Why Bird's Nest Soup Is So Expensive | So Expensive

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

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  • @wparo
    @wparo5 жыл бұрын

    Basically the bird is spitting on your food

  • @PsyQoBoy

    @PsyQoBoy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually the spit in the food.

  • @Andy_Hendrix_9842

    @Andy_Hendrix_9842

    3 жыл бұрын

    *THE SPIT IS THE FOOD*

  • @jhanardhanan

    @jhanardhanan

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is nothing Think if we ate excreta of animals (search for costly coffee)

  • @zoegeng4482

    @zoegeng4482

    3 жыл бұрын

    but its good

  • @thetorocat

    @thetorocat

    3 жыл бұрын

    Spit on me daddy bird hnngghh~

  • @MichaelRockfez
    @MichaelRockfez5 жыл бұрын

    I still don’t get who went through the work of stealing a nest from a cave and turning it into soup.

  • @krystalphan8871

    @krystalphan8871

    5 жыл бұрын

    idk poverty?

  • @MegaBillX

    @MegaBillX

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@hp4p110 true man, so true.

  • @inkbold8511

    @inkbold8511

    5 жыл бұрын

    Who get the freaking idea first !?

  • @zhyllism2583

    @zhyllism2583

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @maxchen6525

    @maxchen6525

    5 жыл бұрын

    U would if you were poor and if it would sell for $100

  • @kairozartstudio
    @kairozartstudio3 жыл бұрын

    One study found that bird's nest soup can cause a bend in the space-time continuum and reverse the flow of gravitational momentum.

  • @ChrisFeeBacon

    @ChrisFeeBacon

    2 ай бұрын

    Is this a joke?

  • @kairozartstudio

    @kairozartstudio

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ChrisFeeBacon Yes. Not a very good one though.

  • @sachamoses9233

    @sachamoses9233

    6 күн бұрын

    No it is this made me giggle 😂​@@kairozartstudio

  • @jojomakes
    @jojomakes3 жыл бұрын

    0:19 “Long Time Birds Nest Soup Eater” What a description lol

  • @KB-mp1mw
    @KB-mp1mw5 жыл бұрын

    KZread: why bird's-nest soup is so expensive Me: *why birds nest soup exists*

  • @jeebuscrust6173

    @jeebuscrust6173

    5 жыл бұрын

    *China*

  • @krul2745

    @krul2745

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@joejjj4378 Just because their food is different than yours doesn't make it weird. Don't be so ignorant.

  • @joejjj4378

    @joejjj4378

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @lettuce1305

    @lettuce1305

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@joejjj4378 oh come on all cultures are weird to a certain extent. if you really think about it cheese and caviar are weird too.

  • @jybong2219

    @jybong2219

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because why not? 😉 Actually yea, that thing is expensive as hell and it's just like jelly. 😐

  • @nickdimopoulos4052
    @nickdimopoulos40525 жыл бұрын

    So you're paying over $30 per bowl for bird saliva?

  • @ulisesr614

    @ulisesr614

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ikr! When I heard "Bird's nest" I expected the nest with cooked baby birds included. Smh disappointing.

  • @VinhLe-iy8ut

    @VinhLe-iy8ut

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ulisesr614 you never tried it if you are saying this

  • @treflips2158

    @treflips2158

    5 жыл бұрын

    We also pay money for bee spit...

  • @DJ_Tenioso

    @DJ_Tenioso

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@treflips2158 more like bee vomit...

  • @revolutionalist

    @revolutionalist

    5 жыл бұрын

    We pay for bees saliva too.

  • @bruhmoment3358
    @bruhmoment33583 жыл бұрын

    The thumbnail made me laugh so much cause it looks like the bird just saw its own creation get turned to soup

  • @hanoianboy9562
    @hanoianboy95623 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @anikagh

    @anikagh

    Жыл бұрын

    Nasty.

  • @hanoianboy9562

    @hanoianboy9562

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anikagh yea ok

  • @anikagh

    @anikagh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hanoianboy9562 sure, eat a birds nest and any other endangered animal why don’t you

  • @hanoianboy9562

    @hanoianboy9562

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anikagh they are FARMED

  • @anikagh

    @anikagh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hanoianboy9562 don’t think sharkfins and pengalins are farmed, silly

  • @MitchellWiggs
    @MitchellWiggs5 жыл бұрын

    "A jello texture that doesn't taste like anything" - so you could just use like...gelatin?

