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Off The Record: What Are The Most Overrated Types of Food?

#thaifood#throwaway#thailand#shepherdspie#stinkytofu
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0:00 wait do you really feel like Filipino food just belongs in the track he fills up his plate just like wasn't even double scoop he doesn't even need a compe you really that's the that's the last food you want unfortunately [Music] yes welcome back to careful boys where we are afraid of everything and today we're going to talk about the food that we're the most afraid of the type of food in fact what is the most overrated type of food in the world overrated Chuck a country into the garbage fun okay let me think I would say Molecular Gastronomy oh yeah that's wack that's a country no it's a type of ████ they always have it in like fine dining isn't that like what Jose Andre

0:52 does I don't I don't know but yeah what is that it got really popular like around the time where we finally had money to spend so during that Trend it was like really trendy for like it was like it's eating foam it's like all the essence of like a plate or something there's a chef there's a chef named Jose Andreas who does that he takes like um duck and he turns it into like cotton candy foam and ████ yeah I think all of them kind of do it to show that this is the level I'm there more chemistry than anything yeah yeah yeah it's like cuz you know how like certain the food changes texture and properties that CT like like a small version of it would be like the softboiled EG uhhuh there's like a specific like temperature where like when you get your Ramen and that egg comes like soft that's like a very very small version of it and and people they like to like play with different textures look what I can make this thing become you know oh but I think I'm too

1:43 much of a peasant where I only view food as like survival sustenance so then when I pay 300 bucks for something where I'm just eating root beer float Pham and I'm like ████ bro sure you could do Gastronomy at home or whatever yeah putw on vanilla ice cream me and Nikki went to this place called called bizar it was by that Chef I was talking about oh I want to go there bizarre Meats yeah but dude it's it's not good it's no it's just I was hungry after that's Nevada no it was in LA oh yeah is it SLS yeah by the SLS Hotel yeah I think I have to when I go find dining I have to like know I'm walking into an art gallery like I can't be there like I'm a ████ grub dude what did you have there everything

2:34 I've been there like four times this every time it wasn't my choice it was like friend's birthday thing all that kind of ████ but did they pay though uh one of the times yes one of the times no yeah to pay 300 bucks you never know I remember my ex used to work there so we used to get discounts and we would order like all these like like the cotton candy F gr yes that yeah and it was like that sounds good just eat F gr you know oh I know a country I could dump into the trash can if I had to yeah dump it Thailand Thailand I do I do like Thai food but I think if I had um Thai food is ████ fire if I had if I had Vietnamese food that's already close enough oh like let's say if you have really somebody's going to get offended how about this lot I think a country country like Vietnam

3:25 Vietnamese and Tha and Thailand what you you dump in a trash can don't don't put me don't put me in that situation you have to which well that's easy I'm V so I got V ask ask Nick I told you who would you dump in a trash can vames or Thailand well but you have to that's my country I grew up on it's different but you know what's weird is a lot of the Thai restaurants here are different from food in Thailand whereas in Vietnamese cuisine I feel like it's kind of similar and I I I think that's because Thai food in America it's more like a marketing plan for the government to encourage tourism to Thailand so they created all these dishes for Americans but I think Bart's asking which country do you want to put in the trash can I would dump Vietnam because of your connection thanks for the history lesson okay so we Balan each other out cuz you know how like all Cuisines there's kind of like

4:15 they kind of come in like paars a little bit like there's Japanese food and then Korean food is kind of like spicy Japanese food like everything kind of comes in pairs so out of all the pairs you have to dump one of them in the trash I would put vietnames food in the trash between Tai and between time yeah yeah somebody's going to get this is a skip bis take dude that was who Skip B you're just being inflammatory dude no because that's how like okay Mexican food El Salvadorian food right like they're like there's they always come in these little pairs you got to like dump one of them one of them what you dump in somebody between salvi and probably salvi wait do you really feel like Filipino food do belongs in the track Steve fills up his plate he fills up his plate just like Steve was double scoop he doesn't even need to compare you really that's the that's the

5:05 last food you want unfortunately yes wait what's hey I don't ever want to see you order jollybee ever again no I won't well I'll order it so I can throw it away you're talking about like at a Filipino party and they gave you a plate of food nothing you don't like nothing on that plate I like the way that it goes in the garbage I like the way you could stuff it to the bottom yeah it's kind of like real heavy yeah it's kind of like when I'm when I get like a big package of kab bang noodles It just fits in the ████ trash better than almost anything you could buy hey I have to say though between uh Filipino and Chinese and a lot of the other Southeast Asians the way that Filipinos do crispy pork like their lechan ████ fire theis pork I don't

