Why Bird's Nest Soup Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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- Bird's nest soup is a delicacy in Asia made from the dissolved nests of swiftlets, a small bird native to Southeast Asia. A bowl of bird's nest soup can cost more than $100 at some restaurants, due to growing demand and a limited number of wild birds. The soup is popular in China, where it's believed to have healing properties. We stopped by the Oriental Garden in NYC's Chinatown to taste it for ourselves.
Following is a transcript of the video:
Narrator: Bird nest soup. It's a gelatinous mixture, made from, you guessed it, bird nests. You can find it on the menu at certain Chinese restaurants like at Oriental Garden, here in New York City. But it'll cost you.
Cici: For one person it costs $32.95, and for four people it costs $128.
Abby: And that's normal pricing?
Cici: Yeah, that's totally normal.
Abby: Wow.
Narrator: So, what makes it so expensive? People in China have been eating bird nests for more than a thousand years. It's believed to have near magical properties, from curing cancer to helping children grow taller.
And the main ingredient? The partially dissolved nest of a swiftlet, a small bird native to Southeast Asia. Three times a year, swiftlets build nests out of their sticky saliva on cave walls and cliff sides, where they raise their young. It's the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive.
Here in New York City's Chinatown, for example, a couple dozen were selling for more than a thousand dollars.
Until recently, the most common way of getting the nests was by harvesting them from the wild.
Creighton: There are many dangers involved in harvesting nests from caves. They would climb up without really any safety nets or harnesses, that kind of thing, and just try and extract the nests from the cave wall, and they'd be, in some cases, many stories up.
Narrator: But for many, the risk was worth the reward.
Creighton: Harvesters would often try and collect as many nests as they could, regardless of whether they were fully formed, and they would just take them repeatedly.
Narrator: In some regions, swiftlets couldn't compete with the rate of harvest, and so their populations plummeted. Between 1957 and 1997, the number of swiftlets declined by as much as 88% in parts of Southeast Asia, largely due to over-harvesting. And as a result, the price of bird's nests skyrocketed.
Creighton: The price for bird nests, I would say, peaked in around the early 1990s.
Narrator: Around that time, nests were selling for up to $1,000 a pound. Adjusting for inflation, that would be around $2,000 today. Those high prices earned bird nests the title "Caviar of the East."
And they also fueled a new industry. You could call it hospitality.
Scores of people across Southeast Asia looking to cash in on the bird nest trade started investing in swiftlet hotels.
Creighton: People just found that if there was a vacant building or, say, the upper story of a building was uninhabited, then swiftlets would make their way inside, and they would start just using the buildings as their nesting sites. Then these rumors kind of emerged over time about how much money you could make swiftlet farming really overnight.
Narrator: And they weren't just rumors. In Myanmar, for example, swiftlet hotels can bring in at least $6,000 a year, while the average annual income is just over $1,100. And the more swiftlets you draw in, the more money you make.
George: According to locals, in order to successfully farm for the bird's nests, there are a few factors involved.
Factor one: The locals believe that abundance is related to charity. The more charitable and kind they are to the community, the more the birds will come to build nests in their houses.
Factor two: technology. To attract the swiftlets to build nests, the house keepers have to employ the right technology using speakers to continuously broadcast the correct frequency of the chirping swiftlets at the optimum volume.
Factor three: they believe in showing care and concern to the swiftlets. They will be careful not to harvest the nests if there are eggs in the nests.
Narrator: In the last few decades, the swiftlet farming industry has exploded. From 1998 to 2013, the estimated number of swiftlet hotels grew from 900 to 60,000 in Malaysia alone. But while this increased supply, it didn't exactly slash the price. That's because in the last couple of decades or so, demand has also increased.
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Why Bird's Nest Soup Is So Expensive | So Expensive
CZcams: why bird's-nest soup is so expensive
Me: *why birds nest soup exists*
*China*
@@joejjj4378 Just because their food is different than yours doesn't make it weird. Don't be so ignorant.
