 Hello, what's up? We are on twitch. We are live, but by the time you see this we won't be so just leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bell Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Right above me if I feel the need to I will put the highlights to the twitch stream if you miss it on here Don't forget we do also Have patreon we post Monday through Friday man. I got a double upload today because Holiday is coming up. So you'll get a double up though today and tomorrow And we got a merch Ben Dean The link to all of that is in the description Ben Dean. It's Another Chicago land area guy. I don't know exactly where but he gives me north suburb vibes Now ain't gonna tell me I have something on my shirt Crazy But you know He puts you on all the good food and all the bad food and he's been in the UK for the last two weeks Living my best life And I've been hating I ain't watched a single video It's the first one though. I'm gonna watch man, then you've been over there two three weeks or however long And it's the first time I just can't man I Can't cuz I'm gonna be there next year doing everything you doing American tries a hundred dollars worth of British takeout British Chinese take a hundred dollars. Hey, what's up y'all? So hundred dollars of Chinese takeout in Florida. First of all Chinese food in Florida disgusting Don't order out in Florida Don't don't do it here One of the most requested videos that I do while I'm over here is a Chinese takeaway a cheeky one And there's a feud a while back actually Chinese takeaway in Burton versus, you know, American style Chinese takeout And it became this thing. I don't know there's let me just say there's some weird things the difference things in this order This is $100 worth of Chinese take away and I got 10 or 11 things and we got the whole list straight Or 11 things with a hundred dollars that alone is the biggest difference You get like four items In Florida and they four maybe nasty items on top of that here But let me tell you what it was kind of difficult to Match up to $100. It wasn't hard getting to the mark I actually had to erase some things that I wanted to get But I just didn't want to go over the budget here. I didn't want to go too crazy Let me tell you what we're after that this bag This is the biggest Chinese takeout take away bag. I've ever seen in my life Let me just set this up real quick and I'll show you what I'm working with the containers are different regular You know cardboard containers here, and we also have just plastic containers like this. All right Here's everything out on the table Well, this is gonna be leftovers for days. This is insane Um It might be some things that you recognize might be some things that you don't recognize I tried to get a little bit of a mixer so I could you know, try something Did he get chips and gravy? Did that chips and curry sauce? Because I've never heard about and try some things that I do know about so I can compare and contrast it So wow just wow hard right off the bat. We have crispy aromatic duck. I got a quarter serving Here's the duck. It comes with these little pancake wrappers that you can wrap never had it from the Chinese spot never. Oh, yes In Chinatown in Chicago. Yes, I have I'm up with along with this stuff looks like cucumbers and maybe green onion shavings and To top that off. We have some kind of maybe hoisin sauce next up. We got sweet and sour chicken balls These things are huge I was really debating where there should get sweet and sour chicken or sweet and sour chicken balls and I decided To go with the balls although they're not really shaped like balls, but Well There are ten of them in that bag and the sweet and sour sauce Is right over here next up One big ass crispy spring roll. That is the largest spring roll. I've ever seen in my damn life We also got a plain main aka plain chow mein. Here's my other kind of starchy car. We got egg fried rice And I mean we're talking like large amounts both this and I believe the chow mein both came in large sizes And the only options for sizes were large So next up chicken and sweet corn soup that looks pretty good. Actually, I didn't know what to think about it I've never heard of sweet corn soup at a Chinese restaurant, but it looks like egg drop soup And I'm used to this I've never heard of they call this a deep fried shredded beef But it looks absolutely fire to be honest with you and we had to get some spare ribs That's one thing that I heard from multiple people. That's sitting over here, but I'll be honest I was expecting something a little bit different. I wasn't expecting all the vegetables mixed in these are salt and chili spare ribs I heard a lot about salt and pepper ribs and originally I was thinking salt and pepper as in like the seasonings of salt and pepper But maybe it's the same thing and when they say salt and pepper it's like salt and like chili pepper so salt and chilies I'm not really sure but that'll be interesting to investigate never had ribs at a Chinese place I don't think next up. We have prawn toasts never seen this never heard about it And I think it's actually deep fried so there's some kind of prawn and sesame leave it to the UK to make Put toast in a Chinese takeaway somehow Y'all always eating toast even in your Chinese