Uncle Roger, I love soup dumpling, xiao long bao
And on the tour in America
I discovered my favourite soup dumpling brand: Xiao Chi Jie
This is Uncle Roger second best discovery here
Right after Auntie Esther
It actually even better because I can take this home with me
So today Uncle Roger at soup dumpling factory
And this the owner, nephew Caleb
When Uncle Roger first try your soup dumpling
I so surprised
Because it frozen
But it still taste so good after you cook fuiyoh
So there's a misconception here that frozen dumplings just means bad
But we've done a lot of work at XCJ
To make sure you steam it up at home
It taste exactly like, uh, I'm not gonna name it
-Name it -Or any other dim sum restaurant
Why you so pussy? name it
Din Tai Feng, we coming at ya
Din Tai Feng, that pretentious dumpling shop?
Yep
$15 for 3 dumpling, who want to eat that?
Can't afford that
Haiyaa
How much your dumpling?
About 80 cents
You can throw this at your children if they don't listen to you, it almost free
Make sure your pan is boiling with water
Put it like this, make sure they're little bit of apart
And then put it on the boil
And then 10 minutes
Now we wait for it to cook
Uncle Roger also like the texture of this dumpling
It feel so good
Look at me, just fondling
You pretty good at that
Yeah? Uncle Roger do that every night in hotel, I so lonely
Nephew Caleb, you married?
I am married
Your wife fond your dumpling like this?
We've married for 8 years, so of course not
Fuiyoh
Alright, 10 minutes and you get this at home
It looks so good
Let's get some chopsticks
Haiya, come all the way here to film, you don't prepare
It's a dumpling factory, it's not a dim sum house
So what if white people don't have this wood steamer?
So we sell the online as well
And actually 50% of people decide buy as well
Yeah ,it very smart you sell online
Because I think when white people go to Chinatown grocery store
They too scared to buy this
They scare people think that cultural appropriation or something
It okay, white people, just take our culture
Uncle Roger favourite Asian actress is Scarlett Johansson
Eating this have to be super careful, the soup will squirt out
First step of making Xiao Long Bao is to make dumpling skin
You start with white powder
No no no, not that type of white powder, haiya
It just regular flour, don't snort it
You dump white powder into machine
Now you just look at machine and wait
Think about your sad life
Why do the people you love always leave you
And next step we make dumpling filling
Fuiyoh, so much meat in here
Look at this, this is vegan's worst nightmare, flavour
How you turn on?
It's a safety mechanism, so you have to, like, have this close first
It's to prevent fingers from getting in there, you know
Oh, how many finger?
Because of this trade secret mechanism
We got no finger stuck today
-Really? no finger? -no finger
-Are you sure? -I can promise you, no fingers
Ok, camera cut, camera cut
Off camera, the camera not rolling, any finger?
No fingers, no fingers
-You sure? -No fingers
But I taste so good, I thought
It is good, it is good
If you lose few children finger
-Have you try human fingers? -No
Haiyaa
No bats in here either
-No bat? -No bats
People come in all the time, "are there bats in here?"
We don't put bats
Listen, listen, Uncle Roger work too hard
Somebody please eat another bat
We put the whole world on holiday for two more year
There you go
They are spinning, yeah
Is this what they call meatspin?
Niece and nephew, go Google meatspin, thank me later
What if I open this? It stop, haiyaa
That's how you prevent the fingers
You gotta show the camera, what's happening
-Can we trick the machine to think it close? -No
See, life hack, Uncle Roger brought magnet, it cheat the system
-See? -That's how you get the fingers in
Yeah
-Put your finger in there -No, no
Soy sauce, vinegar, salt and white pepper
And some MSG
MSG?
Yeah, some MSG in there
So little, in that not enough
That too little MSG, nephew Caleb
Uncle Roger need more, my king of flavour
MSG
Some extra flavour in there
Nice
We've finished our dough, we finished our meat with extra MSG
The special Uncle Roger formula
And now we gonna form our dumplings
This, this
No, no, not this, this
This, this, this
The CEO don't know shit
Need to ask all his coworker haiyaa
How you hire them?
