Have you guys noticed how Michi's chibi form fits so well with her personality? It's like if it's her true form, and the other one is the form she uses to blend in with the humans?
Uncle Roger is indeed Michi's uncle. He is also Gordon Ramsay's uncle. He is Zentreya's uncle, he is Gunrun's uncle, he is Jack Black's uncle, he is Pope Francis' uncle, he is The Rock's uncle, he is Aoi Yuki's uncle, he is Lewis Hamilton's uncle. He is your uncle. He is my uncle. He is everyone's uncle. That's why his name is "Uncle Roger" and not "Roger."
- Fancy indoor kitchen with modern cookwares only for cooking instant noodles. - Real kitchen at the back ( not necessarily outdoor) is where real food being made, even in rural areas we still use wood or charcoal instead of LPG.
True, fancy indoor kitchen or what we called dry kitchen is where we put expensive stuff like refrigerator, blender or any stuff that needs electricity and other kitchen utensils + cooking ingredients like rice and spices. This place is usually squeaky clean since the worst you can do here is cutting ingredients. Meanwhile the real kitchen or wet kitchen is where all the action happen. Gas stove, kerosene stove, briquette stove or on rural area firewood stove. It might not be outdoor but it def have so much ventilation or giant window/door to make sure all the smokes can go out. This place looks the most chaotic with oil stain and burn marks everywhere.
@@arfbark3924 we have lots of insects, but if your concern is whether they become nuisance well funny enough they didn't. The intense heat prob the reason.
@@Marveryntechnically no. Cauliflower is believed to have originated in Cyprus. And while Cyprus is politically European, NOW, it is is historically and geographically Asian. So it would also be Asian Greens. White Greens would be a better description for the sake of differentiating specific vegetables.
@@darkamora5123 i stand corrected as i was not familiar with the birth place of cauliflower. which make sense. Be kind of calling noddles italian when it originated in china first but marco polo pbrought it to italy
@@angrydragonslayer I'm not one for cooking as of yet, but from what I heard simmering Sauerkraut is not a favourable way of preparing the dish. also there are quite a number of things to ruffle me feathers, one in particular has to do with how people " not " pay attention to traffic matters because I work as a Truck Jockey
For me here in Malaysia, we dont really have a wet kitchen, we pretty much do everything inside. However, if there is a special occasion like Aidilfitri, Aidiladha, a wedding, or other similar occasion where usually theres more people than usual, we would cook on the outside kitchen. Me and my brother is usually the cook for the Satay in Aidilfitri, and cooking beef curry or Red Chicken (Ayam masak merah) in a super big wok or pot is a normal thing on these outside kitchen. Somehow these outside kitchen curry is almost always better in terms of the taste imo.
You're mostly right, but I think older style kampung houses (translation: village houses to non malaysians) sometimes have them. It's basically out of style for modern houses except for in rural areas or people who are nostalgic about cooking with their parents or grandparents back in the day and carry it on. Interesting to know such a tradition is still going on strong in Indo.
Yeah we don't really do it anymore here in Indo either, especially in the city... Sometimes we just make a "temporary communal kitchen" with some wooden pole and tarp somewhere empty... Much simpler...
I think its depend, my home have 2 kitchen, indeed one inside one at the back with open window. But my other relative home only have one kitchen, some of my relative live in KL dont even have kitchen cuz they doesnt cook
I lived in a house that used to have a wet kitchen. It was the first thing that we gotten rid off when we renovate lol. So much mosquitoes, i do not miss it. I think wet kitchens were fairly popular up until the last decade, at least here in Sarawak.
@@bored_person Oh, I forgot, good question. I only ever saw the 1944 MGM remake. The 1940 version was found and restored more recently, but I hear it's also excellent. I understand it's free on TH-cam. I might just watch it later today.
The chibi avatar, the indo accent, the punchlines, "oh that's so bright.. so bright" 😂 honestly first time here and I'm loving everything lol so glad YT recommended this. Totally subscibing now.
You can't use metal inside a non-stick pan but that specific pan has raised metal in the honeycomb shapes that means it doesn't touch the Teflon when you use metal utensils on it.
Yup, and it doesn't really work quite as well as "real" non-stick after a few uses because to get near that you'd have to season the exposed metal, which is basically impossible due to the smaller surface area and the nonstick (which you shouldn't get hot enough to season the exposed metal). More durable than traditional non-stick, less non-stick than traditional non-stick, more non-stick than stainless steel, and less durable than stainless steel.
I love this video, Michi, Uncle Rodger and Indonesian food. I am the whitest of Dutchies, but I love making Indonesian food, especially for big parties, I start cooking a week in advance. I also like Michi's Indonesian accent, having people of Indonesian heritage close to me for my entire life it sounds so comfortable. They also helped me learn how to cook Indonesian food. It might just be the tastiest cuisine in the world, and most Ingredients are available here.
See here's the thing... My family only have one kitchen, but most people are amused by how my mother put her whole ingredient neatly and how her cooking always tastes good
Where you from? I'm guessing Michi it was an asian thing. I don't usually have issues with my cooking making the house smelly. Though onions and hot peppers can do that, so maybe those are things that I should cook outside more. But also, if your kitchen has proper ventilation it shouldn't be an issue. I think the problem is most kitchens just have a simple range hood, which may or may not be enough depending on what you cook. Some spices like cumin and curry and onions and hot peppers can really have strong smells.
