61 yr old Chinese Chef tries American Chinese Food

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There is this on going debate on whether or not American Chinese food is Chinese food. Today we are going to settle this once in for all by having a 61 year old traditional Chinese chef try American Chinese food to see what he thinks of it.We have dishes ranging from fried rice to general tso chicken. Let's see what he says.
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00:00 Introduction
00:11 History of Chinese Food
01:45 Buying American Chinese Food
04:07 Chef introduction
05:00 Chicken Balls
06:02 Orange Chicken
06:40 Chicken Fried Rice
08:33 General Tso's Chicken
09:32 Sweet Sour Pork
10:01 SquareSpace Rolls
11:35 Chef Cooks
12:52 Final Thoughts

[@diegoeleazar9154]

Such a humble man. He didn't bashed the American Chinese food since it was made to adapt to the country.

[@bvbxiong5791]

Italians on the other hand...

[@chasebowman9815]

I’d love to see an Italian react to st Luis style pizza (or what Chicago style pizza was which was a thin almost cracker crust before deep dish took over the meaning the only difference being that for st Luis style has provel which is so processed I know they’ll have a fit)

[@user-sd9sn7wf3o]

If he said anything offensive, haters will leave negative reviews on his restaurant. So probably he didn't give his real opinions, as he already said he dare not give a low score.

[@qidongxu7339]

Of course American Chinese food is more for American than Chinese. As long as Americans like it, doesn't matter

[@ns645]

It makes sense. Hong Kong food is also the same. It is a fusion kind of cuisine. So I think fusion and adaptation is something HKers are used to :)

[@djmiggy1778]

I love how open minded he was. I want to try his food.

[@kevwwong]

I think the fact that he does HK-style fast food helps him keep an open mind. That's already an adapted version of Cantonese cooking, and probably helps inform his opinion of Americanized Chinese food.

[@Shadow-dd1qp]

"3 dishes 14.99$" is such a chinese thing to say

[@li_tsz_fung]

It translates to "Entertainment not included in the price. You can barely buy anything with 15 buck anywhere."

[@jinze.s2514]

I want to see Chef Wang Gang react to these dishes

[@Shadow-dd1qp]

@@jinze.s2514 fr

[@guojames9269]

@@user-bh9vf2zu1r He said entertainment not environment, here's a ticket back to elementary school for you to learn the difference between words, and here's another ticket back to kindergarten so you learn how to control your malding

[@user-bh9vf2zu1r]

@@guojames9269 Learn how to use commas before professing to be an educational expert. Writing a run on sentence is just embarrassing.

[@saldiven2009]

Here's one to try: Take an Italian person (as in someone born and raised in Italy) to a small, local "Italian" restaurant in a city in any East Asian country. Watch that Italian person have a meltdown because they put cream in the carbonara.

[@serenity9932]

Italians do the same shit in their own Asian restaurant. And plus Asian have more sweets everywhere in their dessert

[@waltersimmons9512]

Most 'Italian' food here in Asia are chain Restaurants and usually made like a fast food.. that's why they use cream not eggs.

[@saldiven2009]

@@waltersimmons9512 So? The point is that various ethnic foods from one region of the world are done "wrong" in other parts of the world. Often times, the people complaining about it being "wrong" ignore the historical and practical reasons for the changes. They just get hung up on stuff like, "OMFG, orange chicken isn't _real_ Chinese food."

[@FloofyMinari]

If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.

[@lexluthor3145]

True. Things like Italian cheese are also very expensive, especially if you live in a 3rd world or developing countries. Often times, ingredients are also straight up not available. Guanciale? We don't have that here. You also have people who can't consume pork because of things like their beliefs.

[@mic_s21]

I do really appreciate when he said "You need to adapt to the local conditions" very few chefs or KZbinr will accept that there are variations if not some adaptations that are made to accommodate the population as a whole. Of course authenticity is valued but if you do that it'll be hard to please everyone's palate. Like one of the best Chef KZbinr "Marion's Kitchen" said it quite often and is rightfully so: "there's always method to the madness"

[@honeytgb]

@Made with Lau rightly stated: "The food may not be *traditional* as you're far away from the old country, but it is still *authentic* as it is made by the same people but had to adapt to local ingredients"

[@MegaMiquelon]

He has an incredibly fair assessment. “Survival, you gotta adapt to local taste”.

