Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
I'm Nigel Ng, aka Uncle Roger.
And today we've come to the most expensive grocery store in the world.
I really want to see what Uncle Roger has to say.
Let's go check it out, shall we?
Nigel, you've been on tour,
Global sellout tour since we last saw you.
It's almost a year ago now.
Do you come here every week now?
No, I'll be bankrupt.
I've never heard of this place.
It went big, like viral for a while.
Because they have just very expensive stuff.
Apparently, Hailey Bieber has her own smoothie here.
Hailey Bieber's strawberry glaze.
Uncle Roger should have his own smoothie.
One day.
Goals. Goals.
$55?
Oh, that's without tax.
And you have to tip too. Remember the tip.
So I've heard they have quite a lot of Asian food here.
So I feel like we should definitely give that,
A bit of a review, right?
Organic tofu fried rice.
There we go.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Alright, let's get that.
Japchae, perfect.
This is not Japchae.
It's not, it's Konjac.
That is literally nothing like Japchae.
We've eaten a lot of food on this trip, most of it in the category of health warning food.
Health warning, this is the opposite of that.
I'm hoping that this can rehabilitate my digestive system.
What's sea moss?
A fun new way to consume sea moss.
What's the old way to consume sea moss?
It's like less fun.
Why does it all look like lava lamps?
Ooooh.
You get entertainment and health all in a drink.
Wow, look at that veg aisle.
Oh man.
That looks very premium.
All kinds of peppers. Have you seen a purple pepper?
There's a purple pepper.
Look at that.
Can we try that?
I've literally never seen that before.
One day, I'm going to be an assistant to a rich celebrity
And I'll come here and shop for them.
Like cry in the toilets.
Oh, a gallon of raw milk.
Is it straight from the teat?
Probably.
Squeeze it out right into the bottle.
Is it more than $10?
Up.
Keep going.
More than $10?
More than $20?
It's $20.
Kimchi. That's a tiny little pot.
That's 11 bucks.
I saw this online.
Wow.
Water for wellness.
Wow.
That looks like something you would buy,
From the pharmacy in the 1600s.
It's like, drink this and you'll be better.
I feel like we've overdone it.
No, he says holding a $25 bottle of water.
Thank you very much.
You guys have a good one. Would you like your receipt?
Sure.
We can frame it.
In case you have to return things.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Should we start with the smoothies?
Yeah.
Cheers guys.
To $18.
$18.
It's pretty good!
Wow.
Is that what Hailey Bieber's skin tastes like?
Yeah, okay, that's actually pretty good.
Dang it.
That's dang good.
Is that like, yogurt in there?
Ooh, I like the mango.
Mango one's good.
I think the mango one's my favourite.
We just looked around the most expensive supermarket in the world.
You have,
What do you call it that place in Mayfair?
Fortnum & Masons.
I don't think you can get like an 18 bucks smoothie at Fortnum & Mason.
I don't think they know what a smoothie is in Fortnum & Mason.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Elizabeth's favourite drink are fruits.
Can you imagine the queen drinking a smoothie?
It just wouldn't be right.
Overall thoughts?
I honestly want to go back and read the communist manifesto.
Wow.
You need to balance.
Karl Marx would love Erewhon man.
Should we try some food?
Yeah, let's do it.
Okay, first up, we've got Keto spicy pepperoni pizza.
That looks like my daughter made it and she's six.
Honestly, it looks like it was made in like Barbie kitchen.
Like the fake kitchen, that children have at home.
It really does.
That's $15.
Oh boy.
So it's like the price of like a large Domino's pizza.
It's cold.
It's very cold.
Gosh, it looks and feels revolting.
Wait, what?
It's solid.
Why do the toppings?
Why are they stuck on?
Cheers. Cheers.
Oh gosh.
No.
Oh dear lord.
Taste that cardboard.
It tastes like leftover pizza.
It tastes like a art project.
That's an abomination.
In fairness, it looks terrible.
So maybe we should go for something,
That actually looks like it's going to taste good.
Chicken sandwich.
It's mostly green.
It's like a salad with two slices of bread on it.
It's mostly green.
Oh, gosh.
I do like that.
Not terrible.
It's a hell of a lot better than the pizza.
Huge improvement.
I still wish it was hot, though.
You're right.
Put it on a grill first.
I want it to be slightly toasted.
I need to wash that down with that $20 milk.
$25 a gallon.
Oh boy.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
That's the best milk I've ever tasted.
Does it feel like you're sucking on a cow's teat?
Is it actually good?
It tastes like milk.
Okay
Yeah, it's milk.