@@krul2745 through that logic as long as someone out there eats something it can never be weird if a homeless man eats a bag full of heroin with ketchup it will not be weird its just different.
you sir; are wrong, and are just pandering because you think its racist to say something is weird.
@@joejjj4378 oh come on all cultures are weird to a certain extent. if you really think about it cheese and caviar are weird too.
Because why not? 😉
Actually yea, that thing is expensive as hell and it's just like jelly. 😐
I still don’t get who went through the work of stealing a nest from a cave and turning it into soup.
idk poverty?
@@hp4p110 true man, so true.
Who get the freaking idea first !?
@@hp4p110 ok, its true that Asian people eat disgusting food, but its not ALL Asians eat disgusting foods. So I get it as pretty rude as an Asian myself.
U would if you were poor and if it would sell for $100
I’m chinese but no matter how delicious food can be we need to stop over harvesting food items such as shark fin, birds nest, rhino horn, elephant tusks, cordyceps fungus etc
Wait what's wrong with harvesting cordyceps fungis? Didn't know it was a popular food ingredient, but I'd imagine the farming is relatively harmless:
Breed a bunch of captive bugs (cheap,easy) + expose to mushrooms/spores = boom that's it
You need to stop eating cows, pigs and chickens too.
@@inkbold8511 also stop eating vegetables
Not just chinese, everyone in general should stop eating animals. What makes one species more superior than another? Just because we humans deems so? Its obsolete in the grand scheme of thing.
Amber C
Stop eating animals? We, humans, are omnivores, we EAT meat.
0:19 “Long Time Birds Nest Soup Eater” What a description lol
So in Vietnam, we also have bird nest farms in the central coastal area. And the entire thing is made from bird spit, yes, but it doesn't taste disgusting at all. When I was really sick when I was small, she would take 1 nest from a box that somebody had given to us on vacation and boil the thing with crystal sugar, water, jujube and ginger. It is very waring and is supposed to have very amazing health properties. In Vietnam it is usually not that expensive. A box usually has 10 or a dozen of these nets and 30 dollars for that bowl of soup is enough to buy one box. It is not slimy or sticky at all and not similar to gelatin. Instead, it is very silky and soft but still has a bit of crunch. Probably many here hasn't tasted it yet, but it is quite unique. I feel bad for you guys that it is so expensive to eat.
Nasty.
@@anikagh yea ok
@@hanoianboy9562 sure, eat a birds nest and any other endangered animal why don’t you
@@anikagh they are FARMED
@@hanoianboy9562 don’t think sharkfins and pengalins are farmed, silly
Imagine, a bird preparing a nest, “Finally done, now I can prepare to lay my egg babies. Gotta grab some food now.”
The nest disappears the next day, “wtf?!”
Lol
That’s not what happens, the bird leaves the nest before the nest is taken. The birds migrate from place to place and build new nests every year. 😒
Nah their brain was too small for that thought hahaha
It's so much sad😭
I have a bird “hotel” here in indonesia...i must say it’s true (not the “gotta grab some food now” though), when the nest’s consider ready (app. 45days), usually the bird also ready to lay eggs...since the cleanest and the highest price nest is this time, most harvester didn’t wait it lay eggs first and just took it immediately...so the bird which almost due time to lay eggs, has to put its eggs elsewhere...changing its nest with the fake one often helped the bird...but it quite took some times...i often encourage others to NOT harvest before that, i still do now...i think that’s the main reason why the birds population starting to decrease...
oh, not to mention thief also the main reason the nest harvested before time (sometimes it contain the eggs and infants, so they drop n died/cracked).sometimes the owner have to race against the thief...so yeah
Hope we could keep raising the population...
So you're paying over $30 per bowl for bird saliva?
Ikr! When I heard "Bird's nest" I expected the nest with cooked baby birds included. Smh disappointing.
