Such a humble man. He didn't bashed the American Chinese food since it was made to adapt to the country.

@bvbxiong5791

4 күн бұрын

Italians on the other hand...

@chasebowman9815

4 күн бұрын

I’d love to see an Italian react to st Luis style pizza (or what Chicago style pizza was which was a thin almost cracker crust before deep dish took over the meaning the only difference being that for st Luis style has provel which is so processed I know they’ll have a fit)

@user-sd9sn7wf3o

3 күн бұрын

If he said anything offensive, haters will leave negative reviews on his restaurant. So probably he didn't give his real opinions, as he already said he dare not give a low score.

@qidongxu7339

3 күн бұрын

Of course American Chinese food is more for American than Chinese. As long as Americans like it, doesn't matter

@ns645

3 күн бұрын

It makes sense. Hong Kong food is also the same. It is a fusion kind of cuisine. So I think fusion and adaptation is something HKers are used to :)

"3 dishes 14.99$" is such a chinese thing to say

@li_tsz_fung

7 күн бұрын

It translates to "Entertainment not included in the price. You can barely buy anything with 15 buck anywhere."

@jinze.s2514

2 күн бұрын

I want to see Chef Wang Gang react to these dishes

@Shadow-dd1qp

2 күн бұрын

@@jinze.s2514 fr

@guojames9269

Күн бұрын

@@user-bh9vf2zu1r He said entertainment not environment, here's a ticket back to elementary school for you to learn the difference between words, and here's another ticket back to kindergarten so you learn how to control your malding

@user-bh9vf2zu1r

Күн бұрын

@@guojames9269 Learn how to use commas before professing to be an educational expert. Writing a run on sentence is just embarrassing.

I love how open minded he was. I want to try his food.

I'm glad that you took the time to talk about the history of american vs chinese food, and then you got a chef who is at least mildly familiar with the history and respectful of american chinese for trying to innovate and eventually becoming successful. Instead of the usual "ItS NoT AuThEnTiC!!1!!" and "authentic is better" and "a chinese person will hate this" bs that everyone else does. We're all so obsessed whether or not "authentic food" is better. But one look at the comments section and there is obviously a bunch of people who clearly did not watch the video.

@ck_illust7150

4 күн бұрын

Foreign Chinese will never be Chinese. They will always be seen as Race Traitors 😤

@user-sd9sn7wf3o

3 күн бұрын

I've had Chinese food in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South East Asia and even Japan, and American Chinese food is the worst

@truthful3777

2 күн бұрын

It's a Chinese behavior to adapt to customers requirements. Chinese are not hard headed to stick to tradition. What customers wants they deliver it.

@yudistiraliem135

Күн бұрын

China is so big that I doubt anyone really understand what’s authentic or not. Some area loves “ bland” food and hates putting too much spices and orhers go mad with chilli or fermented beans. I remember an American called peas on fried rice Gweilo sh*t but it’s exactly what’s served at Oppo House where they bring the chefs and ingredients from mainland to feed their chinese employees there.

Here's one to try: Take an Italian person (as in someone born and raised in Italy) to a small, local "Italian" restaurant in a city in any East Asian country. Watch that Italian person have a meltdown because they put cream in the carbonara.

@serenity9932

4 күн бұрын

Italians do the same shit in their own Asian restaurant. And plus Asian have more sweets everywhere in their dessert

@waltersimmons9512

4 күн бұрын

Most 'Italian' food here in Asia are chain Restaurants and usually made like a fast food.. that's why they use cream not eggs.

@saldiven2009

3 күн бұрын

@@waltersimmons9512 So? The point is that various ethnic foods from one region of the world are done "wrong" in other parts of the world. Often times, the people complaining about it being "wrong" ignore the historical and practical reasons for the changes. They just get hung up on stuff like, "OMFG, orange chicken isn't _real_ Chinese food."

@FloofyMinari

3 күн бұрын

If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.

@lexluthor3145

Күн бұрын

True. Things like Italian cheese are also very expensive, especially if you live in a 3rd world or developing countries. Often times, ingredients are also straight up not available. Guanciale? We don't have that here. You also have people who can't consume pork because of things like their beliefs.