takeaway. That's tough. It looked good though She's on there and they like deep fried or something Beats me man. I have really no idea what to expect with that and then last but not least What the chips with curry sauce? That's right at a Chinese restaurant. This is a staple That's that's so that's where it comes from It's the Chinese takeaway spot the best way to get that I've had this before if y'all don't follow me on tiktok You know I'm saying I got 80,000 people over there on tiktok. I'll be trying out food a lot But I've had this for sure Chinese restaurants over here chips or fries with curry sauce. We also have these prawn crackers These were a free add-on usually they were like four bucks or something But if you spend over 15 pounds, they give you a free add-on of these they have snacks similar to this in Korea So I think I know what these taste like no fortune cookie. I think this is what you get instead So pretty good little selection here I know there's gonna be people saying oh you should have got that or you shouldn't have gotten that or whatever But it is what it is this place has a hundred and eighty-eight food items on it. So a very vast menu I can't get everything. That's why I said limit. They also give me four spoons and four forks All the little do they know what I've been for the taste all of this been Mike Ben was talking crazy. Like oh, I might not left over for days, but I Feel confident that you might get through this So zero chopsticks so I don't know what to do. Let's start with the chow mein here short noodles very short Convenient going in okay Talk to me. It's a chow mein. It's good. This is one of those that I expected to basically taste like something that I'm familiar with Same flavor. It's good Don't come in wrong It's mighty fine. It's hot. It's flavorful just the right amount of MSG You know when Ben get to talking like mm-hmm. Yep You know it's fire if y'all watch Ben It really hit really hit miss when I was overly fat I used to watch Ben and then go order food. So I partially banged Ben for my weight When I was happy or 30 pounds ago But see I don't watch being that much no more because he'd been out there So I've been falling back and I lost 30 pounds when I didn't watch Ben being it's your fault bingo Well, that's that's really good. That's that's really good. How much was that seven pounds 60? Good stuff though in a good amount They don't look dry a lot of chow mein be living so far. So good Let me go ahead and try. No, bro. Go chip some curry mix, man It's getting soggy by one of these salt and pepper ribs here or salt and chili ribs So they cut them into these little little guys here. It's a short rib. I'm looking for tenderness I'm looking for flavorfulness, but I'll be honest. I'm almost looking for the texture. I know it's gonna be pretty good tasty But I hope it's not too chewy or you know, whatever going in Yo That's a real nice texture Then I'll just say they should have this on American Chinese food restaurant menus Maybe they do to be fair. I haven't had a Chinese food in America for over 10 years I've had it a few times in Korea, and I've had a lot of Korean style Chinese food And so maybe you know, I was just stuck when I was in America and able to eat Chinese food in America only Ordering the same things. I would get stuff like orange chicken That's cuz you from Chicago Chicago area. That's all we really be getting for the Chinese spot orange chicken egg roll You know I'm saying, you know I'm saying What else we be getting one? We might get some um, what is that egg food young? Definitely getting shrimp fried rice Crab rangoons. I knew you used to that. I know you used to that Wontons To the bone We'd get a drop soup, but yeah, I don't know if I've ever even seen ribs But I'm for damn sure if I did we never ordered them. So first time trying ribs nice experience One thing I will say though is that I would have almost like to see this one served up like the crispy beef Without with less of the vegetables, you know, I mean, there's a lot of vegetables in there and the fact that these have bones in them So if they're a boneless, that's one thing you can just you know Grab them go, but the fact that they do have bones There's like some parts will be taken out and eaten With their hands and then other at the vegetable parts Can we go back to the fork? Really nice flavor in this dish right here Tastes a little bit more Chinese Then the flavors that you would get in the American Chinese restaurant And that comes from pure ignorance because I've never actually been to China, but it just has It just how you know what I mean? Maybe you don't that being said what? Is going on here? soggy now curry chips What's going on with these man still hit don't get me wrong I Really do like the combo These are better curry chips than the curry chips I had when I got the fish and chips That was a little bit different. I had to dip the chips into the curry sauce And this is just one amalgam so I can just kind of go in The curry to me it's an indistinct curry flavor It doesn't taste like Indian curry or Thai curry or Japanese or whatever, you know, just like a curry, right, you know Not spicy, but this is good man Would I ever think about ordering this when I'm ordering Chinese? No, never would I take it for free? Yeah, would I