a dime, penny. You're saying them out of order, but yes. Uh nickel, a copper. Quarter. A quarter
what does that all mean? Hey there welcome back. My name is Logesh and this is Rachel and you are now
kicking it with the Kumaars. So i have a list in my hand of things that only happen in America and i
want to read these to Logesh and get his reaction. As an American, I will try my best to justify
some of the crazy things we do here in america. Yeah and just for context, I'm a Malaysian
i've been born and raised in malaysia. Lived there for 24 years of my life so pretty malaysian. But
now i live in the United States. I've been here for over nine years now so that's the kind of
perspective i'm gonna bring to the table. Right, you ready for this? Let's do it. Waiting to be seated
at a restaurant. A little bit of context, so here in America, most restaurants, they require you to check
in with a host or hostess at the front and then when there's a table available the host or hostess
will seat you there. You do not get a pick which table you sit at. Yeah and so in malaysia it's a
little bit different. Not all restaurants see you that way. Only the higher end restaurants will
seat you at specific tables but for the most part, your regular restaurant mamak, you can sit anywhere.
You can just walk in and sit there. Funny story. When i moved here first, i didn't know and there
were some restaurants initially for the first like maybe three or four weeks, i would just walk into
the restaurant and i just walk in and sit myself. And everyone would look at me so weird. It was
so embarrassing. I know it was it was so bad. I think it was one of the waiter who actually
came up to me like, "hey excuse me uh i think you... Do you mind sitting here". I'm like but i want to
sit here. They were really kind. Obviously i moved and everything was fine and after that i realized
that this is something they do in america. So along with the restaurant theme, another thing that only
happens in america is having to tip at least 15 percent. This one really drove me so crazy like, yeah you
literally have to tip everywhere you go regardless if you like the food or not. So usually it's not
about the food with tipping, usually it's about the service. So if your server or who's ever helping your
table is terrible then you technically, don't have to tip. But you're supposed to speak to the manager
about it. See I don't care about service, all I care about the food. Uou can treat me badly as long as
you give me good food I'm happy. The fact that it's mandatory that what kind of gets me. I think
mandatory is a harsh word. I think it's strongly, strongly, strongly encouraged. Which is mandatory.
If you don't tip they're not gonna chase you down and make you pay. But you can't go back to
the restaurant. But yeah, you can't show your face there again. So mandatory. Unless you don't want
to go back there again. That's true, if the food's so bad don't tip. Also fun American fact is if
you want to leave an insult tip, you leave one penny as the tip. Oh really. Yeah. Why didn't you
tell me that before? You didn't know this? I would have left so many pennies in so many restaurants.
I think it's rude, but that is the insult tip of leaving just one penny. Don't do that guys.
If you come to America don't leave a penny tip. I do have a funny story going back to Malaysia.
This is like after moving to America, my first trip back to Malaysia. We had nasi ayam, I brought her.
First breakfast there. And we paid for our food and the lady comes back, and the change was like,
i can't remember. Maybe 40 50 60 cents something like that. And I was like, oh it's okay you just
keep the change. And she was like, she's so confused, and she went back, I think she went to her boss or
something. And she came back to us and she's like, I'm so sorry I can't accept this. I'm like it's
just 40 cents or whatever you know. But that's the culture in Malaysia. That you pay for whatever
of the service is, the food is and that's about it, that there isn't any extra payment.
Another one about food, uh this one is portion sizes.Oh yeah, oh yeah. Guys in America portion sizes are
huge. Not only like portion sizes of food but also drinks. Two or three days ago we bought coffee and
I was like, oh let's get the medium one. And it came in like this huge cup. Like what the heck is a medium
coffee, like this big thing. It wasn't that big, but it was pretty large. It was like this big. Huge. It's something
that I had to get used to it. What we usually do is when you order food, you know it's a lot.
