Chinese People Try Jewish Food for the First Time 😳
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Today I brought a group of my Chinese friends to NYC’s famous 2nd Avenue Deli to try authentic, traditional Eastern European Ashkenazic Jewish Food for the first time! We got all the classics, including gefilte fish, chopped liver, pickles (full-sour and half-sour), sauerkraut, cholent, matzoh ball soup, blintzes, knishes, potato kugel, and of course pastrami sandwiches. Some of the items they loved, others…not so much!!!
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The irony is that growing up in Brooklyn, “typical” Jewish food many times meant going out for Chinese. :-)
The only places open on christmas ;)
My father and I were talking about this the other day! Ever since I was a kid we always got the Chinese food on Christmas. Love seeing other Jewish people share this tradition
thats funny :)
I'm a Ukranian Canadian. This food is not Jewish food. It's eastern european
@@jaytaylor3955 at the beginning of the video that was explained. Pay close attention
As an Orthodox Jew, I find it so cool you guys are spreading our culture like this. Appreciating other cultures is so important, I’m really glad you guys enjoyed your meal 🙏
I'm a chinese dude who speak Cantonese and not Mandarin. I decided to watch your videos to pick up mandarin with your english captions. I'm learning Mandarin from a white dude!
2020 is great time huh hahah
@@truthninja3922 not all Jews are middle eastern, my dude
Thats friggin cool
@@truthninja3922 If you would consider a better answer to your question, as far as science is concerned, "race" isn't even a thing. It's yet another 19th century concept that somehow has made it into the 21st century.
Genetics are real. But genetics are complicated and not as easy to go around judging people on.
And finally "hating on whites" just seems to be a current fashion trend. I'm sure everyone will figure on someone else to hate next. It's what humans do. Unfortunately.
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i love the simplicity of this. people openly trying another cultures food with no language barrier between the two. it's so inspiring somehow 😌
I loved the kid in the middle!!!! Every time they try something this kid just loves it!!!
To be fair, this is a specific type of Jewish food: Ashkenazi.
Sephardic and Mizrahi cuisines are also Jewish, but VERY different than this.
It's probably appropriate from an American Jewish perspective, but it really doesn't represent the cuisines of the many different Jewish diaspora communities, and certainly not their big merger in Israel. That said, it's likely the majority of the Jewish audience of the channel is Ashkenazi anyway...
Well they're in New York not Argentina, so those Sephardic restraunts from the south are probably harder to come by, even then you'd get middle eastern Jewish food in NYC
Robert Montoya I assure you, Sephardic style restaurants are not hard to come by in NYC, nor are Mizrahi ones. We have large communities of both.
Omer this is very accurate for Jewish food, this is all ashkenazi culture
I flat out prefer Ashkenazi, it's basically central-/eastern European cuisine. I would even eat at a place like that, but I am afraid you will spit into my food or worse.
For me, been Russian, it’s hard to tell difference between Russian and Jewish food. We had so much influence on each other culture during ages. I’m pretty sure there is some Jewish blood in my veins as well.
Me being Polish - the same. There is a difference - we eat pork. My grandma had a Jewish boyfriend - soon after the war - he was a German Jew - up until her death she was very highly speaking about Jewish hospitality and food. They broke up as he was emigrating to Palestine and her family didn't want to look after her siblings for few years (her parents died during war). - You need to remember this is Ashkenazi food - similar to ours - Sephardi is more Mediterranean - Arabic connected - food is not about nationalities, but regions, migrations, religions...
Jews were kicked out of nearly every country, and most of the NY Jews came from eastern europe - the delicatessen, as we know it as Jewish food, was created in NYC when all the cultures mixed together in the Lower East Side. Also, there used to be stores of every culture but they eventually combined in Jewish delis/diners to please everyone.
@@JeffSayYes delicatessen is probably a yiddish word, cause its "Delikatessen" in german.
Almost all of this looked like the food that my mom cooked at home.
