Why NO Indian Panda Express Exists

veth you're saying it with a lisp I'm saying it with a lisp like there's a way to have a Lis ve veth a lot of people will tell you that they like Indian food but the truth is Indian food is not as popular in the US as you might think and with us to discuss this we got Kai vth in the house Indian comedian and Chinese comedian as well at the same time take three got it right yeah yeah yeah uh Kai you are up and coming comedian here in New York City you're half Indian half Chinese your dad's from India your mom is a Chinese American do you know a lot about indan food I I know quite a bit I know no no more than you for sure but but you know what I feel like are your biggest Indian Stripes you've opened up for Russell Peters and Hassan Minaj which I would say allows you to speak on this issue on Indian food sure yeah thank thank you H hey I might know more than you think I know though I think you know more than me but you I might know more than you think that I know no Chinese guys in street we definitely know a lot about Indian food in New York that's funny that's true that's true all right so let me lay the groundwork for this video guys because I know a lot of people out there when asked oh do you like Indian food everybody always says yes I love Indian food oh my gosh I love naan I love butter chicken oh no no get it right garlic naan I love garlic naan I like chicken Tik Masala and samosas and that is what most people are referring to maybe they'll throw in Chutney if they had a lot of Indian food but I will tell you this judging by the statistics based on how many Indians are in America almost 4.4 indian-americans right 4.4 million indian-americans they are now the biggest Asian group in America they only account for 7% of the Asian restaurants so not a lot what do you think I think it's cuz we don't have our Panda Express right you're saying a mass Market there's no like there's no entry point to Indian food in America you know what I mean I'm not saying there needs to be but I'm saying if we wanted to be more pular but isn't the isn't the entry point the Frozen butter chicken at Trader Joe's that's disgus yo you think so that's Andrew got seven of them in the fridge right now you love that I will throw them out your window yo I checked I will throw them out of your 20 story window I checked into the river with Indian Foodies before on it now you might disagree but I've checked with other Indians it's not spicy is you're talking about the one with the flap and you open it's half rice it's not bad though it's not bad chicken tick it's terrible all right well I'm not I can't I'm not going to convince you and because he didn't just say oh yeah good Andrew you have white people taste I don't know white people taste so you the so Andrew how could you do this about these Indians bro this is like so bro what if what if I was a white guy being like yo orange chicken 100% no it's different 100% dude Trader Joe's is way more off I don't get offend you know what yeah you're right Trader Jo is very Indian it depends on where they S one of the most Indian institutions Indian people are cooking it they're not no they are there possibly Indian people cooking those recipes though or at least Trader Joe's you think there's Indian people working in like the back Factory at Trader Joon no what if an Indian person came up with the recipe does that count sellout I'm just asking questions here anyways guys so we're here to talk about how Indian food could potentially even more popular than it is because judging by the numbers right there's not that many Indian restaurants so how come but interestingly enough we got to say this I did some research because I found competing articles so I found some articles from America that said why isn't Indian food more popular right but I found articles from New Zealand Australia UK Scotland Ireland you know the British Isles basically that said that Indian food is the most popular ethnic food outside of like the native Western food in those countries interesting so B basically indan right behind like shepherd's pie yeah it's right up there with the Guinness it's like I'm saying that in those countries like England Indian food is like the number one ethnic food but in America it might be like number seven is it like real Indian food that they're eating or is it like Trader Joe's Chicken ticka stop dissing on Trader Joe's man we got we got to talk about it like for I'll make it for you right now I will go microwave it right now we can taste it and you can give your honest spe I will I will do that I will want 100% do that but end of this video end but I feel like you're already going to hate it anyways just all right I like Trader and I should set a reference point I'm not anti- Trader Joe's I like Trader Joe's I've been to Trader Joe's there's one around here let us know what you guys think about the Trader Joe's Indian offerings I I think they're pretty good it's it's disgusting to me what do you think about the Indian food you I like the Trader Joe's Frozen shaolong ball that's fine I like them too I think they're great micro wable the one with a six that's good yeah so we're on the same Baseline so I'm right what do you think about the Indian food in England because some people say that it's even better than India obviously I'm sure Indians in India would disagree but I had uh I