@@ulisesr614 you never tried it if you are saying this
We also pay money for bee spit...
@@treflips2158 more like bee vomit...
We pay for bees saliva too.
Basically the bird is spitting on your food
Actually the spit in the food.
*THE SPIT IS THE FOOD*
This is nothing
Think if we ate excreta of animals (search for costly coffee)
but its good
Spit on me daddy bird hnngghh~
I'm not gonna deny, but bird's nest soup is one of the best soups I've had.
With a price like that, even if it tasted like shit, I bet my mind would force me to perceive it as the peak of luxury.
Bugay Den I thought it tasted good as a child without even knowing the price
@@cottanibuni2753 Same, although when I was that young I thought shark fin soup and bird nest soup were the same. I knew nothing about the price or the difference but I knew they tasted good.
We have it in buffet.. the entrance fee is like $10 or so.. pretty tasty
Taste like nothing though.
One study found that bird's nest soup can cause a bend in the space-time continuum and reverse the flow of gravitational momentum.
Is this a joke?
@@ChrisFeeBacon Yes. Not a very good one though.
No it is this made me giggle 😂@@kairozartstudio
"A jello texture that doesn't taste like anything" - so you could just use like...gelatin?
Well gelatin is made from the bones and cartilage of some animals so what's the difference lol?
The difference is that gelatin is readily available and very inexpensive. I’d think that the difference would be obvious.
MITCHELL WIGGS health property purposed are different. I ate once it taste nothing. Yea gelatin is better.
Well i agree that it doesn’t taste like anything but it really good if you know how to make it my mom is a half Chinese and she alway make me the bird nest soup since I was young and I really like it. The soup help with many thing that why I don’t get easily sick
Just use agar.. no animals have to die
I love how instead of trying to ban the soup people just decided to be nice to the birds and brought them back from extinction.
Imagine a giant bird tearing your house apart then eating it.
Not giant or a bird but the chimpmonks in my house have been doing this year round execpt during winter
I love to see that. They eat almost every thing.
razack shariff abdul u crazy!
Lmao I love this comment
Well there's woodpeckers
In my country, this can also be a drink too. The soup and drink is considered as a remedy for sickness. For those wondering about the taste, it tastes really sweet like melon. It’s not that weird considering that honey is the same. Which are bee vomits.
Good point.
But why do u steal their house.....imagine ur self in the place of bird.....
@@rohinid7354 we destroy be houses to get honey
@@kennisW
Bees are cultured....and the population of bees are high.....a single queen bee can give birth to 100's of offsprings but i dont thik a bird can rearly give birth to 2-3 offsprings and birds mainly build nest to lay eggs.....
@@rohinid7354 bees no longer have a high population
The thumbnail made me laugh so much cause it looks like the bird just saw its own creation get turned to soup
I’m selling my vomit
3k per pound
Instructions?
BlacknWhite Truthfully I’ll buy
People would actually buy that you know
Ill buy 5pounds
The Chinese will buy it.
"My dad always looking for a scarily old and abandoned building, it's his job"
"So he was doing paranormal activity?"
"Nah, he collect bird's spits"
Lol this a underrated comment
Next video: *Why owl pellet salad is so expensive*
This made me laugh so hard
Good idea
There are coffee beans extracted from elephant dung which makes for expensive coffee so there's that.
@@TheNeXusCore9032 you mean from cats... maybe I'm forgetting something
Hah good one there 😏
people : this soup is delicious.
bird : where is my bed?
*sticky saliva nest exists*
Chefs: yeah you got that yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum
Oh ,Someone spat on my soup!
Sir your entirely soup is spit.
Gold comment
Honey is bee spit/vomit
@@mr.unknown7138 I guess in inevitable eat spit once in a while, specially if you dont tip on restaurants.
@@juanchinpanchin wut?
NO!!! you can NOT say "one study found" without listing your sources for us to review. dont you dare try to pull that.
