Why British & Americans Are Fighting Over Chinese Food

White people in America and white people in Britain are currently fighting over Who has the better Chinese food? Listen, man, you cannot make this up. This is a tick-tock beef between Mostly white American tick tockers and white British tick tockers over who has better Chinese takeout food or as they would say In England Chinese takeaway, or I'm having a Chinese tonight. Yeah, we're not talking about super authentic Chinese food We are talking about, you know, Americanized Chinese food aka the Panda Express style versus the British version of it And it looks quite different. So we're gonna go into the comment section we're gonna talk about what people are saying because it's kind of turning out to be like some proxy of like some futuristic like Revolutionary war here, but then also it also is just talking about like why does British Chinese food look different? Because it kind of comes from like a different place maybe so make sure you like subscribe and turning your notifications You guys know hot pot boys. We're breaking everything down. That's Asian from silly to serious Andrew This would probably fall under silly but enough British people feel pressed Andrew that they're writing really long articles about it Americans are horrified at what us British people call Chinese food Why are all these Americans missing both the history and the flavor of the British Chinese food? Oh, I love it, man The British they can always bring up the history because they're like, okay So you're speaking all language and then you want to come back and diss us even though you're still Sleeping on a queen-sized mattress. Oh Hail the Queen But before I walk in we're not gonna do accents the whole video and we're not just here to make fun of British people Obviously being Americans. However, no, let's get into it. We I mean we've got to talk about it We got to take a look at this. This is a very viral tweet Andrew this battle by the way is going on on all platforms It started on tik-tok. It went to Instagram. It went to Twitter and now it's on reddit Andrew this person said just found out what British call Chinese food at a loss for words And then of course as you can see here under there's a lot of curry sauce on french fries. It does look different I'm not gonna say one of these plates doesn't look that bad But I'll say this right off the bat obviously a lot of french fries lots of curry sauce smothering everything even the the low-mean And then there's these chicken balls where they do look like chicken chunks of like sweet and sour chicken But they're a little bit more circular. So I don't know if they're made to look like balls or not Okay, look at this one over here They've got fried seaweed as a topping almost like some furukake some of this like I said doesn't look that bad But I heard the curry sauce is very gravy like and it's not that spicy and not that flavorful I don't know where a lot of Americans were getting at the British tik-tok or saying what why do you guys just fry everything with? No seasoning and then you just throw sauce on everything and everything's beige. Anyway, you know what? Let's just play a few of the tik-toks creators in the UK have taken tik-tok by storm with their Chinese takeout orders the UK must have a universal menu for their Chinese takeout because every single person on This platform from the UK that has posted videos of their Chinese takeout It's these same exact things. Did anyone order Chinese or a Chinese tonight? I've been craving a Chinese for so long good. Does that look oh my god? I'm absolutely starving and I'm hungover today as well I don't know how I've managed to go to a christening hugs picker mines to dish out my crispy beef Mmm, sweet and sour on first And curry sauce, oh my god, I am so Excited Everyone and everyone goes around and says and this is how British people say it. I fancy an Italian I fancy a Turkish. I fancy a kebab. I fancy an Indian I fancy a chippy real quick guys We got a word from our sponsor a brand new chili oil that is debuting at the end of this month called smile Ah that it's gonna come kicking in the door at a game We are very excited to announce that actually it is our chili oil. We made it We've been working with a professional kitchen over the past year. If you guys follow us on social media We've been kind of teasing it a little bit just to prove to you that we've been working on it Here are some sample bottles of different chili iterations and versions that we've had. So trust me guys We've been working hard on this. 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So long story short It's about 20 to 30 years behind and that is evidenced by the funny-looking beige fried bulb photos You know, well like some Chinese food in America look like that in the Midwest 20 to 30 years ago I mean, I think if you go to certain corners of Tennessee, Alabama or Wichita, Kansas the Chinese food probably somewhere in that 80% like that. I would say maybe you know, the food is not really looking like that in the big cities Um, but I will say this David the curry sauce Do we know if the curry sauce comes from like the Hong Kong Macau side? Or is it coming from the Indian influence because there's a lot of Indians in Britain So I did a little bit of reddit research. This is Unconclusive like scientifically but it looks like the desire for the curry sauce comes from their consumption of Indian food Indian food in the UK is considered very good better than the u.s. But Chinese food, obviously not so much However, so the desire for the curry came from the Indian side, but the actual curry itself is more of a perk Portuguese Macau HK style. Mmm, and I'm not gonna lie guys just based on the numbers There are way more Chinese people in America than there are in the UK So obviously, I don't know the Chinese food is probably better in the u.s By the way, let me give the British props on one thing. These ceilings shoot Teal these salt and pepper fries from some of the spots with the onion