knew somebody on the west coast who was from London moved to America and this Indian guy from London was insisting he's like no man I'm telling you in the UK we've got the best Indian food in the world it's even better than India you can put me on camera I'll say it wait can you do that accent again but just a little more Indian cuz that sounded a full British so I didn't really believe he was he was like third generation yeah but just I'm not doing it I'm not oh no that was my we have the best Indian food there you go that was my riak that was the Rishi sunak just felt yeah okay go ahead um no I've been to I've been to Britain I've been to Britain I've had the Indian food there it was very good it was very good what is better about it in Britain oh I'm not saying it's better than India no but is it better than America it's a good question it's it's definitely well here's the thing in in Britain was the only time I've ever had upscale Indian food like we're in New York now there's some upscale Indian restaurants like westernized upscale like it's like a young Indian Chef like the bear kind of guy like making Indian food or his twist on it and i' never had that before but I went to in in Britain we had that cuz we were on the way to India and we had and it was really good you know there's this place in um Midtown called India accent and it's owned by British Indians it's called India accent I'm kind of already against it yeah that's funny right it's owned by British Indians that moved to New York Okay so maybe I'm I good have you been there I didn't get a chance to go it's pretty expensive man I thought you said you knew a lot about Indian food I know about you know $90 for butter chicken is a lot man yeah but $5 for a Trader Joe's one is is is pretty terrible you got to be thinking butter chicken right now because of the consequences isn't it chicken ticka so they have everything bro all right what do we think about the ability of Indian food to develop uh a Panda Express obviously saru is the mall brand for chicken teriyaki for Japanese I feel like Koreans and BB go I mean there's a couple other brands that are like really trying to break it they kind of don't have entry points though cuz it's not like people are all going to saru like white people don't know saru the way they know white people know saru the way they know Panda Express saru is like a mall brand so it's everywhere oh interesting I guess all the Westfield haven't just spent enough time in Nebraska so in New York there are some developing Indian fast casual like Panda Express is there's a spot called day I've been there there's deep I've been there deep is also one and you can get like not I mean it kind of looks like you know it's like the compartmentalized tray that you would like put the food on so I guess like there are some you guys might know more about Indian food than I do in New York maybe in New York but I mean just as we've been here longer but yeah that's true uh somebody said that one of the things that's holding back Indian restaurants from proliferating is the lack of liquor license possibly due to any sort of like cultural or religious Hang-Ups that's going to prevent the proliferation but you can't like get lit at like a Panda Express either but there's a lot of old school Chinese restaurants that you can't get lit at like there's spots there's like Hood Chinese restaurants that sell Like Liquor well you know what's uh this is a different conversation slightly but there's no popular indian-owned bars in the city like nighlife bars like yes I see Indians out I see them at other establishments but it's to my knowledge there is no like primarily Indian owned or like brown person like nightclub bar you know I think that's because all the Indians in finance just go to a bar and make it theirs yeah that's true and I see them a lot at the Chinese Z Bars cuz I think they feel comfortable there I have not been to the Chinese Z Bars we'll go sometime yeah um this guy said this is from a Punjabi Chef by the way from Reddit he said the Indian all the [ __ ] from Reddit man hey man these are real opinions you down the sources cuz you cuz you look for Indian and Chinese op opinions and there's only one place to go hey man listen if you weren't here I'm going to do the accent but since you know out of respect for you I actually think it's more disrespectful that you won't do the accent in front of me but you would still do the accent if you were like I'll do no accents that's fine but if you were like IND spices and flavors for those with very distinct paletes the complex flavoring of Indian food makes it as such and that it primarily caters to its own people that was the his opinion you know I'm proud of you for doing it thank you so basically this guy just said I would not encourage person that he has such a the mixture of all the spices is so distinct that I will be honest when because you use the accent I didn't understand a word you said I didn't I zoned out is it a decent accent uh sure buddy okay um somebody was saying that Indian food really went to the UK in a different style that was more authentic possibly the better chefs were the ones that were able to go there due to colonialism there was uh this is a similar argument of what they say about Cantonese food in Vancouver Canada being the best because the best chefs from Hong Kong primarily went to Vancouver