It's a study published on Hindawi that suggests that the sialic acid in the saliva contains o-antigens that is anti-inflammatory.
One study showed that citing one source to prove your ideas is irresponsible and stupid.
@@starmorpheus underrrated comment
@@starmorpheus masterpiece of a comment.
@@starmorpheus hUh-
4:57
"it tastes like anything"
"no!"
* cut *
the host disgrace her entire chinese family
Well, it's actually taste better than gelatin
It taste very good if you know how to make it and if you don’t mix anything it will taste a little like nothing but not as nothing as water
It's definitely more of a texture food, it's the feeling you get from eating it more than the actual taste.
Imagine how hungry you have to have been in order to initially try to eat a bird’s nest.
Or just Chinese and ur parents force u to drink it ahahahsh but tbh I think we got use to it and is a tradition???
@@nivenlimyu gross and explosive tradition. Tradition doesn’t make it perfect
The theme of ALL of these videos, "they are expensive because of over harvesting"
Well, im not paying 30 dollars for a bowl of magical saliva.
But you are paying more for eating bee vomits and fish babies.
It’s actually really good. Tastes like fresh seafood & tofu.
@@XtianAmante It's actually delicious.Here in Singapore,people buy it once every 1 month
Thien Trung Huynh i have but what I eat is locally sourced from Palawan. For me it always tasted like seafood.
It’s bland af, my family (Vietnamese) uses it as kinda like a desert, sugar and this stuff and it’s delicious. My grandpa has like 3 big bags of these and he sent us one (I live in Canada now)
At least you don't have to kill the bird to get the nest unlike the shark fin soup.
You are killing the bird if you keep harvesting their homes
But you’re destroying their home thus killing them.
1:51 ??
Because they did not respect mother nature. Money is the only one that they see.
We harvest them seasonal. Which means when they made a nest and had family, we wait them to move out. About two or three months then we harvest it.
@@chaessera birds leave abandoned nests all the time. They breed, give birth and those birds fly off and the nest is left vacant and viola, bird nest soup. it can be done without harming any animals. I have a birds nest in my garage thats unused if you would like it but I believe its made from bits of straw and paper so may not be as nutritious as you would like....
Imagine going to the store and coming back and your entire house is gone
i would like to know what was the first person to eat bird nest thinking of at that time. if he is hungry at the time, he should go for the birds not their nest.
He ate the bird and it's eggs, then thought the nest didn't look too bad at all. Yum
*Sigh
"It's really good!"
- Doesn't Taste like anything...…
"No"
Sums up all this freaky stuff
It's basically like gelatin. Same bullsh*t as the special properties of Rhino horn, if you made my nail clippings into fine powder you'd basically have the same effect.
And honey is pretty much bee vomit; what might seem freaky to one is likely a lack of cultural exposure
@@hunnypuffs I RESPECT THE BEE'S HOWEVER CHEMICAL RUN OFF DOES NOT. CHEMICALS AND 5G ARE KILLING OUR HONEY BEE'S
@@pornstarlivesmatter3319 wow 5g is killing the bees? oh no
A mother Swiftlet flew off to look for food and come back wondering "What kind of animal stole my nest but left my eggs alone?
🤣
I don’t know fam but that looks kinda nasty
Yum, congealed bird spit.
Side note: Yeah, honey is bee spit, but it's mostly sugar and it's from an insect, not an animal.
@@QuackZack As if that's any better. We consume chicken period on a daily but nobody bats an eye.
@Balkanse Cookenburg Eggs are essentially chicken period, stay woke my friend.
@@jayduby5330 eggs are not menstruation lol
@@Shlorper254 Keep telling yourself that.
asia and overharvesting, name a more iconic duo
This video remind me to my old memories with my whole family members when I was still kid since I was still at Preliminary school.
My late Mom & Dad many times toolk their kids including me to go to one famous old legend Chinese Resto at centre of Jakarta to enjoy diner.
