Quest for the Best Chinese food in the USA

two hours are you kidding me welcome to this very special two-hour plus video here on serpens at a I know this is not what you'll usually find on my channel but you know me and my best friend C milk have done something which I think you're going to enjoy I've got at my fingertips the state of the art of 1993 American sports car technology and what better way to test it out and to go on an epic road trip with my best friend over the west coast of America looking for believe it or not the most authentic Chinese food so stick around may seem like a hell of a lot but I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it I'm serpens at a I'm low I 86 everybody knows and loves Chinese food but if you're like most Americans you may have never had the real thing it's always chopped up sweet salty and it's usually is sloppy I don't know anywhere else a little bit in America where they have you know Chinese fortune cookies do you have to go all the way to China to see what real Chinese food is or can you find true authentic Chinese food in America we don't have that much rigor people in this area especially in even in America mostly we're using like bland and put it in the dough we lived in China for a combined 20 years so we know what real Chinese food is like we've had some of the weirdest wildest the most delicious food that China has to offer that's why we're sitting out on a 3,000 mile road trip all across the west coast of the USA to find out where and if it's possible to find authentic Chinese food this is the quest for the best Chinese in the USA [Music] see milk where are we we're in Arizona why are we in Arizona we're here to fetch the Corvette now the Corvette needed a lot of expensive repairs unfortunately stupid just because it's got the Corvette brand name but we're going on an epic trip and what are we doing we're going to find the real most authentic Chinese food that you can find in America my home country actually now I've actually eaten Chinese food all over America before but it's usually at these kind of impostor restaurants oh yeah we see them all over the place here was that wok and roll a lot of the good plays on words even here in Arizona they're even still using the word oriental to describe Chinese food and all these fusion restaurants Chinese and Japanese fusion but actually it's just these all-you-can-eat buffets for about five bucks yeah yeah pretty much that's not real Chinese food no it's not and living in China for about 10 years and 12 years yeah combined over 20 years yeah we actually know what real Chinese food is actually like exactly now of course this is America but we've already got the steaks and burgers and all that stuff out of our system trust me you got your tie cut off in at rest got my tie cut off yeah and of cowboys enough cacti we hit the road we're gonna head to California to find the best and most authentic Chinese food in America can't wait the quest for the best Chinese in America see you on the road [Music] oh man we've been over these dunes and I don't see any Chinese food like we better find another path oh absolutely [Music] superclub we're in San Diego California beautiful day oh yes it's awesome out here we got you know we got the sea we've got Sun and it's fantastic we've actually been pointed in the direction of apparently what is said to be the best bouncer and jealous restaurant in all of America which is pretty fantastic and it's a little ironic because the first restaurant we're going to try is you know specializes in Bowser and the first video on my channel actually all the way back in 2008 it's got me going to a little breakfast stall and eating a Bowser so I think it's kind of ironic it is yeah what is it bout enough well okay here's the thing now as we've discussed a lot Chinese breakfast is pretty dire yes I think we could say it's probably like the weakest type of Chinese for yappers right for sure yeah but when it comes to Bowser that's the one breakfast food that every foreigner including myself and youth actually really likes right it's basically a steamed bun and inside you can get meat vegetables and all sorts of different fillings and it's pretty delicious so I'm seriously looking forward to it me too now ironically also for me the first food I had in China after I got off the plane other than pig brains which is at the same restaurant was joutsen and Jones's dumplings ya know if you've had dumplings in Chinese restaurants here in America you've probably had pot stickers and those what's it why is it called a pupster because they stick to the pot I use wonton wrappers okay and they're really sticky really thick much more similar to Japanese gyoza all right so the ones that we have a ton of you know they're steamed they're fluffy they're full of all kinds of different feelings I am yeah grab chicken pork all kinds of stuff and I remember it being a very special meal for me because I never had dumplings like that before well we've heard through the grapevine that this in fact is the best place for this stuff so I feel like we gotta hit the road and the beautiful sunshine in Seaside yeah just get there yeah can't wait see you at the restaurant [Music] my dad personally he doesn't want to change the taste he actually tried a lot of places in the US and San Diego before he opened this restaurant just wanted to know how like Americans like the taste of Chinese food well he tried it and then he's like this is not Chinese food I'm not gonna do the same thing so that's why he started to do his own dumpling and their own vamp funny machine too much at intruder tomb was hang on so he's ready to throw the weight out of Onyx I'm gonna raise you tapping we know he drew the other two sons already the channel Paul do you follow the line your tiny Eli serves will the Arlen occur to go around Canton Ohio C&D are you late Obama I'm show me where to fight so instantly a restaurant today in question is great Wow it's kind of a play on words yeah the are famous for their jobs of which we've explained our dumpling so yeah here we go turns out they have a lot of different kinds of jobs of here oh it's not just one and I was super pleased to talk to the boss here earlier yeah and they're actually from Beijing know most of the Chinese people that you'll meet in Chinese restaurants in America are either so that was kind of a treat and this is northern food which we love yeah why don't you talk talk through what we got today well first of all got this massive balls over here this thing that is huge I mean you know precise your face really kind of this specialty I mean they were explaining that they used to make the normal size one and then they decided to make bigger ones kind of probably because Americans like big portions to price get yourself a job so which one you want so these are gonna be the pork and onion cutouts and these are your classic but one thing you have to do if you're gonna get Chinese dumpling especially northern style you're gonna mix your own sauce yeah yeah so I like to use a little bit of a chili oil yeah he cuts a lot amount okay we are Tyler we have Tyler we are last so ah okay and this is the choices I only use a little bit so it says I'm a fan of vinegar so I go all-in on the bin dc1 yeah basically they use dark vinegar usually for these dumplings yeah and you take one some cheeky folk will cut one open and let the vinegar kind of soak inside yeah yeah I like to just get the casing on the outside so two good ideas go for this bad boy let you in first I'm gonna talk about it okay hang on to the I can see I can see a media day I only like to just put soy sauce I'm not interested in all that vinegar malarkey whatever we're in America you can be yourself yeah absolutely now I'm gonna just give it a shot well that was a great do you give yourself a little splash there I enjoyed it so much I dropped it let's try that again mmm fantastic the pork inside of there is so well seasoned and that's something that actually makes it better than a lot of jobs I've had in China is it actually seems like they actually marinated it right yeah really good onion taste a little bit of garlic kind of garlic in there too yeah a little bit I would say more care was put into the filling than most places I've had in China absolutely and for authenticity I mean wouldn't you say the outside shell like the noodle is actually like a weak base noodle I'd say that to be honest this is very high on the authenticity rating because I've had gels are just like this exactly the same so I have to give it a 10 yeah I'm giving it a 10 out of 10 for what the anisa tea for the Aussie I'm sorry what about the taste as for taste I have to say this and it might break some hearts in mainland china but in a way it's one of the better dads I've had in my life I'd say it's actually it tastes fresher it tastes like you can trust the ingredients inside of it's just kind of bites the tongue a little bit with the onion and garlic I like it quite a bit more than jaws I usually eat and I'm gonna give it a 9 out of 10 for taste okay that's awesome I mean I'm not a big jazz guy usually but I'm gonna give it an 8 just because it is delicious and you're absolutely right you know when you're working with the right ingredients you know you can really make a good recipe even better too so absolutely so 10 out of 10 authenticity 8 out of 10 for taste for me sounds good what's next shall we move on yeah mmm yeah it's fantastic right yeah now one thing we're really familiar with in China though is Shalom bow yeah which translates a little dragon bag pretty much they're kind of Shanghai style dumpling soup in them right yep exactly and what you do is you put them in a spoon you kind of puncture them so the you know the soup comes up be careful it can be really hard time just throw it in your mouth mmm really good Sheldon bow okay awesome I'm gonna go all natural mm-hmm I like how they they actually like hand kind of knead all the dough and stuff and really put care into how it looks which is really nice and they don't give ya not as much as this but yeah as for authenticity tenets and again completely what you'd get I've had that Incheon absolutely you get them in all the dim sum restaurants things like that that's really authentic yeah and the taste again for me it's an 8 out of 10 I give it I'm gonna give a 7 out of 10 okay I've had superior ones okay I mean but very very good very very good style excellent so the only thing remaining is our authentic bowser yeah this is the kind of the the coup de grâce is what we came here for it for that one absolutely here you grab this really really hot give me a sec you gotta get him on there hustling went out absolutely okay we gonna give this time oh yeah walk into work my first couple years in China mmm hot roadside buzzy you don't really know what it is when you first get there you know what are these steamed buns you get one sometimes get the bed you wanted to get the meat really cool the way it's prepared on the side of the road to psych for sure smoke billowing out will steam ready right especially on the cold morning you just see this like steaming right so interesting and everyone's crowding around and grabbing these hot steamy buns you know what makes these better than that is that it seems like there's almost a gravy in it right where's it's not you know how you'll bite into a pods in China it's just kind of a brick of meat and then you have to eat the bread around yeah this is kind of soaking it all up and it's a nice gravy it tastes delicious often to see in a way is almost difficult to say because I like it better than most buds I've ever had does that make it less authentic I don't think so not same for it the ingredients are there it's got the same flavor it's just a little more so because they're using better ingredients right it's definitely high up there on the authenticity I'd say the bowels are here except for the Americanized kung pao chicken ones right you know these ones are absolutely you know top-notch I'd say definitely 10 out of 10 I'm definitely gonna say tenant and in for taste I'm I might go ten on this one I'm house is one of my favorite foods so I'm a little biased but I'm gonna go for a nine looks just because I know you get better stuff out there but in the world as far as Bozza kin are concerned I don't think you get better than this no this is this is top-notch definitely up there for sure by the way I can confirm I think this is definitely the best buzz in Jaws I've had a head in America that's for sure what dish would if you could only pick one just that they're just just the bottom another poke the normal poke balls are right absolutely delicious I'm gonna agree agree with that but I'm also gonna throw on get this get a plate of these pork and onion Joneses as well yeah these are just frickin awesome I love and it's a really good to have this kind of stuff in America it's strange I love music you still lo mein and the general toes chicken yeah now this is fantastic so we I think we can say this a pretty authentic [Music] so that was interesting I really did not expect that to be as authentic as it actually was it was it was actually really it really really was I you know the whole point of this trip is we're not trying to plug restaurants or anything no so a restaurants get suck its gonna suck but I can't say that one did no it didn't absolutely not no and the bosses friendly can't speak in English but his daughter that's his daughter yeah she can speak English just fine you know locals were walking past the door and saying hey this place is awesome yeah they're all shouting at us all we were shooting the video it's pretty cool no I liked it and you know I was kind of expecting this trip to be all about you know spring rolls and sweet and sour chicken and general tolls this and that but we're we're off to a good start that we were pretty good we absolutely are well tomorrow we have a big day ahead of us ready to hit the road I sure AM [Music] [Music] welcome to Rowland Heights California this is actually a suburb of Los Angeles it's bizarre it is I mean we're we're always this America I you can I mean everything looks like American buildings and everything but everything is in Chinese and this isn't even a Chinatown dude yeah I know it's it's really bizarre everywhere you look you see Chinese you know the interesting thing is that you know what are you doing they even drive like China yeah they do yeah but looking around everything is Chinese yeah everything except I must say that everything is in traditional character so not simplified so it's probably got something to do a Taiwan or Hong Kong yeah yeah yeah I've seen a couple simplified signs but most of it you're right has been traditional Chinese it's weird to see not just Chinese restaurants with Chinese characters on them but like really businesses is the dentist dentists what else like cell phone companies yeah everything in Chinese and we're here smack dab in America I actually feel a little bit out of place yeah yeah I wonder what would happen if we opened like an English only area in in China what they'd say I don't think that would work no they probably come to shut us down a couple funny little instances as well some of the places to stop for gas and stuff yeah I bought a drink at a little supermarket yeah no one spoke English yeah that's kind of weird I like I tried to speak English and I just had to switch to Chinese and they didn't say like acting like it was weird speaking Chinese it's kinda like yeah that's what you do in this area it's really bizarre anyway it's kind of wintery it's a little bit cold although let's be fair it is California it's never really cold here right it's a little bit colder and one of the best things to eat in winter Chinese food wise is hotpot right right we're not talking about overly heated up marijuana this is actually a pot full of but is basically this cauldron of boiling oil and broth that you dip your own food into yeah it's a Mongolian thing it's also a stitch one thing it's all over China really do yeah it's it's incredibly popular and every city in China has it and you get all sorts of specialties all over the place search one hot pots really really popular right Chongqing hard part's really popular one of my favorite chef a young in our little fat sheep right but yeah we haven't actually arranged anything now we're gonna look for a good to a hotpot place I've seen a couple signs around here at least but you know what's funny is that I always thought Chinese food could really take off in America at some point right like real Chinese food because it's awesome but I always saw the hot pots never gonna take off because of the lawsuits and liabilities yeah because it's basically a big cauldron of boiling oil right and if you you've got kids or something there what if you drop something in there it splashes them all right you know that kind of thing they lo and behold there are heartburn restaurants here where it can we pull in it pull in over here there's a whole bunch of Chinese restaurants you know I've only I've got one of the spicy moment this and yeah actually there's a bunch yeah it's pulling open this lamb needs the one yeah okay Lemaitre yeah you know for those of those of you don't know what a la Maids it means it means hot girl you know alright bye sexy girl