6 Chinese Foods You Either LOVE or HATE

Hey guys, Mike Chen here. There are foods that you either love or hate, right? Like Nutella or that Vegemite stuff from Down Under. The same is true for Chinese foods, of course. There are Chinese foods that you either love it or you cannot stand it. So here is a list of Chinese foods that you either love or hate. Thousand-year-old eggs. In Chinese, we call this dish pidan. It's made by preserving duck, chicken, or quail eggs in clay, ash, salt, quicklime, and rice hulls for several weeks to several months. During this process, the yolk becomes a gross dark green to gray color, and the egg whites turn translucent with a dark brown or black color. And this thing will not smell good. You really can't eat this dish on its own. It's usually served with other dishes and rice. It has a really creamy texture and looks completely horrifying like an egg mummy. Bitter melon. Bitter melon looks like a cucumber and is usually stir-fried. Like the name suggests, this vegetable is incredibly bitter. But a lot of people love this vegetable for its taste and its health benefits. Personally, I hate it. Many restaurants will stir-fry the bitter melon with pork and black bean sauce. Now, I love pork and I love black bean sauce, but I hate bitter melon. You know what I hate most about bitter melon is that every time a bitter melon dish comes up, I somehow will get tricked into eating it. Because we'll be at dinner with friends and family, and somebody will order this dish. Like I said, a lot of people love it. Then I'm the only one not eating it. And then people will say, Hey, Mike, how come you're not eating the bitter melon? And I'll say because it's bitter. And then they'll say, No, no, just try it. It's not bitter. Try it. Trust me. Then being the trusting person that I am, I start thinking in my head, Oh, wait, maybe it's not bitter. Maybe this time is different. And of course, I try it and yeah, it's bitter. Now, I never understood why people voluntarily put something so bitter in their mouth. In Chinese, there is a saying called 自讨苦吃, meaning looking for hardship or bitterness on your own. It's used to describe someone who doesn't know any better and brings hardship onto oneself. So why anyone would want to eat a bitter melon and bring bitterness onto themselves, I would never know. Bird nest soup or 燕窝. Now, I find this utterly disgusting. They call it bird nest soup. But in actuality, what you are eating is bird spit. This soup is made using the nest of the swiftlet, a tiny bird found throughout Southeast Asia. The swiftlet lives in dark caves and flies around like a bat. Instead of using twigs and straws, the swiftlet makes its nest from strands of its own saliva, which is gummy when it first comes out and then hardens when it's exposed to air. Now, this soup is sometimes super, super expensive. And a kilo can sell for as much as ten thousand dollars. And of course, it's supposed to be super good for you. I never had this and don't think I ever will. This is something that just completely kicks me out. It's like I made out with a bird. Dorian. Dorian is often referred to as the king of fruits. I call it the king of stink because this puppy smells like someone crawled inside his shell and died. I always said that Dorian should be sold as a military weapon. And in times of war, the military should just drop Dorian on its enemies. I mean, it's basically a bowling ball covered in thorns or a mace. And if it breaks open, that thing will clear out a building. But again, a ton of people think it's the most delicious thing ever. I never tried it, so I don't know. But I did smell it walking by it in open air. And that thing stinks. Fermented tofu. If you've never had this, it's basically rotten tofu soaked in sauce. You can eat it as a condiment. You can put it on rice, bread or anything else besides ice cream. Or maybe. No, that won't work. The ingredients typically are soybeans, salt, rice wine and sesame oil or vinegar. And are sold in jars soaked in brine with select flavoring. I love it, but many people won't touch it with a pole. Stinky tofu. OK, if fermented tofu were all alive and they had a king, it would be stinky tofu. This thing literally smells like poo soaked in sauce. Just one of the worst things I can imagine eating. The tofu is soaked in a brine made from fermented milk, vegetables and meat. The brine can also include dried shrimp, bamboo shoots and Chinese herbs. With the fermentation process taking as long as several months. And of course, the true diehards say, just like cheese, the stinkier the better. This is another dish that I never tried. And my grandpa used to eat this. And every time he ate this, I thought he was in the bathroom. Because that's how bad it stunk. All right, guys, let me know what kind of foods you have a love or hate relationship with. And again, please don't forget to subscribe. Check me out on Facebook. I'll see you again next time.