This Chinese Restaurant Has A DOCTOR On Staff!?

What if the future is 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 Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong 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 Guangzhou. 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 just think TCM is something their grandma takes. Yeah. 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 dumpling. 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? Because I saw there is no English outside whatsoever. It's called Hui Yuan Tang. And I think they're probably from Guangdong, Guangdong, like the populous. Yeah, it's 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 provinces version of TCM on the same street. Let's check this out. I'm rooting for Guangzhou though. 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 book. But here, this is the real thing. I mean, it's a real thing, it's real thing. So if you look around, you see this is a typical TCM pharmacy and you see all the drawers inside. There's different kinds of herbs. So what happens is that these pharmacists would put herbs together based on what your body needs 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 because we have two people here. And then each of us is 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 Guangdong. It's so TCM. Getting 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 the best, tastiest meal possible. So I want to. You want to be calm? I'm on beef. I'm waiting for beef and oysters. I think they're vegetarian. She's talking about your body type. She knew based off my body type that I was canto before I told her I was canto. 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 an area that can stimulate certain parts of our body. But you did the foot reflexology. Yeah, it's pretty much the same concept. I feel like that's the one that most even ABCs are familiar with. Stepping on rocks. Yeah, yeah. Okay, we all look a little bit weird. 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 moxifaction. 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 lack or I need. It will be pretty much like a supplement to my body. You know, what's so interesting is that Heidi Lau, 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 gua sha 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 is 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 a giant octopus just got you. Yeah. 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 Ta-Tan Tangs and like funny Kung Fu Hustle, Zhao Xingqi, Stephen Chow movies. It's this too. Like this is, this might not be Wing Chun from Ip Man, but this is what Ip Man 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 color of your cupping mark. So apparently, C, 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 that he's got pretty bad 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 we also have this little piece of paper that we had before from the doctor. And it had all the ingredients, the TCM ingredients the 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 yaoshan, 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 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 a different kind of culture as well. Because in Guangdong, people really make TCM some kind of food, right? Like if you are just in the old corner of Guangzhou, you see all these soup shops that you can just go there and just get a TCM soup that's made customized for your body type. We never have that kind of culture in Zhejiang 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 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 intervention. Like for example, if you have a tumor, if you have cancer, so you got to control that process right away and then with precision. But TCM is something that where you want 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, they just want to see result right away. But sometimes it makes you wonder if you can get a quick result. Does that mean that the result will also disappear 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. But we're going to hit the TCM bar next. Okay. So that's even like another level. Yeah. So apparently drinking alcohol will be good for your liver in that bar. What's it called? I actually can't remember the name.