0:00 Did Did you just eat it as a kid so you don't know? Like your mom just fed you it and you're just like >> It I think IT >> OH, ████ >> OKAY, THIS IS A I GUESS THIS ONE'S KIND of more of a news article, but it's something that'll hit very close to us because we went through this experience together. But uh did you guys hear about this restaurant in San Gabriel called Golden Leaf? They uh they're taking the sticky tofu off the menu because of complaints from neighbors that the smell is is uh reaching past beyond the property. >> No. >> Is that the one we went to? >> I don't know if Golden Leaf is the one we did. >> But the funny thing is the all the neighbors are Asian. >> So the neighbors are complaining? >> So that means ASIANS ARE GOING, "WHAT
0:51 THE ████ DOG?" >> Never received They've never received complaints from the commercial neighbors. It's It's the residential neighbors that are apparently complaining. And since this hit the news, of course, Net Shockers are saying this is racism. >> Stinky tofu smells like ████ though. >> That's what I'm saying. It's ████ called Like the the literal translation uh what's this the word for stinky tofu? >> Chou. >> Chou? >> Chou and then tofu, which is >> Chou tofu. That means smelly >> It literally means like stinky tofu. >> Okay, so then >> Yeah, it's called stinky tofu. >> The activists are saying that when you deny a restaurant its ability to serve their cultural food, that's that's blatant racism. >> But don't they know that there's no white people there? Like it's probably just a Mexican guy and a Chinese guy.
1:42 >> Filipino guy. >> Yeah, and a Filipino >> Korean guy. >> The Korean guy's like, "Oh my god, what is it that poopoo smell?" >> You know what's the double-edged sword with stinky tofu? >> What? >> Like as a Taiwanese guy, >> Yeah. >> I don't think any Taiwanese restaurant is legit unless they have that. >> Wow. >> I'm like I that's like almost my litmus test. Like oh ████ they got that. Okay, this place is legit. The problem is you're probably not going to have that many customers if you have that. >> Wait, so all Taiwanese restaurants have it? >> Most of them don't. That's the thing. Most of them don't have like the deep cut stuff. >> like in Taiwan. >> Oh, in Taiwan they have it everywhere. >> I didn't know stinky tofu was a staple like that. I thought it was like specialty. >> There's restaurants that only serve stinky tofu. >> Damn. >> Yeah, it'll be they'll be like a full restaurant that only sells stinky You
2:32 know how you go to like maybe like Amsterdam or like Belgium, they'll have a restaurant that's dedicated to fries? >> Yeah. >> It's like that. Dedicated to stinky tofu. >> Wait, so stinky tofu like a french fry where it should be like with a Taiwanese hamburger? Like it's like in every dish? >> With a Taiwanese hamburger? >> It's a thing you can eat with food. It could be a snack. You can get it just by itself. You can get it to go. There's so many >> So for for context, so stinky tofu, a Taiwanese delicacy, uh we had to eat it together in an episode where Bart brought us to uh Taiwanese restaurant we had it. It tastes and smells like absolute ████ >> like halitosis. >> But not only ████ yeah, it's yeah, it's like foot ████ >> Yeah. >> It's like if you got ████ rotten feet and then you stepped in diarrhea. It smell >> But it's but it's similar to how I imagined like some of the the the more
3:24 like delectable french cheeses would be looked at, you know, but worse. >> Not even close. So as someone that loves it, it literally tastes like imagine you had like a 7.4 earthquake that shattered your ████ sewer pipes and now there's ████ shooting into the air. That's what the whole area smells like. >> Wait, but if you smell that, why do you like it? >> Yeah, that I've always wanted to know that. >> All the stinky foods that I like, I don't smell what other people smell. So, it's it's smells bad, but it tastes good. >> So, it's like durian. >> Kind of, yeah. >> Does it smell bad in like a way that like, "Ooh, that's pungent." >> Well, yeah, now because of the association >> Like kinky bass. >> it it smells delicious to me, even though I know if they put that into a cologne bottle, no one would spray it.
