i said they ain’t sent him to the north side or south side or the east side to get some rice house/chinamen or stl style pizza or toasted ravioli or gooey butter cake, no ted drews or nun we known for.
He does this everywhere. He goes to the shittiest restaurants and makes our cities look like crap. He really needs to go and hide under a rock. I keep hoping he’ll actually go to a good restaurant. I’m from Charlotte and everywhere he went. I would just drive by.
With the breaded fried fish on top 😭 now that was actually funny to me. These restaurants always try to make the dishes palatable for western taste but it’s clearly not even working. 😫😂
Hey Rashad aka Chime when you get finished with your St.Louis food tour you should hit up Las Vegas next & try the casinos food spots they are really underrated!
@@thelawnmoerman EKO House in Rockville, MD has good West African dishes. I haven’t tried their egusi yet but their jollof rice and suya options (except for the fish) be hittin
Im glad you had African foods before. I'm in detroit and you basically have to find an authentic and honest spot. They do exist. But if i want African food, i go to the African grocery store myself and cook my own food. I learned. I recommend you go to an African grocery store and actually ask them where a good place to get authentic African food is
Hello Mr Chimetime. Been following your work for a while. Great stuff. 1. Thing with foreign vendors cooking African food is they almost always mess it up because they try to cook to match Western standards and that shiit just ruins everything. Jollof doesn't even need sauce, it's kinda sad that they have you trying these sorry imitiations of Nigerian foods. 2. That Egusi looks more like our regular stew called Obe ata(a popular Yoruba stew in Nigeria). Egusi is never and can never be that red except someone fucked it up, added a shit load of red oil and paste which in itself is wrong. Hopefully, one day you can experience truly authentic Nigerian food with proper flavors and spices all the way through cause these American vendors have me close to tears.
@@javondavis1880 still doesn't make it right. Acceptance and correctness are two separate concepts. Besides, it's definitely not easy for them to make traditional meals while abroad. So, they will make do with what's available. 🤷🏾
@@user-ue8il6jx3b again, when your options are limited you take what you can get. Doesn't change the fact that they fucked up the process. The issue is the idea of trying to westernise traditional recipes for some weird reason(s). Hope, this helps.
Black folks and their conspiracy theories 😂. Tilapia is not fake. It’s just farm raised. It’s about as real as the farm raised “Atlantic” salmon that some of y’all scarf down. You can go catch them yourself.
@@thisgirlisfancy they are made them farmed. Like plenty of other fish that ppl eat. It's genetically made in a lab and then mass produced. In other words it's a fake fish 😂
@thisgirlisfancy yall eat whatever u like.. If u check the link tho, it Def explains how harmful tilapia is. If you choose not to, that's cool to. I honestly dgaf. ✌️
Seems people don’t want to admit Nigerian food is simply mid. Especially when compared to Jamaican, Trini, Belizean, Mexican, Peruvian, Salvadoran, Ethiopian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese. Southern Soul Food, Indian, etc. There I said it.
CHIME, I really love cooking and I really want to open my own restaurant one day soon. But I realize that in the business you have to stay consistent with putting out the same fresh, delicious food every day. You have to write down your measurements for your recipes and how many you serving. Small details to each dish matters as well. Simplicity is beautiful. Hire ppl who have the same passion for putting out great food and pay them well. I love watching you cause you give great corrective criticism to lots of establishments to be better. ❤
@@Igotthesecheeseburgers Yeah what you said was already established hence the reason for my comment. Not sure what your point was. It might be you with the control issues LOL
As a Nigerian who spent the first 5 years of his life in the village and most of my family is still in the village, let me just say IDK what that food was but it wasn’t Nigerian food. Breaded fish in Egusi soup is INSANE and I’ve never seen Egusi soup that color in my life. Also WTF is Chicken Suya? Suya should be red meat. They def got some non Africans cookin Thai foods 😂
If your still in Missouri jefferson city has a good bbq place called sweet smoke they make great ribs and mac and cheese. Also aris pizza makes great greek pizza.
this spot is like 8 mins from my house and i didn't even know it was there. sounds like not everything was a hit but i'm gonna get some of that jollof rice
If you wqnt missouri greatness head 80 miles south of stl to a little town called fredericktown, you will find a restaurant known as the pig and order the combination or the brown brown, its like bbq shawarma
Youre doing St. Louis wrong. As someone whos passionate about food that is a former St. Louisan please try Blues City Deli before you leave. Also head over to The Hill neighborhood between Kingshighway and 44 for some amazing Italian food.
