 All right. Bye Everybody to a special investigative reporting episode of fun Rose food We are joined here with Nelson Chan from whoop in life was popping everybody also pro baller from Macau on the Macau black bears You dress in like instead of Kelly Ubrey You guys all jokes aside trends in the Asian-American food world are constantly changing of course trends. They come they go They're in they're out but guess what today? We are investigating the wavy trends for 2020 something That's not as hype as before Tyro ice cream. Okay poke is going down so in this video today We're not gonna focus necessarily on the trends that are going away But we do want to shed light onto the trends that have arrived such as hot chicken sandwiches wavy We're talking about Japanese inspired Asian bakeries wavy and we're talking about Taiyaki ice cream You know the fish waffle ah Yes, first up you guys we got to check out one of the hottest trends from 2019 It's still carrying over into 2020 hot chicken sandwiches Aren't you guys make sure you watch to the end of the video because we have two questions at the end and the best answer Gets an Amazon gift card. All right you guys round one has arrived here at blazing chicks This is Mississippi style hot chicken cooked by an Asian chef from Mississippi And you know what's funny is that the most popular hot chicken is the Nashville hot chicken This is different Tennessee style versus Mississippi style cooked by agents. All right, let's go in man Actually, I'm not gonna lie. I was opening up looking at these tauts Blanchero some bacon and cheese and things of that nature a small onion. I love it But it has a strong onion flavor next up I think we got to go with the chicken This is Mississippi fried chicken in the six you six guys No, did you ever think you would find authentic Mississippi style hot chicken in Temple City? I would have never thought dude guys Mississippi hot chicken It is dripping We didn't get the spiciest version, but I love the crust look how crispy that is Mmm, you guys may never see me in another video go like this. There's no meat in this wow David let me tell you this I think I know why Crispy skin is extra tasty. It's cuz it's fried peanut oil. It kind of gives it that nutty taste Yeah, it's just like crispy and crunchy now Andrew for my money This is better than how I'm raised Now take this over waiting three hours. All right, you can come in get your chicken in three minutes Now, what do you give it out of five man? I don't want to set the bar too high But I'm gonna give the chicken a four point five out of five. Yeah, I was gonna say four point five out of five I don't speak too soon. I give it a five Do you we're gonna do that David? We got the chicken tenders here now I'm not gonna lie judging by how much seasoning is on this. This looks like it's gonna be a little bit hotter. You see that no We are moving on to the next item. I know you're breaking the pro basketball dying right now I didn't want to say it guys. I didn't want to say make that feel bad, but The diet has gone on the way. Don't worry. We're Richie films with us. He got a break keto to chicken tender I like how it's not that dry You know cuz normally white or breast meat tend to be very dry here They actually dip their tenders in chili oil right before they serve it and I think it is the Asian chili oil So it's gonna give you kind of that Asian vibe right there. So you guys we're talking about 2020 trends here What do you think that the hot chicken sandwich have replaced in the game? Because as we know the food world can expand but where there is something new Usually something got crossed off the list I think the hot chicken sandwich did kind of eat in to the market for beef burgers and beef patties in general because people want a sandwich They want something hot. They want something meaty, but they don't want beef here at blazing chicks The chicken sandwiches come in five different levels. We got three of them. We got naked medium and blazing I really like what they're doing here because they added some vegetables in there Big fan of the Popeyes chicken sandwich But the Popeyes chicken sandwich has no vegetables whatsoever hot chicken sandwich at blazing chicks I'm normally not a fan of pickles, but the pickles actually tastes really good. I'll tell you this right off the bat I am feeling the heat. I do think some of the crust is falling off of the chicken But overall the sandwich has maintained its structure and I value that a lot I consider this with a straight face because I'm not lying This is my favorite chicken breast hot sandwich Now I've got the same when it comes to chicken breast versus chicken thigh. I think that that's no no comparison As far as chicken breast goes, that's my favorite You coming from the six to six