Into the Deep-End of Chengdu’s Food Scene w Lost Plate Tours
I've lived in Chengdu for a year and a half. I've tried so much incredible Sichuan food - soups, stir-fries, hot pots, and more - but it's time to go deeper into the Chengdu food scene. There are so many restaurants and food stalls in Chengdu, that it's hard to find the best places, so I'm enlisting the help of Lost Plate, a company that specializes in food tours. They have a reputation for finding the hidden gems of the Chengdu culinary world.
Our ride was a tuk-tuk, complete with a cooler full of beer. We zipped from food stand to restaurant, trying as much food as we wished. Everything was delicious and the atmospheres had exactly what I look for when I'm traveling overseas - authenticity. We ate fried rice balls, egg pancakes, wontons, various noodles dishes, shuizhu pork, century egg, and all sorts of interesting meats skewered on sticks (ever eaten the palm of a duck? How about pigeon stomach?). I was thoroughly impressed by the knowledge of our guide Ling. She made me realize that I have a long way to go before I can call myself an expert in Sichuan cuisine. I guess I'll have to keep eating... ????
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Please check out my series Chengdu: City of Gastronomy where I am eating my way through a deck of cards. I bought a deck of food themed playing cards that feature a different Sichuan dish on every card. Every week I'll shuffle the deck and pick one random card to hunt down and sample.
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Ruixi hails from Chengdu and has also lived in Xian, Shanghai and Beijing. She is passionate about changing the way foreigners eat in China, which means finding legit local food to share with the world is just the beginning. Only her and our local guides can provide you with insight into the city’s food and culture. Ruixi prides herself on the positive comments she has received and friends made while giving tours. We know you’ll agree that she has created an incredible experience that you won’t soon forget!
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Beijing Mongolian Barbecue
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ChengDu Mala Food Tour Vlog 2 麻辣之都 | Travel Vlog 2019
Hello guys! Part 2 of my Mala tour in Chengdu.
There are plenty of must eat food in Chengdu.
1. Beef Noodles
2. Mala Dumplings
3. Mala Crab
4. Mini Lobster
5. BBQ food for supper
6. Definitely must try their KFC
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This evening we are on a Lost Plate food tour and our mission is to eat our way through the entire city of Beijing! Lost Plate food tours pride themselves in taking you off the beaten path to discover the best, most authentic local food in a city. Think the kind of place that you would never even dream of finding yourself and some places that might even make you say... Wait you can eat there? Tonight we are exploring Beijing historic hutongs and the best part is, we are going to be whisked from eatery to eatery in our own personal Lost Plate tuk-tuks!
Lost Plate food tour details:
* Tours run daily at 6.30pm and cost $79pp
* The tour lasts 3.5 hours, includes more food than you could possibly eat and unlimited beer, soft drinks and water
* Vegetarian friendly
WHAT TO EXPECT
* Zoom through Beijing’s hutong alleys on your own tuktuk, stocked with unlimited beer and soda, to places only Beijingers know about
* Grill and season your own meat and vegetables at a traditional Beijing BBQ joint
* Roll authentic fillings into Beijing’s famous (and best!) pancakes and learn where this tradition started
* Sip on some of China’s famous Baijiu alcohol – the most sold liquor in the world; this stuff packs a punch!
* Check out one of Beijing’s most hidden breweries and enjoy a pint of your choice
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The Lost Plate morning food tour in Xian China
We recently explored the Xian Muslim Quarter with Lost Plate Food tours. We made this Chinese street food tour video to show you what we did.
This Xian food tour took place in the morning with a start time of 8.50 and went for around 3 hours. We were treated to some amazing Chinese cooking with Xian food recipes the focus of this tour.
This tour by lost plate food yours was very family-friendly and our guide Michelle was amazing. She was very knowledgeable about Xian and the Xian famous food we were trying.
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In this series, I'm going to show you some of the best things to do in Beijing.
Each episode will focus on a different aspect of the city, which is home to over 21 million people.
One of the best things about Beijing is the array of food it has to offer. This can at times be a little overwhelming, especially if you are new to the city or are just passing through. Don't worry though, as I have found Beijing's best food tour. Join me as I indulge in some traditional, local Beijing cuisine with Lost Plate Food Tours.
