It’s Trevor James

I have had the most insane year

Eating Chinese street food all across China

And today I’ve narrowed down 15 of the most insane street foods that I’ve had

Let’s check it out

China is a street food heaven

You can find thousands of different street foods

Ranging across all of China’s 23 different provinces

Hi, I’m Trevor James

And I travel to eat

I’ve been living in China for 3 years now

Eating and filming non stop for you

In this past year

I ate hundreds of different street foods around China

All compiled into street food tour videos

And all uploaded right here for you on youtube

Today, I’ve narrowed down 15 of the most unique and delicious dishes that I’ve found

Let’s eat

Starting off with #15

This is one of China’s most polarizing street foods

The century egg

These are found all over China’s streets

And I found a spot in a back market of Chengdu

Where the local street vendor dropped it on the ground to open it

Should I eat this?

OK, we’re going for the full experience

Oh, that has the fermented slight stench to it

Sulphury

Next up for number 14

A famous street food in China

Feichangfen

A bowl of spicy intestine broth, sliced intestines

And sweet potato starch noodles

It’s an acquired taste, but definitely one of the most unique

And if you can accept it, delicious street foods in China

It smells almost like charry

Like, a little smoky

There is nothing gross about it

The intestine is a little fatty

And it just sort of melts into your mouth

And the broth is really spicy

Number 13 is a food craze that’s popped up all over China

Crayfish

Some love them, others hate them

But one thing is for sure, you have to give them a try

It’s all about the spice mixture that they are cooked in

And when I had them with a local friend in Shanghai

They were cooked in a 13 spice mixture that was incredibly powerful

That’s the pure xiaolongxia rou

Yeah, and you can taste

That’s ultra spicy

Next up for number 12

This is the famous Xi’an suantang jiaozi

Found in Xi’an’s food paradise

The Hui Muslim Chinese district

Here you can find a huge variety of Hui Muslim Chinese cuisine

Like hand pulled noodles

Steamed spiced beef

Cold jelly noodles

Insane lamb kebabs

Chinese shredded beef pita burgers

And a lot more

But my favorite thing from my 3 week food trip to Xi’an

Was a super delicious sour and spicy bowl of juicy beef or lamb dumplings

That you won’t want to miss

A bowl of these jiaozi is packed with chili oil

Vinegar, and sesame oil

And the broth is infused with shrimp skins

That is huge

30 suanla, sour and spicy niurou beef jiaozi

Oh, I can smell the sesame and the cilantro

Look, they are plump, they are plump

Next up for number 11, this was one of the most unique dishes I found on the street

And I had to go really deep to find it

As I was exploring the back markets and alleyways of Chengdu

I found a local man selling boiled pig blood in a huge pot

Covering it in a ton of chili oil, salt, and greens

I was hesitant to try it at first

But it was quite delicious apart from the fatty texture

And definitely one of the most unique things I’ve eaten in China

So the blood, soup

Pig blood in a bunch of oil

Chili oil

Let’s get some cilantro on there

It’s actually not bad

It tastes like pig blood, in really spicy oil

Number 10 and number 9 is Chinese roast duck

From street side roast ducks found throughout almost all the markets across all Chinese cities

To the classic Beijing roast duck

I’m sure you’re going to fall in love with either

In Beijing, I took my parents for a 10km hike along the Great Wall of China in the afternoon

And in the evening, we explored the Hutong alleyways of Beijing

En route to try the famous Peking duck

It’s characterized by it’s thin, crispy skin

Served with scallion, cucumber, and sweet bean sauce that are rolled into pancakes

I was hoping it was going to be amazing

But I had no idea it was going to be this good

It’s really good

It’s so good

Incredibile duck!

And in Chengdu, I brought my couch surfing guests to try street side ducks in the morning market

There’s nothing like visiting a morning market in China

I found this insane market in late 2015

And returned to shoot 4 or 5 different market videos

Each time stopping for a bite of this delicious roast duck

Let’s get in there

Take a tender, fatty one

It’s so good

Oh yeah

Oh that is insane

That is the best duck I’ve ever had

Number 8 is a street food you must try in Hong Kong or Guangzhou

Of course you should try dim sum, roast duck, and barbecue pork

But I found Cheong fen AKA streamed rice noodle rolls

Literally translated as intestine rolls because of their intestine like appearance

To be the most delicious and unique

The first time I had this

I was amazed at the simple deliciousness of the roll

When it’s filled with a selection of pork, shrimp, and egg

And then dipped into a light soy sauce, it’s heavenly

The atmosphere of a morning Cheong fen restaurant is worth the trip to Canton alone