[@emergencystoppingonly]

I'm glad that you took the time to talk about the history of american vs chinese food, and then you got a chef who is at least mildly familiar with the history and respectful of american chinese for trying to innovate and eventually becoming successful. Instead of the usual "ItS NoT AuThEnTiC!!1!!" and "authentic is better" and "a chinese person will hate this" bs that everyone else does. We're all so obsessed whether or not "authentic food" is better. But one look at the comments section and there is obviously a bunch of people who clearly did not watch the video.

[@ck_illust7150]

Foreign Chinese will never be Chinese. They will always be seen as Race Traitors 😤

[@user-sd9sn7wf3o]

I've had Chinese food in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South East Asia and even Japan, and American Chinese food is the worst

[@truthful3777]

It's a Chinese behavior to adapt to customers requirements. Chinese are not hard headed to stick to tradition. What customers wants they deliver it.

[@yudistiraliem135]

China is so big that I doubt anyone really understand what’s authentic or not. Some area loves “ bland” food and hates putting too much spices and orhers go mad with chilli or fermented beans. I remember an American called peas on fried rice Gweilo sh*t but it’s exactly what’s served at Oppo House where they bring the chefs and ingredients from mainland to feed their chinese employees there.

[@thaddeustyc]

@@user-sd9sn7wf3o Lol use some critical thinking before comparing please. It'd made sense if you compared say the US and the UK. But Taiwan, HK have their own Chinese food and SEA and Japan are Asian countries with similar flavour profiles and also long history of Chinese ancestry in the country so they aren't going to differ much as well. American Chinese food on the other hand is an entire cuisine on its own and not the same to Chinese food, just like how Tex-mex is a cuisine on its own and not comparable to Mexican food.

[@philipyow3452]

I thought Americanized Chinese food was disgusting until I recently watched a documentary from Canadian Chuek Kwan who has a series on Chinese restaurants on KZbin. These foods are what many of the older generations of Chinese cooked for survival and hope in their family owned restaurants. Survival is what Chef Jack said in his final thoughts. We need to support these small family owned operations.

[@noseboop4354]

Very hard for a family business to survive in America these days. McDonalds and Temu prove that they'd rather buy shit as long as it's cheap and marketed to hell.

[@philippkucia8442]

Except Canada does ly in America, but not in the US

[@LYJManchesterUnited]

Why disgusting? Are you the type that gets offended on behalf of every race? I think it is like a simplified version so to make it more palatable for the local culture.

[@jungdonna]

Chicken balls are a Canadian Chinese thing. I've never seen them on an American Chinese menu. If you had spoken Chinese to that lady about lemon chicken, she might have answered you. She probably didn't understand you.

[@harkmi3]

Isn’t orange chicken just an American Chinese thing as well? I have never seen it kind of Canada.

[@noseboop4354]

@@harkmi3 Me neither, although I do see orange beef a lot in Canada.

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

Seen those chicken balls you refer to before loved them. Though their not common even here in Queens one of the largest diverse boroughs of New York City.

[@defjam641]

You can find Chicken balls at every single British Chinese takeaway, usually comes with sweet and sour sauce

[@kevwwong]

@@harkmi3 "Isn’t orange chicken just an American Chinese thing as well? I have never seen it kind of Canada." It is an American thing. But you'll find it at a mall food court hot table like Manchu Wok.

[@chriswu15]

Visiting Toronto right now and I'll check out his restaurant today! Thanks guys and keep up the great vids!!

[@marcc5768]

It's in Scarborough, nearest intersection Midland and Sheppard

[@cclingdev]

@CantoMando I followed your content since the beginning and I can honestly say that your content is adding so much value to the media. Keep up the great work and thank you for making contents like this.