4:15 >> how you ever had like a stinky a smelly like vagina in front of you? Is it like that to you? >> Kind of, but I still like it. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it won't stop you? >> Yeah. >> It won't stop me. >> But if you so in Taiwan, the ones here aren't even that bad. The ones in Taiwan, it's so it smells so like two, three blocks away. >> That's true. The night markets are >> Based on the one that we tried, how much worse is the Taiwanese one? >> Dude, that one's like ████ water. THAT ONE'S LIKE GOING to ████ Dave's Hot Chicken and going, "Let me get the most mildest chicken you have." >> What? >> That was nothing. >> No way, dude. >> That was nothing. >> Anthony's even more of a ████ cuz he couldn't even eat it. >> The ones in Taiwan like >> Wow, it's that different? >> You could be three blocks away, if a breeze comes, you it's going to reach to the 20th floor. You'll smell it for
5:06 sure. >> So, basically with this restaurant, they they were were sad to remove it because this Golden Leaf specifically, that's up to 20% of their revenue is just stinky tofu. So, they had to take it off. They're bummed out about it. Then they they were told that like, "Okay, if you install this different air filtration system, you would be able to counteract the the scent." That's how dank it is, the whole neighborhood could smell it. >> I guess the filtration system was estimated to cost around 100K. >> Oh my god. >> They decided it's cheaper to just not sell it. And and even though there's multiple restaurants in that area that serve stinky tofu, they're the only ones that got the complaint. >> Maybe theirs is the dankest and that's why everyone goes there. >> It might be pretty good, yeah. It is strong though, cuz when we had the 626 night market, >> Oh, dude, yeah. >> There was like 20 kids just walking by and they were
5:56 like non They were like Mexican, white, they were not Asian. But all of them were walking by going like this and they didn't know where the smell was coming from and I was ████ >> So they thought it was like porta-potties? >> They probably thought it was ████ >> Yeah, sewer. >> It literally sounds like a sewer pipe cracked open. >> But they're all like, "Oh, what's that smell? Where is it coming from?" >> So are you able to see from the other side of like the where the Neck Sharks are coming from with how like this would be seen as racism? >> I think like if you have ████ ████ ass ████ of course they're going to be a victim. Dude, I love it and I know it smells like ████ Just admit it smells like ████ What the ████ >> I think this is kind of like if if a restaurant in Silver Lake was like doing barbecue and all these vegans who live in Silver Lake are like, "We have to smell your barbecue. We don't like that." Like it's kind of like that in a way where it's like, "Why do you get to
6:47 tell a restaurant what the hell to do just because you don't like the smell because you're a vegan?" I think I I kind of dig it for that reason. But but not the Neck Shark reason of racism. >> But like this happened to the Sriracha factory because all the residents around the factory started complaining cuz they're like, "We're getting ████ eyes." >> Oh, yeah. >> Red eyes and ████ But then he goes, "But I was here first, b████." >> Oh, well, yeah, I guess that happens everywhere like where people move next to a racetrack and they complain about the noise. >> Yeah, exactly. >> I feel like yeah, I think whatever your business does, if it can stay within the confines, it's cool. But if you affect your neighbors and the outside people, I think that is kind of ████ up. >> Yeah, I think it's pretty dumb to and and again, like I understand if they're trying to go with the racism aspect just as a way to save the restaurant. And maybe they could just scapegoat it and be like, "Oh, it's racial." So that way
7:38 the restaurant doesn't have to get rid of it. >> What if everyone that was complaining though were Taiwanese? Cuz that's what's funny to me is like they're going to claim racism and all that ████ but I know that neighborhood and there's not one white person. It's all Asians. >> Yeah. >> So I'm like, who's complaining? It's the ████ Asians that are complaining. >> San Gabriel, yeah. >> Yeah. >> They probably just want to eat it, but they don't want to smell it at home. You know it's like Korean barbecue? It's so delicious, but you don't want to go home smelling like a chimney. >> Totally. >> If that's the reason is that they're they they're so tempted cuz it smells so good to them. So they're just like, I can't live like this. >> It's too delicious. >> I'm spending too much money. >> Yeah. It's a freaking sad thing that like that's, you know, if that's so much of your revenue as a restaurant. >> 20% is huge. >> That's crazy. >> 20% is massive. >> Yeah. >> My my You know my dad's Cantonese? So he
