 Would you try this isopod ramen from Taiwan or is it just reinforcing negative Asian stereotypes? Yeah, this is going viral right now for $48 and or you can go to Taiwan and get isopod ramen I can imagine they're like, this is not a very common lanyard. This is a very special lanyard ramen. Yeah, yeah, you know, can I get the new ramen that you have the isopod with the whole pod on top? Yeah, I've got to crack the shell. Of course once this hit Western internet platforms Andrew the comments section Exploded Asians are weird. Some people said now. This is no different from a lobster. You got arguments all around the spectrum We're gonna get into some comments and of course our takeaways Andrew Is this too stereotypical or is it just tasty and Asians are just going by Asian cultural standards Honestly, I think a lot of Asians don't even think that the weird seafood stereotype Minus obviously some of the negative animals that have Asians have been accused of eating But I would say aside from that. I don't think Asians really take this weird seafood stereotype as negative Yeah, it is I mean even me. I have to say I have a very Asian sensor for things This is pushing the limit of looks wise But I heard that it literally an isopod just tastes like a mixture of crab and lobster and even its guts Just tastes like crab head. All right. Well, let's get into the comments section. Um, by the way, Andrew I know you like to follow this Japanese chef on YouTube Who likes to cook here? He had a Yuki Tarada out in Florida? I think he eats a lot. He cooks a lot of weird food. He has a 10 million view Video cooking isopod fried rice multiple isopod recipes. The first comment was like this is disgusting man This is a 12 out of 10 on the scale. I can't believe it But is this really that disgusting or is it no different Andrew than if you are an Asian family is specifically a coaster one Eating just the crab head. No, dude I think to be honest one of the underrated weird things is sea urchin uni like you don't understand that comes from like a poisonous Spiky ball, but for some reason somebody picked it up cracked it open was like oh, yeah Like we should eat this orange part of it. Yeah, somebody said man Americans need to get out more They only try chicken beef and pork Americans only know three types of protein Most middle Americans don't even eat seafood unless it's a fish stick Well, I guess they wouldn't have a middle America voice because this is this is from somebody not from the middle of America accusing them Do you think this is true? Yeah, I mean Yeah, overall I would say Americans are like a lot of Americans not all Americans But a lot of Americans diet is pretty like pretty narrow pretty processed I would say surprisingly Narrow considering how open-minded America is often about other issues that other countries are narrow-minded about somebody said well People in the South eat weird things Obviously people in the South are famous for eating alligator. You know what I mean? I suppose he has to go to a bull testicles Gator meat like we said all these dudes if you go to Florida I'm sure somebody is eating every single type of animal that somebody said that lobsters used to be considered low-class in the Western world and or they were fed to prisoners all throughout the 1800s into the 1900s There was new packaging technology that allowed people inland to start sampling how delicious the lobsters were and the lobster Increasingly rose up the hierarchy to the point now where a lobster is no cheaper than 50 60 dollars when you go out to the Western American restaurants Yeah, my main criticism of eating the isopod is that I don't think it gives you a lot of meat for the weight Like there's a lot of shell in there. You know what I mean? And that meat is not that plentiful considering how big the isopod is So you probably got to pay hundreds of dollars for the isopod at least a hundred dollars for it And then you know you get like what a crab fool Do you think it's like an increasing spectrum and or where at one point the crab was not accepted that gets accepted because you know It looks weird, but not too weird Then you get to the crab and then some people nowadays eat horseshoe crab, but that's still a crustacean But they're like don't you species jump to the isopods because the isopods technically is a different subspecies You know has a different exoskeleton Than a crustacean it is related to the roly-poly pill bug so that that is so so are we being specious now? Is that the thing if people need to tell me if it's a isopod crustacean distinction and that's the reality of it They need to say it. I'm just saying we need to stay consistent with what we're grossed out about Somebody said a 48 dollar ramen and you get a gigantic cockroach sitting on top to the side man And then of course people had all these photos, you know You've got a metroid samus Iran. You got starship troopers. You got all types of stuff I would say that for a lot of people The media has made like giant bugs and like these things like kind of humanized them or I guess made them more like Monsters where generally if you had never seen these movies. Yeah, you might think the isopod was kind of weird-looking But it's it's it's it's a really a lot of the media There's something in America Andrew that very has ultra strict standards because if even if you go down to Mexico, for example Eating fried crickets is not uncommon. No, but in America people are like, dude, you tried it. You're a defiled person Somebody said man, these Asians will eat anything man And someone said yeah, and then they get mad when you question their culture and someone said this is gonna launch COVID ultra pro max 25 I mean, what do you