- Coming up for all you food rangers,
we're taking you to eat a once
in a lifetime feast,
that's rarely ever seen.
We're traveling on the ancient
Tea Horse Road to Dali.
The old Bai Kingdom in Southwest China.
Here in Dali's Old Town, we
explored the backstreets,
and found an incredible feast
and celebration for Chongyangjie.
A day for celebrating and
respecting your elders.
When we walked in, we
couldn't believe our eyes.
We were so lucky to be
invited to celebrate
by enjoying two delicious
meals with the locals.
So make sure to watch until the end.
Because the incredible
selection and atmosphere
for dinner is gonna blow you away.
Let's check it out.
All right so let's check it
out guys, it's Trevor James,
we are in Dali, China and
today is Chongyangjie,
a special celebration in
China to respect your elders,
and right up ahead, there
is the big community feast,
and we're gonna go see what we can find.
Let's check it out.
We really found an amazing jackpot today,
they're preparing lunch and dinner
for Chongyangjie, a
festival here in Yunnan,
Wow look at all this sticky
rice they're preparing here,
and we just had a chat, and we are gonna
be able, we're gonna get lucky and we're
gonna join them for lunch today.
Beautiful!
This is a giant steamer!
Look at this.
Babaofan here.
This is such an amazing
experience guys we got in.
We are helping peel some vegetables.
This is amazing.
We got so lucky coming in here.
They're just making a huge wok of chicken.
(wok steams)
Wood-fired wok.
That is incredible.
This is just insane.
Oh, fried potato slices, with ginger --
Oh, ginger with fresh-sliced potato.
This is like the biggest
wok I've ever seen!
This is amazing guys.
There's four woks of
delicious dishes going on now
and they all are healthy,
and just incredibly fragrant.
And people are so friendly here!
My mouth is watering just looking
at all of these woks that
they've got here going on.
Winter melon here.
I love how many vegetable
dishes there are here.
This looks incredibly healthy.
Winter melon with spare ribs.
They're gonna make a nice chicken soup
and we just got invited to
stay here the whole day.
Lunch, and dinner.
There's two meals.
And they're cooking up
for both meals right now.
This is such an amazing opportunity.
It's full of chicken feet,
it's full of all the
chicken bits, amazing.
They are steaming some Feng
Jen roll, Yunnan style,
we're gonna try this in a bit.
It is just overflowing
with steaming dishes.
Absolutely amazing to see here.
So there's a lot of dishes to have
both for lunch and dinner,
and these steamed dishes,
the steamed pork, you can see
the dishes right down here,
looks like some steamed fatty pork,
with ricemeal and pumpkin,
that's just absolutely mind-blowing.
Look at this.
Absolutely huge portions here.
Salted veg, fried pork.
Is it good?
Okay. Let's try it out.
Mmmm!
Amazing.
So this is Bai people's local food here,
and this is Bah-ta-wan.
There is eight special dishes
and this is just incredible.
Look at the big steamers of food --
This beautiful courtyard
was just full of people
volunteering and preparing and cooking
for both lunch and dinner.
With lunch being the first, smaller feast,
and dinner being the full-on
600 plus people celebration.
After walking around enjoying the cooking
seeing a little more, lunch was served
and we sat with the
organizer who invited us.
While I was getting some
close-ups of the food,
they began pouring rice liquor
out of a massive kettle
into everyone's bowls.
And I didn't know what I
was getting myself into.
We're just starting the feast now,
there's a few dishes for
lunch, this looks amazing,
This is just amazing.
Mmmm.
This is --
This is rice liquor, guys.
Wow.
This is the red braised pork,
fatty pork belly, it's so nice.
It's actually quite peppery.
It's not spicy at all.
It's like a rich peppery
gravy over top of pork belly.
Everyone is so friendly here.
And then this salted
veg, fatty fried pork,
oh with carrots, chili oil, look at that.
That is incredible.
Mmmm.
Oh it's a little salty, but sour.
I don't know how we're
going to film all day.
The winter melon soup.
Oh, that's healthy.
Oh it's clear healthy, soft, winter melon.
This here, this big pot they just poured,
that is full of Baijiu rice liquor.
And everyone's drinking that.
