Taste Testing Street Food from Around the World | Sorted Food

It's time to put more of YOUR suggested street food dishes to the test... But who will get closed to guessing where they're from?!
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[@ninjabard1898]

I'd love there to be a graphic that pops up when the country is revealed for us visual learners so we can see its neighbors.

[@Weesouplover]

Yesssss!!!!

[@PRODBYSMH]

good idea sir

[@KillerCornMuffin]

Yeah my geography is absolutely terrible.

[@pg2826]

That would be nice. Though one drawback I see if there are disputed borders, then they might get some flack for showing the "wrong" border.

[@higgy82]

You are on the internet. Have you not heard of google?

[@cabe_bedlam]

The look on Barry's face when Mike suggested Yorkshire pudding batter, you could see the hamster wheels at full speed behind the eyes :)

[@fibrown444]

He's so storing it up in his head for when he can make it!

[@TheBigbum1974]

You know that's showing up on a battle.

[@mmmh1999]

@@TheBigbum1974 As long as it doesn't show up in a Pass It On

[@alisaishere]

​@@TheBigbum1974 Didn't Jamie already do this recently?

[@amandaverbeke42]

@@mmmh1999 ooh! But that would be more fun!!

[@FireDancer102]

I adore when Mike aggressively yells at a dish!

[@sexiemochic14]

It's my favorite thing! I hope he never stops, it brings me so much joy

[@chingannwu3085]

Taiwanese comment : We and China both have a variety of different stinky tofu dishes, especially southern parts of China. Two common types of stinky tofu in Taiwan are steamed and deep-fried, we enjoy them with different sauces and pickled cabbage.🇹🇼

[@jeannareadsbooks8475]

Have you guys changed the company that does your captioning? These captions definitely have fewer errors than usual, and I like the fact that when the speaker changes they put the speaker's name on it. Definitely better accessibility, good job whoever did those :)

[@alexsis1778]

My guess is before they were just using the auto captioning that youtube provides. Clearly someone is actually doing it now.

[@majystm7415]

12 years ago i moved to china and smelled Stinky tofu for the first time. I thought there was a sewage break nearby and my wife insisted it was stinky tofu. She was right. A few months later, after id smelled that stuff a dozen times, we were walking down the street and i joked i smelled sewage. As usual my wife insisted it was stinky tofu. A block away we find a broken drain pipe leaking raw sewage into the street. Looks like i was right. A decade later we still play "Is it sewage or stinky tofu" as a game.

[@theguywhosright9110]

Ben is out here pronouncing Nicaragua like that lady who said "mee-cro-wavay"

[@georgeowen2553]

That's how we say it in British English when we have no Spanish language skills

[@jaystevens137]

Lol. Like Jag-You-Are (Jaguar)

[@stecky87]

Yea, there Spanish pronunciations make me cringe. I really wish they'd do a quick google search on them before filming

[@aaronsakulich4889]

I will say, living in Panama, when you said pork scratchings and yucca I knew it was going to be from someplace nearby. Also, I am SO HAPPY to see some love for Cool Daddy (the Uzbek youtuber) on here! He's a king.

[@IAmTheBeckett]

You could do a whole episode about the street food of Wuhan, it's a well known street food region of China. Most of your viewers probably only know it for recent history but the food is incredible and it really deserves some positive media! A few popular foods: regan mian, doupi, lotus root soup, mian wo.

[@erinhowett3630]

Hot dry noodles!

[@RBRB431]

Never seen anything from Uzbek cuisine on KZbin. I love this series for this very reason. Now I will look up the creator they highlighted!! Thanks Sorted!

[@ian3314]

I love the look of Mike making a mental map in his head after hearing Nicaragua, figuring out hes won. Great video guys!

[@alexdavis5766]

The geography geek and food lover in me loves this series. Also love playing along at home, with the first one also glad I'm at home and smell-a-vision isn't a thing yet

[@Anna-uh3jq]

That moment when the episode suddenly turned into a Pokerface Challenge. 😂

[@ian3314]

I really like how Mike described the "bad" smell getting better by having "a sense of place". That makes so much sense. Blue cheese smells good to me, as my mind has, over the years associated that with yum.

[@Lilian040210]

I've also found that if you try a new food and don't like it at first bite, you may like it more the more you eat. I hate wasting food so I'll eat it, and that's how I've found that your brain adjusts to the new taste eventually and goes "you know what" 😂

[@LadyMiir]

The best kind of stinky tofu is the kind you can smell three streets away! My brothers and I have often followed our noses straight to the stall haha. I prefer it without the sauce, because I find the sauce tends to make the outside skin go soggy, but if you eat it plain with just a little salt it's delicious.