think about this stereotype from the West? Obviously that people in the East will eat anything particular from the ocean But I'd say specifically anything I think unfortunately the fact that or the Belief that COVID came from eating like a weird rare meat. I think does kind of hurt it It does make it sound more bad that you're eating a rare meat. Yeah I mean, I'm just saying like from an outsider perspective I can understand why people are like you stop eating the weird stuff because last time you guys ate weird And first of all a lot of cultures eat weird stuff by the way, so you can make this comment about a lot of people I can totally understand from a Western perspective. However mad cow disease Andrew that literally developed from just feeding cows cows in the in the cow feed unknowingly creating prions in their brain anyway guys like I said There's a lot of counter examples, but I can get it immediately at surface level totally logical from a Western perspective Somebody said what when is Panda Express introducing orange isopod, huh? Or general souls isopod. That's pretty funny, man Um, somebody said it's all about status in East Asia People just want to eat the rarest moist expensive deep sea ultra deep sea critters that they can get to flex on each other Yeah, that's true You know what? I mean even if you took a kid to like a fish farm And then you took a salmon and you squeezed all the caviar out of that salmon I think the kid would be like what are you doing? And then it's just caviar But Andrew there was also people arguing like people like to do in the comments section of anything Andrew people saying what about in France Andrew There's caviar foie gras or Talon Andrew, which is a small pigeon-like bird that is being hunted almost to the brink of Extinction in France because people love to eat it so much. Well, you know in France. We like the little beds Well, maybe my great-great-great-grandfathers from France and Louisiana, but that ain't me anymore Last but not least Andrew somebody said any country that eats this kind of food will be around for a very long time because they know that Everything on this earth is food if it swims walks flies you name it It can be food to someone even humans are food to animals wake up and learn people Yeah, yeah I think that that's like a pretty balanced perspective at the end of the day and also there was one last comment that said that Like back after the Vietnam War had ended a lot of people were catching these isopods in Vietnam and throwing them back because they looked Weird, but my dad caught five of them and cooked them and they were delicious And I'm so glad I got to eat them for free before they got expensive Listen guys Culture changes and culture is different. Well, also, it's about necessity man. Anyways guys David What's your overall takeaway because I feel like Every several months. There is a new viral news article about Asians eating something that looks weird, right? You're talking about where you're talking about whether it's the weird breakfast Raman's The taste like pancakes or up and eggs and things like that. That's weird on an ultra refined process level This is literally something you can just catch in the ocean. Yeah, so I mean I guess for me I Definitely see where the Western people are coming from but for me. I would try it You know what? I'd rather people eat isopods in Raman than make a bunch of prank videos terrorizing the public Population like I really like I just think that a lot of people and I and bringing it to something That's outside of the food world for a second It's like I think people's like gauge of what is so offensive and needs to get regulated is so goofy sometimes where they're like Oh, yeah, like all this other stuff that's happening. It doesn't really bother me But then you eat a weird shell Animal from the sea and now I'm weirded out, but I think it's because it's like You know what it is like let's say for example, there's mass shooting or mass school shooting You understand that because it's almost become a part of American culture Whereas eating an isopods like you're bringing the alien invasion Straight to us because you're gonna eat the baby aliens and then the big old Isopods is gonna come through flying through the sky just like Thanos and destroy us all You know what I mean? There's an element of weirdness or exoticness or like this is of an other world Yeah, my question to everybody out there is Do you think this weird food stereotype of Asians is negative? Is it really bad or to some extent? Do we as Asians as proud Asians have to say yeah, we do eat some stuff that you probably wouldn't eat But it's good and it's not hurting anybody. Yeah, I mean I think that this Taiwan knees Ramen restaurant didn't need to do this, but if it does I'm rocking with it like I'm not going against it There's a lot worse things that you could be doing for the cloud in the anyway Let us know what you think in the comments section below Andrew There was a lot of comments saying that Asians were Klingons or maybe we were Nemoidians they eat weird things and grubs and you know job of the hut and all this like Star Wars related thing But at the end of the day do Asians need to change who they are in their cultures You know, they don't have as much Abrahamic religions over there that like put all these restrictions on food and things like that plus The waters are just way more exotic Me know as we discover more about the deep sea ocean, I can only imagine that maybe in 20 years There's something else that pops up. That's kind of weird I'm just saying in 20 30 years guys don't be coming around being like oh my gosh this isopods delicious All right everybody until next time we out peace