Asap! never heard of them fish growing up now all of a sudden here comes tilapia like it's some kinds of exotic fish because of the name. Mfs give me some whiting
All these people that claim to be from St. Louis, I have not heard not one person say what we really known for which is toasted raviolis. That’s a trademark for Missouri go imo’s pizza and get a pizza with Canadian bacon and sausage with some toasted raviolis
Chime they gave you sauce and jollof rice on the tilapia. You got to eat them together. Thats how most African dishes are. You eat everything together to get the best out of the dish.
You was in Stl.. my hometown!, you should of tried our Chinese food, bbq, pizza... you probably should of went to African palace for the African food... not there...
They probably didnt season the fish heavily so its not overly salty because they want you to pour that sauce or dip it in the sauce you tried with the jollof rice
Man u shouldve went to Hong Kong on Jefferson they sell the best fried rice.. Man u shouldve hit the stl natives for real food.. We known for Imos pizza, noone can make them St.Pauls like us... We have so many food places, you just went to the wrong ones... Try Tacos N Ice Cream on Cherokee Street..promise u wont be disappointed..
you dont season an already mild tasting fish vigorously cuz what's the point you're just enjoying seasoning flavor barely a hint of fish at that point. instead you go light and use something that complements and brings out the fishes flavor. Otherwise you might as well put the same seasoning on a can of tuna and go to town.
you should review bliss they are the first 30+restaurant in the nation, this might be the saver but you right about the food spots its not they fault tho the crime is high and people dont have 25$ a meal to spend 100$ if you got fam
Florissant isn't high crime. It's slightly better than average, with almost no crime once you get off NHF, Lindbergh or Dunn rd. Where this restaurant is basically no crime.
I have never seen egusi soup that looks that dark, looks completely like something else not egusi. Come to Austin TX and try my egusi and jollof rice you will not regret it and I am not even Nigerian but I am African and a chef.
At least Florissant has some interesting places to eat at now. When I moved here 45 years ago it was all chain stuff and maybe a few Chinese restaurants. The only interesting restaurant Florissant had then was Rizzo's and it closed a while back. Pirrone's is solid, too.
They set this man up. We are known for rice, bbq, gooey butter cake, and thin crust pizza. Yet, they got this man eating foreign foods in the Midwest
I’ve literally been waiting for him to pull up to Imos pizza. I can’t believe it hasn’t happened yet.
i said they ain’t sent him to the north side or south side or the east side to get some rice house/chinamen or stl style pizza or toasted ravioli or gooey butter cake, no ted drews or nun we known for.
He does this everywhere. He goes to the shittiest restaurants and makes our cities look like crap. He really needs to go and hide under a rock. I keep hoping he’ll actually go to a good restaurant. I’m from Charlotte and everywhere he went. I would just drive by.
MF HE VISITING STL RESTAURANTS NOT STL SNACKS. Get yo crying ass tf on somewhere good or bad reviews he’s bringing them attention !
@@crownfence1509 maybe they keep trolling him bcuz ain't no way he'd be risking his stomach for content.
Mr. Chime
That ain’t no Egusi soup bruh 😂
With the breaded fried fish on top 😭 now that was actually funny to me. These restaurants always try to make the dishes palatable for western taste but it’s clearly not even working. 😫😂
God bless you for this. I just don't understand the rationale behind it. It's African food for a reason afterall . @@AmericaNo1VeneerTechInTheWurl
I was thinking that the soup didn't look right.
Looks like it's swimming in palm oil,u want to see red but not the whole stew
Literally why I came to the comments😅
I drive by this place all the time. It's never busy, and doesn't even seem to be open that much.
Hey Rashad aka Chime when you get finished with your St.Louis food tour you should hit up Las Vegas next & try the casinos food spots they are really underrated!
Chime hasn’t really explored the west like that yet. We will see how it goes.
He’s already close to Chicago he might as well go get some real food
@@kevinmckay2483 💯
That nigga was in Los Angeles eating at del Taco 😂
What was the point of saying both of his names ? Just curious
The soup is called efo riro, I’m not seeing the classic melon side of egunsi soup. The makers of these food are probably not west African at all
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Also important to note WHAT West African country it is. That’s Nigerian food. And Nigerian style jollof.
That’s not Egusi in anyway 🤦🏿♂️
Fax look like fried chicken in tomato paste
Ong😂😂😂😂😭
I’ve never seen it look like that!
looks like vegetable soup
Man, what you should be eaten is some of like the native St. Louis food.
