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The Weird Asian Belief of Hot and Cold Food

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0:05 Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. We have Nick the Ear and Jason the Chenny with us today. Jason the Chenny. Jason the Body. Woohoo. >> If you really thought about it, are you able to pinpoint the most useless thing your parents have taught you? The most useless thing? They taught me a lot of dumb this thing that I still remember? That's going to be the hard part, bro. >> [laughter] >> Like your mom like your mom telling you all that funk shui stuff or like telling you to eat bees when you're sick, stuff like that. Like what's if not one of the most useless one that came out to be the most opposite is um my mom told me like you never want to buy a house this funk shui based. You never want to buy a house where at the front door you could

0:55 see the backyard. You can go straight through. Oh. And the two houses that came up the most are exactly like that. >> [laughter] >> You can see the backyard through the front door. I had a funk shui violation house and I made the most money in my whole entire life living in that house. Oh, wow. Wow. >> Where you're supposed to not have stairs. >> Oh, yeah. When you open up the double doors there's stairs. You're That's a big no-no. You can't see the stairs from the front? >> Oh, and I made the most money in my life living in that house. Wow. Wow. What if funk shui was actually supposed to be like how like a Trojan horse? They're supposed they wrote it for the enemy to like do this because it actually makes you a fortune and they misread it and they're like, "Oh, no. Wait. Don't do this." But then they're like you are supposed to do it. >> [laughter] >> So, we should just we should do everything opposite of what funk shui and then see how much like it benefits

1:45 us. >> Yeah. >> Become a billionaire. >> [snorts] >> Maybe maybe you would get rich writing a book that was the anti funk shui guide. It was like how to design your home in every way anti funk shui. Yeah. That'd be kind of cool. What else what else stuff did your mom I feel like your mom probably taught you a lot of stuff that you don't even use. Um my mom said when you sleep no matter what, you have to have a little piece of blanket on you. A little piece? >> So, I it stuck stuck with me to the core. What does that mean a little piece? >> Like even like a a little corner or triangle. So, I I remember like trying to impress my mom so much my first trip to China with my dad when I was like I don't know like 11 or something. Uh it's hot as ████ right? Cuz it was in like uh Guangzhou. And then I remember coming back and go, "Hey, I remember to keep a corner of the blanket on me when I was sleeping." And my mom's

2:35 like, "Good." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think about and I think about that. I'm like, "That's like the most ████ conversation >> [laughter] >> ever." Like I lost some of my life saying that. She lost some of her life saying good. And then like me trying to get that kind of stupid ass approval. So, you just have to have a little bit on you no matter what? Yeah. >> What if it's hot? Yeah, because it's hot as ████ but I still did it. So, I still like What's the consequence? What's what's the uh It probably has to do with like chi or whatever, you know, you got to stay warm. >> Yeah, they don't like the cold. >> Chi wrong, man. >> Anytime cold is introduced, my dad is like, "You can't eat too much vegetables." I was like, "What are you talking about?" He's like, "It's a cold food." You know, like you can't have that in your stomach. It's going to be bad for you. He was super into that. Anytime he saw me drinking ice water, he's like he would look at me

3:25 like I was smoking crack in front of him. >> Yeah. He'd be like I don't And he and he's pretty chill. Like my dad is pretty chill about most things. So, like for him to get upset about something you're doing was was either he was in a bad mood, he just woke up from a nap, or you're doing some ████ cold water stuff. >> [laughter] >> He's like we go be out to dinner. He's like I don't know why you get ice water, man. And he just like he'd be disgusted. So, every time you guys go out as a family to a restaurant and he asks for no ice with his water. You know, cuz by default they're going to put ice in the Yeah, he goes he goes yeah, hot water or whatever. Or I don't know what the ████ But then he'll be like, "Yo, let me get a ████ avocado smoothie or some s███." But then to me he'd be like ice, man. Ice water. >> side of that so there's the ice and then there's also like the hot fried ████ I remember I eat That's all my dad eats too.