Canada because that's where more of the upper class Hong Kong have like the ghost towns in Vancouver like the ghost um you know what I mean the houses like the people oh no no no you're talking about just buying it for the equity balance of the real estate but not living no but I'm talking about like like decades ago when when people were migrating from Hong Kong to uh uh Canada so a lot of the good chefs went there do you think that the hundreds of spices that Indian food is famous and loved for Indian food is is like famous for is that also a barrier to entry for some people who are like maybe I'm used to Five Spices in my food not 500 totally yeah I mean it's oh well I think it being about a lot of spices is like a different thing but I think even just like level of spiciness is a problem right like that's why that's why place is like Trader Jo tone it down to make it more accessible which is you know and and delicious and delicious and amazing accessible yeah but um some people were talking about how Northern Indian food it's more meat heavy it's a little bit less Tamarind uh for example versus South Indian foods where you know like your your dad's Heritage is from it may have more appeal to a immediate appeal to a western taste palette agree or disagree um well it's definitely more popular I mean I don't know about Tamarind what is tamarind I don't you don't know what Tamarind is the orange yeah no like Tamarind Chutney it's like kind of fruity yeah I mean by the way my dad loves doses my dad loves Southern coconut doses uh from South India and and Sri Lanka I mean honestly I think a part of it is like some of the North Indian food or at least the stuff that's popular it's like curry in a bowl with a bread that's like very simple and easy to understand but like a DOA is like this weird like big thing it's like things in like little containers like that's just like a harder weirder thing to wrap your head around you know what I mean the masalas and but but you know what it is I I feel like I was just thinking that that even though maybe there's not a lot of Indian restaurants given the amount of Indians in America but everybody's had Curry and Curry originates from India so that's like you Indian curry or just Curry c like no the whole concept of Curry okay even though Curry is mostly gar technically it's a Le what are non-indian curries that people have you never had the Chinese C you you ever had Japanese Curry no oh no no there's always all Curry's to if you call it a curry originates originally from India if not you know if by way of like immigrant you know diaspora damn all Curry comes from India well the con I should say the concept of Curry comes from India like Thai people their Curry definitely comes from the indosphere like the influence of India across that water and then like Hong Kong Curry obviously Japanese Curry actually comes from the British I I had no idea there was a such thing as Hong Kong what I'm trying to say is Trader Jo solid Trader Joe's is solid that's what I'm saying what do you think about the heavy vegetarian dishes mostly in South India are are you a fan or you're like give me some meat it's incredible like it's so it I was just in South India and you have vegetarian meals there and you don't even realize it it's not like it was all vegetarian but you could be it's so much easier to be vegetarian there whereas here it's just like a caesar salad or something right uh there's a lot of use of mutton yeah m is great what is mutton I think it's goat I think I looked it up once and it said it was female or castre a goat but I don't think they follow that I think it just means goat okay um fried things baji samosas Vada fish Meats yeah I don't I don't know what Baja is but some of those other things I don't know uh have you used of G ghee ghee which is Indian oil right sure yeah it's clarified butter yeah um chat different types of chat yeah chot chot is interesting I mean chot is like it's like kind of like dips some but like a little more street so from your perspective is there a region of India's food that you prefer and then also is there a a region of Indians food that you think can be more popular and and blow up yeah so two my answers to these are the opposite I the one I prefer I think will not be popular or okay what do you prefer you got to try Chet food Chet Chetan it's a place in India it's in the South it's really spicy it's known for being really [ __ ] how do you spell like c c h e t t i n chicken Chad I see that okay yeah but there's just a bunch of like naturi Masala like mutton roast like that's actually that's that's the place where we had like the chicken lollipop and GOI Monon stuff like that out of Roy Paratha Nan kulta Dosa Italy nuggets nuggets PES pesaru your Italy what what are you picking P Pata or Dosa is amazing have you had P oh so you're not a naan I like naan I like garlic naan but I prefer p p is like a layered bread that they fry it's crazy to see them make it you have to or very similar SC PC yeah kind of yeah but it's more layered it's more complicated they like layer it and then smos it and then layer is that they they smack it right they throw it and then yeah yeah it's it's really comp I made it once in Chet in India because my family knew how much I liked it and we took a trip to ched the one time we didn't just stay at my Grandma's house oh okay yeah okay so what's