8:29 doesn't like that ████ And as a kid when I loved it, uh my dad would buy it for me, but we have to bring it back home in the trunk. >> That's how stank it is? >> let me keep it in the car with me. He's like, just put it in the trunk. And when we drive home, you go eat it on that side of the dining table and I'll be in the living room with you. >> So you Was your dad a racist? >> Yes. >> Okay. Cantonese are racist to Mandarin, right? >> Did Did you just eat it as a kid so you don't know? Like your mom just fed you it and you're just like, >> It I think IT >> ████ >> I THINK THERE'S LIKE A Taiwanese awakening. Yeah, I remember as a kid, I remember my grandparents would get it. I'm like, ah, it smells like ████ Why the ████ would anyone eat this? And I think randomly there's like a Dude, I'm ████ craving it. And I
9:20 don't remember how old I was, but it was like randomly I just loved it and I craved it. >> That's how I I am with onions. When I was a kid, I thought onions were so gross and then now it's like I got to have onions. >> Filipino awakening. >> Yeah. It's the awakening. >> Oh, interesting. >> I have I have a picture of Taika in Taiwan at like a two-story stinky tofu building. He has facial >> Two-story? >> Yeah, it was dedicated to it. >> Two-story restaurant of just stinky tofu? >> Stinky tofu. >> So, he hasn't had the awakening yet? >> I don't know if he ever will cuz he's half Mexican. >> Yeah. If you're raised with Gushers, I don't think you're going to like stinky tofu. >> Until they have a flavor for the Gushers. >> Yeah, yeah, my bad. >> There's So, like the the racism aspect, I think people that are crying racism on stuff like this, like they they seem ironically they are seem like the most uncultured. Because this is such a common thing. Like when I'm in the Philippines, you can't take durian into
10:11 your hotel. >> Yeah. >> They don't let you bring it into the hotel. >> Yeah, in the Philippines. >> Yeah, you can't you can't bring it on the plane. Like it's just if something smells that strongly, whether it's good or bad, if it's that strong of a smell, they don't want it in their property. Like it's just a normal thing. Has nothing to do with culture >> Or even a lot of Koreans that make their own kimchi, they have a kimchi fridge that's in the garage. >> It's just being considered a >> want the whole house to smell like kimchi. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, same thing. >> Yeah, that's my my my uncle when I was in the Philippines last tried to sneak the durian into the hotel and he got in trouble. Always like doing loopholes cuz durian's the same I mean of course it doesn't smell as bad as stinky tofu, but it's >> But it smells like ████ gasoline and ████ covered. >> Yeah, you make me really want stinky tofu now. >> See, that's that's
11:01 This is what makes sense about it to me though is that Bart was raised with it. So, it's almost nostalgic. >> Yeah. >> That cuz I don't know how the hell your brain goes ew smell and then but it tastes yum taste. That I don't get. >> Taste so good. >> Cuz to me ew smell ew taste. Is there anything white people like that's ew smell yum taste? >> Only some crazy cheese. >> I feel like Europe does, but blue cheese. >> is great though. Like I feel like blue cheese is ████ delicious. >> I see? >> Yeah. >> See, there's always >> Blue cheese is nasty to me. >> Is it? >> Tastes like It doesn't smell like anything. Smells feetsy to me. >> IT TASTES LIKE MOLD. LIKE IT LIKE IF YOU THINK OF what black mold tastes like, it's blue cheese. >> You never had a wedge salad? >> Blue cheese smells like Smells like the ball pit at Chuck-E-Cheese to me. >> Damn, really? >> Dude, blue cheese is is the jam.
11:52 >> It reminds me of stinky tofu. That's what I like. >> White people might have more of that than we thought. >> I think I think America is pretty sterile, but when you go to Europe, it's there's some dank ass ████ there, dude. >> That's true. >> Like Oh, remember those cheese like tour we went in France? I was like everything smelled like toe. But like it It's It tastes good though. I think that's >> Acquired taste, maybe. >> But most of the cheese I couldn't do like 80% of the cheese. >> Do you guys think Indian food smells bad? >> No. >> Not at all. >> I don't either, but you know how like a lot of That's a stereotype though that Indian food stinks. It's like What? >> I think the Isn't the stereotype that you like you take the smell with you cuz it's so pungent? >> Yeah, that too. Yeah. But I love the smell. >> I do too. >> I'm not even in the mood for Indian. If I smell Indian food I'm in I'm >> Dude, I love walking into Indian restaurant and then it just like whoosh. I was like, "Dude, I didn't even know I
12:42 was craving all these spices right now." >> to smell like Indian rice. >> Mhm. >> Basmati? >> Yeah, the basmati. Yeah. They got it. They It's like not jasmine, but they got a smell to their rice, dude. >> And then they put like a ████ yellow Whatever the hell that thing is. I don't even know what it is. >> So good. >> Yeah. >> ████ saffron juice. >> That's That's another thing that I feel like people have complained about Indian restaurants and Indian food, too. But then what are they going to do? Take away all the Indian food? >> Now, that's racist.
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