 Oh, yeah. Oh, oh. Ronnie, can I get some sound effects, some ad-libs? Oh my God. That looks amazing. Go what's going on everybody. Welcome to a special episode of Fung Bros. Food we are here out in Soho at a very, very cool Chinese restaurant with a very, very cool Chinese guy. We got Ronnie Chang. Thanks guys, thanks for helping me improve my street cred. All right, all right. First of all, Ronnie, if you want to improve your street cred, do not do this. I got it, I got it. Do this. You got to tell me the Chinese gang signs. I don't even know. Gang, gang, gang, gang, gang, gang. So today we are going to be going into Pinch Chinese. We're going to be making some Xiao Long Bao. We're going to be eating food, talking Asians. Let's get into it. All right, everybody. We are in the kitchen of Pinch Chinese here with Fred, a.k.a. Sai Hua. Ronnie Chang makes a Xiao Long Bao. No, we do this every day at the Daily Show. Before lunch, I'm responsible for making lunch. And this is part of my daily routine, really. I mean, how's that, sir? It's not round. It's a bit round. He said this was okay. So he's wrapping up the dumpling right now. I haven't seen David concentrate like this in a long time. Oh, Xiao Long Bao. That looks like someone ate Xiao Long Bao and then threw it up. Okay, he said mine specifically is unacceptable. Yeah, he said yours didn't even close. The takeaway is how hard it is to make every single thing you see that comes on the table. We were briefly talking about how Xiao Long Bao's have become almost like a part of popular culture. And just in general, there is a small wave of Asian things happening in Western media. Yeah, I think that's fair to say. The Crazy Witch Asians is coming out. Live action Mulan is being made. There was that short film, Bao. Don't be sure. Don't be sure. I honestly just think that it's an age thing. It's people who are now in a position of decision-making are younger people who have grown up with Asian culture. Our stories have been told. So it's an untapped place for storytelling. And so it's weird to not see Asian people. If you go, if you tell a story in America and you don't see Asian people, it's like, well, the Asians. Everybody from the cast, Crazy Witch Asians. Everybody's getting a lot of interviews out there. I can see that there is some misalignment or I guess misunderstanding who you guys are, what you guys represent. So I'm half Malaysian, half British. And Constance, where are you from? Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia. You got Jimmy Kimmel asking Alcafina a lot about China, which is not really her thing. Where did you live? In Beijing. Oh, in Beijing? What was that like? It was cool. Why were you there for a year? I just saw recently on Sway, and I love Sway. That gives us an interesting insight in the life and culture of, I guess, Chinese-Americans, right? I love it. Yeah, more like Chinese people from Asia. He didn't know if you were representing Chinese-Americans or Chinese from China or Asians from Asia, and you kind of corrected them. Let's just say Asian-Americans. There's Asian-American Taiwanese people, Asian-American Korean people, Asian-American Japanese people. And even in China, Chinese people, you have the Hokkians, the Toju. It is extremely complicated, even with the best of intentions, even with bringing full knowledge to the situation, it's already quite complicated. You can't play the African-American game because we're not that game. Well, our game is different. Our story is different, so we just have to be patient and explaining things and also quick to move on and not get lost in the weeds so we can talk about what we're here to really promote and make some money. All right, so we're going to go dig into the duck first. Here we got the pancakes. Yo, look at this duck, bro. Just look at that. I don't know what it is about this universal human thing of wrapping meat in a wrap. Similar to the dumpling or the sandwich, I feel like people want to hold something together. I can tell that the duck they picked was very fatty. That peaking duck was a little good. You guys, I feel like we have to go for the shallombow's next. Oh, my gosh. To the Asian media wave. It's just a little wave. May never end. So good, man. Oh, that's really good. Guys, I'm going to do something really crazy. I'm going to wrap a shallombow in a peaking duck skin, and I'm going to roll this up, guys. All right, we're going in for the cumin ribs. This looks amazing, man. That's so tender. Like, this falls off the bone. Yo, you guys, we got to try the bacon, egg, and cheese dumpling. This is so New