green scallions. Those look good That kind of does look good. Anyway, let's get into the comments section guys, you know, we got culture wars Somebody said can you believe they call this Chinese food in the British shot back? Can you believe that Americans called this Italian food because I guess the Italian food in the UK might be more authentic I'm not sure the culture wars of America Somebody said Panda Express has more variety than the entire UK put together Yeah, Panda Express is delicious and still ran by Chinese people. Remember that of course some people, you know shot back with some darts at the u.s Due to the mass shootings and things like that and somebody said well at least our shoes don't get show off you stupid American And then the Americans were like, why do you guys say Chinese like it? You're saying Chinese like you're saying Indian chai tea with your knee They also try nice This is a really interesting comment. Somebody said I feel like this is a lot of Northern England Scottish Chinese You know here in London We're far more cultured and we've moved past this phase these people are lower-class and from the countryside that is their takeaway order It's not what we would eat in London. Wow, you British elitist I mean, I will say Chinese takeaway almost in any city is considered more cheaper food So it's gonna be for more for people who need to eat it Yes, of course, there are nicer Chinese restaurants, especially in London and especially in any big city pretty much that's retro metropolitan There is gonna be very good Chinese food, but it's gonna be more expensive Yeah Under a renowned food site actually said in the US we enjoy the aromatics of garlic ginger soy sauce pepper in our meat and side Dishes when it comes to Chinese food the more garlic the better However in England, they do not enjoy savory spicy and sweet sour sauces all multi-layered They like takeaway containers filled with vinegar sweet flavors and a thick curry sauce with a gravy like texture surprisingly British do like vinegar because like they always have salt and vinegar chips and then they put the vinegar on the on the Malt on the you can't even get that an American. Yeah, that's not a thing in America Yeah, somebody said well, you know You have to understand that a lot of poor people from Guangdong province went over in the late 1800s all throughout the 1900s and that is the core basis for British Chinese food Obviously in America Andrew, we do also have a choice on immigration that came to set American Chinese food But there was also Taiwanese people. There was Fujianese people There was like I guess a lot of people from a lot of different parts of China I think ultimately the food looks different because it is adapted to the British taste buds and British food and taste buds are a little Bit different than America seeing that America actually has way more immigrants and way more different ethnic influences All they want to do is eat them boiled peas over there then boil peas and put beans on toast, man This is where like the rednecks of America can look at the British and be like, hey, man, listen, come on, man We got some Native American influence. We got the Italians we got that Irish. We got the Iranians we got Somebody said man thinking about it. I've never even seen a British person eat a single vegetable in my life They don't even eat crab Rangoon's over there man. What's going on? Yo, the peas and carrots crazy Of course the British people were defending themselves Andrew ordering greens from a Chinese takeaways the same as ordering a salad from McDonald's You just don't do it. Yeah, um long story short man Andrew people were getting at each other It got to school shootings. People are talking about preservatives in the food Some people said man, this doesn't look appealing at all British food is just really bland They make sure their Chinese food is bland somebody said bro It looks all soggy their whole country is soggy and people are like, oh, why do you guys even call it French fries? It has nothing to do with the French and then of course Americans. Well, that's just what we call them Well, we invented the language. Well, we mastered it Yeah I think David all in all this kind of boils down to the fact that Whenever Chinese people went to a different country or even a different city They basically in order to sell the food in high volume Adapted flavors and customize the flavors and localize the flavors to the taste of the people I heard that there are either even peanut butter filled dumplings over in Tennessee somewhere because just Tennessee people They don't just want pork and chicken in their dumplings. They want peanut butter. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't surprise me I would say that Chinese food is the most adapted hyper localized cuisine in the entire planet Um, if you look in America Andrew, it's a very big country. It's very diverse a lot of different races here Um, I would say that any Chinese restaurant in any zone is catering to a five-mile radius around it But if you're in the heavy metropolitan dense zone Andrew any Chinese spot in New York City is catering to the next five blocks around it That's why when you go to Spanish Harlem, you get Chino Latino when you go to Alphabet City You get a certain type and when you're in the Upper West Side, you might get some like Jewish Chinese American Yeah, and everybody has their own favorite type of Chinese food that they stand by that is almost their identity So we have to understand that when you diss on British Chinese food, you are kind of dissing on British people Well, you're kind of dissing on part of white British culture, right? Same way but isn't it funny that it's white people arguing about their adapted white Chinese food in America dissing on white people British Yeah, because there's no Chinese people in this conversation yet like literally We've been completely left I have not seen that many video responses or any videos or responses from an Asian person that was like Because it's not