Anhui Breakfast & Night Market Food in Bengbu, China
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Join Allen as he explores Bengbu, a small city in northern Anhui, uncovering its comforting breakfast foods and vibrant night market food streets that draw in young crowds. From humble morning eats to lively evening stalls, the video captures the simple, authentic flavors of everyday life in this lesser-known Chinese destination.
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Hello, I'm Allen.\n\nToday I'm visiting Bengbu City in Anhui Province, China,\n\nto explore the local morning market and popular food street.\n\nThe food we're seeing now\n\nis called "Mianjinpao Juanbing" (???????), a super popular street food\n\nin Bengbu. This is deep-fried gluten puffs,\n\nwhich are called "Gangzi Youtiao" (????????) in Henan\n\n. After frying the gluten puffs, set them aside.\n\nNext, prepare a pancake, then roll in the gluten puffs and other ingredients.\n\nThe method for making gluten puffs is quite unique:\n\nuse two chopsticks
to lift the dough,\n\nthen drop it into the oil. Add eggs\n\n, bean sprouts, kelp strips, tofu strips, and other side dishes.\n\nIt's really delicious!\n\nThis shop makes sesame flatbread with lamb skewers,\n\nwhich is both satisfying and filling. The lamb skewers are grilled and first... that\n\n's amazing! Stuffing them into the flatbread is sure to be fragrant ?C\n\nthis is the classic way.\n\nNext, they start making the flatbread\n\n, stretching the dough and sprinkling it with sesame seeds before baking it in the oven.\n\nThe oven heat evenly cooks
the flatbread.\n\nThen, they take the flatbread out\n\nand roll the lamb skewers inside.\n\nThis way of eating is very popular in Bengbu.\n\nThe flatbread is crispy, and the aroma of the lamb skewers is simply wonderful.\n\nThis shop also sells potstickers.\n\nBengbu potstickers are one of the representative breakfasts of northern Anhui.\n\nUnlike the potstickers in the south, the potstickers here have pleats... The edges are clear, the skin is thin and elastic, and the filling is visible.\n\nAfter slightly frying, water is added and simmered for a
while\n\n, then some cooking oil is added\n\n. The pancakes are rotated to ensure even heating\n\n. The golden-brown skin paired with the delicious filling\n\nis simply delightful!\n\nThis is the old prefectural committee food street, and there is a pancake stall that is very popular with locals.\n\nThis stall has been around for about 20 years, and they have always insisted on making their pancakes by hand.\n\nThe mixed grain batter is evenly spread on the board.\n\nThe mixed grains are usually a mixture of wheat, sorghum, corn, buckwheat, and other
ingredients.\n\nThen, various seasonings and side dishes are added according to individual tastes. Finally, . Rolling the fruit into a dough ball is delicious.\n\nLet's go to the market. There's a stall selling pork rolls in a steamer cloth. The\n\nmarinated pork is cut into even, large pieces and then rolled in a steamer cloth\n\n. Since the pork is already marinated, you only need to steam it when you get home.\n\nAfter steaming, cut it into slices and dip it in sauce for an even more delicious taste.\n\nThis is another shop on the old prefectural
committee food street.\n\nWhat's this called? It's\n\ncalled Honey Crisp\n\n.\n\nHoney\n\nCrisp uses flour, brown sugar, maltose, sesame seeds, etc.\n\nAfter frying, it's coated with sugar.\n\nIs this sugar?\n\nYes,\nbrown sugar\n\nand maltose\n\n. After coating with sugar, it's placed in a basket to cool. Then it becomes crispy.\n\nThis shop also sells handmade peanut brittle.\n\nThe owner insists on making it purely by hand.\n\nThe main ingredients are peanuts and maltose.\n\nAfter cooling slightly, it can be cut into pieces.\n\nThe rich peanut aroma
combined with the sweetness of maltose\n\nmakes it crumbly, melts in your mouth, and doesn't stick to your teeth.\n\nThis is a very lively breakfast shop.\n\nIt mainly sells handmade buns and soup.\n\nIt 's\n\n5.5\nyuan.\n\nI'll take four red bean paste ones.\n\nHow many did I buy?\n\n60!\n\n60!\n\nThese are radish filling\n\nones.\n\nThese are soup.\n\nThey usually add eggs\n\nand use the heat of the soup to break up the eggs.\n\nCustomers can also bring their own food.\n\nThis is water chestnut, also called water caltrop.\n\nSouthern China is the main
production area. It has\n\na crisp and sweet taste, comparable to a snow pear.\n\nRich in carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and phosphorus , it\n\n's a nutritious and delicious food.\n\nThis is a steamed bun shop, making "tiemo" (????)\n\n. A little oil is added, the buns are stuck to the bottom of the pan,\n\na suitable amount of water is added, it's covered and steamed for a while before being\n\ntaken out.\n\nThis is a vegetarian steamed dumpling.\n\nA fish stall in the market selling\n\ndried bluefish, a specialty of Bengbu.\n\nThis
is a semi-finished product; you can steam or braise it at home.\n\nThis chef is live-streaming the making of metal clothes hangers.\n\nHe's showing the clothes to viewers. The hanger is super strong\n\nand easy to use\n\n, haha.\n\nOrder today\n\nand\n\nit will be shipped this afternoon, arriving at your door\n\ntomorrow, don't worry.\n\nLook at the sales volume\n\n, the positive reviews\n\n, the repurchase rate??\n\nevery order comes with shipping insurance\n\n. Orders placed today can be shipped\n\nthis afternoon.\n\nWelcome Lei Lei,\n\nwelcome my
friends,\n\nwelcome Lao Zhang!\n\nEveryone has clothes at home;\n\njust see which one lasts the longest.\n\nLook at the details\n\n, look at the details\n\n, look at the details\n\n! Talent!\n\nLeveraging the power of the internet, the craftsman's hangers are sold all over the country.\n\nOnly made one two-meter one,\n\ntwo meters!\n\nTomorrow I'll make my own.\n\nThis shop sells crispy pastries and chicken soup.\n\nThis is chicken blood! Yes,\n\nadd noodles to\n\nthe bowl. Or vermicelli, then add chicken wings or chicken blood and other
delicacies,\n\nthen add chicken soup\n\nand pair with crispy pancakes, the taste is very good.\n\nTaihe Ganglu Shaobing, which originated in Taihe County, Fuyang,\n\nwas brought to the food street of the prefectural committee by a master from Bengbu.\n\nIt is a genuine northern Anhui delicacy.\n\nI'll take two of these,\n\nis that yours?\n\nOne is fresh meat and one is braised pork\n\nwith preserved vegetables\n\n. Yes, you want\n\none fresh meat and one braised pork with preserved vegetables. Whose is that?\n\nI 'll take\n\ntwo too . Give me one.
It's\n\n3 yuan,\n\nright?\n\nPut it here.\n\nThen give me the meat\n\none. Take another one\n\nwith scallion oil.\n\nOne meat\n\none and one with scallion oil. I want one slightly\n\nburnt\n\n. Slightly burnt. Glutinous rice crust\n\nis made from round glutinous rice, and is a thin and crispy rice cake made by soaking/steaming/pressing/frying (or baking).\n\nWhen you bite into it, it's crispy and crunchy, not hard. It's full of rice aroma.\n\nFinally, let's look at a very popular local steamed bun shop.\n\nThe biggest feature of this shop is that there
are many kinds of steamed buns\n\n. From the style, flavor to the production method, all kinds of steamed buns are different. They're\n\nout of the oven!\n\nFriends, that's the end of today's program. Thank you for your company.\n\nIf you like my program, please click to subscribe. See you next time.