5:56 know why it's done he throw gag a little I don't know how they do like it's like a pork Grind On Top oh man and then it's so good yeah what's so like you've had adobo you've had pan I've been all the Ducks all of them Filipino food or Kinder bang noodles oh ████ give me a gun dude you know what I'll say about Filipino food there there's definitely versions of it like depending on what Filipino party I'm at well there's it's the same item but it tastes very different from like house to house like my buddy yeah he makes his his sister makes this delicious Filipino spaghetti but then one of our neighbors brought us some Filipino spaghetti and I was expecting it to taste just like it and I was like I can't eat this you're like this is Italian spaghetti this is not even good like this is just awful spaghetti but my buddy's Filipino spaghetti is like oh dude I could eat a whole ████ tub of

6:47 this so is it Nikki's family that has bad Filipino food or you've been to lots of different Filipino food places in I've been to a bunch of different Filipino I mean well cuz my cuz it's like her family right like her grandma Cooks It Come hey come over to her Grandma makes garbage all the time you just call it garbage now and so do her ants hey come over to Nina's Nina's mom's house I want I I literally want to bring you over to my mother-in-law's house now can I come you don't have a distaste for it you're actually going to eat it and I can't have that is it is it cool if I eat like this we like I'm just ready to go like in case I just got to go she she really likes what do you think what do you think uh Filipino food could benefit from to be better for you what do you think better ingredients um yeah better preparation you know oh ████ better recip don't just

7:38 throw a bunch of stuff into a bowl and mix it up like what the I can't wait till we become a next shark article I'm trying to build a real what I'm doing I'm trying to build a real right now and then we slam dunk like hey I would rather eat like ████ Pizza flavored cheit that sounds bomb that's that's not fair that sounds really good that's good that sounds really good hey what would you guys throw in trash cans not Thai food I'm the only one that answered Steve's question well he said Filipino food you said Thai um he also said kab bang noodles that's which is a a Cuisine by the way like if someone deleted tie from my menu it would not affect my life one really Double Down Bart Double Down have you had Thai sausage with sticky rice

8:30 yeah I do I love mango with sticky rice I love Thai Boat noodles I love a lot of Thai things I love uh what's that ████ um what's the steak where it's crying beef or some ████ cry tiger I love cry I love those things but that's like a couple of things versus like I love a ████ ton of Vietnamese food or a ████ ton of Korean food four Vietnamese dishes Bing b b Bing and ging ging holy ████ that was six he named six just now that is how it would sound if I [Laughter] was one of my favorite okay boomba I love bun R I love bro ████ uh what are the the egg noodle like The Chew child style noodles

9:20 those are bomb when I start thinking about throwing away food like I go oh but I tasted the best version of that and it's pretty bomb I can't toss that anymore I I I I would agree about but it's the cuisine though you know the whole thing yeah I would agree about one person doesn't one one dish doesn't save the whole Cuisine wait what's the one that you would throw away I think I would agree about Thai food because it's oh my God it's bomb but it's not bomb enough to where I eat it as a staple I'll eat it so I think the thing with Thai food is it's good and um I'll eat it like once every 3 months whereas Vietnamese food I'll eat it every week wow like if someone took away Japanese food from me that's like KATU Sushi Ramen it's like right but if someone took away Thai food it's just a couple things I'm like I'll move on something else know py you just a couple

10:10 things what you just did was a couple things about by the way about Japanese food it's a couple things but those things are so important though well exactly but dude I actually used to eat Thai food every week in high school and then during college I got I was just like done with it if you took Curry from me I I can't handle it I I have to have Tha food every every couple Curry is ████ okay why don't we just go to like different food cuz I feel like why are we all dunking Asian food in the trash okay the one that I would throw we Subs I ████ hate Subs you hate submarine Sandwiches really what about a hot one I don't give a ████ it's hot trash I could throw that away too sorry it's hot trash to me dude I'm throwing Taco Bell all the way in the yes wo whoo whoo whoo hold on no throw it away stepping on it yeah out of the pairings I'm keeping Del Taco chucking Taco Bell is that but then

