KUNMING IS SO UNDERRATED | Yunnan Ethnic Village, Local Market + Eating Chicken's Feet!

I'm from Taiwan Province of China. Through Alina's videos, I saw that people in mainland China live a happy life. However, our Taiwanese media and Western media have been promoting that the Chinese people have no freedom, no clothes to wear, and no food To Eat, so, who is the liar?

Kunming is my most favourite, a highly underrated city. I lived there for a year and i definitely wanna go back in this lifetime.

56个民族组成的大家庭🥰🥰🥰

I like China and always like to look at my most favorite country.

A lot of western media talks bad about china but I can see a lot of Chinese people live a happy life Alina please don't forget to visit Xinjiang province it's beautiful place in China and they are look white people including a lot of Russian people live in that province too. Take care bye from milton Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

Why your videos have become so precious to people in North America is because you are "bravely" confronting China and trying to keep an open mind. Shockingly unveiled the mystery of the great Eastern country, thousands of years of history and culture and modern civilization and technology, its progress is the envy of the world

Kunming is the Spring City of China, where you can see so many types of flowers.

I took my daughter to Kunming when she is in grade 8 a few years back. We tour same farm market you visit. She like the taste of food there very much. Definitely worth visit. We bought some BBQ duck. The price was almost like 20% of the price in Regina, Saskatchewan

Americans and Canadians can be very unadventurous about various foods, the textures and flavors. Especially those, who are many generations in and don't know their roots much or don't associate themselves with any cultures outside US. This makes your videos ever so precious, just cause you are "braving" the world and try to be openminded. Kudos to you, Alina. I was born in Russia and lived there for 17 years before I immigrated to US about 34 years ago. In my 17 years there I've been exposed to some weird foods and developed a taste for them, but most importantly, I remain open minded and appreciating of various textures, flavors and smells. But I have to say, there are many foodstuffs that unless one tried them in childhood it's hard to take a true liking to. Going to a foreign market and having a local guide is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this experience.

Kunming is known as the city of eternal spring also known as the capital of flowers. The mushroom hot pot is made of a variety of local precious types. Definitely worth a try.

You may need more than one year to visit all those different cities and provinces in China. Each province is so different, sometimes you may think you are in another country.

I went to Kunming during Chinese new year. Such a beautiful city with the most soothing weather. No sooner than I left Kunming I started to miss the mouth-watering mushroom hotpot and chill vibe. My wife and I were born in Shanghai and she never consider to move to another city or country because she is so proud of where we come from. After visiting Kunming she told me Kunming might be a good choice for retiring life...

Chicken feet. Best food to eat as you eat more, you will fall in love with this feet. It is not easy to cook.

I just arrived in Kunming today. I'm absolutely loving it already 😊

I worked in Kunming in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 2000. I cannot believe how the city has changed. In 1989 the population was around 3,000. Most of the restaurants were just little places on the street. There were more donkey carts than automobiles and we had to boil our drinking water. Bicycles were the main mode of transportation. By 2000 things were more modern and I believed the population was around 6,000. By our standards it was a city that was far from modern and still just local street markets. There were department stores, but nothing like the ones in the USA. However, you don’t go to foreign countries expecting them to be like home. I enjoyed the time that I spent there. The people were wonderful and they wanted you to see everything that China had to offer . I was encouraged to travel which I did and was able to do things that tourists are not usually able to see. But, it definitely was not an easy place to live the first couple of times I was there. After I was there often when I would go out on the streets I would see people that I had known before! When I was there in 1991 I was there before my husband and when my husband got there we were going to the Green Lake hotel. A group of the minority girls saw him from a distance and started running toward him waving , smiling and yelling. What a wonderful place!

There is a story about Crossing the bridge noodles. It is said that there was a scholar in ancient times who stayed at school to focus on his studies in order to take exams. His wife brings him food every day, but because the school is a bit far from home, the food is already cold when it is delivered. So his wife came up with a solution, which was to cut the meat very thin to make it easy to cook, then make a pot of hot chicken soup, and cook the rice noodles, then put all of them into a food box. Because there is a lot of oil on top of the chicken soup, it can maintain the soup's temperature for a long time. When she brought the food box to school, her husband could cook the meat in hot chicken soup and put the cooked noodles in, so he could eat hot food. Because there is a bridge between their home and school, and this wife need to pass a bridge when delivering the food box, people later call this cooking method "cross bridge", and this kind of noodles is called "Crossing the bridge noodles".

Hello Ni Hao Ma ,Alina Thank you very much for take all FC to visit KUNMING A large family consisting of 56 ethnic groups it's very Great of China too.

I've been enjoying the incredible experience of China Alina ! Thanks 😊.

I didn't make it to Kunming on my last visit but the old town and the park with all the ethnic displays has definitely put it on my list for future visits. Thank you for sharing!

It's amazing how much information Alina has shown us about China. I'm watching all videos in this tour and the quality of images, the songs are incredible. To know about others cultures open your mind. Waiting for the next.