My family also has one, but my grandma house which quite big has two kitchen, the outside and inside. My grandma uses the outside kitchen only if there's special occasion.
@@Bloodstar-o7 Me? I'm from Indonesia. Palembang to be exact and yes, we have a proper ventilation. Also, there's this one time when my mom makes a sambal goreng (it's like chilli con carne, but it's rich in flavor), and we started sneezing despite the whole ventilation thingy still works, some spices in Indonesia are pretty much stronger, sooo yeah, a proper ventilation is a go (at least the sneezing is not as worse than without ventilation)
Eh. Sometimes you don't want to mess up a nice cutting board. I have a wooden cutting board but it's pretty much exclusively used for rolling out dough when baking. The only cutting is with a cookie cutter usually, or occasionally cutting dough in a log shape. For actually chopping vegetables or trimming meat I have seperate plastic cutting boards.
Pretty sure he just took a small cutting board since he put it by the fire first and moved the grilled cheese to the counter on it. Looks a bit goofy but he basically cut down on extra steps, and potentially dishes
I was gonna roast Michi’s egg take, but I’m Hmong and I don’t like egg rolls. So I guess we all have that one food that is universally liked and part of our culture that we just don’t like for no reason
22:50 Dishewashers are great, they use a lot less water than washing by hand. Don't use regular manual dishwashing soap or deterget with them though (yeah, the foam flood is a real threat with regular detergents and stuff), there are pods (or powders, liquids) made for dishwashers, they usually go in a little box in the door that holds there during the pre-wash and then let it drop and mix with the water for thorough cleaning. TBH, I would be living with paper plates and plastic utensils and cups if I didn't had a dishwasher; I don't have the mental health to stand on the sink scrubbing old food for hours....
you want to know how to avoid scrubbing for hours, people without a dishwasher? huge tip, changed my outlook on the chores of life just do this... scrape the shit off your plates immediately...a quick, thorough, lazy clean is all you need now washing dishes is 20-30 seconds every day instead of a whole ass film length chunk of my week, I got low energy for tasks like this and this is the best way. Foods are so damn easy to clean when it's fresh and having an empty sink 24/7 is so much better for the mental health than ignoring a full one, it's been so worth the change of habit, trust me.
@@jaysuscrass9119 Even if you have the energy, putting the dishes on the dishwasher still saves water, so in the end the conclusion still is dishwasher is the best alternative.
My Chinese immigrant parents never hooked up our dishwasher to water, since they had two perfectly good dishwashers (me and my brother) in the house. They just used it for spare plate storage. Even after they renovated the house after my grandparents passed, including the kitchen, and installed a new dishwasher for whatever reason, it was never hooked up to water. Now at 36, I still have never used a dishwasher. When I went to a rich friend’s house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in high school, another Asian classmate there noticed the dishwasher in the kitchen and asked him why his kitchen had 2 washing machines. Dishwashers are just not a thing that people use in many immigrant Asian families.
use plastic plates. light and hard to break. very easy to wash. even if you have like 15 of those in need of cleaning, it will only take like 10 minutes. what makes dishwashing long is if there are variety of items you need to clean. Glass cups, ceramics, plastics, alot of variety results in their necessary order of washing and some items can have complex shape that's not convenient to wash.
around 15:30 ,as SEA bro here the only time i got fried rice as side dish is when we do family gather at restaurant with rich uncle/aunt and the kids cant many things and they ordered fried rice as side dish normally when my family cook fried rice. they make alot like i can eat for 4 days. super relatable😂😂
@nurikhsanfikriawan9662 well maybe because dek mean she/he is younger, and yup maybe not young like a "kid" but still halo mas/teh/mbak/kak sound better
The question is, what's wrong with calling someone younger with "dek"? I know that it's wrong in context of catcalling an underaged person. But what's wrong with 25 y.o. man/woman calling a 20 y.o. man/woman with "dek"? Why it's so frowned upon?
@@nurikhsanfikriawan9662 Only very special people get offended by calling kak/mbak/mas/dek, most people on street will be fine with you use whatever seems appropriate
If anyone was curious, apparently "chili jam" was invented in southern Texas in the USA, originally with Jalapeño peppers, as a way to preserve and use excess peppers.
Loved the video! The reactions and natural seeping in of your own accent and lingo was adorably on point lol Tho I do sort of wish we couldve seen the full reactions to each of the Uncle Roger videos; wouldve loved to see your reactions to the end of the dishes or their various multiple twists/turns!
Can you explain? Does it have significance? I have an Indian uncle who married into my white-bread midwestern family. My aunt used her married last name in public in front of another rare Indian woman, who said "? Oh, you must be very wealthy!"....Yes. Yes she is.
@@verdatumIndonesian doesnt have a norm/tradition to use last name or family name except for certain tribes like the Batak, and for Javanese people who has last name/family names mean youre from established family aka rich. Well im not Javanese but thats my understanding so far
Chili jam is exactly what it sounds like: jam made from chili. It kind of makes sense, since chilis are technically berries. I'm not sure what most people use it for, though; I've only ever used it to dip jalapeno poppers and for this one weird thing my family does (I mean, I like it, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it), where we basically stir fry cannelloni beans with black pepper and a little jam. I usually use peach jam for that, but I've done chili jam a couple times, and it comes out pretty good.