and you think about getting howler raised and waiting three to four hours in line Just know that you're doing it for the experience because as far as taste and quality you can get something very Comparable here at blazing chicks. I just think to get something so close to the authentic southern recipe here in the six to six That is a really amazing thing You know Andrew, I've always said I love to see the ethnic enclaves the bubbles improve with authentic concepts outside of the bubble In this case, it's an Asian chef who grew up in Mississippi bringing it to the Asian zone. That's so dope I might have to see John try this because this is a type of food But you need to see somebody who weighs over 200 pounds try how to see Mr. 200 pound club try this real quick This is the blazing chicken sandwich That's his lifting face when he lifts heavy weights, that's what he does It's not that hot, but I like that Asian. Ah That's chicken we ever had man. Keep this food for me Keep it away. Keep it away. All right next up. We are checking out a new concept that I believe is Revolutionizing the Asian bakery or perhaps just the Chinese bakery world either or that's a big statement This spot is a Taiwanese bakery, but it has Japanese techniques and Japanese buns there I feel like it's replacing the old-school Chinese cantonies style bakeries, you know with new more modern stuff They're bringing to be honest a lot more Japanese bakery influences, and if you guys know Japan, they're super artisanal very French Inspired I'm just saying there's gonna be a leg up son. Mary bakery. What this bun is calling your name, man the green onion Oh Nelson putting the clamps on it like he puts the clamps on a three-point shooter I have been everything and everyone all right you guys We have arrived at Sun Mary bakery aka the 2020 evolution of all Chinese bakeries guys And this is now you say that your parents and your family goes to Sun Mary all the time Mom and sister come here every weekend just to get some bread You know immediately Andrew you know what I can't stop thinking about you know, we're all you know Cantonese I had to try I gotta say that bowl of shell is delicious. I love the fluffiness of the bun You are living in po-top land right now. So you are po-top tight I would know if this would be legit or not All right, I would say it's more of a traditional egg tart than it is So let's try some of their top favorites here Immediately, you know, I'm a sucker for the Instagram eyes. I'm Taro Mochi Taro. Hey cuz Nels dog is named Mochi That's why I like Taro. I like Taro at my dog named Mochi, right? And then I have the tuna disc. Let's get it Our was really smooth. You get the chewiness from the mochi. I like it. It was good. That was good Wow, this is the tuna disc. This is a very popular one Yo, I gotta say this game is strong. Yo, I'm a taste the rainbow David you're a huge Machi guy. I finish size Japanese culture in a silly way. How about that? Me and Nug are Machi croissants two different kinds. I think that's almond. I got the almond. Machi croissants at Sudbury Bay The I think that's hot with a drive for the croissant inside was okay. Yeah, I'm feeling yeah on the macho roll It's never had anything like that. That was my favorite of all the matches This is why some Mary bakery has got the Chinese bakery game on lock in 2020 So Mary get some Mary show love Last but not least let's further explore why this chain is killing the game in 2020 now What you going with pick a bow any bow early in space ship? I believe that was who bae I Haven't eaten a lot of who bae stuff Interesting because I thought who bae was kind of similar to tarot and I'm a fan of tarot because who bae is like a different type of Yam, right? You're a big fan of like the half Chocolate dip croissant David's a chocolate guy guys. You guys didn't know David likes his chocolate Any type of chocolate? I could see why this was the number one bun of 2018 out of different types of feelings of chocolate You get you first you get the hard shell Then you crack open to a soft croissant and then you hit a kind of a grainy melted Deconstructed chocolate in the middle if you come to some area you should definitely get that one Let's all partake in this curry donut curry doesn't fail curry doesn't do a good job They do a good job. I see the carrots. I see onion. I see me. It was really light It was really light. We thought we were done getting our bread up guys Delicious Oh, that's crazy. I've never seen a chocolate chip bow look like a chocolate chip. I'm excited about No, oh Nutella, but oh the Nutella. I gotta try that. I got the lava cake, huh? Yo, tell me why I thought I had a little question mark pop up Yo, tell me why I thought I was like gonna be dripping lava all over my hands, but there isn't Spongebob