college I laid there on my bed moves up
in the ceiling I kind of had a lot of
the windows do he’s yet for the last
five years writing about Chinese food
Phyllis
I’ve done a very poor of intial
administrative units college irina 20 of
those are represented in restaurants in
Los Angeles I didn’t see just to NASA
taking General Mills on food to our has
been on television and building I lost
everything
then in there I decided I was going to
eat China because I wanted to do
something epic with my life and I got a
backpack and I ended up going to 12
provinces and less than a year by myself
I forage for wild hurts in the mountains
of China I and multi-beam noodle soup
spoils in the same day I got kicked out
of Tibet and what I found out is that
reality in front of rosy it seems you
see I wanted to go to transistors of
regionalism what is regionalism mean
here in Los Angeles we think native food
is in and out and the French Dip hello
venerable in China for a lot more
connected to our land whereas zero
nation of immigrants
kind of longer than two units of
libations and so I went there and found
out that China’s lakes are largely
polluted Taiwan another fish what
started out as a culinary journey ended
up being environmentally safe I started
off in Shanghai now I had wasted about
jangles the whole time
before it’s the land of dumpling so big
you have to use a strong effect the
super um they love crab so much they
have an entire festival dedicated to it
they love pravesh so much that their
entire streets that they get to it
fish is a continuous from Te Ching hai
I’m still I went down into the Queen hot
this was around the type of Chinese New
Year’s and I asked the teacher so you’re
gonna have fish this year right
because dream of Chinese New Year’s is
the same communion you which means every
year let’s have more fish but every year
there will be more prosperity and she
will have some use let’s pitch this year
dirty why would I eat the fish and I
thought something we kind of beard but I
just kind of brushed it off then I
decided to go out to suits all 45
minutes been shanghaied on that bullet
train go steadily located in the
jumpsuit Papa’s in China there’s no
that’s the land of fishing rights I had
written about it at the land efficient
pace when they got their offices that
way got in and tax because and I asked
the guy so civil datatype suitable
driver what are the specialty features
of this region and he just he dishes
thrills on development and just
prosperity must’ve wiped them all away
course I ignore him and the next day I
went to Kaliningrad I’m going to Lake
tied tied up now they tie a third like
this freshwater body in all of China
it’s responsible for some of the
greatest culinary delicacies in the
entire country for example in three
whites you go to the doubles and pockets
with China here and the surrounding
areas around
and you will see them advertised for
those those are oriental whitebait and
I’ve been show up in a river fish and I
wanted to go to this lake by minutes
health and find Sherman have changed
these three delicacies the uber driver
insists there’s nothing there why do you
want to go our way I don’t want to go
and like I’m gonna pay you that money
take me to the lake he takes me there it
drops me off at a garden the only person
there the beautiful garden and souping
pagoda that there’s a appear that
stretches out to alone could go to the
end I block out the lake is silvery
still there’s not a sign of life there
after that it is that you go to a
restaurant and I ordered the three wigs
and of course the people will tell me
you where the fish comes from I go home
and I research they time was the victim
of a huge event it is the poster child a
chinese-american cholo my industrial
runoff from agriculture killed so much
fish left the water so polluted that
left 2 million people without drinking
water and then it was in the problem
that’s unique to Lake time according to
the 2014 report 28 percent Chinese
lanterns are so polluted not even
suitable for agricultural use actually
according to a survey 38 out of 71
burgers are so polluted funnyman
students with human touch
I was
water actually we all are what do you
think we get our fish from the United in
control of the most Ocean Territory on
any country in the entire world if 90%
of our fish is important a lot of that
comes from dirty aquaculture farms in
China Pokemon America a lot of our fish
is caught by a fisherman who have no
idea who are projected to new regulation
illegally cut now this is the thing that
repeated to the environment they tasked
me with writing a guidebook I was in
charge of eating at 300 restaurants in
less than three months I did it and I
found out that actually coffee is
greater than thi wand and that French
pastries are in both Korean barbecue
people on it there can when tightening
is actually more similar to the states
of the things of course Taiwan in the
seafood country the most expensive
restaurants sell seafood but it’s a
secret country while the seafood country
it is not an ocean country now what do I
need I was invited by the ocean trying
to I’m angel for their ocean God
ceremony now this only happens once a
year so we came in the morning and woke
up
we killed a pig cut off its head we ate
the body the liver and the kidneys and a
heart for the ocean the men went out and
they threw the kidney the liver and the
heart co-chair the idea that you give
the best ability
to the ocean the pink head was put in
the center of a powwow and the men dated
surrounded sacrifice rice wine we danced
in a multi-generational ring of people
the women chords receive me the three
different types and at the end though
organizing our came up to me and I was
doing a story on this for Vice I should
be sure that this is the part where the
mental boil up to do is attached pitch
and I’m like we why aren’t you guys
doing that now she looks happy chooses
don’t you know there’s no more fish
since the 1930s and one has been
virtually out that fish we’ve over
fished our fisheries completely this is
the problem that’s here in the United
States too so we have a lot of circle to
California for any lobster but Ernie
cares how to diagnose the Asia and they
found that was only the indigenous tribe
the people close the land that actually
know what’s going on that are actually
connected with the environment I have a
friend in Tibet was famous for true
he’s a Tibetan check tonight live their
entire life and when I mend them that is
building a couple of incinerators
because the trash problem there I’ve
gotten so bad that it needs to process
the traction tourists go there they just
litter because when to that
possibly facilities there’s no one to
pick up your trash the yaks are choking
on trash people depend on it – they’re
nomadic tribe the river is fair at the
glacier is considered the third pole of
the entire world yet we are polluting
the waters and so where is terrain I’m
gonna get the drinking water from they
continue to pollute it this lack of
awareness of course is not just limited
to China Los Angeles great city that we
are at now was built upon stolen water
that we stole from the horns Valley with
Native Americans I went there a lot of
there last year in November and to this
day they still be right there we doesn’t
need an amount of irrigation water to
water their fields and so how what is
the solution to all of this I’ve got a
solution of the most remote tribe to
Taiwan price help the making is located
forever a lot of the mounts of the
central mountains of Taiwan for hours
have when you wrote you wrote it is kind
of hard to get up there population of
178 people a little girl taught me how
to hack a lot bamboo with the machete to
eight years old the men work below and
chill while war for us my entire time in
China and it remain that way to remain
in Japan because the
businessmen wanting to purchase a piece
during your time here I at the most
remote village of an eyelid that my
country doesn’t recognize by the country
who say that climate change the huge
Paulo where’s the disconnect so I asked
them give me examples
he’s an active leader during the mall
when typhoon season before there used to
be a flower that bloomed like clockwork
and every time the flower blooming you
for thousands of years and he says
within the last 15 years that clockwork
has been completely off he says when I
was never able to work until the
building till 3 but now it’s so hot by
11:00 I can’t even do it anymore
and then I asked him so what do we do
what can we do feeling helpless and he
says prioritize the landing all else
prioritize bullion and all unless we
understand the land around us we’ll get
odds and everything else you know
there’s a Chinese proverb that I really
like and in English it’s that you know
so long as the mountains are green you
will have enough firewood but how do we
know that the mountains are green or
where the mountains are when we live in
concrete jungle like this start with
what’s in front of you to start with
your canoes understand what you’re
eating care about it and even since
always on knowing where your food comes from