- Coming up, we're having some of
the most flavorful and fragrant noodles
you can find in the
whole world, get ready.
All right, so check it out guys.
This is Trevor James.
We are back in Sichuan, China,
and today I wanna share with you
one of the best Chinese
street foods you can eat.
Whoa, we're going deep.
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If you come to Chengdu
in Sichuan Province,
you'll be blown away with
the amazing selection
of Sichuan cuisine.
Here, spicy, mouth-numbing,
and fragrant dishes
with lots of chili oil
dominate the taste buds.
Today, we're gonna go to
a random hole-in-the-wall
to experience a classic
local Sichuan lunch,
and right here on the streets,
you can get some of the best
Sichuan Chinese street foods
all across the country.
There's a huge spectrum of flavors,
and my personal favorite,
the blade sheared noodles.
Let's eat!
Wow, red braised beef,
full of bamboo shoots,
spices, dried Sichuan chilies.
Red braised fei chang,
red braised intestines.
There's so much here!
There's just so much here.
This is xian shaobai which is like la rou,
cured pork over top of mustard greens.
And then down here, this
is fen zheng rou, pumpkin
over top of steamed spicy ground pork.
See this here, guys?
This really is, you've got
everything that represents
Sichuan cai here.
You've got liang cai,
cold dishes, covered
in chili oil and spice.
This is all good.
It's all here, guys.
So this is zhe'ergen, which
is, they call it fish root.
And this is Mapo doufu.
Wow, this is beautiful.
Bitter melon.
It's all here.
So we're going to get a douhua as well,
which is silken tofu.
See here, it's all cut up into pieces.
Down there, underneath, in the water.
Oh wow, nice.
And he's gonna to cover it,
it's basically a play
dish except they serve it
with the chili oil that is so flavorful.
Nice.
All right guys, we're gonna
make the dao xiao mien here.
Hand-pulled, ah, blade sheared noodles.
Oh, and then we're just putting
some cai in here, some veg.
That's the secret, right
there, the hong you.
Oh yeah, that's the secret there, guys.
That hong you with the hua jiao,
the black pepper, the garlic.
And then he's just gonna
put these noodles over top,
and it's gonna be so good.
Oh, and little broth,
a little noodle broth.
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Oh, that smells great already.
So these kitchens aren't so
beautiful, but the flavors are.
Blade sheared noodles
coming out with some greens.
Beautiful.
This is some of the best street
food you can get in Sichuan.
Beautiful, oh wow.
Look at that, it's gorgeous.
One of the most beautiful
noodles in the world.
Oh, there they are.
And then we're gonna add
just a little bit of that.
That smells amazing.
Wow!
This is some of the best Sichuan
street food you can order.
We just walked into a
random hole-in-the-wall
on a street in Sichuan and
ordered up some of the classics.
So right here, wow, look at this, guys.
This is dao xiao mian, hand-pulled noodles
covered in, oh my mouth is watering,
covered in nice, juicy pieces
of beef and bamboo shoot
and in a thick, it's in
a thick, thick hong you,
chili oil, broth.
You can smell those dried red chilis,
you can smell the onions and the garlic.
Oh, with those thick,
thick hand-pulled noodles.
This is hong shao niu
rou, which is basically
a red-braised beef with
tons of bamboo shoots,
and this is a bit of a thicker chili oil,
and it's got some herbs in it as well,
looks like there's some
bay leaves in there.
Oh, wow. This is true Sichuan.
And then over here,
(both laughing)
Okay, there's just so much good food here.
Look at this,
and then this is the douhua.
Awesome, so good to be back.
Silken tofu with la jiao jiang.
This is a thick chili paste
with probably a bit of douban,
broad bean, paste in there as well,
so it's probably quite salty.
And then here, we ordered some liang cai,
look at this qie zi, this is
eggplant covered in chili.
We've got zhe'ergen,
this is Sichuan fish
root with luobo, carrots.
We have bitter melon, and
then on the very bottom,
we have some Mapo doufu.
So this is some of the best
Sichuan street food you can find
right here on the sidewalks of Sichuan.
And the first thing that's
gonna set the meal here
is the dao xiao mian,
red-braised beef with bamboo shoots,
hand-sliced noodles.
We gotta get a good
bite for the first bite,
get those noodles and make
sure they're covered in that
hong shao broth, that red-braised broth.
Here we go.
(slurping)
Mmm, wow!
That broth is incredible.
Oh yeah, look at those noodles,
they're just covered in
that hong shao broth,
that chili oil broth.
They're thick and chewy, you
can taste the bamboo in there.
Oh wow.
It's definitely very fragrant.
It's actually not too spicy.
I mean it is, it does have a kick to it,
but it's not painful, it's
just smooth and enjoyable.
That chili flavor is to die for,
and this is one of the best
Sichuan Chinese street foods
you can find.
(slurping)
Mmm, wow!
That is so good.
Awesome food here, this is just so good.
Everywhere you go in Sichuan,
and especially the deeper
you go into neighborhoods,
you can find incredible street food.
The real winners here
are the red-braised beef,
where you can taste a slight
cinnamon and star anise punch
along with the dried
Sichuan chili fragrance,
and tons of tender beef.
And of course, the number one dish,
the blade sheared noodles.
If you want any of these locations,
check the descriptions
below any of these videos,
and you can find a link to
a map of all the food spots
we've ever filmed at.
This is what Sichuan's all about,
and we're so happy to be
back at our home base here,
eating delicious Sichuan food,
sharing these videos with you.
It was an awesome time this past summer
creating videos for you guys
in Indonesia and Vietnam and Malaysia,
and now we're about to embark on a big
Sichuan street food
journey for the next month.
We're gonna be traveling around,
all the way down to the south
of Sichuan and into Yunnan,
near the border of Laos
on the Southern Silk Road.
Mmm, oh that's good. Quite salty.
We're about to hit a million subscribers.
I can't wait to share with you
a huge announcement we have
for that million subscribers.
It's gonna be happening
in a couple weeks here.
Thank you so much for
watching these videos, guys.
I wanted to give you a quick
update about all of the things
that's going on on this channel.
A big trip coming up,
and it is so great to be back in Sichuan
eating super delicious spicy food.
I can't wait to share with you
our big million subscriber announcement,
and that's gonna come up
in the next week or two.
I'm so excited for that.
Thank you so much for watching, guys,
and I would love to hear your opinion
in the comments down below.
Thanks, guys.
