I just wanna say how much I appreciate this type of content. You learn something new and interesting, but you can also clearly see that Joey is having a ton of fun which makes it fun for you. On top of that, since it's a casual obviously not planned vlog you actually feel like you're hanging out with them! Love it!
Really would it actually be interesting or are you just saying the first thought that comes to your mind and adding it with Would be interesting if the boys trying out 'enter lame ass idea' on stream which would be pretty shit and doubt it would gain viewership like actually good ideas would
I have the same mentality with food myself. If it is something that is alright to consume, I would love to try it at least once! Can't say I have had any of this, but I kind of want to try the duck brain at one point!
I'm with you on this, if it's eaten by certain people, I would love to try it, I'm pretty open minded when it comes to food. Like the idea of eating bugs is weird, but I would try it, cause I know many cultures eat them.
I love eating unconventional meats and parts of an animal but I've yet to have tried bugs. Tbh, I don't think I will ever have the courage for bugs lol
In Taiwan, there's a dish called ”brain soup”(no joke, just a pig brain sitting in a bowl of soup), and it looks 1000% more intimidating than the duck brain lol, but still tastes amazing !
@@thehyp3rbeast699 Well even if it's common knowledge, the person who don't drink alcohol couldn't possibly known how strong it is, cuz they don't drink alcohol.
I think that the last dish is a Japanese variation on 佛跳牆 (fó tiào qiáng). The literal translation for that is Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and is something like FuJian's representative dish.
I've been watching this channel more than the main one recently. Really interesting stuff all the time. My non-professional opinion of the channel is that it'll always be safer than the main one. At least no greedy bastard companies can claim his entire body of work. Considering what Toei did to Totally Not Mark, I'd suppose anime companies could conceivably still take away Joey's channel just because. I'm totally ignoring any legal ways Joey could defend himself because it doesn't appear like the greedy bastard companies feel like complying with those anyway. Sorry for the rant.
As an animal activist, I don’t recommend having shark fin soup. The shark fin trade is horrendous. I’ve seen videos from fishermen where they catch sharks, chop off their fins for the stupid soup for superstitions, and dump the sharks back into the ocean. The poor sharks, missing their fins, can’t maneuver through the water, so they wriggle around helplessly until they die slow, painful deaths. I recommend knowing what you’re getting into before trying something new, especially when it comes to certain “traditional” dishes.
When I heard shark fin my stomach sank. It’s important to know how things are sourced, especially food and especially meat as this one is the worst that I’ve ever seen. I hope everyone looks into the monstrous practise of acquiring it, that no one eats it after and that you spread the word and fight for those sharks that are pointlessly dwindling at an alarming rate. 😣💔 It truly breaks my heart and it needs to end.
Sharks arent the only ones, Japan is the largest in the industry when it comes to poaching dolphins and whales, sharks are moreso a Chinese practice. There is virtually no regulation and its quite hard to enforce these sorta things. Especially since its a pretty large industry and shark fin soup is pretty delicious and a lot of Asian restaurants in general around the world consume it, including Australia (where I live).
Stinky tofu when uncooked is very smelly but it quickly loses majority of that smell after you fry it. You do still get a small amount of funk smell but its really minimal. Majority of the taste comes from the sauces they added in after.
@@anniesong951 Its even better if you have them cooked in master stock and cold-served with chilli oil, but honestly anything can be good as fuck with master stock and chilli oil.
Being from South Africa, there is a traditional "dish" that we have called a Smiley. Which is basically a either the entire head of a Sheep, Cow or Big that has been cooked. And depending on which head it is, they are cooked differently
We also have similar dishes here in Finland. I think serving the whole head with skull and all is/was rare but traditionally every single edible part of an animal was eaten here. It's quite rare to find those dishes anymore, but still in 70's and 80's they did appear every now and then at family dinners. It's a pity really, since our people eat more meat than ever, but we use less parts of the animal (as human food) than before. Liver, blood, heart, tonique, intestines and bones are still used regularly from certain animals but other parts.... I wonder if they are properly used for something.
I agree that food shouldn't be judged based on its concept in terms of perceived grossness like brains, organs, feet etc. However, I will never have something like the shark fin soup because I object to how those ingredients are acquired.
