When Asians Don't Know Other Asians...

You Asians don't put fruit on rice. That's a white person thing to do Oh, you teenagers are making me as an older Asian American. That's more educated than you so mad I'm gonna make a post about this on reddit What's reddit? We got to talk about this post that says there is more than one way to make rice and this person Andrew is an older Asian American obviously, they're very cultured They understand that some Asians put fruit on rice actually all Asians put fruit on rice Even though those aren't the most common well-known dishes So they were mad at seeing some other Teenage Asian Americans try to separate themselves from white people by saying people white people are the only people who would eat rice pudding With cranberries and cherries on it so basically this turned into a whole debate about do Asians even know about the other way that other Asians make rice and The way that the usage of rice has spread all across the world and should we gatekeep rice? Should we not gatekeep rice? What is basic Asian knowledge and we don't want to turn into white people making fun of white people All right, everybody, please hit that like button Check out other episodes of the hot pot boys as we talk about this But one thing that every generation can agree on whether you're Gen Z or Gen Alpha is small a sauce smaller chili oil It's a finishing oil made with truffle guys. Check out the Instagram right now at smaller sauce You can also buy it at smaller sauce calm. Can you even put that on American fruit rice though? Yeah, you can put this on anything literally, uh, but anyways, I guess David like yeah First of all a couple questions gatekeeping rice kind of hard because rice is just a global thing They eat it in South America. It is true that 90% of the world's rice production comes out of Asia, though Yeah, but I mean the South in America uncle Ben that was a popular rice brand you know that was weird for me growing up because I was like I always knew rice as Asian and then I'd see these commercials for uncle Ben's minute rice and I'd be like his uncle Ben Part Asian, but you know what? I mean at first but um, and then do you even know that there was American fruit rice? Like I guess long story short. We got to explain Andrew The OP is an older Asian American who's I guess deeply familiar with Asian Asian cuisine, right? Yeah, and witnesses these Asian American kids who are more limited in their scope of understanding Who are almost trying to have the white kid attitude, but towards white people, right? They're almost like trying to separate and judge white people for Like not doing rice properly, right because they're probably looking at cozy shack rice pudding Which is delicious, by the way, one of my favorite American brands of pudding cozy shack And then I guess they put like fruit in it. I don't know. I don't know I never even had that at a white person's house. I didn't know white people ate fruit in rice I do they had put cinnamon and raisins with a little bit of rice. Okay cinnamon raisin. You're right in rice pudding Maybe more from Eastern Europeans that have immigrated to America like more originally and honestly Originally if you want to take the turn the clock way back that dish might have came from Asia somewhere in South Asia, too Oh, yeah rice pudding that idea of right here and things like yeah, it might have came from Keir Oh, but anyways guys, I guess it's one I did not know that actually white people put real fruit into pudding other than raisins And then I think that just like generation alpha or Gen Z or whatever generation you want to call it like they're not Exposed to that much yet They haven't lived life a lot and I do think that for the millennial generation and Gen Z. There was a very pan Asian Identity where it's like yo try to know about other Asians But I don't know if the next next generation of Asians is thinking that but maybe they're just not there yet I mean, we were all ignorant kids at one point to literally when you were a kid You have a very small knowledge base, but Andrew this person OP was mad They said this was some of the most ignorant ish. I've ever heard in my life triggered So anyway, of course this person went on to list that there's Filipino cocking in Andrew Thai mango sticky rice fruit here and daisy countries Korean yakshik Chinese Bob Alphonse Vietnamese have a coconut Raisin rice coconut version thing and Japanese fruit daifuku as well as umeboshi onigiris and different things like this So this person was basically like why the heck would these Asian teenagers think that Asians also can't put fruit on rice, huh? No, I think the OP and is probably a little bit older. They're just mad at seeing Asians grow up in America and start reacting like white kids but towards the white kids Yeah, but they're still adopting that sort of like what is it? Would you say I don't want to say punk or more dominant? I'm superior your inferior attitude, but they're but they're like flipping the uno card on the white kids themselves Yeah, and I guess for us growing up. I never thought about saying you to white people food even meatloaf guys I guess we were just exposed to it, even though some people might you at meatloaf But like I guess you know what I mean? But like it never occurred to me that that even rice the idea of rice pudding was gross But these kids I'm assuming David are not like Thai Asian kids, you know how like if you're if your family's Thai you probably definitely had mango sticky rice, right? And it's not to say that all generation alpha or all young gen Z Z Z kids aren't even doing that But I'm not saying that all these Asian rice dishes these these fruit rice dishes are super common Like we don't eat the Chinese eight treasure rice that often like I've had it Well, you have to go to more like