PS i've never seen home cooked Leberwurst before, i got to try that!
@@desotaku5202 Well, Delicatessen spelled this way is English. Language, food is always evolving, borrowing from neighbors and new beginnings
@@JeffSayYes isnt it delicacy in english?
Good sampling, but you missed latkes!
Chris Labatt-Simon well you really only eat Latkas on special holidays😂
And hamentashen ❤ my fav
Kugel. I'm vegan and my mom recently made it vegan for the first time. I havbt had it in like 10 years. She didgreat, it was just like I remember. My favorite with matzah ball soup.
they have Berger cookies in NY right? I'm a vegan once again. It's a must of your not
No this food is Polish and its called placki ziemniaczane
Xiaoma, great job learning Mandarin and other Chinese languages. You should try to learn some Yiddish just for fun.
Half-Sour is a Cucumber that looked at a picture of Vinegar.
Full sour kosher pickles are not brined in vinegar. They are fermented in a salt brine. No vinegar involved.
@@Lagolop : Brined and fermented, yes. But add some dill, and garlic for kosher, and they're decent, even made with vinegar. Faster than fermenting, but not as tasty. But traditionally, brine only. No vinegar needed.
@@argonwheatbelly637 We make our own with salt brine, spices, garlic and dill :)
I'm from Ashkenazi and Chinese descent so this is quite weird tbh, like my DNA cells meeting each other without me 😅 🇨🇳 🇩🇪🇦🇹✡️ ❤️
That’s a very unexpected combo. I am also Ashkenazi descent though I’m most Slavic (Russian and Ukrainian) and Italian (Sicilian) with a sprinkle of German (Bavarian) in there. So I understand weird mixes lol
I’m not any of these ethnicities... but I AM super hungry after watching this video!!!!! Yummmmmm
Joshua Pack Yeah I know it's not common at all 😅 but that's mostly because my great great grandparents were from two different communities living in the Dutch East Indies; my great great grandfather being German and Austrian Jewish and my great great grandmother being Chinese 😊
Yeah well that's a very nice mix too bro 😊👍🏻
Does this food come from Europe or Judea?
@@comraderedcomando That’s a perfectly expected mix. Look at where we Jews eat all of the time.
I love watching people enjoy food. The Chinese friends are so open to trying things.
Really liked your three guests! Also glad they liked all that great food.
I really enjoy these videos. We always have more commonalities than differences💜
Very true we are all human in the end
OLD JOKE: Two Chinese diners are leaving Katz’s. One turns to the other and says: "The trouble with Jewish food is two weeks later you're hungry again!"
Marvelous!
Nice!
Staying at a local hotel once, I told the concierge that we were planning on going to Katz's, and was shocked to hear her say that she thought it had become "too touristy and overrated", and that the place we REALLY wanted to go was here - 2nd Avenue Deli! Hopefully, the next time we're in NYC (IF there's a next time), we can try it and compare.
@@samuelglass6805 Lots of people say that. I have said that at times. It's definitely worth the trip, just go when the lines are shorter. The good stuff is the pastrami or corned beef on rye and the stuff at the hot dog section. I would split a sandwich between as many as 4 people.
@@JeffSayYes No surprise there! If our trip to Katz's taught me anything, it was: DON'T EAT ANYTHING before you go. Skip breakfast AND lunch if you can, because you're still gonna leave STUFFED. That's why when we went to settle our bill, I wasn't shocked at the total...I felt like we'd gotten more than our money's worth!
Pastrami is my favorite, and that pastrami sandwich at the end looked AMAZING!
It's all about how long you want to keep the meat...originally. Start with brisket, brine and cure it to corned beef, and then smoke it to pastrami. Different flavors, but also different unrefrigerated hold times.
I am from New Mexico< USA and I really appreciate the knowledge you spread. The world needs more of it. Keep being you!