You should look into how ducks are treated then. And all animals you eat for that matter. Nothing humane about it. th-cam.com/video/LQRAfJyEsko/w-d-xo.html
@@Hann_sama Its more than the cruelty. When you eat meat, things die for it, that's not the problem. Its the sustainability. It wrecks ecosystems by killing off a keystone species for just a tiny bit of meat.
Tbh all restaurant didnt use shark fin and use imitation for those soup because obvious cost reason and also cruelty reason. And they still call it shark fin soup for novelty reason
I love these type of videos Joey! These unadulterated, little to minimal edit type of videos. It's been a while since I've watched these types of videos. It's refreshing going away from the high production, high quality type of videos. Kudos!
I like this kind of content just you and the boys going out to go and eat at some places you normally wouldn't I think it'd be a nice change-of-pace like Joey's bizarre food Adventures!
Interesting! I remember trying Baijiu out in Beijing when i visited a friend who taught English. It was super high proof and tasted like gasoline with a very herbal aftertaste. But he could've been pulling a trick on me with the cheap stuff lol. Lot of fun times though! Tried tons of foods and liked most of them!
Dude love the vids, absolutely entertaining and awesome. Just a tip, eating shark, is like eating dolphins, not so good for the earth. Although I love your attitude towards food, try everything before you judge :)
Mad respect man, never thought I'd see a food review vlog from the animeman. Glad you liked the food and liquor, personally can't handle the texture of some of those foods and not sure how well I could take the shots. So glad I stumbled upon this video 😁
I will try anything too, I've ate a whole load of 'strange' food in Thailand. Loved sitting with the bar girls and trying the bug's and stuff they bought off the vendors. My favourite was the deep fried baby frogs which you ate whole. I had chicken feet, chicken heart, duck tongue etc too. Only thing I'm not too keen on was the intestines, it wasn't the flavour but the texture. It literally had me cringing off the feeling of it when I was chewing it. I love trying new things.
As someone who does enjoy alcohol, I would enjoy trying some Chinese liquors. I am a big whiskey fan. Islay Scotch is my favorite, I've loved some Rye whiskey, and Japanese whiskeys are great (though rare and can be expensive in the US) but overall, I like trying various drinks and I have zero familiarity with Chinese alcoholic beverages. It would be cool to try some.
I'm always surprised how people can actually try and actually come to like such farfetched foods. I don't think I'll even be able to try it. Joey putting his taste buds on the line is much appreciated.
Not really farfetched, just using all of the animal. Most of it tastes pretty good, love me some cow tongue. Only things I can't eat is kidney and liver, probably brains too but I haven't tried that.
I LOVED THIS SO MUCH! Honestly, ducks tongue is pretty bomb. I have questions about stinky tofu that doesn't smell though. Every time I've had stinky tofu it semlls very much like a "used" baby diper or a broken sewer. Stinky tofu tastes amazing though! Especially when it is served with a spicy sauce. I feel the reasons Baiju is not as popular are two things: * There is A LOT of HORRIBLE baiju * If you ever drink too much baiju and have a bad morning.. lets just say bad vodka mornings are preferable.
Coming from a Hmong family, I grew up eating chicken brain, chicken heart, chicken kidneys, chicken blood and chicken… uh…ball sack. All cooked of course. So if you enjoyed the duck brain then you should try some of those when you get the chance LOL
I don’t like brain I think heart is way better than brain! But please don’t eat shark fin it’s very bad for sharks sharks are endangered because of finning
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I'm making an assumption that you're an American. Things like duck brain aren't awfully common. You can compare it to how some Americans eat "rocky mountain oysters" (basically just cow testicles). Not all Americans eat it, some maybe have never heard of it, but those who do and enjoy it will go out of their way to eat it. Same thing goes for any dish in any culture.
Dude, they drink from shot glasses in China, but they usually sip from them instead of doing "shots". Shots don't come in unless being served as a punishment or until people get too high from drinking too much.
Joey's mindset on food is literally what I've been doing all my life. Honestly, think about it, imagine I say something like: "Hey this is a cow's cooked chest veal" but I literally just explained what a brisket is
If the place was making stinky tofu, you'd be smelling it from outside the restaurant. I always wonder if I've stepped in something when I walk by a stinky tofu place.
Joey, as someone who grew up literally next to where every single Absolut Vodka bottle is made - there is vodkas that are absolutely fantastic. The Absolut Elyx, where limited amounts of bottles are handmade every year from selected ingredients for example. Would love to try those drinks you had though! I'll see if I can find one in Japan next time I'm over, otherwise I'll bring one for you and the bois!