yeah it's it literally translates to spicy girl it's kind of that says la maids are all gone yeah let's do it that'll be real citron or it may be Chongqing yeah I gotta tell you though like not having not actually planned this we're just gonna have to walk in there and just run in can just run again and see if they've got a manager see if you'll let us film but okay so far everybody has been really nice to us in America so I think they're gonna turn us away sounds good alright [Music] our regiment is a sensing Lamanites sensing means at Mountain City English not a word the llamas in English is like spicy girl because away style spicy stuff ha stuff Papa has a soup and then you're cooking the middle of the table and the customer will cook all of everything like by their self so we have a spicy and a non spicy two different flavors because a hopper is really good winter food and when you eat like you know spicy flavor strong flavor flavorful and you can eat like called a lot different stuff inside most people that will cook like lamb beef vegetables and even the dipping sauce you can dip with a lot different dipping sauce pot in America was not something I expected to see to be honest definitely wasn't here when I was in America about 10 years ago yeah I mean I remember people telling me like that there are branches of chef a young and right Heidi allow opening in America and I was like wow that's interesting like right what Americans actually go for that you know for sure I know this place is kind of typical of your normal channel changer switch one hot pot that you would get in China will say it's a little nicer yeah I mean kind of just by looking at some of the quality of the ingredients and some of the freebies that you so basically you start every meal with his handmade what are these they're sesame balls and little cakes and stuff in it they make them right here apparently apparently these unrolled and roll to handmade sesame balls struggler yeah little appetizer while we wait for the hot pot to boil I have to point out that I haven't seen a single white face or brown face or any other kind of face in this restaurant so it must be really good cuz they're all Asian yes so they approve of it obviously and I hear I hear Chongqing dialect I'm here in Citroen dialect I'm here and in in the background so I mean if the locals approve I almost said locals well we're in America doesn't feel like it right now people around us keep calling us foreigners Oh was that it's a very nice little sesame there's some sesame in the middle okay and it's quite fluffy a little greasy okay it's nice it's different to that I think hmm it's a nice little little starter you know sostenuto she mmm thing is I've had these in China put many times hmm the difference is you would not get those for free and a Chinese restaurant in China people would swoon in over there mmm freebie Island just start ripping them all stuffing them in their purses it's a different story over there now it's starting to boil here basically what we got here is your typical half-and-half pot except it's a little weird I've never seen it like this it's normally they call it a yin-yang actually have it like a yin and yang they have it um you know in the shape of en Yin right and it's spicy and then the normal broth right is just gonna cut down the middle yeah yeah so first square hotpot ozium yeah it's kind of interesting you know we got lamb we got beef belly yep which is neo none but we got winter melon don't watch mmm I got a single egg because I've never cooked just a normal egg and a hot pot before I thought that might be a little interesting yeah we got a vegetable kind of combo mm-hmm so comes with cabbage and spinach and all that good stuff right yeah and then I also got some tripe some beef tripe just real okay well thank you because you know I hate that stuff we're looking for authenticity on for sure all right now it would be a little bit weird a little bit boring just to dip this stuff in here yourself and just eat it out of the pot obviously you know the whole thing about chun qiang hotpot is it comes with dipping sauces why don't you run us through what we got here well basically they've got a little condiment section over there and what you do is you can actually build your own sauce they have a couple of recommendations up there they say those sort of spicy girl recommendation and stuff in here you know you put this together so what did you put in there some kind of vlogmas like the really famous chili oil sauce sauce yeah yeah and then I got some bean paste some cilantro or coriander and some Chinese chives yep and that's kind of the more savory version the sweeter version over here let me get that out cause I got the mushed up chives I got the garlic and the peanut sauce and some peanuts themselves I like this thing so yeah what you do is you're gonna mix it right set it wrong into a little bit of a paste yeah and then you know once the meats cooked or whatever is cooked you take it out just dip it in there and you eat it for sure and this is all up to you really they had a ton more options for sure this is usually what I get yeah I don't know about you I'm very straightforward I just normally have soy sauce okay so maybe a couple of things depending now there's one thing here that you can't eat so we'll save that for last and that's the mushed up shrimp stuff yeah yeah it looks weird as hell I have seen it before and it kind of turns into like little logs of shrimp ya know I look at so she gets that she likes it okay yeah now a little pro tip mm-hmm is use the back of your chopsticks when you pick up some meat because you don't want to be in that raw meat right yeah what do you say we start with half the lamb that have to be yeah sounds good to me do you want the lamb to be spicy or the beef I don't mind either way I'm good either way let's go Lance I like to taste the lamb so let's try that a little more beef will go spicy I got medium spicy you could go like crazy a ate spicy awesome now the manager of the restaurant said that you know how part comes from Tron team but you know that's not necessarily true this style yeah maybe apparently this is this is the legend is that Genghis Khan you know in Mongolia needed a way to keep his soldiers fed while they're on the mouch because they you know they ride their horses and everything in or they're conquering and pillaging and doing their thing right but they don't have time to sit down and really make camp and sit on so they have to have something that's really quick to eat right so what they did was they actually used to take their steel helmets in the middle helmets right and then boil them just make a campfire stick the steel helmet on the fire throw water in there like boil it and then just throw bits of random meat oh yeah so that's apparently where I hope that three is true that's awesome yeah and I really I would fully believe that over whatever its story I'm pretty sure that's that's the origin one thing that they definitely didn't do them on goals was put a bunch of chillies and make it super spicy I guess right well I mean Chili's our new world food anyway our right so it comes from America or South America wherever you know should try the lame hmm I have to say this real quick yeah and peanut sauce and the land is better than any any iPad in China you had a hotpot restaurant just because the quality it's the quality of the meat but I mean once again when you're talking about using better ingredients right of course it's going to taste better for it so we have to think about authenticity here right right if you knock me out and put me here and didn't tell me where I was I think I was in China mmm try some of this sauce here hmm you like it mhm but the lamb and the beef both tastes a kind of other us in terms of freshness and quality oh yeah not as fatty is what you'd get in China to be honest mm-hmm really good talking about good choice good choice that's fantastic I'm gonna pop some of these pipes in okay okay now this is something you know ya see milk apparently likes us now anyway the thing is that I didn't grow up eating awful and tripe and i'd i think offal is awful i was gonna make an awful joke about different you know so I really don't like anything that's organs so livers lungs hearts kidneys all that kind of stuff I really can't stand and it's really popular in China but this is this is why I like hotpot okay I got to tell you a bit of a story here when I first got to China because you know when you get to China people are always taking you on right treating you to dinner right okay when you meet new friends make new business acquaintances and it's part of the culture so they'll treat you right then they take you to what they believe is the best restaurant or the nicest restaurant nice it is nice and then they they order everything for you right so they go ahead and they order XYZ and it sucks man because like a lot of the stuff they ordered that they think is special or delicious or whatever is like really horrible right for for a Western person you know we're talking fish heads chicken heads chicken feet you know like tripe blood blood sausages you know all sorts of weird stuff which I'll be honest with you is just like for someone that's got a normal Western palate he's not growing up on a farm or whatever yeah I didn't yeah well who has a mother who grew up in a farm or whatever you know like it's not cool and you'd sit down you can't really eat it it's it's disgusting and you're trying to be polite and you're trying your best but I'm just saying you know of course it's delicious and it's special for them cuz they are used to it sure so the reason why I like to go to hotpot is you get to choose what you eat sure right great smile yeah look at this like I might be sitting at yeah you've got the tripe right yeah you've got the weird stuff right I can eat that and then yeah then you're like oh look it's a nice show you to be full shame right lamb and then you just grab a bit of that and you know the way it works is you're actually supposed to take these ladies yes for sure okay you can push them out like that and um you just take like a piece of take this little piece of beef here this is especially what you do if there's tons yeah tons of people at the table and you know usually like everybody has a ladle sure right and then all you do is you cook it you actually cook it in the in the ladle right right until it's I mean it's super quick yeah yeah it just depends on where the slice of the meat like how quick it is you can see that's not cooked yeah yeah yeah so I'll stick it in a nice boilie bit there okay I would say second in a second I'll be honest with you usually there are serving chopsticks like you know yes because right now what we're doing is not the most hygienic but we're used to it in China so you say I mean that's what a lot of people there I learned it obviously yeah and then you pull it out there we go it's already so you super quick you you have your meat right over here it's easy to get in ready to get out so you don't lose it in there you can lose stuff in there you can have it be phone i if I'm just eating with a friend or like my wife or something I usually don't use the ladle don't because we think everything but I mean that's that's the correct way to eat it right and it's an incredibly popular dish during wintertime yeah and it's really cool to have at home as well yeah it's like super it's actually a really good party thing like you basically you can have people over and they all get together and y'all eat but actually was gonna say was this one of the weirdly enough I don't know you said you didn't see any white people in here or you know ethnic Westerners like is that yeah in this restaurant and I think it's a little bit strange because I feel like one of the most stereotypically popular dishes amongst expats in Chinese hot pot absolutely I love it it is a social thing usually there's a lot of beer and roll lots of beer and okay we're at a square table which is a bit odd because usually the cut was a round table right so everybody sits around the table right there drinking beer there eating whatever they want it's usually it's a winter food sure there we go there goes you see the theory a little bass seaman's favourite tripe calm this looks different than what I'm used to yeah I normally it's like great right maybe this is like maybe who knows I've been eating in China yeah here we go that's 20 hmm you know usually when you eat tripe and stuff in China yeah you can pinpoint exactly what animal it is yeah cuz it's like that's definitely what they eat you can tell right how would want to dip it into something for you it has absolutely no animal flavor or no barnyard flavor it's a picture that gets me I got you well slather it and peanut butter I'm like anything tastes good yeah let's see I'll tell you in a minute let's give it a shot it's not that bad it's awful awful I get it I get it I get what you did there okay look I gotta just be brutally honest here authenticity when it comes to that you know yeah I'm gonna give it a 10 you get that you get that in China in a hobby there's a little better actually taste rating out of 10 I'm gonna give it a zero just because you don't like it absolutely however yes everything thank you so much I personally like it we're not writing each one there may be a maybe a one okay that one comes from the source not from the actual you know one run their peanut butter yeah yeah yeah the lamb no I haven't given that a rating yet you know the lamb and the beef both I would say authenticity okay he did see Michael I call absolute nonsense on this he likes awful thing Julie oh yeah yeah he choked that a chili that's what he's saying mm-hmm I almost died there guys you know I have to be brutally honest you know and it's just kind of really a realization I've made now I don't like hot pot as much as I thought I mean I think I totally understand what your time it's more the experience yes yes it's not about the food as much as it is the experience because I promise you like every time I've had hot pot in China it's always been a bunch of friends you know you're out it's cold outside you drinking beer you're right in a good time everyone's just ordering cuz it's usually cheap and cheerful right right unless you got a really fancy furniture you can get away with just ordering played off the floor of meat and you know it's good and you know it's really nice to have at home as well yeah I agree every every single supermarkets got a little like a little section that sells meatballs in the che that you're there you make the broth oh yeah like the you know that kind of stuff so you can go and they can get all your ingredients right go home you all you need is a hot plate right either yeah electric up late or you don't guess one of those yeah you set it up on your dining room table and you just kind of have Champa apart yeah it's awesome yeah so I'm gonna say total for authenticity this places we eat the rest of these vegetables and stuff I'm gonna say 7 out of 10 yeah you know when you're comparing to stuff we've had in China and for taste so I'm going to go for a 6 because I think hot pot is tends to be overrated yeah it's just one of those things it's a bit of a novelty when you get to China but eventually I got sick of it and I actually I'm still kind of sick I'm sorry look I don't want to be a positive poly or an economy absolutely I'd say if you happen to be in California in this area that means second you should check this particular restaurant out it's fantastic right like if if you knock me out in China and you brought me here and you woke me up I think that's I was still in China mostly the only thing that would throw me off or the square tables right and you know the freebie free food and of course the top quality ingredients yeah you know it's pretty damn awesome so what I say we finished up here and get back on the road let's do that got a lot more places to go a lot more Chinese food to see but yeah you can get good hotpot in America okay I'm kind of surprised me too hmm got the hot pot out of our system that's for sure the hot pots still in my system and I don't know how it's how it's gonna exit my system that was a really spicy yeah that's nice though and I'm feeling really warm you know I said it's a good winter food it really is it kind of warms you up sure so I think you're kind of big Deb how cold it was cuz it feel like it's only 65 degrees it's not actually that cold out yeah you know it was packed though and like more and more people kept coming in as we were leaving so it's really popular and that just shows you just how good it is because it is chock-full of Chinese people and they are we bumped into some subscribers which is awesome they're from China right watch our stuff right if they are saying this is a good place and they were coming here right then you know it's authentic looks like we ran into the right spot yeah we certainly did no that was a far cry from a lamb fetus inside of a hotpot yeah I got it I gotta tell that story go huh like I said when I first got to China I was really disappointed with a lot of the food because you know every time you go out they're giving you some horrible thing which you know like pig's blood tofu or whatever you know in Guangdong because Guangdong I mean people