The reason why you notice things is because we are asian. Once we are born as an asian we already know what to do is that u wake up and cook your own lunch and iron your own clothes and get ready to go out of your house then you go to school and then when you finish school you go to college and you go get a job you but you have three options that is to be a doctor, a lawyer, and a failure(basically other jobs) and then get rich and get a family teach your children about how to be like you back then and then they repeat the cycle Hope this is relatable to other asians like me
Michi's mom sounds adorable, exactly like moms to be like. "imagine if you got with this person?" hoping their kid lands it with a talented rich person.
Hello big fan from japan 🇯🇵, I like be cookie and I can confirm I have an outside kitchen idk why but cooking fried rice over a fire place with a wok just hits different, especially since I live in the mountains
Chili jam is a combination of sweet and spicy, it's like fruit jam except using chilis as the fruit. It's terrible for fried rice, but I love using it with a charcuterie board with cheese and meat.
In other words, chili jam is more of a western/european thing that is more akin to being a sauce or condiment to use. TERRIBLE of any actual Asian cooking (unless you’re doing some sort of sweet and spicy food, and even then there’s probably better options)
Talking about scents you wake up to that make your eyes water, I had a roommate from India in college who was constantly cooking when he was in the apartment because he would have his other Indian classmates over for dinner and study. So, when my pasty asthmatic Italian self would open the door, it would be this explosion of smell that would always make me gag and rush to my room for some level of safety. And, yes, I did try the food to be nice, but I just couldn't handle it. The thing about the two kitchens does make me reflect on just how awful all the cooking surfaces and pots would be when they'd finish. That and the smoke are both things you'd care less about if you cooked outside.
In Philippines we also have two kitchens. 😂 Even my aunt who has the biggest house in our family, she still prefers to cook in the outdoor kitchen at the back of the house. 😂 In PH we call it Dirty Kitchen. Cuz usually that's where you bring the wet market items you bought like fishes and meat and everything else cuz then you won't ever worry of your indoor of the house smelling like fish and being dirty. Hence the dirty kitchen is where you do the dirty part of cooking and preparing of ingredients
Probably cooking outside for the maneuvering space and lighting... He was probably like, "I'm in this wonderful place. What do I do today? I guess having fried rice would be nice. I guess I'll make a video about it too."
Advice from someone who loves to cook: Don't make it too complicated. Take a recipe and make it as it's written the first couple of times. Then do a different recipe and learn how it tastes. Keep going and you will start putting new spices into old dishes. Learn how diffrent spices taste and how they develop through cooking. The best advice I can give is make smaller batches when you're making something new. It could be fantastic with a certain spice or completely terrible, but atleast you're the only one living through that one meal that didn't turn out amazing. Cooking is experience and you need to learn how things taste through different cooking methods to enrich your life. Once you do you'll never go hungry again
Yeah, fried rice can be food for days (depends on how many people and hunger levels) bc even the "main dish" (idk it's ULAM in Filipino) so it's a complete dish. But in PH, you will usually have extra ulam like meats or fish (or leftover ulam from the day/s before) sadly there's also a lot of families that are poor that they have to work extra hard to bring food to the table 😢
Even as an SEA living in the US, my family hardly ever uses the dishwasher 😂 Unless it's a holiday with a ton of dishes we're too lazy to wash, we just stick hand-washed dishes in there to dry
10:27 It might sound weird but Asia is also a continent not just a race in English. So saying something is Asian usually just means its from that region. Big region yeah. Also Broccoli is from the eastern mediterranean. So that's what you would call it a Mediterranean green if you wanted to get real specific.
Actually, there is a way to drain the oil from sunny side egg. After you deep fry it, put it between kitchen cooking towel and let it sit for 3--5 minutes. That way, the oil will be absorbed into the towel. So, you get crunchy egg and less oil, maybe less cholesterol too.
@@ruukinen I tried that before. It didn't work. The egg absorbed the oil and it almost burned on a pan. That wasn't not good because of three things. 1. A lot of carcinogen in the egg 2. The pan almost ruined 3. My mom turned into a demon 😆 Unfortunately, you need a lot of oil to soak the egg in order to make crunchy sunny side.
@@ruukinen using less oil to fry is an oxymoron. But if you want less oil on your fried eggs, a wire rack is also fine to use in addition to your towel technique.
@@ruukinen look at the definition of "to fry" please. Frying implies oil or at least some fat. And the etymology is from the old french "frire", which is the verb that gave us the "fries". There's no such distinction between fry and deep fry in the language you borrowed the word from because it simply means to cook something in fat. What you describe is searing an egg, for a sunny side up, not frying it.
Chili jam is actually really good. I make it homemade, where it also has orange juice in it. I pretty much just use it on bread with salami and/or cheese though
One of the reasons Australia is one of the "generally studying overseas there" is because education (primarily University) is one of our largest exports. We tend to have a high number of SEA, East Asian or South Asian students studying here. One of the classes I did, around half of the class was from various Asian backgrounds, had 2 Chinese, 1 Singaporean, 1 Korean and I believe 1 Indonesian student.
michi's accent getting stronger and stronger during the runtime is great, when the 'lah's kick in you know she's locked in
she went full South East Asian
and I love that
as a South East Asian guy, Its so comforting to hear her go full South East Asia.