specialized. Yeah, like I've had it like ten times in my life, honestly You know what I mean? So it's not that it's not like we ate it all the time Yeah, I guess they're just not exposed to it yet And also the discussion sort of spiraled into uncle Rogers first viral video where he sort of roasted this South Asian British woman For cooking fried rice and he roasted her and he went so viral off that but it actually came out that she was cooking rice Just a very South Asian biryani way, but that is a little bit strange for fried rice But if you're South Asian, you may only just cook it that way. Yeah Let's get into the comment sections David this first comment I thought was actually really funny. Someone said I definitely get upset about rice mixed with cheese It grosses me out for interestingly enough Andrew Because Hong Kong specifically in the Japanese in Tokyo had so much explode exposure with the British You can find cheesy rice with sausages in both places, bro, or cheesy rice is with a pork chop or something You know at my elementary I told you this that during lunchtime One of the options was cheesy rice you could get a side of cheesy rice and to me when I saw that I'm not gonna lie as a kid. I was kind of like cheesy rice. I only know rice with soy sauce I know rice eating fish I know right fried rice balls like cheesy rice and then but it's funny because at the same time growing up I loved macaroni and cheese and Macaroni and rice are essentially not that different right right there carbs that carry flavor. That's essentially the same It's just a different form. Yeah, it's just a different form of a different wheat Yo, some of the kids would go crazy for the cheese. I love cheesy rice. Yeah, actually I would eat some cheesy rice today It's not that it's not that that would be my preferred dish by shout-out up. What Michael Meninski? Oh this uh, yeah, the Cheesy rice. Yeah, I mean I would say this I just don't understand why Asians would Like gatekeep rice I feel like noodles makes more sense because you have to do about like ten things to a bunch of rice to turn it into Like rice is so base level it's almost like Obviously, there's not that many steps between harvesting the rice in it becoming the rice So why is there everybody's gonna gatekeep something that's so close to the core rice noodles are very very Asian But rice it is Asian, but not I mean they eat in South America They eat inside they eat it all over the world now, right somebody's saying what do you think? Should this older OP even be judging Asian American teenagers for trying to be edgy and trying to develop some sense of tribal Self-identity, so there's even though they are ultimately they're wrong Some people are trying to defend these young Asian teens and being like well They're just trying to be proud of being Asian and this is their little ignorant Yeah, I mean, it's not that big of a deal, bro They'd unless they went up to a group of white kids and started being who rice pudding rice pudding people you guys Then started making their eyes all Right, you guys are Disgusting obviously didn't do that. But you know, they're just trying to find community and you know Camaraderie do you think one of the problems with being a second-generation immigrant Andrew is that you know, you're not white But nobody really sits you down and gives you like an Asian 101 102 103 education You want to mean like even Asian American Studies is not gonna teach you that Asians do indeed put fruit on rice in some Dessert dishes right like nobody who's gonna teach you like what what what course in your normal schooling outside of like your Relative sitting you down and like schooling you on everything. It's gonna teach you any of this. Yeah. Yeah No, I'm not for sure. Um, of course Andrew this turned into a debate about Uncle Roger Judging like we said the South Asians for cooking this thing and there's no real right or wrong way to cook rice There is but you could kind of still get big on it because enough I guess not everybody knows everything about every other Asian And everybody's arguing obviously the OP is arguing in favor of a very large pan-asian knowledge base Yeah, is it do you expect every Asian to know everything about? Every other Asian or I think it would be better though, or is it better? No, but is it just that you just don't want to see Asians act this way You don't want to see Asians act ignorant, but you also Can understand that like what are these kids supposed to know how every culture cooks rice already at the ripe age of 15 Like in and if they're let's say to be honest They're all Chinese or all Korean or whatever. Like we don't know what Asian these kids were They're not exposed to every other Asian culture yet, right, right, I guess I don't know. It's a diff It's a good question, but that's why we try to make the material that we do in a more pop fashion So it's more universally accessible Somebody brought up a Bo Burnham lyric Andrew because they were talking this spiraled into a discussion about uncle Roger this guy said Yeah Everybody knows that it's easy to make get a laugh with a white crowd because if you're Chinese just do a Chinese accent and then everybody laughs at the Chinese accent because privately they think that your people are Laughable and now you've given them a chance to express it in public So this person was this this went into like a little bit of a derivative discussion about people just doing accents for laughter or people that are Asian judging other Asians for laughter and Yeah obviously Bo Burnham was saying it's possibly because the mainstream crowd thinks your people are already laughable and you've given them the Opportunity to laugh at people. I think that's partially true. I think that's partially definitely part of it, right? Right, right But if you do come from that