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Kim Chi is Chinese?! No way.

#kimchi#korean#hairpasta#chinese#korea
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0:00 who who made stinky tofu Chinese imagine imagine being proud of that yeah I don't think Chinese people are even argumentative like that they're just like hey this is food and then the Koreans are like hey that's our like sure yeah [Music] sure don't hold back this video be as big boy as you want you want and Ja very Japanese okay so um couple things U main story here is that there was a a neuro virus spreading through Korea a thousand more than a thousand people by now have gotten sick from it and it was being K it was being spread through kimchi no the fermented stuff so China did it

0:50 by the bat and then Korea did it by the Napa cabbage yeah that's how I got him but the real conversation here is that at the same time this happened it started it ignited a conversation about kimchi uh which I guess maybe this happens a lot I don't know uh I'm ready for this conversation but talk some ████ yeah at around the same time there was a Korean TV show it's called super rich in Korea and then when you watched it with uh Chinese subtitles when they said kimchi the Chinese subtitles said La by Kai you know what that is am I say la by Kai la la like tha that's not Tai la like spicy so there's a oh yeah la Tha oh that means uh spicy cabbage spicy

1:40 yeah spicy cabbage so that's the thing that got a lot of cream people upset sounds bomb to me what do they say people Chinese uh I guess they're saying that's what Chinese people call kimchi when they think they invented it oh they're like Korea's a number one Korea made it ████ so you have to change they wanted it they were demanding that Netflix change the subtitle to x i NQ i x i n sh oh so like is that a Korean is that for Korea sh that's just kimchi it's just kimchi uh Chinese people have their own kimchi too but it's a Korean invented it in China Steel they're not going to like that statement there is spicy cabbage yeah cuz they have their own like uh non-spicy on spicy ones some some that are kind of sweet some that's like you know their own Flor of C some of them

2:32 not even cabbage but it's like a Chinese and a Japanese they come over and they try to steal a goou some of it some of it's like bamboo shoots you know there's like all kinds of ████ A lot of people were saying that Chinese only have that because they took it from Korea see classic Chinese a Chinese are always a steal you go to the Chinese CH stole noodles from Italy trying to stole nukes from us other the way around other way around D nukes we made the nukes other the way around we ████ made him dude go watch a Christopher Noah movie for once in your life when you make a Nike Factory in a China you get a biky when you get a Adidas Factory in China you get a Adidas oh yeah they um so South Korea's agricultural Minister released a statement saying it is inappropriate to report uh about without differentiating

3:23 kimchi from pal oh palai yeah was that is that you said yeah yeah palai just means fer uh that's like the the the category that's just like fermented vegetables I guess what they don't want is to be to be seen on like a Korean show where they're showing kimchi and it's getting subtitled as it's like bow time it's not a ████ P Kim hey we made ████ pickles dude we made ████ pickles I I guess what they're trying to say like if I if I were to like uh be an advocate for them it would be if you're talking about like let's say uh angel hair pasta call it hair pasta rather than saying ████ chow or something or Linguini yeah no I think the difference is call it angel hair pasta versus pasta so there category versus the

4:13 specific Italian angel hair pasta maybe so there's a lot of Kore yeah noodle yeah yeah yeah so there were a lot of Koreans that were watching this with Chinese subtitles and then they said aha incorrect son of a ████ they're trying to brush up on man I feel like maybe one maybe there was a room and there was like a Korean guy and a Chinese guy and then they were watching it like that and then they put it online and everyone got mad after the fact I see I got a new fight this is like probably 12 years ago I was outside of shortstop which is like this ████ club in LA and there's a ████ Italian guy he was talking ████ about American Pizza and I was telling him that that United States made Little Caesars and he said no Italy made Little Caesars and I was like no United States made made Little Caesars and then I kicked him till he was dead you beat the sh right right that's an American company brother it's an American made Little Caesars Bro

5:04 ████ off we stole the Caesar yeah we stole the name saaru is Itali yeah it's like sometimes when you go to like an Asian Mark you're like oh I want to get get some peirs and they're like it's Korean peirs you're like all right dude chill you're like just the you know the Asian pairs it's not what they call it in Taiwan they just call it peirs really even Korean pair they call it just pair well they literally the exact same thing at Taiwan and it's like similar climate it's just pair H I call him ch paars I'm you got to them China pears maybe I have a s█████ palette but when I eat pears they kind of tastes the same across the board I think Korean pears are a little sweeter if they're no Asian pairs are bigger dude that's the irony because it's like like the rest of Asia that has very similar pairs calls them Asian pairs but Korea calls it Korean pairs cuz it's the distinction is do you have the green one that's that's like

5:54 American pair or you have the brown brown one and that's Asia pair everywhere but except for Korea is like no but that's Korean which one's the fat boy the Korean Asian Korean Korean one what about the ones you get in the fancy boxes you the expens I don't know what ISO stands for but this person is tracing where that became a problem he says as far as I know it started from an article in the global times Bai was able to get a certification from ISO in 2020 in a provocatively worded article China's statun Global Times newspaper reported that the iso had recognized as an international standard for the kimchi industry led by China dude this is how you know we got a good kimchi industry led by China That's F what the ████ what is that who wants to by the way no no no hate but who wants to own

6:45 this ████ I'm not kimch so it says that it says that Chinese people typically don't believe that they invented kimchi but a state-run media provoked a dispute and that's where the source com that's hilarious it's their media the way our media ████ provokes a dispute I watch Hela um cooking videos and whenever they talk about like uh Korean chili flakes what do they call gochugaru they always say especially if they're Korean making the video they go make sure you check that your goou garu is from Korea not from China cuz they're fake it's not the real chili how's it fake apparently they make it differently I'm sure it's probably better tast different something it's probably different you know but they always make that distinction every video I talk about to be fair if it's kimchi related it's Korean Korean what so so if if China even has their own type of kimchi