[@raaabr2513]

I personally like a bit of sauce on a bed of pickled cabbage for my stinky tofu pref. That or mala with duck blood

[@SortedFood]

3 streets?! 😂

[@LadyMiir]

@@SortedFood Oh yes! There's a water-town we used to bring guests to, a couple hours away from Shanghai (where I graduated high school), that had some great stinky tofu-- you could smell the tofu before crossing a bridge into the other part of town, and the stall was 3 streets away from the bridge lol. Such a strong smell, but so good. Crispy outside, creamy umami interior.

[@chak1224]

Yes from Hong Kong, this is call “Smelly Tofu” (臭豆腐） direct translation of this street food. The shop usually deep fry the tofu serval times a day always get complaints from the residents upstairs and surrounding 😂. The smell is nasty but taste good

[@swissfoodie3542]

I also like the taste of it, but cant take the smell of it. So I have to hold my nose closed, when I eat it.

[@SortedFood]

Not sure what the better question is… how many did you get right OR how wrong were you? 😂

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Only got the Last one right. But as a proud LATAM resident i got it spot on

[@ghannawi13]

I somehow got the Uzebkistan and Nicaragua ones correct. The Uzbekistan one for some reason really reminded me of a video I watched before where they were making a huge batch of a type of bread that looked really similar to the breading on the dish, and for the Nicaragua one all I could think that it looked similar to a dish a friend of mine from Nicaragua told me about once.

[@ZephyCluster]

I got the stinky tofu one as Chinese right away, but messed up on which China had it.

[@lyds2368]

Guesses of Taiwan, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Trinidad & Tobago here. Pretty pleased with those!

[@joekaf]

I guess this doesn't count as "right," but I did say Cambodia out loud a half second before they both revealed their answers.

[@SaxophoneLover12]

I love how they answered Cambodia for the first and yet they could have answered it again for the khanom krok, since we have the same dish in Cambodia (usually more savory). Was so confused to see Cambodia answered for stinky tofu though!

[@jonathanrabbitt1082]

Suggestion for a variation on the format: Go somewhere with a great international food market (there's one where I live in Oxford) and get the food from there, then get the normals to guess the nationality of the stall!

[@MAMMASAYSYO]

I’m just down the road from Oxford, whereabouts is the food market??

[@jonathanrabbitt1082]

@@MAMMASAYSYO Gloucester Green, near the bus station

[@wajmeawinstonmetal]

Im from Nicaragua and Ive been watching Sorted videos for the past 5 years and Ive been longing for you guys to discover some of our Unique cousine. After all theres more of “La Loca” type foods out here hahaha You guys are awesome!

[@midnightarmada187]

These videos are so much fun 😊 I'd love to see Kush and Ben guessing the origin too

[@kayleenrankin9742]

Barry with the first one was giving me ‘Barry’s Food Hell’ vibes!

[@swissfoodie3542]

I love this format ! Thank you so much for another episode of it. I am looking forward to see, if I can guess where the dishes are from.

[@user-yd9lv9ji6x]

Chou Doufu (as stinky tofu is called in Mandarin) can be so good! It does depend on the vendor/ maker, though. I remember a teaching assistant swearing by a local vendor and went out to get a portion one day when we were hanging out outside of work. She returned and I, as promised, tried it. I became a regular at that vendor's street cart afterwards. It was so good! Sadly, street markets are only just starting to return to our city since CoVid ended last year (for us) and I've not seen that vendor.

[@inst4nce]

These ones are the best episodes ! Laughed my arse off at the chilli bit !

[@Kumanosuke]

A suggestion for street food: try Bolivian food! There’s loads of great stuff to get, depending on the region. My mom grew up there and talks about the street food at least once a week

[@fahiradevia7119]

for the next episode, you guys should try a street dessert called "Klepon" from Indonesia. It's a sweet rice cake ball filled with molten palm sugar and coated in grated coconut. The molten palm sugar inside would burst in your mouth when you bite it. Would love to see their reactions😂

[@hriship4602]

I'd love to see an episode where all the dishes are from the same country as a twist or from neighboring countries

[@reallyquitevil]

Two shout outs to New Zealand in a row from Ben... sounds like he's been researching a trip!

