0:00 You know what I found out my family wasn't normal? I was 6 years old. I just moved into Cerritos, which is like a pretty normal suburb. Before that, we moved around a bunch and I made my first best friend. And that was also the year that my parents got divorced. So, just visually, it already felt different where like, you know, everyone's parents on that street, I mean, all of my friends' parents on that street, they were in pairs, but mine was separate. And I remember one of the first crazy abnormal things was every morning for breakfast, my mom would make hot milk and then pour eggs in there and then blend it. And then so, as you're drinking this hot milk, there's like this chalky yolk or whatever, and I remember like telling my friends like, "Yeah, so I drink for breakfast every day." And my mom would always also make me drink it in the car cuz she's late to work, and
0:51 then I would spill it on myself and it would burn. >> ████ hot milk with egg yolk? >> With egg yolk. And I would spill and burn myself. And then they're like, "No, we just eat Eggo waffles." >> [laughter] >> And I'm like, "Oh, ████ Okay. So, that's So, you eat what's on TV. That's normal." >> Do you know what I What I don't get is like, she could have just boiled eggs and gave you a ████ glass of milk. And that would have been the same thing. >> No, dude. No, man. You got to have the burning egg milk. >> Yeah, so I don't know if it's a cultural thing where back in Taiwan, cuz that was a habit that my grandparents would that even though they got sanitized water, like their version of Sparkletts delivered, they just don't trust it. So, they would reboil the water before they gave it to the family. So, I don't know if that boiled milk is a thing from Taiwan. >> Yeah, I didn't know that that's what they would do to milk, but I guess that makes sense. >> Yeah, but then also in America, like you
1:43 could ask your friends what you feed your kids. And I thought it was like, "Oh, maybe it's just the Chinese Taiwanese thing." And I would go to her ████ Taiwanese homie's house and no one else is drinking boiled milk with ████ raw egg. >> Hey, but isn't it normal to uh like boiled like hot soy milk soup for breakfast? >> Yeah. Yeah, that's normal. >> Cuz I've had that Taiwanese breakfast where it's like give me that. >> Give me normal. >> different though. What the heck? >> Yeah, that's different. That's like no sugar. >> Eggs in the milk? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, why is there eggs in the milk? >> It's suddenly we're also questioning why this guy became a bodybuilder though. Like this guy was just raw dogging raw eggs in the morning and now he's just a bigger dude than most of us. >> But when you whip eggs, it is kind of good though. >> Not at the The way she She just gets two chopsticks and then so the eggs not fully whipped into it. >> shabu eggs. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, so that it's all chalky. >> There's like an official Yeah, you're
2:33 sukiyaki milk right now. Did you ever ask her why? Like what the ████ >> Nah. >> Does she still eat that? >> No. >> [laughter] >> There's something that sounds surprisingly kind of healthy about it. >> It's way more nutritious than eggo waffles for sure. But then also when like >> You're a kid, it sucks. >> Yeah, nine out of your 10 friends do what's on TV. Like everyone knows what IHOP is like and then you're just doing that. It feels ████ weird. >> I just don't understand why she didn't just fry two eggs and give you a cup of milk. >> Well, they were already always late. Imagine she's already late for work so he's spilling on himself. They pull out the pan and the oil or butter and actually fry it. This was She's cracking egg in the hot milk, stirring it with chopsticks, running out the house. That's as fast as it gets. >> And I'm going into the I'm going into the car with like a glass cup. >> [laughter] >> And she's expecting me to drink out of
3:23 it while she's driving and ████ >> not even like the kind of >> glass that's not hot to the touch. You know, like the ceramic >> wrap like a napkin around it. She'll wrap like a napkin around it and I'm like like this and then she's driving like a Asian lady like ████ and then I'M ████ SPILLING AH, IT'S ████ HOT AS ████ TOO. >> JUST on your mom's culinary inventions alone, we can do a whole ████ thing on just like all her contraptions, dude. >> Dude, you should make Bart's mom's cookbook. I can help you put it together. >> Dude, that would be hilarious. And everyone gets to try the crazy ████ you had to eat. But no way. >> Like her stained glass bread. >> Obviously nobody's going to do it, but still that's funny. >> That's probably going to heal that relationship. You cuz you now you got a conversation piece. You can ask her all of her ████ recipes, how she used to make stuff. And then now we can ████ have a Bart's mom cookbook and then
4:13 >> We make it into a cookbook. We try to make it ourselves. We serve it back to her. We serve it back to her. If she likes it, ████ If she like, "This is not it." No, you got >> No, you got to give her the milk and eggs thing and put her in the backseat of the car and just like >> [laughter] >> Did I ever tell you guys about the vegetables she made that was actually bomb for once? >> What? >> No. >> These aren't the ones that you were chucking over your neighbor's wall, right? >> [laughter] >> All her food tastes like ████ right? It all tastes like absolute ████ Yeah. She's just making ████ up. Like she she would make this like one of her go-tos was like this uh you know wood ear? Like wood ear stir-fry with carrots and it's like with soy sauce, but then like kind of sweet for some reason. It's weird. All her stuff tastes like ████ As a grown-up, like when I'm in my 30s now, I went to go visit my mom one time and she made these like uh stir-fry vegetables. And I'm like, "Oh ████ this is crazy
