Tasting Chinese snacks ASMR!! 中国零食试吃!! 🌶️🌶️

Fun fact of the day: A wildly popular childhood snack across China is called Latiao (辣条). Many Chinese Millennials and Gen Z have fond memories of snacking on Latiao at school!! But what most people don’t know is that the creation of Latiao is the result of the human spirit colliding with the forces of nature. In the summer of 1998, China was facing one of the worst natural disasters in modern Chinese history. Exceptionally heavy and prolonged rainfall hit central and southern China. The Yangtze River overflowed, together with other major lakes connected to it. The floods ended up destroying thousands of homes, displacing millions of people, and causing large soybean crop losses, especially in Hunan Province. However, it did not break the spirit of the Hunanese people!! Due to the lack of soybeans, Hunanese farmers and food producers started to experiment with lower cost, wheat based snacks as an alternative to snacks made from beans, such as tofu. The result of those experiments became the Latiao that we know today!! Not only did the snack help the post flood economy, but it also went on to create a billion yuan empire that still stands strong today!!