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@@MrTubeStuck If she forgets how to speak English, and starts speaking Bahasa Indonesia, that's how you know she's gone full Asian.
You can hear the Jaksel accent seep in sometimes lol
Have you guys noticed how Michi's chibi form fits so well with her personality? It's like if it's her true form, and the other one is the form she uses to blend in with the humans?
Chibi is her tomato form.
@@sleepyslipper9208real and true
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One thing Niji did right was fuck it up so bad we went back to doki and her tomato @@sleepyslipper9208
I can't even make a full comment because of the censorship
I love that her accent keeps getting stronger and stronger as the video goes on lol
She's sinking deeper and deeper into her native Indonesian!
Pestle and mortar
Everyone has a dishwasher... they are called "children".
Dang i used mine wrong then, only use them as a TV remote
Everyone has children? This is news to me...
There is this place called an orphanage where people shops for children (in SEA accent)@@Niko__01
If you have to feed it, it's not free anymore does it?
@@user-zc2hz3yj2kwho said anything about feeding them? /j
Uncle Roger is indeed Michi's uncle. He is also Gordon Ramsay's uncle.
He is Zentreya's uncle, he is Gunrun's uncle, he is Jack Black's uncle, he is Pope Francis' uncle, he is The Rock's uncle, he is Aoi Yuki's uncle, he is Lewis Hamilton's uncle.
He is your uncle. He is my uncle.
He is everyone's uncle. That's why his name is "Uncle Roger" and not "Roger."
He is even your uncle’s uncle, somehow.
He is the real life Uncle Grandpa
He’s related to Uncle Ruckus, no relation.
American Dad flashbacks
Except, he disowned Jamie Oliver
- Fancy indoor kitchen with modern cookwares only for cooking instant noodles.
- Real kitchen at the back ( not necessarily outdoor) is where real food being made, even in rural areas we still use wood or charcoal instead of LPG.
True, fancy indoor kitchen or what we called dry kitchen is where we put expensive stuff like refrigerator, blender or any stuff that needs electricity and other kitchen utensils + cooking ingredients like rice and spices. This place is usually squeaky clean since the worst you can do here is cutting ingredients.
Meanwhile the real kitchen or wet kitchen is where all the action happen. Gas stove, kerosene stove, briquette stove or on rural area firewood stove. It might not be outdoor but it def have so much ventilation or giant window/door to make sure all the smokes can go out. This place looks the most chaotic with oil stain and burn marks everywhere.
hell yeah brother especially all the walls are black because of all the wood burning. you know your family is COOKING when they put the wood in there
So you guys just don't have animals or insects?
@@arfbark3924 we have lots of insects, but if your concern is whether they become nuisance well funny enough they didn't. The intense heat prob the reason.
@@davidtogi5878and if you Chinese enough they're additional ingredients.
I feel like calling cauliflower "white greens" would be pretty accurate in a variety of ways.
i made your comment 200 likes
would it not be more accurate to call it european greens?
U don't get it do you @Marveryn
@@Marveryntechnically no. Cauliflower is believed to have originated in Cyprus. And while Cyprus is politically European, NOW, it is is historically and geographically Asian.
So it would also be Asian Greens. White Greens would be a better description for the sake of differentiating specific vegetables.
@@darkamora5123 i stand corrected as i was not familiar with the birth place of cauliflower. which make sense. Be kind of calling noddles italian when it originated in china first but marco polo pbrought it to italy
Michi is quickly becoming one of my favorite vtubers. Her commentary and stories are just so relatable and honest. She's just fun to watch.
Same bro
Same
"White greens" just sounds funny, like red blues or yellow purples.
I too find white greens a amusing word president starscream
As an ex-dinobot, I fully endorse this message.
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Green whites
Isn't that just radish? It is white (sorry red radish) and green.
5:52 Uncle Roger (real name Nigel Ng) is from Malaysia
RAHHHHHHHH MALAYSIA MENTIONED 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
@@NyaniKore MAKA KAMI RAKYAT MALAYSIA 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🐅🐅🐅🐅
@@litziaa_yt BERIKRAR DAN BERJANJI 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾 🐅🐅🐅🐅
Im in Malaysia
If it makes Uncle Roger feel better he can think of the kimchi as angry sauerkraut.
luckily I'm a mild tempered Sauerkraut (US slang), meaning I don't get angry at comments like this
😂😂😂😂😂ohh that Made me lose my "ruhiges kalte deutsche Gemüt" 😂😂😂
For the Americans that is best translated to a "ICE Cold professionelle bitch face"
@@HrLBolle sounds like seething imo
@@angrydragonslayer I'm not one for cooking as of yet, but from what I heard simmering Sauerkraut is not a favourable way of preparing the dish.
also there are quite a number of things to ruffle me feathers, one in particular has to do with how people " not " pay attention to traffic matters because I work as a Truck Jockey
@@HrLBolle that's just a glorified warehouse worker tho🤔
15:50 Even as a half Viet American, I get that. Fried rice is a pain to make, so you make a lot, and that's all you have for days.
