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Off The Record: What's the Weirdest Food You've Ever Eaten?

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0:00 foreign [Music] so very delicious because when it came

0:51 out I was like oh that's crazy man Fear Factor you know is that what he said I would be surprised I was like why'd you say and then I remember one ████ was trying to crawl off the table and ████ and then she just put that ████ back in and while he was alive the Korean lady just went like she's giving it a haircut it was a great idea from the aquarium pulled it in front of like we had a shabi Shabu pot pulls it in front of us like this and just went just like that murdered it yep and then I was like I was like oh what ████ this is different country for sure see it's like really really fun to experience it's not that good huh no but that's one of the best worst things I hate because I was so surprised I've had octopus like

1:42 on Sushi or whatever but I was so surprised at like the difference between fresh octopus and like frozen it was very it was very good it was so sweet and soft and then the life yeah and then you know when they come out with the tentacles right that should look like maggots bro like that's ████ salted maggots and they tell you they tell you to chew the ████ out of it because if you don't chew it fully and you swallow it and it's still moves it's gonna move it's gonna try to latch onto your throat and I was like that's ████ gross let's let's let's laugh at it guys and then we're like eating it and I'm like this is like piggier one of my favorite things gelatinous like that Taiwanese Chinese Pig cartilage it's crunchy it's just moving don't they put like like a soy like well this restaurant put um

2:32 sesame oil and salt yeah yeah what um so like that because of that experience I really appreciated it because I think usually if you're trying something whether or not like you feel the dish you might not finish it but because I saw them like pretty much butcher it right in front of me I'm gonna finish this thing yeah yeah so like so like it was cool because you get to choose the cooked version and then the raw version what was better and they're both good they're both really good wow both really good oh it blew my mind I all of it though because I just felt I felt Native American about that ████ yeah yeah in Korea yeah I better I better I better eat the ████ nose to tail or whatever was that octopus good in in terms of octopi in your life or was it good in terms of all it was probably the best octopi oh like class of octopus because

3:23 I've one I never had fresh octopus after that you go back to Frozen and it's just not the same I thought to myself I was like I'm good on this it's all right but did you have it cooked too yeah oh really and and the live one you know what I mean that was like squiggling around and stuff I was like oh this is really cool experience but I was like I still prefer like takoyaki or like fried you know what I mean really I think it just tastes better like that yeah grilled Grill grilled to me I don't think and dream of the live one like I wouldn't crave that but the cooked one in that hot pot thing they did I was like wow so this is what fresh like I don't have to see it being murdered in front of me and chopped up you can say that if it's killed that day I'm like it's probably gonna taste pretty good it's different yeah or they could just cut it behind you here you go Asian Chinese seafood restaurants they do that ████ with the lobster let's

4:13 bring out too like which one you want man oh the what is that one [Laughter] I need to see the eyes man ████ all right staring at me how did you know that that's the one you got because what if they came up and then they bring it back and they go okay bust out the Frozen one oh these are model lobsters yeah it's a good racket yeah I believed it every time next week I could have swore I ate that ████ already what about you what's the best thing you've ever eaten uh okay separate right not best worst well you can I mean if you have best and worse I have the best thing um I was in I think Switzerland or something and it was Christmas so and you know how in Europe they do those Christmas markets like big time yeah they really really separate uh

5:04 celebrate Christmas there and at this Christmas Market there's this one where they did like some sort of like I don't know United Nations Night Market type ████ where like every single Booth was a different country and I'm like this is ████ cool so like there's a like Nepalese dumplings here there's like whatever over here and then there's like a uh this this cheese sandwich place where they would take a flame so the cheese is like a block almost like a toast and they would flame throw the ████ cheese so the top starts melting and they get the bread and they smear the cheese like this that's not the best thing nothing was really good too so I'm just trying to paint like how like how like unique the ████ is I go to I think I don't even know man I think it was ████ like Turkish or some some of those weird countries in the middle uh there was a sandwich where

5:54 they take have you guys ate saw beans like a Chinese pastry I think so similar to that where I'm like they took this bread that was crispy and Flaky I'm like okay cool like if you know like countries like turkey there there's like uh Middle Eastern influence Asian influenza that's how their Cuisine comes together so they take this ████ Turkish style Bean they cut it open they put like a fried egg in the middle some meat some whatever and then they closed it put in the wrapper and they don't want to eat things at a night market it's like fresh it's piping hot and then I remember biting into it and then tasting like the sausage and then the melted yolk and then it tasted ████ good I was like what was this sir he told me and I went I repeated like 10 times so I have to remember that when I go back to America I gotta find the ████ store that sells this literally like the next day I'm like

