 listen to daddy okay daddy tell you baby don't worry what's going on everybody welcome to a special Cantonese episode of Feng Bro's food today we are here with Nelson Chan we're here with Kevla David and Andrew from the Feng Bro's this video is going to be really interesting because we are going to be going low and high and talking about everything Cantonese and I think the reason that we wanted to do this video is because I think on our channel we talk about so many things that are relatable across Asian cultures you know it's Pan-Asian one of the groups that we happen to be all very familiar with is the Cantonese group Canton pride and we are actually all different types of Cantonese because Cantonese just doesn't come from southern China Kev where are your parents from my parents were born and raised in Vietnam but my grandparents were born and raised in China I'm not exactly sure which part 100% Cantonese Nelson where are your parents from my parents are from Zhongshan they moved to Macau when they were like teenagers I was actually born in Macau so full Cantonese for that my grandfather was from Hawke's Island but dad got born in Guangzhou but then got raised in HK in this video we are going to be eating two levels of Cantonese food and I don't want to say that this is like the hood style but this is definitely more like the down home style the homie style cash only type and then we're going to take it to a new fancy Cantonese restaurant that just opened up in the 626 so we're going to see both levels and I think that this is interesting because Cantonese do have all levels the same place that you get $2 dim sum you can buy like a $60 crab there you can buy one piece of abalone that's $250 yeah so even within a single Cantonese restaurant there's different levels and I think it's confusing for a lot of people but that's why we have to start here at Samwoo one of the most famous barbecue spots in LA when you grow up Cantonese in America going to these like real hole in the wall quote unquote low-end hood spots everybody does it it's normal it's part of the culture this is your to-go spot so if you are doing like a party and you need four ducks this is where you're gonna get it but you're not necessarily taking girls here on dates no I think it's gonna taste everything right now it's going on with the duck roast duck in Cantonese is seal op guess what it sounds a duck fish you think it sounds like quack okay but let's be honest man it could sound like everybody trying to chashu oh the candy flavor oh my gosh being like the first large amount of Asians in America what are some things that we can be proud about being Cantonese for resilience sacrifice one of the most hardest work in Asians out there yes by far we created the seven day a week restaurant if you needed a restaurant open on Christmas day and I'll tell you this me and Andra are half northern northern people will not open seven days a week and they're not trying to do 16 hour shifts either I definitely think that Cantonese are really open minded we'll eat anybody else's food I think the most open minded foodies at their core are Cantonese because if you think about the positioning of Canton or southern China it is in between southeast Asia and east Asia it has all of mid and northern China and then Japan and Korea up there but then below it's right next to Vietnam there's a lot of Chinese people in Thailand and Cambodia people from southern China are the ones that went everywhere in the world started businesses started the Chinatowns in Jamaica in Panama and I know personally people from there and that's what's like incredible about it and they're not playing around with how big this paid on that is that's a nice slice almost like a mushroom no that's part of like a orange you know a lot of canto restaurants are open really late like like there's a few restaurants that are open late to like 12 a.m where you could buy lobsters and fish kids running around at 11 30 I've been to those restaurants late at night I think there's something about Cantonese culture that I noticed where they just stay up late and I will say this I do think I know enough about other Asian groups to say that some other Asians might have bedtimes but Cantonese kids do not did you guys have a bedtime no strict bedtime strict bedtime no like there's times my parents tell me to go to sleep but they never be like you need to be in bed by this time no I don't know that was not a big fan of like the hardcore structure yeah with the ground rules and stuff you know like that like the house rules I think there's an assumption that like you're just not going to be that crazy me and Andrew got so into entertainment is that we would stay up and watch Jay Leno David Letterman Conan O'Brien and you know how like you watch all those variety shows you get so much exposure to the entertainment world as a young kid I do feel like the Cantonese people are the only person who would have like another thing just kind of off topic only in hood canto spots like a restaurant like this I can see you sweating and we're not having like hot pot or something yeah that's true that's a good point don't you take off the beanie and show them you're being cancelled we grew up in the Seattle area which was very close to Vancouver and Vancouver Canada is known to be kind of like a fancy Cantonese place think about it Hong Kong was a British colony with Australia and Canada those are still like very closely tied with England so if you have an English passport or you have some sort of relationship through being colonized in Hong Kong then you would go to either Canada or Australia our dads raised in Hong Kong so we you know we identify as HK Cantonese but growing up we didn't meet that many HK Cantonese in America I feel like we got so hooded and eyes that I can't even relate to the HK candles anymore when I look at two cultures I don't see socioeconomic class first I look at the way people talk the way people interact their friendliness of course I acknowledge that Cambodia town and little Tokyo look completely different like socioeconomically no that's just not always the first thing on my mind but I'm saying that that's so Cantonese of me to see it that way I think other people might see it as skin color or money I think it's because just in the cancel world there's so many different people candle that there might be a really poor candle or just really rich Canton people there's just a whole wide spectrum we can see that what their own people our own friends and family there's always a rich uncle somewhere in a Cantonese family and then like nobody else got to be rich I always say that being candle gives you super large amount of perspective yeah because you see the high and the low all and even like one street you don't want to lead you to have when you have a lot of perspective