get it myself? No, I think this would go better for me With other things I could just eat this on his own You did by itself, honestly, yeah, your Chinese flavor. It's just a weird thing. Like why do you have that because it's a money-maker? They will put that on their menu because like People eat that a lot in the UK On Chinese restaurants menu is here. So that a long way to go Next up the what is this? Deep fried shredded beef Never heard of such a thing. Let me I'm sorry guys. I usually I would probably give you a better like close-up of everything, but Yeah, too much going on in this video. So you got little kind of It is basically what you would think it was I didn't know if it was gonna be tossed in a like a sauce It appears to be crispy Bro bite it being paused, okay, I think I need a few bites of this to really figure it out You need to are you seeing the Airbnb? Like go get us will not fork Even with is that a wooden fork? So far just initial reaction not as big of a fan of this as everything else so far All for earth. I'm all for earth and things of that nature I'm all for substituting plastic forks wet with wooden forks, but listen, I'm trying to eat. Yeah me give me something metal I'm trying to get down to the nitty gritty of things like it. It sounds like it's slowing down I think some of that has to do with the sauce also some of it has to do with I mean I Don't taste much if any beef in there at all. Is there actually beef in here? If there is it's the thinnest hair shavings is mostly just fried, you know batter in the sauce Basically, that's kind of what I expected, but um, I would have like to see a little bit more beef It is a decent sauce it grows on me. It is quite sour. I Know has been trying to stab the fork through this for 20 minutes. You see this I mean assuming it's kind of like the sweet and sour sauce for the chicken a little bit vinegary the more I eat it The more I actually do like it kind of reminds me of like a Like a buffalo wings in a weird way it's got that bite to it That vinegary bite which at first I just wasn't expecting at all, but now It's growing on you Not bad Not too bad. Although I stand with what I said I don't want beef, but maybe the whole point is to just eat crispy saucy things No, I spring a little time There's an option for like something like eight mini ones or ten mini ones or just one big one. I don't know what's in it going in Being cut it in half or something cut it up This is this is not a good look right now one big one. I don't know what's in it going in Point to American egg rolls I don't think there are any options for meats or fillings in America You will get definitely definitely from even the looks of it American if y'all ever come here to get an egg roll from like Not a spring roll get to an egg roll a shrimp fry a shrimp egg roll or something This is gonna hit that you know, I'll give me a you know pork egg roll Give me some meat up in that. I haven't had one of those in so long. They don't have them in Korea I'm just give you a little dip Mostly what I'm getting inside is bean sprouts every time I go to a restaurant. They don't have any meat in the egg roll I'd like discussed it like what do you Don't want this thing It's not something I'm here for I want you know I'm saying Don't get me wrong. I like bean sprouts as much as the next guy, but uh nah, yeah American egg rolls Over these any day turn some soup Chicken and sweet corn soup Very it's promising. I like the look of it. I can kind of see some strands and shreds of chicken in there some corn Maybe some egg in there Good Mmm Yeah, it's getting hot here. This warms you up real real quick this soup so thick It's like a porridge almost it tastes like a really thick corn chowder corn soup type of deal Not getting any of the Chinese flavors or anything out of it. There's a good bit of chicken there What's a warm sensation over your body? Nothing wrong with it. How much was up six pounds 30? so Not worth it. If I were to go back. I wouldn't get this soup again that other various soups as well I Like a simple egg drop soup Which I didn't see on the menu, but I do love an egg drop soup and that's all I really need This tastes like something that I would want to eat when I have a cold when I'm kind of sick Anyway, move it on shrimp toast This is originated in Hong Kong, maybe And you can see maybe some of those sesame seeds on there. It's like I said, I think the whole thing is just deep-fried But it might be different methods to it You can smell a little bit of the shrimp coming off of it and yeah, basically we got pork over here We got beef over here. We got Sea food kind of shrimp we got chicken and we got duck. We're basically covering all the categories with Pond toast There's one thing the bridge do well as toast Toast with anything is great if you like prawns and You like grilled cheese. You love this. Oh, it's cheese I love me a grilled cheese sandwich and I don't it almost feels like there is cheese in here for some reason Maybe it's just because the texture reminds you of a grilled cheese Or as you'd call it over here a toasty probably And even see that but I mean, I don't know how they're doing now. I'm guessing they're like shredding prawns up and then How did I don't know dude, how do they make this but there's a lot of prawn