Finally, someone who eats like I do. If its edible, try it, you might like it! My favorite "weird" item is ox tongue, I eat it at least once a month since I discovered it
Hmm... maybe this is sonething I should try next time I go duck shooting... will have to consult with another chef beforehand though in case there's some kind of special prep that needs to be done. Only a couple months until Duck Season too... very interesting...
I'd love to try this restaurant! I've never had true authentic and gastronomic chinese food. It's always the same shit here in Switzerland... this looks delicious!
As someone who is half moroccan/half Greek that lives in belgium, i've had a lot of unconventional foods. So i i incredibly enjoy trying out new stuff. Getting over the way something looks/what something is, can be scary for a lot of my friends. But i've had many fun opportunities to have friends try out stuff they've never had before.
How to generalise Chinese food: Southern Chinese food: as late Prince Philip put it: "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it" Northern Chinese food: Genghis Khan and the likes. Western Chinese food: Halal & spicy Chinese food Eastern Chinese food: Korean/Japanese food's "Chuka ryouri" section
tbh, stinky tofu is just fried tofu which is great but some people can't get pass the smell. (from my place pig intestines are something we eat and it's my favorite)
7:50 doesn’t stinky tofu have a variety of versions of it? Can’t you get tofu that’s been aged for 1 year vs tofu that’s been aged for 6 weeks? So maybe that version wasn’t the smelliest because it was barley aged.
It's not like we don't eat stuff like that in Europe or "the West". Nowadays, we have such an oversupply of food, that we are just used to picking only the most popular parts, and many people do not know, what is used in traditional cuisine. But you can still get that stuff in many places, specialty restaurants etc. Speaking for Germany, there is a regional dish called "Kutteln" which is cut up stomach of cows or sometimes other animals. Liver is eaten quite commonly in Germany, Brain used to be used in certain sausages and sometimes soups (until mad cow disease killed that). That's also the only issue I would have with that, brain is known to transmit prion-based neurological illnesses like mad-cow, scrapie etc. So if I'd eat something like that, it would really have to be from extremely well kept animals, only fed on natural foods etc. Also, the idea of a fried mars bar makes me vomit...
True, even just 100 years ago, you would see most of the "undesirable" organs still regularly eaten by Western lower class folk. Meat was rare enough that you didn't waste any edible parts. Nowadays the standard of living has risen enough that most Americans and Europeans don't need to eat them.
Now you know the reasons why Chinese cuisine have bigger influence globally than British grubs, but the British blokes think they are so good at food and can't stop being gobby innit? I rather eat duck brains and tongues marinated with flavourful spices, than a damn bland Jellied eels or a bloody effing Haggis. (Whoa whoa, chill mate! For god's sake, keep your hair on! It's a joke!) But yeah, on serious note, Chinese cuisine is very good that's why you can see its influence in almost everywhere (especially if you are not a person who get put off of a food before actually tasting it despite it being 100% edible). Haven't taste Baijuu/Chinese Liquor yet, but now you really convinced me to taste it!
Pretty staple Chinese food, glad you enjoyed it. With stinky tofu though, there are levels to their stinky-ness with the more authentic ones being more pungent.
I’d label you a weirdo more for liking shirako than brains 🤣 Edit: In all serious loved the video and would welcome more like it ☺️ Keep up the good work!
The seafood stew thing looked like “Buddha jumps over the wall (allured by the fragrance of this dish)” It’s a bunch of rehydrates seafood, some intentionally aged for certain amount of time. The jellyfish looking thing is probably a specific fish’s air bladder. The abalone is presumably also rehydrated for condensed flavour. The golden soup is likely coloured with pumpkin, a fairly modern modification. As for the “doesn’t look chinese” lamb soup with flatbread, I find it interesting that most people when talking about Chinese food, think of south eastern coastal Chinese, this might have some historical reasons. But this dish is very much chinese, in fact it’s most popular in Shanxi, capital and heartland of China since the first dynasty.