the Indian food that is just pop I mean it's more Northern Indian food that would be more popular I think butter chicken is is butter chicken and naan is kind of like our pad tie right like so you're thinking if there's going to be a Panda Express for Indian food at that type of entry point Mass Market Middle America it's going to be butter chicken and naan yeah uh yeah I think so I mean it's probably not going to be goat right the mutton is going to be tough I think I had I had mutton liver growing up you ever have that no mutton liver I might have had one time I've had liver before obviously but not I don't know specifically mutton mutton liver and it's like spicy and stuff like that we we were offering mutton brain growing up like that was also an option at one of these ChatOn places I did not have it that's a little little too far for me I think that Goa food food from Goa which is a region in India that used to be a Portuguese Colony so they have a lot of Portuguese and a lot of pork there Portuguese colony in called Goa you guys can look it up and so uh yeah I just seen a lot of Goa restaurants pop up that are obviously cuz it's more europeanized because it was a Portuguese Colony so I could I'm not saying that that's for a second I forgot that Portugal was in Europe and not in South America oh that's funny uh so yeah I I think that that's what I would look at but yeah I think uh Andrew ultimately first of all we're going to have Kai try the the butter chicken but but what what what is your final thoughts how can they have a Panda Express is in going to do it who's going to do it well listen I think uh Americans love bread I think naan is a great bread and I it's like garlic bread it's like garlic bread I even see uh uh American brand serving like there's this brand I just saw a commercial the other day Stone which makes bread and they have a non bread that they're trying to bring to like the M you know like to the American palet like they want white people or non Indians to just pick it up off the bread out be like oh look at this fluffy flatbread oh this is great you know cuz it kind of looks like a pita you're saying in the same way that like Mexican pasas have or fajita WS have become more tortilla tortillas yes have gotten to that point I think that's what they're hoping for NS right cuz it's just a bread but if that doesn't count as Indian enough I think that oh that's Indian enough sup supy Chicken Chunks is oh my God that's the worst way to describe it I've ever heard supy Chicken Chunks this is what Trader Joe's has done to you man this is what trer Jo has done to you is now you're like soupy chicken ier to it for that for a reason oh my God I did listen you didn't let me finish you just got offended gen Z get offended you watched me doing comedy you watched me doing comedy last week offed that's crazy super I'm offended as a person not as a comedian microwave I'm dreading this all right all right all right all right all right here I have microwaved one of my favorite tra Frozen Trader Joe's dishes by the way I'm not saying this is like 10 times better than Indian restaurants I would never say that I'm just saying it's decent and I'm trying to get you to say that is decent so Kai taste the butter chicken from Trader Joe's microwav there's basmati rice there's butter chicken right there you want me to read the ingredients I'll read it sure read the ingredient I feel like this just give us a visual analyzation real quick man cuz it looks kind of looks kind of thin and watery and uh yeah it doesn't it doesn't look that garlic ginger butter spices salt spices cane sugar citric acid would you say that's so funny that it just that they just say spices right that is funny for Indian would you would you say that this butter chicken needs more butter this butter chicken I I'm not a chef so I have no idea just try it just try it and take a couple bites before you it smells good from here it does smell pretty good all right just go this is microwave from Frozen try it with the rice and and and take a couple bites before you say anything just enjoy it analyze process okay this is Kai vth he opened up for Russell Peters Hassan Minaj the two largest Indian male comedians probably in the world I would say arguably or at least from the America the americ one more yeah okay yeah Stewie Chicken Chunks yeah you like it huh I give it a five out of 10 okay all right terrible though not terrible not just the score just describe it just give us not as bad as I remembered what's but not as good as what's in Andrew's head Fair all right you guys listen if you guys have any ideas for how Indian food can enter the game like Panda Express or or you know anything more than this Trader Joe's frozen butter chicken let us know in the comment section below check out Kai's stuff on the internet and I just want to thank Andrew for being so thoughtful as to microwave one of his own prized butter chickens we treat our guests with the utmost respect and service here at the hot pop Boys Everybody check out Kai's stuff down below he's a standup comedian check out his shows around New York City or wherever else he goes follow him to be honest I'd say that serving me that was actually pretty disrespectful I like to disrespect people too I think it's funny all right everybody please uh thank you so much for watching the hop hop boys and until next time we out peace