spongebob. There's a sponge there. It's good. Oh, Nutella shout out to Nutella Oh Yo, you did pick this up. I did Do it for old times sake man grown up when I was a little kid My mom would take us to like the old Chinese bakeries and she'll always get one of these You know why cuz this is the biggest one that fills you up So this is actually the brioche, which is a Chinese diversion of a French bread Not what I used to eat, you know when I was a little kid Hey, yeah, this is not Evan Fournier's version of brioche. Yeah, this is Evan Fosan's Is it better than the one you grew up eating Nelson? Tell us Nelson. This is good. I gotta stick with the old time Sun Mary is the number one Chinese bakery in 2020 as of right now It's winning because it has so much variety of you know, neo-innovated type of bakery buns Yes, a lot of them do taste very different and unique and interesting But a lot of them are really good too. So I think you know that really helps them, you know, put themselves above the others It's like you would rather have the kids come eat, you know, bakery than go get fast food bread. Yeah Yeah, burgers and stuff like that I mean, I think for spreading Chinese bakery culture and everything and how they pull it off four out of five One, two, three, four We're still doing this. We're still doing this. We're still doing this, quick Guys, we're talking about food trends, Asian dessert trends and changing of the guard We got to talk about Thai rolled ice cream. Okay, so Thai rolled ice cream There's still some spots that are around but for the most part a lot of them closed down Basketball terms the original big man, they're not playing big bottom But they're going small ball everyone's trying to shoot threes now They're trying to change up the game But in replacement of Thai rolled ice cream, you could say that taiyaki got really big Taiyaki being the Japanese fish waffles filled with ice cream This spot, Somi Somi mixes it with Korean soft serve. So it's a little bit of a hybrid Japanese taiyaki Korean soft serve This brand is blowing up on in LA, but I know that taiyaki Around the nation is big Somi Somi. Let's check it out Andrew the taiyaki craze is sweeping across the country Somi Somi is a little bit interesting because they have a Korean soft serve inside of a Japanese taiyaki All right, let's try it. No, have you ever had this before? I have not We have to be honest Somi Somi They would did not let us film and I believe they thought that we were going to copy their recipe Don't worry. Don't worry. So we're tripping. They were so me. So me. You got enough locations We're not there to compete here. We have this taiyaki Mmm Okay, the Korean soft serve is very milky. Not icy at all. I'm called a saffron. No reason. It is soft This is mocha and Oreo. One of these is ube and milk tea. That's milk tea Yeah, it tastes like milk tea It does right? Yeah, it does it does I have a custard filling in mine Do you think the taiyaki fish waffle is going to stick around or is it just hype? I think it's just hype man because it's very instagrammable You know people want to take pictures of it. It looks really pretty taste wise. Yes It does taste pretty good the soft serve But I think it's gonna go out pretty soon on the ice cream taiyaki here at Somi Somi What's your rating? I give it a 3.5 out of 5. Okay, so pretty good. I mean, it is a good product by all means I think unanimous decision 3.5 out of 5 Oh unanimous. Yeah, you unanimous means everybody exactly But Andrew didn't give a score yet, but he told us before All right 3.5 no, no, I give it 3.5. It's a good product I do think in my opinion, of course, I think the taiyaki the fish waffle has always been around It's always gonna be around on some level together I don't know if it like multiplies the power, but I do think the korean soft serve is very strong Art you guys I actually got one last spot. It's kind of not an asian-american concept It's an asian-asian concept. Hold on. We're going across the street Like we said, this is not asian express. This is not american actually if it's western at all It's australian. David, why is that beef noodle soup company? Okay in lanjo. Okay. They're around for a hundred years. Whoa since 1919 They go to australia. They got 20 of them in australia and now they got two of them In america and they're both in the six to six now You're saying ever since your pro basketball career started you have been eating more like lanjo lamin, right? Yeah, I actually like lanjo noodles a lot lanjo lamin is a new thing into the beef noodle soup But let me tell you this lanjo has a very very long history of noodles. No pun intended They have seven different styles of noodles and they told me they have a different way to make every single noodle So all that beaten and twisted