i dont mean to be that person who mentions xmas b4 Thanksgiving even happens but i hope this yr you all do a secret santa video, those videos are always so fun to watch.
That’s cool, we have tamales and Cuban Coffee. We make the turkey and for a whole week, we would have turkey soup, turkey tacos, turkey toastadas and finally. Turkey Sandwich.. Downey California
I am not Asian but growing up my parents taught us that Santa was make believe but it was still fun make believe he was real. They reasoned they couldn’t lie to us about this & expect us to believe what they said on other things. I would do the same if/when I have kids. Food growing up traditional & at my grandparents house but food now not traditional & ever changing.
Fried turkey is the best!! My uncle made it for the first time a couple years back, and our family HAS NEVER TURNED BACK to a BAKED turkey. We don’t have hot pot, but we make Hmong egg rolls, fresh rolls, Hmong sausage, sticky/plain sticky rice, papaya, mashed potato/gravy, and this year we’r making Hmong PHO ❤️
Story time! I'm a 25 year old Chinese man who grew up in SGV and when I was in high school, I think that was when my family started celebrating American Thanksgiving. I remember the first two times, we bought an Asian Roasted Turkey from a Chinese Restaurant which came with sticky rice. It was pretty good. Then, senior year and after high school, we started doing American Turkey and thats pretty much when I started to cook a lot more. Nowadays, during TG, I'll roast a chicken either Peruvian style or Chinese-style and make a bunch of side dishes that often include: pumpkin pie, Japanese potato salad (doesn't go good with gravy), roasted brussel sprouts, yang chow fried rice, etc. Why do I cook such a multi-cultural meal? Because this meal really represents my ideals: I highly value the multi-cultural richness that exists in the world and with the Internet and access to the right ingredients, I can cook South American food, Vietnamese, Chinese food, Mexican food, and the list goes on. To me, TG really is about the entire family coming together and spending time with each other. Thats what drives me to work hard and cook up an entire meal for my family. I highly value my family, even more after my mother's passing this year. I don't spend time with friends during this time. I even broke ties with every person I knew from high school due to person reasons. Even though I grew up in a predominantly asian neighborhood and schools, I perceive myself as being an American before being Chinese. As someone who is smart and skilled, I feel like its my responsibility to be a friend to everyone, regardless of culture/ethnicity, and making people feel welcomed and not feel like any culture is superior to another. EDIT: Added details.
For two years, my family were alone for thanksgiving because either I was working or my mom was working. So, we didn’t do a turkey. We did have a small lechon/pork belly as a stand in for turkey. It was delicious. And there was lumpia too.
lol my dad does the exact same thing as Phil's family do. Turkey with mash potato and stuffing on the side. Then we make fried rice with the leftovers. Guess all Taiwanese parents think alike.
hello mwf, of course we celebrate but hot pot is the best with soup. the chicken cooked in hot pot also is not usual from a time at my house. the chance to cook American food is fun and I was a shy kid to like my parents keeping it hot pot style. we have a Cantonese fried chicken with shrimp chips tho. elle for tday thank day
Mines buffet style too but more like we grab what we eat and sit down on the floor with our tarp. We don't play Paris by night though because our family ain't that Asian and gods, that would be torture.
My family did crab for Thanksgiving because my aunt was getting sick of turkey (she usually makes most of the food) and I'm so glad because the crab was so delicious. And we also sit on the floor with a tarp every time so that's kind of funny that Jen's family does the same thing and we put our food on the table, buffet style too. We have less people though and we actually do talk just because we're so close. It's like a casual Thanksgiving while my other family (my dad's side) is a traditional Thanksgiving (around the table, basic Thanksgiving stuff like turkey and mashed potatoes, I also drank a lot of apple cider). We also sort of Asian gambled on my mom's side (I say Asian gambling because it's a Vietnamese game called Bau Cua ca cop, where we have a mat with a pear, deer, crab, fish, chicken and prawn and we bet on money on which animal or thing the three dices will land on and if the dice lands on the animal or thing we picked, we get double the money, (get to keep what you bet on plus double so 1 dollar = 2 dollars). If two dices land on the same animal or thing you get triple the money and so on but we've never seen three dices land on the same animal or thing before). Also, my mom and dad sort of did santa but also not. My dad or mom used to drink the milk and eat the cookies when I woke up but I figured out that Santa wasn't real when my mom told me to put pocky on my list (because she already bought it) and my mom told me to brush my teeth but I went downstairs to check instead but it wasn't there so I went upstairs to brush my teeth and suddenly when I went downstairs, it was there. Yeah, I kind of connected the dots. My mom and dad didn't do a great job of doing the tooth fairy either because they told me to put the tooth in the bathroom, because why not and then if I put it under my pillow, I could feel them lifting it because I'm a light sleeper. At least they tried. 😅
I can completely relate to Wes' goat story. I had a similar experience when we celebrated one Christmas back in Dominican Republic. Our holiday dinners usually consist of whole roasted pork, that is slow cooked in a "caja china" and moro (a Dominican rice and beans dish). Growing up they tried the turkey route, but gave up unless we have non- dominican guests 😂.
