Nick:
Today I'll be competing against Uncle Roger. We'll be cooking each other's most
famous hometown dishes. The challenge will be judged by the toughest
chef on the Internet, Chef Rush. The stakes are high. If I lose, Uncle Roger will take away my
uncle title. If Uncle Roger lose, I won't have MSG for
one week. Chef Rush:
Chef Nick. Uncle Roger, you have 30 minutes
to prepare the dish of your dreams. And your time starts now. -Nick:Okay.
-Uncle Roger:Lobster. Nick:So what's happened here is Uncle Roger is
giving me everything I need to make one of his favorite hometown dishes. I've done the same. Giving him all the
ingredients he needs to make a lobster roll. Uncle Roger:
Oh, New England lobster roll. Nice. Nick:
Uncle Roger's char kway teow. Uncle Roger:
Char kway. Teow. Not bad pronunciation. Not bad. Niece and nephew. This is the first
time a white guy ever made char kway teow on YouTube. Historic moment. Okay, so this. Nick:
Here is basically the Malaysian version of
pad Thai. So I'm not shooting completely in the dark
here, but I have never tasted nor made this dish. Uncle Roger:
I'm gonna treat lobster like my ex-wife. Okay. Lobster. Thank you for your service. And now it's dead. Nick:What is this? Uncle Roger:That Chinese sausage. Nick:It smells very strong. I'll just slice in a nice angle like this. Now that my sausages are prepped out, I want
to start cooking my cockles. These are beautiful small clams from New
Zealand. Uncle Roger:
That had to get ingredient. Good job. Chef Rush:
It's been five minutes and no cooking yet. Uncle Roger:Relax, Chef Rush. Cooking about preparation. You don't want premature cooking. You know what I mean? Okay, now the water
boiling. I'm gonna put lobster in there, put it back
on steam for maybe 6 to 8 minutes. Nick:6 to 8 minutes? Doesn't sound like enough time to
me. Uncle Roger:
Steam for ten minutes. Nick:
These cockles are going to cook very quickly,
so I don't want to fully cook them through now. I just want them to begin to open up
and I'll finish cooking them in the wok. Uncle Roger:
While lobster cooking, we gonna make the
brown butter. Nick:
The brown butter is a very difficult part of
this lobster recipe and one that I'm wondering whether or not Uncle Roger will
struggle with. I know he's an uncle, but making brown
butter takes precision. Uncle Roger:
Brown butter that brown. Very easy. It's a bit of MSG in there. Put some milk powder in there. Chef Rush:
Ten minutes down. You hurry up. Ten minutes left. Uncle Roger:
Don't worry, Chef Rush. This lobster
roll make. I'm gonna put protein powder in there. Your favorite. Chef Rush:
You got 20 minutes left. Nick:
My cockles have already opened up, so I'm
going to take these off the heat right now. We'll finish cooking them later. Let's check in on Uncle Roger's lobster. The one thing I'll say is he's put way too
much water in the pot and the lobster is not looking good. He also left the rubber bands
on, which is going to give terrible flavor to the lobster roll. Uncle Roger:
What you doing? Nick:
You left the bands. Oh. Uncle Roger:
The lobster gonna taste like rubber. Uncle Roger really stuck this time. Nick:
That is a technique that I have never seen
before. Uncle Roger:
It's not technique. Don't learn from this. Nick:
Because I don't have very much time right now. I am going to cook both of my
noodles in the same pot. I don't know if Uncle Roger is going to be
upset at me for this, but I think the rice noodles might take just a moment longer to
cook, so I'm going to put those in first. Now for the chow mein noodles. With the system I'm using, I'm going to
cover the top with this strainer. Then in go my chow mein noodles. Uncle Roger:
I think butter, nice and brown. Tasting the brown butter. Uncle Roger f*ucked up again. Nick:
Uncle Roger, are you okay? Uncle Roger:Yeah. I undercooked the brown butter. The lobster going to taste horrible. Sorry, Uncle Nick. Nick:
This is the most famous dish from all of New
England. You have to do it properly. Uncle Roger:
The New England ancestor crying. Oh, no. Uncle Nick, do you have another
lobster? Nick:What?