really an argument We need to get into in a way Andrew is it more their culture than our culture at this point? Even though of course somebody who might look like us is cooking the food Yeah, I think that's an interesting question Do some white Americans actually identify so strongly with American Chinese food even more than I would Like I would say so they eat it more often. That's not the food. I grew up eating I eat I didn't eat that time to time But it was not I always tell this story growing up the white kids at school Had more serious debates on whether to eat a fortune cookie or not than the Chinese kids would I never heard the Chinese kids? Have that heated debate in the lunch room, you know why it's cuz the Chinese people were just like yeah That's all just like American Western food. So it's cool. Like we'll eat it. Whatever you guys are doing No, but then they're like that's my identity like I I grow I love the low-mean I love the chow mein I love the chicken chow mein. That's my and I'm like, whoa. No, you feel that's you man I mean to be honest I'm more a little bit on Team America because the Panda Express does look way better than whatever they're eating I'm not saying what they're eating is bad, though I have to try it Um Andrew last but not least somebody came in to defend British taste buds saying you know We fought a lot of wars that you guys didn't have to fight on your own soil So we went through the ration days and we went through days where a lot of our country did not have good ingredients So when the Chinese came they're working under those conditions and maybe those are the conditions They'd also developed our taste buds. So don't judge us because we fought your wars America So I got into a little I love I'll tell you this one thing that British people always have over America is history man They will bust out the history Just to no end like you're speaking our language We fought the war they had to fight in World War two on the Europe side Whereas America was obviously more isolated, right? Um, anyway, Andrew, let's get into the takeaways Andrew Why do you think this went so viral is it honestly about chicken bowls and curry gravy or is this about something much deeper? It's identity and here's the thing guys white people getting at other white people I like to see it, but it's funny because this is not a race war thing. This is not gonna get racial It's not gonna get problematic because you're just arguing about something like food. However, because it's like white on white, you know It's like it's like safe for white people to get at other white It's almost like a racial or cultural battle that white people are like, I'm not worried at all. I'm going hard It's kind of like a British person be like, yeah, we like British Chinese food and the Americans like nah, man American Chinese food is better. And then the Chinese person wants to step in and be like, hey guys, none of it is either Hey, shut up, man. You're not part of this. This is our food. This is our battle. Let me fight this That's why I'm just like I'm out of it guys. Hey, you do your thing man. The plate looks good to me fine Um, what do you think from a Chinese perspective Andrew? So many people have all these visceral feelings about the type of Chinese food that's been adapted to them I have a Dominican friend was like poppy poppy Dominican Chino Latino is way better than Cubano Chino like Dominican Chino is better than Cubano Chino basically saying the Dominican Chinese food was better than the Cuban Chinese food and I was like Yeah, do I have a say in this or what? What's my side? I mean to be honest In a way, you don't have a say in this because that's not the argument, right? Cuz the the chuletas was built for them, right? I don't even know what it you let you know they have there's this really popular chow mein dish in Guatemala and if so of Guatemalan who's from there tells me like hey, you know, that's like my favorite noodles that I ever had in my life, man Like I just love that's the Guatemalan chow mein Yeah It's interesting as a Chinese person that you always have somebody who's like from Guyana or like Venezuela Look at you and just go yo, man. I don't know the best Chinese food is in Venezuela fool But it's true. I never offended by it, but I'm always just like oh, yeah That's it to contribute to this because I I never had Venezuelan Chinese Anyways guys you let me know in the comments down below. Is this the great American versus British beef that we need right now? Is it something trivial? It's kind of fun It's fun to talk about but no, of course, I personally think American food is much better than British food in general Okay, but let's give them credit some of those dishes look cool Have you seen the list of ingredients on your M&Ms and your Cadbury eggs? They use 40 different ingredients that we've banned in the UK actually care about the long-term health of our population Oh, do you think that on the back of our ingredients? It says red 50 and blue 40 and green 70 and all these weird words and numbers. No, it doesn't I feel it Yeah, you know what America? I think has some of the best food in the world, but also some of the worst food for you, too I will say this I think America definitely should change those standards where they like, you know use fructose corn syrup for everything But I'm not gonna like some of that stuff. It tastes kind of good I don't know guys. Let us know what you think in the comment section below. I do want to go to London I do want to go to the UK if I need to go into the Countryside where they never even seen somebody who looks like me to try these chicken balls with the curry gravy on it I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna give it a fair rating All right, everybody. Let me know in the comments down below Have you seen British Chinese food what other types of Chinese food do you really like from other regions and other Localizations, let me know because I'm curious leave it in the comments. All right until next time we out. Peace