[@toni_go96]

Love Baz and Mike together in these competitions 😂

[@sleepytronart495]

I just wanted to say, that the way I've started to follow the Sorted video uploads is with Mike singing "Sunday, Monday happy days" in my head from the video way way back 😂

[@toni_go96]

13:55 Barry no... why would you think that's a good idea? 14:00 Mike no... do you really give into peer pressure that easily? the most hilarious 30 seconds where they learn the consequences of their actions 14:35 Ben - unbothered king! love to see it

[@SharienGaming]

that moment of sheer hubris going "oh these are harmles" MUNCH followed by "oh shit what have i done??!" XD

[@Eat-SD]

I stumbled upon this gem, and I'm so glad I did. Instantly hooked.❤❤❤

[@Nooticus]

Happy to see you bringing back yet another one of your best formats!

[@edwardliang1898]

4:30 M.I.T!! Super happy you guys tried the Stinky Tofu, my favorite street food from home, and kudos to Barry to hold back the gag XD

[@sharayalee3376]

Yes! I love this format

[@gambitbullet]

Love this format!

[@craigst4635]

If you do want something from Cambodia, there is an amazing stuffed frog dish you can get their with lemongrass and peanuts. No idea what it's called but it's absolutely delicious!

[@landsil_]

I just realised that this video really needs a globe with guess and actual location. Would help a lot.

[@shevahauser1780]

or just a map... yea

[@aussiecountry9320]

I love the subtitles at 14:29, Barry: [inaudible 00:14:29] 🤣🤣

[@isonear]

Why is the khanom-krok brown though? It's usually white with none/one type of topping on it, not mixed. The toppings usually are scallion, yellow corn, like you did, and taro. Yes, it is sweet with a touch of saltyness to cut through the fattyness, and creaminess from the coconut cream. Yes, it's very delicious.

[@WolfPaw1997]

Thank you sir I was searching for that comment

[@Heiryuu]

Yeah that threw me for a loop too, I ran a stall with my mom making these and I’ve never seen them turn brown like this.

[@kunimitsune177]

Scallion? The fuck is that? You mean green (spring) onion?

[@ori-yorudan]

@@kunimitsune177 Literally just another word for the same thing.

[@HarrisonCutler]

Always love these 🙌

[@cesarlemos1337]

Normally I'm terrible at these but this time I was so proud of myself for guessing the first one right (and getting awfully close to the other ones)

[@JMHMellors]

The inaudible it on the captions at 13:22: Mike: Is that a vegetable, or a fruit? Barry: This is lovely Kind regards A guy who has been captioning videos for the last couple of weeks at work!

[@joelove9877]

This theme of video has it all. Food, knowledge and humor....well done boys!

[@sheld0n]

You guys have to do Oscypek in your next street food. It's a decorated sheep milk cheese from Poland, sold on the streets by mountain people.

[@user-iv7nu3qn3f]

Yum! A bit of an online demo for those dishes would be brilliant. It's almost dinner time here in Melbourne and I'm salivating! Best wishes Ian.

[@ukeitaa]

I love these videos!

[@alexgerling3686]

I really like these videos educational and fun, and keeps me inspired to travel and try foods from around the world

[@colenave]

I think this is my favorite series on Sorted from a food discovery standpoint, can count on some good stuff to seek out

[@debbiew.7716]

I love these challenges! Good job!

[@lightontheceiling]

Debate aside as to the where eXACtly stinky tofu originated from, I have to say seeing it cut into triangular pieces is very triggering 😅. I even searched to make sure the Taiwanese version isn't traditionally triangular, but nope, i would like to affirm that stinky tofu should cut to cubes and served in a row or rows, and preferably eaten with a toothpick (cocktail stick)!

[@akhrep]

@SortedFood idea for an adaptation of this format: take the first bite while still wearing the blindfolds and give both competitors a chance to guess right off the bat. Both have the option to take the blindfold off and visually inspect the dish too. if someone guesses from taste alone, they get 5 points, but only if they get it right. if it's not the right answer, then the one closest wins, whether he was wearing a blindfold or not.

[@CammieBoi81]

Would love to see Australia in this sometime but i cant think of any Australian street foods as many of ours are from the many cultures we have here. Maybe a HSP/AB would be the closest thing to a street food we have of our own even though variations of if it do exist elsewhere

[@olliyli]

I still can't believe it!! I guessed it!! But not without your description Ben!! and the knowledge you guys have insstilled upon us.. Amazing that just by logiq learned just by watching you guys, I was able todeduct this... Just by this alone you have made a better chef.. cos' I'm not a native englidh spesker

[@addiejohnson6026]

If yall get the chance to go to Taiwan definitely check out all the night markets! They are amazing and I think you guys would love them!