  • @MinttMeringue

    @MinttMeringue

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well gelatin is made from the bones and cartilage of some animals so what's the difference lol?

  • @MitchellWiggs

    @MitchellWiggs

    5 жыл бұрын

    The difference is that gelatin is readily available and very inexpensive. I’d think that the difference would be obvious.

  • @bepopxxx

    @bepopxxx

    5 жыл бұрын

    MITCHELL WIGGS health property purposed are different. I ate once it taste nothing. Yea gelatin is better.

  • @indescribable4706

    @indescribable4706

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @dallymoo7816

    @dallymoo7816

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just use agar.. no animals have to die

  • @-1f
    @-1f5 жыл бұрын

    Imagine a giant bird tearing your house apart then eating it.

  • @zygon2918

    @zygon2918

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not giant or a bird but the chimpmonks in my house have been doing this year round execpt during winter

  • @shariff786rsa

    @shariff786rsa

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love to see that. They eat almost every thing.

  • @tiggerisdumb

    @tiggerisdumb

    3 жыл бұрын

    razack shariff abdul u crazy!

  • @Big_Chico

    @Big_Chico

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao I love this comment

  • @brandoni.fernandez6059

    @brandoni.fernandez6059

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well there's woodpeckers

  • @jesmarrex3006
    @jesmarrex30064 жыл бұрын

    I'm not gonna deny, but bird's nest soup is one of the best soups I've had.

  • @bugayden2287

    @bugayden2287

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @cottanibuni2753

    @cottanibuni2753

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bugay Den I thought it tasted good as a child without even knowing the price

  • @enzuki

    @enzuki

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @drako-ss

    @drako-ss

    3 жыл бұрын

    We have it in buffet.. the entrance fee is like $10 or so.. pretty tasty

  • @k-potato3593

    @k-potato3593

    3 жыл бұрын

    Taste like nothing though.

  • @narararamammily5386
    @narararamammily53863 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @JimP226

    @JimP226

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good point.

  • @rohinid7354

    @rohinid7354

    2 жыл бұрын

    But why do u steal their house.....imagine ur self in the place of bird.....

  • @kennisW

    @kennisW

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rohinid7354 we destroy be houses to get honey

  • @rohinid7354

    @rohinid7354

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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.....

  • @sj-237

    @sj-237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rohinid7354 bees no longer have a high population

  • @bim1537
    @bim15374 жыл бұрын

    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?!”

  • @m1a2abrams52

    @m1a2abrams52

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Aasenzeng

    @Aasenzeng

    4 жыл бұрын

    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. 😒

  • @horacthy8577

    @horacthy8577

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah their brain was too small for that thought hahaha

  • @naturevibe5720

    @naturevibe5720

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's so much sad😭

  • @bamboojayasejahtera5535

    @bamboojayasejahtera5535

    3 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @Anderson-yn4or
    @Anderson-yn4or5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TwistedAttitudes

    @TwistedAttitudes

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @inkbold8511

    @inkbold8511

    5 жыл бұрын

    You need to stop eating cows, pigs and chickens too.

  • @crashpal

    @crashpal

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@inkbold8511 also stop eating vegetables

  • @aiya2323

    @aiya2323

    5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @xinhee2794

    @xinhee2794

    5 жыл бұрын

    Amber C Stop eating animals? We, humans, are omnivores, we EAT meat.

  • @BT_Spanky
    @BT_Spanky3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how hungry you have to have been in order to initially try to eat a bird’s nest.

  • @nivenlimyu

    @nivenlimyu

    3 жыл бұрын

    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???

  • @anikagh

    @anikagh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nivenlimyu gross and explosive tradition. Tradition doesn’t make it perfect

  • @zinzolin14
    @zinzolin144 жыл бұрын

    It's definitely more of a texture food, it's the feeling you get from eating it more than the actual taste.