He did. He tried a bunch of places st Louis is known for and he was disappointed. Watch the videos and see.
Right! He ate nothing we are known for!
@@honeydove_4844 can u imagine his reaction to trying a pork steak or toasted ravioli?!?!
Hell yeah
Nothing good there accept for the Salmon at Dierbergs
I love how he keeps it real about the seasonings in the foods he tries out. 😂❤
You need to go to Houston, Dallas, DMV, or NYC for the legit Nigerian food bruh. Never seen egusi that looked like that in my life.
Don't forget Philly too west Philly has a big Nigerian community with excellent food
Where in the DMV would you recommend? I went to a place in Norfolk that was straight trash but I go to DMV often
@@thelawnmoermanRahama
@@thelawnmoerman EKO House in Rockville, MD has good West African dishes. I haven’t tried their egusi yet but their jollof rice and suya options (except for the fish) be hittin
@@ezenjoku347 Unfortunately, they’re gone
Shout out to house of jallof, but the best jallof and spinach is african palace
Either Ur keyboard not working right or u just don't know how to spell jollof
Love the rating after each item...Great stuff!
Im glad you had African foods before. I'm in detroit and you basically have to find an authentic and honest spot. They do exist. But if i want African food, i go to the African grocery store myself and cook my own food. I learned.
I recommend you go to an African grocery store and actually ask them where a good place to get authentic African food is
You need to try a shrimp st paul...only in the Boogie or The Lou!
Facts, we started the St Paul,
Hello Mr Chimetime.
Been following your work for a while. Great stuff.
1. Thing with foreign vendors cooking African food is they almost always mess it up because they try to cook to match Western standards and that shiit just ruins everything. Jollof doesn't even need sauce, it's kinda sad that they have you trying these sorry imitiations of Nigerian foods.
2. That Egusi looks more like our regular stew called Obe ata(a popular Yoruba stew in Nigeria). Egusi is never and can never be that red except someone fucked it up, added a shit load of red oil and paste which in itself is wrong.
Hopefully, one day you can experience truly authentic Nigerian food with proper flavors and spices all the way through cause these American vendors have me close to tears.
Im from stl and the Nigerians here love it just fine
@@javondavis1880 still doesn't make it right. Acceptance and correctness are two separate concepts. Besides, it's definitely not easy for them to make traditional meals while abroad. So, they will make do with what's available. 🤷🏾
@roninakuma2287 I know a bunch of Nigerians who love it and I'm pretty sure they have Nigerians that work there
@@user-ue8il6jx3b again, when your options are limited you take what you can get. Doesn't change the fact that they fucked up the process. The issue is the idea of trying to westernise traditional recipes for some weird reason(s).
Hope, this helps.
@@javondavis1880doesn't make it authentic. From the looks alone, you'd see. That isn't Egusi AT ALL
Tilapia...Good ol Fake Fish!
That's a lie , but what kind of grafted vegetables do you eat?
Black folks and their conspiracy theories 😂. Tilapia is not fake. It’s just farm raised. It’s about as real as the farm raised “Atlantic” salmon that some of y’all scarf down. You can go catch them yourself.
@@byronyoung1763 th-cam.com/video/qvRYjjVLN4k/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
@@thisgirlisfancy they are made them farmed. Like plenty of other fish that ppl eat. It's genetically made in a lab and then mass produced. In other words it's a fake fish 😂
@thisgirlisfancy yall eat whatever u like.. If u check the link tho, it Def explains how harmful tilapia is. If you choose not to, that's cool to. I honestly dgaf. ✌️
The only African food I've had was Ethiopian, it looks like I am not missing much since it's a hit or miss with West African food.
Seems people don’t want to admit Nigerian food is simply mid. Especially when compared to Jamaican, Trini, Belizean, Mexican, Peruvian, Salvadoran, Ethiopian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese. Southern Soul Food, Indian, etc. There I said it.
CHIME, I really love cooking and I really want to open my own restaurant one day soon. But I realize that in the business you have to stay consistent with putting out the same fresh, delicious food every day. You have to write down your measurements for your recipes and how many you serving. Small details to each dish matters as well. Simplicity is beautiful. Hire ppl who have the same passion for putting out great food and pay them well. I love watching you cause you give great corrective criticism to lots of establishments to be better. ❤
That ain't EGUSI, THAT AIN'T FUFU 😂😂. TF!😂
Mr Chime you should have went to chop suey in st louis they got the best rice 💯
Love the videos
i'm allergic to seafood and i'm vegetarian YET ... i live vicariously through you. i just wanna try some of everything lmao 🤤❤
You should definitely do a video of the best 5 or 10 dish you’ve had so far to this point
Hit dat rice wit dat red sauce next time.. GOATED!!!