[@evildrtran]

There's a very big reason why American Chinese Food diverged so much from homeland cuisine; that this youtuber FAILED to consider. Imagine yourself freshly arriving in America 170ish years ago and you want to make meals that you crave from back home in China, sadly, you have only the local ingredients available to you. American Chinese food exists because of this. How do you make bok choy and beef when you only have American broccoli in abundance versus bok choy? There's also some consideration that the main menu inmost Chinese restaurants are for the American locals, while there's sometimes a second secret menu for Chinese eaters that want a more authentic experience.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Exactly. I know this for a fact as Im friends and was classmates w the local Chinese restaurant owner. His family has oened it for 40 years and they are Taiwanese. They simply cannot order all their ingredients from China or Taiwan.

[@whys2016]

0:51 love the animated migration route they took to get to California 😂

[@GreaterLADashcam]

It should have depicted them sailing the pacific.

[@miker7233]

A number of years ago I visited Beijing twice. I also visited Hong Kong and Xian. Yes the Chinese type food here in the states, is much different in taste and specific dishes. Unless you can find a restaurant with authentic dishes and taste. I stayed in a major hotel in Beijing. I was talking to a couple of the staff. I asked them about Chinese dishes I would normally order in the states. They were totally stumped lol.

[@hermesliteratus882]

Those localized Chinese foods in the US look horrible and the Chinese chef did his very best not to throw up.

[@cadenzhou5860]

@@hermesliteratus882throwing up is an exaggeration perhaps. But yeah, I still believe American Chinese food is really bad lol feel bad for those that believe it’s even close to real Chinese food. But hey if American Chinese food is what people like I can’t judge.

[@lemonshark007]

„3 dishes 14.99$“lmao😂😂😂

[@Arthur-gs2jr]

Honestly that’s a steal

[@robetheridge4008]

Great Video! Interesting, fun, & informative! Chef Jack is wonderful! A great resource! 🥰💪🙏

[@ZenDuex]

This video was so good! It teaches us so much about how the masters wisdom, respects the new age and how the ancient cuisine can lead us into a tasty tomorrow, and gently recommends we branch out and try new cuisine. ! thank you so much for making this video, can't wait for more!

[@wesleyedwards1493]

Mike, I love that you’re hosting a bunch of the recent videos. Really solid job. Idk where the other 2 are rn, but you’re doing great carrying the channel.

[@victor5344]

You rated my friends restaurant Asian Fusion. I hoped you enjoyed the food and his mom! 3 dishes 14.99$$$$$$$$$

[@thelonesurvivor3955]

"...and his mom!" Wut?

[@bidooflord8581]

I think fake is the wrong term, I consider it a different cuisine.

[@wxy7119]

idk how I somehow figured out this was in Canada like a few seconds into the video but omg the Scarborough community especially has such amazing "Americanized" and also authentic Chinese food 😋the food court that the chef is sitting is has to be the most Chinese Canadian thing I've seen

[@markosterman419]

I like the idea of a “pop taste,” a food that’s designed to be like a standard well known dish but is actually very different … and people like it anyway.

[@maggiejetson7904]

General Tso is real (from Taiwan), but they taste different than the one in US.

[@cdramabear]

Thanks for the videoooo

[@philippkucia8442]

This video shows that American Chinese Food is not that bad as long it is made in Canada. You can also eat excellent Authentic Chinese Food in Hong Kong which is as good as traveling to China for a good meal. Thanks for this pretty educative and rich in taste video CantoMando!

[@legendsplayground7017]

Love your content 💪👌, the dish look really nice, keep up the good work, Jesus bless.

[@eleazarchau52]

I go that spot all the time. Great people and food

[@shinykurian1810]

As an indian chinese food is one of my favourite

[@jingweing]

把我们一个

[@gametri-eq6lj]

yeah Uyghur food is good

[@Vahjina-ihtir]

Traitor

[@mkmkoto]

@@Vahjina-ihtir not his fault he wants a clean dish

[@Patrick-pv9pe]

Indian Chinese food is called Hakka, it was invented by Chinese people who migrated to India, not invented by Indians.

