- Hey, I'm Awkwafina.
And this is everything I eat in a day
First thing I do when I wake up,
I will kind of rub my eyes and then I'll do a star,
what I call a starfish.
Oh yeah, one of those.
It's usually a mixed bag
with eating first thing in the morning.
If there was a bag of Raisinets, let's say,
from the night before,
I'll sometimes be that person who like,
before I even open my eyes,
like, a hand's going in there and it's shoveling in.
Or I could have like, an entire pot roast at like 7:00 AM.
Like, I'm one of those people,
or I don't eat until 4:00 PM.
It's really either/or.
Like, I'm literally not hungry till 4:00 PM
or like, I will eat an entire south of the border casserole
in entire sitting.
I recently tried to reincorporate coffee into my life.
And when I was young in high school, we'd go to a diner.
And my friends would feed me coffee
with like 17 sugars in them.
And they'd just laugh because it was just a lot of energy.
But then I'd have to go home on the subway
like, alone with that come down.
I'm not saying my body doesn't like it.
I don't like what it does to my body.
I feel like somebody that's very intense.
I feel like I'm tripping.
And then sometimes you don't expect tea
to have as much caffeine as coffee,
that's like, you know what you think.
So then you have like six glasses of PG tips
and then everything is purple.
My typical breakfast is something that is just really easy
that doesn't need heat, like a Gatorade,
some kind of chicken nugget.
Also avocado, man.
You don't gotta do anything to it,
you don't even have, you honestly,
can just bite through an avocado like an apple,
which I've done.
Not recommended, but avocados, man,
those are room temp goddesses.
After breakfast, you know,
depending on if I'm working or not,
if I'm not working and I'm home
I like to just like, honestly, stay in bed for a while.
I'll just go right back to bed.
And I've been doing this thing where like,
if I'll get lunch, I'll order some lunch maybe.
But once I put in the order, I'll start snacking.
And so then I'll eat like a meal
while I wait for the delivery.
That's what, how I spend my afternoons.
I get very hangry.
Yeah, it's like a totally different person.
I'm very easy going very, hey, how are you, oh my god,
I'm so sorry about this, you know, the surgery on your legs.
But when I'm hangry it's like, y'all need to leave.
You need to leave.
You thought I was nice, but really I hate your bangs.
I think they look like (beep).
A typical lunch for me
can be anywhere from a turkey sandwich to catnip.
There are a lot of people that are like,
I ate a yogurt for lunch,
and it's like, wait, you want an award?
You think you're awesome?
I'm not one of those people that it's like,
you eat spaghetti and meatballs at 3:00 AM?
I'll eat spaghetti and meatballs at 9:00 AM, dude.
My dinner, so sometimes like, you know,
lunch and breakfast, those can be
couple hard boiled eggs
four hard boiled eggs, was wrong with that?
Some ranch.
But dinner, that's the meal where absolutely no yogurt.
You know what I mean?
Like, you can't have a yogurt for dinner.
My dinners, they're humongous.
That's like a Costco chicken, right?
The entire chicken, right?
And then you put that with all kinds
of Annie's mac and cheese and all kinds,
I'll eat all kinds of things for dinner.
Except for yogurt.
When I was little my grandparents owned a Chinese restaurant
and I was go in the back and, you know,
steal fortune cookies or whatnot.
But one time there was like, this basin of pure MSG.
And I put my hand in it
and I put the whole thing in my,
I ate the whole thing of MSG, the whole handful.
And my tongue swelled up to the size of a raisin.
I'm still thirsty from that experience.
Oh man, my favorite food city, I mean,
New York City, obviously.
Because New York City is like the the city that
kind of prepares you for the food cities.
So like, when you go to a food city you,
oh, I kinda had this back in New York, you know?
I always talk about this place
'cause it's actually the best place ever.
It's called Taiwanese Gourmet.
It's in Queens on Elmhurst
and it's basically a Taiwanese diner.
Like, it's open until all hours of the night
But they do everything from like stinky tofu,
like, beef noodle soup.
It's so good.
Y'all gotta go, it's so good.
Aside from that, I really enjoyed the food
when I went to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
They had this dish called Hai Nam chicken
and there's another dish called roti canai
I like, am obsessed with.
KL was definitely a cool food city for me.
My go-to comfort meal,
my grandma makes this thing in a rice cooker
that I've eaten since I was really little.
It's a Chinese sausage and it kind of cooks with the rice
and enflavorates the rice.
But I also like, like '90s kids things,
like Zebra Stripe gum, or Kid Cuisine,
or like, Dunkaroos.
I always feel like, I dunno, those things bring me comfort.
I don't know why.
I'm down with the late night snacking.
Sometimes I'll brush my teeth and be like, I want candies.
I can say, yeah.
What I did the other night was
I really wanted a cookie
and didn't have any at the time.
So I had an Oreo box with crumbs at the bottom
and I put all the crumbs in my hand
and I kind of like just shaped it into a cookie
and didn't work. (laughing)
And that's everything I eat in a day!
Thank you so much for watching.
Appreciate.
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