Visiting Toronto right now and I'll check out his restaurant today! Thanks guys and keep up the great vids!!

@marcc5768

3 күн бұрын

It's in Scarborough, nearest intersection Midland and Sheppard

I thought Americanized Chinese food was disgusting until I recently watched a documentary from Canadian Chuek Kwan who has a series on Chinese restaurants on KZread. These foods are what many of the older generations of Chinese cooked for survival and hope in their family owned restaurants. Survival is what Chef Jack said in his final thoughts. We need to support these small family owned operations.

Chicken balls are a Canadian Chinese thing. I've never seen them on an American Chinese menu. If you had spoken Chinese to that lady about lemon chicken, she might have answered you. She probably didn't understand you.

@harkmi3

Күн бұрын

Isn’t orange chicken just an American Chinese thing as well? I have never seen it kind of Canada.

@CantoMando I followed your content since the beginning and I can honestly say that your content is adding so much value to the media. Keep up the great work and thank you for making contents like this.

„3 dishes 14.99$“lmao😂😂😂

Great Video! Interesting, fun, & informative! Chef Jack is wonderful! A great resource! 🥰💪🙏

Mike, I love that you’re hosting a bunch of the recent videos. Really solid job. Idk where the other 2 are rn, but you’re doing great carrying the channel.

Thanks for the videoooo

A number of years ago I visited Beijing twice. I also visited Hong Kong and Xian. Yes the Chinese type food here in the states, is much different in taste and specific dishes. Unless you can find a restaurant with authentic dishes and taste. I stayed in a major hotel in Beijing. I was talking to a couple of the staff. I asked them about Chinese dishes I would normally order in the states. They were totally stumped lol.

@hermesliteratus882

13 сағат бұрын

Those localized Chinese foods in the US look horrible and the Chinese chef did his very best not to throw up.

What a humble chef!! 👏👏👏

As an indian chinese food is one of my favourite

@jingweing

7 күн бұрын

把我们一个

@gametri-eq6lj

7 күн бұрын

yeah Uyghur food is good

@Vahjina-ihtir

4 күн бұрын

Traitor

@martinketchum

13 сағат бұрын

@@Vahjina-ihtir not his fault he wants a clean dish

You rated my friends restaurant Asian Fusion. I hoped you enjoyed the food and his mom! 3 dishes 14.99$$$$$$$$$

another banger from the goats

I go that spot all the time. Great people and food

Your shirt makes me feel like you are a staff works for a Chinese restaurant😂

Love your content 💪👌, the dish look really nice, keep up the good work, Jesus bless.

tbh as a native Chinese I always wanna try American Chinese food Japanese Chinese food. im so curious I really wanna know how they localize it. it must be interesting

@ShubhamSharma-sk7vp

7 күн бұрын

Try Indo Chinese food once.

@yoru8815

6 күн бұрын

Eh I think the main difference is just like the European where the majority came from, american rarely ever to use variety of spice in cooking. If they bother using it's used very sparingly. They only either mostly about salt and pepper or tomato and cheese or grease. They grow up eating like that their tongues unable to tolerate so much spice. Notice even their fast food chains like KFC reflect this, fast food in us almost bland in taste compare to most in asia.

@hermesliteratus882

13 сағат бұрын

Trust me, you don't want to do that. Those localized Chinese food in America looks horrible and tastes disgusting.

Where Edward and sheldon

Both cuisines serve their purposes for sure

You have to try NY Chinese food

the way you say "So" with a tinge of cantonese accent is somehow very interesting to a fellow asian lol

I don't think there is any problem. When food is in a place, it will be integrated into the local characteristics and needs. Only in this way can the culture be preserved. Chinese food in Japan will become Japanese Chinese food. In the United States, it will become American Chinese food. If you are interested in Chinese food, you can try real traditional Chinese food. It will be a completely different experience. There is no right or wrong.