4:15 >> fries. I eat like fries like this. You have to dip it in ketchup. I guess cuz that balances it out. The acid balances out the friedness. And I'm like, "All right." Is this healthier to eat? I don't know. I don't know because it's like one's fire and one's ice. So, now it balances it out. >> they think about food though. Like they really do think like that. There's like alkali and ████ or Yeah, it's all that ████ It's like alkaline diet. It's like it's like it's their own version of it. >> Meanwhile, my mom has like the worst IBS I've known out of everybody. >> [laughter] >> But is it like temperature hot? Spicy hot or like temperature hot or like what is the hot? It's like the Chinese temperature hot. Like what is this the core of this food? Like ginger would be considered a hot food. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the vibe of the food. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. It's the vibe. It's the vibe. It's the vibe. This vibe is too cold. My mom will be like

5:07 cuz she her favorite thing is when we're we're sick. She'll make us this like ginger like brown sugar tea or something like that. But she's like, "But if you have a headache, DON'T TAKE IT. DON'T. DON'T TAKE IT IF YOU HAVE A HEADACHE. >> [laughter] >> YOU'RE GOING TO BLEED OUT OF YOUR NOSE. >> YOU DON'T ████ DO THAT. YOU'RE WAY TOO HOT. >> [laughter] >> WHAT HAPPENS? YOU EAT CUCUMBER. YOU WON'T DO THAT. TO COOL YOU DOWN. [laughter] BUT WOW. >> And one of the things is also if you eat too many peanuts, then it's too hot, then you grow pimples. Is that true? Yeah, it's a hot food. So, pimples is a result of hotness. Peanuts is not a temperature, though. No, but the vibe of the peanut is hot. >> [laughter] >> The vibe of the nut. Bro, you don't understand, dude. You don't get I'm Chinese, bro. >> [laughter] >> So, is it like saying like high pH low

5:57 pH? >> No, it's not even It has nothing to do with it. It's just they made it up. Filipinos do this too? >> No, well I mean I'm just thinking of it like how you assign gender to like Spanish foods. You know, like like why why is it tomato It doesn't mean anything. They just call it hot and cold. Yeah, they're just saying it's a I'll say this. If you You confused me with the ice water. That s███'s cold. So, it's like yeah. >> But if you were to compare like the pH the hot the the high to low pH foods along with the hot and cold foods, there there's some overlap. >> Oh. Like but but both of those nutritional systems don't make any sense at all. >> It's supposed to be like when you eat it, does it warm up your body or cool down your body in a chi perspective? >> YEAH. YEAH. WHAT DID YOUR MOM SAY WAS THE RESULT IF YOU DID have a headache and you ate that brown sugar like thingy? I don't know. I just got yelled at so I don't know.

6:47 >> to get Chinese parents. >> They don't give you. They don't tell you. >> want to ask them like I'll be like, "Is brownie a hot or cold?" Or like I'll they'll tell you. They'll tell you. Hamburger is hot. Hamburger is hot. So, chocolate is a warm thing. So, she'll go, "Oh, that's that's a hot one." >> hamburger cuz it has a That's hot. It has But it has it has like tomatoes Yeah, but it's loaded. So, then my dad go, "Oh, that one balance. It's a balance." >> [laughter] >> It's a balance. Right in the middle. And that's that's what you want. All right. What about ████ lollipops? Hot. Sugar. It has a sugar. >> [laughter] >> That's a hot. Fry, sugar, oil, hot. Do your parents do this ████ too? >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> Yes. They're they're and overall I feel like there there is some logic to it. But then the nitpicking is crazy. How

7:37 about tea? That's a hot. >> [laughter] >> But you know what's crazy? My dad doesn't follow any of this ████ and he's way healthier than my mom. >> [laughter] >> My mom follows that ████ and she has the worst health You But it's not from food. It's from you guys stressing her the ████ out not following the All right. What about rice? What about rice? I think that's neutral, right? Rice? Rice neutral. That's a balance. What about That's the thing is like if you were to if you were to ask my parents like or maybe most Chinese folks like list a bunch of foods, they probably couldn't even tell you. What about lettuce? Cold. Vegetable cold. What about empanada? That's a balance. That's a hot. No, that's a hot. But it's got potatoes in it. >> It's fried. It's a fried. >> But is it not reheated yet? >> Fried oil. Is it instant empanada from the freezer? That's a balance. >> [laughter] >> You got to eat frozen. Out of the microwave that's a hot.