York. Bacon, egg, dumplings. Wow. That's a great idea. How can no one think of this? I would say it successfully tastes like bacon, egg, and cheese. Oh, yeah. For the Cantonese in us all. Lobaco. I want to address some of the criticism of CRA. One, Henry. And Henry's a really great guy. We met him. Super humble. Nice guy. He identifies more with this Asian side. But aesthetically, he doesn't necessarily look more Asian than white. He's more Malaysian than most Malaysians. He's Aboriginal or Anasli. When we go to Malaysia, he's eating at the roadside, man. He's talking to the people. People need to see the movie before they like... Yeah, I didn't know. Oh. Yeah. Oh, God. Ronnie, can I get some sound effects? Some ad-libs? Oh, my God. That looks amazing. My Vietnamese friends or my Cambodian friends are watching this movie, and I think they generally support it. But they're also like, yeah, it's not like at all talking about our story or people from our country, Vietnam and Cambodia. It's a story about a very specific family in Singapore. So I don't know what would have been better. If we call it Crazy Rich, Chinese-Singaporeans, would that have made everyone a little... You know, the fact that it's called Asians is making everyone, you know, a little angsty, but... It might not be the exact progress that you want, but it's absolutely progress. It is. And can you imagine trying to create a story that addresses every single one of those issues that you just described? So it needs to represent... A lot of us in Filipino, Aboriginal, Indians, and be rich, show people in position of power, show the mundane realities of day-to-day life and the authenticity of Asian-Americans in New York City and Houston in LA and the Hmong people. Why don't you write that story? And then let's see how that story goes. I read it once. It always seems like it's got to be Chinese and it always seems like it's got to be rich. Really? I mean, Joy Luck Club wasn't about that, you know? It was about poor Chinese people. Yeah, about poor Chinese people. Ryan, you're so against trolly Asian-Americans. Dude, I'm just against... Dude, no, I'm just against trolly people because my point is like, I'm complaining about something. If you don't like something, go make something better. Leaving a comment is not creating a comment. Alright, we have round two coming, but we also have another special guest introducing David. Victoria Locke! Glorious! Glorious! Hi, I'm Victoria Locke. I am Fiona Chang. Ronnie's onscreen wife. So at NYU, I developed my own major because I went to the School of Individualized Studies and I wrote a thesis on cognitive decoloniality, which is using cognitive neuroscience and contemporary philosophical discourse applied to analyzing the project of decolonization, both in terms of culture and individual. White people in Asia is what she did. Yeah, pretty much. White people in Asia whack, you know... Some whack. Some whack. Yeah, on some whack. She was talking about the colonialism in Southeast Asia. I can tell that the conversation has just switched up since Victoria being there. She came in here with sunglasses and just dropped knowledge bombs. Born and raised. Born and raised, Singapore. You're a fob. Yeah, I'm a fob. I'm a mad fob. Let's fob you then, him here, because he's only here three years. I lived here five years. I went to the sh**ing schools in Singapore. So I'm kind of sick. Right, you're a Malaysian. That's what you get put into. You get put into the worst Singaporean school. I got put into the worst Singaporean school. She went to literally the best Singaporean school. Instead of okay la, is it like, okay la? Yeah, I feel that my classmates sound like that. My classmates really do sound like that. As we divvy up this food, and we have in-win chicken, obviously sujido, seguay dal, your classic meal. This is the classic Chinese dinner meal. Maybe the best way to eat green beans in the entire world. Yo, just looking at this makes me feel happy. Or crab noodles is also very Singaporean. To go... Okay, not everything is Singaporean, Roddy. Oh my god. I play Edison Chang in the movie. He is... And this is not at all based off Edison Chang. Edison Chang boy from Hong Kong. Oh my god, I wish. I think what people really like about our dynamic was that how my character is just so over his. So over anything that her husband is doing. She's not going to like this, but I kind of base that off my mom. My mom has the best looks, like division and contempt for the people around her that she doesn't notice. But she does his subtly here and there and I picked up on that and it came very naturally to