Dad & Son Reviews Supermarket Chinese Food | Hunger Pangs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- Hunger Pangs is a series about cooking great Chinese food at home, starring ATK's Kevin Pang and his father Jeffrey. In this episode, they review popular supermarket Chinese food.
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One of the BEST things I have seen on TH-cam!! I was amazed to see this is an ATK production. WHY OH WHY OH WHY do we NOT see this fine offering on Regular Television production of ATK or Cooks Country. This Pair is FAR and away better than ANY of the current "regulars' on ATK or Cook's Country! Toooooo BAD they are ATK's best kept Secret! Would LOVE to see a cook book by this Duo!
100% agree!!
Have you looked on Amazon for their cookbooks?
I'll watch the Pangs ALL DAY!
Me too
This is my first video. Your father is a treasure!
I will accept all his opinions as fact!❤
These Hunger Pangs videos are awesome. I love making Chinese at home, and I've learned a lot from Jeffrey and Kevin. Keep it up, guys!
Thank you for your honest reviews: I, too, find PF Chang products and their restaurant food far too salty which to me means they are substituting salt for quality ingredients. Thank you for introducing me to "Fly by Jing" products - I'll try to find them here.
Dynamic duo! Please please make some more cooking videos.
I am in love with this father/son team. Their chemistry is just heartwarming--and the recipes are fabulous. Easy to follow and taste better than any other Asian food I have tried to make.
I absolutely love this format! It’s great to get both of your reactions, and I really like that you explain when it’s clearly Americanized, but still ok vs. Americanized & not good.
Mr. J. Pang you are awesome 🤩
This is probably the best food video ever. The wonderful chemistry between them is so very heart warming.
I really appreciate a honest opinion of Americanized asian food from the grocery store. I try to make authentic Asian dishes at home. So I love this video. Hope you do more of them so I know what to buy and what to stay away from. Thanks 😊
Really enjoyed this video and hope they make lots more like it! *waves hello to Jeffrey!* Appreciate their authentic take on (likely Americanized) supermarket/grocery store "Chinese food" - nicely informative.
Poor Kevin! Honey, you saw the steam coming from your soup dumpling, so you’ve got to slow down and let it cool… silly man. I’m in total agreement with your assessments. Keep these videos coming, gentlemen! 😊
Now I live in a rural area and I can't get Chinese food where I am and I just think you and your dad should be seen more on America's test kitchen I'm just saying as a consumer I follow a lot of their recipes I think it's a great watching you and your dad work together and I love Chinese food
You guys may be my favorite ATK personalities along with Dan Souza. Really enjoy the scratch-made Chinese recipes (hot and sour soup was great!), but this video was helpful and appreciate the thumbs up on TJ's Mandarin Chicken.
Yes!!
I love this series!
I love this series and food reviews so this should’ve fun 👏🏽
Love the father and son duo. I enjoy all of their videos.
Those two are cracking me up.
I can't even buy any of these products as I live in the UK, but these two are so great to watch. It's such a nice family vibe.
I usually make Trader Joe's Orange Chicken in a nonstick skillet; I find tossing the chicken and sauce together in a hot skillet adds some bitter caramel notes which improves it over the recipe on the package.
Happy new year...when are you going to post new videos? Missing you guys.
These are such great videos. And darn it, they always make me hungry!
I appreciate the sincere reviews of prepared Chinese food. Living in Singapore, and being married to a Chinese woman, I am spoiled, and biased, but I'm happy to purchase and eat prepared foods from a supermarket, IF it's a quality purchase.
Taste tests are important to those of us who rarely cook from scratch. Keep these shows coming!
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Love Hunger Pangs!
Seriously love these guys! This was such a good idea for a video.
I love this series.
Thank you for presenting this to us.
I shop at trader Joe's and I have the Mandarin orange and the dumplings in my freezer. I was going to boil them and then Brown them in a skillet as fried dumplings/potstickers. I have a container of the sauce usually given from my local Chinese place. I cherish that sauce and use it to baste pork on the grill
Love these videos!
I loved every moment of this. Thank you for sharing your wonderful food sense and your beautiful father-son connection. ❤
Thanks so much for rating these frozen foods, it helps greatly when you can’t make them from scratch. I love Chinese food and the convenience of frozen helps so much for time and not having all those ingredients on hand. Please do more. No problem with rice on the side to go along with the meal.
This is helpful. Thank you
TJ's does a pretty darn good job with their frozen prepared foods in general, in my experience. I'd be interested to see what you think of their shu mai 🙂
You guys ROCK!
NOW, on the egg rolls being too soggy, I have had these before.... I too thought they were soggy, so the next time I had them I feel fried them and they came out crispy and were very good! Give it a try and see what you think!
Keep up the good work you two!
