 Call it. I'm so thankful that Singaporean toast box came to Beijing. I was up earlier before you and Justin were. I've been thinking about food for the past four hours and I haven't eaten anything but a couple of vitamin gummies. We are about to review the best chain in Asia that will probably never make it to America. In Hong Kong, we've been to it in Singapore. That's where they're from. They have over 70 locations there but they're opening up worldwide. They got Indonesia, Malaysia, China. We're talking about toast box. Yes. Toast box. Kaya toast. Laksang. This is the best Asian food chain that will probably never make it to America. Let's go. It's supposed to represent this kind of coffee culture called Nanyang. Really popular in Singapore in the 60s when Singapore was becoming a sovereign state. That's why it kind of has like these throwback vibes. It's supposed to pretty much look like Singapore in the 60s. Alright you guys, so we dropped $407. $407 spent 60 bucks here. That's $20 a person. It's about to be late at toast box. Excited. This is definitely cheaper than Singapore though. Oh definitely bro. Like 60 bucks in Singapore would not get you this much. Singapore's pricing is actually pretty similar to America. If not higher? It's a nice country. Yeah have you ever been there? It's very clean. No crime. We are at the Beijing toast box. I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is exactly like toast box in Singapore or in Hong Kong or wherever else in Taiwan, Thailand. And maybe it shouldn't be. Why would it be? We're in northern China. So usually with kaya toast which is probably the thing that you know toast box is pretty much named after. You're supposed to dip it in a soft boiled egg you know the yolk is runny, the egg white is barely cooked and there's soy sauce and it's really good. It's very eggy, it's sweet, it's salty but they don't do that in Beijing anymore. No one was ordering it so they just gave you the hard boiled egg. Which is kind of funny because when we first got it we were kind of like what? That's not how we usually eat it. How you going to dip that in that? Try to dip it. Literally. Literally. We asked them like three times hey can we get a soft egg and they were just like nah nah we don't serve it anymore. Who's going? Looks like Venom from Spider-Man. So we're going to open up with the kaya toast and a soft boiled egg. Yeah like that. Give you the same vibe. Kaya toast Beijing style. Still delicious. It doesn't not taste like it but you guys if you've never had kaya toast it's coconut jam. It's delicious man. People watching from Singapore already. What? Andrew next up we've got peanut butter toast. It didn't look like the picture. It didn't look like the picture but is there anything special about this? Peanut butter is pretty good. It's just a drink of coffee. Dipping coffee. Coffee is the Malay term for coffee. Colin. I'm so thankful that Singaporean toast box came to Beijing. Yeah they might be doing things a little bit differently here but that's why it's interesting. Try to get through the baked goods real quick. Oh my gosh the Bolo Yao. Okay Bolo Yao is like a pineapple baked bun with a slice of butter. We're popular in Hong Kong maybe to Singapore. I gotta ask though how is the butter only going to make it like one-fifth? Yeah that was really interesting. It was just a little indentation. It was like a little just a little. Just a little mouthful. A little hyphen. A little apostrophe. Bolo Yao. Bolo Yao. Good. You got the wedge if you hit it. I have to only bite with butter. That chicken stock is delicious. You guys know chicken rice. This is one of the most popular dishes of Singapore. This is actually one of the dishes I believe that they will be able to execute well. Yes. So in Singapore for chicken rice they don't necessarily have the ginger scallion sauce but they have a different spicy ginger sauce and then they have of course the sweet soy sauce. Still really good but not super not maybe as Singaporean tasting. I mean I'd still say it's pretty good. Chicken rice. I don't really like the thick sweet soy sauce. I never like it. I know you always dip yours in it. I do. The flavored Hainan rice. That was the rice. You know what's funny in Singapore they don't call it Hainan chicken rice but in China they do. What I heard is that it was started in Southeast Asia by Chinese immigrants part of the diaspora from Hainan. Like it didn't necessarily come from Hainan. Start in Hainan but the people were Hainanese. Okay. Interesting. Hainan chicken rice overall pretty good. Maybe not quite Singaporean level. The recipe might be slightly tweaked but it's still good. Probably still some of the better Hainan chicken you can find in Beijing. Soy sauce chicken. They call it soya chicken naked first. Mmm. Alright time to dip it in the sauce. Oh man. Muggy. Mmm. I could see some people picking the brown Hainan with the white one. Mmm. Let me eat the chicken with the noodles bro. Soy rice with the noodles with the some sauce. That's so good. The chicken's out in Asia though. Real skinny. Skinny but flavorful. Dipping in the sauce. Boom like that. Bite of the noodles. No there is some flavor of Shandong Xiao Ji. If you guys know Shandong heavily influenced the flavor profile of Beijing. We are eating at a Singaporean chain in Beijing. Obviously they have to vocalize. We're all the chicken at Toast Box. I think if you are looking for this style of food in Beijing this is it. It ain't 100% authentic to Singapore but it's delicious. You know we're talking about global brands local tastes here. We got Zhajiang Yan. I would say Zhajiang Man takes on so many different looks and this is definitely more of the Taiwanese