[@veridico84]

Hunan version of orange chicken - dried tangerine peel chicken is absolutely amazing

[@gloriaking2135]

Your shirt makes me feel like you are a staff works for a Chinese restaurant😂

[@toasterfuel]

another banger from the goats

[@jamestaylor3805]

Canton - Wok Hai Hawaii - Pono American South - Made with love baby.

[@WolfetoneRebel1916]

What an amazing outlook on like he has. People love to bash American pizza, Chinese etc. but it does taste delicious.

[@joannaly5246]

LOL Uncle really said survival of the fittest 😂 and "it's good as long as people like it"

[@smaggie]

tbh as a native Chinese I always wanna try American Chinese food Japanese Chinese food. im so curious I really wanna know how they localize it. it must be interesting

[@ShubhamSharma-sk7vp]

Try Indo Chinese food once.

[@yoru8815]

Eh I think the main difference is just like the European where the majority came from, american rarely ever to use variety of spice in cooking. If they bother using it's used very sparingly. They only either mostly about salt and pepper or tomato and cheese or grease. They grow up eating like that their tongues unable to tolerate so much spice. Notice even their fast food chains like KFC reflect this, fast food in us almost bland in taste compare to most in asia.

[@hermesliteratus882]

Trust me, you don't want to do that. Those localized Chinese food in America looks horrible and tastes disgusting.

[@mccallosone4903]

dont listen to the haters, american chinese food is fine, as long as you avoid the gross buffets. go to a good local restaurant. its sweeter than cantonese food, and not spicy at all, even if its labelled spicy. there are some good dishes that have been developed by chinese immigrants over the last 200 years

[@handlenot030]

@@yoru8815 You clearly haven't had American. food. Are you thinking of the UK or just being ignorant?

[@Turnpost2552]

He spoke very respectfully

[@JustSumGuy]

I like both I enjoy both types of food at different times. I will say I enjoy cooking authentic Chinese food way more in my own kitchen.

[@Adam-mj5hl]

I like how he gives his very own sweet & sour pork a score of 7-8 / 10.

[@Exceliear]

Chinese American dishes can vary in different taste and stuff. Usually fast food chains like Panda Express, they cook large portions and serve it like buffet because of how popular it is. If it’s a Chinese American family owned, it is made to order

[@FreddyWangNX]

the way you say "So" with a tinge of cantonese accent is somehow very interesting to a fellow asian lol

[@dbadagna]

If the cuts (especially ones with lots of text) are left on the screen for much less than 1 second, the viewer won't be able to properly absorb them. Please take a deep breath and re-edit.

[@Iampatrix]

I think it's kinda unfair to call American Chinese food "fake" since it was invented by Chinese immigrants over the past almost 200 years. I'm part Chinese on my moms side, we think they got here around the Gold Rush era but our records aren't very good, but the point is they've been here awhile. My great-aunt and her husband owned a chain of Chinese buffets in California for years that served American Chinese but a few times a year they'd go back to Hong Kong to scout out potential chefs so that they could have a more authentic "secret" menu for their Chinese clients. The buffet was pretty good, not greasy like so many others, but I remember the secret menu being pretty delicious. After her husband died she sold off the restaurants and retired but a couple times each year she'd host a big family dinner at a restaurant she'd scouted for "authentic" Hong Kong Cantonese food, which was her favorite. Yes it's totally different than American Chinese, almost everything is steamed or braised with garlic, green onion, shallot, ginger and often fermented black bean. Also almost exclusively sea food. Soy sauce is just a condiment you can add if you want, other than that it's all about how fresh and quality the ingredients are. I'm older now and my Chinese side never had many kids so they're almost all gone now along with those dinners, I did prefer those over American Chinese but I still appreciate a good American Chinese restaurant. Miss those family dinners.