in Beijing will have a different experience or Shanghai it's it's way more foreigner friendly but Guangdong is not for unfriend no okay so anyway so I used to love to go to these hotpot places and there was a new one well not a new the one I hadn't tried in so I got everyone everyone together you know my friends and we went there we were drinking beer and having a great time and just you know these are thing like meatballs and you know thrown in the beef in the lamb and I asked them to recommend something and they were like yeah this is our tercer which means our specialty right and I was like what is in this role yung roll lighter you know which just means it's it's lamb I'm like okay so we're caring not eating then the waitress came and she had this plate of it was like literally discussing it looked like afterbirth it literally looked like like afterbirth and she just like threw it into the pot and I was like okay and we keep eating with keep eating and then my friend one of my friends was suddenly incredibly shocked because what he pulled out is he pulled out a mini lamb like a lamb fetus and it was like the skull with the skeleton bits of meat and stuffing he lifted it out and I was like what the hell is that and what they've done is they've basically given us their specialty is lamb fetus so I guess when they slaughter the Lambs that are pregnant you know then they get the lamb fetus isn't I stole it or whatever and that's what they like to put into hook let's say you got to be careful you can't just willy-nilly order anything off the menu on that note we'll see you at the next restaurant [Music] [Music] see look when you think of England for instance when you think of you know typical British food what is the first thing that comes to mind porridge rations it's bleak grim soup kitchens probably fish and chips yeah I'd say I'd say I think if anyone if you asked anyone other than you so I mean fish and chips is probably the most iconic British dish you know and for China I'd say probably the most iconic at least what I would think is you know Peking Duck all right Beijing the yeah if he can take all in America right yeah it's cool Peking Duck everywhere in the world is that yeah I mean we call it Peking Duck yeah we call it Peking Duck in South Africa it's called Peking Duck in the UK it's called Peking Duck in America's Peking Duck yeah and Peking actually is the old name for Beijing yeah that's correct yeah that was Google search away yeah we'll figure it out either way maybe you could tell everybody what Peking Duck is well Peking Duck actually it's wicked wicked old dish yeah there's a history of like Chinese people roasting ducks all the way back and like the Han Dynasty and stuff yeah what they would do is actually take take some air and then shoot it between the skin and the meat okay so that it would kind of the juices are allowed to kind of flow around it the ironic thing is you'd think that would make the meat more tender but the way that they serve Peking duck in Beijing is they don't eat the meat I know actually that's one of the biggest disappointments you know for me anyway is that it's basically just skin right and with a little bit of fat attached to it sometimes we don't live in Beijing and we do have duck and it's actually it's kind of prepared in almost an identical way except that we eat the meat yeah right you know whenever you see a Cantonese Chad Santino you know it's basically a Cantonese canceling place yeah you'll always see the the duck carcasses hanging in the window yeah in Beijing what they do is they they only take the skin usually yes and you basically wrap it in this little pancake little wheat pancake you get some hot poison sauce yeah get some scallions and sometimes you know every restaurant can be different obviously just put all kinds of stuff but it's like a little almost like a tiny little taco yeah it's really delicious actually it is you put you put some cucumbers and onions and you know they have those kind of different things you can add so it's actually very nice but you know we had Peking Duck in Beijing that time remember was out there and we had it and I'll be honest it wasn't the best Peking Duck it was pretty good it was good but I I've actually had better in other parts of China writers of course you can get it everywhere in China or a very famous dish right I'm just curious as to how the Peking Duck here in America tastes never had it in America before and I have to say the scary thing about Peking duck is it can be done really poorly yeah because it's such a labor-intensive dish and tends to be pretty pricey if you go to like any place it's not really expensive I have a feeling it's not very good I've had that Beijing duck before okay it's not it's not great it can be soggy it's not crispy you know long story short we're in the outskirts of LA and beautiful snowy mountains beautiful day out today yes and we're gonna head to this place called Beijing tasty house where we're not only gonna get Beijing duck but Beijing food in general yeah I'm not super familiar with Beijing food other than the times that we've been to Beijing and tried it out it's not something I eat very often sure it'll be cool to compare yeah I'm very very curious to see what they have on offer and I really do like you know Peking Duck a lot so let's give it a try hopefully it lives up to you know the authenticity of the mainland [Music] welcome to pay didn't pesky house woman en you pay Punk's have a reward a holiday turns out there's a page on the hallway no yes reunion woman he ends with a daughter Jenny but if I'm clear in the code where I hope it didn't hire me yeah you don't really I don't really see how cheating yourself forgive the occupation hi young college I had a phone from a tool you don't belong how are you don't require local yeah well they are not with him the maloca yeah the home the Karnataka gender ratio taking a blow to the moon brother man look I assume we're at work who either using with ice Johann treat you like Oh God would be quite Okoye how this year Dennis young sinner who borrow a lesser woman Libyan offensive and attended an event without cilantro dr. Newman cut way down on TV naquadah yes film it again and say Jim Carrey are you ready I am I mean it looks good it is a little bit different than what we had in Beijing in that it wasn't that was just the skin yeah it looks like they've hidden a little bit of meat a nose yeah which is great for you before before we begin I got to say there are a couple of interesting things about this restaurant right one I noticed you can pay by the we chest right which is weird it's really weird you know it's kind of interesting and also maybe you can explain what's on this place Matt over there this was a little bit weird usually when you go to like a diner something in America and maybe they have like Jim's towing repairs or a vacuum cleaner company this is porous conceptions where you can be compensated for donating your own eggs from your ovaries yeah $20,000 not a bad that's not bad dancing you buy a car with that any of your own kid running around yeah not really yours anymore so look traditionally what we usually do with this is sorry this is the way this has been displayed yeah the Ducks kind of looking at its own flesh being is like offering itself to us that's nice anyway it's nice yeah they usually usual way you eat this is you take this pancake type thing over here let's go put some of that sauce which is usually plum sauce or something along those more voices this looks like poison looks very savory yeah and then you put some of the cucumbers you put some of the whatever sliced up onions or probably spring onions yeah looks like it and then you put some of the skin and that's usually what you do it's in this one like I said you're gonna have some meat with yours which you're gonna really appreciate it I yeah because yeah there we go I mean it is it is skin I'm gonna put a little a little meat on - oh yeah I wonder if they've done this just for the Western taste because yeah you can see this is actually just skin there's no no meat attached to the thing is speaking to spin one of the managers yeah he said that there's never any white people that come in here or Western yeah it's true you're actually right so yeah maybe it's not for Western taste see this is what I would say as a pancake not like IHOP okay this is like this kind of tin stuff right I think that I hopes like flat we definitely didn't good I have this favorite restaurant okay so put some babies on there yeah smells exactly like a Beijing duck pancake that I've had anywhere else that's good you know it's quite cool ISM sometimes in the night markets they'll kind of wrap these mini you know just exactly like yes I make so many ones you can buy a whole but you don't have to see what I do here self yeah I like making it myself though yes kind of fun I like a lot of onions I might let's try it out do it on the then of this pan cook mm-hmm there's a little chewy hmm and the skin isn't to skin like avian almost poultry it doesn't have that poultry flavor which is nice I hope feeling it has to do with a kind of bird snooze the sauce is super super strong I wouldn't use as much hmm like it don't go too liberal with listen onions are good cubes are good and I think they use these because the group duck is really greasy like even than me it's super greasy fatty meat this stuff kind of cuts through all that gives a little freshness to it otherwise of you thank you much I think other forces of our duck is all right yeah just yeah okay I'm gonna try a piece of skin I'm just gonna try to meet with me I can appreciate that yeah it's good job that's better than what I had in Beijing yeah yeah also cheaper Beijing yeah super expensive $80 that's because it's a tourist thing right so when you go to Beijing you've got these set up sort of Beijing Kai are famous restaurants and they're incredibly expensive you can sort of just go down the road and get it much cheaper if you know where to go you can but I like this better me too that's great so for this yeah how things you see I'm gonna agree with you I machine pancakes like this but these are they take here yeah they taste very different to what we're used to it's almost like a pastry yeah yeah yeah I don't know about that so authenticity it's weird for me what would you give it um because normal Beijing duck is carved on the side of the table yes and then also usually just give them meat and maybe they make a dish with other stuff later on you never really see that because this is put together the meat almost in a more Cantonese style I would say and impaired with this kind of pastry like pancake I would say I would give the authenticity like a seven anything compared to like trin Judah or one of the big kind of chains up in Beijing yeah yeah and for me the taste I would give a 8.5 it's really really really good I'm gonna go for like five okay although the taste of it is very authentic right right though the taste is really up to around about seven like you say for the taste right but as far as being tasty is concerned yeah I really like it it's great I've got six six because you're not a skinny boy yeah it's not my ducks not my favorite either I like that they have enough to boil mm-hmm you know for people that don't like sky thing a lot of people don't like ice cream do some people love it like me right very very good stuff can recommend this for sure I mean I can say that I was a little bit worried that this is gonna be completely inauthentic but everyone around in the straw is Chinese they told us that we are the only West yeah which I find kind of weird but you don't go you don't need to feel intimidated intimidated though if you are in the area because the manager speaks English they do have English on the menus and okay yeah I'd like to reiterate you want real Atlantic Beijing duck this is probably about as good as you're gonna get in fact I'm gonna say it's better than the Beijing duck we've had in Beijing I'm it's almost it's almost a little too weird what's happening to us yeah is that we keep consistently finding that some of this food is more authentic or more delicious and all the time in China yeah which I find a little bizarre I'm trying to get very bizarre but it's not a bad thing and I the thing is I don't think it's just our Western palates I'm pretty sure the Chinese people would everywhere yeah cuz it's really good and you've got Chinese people around us eating it and if it wasn't good there wouldn't be no I mean talk about discriminating taste people are incredibly picky with their Chinese food that makes any sense well I must say it's pretty awesome to know you can get like proper Beijing food here in LA I'm kind of surprised for sure we've now tried China's most iconic dish in America that's true yeah it's also that you can get it here yeah I know you're not a big fan of avian skin no but you can appreciate the dish yeah I tell you you know whenever I got with a show even with you guys I can I get chicken or anything I'm always like taking the skin off and giving it to other people because I can't handle it yeah I usually add other skin yeah no yeah you [Music] lovely weather we're experiencing today a Cemal it's not supposed to be like this a Newport Beach California you know any CL like the like TV shows that are filmed here and you hear about Newport Beach you know it's where all the celebs live and they don't want to live in the hustle and bustle of LA and Hollywood and stuff and yeah we come here and it's not sunny like on all the TV shows yeah it's still nice so I'm really liking it certainly has a different vibe from where we started that's for sure absolutely but yeah with all the all the Rolls Royces and nice cars around basically all these jewelry shops seems a little bit out of place for your average mom-and-pop Chinese restaurant but that's fairly where we're going today the sky wing Lam he is yeah wing Lam is the CEO of this really really big fish taco company and he has all kinds hang on a second fish tacos there's tacos Mexican style right the thing that's really special about him for us is not the fish tacos of course like what does that have to do absolutely nothing and what we're gonna do today is break all the rules of this entire series okay and go find out who and why they invented Chinese American cuisine so we're gonna see the grandfather the granddaddy the birthplace and kind of the the forefathers of Chinese American food the stuff that you find every place in America so you're talking about like sweet-and-sour shrimp prawn balls walnut chicken the beef would broccoli General Tso's chicken lo mein chow mein right apparently this story goes way way way back and wings father and his relatives were the ones that came here and started this whole craze and that's why in your little town in Alabama yeah has Chinese American food okay well I mean that sounds really interesting to me I'm interested in their story yeah so I think we're almost there yeah let's find a parking spot looks kind of difficult to partner on [Music] so this is my mom and dad mr. and mrs. Li and we're here at the famous Shanghai pine garden on Balboa Island California my name is Wingham their third son saloon adjudicator youngsil with the Torah Sam hi the last Sunday each agreement or the Shanga yeah Yahoo Union Donovan una sorpresa Posche II introduced uni let me go woman tasted American essences culinary so this is the Hollywood and that restaurant thing called respect omotola Cheney you magnetical my brother take a phobia and tala chaser name is Savannah the mr. sham when I had Thomas handing that svet photometers hadn't survived her dad oh when you told another sin zoom knee your mother in which the parents say that - the message I'm going to be chilly 2 minutes in the mushy poker the searching to the hundreds of hair and agar just mr. flood resident Tama hey Sean is upon body as the Haitian woman the chopper from say it's it's a two dose or Oh Papa a number and never know Bernie - Tasha has it about your father Benetti a father so it's ernamaria - is you Thomas - already got much it to another job wahoo fish taco motionless had so growing up in Brazil obviously you know brazilian food and Chinese we living in a Chinese restaurant because my parents did open one of the first Chinese restaurants in Brazil in the early 50s basically for as long as I can remember I ate some variation of a Chinese dish and whether or not was with a little Brazilian influence or not it always had that in the background and even after we moved to America I mean I've always loved Chinese food and it's what we eat at home and again remember we have a little bit of influence from South America but in America I mean this is this traditional Chinese best friend that we know there's the early version with the China towns of New York and San Francisco because of the old mining and in the railroad so I think that was the first you know kind of color rendition and then after World War two basically all the expats left China and they say there's a core group of them around the world whether there was in South America Japan or Europe they all got their training like between Hong Kong and Japan so my dad was part of that core group of the new wave of traditional Chinese restaurant tours yeah I grew up there no fortune