6:44 ████ ing sandwiches was it Turkish I don't even know it's one of those one of my photo or write it down I have a vlog of it so I have to find it I have to find it but it's Turkish or any like gurkish or market like one of those countries any of those intersection countries Azerbaijan Azerbaijan could be Zildjian symbols these videos sponsored by yeah but it was good that was so good yeah and the closest thing about tried is stuff like that is a Nadeem would take me to Afghan restaurants because those are the few places where you taste

7:36 cultures match like he took me to this place where uh African restaurant and I tried they called it Mandu too which is like mandus like dumplings in Korean but they also call it Mandu there and so they have dumplings it's wrapped in The Wonton form um but like kind of like true to any type of like uh Melting Pot country there's some sort of like uh cream sauce on top and then chili flake crunch thing and then like a tomato sauce that goes so I'm like this is like ████ Middle Eastern Italian and Asian had a baby it was crazy whoa I like countries like that what's the worst thing you've ever eaten get back to me I have to remember oh that's true I'll tell you uh something that was really terrible that I had I had pho in Indiana Oh and it was bad and it was at a

8:28 Chinese restaurant it was at a Chinese restaurant do they always have sushi too maybe I don't know I forgot but it's only like the Philadelphia roll with cream cheese you know it was weird because it looks like pho it doesn't smell like it the broth is brown you try it it tastes like water and then like it's so gross just like describing it the noodles were like kind of hard I don't know I just wanted to try it I was like dude how bad I have to get ████ everywhere I go if I see it and it's successful I have to try especially other countries not necessarily ████ Indiana or whatever but was it not being made by a Vietnamese person no it's for sure fun your Chinese oh good yeah so they didn't get the flat noodles they didn't get anything right the beef was like dry as ████ I was like damn dude I ████ up I'm never eating like fall outside of California anymore any words with the

9:19 chef no I didn't care there's really good friends outside of California yeah there Texas yeah yeah not really it's okay the beef is good what about Houston but it's the because you know in Texas something bigger and like more flavor so it's like saltier and it's like way too more reward for you overdone and and it's good to some people but preference to it North Carolina has some of the best fly I've ever had it's called Far Far East out of here sgv I want to see if we're on the same page with what's your favorite pho place in this sgv none of them dude I don't like anything that's hard like he's he's like closer to Orange County

10:09 no dude Garden Grove and stuff you know because even your best pho place here there's like a bunch of them in OC that are way better it sounds like you're a fuss snob no it's not even a snob you can try it yourself and tell me are you sure about that yes okay I trust you dude I trust you because the flavor's kind of good it's okay yeah it's good it's okay there's none that are good huh um they're good but they're not great you know like what's up I don't know dude there's so many there's so many other Boomer plays yeah I know but I just want to see if there's anyone that's good around here there's a lot of places that are better than yeah like for example actually randomly out here or I guess not SUV technically but the one phob or something like that uh in downtown area near Chinatown that one has one of my favorite chicken fuzz oh

11:00 is that the place where they do the shabufa no that's I don't think so that's the one that has a fountain inside yes the one of all the police officers go to yeah yes with the fountain it's really dirty and you look you think you're like this baby oh yeah get the chicken Pho there next time just to ████ get the chicken photo like when you open It's the weird jacuzzi looking yeah it's a Jacuzzi looking Fountain yeah with the ████ extension cords hanging way too close to water yes what the heck but the chicken father is Bomb yeah yeah I'll check it out you like good chicken Pho I'll give you a whole I have a whole list of like good fun places okay when I think of like best and worst things I it's hard for me to think of like dishes for some reason maybe I'm just like thinking about like singular things and

11:51 I'm like this is the best of this thing that I've experienced um one of the first things comes to mind is when I was in Barcelona you know like ebirical ham like hamon uh the ████ prosciutto ham type stuff these dry aged cured like ████ legs hanging for like 10 years type ████ wow so I would never be able to get the expensive ones right but in Barcelona I was there um you know there was one of my buddies he was there for a Tech Convention like CNET or something like that at the time and uh they're rich buddies and his partners and stuff like that would go to the spot and it's like literally it sells like those whole ████ dry legs you can even ship them back home they sell it out a whole level I set one back too yeah where and then they have almost like a cigar room almost like a nice like Winery or a cigar room there's like a back room yeah yeah that is like clothes and ████ has insulation in a