Uncle Roger:This one overcooked? Nick:No, it's not.
Uncle Roger:What?
Nick:That's not done. Uncle Roger:How do you tell?
Nick:When it's all the way nice and red, like this color
here, the kind of lighter red color. Then it's done. Uncle Roger:
But you want to leave it slightly
undercooked because you're going to cook a bit longer in brown butter? Nick:No.
Uncle Roger: No? Okay. A little bit more. Nick:
I've already salted my water, but I also want
to add just a touch of MSG into that, just to give that some nice extra Uncle Roger
inspired flavor. Uncle Roger:Good, good.
Nick:I'm going to take these noodles
out and rest them here. Uncle Roger, what do you think of my method
of cooking both noodles in one? Uncle Roger:
I think that noodle overcooked. Nick:
I think so too. Uncle Roger:
We all f*cked up today. Okay... Nick:
I'm going to cook these rice noodles for the
second time. This time I need to watch more carefully. I will say the lobster actually looks pretty
well cooked. Uncle Roger:
Oh, thank you. Nick:
Good job. Good job. Uncle Roger:
Trial and error. Chef Rush:
15 minutes down. 15 minutes to go. This better be perfect. Uncle Roger:
This is the scariest judge ever. Oh, forgot Ice bath. Ice bath. Nick:
And speaking of ice bath, I'll rinse them
under cold water now to stop the cooking process. Uncle Roger:
Uncle Nick, keep copying me. Hurry up, Uncle Roger. Gonna be slow on purpose. So Nick, overcook his noodle. Nick:
I'm not cooking these noodles again. Uncle Roger:
Sabotage. Sabotage. This lobster claw. Pull and twist. Remember, this is lobster. You always have to take it out. This lobster full of. Nick:
The female lobster. Those are eggs. Uncle Roger:
Those are eggs. Oh, okay. Don't matter. You don't want to eat egg anyway. Nick:
You know my favorite part? What? Uncle Roger:
Let's see if Uncle Roger remember how to do
this. How do you open the claw? You make it look so easy. Nick:Stand back. Nick:
That is a beautiful lobster claw. You should save that for the top of your
roll. Take the tail. Tail? That's not the tail. Uncle Roger:
Oh, no. Nick:
Do you remember what I taught you? Thank you. Uncle Roger:
Crack it open. Nick:
Nope. I'll give you a hint. Fork. Uncle Roger:
Ah. Okay. Okay. Where is the fork? Where is the fork? So you step it and scoop it out. Paul Twist. Nick:
Leverage. Beansprouts? Where are my
beansprouts? Uncle Roger:
Why are you wasting food Uncle Nick? Chef Rush:
Beansprouts. You're welcome. Nick:
Thank you, chef. I'm so scared of him. It is finally time for me to cook. And I'm going as quickly as I can because my
uncle title is in the hands now of Chef Rush, and he is hungry. My wok is very nice and well seasoned, and I
think Uncle Roger would be proud. Manny:
Uncle Roger, I've ever been proud of Nick? Uncle Roger:
Every day. Every day. I'm proud of him. You know, he just wins. Streamy. You know what I mean? Mayonnaise in the bowl. Put the lobster in
there. Brown butter go in. Nick:
Perfect. Brown butter. Good, good, good. Perfect Brown butter. Uncle Roger:
Mix them all together, sprinkle a bit more
MSG, squeeze of lemon, finely chop some celery because Uncle Roger liked the crunch
in there. Mhm. Taste test. Mhm. Nick:
Once that pork lard is hot and goes my
Chinese sausage which I'm going to cook for about two minutes, get it nice and crispy. Do we have. Uncle Roger:
Some salt here. Salt. Salt? Nick:
I sure hope we have salt. Uncle Roger:
Cooking channel with no salt. Nick:
And own a salt company. Oh, yeah. Once. That's nice and crispy. I'm going to move that off to the side. In goes my egg. Let's get that nice and
fluffy. We didn't have any garlic chives, so instead
I'm using these green onions in they go. Chef Rush:
Less than ten minutes left. Uncle Roger:
