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How Do We Feel About This Black-Owned Cajun Hibachi Restaurant?

#hiachi#habachi#watermelonjuice#japanese#bowls
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0:00 [Music] Joe do you like Habachi I don't really know what it is hiachi you don't know hiachi yeah I know it's like a grill like a charcoal grill I can ever expect what he's going to say this guy this guy's not real Japanese not a man of the world there a front I don't know what that is all right anyone else know not know what it is is it the I know I totally know what it is that's the onion volcanoes no that's tayak open your mouth yes it's that it's that oh white people ████ love Habachi yeah it's like New York State why is it called hiachi fry Rak juggling the knives and ████ and I see some like bald white guys sitting the white shirt with a ████ lady who's 30 years younger than him and she's ████ bored on her phone and

0:51 he's like ████ it says that it's Habachi is a Japanese word where he means fire and Bachi means a bowl so it's basically large open yeah Fireball oh why do Americans call it hiachi Hibachi is one such Japanese after Ed incorrectly outside of Japan that's why I didn't know what the ████ it was ████ you're you're an American Joe no but I I heard it before I never I don't know what it was like and then you heard a Japanese word and you didn't look up anything about it no I well cuz people keep using hey go to habachi grill right or whatever and I was like maybe it's just one of those like PF Shang words where like they just like like what is it like chop sooi or something where they made it up you guys got to go to Benny hanas Benny Han so it I thought it was just one of

1:42 those like fake Asian words that they just made up for't been seeing like the rise of like Habachi trucks in LA or anything there Habachi trucks they they everywhere what do they do do they juggle them they just they make the volcano onions they just make Japanese bowls like it'll just be like like steak bowls shrimp bowls chicken bowls like stuff like that fire stir fried fried rice it's good yum yum sauce they put so when I was there they made a little bowl out of rice and then the guy cracked an egg in it and then and then he put soy sauce on it and then he made fried rice in little thing and then he he it turned from a bowl into he flipped it over upside down into a ████ Bowl D that's tight it's incredible it is what do you guys think of use more Japanese than Joe right now what do you think of that doesn't that look so good it's hiachi with a cage in twist oh oh wait

2:33 what that's really good right would you go there I like the plating wait cinjun food hiachi yeah isn't that bomb well I think what I just I quickly read but but hiachi is just means like like Japanese grilling or whatever yeah yeah yeah what's Tik Tok that's the name of the place how come they got the the racist font what like the CH like the bamboo F interesting you should ask that the RAC it's wait people know what kind of food it is what's Japanese about it it's Oriental I'm guessing that there's another Ry anime twist to this I don't get it like is it supposed to be like um what's that one they're trying to do like these Japanese bowls it's like they just grill meat and veggies together and then they put it on they're like Asian bowls huh woba

3:24 Grill yeah like that like I think isn't that that that they're trying to do it like that but it's Cajun it looks like I have a guess cuz I'm a detective I see that there's watermelon juice and I believe that's for a specific demographic oh watermelon juice see the left hand I love watermelon juice watermelon juice right there it might be him look at how legit this is that's a real Asian guy that's a real Asian guy yeah stupid not to be confused with a fake Asian guy he's a real he's a real one you are you are you really not familiar with iachi stuff at all or are you just putting that no it's called tanaki yeah but but I know that I didn't know I didn't know that was a I didn't no I didn't know I I seriously didn't know I I just thought like Americans like using random words like hiachi Grill whatever so I just kind of like I think it's like Japanese I never went wait a minute let me

4:15 ████ Google this ████ I just was like I don't know what that means but like so it's j it's Japanese hibachi is basically Japanese inspired blls like they're not it's probably not literally like yoso and yeah yeah yeah it's like a except Yoshinoya is from Japan though yeah it's legit it's really good in Japan dude the nuances it's really good all right so the real one in Japan real one it's different huh and then they give it to you clay bowls and ████ and you're like what the ████ so people are kind of divided about this not probably like not for the negative side but uh it is a blackowned hiachi place and now appropriation comes into the conversation for some reason are Asians mad shut the ████ which on y don't tell me Japanese people are mad at this cuz first of all there's no no J

5:05 Japan Japanese people are not they love it Japanese Americans I don't know about that it depends how how often they're commenting neck shark neck shark NE shark mad at it Houston welcome to stick to's first drink and water location in mid STI talk is a blackowned concept that uses the flavors of Japanese Habachi with the Bold flavors of the Cajun style I kind want to try that it looks it's just steaking shrimp if they're offended they should just hire my ████ guy right he's a real a he's the real one hot sauce looks good too what what's the problem like it's to me it's it's that's just all