it leads you to be really funny if you think about it aquafina spark Cantonese Ronnie Chang spark Cantonese gimme oh yang alley Wong Jin Jin Steven Child the godfather of Chinese comedy there's this one scene from this old Steven Child movie where he's eating and smoking a cigarette at the same time he's like so sad right and then he's just eating and then as he's chewing like to wash down the food with the cigarette and he looks mad like desperate and sad would you say one of the things about you gotta be at least a little bit goofy yeah for sure my dad still calls my mom to us mommy he'd be like to mommy go and you're here and you're like but that's my mom no but you know what I mean like that's just the role in the family yeah dad would say daddy to daddy let listen to daddy okay daddy tell you baby don't worry talking about Cantonese come up with some incredible slang and you know the word boba they actually don't use the word boba in taiwan because boba in taiwan means big boobs the people who came up with that slang was in hong kong no i remember this lady got offended one time i was when i was in taiwan and i was like oh yeah can i get some boba and then i was asking for the big boba so i was like and then she was like i think what a lot of people feel about Cantonese food and then this you know does reflect onto the culture as well as like Cantonese food it's tasty and it's cheap but then it's not as trendy or cool right now like we're joking earlier this is not the greatest date spot any Cantonese spot in America would not necessarily make a good thing in America now i'm not saying across the world to me the reason that Cantonese are super underrated is um because like a lot of the people who came over they still open up Cantonese restaurants but they actually weren't chefs they were just cooking to make money and then it kind of brought a bad name but once you get the the people who actually know how to cook this stuff it's incredibly complex it's actually one of the most complex foods in asia bar none even to make this one ton skin right here this process is so complicated yeah i'll think of how many different flavors and ingredients we have on this table right here and this is not even the craziest spread you have lobster noodles you have a fried fish with soy sauce you have roast duck here duck feet okay you have fried fish skins you have roast barbecue pork you have one ton you have kanji i don't like to feel like we are like cheap food people forever like i don't believe that like we have expensive food and we're about to go eat it so before we go on to our next spot what are our takeaways from eating here at samwoo this is no subject man pretty much just like what i grew up on brings back good memories this is considered the low end spot but you know this is what we kind of have to eat growing up you know with our parents or if we had low income and whatnot them feeding us this is probably still a lot of money to them no that is true no looking at this hanging out as homies and stuff like we look back like you know this is very humbling and i'm very appreciative for being Cantonese and you know my childhood and my upbringing and my culture see this is the cheapest high-end dish i think that you can get in asian america period for cantonese to be able to cook this level of complex food for this cheap is unbelievable still make it taste good it's delicious actually make it tasty make it tasty now that we did the quote unquote hood spot you guys ready to hit the fancy one should i wait it man all right let's go we're here at opal in san gabriel did you guys ever think that growing up in san gabriel i'll hammer that there would be a spot like this never never i thought i walked into one of those nice a brand new casino hotels you know and mcow when he's a lobster on fire for you know this uh barbecue pork and this one is a muslin pork shoot you shoot you it's like the snow fish yes i speak to you the last one you will be the wagyu wagyu beef how do you know this is all been elevated by seafoo chef horris uh i got this lobster noodles with ifu noodles lobster with ifu noodles ah oh look they got serving chopsticks yo let's go in let's start with the classic cantonese dishes the char siu not super sweet our love the candying on the outside it's a little lean more on the chewier side yo we gotta get into this one let me serve this up this chilean sea bass hit me that's buttery man the sea bass man what we call the suit you my dad used to like fishes a lot you know what it's good if it's done not basically if it bounces off your teeth when you're eating it's just like oh that's sea bass got bounced they got this shoot you almost feeling like a scallop it's like your traditional walnut prawns except it's got a wasabi kick to it it's not too heavy when you're eating like you can eat like a lot of these whereas you eat the mayonnaise version you can't eat like two and you're done what they're doing here it's sort of shucking some of the national stereotypes about cantonese food out the window you know they are elevating it but they're still keeping the core of the cantonese cuisine intact so often canto food is cooked at a very cheap level so of course the ingredients are not going to be top-notch and all this and it serve very quickly but if you take your time and even just improve the quality or even spice it up change it up a little bit you know it can be as good as any other dish food itself may be good but if you don't make everything around it they experience how the food is presented how the waivers even talk to you yeah because it's almost like the apple iphone they don't just give it to you they give it to you in a super nice bar hey this one ton soup this one ton man cheers cheers hey who cheers one ton soup no that soup is so clean and tasty you know you'd be boiling five plus hours that one ton soup it takes like Hong Kong how can we bring other cantonese people to be willing to spend more money to try the higher end cantonese food i feel like if they did try it they would be willing to spend the money so far i have not been disappointed with one thing yet everything just elevated there is branding issues man so that's why you gotta market yourself in american i just feel like it's this misrepresented misunderstood when we first came out with the six to six music video and we were doing youtube and we were speaking Mandarin and Cantonese there was chinese people would not believe that we were in chinese they couldn't believe that they own people would make a fancy production again this is exactly why we need to make videos videos like you guys are making artists breaking these types of barriers because you would have cantile people you guys know who are shutting down these ideas and even when it's done they still have to you guys think the doubt makes