Oh, no, no, no. Usually I just talk on my channel. Today I actually have to cook. I don't like this. Nick:
Uncle Roger's recipe says five peeled green
prawns. I'm going to go off script and leave them
with the shells on. Uncle Roger:What? No. How are you going to eat prawn shells? Nick:
Extra flavor. Uncle Roger:
Okay. Okay. Nick:
These are going to cook very fast, so I do
not want to let them go for too long. And these ones are beautiful. Almost as beautiful as Uncle Roger's
ex-wife. Uncle Roger:
What? Have you seen the Lord of the ring? She looked like Gollum. That's terrible. Nick:
Can't forget about the whites of the onions,
which I'll add in now and then. I know that when I add my sauce in, I want
to put it onto the side of my pan. See all those flames giving us that extra
flavor? Then I'll go off script again and give a
little bit of that water from the cockles. And of course, all of those cockles
themselves. Uncle Roger:
No cockle is supposed to take out of Shell. Nick:
I like it like that. Uncle Roger:
Are you trying to make paella. Nick:
Now and then to finish in. Go. My noodles. Wow, this looks good. It's time to taste. I still want a little
bit more seasoning. Uncle Roger, come show me your tossing. Uncle Roger:
You put too much in there, you know. Nick:
Oh, that's why he's the uncle. Uncle Roger:
Don't distract me. I'm trying to finish up
your lobster roll. Chef Rush:
Two minutes left. They better be on the plate. Uncle Roger:
Chef Rush is going to love this. Uncle Nick going down today. Nick:
I noticed this dish was traditionally served
on a banana leaf. So I'm going to try to impress the judge
today by placing it over this beautiful leaf as a prop. I really hope he likes it. Chef Rush:Five, four. Three, two, one. Hands up! Nick:
Woo! Oh, my God. Uncle Roger:
What do you think? Chef Rush:
It's a little small for me. Uncle Roger:
What? It's for one normal people portion. You're not. Chef Rush:
Normal. No, that's true. Yeah. Time to see who's the better chef. First up, we have Uncle Roger's lobster
roll. It looks pretty solid. Roll is toasted, looks juicy. It's a little bit rubbery. Not much. Could use a little bit more sauce to go
along with it because the bread is soaking it up. Not the best lobster roll I ever had,
but definitely not the worst. Next up, Nick's Char-kway-teow. Char kway. Uncle Roger:
Teow. Chef Rush:
Char kway. Teow. Uncle Roger:
Char kway. Teow. Chef Rush:
Nick's noodle dish. I love the little fake leaf. I love the bowl. I love these whole prawns. It smells very flavorful. I'm getting a lot of flavor profiles popping
me in my mouth. A little spicy. Beautiful looking prime. Okay. That was melt in your mouth. They would cook perfectly on this one. I think I've made my decision. Chef Nick. Uncle Roger, after tasting both
dishes. I've decided. It's a tie. Chef Rush:
So I need more from both of you. You guys, when I make fried rice. Oh, my God. Ten minutes on the clock starts
now. Uncle Roger:
Let's see who can make better fried rice. Nick:
But it just so happens that I have a trick
under my sleeve today. You see, I'm going to try to beat Uncle
Roger with his own worst enemy. Uncle Roger:
What is that? No, that Jamie Oliver Fried
rice recipe. Oh, Uncle Roger don't like this Jamie Oliver
recipe. Will he make our ancestor cry again? Look at this. If Nick beat me with Jamie Oliver recipe,
Uncle Roger gonna quit. Chef Rush:
You quit fucking around. You got eight minutes left. Nick:
The great thing about Jamie Oliver's fried
rice recipe is it only has one, two, three, four, five ingredients. This I can definitely do in just ten
minutes. Uncle Roger:
Egg fried rice. Uncle Roger. Make too many time. Now I'm gonna challenge
myself with new technique. First, we whisk the egg to whisk it to a