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Shanghai's BEST Street Food tour | AUTHENTIC Chinese Street Food w/ Lost Plate - Shanghai, China
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I (Luke Martin) teamed up with our friends at Lost Plate food tours to discover some of the most AUTHENTIC street food in Shanghai, China!
We sampled the delicious Shanghainese specialties like fried dumplings and potstickers, Jian bing, scallion pancake and even tasted some Chinese traditional herbal soup with SNAKE and LIZARD!!!
Wow what an incredible way to start off our tour of Shanghai! This place is packed with the BEST street food ever! We will be continuing our tour around china sampling street food in Chongqing, street food in Chengdu, street food in Xi'an and more! Stay tuned!
If you enjoyed this video make sure to leave us a comment telling us what you think and to share it with your food loving friends! Thanks for watching guys :)
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Hey there, my name's Luke Martin with chopsticktravel.com ! I'm on a journey to document the BEST Street Food around the world! The Chopstick Travelers are based in Taiwan, where we frequent the best Street Food stands everywhere from Taipei to Kaohsiung. Not only do we feast on amazing street food in Taiwan, but our food focused travels take us on Street Food missions trying unique foods around the world! We've eaten Street Food in Japan, Street Food in Malaysia, Street Food in Korea, Street Food in India and many more!
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Street Food (China) Epi 7.1 - Lost Plate Food Tour
The wait is over! Street Food Season 7 is here!
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Mapo Tofu - Why I Moved to Chengdu! // Chengdu: City of Gastronomy 50
Mapo Tofu is one of my favorite dishes of all time, and in this video I’m heading to the place that is thought to have invented the dish Chen’s Mapo Doufu in, of course, Chengdu. I’ve very excited to be trying their mapo tofu for the very first time. I remember reading about the restaurant long before I moved to Sichuan. It was on my list of things to do in Chengdu. Somehow, I forgot about it. In the excitement of moving to a new city, Chen’s Mapo Doufu got lost. After eating plate after plate of mapo tofu, it lost the WOW that it once had when I was eating it only occasionally. What was I thinking? How did it take me so long to try my favorite dish from the very place that invented it?
I have to say, Chen didn’t disappoint. This nicely decorated restaurant, which is very much a tourist attraction, does in fact make the best mapo tofu I’ve ever had. It was thick and rich, oozing with mala, and creamy with braised tofu. The bits of ground beef made the dish even better. Many restaurants substitute it for ground pork. The serving at Chen’s also comes in a sizzling hot clay pot. Mapo tofu, to most people living in Sichuan, is a dish. But going to Chen’s Mapo Doufu is an experience. It’s not one you should miss if you are traveling to Chengdu, Sichuna, China.
WHERE TO GET MAPO TOFU IN CHENGDU
The answer is pretty much anywhere, but if you want the best, from the place that invented it, head to Chen's Mapo Doufu.
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There are a lot of really well made Sichuan classics at this restaurant:
宫保鸡丁 - Kung Pao Chicken
回锅肉 - Twice cooked Pork
鱼香肉丝 - Fish Fragrant Pork
夫妻肺片 - Husband and Wife Lung Slices
In this series, I am eating my way through a deck of cards. I bought a deck of food themed playing cards that feature a different Sichuan dish on every card. Every week I'll shuffle the deck and pick one random card to hunt down and sample. Chengdu was the first Asian city to be named a UNESCO City of Gastronomy. It's full of incredible food - a lot of which you probably don't know about.
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Food tour in Xi’an, China with Lost Plate food tours
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Best Chinese Food Tour with Lost Plate in Beijing!
Lost Plate Food Tours invited us and a few other content creators to try their new Flavors of China Beijing Restaurant Tour. We tried food from four different areas in China! The four areas are Yunnan, Xinjiang, Beijing, Sichuan. This was a great experience and we really enjoyed trying the different foods.
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My Favorite Chuan Chuan Joint in Off the Beaten Path, Chengdu, China
Chuan chuan is the most popular thing to eat in Chengdu, and probably all of Sichuan. It took me a long time to pick out a chuan chuan place to recommend in my food guide
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but I chose this restaurant because the flavors are top-notch, the staff are really friendly and patient with non-Chinese speakers, the atmosphere is the type that I enjoy - a kind of hidden away, low key, bare-bones, family joint that gets lively at night. We went purposefully to avoid the rush, but this place will get busy late into the night, especially on weekends.
