Why We Eat: Chow Mein

[@ekonymph]

Such a great storyteller. Him cooking tableside while talking about the history of the dish or just telling stories like this would be amazing. Thank you Lucas!

[@brandonvernet]

We need more humans like this guy in the world. The world would be a better place with more of Lucas! Love this guy!

[@yitmenchin3556]

Can VICE hire this guy?! He HAS TO have his own show.

[@number316]

Really enjoyed our cook in this video he seems chill I'd like more cooking content from him keep it up bro

[@neilmunro5360]

Yeah, I've been bouncing around a bunch of Lucas' cooking vids and they're all real good. Nice pace, nice passion. Should be a bigger name imho.

[@number316]

@@neilmunro5360 all too true 👍

[@ruoyings3264]

More content from this guy please, he seems so chill

[@tray3827]

Chef dude has a humble character. That's so precious.

[@tarteopoire179]

That some quality content if i have ever seen one you need to make this guy a regular video every week

[@nora-Lirong]

Does the chef has a YT i will go immediately and subscribe! Love the not showing off knowledge attitude of his.

[@DreamcastQ]

I grew up eating so much Chinese food, interesting to hear the history behind some of our beloved Chinese-American dishes

[@AyushmanDevraj]

Really enjoyed watching. The chef’s a great presenter.

[@waffle-ydunkedcat6105]

Chowmein is something which is very popular and absolutely delish here in india ...

[@bigsmoke1179]

Chow mein in india is different but really tasty ngl.

[@waffle-ydunkedcat6105]

@@bigsmoke1179 yup ik .. just saying lol

[@ilovejewelyn]

Love this guy! He needs to make more appearances!

[@joosunkmybattleship]

That 1920's / prohibition / chop suey story was extremely interesting it could have been an hour long food documentary style I'd watch it

[@JoshuaBabasa]

The question shouldn't be WHY we should eat Chow Mein, it should be WHEN are we eating Chow Mein?

[@call_me_ping]

Bring back more Chef Sin!

[@ggwhy110]

Actually this is 肉絲炒麵, which translates into sliced meat deep-fried noodles, a very common dish in Hong Kong. This however is not stir-fried noodles in the ordinary sense that one may reckon. If u say fried noodles, chances are people do not know that u r talking about this very particular dish.

[@FrankSuChannel]

agreed

[@catchnkill]

True. This is not chowmein in normal sense. It is "pan fry noodle". Not very popular but it is pretty traditional. The "two sides yellow" is this type of chowmein.

[@essenlame]

I wasn't hungry until I watched this video. This guy is super interesting, and he makes me really appreciate the effort that goes into making such delicious food.

[@tommytwospirit4197]

Long lover of chow mein as kid growing but this give me new inspiration as a cook for future meal to cook for myself

[@stevenminer9863]

This video is so profound. I CANNOT keep track of all the things I’ve learned!

[@julesl6910]

Corn starch is an American invention from New Jersey, this guy is a charlatan

[@AcademeX]

It's amazing to see so many posts from people claiming to be Chinese...and they say this is not Chinese....or not 'authentic'...and that he pronounces it the wrong way. There are so many Chinese ethnicities and regions that have different dialects, styles of cooking and ingredients. I am familiar with this cooking style and dish as I live in Southeast Asia where many Chinese people from the South immigrated. China is a big and beautiful country and its people should be proud of the diversity and stop standardizing everything. BTW, I am also part Chinese so I think I have a say in it...=D

[@spaniardprince]

This was a great watch!

[@wonhome2711]

Chef Sin makes history fascinating

[@XxLukeNukemxX]

Wow such a diversity in the name Lucas I remember when my name wasn't so frequent when I was younger.

[@kingmacinchina]

I had this exact dish in Shanghai years ago and there was only one restaurant that had it, one day the restaurant closed and I didn't know what it was called. Yes I have had Chow Mein since but not like this...Thanks for sharing the recipe. Definitely going to be making it..

[@ernestkj]

I was so impressed by the South American Chinese food when I visited Peru, Brazil, Chile! They are so familiar yet I don't quite get it.. contradictions, mind blown!

[@liubang3]

i from chinese teochew in my place sometime this disk called yam mien it's not stirfry but only dip the noodle to hot water then use some vinegar/soya souce/chicken broth then mix together with chicken meat /pork some vegetable and then just eat it like that

[@ididnothither]

Didn’t they already post this on the Munchies channel?

[@doralburnett9886]

Very informatively explained

[@thomasriccardi8561]

THANK YOU! I have lived in NYC for a long time and I used to go to a place called Wo Hop in Chinatown and if you asked for Chow Mein you would get the gravy dish.. if you wanted the regular noodle dish its Lo Mein. However, when I moved out to CA it was called Chow Mein out here.. same dish.. no clue as to why!

[@RA-gj6hm]

I love chef Sin

[@aspiromy]

yeah great 101 to them, i was shocked when kiwi neighbour brought her plate of soggy chow mein which I simply cannot...

[@WoobyHob]

Wasnt this uploaded before?