We eat just half of it and then save the other half for leftovers for later. Yeah and it's
actually pretty common to call taking that food home a doggie bag. Doggy bag? You didn't know this? Isn't that
where they put the dog's poop in. No gross. No it's like you know when you have something to like
tapao at a restaurant, it's like that you ask for a doggy bag. I guess. Why doggy? I don't know, maybe
you go home and feed that food to your dog? That's where it originated from? I don't know but it's
called a doggy bag. Okay. It's pretty common. You're gonna hate this one. What is it? Spray can cheese.
the worst it's so disgusting. It's not even cheese in the can right. It's like cheese flavored. Cheese
byproduct right. I don't know what it's made of it's... but it's not made out of cheese. No it's
pretty gross. As an American I can't justify this one. I don't like this. I think it's gross. But they
come in these cans and you spray it kind of like whipped cream. And they call it food.I think it
has a shelf life of an eternity. I've seen in some commercials they're like spraying in their mouth and stuff.
Oh gross. Like what that is so gross. I don't recommend it. Advertisements for medical products.
Oh yeah. So this one is actually pretty dangerous I feel. I agree. So like in a regular TV commercial
they have like advertisements for medical products. Like ask your doctor about this medication.
And it's like you have to prompt your doctor, and say like, hey i saw this commercial commercial
about this medicine can you prescribe it to me please? Or can I try it out? Or is it good for me?
Or whatever. It's weird because doctor is the one who should know about these products, and if it's right
for you prescribe it to you. So I think that's kind of weird. I actually heard that it's illegal to do
this in most other countries except for in America. I've never seen a commercial for any sort of medication on
the TV in Malaysia. Yeah like you're saying it is pretty dangerous because people start asking their
doctors for all these different prescriptions. And people might be prescribed things just because
they asked for it, not because they need it. So it's pretty crazy. It's a multi-billion dollar industry
here. Pretty crazy that this is one thing that only happens in America. I wish it didn't sometimes.
All price tags don't have the taxes included. Yup. And that can confuse the crap out of you. I've gotten,
not cheated, but like you see something, $2.99, and then you go to the counter it turns out being $3.30
or whatever because taxes are not included. A year ago I bought a motorcycle and the price was like,
I'm just throwing out a random figure this is not actually it. But like say the price was like $5,000.
At the end it was like $6,500 because they throw all this other, oh you got to pay for this and this
this, and don't forget the 15% tax. The taxes are not up front, so when you're shopping here you need
to take that into consideration. You don't know the exact amount you're paying, unless you like
obviously pull out your calculator and you're calculating yourself, you're not going to know.
And another thing that's actually really annoying too, is that every county area has different tax
amounts. So the percentage of tax might be different where we live here, than it is in
a different county. And not only sales taxes, there are other taxes for different items. There are yeah. There are
so different categories of items have different taxes. I'm American, I've paid these taxes all my
life, and I still can't explain what all of them are for, or why, or how much. I just always assume
if I see a price tag I add on another couple dollars depending on what it is.
Using the Imperial Measurement system. This is a rough one. It's a difficult one. A challenging one. Because it
makes no sense. What are you talking about I mean come on, there's 12 inches in a foot, there's three
feet in a yard. What else? I can't even remember all of them. Compare it to a mile then. I don't
know how many yards are in a mile. For us it's so easy. It's all in tens. Millimeter to centimeter,
to meter, to kilometer and so on. It's super easy just follow the freaking metric system.
Like why why. Guys, I'm an American i've lived here my entire life and I still don't understand all
parts of the imperial system. Like I can't even remember how many feet are in a mile. I don't know.
Some 5,000 something. Guys, it's terrible. It's super confusing. And not only that even the dates. Why?
Isn't it so obvious to say day month year? Simple, progressive. But no, here they got to be month,
day, then year. Why? It's so bad. While we're on it, fahrenheit versus celsius. What's wrong with that?