they got to learn seven different versions of that These guys are noodle masters, man I think we got to start off with number one the house special beef noodle soup Lanjo lamin This is lanjo house special now as you can tell unlike the taiwanese beef noodle soup Whose broth is a lot darker and more murky This one looks a little bit more like full broth or even dare I say no boy. Yeah This broth is a mixture of chicken and beef bones You go into a lot of noodle shops like some of the places those noodles are not good Obviously if you want to be known as noodle shop, you got to have really good noodles The noodles are fresh. Well, literally the guy pulled them and then he turns around and drops it into the water So there's no time for those noodles to sit around and be dry. Well, that's pretty good. It's really light It's a lot easier to eat than the hero man But I can't say that I necessarily like it better. This is our noodles from from china From lanjo lanjo from all handmade noodles all the soup I made by every day And all the noodles will have a all handmade it's as good as china It's better than china It's all right guys There was the elements of the lanjo when I like better, but there was elements of the just regular neuro You know who's how neural men are talking about the meals you've been having in china, man Because obviously you play in pro for a chinese basketball team Not cba. We're talking about abl Those are two different leagues get a chance to travel all around right It's been really hard in terms of my diet because like when we're traveling you got to eat with the teams We were traveling up in northern china. We were eating a lot of these noodles now I usually don't eat carbs, you know for my diet, but no back. Yeah back. I don't have an option You know what with the boss manager orders, whatever they order whatever Uh, but back home, you know, I watched my diet. I eat, you know, a lot of vegetables a lot of greens Um, you just protein stuff stay away from the carbs and fatty foods and Candies except today fat foods and fried stuff and except today Aren't you guys we have arrived to the swan thai hickled beef noodle soup medium tier white flat Just the right amount of sourness. I didn't expect to like this one so much I actually like the beef too. I thought the beef slices in that one were um, super tender Yeah, if you miss all the cantaloupe when traveling or you're like, it's all good to try new stuff The thing about traveling is you get to experience and like, you know, dive into new Cultures of like food or like anything else really enjoy eating like a bunch of new stuff that I never ate before Has the thick noodles. I'm taking this one. All of the all of the cantaloupe By the taste just from the taste even though they don't got no meat Darn gotta give it a five out of five. Just like I gave the Mississippi fried chicken five out of five for me I love this dish. No meat. You don't know me needed All right, not not to shame on the vegans, but if they have meat, I give it a five out of five But you know 4.5 out of five is still really good. First of all, we got to say, you know Peace to which trends again poke tyrone ice cream frozen yogurt pro yo things are out What do you think could come in so I guess let me just say asian chicken stews in general Koreans have this spicy chicken stew. It's pretty good. Any any spicy chicken stew Now what do you think is coming to 2020 man? I know you're a pro baller, but you still got food a pink kind of bold I know I've been eating a lot of more vegetable and ever since going pro and vegan pizza I heard about it, you know, because kairi Irving has invested into some vegan pizza And I think that's gonna be crazy. I believe kairi is vegan now Yeah, I think so. Deontre Jordan's vegan. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know as I said, it was bold It was bold. I don't know if I'm gonna go vegan, but if someone told you you could you could dunk in games If I go on vegan, could you do it? Hey if I could dunk in game 10 out of 10 times I'm gonna go vegan All right, you guys thank you so much for joining us on this video now Good to see you back for the motherland Glad to be back, you know eating and filming with the homies man always a good time All right, you guys thank you so much for watching in the comment section below if you want to win an amazon gift card Number one, make sure you let us know what trends in the food world are going out and number two Make sure you let us know which food trends are coming in and why best answers gonna get the amazon gift card All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that Subscribe to nelson channel hoop and life check out all our instagrams down below and until next time. 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