11:00 that's not a food type that's like a specific by the way that's a cop out that's one that's one that's one that's that's a cop out can't believe you guys are do Del Taco Brothers you got to blanket a nation I I used to be the only one no you got to offend someone you got to offend the nation we got to take after the marketing genius Nigel of ████ Uncle Roger who recently talk ████ about La food we got to pop off I'm going to say I'm cutting out Russian food really is not good oh I think that's a good I never tried it borch is that what it is bch is in there thought they so like the bread wine that they got bread wine is that a choice that frequently comes up in your life like Russian food or something else no more Russian salad dressing right that's over oh yeah that's it what do they what do they eat like uh caviar and then just like vodka you know what's random about Russia they

11:51 got a lot of Philadelphia cheese rolls over I mean cream uh the sushi you know the Philadelphia rolls the cream cheese why for some reason every spot sell Sushi and for some I'm going to get ████ and for some reason they got Philadelphia rolls in every single one of those no way in Russia have you tried moose tongue no I haven't I think I was watching chef's table or something one of those cooking shows and then the chef was like petting his MSE and then they Cuts straight to a plate full of moose tongue wow that's a that's a cut oh I know what I can do without French food oh my favorite food in France was Italian food okay are saying of all the European countries though because I still think French food is higher in the European count like I haven't well I haven't had outside of uh Italian Austrian German German yeah I'm not

12:42 getting rid of what about Spanish food throwing that in a trash only because they don't have hot sauce or spicy stuff I think we have a better version of it you know I've never had Spanish food Spanish food is still good in a lot of Rand p is still pretty good that's just fried rice bro the Tapas cultures is still pretty good it's tough cuz we have we'd be looking at everything from an American lens I don't know what Spanish is every time I've had paa it was in America and it was Bland as ████ yeah I'm just like eh what about what about British food is there even British food like smash peas and ████ I like I like a good shepherd's pie I like British breakfast I like pie slaps bro fish and chips you would cut out Thailand because Vietnam exists that's true but also I'll say this actually going back to Thailand there's a lot of like the pan the pan fried rice noodles

13:32 that do you can get that from like like you know like beef cha fun you can get that from like there's other adjacent things I throw away Chinese food too really wow you need to slow your roll what about German food what about like beef stroganov who gives a ████ I love winter snitel see I like German food that's lame dude when I was in Austria for like a whole ass month and I what were the bangers what were the hitters snitel andit are but that's KATU pork knuckle what do they what do they breed it with no but he could throw it away because you know we still got costume in Japan no that's not but also though kind of better shinil is good it's just you know it's they got BR worst BR worst their sausages are fire I like I think you ever crave a sausage though you're not just craving a sa I do sometimes Europe does really good baked ████ cuz that's home for them you throw a French cuisine you throw away stuff

14:23 like a a French bread oh dude okay does that mean you throw away half a Vietnamese food you thow you throw away a yeah they're croissants and like they're pastries oh keep the French keep the French get throw you could leave French bro I you throw away the Germans throw away the Germans you got to leave the French I like how Barton is just like just ████ Thailand dude how can we keep ████ Thailand I need my shepherd's pie but the entire nation can go I don't think I can throw away Thailand bro I can't throw away Thailand Thailand Okay British food or Thailand I think Thailand's hey Indian food or Thai food for you one's going in the trash know that's your ████ so which so my ████ is Mexican food number one he likes all the spicy and then two three is tied between Thai food and and Indian so all the spicy ████ get spicy ████ damn dude that's real so the one you throw away gets replaced with Filipino food forever I I'd have to go Thai food because I eat

15:16 it way more than Indian food I feel like Indian food in America basically it's so buttery in like it's really buttery but also they ████ you so hard they give you like two cubes of chicken you get chicken chal they give you two cubes of chicken ridiculous two Thai food places they dump the chicken in there dude they're they're you're right you're right they do yeah no but he's dumping Thailand yeah he dumps all Thailand cuz he wants to eat a hot dog dude the the ground chicken and pork Oh that ████ is so good over rice and an egg you can't beat that hey rank rank Chinese Hong Kong and Taiwanese food he want to eat a Wy Stadium hot dog Hong Kong Taiwanese and then put a shepherd's pie in there oh ████ oh you know what I could do without Taiwanese food I could do without T food too oh Taiwanese food the only thing I like that is the beef noodle soup but mainland China has that