No I'm saying fahrenheit... 0-100. Fahrenheit makes no sense. Zero is freezing point 100 is boiling point
simple. Fahrenheit 32 is freezing. 312 is boiling. Why? Why? Come on Americans, why do you have to make
our lives so much more difficult? Metric system day month year and celsius. Three little changes make
an easier life. Yeah. Similar looking money. Is that not normal? No it's no. In other countries like in
Malaysia all our bills are in different colors, so it's easy to see which is which. So that when
you go and pay in the grocery store or whatever if you say take out one ringgit or 10 ringgit you can
easily see without like looking at the number. It's red it's a certain number bill, blue is a different
number bill, easy. Again most people pay with credit cards now so you don't handle a lot of cash. Yeah
this is true. Even like if you're paying for like something that's like two dollars you can take out a
credit card and pay for it. So people don't carry a lot of cash. Another thing about the money that
does not make sense are the coins. Oh yeah yeah the coins that is one thing that's super weird.
So in Malaysia it's simple the coins. 10 cents 20 cents 30 cents 40 cent up til a ringgit simple. But here you
have a dime, penny. You're saying them out of order, but yes. Uh nickel. A copper. Quarter. A quarter. What
does that all mean? A penny is one cent, a nickel is five cents, a dime is ten cents, a quarter is 25 cents
and a half dollar is 50 cents. But another thing that doesn't make sense about the coins, is that
so a penny is one cent, is larger than the 10 cent coin, as is the nickel, the nickel is larger than 10 cent coin. Why?
I don't know. You guys need to sort yourself out guys. We do, we're we're a bit of a mess.
Getting carded buying alcohol. Is that not normal other places in the world? No not in Malaysia. So you can
just go and buy alcohol and they don't care how old you are. Yeah I mean they'll just look at you
they won't ask for a card if you seem really young they'll be like, no we can't sell this to you. But if you
look old enough it's up to the discretion of the owner of the store. I still get carded and I'm 30.
Initially when I came here they asked to check for your id every single time you shop. And i got
offended, I thought they were like, oh this credit card must not be yours. You have stole this credit
card so I'm checking your id just to make sure. But apparently that's like a security thing that they do with
everyone. That's not a normal thing either? What's not a normal thing? To, when you pay a credit card,
they ask to see your id. It's not? No I'm asking is that not normal in Malaysia? Oh no, it's not.
It's not. Never? No. That's why I got so offended here I thought that they were like
profiling me because I'm a colored person, right. Well this guy doesn't have money or whatever. I was
like come on I have money. No a lot of stores have the policy if you spend a certain amount,
they will check your id with your credit card. Yeah regardless of who you are. I didn't know that
was... Yeah it's not a thing. Just in America.That should be on the list. That's why when I go back
to Malaysia sometimes my mom will be like take my credit card and go buy stuff and I'll be like okay.
That's funny I never knew that. Selling Girl Scout Cookies. Yeah that's super weird. What? Okay.
So the whole girl scout cookie selling. It's a scam, don't by girl scout cookies. It's a culture. Let me tell
you what happens here. No girl scout... do they come door-to-door? Some do, yeah. Okay usually they set
up a little store. Out in you know train station or whatever. Like a legitimate store. And you walk by.
A store? No it's a table run by like eight-year-old kids. Yeah correct. Not a store. But the cookies
and everything are like properly boxed by a huge company and so on. i'll put i'll leave the picture
right here. These are the cookies that they sell. It's not like they bake homemade cookies and
they're trying to sell. No none of that, this is like a whole business. They're only sold one
time a year. You cannot find these in any stores. You can only buy them from girl scouts, so their
rarity makes them taste better. I think these big corporations are making these cookies and they're
using the girl scouts to sell their cookies. That's what I think it is happening. But you
know what, Americans love their girl scout cookies. We do. And we will hoard them and keep them in
our freezer so that we can make them last longer. It's an American product they would last forever
so you don't need to put in freezer. Obsession with autumn/pumpkin flavor. What's autumn flavor?