12:43 certain way or lightning whatever the ████ and that's like the really old stuff right yeah and again I would never be privy to this if I wasn't with other ████ rich people and we go there and the guys that are just like slicing off samples because if you slice off a sample and you try it that's how people know they're willing to spend like 3 500 bucks for a ████ Lego sign yeah because some of them is like Sashimi yeah it just melts in your ████ mouth how long does it last well the thing is you don't eat like me at like it's so salty because it's cured so you don't eat a lot at a time you say how long does the leg last well the thing is they're curing it for years or some ████ yeah it's like it's like wine it's like whiskey yeah when you open it obviously you know what I mean yeah just last time yeah they have peppercorn salami that's my favorite I have no idea it's like the most basic one yeah

13:33 when I got to try this slice of ibedico Jamon is that a prosciutto yeah I was like dude I I don't know if I'll ever yeah I don't know if I'll ever experienced it better than this moment butteriness it was like a ████ little leg of it but then I forgot what I did with it God damn dude Chase in your Vlogs how much did that cost I forgot over there it's not that expensive because a case or something because it's like it's uh it's kind of like sushi in Japan it's every day for them over here it's like marketed it became a thing where like over and yeah in Japan you can like 20 bucks will give you some of the best sushi you've ever ate in your whole life right over here you have to spend at least 100 bucks if you want something that that level yeah you gotta go SanSai Grill yeah I was kind of like that dude they had total for like four bucks in Japan yeah

14:23 yeah and then when I think of the worst thing I think of an experience I won't say this is like the worst thing I still like this on a regular occasion but back in the day when we were ████ at the you remember when like the the YouTube uh space or whatever was like new Playa Vista yeah and they were bringing people out to like do content and stuff like that I remember a Isa TV was doing like some sort of game shows yeah I heard of them yeah well yeah yeah Wong Fu was doing the same and Phil hit us up me and Mike I heard I heard A Long food and we went out there they wanted us to play like different games and stuff on like different challenges one of the we totally won the game uh because we're awesome but uh we were doing challenges like giant Chopsticks trying to pick up stuff or like Post-its all over us and rolling around and like trying to get as many off right and in the final game even though we won this was a punishment but even though we won in actual scores they just lied to knew because they wanted us to they wanted to see us get

15:14 punished yeah uh and they rolled out this car and in one of them was like I don't remember if it was like guac or green tea ice cream or something the other one was wasabi and we didn't know which one was supposed to be which right but obviously I think they and so we we had to take a spoonful and like Not only was that like and this is the end of the show so like not only am I like holding it in you know what I mean kind of like crying and like not feeling very comfortable but later on that day I had such a something I threw up late like later because I was just like sitting here you know it was so gross to like have to adjust something this is wrong too you know so it's just discomfort a bowl of Wasabi in it so ████ ████ up but that is pretty gross uh who would do that Wong Fu

16:08 but you know it was still it was it was a memorable experience I'll say that so one of the worst things I ate is either the Circus Circus buffet or something my mom made I'm going back okay something my mom made what would she cook that was so bad my mom sucked at cooking oh ████ you should have um Bart's mom like mukbang so she makes food and then we all eat it for lunch and my mom number one she's vegetarian right so she's already has limited ingredients number two she's trying to be on this nutritional tip like she was ████ like a white hipster before the white hipsters or even a thing so my mom used to bake her own bread I shouldn't even buy bread she bakes her own bread so we used to have a bread maker when I was like ████ eight and then she wants it to be packed with nutrients so

16:59 she'll cut up ████ like yams and dates and ████ she's not even bread anymore no and then you put them anymore because she's like she gets the idea of like raisin bread you know like oh I'll put other ████ in it she can't wait you cut you cut the bread down and you hold the bread up literally looks like a stained glass window orange and red whatever she has that just had no touch that's it yeah then she goes okay I guess avocados are healthy so she would chop up uh avocado and put it in there and she would just make me the stained glass window avocado sandwiches with no seasoning though not even salt on the avocado man it's just like mush but it wasn't healthy I don't know but it was like that's like one of the gnats try not mentally healthy actually you know what that also makes you think of in terms of a different concept of best one time uh the uh the the some of the leaders of the Kansas we did a retreat and uh for