  • @TreyNitrotoluene
    @TreyNitrotoluene5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @anthonymartinez71604
    @anthonymartinez716045 жыл бұрын

    Next video: *Why owl pellet salad is so expensive*

  • @oomma5

    @oomma5

    5 жыл бұрын

    This made me laugh so hard

  • @nebermet

    @nebermet

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good idea

  • @TheNeXusCore9032

    @TheNeXusCore9032

    5 жыл бұрын

    There are coffee beans extracted from elephant dung which makes for expensive coffee so there's that.

  • @JK-wx5tm

    @JK-wx5tm

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheNeXusCore9032 you mean from cats... maybe I'm forgetting something

  • @mr.anti-flashsentryonce-ler

    @mr.anti-flashsentryonce-ler

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hah good one there 😏

  • @MidoriKokkoro
    @MidoriKokkoro3 жыл бұрын

    people : this soup is delicious. bird : where is my bed?

  • @qariswilson7093
    @qariswilson70933 жыл бұрын

    Imagine going to the store and coming back and your entire house is gone

  • @blacknwhitetruthfully5325
    @blacknwhitetruthfully53255 жыл бұрын

    I’m selling my vomit 3k per pound

  • @thisguy7976

    @thisguy7976

    5 жыл бұрын

    Instructions?

  • @devontaycraig8411

    @devontaycraig8411

    5 жыл бұрын

    BlacknWhite Truthfully I’ll buy

  • @leave.me.alone189yearsago5

    @leave.me.alone189yearsago5

    5 жыл бұрын

    People would actually buy that you know

  • @edrienmanzanero4081

    @edrienmanzanero4081

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ill buy 5pounds

  • @RE-nv4we

    @RE-nv4we

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Chinese will buy it.

  • @kentangajaib3350
    @kentangajaib33504 жыл бұрын

    "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"

  • @michaelwastakenbyme5327

    @michaelwastakenbyme5327

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol this a underrated comment

  • @nanamikentosfavoritebread9170
    @nanamikentosfavoritebread91703 жыл бұрын

    *sticky saliva nest exists* Chefs: yeah you got that yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum

  • @frogcracker7476
    @frogcracker74764 жыл бұрын

    I ate this so many times and never knew it was made out of bird nests omg how is it so good

  • @juanchinpanchin
    @juanchinpanchin5 жыл бұрын

    Oh ,Someone spat on my soup! Sir your entirely soup is spit.

  • @damonliu3870

    @damonliu3870

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gold comment

  • @mr.unknown7138

    @mr.unknown7138

    3 жыл бұрын

    Honey is bee spit/vomit

  • @juanchinpanchin

    @juanchinpanchin

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@mr.unknown7138 I guess in inevitable eat spit once in a while, specially if you dont tip on restaurants.

  • @mr.unknown7138

    @mr.unknown7138

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juanchinpanchin wut?

  • @drteddy2609
    @drteddy26094 жыл бұрын

    The theme of ALL of these videos, "they are expensive because of over harvesting"

  • @feliciaboston6365
    @feliciaboston63652 жыл бұрын

    Looks delicious I would love to make it for myself

  • @jamesmatthewacutim4936
    @jamesmatthewacutim49363 жыл бұрын

    It's also famous here in Philippines, we call it Nido soup, it can only be found in El Nido, Palawan.

  • @remtromol
    @remtromol5 жыл бұрын

    4:57 "it tastes like anything" "no!" * cut *

  • @jensenraylight8011

    @jensenraylight8011

    5 жыл бұрын

    the host disgrace her entire chinese family

  • @Alice-mr2gf

    @Alice-mr2gf

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, it's actually taste better than gelatin

  • @indescribable4706

    @indescribable4706

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @PROnickDUDE
    @PROnickDUDE5 жыл бұрын

    Well, im not paying 30 dollars for a bowl of magical saliva.

  • @tonywang9026

    @tonywang9026

    5 жыл бұрын

    But you are paying more for eating bee vomits and fish babies.

  • @dadang9812

    @dadang9812

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s actually really good. Tastes like fresh seafood & tofu.

  • @hongyi9949

    @hongyi9949

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@XtianAmante It's actually delicious.Here in Singapore,people buy it once every 1 month

  • @dadang9812

    @dadang9812

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thien Trung Huynh i have but what I eat is locally sourced from Palawan. For me it always tasted like seafood.