For me here in Malaysia, we dont really have a wet kitchen, we pretty much do everything inside. However, if there is a special occasion like Aidilfitri, Aidiladha, a wedding, or other similar occasion where usually theres more people than usual, we would cook on the outside kitchen. Me and my brother is usually the cook for the Satay in Aidilfitri, and cooking beef curry or Red Chicken (Ayam masak merah) in a super big wok or pot is a normal thing on these outside kitchen. Somehow these outside kitchen curry is almost always better in terms of the taste imo.
You're mostly right, but I think older style kampung houses (translation: village houses to non malaysians) sometimes have them. It's basically out of style for modern houses except for in rural areas or people who are nostalgic about cooking with their parents or grandparents back in the day and carry it on. Interesting to know such a tradition is still going on strong in Indo.
Yeah we don't really do it anymore here in Indo either, especially in the city... Sometimes we just make a "temporary communal kitchen" with some wooden pole and tarp somewhere empty... Much simpler...
I think its depend, my home have 2 kitchen, indeed one inside one at the back with open window. But my other relative home only have one kitchen, some of my relative live in KL dont even have kitchen cuz they doesnt cook
@@leevi4214 yeah it isn't that spacious in the city
I lived in a house that used to have a wet kitchen. It was the first thing that we gotten rid off when we renovate lol. So much mosquitoes, i do not miss it. I think wet kitchens were fairly popular up until the last decade, at least here in Sarawak.
"Gaslighting" comes from the movie "Gaslight," where a husband tries to drive his wife crazy so he can steal from her
Where did you get that notion from? Are you lying to us or just plain crazy?
@@TheWhiteDragon3Obviously, we're getting gaslit
It's worth watching too if you're into classic films. It's not Hitchcock, but it has a bit of the Hitchcock feel to it.
@@verdatum Which one?
@@bored_person Oh, I forgot, good question. I only ever saw the 1944 MGM remake. The 1940 version was found and restored more recently, but I hear it's also excellent. I understand it's free on TH-cam. I might just watch it later today.
Michi got so excited in this
She can do this stuff without "getting the yellow dollar ya know?" now...lol. Who wouldn't be?
“you are so full of yourself”
“YOU ARE SO FULL OF HATRED!”
defending her crush like a champ 😂
Michi fights with uncle roger at family dinner
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😂😂😂
W counterargument
The chibi avatar, the indo accent, the punchlines, "oh that's so bright.. so bright" 😂 honestly first time here and I'm loving everything lol so glad YT recommended this. Totally subscibing now.
You can't use metal inside a non-stick pan but that specific pan has raised metal in the honeycomb shapes that means it doesn't touch the Teflon when you use metal utensils on it.
Sounds like a PITA to clean properly.
@@BlackEpyon wouldn't trust it not to fuck with the non-stick anyway too tbh 🤷♂️
@@AilinOGriobhtha The idea is that the coating can't get scratched if the utensil can't dig in.
It still literally feels weird to scrape across it; like using a rasp on your spatula.
Yup, and it doesn't really work quite as well as "real" non-stick after a few uses because to get near that you'd have to season the exposed metal, which is basically impossible due to the smaller surface area and the nonstick (which you shouldn't get hot enough to season the exposed metal). More durable than traditional non-stick, less non-stick than traditional non-stick, more non-stick than stainless steel, and less durable than stainless steel.
"That's not Sambal, that's Samthing"
Peak linguistic moment
Uncle Roger is Malaysian and the slang he used is mostly used by chinese malaysian
In America, the MSG of word is “fuck” or “fucking hell” if you want use two words. I feel like the latter is the pinnacle of disappointment. XD
I love this video, Michi, Uncle Rodger and Indonesian food. I am the whitest of Dutchies, but I love making Indonesian food, especially for big parties, I start cooking a week in advance. I also like Michi's Indonesian accent, having people of Indonesian heritage close to me for my entire life it sounds so comfortable. They also helped me learn how to cook Indonesian food. It might just be the tastiest cuisine in the world, and most Ingredients are available here.
Aku senang sekali anda menyukai makanan kita!! Salam dari indonesia 🥰
Broccoli: Euro greens
White bread: Euro noodle
Corn syrup & HF corn syrup: American MSG
Sugary cake: American bread
24:44 Donald Duck seeing Jamie Oliver’s horrific fried rice
See here's the thing... My family only have one kitchen, but most people are amused by how my mother put her whole ingredient neatly and how her cooking always tastes good
Where you from? I'm guessing Michi it was an asian thing. I don't usually have issues with my cooking making the house smelly. Though onions and hot peppers can do that, so maybe those are things that I should cook outside more. But also, if your kitchen has proper ventilation it shouldn't be an issue. I think the problem is most kitchens just have a simple range hood, which may or may not be enough depending on what you cook.
Some spices like cumin and curry and onions and hot peppers can really have strong smells.
My family also has one, but my grandma house which quite big has two kitchen, the outside and inside. My grandma uses the outside kitchen only if there's special occasion.