Have you ever tried deep-fried duck intestine? I had them when I was growing up in Thailand. They took duck intestine, clean it, and boiled it in some kind of seasoning soup. Then they dry the intestine before deep-frying them. Super crispy (potato chips crispy).
as an eastern european with our own "weird" foods i have to say i really wanna try all of this, I've had like almost every part of pork so this doesn't faze me at all and i never really understood the concept of "weird" food when it's only normal to use every part of an animal to not waste it yk, the baijiu tho the need to try it is strong as hell
Right on the money Joey, not sure what good people think comes off of shittting on food outside of their culture. Being an Asian, i've literally ate an whole animal all my life. Everything from the Intestines, brains, eyes, ears, tails, and yes even the balls too for anybody wondering(which is actually a delicacy in my culture)
I just wanna say how much I appreciate this type of content. You learn something new and interesting, but you can also clearly see that Joey is having a ton of fun which makes it fun for you. On top of that, since it's a casual obviously not planned vlog you actually feel like you're hanging out with them! Love it!
Joey is getting drunk slowly and slowly everytime he eats something else.
Would be interesting to see the boys trying out Chinese liquor in a stream.
Garnt 10 shots later: Did you know, _burp_, that I used to, _burp_, work at the BB, _burp_, C?
Really would it actually be interesting or are you just saying the first thought that comes to your mind and adding it with Would be interesting if the boys trying out 'enter lame ass idea' on stream which would be pretty shit and doubt it would gain viewership like actually good ideas would
@@UMadara-s1i Chill bruh this is a TH-cam Comment Section not the fucking Congress. Hell, even the Congress often comes up with the lamest ideas.
They would be all dead after 10 min
Yes! Baijiu taste test on TTP when?
That moment when you actually like Joey's second channel content more than his main
It reminds me of his content back in 2015-2016 which makes me quite happy
I have the same mentality with food myself. If it is something that is alright to consume, I would love to try it at least once! Can't say I have had any of this, but I kind of want to try the duck brain at one point!
My mentality is I will try anything, but please don't tell me what it is while it is in my mouth.
@@ryutheslayer123 Yes, exactly! Let me finish my first bite and make a judgement call based on that or else my stomach will curdle 😂.
I'm with you on this, if it's eaten by certain people, I would love to try it, I'm pretty open minded when it comes to food. Like the idea of eating bugs is weird, but I would try it, cause I know many cultures eat them.
Same. I especially love having weird foods with other, more squeamish people, as I get to eat everything they won't touch 😁
I love eating unconventional meats and parts of an animal but I've yet to have tried bugs. Tbh, I don't think I will ever have the courage for bugs lol
In Taiwan, there's a dish called ”brain soup”(no joke, just a pig brain sitting in a bowl of soup), and it looks 1000% more intimidating than the duck brain lol, but still tastes amazing !
I know the dish. But sadly while I love the soup flavor I can never eat even half of the brain 😂
I can't eat brain, any brain by itself. It has to be with rice.
yeah, i had pig brains in hot-pots before back in guangzhou. but it doesn't really tasted like anything tbh
Eating brain cells
My mother from Taiwan likes it lol!
"For those of you, who don't drink alcohol, it's like vodka levels"
Bruh
Ikr
bruh moment intensifies
I thought it was common knowledge that vodka is very strong
@@thehyp3rbeast699 Well even if it's common knowledge, the person who don't drink alcohol couldn't possibly known how strong it is, cuz they don't drink alcohol.
I think that the last dish is a Japanese variation on 佛跳牆 (fó tiào qiáng). The literal translation for that is Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and is something like FuJian's representative dish.
I respect how adventurous Joey is when it comes to food. I would definitely be up for more food reviews especially because he has such an open mind.
Joey -- not sure how this second channel does from a business standpoint, but I'm really enjoying the content variety!
I've been watching this channel more than the main one recently. Really interesting stuff all the time.
My non-professional opinion of the channel is that it'll always be safer than the main one. At least no greedy bastard companies can claim his entire body of work. Considering what Toei did to Totally Not Mark, I'd suppose anime companies could conceivably still take away Joey's channel just because. I'm totally ignoring any legal ways Joey could defend himself because it doesn't appear like the greedy bastard companies feel like complying with those anyway.
Sorry for the rant.
I prefer this as it's not anime oriented as compared to his main channel. TBH, im nt a big fan of anime myself hence why.