I'm serious, what the heck is autumn flavor? I know pumpkin flavor. I can't breathe. No
no the season of autumn or fall, we call it fall here actually. So they're obsessed with the
season autumn. The season of autumn, and then during that season you have a lot of pumpkin flavors.
Oh okay yeah yeah so they they love pumpkin flavored stuff. Like everything. Starbucks usually have their
PSL, pumpkin spice latte and Americans are really really obsessed about that. They go crazy for
it. And I think one thing that's different about pumpkin flavor here in America is it's
always always always sweet. Yeah it's always in dessert. Pies, Starbucks drinks, cookies, pancakes,
waffles. So I've tried all this pumpkin flavored stuff here. It's okay, it's good, it's not like
horrible, but it's not something I'd like seek out for. I know there are other things that are
way better. But the obsession with autumn as well, People will decorate their whole house with like
beautiful colored leaves and different signs and scarecrows. We always decorated my house like that growing up.
Not the flavor, the season. The season, the season of autumn. Garbage disposals. Wait do you not have garbage
disposals? No you guys are spoiled. What? Okay guys tell me honestly. Are there no garbage disposals in
all of Malaysia? No. So here we have garbage disposals built in to every single sink in
the kitchen. It's like a little machine that's built under the sink. So if food waste that goes
down the sink, you can just hit a button and it'll just like grind it up, and go somewhere. It'll go
down the drain. It makes sense. So that your drain doesn't get clogged, there is a disposal inside
which has a blade that goes around, and it chops stuff into tiny pieces so it can go down the drain.
It keeps your sink from overflowing. Yeah in Malaysia we just toss all all the food stuff in the trash,
and then we take the plate that doesn't have any food trash, and wash it. Free refills for drinks at restaurants.
That's something that's not common. Wait like even at Mcdonald's you can't get free
refills in your drink? Not that I know of. I usually don't go and eat at Mcdonald's, so I'm not sure how
it is in Malaysia today. But back then when I was still living in Malaysia I don't think you got
free refills. You need to pay extra for it. Here like no matter what restaurant you go
to, if it's a soft drink like soda or iced tea, most restaurants will give you free refills. Yup that's
true. I mean it is expensive here, so you kind of have to expect that kind of service I guess.
In Malaysia stuff is cheaper. I can see that. Yeah, you can't really. And knowing some Malaysians,
if you tell them free refill, they will go above and beyond. And they might bring a container from
home and refill you know. Maybe it wouldn't fly there. So the last on the list is Black Friday.
So for those of you who have no clue what black friday is, we have a holiday here
called Thanksgiving where we celebrate everything we're thankful for. It always falls on the fourth
Thursday of November. The day after is called Black Friday, and this is when all the retail shops have
crazy crazy discounts on whatever item you can imagine. And people line up. People go shopping
at 4:00am. You've probably seen this on the news, people get trampled, people have been
killed during Black Friday. Yeah and why this happens is because these retailers are smart.
They put really crazy discounts like for example a TV would be like, I'm just throwing a random number,
say if it's a thousand dollars, they'll drop the price to like $200 for that same TV. But they'll
only limit it to like the first 10 people. So everyone would rush in to try to get that 10 TVs
and then you're not going to get any more discount after of that. But you're going to look for other
things to shop for in the shop. Other stores will just have not as crazy of deals, but will have
really good deals. But the lines will be so long. There'll be so many people it is pretty outrageous.
I do have a question, why is it called Black Friday? I know the answer to this. I do. Because my mom used
to work in retail, and she knew the answer. It is because when a business is in debt it is called
being in the red. Okay. And when a business is turning profit it's called in the black.
They know that they're gonna get enough incoming purchases where they're gonna now be in the black.
That's why it's called Black Friday. Interesting. Better fact check that. Fact check it let me know.
So that's all on our list for today, but i'm sure there are many other things that only
happen here in America. If you guys know of any feel free to leave it in the comments down below.
And if you're curious why it happens, I will do my best to give you a reason.
No promises though, because there's a lot of weird stuff that happens here in America.
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