 White people in America and white people in Britain are currently fighting over who has the better Chinese food. Listen man, you cannot make this up. This is a TikTok beef between mostly white American TikTokers and white British TikTokers over who has better Chinese takeout food or as they would say in England, Chinese takeaway or I'm having a Chinese tonight. Yeah, we're not talking about super authentic Chinese food. We're talking about, you know, Americanized Chinese food, AKA the Panda Express style versus the British version of it. And it looks quite different. So we're gonna go into the comments section. We're gonna talk about what people are saying because it's kind of turning out to be like some proxy of like some futuristic like revolutionary war here. But then also, it also is just talking about like why does British Chinese food look different? Because it kind of comes from like a different place maybe. So make sure you like, subscribe and turn your notifications. You guys know Hop Hop Boys. We're breaking everything down that's Asian from silly to serious, Andrew. This would probably fall under silly, but enough British people feel pressed, Andrew, that they're writing really long articles about it. Americans are horrified at what us British people call Chinese food. Why are all these Americans missing both the history and the flavor of the British Chinese food? Oh, I love it, man. The British, they can always bring up the history because they're like, yeah, okay. So you're speaking all language and then you want to come back and diss us even though you're still sleeping on a queen size mattress. Oh, hell, the queen. All right, but before I walk in, we're not going to do accents the whole video and we're not just here to make fun of British people obviously being Americans. However, no, let's get into it. We, I mean, we've got to talk about it. We got to take a look at this. This is a very viral tweet, Andrew. This battle, by the way, is going on on all platforms. It started on TikTok. It went to Instagram and went to Twitter and now it's on Reddit, Andrew. This person said, just found out what British called Chinese food at a loss for words. And then of course, as you can see here, Andrew, there's a lot of curry sauce on French fries. It does look different. I'm not going to say one of these plates doesn't look that bad, but I'll say this right off the bat. Obviously a lot of French fries, lots of curry sauce, smothering everything, even the low mean. And then there's these chicken balls where they do look like chicken chunks of like sweet and sour chicken, but they're a little bit more circular. So I don't know if they're made to look like balls or not. Okay, look at this one over here. They've got fried seaweed as a topping, almost like some Furukake. Some of this, like I said, doesn't look that bad, but I heard the curry sauce is very gravy-like and it's not that spicy and not that flavorful. I don't know. Well, a lot of Americans were getting at the British TikTokers saying, what, why do you guys just fry everything with no seasoning and then you just throw sauce on everything and everything's beige? Anyway, you know what? Let's just play a few of the TikToks. Creators in the UK have taken TikTok by storm with their Chinese takeout orders. The UK must have a universal menu for their Chinese takeout because every single person on this platform from the UK that has posted videos of their Chinese takeout, it's the same exact things. Did anyone order a Chinese? What, a Chinese tonight? I've been craving a Chinese for so long. Good, does that look? Oh my God, I'm absolutely stoven and I'm hungover today as well. I don't know how I've managed to go to a christening. I just pick a mind to dish out my crispy beef. Sweet and sour on first, stunning. And curry sauce, oh my God. I am so excited. I fancy everyone and everyone goes round and says, and this is how British people say it. I fancy an Italian, I fancy a Turkish, I fancy a Kebab, I fancy an Indian, I fancy a Chippie. Real quick guys, we got a word from our sponsor, a brand new chili oil that is debuting at the end of this month called Smala that is gonna come kicking in the door at a game. We are very excited to announce that actually it is our chili oil. We made it, we've been working with a professional kitchen over the past year. If you guys follow us on social media, we've been kind of teasing it a little bit. Just to prove to you that we've been working on it, here are some sample bottles of different chili iterations and versions that we've had. So trust me guys, we've been working hard on this. It's very delicious, we stand by it. It's gonna release very, very soon. 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You know, the food is not really looking like that in the big cities. But I won't say this, David, the curry sauce, do we know if the curry sauce comes from like the Hong Kong Macau side or is it coming from the Indian influence because there's a lot of Indians in Britain? So I did a little bit of Reddit research. This is inconclusive, like scientifically, but it looks like the desire for the curry sauce comes from their consumption of Indian food. Indian food in the UK is considered very good, better than the US. But Chinese food, obviously not so much. However, so the desire for the curry came from the Indian side, but the actual curry itself is more of a Portuguese Macau, HK style. And I'm not gonna lie, guys, just based on the numbers, there are way more Chinese people in America than there are in the UK. So obviously, I don't know, the Chinese food is probably better in the US. By the way, let me give the British props on one thing. These zealim chuteau, these salt and pepper fries from some of the spots with the green scallions, those look good. That kind of does look good. Anyway, let's get into the comments section, guys. You know, we got culture wars. Somebody said, can you believe they call this Chinese food and the British shot back? Can you believe that Americans call this Italian food? Because I guess the Italian food in the UK might be