0:51 love the animated migration route they took to get to California 😂

Love this chef

When I visit my father we often go to a Chinese/Indonesian restaurant. My father used to fly out to various cities in China for his work for decades, he always told me here it differed quite a lot from the stuff he ate in China. One time he asked if she could prepare us some real traditional stuff from her hometown, it was the bomb hahaha. Now she comes with that stuff herself when she sees us and is excited for our reaction. It never fails to be anything but great, I never had imagined I'd be gladly eating shrimpheads and chicken feet simply because they're cooked up well rather than it being a challange hahahahaha. Man food is the bomb, it's a great world we live in there's so many different things to try and enjoy :-)

Amazing

Chinese American dishes can vary in different taste and stuff. Usually fast food chains like Panda Express, they cook large portions and serve it like buffet because of how popular it is. If it’s a Chinese American family owned, it is made to order

Orange chicken is authentic Chinese food. Brought to America by a Chinese employee of Panda Inn AKA Panda Express. However, I have been served authentic Chinese dishes because I became friends with different Chinese sushi restaurant owners since I frequented their restaurants so much.

He is Canadian from Toronto. He has a restaurant stall in the east end of Toronto

7:32 the very important skills for making Cantonese style fried rice. Fry it, not just tossing, swing the wok the whole time, especially the real Cantonese fried rice uses much less oil than other places.

Canton - Wok Hai Hawaii - Pono American South - Made with love baby.

So OG he uses the thick side of the chopsticks to eat 😂

tbf, I would even say nowadays even in Hong Kong or Macau, the food that you can find is localized already. Some really traditional Chinese food is really hard to find as they need so many steps and so many time to prepare that. You can even find lemon chicken in Hong Kong or Macau, we call them 西檸雞

i don't like the word authentic... feels like gatekeeping... in my (chinese) family my father works as a chef and my mother teaches at a culinary school and they don't even agree on what is the right way to do some dishes but they are both authentic and traditional chinese cooks. Sure American Chinese food is not the same as Traditional Chinese fare but you can't say it is fake or inauthentic Chinese food, it's just Chinese Diaspora food.

@jungdonna

5 күн бұрын

Like the chef said, you adjust to where you live. Chicken parm is not from Italy. Is it fake? Would he dare go into a Taco Bell and call them fake?

American Chinese food is food Chinese did use to consume, the thing was the food USA/UK was like the rich people food of the past (except for the meat cuts) but most of the dishes were not made for the poor originally, you have to remember when Chinese food came to the west in the fast food sense it was a luxury thuss why you’d see expensive dishes you wouldn’t see on menus in China (because they wanted to give the white man good quality Chinese food, even when they didn’t even eat that themselves) then over the years it’s just for bastardised the more time went on until it was it own unique thing To put it simple the Chinese /usa/uk food is food an emperor would have eaten with a lot of western influence which is why no Chinese person can recognise it because most in China especially the further you go are more poorer, but just because it’s not in their daily diet doesn’t mean you don’t know how to cook it, look at how many high ranking chefs eats crap themselves for their meals and will put a million times more effort into their work than their own cooking,,, why when you cook super high quality everyday for hours when it comes to yourself if it tastes good and fills a hole your happy

Isn't that chop suey place at that mall at Sheppard and Kennedy? ok i guess makes sense going there. Pretty close by to Great Fountain. Anyways, with regards to what's legit Chinese food. I didn't expect these chop suey places to exist when "authentic" Chinese (or in this case, Canto) food is easily accessible nowadays. I mean you can go to the cooked food section at T&T or Foody and get more variety and quality than the chop suey places. As for Great Fountain, they are truly amazing. In your last video, you said they carry 200 items and that's pretty crazy. I am familiar with a lot of the Chinese malls in Scarborough, even the ones near Great Fountain and the other ones don't carry that many lol.

He has such a great outlook, thought he would be against it

3 dishes for that price is a very very good price

What the chef said in summary is correct. You have to cook dishes that sells for your survival. Authentic taste comes second, survival first. Even saying so, it must have some correllation with its origins with fusion added to it. It is just made in America Chinese dish.

I've never seen those chicken balls in my whole life. That is not all over the USA. He seems very pragmatic and realistic.

Going to Panda Express and expecting Chinese food is like going to Taco Bell and expecting Mexican food.

@fmfdocbotl4358

Күн бұрын

ive eaten Chinese food in China and Mexican food in Mexico...ill take panda express over taco bell

I can’t even begin to imagine the utter disappointment.

