Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
Hello, we're Andy.
Can we do that one more time?
Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie.
Hello, we're Andy and Michelle.
Alright.
Nailed it.
First time.
Smooth.
And today, where are we?
We're at Panda Express.
It's a really, really good fast food spot that I love coming to and Michelle loves coming to,
To kind of, you know, last minute, hey, we don't know where to go.
Why don't we just go to Panda Express?
So that's what we're going to check out today.
It's a confusing name.
Like pandas aren't known for being fast.
They're known primarily for their reluctance to procreate, right?
Primarily!
I thought they were known for being like, cute.
I think the effect is like, after you eat it, you kind of just want to sit lounge around.
Like a panda, like a lazy panda.
Let's go.
After you.
Ah, it's like buffet style.
Yeah.
Okay, so we have this kind of British Chinese food.
It's its own thing as well in the UK.
However, if it's like buffet style, it's usually quite dirty.
You know, it is usually cold.
Yeah.
Often there will also be pizza and fish and chips on the menu.
Oh, interesting.
Oh that sounds so good.
It's not great.
This looks a lot better.
Can we do a bigger plate?
We get honey walnut shrimp.
Can we do black pepper Angus as well?
Can we get the orange chicken?
Can I do another bigger plate as well?
Can I do lo mein?
Can we do beef and broccoli?
String beans.
I love the string beans.
And then General Tso’s chicken.
You guys have any?
No.
Okay.
Kung pao chicken.
He's missing in action.
What are those spring rolls?
You guys are about to experience American luxury food.
I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by the speed at which the panda served.
It was express.
Hang on, did they not give us any chopsticks?
I think they do forks here.
Wow.
It really is Americanized.
This is proper American.
A Chinese restaurant where they don't even give you chopsticks.
Oh, look at the egg rolls.
So these are egg rolls?
Yeah.
So the left one's egg roll.
Okay.
Right one is spring rolls.
And then this is going to be the orange chicken.
Wow.
Cube of orange chicken.
Excellent.
I think that one's Kung pao chicken.
Okay.
Nice.
Yeah.
It is all a very similar colour.
I mean, I feel quite at home, a lot of British food is this colour.
Yeah.
We love the beige food.
You can try the walnut shrimp for a second.
That's really, really good.
Honey walnut shrimp.
I like the sound of it.
Sounds good.
Wow.
A lot of honey in there.
Very sweet.
That's really good.
I love how it goes down and you could immediately have another one.
Like I can smash through about 20 of those.
I would hate myself, but I could.
I can definitely see myself getting really lazy after eating.
Yeah.
Exactly.
You become a Panda, right?
Exactly.
And then we got Angus steak.
It's a black pepper Angus steak.
Fancy?
Oh, we should have done like an overshot.
Oh, that's good.
The veggies are in there.
I like the onions.
It tastes familiar.
You know, it's very similar to Chinese food that we get in the UK.
Yeah it’s better though.
But it's better.
It tastes more like all the food we have here.
It just tastes like more flavour.
Yeah.
Okay.
Getting stuck in the chow mein.
I feel like this one might not have too much flavour.
So Michelle, your parents, did they grow up in China?
Okay.
And so I guess your mum makes Chinese food.
She does.
Does it look anything like this?
No, definitely not.
I feel like Chinese people really like soups and stuff.
So it's more like rice and soup dishes.
I'm actually a quarter Chinese.
My grandma is Chinese.
Yeah.
We grew up having a lot of like British Chinese food.
And then every time I meet my dad's side of the family, we'd all go for dim sum.
I'm 100% British.
We did a DNA test.
I am literally the whitest person in existence.
You guys said you've been in LA for about a year.
What was that like moving here?
It was extremely scary.
A big change.
I can imagine.
Michelle and I have grown up in the DC, like Northern Virginia area in Maryland.
It's where the capital is.
It's where everyone.
Where the CIA is.
Right.
I know that from the Bourne movies.
We have all our friends and family there.
And then, you know, for me, it didn't take much.
I love doing spontaneous kind of risky things, but for Michelle it was kind of hard to decide to drop everything and go.
Yeah.
But it was definitely very scary.
Me moving here was the first time I've ever been to California.
Really?
It was scary, but at the same time comforting because at least like I'll have somebody that I'll know
Versus like moving by myself into a completely new city.
But I think we were really lucky because we had this one friend that we met from online,
And they like integrated us into their friend group really well.