16:06 too and then um their pork chop rice I like so those are the two things I usually eat that's to be fair mainland China all Taiwanese food I think could take the L yeah I think you're right see hot dude I could throw I only like Taiwanese F because of nostalgia yeah you grew up on it but it's not even really like I really like are you telling me you're throwing away stinky tofu this guy away stinky tofu good good i' rather have a hot dog it's already thrown away technically I'd rather have a hot dog dude is than a stinky tofu putting that in trash is so redundancy he's like sneaky tofu or Thailand so the best Thailand out of the chineses I think the best fried things are like the salt and pepper anything right salt and pepper wings salt and pepper calamari salt pepper tofu yeah yeah yeah so that salt and pepper tofu is way better than stinky tofu cuz it's

16:57 one of the best I was okay so I those three I would say Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is good number one I think and shepherd's pie cuz he told me you have to and then and then Taiwanese food and then Chinese food just because I've seen stir Fred meal worms I don't want to eat that wait so for scale would you would you delete all of Thailand food to keep just stinky tofu oh what do you mean Taiwan or Thailand's food Thailand would you let go of just for stinky t saky been duning on this whole no I like Thailand I like Thai food way better than sneaky toe food really oh no way we found it we found it yeah I mean I love Thai food Tha but just it doesn't affect me as much what is the base is the base like a Costco hot dog and anything under that is ████ or like what is the average

17:48 prob Pizza Pockets no well Costco Pizza flavor cheese Costco hot dog is really good also because of the price it's true if it's $15 then all of a sudden I don't give a ████ about that okay you can only save one barbecue American barbecue Brazilian barbecue Korean barbecue Japanese barbecue that's a good question Korean barbecue I got to go Korean barbecue cuz it comes with 7,000 other dishes dude that's hard I would save Japanese barbecue man what's the difference I don't even know I like yukaku better than I get it I would say American barbecue not even to whatever you know what if I can't have a ████ Burger again ████ you damn that's a good question oh but dude freaking Phils Barbecue when it comes to like ribs and yeah buddy that's hard and and like what about like um the the

18:38 sandwich with the made of pork shredded pork the ████ isk pork sandwich oh that's ████ undefeated I do love American barbecue is the best American food or you know what's amazing that I don't get enough of is Cajun food oh yes sir like New Orleans style food like I feel like that's some of the best tasting food jumas I think it's because there's not enough people here opening those restaurants like the closest thing was kind of boiling crab cuz when I had Cajun food in the South it was like this is what it's supposed to taste like and when you have it in California you're like it just tastes kind of Mexican it's c is cinjun and Creo food similar yeah I think so it's the same is interchangeable shout outs to taste buds in Vegas I ate their uh barbecued oxtail that ████ was ████ crazy how does it how is it served over a better R and

19:29 gravy so it just looks like chopped up Meats it was just like yeah and then it had like chunks of meat on Bones it was crazy good and then uh but I did wait like 45 minutes and the guy came out and he was like we take our time here and I was like that was a long time to wait but it was worth it yeah what what about steak houses you guys throwing steak hous in trash rush I probably throwing Black Angus in the trash we ain't in a rush do you guys think steakhouses are over pick two pick two will throw one away which steak house it's rare to find one better than how I cook in my that's how I feel like I feel like I could always cook a steak better or just get unless it's Brazilian barbecue yeah bra but that's not really a steak house I would say like MOS ████ Black Angus Morton out you really said it in that order mastros is good but it's just

20:20 like you just feel like I could just make this at the house and save $10,000 I've never been to Ruth's Chris is really good Ruth's Chris is pretty fun well what if it's like when you have those dry age a long time you can't really do that at home yeah like hella long dry age type ████ if you have the right equipment you can you can yeah Nick you can also make beer in your garage Nick n people have dry agers it's actually not that hard how many times you cook a tomaha who has a dry Ager here I don't but I don't like Dr meat like that though if I did I would get one oh you don't like that you don't like it well I'd rather have just a regular ████ steak dude have you had one of APL steaks though no that's different level though that will will ████ knock us he's barbecue genius Adam Perry Lane is probably one of the best ████ pit Masters out there why don't you ever take us it's a ████ him and Dave go all the time ████ raise your hand if you want BART to take us

21:10 it's a ████ Holy Experience dude put hand eating his food is ████ would you guys toss Greek food in the trash kind of I might I like a good gyro I like Greek food I think that's the end of this I like a Sharma better dude no I I actually like um Armenian style of that cuz there's this place we go to Sahara and Pasadena oh bro come on brother that's oh Mediterranean food you guys been to carne Val in um Studio City ████ delicious it's like familyowned really good I'm not getting rid of Kebabs I'll tell you that nope no sir

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