What's up and welcome guys, I'm Luke Martin with chopstick Travel calm and today
I am in Shanghai, and we have come to a really cool market
This is the Friday morning
Muslim market so we are right inside the who she mosque and this market was actually closed down for a
short period of time and May 2014
But then it's reopened and it looks like things that are in full swing here
So this market is operated by the weaker minority group of China
Which comes from the far western region of China shinjang Province?
And there's gonna be a lot of good food here. I can already smell. It looks really good
It's a little bit smaller than I expected, but that's alright. We're gonna go and see what we can find, so let's go explore
Okay, we have our first snack at the Muslim warning market here in Shanghai and as I mentioned
This is not Shanghai style food. This is Shin charm style food, so we have ordered up something that looks pretty incredible. This is a
Extremely greasy Nero bow or beef, bun so they've got a massive
Griddle over there that they are frying these in a ton of oil
It's almost like deep-frying them, but then they mix a little bit of water
And then they cover the top and let that all steam away
And these are packed full of beef so it's a little bit hot and we just waited in quite a popular lineup
But let's try this out. It is extremely golden crispy on the bottom so Stratos
Hmm, so there is a lot going on in there those are super super juicy really really crispy on the outside, too
it doesn't have much of like a
elasticity from that bond at all because it's
Pretty much fried the whole way through. There's a lot of beef going on in there, and it's just straight meat
I don't see any vegetables. Let's take another bite
You get a little bit more meat this time
But actually a lot of oil kind of like juiced out onto my hand when I bit into that last time
So that is
Ridiculous, ridiculously juicy there is I think there's a few green onions in there?
But it's all about the meat in the middle of how juicy that is but other than that it's really greasy
Kind of heavy for breakfast today
So that was a really popular stall we just got those beef buttons from the line is extremely long now
Really nicely spiced beef, but really really greasy, so let's keep going. We'll find something else today
Not long ago
Okay, we have our next snack today and check this out here
we have a massive bowl of pilaf and
Basically what pilaf is is rice that has been cooked in a broth so it is a broth of
Lamb and you can see here
There is a huge chunk of lamb mostly bone
But there should be a little bit of media on there, and then this pilaf has some carrots
And it looks like some chickpeas over here, and I could just smell the spices coming out of this already it smells
Incredible the woman cooking it up had a huge bowl of the peel off and she was serving people a lot
And I mean that is a ton of rice that is certainly gonna fill us up
So hopefully we can still do some more eating after this this was 30 remin B
So I mean I think that's worth it for how much rice
This is this is handsy, so let's let's just take a big spoonful of this rice
So this rice is cooked right inside of
The the stalk the broth, so it absorbs all that delicious flavor of that lamp and let's try that
You just get a little chick beat some carrots
That is extremely flavorful
You can taste a little bit of like a little little spice
Maybe some black pepper or maybe a little bit of chilli. This is definitely meaty
You can kind of taste like the oiliness from that lamb. Let me try to get a piece of lamb meat here
I can't really see what's going on because it's all kind of covered in rice
But I should be able to get a piece. Okay. Let's take this
some more
Carrots in a chickpea, and that's pretty fatty piece, but let's try that
Mmm
That lamb is phenomenal mmm
That was almost completely fat, which I ate from that lamb bone
But super super smooth completely dissolved in my mouth those chickpeas in there are also really really soft
That lamb has a really nice roast
Smokiness to it man. This is incredible
This is actually so full of flavor there might be a little bit of turmeric in here because I see some yellow color coming off
of it
Mmm, okay, I just discovered where the all the meat was hiding it was right underneath that bone and look at that
Oh, man, that is some juicy-looking lamb oh
Look at that oh
Man, okay, let's get some rice
And I'm just gonna devour this barely any rice
Actually, I might just have to go just meet my spoon doesn't have enough room for any rice. Let's try that
Oh, man
That is so tender that lamb was
ridiculous, so
So juicy and so so tender and I could definitely taste some smokiness from the roast
But also a little bit of a cumin flavor to it that goes along so well with this pilaf rice, man
This is this is a stellar dish
So we have here one of the Weger specialties and that is the naan which is just bread basically
so they cook this in a big kind of tandoor oven and
I guess we didn't order the kind with sesame seed usually it does come with sesame seed
I think but it looks like on this one. You can see there's some little crispy bits
I think those are some some onions so some tiny pieces of onion, and this is nice and firm feeling actually kind of hard
So let's break a piece off oh
man
That's quite hard
All right, I got a piece of the crust so let's try that
Hmm
That's very dry
Really really dry I know that this non from Shin Jang is supposed to be firm
So it is nice and firm kind of hard
It's like a even harder version of a bangle, but this is really dry kind of hard to eat
There's a slight onion taste to it, but it's pretty plain. It is it's good to kind of snack on
I'm sure you could get better versions of this stuff
Let's keep going we'll find something else
Tomorrow
All right, we've got another bow today and this time