And we just slowly started to meet more people.
Okay.
So I've heard a lot about this orange chicken.
I think I heard some insane stat about how much orange chicken is sold at Panda Express each year.
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure it's the most successful selling item in Panda express.
Okay.
Well, I got a bone to pick with this ironic because there's no bones in it as far as I can tell.
It's not orange.
The sauce is orange.
The sauce is made up of orange.
It's not orange colour.
You know we have lemon chicken in the UK.
This is the orange version of that.
Oh, it's like a chocolate orange, but with chicken.
No, no.
This is blowing my mind, I thought this was like orange coloured and I was like, man that's a let down.
Alright, first taste of orange chicken.
That's good.
That's really good.
You taste the orange.
You can
It doesn't taste very natural.
You know?
Yeah.
It tastes almost like orange aid.
It's been cooked in Fanta.
Yeah.
But it is good.
It's really good.
It's moreish.
Look how quickly that's gone.
It's just disappeared.
So you guys like us, you're a content couple.
Yeah.
Making content together.
So started together from the beginning.
He actually started it by making Korean content.
So it would be something like three things to say like in Korean.
It's such a bad origin because I knew Korea's culture was coming up and I was like, what a great way to teach people Korean.
But also have a comedic side.
So I started out with teaching bad words.
Curse words in Korean.
And it started picking up traction.
And then from there, I really wanted to educate people that were very interested in Korean culture.
Just, you know, the funny side of Korea, like, like, you know, through humour or through
just the language and how you, how you speak and stuff like it.
So that's how I started.
And then I had her in one of my videos.
I asked her, I was like, Hey, would you mind being in a skit?
And it's, it's where I teach her a bad word and she's supposed to say it, but I tell her,
Oh, it means you're beautiful.
But actually the words that I was teaching her was like, Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm dumb.
And so she would just say it out loud and be like, Oh, I'm very dumb.
I'm very dumb in Korea.
The video blew up.
It ended up doing really well.
So I sat her down.
I was like, Hey, you can definitely say no to this, but I think it'd be really fun to do this together.
So you need to tell me right now, if you're not okay with it, then don't do it.
If you're okay with it, let's do it.
Yeah.
And so she was like, yeah, screw it.
Let's do it.
Very intentional.
That's great.
A lot of the dumb questions that I ask her are very real questions that I asked her.
She gets very upset when I ask them, but then we're like, Hey, like, how can we turn this
into something funny?
So when you're having a fight, are you like halfway through being like, wait, this is good material.
Hold on.
Alright you can keep yelling at me.
Can I have a spring roll?
Yeah lets do it.
It's been staring me in the face.
It's probably cold now
Should we put the sweet and sour sauce on top?
Let me, let me put some chilli sauce here and then sweet and sour sauce down and then we can try that together.
All right.
Sweet and sour.
I think the chilli sauce is really yummy.
The chilli sauce is good.
That is good.
This is such an easy go-to.
You can see how this works.
Like you see how this becomes a thing.
It's definitely it's own genre of food.
Completely different to like traditional Chinese, but I'm not hating on it.
I’m impressed with the Panda.
I'm not going to lie.
There is a Panda back there who is an amazing chef.
Yeah.
The Panda's killing it.
He may be terrible at procreating as we established.
I really was hoping we were going to cut that.
They're literally going to go extinct.
You know that?
They literally cannot get them to make babies.
Cos they’re so lazy.
They actually film pandas.
This is true, we might have to cut this.
And then they show it to other pandas to try and get them.
Like Panda ******.
Thanks for taking us out to panda express guys.
Of course.
Apologies for all of the discussion about pandas mating rituals.
And we're back on it.
You have, I don't know about a billion people following you.
Definitely not a billion.
If you're not following Andy and Michelle yet, get on it.
We didn't do the fortune cookies.
Let’s do a fortune cookie.
Okay.
We got to break it at the same time otherwise it doesn't come true.
One, two, three.
Okay.
You have the makings of a leader take charge.
Michelle what's yours.
Mine says you attract cultured and artistic people.
Why thank you.
Gosh huge compliment.
Mine, not sure about this.
It says you are savvy in all business matters.
That is…
Ok we've broken it.
I’m terrible at business I’ll be honest.
Your winning personality is your greatest asset.
Nice.
So not my looks I guess.
Didn’t need a fortune cookie to tell you that.
Oh my gosh.
Bye guys.
See you JOLLY soon.
Bye.