8:27 How about How about milk? That's a cold. >> [laughter] >> That's a cold. Cold that's devil. You soy bean. Yeah. Soy milk. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, for real. Okay, soy milk is cold, but dairy milk is cold? No, I don't know. Actually I don't know about >> [laughter] >> Sometimes I think they don't know if it's hot or cold. They don't. But they they make it up. >> Oh, 100%. Anything but not have an answer. Yeah. [laughter] I've never heard I don't know, man. >> What about supplements? What's that? What's that? What's that? What's subway? No, supplements. Ginseng. Like like ████ vitamins, supplements. >> That's chemical. She said, "Don't take that ████ You don't need that s███." Yeah, it depends on what it is. Seahorse? Yeah. Oh, that's cold, man. I don't even know. Seahorse sounds hot. >> [laughter] >> How about How about chicken noodle soup?

9:17 Oh, that's hot for sure. Yeah, it is hot. Yeah. How about Hainan chicken? Hot. But it's cold. But it's the chi. The vibe's hot. >> Chicken and then the ginger. Warms you. Yeah, chicken and the ginger. Yeah. It's the chicken and the ginger. >> [laughter] >> You're starting to pick this up. Okay. Okay. >> [snorts] >> You're Chinese now. My cousin practiced chi healing [snorts] and ████ Are they are they Is your cousin immortal? They better be. >> [laughter] >> I don't know about the hot cold >> a finger off, does it grow back? >> [laughter] >> What he said they did like he did like excessive meditation. He taught me how to like ████ charge and yeah, balls. And like I don't know if it was an optical not an optical illusion but like you know when you ████ imagine something so much that it becomes real. So like

10:07 it reminded me of like when you know when they do this and you start getting ticklish they're not even touching you AND YOU'RE LIKE ████ YOU. LIKE THAT'S how it felt like so he started helping me charge this ball. And I literally started feeling like a marble in between my two hands and I'm like ████ me dog. This is this ████ feels crazy and I was like how the ████ is this warm and there's like a energy ball and then afterwards we ████ charged that ████ up and then he went to my arm and like leg and I was like how the ████ am I feeling static everywhere. And he goes check this out. I went too much into the dark side and he's like I started seeing my master's legs. And I'm like what do you mean like and he goes Yeah. He goes I saw his ████ torso running around like this and I'm like bro are you going insane?

10:58 Is his master alive? He said yeah yeah but he was like he was like I was too much in touch with the spirit world and I started seeing some ████ and I got scared and then I said I don't want to I don't want anything to do with that ████ He needs to eat cucumbers. Yeah, it's cold. >> [laughter] >> I I have family members I have family members who I grew up with where every day I would see them in the morning and they're just doing this. They're doing their chi in the morning. They're building a chi energy ball. Chi master yeah he's just big ass ball and he's just doing It's legit man. And you yeah bro it's real dude. It's ████ real. Chi is real okay? All right. I wish I had the power of the chi. Did you try jerking did you try jerking like this? >> [laughter] >> And I'm like damn I could ████ feel it. The static. Oh ████ I tasted my master's ████ I must never do that. >> [laughter] >> Have you seen that sex chi guy? He is so

11:51 funny. sex chi Dude he'll just openly talk about a man has to save his ejaculation. >> [laughter] >> So funny. I think I did. a real thing though right? about how to finger bang girls eat them all. Yeah. Send me that link. It is funny. He's like a tantric like sex expert. But he has a thick ass like Chinese accent and he's not even like he's just into it. He's [snorts] just like an uncle like a horny ████ uncle. That that when you fingers does he go like this? >> [laughter and snorts] >> Like a like uh And you hear [laughter] the geese snap. He has a bunch of sand that he's just hitting. >> [laughter] >> He just training with the sand? That's how to get down bro.

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