After that beautiful lunch
of Bai minority specialties,
we helped with splitting some
mushrooms for the upcoming
chicken soup, and hung
out in the courtyard area
for a bit, while the dinner
preparations were underway.
In all the years we've
been traveling in China,
this is the first time
we've been this lucky
to come to a local Ba-ta-wan style feast.
This is the rest time, the
rest time before dinner,
and that's the big feast, the Ba-ta-wan.
This really is what
dreams are made of, guys,
You hear about these
Ba-ta-wan, these big feasts
and mass-produced feasts
in the countryside,
and you only see them in photos.
But to come to one like this is --
Oh! She just put pork --
Look at this!
This is just full of Shiangiu mushrooms,
pork and green onions.
Oh! That's mass produced!
It really is rare to get
to come and see this.
The Ba-ta-wan, which literally
means eight big bowls.
Amazing.
(wok steams)
Oh yeah.
Oh and she just put a
bunch of bell peppers in!
(cooks chatter)
Just look at all the peppers and pork,
fresh mushrooms, that mushroom fragrance
is just hitting the nostrils.
The Ba-ta-wan feast we're
about to witness is incredible.
So this is dinner prep now.
And these are --
These are meatballs.
These are meatballs covered in chili.
Wow, that is the most, that the biggest
bowl of meatballs I've ever seen.
(meatballs hiss)
(wok steams)
Oh yeah that's what we're getting.
Wow!
They're pulling off the
lid to those four steamers,
five steamers!
Oh yeah look at that!
Fatty pork with veg.
So we're just pulling out these big bowls,
these big steamed dishes,
So much food here.
Nine layers guys!
Dinner actually had ten amazing dishes,
starting with the delicious, and healthy
chicken soup, with dates and Chinese yams,
and amazing sweet sticky
rice, with crushed peanuts
and fruit jelly on the bottom,
some spicy and some sour lean pork slices,
and chili sauce with cilantro and sesame,
some steamed fatty pork
with rice flour and pumpkin,
some deep-fried fish, and incredibly juicy
and spicy pork meatballs dish,
with chili and soy sauce,
a slightly sweet red-braised pork belly,
some incredibly aromatic
mushroom and bell peppers
fried pork, some boiled broad beans,
and some fried milk crackers.
This truly was an amazing feast.
So we're just chatting with the same man
that let us have lunch here,
the man that let us enjoy
that first feast, and he
said it's been so busy,
there's been 600 people here
already, and we're gonna have
dinner with him in bit, but
for now we're just gonna
chill out and enjoy this crazy mayhem.
Wow.
It's all here.
This is an incredible feast.
Wow, that's all rice liquor.
There's a lot of food here, and we've been
watching it all unfold.
It's been --
All right, we're starting out.
That is strong rice liquor.
Look at all the dishes
we have here today guys.
Lean pork, covered in chili and sesame.
Amazing.
That pork is actually a little sweet!
Has a sesame, nuttiness to it!
Mm with cilantro in there!
This is amazing!
I really wanna try this sticky
rice, covered in sesame,
sugar granules, peanuts,
walnuts, fried walnuts --
oh that just looks amazing!
That just looks amazing.
Mmmm!
That is sweet and nutty,
a little fruity, a jelly.
It's like a milk cake.
Mmmm!
That actually tastes very milky.
Almost cheesy.
And crispy.
All right we're going in for
one of those spicy meatballs,
covered in chili, we saw them boiling
in that huge wok, let's try it out.
Mmmm!
Those are actually a bit sour.
You can taste there's a bit of vinegar,
a little bit of spice, a
little bit of cilantro.
And this is the Yunnanese bong.
You put your cigarette --
you put your cigarette down in there,
and the locals, that's how you do it.
These mushrooms with
pork and bell peppers,
is absolutely fragrant and aromatic.
You can taste the mushroom
fragrance in the pork.
I'm really speechless right now guys.
Unlimited flavors here,
spicy, fresh, herbal,
earthy, healthy home-cooked goodness.
This is, this is an infinite joy of --
This is like a universe of flavor here.
That truly was an unforgettable day,
from the lunch to the dinner,
all the friendly people,
all the smiles, all the
colorful, healthy food,
that's something I'll never forget,
and something I hope you enjoyed watching.
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That was truly unforgettable.