As an animal activist, I don’t recommend having shark fin soup. The shark fin trade is horrendous. I’ve seen videos from fishermen where they catch sharks, chop off their fins for the stupid soup for superstitions, and dump the sharks back into the ocean. The poor sharks, missing their fins, can’t maneuver through the water, so they wriggle around helplessly until they die slow, painful deaths. I recommend knowing what you’re getting into before trying something new, especially when it comes to certain “traditional” dishes.
Right, I was very taken aback when he said shark fin. So disappointing, I can't believe it is still widely practiced.
Can't get behind the shark fin part but everything else I would definitely try! Cool vid Joey!
When I heard shark fin my stomach sank. It’s important to know how things are sourced, especially food and especially meat as this one is the worst that I’ve ever seen. I hope everyone looks into the monstrous practise of acquiring it, that no one eats it after and that you spread the word and fight for those sharks that are pointlessly dwindling at an alarming rate. 😣💔 It truly breaks my heart and it needs to end.
Agree, people should stop eating shark fin soup and find something else to replace shark fins. It's not like they taste like anything.
Sharks arent the only ones, Japan is the largest in the industry when it comes to poaching dolphins and whales, sharks are moreso a Chinese practice. There is virtually no regulation and its quite hard to enforce these sorta things. Especially since its a pretty large industry and shark fin soup is pretty delicious and a lot of Asian restaurants in general around the world consume it, including Australia (where I live).
@@miks_w8945 I heard about the whale thing but not dolphins :0
Stinky tofu when uncooked is very smelly but it quickly loses majority of that smell after you fry it. You do still get a small amount of funk smell but its really minimal. Majority of the taste comes from the sauces they added in after.
Cow brain-toungue stew is one of my most favorite comfort bengali food, which is why them duck brains are looking pretty delicious right now.
honestly, deep-fried pork intestines with some Sichuan chilis are bomb. Would love to see a stream comparing Chinese, Japanese and Korean liqueurs
amen to the deep-fried pork intestines, they're so good
@@anniesong951 Its even better if you have them cooked in master stock and cold-served with chilli oil, but honestly anything can be good as fuck with master stock and chilli oil.
Being from South Africa, there is a traditional "dish" that we have called a Smiley. Which is basically a either the entire head of a Sheep, Cow or Big that has been cooked. And depending on which head it is, they are cooked differently
The same in my country, they cook and eat the whole head with bread because they are poor AF.
You can smell a smiley from miles away
Same here in Iran it's called Kalle Pache, which is lamb's head but also feet too. There's also tripe cooked in similar fashion. I love the taste.
I imagined sheep and cows smiling while their brains were being boiled. ☺
We also have similar dishes here in Finland. I think serving the whole head with skull and all is/was rare but traditionally every single edible part of an animal was eaten here. It's quite rare to find those dishes anymore, but still in 70's and 80's they did appear every now and then at family dinners. It's a pity really, since our people eat more meat than ever, but we use less parts of the animal (as human food) than before. Liver, blood, heart, tonique, intestines and bones are still used regularly from certain animals but other parts.... I wonder if they are properly used for something.
I agree that food shouldn't be judged based on its concept in terms of perceived grossness like brains, organs, feet etc. However, I will never have something like the shark fin soup because I object to how those ingredients are acquired.
agree. it just too cruel
You should look into how ducks are treated then. And all animals you eat for that matter. Nothing humane about it.
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@@Hann_sama Its more than the cruelty. When you eat meat, things die for it, that's not the problem. Its the sustainability. It wrecks ecosystems by killing off a keystone species for just a tiny bit of meat.
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Tbh all restaurant didnt use shark fin and use imitation for those soup because obvious cost reason and also cruelty reason. And they still call it shark fin soup for novelty reason
I love these type of videos Joey! These unadulterated, little to minimal edit type of videos. It's been a while since I've watched these types of videos. It's refreshing going away from the high production, high quality type of videos. Kudos!
I like this kind of content just you and the boys going out to go and eat at some places you normally wouldn't I think it'd be a nice change-of-pace like Joey's bizarre food Adventures!
"Very strong... vodka levels basically" My slav ass was confused at this point
On god, we drink vodka from the bottle 😭😭💀
Interesting! I remember trying Baijiu out in Beijing when i visited a friend who taught English. It was super high proof and tasted like gasoline with a very herbal aftertaste. But he could've been pulling a trick on me with the cheap stuff lol. Lot of fun times though! Tried tons of foods and liked most of them!