more authentic, I'm not sure. The culture wars of America. Somebody said Panda Express has more variety than the entire UK put together. Yup, Panda Express is delicious and still ran by Chinese people, remember that? Of course, some people, you know, shot back with some darts at the US due to the mass shootings and things like that. And somebody said, well, at least our shoes don't get shot up, you stupid American. And then the Americans were like, why do you guys say Chinese? Like you're saying Chinese. Like you're saying Indian chai tea with your knee. They also said, Chinese. This is a really interesting comment. Somebody said, I feel like this is a lot of Northern England Scottish Chinese. You know, here in London, we're far more cultured and we've moved past this phase. These people are lower class and from the countryside, that is their takeaway order. It's not what we would eat in London. Wow, you British elitist. So classist. I mean, I will say Chinese takeaway almost in any city is considered more cheaper food. So it's gonna be more for people who need to eat it. Yes, of course there are nicer Chinese restaurants, especially in London and especially in any big city pretty much that's metropolitan. There is gonna be very good Chinese food but it's gonna be more expensive. Yeah, under a renowned food site actually said in the US, we enjoy the aromatics of garlic, ginger, soy sauce, pepper in our meat and side dishes when it comes to Chinese food. The more garlic, the better. However, in England, they do not enjoy savory, spicy and sweet sour sauces all multi-layered. They like takeaway containers filled with vinegar, sweet flavors and a thick curry sauce with a gravy like texture. Surprisingly, British do like vinegar because they always have salt and vinegar chips and then they put the vinegar on the fish and chips. And they also put the malt on the, you can't even get that an American fish box. Yeah, that's not a thing in America, yeah. Somebody said, well, you know, you have to understand that a lot of poor people from Guangdong province went over in the late 1800s all throughout the 1900s and that is the core basis for British Chinese food. Obviously in America, Andrew, we do also have a Toisan immigration that came to set American Chinese food but there was also Taiwanese people. There was Fujianese people. There was like, I guess a lot of people from a lot of different parts of China. But I think ultimately the food looks different because it is adapted to the British taste buds and British food and taste buds are a little bit different than America. Seeing that America actually has way more immigrants and way more different ethnic influences. All they wanna do is eat them boiled peas over there. Them boiled peas and put beans on top, man. This is where like the rednecks of America can look at the British and be like, hey man, listen, come on, man. We got some Native American influence. We got the Italians. We got the Irish. We got the Iranians. We got the... Somebody said, man, thinking about it, I've never even seen a British person eat a single vegetable in my life. They don't even eat crab rangoons over there, man. What's going on? Yo, the peas and carrots, crazy. Of course the British people were defending themselves, Andrew, ordering greens from a Chinese takeaway. He's the same as ordering a salad from McDonald's. You just don't do it. Yeah. Long story short, man. Andrew, people were getting at each other. It got to school shootings. People are talking about preservatives in the food. Some people said, man, this doesn't look appealing at all. British food is just really bland. They make sure their Chinese food is bland. Somebody said, bro, it looks all soggy. Their whole country is soggy. And people were like, oh, why do you guys even call it French fries? It has nothing to do with the French. And then of course Americans, that's just what we call them. Well, we invented the language. Well, we mastered it. Yeah, I think David, all in all, this kind of boils down to the fact that whenever Chinese people went to a different country or even a different city, they basically, in order to sell the food in high volume, adapted flavors and customized the flavors and localized the flavors to the taste of the people. I heard that there are either even peanut butter filled dumplings over in Tennessee somewhere because just Tennessee people, they don't just want pork and chicken and their dumplings, they want peanut butter. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't surprise me. I would say that Chinese food is the most adapted, hyper localized cuisine in the entire planet. If you look at America, Andrew is a very big country. It's very diverse, a lot of different races here. I would say that any Chinese restaurant in any zone is catering to a five mile radius around it. But if you're in the heavy metropolitan dense zone, Andrew, any Chinese spot in New York City is catering to the next five blocks around it. That's why when you go to Spanish Harlem, you get Gino Latino. When you go to Alphabet City, you get a certain type. Andrew, when you're in the Upper West Side, you might get some like Jewish Chinese-American cuisine. Yeah, and everybody has their own favorite type of Chinese food that they stand by that is almost their identity. So we have to understand that when you diss on British Chinese food, you are kind of dissing on British people. You're kind of dissing on part of white British culture, right? Yeah, same way. But isn't it funny that it's white people arguing about their adapted white Chinese food in America dissing on white people British Chinese food? Yeah, because there's no Chinese people in this conversation yet. Like, literally, I've not seen... We've been completely left out. I have not seen that many video responses or any videos or responses from an Asian person that was like, because it's not really an argument we need to get into. In a way, Andrew, is it more their culture than our culture at this point, even though, of course, somebody who might look like us is cooking the food? Yeah, I think