This Chinese Restaurant Has A DOCTOR On Staff!?

What if the future's happening already? >> But most of us just don't know where to look. >> Welcome to Global Next China Edition. >> Let's discover what's next. Guys, Global Next has made it to Guangjo, the capital of Guangong Province. I'm half Cantonese, but it doesn't mean that I necessarily know more about TCM than you, Crystal, because what? You have this deep in your family. Yeah, my grandma was a well-known TCM doctor in my province. So, yeah, I grew up around a lot of herbs and stuff like that. And hey, we are at a TCM clinic right now here in Guanjo. This street is pretty much a combination of wellness and food. And this place we're going to go and grab a meal from is a TCM restaurant. >> Okay. So most people they don't they just think TCM is something their grandma takes. >> But you're saying that everybody as a family like it's dim sum can go eat here. >> Yeah. Exactly. So if we're going to go check this out here, you can see they even have a sort of dumpling that you can eat in different seasons. So they will have different herbs in the dumplin. For example, spring you will have this color and winter you'll have that color. It's kind of like the herb that's good for your body in that weather. Well, this is new to me. So, >> I mean, what do you think about it being a food blogger for so long? >> I mean, I've been a food blogger for so long and I've been around so much TCM, but I can't say that I personally like >> engage in a lot of TCM. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Cantonese just has a, you know, a very unique culture where food is medicine, right? And I don't know, like I'm not I'm not Cantonese, but I'm looking forward to learn more about the Cantonese TCM. >> What is this spot called? Cuz I saw there is no English outside whatsoever. Uh, it's called town and I think they're probably from Guangjong Guong like province. Yeah, just like that one is from Beijing. So, every single place in China, they got their own TCM brand. >> Dude, so much TCM. You got competing province version of TCM on the same street. Let's check this out. I'm rooting for Kongo. TCM has been around for thousands of years and it can also treat something like diabetes, like stroke, high blood pressure, gout, something that you think that usually western media medicine will treat. >> What does this look like? Right now in 2026 in New York, this is a hipster Asian, but here this is the real thing. >> I mean, it is a real thing. It is real things. So, if you look around, you see this is a typical TCM pharmacy and you see all the drawers inside. There's different kind of herbs. So what happens is that these pharmacists would put herbs together based on what your body need when you get treated by the doctor. >> Yeah. I mean they got the they're cooking it up back there French Montana style. >> So she's going to give me two pieces of paper cuz we have two people here. And then each of us going to see a doctor with this piece of paper so the doctor can describe our symptoms. They were also going to take this piece of paper later for our medicine. >> I love it, guys. This is so ancient. It's so Guong. It's so TCM. >> Get in touch with my culture. >> So, this is what we do before we eat our hot pot. And then this is going to decide which ingredient that will go into the hot pot. >> What are we doing? >> I want to get I want to get the best tastiest meal possible. So, I want to You want to be calm? >> Come on. Beef. >> I'm waiting for beef and oysters. >> I think they're vegetarian. >> You're like body type is pretty much Cantonese. That's what she said. >> No, no, no. No, she's talking about your body type like >> Oh, this one. Oh, J. Oh, >> that's She knew. She knew based off my body type that I was Kanto before I told her I was Kanto. >> And she knew that I got diarrhea easily. >> Oh my god. So, apparently we're going to get some like air sticks sticker. >> I have no idea what that is. Okay. >> So, each meridian is like basically a an area. It's an area that can stimulate certain parts of our body. >> But you did the foot reflexology before. >> Yeah. It's pretty much the same concept. >> I feel like that's the one that most even ABC's are familiar with. Stepping off the rocks. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We all look a little bit weird, but you know, hopefully we're healthier right now. >> Honestly, I liked it a lot. Until you've had your ear pressurized with reflexology, you can't speak on it. >> Okay. So guys, I'm going to do this thing called moxyction. So what it is is I believe from my amateur understanding is that there's a lot of herb inside of that thing. They will light it up. There will be smoke coming out of that stick and the herb will go into my meridian in you know throughout my body and depends on what kind of nutrition or what kind of I don't know like I I lack or I need it will be pretty much like a supplement to my body. You know what's so interesting is that Heidi Laauo, the hot pot chain from Beijing, you can get your fingernails polished, like a pedicure, manicure type thing while you're waiting, some free snacks. But here, you can get cupping and gouacha and a whole bunch of other things. You can just get all your muscles worked out >> before your hot pot. >> Yeah, before hot pot. And then the hot pot's going to heal you. And then while you're waiting for your table, come get some TCM treatments. I see the value in it. >> It feels like like a giant octopus just got you. >> Yeah. >> And you're done for it. >> Oh my gosh, >> David. You're on fire. You look super funny right now. >> You know what I think that this makes me realize and obviously I think a lot of second generation immigrants go through this. It's like it's not just tatangs and like funny kung fu hustle zawa singing Steven Chow movies. It's this too. Like this is this might not be Wing Chun from Itman but this is what Itman did after doing Wing Chun to recover. Oh my god, that was bad. That is bad. If you guys want to know whether you're like healthy or unhealthy, just look at the the color of your cupping mark. So, apparently, see, he's like this mark is really dark. That means he's got a lot of stagnated C in his shoulder area and his waist. You can see these areas like got pretty bad um blood stagnation. But hey, you're getting better after tonight. >> My back looks like pepperoni. >> This is probably going to take you like a week to recover. >> That's good. >> I'm so glad that I didn't do it. >> And now we're at the restaurant and um we also have this little piece of paper that we had before from the doctor and it had all the ingredients, the Tzen ingredients that doctor prescribed us. And you can see those are my ingredients and those are David's ingredients. They're going to bring some veggie and then we're going to dump the veggie and the TCM ingredients together in the pot. So we can have something called like a ya which means medicinal food >> like a medicine broth. >> Yes. But it's like food and it's, you know, you can have it as a meal. >> What What are you happy to see? Because you grew up with a grandma that's doing super traditional TCM, right? and then you get to see it like many years later sort of take this new form. I think it's also different kind of culture as well because I think in Guangong um people really make TCM some kind of food right like if you are just in the old corner of Guangjo you see all these like soup shops that you can just go there and you can just get a CCM soup that's made customized for your body type. We never have that kind of culture in Chang province. So, I think the Cantonese just really take the TCM, like the food, all these things super seriously. They're not just running a restaurant. They are trying to combine whatever they're already doing with a lifestyle that people accept, right? They're trying to modernize themselves, but through a method really connected to everybody's day-to-day life. Chinese philosophies at a deeper core, they take so long and they're so like the modern westernized society, it's such a quick hit dopamine feedback loop. >> No, because quick hit dopamine hit feedback loops does not work in the long term. I think western medicine is really good for anything that like requires like a lot of precision, a lot of uh intervention like for example, if you have a tumor, if I have cancer, so you got to control that process right away and then with precision. But TCM is something that where you wanted to use in a longer term and to make sure that like you maintain that state of your body so that you don't even get to the tumor in the first place. People these days just don't want to they just want to see result right away. But you know sometimes it makes you wonder if you can get quick result. Does that mean that the result will also disappear you know the second you don't use these remedies anymore? >> That's true. Thank you for taking me here Crystal. I was a little skeptical at first. A lot of things that I had seen before but never actively wanted to engage with. Like there's probably medicine shops in Chinatown I feel kind of ashamed now. >> Like Chinatown New York, Chinatown Seattle where I grew up that I never walked into. Now I see. That's why it's so important that people bring it into the new world. >> Yeah. Yeah. And but we're going to hit the TCM bar next. >> Okay. So that's even like another level. >> So apparently drinking alcohol will be good for your liver in that bar. What's it called?