cookies in Brazil I have no idea where that came from but as soon as I got to America at the end of every Chinese meal you had a fortune cookie and almond cookie I have no idea where he came from but all of a sudden I don't know like who I actually happened to admit the family that made little cookies in Chinatown and he cracked me up because I don't know anywhere else in the world but in America where they have you know Chinese fortune cookies so in more of a traditional Chinese you know you have what I call it a child fund the flat noodles will have some of that the tofu noodles the Mapo tofu is very popular and I call it the western version you got the broccoli chicken the orange chicken the Kung Pao shrimp we got obviously you gotta have fried rice you know you know we like steamed legs but the American palate likes fried rice I think people love those with soy sauce so we have a variation of dishes that are both traditional and American westernized I am so excited I'm super excited to be at the new Pyne Shanghai restaurant a very very fascinating story from the family here actually yeah fascinating story all over the world to bring Chinese food to America and I think a lot of people I managed to say every Americans familiar with normal Americanized Chinese food right yeah the really special thing about this restaurant is the hand I got both yeah absolutely of course changing certain dishes to suit American tastes very normal to do with the restaurant with foreign food right but also maintaining a lot of the original flavors that you will have Chinese food absolutely so this is gonna be a little bit of an off-the-wall review traditional Chinese coat traditional Chinese coast regional Chinese sweet and sour pork yeah we got the American Girl Chinese burrito Chinese burrito which is you know are really excited to try our friend wait here I was actually telling us this is this is the dish that made his father famous well can we try it before we continue its moo shu pork rest explain what it is well ok can I take a bite cuz I'm Scott right hmmm super good oh yeah I'm super good but really just blowing my mind it's thought it was eating Mexican food until I taste the inside super sweet a little bit smoky it's almost got that breath of the Dragon that you get from cooking in a wok very Chinese on the inside I was really surprised because it kind of reminded me of a Beijing pot yeah because they used the wrapped oh yeah I suppose so it's got maybe plum sauce or something in it maybe but it's just the wrap that makes it so neutral yeah no I got it I've got to admit that my tastes when it comes to Chinese food is this is my favourite kind of Chinese food I know a lot of people are gonna get down on me because I've been living in China for 12 years and of course I do love authentic Chinese food and we've traveled both of us around the whole of China and we've tried everything mm-hm but I still like westernized Chinese food the most because it's got that you know the Western palates in mind get out of here no it's delicious it's absolutely amazing this is actually in this aspect this is just as good so I can I'm sorry I got a guy oh you got a lot of greedy but I get it I mean I feel like a lot of people get down on Americanized Chinese food because of cheap nature of it but if you go find the real deal the good stuff like we have here I think it's in a completely different realm of genre food to be honest yeah so I'm gonna have to say for the burrito the authenticity I'll give it a probably about it 1 out of 10 I think I'll just go for a 0 because it's it's own thing yeah odd for taste taste I'm gonna give it a 10 I have to go up to know and that kind of I didn't actually I watched them make it mmm and it was kind of like okay I kind of know what this is gonna taste like but it completely exceeded my expectations for sure I keep almost reaching for it no school let's go with this sweet and sour pork because it's the brightest oh yeah yeah now I see chunks of pineapple here see a little low roll right if we would call it cool all right yeah in China all right yeah we can we can get this dish in China we can but yeah usually when we find it I find them in like Hong kong-style canteens and stuff sure you know sure it smells a little bit sour a little bit sweet kind of fruity like pineapple yeah you definite that is very sweet I have super sweet I would eat that for dessert and ajan Americans would love that I love it here was very good stuff very sweet almost pungent in a way a little bit of vinegar in there mmm yeah good stuff though I feel crispy on the outside tomorrow is pretty much exactly like you'd get other than a little bit extra sweetness and a little bit extra style yes so I'm gonna say I can get something very similar in China so if you were to compare eating that in China and eating that here it's it's got a good authenticity right all the way up there so eight out of ten yeah for sure I'm gonna match that yeah the taste is a little better than what I usually get I don't want to offend anyone out there but I mean it's just the quality of ingredients that they would use in a restaurant like this is quite a bit higher than you get in China no offence subscribers I'm so sorry but this would be a little bit higher on the taste scale for me this is a chow fun and I know when me and you have a little too much to drink yeah on the streets of China will go out really to that I'm talking midnight 1:00 a.m. yeah and we'll be like what is there and you see these great big walks but yeah at night you're like you know what as the only thing I want right now yeah and do this way too often it's it's awesome that place right near your house would sit there we call it crack noodles because if I would call it crack people coming back always coming back yes and this reminds me of that it kind of looks identical let's try it up okay hmm all right you know what it is almost identical I couldn't you gave me a blind taste test yeah the only way I could differentiate them is number one if I was sober which I am now and number two is the kind of soy sauce that they use a slightly different mm-hmm tastes equally as delicious absolutely amazing stuff I can eat these all day and all night okay it would be a tenant 10,000 pounds yes authenticity from you time me - absolutely just like I'll get the same ten out of ten and taste I gotta say nine yeah I'm actually getting there I'm gonna go all the way up to ten on this one hmm I didn't know if you'd go so now I feel a little embarrassed that he went one night that's all right it's very seldom I go all the way up to ten didn't even give the ball to know didn't know you didn't know that's freaking delicious absolutely what's that I'm a little bit I'm a little bit worried about this episode for one specific reason what's that and that is everyone that watches our videos everyone that watches anything we do with food watch it because they want to see what authentic real Chinese culture and food is like mm-hmm and I was so worried coming into this that I was gonna maybe prefer this and I kind of do mm-hmm well that's hmm that is why American Chinese food is the way it is is it because it's adapted to the Western palate you know you come over here you've got different ingredients to work with you know different kinds of vegetables you know the meats different is different you eat chicken and China or Shore and here it's completely different when you know what I can say though is that it's kind of a wonderful marriage because yes you get really low in American Chinese food at your typical takeout place maybe the people have never had a history like an oriental buffet yeah like we saw Tucson Arizona instead maybe their family is no traditional cooking right yeah but when you have not even Chinese maybe their name in Chinese meat when you have people that bring traditional dishes and kind of adjust them to local flavors is not necessarily a bad thing I mean that's how fusion is born right and in a way this is kind of the oldest fusion dude here yeah in America and it's kind of a beautiful thing absolutely so absolutely love the food tonight right yeah what else can we say I can say that you should definitely come check this out because it might look like from the sign your average you know Chinese restaurant it's not that's its average food that tastes way better than average that's for sure yeah so it's good someone check it out if you're ever in Volvo Island yes very good Olson well let's get stuck in and then I guess we got to hit the low well that was completely different to what I expected I expected it to be the most average Chinese American restaurant rolls ring rolls sweet and sour pork your ever stuff and we did it every dishes there oh yeah sure blow I'm absolutely blown away me too immensely blown away those freaking delicious yeah I loved it so far one of my favorites absolutely one of my favorites and I guess I just don't want to piss anyone off of that but gosh darn it I know I don't you want to eat Mexican food after that it's so that's a better way to do it oh yeah I mean it's literally just yeah Chinese food in a burrito like it's so weird I've never thought of that no what's next sushi in a burrito that sounds awful fish in a burrito oh that's actually gonna make me throw up anyway to top it all off we had a fortune cookie which was a perfect end of that meal what did your say mine said that keep your plans secret keep your plans secret yeah that's terrifying yeah it's okay I always keep my actually legit like off camera that makes me legitimately nervous anyway mine said that I am sociable and entertaining yeah that's kind of true yeah yeah like that's thank you it's definitely true you know it's kind of true yeah most of the time you go in there and you meet this really genuine family with an absolutely amazing story yeah with the really cool characters wing was such a cool dude his dad really funny character you could you could recognize him anywhere absolutely really really cool stuff so I was super happy and really lucky to meet these guys well let's say we head off we got a big day tomorrow we sure do and with that we'll see you tomorrow yeah [Music] you [Music] welcome to ghost stories you seen it yeah SEMA looks like it goes we've got some fairly poor lighting in the car at the moment but guys we're really looking forward to tonight yes we are first of all we have a very special guest has come to pick us up yes and that is mr. Jun Li our gracious host is taking us to his restaurant and the reason why we're so excited is because it's kind of like a barbecue and Buras true and I gotta say this Tesla is a lot more comfortable than your Corvette yeah okay that is true like threw out my back in your car anyway yeah it's super happy to go check out some dome before because you are in fact from don't am i right well my part is from dome bang gotcha really his mother actually told him that not to get involved in restaurant business whatever you do don't get in our Father in the restaurant business if you go to the United States alright and this is what I end up doing okay cool sometimes mama doesn't know best yeah but he should team mama the wah so I so basically what are we gonna eat tonight what do you do you hon the mini dump a style a small dish and barbecues [Music] take whatever you like awesome awesome I mean this is a probably at least for me my favorite food in China because it's the kind of thing you can drink beer and just eat barbecue and it's delicious and usually you sit outside you know and you can sit outside in the summer in fact even in where I live in the winter as well it's not that cold it's gonna say I mean we've said this before but it is definitely one of the most how to say like expat friendly types of foods yeah yeah we like all kinds of Chinese food but this is just one of the things I always look forward to when I'm in China we really feel like we're in Asia right now without speaking English at all yeah I know it's so weird in the supermarket you know they were speaking man we had a few changes it's crazy exactly interesting you flew all the way it's kind of crazy to see the big changes here but anyway it looks like we've arrived yes all right cool let's go check it out yeah [Music] so basically we're focused barbecue and welcome let's see we're serving skewers and then the taste is based on northern China and then a lot of snacks from China to also hop Chinese hot pot and it's hot and spicy and it's really famous around this area too and that's about it and then also we have peers Qin Gauss focus Winston we got beer to drink absolutely and guess what it's my favorite beer Qingdao it is everybody knows it's kind of bizarre we haven't had it on this entire trip for filming all these episodes right yeah but it's not in a bag no I'm a little disappointed but you know you can only get that in the real Qingdao right a quick disclaimer here this barbecue from what we've seen thus far it looks fantastic oh yeah absolutely amazing the flavours and the smells that I got out of that kitchen were a cut above the rest as you can say that right but what we've done is we started out with one of the riskiest dishes that they have because I feel like it took the less least prepped I'm sure this is this is some raw beef and one of their specialties apparently no I'll be honest with you in China I would never eat this in America I kind of problem with yeah absolutely so uh you put a little bit of vinegar on there yeah we need to mix the vinegar with the wasabi I have a feeling it has something to do with like disinfecting or a little special taste right but we've all had carpaccio before right not all of us you've never any carpaccio it's never really appealed to me okay well you're about to him Chinese carpets you think I've had ostrich carpaccio that's okay you won dumped me there okay this one is ready to roll by doing a quick dip you're doing a quick dip yeah you ready let's do it one two three it's actually pretty good I like it I do like it one thing I'm super happy about and we've said this way too many times in our other videos is we're kind of tired of eating sueño yes like water buffalo this is beef which I'm so happy to have it's it's really nice cool next we're gonna have the cook diversion it's a cook beef and apparently they use flaming yarn for the Nanyang so that's fantastic we don't do we don't do no no no just just straight away the flavors are very authentic yes I'd have to give it a 10 out of 10 but we never have real beef I know it actually blew my mind cuz it is exactly like the cumin spice that you get on the side of the road but the beef is real this time so it's kind of playing tricks on my mind loving it loving it the beef on the whole dough for me authenticity I mean I gotta go like five minutes in because like we're never gonna believe this is way better as for the taste I'm gonna go for a 8.5 that's delicious absolutely next up we're gonna have the lamb skewers now oftentimes you get in China it's gonna be go right yeah and they actually they actually don't make a distinction in Chinese Yan Roe is also lamb and it's also go right well I mean they do have a there is a distinction because the Xianyang is a God may young rice but it's she when people are talking about yeah just young yeah sometimes they don't know yeah but anyway this is lamb confirmed in this trap this is my favorite char that's so good so hard in Wow that's delicious that is so much better than what I usually have down from my house and by Joe I don't think I'm gonna be able to eat there anymore Simon chin chin I mean I've been to some fairly upscale you know sort of barbecue restaurants and you can call it that mmm the flavors there but this is so much nicer custom meat so much nicer I mean that the kind of fat there's a little bit of pocket of fat that they put in between the skewers I mean you don't notices and rissalah or anything got it explodes in your mouth with juice and kind of oil and it's delicious lamb oil is where the yummy right and what I gotta say is that this for authenticity for me is a 10 because it does taste like a young road car but it's just better it is better so if we could yeah the authenticity would be a 10 for me as well because is the same flavor but the taste is a 10 out of 10 I'm gonna go percent I'm gonna go for that as well I mean if you're gonna come to a Chinese barbecue you're definitely a neat yaaarrr yeah this is pretty much the epitome of that you know there's one thing that always disappoints me when we younger it's well usually is you know the fact that they use is usually more than the meat right overpowering and it's gristle II like you said and I usually sit down I'm pulling the meat bits off eating the meat and then like just discarding the fat bits onto like a side plate right but not here I mean it just works so well it's fantastic seven out of ten one thing I notice about these little baby qingdao is is that they're little baby kingdoms yeah I've never seen one so little because in China we get double size beers yeah another they're huge these must be like export only this is apparently deep fried milk okay and I know ya actually don't know what to expect from this so why don't you grab one these my fingers you know why not I'll grab onto and well I mean what could deep fried milk be it's not really barbecue