17:50 this Retreat just to kind of like you know get into and stuff we want to do a raw diet right so we didn't eat uh like processed foods or cooked food this is all raw so we're just munching and you know what's weird when you like jump into a Rada even for just like a three day experience you actually get like really tired and stuff like that because you don't have like the same type of energy and whatnot you're not consuming certain types of foods we're just eating nuts and all this Brands you're gonna eat cheese right you can't eat none of that eat ham either but what we were allowed to eat was an avocado and by the time like on like the last day yeah the avocado was like eating a ████ steak like just getting a little avocado being able to put ████ salt and pepper in like lemon juice kind of savory it was like so delicious because like we hadn't ████ been able to consume anything else like oh it was amazing how long did you guys do it for only for

18:40 three days three days it's like the rib eye of fruits I think yeah but you're just eating like seeds and nuts and ████ you know what I mean yeah that's crazy other fruits and vegetables yeah we're eating fruits and vegetables but we all had to be raw yeah all raw but the avocado was like a ████ stink stage did you feel good after though after you did all those three days we felt like light but it was it's weird because when you don't eat like the normal Foods you do like and you're just on Raw stuff like you actually like it takes um you just feel like down on energy yeah you're probably just not so low calorie dude yeah all the raw like fruits and vegetables so I remember just like all of us we thought we had this schedule and we're like yo we're gonna get to this ████ thing and then by the time it's like 10 p.m everybody's like kind of falling asleep in the middle of like meetings and stuff because you can't even have coffee either then no all wrong so what did people do back in the day

19:30 before bread well I don't think they have like alarm clocks or like duties all the time but I could just sleep they also don't have to do dance shows and stuff like they were dancing every night by the fire dancing more than they're doing other stuff like lifting weights bro yeah every jungle people was dancing when they caught like a ████ gazelle or something don't count that's inconsequential they could suck it doesn't matter that's true second best am I right stupid stop doing that my uh my favorite thing or my best thing is kind of similar to where um it was when I was traveling for like shows with uh six steps this is like 2005 and I was so freaking broke that you know when I don't know if any of you have had the situation where you like don't even have money to eat with everybody so you're just like nah I'm good man I'm

20:20 good so I just kept saying that yeah and then we were like on our way to uh San Francisco and then um finally like some one of my friends was like hey well I could just spot you if you want I was like oh dude you would do that oh thank God yeah because I didn't really know them to that level you can spot me at the grocery store and then we went to uh Popeyes and I I hadn't had Popeyes yet until that point those are first time ever online first time having Popeyes any and then he goes I'll just get you like a two-piece or something I was like all right cool and I hadn't eaten in like a day and a half and and that Popeyes was like the best thing I'd ever eaten did you ████ jizz yeah I did did you jizz especially Popeyes is already just worthy and then if you have never ate it and you haven't ate in a day starving and I didn't have any money and I was like from that date it like triggers it like triggers a

21:11 mental thing even now like if I have Popeyes I'm like oh it's it's good it's good ████ yeah Popeyes the worst thing I had was when I tried to eat at Fry's Electronics yeah the Burbank one had a cafe oh and it and they designed it to look like a drive-in so they had like these 57 Chevys that were cut and they put seats in them and it looks really cool but I thought it was like an I was like hey this would be kind of funny if like uh we try to eat there because it you could see that there was like a menu and like tables so I assumed you could get food and then so me and smack and we were like yo like uh can we can we order something and it was just like this random kid he was like the only one working and he was like I think so and we were like what's uh available we like we're looking on the menu and all these different things and he's like I don't

22:01 know how to make most of the stuff whoa I was like what can you make and he was like I don't know we're like what about that it was like a grilled cheese sandwich and he's like no let me ask and then he goes to the back and then brings out some other lady and she's like yeah you just take the bread and put he's like telling him out loud yeah no one makes anything there I think this was the tail end of fries where they started getting rid of everyone so no one was left that knew how to do anything oh she ultimately went bankrupt because of it like uh incompetent Staffing yeah so uh incompetent Staffing is the reason why they went back it's one of the reasons why people stopped spending money there wow well because they they over hired for p and they didn't train anyone so no one knew how to answer your question so people just distrusted fries wow so then ultimately they you know they they went down for a lot of other reasons but that's the consumer I used to love fries yeah so he

22:52 made me this ████ yes he took the two bread and he just put like a slice of craft singles in it and and like it was like sort of warm and then we got grilled cheese we're like What the ████ we tried to eat it it was like so old like the bread was like super old because like nobody had gone there in ages probably because it wasn't a thing anymore so they should have just told us oh we're not doing this anymore but because this kid wasn't even trained to tell me no he didn't know what to say and just gave it to me anyway and it was the weirdest experience yeah that's gross foreign

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