Fujianese style which if you do know Fujianese, Hokian, Minna Hoa all of the same. Same region. Very closely related. And that Hokian people are mostly in Singapore. That's still really good. Wow. I want to say it doesn't have any bean paste flavor. Come on now. But yeah. Oh my god that's good. Pieces of the chopped tofu. Symbolic of a different regional difference but it's really good. You know to me that's why I said Toast Box is the best Asian chain that I've ever made in America. Even when they're doing you know Zhajiang Man in Beijing it still tastes good. I think a Beijing person would like that. So Jailan is Chinese broccoli right? But they put sort of a Malay Singaporean sauce on it. So this in and of itself is a Toast Box hybrid. Mmm. Mmm. Because we're half northern Chinese and half southern Chinese does this dish and this dish represent us because it's a hybrid. Mmm. Bro. Zhajiang Man is actually really good. And you are a Zhajiang Man connoisseur. Freaking good man. Ovaltine I always thought it said overtime. Oh. I gotta say David that is the best ovaltine I've ever had in my entire life. Hold up. That was mixed perfectly. It's extra chocolatey. It's tasty. It's got nutrients and vitamins. Yeah but I'm almost hella good. I'm gonna tell you this just like Singapore just like a hawker stall. It's hot. Go in here. Okay. So this curry chicken. No noodles. It has some fried tofu strips. Great nice piece of the drumstick right here. One new chicken leg. Singaporean curry chicken. That's kinda crazy. This Jali jee is pretty good. The chicken was just a little bit more juicier. This would be killer because this curry chicken flavor is immaculate. Mmm. I just drank it. That's for a man on keto. Yeah. I'm a man on a low rice diet right now. Chicken skewer is in classic Beijing fashion. No sauce. No saute sauce. For some reason Beijing restaurants they not all about the sauce. I'm going to dip this. I'm dipping a chicken skewer in the chicken curry. Mmm. This pork. That's chicken bone. A heavily marinated chicken. Too wrong. You're right. This pork. I'm on my sensor for meat now. If you go to Singapore or Malaysia they are going to swear by this dish. Laksa. Mmm. A copper dot. A copper dot. That dried shrimp hama. Yummy flavor. Like a shrimpy extra coconutty curry. You know how I like to eat shrimp. This is the food that keeps Singapore moving. This is the food that allowed Singapore to be one of the nicest Asian countries in history. You mean it allowed Singapore to rise to become one of the four Asian tigers. In case Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan. What do they mean by tigers? They're just powerful for their size. Pork chop sandwich. Beijing toast box. Chopped up cucumber. Lots of mayo. Egg. Meat. Crust cut off. Asians don't like crust because with Asian bread there is no crust. They're just buns. You dip this in the curry. Crazy. Crazy much. One. Maggie. That's good? You don't speak and love that man. The sweetness of that. That's good. I know it was better than sandwich but it was good. You know toast box just entered the mainland China market two years ago roughly. The menus already changed. But I think the spirit and the backbone of Singapore has been maintained. Salted egg yolk downtown. No. My biggest takeaway in terms of a macro-cultural insight as I eat this brown sugar downtown which I've never had before. Innovative. Me and you, we have our mom is from northern China. Our dad is from way southern China. Our mom is from way northern China. It is a mix because those two, I'm not going to lie and say both sides of the family are going to be best friends for regions, speak different languages, eat different foods, have different attitudes about life. And that is very true. And I do think those very real cultural differences are a cause for misunderstanding and tribalism and beef and stuff like that. And the best thing I can do to encourage people is just to try other people's culture and the best thing, the best foot in the door to try enjoying someone else's culture is the food. Maybe if we can enjoy each other's food, it can lead, you know, it can lead to interactions and pings and it can just create more understanding. I think for us, we draw a lot of relatability from all different groups. The thing I went to go back to eat more of was the Dajanmen. And I actually really like the chicken as well. The Hainan chicken, both the soy sauce chicken and the Hainan chicken and then the Dajanmen. I would say the oval teen was my favorite because I don't know why this sounds crazy, but that was the best oval teen I've ever had even though it's just a mix. And then I would say the loxa was really good. All right, you guys, thank you so much for checking out the international episode of Fun Grows Food. We are in Beijing trying out the Singaporean chain Toast Box. David, you know what city in America I think Toast Box is working? I think New York. Yeah? East Village. I think East Village, New York could have a Toast Box. Because I said this is probably the best chain that'll never come to America. Prove me we're on Toast Box. All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching that video. Subscribe to our channel. Turn on the notifications. We are out traveling right now, but we're coming back soon. In the comments below, let us know if there's any other multinational chains of Asian food chains that you want us to check out. This is David. This is Andrew from the Fun Grows. And until next time, we out. Peace. Man, but after all that food, you know I need to wash it down with a cleanser. About to get some fresh lemonade. This is a good twyer. Toast Box. Ice box. 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