And my family's most favourites menu were "Soup Sarang-Burung Wallet (birdnest soup)/ kepiting cingkong(crab-claw)/ spring-roll/ gohyong" etc. 🙏👍💗👄
It's collagen
Collagen tastes good in soup I guess
Are u even a real person
@@m1a2abrams52 it does but getting it out of pork bones is no different
@Velstadt Hekkleson your what's wrong with the World
@@kittyk.klandasions7008 dog soup tastes good too
"its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird nest soup so expensive" someone give this man a doctorate
Because it is made of the souls of little baby birds
you mean chicken nuggets?
@@augustinefaithdefender r/woooosh
@@sslogic2329 W
To sums it up,you are correct.
Animals don't have soul
4:28 "OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS A BOWL" and then proceeds to show the price for 4 bowls
CZcams: Bird nest soup is very expensive!
Me and my family: We get it *free*
The amount of red vinegar she put in there literally destroyed all the flavor lol
kevin Trinh i think its hot oil. And asian do tend to put a lot of them, when i asked them that, they said its make it more tasty, and the taste doesn’t change that much
@@farhantaufik5969 No, it's actually vinegar. And adding it just makes it the flavour deeper and more sour, although some people like the sour
@@farhantaufik5969 it’s vinegar
Mabye i should start collecting my parrots droll and sell it..😕😕
If bird nest soup is supposed to make Asians taller, it hasn't worked for them.
As an Asian, I couldn't agree more. 😂
I’m Asian and I’ve never had the soup before, but I’m taller than 90% of the people in my grade o.o
have you seen yao ming
@@Emi-gb3nz same
XD
It's also famous here in Philippines, we call it Nido soup, it can only be found in El Nido, Palawan.
If you said “it tastes like nothing” clearly you got scammed. I’ve had it before and it’s really sweet. I love it.
that sweetness clearly doesn't come from the nest
For everyone saying that it's harmful to the swiftlet's survival, i can say confidently that most farmers and businesses are starting to turn to more ethical and sustainable ways of harvesting bird's nest. My uncle has a bird nest business in a forest and cave, and he says that they always wait for the baby birds to grow and move out before harvesting the nests. And actually, birds nest is quite nutritious. I don't like other chinese foods like shark fin, pangolins and other weird ass food that has no health benefits whatsoever, and i protest against people eating it like my grandparents and certain distant relatives, but i can make an exception of bird's nest as long as its sustainably sourced and i know where it's coming from. And to all the people who haven't tried it and saying it would probably taste weird, i like the sweetened bird's nest more. It has a stringy, grass jelly texture and the soup itself is rlly good. I think it's worth the $ cause you cant rlly find the same taste anywhere else. You should try it but don't get the sketchy ones where you dont know if theyre sourced from a good place or not.
Coronavirus has entered the chat.
Guess Bat Soup was a food recipe gone wrong.
Racism has entered the chat.
I was looking for this comment.
@@maowy Its not racist. The illness came from Wuhan, everyone knows that.
@@Chill227 yes but we don't actually know the exact reason the outbreak happened, it was more of a estimate that bats might be the cause
Who thinks of this.. someone just looks up and thinks "I'ma make a soup out of that bird's house"
Probably the same dude who discovered honey.
A hungry dude.
I think about that for a lotta food. Like whose idea was it to drink cow milk?
I loved this stuff as a kid, brewed as a tong sui (dessert soup, directly translated as "sugar water") with a slight hint of Chinese herbs it's 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
“Its really good”
“It doesn’t taste like anything”
I've had it multiple times in Indonesia (cold version). It actually tastes really good, especially when longan is added. The cold version reminds me of an ice dessert with jelly.
For bird’s nest, most of it are actually farmed, and the nutritional values are the same. And it does have a very distinct eggy taste, we usually make them into sweet dessert soup and not savoury like in the video. I was skeptical but my mum’s hands were so much moisturised and smoother when cleaning the raw nests. Apparently my dad’s chronic cough got better too.
