Hello Tripsters! We are in Beijing at Guijie or gh0st street. Yeah, we're
gonna go into one of these restaurants; there's a ton of them along this street
and they are popular for hot pot and seafood and what we're
gonna eat tonight is crayfish. Whatever you want to call them,
but we're gonna try and eat it. So, we're gonna go in and start eating and
hopefully it's delicious. I've actually never had it before. I've never had it
either. So, this is the first time for both of us and it's supposed to be spicy.
So, we will see... We'll see!
The waitress just gave me a little apron that I gotta wear because eating these
crayfish, can get quite messy if you don't pay
attention. So, before we start eating putting on my apron.
All right so we just sat down and we got
our crayfish. They've arrived. We have a spicy one and we have a just
regular one and i'm gonna try the spicy one.
These are actually originally from the United States.
They're from Louisiana. Very popular in Louisiana; Louisiana crayfish
and they came over here via japan. They came over into china and then
chinese started eating them and they became really
popular in the 1990s and that's when it really started to
catch on. So, I'm going to go ahead and try it. I've never tried it before
um if i can get it open. Yvonne was struggling a minute ago.
So, I just got a little demonstration of how to open these um crayfish
It's really hot!
and it looked very complicated.
Was it here? Break it on the side. Like squeeze it together.
So, you're supposed to eat this part. Kind of suck this out. It's like the brains.
It's supposed to be a really delicacy, kind of part, like a really good part.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and try it, if I can get it out.
The sauce is very spicy. It's the Mala style.
The juices are very spicy. I definitely can see why Chinese people like this because
A lot of Chinese food is spicy,
especially in the Sichuan area. All right, so I got a
pretty good looking piece there. It's a lot of work for just a little bit,
but i'm gonna go ahead and try it.
That's really nice, oh um it's not chewy, it's very soft. It's kind
of like a a little bit like a shrimp, but the
flavor is not the same. So, the texture is a bit
of the same like shrimp. It's a crustacean, so it's very similar like a
lobster or a shrimp and
not too spicy. The sauce is spicy, so that first bit that I got,
which had some of the outside of the shell,
was spicy but this is, the meat itself isn't spicy. So, it's really good!
It is quite a bit of work that you have to do to get this piece of meat.
As you can see, there's not a lot of meat to this... To these little crayfish.
So, although they're really tasty and have a lot of flavor,
especially the Mala ones, the spicy ones, it's not a lot of meat that you get for
a lot of work.
Yeah, it really grew me. They really grew on me,
in the beginning was like hmm, hmm. I think the first one was a not spicy one.
The second one I had was the spicy one. Lot's more flavor. It's actually really good!
As you might know in China rice and noodles are usually
used as a filler at the end of the meal. So, we got ourselves
a plate full of noodles and what they do here
is that they add the noodles, whaa steaming hot, to the sauce
to your crayfish and we're choosing the
non-spicy one because the spicy one then we wouldn't be able to eat the noodles...
and then yeah you mix it. Then, yeah, you eat your noodles to fill up because
as you could see, the crayfish were so small only a
little bit of meat. So, you would have to eat a lot to be really full.
So, I guess that's why they're giving noodles.
So, like Yvonne said they gave us
the noodles at the end. So, I'm gonna go ahead
and put some on my plate and try it. Possibly....
That's nice has the crayfish like sauce flavor. umm had we done it in the spicy one
wouldn't be able to eat it, but this is actually really nice. Yeah, it has a
really good flavor to it. So a way to fill up!
All right, so we just got done eating. It was obviously a lot of work,
as you saw, but it was also really tasty. I really enjoyed the flavors.
It wasn't too fishy um and it wasn't too uh
spicy either because the Mala was supposed to be spicy and obviously it
was if you really got your your meat into the sauce, but if you really
got your Sichuan peppercorns in your mouth. Yeah!
But it was not too crazy spicy, I could handle it and I
can't really handle too spicy food. So, yeah, you should try that one if you ever
try it. Yeah and so we're making a lot more videos about food you can check out
one of our other ones we did a video recently about the noodles the bang bang
The Biang Biang noodles So, yeah definitely check out one
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will see you guys we'll see you guys in the next video. Yes, bye bye!