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Hey guys. It's not even November yet

but it's crazy windy today.

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So the Chinese restaurant I am going today

is only known among Chinese people

I just happen to find out myself.

But the problem of this place is that they don't speak English.

They have English menus though.

The duck dish we are going to have today

you have to make a reservation 3-4 days before.

Cause it requires a lot of prep work

Every time when I call here the chef picks up

and he hungs up cause I don't speak Chinese

Luckily this time an English speaking lady picked up

So I gathered friend to try out the duck

Almost there.

This is a little off from the main Chinatown.

but you still see Chinese stores and people

Hi.

Hello.

What's up?

Please blur me.

Okay. Okay.

Folks here don't want to show their faces today

We gotta repeat what we said already

Wow. Long time no see!

So the due date is next month?

A girl?

I met a friend here.

He's the guy who confirmed that this is the place to go for Guangdong food

Let's order

Spicy food for you.

Soupy one for you.

Let's order spicy cold pig ear.

Are there any warm spicy food?

That's hard to find in Guangdong restaurant.

The clay pot rice is also good.

Chinese style clay pot rice.

You can have eels for topping

Shall we get eels and get invigorated?

(eels known to be good for stamina)

This is also good.

This place is good at Changfen

It's the rice roll you can find in dimsum restaurants

The mainland style looks more scrambled

they don't roll (not true)

We gotta try this one.

Are we not getting the thing?

Oh yeah I already ordered.

What's that?

The duck

Ew the head looks gross

Well, gotta put napkins on top.

This is the duck we are gonna have today.

Poor thing.

Let me tell you how I found this place.

I was searching for eels

And there's a special kind of eel lives in paddy fields

It's named 'D'rung-hurry(bank buster)'

cause it destroys the banks between paddy fields

Koreans don't eat them but they make some kind of extract with them

But in HongKong and Guangdong it's a popular fish

And this place turned out to be one of a few places which sells the eel claypot rice.

How was the trip to China?

Oh it was great.

Xi'an is really awesome.

Oh my brother was in Xi'an too

What did he do?

He was an exchange student. / Oh really?

Yeah lots of people go there.

They have many universities.

Isn't it countryside?

No way!

The population is 13 millions

Really? My brother didn't like it cause he said it's in the countryside.

Oh it's very developed. When was he there?

Like 3 years ago.

I heard there's 3 million increase in population over the past ten years

This is the spicy pig ear.

You can also get this in Daelim-dong in Korea.

Tasty! / Yummy!

The seasoning is very different

I feel like I've tasted this before.

Tastes similar to spicy acorn jelly

I can also taste perilla

They put sesame oil

and probably mala spice

Do you eat cilantro?

Yeah I do.

What about you?

Oh yeah.

There are many people who can't eat cucumber

Yeah it's like an allergy

Where is Guangdong in China?

Near Hongkong

What's this?

This is the changfen

Look it's wrinkly

unlike the one in dimsum restaurants

But this is how it looks like in Guangdong

And we pour soy sauce mix like this.

it's totally 'bu meok'

(There is an old debate whether it's best to pour sauce on top ('bu meok') or dip food in the sauce('Jjik meok') in Korean culture)

Boom up?

Ah 'bu meok'

I thought you said 'boom up'

You can also add eggs

or shredded cabbage

And there's a special steamer that is a metal drawer

You put the batter mix and ingredient in the drawer

and when steamed you roll it with a scraper

ah that's why it wrinkles.

Here we have today's star

Chinese like to keep the head all the time

They pack seasoned sticky rice between the skin and meat and deep fry it

If you look at the rice you'll see tiny fish bones. I think the sauce is fish based.

Let's eat.

There are also small sausage pieces

Yeah it has a lot of stuff.

and this one is not cheap. it's $50 something (59.99)

cheaper than I thought

considering the labor it takes

The rice looks really good.

It's seasoned with duck fat

Oh the skin is really crunchy

Damn it's so good.

I see shrimps too.

It has many layers of flavor.

I think this is a good Christmas dish.

Or for Thanksgiving day

This is just stir-fry veggie

Bao zai fan

Bao zai fan

it's not as impressive after the duck

It also comes in an individual plate when you order a small portion.

That's gonna go well with the soup we had

But this one is delicious too

Yeah for real.

Ah is this the Chinese sausage?

yup

show it to the camera

It tastes similar to Chinese jerky I had

How's the duck?

It's great. Do you wanna try some?

Oh I am too full.

So are these all Guangdong style?

yup

What's the characteristic of Guangdong food?

Not spicy.

Although we didn't order any it's heavily seafood based

It's soy sauce based with mild sweetness

I miss the Korean style roast duck where they stuff the duck with a lot of different ingredients

Figs, sweet potato, chestnut..

And they put it inside clay and bake it

It's good that we ordered some veggie

Shall I try the duck brain?

For real?

Ew look how he's picking it.

Do you think I should blur this?

It doesn't taste very special

What if there are germs

well it's cooked

Chinese looooove animal heads

I was in Chengdu, Sichuan

I didn't know but Shu Han(蜀漢) was Sichuan

(*The ancient Kingdom in Asian equivalent to Iliad)

I visited Liu Bei(the emperor of Shu Han)'s tomb as well

That's what's fun about China

I heard Sichuan has a lot of Sanguozhi(三國志-The novel) related spots.

And marinated rabbit heads is a popular snack there

Rabbit heads?

Yeah

Without fur?

Skinned

Does it have brain as well?

Probably

Marinated?

Yeah with ma-la

You can get them in the airport too

They vacuum seal it for you.

What does it taste like?

I didn't try

why?

I don't think rabbit is tasty

I wasn't like this when I was younger

But I need some quiet time of my own after I became 30

Yeah everyone around me is like that

except me

I can spend time alone

but not quietly?

I don't think I've ever longed for it.

I can spend time alone but

Maybe you are still young at heart

I think I am just outgoing

A friend told me that I am a shy introvert

*a shy extrovert

Ah right.

If being with someone drains your energy you are an introvert

if not you are an extro

I don't think there are extros around me

And I tend to get along better with intros

And I exploit friends when I hang out with them.

(nodding)

You are so swampy

I call one friend every weekend to hang out

until he gets sick of me

So I have a batch of friends

so that I can rotate them when one worn out

You gotta slow down a bit

Eventually he gets recharged

It's nice to have a playmate for the lifetime

Yeah it's too hard to always searching for somebody to hangout

Yeah you need to have the same taste and the same style