I've tried this several times back when these things is still fairly cheap because people in my hometown were still oblivious, and they are really good, but not good enough to justify nowadays price.
Honestly, this soup is so good. Its jelly yet there is crunch. It goes well on soup. It's so light you will ask for more. I like it spicy, in my country it's not that expensive. More or less $3 ala carte. Those birds also flies freely in the metro. Ya you heard it right.. in the metro..as in they fly though chain of malls..then they go back to the abandon building owned privately.
I saw these "hotels" all over rural Thailand often built several stories on-top of the owners home. Basically a license to print money. Apparently the birds nest once they come back again and again.
Sounds weird, but no different than honey.
When I was a kid I thought they were noodles but when I was told it was bird snot and spit I stopped eating it
Lmao XD
Wait what about Honey? What was your reaction?
@A I've never even eaten Bird's nest soup 🙄
You can't compare a freaking bee's spit to a bird's spit. I mean do bees eat freaking WORMS OR MAGGOTS?
@@sathisharajah fr
The world: look at how pretty this world it
People: LETS DESTROY IT 😈
So who was fired for the first upload of this video that was an absolute garbage fire of editing lmao
What was wrong with it? I didn't get to watch it before it was made private
@@Danlikescheesteaks the audio randomly cut and jumped in volume and almost all of the voiceover clips with interviewees were missing lol
Haha I saw it.. the editing was ridiculous, half of the audio was missing and sounds pop... Lol
I had authentic birds nest soup when i was a child about almost 20 years ago, and i still remember how good it tasted.
Same, not twenty years ago but I had it as a child once (I don't think I had it more than that) and wanted more.
Note: I don't remember the exact taste. But the one I had was refrigerated and was sweet.
"Alright class what do you want to be when you grow up"
"Nest farmer"
You can get that soup for only $3 in the philippines.
And it's prolly fake...
Yup, fake one
swiftlets here dont live on caves, instead they live on houses
The power of mass production
Snow mushroom has similar texture, it had been used to produce cheap nest bird canned beverages but the nutritions value is no where to compare
1:01 "its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive..."
Mhmm, gotcha
*PETA wants to know their location*
All you had to say was China, and I knew the answer was “Magic”.
Huh, never knew. My family has been eating this for the past few years now. Never knew they're worth that much. My perspective of the delicacy has been changed now.
Too bad it's so pricey that we can only eat it on Chinese New Year. 😢
And yes I'm a chinese but not all of them are from China. 😐Theres many more located in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and so on. 🙃
So yea, don't ask if I'm from China. 😑
All this time I’ve eaten this soup... I thought it was just egg boiled in water b/c honestly you can do that. Crack open an egg with or without the yolk and stir it up, pour into the soup while stirring and I tell you it looks the same... viscosity wise maybe that would be different
0:42 what the hell.....
My grandma only told me that I would make my skin smoother. 😮
My life is a lie.😦
They didn't say all of the benifits..
Everyone is talking crap about this meanwhile everyone is like "eh" to people harvesting bird nests that the birds cant rebuild
I love how most poeple hate the only because it's a practice that comes out of China, poeple don't complain about caviar the same way🤷
"swiftlet hotels" are not in forest, but rather in populated areas where the predator eagles shy away. Also, how do factories productively clean the dirty nests en mass which are embeded with extremely tiny feather hairs.
I'd imagine manual labour before hand+ food prep. You saw in the video someone combing through a bucket of it and tweezing out feathers
they're cleaned by hand which actually adds more to the value of the product.
So your telling me as an Asian that I've been eating bird's nest my entire life!?!?
But not going to lie its very good and tasty.
actually during the flu bird outbreak, the market price of this thing drop a lot...
you mean, the birdflu outbreak?
People complaining about eating bird spit.
Bees: Don't look them in the eye, keep calm... Just move along.