[@eddywong.]

Wow, just WOW! Thank you so kindly. This video is amazing.

[@poovaneswaransupramaniam19]

Cool video..and wonderful background story

[@MrTnylam]

that is one of my faves.

[@pacificareigns]

Great video.

[@Bssese]

Anyone tell me what’s the fireplace looking thingy in the back is for ? Thanks

[@BaeLasso]

I envy his skin~ Looking very good, and the fried noodle..

[@TheRizGuy]

This video was already on Munchies, why is the same video shared again on a different channel?

[@MJLStudios]

Wheres the wok hei version of chaow mian?

[@KD-mm3li]

Beef chow fun is my personal favorite. Thiccer noodles with all the veggies and beef cuts. Childhood memories in the Bay Area.

[@ArthropodSpidey]

Because it’s good. There, I solved the fucking mystery.

[@Kulidapur_idn]

U

[@junethanoschurchill6750]

Great job buddy! Keep it up!

[@rosefk]

I just wanna know what knife he using

[@SFBenjaminK]

I LOOOOVE chow mien, low mein, mein mein. anything meinee ...i can eat it every day ...any Asian place i go ..i ordered the chow mein first thing & then the rest ..LOVE IT i love it with a lots veggie's & with shrimp or chicken 😛😜 THE ASIAN DUDE make it in restaurant for us ...he use all ur veggies there also he adds cabbage, BOK coy , carrots , salary, bamboo shoots, red bel pepper, Ginger , Garlic & onions too ..comes soooo delicious 2, we buy a biggg O try from him & alots more another his dishes 😛

[@tonkonton]

This guy is a good presenting personality.

[@rafreyes1190]

i love brief historical bg about food (basically anything lol)..idk but i wish i can trade-in my 🧠 for a new one with bigger storage capacity hahahaha

[@asthathapa6899]

Chowmin in india and this whole time I used to think it became chowmin in india from normal Chinese noodles. But still this what we call main Chinese food that is very famous in South Asian region. 👍

[@MegaPineaplle]

Please do Lo Mein next!

[@HelloWorld-qe6kp]

why is his skin so good

[@Gab-es9cm]

watch for the food, stay for the history

[@beth9034]

Researching chow mein because I got a basic stir fry with a side of dried noodles from my local Chinese restaurant. And the cashew nut I ordered last time is literally the same stir fry just with cashews 😂 don't think I'll be going back

[@rajdeepdas272]

Soy sauce is good but didn't the American by that time already had Worcestershire sauce and oyster sauce?? Not to mention cornstarch thickening is already done by Italian roux style. Frankly speaking every country has a very close flavor bases on fried starch and veggies with sauce or spices

[@alkaliaurange]

Yes but Worcestershire sauce has been historically expensive and had to be imported from England. Not so sure about oyster sauce. I can't find any info on when Italians started using cornstarch in their roux, but I can safely say Italian food didn't become popular until the last century. Flour roux work similarly anyways. I agree with the fact that different cultures and countries have their innovations, but sometimes they're not used together or in the same ways as you might expect today. Regarding soy sauce for example, the Romans had their own version (**garum**) but future European nations lost the desire to eat it. This kind of stuff has been around for a long time.

[@wevanss]

This guy is amazing!

[@varunharry]

Looks great brother

[@soly.5349]

Yeah they call it zha mien where I’m at. (Deep)Fried noodles instead of stir fried noodles.

[@navingautam8930]

This dish is way staple in every Nepalese restaurants and cafeteria.

[@jasonchen9645]

Vegetable Chow Mei Fun is the only type I eat!, the handmade style you can only find in a few places in Chinatown.. It's the bomb!

[@wonhome2711]

you need to expand your palette

[@Qub3rs]

I've watched this already on Munchies.

[@josephl7930]

Holy #$@#! This guy need his own show!!!

[@sisterclub100]

Grew up with Guyanese chow mein !!! Super good :))

[@digitalpunk5365]

Vice finally made a decent video

[@Bongchaok]

I love how his has knowledge about the food ,the name and the origin and stuff,Thank you.

[@julesl6910]

Corn starch is an American invention from New Jersey, this guy is a charlatan

[@culturedmonkey6395]

This style of video on British Indian food and its spread to America and Australia etc would be great

[@NickTaylorRickPowers]

That flip was on point

[@faithsmith158]

As a Chinese, what the heck is that?

[@good4insects]

Whomever says Chinese food is bad is a fucking philistine!!!!!!! Love me some Chow Mein!!!

[@italy5153]

That looks delish 😋

[@theweatherisaokay4964]

I made my chow mien in my bread maker. 🤩 Really!

[@Vizorfam]

Love Chow Mien 💗

[@krakensraken5660]

Re-uploaded

[@myrandomlife8881]

Ah yeas, we called it TaMie here at 4:25

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Nice 👌

[@angelam2057]

We eat it cause it's Delicious!! 😍🤤

[@canineuniversity1015]

Who ever says Chinese food is bad? If anything I'd say its incredibly cheap and good portions, I dont expect fine dining

[@tsh_e_ring2000]

And I thought chow-mein was originated here in northeast India coz it's a common dish here also...