Agreed on the Orange Chicken from TJs - its in the freezer for those nights where cooking is just not going to happen. The TJs Kung Pao chicken is also worth keeping for emergencies.
You need a lavalier mic.
This is very useful information and almost as much fun as watching you cook together.
I like the father's (or mother's) decorating sense. Enuf said.
I agree with Daddy Pang. The jiaozi which they boiled in water tastes really good. The skin is thin and the filling very tasty. I wish they are bigger. Will definitely buy again. Will try the frozen items next time!
Kevin, your kitchen is amazing! I'm so jealous!
I’m so glad to see more episodes!!!! I love watching you both cook. I agree with your dad- the TJ’s chicken is okay but it’s mostly batter if you want something easy
I want a Dan Dan Noodles episode now!
??? ATK uploaded one a couple of weeks ago…
I love your program. You and your father are wonderful together
really great job...thanks, guys
I love them so much!
Thanks for the reviews! Would love to see you both try others. Personally, we like Pagoda egg rolls. They come out with a good crisp and crunch and have a nice flavor.
We don’t have a Trader Joe’s in my town. We get P.F. Chang’s kits (i.e. orange chicken, sweet and sour, etc.) and those have been ok. For orange chicken though, I will sometimes buy a package of popcorn chicken and a bottle of Panda Express’s sauce. Then I don’t have to futz with getting the batter right on a weeknight after work.
Love you two! This was wonderful!
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so happy to see fly by jing featured here
checked this series out because of the "splendid table" podcast
hoping to watch many more
The Fly By Jin products and very expensive. That jar of Chili Crisp sauce sells at Target for a whopping $14! Trader Joe’s has their version for about $5.
Love watching you all when your cooking. The reviews were helpful
Love Hunger Pangs. But, if I may make a suggestion: can you throw in at least one vegetarian choice that you like for the next installment, please?
I lOVE you guys!!!!
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this was a fun show. now I don't feel so guilty about being a fan of the trader joe's orange chicken. I used to buy it every other shopping trip. I actually like the p.f. chang's dan dan noodles. but have to admit, I have no idea about what dan dan noodles should taste like. I will try to look for those dumplings at my store but am not sure if I've ever seen that brand in our frozen section. thanks
I'm surprised to learn that xiaolongbao are even possible as a frozen food item. Given the tendency for frozen dumplings to stick together and then break each other apart during separation, and given the importance of a leak-free exterior for this dish, it seems like a feat of engineering. The point about the thicker dough sounds right. It's probably a little bit of insurance against breakage if they stick together.
I was fortunate to enjoy xiaolongbao with nice thin dough at one of the cafeterias at Peking University.
I just love you guys and your dad’s awesome!👍😊
Many thanks to all, particularly dad’s genuine voice of experience.
You guys were to nice to PF Chang stuff. Their sit-down restaurant food is BLAND. "It's to complicated."
Trader Joe's Frozen Soup Dumplings are good as are their different Potstickers.
Love this video, very informative. Sad when you've never been to China and have no idea what real Chinese food is supposed to taste like, which is the boat I'm in. So I really enjoyed this father & son team reviewing these grocery store brands and giving us their opinions. It helps a lot. Next trip to TJs I'll be picking up some of that Orange Chicken.
Thanks guys👍🏼🙋♀️
*I used to get the Trader Joe’s orange chicken all the time. Even Mike Chen was impressed by Chinese food at Trader Joe’s*
This was very informative, thank you! I went to PF Chang's once a long time ago (in Seattle, actually) and thought it was pretty bland so I've avoided it since.
Will throw a slice of fresh ginger in with my black vinegar from now on! 👍😋
Very nice bro mouths watering stay blessed 🇦🇪😍
I really like the Trader Joe’s orange chicken. I also like that it has 2 sauce packets, so you can do just half a package at a time. I’d avoid their honey walnut shrimp, though (or at least use the sauce quite sparingly).
Thanks for the info. Have loved the convenience of TJ’s orange chicken. We prefer Aldi’s Fusion brand dumplings because the skin is thin and they have two sizes one small one for wonton soup and one for pot stickers. Ideal intro to whatever Chinese meal you are having. We prefer a soy sauce slightly sweet vinegar sauce that is mixed with Sesame laced Chinese garlic sauce. Really awakens the taste buds for what comes next. Again thanks for the info. Agree that you are better off making your own Dan Dan noodles.
I just love you guys. And I love that you were so honest because you know what you’re talking about and this is about authenticity. It does not surprise me about PF Chang’s at all. A Very Americanized place, all salt and sugar and oil. Was fun to watch that Trader Joe’s got in there somewhere. Thank you again so glad you guys are here.😘😘😘
Yeah, I gotta confess that I just don't care for PF Chang's even fresh from the restaurant, let alone from the freezer 😀
Authenticity is way over rated. Does it taste good? That's the key.