  • @hazardous458

    @hazardous458

    5 жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @DDRWakaLaka
    @DDRWakaLaka3 жыл бұрын

    4:28 "OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS A BOWL" and then proceeds to show the price for 4 bowls

  • @m1a2abrams52
    @m1a2abrams524 жыл бұрын

    "Alright class what do you want to be when you grow up" "Nest farmer"

  • @bazookallamaproductions5280
    @bazookallamaproductions52804 жыл бұрын

    NO!!! you can NOT say "one study found" without listing your sources for us to review. dont you dare try to pull that.

  • @fishby8070

    @fishby8070

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's a study published on Hindawi that suggests that the sialic acid in the saliva contains o-antigens that is anti-inflammatory.

  • @starmorpheus

    @starmorpheus

    3 жыл бұрын

    One study showed that citing one source to prove your ideas is irresponsible and stupid.

  • @apaarkhare

    @apaarkhare

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@starmorpheus underrrated comment

  • @bazookallamaproductions5280

    @bazookallamaproductions5280

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@starmorpheus masterpiece of a comment.

  • @MegaCristi99

    @MegaCristi99

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@starmorpheus hUh-

  • @steak5599
    @steak55994 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @20FreeWill

    @20FreeWill

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣

  • @yenchat
    @yenchat Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. Verry nice.

  • @sparksplug1061
    @sparksplug10612 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @cik_lin_7
    @cik_lin_75 жыл бұрын

    At least you don't have to kill the bird to get the nest unlike the shark fin soup.

  • @chaessera

    @chaessera

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are killing the bird if you keep harvesting their homes

  • @jerichodelacruzsoriano7611

    @jerichodelacruzsoriano7611

    4 жыл бұрын

    But you’re destroying their home thus killing them.

  • @HaruHikaHaruHika

    @HaruHikaHaruHika

    4 жыл бұрын

    1:51 ??

  • @JosephTemplar

    @JosephTemplar

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @justins21482

    @justins21482

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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....

  • @RayMak
    @RayMak5 жыл бұрын

    It's collagen

  • @m1a2abrams52

    @m1a2abrams52

    4 жыл бұрын

    Collagen tastes good in soup I guess

  • @sean1319

    @sean1319

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are u even a real person

  • @dragosd8992

    @dragosd8992

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@m1a2abrams52 it does but getting it out of pork bones is no different

  • @kittyk.klandasions7008

    @kittyk.klandasions7008

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Velstadt Hekkleson your what's wrong with the World

  • @polarspirit

    @polarspirit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kittyk.klandasions7008 dog soup tastes good too

  • @someguy2600
    @someguy26003 жыл бұрын

    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 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @attoboi9763
    @attoboi97632 жыл бұрын

    asia and overharvesting, name a more iconic duo

  • @daraodonovan9413
    @daraodonovan94135 жыл бұрын

    "its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird nest soup so expensive" someone give this man a doctorate

  • @mylifeisamememylifeispathe3140
    @mylifeisamememylifeispathe31405 жыл бұрын

    I don’t know fam but that looks kinda nasty

  • @QuackZack

    @QuackZack

    5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jayduby5330

    @jayduby5330

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@QuackZack As if that's any better. We consume chicken period on a daily but nobody bats an eye.

  • @jayduby5330

    @jayduby5330

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Balkanse Cookenburg Eggs are essentially chicken period, stay woke my friend.

  • @Shlorper254

    @Shlorper254

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jayduby5330 eggs are not menstruation lol

  • @jayduby5330

    @jayduby5330

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Shlorper254 Keep telling yourself that.

  • @steampoweredmaniac5359
    @steampoweredmaniac53593 жыл бұрын

    All you had to say was China, and I knew the answer was “Magic”.

  • @iranoceda8145
    @iranoceda81452 жыл бұрын

    i eat this with my family in the weekends its my fave dish :))

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher5 жыл бұрын

    Because it is made of the souls of little baby birds

  • @electronresonator8882

    @electronresonator8882

    5 жыл бұрын

    you mean chicken nuggets?

  • @sslogic2329

    @sslogic2329

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@augustinefaithdefender r/woooosh

  • @ShimronRozario

    @ShimronRozario

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sslogic2329 W

  • @dragonel88

    @dragonel88

    5 жыл бұрын

    To sums it up,you are correct.