[@vennsim71]

It’s Cantonese . Even the name tells 😂

[@scarlet420]

Indian and nepali chow mein is prepared slightly different and adopt same name. After all it's fried noodle.

[@vennsim71]

@@scarlet420 yeah… the Chinese chow mien culture did spread there… just different cooking ingredients… that’s the beauty of culinary

[@gazu8374]

sodaranya jonny sin

[@scroticle]

When I was married, we went to a Chinese restaurant in Paris, near the Opera. My wife was vegetarian, and wanted a spring roll. There was pork in it, but they said not as much as a pork spring roll. There was a dish listed as soy something. It was bean sprouts sautéed in butter. Pretty regional.

[@harryloo8544]

what an interesting fellow

[@wizirbyman]

more LUCAS PLEASE

[@julesl6910]

Corn starch is an American invention from New Jersey, this guy is a charlatan

[@encryp4558]

wheres the hum XD

[@摂理の空白]

Pancit Canton

[@limjinzhegmss1620]

hi

[@DG-zx9zs]

Aahh noodles

[@saintessa]

My mum makes it with rice haha

[@OceanLily]

Dude hard NO on the cornstarch. We already had cornstarch in America.

[@championzhu]

You mean chao mian? Cos there is no mein anywhere in China

[@ro0ster648]

Of course it doesn't exist in China, the dish name "Chow Mein" was coined in the United States. It is a bad romanization of the Taishan dialect from Guangdong Province of China. "Chao Mian" is the correct pingyin for the phrase, but back in the old days most of the Chinese immigrants in the US were from Guangdong, the city Taishan particularly.

[@vennsim71]

I guess the younger Chinese lacked understanding on the different provincial food and style.. the southern Chaozhou dishes, Yue dishes (Cantonese), Min dishes (Fujian)

[@meeksavage8840]

Learning his way of cooking chow

[@jnzl523]

His Chinese i cannot. Its CHAO MIAN. AIYO

[@vennsim71]

He pronounced it well isn’t it? Originated from Guangzhou area. Cantonese it’s chow mien. Chao Mian is mandarin…

[@submarooo4319]

he has nice skin

[@VenkaKoda]

cuz we eat

[@harukrentz435]

Yeah but "Mie Goreng" is far superior 😉

[@crystalclear3177]

Umm.. we don't?

[@ars9411]

Tamie capcay....

[@kncnsm]

This looks like a duplicate video that was published on Munchies 4 weeks ago. ??? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5zZZGCMhZt-apY Edit: I just researched and realized that Munchies/Vice are the same company. Still weird to publish the exact same content (Title, length of video) except with different thumbnail.

[@lot10101]

Nice but chao mien is a general term for fried noodles. The variety of chao mien can be confusing to some even for the ethnic Asians. Singapore is gratuitously 'advertised' as an Asian food centre, come to Malaysia the grand daddy of Singapore to experience it all. A short one hour drive would take you into another world from Kuala Lumpur our capital.

[@vennsim71]

Awww… don’t sound so bitter. Every place has their own version of stuffs. Like I appreciate Chinese sashimi as much as the Japanese ones. Just appreciate the differences your life will be better.

[@lot10101]

Your juvenile response is noted so you would disregard history all together.

[@vennsim71]

Your tunnelled views are laughable 😂 there’s no history to disregard. KL is so dirty, and the cab drivers are so corrupted, asking more fares than what the meters prescribed. Even subway can collide… there’s better ways to die then to die there…

[@lot10101]

@@vennsim71 not sure why I am following you down your path since your anal thoughts are so pure....why respond at all. Live in your sterile environment, reinvent an existing culture even try to BUY it, what is SG anyway...just an island full of insecure people wondering about..... I don't care.

[@vennsim71]

@@lot10101 Singapore being sterile clean and beautiful environment, as contrast to Malaysia being dirty and polluted… I guess everyone can have their take to stay in whichever type of place. Most wouldn’t want to live like critters… 😂

[@mukulbawa9639]

Isse ek bar india ki redhi wali chowmien khilao

[@ionamygdalon2263]

Actually, "Mein" is pronounced as "Me-en" "Me" like "Me too" "en" like "pen" Edit: Please read the reply by brainwave!

[@brainwave2796]

I assume you're referring to the Mandarin pronunciation, "miàn"? In Cantonese, it's one syllable, "min." Lucas Sin is from Hong Kong, he's speaking Cantonese here.

[@ionamygdalon2263]

@@brainwave2796 I see! Thank you for your reply!! ☺️

[@brainwave2796]

@@ionamygdalon2263 No problem!

[@muraliv80]

This was too much talk - for a simple classic

[@dunno418]

Mein Chow

[@FjordTrotter]

is that why chinese take outs have stirfried beef/cabbage in one pint and a bag of "crispy noodles" on the other? I couldnt figure out why its called chow mein... now to think of, its the cheapest, lowest quality rendition of a stir fried noodle dish