5:04 good. This is actually really really good." And she told me she's like, "Yeah, I took the seasoning pack from instant noodles and I poured it on here." >> Damn, that's kind of That's good. >> I was like, "Okay, that makes sense why it's actually good." >> Cuz it's like taking ████ the Shin Ramyun ████ Of course it's going to taste good. >> Pure MSG and flavor. Yeah. >> Dude, that's how you It wasn't even her recipe. It was like I was like Okay. I was like It blew my mind. I'm like, "Damn, who the ████ taught you how to cook?" >> That's a huge deal. She's like, "Bart's coming. I must use the instant of flavor." >> I bet you your mom never had an issue with like what to eat. It's like, "You want to go to this place?" She goes, "I" and she just eats anything. >> She thinks everything's good. >> You think that's a byproduct of like poor people ████ I used to think a bomb-ass meal like would just be a sunny side up with rice and soy sauce. And that was just like >> I don't think so because if she was
5:55 poor, that means my grandparents were poor. And both of my grandparents cooked ████ good. >> She just got s█████ taste buds or what? >> My grandma cooked bomb and she would make this ghetto ass dish that I love till this day. It's uh called mantou chao dan. You know those white steam rolls? Those the Chinese steam rolls? She would take it and rip it apart. So it's like kind of clumpy. Then she would stir fry a egg in a wok and with green onions. So it's like a ghetto dish. But then the bread becomes crispy, has the egg on it, has the green onions. And I'm like make me that for breakfast. >> Did they not teach your mom or something? Or like So your mom has siblings, right? Do they cook? >> I never tried their cooking. >> But that's the thing though. They like, you know, it's like uh It's like Mike my song, right? His mom He always talks about how his mom's Korean food is like, "Yeah, it's all right." But his auntie
6:46 >> fire. >> You know what I mean? Like some some sometimes the cookies cooking is passed down and sometimes it's just completely not. Our generation's ████ right? Like how many of us are like we're like, "Yo, let's make sure I learn my mother's like traditional dishes." >> I'll never be able to do what my mom does, yeah. >> I don't even want to do it cuz I'm like, "Yo, Postmates is way too easy." Like we have a completely different ████ like cultural thing. But I'm still But I'm still looking at Nina like, "I hope you learn some of your mom's recipes for our kid, you know, for our kid, you know." >> All her mom cooks pretty good. >> Well, I mean it's it's that Filipino ████ where like Filipino food in general sucks, but for some reason when you eat your mom's it's bomb. >> Same ████ I get it. It's a weird magic. It's like you're you're ████ glazed. >> Filipino food sucks when you pay for it. >> [laughter] >> What is that? >> I like lechon a lot. And then the bangus? >> We can't talk about like momentary
7:36 celebratory ceremonial food. We're talking about your daily wake up. You don't eat lechon. >> I like fried bangus for a breakfast. the fish. >> How much are you willing to pay for it? >> I pay a lot. Like I pay I pay 20 bucks a plate. >> You pay over asking? >> Yeah. [laughter] >> But also right next door is like the the Thai fish or right next door to that is like fish and chips like >> It's the place I go to. Shout out to Alicia's in um Wait. >> [laughter] >> Alicia's Cafe or something like that in Hawaii. Their ████ bangus is like >> It's probably not the name. >> It's so ████ fire. So for that place I'll I'll ████ pay 20 plus dollars for it for that one place. It's the ████ best in the whole entire world. Other than that Filipino food is ████ but >> [laughter] >> No, I'm just kidding. >> When mom's cooking it's delicious. You feel the love. You you taste love. Love
8:27 is a flavor, you know, but at the restaurant there's zero love and then you're like ████ this flavor. >> It might be one of those things where like when you when you create it with love for your family, it's so good, but then maybe as a mass produced dish >> It's it's hard to replicate. >> to cook to scale. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, that's why Chinese food is so good at scale cuz even at home they're not cooking with love. >> Well, there's also There's also a big >> There's zero love. >> A lot of people also don't take into account that when you're a guest at a Filipino house, you're you're trying everything. So you are figuring out what's good and what's bad. If you go to restaurant, you don't know what to get and maybe the thing you get's not good. But then Filipino like home, you're eating all of it. So you're like, oh, that's good. That's good. That's good. Yeah, something's going to be good. >> Shout out Sampa if we're going to marry out here. multi or a million dollar restaurant out there. >> Y'all check them out. >> The other thing I I thought I found out was not normal is
9:19 doing quick math on the way to preschool and getting socked in the face. >> Wait, that might be normal for a lot of Chinese kids though. >> But I'll be like driving like I'm going to preschool, okay? And my mom be like 17 plus 35, too slow. Bam! With my with my hot milk. Pow! And I'm like >> Hit the hot with the ████ hot milk. >> She would hit you at like 4 years old over math? >> [laughter] >> Double digit, dude. >> What the heck? >> 17 + 15 >> how but you did get really good at math. >> ████ digit. I'm like, what what the ████ That's why you know that other story I was telling you guys about in fourth grade, I couldn't believe it was a tuition because I'm like, what the hell? I'm already doing double digit in ████ preschool. >> Yeah, but like you're good with your math now though, right? >> I guess. I don't do it anymore. >> [laughter] >> Dude, 17 + 15, you know 17 + 15 right now. You probably know what 12 * 12 is cuz that's the edge of the ████ times table. >> 74 remainder two.