food but it was highly recommended as a specialty right yes let's give it a fact that's all looks so good this is amazing mmm what the hell is this it's like oily custody mm-hmm it's nice very good I can dig it it doesn't remind me maybe it's kind of milky how do they make this just custard man looks like it's fried tested almost forgot sir right guys really good though it is nice I mean I mean I'm not a massive fan but it's nice I'm gonna give it like a five and a half out of ten for taste homie or this this you know so it's a little bit oily okay weird feeling I would like it more after the meal because I want to eat some more that's delicious barbecue absolutely I keep trying to pick stuff but I keep looking at these oysters so if you don't know yeah no no absolutely you have the oyster name you're gonna have to do do it by yourself because I'm not a big fan of seafood I mean shellfish especially I'm allergic to shrimp right but they don't take chances yeah but the thing is yeah we ate raw oysters on conquering northern China you know horses but I have a problem with oysters that are prepared in China and that is that they are more garlic than oyster this is very very garlicky too but it looks awesome these are super median clean looking Oh give it a shot certainly looks bigger than any oysters seen in China good well lucky you because you get another one whoa I think oh go for it yeah you should that's amazing it doesn't have that irony taste that I get from Chinese oysters it's probably cuz it doesn't have a heavy metals oh that's huge super creamy and sweet I love it amazing and they have this like kind of like a little round batch of noodles on the rice noodles rice noodles and it has a ton of garlic on it but it's really good smoky flavor way better than raw raw oysters that's for sure for sure you know we have something else here sorry I know you're still enjoying your oysters over there sorry I can't draw video okay yeah you've got to give it a rating before we move on so what are your ratings how the anisa tea is kind of like a seven because the Chinese oysters I've had that's very small this is a whole mouthful because you couldn't eat like a dozen remember remember unconquered northern China we report that like 200 oysters for like five dollars or whatever well it was well so advertising though can you crack them open there was like there's a little bit of an actually a lot of them were just kind of empty right there where they haven't they hadn't grown yeah one of these is worth 20 of those absolutely I'm gonna give a for a taste rate I'm gonna give that a nine that's probably the best oyster I've ever had I like barbecued stuff but do you know now this next one I believe it's pork belly mushrooms you know those like see you tomorrow mushrooms we call them in China are you gonna explain why well let's just say that you will see them the next day they're not digest easily no they don't digest very well see you tomorrow mushrooms in pork-belly and looks good let's give it a try it's almost like a piece of bacon you know what it looks like it looks like a chrysalis you know like you know what I mean let's hope I meet butterfly yeah that's pretty sure this is good with a pork belly on outside it's a it's kind of like a sweet bacon I'm throwing up very yummy though I'm a big clam we've been I think they're sitting I've had that before absolutely nine yeah it's definitely I'm gonna give it a nine and a half 10 for taste I'm gonna go with a 7 it's a bit sweet for me well yeah I've never really liked those mushrooms to be honest really yeah six and a half for me on time I think they're a bit overrated that over there is this is the lung yes it's called a barbecued cold noodles which is a complete oxymoron yeah let's give it a shot I'm ready really really curious I lost my heart I lost my dog I'm losing ever my dog loser dude okay whatever okay this is strawberry mmm yeah that's like syrupy almost and we're good mmm that tastes better than normal onion oh yeah no I mean who knew that cold noodles would taste better huh mm-hmm go figure yeah I mean yeah that's awesome amazing stop hmm broth and destiny it's almost like a three because I've never had that it's special a super special taste I'm gonna go eight point five absolutely amazing stop love enough yeah I'm gonna give it a 9 mm what entity again I can't reach it cuz they've never had it before I mean it obviously exists but you know we've been to tons of northern style barbecue places I've never seen anything like there by I mean it's this kind of these really really thick noodles Graham's around hot dogs and cilantro all the kind of innards that you'd get in the gym big butt cilantro is coriander right yeah exactly coriander and some chives is up at this slathered in this really really nice sweet sweet like almost like a honey seriously don't like sweet stuff but it was really good that's really good see milk I know you you like weird food right you always talking about oh I love the organs of this and then the next thing so that's why I ordered you very special over here some Prairie oysters also known as sheep testicles listen listen listen I like weird stuff in there you think tongue is weird you think liver is where this stuff I grew up eating right and have you think eating tongue and livers weird well you know what I'm we're eating balls cuz I didn't do that mom didn't say here's a fresh plate of bowls for you yeah he may not have said here's a fresh plate of balls but it's right up your alley you know what cut is kind of funny well it's not a whole big difference between two egg you could trick someone put like one of these on there this is a sheep's balls that's a huge oh my lord almighty and there's something weird about eating balls because for me yes there is something weird about eating no I know eat bowls I don't really know for me I can I can almost imagine when you're eating like let's think about it like a chicken wing you don't think about eating the wing of an actual chicken what are you eating a lamb leg you're not thinking oh this was like a walking leg in the land but for some reason is a man eating balls just imagine feels like these swinging down and you just walk up and you just bit him like a nutter you know like well I don't know about that but yeah but you just you feel their pain yes you know time in and these are now sliced up are you ready slice balls yeah I guess we gotta have one each right yeah Oh God everything's been amazing and I didn't want to end with this yeah this do we have to eat a whole one I think we owe a small one I don't have a small one to do right there what this one oh you're bragging about your big balls all right you really after this buddy get by a half of this one yeah I'll eat this small one okay ready 1 2 3 whoa I remember a hard time it's just a the texture it's soft and it almost says a fishy taste to it doesn't it have a look about it can answer me a beer man I'm out I'm out I could have a little bit more there please it's almost like a Brady soft fish that's awful yeah everything was amazing that was scary that was a taste I have never had before me neither like a pretty fishy stuff anyway and I guess I'm not gonna write that I'm gonna have to write it because for authenticity I guess it tastes like balls if you've ever had it site but I've never had balls so you wanna give it a taste I'm gonna get a zero that don't eat that yeah don't don't no to that you know what I can't recommend what this restaurant has amazing amazing amazing it was a really good experience and really friendly people here in just such a nice environment so if you get a chance definitely check it out folks barbecue cheers man cheers man oh you know I hope tomorrow's restaurants going to be awesome because they're really gonna have to try hard to up this one you know I mean I fully agree yeah so guys we're on ludicrous mode we're gonna ramp up this sowed any other Christmas I don't have a seatbelt on I'm holding both your seats you better yeah yeah I better hold all this lights gonna go fly-in yeah well hold it ghost boy I'm gonna hold it I guess it'll pick me back in my seat yeah okay cool that was really fantastic see Moke what do you think of the meal I thought it was absolutely delicious in so many aspects it was like a throwback to China was like kind of everything I loved about Chinese barbecue to be honest kind of wrapped up into one clean and delicious package and you know the best part is you don't need to worry about a dodgy stomach you know don.t stomachs come with Chinese barbecue it's almost like it's ubiquitous yeah everybody who goes for Chinese barbecue except me anyway the people I take always end up having food poisoning the next day because you know yeah here we go yeah you go out you have a great night lots of food lots of barbecue and then yeah you get those rumbles the next day but not this time the rumbles turn into something much worse yeah and I have a feeling we're gonna have a little bit of a rumble hear all about the rumble of an engine a bit of a straight here and ludicrous mode - [Applause] awesome that's great yeah that's that's pretty impressive yeah yeah yeah yeah we really want to say thank you very much - too late for this awesome experience and his awesome Teslin is awesome restaurant yeah we will see you on the next episode yeah absolutely thanks a lot man we appreciate it it's been so nice meeting you [Music] so we have to say goodbye to LA I've been driving all day where we headed we're headed to San Francisco so we're headed to San Francisco what is it that we're going to do there of course we're gonna go see San Fran just because it's a freaking awesome city but also we're gonna go eat meat of course what we're doing on the strip authentic Chinese food this time in America's biggest trying the town yeah I mean look last time I went through San Francisco I didn't get a chance to really explore Chinatown yeah so I'm actually really looking forward to it sure I got you a little treat by the way oh what's that I got I got you ostrich jerky and also alligator jerky well I've had ostrich before you know it's over the alligators okay I mean ostrich is something you eat inside I forget a lot I've had it in Taiwan some elliegator jerky not very good [Music] not fishy I wouldn't say it's videos just tips around a little bear food yeah it'll dry really sick is it just me was just dry because like feet would which you prefer to it tasted better on the phone I guess this breath okay alright whoever made Buffalo Bob suck quiet I'm sorry Buffalo Bob but I do prefer your ostrich jerky over your alligator one anyway so we're just basically on the road all day today we're not going to be doing anything today we're gonna arrive in San Francisco we're gonna check into our hotel and then we're gonna start exploring the next day we're gonna go check out Chinatown and see what it's all about and then try and arrange to go and see some awesome restaurants things like that so so I got some awesome stuff playing forwards Noreen [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're actually in a very interesting place where are we see milk we are in China tap everybody Wang Chung tonight yes we are and it's quite confusing because it literally looks like we're in China all of the time here I would say it actually looks like identical to Hong Kong because of all the colonial buildings or the Chinese characters everywhere not to mention it's really loud screeching but also the predominant language they keep hearing on the streets is Cantonese yeah absolutely the thing is when you get to a place like America you know I absolutely love it because there's so much opportunity here right you see people of all different walks of life working together living together you know you've got so much choice you know there's such a diverse landscape everything here is really quite spectacular yeah and I mean you might think I'm honeymoon parading it here but it's not so anyway I'm hungry apparently didn't some on the street is a thing here so we've been told about the best one in San Francisco so let's go check it out we are in San Francisco I can't see anything put your glasses back on indeed I lost my contacts last night was 6:00 absolutely what happened to the way there Winston well it kind of just got old misty and overcast all of a sudden it was quite nice and bright earlier on yeah I kind of fell in love with San Francisco or walking around shooting site Alcatraz we saw the beautiful kind of houses on the hill mm-hmm walks everywhere though I absolutely love it oh it's so cool and China down here is quite spectacular it it's weird it's literally like you're walking around Hong Kong it is there's very very few differences yeah one thing I will say though is that the people that came from China yeah he came to this Chinatown they're very different than the ones that we saw in LA yeah that's the thing everyone speaking Cantonese around here and up until this point we've been able to speak to everyone in Mandarin you know but over here literally you try to speak Mandarin to them they don't understand you because yeah they're Cantonese for sure what's that yeah this is not correct it is currently now 10 paws - 10 best - we're in the middle right now thank you yeah right now the difference is everybody that we met so far over here speaks Cantonese and it's something different because up until now and the trip everybody's been able to understand Mandarin we've been meeting people from the north of China from central China from all over China but predominantly the people that have settled here in San Francisco obviously are from Hong Kong or from Guangdong because it's all Cantonese there's been a massive disadvantage for us I tell you why this is some behind the scenes stuff but yeah basically everywhere we've gone in LA it was pretty smooth sailing because I would call them up or I'd show up right we're just gonna randomly show up and speak Chinese to them it's kind of really nice like they felt like a nice connection with us but because everyone here is Cantonese there's a different barrier for us unlike in China Cantonese people here don't speak Mandarin yeah the most part right so they don't identify with that there's no camaraderie there and also you have to understand you know traditionally anyway down south there's a lot more scamming going on there's a lot more sort of people taking advantage of people for money and things so they don't trust us right it's very annoying because we'd walk into a restaurant in LA and we'd speak in Mandarin say hey is your is your manager here no problem we're the foreigners speaking Chinese and then here it's left and right yeah we're over say hey is there a manager here like no we're like we want to make a video No so that's why we're at a park you are in a beautiful park oh yeah yeah pretty much other than the weather and we got dim sum errantly the best dim sum you can buy in San Francisco I have to have a bit of a laugh at the name because we always make that joke about Mong Kok because you know it's called good Mong Kok baik yeah good Mong Kok bakery you know in Hong Kong you stayed in Mong Kok for a little while and you know I got a Mong Kok quite often - to buy stuff but you know it really does like sound like an STI doesn't it it really does anyway we've heard very good things about this and you know we couldn't film inside because well we filmed us ordering but there's no sit-down tables it's we had to get it to go yeah I mean that's that's something I got to point out as well as there's this huge queue outside yeah and we've been walking up and down Chinatown taking beer all day right right and we get to that place and guess what there's still a queue right that's when you know it's good and I've talked about this we talked about this on a TV planet before right right it's basically if there's a cue that's where people will go because then obviously it's got to be good otherwise why would people be queuing up or sure and one of the one of the reasons for the queue is your favorite thing in the world absolutely when you show that to the camera okay this is a ciaochao ball which is like a sweet barbecue pork bun right and basically what you'll find inside of it is you'll find kind of a honey honeyed sweetened barbecue pork right put some of them can hashes some of them can have a bunch of different spices almost like a nutmeg type flavor and some are just straight-up pork this one looks really good I just like a pulled pork better than it does I got to give it a try okay it does have a savory taste to it and and sweet and it's got a very fluffy sort of a breading around it or not breading a fluffy bun around it it's delicious I mean I like about this one what it's not cloying ly sweet yes yes it's got a little bit more savory in it and the you know what the pork tastes like you know when you've got like Chinese American food and it has the little bits of pork in the noodles like boar the fried rice it's like that same consistency before but it actually works hmm it's very very gooey and kind of nice one thing I hate about getting chow chow ball in China sometimes is they'll put like a little dab of sauce in there barely had anything this one's chock-full yeah it's very generous and an honorary authentic in that way hmm I mean you say that but I've had very