😂 this was too funny but yeah you should be eating st louis native food like bbq 😂.
Ha! You almost said Florissant, Misery... that would've been accurate... I call it that all the time... 😂😂😂
You got African food in the Midwest of America. That like getting soul food in rural new Hampshire. Good luck with that.
Where you suggest?? The dumbass south??😂😂
So you can't have Africans cooking their food in the Midwest? Smh
There’s a jerk chicken place on Vandiver in Columbia MO that has amazing food. The smell keeps the whole area hungry.
That Egusi was an abomination!! Nightmare fuel indeed!!
Dog excrement
This looks like Ghanaian Jollof and Ghanaian egusi soup. You need to try the Nigerian egusi soup
Kikikiiiii. You've brought it here. 😂
PSA from a from a mix Black American + African: you absolutely *can* use utensils. It’s ok 😂
Or he can eat with his hands, that's OK too. Most African dishes are eaten with hands
@@Igotthesecheeseburgerscomprehension issues insane on this one 😂
@@OldSchoolMinded
Control issues are insane, I totally got it.
If you were trying to insult me, you failed miserably.
@@Igotthesecheeseburgers Yeah what you said was already established hence the reason for my comment. Not sure what your point was. It might be you with the control issues LOL
@@AmericaNo1VeneerTechInTheWurl
Nahhh, controlling someone ain't my thing.
Bro thanks you going to all the places that’s on my to go list.
Go to Level in Saint Louis, Mo. they have good African food 😊
Egusi and fufu is my favorite African dish. I normally use chicken, fish, or shrimp.
Bruh you got son screaming over that beef pattie man 😂😂😂
As a Nigerian who spent the first 5 years of his life in the village and most of my family is still in the village, let me just say IDK what that food was but it wasn’t Nigerian food. Breaded fish in Egusi soup is INSANE and I’ve never seen Egusi soup that color in my life. Also WTF is Chicken Suya? Suya should be red meat. They def got some non Africans cookin Thai foods 😂
Next time you're in NYC, go to La Savane. The best African food I've ever had
If your still in Missouri jefferson city has a good bbq place called sweet smoke they make great ribs and mac and cheese. Also aris pizza makes great greek pizza.
Go to Kansas City, next and try gates. When your done with St Louis
From The Bay Area, CA and Gates in KC goes crazy💯
@@BigLoloFrmDaO shout out to the bay
this spot is like 8 mins from my house and i didn't even know it was there. sounds like not everything was a hit but i'm gonna get some of that jollof rice
I had to rewind n make sure you were singing some Akinyele at like 2:32. Funny af
I was about to order from Uber eats .. never had African food . I'll wait tho
Try fufu with peanut butter soup from a Ghanaian restaurant
If you wqnt missouri greatness head 80 miles south of stl to a little town called fredericktown, you will find a restaurant known as the pig and order the combination or the brown brown, its like bbq shawarma
Youre doing St. Louis wrong. As someone whos passionate about food that is a former St. Louisan please try Blues City Deli before you leave. Also head over to The Hill neighborhood between Kingshighway and 44 for some amazing Italian food.
“Use your hands your feet. Use anything and everything but utensils.”
My kinda food
They need to ban Tilapia and Swai
ASAP!
Asap! never heard of them fish growing up now all of a sudden here comes tilapia like it's some kinds of exotic fish because of the name. Mfs give me some whiting
If jollof is done right you don’t need no sauce
Wondering if that sauce was meant for the fish
Liberian food is much different they put meat in the Jollof rice and they eat fufu with utensils
Sounds better than Nigerian style already.
Please come to Kansas City. We truly have some good food spots. 🙏🏾. Emphasis on bbq
I been telling him, our food is fire!!
@@AminahMight it’s “THE” Midwest hidden gem
All these people that claim to be from St. Louis, I have not heard not one person say what we really known for which is toasted raviolis. That’s a trademark for Missouri go imo’s pizza and get a pizza with Canadian bacon and sausage with some toasted raviolis
Shit don’t look like it for me.