  • @msgaramycin5330

    @msgaramycin5330

    5 жыл бұрын

    Animals don't have soul

  • @kevintrinh16
    @kevintrinh165 жыл бұрын

    The amount of red vinegar she put in there literally destroyed all the flavor lol

  • @farhantaufik5969

    @farhantaufik5969

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @enzuki

    @enzuki

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@farhantaufik5969 No, it's actually vinegar. And adding it just makes it the flavour deeper and more sour, although some people like the sour

  • @Brybao

    @Brybao

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@farhantaufik5969 it’s vinegar

  • @InangMukbang
    @InangMukbang Жыл бұрын

    expensive but very natural thank u for sharing

  • @BrendanTheTraveller
    @BrendanTheTraveller4 жыл бұрын

    I've tried Bird's nest in Singapore. It's looks like jelly but its surprisingly good but its very expensive.

  • @ADCArtAttack
    @ADCArtAttack4 жыл бұрын

    *Sigh "It's really good!" - Doesn't Taste like anything...… "No" Sums up all this freaky stuff

  • @Alias_Anybody

    @Alias_Anybody

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hunnypuffs

    @hunnypuffs

    3 жыл бұрын

    And honey is pretty much bee vomit; what might seem freaky to one is likely a lack of cultural exposure

  • @pornstarlivesmatter3319

    @pornstarlivesmatter3319

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hunnypuffs I RESPECT THE BEE'S HOWEVER CHEMICAL RUN OFF DOES NOT. CHEMICALS AND 5G ARE KILLING OUR HONEY BEE'S

  • @JohnDoe-vw4zf

    @JohnDoe-vw4zf

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pornstarlivesmatter3319 wow 5g is killing the bees? oh no

  • @cinnamoncrunch2633
    @cinnamoncrunch26335 жыл бұрын

    Mabye i should start collecting my parrots droll and sell it..😕😕

  • @tramilami9891
    @tramilami98913 жыл бұрын

    KZread: Bird nest soup is very expensive! Me and my family: We get it *free*

  • @Jaelin_Showers
    @Jaelin_Showers6 ай бұрын

    Well said I love it when he said it’s the high cost that makes it expensive

  • @gilmendoza8092
    @gilmendoza80925 жыл бұрын

    Who thinks of this.. someone just looks up and thinks "I'ma make a soup out of that bird's house"

  • @serendipityyoonmin7039

    @serendipityyoonmin7039

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably the same dude who discovered honey.

  • @matthewsaints350

    @matthewsaints350

    3 жыл бұрын

    A hungry dude.

  • @bananahat3350

    @bananahat3350

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think about that for a lotta food. Like whose idea was it to drink cow milk?

  • @EvermoreisTimeless
    @EvermoreisTimeless5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @xcept1281

    @xcept1281

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao XD

  • @xcept1281

    @xcept1281

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait what about Honey? What was your reaction?

  • @xcept1281

    @xcept1281

    3 жыл бұрын

    @A I've never even eaten Bird's nest soup 🙄

  • @sathisharajah

    @sathisharajah

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can't compare a freaking bee's spit to a bird's spit. I mean do bees eat freaking WORMS OR MAGGOTS?

  • @bonazza4476

    @bonazza4476

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sathisharajah fr

  • @zyaravie911
    @zyaravie9112 жыл бұрын

    One of my favourite soups as half Chinese, I grew up eating this

  • @hiimryan2388
    @hiimryan23883 жыл бұрын

    Everyone is talking crap about this meanwhile everyone is like "eh" to people harvesting bird nests that the birds cant rebuild

  • @FviarFlukx
    @FviarFlukx5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @seannotconnery8191
    @seannotconnery81915 жыл бұрын

    imagine coming back from work and finding your house has been torn from the concrete foundation and placed into a soup. That’s pretty much what this is.

  • @greysunited7317

    @greysunited7317

    5 жыл бұрын

    k

  • @cleapj3463

    @cleapj3463

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmao no.....