It's a steamed bow, so not nearly as oily as the one we had earlier this morning
And this time is the Aeon roll about which is lamb bow and this looks really good
It's got a super soft wrapper. Actually the meat is following you at the bottom so actually I'm just gonna go right for this
Okay that was a killer bow that lamb flavor is so pronounced
It's not like gamey, but it's almost got a little bit of a bust to it, but in a good way
It's really really meaty flavor, and that was even juicier than the super oily beef bow we had this morning
That's awesome that rapper super super soft on the outside too, but we only ordered two of those
But we might have to go back and get more
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Okay, I know we already had the nun
But we have another one here because I just wasn't
Satisfied with that first one, and we spotted a stall that had a really long line, and he was making these non
Extremely fresh so the woman there is kind of spreading the dough out and then pounding it with a special
Device that makes this really interesting
circular sheeps you can see on the outside of the nun then he takes it and he
Kind of Pat's it into a mixture of milk and sesame seeds, so this one's got the sesame seeds
And then he puts it over top of this special sort of pillow
And then kind of smashes that onto the inside of the tandoor oven lets us cook up
And it was just he was pumping those out in the line was hungry
Everyone wanted some there's a little bit feisty trying to get them, but we've got it
We've got three actually some to take home for later, and this just feels nice and fresh
I'm just gonna crack it up super hot still and let's try that
That puts the other non to shame that is so good
There's so much more flavor going on there than the other one so you can definitely taste the sesame seed
flavor coming in there
But it's really
Just all about house smokey this bread is from that hot tandoor oven and then I can also taste a little bit of saltiness
Too it's almost like buttery and then the texture of this is just world's better than the other one. It's super
Firm still like a bagel, but it's got a like a little bit of a bite to it
But then once you bite into it's super warm and kind of comforting on the inside
That is the perfect little snacking breath
This really reminds me of like a very fresh pretzel, it's really good
These are super addicting, and I'm glad we got three of them, and we waited in that really long line
So I definitely wanted to take some more home, so we're going to keep going. I think we can eat a couple more things today
We just ordered up some young Roach our or
Lamb skewers and check this out
It's actually just on a stick here, and there are some big chunks of meat and fat
And you can already see the cumin and the chili powder on there
but let me tell you a little bit about the
Experience of buying these so there's no such thing as a lineup when you're buying these everyone waits
And they're cooking I don't know hundreds of these at one time and then as soon as they're finished
They're all finished at the same time. It's basically a free-for-all
Everyone start sticking their hands in and trying to ask for however many they want
Luckily, I think we got maybe the last two and we ordered up two on
The big kind on the stick here, so I'm gonna go ahead and try this this looks really good
And it smells so smoky. There's so much smoke coming out of that little shop. Let's try
Whoa super juicy, it's actually quite spicy
There's quite a bit of chili powder on there, and I can definitely taste that cumin kind of like earthy flavor
It's really really flavorful a little bit salty tube
And that was a nice big chunk of lamb this isn't quite as kind of lamb meat flavored
It's more of a smoky kind of Berk flavor, and there's little bits of kind of bird edges
Too that are nice and crispy, so let's try another bite here
Little piece of fat if I map that is succulent meat
Okay, this lamb skewer is incredible this might be the best thing. We've had all day
It's super flavorful really spicy, and I love that cumin flavor in there
There's massive chunks of fat, so every once in a while
You'll bite into it, but it's completely kind of liquifies in your mouth as soon as you bite into it
Then that stall was so popular and so crazy. I think the woman heard
My poor Chinese skills and kind of felt bad for me
So you just need to get noticed if you want to order one here
But man the Muslim market here in Shanghai has been good to us so far
I think we're gonna get one more thing, but we are starting to get really really full but these skewers oh, man
So there's lots of ready-to-eat items here at the Muslim market
But there's also a lot of dried products and kind of meat and vegetables everything's here
It's just like any other Fresh Market, but one thing that we've noticed is super popular here is prunes. So they have all these dried
Prunes out and we have ordered up a special dish from this market
the prune juice so this is really popular here and
Let's try it
It's really good, it's actually really really sweet. There's a lot of sugar in there and the prunes
They don't really have too much of a like a flavor. It's a little bit fruity, but it's just really really a sweet
That's good. Okay guys. That's it for today's video tour of the Muslim market here in Shanghai. I'll leave all the
Information in the description box so you can come here and try out all the delicious foods and honestly we are stuck
There's a lot of other food here, though
There is big chunks of lamb that I wanted to try lots of other different dumplings and lots of desserts
Just so much going on here it opens up at about 10 a.m.. Or 11 a.m.. And right now
I guess it's almost 1 p.m.
And it's it's going strong still there's a lot of people here, so I definitely recommend
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