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What we ate in a WEEK biking through North China's barren landscapes | grassland & desert cuisine
Biking Northern Gansu: Yugur Lunch, Tibetan Market Food and Desert Roads
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Katherine and her husband continue their year long bike tour of North China, riding through northern Gansu from Zhangye toward Jiuquan. The vlog covers a town carnival with rodeo and tug-of-war games, a Tibetan-influenced market, local mushrooms, a lunch with a Yugur family and an explanation of the Yugur languages, apricots, a desert and farmland crossing, dry local bread, a roadside accident, kids asking for help with English homework, and offerings at a temple. They end by putting their folding bikes on a train to skip empty desert.
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Katherine, an American cycling a year long North China bike tour with her husband from east to west, reaches northern Gansu. The vlog opens with a town carnival and a temple that looks like a giant wedding cake. They leave Zhangye toward the mountains, arrive in the town of Sunan and see a croquet court. At a market in an area with a small Tibetan population they find yak butter balls, mini prayer wheels and a shrine to caterpillar fungus, buy mushrooms for 68 yuan that taste vinegary and sour, and find the plain local meat tough and flavorless. In the grassland they stop at a small Yugur family restaurant, where Katherine explains that the Yugur have about 10,000 people and two languages, one Mongolic and one Turkic, and that most young Yugur speak Mandarin. They eat mutton with noodle squares and receive a bag of apricots. Later they cross hours of desert, get a free sample of nut cake at a stop with a Uyghur family, try Xinjiang chicken with wide noodles and very dry bread with a curry-like yellow topping, and pass a truck accident where only the seatbelt-wearing driver was uninjured. In a small Tibetan village, children ask for help with English homework. In town they watch a rodeo with a cow on a stick, strength games, neck tug-of-war and chicken ring toss booths, then visit Wen Shu Temple, where people leave buns and whole watermelons. They end by taking the folding bikes on the train to skip about 2 weeks of empty desert riding.
Katherine and her husband continue their year long bike tour of North China, riding through northern Gansu from Zhangye toward Jiuquan. The vlog covers a town carnival with rodeo and tug-of-war games, a Tibetan-influenced market, local mushrooms, a lunch with a Yugur family and an explanation of the Yugur languages, apricots, a desert and farmland crossing, dry local bread, a roadside accident, kids asking for help with English homework, and offerings at a temple. They end by putting their folding bikes on a train to skip empty desert.
Cycling through northern Gansu: Tibetan market food, a Yugur family lunch, desert roads, a town carnival and a temple.
Biking Northern Gansu: Yugur Lunch, Tibetan Market Food and Desert Roads
3:26 In the market of this area with a small Tibetan population you can find Tibetan products such as yak butter balls, mini prayer wheels and even a shrine to the caterpillar fungus believed to have medicinal properties.
5:10 Mushrooms seem to be a really big thing at the local market. A portion cost 68 yuan, and even though the creators are not mushroom fans they found them pretty good, a bit vinegary with a sour flavor.
5:38 The other local specialty dish is meat on its own, eaten plain or with chili powder. The creators found it tough and flavorless, and a struggle if you are a fan of rich Chinese flavors.
7:55 Call the number on a roadside restaurant sign to check it is actually open. The creators did, the guy picked up and confirmed it was open that day, so they stopped there while getting rained on.
8:35 The Yugur family house with the little restaurant is only used during the warmer months. The restaurant is not operated during the winter, when the family lives in a more urbanized area.
10:26 The fresh apricots around here are the best the creator has ever had. Lunch was home-raised mutton with noodle squares, potatoes and cilantro, and the restaurant lady later gave them a huge bag of apricots.
13:08 The landscape is a patchwork of farmland and desert with very sharp dividing lines. The vlog makes the desert look short, but it actually took several hours to cross before they reached cornfields again.
16:47 The local bread has swirly patterns and is dry to the point of utter ridiculousness, though the yellow stuff on it has a kind of curry-like taste that the creator liked.
18:37 They passed a truck accident from 3:30 a.m. where the driver fell asleep. Only the driver, who was wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured, while the other two went to hospital, so wear your seatbelts.
28:19 At the famous Wen Shu Temple, offerings vary regionally with the local produce. Here people leave buns and whole watermelons, and a bun and watermelon combination is something the creator had never seen elsewhere.
31:28 Folding bikes let you put them on the train and skip boring or empty stretches, such as what would have been about 2 weeks of desert riding, and stay near places with people, food and water.
3:26 In the market of this area with a small Tibetan population you can find Tibetan products such as yak butter balls, mini prayer wheels and even a shrine to the caterpillar fungus believed to have medicinal properties.
