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It’s Trevor James
I’m with my local friend Yin Yin
We’re in Xi’an, China
And we’re going for a full on food walk
Are you hungry?
Yeah I’m so hungry!
Perfect!
Let’s go!
Xi’an’s Hui Muslim district is packed with energy and stalls to eat delicious street food
Exploring around the smaller neighbourhoods behind the main tourist street
Can bring you a lot of fresh street food discoveries
I came here to eat
And I was lucky enough to have my local friend Yin Yin show me some of her favourite spots
Trev, you must try this in the muslim district
At the huanainai stall
Sweet fermented rice drink
And sour plum juice
Oh we gotta line up, there’s a lot of people
Yeah
What do you recommend?
Have you ever drank sweet fermented rice?
Not yet
It’s made by fermenting rice
Is it alcohol?
No no, its just a type of beverage
Oh a beverage
Great
Let’s try it out
Us Xi’an locals always drink this in the morning
In the morning
Yeah
Two cups of fermented rice drink
Thank you
This is the “laozao” drink
Yeah
It’s made with sticky rice?
Yeah
Sticky rice
Thank you thank you
Take it easy
They have hot and cold, this is cold
Oh it looks comfortable
Try it out
Is it good?
It’s a really strong flavour
It has a slight alcohol taste
Yeah, it tastes like alcohol
It tastes like alcohol with a sweet sticky rice
Yeah
Trev, this is Xinjiang province nang bread
Xinjiang nang bread?
Yeah
OK
But this is really hard
Oh it’s so hard, and looks like lots of sesame
Yeah yeah yeah
What do you guys put inside the dough?
Can we have one please?
One nang bread please
What do you guys put inside?
It’s all just plain bread
Are there any nuts?
No no, it’s all just bread
All bread
How much is this?
It’s 5 yuan ($0.75)
Great, 5 yuan
Thank you
Oh wow, you’re making them right now
Let’s take a look?
Yeah take a look
You can try it out
Thank you
Is it good?
That is so hard, it’s really hard
Yeah, it’s really chewy
Do you like it?
Yeah it’s really nice
It’s really good
A Xinjiang province special
So this road is busy
This is really famous here and so delicious
Really?
Let’s check it out
It’s a salted duck egg yolk in a pita
A salted duck egg yolk with sauce
Oh it’s in a pita?
Yeah it’s all stuffed in a pita
Yeah and also a fried egg is put inside, it’s really good
What is this? salted vegetables?
Yeah, salted vegetables
Egg yolk
Thank you
With peanuts?
Are these pickled veg?
Yeah salted vegetables with peanuts and sauce
Oh, sauce?
Are you James
I’m your fan
Nice to meet you
We are shooting a food video here
Say hello
Nice to meet you
Lucky
Hurry and try it out
Do you want to try it first?
You go for it
Ok,let's try it out
Wow!!
Delicious!
It’s super salty
It’s really salty
And the egg yolk
It’s very thick
And the peanuts are very -
It’s crunchy!!
You try it out
Yeah, it’s delicious, a lot of people come here just for this
Yeah, it’s so good
This is beautiful
Let’s keep going
Trev, you know that in Xi’an there are a lot of ethnic minorities
Right here, this is Huimin street
These are the backroads from Huimin street right?
Yeah yeah yeah
And the locals here are the Hui ethnicity?
Yes, and the main difference between Hui and Han ethnicity is that they don’t eat pork
So everything here is beef and lamb right?
Yeah, no pork at all
And also no lard or pork fat, nothing related to pork at all
Everything here smells so good, there cuisine has a lot of specialties?
Yes, lamb kebabs, beef specialties, special desserts
A lot of different specialties
Their food is really delicious
This is beautiful!
Trev, if you come to Xi’an, you must try lamb kebabs
Oh, special lamb kebabs?
Yep, lamb kebabs
Fantastic
Xi’an’s lamb kebabs are really famous
Wow it smells so good
It smells like cumin
Yeah
How many shall we get?
How about 20
OK, 20 skewers
Thanks
These skewers are very beautiful
Yeah, and they are very authentic here
Authentic flavour, at other places you can’t find them this good?
Definitely not this delicious
OK Trev these are the famous lamb kebabs
Lamb kebabs!
You can smell them, they are so fragrant
Yeah, so fragrant
Hurry, let’s eat
Theres really a nice cumin smell
Yeah
Let’s eat together
They are hot!
Just right off the grill
That is extremely juicy
So much juice
Do you like them?
Yeah, so delicious, and you?
A nice and strong cumin flavour
And a little spicy
A little spicy with lots of juice
Can you eat spicy?
I love spicy
Do you like spicy?
Then next time you can tell them to add more chilis
Do you think these are hot?
Yeah, a little
A little, do Xi’an people like spicy?
Yeah, we love spicy
Oh it’s so juicy!
Cheers
This is called to “lu” the kebabs
“Lu” the kebabs
Yeah
“Lu” them
That was delicious, how much?
We had 20 kebabs
46 RMB ($6.88)
46, great, thank you
That was very delicious
So this here is a famous tourist street
But there is still some good stuff to eat here
Really?
Let’s go take a look
好 Good
Trev, do you want to try the famous zeng cake up ahead?
Theres a zeng cake?
Yeah, this is a zeng cake
This is a Huimin street specialty?
Yeah, a Hui specialty
We’ll have two sticks
What’s on top?
It’s a rose sauce
It’s really delicious
Oh, a rose sauce
Ok let’s eat
It’s really nice
Thank you
This is made with sticky rice
With sticky rice
Yes
Let’s try it out
It’s really aromatic
It’s so sweet
And soft
Do you like it?
Yeah theres a strong rose flavour
Yeah it’s a rose flavoured cake
It tastes like a sweet rose
And so soft
Very sticky
Yeah, very glutinous
This here is my favourite dapanji chicken
Really?
Dapanji is also from Hui people?
Yeah, it’s the specialty on this street, I come here all the time
Really?
Yeah let’s go try it out
Let’s try it out
So this is the big dapanji?
Look at that
That is insane
There is chicken, potatoes and hand pulled noodles
Noodles?
Yeah big noodle slices
Yeah
Do they pull them by hand?
Yeah, hand torn
Let’s try that out
That’s a deep flavour
I’ll teach you some local Xi’an dialect to say “delicious”
OK
Say it with me: “liao za le”
Liao za le
Yeah
It means extremely delicious
Extremely delicious
Liao za le
This has a nice star anise and cinnamon flavour
And chilies and Sichuan peppercorn
Peppercorn and also these huge noodles
Look at the noodles
The noodles are just soaked in there
Look at that
Huge noodles of joy
Fantastic
So delicious
That’s really good
A little spicy, with that cinnamon and star anise
And the noodles are delicious
Huge chunks of potatoes and chicken
Let’s put the noodles inside
Mix it up
Push all the noodles inside
Look at these dripping slices of noodles
Hand pulled
This is what life’s about right here
Do you know why it’s called the big chicken plate?
Because it’s just a big pan of chicken, literally
One huge plate of chicken
Yeah
Very interesting
OK I will take you for a nice dessert now
Let’s go
Good
Great
This is great ice cream
Just gotta give a huge thank you to Yin Yin for showing me around
That was an awesome night
Lots of delicious food
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