Hello Xioma! I'm Jewish and grew up eating knishes, kishke, blintzes, chopped liver, bagels with lox, matzo ball soup, challah, luchen kugel etc. My wife is Indonesian and we've been eating Indonesian food for 17 years (rendang, tahu isi, pempek, nasi goreng, mie goreng, babi rica, soto ayam, etc.). My wife eats knishes and bagels, but for some reason I just assumed everything else would gross her out. I love chopped liver and after seeing the "insanely good" reaction I'm going to have her try it!! I can't wait to see what she thinks!!
I'm Indonesian. I've been living in Connecticut for the last 20 years. We do eat liver but usually fully cooked (like soto, or ati goreng). Love latkes, taste like gorengan in Jakarta. Tried chopped liver once, it's not my favorite LOL.
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well, i'm chinese but i'm judaism.. is that kosher food by the way? never tried that kind of variant food before.. thx
@@fransiscamegawati Second Ave Deli is Kosher! That's why the sour cream is non-dairy. Where are you located?
As a Jewish Israeli, Im waiting for you to speak Hebrew or Yiddish! :-) also it looks yummy and I've never seen such a hugh Gefilte Fish!
that would be dope
The one in the middle loves it all lol
As a Jew I would just like to say, what kind of sociopath prefers half-sour over full-sour pickles?? Like half sour pickles are just cucumbers that fell out of the salt water too soon lol
xD
I'd say the same thing as a german✌️
Miriam Halpern I’m staying with Ba-Tam- Te. Half Sour pickles. Period. With chopped c. Liver on sour rye, Bermuda onion maybe hard mustard. A Hamms 16 ozer.
As a fan of pickles in general, I have to say that only a degenerate likes half-sour pickles. *hard glance @ husband* XD
Yo what half sour kicks
3:56 "It's actually German food". My Jewish friend, everything in the Ashkenazi kitchen is either German, Polish, Ukrainian or Russian. Your matzo soup, my Knödelsuppe.
and I can finally understand some things so gefilte Fish comes from "Gefüllter Fisch" and of course other words and dishes
Us Serbians eat it too
very true lmao
already wondered if pickles are originally jewish, my whole life would have been a lie.
As a jewish guy i would say you are right. only americans call that soup "matzo ball soup" we call it kneidlach.
I get full just watching this : ) You guys ordered the whole menu it seems, too funny! Seriously though, when you eat some of the items there, you can really savor how great each is! I used to live like 5 blocks from there, but hey, never knew how the corned beef /pastrami sandwiches were just as big as Katz's. Killer! Having moved to Fla, this reminds me so much of home! Totally fun watching them try this stuff for this first time!
I like how you made sure to wear your kippah for this meal!
Looks like he he just came out of morning seder after 3 hours of learning Gemara, not 3 hours of touring all the dim sum and noodle bars in Chinatown.
I just watched his video where he eats pig ears :O
3:57 this is not German Sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is soft-cooked and fine cutted fermented cole with salt, juniper berries, Bay leaf, mustard seeds, sugar and vinegar. This is Krautsalat, it means cole salad or in the US coleslaw. Greetings from Germany!
also... german food IS jewish food
@@JeffSayYes Other way around.
@@JeffSayYes Yeah it's actually the other way around ...
@@BenHatira same thing
@@JeffSayYes Grammatically and factually, no it is not the same thing.
My favorite part is when they ask are the blintzes Jewish spring rolls 😂. Once they try it they realize it's a crepe but still funny.
I love it when you can share food from your culture or try new foods from someone elses culture and talk about the memories those foods conjure up! so cool! thx for making this video!
I like that he described stuff by finding a similar Chinese food and saying “it’s basically Jewish (Chinese dish name)” 😂
She is so damn cute 😂
@Shard 308 And, yellow fever is a bad thing?.
Na, you right, so damn cute
My favorite food in the whole world, next to pizza. That pastrami on rye is amazing...i also recommend tongue on rye with mustard. You hit it out of the ball park with this video. Keep up the great work.
"Do you guys eat tongue?"