Okay, this makes the least sense to me, thus far.
You can buy exactly the same as this,
Up the road for two dollars.
It's almost like the word raw means absolutely nothing.
Literally nothing.
They put it in front of everything.
We've got the lava lamps out.
The next round.
Yeah.
We've got the lava lamps.
A purple pepper.
I don't know why you bought that.
I'm most excited about this.
Okay, great.
I definitely bought this one just because it looked so funky
It looks radioactive
It really does look radioactive
Radioactive lava lamp
Are you sure that's not fizzy?
It's raw lavender...
Are you kidding?
Yeah, it says raw again.
It says raw again.
Cheers
That's literally the only thing that you can say is legit raw.
Like you're having a raw pepper right now.
It does taste raw.
I'm not sure I'd recommend that.
It just tastes like a normal pepper.
I'm sensing underwhelmed.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just like a lemonade.
Yeah, but not fizzy.
So it's just like lemon.
It's like squeezing juice.
It's like lemon juice.
Yeah, and the purple just makes it feel weird when you drink it.
It's supposed to be the lavender in there?
I'm not really getting much lavender hints.
This, I don't mind.
Heavenly, is the name of the juice.
Heavenly?
I don't mind heaven.
Okay, you're okay with it.
Yeah, I'd take it or leave it.
Ollie is not a fan of that one.
Oh, it tastes like soap water.
You know like you wash your wash your hands.
Lavender scented soap.
Yeah, that's a really nice soap we use.
I used the loo's in there.
Classic.
Oh yeah, the sea moss.
You forgot the sea moss.
Oh!
What is that?
Why did you buy that?
Like, how, is there a special way to eat that?
Are you supposed to eat this?
Are we sure this isn't soap?
Last time we did this we went to a nice Malaysian restaurant.
That was your recommendation.
You introduced it to us. It was fantastic.
Now we're having like,
Na'vi snot from Avatar.
Avatar snot.
Cheers, guys.
Where's my expensive milk to wash it down?
I want my milk, okay.
That is genuinely disgusting.
Oh my gosh.
It tastes fishy.
And it's blue.
Sea plastic?
Whatever it is, it's bloody awful.
This feels like a good time to have some water.
Can you please explain why this is so expensive?
Well, because it is the gold medal winner,
Of the International Water Tasting Awards.
No.
That's not a real thing.
We've got some history here.
I once bought a $100 bottle of water.
Oh gosh, I forgot about that.
Woah.
That is a cool bottle.
Alright, after you Nigel.
I feel refreshed.
Okay.
My soul feels quenched.
It's like drinking water through a spring.
Oh yeah?
Nanopure medical grade water.
Yeah.
Medical grade?
I didn't know that they needed special water in hospital.
It's almost like it's all bull!@#$
What do you think?
It's water.
Yeah.
Like, I wouldn't say that the water that I normally drink feels molecularly unstable.
Well you wouldn't have until now.
No, now I know.
It's ruined water for me.
Alright, next up,
We have a selection of Erewhon's Asian foods.
You know who's a good person to call?
What?
When it comes to Asian food?
It's my uncle.
Uncle Roger! I do want to know what Uncle Roger has to say about this stuff.
Let me see if he's around.
Oh, okay!
Haiyaa, Nephew Josh, Nephew Ollie.
Uncle!
What is this white people grocery store? What is this?
We needed your opinion because we have some...
Fried rice? That's fried rice?
Some tofu fried rice.
Oh no...
Vegan fried rice.
Any place that serves fried rice and smoothie,
You know the fried rice is going to be terrible.
Okay, really?
Yeah?
And this is vegan short rib.
Oh, okay
Oh, we also have some uh, $11.00 kimchi.
Yeah, too expensive
Kimchi you get for free.
Your wife Korean.
She's gonna be mad at you for getting this !@#$
This looks too healthy
They got celery in there.
Sesame seeds.
Oh no.
Why it cold?
It's very cold.
Terrible.
It's actually terrible.
No wok hay, nothing.
I mean, it could do with some MSG, right?
100%.
I think MSG cannot save this.
The fact that you taste the celery first, that show's how little flavour...
Tastes like British food, you know?
Feel like home, feel like home for you?
Yeah. A little bit.
What are we going to get into here.
Alright, so...
Let's get rid of the most disgusting thing first.
That looks good though, no?
It looks like real meat.
But it's vegan.
Would you ever consider going vegan?
No, no.
Life is hard enough.
Life hard enough.
Oh gosh, oh the texture.
This might be the first vegan dish you love.
Just imagine it's normal short-rib.
Forget the vegans in the name.