group Do you have ownership over that laugh ability if that's how the Western world views your group is to be laughable Because I hear that discussion sometimes with the Cantonese accent because if you are Cantonese, why shouldn't you be able to do it? But it's true that people consider people with that Hong Kong, you know that choppy Cantonese action not to be serious They don't take that group of people It's complicated guys it is there's a lot of valid arguments on both sides. Somebody said why do people on reddit? Specifically the Asian American subreddit be so sensitive about what other people think or say when it comes like this Yes, it's ignorant, but it's not that big of a deal. Right? Why what you do see this on reddit a lot, right? Yeah, do you think it's people who are over educated perhaps? They're not that capitalistic So they have all this time to dedicate in their mind to like things in the world that are not How they would like them to be I mean, yeah, I mean, I what do you think? I feel like that a lot of There's a lot of cultured people out there and they wish that everybody else was as cultured as you're saying this person this OP might Be eight nine or ten out of ten on the pan Asian or pan global cultured scale They know about cozy shack. They know about Pulau and Central Asia. You know what I mean? They know I fuku in Japan whole reddit post could be a somewhat low-key flex To show how much the OP knows I can't believe These kids don't know about Filipino cockin in or the Thai mango sticky rice or they've never had fruit Kieran that I've had it I thought you're saying some sort of world cultured cuisine Superiority. Yeah But I mean again like I said like listen if you feel like that people need to know things Is it your obligation to step up and let them know should she have stepped in and said something? No, I don't think she has to in person. But but what are you doing to spread the word? Right, cuz what are you doing? Are you creating content or are you correcting these people in person? What are you doing to be a soldier of this mission if you believe in this mission? We believe in this mission So we make a lot of content and we also talk to people in person and anytime someone asked me Oh, what's the best of this in this food? I'll try to like try to give them the best answer possible But what are you doing? Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, let's just get into our takeaways Andrew It certainly was somewhat ignorant of those kids and I wish that those teenagers I hope that they don't adopt almost like and this is messed up by the way It's not I'm not saying this but everybody gets what I mean I hope they don't adopt like a white kid attitude towards white kids Do you know what I'm saying? Cuz that's not what Asians should do once they start to have their culture be more popular They feel like they've gained the upper hand. I always tell people I never like people who are sore losers And if the leverage were to flip I hate people being sore winners that used to be sore losers because you're basically having a bad attitude Regardless of which way the tide swings in your favor or against your favor So I would hope that kids don't do that But it's tough to blame them because their knowledge base like you said Andrew is not there who's gonna teach it to him Who's gonna even Asian American Studies doesn't teach you anything about Asian cuisine. Yeah Are you gonna be bold enough to tell those kids that group of kids and be like hey, by the way guys, there's a lot of different ways that Asians eat fruit on rice and then you're like, uh, okay, and then you're gonna have to let them know and and then but but but what if what if they're like We don't care and then you're gonna be like You know what this kind of reminds me of in the early 2000s Andrew and a lot of people are not gonna remember this but some of people are there was a split between AZN's and like the preppy Asians because the AZN's would call the preppy Asians Whitewashed because they would wear Abercrombie or have white friends or like hiking and rock music Yes But oftentimes the preppy Asians were even better at understanding the ancient traditions and language of their ancestral homelands than the AZN kids who probably didn't have as much access to like a Motherland origin schools and things like that. So the sometimes the preppy kids would be like, what do you mean? You're saying I'm whitewashed because I grew up in a white neighborhood But I understand our ancestral homeland on a historical and linguistic basis better than you But then the AZN's were like, but all my friends are Asian and we don't act white you guys act white So you guys are whitewashed? So did it go to show you that even back, you know 20 years ago Andrew? There's some sort of like weird split and different people ranked their own identity different ways Yeah, exactly. So I guess you guys let me know in the comments down below what you think Is it that all Asians should know about other Asians cultures to this level? Or is it just more of like the attitude of these teen kids that probably triggered the OP or is this OP just too sensitive? Man, like honestly who cares these kids are young. They'll figure it out. They didn't go in disrespect and vandalize some White rice pudding shops, you know I mean imagine they went up to some kids and slapped the cozy shack with raisins out of their hand rice pudding people Ha your skin looks like the rice pudding. Why? Anyway guys, let us know what you think in the comment section below our people on reddit too sensitive Or do they make a valid point and all Asians should increase our knowledge not only of Western people eating rice But other Asians unique styles of cooking rice. Keep it civil. We encourage the debate until next time. We'd a hot pot boys We out peace