@@Bloodstar-o7 Me? I'm from Indonesia. Palembang to be exact and yes, we have a proper ventilation. Also, there's this one time when my mom makes a sambal goreng (it's like chilli con carne, but it's rich in flavor), and we started sneezing despite the whole ventilation thingy still works, some spices in Indonesia are pretty much stronger, sooo yeah, a proper ventilation is a go (at least the sneezing is not as worse than without ventilation)
@@adityarahmanda Oh, damn... I bet that's for the family gathering meals
@@ryoumakoushiro7447 yep, mostly for the annual hari raya
A cutting board on a cutting board👍
Eh. Sometimes you don't want to mess up a nice cutting board. I have a wooden cutting board but it's pretty much exclusively used for rolling out dough when baking. The only cutting is with a cookie cutter usually, or occasionally cutting dough in a log shape.
For actually chopping vegetables or trimming meat I have seperate plastic cutting boards.
@@Bloodstar-o7 why not place it beside the other cutting board then?;-;
@@Maico_XD idk. does it matter though? He avoided adding scratches to the bottom cutting board.
@@Bloodstar-o7 ok
Pretty sure he just took a small cutting board since he put it by the fire first and moved the grilled cheese to the counter on it. Looks a bit goofy but he basically cut down on extra steps, and potentially dishes
I was gonna roast Michi’s egg take, but I’m Hmong and I don’t like egg rolls. So I guess we all have that one food that is universally liked and part of our culture that we just don’t like for no reason
22:50 Dishewashers are great, they use a lot less water than washing by hand. Don't use regular manual dishwashing soap or deterget with them though (yeah, the foam flood is a real threat with regular detergents and stuff), there are pods (or powders, liquids) made for dishwashers, they usually go in a little box in the door that holds there during the pre-wash and then let it drop and mix with the water for thorough cleaning.
TBH, I would be living with paper plates and plastic utensils and cups if I didn't had a dishwasher; I don't have the mental health to stand on the sink scrubbing old food for hours....
you want to know how to avoid scrubbing for hours, people without a dishwasher?
huge tip, changed my outlook on the chores of life
just do this... scrape the shit off your plates immediately...a quick, thorough, lazy clean is all you need
now washing dishes is 20-30 seconds every day instead of a whole ass film length chunk of my week, I got low energy for tasks like this and this is the best way. Foods are so damn easy to clean when it's fresh and having an empty sink 24/7 is so much better for the mental health than ignoring a full one, it's been so worth the change of habit, trust me.
@@jaysuscrass9119 Even if you have the energy, putting the dishes on the dishwasher still saves water, so in the end the conclusion still is dishwasher is the best alternative.
@@tiagotiagot end of 1st sentence
My Chinese immigrant parents never hooked up our dishwasher to water, since they had two perfectly good dishwashers (me and my brother) in the house. They just used it for spare plate storage.
Even after they renovated the house after my grandparents passed, including the kitchen, and installed a new dishwasher for whatever reason, it was never hooked up to water. Now at 36, I still have never used a dishwasher.
When I went to a rich friend’s house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in high school, another Asian classmate there noticed the dishwasher in the kitchen and asked him why his kitchen had 2 washing machines. Dishwashers are just not a thing that people use in many immigrant Asian families.
use plastic plates. light and hard to break. very easy to wash. even if you have like 15 of those in need of cleaning, it will only take like 10 minutes.
what makes dishwashing long is if there are variety of items you need to clean. Glass cups, ceramics, plastics, alot of variety results in their necessary order of washing and some items can have complex shape that's not convenient to wash.
around 15:30 ,as SEA bro here the only time i got fried rice as side dish is when we do family gather at restaurant with rich uncle/aunt and the kids cant many things and they ordered fried rice as side dish
normally when my family cook fried rice. they make alot like i can eat for 4 days. super relatable😂😂
I learn something new everyday with Michi about Asian life.
Michi needs to do more food reaction vids, please. I really loved this.
loved it
edited reactions are better than the ones with dead air, where the streamer js just silent
Uncle Roger : Haiyaa Michi, why you don't eat beef? Why? Why!?
May be she's Hindu
18:31 Not the "halo mas" cat calling lmaooooo.
The double standard is when "Halo mas" considered normal, but "Halo dek" is always frowned upon...
@nurikhsanfikriawan9662 well maybe because dek mean she/he is younger, and yup maybe not young like a "kid" but still halo mas/teh/mbak/kak sound better
The question is, what's wrong with calling someone younger with "dek"?
I know that it's wrong in context of catcalling an underaged person. But what's wrong with 25 y.o. man/woman calling a 20 y.o. man/woman with "dek"? Why it's so frowned upon?
@@nurikhsanfikriawan9662 Only very special people get offended by calling kak/mbak/mas/dek, most people on street will be fine with you use whatever seems appropriate
Michi, there is a dishwasher in your family house.
You're the dishwasher
If anyone was curious, apparently "chili jam" was invented in southern Texas in the USA, originally with Jalapeño peppers, as a way to preserve and use excess peppers.
Michi should cook fried rice and ask uncle rogers to roast her.
Loved the video! The reactions and natural seeping in of your own accent and lingo was adorably on point lol
Tho I do sort of wish we couldve seen the full reactions to each of the Uncle Roger videos; wouldve loved to see your reactions to the end of the dishes or their various multiple twists/turns!