really, really fine, very important step. Make it even finer. Use the colander. Nick:
I know Uncle Roger doesn't like Jamie Oliver,
and especially doesn't like this recipe. And that's why I'm using it here today. Uncle Roger:
Well, you want to torture Uncle Roger like
that? Nick:
I know it's not traditional, but I'm going to
follow this recipe. Other than one change today, I'm going to
add just a touch of MSG. Uncle Roger:
Msg cannot save Jamie Oliver's food. He doesn't even. Nick:
Have any soy sauce in here. Uncle Roger:
Yeah, that's the problem. Speaker6:
Okay, maybe two changes now. Uncle Roger:
Niece and nephew, pay attention. This super cool technique with right hand
and pour egg in there in thin trade with left hand. Nick:
What on earth is Uncle Roger doing with his
eggs? Uncle Roger:
Egg shred free. Oh, have you seen this before? Niece and nephew. Nice and crispy. Impress. Impress. Nick:Hm. He doesn't put the eggs in first. Why doesn't he put the eggs in first? Uncle Roger:I don't know. Ask him. Ask him. Nick:
My eggs are in, so I'll let those
get nice and fluffy and then begin to mix them up. I actually think I'm going to be
able to make this taste pretty good. Chef Rush:
4.5 minutes left. Uncle Roger: Uncle Roger waste too much time making the fancy egg. Nick:My egg has gotten nice and fluffy and it's looking really, really good. Once the egg is cooked, I'll go in with some
of my day old rice. Uncle Roger:
What that hate crime. Hate crime. Youtube Cancel Uncle Nick. Nick:
Time to move this rice around a little bit. And while I do it, I'll hit it with just a
little bit of MSG. Uncle Roger:
I know what you're thinking, Uncle Nick. So far ahead of you. It's easy to be fast if everything wrong. Some sexy spring onion. Nice and long cut at the bias. See, this is one of my favorite Asian
ingredients. Chinese sausage. Since Nick have this from
his last challenge, Uncle Roger gonna use this. Oh, so this is vegetable oil. Don't be like Jamie Oliver and use olive
oil. Garlic, go in. Shallot. Chinese sausage. Go in and you start to get fragrant crack
egg at. Nick:
I just wanna admit it... I just wanna... At this point, I'm... Chef Rush:
Two minutes left. Uncle Roger:
Oh, Uncle Roger don't know if I'm gonna finish. Nick:
One of the final steps of Jamie Oliver's
recipe is to take this tofu and then crumble this around my whole wok. I don't understand this part at all. I'm also going to toss in a few green
onions. And at this point, we really need to get
this on the plate. Uncle Roger:
Almost done. Toss a few more time. Chef Rush:
Get it on a plate. Nick:
I haven't cooked this fast since MasterChef. Five, four. Chef Rush:
Three, two, one. Hands up. Uncle Roger:
Initially, Uncle Roger worried. Uncle Nick going to follow Jamie Oliver
recipe 100%. But he takes all the mistake Jamie Oliver
make and then improve with proper technique and ingredients. Maybe he actually stand a
chance. Nick:
It was so bad I couldn't follow it. Chef Rush:
This is Chef Nick. New and improved. Jamie Oliver's fried rice. Nice color profile. Looks good. Smell of green onions. It's melting in my mouth presentation wise. I love that he had the little playfulness to
put it into a to go container. Overall, it's a very solid fried rice. I don't know if Uncle Roger gives Jamie
Oliver enough credit. So with that said, we all know no one makes
fried rice better than Uncle Roger. So we got to see if he brought his A-game
today. Presentation on it is top notch. I love the shredded eggs. That takes a lot of skill. Added some protein. Now let's taste lots and lots and lots of
flavor. He's not all hype. He knows his way around
some fried rice. This one's going to be tough. The winner of the day's challenge is. Nick. Uncle Nick. No. Nick:
I can't. Uncle Roger:
Give me all of a fight. Right.
