 Welcome to Cal Dining vs. the average Cal student. I'm Spencer Duanser. I'm Sarah Kim. And this is a series where we are going to try to recreate all the dining hall food and see if we can make it better. On this episode, Crossroads. This Friday's Crud's dinner was Asian inspired so we're going to be making a chicken dish, a tofu and vegetable dish and fried rice. First, we're going to train Joe to get our ingredients. Yeah. What did you just say, Sarah? Trader Joe's. What? Cancelled. Cancelled what? The Asian pumpkin. The Asian pumpkin, what happens? Because they don't have green onions. It's so easy to just do this. That's cheating. That's cheating, Sarah. That's cheating. That's cheating. Sorry. Sarah wouldn't let me pack it because she said I was doing it wrong. Yeah. It's the boy you know. Yeah, exactly. The boy you know. Right this way. Those are the points right there. The pumpkins are here. Exactly. And then you just basically fill it in. So now we're going to head to 3.5 restaurant. Crossroads. And we will see which one does it better. Aleister Crows. So we made it to Crows. We are here at our fancy 3.5 star restaurant. 3.5 restaurant. Uh-huh. This is our main food. Our competition. It actually looks pretty good today. It does look good. Yeah. The first time, a matter of fact. I might start off with the tofu. Okay. It's very rubbery. This makes me sad. It makes me feel very depressed. It's so dry. It's so dry. And inside it just tastes like styrofoam. The rice? The rice. The rice isn't bad. I will say that. It's seasoned. Yeah, it is. Okay. It's using the rice here. It's very raw. The water. It's very refreshing. Wait, half an egg roll. How can we get an egg roll? This is good. Yeah. This is actually really good. Mm-hmm. Can we rate each one? At the end. We can do it at the end. Chicken. Mm-hmm. Hmm. I will say, everything is really good. Give one Spencer point out of five for the tofu. Mm-hmm. For the rice. I'll give it three Spencer points. Okay. Chicken. I'm going to give three Spencer points. And then I think the starred dish is the egg roll. That's going to give four Spencer points right there. The tofu really gave me, truly gave me a rough experience. Yeah. But then again, when I think of it like in the context of crows, I'm like, maybe it's a 1.5. Mm-hmm. The rice is pretty good. I would give it like a 3.5. Mm-hmm. The chicken, it was good. It was good. A four. So what would you give the whole dish? The whole dish out of five. Mm-hmm. I'm going to give it a saw 3.5 Spencer points. It was good. I'll give them a three. So we have that little like... A little edge. A little edge. Yeah. The .5 was too much. Is that cheating? The .5 was too much. All right. So we'll see you back in Unit 2 Kitchen. Peace. Bye. So we went to Trader Joe's and everything here is Trader Joe's. Hashtag not sponsored. First things first. We got some fresh organic... Okay. Both of us in skillet size. We love thighs. Broccoli. White mushrooms. Tofu. Organic jazz and rice. The beautiful free range eggs. Two garlics. Soy sauce. Honey sauce. Black peppercorn. And last but not least... Sea salt. I can't. Spencer's never been to a kitchen before. The closest thing I've known to a kitchen is boiling pot. So... I have a little experience. I did like have to cook for survival. But that's... So let's get this started. What should we do first? Okay. So I would say we need to cut the garlic first. Okay. Like, that's the garlic. How do you cut garlic? I'll teach you. I got really close to my hand. Do you think how TV would pay for my hospital bill? Um... It is? Okay. Yes. That took me. I'm gonna assume that you slice a mushroom like this. You want to cut this and then why? And then am I right there? I almost didn't know. You know, while cutting these mushrooms, we take for granted cow dung. Like, this is hard. You should eat those cut vegetables because I'm an average person and this is really hard for me. I don't know. Stay for yourself. Like, I will be taking those for granted. You know what? You better check your photos too. Because when we went to Trader Joe's and you'll see in this clip where she's like, wouldn't it just be easy to use prepackaged ingredients? It would be so easy to just do that. We're cheating. She wanted to cheat. She wanted to cheat just like that for her. Which this video is inspired by. If you watched day night where they went to gourmet restaurants and they see how they can cook it better, that's how this is inspired, guys. Yeah, at least we're not cheating on people. On people or the food. Or the food. Look how beautiful my cutting is, guys. Sarah's so proud of this. Why too? What's in there? Wow, it's just like crows. It's just like crows. Dang, look at that. My mom. So my mom was a stay-at-home mom. And you never helped her. Yo, hold on. This is Sarah's final product of the fried rice. Look at that, Sarah. You got anything to say? Um, yeah. Like, it would have been better if Trader Joe's wasn't Asian-phobic and we had spring onions. All right, guys. So, Spencer stepped out a little bit. And basically, this is the tofu. All done. This will be our last dish. And I gotta say, Sarah and I, we kind of slated. Okay, so we're finally done. Sarah and I, we slayed. We ate. We really did. And we served. We did we served. And so now we're going to try our meal. First, I'm going to try the chicken. No food. Is it? No, it's good. Okay. Go. Tofu. For the tofu, I'm not the biggest tofu fan. Okay. But this is good. All right. I'm going to try the rice. That's so good. I love fried rice. Yeah. This is my favorite here, the fried rice. Okay. Five? Five? Five? Yeah. I don't eat bias. But I'm going to say 4.5 Spencer points. So, Sarah and I, we don't want to be biased. So, I brought some friends over from my floor and they're going to try it and then they're going to give you their honest opinion. So, let's make them in. Okay. So, how's the food? It's actually cooked. The rice doesn't assault my tongue. Yeah. And it's actually good. Crows, just like you're tolerated. This is like the enjoyment, you know? How's the food? It's amazing. Do you want to expand on that? It's more flavorful than crows. Then you can actually taste the spices. All right guys. So, we just finished cooking and serving and it was really good. And the general consensus was that it was better than crows. So, we want that to turn. I think you won that. And we have three more dining halls to go. And so, next up is Cafe 3. Watch out for us. That's it for us. That's it. And we'll see you in the next episode.