[@jakefox3677]

Fr though no American going to eat “real” Chinese food so they gotta modify to fit what customers want still Chinese food

[@WheresCupcake2124]

I ain't reading all at

[@Iampatrix]

@@WheresCupcake2124 no one asked you to so foh.

[@Medbread]

@@jakefox3677 Weird that Americans will happily eat authentic Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, etc. food, but as soon as it's Chinese it needs to be Americanized

[@qidongxu7339]

@@Medbread No really. For sure Mexican food is also Americanized. My Mexican friends told me that that is not what they eat back home. Same as Italian food. I was In Italy 2 years ago, they don't have so many toppings on their pizza, usually only tomatoes

[@ch1kusoo]

Isn't that chop suey place at that mall at Sheppard and Kennedy? ok i guess makes sense going there. Pretty close by to Great Fountain. Anyways, with regards to what's legit Chinese food. I didn't expect these chop suey places to exist when "authentic" Chinese (or in this case, Canto) food is easily accessible nowadays. I mean you can go to the cooked food section at T&T or Foody and get more variety and quality than the chop suey places. As for Great Fountain, they are truly amazing. In your last video, you said they carry 200 items and that's pretty crazy. I am familiar with a lot of the Chinese malls in Scarborough, even the ones near Great Fountain and the other ones don't carry that many lol.

[@TheAstralFencer]

Both cuisines serve their purposes for sure

[@oldcatholics]

Excellent dishes Chef.

[@salvatory2012]

My mind just exploded with excitement

[@winst2000]

You missed some history: there were several waves of “Chinese” immigrant waves in recent history: first it was the Hong Kong immigrants with Cantonese cuisines from the 1960 and 1970s I called Bruce Lee era, with signature dishes such as chop Suey and Egg Foo Yong for the Americans. Then in the 70’s and 80’s with Taiwanese immigrants versions of Mandarin and Szechwan food such as General Tao’s Chicken, Mushu, Mongolian Beef, and Kung Pow. Then in the l90’s and 2000 mainland Chinese with a new generation of flavors. But also remember many Taiwanese entered mainland China and brought back lost flavors influenced some local food scenes.

[@bufanpxl8r]

I've seen that restaurant on Tiktok so much with the same song in the background... you know which one.

[@gastroalchemy4499]

What a humble chef!! 👏👏👏

[@el_chino778]

He has such a great outlook, thought he would be against it

[@bradchin7746]

I think it would more interesting to see someone try Shanghai fried pork cutlet vs tonkatsu.

[@michaelh2285]

Love this chef

[@gratefuldeadly7899]

He is Canadian from Toronto. He has a restaurant stall in the east end of Toronto

[@Patrick-pv9pe]

What a surprise to see that I recognize the locations. Both locations are in Scarborough Ontario Canada (in the north eastern part of Toronto). The first restaurant where the Americanized Chinese food was bought is at Agincourt Mall near Kennedy and Sheppard. The second location is in a Chinese plaza just east of Midland and Sheppard in a Chinese food court. The restaurant behind the Chinese chef is called Great Fountain.

[@alainw77]

You need to try “Chinese” food in Quebec City where I was raised. Quebec Fried Noodles is the unique dish here.

[@HkgHkg-gu3rd]

Could we use salsa sauce and fry for the final dish there?

[@BubbaEscobar]

Love traditional authentic Chinese food

[@RobertFixit]

So OG he uses the thick side of the chopsticks to eat 😂

[@Cars_and_adventures]

Chicken balls are popular here in the UK. No idea where it originated from though !

[@BeesKneesBenjamin]

When I visit my father we often go to a Chinese/Indonesian restaurant. My father used to fly out to various cities in China for his work for decades, he always told me here it differed quite a lot from the stuff he ate in China. One time he asked if she could prepare us some real traditional stuff from her hometown, it was the bomb hahaha. Now she comes with that stuff herself when she sees us and is excited for our reaction. It never fails to be anything but great, I never had imagined I'd be gladly eating shrimpheads and chicken feet simply because they're cooked up well rather than it being a challange hahahahaha. Man food is the bomb, it's a great world we live in there's so many different things to try and enjoy :-)

[@Fuzz82]

Those chicken balls remind me of Golauyoek or 咕噜肉(?) They do need a sweet and sour sauce though. It must be really dry like that.