@@TedInATL Over rated I don’t know, but you do have a point. But these guys definitely bring both the authenticity and amazing taste.
Mary Pangs beef short ribs were my favorite.
We’ve been through many, many brands of frozen egg rolls, most are awful, a few acceptable. But we finally found a good one. Van’s (formerly Confucius) chicken egg rolls are great. Used to be able to get them frozen at Walmart, now only refrigerated at Walmart (and Publix in the south).
Stick with the chicken, the pork ones have a funny taste, even though I normally like pork.
PF Changs should really think again about their frozen products. Have tried several, including these 2, and everything is AWFUL! Try Tai Pei brand pork dumplings- AWESOME!!!
Trader Joe's has a pretty good soup dumpling too.
That was interesting! My kids like dumplings so I will try those. It's always helpful to have something good in the freezer when you can't make it to the store. I made a recipe recently that called for a bamboo steamer. I don't have one and used a wok steamer. Should I buy a bamboo steamer? How do you clean and sanitize it? Is it healthy to use? Is the bamboo sealed in anything toxic? Thank you!
I don’t mind PF Chang’s in person (not authentic, but tasty for what it is) but every frozen version that I have tried is routinely awful. I either go to Trader Joe’s or my local Asian market if I want some frozen Chinese food. You can usually get good dumplings or bao that way.
gotta try the fly by jing!
The PF Chang egg rolls I heat them up in my air frier and they come out nice
I like your haricut Kevin!
Could we get a Dan Dan noodle recipe?
Some American made cultural foods have made me want to try the original but it would be nice if it was so much more like the original.
I would like to know if there are any frozen char sui bao that you guys would recommend
I had frozen PF Changs once and almost barfed. The TJs orange chicken is kinda gross, but I guess 5 bucks is a good deal. I really really like Trader Joe's chicken fried rice. It's the only frozen Chinese food I like.
got to get these things in the asian market, cheaper and better. Just got to find someone who can show you the way.
Trader Joe and mushroom Fly By Jing. Got it.
One of the worst reviewed recipes on ATK is oyster sauce, because it's not a DIY sauce, it's just an enhancement recipe. I'd love to see Hunger Pangs discuss homemade oyster, Hoisin, and other staple sauces, and possibly versions with low-calorie sugar substitutes. Please??
Having tasted all of the above and more, the Trader Joe’s mandarin orange is pretty good. But between XCJ vs Fly By Jing soup dumplings, XCJ wins. So I typically order XCJ soup dumplings instead.
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Trader Joes has decent soup dumplings. Less expesive than Jing.
Just went to TJ's yesterday and they were out of my favorite item, the pork soup dumplings. I was sad.
Thanks for the helpful reviews! Never had any of them but I am willing to try Trader Joe’s orange chicken and fly by jing’s dumplings. It figures that PF Chang’s are not that great. I am staying away from those.
The dad is better and true in his reviews 😅
"Grocery shop" is the most elderly person phrase ever
But that's what makes him so adorable!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌😁👍
Can you please tell me where you bought those Fly By Jing frozen foods? Were they all from Trader Joe's as well? Thanks.
Maybe try the store locator on Jing's website?
Tried TJs mandarine chicken. I'm kinda on the fence tbh
I like Trader Joe's Kung Pao Cauliflower. It's more Kung Pao adjacent than Kung Pao proper, but tasty nonetheless.
Those egg roles look different between the 2.
Anything made by PF Chong is bad. For chicken egg rolls try Pagoda. They make larger rolls which are really good.
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All the PF chang frozen I have tried have been terrible.
Service at P.F. Chang's restaurants is terrible.
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the TJ's chicken sauce needs soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar and garlic added to it.
too sweet otherwise.
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Not good to watch before dinner… I’m getting hunger pangs
Oh no! P.F Chang's food is not good at all just like the greasy Chinese take outs here.... P.F. is either too salty, too spicy, or too overly sweet, and some of the foods in a sauce just has way too much sauce. For frozen Asian foods, I prefer Trader Joes' frozen foods, plus the different flavors of frozen fried rice at Trader Joes are also just as delicious alone. But I like adding in some fresh lightly sauted veggies, or ginger in the rice, and have that delicious orange chicken on the side🤤. For a different meal, I add in fresh shrimp, fish or fried tofu topped with a bit of oyster sauce, or toasted sesame oil for a complete meal. Try their frozen fried rice, and their tasty spring rolls, plus pot stickers, you might like them all...🙂
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ATK needs to spring for some out of studio smartphone/laptop lavaliere mics. Love the content… audio is a bit lacking.
Useful but would be far better if you tasted more readily available Chinese foods