them feel comfortable because it's almost like it counts yourself out because you know how once you believe something's possible it makes you uncomfortable because now you have to go do it but it's almost like it makes yourself comfortable to take yourself out of the race no it's like when you when uh you set yourself out of from talking to like a girl you really want to talk to you're like oh my gosh i'm thinking about it i want to go i'm sure you're never gonna like me no no no you set yourself um you know i'm too short all my hands out they're playing not to lose so you put themselves out of the race out of competition you can't lose because you're never in it exactly they're losing yeah and dude people was like always like you know when we made me and edu uh our music hasn't been as well received as our comedy and people would be like oh it's cringe it's cringe you know to me being cringy it don't mean nothing to me because it means that i'm taking shots it's sometimes i don't have the team around me or the systems or maybe we music production or whatever something out and it ended up may or may not have i agreed that it ended up a little cringy i don't care you're gonna lose every time if you don't shoot because i'm like somebody gotta make videos listen maybe our next video is better maybe our next music video is better maybe someone else's next music video is better because of what we did but i'm like no unless you actually we won't know nobody's bad and no one's stepping up to bed listen some people are mad that we're the only ones bad seriously some people are mad should have been somebody else fun girls making videos why why are they making videos i want to do it because we're the only one making videos that's why we're making videos it's easy to be a world-class critic it's hard to even be a c-level creator oh that's a line y'all all right let's try this peaking duck guys pockets here folded nicely almost like a pocket square yeah wow not caviar is like i might just have to eat this caviar by itself bro i got a challenge for any people that are Cantonese park Cantonese or even know a Cantonese person i would like you to challenge them to do something that pushes the culture forward wow even if that's just hosting a dinner for their friends well i just think mentally is probably the most important thing to start with just be mentally more aggressive you know be more obviously more open-minded get out of your comfort zone and be in attack mode rather than be on defense mode but what do you think uh allowed you to be in attack mode i mean it might be the people are kind of hung out with and grew up with no they're not conservative they're more outgoing and doing a bunch of crazy things where you know normally a traditional Cantonese person would not do i gotta give a big shout out to is your mom now for a first-generation chinese person you know especially when speak mato she's very supportive of whatever you want to do that is true i think a lot of times when we say what you want to do it's a lot of parents don't think you're gonna be successful exactly in their mind they already know because they're fearful actually it comes from fear from family like if you told them and they knew that you were gonna be good then they wouldn't say that first thing they jump to is just like oh my god he's gonna fail they were coached from an era of asia where you didn't get a lot of chances at life if you look at america and the structure of the west it allows for a lot of chances it's almost like you get like six swings at your at that and in asia they've all been coached that you just get one swing do you either make a hit or you out now remember when we filmed that kobe signature moves in new york china town yep the day before i told a friend of ours that we were gonna film that it's cancel friend my cancer friend and it was cold and he goes dude don't do it you're gonna die you can't do that you can't do that and i remember i looked at him straight in his face and i did not have a smile on my face and i just said man all i hear is you just telling me what i can't do you're not telling me what i can do you're not giving me a solution about how i can accomplish that all you're doing is spending all your breath telling me what i can't do and guess what i stopped being friends with that person right there in that spot you show people that even if they don't have a gym and it's in the winter in new york you can start a youtube channel right yeah i started it in one of the coldest winters in new york that season i was freezing my butt off out on the park the streets where it was like 10 degrees whatever you have around you just just use it and just go out and do it if anything you guys take away from our videos that even if people around you telling you this is the cap of maxima what's possible nah you can have your cap up here like way beyond that yeah no cap no cap no cap no cap for real guai fa kt guai fa kt go i like that little seasoning stuff on top yo that they got a little herbs on top that tastes different there it is that was very floral oh that was good though yo you see this little daisy eat it i think i'm scared no i can do do it look what you may me do i guess what i'm saying is just Cantonese are underrated and i think that we have to take some responsibility for why that is once you've acknowledged this situation and you know that there are certain factors beyond your control but there are factors within your control then it is up to you to go change those factors and take action can't oh yo that's crazy you can do it yo if you just keep doing what you've been doing you're gonna keep getting what you've been getting and i guess if you're okay with what you've been getting then carry on and if you're not okay with what you've been getting then you gotta do something but take action do something and if you don't attack i will say this if you really cannot attack and be proactive and make something happen at least support support somebody who is doing something that you enjoy that you feel is pushing it forward keeping the culture alive all right everybody thank you so much for watching that video shout out to kev shout out to nel this is david and andrew from the fun bros please in the comments down below let us know what you think about the future of cantonese culture and food around the world and give us any updates from where you're at if something cool is going on by the way i know that everything we said is just like our experience it's our experience our opinions i don't know you know it might have been completely different where you got right i'm sure we're gonna get maybe some uh corrections as far as historical facts i'm willing to read those as well all right everybody we are in singabriel california and until next time we out please i can't really can be funny