Got the experts
Why they know more than you?
That's how it should be
So if they don't come, the whole factory shut down
That's correct
Ok
I hope your guys hear that, ask him for more money
Ask him to give you raise, he useless
Nice
I feel like I clubbing
We're in Ibiza
Dough is on the outside, meat is on the inside
Fuiyoh, the machine never stop?
Never stops, works 24/7
This machine working harder than Amber Heard lawyer
There we go, done for the day
This emergency button
So if someone finger stuck in there, you just press
Nice, nice
Anyone lose finger here?
No, not here either, look at this
-What is that? -There is warning
-You think that warning -That's enough, that's all we need
And see here, what does all this mean?
You see all the little line, what is this?
Yeah, so we have some days we make pork, some days we make chicken
and we have the day shift in the night shift
And then each line is the batch
So many dumpling and you see here
Pork day
That what Uncle Roger called every day with Auntie Helen
Oh fuiyoh, see, it come out look so good
So this is our typical results
Unfortunately today with the special MSG formulation, there's a little bit of mistep, so
We have to engineer a little bit more for our recipe
So you changed recipe and it all fucked up like this
Yeah it takes a lot of work to get it consistent
Haiyaa, but it okay
Sometimes things don't need to look that good
See,it still at edible
Usually we donate some that are not up to spec
So you think homeless people don't deserve pretty food?
Your machine fucked up
I just put more MSG and your machine can't handle
Get better, machine
Your ingredients for your dumpling is just pork, shrimp and chicken
Right now it's 3 flavours
If you want to sell it to white people
You need to put some truffle in there
White people love truffle
You see how excited they get?
Truffle is like white people's MSG
You put it on there, they would eat anything
Hit like now if you like truffle
Now we bagging them on a line
If you go over here, you can see it's 50 dumplings per bag
50 per bag? and all so accurate?
-Exactly yeah -Who counting? they all counting
So we've measured this perfectly, so there are exactly 50 in a bag
So there just one look, they know it 50?
Exactly, yeah
Do you only hire rain man to work for you?
Exactly, that's the secret at XCJ, only rain men
Look at this
-Little girl so sad because the brother got bigger dumpling than her -Yep
Serving size is 4 dumpling, haiyaa
4 dumpling so little, who eat just 4 dumpling?
Why is it 4? What is it based off?
So dumplings, the FDA classified it as a sandwich
And so that's just the weight for the dumplings, so
Don't ask us, we didn't make the rules
-So FDA think this is a sandwich? -Yeah
Nephew Caleb, thank you much for showing Uncle Roger your factory
Totally, thank you for coming by
Now soup dumpling so good
Hey don't eat that, we made that like half an hour ago, it's cold now
It's ok, we pretend it freshly made and delicious
Like Jamie Oliver do in every single one of his cooking video
Emotional damage
Niece and nephew, XiaoChiJie the soup dumpling really good
Go click link in description to buy
Every dumpling you buy support Uncle Roger channel also
Here, hold this, Uncle Roger gonna drive home now
Don't scare, don't scare, Uncle Roger good driver, don't worry
I'm driving here, woman, haiyaa
Who is that person?
-My wife -Your wife? oops
Somebody dumpling not getting fondle tonight
It ok, Uncle Roger lonely also
Anyone, who's done cocaine, what's the motion?
Put on your hand
Let me quickly google it
From Google
Yes
Fuiyoh, so much white powder
Is Nigella Lawson having party?
Good
Good stuff
That's what makes it good
Yeah
Do you think Din Tai Feng put cocaine in your soup dumpling? no way
-So you here on tour, right? -Yeah
So normally when people come on tour
They go to strip club or hang out with groupies
But you decide to come to us soup dumpling factory
Haiyaa, this better than groupies
What you know about strip club? Any good strip club here in Seattle?
My wife is here so, not too much
Your wife?
It's ok
Married men go there all the time
Don't show Jamie Oliver this machine
He gonna try and copy it
He gonna make his soup dumpling with mangetout or something