5:10 Mushrooms seem to be a really big thing at the local market. A portion cost 68 yuan, and even though the creators are not mushroom fans they found them pretty good, a bit vinegary with a sour flavor.
5:38 The other local specialty dish is meat on its own, eaten plain or with chili powder. The creators found it tough and flavorless, and a struggle if you are a fan of rich Chinese flavors.
7:55 Call the number on a roadside restaurant sign to check it is actually open. The creators did, the guy picked up and confirmed it was open that day, so they stopped there while getting rained on.
8:35 The Yugur family house with the little restaurant is only used during the warmer months. The restaurant is not operated during the winter, when the family lives in a more urbanized area.
10:26 The fresh apricots around here are the best the creator has ever had. Lunch was home-raised mutton with noodle squares, potatoes and cilantro, and the restaurant lady later gave them a huge bag of apricots.
13:08 The landscape is a patchwork of farmland and desert with very sharp dividing lines. The vlog makes the desert look short, but it actually took several hours to cross before they reached cornfields again.
16:47 The local bread has swirly patterns and is dry to the point of utter ridiculousness, though the yellow stuff on it has a kind of curry-like taste that the creator liked.
18:37 They passed a truck accident from 3:30 a.m. where the driver fell asleep. Only the driver, who was wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured, while the other two went to hospital, so wear your seatbelts.
28:19 At the famous Wen Shu Temple, offerings vary regionally with the local produce. Here people leave buns and whole watermelons, and a bun and watermelon combination is something the creator had never seen elsewhere.
31:28 Folding bikes let you put them on the train and skip boring or empty stretches, such as what would have been about 2 weeks of desert riding, and stay near places with people, food and water.
0:00 Strange town carnival and trip intro
1:41 Arriving in Sunan, croquet court
3:04 Offerings and Tibetan market products
4:36 Market snacks and mushroom taste test
7:55 Lunch at a Yugur family restaurant
9:07 The two Yugur languages explained
13:08 Farmland and desert patchwork
14:03 Dinner stop and Uyghur grocery
16:22 Xinjiang chicken noodles and dry bread
17:52 Truck accident and seatbelt warning
19:42 Tibetan village lunch and mountain foot
21:15 Kids' English homework help
24:59 Rodeo and strength games at fair
28:19 Wen Shu Temple offerings
31:08 Putting bikes on the train
0:00 Strange town carnival and trip intro
1:41 Arriving in Sunan, croquet court
3:04 Offerings and Tibetan market products
4:36 Market snacks and mushroom taste test
7:55 Lunch at a Yugur family restaurant
9:07 The two Yugur languages explained
13:08 Farmland and desert patchwork
14:03 Dinner stop and Uyghur grocery
16:22 Xinjiang chicken noodles and dry bread
17:52 Truck accident and seatbelt warning
19:42 Tibetan village lunch and mountain foot
21:15 Kids' English homework help
24:59 Rodeo and strength games at fair
28:19 Wen Shu Temple offerings
31:08 Putting bikes on the train
Who are the Yugur people in Gansu?
The creator says the Yugur are a very small group of about 10,000 people with two languages, one Mongolic and one Turkic. They are a blend of Uyghurs who fled south after their empire fell in the 800s and Mongolic-speaking groups.
Do Yugur people still speak their languages?
According to the creator, both languages survive mostly among the older generation, the average young Yugur grows up speaking Mandarin, and the language does not have a written script.
How much did the local mushrooms cost at the Tibetan market?
The creators bought mushrooms for 68 yuan and say they were pretty good, a bit vinegary with a sour flavor, though they did not know whether that price is cheap or expensive.
What food can you try at a Yugur family restaurant?
The creators had the family's own home-raised mutton with noodle squares, potatoes and cilantro, and fresh apricots. The little restaurant only operates in the warmer months.
What products can you find in a Tibetan-influenced market in Gansu?
The creator saw yak butter balls, mini prayer wheels, a shrine to the caterpillar fungus, yak milk products such as yogurts and little cheese snacks, and huge bricks of local bread.
What games are held at the town fair?
The creators saw a rodeo with a cow on a stick, a strength test where whoever pulls hard enough lifts the other person off the ground, a neck tug-of-war, and booths with ring toss games where you can win chickens.
What offerings do people leave at Wen Shu Temple?
The creator saw buns, whole watermelons, cherry tomatoes, noodles with vegetables, melon, dragon fruit and wine, and says offerings vary regionally depending on what produce is available.
How did the cyclists avoid the empty desert in Gansu?
They brought folding bikes and put them on the train to cross what would have been about 2 weeks of empty desert riding, because the desert there is very flat and uninhabited.
