- Here, I need to teach you how to use chop sticks
so then your not, oh.
(Child Laughing)
(Upbeat Music)
- Hi guys, it's me Maddox, What are we doing today?
- I'm eating food and I do not know what we're eating.
(Woman Gasping)
- Cause my mom did not tell me.
- (Lady off screen) I'm gonna let the food talk for itself.
Close your eyes.
(Plate sliding on table)
- Fortune cookie.
(Crunching into fortune cookie)
- Oh my gosh, I don't, I don't know how to read
- Today you will try Chinese food from around the world.
- I love Chinese!
- So it's Chinese food not from China?
- Like other countries version of Chinese food?
- (Lady off screen) Yes.
Fortune cookies, are they from China?
- Yes
- Fortune cookies are from China
- (Lady off screen) Wrong.
Do they have fortune cookies in China?
- No, they don't actually.
- If, uh, these aren't, uh, Chinese
then how come I always get one after I eat Chinese food?
- (Lady off screen) Because it's an American thing.
(Plate sliding across table)
- I don't really, um, recognize this.
I'm half Chinese too, so it's.
- Is there meat inside this?
- (Lady off screen) Did you go vegetarian on us?
- What?
- Is this egg roll?
And egg rolls like lots of food inside.
And it's crunchy on the outside.
(biting into the food)
- It's good.
It's hard to see if it tastes Chinese around here.
I'm trying to learn about it.
- (Biting into food)
- MMM.
- MMM, That's a good one.
- (Lady off screen) This is called Lumpia
- Lumpia
- This is my lumpia, get away from my lumpia.
- (Lady off screen) And what country does lumpia come from?
- Philippines.
- (Lady off screen) So it's believed to
have derived from spring rolls.
- Mhmm! Yeah I know.
- Mom, Can we have this for my, for dinner for my birthday?
- Philippines gets most of the credit.
China part of the credit.
- (Lady off screen) Oh wow, you guys ate the whole thing.
- Yep
- Well I didn't have anywhere to put it. That's why.
(Laughter)
(Plate sliding on table)
- I mean it's, it's chicken, so yay.
(Laughter)
- To be honest with you, that's good.
- It's really good except, super spicy. (Gasp)
- (Lady off screen) This is a popular
Indian style Chinese dish
- Indian style, okay.
(Plate sliding on table)
- (excited sounds) French fries!
- French fries?
You rarely see French fries in China
- I don't think rice and French fries go together.
- I think they do.
- I've never had rice with French fries, but it's good.
- It tastes like McDonald's tried to mix teriyaki with it.
- The French fries make me think American.
- (Lady off screen) It's not American.
It's from Peru
- China? Peru, China?
- Peru? They're doing very good at it
I would have never thought this would taste good, but,
Peru proved me wrong.
(Food sliding across table)
- Typical, yeah.
- (Lady off screen) Typical what?
- Definitely Chinese. I mean, got the eggs
in there, Chinese love eggs. We got the noodles
and yeah, this is very, very Chinese
- I know I've had something that tastes
like it, I just don't know what.
- (Lady off screen) Those are spaghetti noodles.
- Oh, that's what I've had it like.
- From Spain?
- (Lady off screen) This dish is from New Orleans.
In America
- So close.
- Oh, that soup is bitter!
- (Lady off screen) People in New Orleans
drink this as a cure for hangovers.
- Hangovers?
- (Lady off screen) mmhmm
- Do you know what a hangover is?
- A Hangover is like kind of a sleepover
But it's morning.
(Plate sliding on table)
- Is this an egg?
- What is this?
- (Lady off screen) This is mango pancake.
- This is mango?
- (Lady off screen) Mmhmm
- Mango, my favorite.
- Is this from France?
- (Lady off screen) No, why do you think it's from France?
- I don't know, it looks fancy.
- There's not really a lot of mango's in China, so.
I mean it's good, I wish it was in China but
I just don't really recognize this to be honest.
- (Lady off screen) This dish is very popular in Australia.
- I can see why it's popular, it's really good.
- (Lady off screen) It's Chinese-Australian.
- It's Chaustralian food.
- I have nothing against Australia
except that pretty much everything there tries to kill you.
(Laughter)
- I was very messy.
- (Lady off screen) Did you know there were
so many variations of Chinese food?
- Nope
- Wait
- Does that mean here is a variation?
- (Lady off screen) Yes.
- So what does real Chinese food taste like then?
- (Lady off screen) Gotta go to China to find out.
- We're going to China!