"Whose tongue?" I'm dead 🤣
I love what you do, eating and getting people together is the best activity to unnite and teach people how good REAL food is.
12:22 Yeah...That happens.
It is awkward but happens.
She wanted more than just a handshake tbh..
Well she made it awkward but he should have gone for a hug
Great channel! love the cultural mash-ups.
That was so adorable. So generous & gracious.
Props man, fun to watch!
12:22 she reaches out and then the ship sails ;) better luck next time
she makes sure to get the hand touch in by 12:33 doeeee
Definitely an awkward moment lol 😂😂😂
Xiaoman drinking game: take a shot every time he says "Wow".
But only when he says it in that "Chinese" way: "WHOA!!!!" Funny...
should do a christmas version where you share both jewish and chinese food together with your chinese and jewish friends together!
Really cool to see your friends trying the food and enjoying it. I wish we had a good Jewish deli where I live. I'm not Jewish but grew up in an area where there was a large Jewish population so my family would enjoy brunch at delis pretty regularly. Matzoball soup is one of my favorite soups and I'm sad I can't really get a good simple version of it these days. Might have to try making my own~~
@Jessica LanSpe Haha, that post is almost a year old. I did eventually end up making my own. I couldn't get matzo here as we were in lock down and there's only one place that I could find that even sells them normally, so I ended up making my own and doing everything from scratch. It turned out really good and was full of comfort food vibes. While it did take a few steps it wasn't all that hard to do, so yes def worth making your own.
Xiaoma busting out the Kippa, never knew you guys were Jewish so awesome. Nice choice with second ave deli.
我看完了就吃飽了:)你們似乎訂購了整個菜單，太有趣了！ 認真地說，當您在那兒吃一些東西時，您真的可以品嚐到它們的味道！ 我曾經從那裡住過大約5個街區，但是，嘿，永遠不知道咸牛肉/意大利面三明治的大小和Katz的一樣大。 殺手！ 搬到Fla後，這讓我想起了很多家！ 看著他們第一次嘗試這個東西真是太有趣了！
Really nice to get to know abit more about Jewish culture and food xxx. Eventhough I live in English I love British food xxx
I think ALL moms just want to see their kids full!! 😂😂
I love how his friends deny him a hug at 01:15 😂
yeah a hug is like getting to 2nd base to Taiwanese. It gets awkward
big yikes
Coronavirus was already a thing in China and Taiwan back in December and Jan.
Seems appropriate since I’ve been eating Chinese food every year for Christmas as long as I can remember.
That's a song!
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@TheWorldInMyHead lol so true
Do you think Chinese people do this on Christmas? Role reversal.... too funny.
Or maybe like the few days after Chinese New Year when the big celebration's done, but business has yet to come back!
I love this comment so much
lol
"I've had a lot of relevant experience in my life" LMAO Evan 🤣🤣
"I've had a lot of relevant experience in my life." Same!
Low-key gay joke lol
Great as usual! We once had International Cuisine Day at my office. We had several Asian people in the department. They brought their specialties. I brought Gefilte Fish. I had a LOT of leftovers! It didn’t go over too well. But everybody loves Maneschewicz! I mean, c’mon, that’s like saying you don’t like candied cherries!
I get so hungry every time I watch these videos! If Xiaomanyc learned to cook, he'd be unstoppable!! Kudos to the camera man/woman, and the editor!
This is a dope video xiaoma! Ain’t nothin like sharing culture by eating and sharing new foods
Awesome on so many levels!!! Great video!!!!