19:20 Y'all have no idea "last name Poernomo" is indo mom's kryptonite. They got WEAK
Can you explain? Does it have significance?
I have an Indian uncle who married into my white-bread midwestern family. My aunt used her married last name in public in front of another rare Indian woman, who said "? Oh, you must be very wealthy!"....Yes. Yes she is.
@@verdatumIndonesian doesnt have a norm/tradition to use last name or family name except for certain tribes like the Batak, and for Javanese people who has last name/family names mean youre from established family aka rich. Well im not Javanese but thats my understanding so far
@@notusneo Iiiinteresting. Thank you!
I, for one, am all for calling broccoli "white greens" from now on 😂 And add iceberg lettuce to that, too.
30:51 STOOOP I THOUGHT I WAS JUST AGING FAST BC MY COUSIN ASKED ME WHY I HAD WRINKLES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL OR SUMM 😭😭😭
Chili jam is exactly what it sounds like: jam made from chili. It kind of makes sense, since chilis are technically berries. I'm not sure what most people use it for, though; I've only ever used it to dip jalapeno poppers and for this one weird thing my family does (I mean, I like it, but I've never heard of anyone else doing it), where we basically stir fry cannelloni beans with black pepper and a little jam. I usually use peach jam for that, but I've done chili jam a couple times, and it comes out pretty good.
10:25 yes. But if we did call it white greens. Some may think of cauliflower.
32:10 BRISBANE MENTIONED LETS GOOOO!!! QUEEEEENSLAAAAAANDER!!!
Ah, that's no problem liking sunny-side up, it's like saying I'm fake Chicagoan for liking KETCHUP. Sometimes we like what we like!
y'all have the weirdest damn hot-dogs. I think their no ketchup rule is because it literally couldn't fit.
That beef sandwich is tasty though.
In my dialect, haiya's equivalent would be "pastilan". 😂
We also have "wet kitchen" but we don't use it because every 5seconds you're outside, there's atleast one mosquito biting your legs 💀
The reason why you notice things is because we are asian. Once we are born as an asian we already know what to do is that u wake up and cook your own lunch and iron your own clothes and get ready to go out of your house then you go to school and then when you finish school you go to college and you go get a job you but you have three options that is to be a doctor, a lawyer, and a failure(basically other jobs) and then get rich and get a family teach your children about how to be like you back then and then they repeat the cycle
Hope this is relatable to other asians like me
22:40 look in the mirror and you'll see you're the dishwasher..😂
I'm a dishwasher myself😂
Michi's mom sounds adorable, exactly like moms to be like. "imagine if you got with this person?" hoping their kid lands it with a talented rich person.
In English the MSG of all words is "Fuck"
People have probably already commented this, but in malaysia, where I'm from, chicken rendang is a regular thing
Boys, I have fallen. I LOVE her accent!
well now i gotta call my broccoli my white greens.
Hello big fan from japan 🇯🇵, I like be cookie and I can confirm I have an outside kitchen idk why but cooking fried rice over a fire place with a wok just hits different, especially since I live in the mountains
@22:35 She's right. You can tell how rich a family is by the state of their kitchen.
Chili jam is a combination of sweet and spicy, it's like fruit jam except using chilis as the fruit. It's terrible for fried rice, but I love using it with a charcuterie board with cheese and meat.
In other words, chili jam is more of a western/european thing that is more akin to being a sauce or condiment to use. TERRIBLE of any actual Asian cooking (unless you’re doing some sort of sweet and spicy food, and even then there’s probably better options)
@@leoyamauchi5992 Yep. Use it for what it's good for.
I LOVE your accent as you get excited, you sound musical with how it plays with the sound trills and stuff you do haha
My family have a dishwasher... It's called "Me", I AM the dishwasher
18:15 Michi simping.
Whenever there were leftovers from that big ass pot, I knew that it was gonna be our launch and dinner meals for the next 4 to 6 days
7:12 na the only one that works here is "that tastes very british" XD
Watching u try to say Mortal and pestle was honestly something, probably the first Indonesian(if i understood right) vtuber/streamer i like
take a sub
Talking about scents you wake up to that make your eyes water, I had a roommate from India in college who was constantly cooking when he was in the apartment because he would have his other Indian classmates over for dinner and study. So, when my pasty asthmatic Italian self would open the door, it would be this explosion of smell that would always make me gag and rush to my room for some level of safety. And, yes, I did try the food to be nice, but I just couldn't handle it.
The thing about the two kitchens does make me reflect on just how awful all the cooking surfaces and pots would be when they'd finish. That and the smoke are both things you'd care less about if you cooked outside.
i love when she refers to a mortar and pestle as 'mixing mixing'
In Philippines we also have two kitchens. 😂 Even my aunt who has the biggest house in our family, she still prefers to cook in the outdoor kitchen at the back of the house. 😂 In PH we call it Dirty Kitchen. Cuz usually that's where you bring the wet market items you bought like fishes and meat and everything else cuz then you won't ever worry of your indoor of the house smelling like fish and being dirty. Hence the dirty kitchen is where you do the dirty part of cooking and preparing of ingredients
Probably cooking outside for the maneuvering space and lighting...