me too. We had really good rapport right from the start. I mean, look, we're not exactly the main characters in the thing. So we were making up backstories for scenes and lines. Our couple's dynamic is very similar to a lot of Chinese couple's dynamic. Our old aunties and uncles, they were yelling at each other and bickering, but they actually do love each other. It's just the way they communicate. So there was some kind of creating or improv involved in this. It sounds like... We came up with a lot of stuff that made it into the movie that wasn't on the page. The lines, a lot of little major jokes where just before the scene happens, I'll tell, you're not like, hey, let's do it this way. Let's do it where you come in and you're about to introduce yourself. I just cut you off. Stuff that wasn't written in, but it made it in. Because she wasn't given a lot to work with either. So it's just like, okay, how do we stick to the script but still add to it? Do you feel pressure to almost be more Asian or represent Asians more in your career moving forward or what things you said? The answer to your question is, so you two comments. I've kind of been in that place for a while now and I have my own internal pressures of my own standards that I put pressure on myself to do. To present stories in a certain way, to tell this type of story in this way is my own pressure that I put on myself. I'm very happy to get this platform to keep on doing it. So for myself, I feel that this is very in line with what I've done anyway. I've always been very well researched and involved in these things. And so for me, speaking about it comes a bit naturally, but then I also see that it's unfair to make people like Ken, you know. You don't see people expecting one white person to represent all white people. And I think, you know, some people choose to take on the rule of speaking about these things and some people choose not to and I think we should respect that. Is your guys' favorite scene one that you're in? I think the one that we're in is probably my favorite scene. Yeah, I really like it. It opens with us and it's just silly. And we have our three children sitting there who look so cute on the screen. And it was a nightmare to shoot that because it was a single shot. Yeah, it was also the first thing we shot. The first time we shot together. Name a story each specifically that you'd like to see get made since this is going to break the door open a little bit. Didn't you say Wendy? Wendy King? Yeah, that's a good answer. You're trying to play Wendy King? I want her to give me a lesson. I want to learn how to get a hit in life courtesy of Wendy King. And she's great. Classic. I don't want to say stereotype of a dragon lady but kind of... She's going to take over the world, you know. That is one of the archetypes of a Chinese girl. I would say. She doesn't, too late, with such finesse. She should have a movie about her for sure. Oh yeah, oh my god. Yeah, yeah, she finesse a world. I'd love to see the story of the young Asian superhero who happens to be part of the Avengers so that he can be in the next tier of Marvel movies. Yeah, so I got a TV show Royanchang International Student. It's a sitcom coming out on Comedy Central. August 13th, so watch it on the channel and on the app. Or you know what the hell, just pirate it. Just watch it, however you want to do it. Also, I'm doing a stand-up tour around America so check Royanchang.com for my tour dates. And I will be probably back and forth between here and Asia a lot more now because I have representation here. So I'm hoping to have more projects so that I can show you guys. Yo, you guys, thank you so much for doing this. Go out and watch Crazy Rich Asians. It has currently 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Which is not easy to do, yeah. Because everybody hates everything these days. So 100% can't ask for more than that for an Asian project. Thank you Royanchang, Victoria Loak. Until next time, we're at Pinch Chinese. We out. Peace. Okay, so we are here with Shantang, the owner of Pinch Chinese. The idea behind the restaurant was taking food that I grew up eating with my family or the chef who were eating with his family and kind of bringing that to New York. The more Chinese restaurants, the more people go to China's restaurants. The more people get the taste of our culture and really start to understand where we're coming from or trying to bring to the table. I really think this is a good time to be a Chinese-American because the movie aside, the fact that China's opening up is great because the more people travel there.