[@EmpressAndrina]

Love eating lunch and watching a sorted vid

[@wesleyrussell8386]

11:08 I was thinking you cooked it in an abelskiever pan!! I was trying to think of what southeast asian countries interacted with Denmark

[@Anarchy4Angels]

I've just been to Albania and had some really nice Burek. I think you should try that next.

[@mitsuko0xidized]

I got the stinky tofu and the kahnom kroak right but I had never seen the other two dishes before! :D Thanks for another super fun and enlightening video~

[@mattsnyder4754]

Forever requesting this series be renamed “place the taste”

[@annahenderson3201]

Love these! The only one I guessed right was Thailand. Want to try them all now!

[@jesspink92]

I love Khanom krok , I have an idea that what it was and then the coconut and the pan cemented this , I used to have this as breakfast on my way to work. There are so many Thai dishes that you need to try

[@NerdySatyr]

Stuffed Yorkshire Pudding Donut next cooking battle let's go!!

[@Serenity_Dee]

Also, not the King dynasty, it's the Qing Dynasty; the "q" in hanyu pinyin is pronounced like the English digraph "ch" in "church," more or less. (There's some nuance to it that I don't claim to fully understand or have internalized, but it's absolutely not a "k" sound.)

[@ZephyCluster]

Just to add an easy way to remember it: "China" came from the name "Qin (Chin) Shi Huang".

[@beginning565]

Ch vs. q, the difference is the ch is from more of the front of the mouth, and q is more inside the mouth

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I've always heard it pronounced as "Ching" by any of my teachers. I took both a Mandarin and Cantonese class in college.

[@BAlex2209]

It was one of the first things I learnt about when foreign languages try to write in English ( for Chinese Q is Ch { as in Chin} and Xi is Sha{as in Shaolin}, for Spanish ll is y {as in Tortilla}and J is h{Jalepeno},for North Indian D is Th {as in They}and Dh is the same, but with higher emphasis on the Letter H {as in Gandhi}, while A can be either aah {Gandhi,Raja} or be just used to accent words{Argha, where the letter A makes no sound,but makes Urgh- Huh}).😅

[@Serenity_Dee]

@@beginning565 yes, one is apical and the other is retroflex, but the "nuance" I mean is that neither of them is the same sound as /tʃ/ but us L1 English speakers have trouble distinguishing the three different sounds. It's much like how we analyze the stops in Mandarin Chinese as voiced vs unvoiced rather than unaspirated vs aspirated. (Me, I can hear that they _are_ different but I can't identify them easily.)

[@EelcoPeterzen]

that second dish, Gumma, before they opened it, I thought for sure that it was a bowl of oliebollen (oil balls), a Dutch treat, mostly consumed around new years eve. Variations include plain batter, with raisins, with a creamy filling applied after deep frying, or with boerenjongens, aka rum soaked raisins. It's served with a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar.

[@95DreadLord]

that lamb pastry thing looked amazing

[@gahennahonda8964]

Woo! A new Sorted Food video always makes my day!!

[@marioandreas1139]

Gotta be up there with one of my favourite formats!

[@haiqa.t]

Lets gooooooo, been waiting for one of these

[@maryl.5984]

Oh man! Goes to show that neighbors really do influence each other! I thought I was so sure the khanom krok was Vietnam's banh khot, but was so confused that it was more sweet than savory and had corn! Our banh khot does use coconut milk in the rice flour, but made with shrimp as a topping + sweet fish sauce.

[@katielouttit5923]

You guys really need to come to NZ and Aussie, the mentions in the last few videos are a clear sign :)

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Yuca , Chicharrónes, La loca , el gordito, la pelona, la perla. As a Colombian i applaud your pronunciation Ben ! You nailed them! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@infernus6278]

Hardly any hard words. I do wonder how he say queso. That thing makes me cringe on yt always

[@mateocadavidc9945]

Nah, I like him but his pronunciation is far off

[@patheticmortal373]

​@mateocadavidc9945 his English pronunciation is wrong sometimes, so I don't expect much for non English words lol -a Native English speaker

[@ktjurns]

I feel like it would be kinder to applaud the efforts rather than the pronunciation itself. Love Ben, love the show, but I think even they would admit that their pronunciations leave much to be desired.

[@ddubmomo]

Are we ignoring how he pronounced Nicaragua?

[@zackstockdale1948]

You should really mess with the boys and do Butte Montana Pasties. It’s a take on an Irish staple that’s morphed as it’s made its way across the US and adapted to the local mining culture.