Dude love the vids, absolutely entertaining and awesome. Just a tip, eating shark, is like eating dolphins, not so good for the earth. Although I love your attitude towards food, try everything before you judge :)
Mad respect man, never thought I'd see a food review vlog from the animeman. Glad you liked the food and liquor, personally can't handle the texture of some of those foods and not sure how well I could take the shots. So glad I stumbled upon this video 😁
I'm glad to be part of the early-gang. uwu
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You've now been kicked out of the gang for using uwu
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More of Joey’s food reviews
I would eat all of that... though iffy on the shark fin part from an ethical standpoint... but I would still try.
Yeah same
I really enjoy this kind of content from the anime man, it's really refreshing
I will try anything too, I've ate a whole load of 'strange' food in Thailand. Loved sitting with the bar girls and trying the bug's and stuff they bought off the vendors. My favourite was the deep fried baby frogs which you ate whole. I had chicken feet, chicken heart, duck tongue etc too. Only thing I'm not too keen on was the intestines, it wasn't the flavour but the texture. It literally had me cringing off the feeling of it when I was chewing it. I love trying new things.
As someone who does enjoy alcohol, I would enjoy trying some Chinese liquors. I am a big whiskey fan. Islay Scotch is my favorite, I've loved some Rye whiskey, and Japanese whiskeys are great (though rare and can be expensive in the US) but overall, I like trying various drinks and I have zero familiarity with Chinese alcoholic beverages.
It would be cool to try some.
I'm always surprised how people can actually try and actually come to like such farfetched foods. I don't think I'll even be able to try it. Joey putting his taste buds on the line is much appreciated.
Not really farfetched, just using all of the animal. Most of it tastes pretty good, love me some cow tongue. Only things I can't eat is kidney and liver, probably brains too but I haven't tried that.
This was enjoyable. You should do more videos trying different food/drinks
Joey rlly be trying to get everyone from "The anime man" to "Joey" xD
The man's growing out of anime/manga-only and nothing can be any cooler to watch
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In Hong Kong, we have pig lung soup which is super delicious, we have monkey brain which the taste is quite interesting.
I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!
Honestly, ducks tongue is pretty bomb. I have questions about stinky tofu that doesn't smell though. Every time I've had stinky tofu it semlls very much like a "used" baby diper or a broken sewer.
Stinky tofu tastes amazing though! Especially when it is served with a spicy sauce.
I feel the reasons Baiju is not as popular are two things:
* There is A LOT of HORRIBLE baiju
* If you ever drink too much baiju and have a bad morning.. lets just say bad vodka mornings are preferable.
I'm just not an alcohol person at all I hate the taste.
Coming from a Hmong family, I grew up eating chicken brain, chicken heart, chicken kidneys, chicken blood and chicken… uh…ball sack. All cooked of course. So if you enjoyed the duck brain then you should try some of those when you get the chance LOL
Loved this video Joey!
Fantastic movie
I’ll continue uploading video like yours
Thank you so much for sharing
Really enjoying this type of stuff would be cool to see Joey cook food aswell
I sat down to eat and this was the first video I saw. This is destiny!
I don’t like brain I think heart is way better than brain! But please don’t eat shark fin it’s very bad for sharks sharks are endangered because of finning
It's really fun seeing someone try my home country's more grotesque cuisine and actually enjoy it
Joey, you're the goat
I've never had brains from an animal and didn't love it. It may be grotesque to western people but people who grew up with it love that shit.
Is it a common meal in China, or is it something that most there would find it to be odd?
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley not normal dish.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley not common maybe 5% of people actually tried it once in their life
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley I'm making an assumption that you're an American. Things like duck brain aren't awfully common. You can compare it to how some Americans eat "rocky mountain oysters" (basically just cow testicles). Not all Americans eat it, some maybe have never heard of it, but those who do and enjoy it will go out of their way to eat it. Same thing goes for any dish in any culture.
Dude, they drink from shot glasses in China, but they usually sip from them instead of doing "shots". Shots don't come in unless being served as a punishment or until people get too high from drinking too much.
Joey's mindset on food is literally what I've been doing all my life. Honestly, think about it, imagine I say something like:
"Hey this is a cow's cooked chest veal" but I literally just explained what a brisket is
I have the same mentality with food. "Im eating the aborted child of a chicken".. just an egg. People are such pussies when it comes to food
I'm digging Joey reviewing food.