A lot of people don't know. Its good for lungs and can seriously cure sturborn cough.
Bru imagine being so rich back in the day, that you'd believe bird spit is "magical"
Who thought of this in the first place? Like you just looked at a birds’ nest and thought it was a delicious meal to eat??
Drexel Ada What about what the hell were you Europeans thinking when you all decided to eat bacteria infested solidified milk?! What made you decide that’s a delicious meal to eat?
Grace Liu You’re comparing yogurt to birds nest?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 And did you just assumed I’m European #triggered
*assume
In the Philippines *Birds nest soup* is not that expensive, its a uncommon food
Stop that mentality of addressing in the comment section "PHILIPPINES"
Cuz noone cares
@@camagongblogon6386 uh it does matter and you apparently care u cretin
mas bubu ka you’re rude
but it’s kinda good tho lmao
my skin is thriving , and it tastes good enough when prepared with certain ingredients lol
Yes it’s kinda amazing
Bland
Chinese admiral were stranded on a Malay island and had no food supply. Fortunately, they discovered bird's nests on the cliff and consumed them to stop their hunger. Admiral Cheng Ho and his crew became energetic and regained health after having them for sometime.
Birds: Makes house out of sticks with spit
Humans: Lets eat it
Just had a bowl this morning. Don’t usually have it but Gf gave me a bowl. It was surprisingly refreshing served with a touch of honey.
Me: I wouldn't eat bird saliva
Also me: Eats deep fried anything.
Title should be: THE MOST EXPENSIVE SALIVA ON EARTH
SALIVA +SHIT+VOMIT. VIRUSES GALORE.
i wish my spit was worth that much
Hospitality industry for birds. Hahaha
There’s so much healthy food in the world but to steal the home of birds is just cruel
No its not
Then don’t eat eggs (chicken period), meat, honey (bee vomit)
They didn't steal it, they wait for the birds to move their nest.
You probably did not watch the whole video lmao they wait until the birds move to another place and only they will harvest it
After having that spit soup go ahead and drink a poop coffee 😂😂
Yup, that's exactly what im talking about, kopi luwak, poop coffee 😂
Bird nest’s are expensive due to their high demands by the nobles in the ancient times (mostly by the chinese dynasties) and it had continued being expensive due to the fact that it was branded as a delicacy of the Asian people.
However, they are not really expensive nowadays... most of the bigger restaurants just charge more for business purposes. In my country, bird nests is mostly common and they are normally priced (pretty similarly priced to a set lunch actually). Only in places such as high end restaurant or a grand restaurant will the bird nest be expensive.
Also, like many other traditional medicines, these food are meant to be a supplement or a long-term conditioning for children and adults instead of an instant cure. They believe that eating these food can help improve their bodies therefore preventing many diseases.
So, in all, it ain’t as bad as they said it to be really...
Can you please tell where are you from? 😊
I just want to know who was the first person that looked at the birds nest and said to themselves “I think that would taste great”.
Thats explains why my parents told us not to bother the swiftlets and help them aswell. They wanted the nest
This is why there are weird diseases in the world.
That bird nest really help boost energy. My friend’s grandma eats bird beset soup all the time and she’s already 90 years old
Well... not gonna lie, growing up as asian, cold bird nest drinks/desserts are yummy and refreshing
In our believe too, if a swiflet builds its nest to your house,the house would become rich.
China: why do people think we make weird food?
Bird nest soup: exists
It isn’t so expensive;/
*Looks into wallet* nvm.
Lmao
It actually tastes really nice lol. You steamed them with sugar, ginger and dried apples.
So that’s what I was eating for all these years....
I've watched Gordon Ramsay's show where he went to Malaysia and personally gathered his own bird's nest inside a cave. Compared to this soup, in that area of Malaysia, bird's nest is more of a dessert and and the "auntie" didn't add anything fancy except like water or so
"Why Bird's Nest Soup is so expensive?"
Me: "How did that even became a thing."😕