Absolutely not
Chime they gave you sauce and jollof rice on the tilapia. You got to eat them together. Thats how most African dishes are. You eat everything together to get the best out of the dish.
I haven’t tried non of these places in my city 😂
Man look my Mother be bussin and we from st louis. We get food from somewhere and I be like Ma they need you im the kitchen.
COME TO NEW JERSEY BRUH WE GOT IT ALL
I'm disappointed he went to all unknown places in stl, some of these places don't look good idk what's going on 😭
You was in Stl.. my hometown!, you should of tried our Chinese food, bbq, pizza... you probably should of went to African palace for the African food... not there...
As a Ghanaian American thank you for not smacking the fufu.
You should eat fufu n sauce, best African cuisine
AYO THATS MY CITY!!!! Try imos pizza in St. Louis!
"Where's the melon season" 💅
Soon as he touched down in my city, I shook my head 🤦🏽♂️
I don't think most saint Louis ppl even eat that. Not one person i know, I lived there for almost 30years
Looks good
You must try Jerk Unlimited its in south city on cherokee. Straight heat.
He’s not in the Lou!!! He’s at the neighbors house 😂😂😂
Come back to Myrtle beach bro! 🔥
They probably didnt season the fish heavily so its not overly salty because they want you to pour that sauce or dip it in the sauce you tried with the jollof rice
I enjoy eating fufu it looks good
fufu is a type of swallow but not all swallow is fufu. what he is eating and what you likely ate is called pounded yam not fufu
You should try Drake's Bar and Grill. The food is really good. The owners are really friendly.
In Ferguson, mixed reviews
HEYY🤴🏾🥰💜
I’m laughing already..first 10 seconds
Man u shouldve went to Hong Kong on Jefferson they sell the best fried rice..
Man u shouldve hit the stl natives for real food..
We known for Imos pizza, noone can make them St.Pauls like us...
We have so many food places, you just went to the wrong ones...
Try Tacos N Ice Cream on Cherokee Street..promise u wont be disappointed..
Fiiiiiiiirst of all, I don't go there. You could've gone to the African Palace off of West Florissant if you wanted African food.
you dont season an already mild tasting fish vigorously cuz what's the point you're just enjoying seasoning flavor barely a hint of fish at that point. instead you go light and use something that complements and brings out the fishes flavor. Otherwise you might as well put the same seasoning on a can of tuna and go to town.
you should review bliss they are the first 30+restaurant in the nation, this might be the saver but you right about the food spots its not they fault tho the crime is high and people dont have 25$ a meal to spend 100$ if you got fam
Florissant isn't high crime. It's slightly better than average, with almost no crime once you get off NHF, Lindbergh or Dunn rd. Where this restaurant is basically no crime.
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Need to be Downtown Bro
Your head got that fisheye form ma guy
Hit up Alabama next‼️‼️‼️
You gotta try LIBERIAN food it’s literally thee best coming frm a haitain girl ts slaps
I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to put the sauce on the fish as well. That’s what we Sierra Leonians do
Africans in the house 🔥🔥
Bro please in Michigan try kg African kitchen!!!!
House of jollof is wack. Who told him to go there?
He should’ve went too the African Palace
Eaten a lot of pounded yam and egusii in my life but never ever seen egusi looking like that oil filled version my guy was eating.
Should try Levels downtown St. Louis
PRIME 55...MUST GO
I have never seen egusi soup that looks that dark, looks completely like something else not egusi. Come to Austin TX and try my egusi and jollof rice you will not regret it and I am not even Nigerian but I am African and a chef.
You getting closer to Chicago. Come on
Ain't No Way Didn't Anybody From Da Lou Recommend "Imos Pizza" With A Vess Soda ❕
Brother STL is known for our chinese food
The “sauce” is fried stew you eat it with jollof or on the fish. The fish isn’t really mean to eat without stew
St. Louis is bigger than Florrisant and Ferguson, baby… come eat at the Foundry!
At least Florissant has some interesting places to eat at now. When I moved here 45 years ago it was all chain stuff and maybe a few Chinese restaurants. The only interesting restaurant Florissant had then was Rizzo's and it closed a while back. Pirrone's is solid, too.
I didn't know africa had food
And believe Mr. Chime that ain't no fufu
Even the best African food in the world isn't very good, i can only imagine it coming from Missouri
Honest Fact💯💯💯💯
mans about to make a living in missouri like he did in detroit..
🙏🏾🙏🏾☺️