similar stuff to this because dim sum is one of those things we've both probably had it up to here with to be honest because living in Guangdong and our families being you know Chinese families our Guangdong right every time you go out then you go out for young tar which is just going out for themself and for me one thing I hate about them son in Guangdong is that pretty much every dish has got shrimp in it in almost every dish because they use shrimp paste is like a little dish affan they throw them and everything and it's really annoying because I'm allergic so I'm always stuck at the at the dim sum place is ordering Chow Chow bar or a meatballs and spring rolls a couple of things like that right right so I'm always having the same four or five dishes every time so I've eaten a lot of these I have two I would say four harmonicity for me that's a 6 out of 10 for taste I'm going to give that a 8 okay I'm gonna say it's an 8 out of 10 for authenticity because I've had something that's almost exactly the same before you do you're a big fan of this you have more than I have but taste I'll give it a I'll give it an 8 as well it's delicious it's great it's a good job I think it's better than most of the ones I've had if you're going to have dim sum you have to order their Chasseur bar restore what's next well like we were saying earlier I was saying there's a lot of shrimp involved right so that's why you're gonna take care of the chicken shell mine and I'm gonna take care of this front dumplings absolutely so let's see I've never seen him I've never ever seen a chicken shell mind before it's the first time yeah so it's gonna take our points for authenticity immediately there yeah usually they got pork or they've got some shrimp so he's got like a little one little damn shrimp tonight really yeah of course very cool so a shamah is basically a wonton wrapper wrapped around a dumpling sort of thing this has got scallions and chicken yeah yeah so this should be quickly see I just try it out mmm-hmm it takes me back immediately to that roadside place next to my house and hey Joe mm-hmm oh those before we go work on our motorcycles they're going to trip or whatever we'd stop and step stock up on something very similar this base better though it's still miss tastes like canned chicken soup in a way doesn't it a bit of chicken soup you know the mushrooms you know that kind of absolutely this tastes like almost like something you could get in any Chinese American restaurant yeah and for that the authenticity is freedom I'm gonna give it to it I'm maybe even a 1 cuz I've never seen a chicken shell my it's definitely made for the American taste and you can try and say oh but they maybe they have it somewhere in China no because this food comes from where I live in China eating it like religiously for years and years and years and years I've never seen one looks like I'm gonna give it a zero I'm a 1 coz it's got the skin yeah I was gonna say it looks like it yeah it looks like a Shania and it's definitely a little bit of shrimp in there because I can feel a little tingle I forgot to give a taste oh yeah taste so sorry let me get some more I actually quite liked it so I'm gonna give it like a 6 ok yeah this looks exactly like a shrimp dumpling lb yep three times bigger it is way bigger yeah and shrimp dumplings are just that it's a rice paper dumpling on my rice dumpling unlike a weak dumpling wrapper yeah a little bit translucent it's chocolate syrup usually a shot what they've done oh it's got a breaded shrimp it's not okay with an egg bread yeah I'll get egg breading I've never seen that before you get a lot more bang for your buck with these ones lot more shrimp and them but I've had better ones hmm and I actually had better ones in New York City believe it or not when it dim sum place and it had a whole shrimp in it it was unadulterated an unadulterated truth have liked it since this one's not fresh no I'm saying this is not a fresh shrimp it's like my frozen fried up on authenticity I'm gonna give this a four okay I would never have anything like this in China I taste so give us six pretty good okay cool yeah I mean just from the look of it cuz you know my wife loves shrimp so she's always ordering that smooth right mmm I've never seen one like that before so just from the look of it the authenticity is way down there you know probably like a two or three though we had our breakfast here kind of a late lunch but we have to save a lot more room because this episode is all covering Cantonese food correct so we started with the average Cantonese meal that you'd have earlier on we're gonna have some Cantonese dinner items later on and actually one of our friends restaurants yep downtown yeah so we've got no problem filming there because you know he's actually one of our subscribers and a friend of ours and he's just like hey you know his uncle is a designer it's uncle right yeah his uncle runs a restaurant where they do Cantonese food so we can have some nice you know sort of authentic Cantonese food there and try it out I'd say you know that place and we just went to really good food yes it was pretty good it's pretty good but it's not very authentic right it's got its own Flair and this ya know it's not not very authentic but it tastes very good tastes good I liked it I liked that I liked it too I can hardly suggest it if you want to get a kind of a taste of China that's not authentic but it's kind of the same yeah right that's fitting yeah oh yeah exactly even the fittings I'll think yeah yeah we'll see you at the next restaurant absolutely see you there [Music] you [Music] so you know yes we are currently stable yeah and we're writing up these really ridiculous hills yeah it's not safe yeah I remember playing video games and as a kid I liked racing games yeah like old games like test drive and stuff and they'd have levels in San Franciscan it's always been dreamed to drive up these things like ramp yeah is it a cool absolutely I mean I I would maybe try that on a bike but not hard I wouldn't try that on anything in traffic the traffic is pretty bad here it's not China bad no it's pretty bad I can we can never go quickly go you narrow we're ready yeah it's it's insane I mean I'm surprised that the cars here don't break right you see them parked at 45 degree angles right it's really ridiculously weird here right but it's so cool it's got it I mean it's unique isn't it I'm absolutely loving and like just walking around the streets it's awesome like I know why people are finding out man my shins are burning their sole source is treacherous up hills I don't know how they park these roads I know it's just how does it car he's not rolled down the hill yeah I'll just flip over yeah I mean remember we were walking there there's cars yeah parked at like 45 degree angles I know it was absent saying I love it yeah I think this is a great city it's one of my favorite cities in America yeah it's so cool anyway yeah we are now heading actually out of the city slightly I guess we could still say where it's in the beer in the Bay Area okay now we're headed to actually as who as we mentioned before our subscribers uncle's restaurant yeah now the good thing about this is that unlike Yelp or TripAdvisor all these places that say I had really good so and so and so for example like today's Mong Kok bakery right everyone was saying it was great but it wasn't a thing it wasn't authentic right now sometimes the most authentic places are gonna be in the places that you would never think of for example this guy yeah he is from Guangdong Province okay and he started a sushi restaurant but we are not there to eat sushi sometimes you got to go to places that have real food behind the scenes so this is gonna be a hole-in-the-wall place and he cooks homestyle straight-up Cantonese food not restaurant style so this is kind of what we're aiming to find the animal Isis right a polar opposite to what we had earlier why did this they say quiet through tunnel are you gonna rev it that's nice I like this people are walking oh yeah I guess I don't want you like honking your horn and stuff right yeah I guess anyway let's ahead there go through the despicable traffic of San Francisco can't wait and get some food in our belly which is still full yeah absolutely we'll see you at the restaurant [Music] Molly Charmander hi kiddos sigasi Hana [Music] Santo be cow the patina up to the utam utam oh yeah channa oh my oh my I say item type of channel do you see that oh do we go and do a little sick joke on put the end the Jumbo chaga watch Oh to heck on quality low quality whole go are cutting okay kiddo cut the tips of Winston look at this spread it's pretty amazing it doesn't like actually really good now we have a bunch of business today yeah we got pepper beef we do talk fun it's all fun yeah yeah today we got a little bit of a fusion here just kind of thing a Hong Kong we're trying to represent Guangdong in Hong Kong we have you have pizza which is eggplant and we got the duck road stuff right now a couple of these are gonna have kind of elements from other things but that's what you get with Cantonese food on a higher and medium ends right I'm very used to going to higher end Cantonese restaurants with my wife spend I should say my family my in-laws sorry it's your family theory yeah so I'm very used to going to these very higher end ones kind of once a year we have a dinner and you know you sit around the big round tables I've got to say the Dacor in this place is not authentic at all no one for it's a fusion rich it's called ginga's I can't guess come the wonderful thing about that is actually the boss is telling us what a challenge it was to cater to the white before also the population cousins half and half 15 there they're all very picky so but one of the secret things about their menu is that they have up into Cantonese they do get like in the best restaurants in Guangdong from the look of it it looks awesome it does I mean just looking at it like you say it looks incredibly authentic but let's just try it I'm getting I think we should start with the duck okay it should be hot okay thank you yeah let's try this out it looks amazing it certainly does thank you for the duck neck or whatever no it's no I'm kidding that's not duct tape that's a part of a leg yeah all right this looks fantastic it does and it smells really good like a plum sauce usually the plum sauce is something you dip it into but they've kind of it just don't they don't they kind of amped it up a little bit looks very arts isn't a lip striking Wow it's like a plum brandy yeah I'm sure it does actually very good I like it mmm this duck here is very much your roast uh keep gettin guangdong cuisine but almost like with a French twist I have it normally you know whenever I'm eating duck like this it's only part of like a combination right a little bit of a challenge oh yeah a little bit of Darlena and that I'd like peopIe yeah whatever right you know all that stuff together this an entirely different taste it's very very good I mean oftentimes unless it's got that really crispy amazing skin I don't particularly love Duncan goose it's got to be that perfect Cantonese like hanging in the rack goose this is really good but a different take for I mean it's a little bit sweet its crispy its rich almost a Western preparation in terms of how it was roasted roast chicken yeah for authenticity in terms of like what I could order in Guangdong I could get that in hot moving into three I could get that in the Hong Kong but for Cantonese big bundle and yeah hey can we gonna give that seven it was really good really it is as far as doctors concerned probably the best tasting Cabana I'm gonna give it over [Music] right so what are you gonna choose so just teach someone something okay just gonna choose another one Oh Ted's eggplant I'm as good when you lived in South Africa did you like go out of your way to egg back no cuz I don't like it here did I so those of you don't know what eggplant is is also called Alba Gina thanks for talking to like three percent of our audience for some reason when I moved to China all of that change because eggplant tastes way better in Chinese cookies it does I'm gonna I'm gonna say that thank you thank you it does taste better but there's a problem with eggplants in China right if you order it as a street food at a barbecue or something it's more garlic than headphones that I hate that that's the wonderful thing about the Cantonese preparation which is you sound chance' yeah it's got a little bit of fish paste in it yeah it's got a little bit of a sweetness to it and then they cook it a clay pop yeah usually tastes awesome and there's not garlic so this is one of the better ones right it's good a shot yeah I mean it's again incredibly authentic I'll give it a nine out of ten nine for authenticity taste I'm gonna go for a night because I love your song tears I love this dish and this is better than the stuff I usually get my job I agree with you that the way Chinese people put weight on it's way better than in the West really without the pepper beef but I'm thinking we should try this this is basically bok choy this is a very common dish I get this one I don't get this but you know whenever I got four family dinners Roy's on the table and we've got a medley of mushrooms cancer these people are super obsessed with their vegetables in their soup these you get these massive big mushrooms here yeah and it's like three epic guys enoki mushrooms is his normal white button button mushrooms and you get these like shiitakes yeah try a little bit see you tomorrow mushrooms I don't I have to preface this by saying there's absolutely nothing special it's just that you'll get it everywhere and that's why I warn ya we have to try because we're it's all about authenticity right so now I have to say something you know when you talk to Chinese people and you're talking about different kinds of tastes and flavors they always say that Guangdong food is very bland tinged under you know so it's got no no real flavor no real taste that's not true I think what they're trying to say is that it lacks huge amounts of chilies and huge amounts of spices but of course there's a flavor of course this is very flavorful right the chicken sorry yeah incredibly flavorful but it's not like it's gonna burn your mouth right right it's not like salt turning a lot of people in China are used to seeing things like citron cuisine with that covered Leo said covered in chili yeah yeah covered in sauce covered all this up and we'd get any smoothies in like wow it's braised Disney Wildenstein right yeah - I'm for authenticity but yes yes it's good it's bland but it's healthy I've got an ice to break up there yeah definitely gonna give it a ten out of ten for them to sleep because it is I'm gonna give it about a five maybe four tastes because it's nothing special like you said Neutron does it really well but if you're after this bucket or mushroom medley as your father mm-hmm I got it tell you something dude we build its whole kind of series that we've done this is like probably one of the best it's a really yummy it is it's really good it's kind of changing my perspective look I'm I'm with you on that I mean there are a lot of foods which are better for a Western palate usually you know we're talking about seeing junk food don't bake food but certain dishes in Cantonese food because handsome spirits kind of like a real divider because it's got the best and the worst this country's Rosa that's where you get them then weird like intestine pig intestines that right teeth there's a fund why another chicken feed the chicken heads weird suits disgusting like pig's blood don't pee no sudden or what you know it's all comes right in Cantonese we'd like the really disgusting stuff you know but then you've got also this already been seven twelve so if you know how to pick and choose you can bring him back a lot of memories like we never left it's like we never left for today what a luscious meal I wasn't expecting that that was so good I really I said this before at dinner and I said I really didn't want to eat Cantonese food - yeah it's something all the time and I'm on this trip and I kind of want one day where I can have some food that I like but that was freaking delicious it was not only because it was authentic hmm you know but it was just better and we sound so bad we keep saying like the American oh I know what the Chinese food in America is better than Chinese people cooking it man that guy was freaking awesome you see I'm from Guangdong it's like a lotion he was like a brother absolutely and I think we have to stress that it's that we've got Chinese chefs proper Chinese people speaking he speaks Cantonese but we were also speaking Mandarin the whole time he speaks Mandarin fluently right he's got Chinese chefs he's using Chinese recipes and it's down to the ingredients man with so this you know if you take the same ingredients and you give it to somebody in mainland China they will make something just as good real Chinese foods freakin delicious it is absolutely I think what let's it down a lot of the times is just the ingredients yeah I agree but even with crappy ingredients that taste good it's true yeah let's get on the road man oh yeah we absolutely have to oh yeah gonna be a long drive but let's do it