Could we use salsa sauce and fry for the final dish there?

Those chicken balls remind me of Golauyoek or 咕噜肉(?) They do need a sweet and sour sauce though. It must be really dry like that.

You missed some history: there were several waves of “Chinese” immigrant waves in recent history: first it was the Hong Kong immigrants with Cantonese cuisines from the 1960 and 1970s I called Bruce Lee era, with signature dishes such as chop Suey and Egg Foo Yong for the Americans. Then in the 70’s and 80’s with Taiwanese immigrants versions of Mandarin and Szechwan food such as General Tao’s Chicken, Mushu, Mongolian Beef, and Kung Pow. Then in the l90’s and 2000 mainland Chinese with a new generation of flavors. But also remember many Taiwanese entered mainland China and brought back lost flavors influenced some local food scenes.

The comment at the end by the chef about innovation and survival was on the money. This may not be 'authentic' to traditional Chinese cooking, but it's authentic to the early American Chinese experience as entrepreneurs who had to service a mostly white clientele. An interesting fact is that often times in these restaurants there was also a 'secret menu' of more traditional fair for the Chinese locals - dishes which didn't appeal to the white customers. And those secret menus were often out in the open on the walls, but written in Chinese. Food is more then food but storytelling and American Chinese, Canadian Chinese or Peruvian Chinese (Chifa) all tell the story of those early immigrants.

You need to try “Chinese” food in Quebec City where I was raised. Quebec Fried Noodles is the unique dish here.

Did anyone else notice he was using the chopsticks backwards

Can you do your old videos where you test mukbangers recipe

I never knew wok hei was a real thing until it was mentioned in this video! I thought it was just something uncle roger made up as part of his character for the entertainment!

He gave his own dish 7 or 8 LOL

Nice

Wowow

Question is where can you go in America to get traditional Chinese food?

The migration animation was right on.

Are spring rolls Chinese? Always thought they were Vietnamese,but maybe I thought that because of summer rolls?

Do a show on uncle cooking for my friends and I in the bush camping. Breakfast lunch and dinner. And drinking

I live in an area whose high school is 68% asian demographically. The amount of asian restaurants we have are ridiculous. I learned of the michelin star rating system a couple years ago, and I found about 3 restaurants I went to a lot won 1 michelin star. They're all cheap too!

Out of curiousity, was there a reason why he spoke mandarin instead of cantonese?

@qidongxu7339

3 күн бұрын

He didn't have Cantonese accent. Maybe he is not Cantonese

That Avatar map... nice.

Love surinamese chinese food

亞洲美食 means Asian Gourmet Food

@chundouble9

5 күн бұрын

ikr 美食 is not 美国食物 😭😭

@CantoMando

4 күн бұрын

You’re absolutely right 😭😭😭 need to bring Sheldon with me next time , thanks for pointing this out

You can imagine how Uncle Roger feels when he eats the dishes, and he'll like that Chinese chef

@ShubhamSharma-sk7vp

7 күн бұрын

Fuiyoh

@llamaalpaca5563

7 күн бұрын

Haiya why so bland. Where the flavour? We Asian people like spice.

哈哈哈，我就知道一定有左宗棠鸡，作为一个湖南人，还是在硅谷被介绍了这个“家乡菜”，当场惊呆……

Authentic Chinese food is AWESOME 👍 American/Chinese food is AWESOME 😊

Why haven’t you made videos with the boys in a month???😢

WHAT HAPPEND TO THE CAMRAMAN NOOOOOOO

I tried Chinese fast food in Beijing a few years ago and it was absolutely closer to garbage in terms of taste

Honestly speaking you guys should visit China. For Cantonese dishes visit Hong Kong or Guangdong province. For 江浙菜、淮扬菜，visit Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Yangzhou (similar but different). For Sichuan cuisine visit Chengdu and nearby cities. For 鲁菜, visit Shandong province and north eastern China. For Silk Road dishes (or north western dishes) visit Xi'an, Lanzhou and Xinjiang province. For 徽菜, visit Anhui province. For spicy 湘菜, visit Hunan province. For 闽菜 visit Fujian province and to some extent Taiwan. For very exotic food visit Guangxi, Guizhou but the most exotic kind of food is in Yunnan province. For Yak meat visit Tibet. And of course Beijing has a stereotype in China called 美食荒漠，but I guess Peking duck and Beijing style hotpot is not bad. This kind of sums up Chinese food in China. But for cool Chinese Fusion food, Peru is actually a good place to visit.