  • @lifeisnotokiedokie7243
    @lifeisnotokiedokie72433 жыл бұрын

    Ohhhh that's the soup. I always thought it was shark fin soup and people kept telling me it was. It was so delicious

  • @janfkarel92
    @janfkarel922 жыл бұрын

    “Its really good” “It doesn’t taste like anything”

  • @audreyy3057
    @audreyy30575 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @BallerDan53
    @BallerDan535 жыл бұрын

    If bird nest soup is supposed to make Asians taller, it hasn't worked for them.

  • @stanhyoyeon6637

    @stanhyoyeon6637

    5 жыл бұрын

    As an Asian, I couldn't agree more. 😂

  • @Emi-gb3nz

    @Emi-gb3nz

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @MrWizardjr9

    @MrWizardjr9

    5 жыл бұрын

    have you seen yao ming

  • @mignonne4756

    @mignonne4756

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Emi-gb3nz same

  • @user-oz9sh4ry2g

    @user-oz9sh4ry2g

    5 жыл бұрын

    XD

  • @araiso8672
    @araiso86723 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @free-rangehomestead8248

    @free-rangehomestead8248

    2 жыл бұрын

    He ate the bird and it's eggs, then thought the nest didn't look too bad at all. Yum

  • @jitensinghhaobam
    @jitensinghhaobam3 жыл бұрын

    In our believe too, if a swiflet builds its nest to your house,the house would become rich.

  • @aok305
    @aok3054 жыл бұрын

    The world: look at how pretty this world it People: LETS DESTROY IT 😈

  • @Unweyrandom-bk4kq
    @Unweyrandom-bk4kq5 жыл бұрын

    *PETA wants to know their location*

  • @touchm3
    @touchm33 жыл бұрын

    I had authentic birds nest soup when i was a child about almost 20 years ago, and i still remember how good it tasted.

  • @misspotatopants

    @misspotatopants

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @tonyStorks
    @tonyStorks2 жыл бұрын

    People complaining about eating bird spit. Bees: Don't look them in the eye, keep calm... Just move along.

  • @zachariahrinehart732
    @zachariahrinehart7325 жыл бұрын

    So who was fired for the first upload of this video that was an absolute garbage fire of editing lmao

  • @Danlikescheesteaks

    @Danlikescheesteaks

    5 жыл бұрын

    What was wrong with it? I didn't get to watch it before it was made private

  • @kevinvu5092

    @kevinvu5092

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Danlikescheesteaks the audio randomly cut and jumped in volume and almost all of the voiceover clips with interviewees were missing lol

  • @MauriiBoii

    @MauriiBoii

    5 жыл бұрын

    Haha I saw it.. the editing was ridiculous, half of the audio was missing and sounds pop... Lol

  • @love3kl1
    @love3kl14 жыл бұрын

    Bru imagine being so rich back in the day, that you'd believe bird spit is "magical"

  • @Crogedon
    @Crogedon3 жыл бұрын

    So they eat it to grow taller, but in the end 99% of them are pocket size.

  • @Boyso5407
    @Boyso5407 Жыл бұрын

    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”.

  • @lynbabysusu
    @lynbabysusu5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @makmaknamoc5289
    @makmaknamoc52895 жыл бұрын

    You can get that soup for only $3 in the philippines.

  • @nahor88

    @nahor88

    4 жыл бұрын

    And it's prolly fake...

  • @charleschoo9398

    @charleschoo9398

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yup, fake one

  • @seaveybesson8136

    @seaveybesson8136

    4 жыл бұрын

    swiftlets here dont live on caves, instead they live on houses

  • @cuphead8159

    @cuphead8159

    4 жыл бұрын

    The power of mass production

  • @XxxXxx-yh5gz

    @XxxXxx-yh5gz

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @rakbukurigen
    @rakbukurigen4 жыл бұрын

    Here in Tarakan city, Indonesia, people export those bird nest. There are lots of building as the fake caves for the bird so they can make nest in the building.