right what do you say we get Shinyoung through tomorrow oh yeah let's do that [Music] see milk are you ready for some hearty food not really I've been eating way too much these days definitely feeling a lot heavier it's always I will say this though yeah if you would preface that by saying Seymour you ready to eat some Weger food I would say hell yeah eleven oh yeah okay well let's just be completely honest here the most foreign friendly food that you can find in China is ching chong food or we go food you know for a western part of China right the reason is it's because it's basically just like Turkish food you know Middle Eastern food it's the kind of thing that you will find in the West right so for instance if you go for a night out in London the most typical thing to do is to go for a Caban right you know after you've gone drinking at the parrot and all that kind of thing right and that could have that kind of food is pretty much week of food right no there are equivalents they look so much like Westerners that actually when we go to some more remote areas of China oftentimes people don't expect to see someone from South Africa or someone from America so they'll automatically assume so he needs to seemed younger in LA yeah yeah that last car Yoshi dum-dum pose because it's more feasible for them to see a Chinese student young person yeah than a than a westerner like us so green eyes a lot of a couple of mmm like later color kind of lighter color here yeah I mean that the thing is they they look more Arabic you know right because basically she yeah they are and shington used to be called I think Western to Mecca stano's East Turkestan Oh East Turkestan sorry excuse me I'm not it's Ariana something aren't very well up on that part of the world but yeah it's it's very interesting it's a it's a big Muslim majority there right and you know they got Masterson right yeah they're way too little hats it's a it's a part of China it looks nothing like China yeah pretty much there's nothing to do with China of course there's all sorts of political tension over there so you know we've we've haven't been there ourselves just because there's too too tough for us to be able to actually go there right yeah yeah and film would be just kicked out or whatever one thing we do make a habit of is eating junk food yes these are China it's amazing right I mean it's it's all the kind of lamb and a couple of the restaurants someone that you drink obviously cuz it's a Muslim thing and that's right annoying the different most difficult task for us was to find a weaker restaurant here because most weaker people don't make it out of China yeah too heavily control the area it's difficult for them to get out so this is quite the treat that we were able to track went down but you said that but remember the first night we arrived in San Diego we're sitting in a restaurant having a massive overpriced hamburger and a guy just came out from the street he actually I came into the restaurant he's like I love your videos you know so cool to see you and he you know took a video of us hey we've met a subscriber from Ching John so exciting bucho very cool hey can you help me tell everybody to stay awesome stay awesome stay awesome always right he is it from Ching John right so it's pretty interesting it was really interesting a subscriber from Shing Jones right yeah let's go check it out absolutely I can't wait [Music] hi welcome to Somali Gurkha zine my name is pitar I'm from shinjang prawns from China first you know that we don't have that much we were people in this area especially even in America you don't have that much people the weavers like our ethnic group and then they're very open restaurants almost seven months now we're the partners three partners open that restaurant though agri-food is mostly be using like land like the other Chinese but they have a lamp but not that much else and then we have the kebab also and the whole lamb kebab and then we have that Benji maybe you guys know the but depends is still there are some spices from the Chinese spices but most of the like hand-pulled noodles and some like recipes is like from all from us and there's a lot but because we're limit of the stuff and in some of diamonds we can't do it here because of some equipment thing is but still like some like 80% of Jinjiang foot we're providing here of course if you want to open a restaurant takes a lot of money and then we have to have a chef and you know there it takes a lot of work there so it's difficult Winston look at this feast I wasn't so hungry before but I definitely am now oh yeah it's fantastic should we start with some some students young we Gertie this is a milk tea absolutely and it looks like cut of the Mongolian style kind that we've had before a little bit salty yeah it's definitely it's salty it's very savory I was like a milk nut soup yeah it is it tastes like super more really it's really tasty though yeah it's very hearty it's got a lot of different nuts in it like walnuts I'm seen in there in all kinds of weird spices it is very milky more milk than tea more soup milk venting yeah let's talk about what we've got on the table be sure you do anything this over here is called big plate chicken or Dungey right oh it's probably whatever favorites it's one of those things if we go out to get shinjang food we always order it oh absolutely have to know what this usually is is a base sauce with different parts of the chicken with potatoes carrots peppers and then usually with these big big flat hand-pulled noodles right absolutely speaking of hand-pulled noodles that's what this is over here yeah you get the lemon over here right absolutely Anna here's a little bit of trivia I know in the West we when we're talking about sort of Asian noodles a lot of people say ramen mm-hmm okay and there's a reason for that right it comes from Japanese you know and actually a lot of the words for Asian food we get from Japan so like tofu for instance Chris from Japan because I guess the first time it became popular in the West it was from Japan you know like in sushi restaurants and stuff so yeah oh this is tofu but the original name is from Chinese it's doleful right and the same with ramen this is my meal ambient which means pool noodles yeah la means to pooled means noodles this is the Middle Eastern kind of take on that whole thing yeah and it's usually cooked with all kinds of delicious Middle Eastern type spices you can get a little tinge of Chinese cooking in it when you get the Whittier mushrooms and stuff yes that definitely brings the Chinese influence into it what else we got okay we've got these like samosa type things over there I love those little and to be honest those are probably one of my favorite dishes over there can't you can't say it's your favorite yet though we haven't tried anything in the past we also got our lamb kabobs which are fantastic looking bigger than the ones were used to on the side of the road I mean yeah you know we were at that barbecue restaurant we don't bay BBQ yeah that was delicious but you saw the house smaller one comparison that's like almost a whole lamb honor that's freaking amazing these are your lamby pies which are really really tasty flaky crust looks really delicious oh yeah but what do you want to start with it's kind of difficult but maybe maybe we should solve something a bit manageable should we go for the last we're in front of it right let's go put my milk tea down over there no because Shindong foods very different than Chinese food we're not using chopsticks cuz that's not what the locals do well I don't know every time I've been dishing generous when they go to chopsticks it's probably just for the local chance to use it meats good I want this stuff coming them plate there we go hmm you know it's crazy about this style lemon mm-hmm it's almost like it's a Hellion food in a way because it's got a tomato-based sauce but way more savory and a little bit more spicy it's also more hearty it's definitely more median things like this but it's the chew and the bite of the handful noodles is it's completely different than any other newly fat including Bannister I mean I literally was in the kitchen watching him making these noodles and you know it makes such a big difference hmm because it's fresh you know and make it out of there the flower of the royal master oh yeah it's it's awesome and that's what gives it that death flavor and it's always a winner I can always suggested to any any foreigner who's in China if you want something that kind of is delicious and very western-style you know go for that now it may look like I'm crying but it's actually be sure just burned my mouth on this milk tea it is delicious been that cranked for that pregnancy and crying cos you're missing all the shins on food in China this is this is amazing and better than a normal line that I usually eat yeah again actually this one I would say it's a little bit better because I like the crisp on the lamb with the minute the sauce is also much more strongly flavored here which I like a lot better yeah it's really nice so okay we got to give it an authenticity rating what are you gonna give it that first 10 out of 10 for authenticity he's got everything now I'm used to in a really good Shin jong-kyun rotation to go for a 8.5 which I believe is you and if I was a little bit hungry I'd probably give it a 9 good yep all right we have the lamb kebab here yeah that's just gotta be dis coming good I'm not used to having so much of that really really good flavor one bite because usually you can just rip a hole trough in your mouth you get a little more salami this is I mean them it's almost like it was marinated it's not just normal meat flavor we've got a really special human and really rich kind of Middle Eastern spice to it good it's delicious mmm that's really good the flavor yes ten out of ten for authenticity for me mmm that's because I often have these these lamb kebabs at the Shing German restaurant near my place I'll be honest with you though the meat is smaller they're not that much smaller mmm cuz they do make a big thing out of it being a big you know it's even called like a dart one doctor only but yeah the the flavor on there it's a hundred percent authentic so ten out of ten but I'm gonna have to give it a 9 out of 10 for taste because I've never had one that that is that good but yeah I know you're I I want to you want to eat that I don't want to watch it I want to sit there watch it yeah I'm gonna eat it give me one yes of course yeah thanks okay I can't wait because these are my favorite usually something hmm reminds me of some type of rush Russian dumpling about what mmm what with like cumin flavor landowner really good you like it mm-hmm fantastic you mean Peter ski whatever this is like Peter ski isn't it that's really really good absolutely delicious mmm that's good this is I'll let you do the elephant distinguished I honestly can't give it authenticity because believe it or not I've never had these at a Shinjo this before this is my first one already okay I love them but for tasting leave it at nine because it's freaking delicious okay the thing is it is pretty much the same mmm so authenticity I'm gonna give it a nine and that's just because the ones that I normally have over there actually have a bit more of a buttery flavor it's as if they've added a lot more butter and there isn't that a bit later yeah so I really really really like these but I'm gonna give it a 9 out of 10 for Adventist and I'm gonna give it a 10 out of 10 for taste because like I've been saying and a lot of our videos I could eat these all day and all night I dare you I do it I'd have to pace it out you know you don't want every hour or something okay it's that kind of her can eat samosas yeah so we go for these meat pies no okay before they get cold this looks like a very similar filling to the last one but this one looks buttery oh yeah it's just a pie crust I mean you can see inside it's just right cut the lamb that's been you know just like a little bit oh but it's got minced onion today okay you see that yeah yeah get a shot hmm know that I like better right mm-hmm you know what what I like the pie crust aspect to it I think it goes to the lam super well none yinz cut through the grease in insulin which is really nice hmm this is awesome I imagine you could get this pretty much everywhere every time I see like documentaries about shinjang or like footage from there they're selling these on the street and I'm mm-hmm oh you know this some mm-hmm this process basically just deep fried in a wok full of oil mm-hmm like that hmm it's not bad I I don't like it as much as the semester thingies but I'm going to give this because I have had this in again same same machine John thing it does taste very similar you're gonna give an 8 out of 10 for authenticity it is it is a bit different mm-hmm but taste wise actually don't like it as much as those ones I'm gonna get it was a 7 out of 10 what about you Emily give this 9 years and for authenticity I've had one very similar mm-hmm leave that 9 out of 10 for taste I actually loved I could eat that all day dip that in some yogurt sour cream or even slurp up some this sauce sure thing but yeah that's bigger so one every hour compared to one of those everyo I think I'd survive today you wouldn't follow us on our diet or you can eat fried foods once every hour keep the weight off because the Shing gentlemen are the are Muslim a lot of the Shinyoung restaurants you cannot drink alcohol right there are some where you can but those typically are the less authentic ones and usually the way Muslims yeah not this into Muslims who tend to be part about them there yeah rules anyway we got the Don G this is the most famous dish out of the entire province probably the one of the biggest most famous dishes that you would know about if you have heard of ginger tea before and it looks stellar it was fantastic and I have eaten this so many times we got a funny story about this while we eat it yeah you doing what sir I don't know man do you just dig in I mean get a piece of chicken I'll get some of the noodles to go do that yeah I was hanging over my friend yeah and I had just discovered this dish at my house like that's a shin John place at my house yeah yeah in China yeah and I was in his town and I told him about I was like we got to go find the shinji America's most haunted trying to have one right yeah yeah I said you gotta try this top on gee it's amazing so we went there right yeah and they were like it's not on the menu so I asked him was like can you make that Bunji yeah and they were like yeah we could totally do that they are just like 15 bucks or someone wasn't a big deal but for a massive one cuz they are they're normally a much bigger this is like a small yeah thanks this is a small die party right you know like the big ones are just you could actually order a big one here but anyway yeah they they were like we'll make it for you tomorrow so we had to kind of book at a time right so I thought its kind of weird but anyway they call us back and they're like okay can you bring your biggest pot and we were like what oh you had to bring an entire pot and then they brought it to our house and then we invited them to share it with us cuz it was too big so we sat down with him and then we shared the meal at her house it was really fun that's awesome yeah that's fantastic but basically dump on G like I said tomato base the cold noodles and you got your chicken that's usually stewed in it yeah so it's very tender I'm gonna try some of the noodles first this that's really good choice from that sauce on its own mm-hmm just so I can get an idea what kind of spices in there some paprika maybe yeah maybe a tiny bit of vinegar but it's not too sour like some of the ones I've had and you know what I love about this dish why it's cooked for a while like stewed so kind of all the flavors remember they can get kind of melded in there and it almost it so a lot of people try to avoid this is stuff you know when you have hot pot you put in noodles afterwards and like don't do don't hold them in there too long it's gonna get starchy this sauce gets really starchy but I love it super thick and it's so much better than Chinese soups and stuff sure sure the chickens delicious as well and it's incredibly tender it kind of just falls off the bone you know I mean I'd better check my usually in China this da punji is spot-on authenticity is absolutely spot-on yep I agree for authenticity and I'm gonna give it another sell at nine I think it's a great winter food sit around with your buddies to get the get the big one yep divvy it out just talk you know enjoy it slowly it's a great stew great agree it's fantastic I'm also going to give it a 10 out of 10 for authenticity because it has the exact same flavor that I'm used to but I have to be honest the chicken does taste better it does really good which is weird because usually we have an opinion that the chicken in China tastes better than the chicken in the West and he usually does and I'm not sure why just maybe just different strain of chicken the wrong strain different breed today I learned that chicken is bacteria yeah exactly what different breed is anyway period yeah but the thing is it's really delicious I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10 