Okay, okay, like Galbi.
Imagine it's Galbi.
Definitely not Galbi.
What's the texture?
It tastes ashy.
You know what that tastes quite alot like?
Airplane food.
Actually.
Yeah like old airplane food.
Vegan meat, no, no.
Ohh it's the texture, it's so off-putting.
Should we do the miracle noodles?
I think the only miracle is,
It's gonna revive my ancestors from the grave.
Just so they can burn it.
Oh wow, okay.
This literally just looks like some cold Indomie.
No, it's a bit too translucent to be Indomie.
That's true, that's true.
Why can't I chew through it?
Why is it so rubbery?
Does rich people not like flavour.
Like honestly, what's going on?
The more flavour in your food, the poorer you are.
Okay. Okay.
Wow, that's why street food tastes so good.
Yeah.
Wait, what's the miracle there?
That anyone buys it?
It doesn't make any sense.
I'm still chewing.
Uncle roger still chewing.
It's literally like rubber.
Next time I decide where to go,
When you leave it to you guys,
You guys bring me to !@#$.
This is the most expensive grocery store in the world!
Price don't matter when it comes to food.
Okay fair enough.
Fair enough.
Well it's nought out of three thus far I'd say.
Asian food has been seriously missing.
This is Japchae.
Okay.
Uncle Roger need to review this shop.
Where's the flavour?
There's no flavour.
Japchae has so much flavour,
This one tastes like salad.
It's not tastes like salad with no dressing.
Yeah like a really bad salad.
It's obviously easy to hate on this stuff, but it is unbelievably bad.
It's unbelievably bad.
Like, I genuinely can't believe how bad it is.
I'm not even Korean, but I'm offended,
Like culturally offended by that.
You're honourary Korean now.
Okay, thank you.
I think if there's a zombie apocalypse, nobody's gonna raid this store.
Okay, most expensive kimchi I've ever seen.
Yeah.
I mean, if they can !@#$ up japchae like that.
However, this isn't Erewhon's own brand.
It's Dave's Gourmet Korean Food.
Dave's Gourmet Kimchi?
Normally I wouldn't trust a guy called Dave when making the kimchi.
I wouldn't trust a guy called Dave to make anything.
Literally, if you go to a Korean restaurant, they will give you that amount for free.
Kind of disconcerting.
It mostly tastes like radish.
Oh yeah.
It's kind of got just like a spicy kick without any of the fermented flavour.
What is going on?!
No sourness.
Okay wait, Rosemary, we gotta get your Korean opinion on this.
Oh, we got actual Korean here?
Aigoo.
The texture's on point. The texture's good. It's like proper mu.
I like it.
You like it?
There's no tang to it.
- It just depends on like what you prefer. Yeah. - Personal preference?
I mean, look, in fairness, of all the Asian food we tried, easily the best.
Correct, correct.
And it still tastes like kimchi.
With zero fermentation.
Took it out too fast.
I think Dave running all our money.
"Take this, take this!"
For $11.
You gotta ferment that a bit longer.
Come on.
Alright, last thing.
Haiyaa one more thing?
Look, we'll go back to American food.
Pecan pie.
I've actually wanted to try pecan pie since we got to America.
Surely this is gonna be better, right?
Let's give it a try.
Cheers.
Not bad, not bad.
That's good.
That's the best thing we've had today.
The thing is, it's not hedging its bets, right?
It's not trying to be healthy.
No, it's not raw.
Yeah, it's obviously not raw.
Yeah, there's no sea moss.
How much is it?
Ten dollars.
For one slice, yeah
Ten dollars!
Alright, well, what have we learnt today?
If you like Asian food, don't come here.
Everything's predictably expensive.
Smoothies were pretty good.
Smoothies were good, I mean look at that.
I couldn't recommend spending $20 on one.
If your girlfriend or boyfriend say they like this place, dump them.
Okay, wow!
Wow!
Do we need to ask, does everyone get Uncle Roger's seal of approval?
No.
Absolutely not!
Bad bad terrible.
Okay, just like the fried rice.
The most disappointing fried rice, Uncle Roger ever have.
Wow, ever!
Yeah.
Worse than Jamie Oliver?
I think almost same.
Jamie is still the worst.
Shots fired again.
Alright, well thank you very much Uncle Roger for joining us today.
No problem.
Next time bring me to a good restaurant.
Okay, we will.
We still need to do a Korea trip together.
We do!
I would love to take you to Korea.
Come, come, we'll plan something.
Okay, excellent.
That'll be fun.
Alright, well stay tuned for that guys.
And in the meantime.
See you JOLLY soon.
Bye.