Hi Xiaomanyc, I am a 67 year old white male and omg how the hello did get hooked on your vids... I don't know but i am glad i did your diversity shows hope for the next generation that we can coexist together and stop the hate peace
This video is like a paradise of culture !!!!asian guys with americans ,jewish food and some latino music on background 🙌🏽🙌🏽🥰🥰 loved it
這集正常多了，小馬還是介紹中餐以外的料理比較適合，感覺扳回一城了！
十分豐盛的一餐，醬料非常畫龍點睛，我想那些食物應該大家都會很喜歡！
這食物好特別，除了酸黃瓜是有型的食物，其他食物都做成泥狀。真的很特殊的一餐
@@user-de5uz8fj7s 沒有錯，嘗鮮一詞，可以用來形容，如果能在自己家附近找到這樣的餐廳，一定會想去嘗鮮！
等你真的吃过一次，估计就会同意中餐更好吃🤣
@@thesmallthingsthatemunahli4056 我還真吃過，感覺有的比某些中餐好吃，比如猶太丸子湯。它的底湯是雞湯，丸子很清爽，是感冒時很好的湯。
Its weird when he always says “wowwww” in a monotone voice while staring into space
Sorta reminds me of Bill Hader from SNL
Who's tongue? xD
Omg this is awesome. I'm a philly jew and am married to a new York jew. This was so familiar! Awesome your friends liked it. We are going to New York this weekend for a family visit and will definitely be having some deli!!
Okay I just let your content autoplay for a bit. I am enjoying it! You are very friendly and I like that! We need more friendly people in the world right now.
First : vodka. And after - full-sour cucumber. I know what im talk - im from Russia😉
Nothing beats pickles after a good drinking Session
Its tradition man 👍👍
FULL SOUR! :D:D:D
The Chinese girl friend looks quite cute.
I live how some people look so bored and then perk up when they hear Chinese it’s the best!
This reminds me of a funny conversation that I had years ago. I was working in a primarily Asian Indian group and was invited to a pot luck dinner.
A woman walked over to me and gaped at me. "You eat Indian food????"
I smiled and replied, "of course! Don't you eat Jewish food?"
Sheepishly, she shook her head no.
I kept smiling and said, "of course you do! What do you think Indian Jews eat? The same thing you do!!!"
Reads title
Mutters-please don't feed those poor people gefilte fish
Sees video pic
Nooooooooooooo
I love gefilte fish lol
I agree. I can't stand gefilte fish.
MOOD-
My babushka married a Jewish gentleman and learned how to make challah and so many delicious foods. Even plain pickles are good 😌
Challah is great, but babka is dangerous--it's the dessert version of challah that is essentially a chocolate challah marble cake.
Oy, you went easy on them, next time pickled herring!
My Jewish great-grandmother was a stellar cook. She was literally from the "old country".
Hello from Israel
God bless America, China and Israel 🇨🇳❤️🇮🇱❤️🇺🇸❤️
Only been to New York once. I'm from Chicago originally now living out West. We got corned beef sandwiches and matzoh ball soup from Carnegie deli back in the early 90's. It was amazing. You guys have the BEST Jewish food. Got the best from my relatives however ;-)
So many different foods on the table. Even though they're look foreign to me, but can't help it to drool, especially that pastrami, they all look so satiesfied munching it.
Are you wearing a kipah in this video? Yup, at the end, when you left the restaurant I could see it.
Cholent is normally eaten on shabbat. If I make a stew (rarely), it wouldn't be the same recipe as cholent.
This groaning board wouldn't be a typical meal. either -WOW! 😲 I vote for sour pickles. our friend was right when she said that the half-sour tastes like a cucumber.
Kosher dill....it's the garlic that makes my three-year-old love them! He loves garlic!
@@argonwheatbelly637 specifically Claussen Kosher Dill. *drools*
@@Katastra_ Probably Ba-Tamtpte pickles, they're based out of Brooklyn but they sell them everywhere including Wegmans, Shoprite. One of the only picklers thats NY based that's still around
I feel so crowded for them. I'm sure that's the biggest table available. But, wow that's cozy.
I had fishballs at a fish market in Taiwan that tasted like the best gefilte fish. Maybe when I retire, I will make a jewish restaurant there.
