Name: 香港ストリートフードツアー＆トラベルガイド (Hong Kong Street Food Tour & Travel Guide)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:05:07.000Z
Duration: 17 min 58 s
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Hong Kong is the quintessential example of east meets west,

Over the next couple days as we film our episode,

we're taking you with us to try the best food in Hong Kong....

from street food to Chinese barbecue. Let's do it.

It was a sleepy fishing village until the 1800s

when a series of crazy events led it to become part of the British Empire.

Back then the British Empire had a problem:

The British were importing tons of things from China: silk, tea, and porcelain,

but the Chinese didn't want to bring anything back from Britain, just take the gold.

So the British came up with a devious plan:

They grew it cheaply in their colony of India and flooded the Chinese market

to the point of causing a full-blown opioid epidemic.

When the Chinese tried to put a stop to the trade,

the British responded militarily in what became known as the First Opium War.

Put simply,  the Chinese lost and the British took Hong Kong as a colony.

Hong Kong remained a British colony for a hundred and fifty six years,

becoming a major trading port with a fabulously wealthy economy

before returning to Chinese rule in in 1997 with the promise of 50 years of autonomy.

Alright ladies and gentlemen, right now we are in the neighbourhood of Kowloon on the peninsula.

Hong Kong is actually the Island of Hong Kong,

but the region is actually the surrounding areas, including this peninsula.

so everything there is a lot more expensive because there's not a lot space.

We're going to a local market called Mong Kok Market,

which is a wet market and that's apparently the best place to get street food in the area.

In order to get there, we're going to have to hop on the subway.

but before we can get to a subway station, we've had to walk through a mall.

Hong Kong is very world famous for its shopping....

tons of designer brands, usually at prices much more affordable than back home,

but when in Hong Kong you've got to shop, got to eat.

Well, I literally stopped a film for maybe 15 seconds,

We'll be able to use the metro, which goes all over Kowloon and connects us to the city, as well.

We'd like to get to the island by the scenic Star Ferry, but first things first.

We're hungry,  and this is the fastest way to get the market.

First up we're going to try to keep things a little bit healthy in the beginning.

We are at a produce market, and we're going to have some jackfruit,

which is a type of fruit that grows here in Southeast Asia.

This jackfruit is a typical fruit from this part of the world.

but it's becoming more popular with vegan cooking because it's like a meat substitute.

There's a little bit of a seed pod in there.

And when he's chopping it up, it's almost like a garlic,

like shelling a garlic. I lost my seed pod.

It's pretty neutral, like the flavor's neutral.

It's not that sweet. It's not that savory.

When you come to Hong Kong, the food scene here is so diverse. It's so vibrant.

But what a lot of people miss is where those raw materials come from.

A market like this is very representative of how local people here get their food.

Dish by dish, day by day, they come to the market.

A lot of times, especially with the fish and stuff,

they're delivered still alive, which means you can't get produce

you cannot get materials fresher than this,

and that is one of the main reasons why the food here is so good.

I was in Hong Kong nine years ago on this trip I did through Southeast Asia after college.

I went to Hong Kong for about a week stayed at the Chungking mansions,

the cheapest places around, and I was partying by going in that

7/11 over there and drinking beers from the refrigerator.

We're getting some directions from some friendly locals because we're a little bit lost .

The market that we came to, Graham Street Market,

we thought was going to be be more of a street food market,

but turns out it's like more of a produce market.

but really street food does not really take off until the evening until 7 or 8 p.m.

One of the coolest things about the city is the geography.

It's a small island;  it's very, very steep.

And there's a lot of people living in a very small place.

You have all these streets like this that go up and down the hill,

and they're like massive highways of foot traffic.

On top of them a lot of them have these escalators that basically take you up and over the crowds

because it's like almost going on a gondola across the city.

You get to see everything just about 30- 40 feet above the ground. It's very cool.

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