7:35 to even call it a Chinese kimchi sounds ████ funny like calling it like a Chinese fermented cabbage sure but calling it Chinese kimchi is a oxym Moran in itself who who made stinky tofu Chinese imagine imagine being proud of that I don't think anyone wants to fight over I don't think anyone imagine be part what about like Korean hot dogs do they get in trouble for that like the Korean corn dogs yeah no a Korea Korea that'd be funny if you were watching a a show about sticky tofu and then the English uh subtitle said halosis Korean Halos s█████ tofu I swear that's what it tast like I swear this is like when you go to like Belgium though Belgium people like uh only when you talk about it because you know Americans are very ignorant and they always ask

8:25 like wait a minute like french fries the Bell people are like they're not French they came from Belgium be like why are they called french fries they stole that ████ you're like who really CRA because I actually thought french fries were American I think Belgian fries aren't they like aren't they double fried too aren't they a little different I would tell Belgian people you better better check yourself cuz I think we have troops stationed in your country brother oh you know what's funny this this person said that um Chinese people never claimed to have invented kimchi it's just that after that media thing went out Korean people thought Chinese people were claiming them and then and then the The Narrative continued that Chinese people are trying to claim it but it says Koreans claim that Chinese people claim it that's ████ I don't even think Chinese people care it's not a

9:16 theme to care about yo ain't that the most Korean ████ because it says that it says that there's too many uh there's too many ethnic groups in China that they would never all agree that that's Chinese like he hey hey we eat the rat but not the kimchi okay that's yours that's pretty funny yeah I don't think Chinese people are even argumentative like that they're just like hey this is food and then the Koreans like hey that's our like sure sure sure sure sure sure I haven't heard one Chinese person getting angry that Japanese people like are making ramen yeah like not one of them is like that's it originated in China you guys are stealing what we do true Chinese people don't give a Fu Chinese people

10:06 don't strike me as ever being like Oh we made that it's cuz they they copy themselves so they that they're just like I don't care you copy me I copy you it's okay yeah we all do it it's not really but then but then there was also that crazy like ████ was it David Cho or whatever who claimed the chili oh David Cho fles yeah I heard the chili crunch I heard that that was a lot more nuanced than people gave it credit for D Chang yeah yeah David Chang but like that's also funny because like who claims the chili crunch like a lot of ████ countries have chili crunch soueast Asia they got backlash that's what I'm saying though yeah they got massive backlash people just be claiming ████ even if Koreans were like hey that's a Korean Great Wall of China I think Chinese would be like okay whatever whatever yeah and it says

10:56 that that article that incited that dispute in the first place was only made as a translation error they didn't mean to say that it was like it seems like it would be a translation error Koreans be steaming dog they'll be like oh there we go China again trying to steal Korean IP huh that's the intellectual property in the Korea this guy's basically saying that like after that happened Chinese people never even thought of it again but Korean people are like they keep claiming it man I think they're just traumatized because Japan jacked so much ████ what did Japan steal oh everything what like literally like ████ Ceramics and everything oh really delete their history I would even say they stole the jail the Jade seal is the occupation of it probably right and maybe it's too recent still no I mean there were a lot of uh well Korea South Korea specifically has just gone through

11:46 a lot of ████ where people were trying to erase their like culture history and Heritage and that's like again I mentioned this before like Korea's spelled with a c but Japan changed to a k because they didn't want that ████ before J that's really why they did so petty I love it I love them that's right but the funny thing is like this concept of Korea right it's like AA it's very new like before that there were three kingdoms they were different and then they didn't see themselves as the same like they were they were separated there was Sila there was like um dude Joe's trying to defend the actions of Japan here we go were still hav apologize and then the the the B the the the royal family they weren't even United and now came from the Korean Mainland but it's like but back then there was no country called Korea they weren't even doing anything yeah they

12:36 were just ████ they weren't even using the land right they're in Japanese Waters they didn't appreciate Kim CH they're floating around in the Japanese sea kim chi chi for China who made who made swords first oh yeah Ethiopians probably Ethiopians made the katana if you ask a Korean they'll say samurai swords were stolen from them that's what they would say ████ they would say samurai sword the katana is based off of the Korean whatever B sword that's what they would say I don't know if it's true or not but that's what they would say I don't know how they see it was a cut coat product originally they were like dude this Chinese guy's claiming oh claimer I don't see how like the only way for me I'm like the history is so tied right there's hella Koreans that came into Japan and mixed with like the natives there Japanese people are

13:26 just hairy Koreans and then Koreans are just angry Japanese that's all it is nice W there's no there's not much of a difference that's what happened during recess they're like all the hairy people on this side and angry on this side okay those are the two splits happy hairy Asians Joe's in the middle like I'm both oh yeah which one do you identify I mean the genetics is like identical it's like how do you separate a ████ French person from a Belgian person like the fries the smell vanam what they dip their French people smell like ████ one's pretentious and then the other one is more friendly one's hind I don't know it's like saying oh this guy's polish and German or whatever it's like they're neighbors there's so much genetic mixing it's like kind of the same it is John CL vanam he's Belgium is

14:17 he dude French ████ don't shave their under pits that's crazy there it is true I thought he was French the whole time good thing to end whereas Belgian ████ they shave them good Belgian ████ they shave them real good bu s sounds classic hey kimchi is Chinese though

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