5:56 americ it's food it's food it's and it's all there's nothing Japanese about about it it's just like it's like saying Taco Bell's ████ Mexican like that's American that's whoo whoa who Tex Max but it's it's an American invention right like first off that Habachi s███'s an American invention and then it's like blackowned Fusion it's like there's nothing Japanese about it so I don't know why Japanese people are mad I don't think they're mad I think just Asians from a specific generation are mad 20 JZ ████ sensitive jenzy ass ████ ████ neck shark ass commenting ████ for sure I would be mad if I went there and they weren't throwing the knives around yeah that's what you should be mad at if there's no ████ onion volcano oh yeah I'm I'm pissed about it I'm talking some of the

6:47 greatest foods are like crosscultural like you know what's funny to me it's like this it's like like let's say black folks got like a California role and decided to do like old school ████ rolls is good ████ whatever like whatever right they wanted some hip-hop rolls or some ████ right hip hop rolls I don't know like what's in the hip-hop roll Joe if they got a California rooll they deep fried it and then they put like cajun spice on it yeah and I'm just like I I'll just be like well first off California Ro is not even Japanese it's just it's American californ yeah it's Californian it's just Japanese ingredients the verdict is that it's totally fine this is great.com please like take more foods and make more Foods out of it it's totally fine but do the

7:38 cool night flipping though please the only thing is anybody who's mad are the same people who are mad at everything what I mean so it's like enjoy it doesn't matter I just want to slap the ████ life out of these dumbass Asians that are like stop taking my culture first off you're American as ████ it's not your culture okay that's your parents culture okay maybe yeah you you're going through a ████ identity crisis because you don't know who the ████ you are and the only thing you got going for you is your ████ race you have no ████ else no Talent nothing else yeah all this is who I am this is my f it's like no shut the ████ up dude you didn't even inventa so move on why is it got to be venes people all right it's sushi I like sushi okay it's not even just Asians right because it happens in the other side in other

8:29 cultures 100% it's just that age and just that mentality it's ████ stupid look one of my favorite Cajun restaurants is boiling crab and it's Vietnamese folks Chinese folks that learned in the South how to make proper ass ████ crab boils with crawfish brought it to the West Coast and it was like the first group that brought like on a big scale Southern crawfish boils to the West Coast oh that's a bold statement you just outed them they're about to get some hate dude out looking ████ I've ever seen he like lived in Mexico for like 30 years or some ████ and he brought all the cuisine up here and people still give him ████ all the time that dude kills it too he crushes it it just sounds like it's a lot of counter mad where it's like they're angry about a Japanese inspired Place being black owned because of all the times that like the black

9:20 community was accusing Asians of appropriating yeah but we don't got to listen to It's like a counter M I don't even want to listen to the dumbest people of every race yeah this these guys are ████ going well the blacks did it so now we can do it and I'm like bro the black people don't like those black people like we don't like those Asian peoplea let's not let those be the ████ guys that hold the mic yeah you know like that's what I'm saying is like that's a good point yeah there's hella haters in every race right and there's hella like dumbass people say like that's mine don't take it it's like the best ████ though is when a ████ one of these Asian influencer guys he takes orange chicken on on like a the Chopsticks or whatever and he puts in his mou like are you ████ kidding me orange chicken from Panda Express you and you got Chinese grandmas that are like this is good like oh my God it's like vomit it's like oh it's like vomit

10:11 and you know it's Mexican people making that orange chicken in every p and they're killing it it's good I just don't understand why people don't want new inventions coming out from cultural Fusion like what that's that's ████ fire to me like you want to eat the same ████ ████ till you die and and you want to you want to like gatekeep a a recipe like this is the way it has to be you're just going to be ████ annoying Italian especially when it's Habachi it's just grilled steak and grilled like shrimp that's all it is there's nothing and fried rice that's it can you imagine if like way back in the day like hundreds of years ago when they went on these conquests for a spice from a different Nation brought it back and then those people went that's appropriate so good like it took ████ years of a ship Voyage to come back and show it hiachi no time they're dying at

11:01 denter and ████ hiachi isn't even a thing to even die for like it's like don't take my culture that's like fighting like Chinese people fighting for PF chains like it's there's no ████ thing in Japan of Hibachi like there is I looked it up as a ████ it's like a bowl that you ████ Grill ████ but like it's wrong it's wrong it's just grilled Meats that's all it is I was at a PF chains and I and there was a real Asian waiter oh really so did make you feel like you're more authentic

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