  • @tragic6162
    @tragic61623 жыл бұрын

    Imagine someguy drinking hot water, then some nest falls down and that guy is like " what a waste to not eat it"

  • @Ricky-cn2io
    @Ricky-cn2io4 жыл бұрын

    Birds: Makes house out of sticks with spit Humans: Lets eat it

  • @jillw8840
    @jillw88404 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jonalabor8460
    @jonalabor84603 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @user-nf2qt7os5t
    @user-nf2qt7os5t4 жыл бұрын

    Title should be: THE MOST EXPENSIVE SALIVA ON EARTH

  • @tom-ke7lb

    @tom-ke7lb

    2 жыл бұрын

    SALIVA +SHIT+VOMIT. VIRUSES GALORE.

  • @96Champ994

    @96Champ994

    2 жыл бұрын

    i wish my spit was worth that much

  • @ianlawrence860
    @ianlawrence8604 жыл бұрын

    1:01 "its the high cost of these saliva nests that makes bird's nest soup so expensive..." Mhmm, gotcha

  • @drexelada6767
    @drexelada67675 жыл бұрын

    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??

  • @graceliu8839

    @graceliu8839

    5 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @drexelada6767

    @drexelada6767

    5 жыл бұрын

    Grace Liu You’re comparing yogurt to birds nest?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 And did you just assumed I’m European #triggered

  • @drexelada6767

    @drexelada6767

    5 жыл бұрын

    *assume

  • @kaguillermo5767
    @kaguillermo5767 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @JimP226
    @JimP2262 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @FRIEDFISHPLZ
    @FRIEDFISHPLZ4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @insentinal3211
    @insentinal32114 жыл бұрын

    Coronavirus has entered the chat.

  • @davidsamuel6018

    @davidsamuel6018

    4 жыл бұрын

    Guess Bat Soup was a food recipe gone wrong.

  • @maowy

    @maowy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Racism has entered the chat.

  • @biscuit4812

    @biscuit4812

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for this comment.

  • @Chill227

    @Chill227

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@maowy Its not racist. The illness came from Wuhan, everyone knows that.

  • @penknifez6724

    @penknifez6724

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @fahimfaizal725
    @fahimfaizal7252 жыл бұрын

    In Malaysia, we call this bird as "Burung Walit"

  • @MM__6
    @MM__64 жыл бұрын

    i didn't know it was so expensive, i ate a lot of it as a kid and my parents weren't even rich lol 😂

  • @dankism9305
    @dankism93055 жыл бұрын

    Me: I wouldn't eat bird saliva Also me: Eats deep fried anything.

  • @RandomPerson-uw2ul
    @RandomPerson-uw2ul5 жыл бұрын

    So that’s what I was eating for all these years....

  • @ChezWang
    @ChezWang3 жыл бұрын

    My friends dreams: I kissed my crush! My dreams: giant humanoid birds steal my house and make soup out of it

  • @MrJhuang999
    @MrJhuang9995 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @elieperson
    @elieperson5 жыл бұрын

    It isn’t so expensive;/ *Looks into wallet* nvm.

  • @melileija377

    @melileija377

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @haidielmazelan4531
    @haidielmazelan45313 жыл бұрын

    One of my friend, his parent used to eat this since her Mom was pregnant to him, my friend's skin is so fair and lovely...

  • @Altreux
    @Altreux5 ай бұрын

    Thats explains why my parents told us not to bother the swiftlets and help them aswell. They wanted the nest

  • @eklim2034
    @eklim20345 жыл бұрын

    "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.

  • @TwistedAttitudes

    @TwistedAttitudes

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @heartears

    @heartears

    5 жыл бұрын

    they're cleaned by hand which actually adds more to the value of the product.

  • @F0X0M0W
    @F0X0M0W5 жыл бұрын

    actually during the flu bird outbreak, the market price of this thing drop a lot...

  • @vice.nor.virtue

    @vice.nor.virtue

    2 жыл бұрын

    you mean, the birdflu outbreak?

  • @TheIndispensableOpposition
    @TheIndispensableOpposition Жыл бұрын

    the first person to eat this must have had some real balls

  • @GhonimTv
    @GhonimTv3 жыл бұрын

    Videos are very interesting and inspirational success, always greetings from Indonesia Suport

  • @jybong2219
    @jybong22195 жыл бұрын

    0:42 what the hell..... My grandma only told me that I would make my skin smoother. 😮 My life is a lie.😦

  • @protocnic3772

    @protocnic3772

    4 жыл бұрын

    They didn't say all of the benifits..

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