[@RoyFJ65]

The title is quite apt.

[@ttlam1501]

7:32 the very important skills for making Cantonese style fried rice. Fry it, not just tossing, swing the wok the whole time, especially the real Cantonese fried rice uses much less oil than other places.

[@tommyso3823]

tbf, I would even say nowadays even in Hong Kong or Macau, the food that you can find is localized already. Some really traditional Chinese food is really hard to find as they need so many steps and so many time to prepare that. You can even find lemon chicken in Hong Kong or Macau, we call them 西檸雞

[@user-ml5ks8tm9w]

不是他们还是非常传统正宗中国菜的，符合中国人技术技艺还有口味以及讲究。

[@hyper_Michael]

Where Edward and sheldon

[@mmcfarland3215]

What do you think about serpentza documenting that there are people in China not sure how many who use sewage oil in their cooking?

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

GENERAL TSO: I never thought there would be a dish named about me UNCLE ROGER: Who you again?

[@lisbiology]

i don't like the word authentic... feels like gatekeeping... in my (chinese) family my father works as a chef and my mother teaches at a culinary school and they don't even agree on what is the right way to do some dishes but they are both authentic and traditional chinese cooks. Sure American Chinese food is not the same as Traditional Chinese fare but you can't say it is fake or inauthentic Chinese food, it's just Chinese Diaspora food.

[@mccallosone4903]

wise words friend. i live in china, and while there are many lousy pizza restaurants, there are some pretty good ones too, that arent "fake"

[@thelaurins3759]

My favorite food court in Mississauga!

[@jonyao76]

Know why Chinese businessmen are so succesful?, they are ablen to adapt to the conditions of their surroundings.

[@Brick-Life]

Amazing

[@RocketYota]

Can we talk about how during most of these, he holds the disposable chopsticks upside down 😂

[@holmiumh]

That's kind of a good habit. you use it upside down when accessing "public dish" and put that food onto the "personal dish" then use the normal side to eat the food so the saliva won't touch the public dish and the food inside . But since this YT host is an Americanized one he couldn't get the basic set up properly for the gentleman, you can see him trying to use his none exciting personal dish many times. Asians don't complain, but when the setup is substandard you can tell they are not comfortable. But if you are not Asian you won't catch the details. I mean he didn't even give him a spoon for fried rice, what kind of failure is this guy OMG?

[@xlaws7389]

I don't think there is any problem. When food is in a place, it will be integrated into the local characteristics and needs. Only in this way can the culture be preserved. Chinese food in Japan will become Japanese Chinese food. In the United States, it will become American Chinese food. If you are interested in Chinese food, you can try real traditional Chinese food. It will be a completely different experience. There is no right or wrong.

[@plattydcpre7838]

Can you do your old videos where you test mukbangers recipe

[@mrpingu6863]

Are spring rolls Chinese? Always thought they were Vietnamese,but maybe I thought that because of summer rolls?

[@TheElementSwing]

The bourbon chicken from the mall, closed after covid. It was the perfect dish, and the very thin and not too sweet or overly slurried sauce...I could eat that over rice until I die. If authentic chinese food is better....that's a tall order.

[@MissesWitch]

I never knew wok hei was a real thing until it was mentioned in this video! I thought it was just something uncle roger made up as part of his character for the entertainment!

[@whatname7257]

Did anyone else notice he was using the chopsticks backwards

[@golden-_-blitz788]

You’re supposed to have the chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce

[@Nickinator811]

My irish friend told me that uk chinese food has the chicken balls and curry sauce Which i don't understand but we have orange chicken and spring rolls in the usa so I guess we are even

[@AdamEgret]

The migration animation was right on.

[@abryant78]

Question is where can you go in America to get traditional Chinese food?