[@matthiaskleindienst9146]

Great. My guess for the first dish was Cambodia as well.

[@jeffward1106]

This channel makes me happy 😊

[@marthawilson444]

I got Thailand! Congratulations Mike. Love seeing these.

[@moonbeetle5720]

YES YOU DID STINKY TOFU FROM TAIWAN I've been waiting for that one :D :D :D the shape is looking unusual though, they don't look like that normally, so I couldn't guess from the visuals xD

[@BlueGlow26]

As soon as I saw the first dish, and with the smell they described, I knew what it was!! I'm from Taiwan, and have watched you guys for years. (remember pork floss egg pancake in a previous global street food episode? that was us too!) If you ever visit (please do!!) I'd love to recommend places and/or show you guys around XD

[@dreamfired]

I'd love to see you guys try toasted ravioli and/or other US regional foods.

[@Maguire708Julie]

I’d love an episode of everything made in the ebelskiver pan around the world! Vitumbua, ebelskiver, takoyaki, etc.

[@TheBigbum1974]

It would be fun if they ever were to pick a larger country, Russia, China, Indonesia, etc., and do all the dishes from there. Might throw the guessers off.

[@user-by6ri3cu4y]

I can't believe I actually nailed Uzbekistan for some reason :D :D :D

[@zerin25]

Ah, measuring from the centroid of Australia makes it a risky guess!

[@jdsolor]

Very happy to see a nicaraguan dish. Instead of the chili you used, we usually have the dish with a pickle of onion, carrots and “chile cabro”. Also, the order is very important: first the cassava, then chicharrones and last the cabbage salad. It still looks fantastic the way you did it.

[@jennypearce638]

Would love you to do a British regions version of this xx

[@gablison]

Growing up in HK, we used to have stinky tofu sold as street food as well. It was sold in these travelling carts. My mom LOVED it so much that she would have to get it every time we smelled it let alone saw it that my dad and I would have to cross the road and move like 3-4 blocks down just to escape the smell and she'd gobble it up before coming to meet us to leave. The street food carts don't sell them anymore but some restaurants do and like outdoor food fairs and bazaars and I've developed a taste for it and like it a lot but I don't remember them being as stinky as they used to be, I miss the intense funky fish stinkiness that the ones I had in Taiwan are.

[@Yaoijoy21]

I'm stunned that I got Thailand and Nicaragua both spot on I never get these things right!

[@richardlynch2737]

You should do vetkoek in a future one, had it when I was in SA and it was incredible

[@miyukigirl3]

khanom krok is SOOO goooodd! it remind me of this other thing I ate growing up called nom krok, kinda like a pancake served with a sweet fish sauce

[@juanvindas5830]

Gotta love me some Vigorón, such a good, simple, dish. Now that you did Nicaragua, maybe travel a bit further south to Costa Rica next? :D I'd love to see your take on our Tamales (usually made for christmas) which are quite different from others in the region.

[@play_kitkat]

Tuned in just in time!

[@junioranderson202]

Ben's glasses reflecting the sorted food sign make me want those glasses and keeps me looking like what is that.

[@muskdeer]

Idea for a video: Macdonald's Ingredients ONLY Battle | But can a Chef (Ben) Tell?

[@KilanEatsandDrinks]

11:58 don’t worry, Mike. We have several dishes that are similar to _khanom krok_ in Indonesia, so you’re not that far off, really. Some very interesting stuff you got this episode. I’ve been to Taiwan a couple of times but never had the guts to try stinky tofu, that _gumma_ looks so good, and _vigorón_ looks like something that we’d like in Indonesia as well. We probably douse it in some pungent sauce, though 😄

[@MrJking012]

god I love these, as long as I get to play along with the players.

[@kristinnelson-patel442]

I love how Ben just casually moves on with his narration while Baz and Mike are flipping out from their tragic misjudgment of the peppers.😂

[@amyrotella1219]

When I go to the sugar shacks during maple syrup season, we have a feast. I am an egg fanatic and when they bring a long oval plate with the omellette (egg) so thick and delicious, I would love it if you would demonstrate on how the heck does it come out that way! That is what I go crazy for at the sugar shack.

[@rishycup]

I’m very proud of the 4 points I would have earned. 🤣 I got Thailand and I was closer than both of them for Uzbekistan. I would love to try all of these dishes!

[@anniepowell7559]

I love this video 🇨🇦🇨🇦👍

[@JessItR10]

That's twice is a week that New Zealand gets a mention. So happy with that since we don't have our own cuisine so I never thought we would be mentioned at all 😂