw sichuan peppercorn oil
Like green, right from the stalk
And full of veg
This is what it’s all about
You gotta dip it in the numbing and cold and refreshing oil
In Chinese they say Xiang which means fragrant
But it really means that the flavour is bursting
And infused into everything
So your mouth just comes alive with every bite
And that is what this is right here
It’s more than fragrant
It’s xiang
And after exploring around the back alleys of Leshan
I found a deep and dark stall
Serving Leshan special sweet skinned duck
A super succulent and flavourful duck
That’s boiled in oil and covered in rock sugar water
We’re going to have a special tianpiya, sweet skinned duck
Look at this
Look at that
That’s what it’s all about
The sweet skinned duck in Leshan
That is really good
That is ultra superior sweet skinned duck here
And then for a pre dinner snack
I came to try the famous Leshan tofu brain AKA doufunao
It’s made with silken tofu, chili oil, preserved vegetables, peanuts, garlic and cilantro
You can order it with steamed spicy beef as well
So this is the Leshan doufunao, tofu brain
They take a douhua which is like silken tofu
They load it up with chilies and oil and spice
And this is fenzhengrou
This is what I had in that breakfast sandwich this morning
Oh look at that, it looks spicy and crunchy
And then they add hongshufen in there
Which is sweet potato starch noodles
So it’s a real mixture of textures and flavour in one bite
That’s pretty salty
That’s really salty
You can taste that it’s like loaded with MSG
Because it’s very flavourful
And spicy as well
It’s like an MSG spice bomb
And for the final meal of the night
I came to try the special qiaojiao beef soup
You can order up any part of the cow you want
So I went for the regular beef soup
Plus a bowl of beef torpedo soup for your entertainment value
Adding on a bowl of spicy and numbing pork blood too
Oh it’s frozen cow torpedo
Oh it’s all from nature, OK
We have a full on feast here
This is the beef torpedo soup
Look at those big chunks of torpedo
I can’t believe I’m going to eat this
And then over here
This is the qiaojiao niurou
This is a Sichuan, Leshan specialty
Right from this town Leshan
It’s like in a rich beef stock
And then over here
This is like a pork blood
This is called Maoxuewang
This is pork blood in a hot chili oil
Look at all that chili oil
With fresh green onions on top
Oh man, I can’t believe I’m doing this
Dip it into the dried chili flakes
And take a bite
Oh that’s rubbery
It’s just like the first time I had torpedo in Malaysia
It’s rubbery
It tastes like cartilage, or tendon, or tripe
It doesn’t much flavour
Let’s taste that
It’s like nicely sliced soft beef
In a really nutritious and hearty beef broth
Let’s try that out
Oh yea
That is much better than the torpedo
And the beef is so hearty
This is pork blood in a really thick chili oil
Look at all that chili oil
We’re going to try that out
Oh that is salty
Oh, that is really salty
Quite oily
The pork blood is really soft
It’s like a really light pudding
It’s like a pork blood pudding
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I have a train to catch
I’m heading back to Chengdu
Thanks guys, it was a wonderful trip to Leshan