Always when Joey gets drunk he always go towards his japanese side. I think that is so funny.
"It's like wine with vinegar" yeah dude that's just a cheap bottle of wine... in a shot...
:( sorry bro
The strangest chinese is food is the soup cooked by a Guangdong mom that is suppose to be "good" for you
If the place was making stinky tofu, you'd be smelling it from outside the restaurant. I always wonder if I've stepped in something when I walk by a stinky tofu place.
Joey, as someone who grew up literally next to where every single Absolut Vodka bottle is made - there is vodkas that are absolutely fantastic. The Absolut Elyx, where limited amounts of bottles are handmade every year from selected ingredients for example.
Would love to try those drinks you had though!
I'll see if I can find one in Japan next time I'm over, otherwise I'll bring one for you and the bois!
I'm convinced Joey's got a gut of steel, man
Brooo u making me want to try different stuff now
Most of it looked pretty good, but i have mixed feelings about the sharkfin, i hope it doesent comes from shady fishers.
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I Agree with Joey,
You have to Try Food,
If you dont like it you dont
like it, But you have to Try it,
Because you may like it!
Finally, someone who eats like I do. If its edible, try it, you might like it! My favorite "weird" item is ox tongue, I eat it at least once a month since I discovered it
Can't get over Joey's new haircut man.
Those Brains looked raw! Great Video - one of my favorites!
I'm like Joey - the weirder food, the more I'm interested in it :D I only can't stand blood soup - just the concept of it throws me off...
Never had blood soup, but pork blood stew and blood cubes (betamax) are delicious.
Hmm... maybe this is sonething I should try next time I go duck shooting... will have to consult with another chef beforehand though in case there's some kind of special prep that needs to be done.
Only a couple months until Duck Season too... very interesting...
Love the variety and vlog videos on your "new main channel?". Always awesome to watch after work!^^
Offal is amazing. The "weird cuts" are also the most nutritious for you too.
I'd love to try this restaurant! I've never had true authentic and gastronomic chinese food. It's always the same shit here in Switzerland... this looks delicious!
Cool, we eat that too down here at the archipelago
hell yeah Chinese food
I need to recommend fish intestines in egg pudding (name? It’s not sweet pudding). It’s from my parents’ home town and I love it.
As someone who is half moroccan/half Greek that lives in belgium, i've had a lot of unconventional foods. So i i incredibly enjoy trying out new stuff.
Getting over the way something looks/what something is, can be scary for a lot of my friends.
But i've had many fun opportunities to have friends try out stuff they've never had before.
How to generalise Chinese food:
Southern Chinese food: as late Prince Philip put it: "If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it"
Northern Chinese food: Genghis Khan and the likes.
Western Chinese food: Halal & spicy Chinese food
Eastern Chinese food: Korean/Japanese food's "Chuka ryouri" section
That reminds me... Has Aki introduced you to Balut yet?
5:53 my mouth was getting so watery watching this, looks delicious
tbh, stinky tofu is just fried tofu which is great but some people can't get pass the smell.
(from my place pig intestines are something we eat and it's my favorite)
7:50 doesn’t stinky tofu have a variety of versions of it? Can’t you get tofu that’s been aged for 1 year vs tofu that’s been aged for 6 weeks? So maybe that version wasn’t the smelliest because it was barley aged.
stinky tofu fried is one of the best dishes, but when it's not fired the smell is way worse and the taste is wayyy stronger
I love seeing these little glimpses into Joey's life.
It's not like we don't eat stuff like that in Europe or "the West". Nowadays, we have such an oversupply of food, that we are just used to picking only the most popular parts, and many people do not know, what is used in traditional cuisine. But you can still get that stuff in many places, specialty restaurants etc. Speaking for Germany, there is a regional dish called "Kutteln" which is cut up stomach of cows or sometimes other animals. Liver is eaten quite commonly in Germany, Brain used to be used in certain sausages and sometimes soups (until mad cow disease killed that).
That's also the only issue I would have with that, brain is known to transmit prion-based neurological illnesses like mad-cow, scrapie etc. So if I'd eat something like that, it would really have to be from extremely well kept animals, only fed on natural foods etc.
Also, the idea of a fried mars bar makes me vomit...