Chuan chuan is an easy meal to order if you can't speak Chinese. You just need to communicate how spicy you want it (wei la - little spicy, zhong la - medium spicy, bu la - no spicy). If you don't tell them, they'll likely make it just a little spicy, which in Sichuan is quite spicy. I actually don't find this place overly spicy. I think the heat levels of their pot when I order medium spicy is perfect.
This is the last video in my Making of an Ultimate Food Guide series, where I show off some places that I put in my food guide. You can watch the other episodes (to get a sense of the guide that I put together) here:
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Every single dish in the series (all 54) are in the guide. The guide has 70 dishes and 55 restaurant recommendations. It took me 3 years to try everything and put it all together. If you are traveling to Sichuan and you love food, this is a must-buy item.
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Street Food (China) Epi 9.16 - Shanghai: Lost Plate & Chocolate Factory Tour
Doubling down on the adventure this week, streetfoodies. We're hitting up a lost plate food tour for some Shanghai breakfast, and in the afternoon, a tour of the Zotter Chocolate Factory in Shanghai. It was a seriously delicious day.
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Travel Food: Food in Chengdu, China
Here is a quick video of the foods in Chengdu. Chengdu really delivers, with as much spice as I had yearned for. Hot pot is on every corner and the locals eat it almost every day (although I did learn that there are more stomach surgeries per capita here than in any other region in the world). While I didn’t try the curd blood hot pot, I loved the spicy vegetable soup, spicy tofu and spicy braised pork knuckle, as well as pear tea and a spicy fruit cocktail.
While I’d thought all cuisine in Chengdu was spicy, it turns out that’s not the case. I also learnt on my return trip that Chengdu was responsible for printing the world’s first paper money more than 1,000 years ago and that it hasn’t changed its name for 2,500, making it the longest continually-named city in history.
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This morning we are in Shanghai, China and we are going to be eating our way around the city with Lost Plate Food Tours. Lost Plate food tours pride themselves in taking you off the beaten path to discover the best, most authentic local food in a city. In this action packed walking tour we are going to be exploring Shanghai's old streets, visiting 5 local eateries to try some authentic Shanghai street food.
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Lost Plate food tour details:
* Tours run daily at 9am and cost $49
* The tour lasts 2 hours, includes more food than you could possibly eat and unlimited beer, soft drinks and water
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WHAT TO EXPECT
* Explore local streets & Shanghai’s oldest communities by foot as we try a lot of different dishes that make breakfast the most important meal of the day in China
* Watch China’s most popular breakfast items prepared before eating them including fried beef pancakes and jianbing (savory Chinese crepes)
* Take a seat and watch Shanghai’s famous pot-stickers and dumplings fried in giant pans
* Visit a local wet market to see locals bargaining and buying fresh produce, meat and seafood and see what’s in season
* Walk through some of Shanghai’s oldest residential communities to see how locals live their lives every day
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Quick Vlog: Chengdu Food Tour!
Ever been on a food tour? Well, I hadn't either, but now I have! The Lost Plate offers food tours of hole in the wall restaurants here in Chengdu, and I had a pretty good time there! 糖油果子, 蛋烘糕, 串串，抄手，烤脑花，some kind of tofu 豆腐，冰粉，and a bar. Chengdu is a city of Gastronomy, and foodies are everywhere! It's awesome!
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5 Street Food Dishes You Must Try in Chengdu
Sichuan cuisine is known for its numbingly spicy flavors, and there’s no better place to test your palate than the province’s capital, Chengdu.
This is the heartland of Sichuan cuisine, and it’s home to a vibrant street food culture. Here, you can get delicacies like meat pie, rabbit head, and ice jelly on the go.
We roamed the streets of this southwestern city for the best eats.
If you liked this story, we have more videos about street food in China, including:
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A Spicy Sichuan Noodle Pie (Chef's Plate Ep. 19)
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Exploring Chengdu through food tour - one bite at a time
Southwest China is the home to stunning landscape and rich culture.
But in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, people really come here for a different experience.
CCTV’s Tao Yuan reports from the leisure capital, the Southwest City of Chengdu.