look I mean you know good just like everything else here I don't think we've had a single dish here that was been no and I hate to say this again this is not again this is a first okay but I have a feeling that most people that want to try different Chinese food from with ru su are gonna probably like this the best because it is so Hardy and so tasty and so flavorful I think the average Western palate likes a little bit more flavor and what most Cantonese cooking has yeah for sure I mean this whole trip we've been trying the the you know the regular sang to the top big five or whatever you know although I don't know if it's five but whatever the for the bigs yeah the hot parts and spicy sich one food you know the sort of more bland Cantonese food right but it's all very typical what you would expect China to be I don't think people expected this to be China don't forget this is a part of China and it's a part of Chinese cuisine right everywhere in China you can get this for showing abusing what everyone in this restaurant is Chinese and they're coming because they enjoy too yeah it's a very popular cuisine for a very good reason and it is just better than a lot of cuisines I've had in China yeah so look if you're ever in this area this is in the Bay Area come check out the specials like only once enjoy a surrender yeah we searched and searched and we've done this you know if you can't find it if you don't live around here do a little search for weaker food and it's you why th you are isn't that's correct okay it's a bit of a weird spelling there but it's pronounced wigger you know kind of like a white guy with dreadlocks yeah anyway right it's pronounced wigger and if you search for it find something in the area just go give it a try I don't think I've pretty sure you won't be disappointed guess that beating ah I'm so full thank you I was really interesting to be honest that we will expect to find Shing junk food in America no it was a lucky find to be honest and thank you to Betts for finding that for absolutely yeah subscriber of ours is actually the person who put us on to this place and man it was just as good as I was expecting mate in fact better yeah better it was better than the way I thought you know we when we set off this afternoon to go try Widger food in in America I was like well it's gonna be good but I'm right I didn't know it'd be that good right I actually had no idea what's gonna be that good but you know what we got a lot more food eat so I think we should get on the road oh I know we got a lot more food to eat tomorrow yeah let's get on the road and get ready for that our bellies needle loose [Music] it's such one food a good hangover cure I mean it's spice UI a spicy stuff good for hangovers no I don't think so it's usually oily stuff you know like good greasy fry up which is what I really want to eat right now me too man but I do love citron food you know I really do yeah in case you guys are wondering we had a bit of a heavy night last night you know we we've been doing this this non-stop food tour but we decided to kind of take a day off we needed to do some editing and Geoff think we went a little overboard yeah before we go to this restaurant didn't you grow up in this area yeah actually this is a right outside Mountain View where I grew up as a kid that's kind of weird to be back here to be honest it's really nice I mean I've really been enjoying we've been stopping in all these little towns and yeah you know unfortunately for you not a lot of vape here well you're allowed to be you know I saw science says no vaping well I mean it's it's an awesome area man that you've got Google we possible at Nvidia Huawei that being said I didn't know that there were so many Chinese people in the circus growing up the room over there wasn't yeah yeah it's nice but what's like half Chinese its I'm blown away so far on this trip to see how many Chinese communities there are and I'm about to go burn in numb our tongues because Sichuan food actually is known for mala which is this kind of numbing spice yeah so it's the Sichuan region of western China in his province they grow this such one pepper garlic all yeah it's kind of a signature flavor of such fun food is it yeah I mean that's we're gonna be able to tell very quickly if it's original or not because it's got a very distinctive taste right that's true so I guess that's what we're gonna go do now yeah I'm actually a little thing about such one so those are for those of you don't know out there it's kind of situated in the sort of middle which Western sort of part of China yeah you say it's Western Province yeah it's definitely West and it's very famous for a couple of things number one pandas yeah what else there was a massive earthquake 2008 killed a bunch of people I was there were you in China at that time not yet I came in the end of our way okay it was quite a time to be in China it was insane I remember you know they had like this minute of silence or whatever where everybody well it wasn't a minute of silence a minute of noise because what they're did is like around the entire country everybody honk their horns all the air-raid sirens went off because in all the cities have these massive areas right and it was quite surreal for like a minute it is non-stop this massive noise the entire city was just kinda crazy huh let's go burn our mouths off yeah I'm not really looking forward to that but anyway let's do it [Music] moments ago panda you and Jia River pho woman finance we also year 2000 woman PA oh ah oh ah so Tania cambio rc2 noir see Judy Pino can be until 1700 titrated you hear sound - ah - time to send right young woman Chi down to module couldn't dopey gamma is the only if you want come to order cousin and got a pivotal yamadera go to aunt Anna what a spicy looking Beast before we even get stuck in here I have to say incredibly surprised because we're walking out here in a dress red would be stroke right I thought it was like some deli or like French restaurant it doesn't look like a Chinese restaurant from the outside so it's very very easy to miss just spoke with the manager over there she's actually from Beijing but the chefs are from native citron like we were talking about just from the look at this I gotta say this all looks incredibly authentic like anything you gets it right absolutely I come wait to taste it because they say the proof is in the eating yeah what do you want start with Lau to see could be could be detect you one of the staples whenever I take friends out to eat in China right you know this is one of the things I always order right it's a safe bet always good it is thank you looks nice and crispy it looks kind of spicy yeah looks like they didn't skimp on the peppercorns there no what that tastes like it's a little different you know it's very crispy very crispy very nice nobody better than some of their no I found say that it's authentic you know why why it's beefy yeah it's real be busy it's not true I only end up it doesn't really taste like it really doesn't it tastes like some other sort of mean it's bad no no thank you thank you thank you yes I think I'm going to on an authenticity rating yeah look the flavors actually pretty good you have the spice you got the pin forgot that mana Jason Walton to see I'm gonna give it about a I'm gonna go for taste I'm gonna give it a seven pretty good yeah I want to get into this Swan Swan liar which means sour spicy fish yeah and I have a feeling that this is gonna be full of bugs because I've never eaten SWAT allow you without bones all the way through it sure would you I know you really enjoy your big thank you very much you know I it's one thing about eating fish in China's it's always full of bones I hate in fact eating anything in China usually has bones yeah even tofu it's weird but this actually might not have to be both let's try to try I mean we are in America you think the dead change it no bones no bones they're gonna be a big fan of there's no bones ma'am there's also one thing I must say yeah the broth that it's in is not super spicy and it's not super sour you can say that's a ADA attempt for authenticity it's just not spicy enough first attract new but forte somebody good for that and eight is wow those pretty good like oh I nominate smile like fish you know I don't like you because there's no bones in that one and it's actually very sort of soft and fluffy it's really good I'm gonna give it a seven out of ten formation and I've definitely had that flavor before in China which one restaurant it's right with a mother I'm gonna give it a nine bones this is a signature original redwood chicken okay I can thank you wait wait is that the town we're in yeah they say it's original redwood chicken but it's got a lot of coriander on top of it you know so what do you call it cilantro yeah go either way man and it looks a nice little chunks of chicken here we go put it on your eyes oh thank you mom you know I like the antecedent yeah there we go that's it you don't want to eat that no no that's one thing we haven't actually been explaining during our trip a lot of the food in China people when they need to we've just been eating like the meat right it's usually eaten like this on rice right so it's rice together it's just both you and I aren't big rice man this looks a lot like kung pao chicken yeah doesn't is anything like it full of pickled beans very sour it's great that's really good better than kung pao chicken it is comfo chick it's too sweet this is not sweet at all very spicy them kind of starting to burn my mouth but I like it it's really good it's definitely soy based soy sauce based heavily cellphone salted and everything so it's very strong player very very salty if you'd just ate it by itself without rice I think it'd be quite devoted to to eat you know more than a spoonful man that's a good shape on dish which means it helps the rice go down this way that's good dog awesome I can't say it's authentic though if its original chicken from Redwood City yeah very good force it roughly but again it's got that very authentic mom I'd say so you know this more as I'm concerned citron food did you take anything and just Pat my pepper and it's one food it's kind of offensive right you can put my la peppers on a hamburger and it's citron this is one yeah they probably have it they probably do that's awesome I'm gonna give that a 9 out of 10 for taste I can't give it authenticity really something like it probably does I'm pretty sure that you will find dishes that are almost the same as this in China though it's not westernized in any way yeah so maybe not Citroen authenticity but China food authenticity I'm gonna give it a 7 those is Rena that's pretty space only good then your taste rating is going to be all the way up there I'm also gonna give it an eight it's a bit too salty I'd say dialed on the salts a little bit but other than that sentence okay cool what do you want to choose next so chat to the chef and tell them that they did it all wrong yeah exactly just joking this is the beef tendon and onions very typical very standard salon to restore I know you're not a fan of beef tendons I don't like beef tenders you don't I don't like any girl in my sentence or you know remember me and you like one of our first meals together was beef tendons and you like eating it with gloves yes I remember we were like trying to trying to bite it off it wasn't very good as difficult this one's shaved nice and thin so it's probably pretty easy to you try to oh it's cold you know when you do gel about feel like it's that hard film on the top absolutely exactly what it tastes like I'm gonna start out with the taste rating I'm gonna give it like a 3 because I just don't like it it's kind of bland it's oily it's like only bland gelatin I'm gonna give it a fine that's okay yeah I know it is you like the weird stuff not that weird doesn't taste that weird but it does lack in flavor authenticity though you know that that stuff's always on the tape doesn't usually use as a starter for this other group not bad you just got the noodle safe now yeah so what I want to dis about yeah I'm gonna try my best I wanted to avoid that you know I'm gonna spill it everywhere I'm the worst addition out noodles what yeah maybe maybe I shouldn't be doing this to be fair it's okay I totally won't leave India yeah remember guys we are hungover today that is the excuse lately yeah I'll have these ones consits all over the table okay you're very sweet I like table news yeah well to be fair this one's kind of all over the table as well you know what here enjoy the eggs I do now this is some noodles in there this is supposed to be one of their signature dishes I don't know it looks a little hard here than what I'm used to in those situation it'll smooth you know this just kind of in a way reminds me of mommy and you know yeah that's look like lime and is not it looks like it's full of pork and spinach that is a 100% authentic instead of hot and sour flavor then you get so I'll let me in absolutely it is one my men right there coriander ten out of ten for fantasy for me yeah it does taste better than what I'm using it over hmm you can get suan lum in like truck stops it seemed like this is not that it's definitely like more care and you know a little bit of love windows yes the problem is usually I feel like they make it spicy like this in hot tune to disguise the fact that the meat has expired and that the oil is and we're not talking about this overnight we're talking about the one you find in trucks yeah and it's just a disguise the putrid meat from this one you're making me real hungry yeah we have fallen victim to some some bad roadside food in China as for so I'm gonna give it a seven footer I'm gonna give this a eight point five four days think it's really good one thing I have to take score down is for the ease of dishing up because cutting it up yeah or you could just learn how to dish that's true hmm so I got I think we have to wrap this up and I gotta ask you is such one food good hangover no no I don't think so either I think it was I was initially saying like I would love a hot bowl of spicy noodles for the hangover no it's exactly what I don't walk right now it's too spicy it's really oily and it's kind of not what you're looking for when you're not feeling you know how to preset however if you like spicy food which I actually do like spicy food it's fantastic you cannot go wrong a spring spice you know in in China there are quite a few provinces like Hunan they claim that there there's the king of spice you know how food is spicy but everyone knows the real king of spice in China is soot or so tricycle I'm gonna throw a little accolade on there as well it's the king of none until you try citron peppercorns which is in every single dish on this table so I can't feel my mouth fantastic I really kind of enjoyed this food let's get stuck in okay good well it was citron food no spicy and it was bizarre really that place did not look like a search warrant from the outside it didn't at all I'm like it was actually funny talking to the people there they've been in America for a while so they have their favorite basketball players and teams and the UDA and stuff and they're sound like Chinese people but act like America yeah it was pretty awesome the food was on point as far as citron food is concerned you know it had that taste so yeah I can hope like really recommend it if you wanted to try it I was talking to the owner actually he had just sent me a message and he was telling me about how his dad has actually been cooking before he could really properly stand so I can reach the stove Oh he'd like put stools up next to the stove and like cook when he is just a few years old that's kind of it's nice and it is a very small mom-and-pop sort of feeling to that place so I really liked it not for a good hangover cure food though yeah either way the dog yeah hair the dog if you guys are in the area I'd say check it out for sure awesome and finally we've found citron food that's another big one to take off the list for sure so my friend I think we have a lot of ground to cover today got a long road ahead of us so we should probably just hit the road and get on with it what do you reckon yeah all right so guys we've reached the end of our quest for the best Chinese in the USA series we want to thank you for coming along with us on this little adventure and hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed making it it's been quite a journey and really a big eye-opener for us to see that you can actually find incredibly good Chinese food in America and in some cases to be quite honest better Chinese food in America than you can find a janitor to subscriber here in Tucson hi guys good night I'm Sonny Sonny I'm from Tucson I would go to cure to the University of Arizona and I saw these guys out here and want to come say hi see what they're doing then on China right now so very surprised yeah it's a random place to run into it yeah I love this thank you can you help me tell everyone to stay awesome and you have a YouTube ficky soups okay cool so nice to meet you guys let's go guys yeah awesome all right you too so hey just just bump 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Id: tzRTlnx0MCc

Length: 148min 15sec (8895 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2019