Do Chinese People Go Out For American Food?

I really like very cool the very cool pig look at that. That is a cool pig, isn't it? If I was a dead pig, I'd want my meat to look like that Hey Lao Waiers! Its Laowei86 here with another video And how many times have you asked a question do I want Chinese food tonight? *MUSIC PLAYS* Sometimes they're too lazy to cook Sometimes they're too lazy to go out for a big fancy meal Sometimes you want something cheap So in the west or at least in America a lot of people say "Let's get Chinese tonight" Now, Chinese takeout is usually It's kind of a fast food in a way, it's quick it's dirty, it's cheap and Everyone has their local favorite Chinese restaurant. Now if you check out my video on my channel where Vivvy my wife She's actually a chinese woman trying American Chinese food for the first time It's quite the laugh But I'm actually going to pose another question to you It's one of those questions that you kind of ask, but are never answered. Right? For example like in America We say if you dig far enough down in the dirt, you'll end up in China. What do they say in China if they dig all the way down to they end up in America? Well the question I'm asking today is Do Chinese people go out for American food? for example We say "I'm going to go out for Chinese tonight" Do they say the same thing? The short answer to that is absolutely. But it's not so simple because American food isn't really a thing here It's called western food or 西餐 [Xi Can] Now western food in China is kind of insane conglomeration of all countries food together So you got Japanese, Indian, Thai Italian, French, American, all of these countries food together in cuisines end up kind of lumped together in Western Food and that doesn't make any sense considering Japan or Thailand or India for example is not in the west, right? But despite all these foods being lumped together into "western food" Chinese people absolutely Do go out to eat it. Now, It does have different scales, and it is kind of ridiculous to think about all these countries together being lumped into one group But we do the same thing with Chinese food because as we know China's Provinces all have their own cuisine and when we say Chinese food, We're actually just talking about Chow mein or eggrolls or General Tso's chicken [things] like this now chinese people do the same thing with cuisines here from different countries around the world and To be honest there are different levels here of western food or foreign food in China for example We can go all the way down to a fake ripoff KFC restaurants actually Winston And I went to something called Paleo Burger something Pala Burger And it was kind of this weird bastardization of Burger king mixed together with KFC. So you can go all the way down to these kind of counterfeit foreign restaurants you can go to KFC, pizza hut is a completely different world here in China. It's actually kind of like a Upper-Middle class restaurant where people go The menu is about this thick.You could drink wine there. They have like wine pairings with different pasta dishes and stuff It's absolutely crazy of course you have things like McDonald's and KFC like I mentioned but then you can go up and actually we're here right now in a very very foreign Populated area of China, and this is actually called 蛇口[She kou] and it's a place in Shenzhen where winston actually lives It's a first tier city and a lot of foreigners live here for the oil business and a lot of foreign businesses that have sprung up around this area because of its close proximity to Hong Kong Now these restaurants that are here this "Foreign" or western food are not just for the foreigners that live here Actually a lot of Chinese people will come from within the city to this little place to eat foreign food now It's not so simple because they're not Necessarily going there because they really really have a hankering for some Indian food or they really really want a good australian steak What they're actually doing is coming here to do something Called 装逼 [Zhuang Bi] and that kind of term means to kind of pose, right? Now if you are a chinese person that has any sort of money in China You absolutely know how important "face" [reputation] is so you get a nice car that looks flashy, maybe it's out of your price range But it's really really important to have the nicest car and the nicest things in your house It's a very materialistic society and the same goes for going out to eat Because of quan chi connections and face and its importance in Chinese culture a lot of people in China will go to expensive "Western restaurants" not for the food but to show off to their friends or to impress business clients or to Impress a new woman that you want her to think you're really rich things like this now there's a lot of reasons that people do that, but the food is kind of second-Tier important Compared to the face that you get when eating western food so connections and face and all that kind of stuff aside What if chinese people actually like to eat in terms of American or western food as they call it well? one thing I noticed is that if you're going to look at fast food you go to McDonald's or KFC of course KFC is famous for their chicken, but if you go to McDonald's Almost all of the menu items are also chicken related They do have big macs and hamburgers and all that kind of stuff, but when Chinese people say 汉堡 [han bao] Or hamburger actually what they're talking about is a chicken burger. Which I found quite interesting now in terms of wanting to go take your family out for a nice evening a lot of times five-star