LOL those fried chicken balls, we sell them as 咕嚕肉 (pork or chicken) to white people in The Netherlands 😂

Come to Malaysia and try out Malaysian Chinese style...Try the nyonya and Baba style food.

There's no such thing as one authentic Chinese food as there are many styles in many different regions. You could argue that chinese American is a regional chinese food

Early gangs?

As an asian panda express is top tier, doesnt try to be authentic but its still good.

@qidongxu7339

3 күн бұрын

Are you sure? Panda express is just like Chinese supermarket food court food but making it look more high class

hey, im chinese and i effing hate hotpots, and dont mind eating american chinese food.

It's fine as long as it's not too sweet. Americans like food super sugary, rich, and salty.

The first chinese were my ancestors the toisanese. Please correct this. :) But yeah you can say we canto.

Should tell thus to the American and Westerners. Chinese way , way back in time 😂😂😂😂

😮😮😮

i wish you add subtitles for deaf accessiable-

If something tastes good, does it matter whether it is authentic?

apart from tasting food he is right that we need to keep an open mind when it comes to different foods and culture just dont piss the italians

Evolved ,not fake.

It’s real Chinese food made for the American market.

Since you guys are Canadian, and Calgary is your neighbor.... Ginger beef?

I think it's kinda unfair to call American Chinese food "fake" since it was invented by Chinese immigrants over the past almost 200 years. I'm part Chinese on my moms side, we think they got here around the Gold Rush era but our records aren't very good, but the point is they've been here awhile. My great-aunt and her husband owned a chain of Chinese buffets in California for years that served American Chinese but a few times a year they'd go back to Hong Kong to scout out potential chefs so that they could have a more authentic "secret" menu for their Chinese clients. The buffet was pretty good, not greasy like so many others, but I remember the secret menu being pretty delicious. After her husband died she sold off the restaurants and retired but a couple times each year she'd host a big family dinner at a restaurant she'd scouted for "authentic" Hong Kong Cantonese food, which was her favorite. Yes it's totally different than American Chinese, almost everything is steamed or braised with garlic, green onion, shallot, ginger and often fermented black bean. Also almost exclusively sea food. Soy sauce is just a condiment you can add if you want, other than that it's all about how fresh and quality the ingredients are. I'm older now and my Chinese side never had many kids so they're almost all gone now along with those dinners, I did prefer those over American Chinese but I still appreciate a good American Chinese restaurant. Miss those family dinners.

@jakefox3677

5 күн бұрын

Fr though no American going to eat “real” Chinese food so they gotta modify to fit what customers want still Chinese food

@WheresCupcake2124

5 күн бұрын

I ain't reading all at

@Iampatrix

5 күн бұрын

@@WheresCupcake2124 no one asked you to so foh.

@Medbread

4 күн бұрын

@@jakefox3677 Weird that Americans will happily eat authentic Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, etc. food, but as soon as it's Chinese it needs to be Americanized

@qidongxu7339

3 күн бұрын

@@Medbread No really. For sure Mexican food is also Americanized. My Mexican friends told me that that is not what they eat back home. Same as Italian food. I was In Italy 2 years ago, they don't have so many toppings on their pizza, usually only tomatoes

Where is this?

there is good "American" chinese food and bad ones.. no different than good chinese food in china, and bad ones as well. they are different and can both be delicious in their own way.

As someone living in Asia, the dishes look Chinese to me. Only the chicken ball is not.

1 hour gang

Would be better if the interview is done in Cantonese.

He looked oddly embarrassed for saying bussin

This would be like me going to china and laughing at all of the americnan food you make there.

Confused... you are comparing traditional Chinese food to American but he's wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs Cap! 😂😊

There are multiple Chinese cuisines. I am sure there are more than four.

@qidongxu7339

3 күн бұрын

Exactly why not made American Chinese food the fifth one instead of calling it faked