It's worth mentioning that Chinatown is the same area where hundreds of thousands of Eastern European Jews settled between about 1880 and 1920, and this (except usually on a much less opulent level) would have been the normal fare (relying heavily on the starch with egg concoctions, like gefilte fish, potato pancakes etc., money usually being scarce). But particularly significant is the strong similarity of Chinese and Jewish cuisine generally: above all, no dairy and meat together. This brings Jewish and Chinese cooking much closer than Jewish and most European cuisines that heavily combine the two. Italian in particular. It's for this reason that Chinese food was usually the first "ethnic" cuisine Jews gravitated to when they abandoned kosher adherence (the "gateway drug" to more blatantly non-Jewish things like cheeseburgers, Italian standards, lobster etc.). And of course, most famously, Chinese restaurants being open on Christmas, so December 25 is "traditionally" a big Chinese food day for Jews.
Nice lesson/explanation on the cholent, by the way. However brief, definitely a highlight of the video, touching on the religious-spiritual aspect of that dish that's so important in Jewish culture.
I wonder if this is the scene at the Zuckerberg’s house every day.
Lol! True
😂😂
he reminds me of ben shapiro
Having grown up in a large Jewish community then moving to a Chinese community, I would say that I would take Chinese food any day no questions asked
great video, ty for posting.
"this is a kosher restaurant"
>open every day
Question: could we get a smaller table? 😆 Looks yummy though!
That was a whole lotta food! That looked amazing!
You seriously have the best channel on TH-cam.
That Reuben at the end though
I was waiting for your guests to start critiquing the food in Hebrew.
Lol, my daughter goes to Fordham. Your thumbnail got me. Cool channel.
Ashkenazi cuisine is interesting because some dishes we adopted directly from Slavic people with little change, maybe adding more spices and herbs, while older dishes show strong ties to Medieval Italian and Byzantine cuisines. It’s a real hodge-podge.
everyones looks when you said "an 'aquired' taste" too funny
Hey Xioma, the Sauerkraut is more looking like coleslaw and then it is Krautsalat, same cabbage but different dish...
it's just freshly made and not standing for many weeks, so it is somewhat crispy . Many places make fresh batches and serve each day. It's still the same dish as it is same ingredients and same procedure , but of course flavor and texture will vary :D Same if you know anything about the korean kim chi, very different from fresh to well 'cured'
@@shywalker404 Sauerkraut and kimchi are fermented for weeks, if it is not fermented it is neither kimchi nor sauerkraut. That's why it's called sauerkraut because fermentation makes it sour (Sauer) If you make it fresh and serve it, then germans call it Krautsalat (coleslaw)
omfg . . . . when the sammiches came out . . . . those look like next level
greetings from Israel
love your vids
An honest clash of culture's, but delightful none the lest.
Wouldn't it just be less?
Interesting editing, and angles
Very heartwarming. Nothing brings people together like good food!
Ok, I never knew you're Jewish, good times - love how he's rocking the yami, nice touch. Also love seeing people expose others to our food, esp. since I'm strictly kosher, it's great to be able to share a bond over some good food, we can all eat.
Those sammiches looked sick. Kick it up a notch and throw some of that chopped liver in there...fuggetaboutit ;)
It's so interesting, we eat so much "Chinese" food, but I never see Chinese at all at our places. I think they would love it, especially the emmis stuff
@Encore Baby he didn't say they *must* he was just pointing out how it was strange it is
@Encore Baby get over yourself wtf, you got issues!
aw, fifth wheel vibes for that one guy lol. enjoyable video though!
that tofu sour cream looks so good. best looking tofu sour cream I’ve ever seen actually. It’s probably tofutti though.
Did you explain that the kosher laws prohibit the mixing of meat and dairy? That's why the blintzes were served with non-dairy sour cream. I'm sure they weren't fried in butter, either, and they had no cheese in their filling. Since the 2nd Avenue Deli serves meat dishes, there probably isn't any dairy in the restaurant at all, even milk or cream for coffee. There are other kosher restaurants that serve milk dishes, but no meat.