that's an interesting question. Do some white Americans actually identify so strongly with American Chinese food even more than I would? Like, I don't... I would say so, they eat it more often. That's not the food I grew up eating. I didn't eat that time to time, but it was not... I always tell this story. Growing up, the white kids at school had more serious debates on whether to eat a fortune cookie or not than the Chinese kids would. I never heard the Chinese kids have that heated debate in the lunch room. You know why? It's because the Chinese people were just like, yeah, that's all just like American Western food. So it's cool. Like, we'll eat it. Yeah, whatever you guys are doing, yeah, I sure argue about it on TikTok. TikTok's all about Chinese food. No, but then they're like, that's my identity. Like, I grow... I love the lo mein. I love the chow mein. I love the chicken chow mein. That's my sh... And I'm like, whoa. No, you feel... That's you, man. I mean, to be honest, I'm more a little bit on Team America because the Panda Express does look way better than whatever they're eating. I'm not saying what they're eating is bad. No, I have to try it. Andrew, last but not least, somebody came into defend British taste buds saying, you know, we fought a lot of wars that you guys didn't have to fight on your own soil. So we went through the ration days and we went through days where a lot of our country did not have good ingredients. So when the Chinese came, they're working under those conditions and maybe those are the conditions that also developed our taste buds. So don't judge us because we fought your wars, America. So we gotta do a little bit of history. I'll tell you this, one thing that British people always have over America is history, man. They will bust out the history just to no end. Like, you're speaking all language. We fought the wars. Well, because they had to fight in World War II on the Europe side, whereas America was obviously more isolated, right? Anyway, Andrew, let's get into the takeaways. Andrew, why do you think this went so viral? Is it honestly about chicken bowls and curry gravy? Or is this about something much deeper? It's identity. And here's the thing, guys. White people getting at other white people. I like to see it. But it's funny because this is not a race war thing. This is not gonna get racial. It's not gonna get problematic because you're just arguing about something like food. However, because it's like white on white, you know, it's like safe for white people to get at other white people. It's almost like a racial or cultural battle that white people are like, I'm not worried at all. I'm going hard in 10 out of 10 in this way. It's kind of like a British person being like, yeah, we like British Chinese food. And then America's like, nah, man, American Chinese food is better. And then the Chinese person wants to step in and be like, hey guys, none of it is either. Hey, shut up, man. You're not part of this. This is our food. This is our battle. Let me fight this. That's why I'm just like, I'm out of it, guys. Hey, you do your thing, man. The plate looks good to me, fine. What do you think from a Chinese perspective, Andrew? So many people have all these visceral feelings about the type of Chinese food that's been adapted to them. I have a Dominican friend who was like, papi, papi, Dominican, Chino, Latino is way better than Cubano, Chino. Like Dominican, Chino is better than Cubano, Chino. Basically saying the Dominican Chinese food was better than the Cuban Chinese food. And I was like, man, do I have a say in this? Or what's my side in this? I mean, to be honest, in a way, you don't have a say in this because that's not the argument. Right, because the chuletas was built for them, right? And we don't even know what a chuleta is. You know, they have, there's this really popular chow mein dish in Guatemala. And if so, a Guatemalan who's from there tells me like, hey, you know, that's like my favorite noodles that I ever had in my life, man. Like I just love, that's the Guatemalan chow mein. Yeah, but it's interesting as a Chinese person that you always have somebody who's like from Guyana or like Venezuela, look at you and just go, yo man, I don't know, the best Chinese food is in Venezuela, fool. But it's true too, I never offended by it, but I'm always just like, oh yeah, that's interesting. I don't know how to contribute to this because I never had Venezuela in Chinese. Well, anyways, guys, you let me know in the comments down below, is this the great American versus British beef that we need right now? Is it something trivial? It's kind of fun. It's fun to talk about. But no, of course, I personally think American food is much better than British food in general. Okay, but let's give them credit. Some of those dishes look cool. Have you seen the list of ingredients on your M&Ms and your Cadbury eggs? They use 40 different ingredients that we've banned in the UK because we actually care about the long-term health of our population. Do you think that on the back of all ingredients, it says red 50 and blue 40 and green 70 and all these weird words and numbers? No, it doesn't. I feel it, yeah. You know what, America, I think has some of the best food in the world but also some of the worst food for you too. I will say this. I think America definitely should change those standards where they use fructose corn syrup for everything, but I'm not gonna lie. Some of that stuff, it tastes kind of good. I don't know, guys. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. I do wanna go to London. I do wanna go to the UK. If I need to go into the countryside where they never even seen somebody who looks like me to try these chicken balls with the curry gravy on it, I'ma do it and I'ma give it a fair rating. All right, everybody. Let me know in the comments down below. Have you seen British Chinese food? What other types of Chinese food do you really like from other regions and other localizations? Let me know because I'm curious. Leave it in the comments. All right, until next time, we out. Peace.