10:09 >> [laughter] >> See the the the drawback is that he has to say it in Chinese in order to do it. Yeah, cuz he learned it that way. >> I learned my math in Chinese so I can only say it in Chinese. >> But I'll tell like Taika these stories, he's like, what the hell? That's crazy. Grandma's crazy. I'm >> I thought it was normal >> But I thought it was normal cuz you go to your friend's house and you have you see a ████ kid crying in the corner and then it's like, yeah, my brother's report card was bad. And then the dad's like ████ his ass up. That's pretty normal, right? But usually it's like you ████ up, they beat your ass, but they don't do anything to help you. My mom did like the daily like I guess it was very helpful. It's better than just beating your ass. >> Right, yeah. >> But also it's like so fast forwarded and I'm like, why are you cramming so much ████ at the same time?
10:59 >> if you're going to preschool, you're not going to be tested ON THAT. >> AT ALL. >> SO LIKE what is she she's preparing you for? >> Or just let me drink my hot milk in peace. Like why is there so like So we lived in San Pedro, I'm like, why is there so much crammed into 10 minutes? >> She's probably looking at the successful proud man that you've become and she's like, I was right. >> [laughter] >> But does she remember does she deny that she hit you in the car while learning math? Does she remember any of that? >> I I don't know actually. I haven't brought that up to her. >> If you were to be like That looks like something if you bring up though like it's also one of those like, hell yeah. Like that's tight. Cuz you know how like your dad does has no memory of beating your ass? >> Yeah. >> Dude, my uncle doesn't have any memory of beating my ass or my cousins. And I'm like, and that ████ was crazier than my dad. My My dad did the same ████ when I was playing piano. That's why I wanted to quit. But it sucks cuz when you think
11:50 about it, it's kind of a funny image where I'm going like, "Jingle bell, JINGLE BELL, BOP." AND I'M ALL LIKE, "DUDE, IT'S A ████ cute little song." "May we have the little bop." YOU KNOW, LIKE >> YEAH. AND HOW YOU GOING TO GET IT RIGHT THE first time? Yeah. Give me like 10 times. >> [laughter] >> How are you going to get it right the first time? >> It's called fear, brother. That's how you get it right. >> Honestly, that's that was the moment I knew that it was different for me, too, is because you know how like my dad had 11 brothers and sisters growing up. So, all the uncles and aunties are either in Hawaii or out here in California. So, our cousin holiday parties were huge, right? And you know, respect to every every own family and their own children like you every own parent beats their own kid. Like, that's it. That's kind of like the low-key unspoken thing. You got in trouble, that kid got in trouble,
12:40 it's like their parents going to take that kid. That kid's going to whoop. I knew it was different when my dad was whooping all the other kids, too. >> Oh, ████ >> Yeah. So, everybody was scared of my dad. >> He was that uncle. >> Wow. >> Would he openly just do it in front of the other >> Yeah. Like, my dad's that dad out of the whole pack. >> Woah. >> My oldest cousin who was actual gangster in Hawaii, he like went to like actually join gangs and stuff. He was My dad was the only one that would yell at him. So, he was the only one that was scared of my dad. And apparently, that was the legend, but like I was younger, so I didn't know. And then every single time my cousin would come over, my cousin John and stuff, we were the same age. He would tell me later, too, because you you don't know what's going on when you're a kid. He'd be like, "Dude, every time I go to your house, your dad whoops my ass, too." [laughter] But like, when I go to his house, his dad doesn't hit me. Nobody else, and I'm I'm definitely a troublemaker, but like
13:30 what it's like my dad will beat everybody. That's when I knew my beatings were on a different level. >> Interesting. What the >> That's for sure. For sure your beating's on a different level. >> And he's a boy scout leader. So, he's probably beating up all the boy scouts. Everybody. >> That's so interesting to beat all the other kids. >> Now he's a nice guy. >> [laughter] >> And he got veneers. >> Wait, that didn't happen at your church? Cuz it happened at ours. >> Yeah, at church, but it wasn't [laughter] like I can't imagine like any of my uncles like spanking other kids in front of the parents. Like that's just like they would just scold them like crazy, but not like physically. Physical was like reserved for like direct parent, yeah. >> Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what they all thought. >> Dang, that's that's tight. That But does your dad have memory of that? >> I don't think he'll ever acknowledge it. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah, I think he knows. >> So, you can't be like, "Hey Dad, remember you used to beat all
14:20 everybody's asses?" Like he would just be like, "No, man. You deserved it." >> Hey, I mean he I know he'll know. >> He's a >> But he won't ever You know, like I'll never win that battle. >> [laughter] >> Your dad's a gangster.
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