Let’s try that out

You can taste there is a bit of pork and shrimp flavor mixed throughout there

The rice flour noodle is quite gooey and soft

Number 7 is a street food that I found while exploring Leshan

Sichuan’s well known food hot spot

And famous for the worlds largest standing stone buddha

I found a puffy and soft dough pocket

That was filled with a molasses like brown sugar

And baked in a coal oven on the streetside

When it’s served to you piping hot

And you take your first bite

The gooey brown sugar is going to ooze out

And you won’t be able to stop eating

Look on the inside

Look at that

It’s all brown sugar

It’s like a pocket of gooey brown sugar on the inside there

You can taste that thick, super sweet brown sugar

And this bread, is really soft

It’s like super soft, almost delicate like bread

For number 6, I found an explosive Chinese street food that scared me to death

The Chinese popcorn cannon

As I was exploring the back alleyways of Lanzhou

In China’s Islamic northwest

A city with a huge Hui Muslim population

And amazing Halal food

I found a man selling popcorn on the street

What myself and Ting Ting my girlfriend and camera girl both didn’t know

Was that it was soon to explode

Here we go

That is so loud!

Fresh street popcorn

Super sweet, crunchy, and smoky

It doesn’t get any better than that

Next up for number 5 is one of my favourite noodle joints in Chengdu

There really is nothing like slurping noodles on the street side in China

And for me

The zajiang noodles are the noodle dish to try in Chengdu

The land of spicy and numbing Sichuan cuisine

I found a spot that serves up a bowl so fragrant

So silky and smooth, so spicy with chili oil

That you’re going to want to give it all up and move here

Look at all the jiangdou (Long beans)

That adds a crunch to it

So oily and silky

This standard here of noodles is just one above the next

You get that mouth feeling

There’s only a few places here that give me that feeling here in Sichuan

Number 4 is a food that will forever be in my heart; Durian

But this isn’t any durian

This is a super creative take on it

Durian is one of the worlds most controversial foods due to it’s amazing fragrance

And if you love it, you can devote your whole life to it

Everywhere you go you think of it

And every chance you get, you’ll devour one

The best durian in the world is in Malaysia

But I found a creative take on it while Foodrangin’ in Guangzhou with a local friend last winter

Durian chicken hot pot

It tastes exactly like durian and chicken broth mixed together

Surprisingly they go pretty well

Yeah

This is it

Now we’re getting up there with number 3

This was found in Wuhan

After I found a nine hour high speed train from Chengdu just to try the famous Reganmian

Also known as sesame paste noodles

But what I found here was even better

A unique take on shaomai dumplings

Beautiful sticky rice dumplings with mushrooms are stuffed into a hand rolled deep fried dough pocket

Giving you an amazing texture and flavor combo

This is what dreams are made of here

It’s like a crispy deep fried dough pocket

Stuffed with shaomai

Wow!

It tastes like a peppery gravy ball

Oh those are really good, it tastes like gravy!

Number 2 is some of the most amazing meat I’ve ever had

On the outskirts of Chengdu, there is a whole roast lamb restaurant

that serves 90 day old baby lambs that pack a flavor that is to die for

Slathered in sesame oil, roasted, and then covered again in a Sichuan hot and numbing sauce and cumin rub

Eating this is just like heaven

We have a whole roast lamb here

And we’re going to go into a yurt to taste it

Look at that, look at that!

It’s like all meat

Get in there

Oh, there is a bone!

Is that the best lamb or what

Yeah, definitely

Is that like the most beautiful lamb you’ve ever had?

It’s succulent

It’s spicy

It’s juicy

It’s like so tender

Look at that lamb, it just falls off the bone

Here we are guys

Number one

This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in a kitchen

Enter the hand pulled noodle sanctuary in Lanzhou

I took a weekend food trip here

And walked into this noodle joint not knowing what I was about to witness

The incredible displays of noodle mastery

Will blow you away as you watch them in the back kitchen

And words just cannot describe just how amazing this process is

It really is noodle heaven

You’ll be speechless watching them make the dough and hand pulling the noodles

The skills of each person in this long production chain is incredible and will blow you away

You can see it all happening in one line

From kneading the dough, pulling the noodles

Filling the bowl with a specialty radish beef broth

Some home made chili oil, fatty beef chunks

And green onions and cilantro

After you take your first bite

You’re going to question every other bowl of noodles you’ve ever eaten!

That has this incredibly aromatic essence to it

With all of these hand pulled noodles

It’s just like clockwork in the kitchen there

Oh yeah, that is worth the flight right here

Incredibly flavor packed beef noodle soup

Huge slices of beef

It’s the slurping hot spot right here

So thank you so much for watching my food and travel videos

I hope you enjoy the top 15 unique Chinese street foods I’ve had this year

This has been an amazing year of eating Chinese street food all around China

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