right in there And it's actually quite nice And even if you don't like prawns, you still might like that One of those deals It's it's it's it's sneaky addicting and like I said, I've never seen anything like this on a Chinese menu in America or Korea So, yeah, this one this is a good one Hold on sorry There's some crazy instruction going on or else I would open this no AC over here I've mentioned that before big time big time to me. Let's try that chicken. That's crazy. His mic do a lot Sweet inside our chicken ball. I forgot my mic was cooked on my hoodie. I apologize Wow Where'd I put that chicken ball? Here you go. That is pretty he said a Chinese is mostly for pre-night Food or takeaway home thing after the pub, you know, it's crazy. It's crazy that you say that, right? So I used to go out with my boy. His name is Harold And we started going like to go eat before you went out Every time we would go eat we would go eat a but at the but in can in Chicago. That's on It's on Western school. It's on Western school. I think it's called the but in can We used to go there and eat a he varita On those nights. We were the drunkest Every time we went eight before we got went out. We were the and I'm talking we were annihilated I'm talking like how did we make it home? A lot of chicken on the left there not as much on the right there. Hold on what about her. Yeah, please do They always do chicken itself is real nice. Don't forget we about to watch shameless on here shameless is a Twitch exclusive. We're only watching it on Twitch nowhere else. So lock in Won't be this late normally. We probably start it off. I like these. I like they're like I Most look like mini, you know fish and chips Because they batter and fried like that Now let me just let me just say real quick We got sweet and sour pork is it's huge in Korea So and I've had my fair share of it. I'll have to have a sweet and sour sauce in America for a long time, but I almost remember that being Preferable to me personally over this Yeah, and I can't put a finger on why I would say that Compared to American sweet and sour. This is more sweet and sour the Korean stuff actually isn't really sour to me It's more just sweet But yeah, I would almost perfectly try this And that's crazy because I think it's gonna be one of these shows like shameless This really is waiting for the duck though, let me get into that right now I Feel like duck is another one of those things you gotta eat when it's hot as well So I have had duck a few times I've had it once at a Chinese restaurant in America and it was terrible It was really bad and then ever since I have never had duck at a Chinese place I don't think but I've had it at Korean joints. Maybe I have had it at a Chinese restaurant in Korea I take that back. So we'll have a little bit of a reference point here. If I'm doing this wrong. I apologize, but Be the duck meat. This is the last thing right? He's almost done That's nothing else Now he's just gonna pick over it for 30 good amount of it although it does appear to be dry right off first stab But only one way to find out you know who Ben Dean reminds me of One piece He's mine with one piece. Yeah, he should have tried to fry his first The fries first off top Then he should have did the bread with the prawns. Then he should have did the crispy duck Because everything else could have sat and waited The flavor is nice. Let me just say it's nice But the texture is definitely lacking. It's definitely dry. There's a good amount of meat in here I wish it was just a little bit more juicy And let me just say it should be obvious, but this doesn't represent all British Chinese food There's gonna be someone you got to go here. They have the better. They got the best duck even delivered Very got it. One thing the British people are very adamant about is their TV shows and their food So yes, there is probably gonna be a lot of people that come on here and are like Oh, you got to go to this one. This is my favorite. It's the best. There's nothing like it That's what comes with the territory. I think I'm done here. We've seen them eat everything right? It's up the white rice It is just it needs a little bit more moisture I don't know if there's a trick that you could you know moisten this back up But the trick is to not let it sit into the last thing you eat Then Yeah, you did it all man. All right, man. Well, I'll be there soon when I get here The amount of different content that I'm gonna be doing is crazy. I don't know how I'm gonna manage all of this Because now I do videos for TikTok. I Have to do those. I still have to sit down and do food videos like this and I have to do vlog And I have to do like daily in the life. Look like it's gonna be immaculate There's probably nothing gonna be posted until I leave which is crazy. I'm gonna have like I'm planning to come for like a week. Maybe a week and a half pushing it for two weeks but like The amount of content when I come there is gonna be ridiculous I'm probably get to do some live reactions to with some artists as well Like if they drop in music, I get to react next to them to their own stuff And if it's trash, I'm gonna tell them today. Like it's not just for camera. I'm gonna tell you right there Anyway, tell a little bit like comment subscribe turn on your post. We go