True, even just 100 years ago, you would see most of the "undesirable" organs still regularly eaten by Western lower class folk. Meat was rare enough that you didn't waste any edible parts. Nowadays the standard of living has risen enough that most Americans and Europeans don't need to eat them.
I'm pretty sure i watch more vids here on the alt channel than the main one. Keep the enjoyment coming Joey.
I love how often you've been uploading man!
7:30, a challenge...stinky tofu. Excuse me Mr. I-Eat-Nato-for-breakfast? What challenge?
joey : buys iphone for camera
gets absolutely oblverated
That's not half a shot, that's a shot. What people think is a 'normal shot' is actually a double shot.
Baijiu is the only Chinese liquor (paint thinner) 😂 If you know, you know. Great stuff!
Now you know the reasons why Chinese cuisine have bigger influence globally than British grubs, but the British blokes think they are so good at food and can't stop being gobby innit? I rather eat duck brains and tongues marinated with flavourful spices, than a damn bland Jellied eels or a bloody effing Haggis.
(Whoa whoa, chill mate! For god's sake, keep your hair on! It's a joke!)
But yeah, on serious note, Chinese cuisine is very good that's why you can see its influence in almost everywhere (especially if you are not a person who get put off of a food before actually tasting it despite it being 100% edible). Haven't taste Baijuu/Chinese Liquor yet, but now you really convinced me to taste it!
I don't think you'll visit the Philippines anytime soon but try Dinakdakan, it's literally a creamy pig brain dish.
This is a cute little pocket of wholesome videos to watch just before going to sleep
Yeah I'd pass on the shark fin but looks like a good haul nonetheless
i love it when joy just posts a random video like this, makes my day!
Oh man all I felt was hunger watching this video, especially that sea cucumber broth GOD THAT LOOKS GOOD
Pretty staple Chinese food, glad you enjoyed it. With stinky tofu though, there are levels to their stinky-ness with the more authentic ones being more pungent.
I'm an Australian-born Chinese and its kinda weird never seeing 50% of the food here lol Looks good tho
when he said pork intestine my mexican brain was like oh so tacos de tripitas?
Some of these dishes are fairly exotic, even by Chinese standards. Fermented tofu is a fairly common staple though.
I’d label you a weirdo more for liking shirako than brains 🤣
Edit: In all serious loved the video and would welcome more like it ☺️ Keep up the good work!
The seafood stew thing looked like “Buddha jumps over the wall (allured by the fragrance of this dish)”
It’s a bunch of rehydrates seafood, some intentionally aged for certain amount of time. The jellyfish looking thing is probably a specific fish’s air bladder. The abalone is presumably also rehydrated for condensed flavour. The golden soup is likely coloured with pumpkin, a fairly modern modification.
As for the “doesn’t look chinese” lamb soup with flatbread, I find it interesting that most people when talking about Chinese food, think of south eastern coastal Chinese, this might have some historical reasons. But this dish is very much chinese, in fact it’s most popular in Shanxi, capital and heartland of China since the first dynasty.
Loved the video Joey! I'm always a fan of drinking and eating 😋
Joey: Olives, nah! Duck brain, now that’s it!
Have you ever tried deep-fried duck intestine? I had them when I was growing up in Thailand. They took duck intestine, clean it, and boiled it in some kind of seasoning soup. Then they dry the intestine before deep-frying them. Super crispy (potato chips crispy).
My dude , you must try some Rakija , it is like a vodka , but with better alcohol percentage 40% and above with different fruit flavor !
as an eastern european with our own "weird" foods i have to say i really wanna try all of this, I've had like almost every part of pork so this doesn't faze me at all and i never really understood the concept of "weird" food when it's only normal to use every part of an animal to not waste it yk, the baijiu tho the need to try it is strong as hell
Right on the money Joey, not sure what good people think comes off of shittting on food outside of their culture. Being an Asian, i've literally ate an whole animal all my life. Everything from the Intestines, brains, eyes, ears, tails, and yes even the balls too for anybody wondering(which is actually a delicacy in my culture)
0:30 Me, a romanian: "Pathetic"
3:35 Now we're talking.
they are right, even the best vodka taste like sewage compared to Chinese wine, they are so smooth and fragrant
Try a Cow's tongue sandwich, it's delicious. And "criadillas" (bull's balls), never tried it, but if I ever get the chance, I will.
Asripa and Sugimoto literally salivating rn