[@SaxyCheese]

Any good size town has at least one traditional restaurant if you just look a little. Both versions are everywhere, and both are good and have their place.

[@ChamP10nk1ng]

Authentic Chinese food is AWESOME 👍 American/Chinese food is AWESOME 😊

[@Fadzi2342]

Had a Chinese friend who in his household always cooks authentic, traditional Chinese dishes. But his late Grandpa's guilty pleasure is eating at Panda Express.

[@yesyoucan5855]

You have to try NY Chinese food

[@1988jingchache]

3 dishes for that price is a very very good price

[@carmenwong4951]

LOL those fried chicken balls, we sell them as 咕嚕肉 (pork or chicken) to white people in The Netherlands 😂

[@cojaysea]

I’ll never forget when I was in Taipei Taiwan and ate food at the ole markets . It was light years from General Tso,s Chicken ( an American invention ) and other American Chinese dishes . I can also recall that Italian people from Italy were horrified when they saw Americans eating Spaghetti and meatballs together. They don’t do that in Italy . I grew up in New York and ate Chinese food all my life there and in Chinatown too but what I saw in Taiwan was amazing . By the way I now live in Japan and here the Chinese food is Japanized for want of a better word the same way Chinese food in America is Americanized . I understand a chef in San Francisco invented chop suey and chow mein specifically for the non Asian people.

[@Anti-PizzaCat]

Been saying this to people but nooo they say fake Chinese food is real authentic China foods. I love both authentic and non authentic Chinese foods!

[@arrowghost]

You can imagine how Uncle Roger feels when he eats the dishes, and he'll like that Chinese chef

[@ShubhamSharma-sk7vp]

Fuiyoh

[@llamaalpaca5563]

Haiya why so bland. Where the flavour? We Asian people like spice.

[@doloresdebeauvoir4960]

I'm Cantonese and I like American Chinese food ^^ not bad to have them occasionally

[@rollingdownfalling]

Honestly speaking you guys should visit China. For Cantonese dishes visit Hong Kong or Guangdong province. For 江浙菜、淮扬菜，visit Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Yangzhou (similar but different). For Sichuan cuisine visit Chengdu and nearby cities. For 鲁菜, visit Shandong province and north eastern China. For Silk Road dishes (or north western dishes) visit Xi'an, Lanzhou and Xinjiang province. For 徽菜, visit Anhui province. For spicy 湘菜, visit Hunan province. For 闽菜 visit Fujian province and to some extent Taiwan. For very exotic food visit Guangxi, Guizhou but the most exotic kind of food is in Yunnan province. For Yak meat visit Tibet. And of course Beijing has a stereotype in China called 美食荒漠，but I guess Peking duck and Beijing style hotpot is not bad. This kind of sums up Chinese food in China. But for cool Chinese Fusion food, Peru is actually a good place to visit.

[@DT-wp4hk]

3:38 ku yu luk It's in Dutch Chinese restaurants as well

[@dbudianto]

Not all General Tso chicken created equal. In West coast I never come across good General Tso chicken. Some places in NYC General Tso are actually quite distict that it's actually a good reinvention of sweet & sour chicken. It has heat from dried chilli, ginger, a bit on the sweet side, specific soy sauce, & the batter has to be perfect as well. Nothing in the west coast can be compared to it.

[@DrWongburger]

Never seen chicken balls before. They really should consider naming it something else i think. Chicken nards? Scrotal chicken? Chicken sacks? I dunno, just spit ballin here. No pun intended.

[@xungngo]

the art of chinese cooking can't evolve if we have old ppl not letting their minds open up... good job

[@ImyaSmol]

That maplestory sound effect though

[@sampletextlensflare]

He gave his own dish (without knowing) just a 7-8 LOL. Wonder what that says about everything else he rated..

[@handlenot030]

Fine rating.

[@homerhax]

alternate title: "61 year old chinese chef tries panda express"

[@iamxujian]

哈哈哈，我就知道一定有左宗棠鸡，作为一个湖南人，还是在硅谷被介绍了这个“家乡菜”，当场惊呆……