He was probably like, "I'm in this wonderful place. What do I do today? I guess having fried rice would be nice. I guess I'll make a video about it too."
The stronger her accent gets the more she reminds me of my aunts.
4:08 aku pernah masak nasi goreng campur bumbu rendang terus rendangnya kupotong kecil² kayak toping gitu karna sosis gak ada wkwk,, enak banget🤤😋
*Haiyaa* i love michi
fuyoooooh
Haiyaaaaa
*Fuiyoooh
Fuiyooooh
Advice from someone who loves to cook: Don't make it too complicated. Take a recipe and make it as it's written the first couple of times. Then do a different recipe and learn how it tastes. Keep going and you will start putting new spices into old dishes. Learn how diffrent spices taste and how they develop through cooking.
The best advice I can give is make smaller batches when you're making something new. It could be fantastic with a certain spice or completely terrible, but atleast you're the only one living through that one meal that didn't turn out amazing.
Cooking is experience and you need to learn how things taste through different cooking methods to enrich your life. Once you do you'll never go hungry again
The kitchen thing is accurate... as long as you have enough money to get-
(SG prices are hell on earth rn)
Yeah, fried rice can be food for days (depends on how many people and hunger levels) bc even the "main dish" (idk it's ULAM in Filipino) so it's a complete dish. But in PH, you will usually have extra ulam like meats or fish (or leftover ulam from the day/s before) sadly there's also a lot of families that are poor that they have to work extra hard to bring food to the table 😢
20 minutes in, and Michi's accent is completely unrecognisable 😂
I love watching people revert back into their native accent through exposure to it
The rendang he using is just the rempah.
15:55 she started using UncRoger accent 😂
“Back into the sun so the world can cry” 😂
Even as an SEA living in the US, my family hardly ever uses the dishwasher 😂 Unless it's a holiday with a ton of dishes we're too lazy to wash, we just stick hand-washed dishes in there to dry
African American we don't even use our own dishwasher the closest thing we come to using it for is as a drying rack.
10:27 It might sound weird but Asia is also a continent not just a race in English. So saying something is Asian usually just means its from that region. Big region yeah. Also Broccoli is from the eastern mediterranean. So that's what you would call it a Mediterranean green if you wanted to get real specific.
26:34 My dad puts saracha on everything so despite not having any Asian heritage I feel this.
11:20 honestly, I've tried Kimchi in grilled cheese and it works really well
27:44 you'll be huching for at least 5 times😂😂
Same
Egg fried rice is neither a side dish nor a main dish.
It's the ONLY dish for a long time.
LMAO the dishwasher one is so true 🤣 but even after we moved out and got a new house with a dishwasher in them we never use it HAHAHA
Actually, there is a way to drain the oil from sunny side egg. After you deep fry it, put it between kitchen cooking towel and let it sit for 3--5 minutes. That way, the oil will be absorbed into the towel. So, you get crunchy egg and less oil, maybe less cholesterol too.
Just use less oil to begin with.
@@ruukinen I tried that before. It didn't work. The egg absorbed the oil and it almost burned on a pan. That wasn't not good because of three things.
1. A lot of carcinogen in the egg
2. The pan almost ruined
3. My mom turned into a demon 😆
Unfortunately, you need a lot of oil to soak the egg in order to make crunchy sunny side.
@@ruukinen using less oil to fry is an oxymoron. But if you want less oil on your fried eggs, a wire rack is also fine to use in addition to your towel technique.
@@DenshinIshin You can fry eggs without oil in a nonstick pan. Frying and deep frying are two different things.
@@ruukinen look at the definition of "to fry" please. Frying implies oil or at least some fat. And the etymology is from the old french "frire", which is the verb that gave us the "fries". There's no such distinction between fry and deep fry in the language you borrowed the word from because it simply means to cook something in fat. What you describe is searing an egg, for a sunny side up, not frying it.
one of the dryest things she could ever come up with 😂
This is my favorite moments. Now I'm gonna follow Michi!
ngl instead of "Kecap Manis" I heard "Ketchup Minus" 🤣
I saw this video and was interested,8:47 minutes into this and was was subscribing
Time to chop up some caucasian greens for my ceasar salad!
Chili jam is actually really good. I make it homemade, where it also has orange juice in it. I pretty much just use it on bread with salami and/or cheese though
11:20 Mix whatever taste good for you, food has no borders. I love me some eggs scrambled with butter and wasabi for example.
One of the reasons Australia is one of the "generally studying overseas there" is because education (primarily University) is one of our largest exports. We tend to have a high number of SEA, East Asian or South Asian students studying here. One of the classes I did, around half of the class was from various Asian backgrounds, had 2 Chinese, 1 Singaporean, 1 Korean and I believe 1 Indonesian student.
I really started to related when the Knee up on chair moment happened.
The Hexclad pans have the nonstick in divit hexes. The metal will keep most things riding above the teflon.
15:33 thats actually true
cuz my grandma used to make a shit ton of it cuz you can just multiply it exponentially with less ingredients
"Don't put your faith when you don't need to put your faith" is some deep wisdom bubbling up.
"Halo Mas~" FOR REYNOLD POERNOMO IS SOOOO REAL LMAOO
that smile thing made my day :), always thought they kinda ugly
Haching for a sneeze is so cute