hotels will actually have a Western Buffet And that usually involves some people wearing ridiculous chef hats and that you know roast beef cutting station But what I've noticed that a lot of times is that in these "western buffets" They're supposed to have "western food." Whatever that might mean It's actually full of Chinese food as well So often times you can see that people are actually there for the experience to look like they're eating fancy expensive western food Because of the kind of positive image that's attached to it. So when they're there Maybe they don't particularly like the food that's on offer So they'll actually Prefer to eat the Chinese food that's on offer as well at least with my wife and Chinese friends when I've taken them to eat Indian food I've noticed that it's wildly unpopular. Number one. They don't like to eat things with their hands There's not a whole lot of bread and things like stuffing things with Inside of bread and pitas and all that kind of stuff in Chinese cuisine So that's a little bit strange and the curries are much too strong tasting a lot of the times especially down south where we live People prefer really really bland food they call it ching don, and they're kind of proud [of] that You know how bland their food can [be] so Indian food kind of goes against that it's a little too spicy a little bit Too strong another thing that's super popular or at least I don't know to show off. How much money you have is steak is actually a restaurant here called wang steak and Actually is Wang steak I apologize [wang means king anyway] There's a franchise restaurants here that actually sell steaks and it's actually supposed to be french cuisine despite. It being a Chinese owned company and You'll at least spend [$100] per head if you go to these restaurants And they're full of this really really gaudy furniture and kind of like ornate paintings and stuff that looks like it comes from my grandma's basement and people who are willing to spend it a lot of money to be able to go there and say I ate steak last night with My wife or my girlfriend or my business partner. It's a real big thing for them So steaks are definitely really really popular as well now Japanese food sometimes the lumps under the same kind of image is western food Like I said at some of these five-star hotels they'll have a sushi bar next to a place where you get steak It doesn't make any sense because it's called at Western Buffet but often times Chinese people actually really like Japanese food because it's pretty mild mild tasting and it has a lot more similarities [with] Chinese food than [western] food has Thai food isn't super super popular amongst Chinese people I've noticed I think that has something to do the spice or the Kind of strong flavours involved in Thai cooking as well really big thing is actually Korean food Korean food is Wildly popular right now And I don't know if it's attached to the popularity of kpop or Korean Dramas or things like that But that's absolutely popular here inside actually Winston did a video where he had his chinese wife Sasha try Korean food in China and actually in almost every Mall shopping mall It seems like you can find a Korean barbecue or a chicken and beer restaurant as they call it Crazy Popular here and more and more you're seeing western Chains pop up like you see a Burger King KFC McDonald's pizza all these things but they always have a Chinese twist to them for example in Almost every city in China now. You can find a Starbucks I live in a pretty small third, Tier city But we have a lot of Starbucks franchises open up now when I actually asked my cousin who works there a Chinese girl What do chinese people like to order from Starbucks more often than not it's not actually coffee usually the cakes or sandwiches on offer or they have lots of fruity different teas and kind of Milky beverages that are super super sweet and Actually, there's kind of spin-offs of Starbucks in my city now that are getting more and more popular that actually take a cup of very Very milky weak coffee and then add cheese like whipped cheese on top of it. It's absolutely crazy stuff So that like I said there's always kind of a Chinese spin on some of these western offered items To sum it up do chinese people go out for American food. Yes, if you call it western food It's absolutely a thing here in China But like I said it's more about showing off rather than enjoying A culinary adventure like most westerners kind of Delude themselves into thinking that they're doing when they go out on some main strip and try Different foods from around the world Western food is more expensive [usually] often imitated here with knockoff restaurants and I got to be honest with you unless the restaurant is foreign-owned. I've noticed that western food typically doesn't taste very good here in China Anyway, that's all Thank you so much, and I will catch you on the next *Music Plays* Chinese convenience stores how are they different from the convenience stores in your country? you have to be careful because I have seen "8 12 " than the like here in China. They do tend to like to copy the logo, but that does appear to be a real one *Speaks Chinese* strong alcohol Vodka kind of [mixer] things, and you have a huge selection, and they're very cheap very very cheap with smokers I'm sure you'll love it, and of course yes, would you actually have condoms over here which is useful but Yeah, I know. I've had a lot of my foreign friends myself included complain a little bit about the sizes that [are] available here

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 20 2017