My family comes from Mexico so we Mexicanized Thanksgiving. We have turkey but we boil it and make it with a sauce called Mole with rice on the side. We have pasta salads and Mexican desserts like flan and tres leches cake.
Yo hotpot totally goes for Asian Christmas Dinner too! Ahahhaha there's been a few years of traditional roasted turkey or pork with the classic fixings and then there's some years of..hotpot 😂😂😂 Congrats Philllllll!
I did not realize how Asian you all are LOL. I grew up in Canada in an Asian household but we did all the Canadian/American traditions and holidays. I find this quite fascinating.
One year my cousin's husband wanted to do the turkey for everyone to try, so he went to those Chinese BBQ shop and asked them to roast the turkey for him. So, the turkey ended up tasting like BBQ duck because the shop used the same marinate😂
Our version of Thanksgiving dinner involves take out from a nearby Chinese restaurant in the 626! We don't EVER make any food commonly associated with the foods served during Thanksgiving.
my family is Italian American. So on Thanksgiving we eat lasagna and many other Italian foods, that we make from scratch. Christmas is almost the exact same, but instead of lasagna we make homemade ravioli XD
Don't forget about the other larger meat dishes like pork picnic (aka picnic shoulder, pork shoulder, etc), steamboat, brisket, etc. Those are great options too.
For thxging, since much of my family isn’t in the US, we usually have a huge party with a bunch of friends and we would do a huge potluck and stay up till midnight ☺️ ah good memories
Chinese here, SO is White and this will be our first year doing Thanksgiving as a family with 2 young children and we are doing 100% American style, from turkey to homemade gravy, to southern style green bean with ham to mashed potato and homemade pumpkin roll for dessert.
We did the whole Asian spread for the adults (hot pot, duck or pork belly, spring rolls etc) and then easier foods for the kids like chicken wings, fried rice, noodles
For Thanksgiving, we always have turkey. We have an American dinner and then usually after that, we go to Black Friday. 👍 but we definitely have Asian food as well at the dinner table. My mom makes the best strawberry cheesecake in my opinion. That is usually how I spend Thanksgiving. ^^ Also congrats Phil! 👏👏
We have a full on turkey dinner for thanksgiving!!! Very Martha Stewart like with table cloth, cloth napkins, napkin rings and what not...Holiday ham, prime ribs, and salmon for Christmas. Hot pot is for New Year’s Eve
My family does both--hot pot and turkey. We love the turkey from Ranch 99. It tastes like a XL version of roasted duck, haha. Goat sounds amazing too!! XD
For viet hotpot, we do have the chinese style soups, but for our own style i think we call it steamboat(?) (saw it being called that on a menu). Its mostly seafood or just fish hotpot.
I grew up in the Philippines so we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. But my first year here in the US, I worked on Thanksgiving lol so my mom and sister and I just grabbed dinner at Cracker Barrel 😂 And then I moved to live with my other sibs and we mostly cook Filipino food but I think this year they want to have some turkey too 😂
not really the case, everyone is different to their preference. turkey does have its own flavor and some people can't take that flavor very well. kinda like not everyone want a good durian.
Well first I'm Canadian so my Thanksgiving already happened in October. 2nd my family usually get whole cook chicken sold at grocery store because it's a family of 4 and non of us like Turkey. And sometimes to be fancy we make chicken Korean porridge. And that's our Thanksgiving meal. This year we went out to eat at a restaurant and most of us got Steak
My mom always makes jook with leftover turkey too! One thing we're doing differently this year is roasting potatoes; the last few years the potatoes were undercooked even though the bird was cooked, so this time we're gonna follow an actual recipe and boil them first then put them in the oven separately 😂🤞
I know I know, I can't say I ever had an Asian Christmas... um, I'd like to weigh in on the stuffing though... That wasn't a bad description... my family uses butter, celery and raisins as well. Then yes, I think Phil said baked; my Mom made it from scratch, so yes, she put everything in a ceramic casserole dish and baked it. I have a feeling she used one or two eggs as well. Yes, it's like a savory bread pudding. My Mom uses bread that was already baked though, so it retains it's shape(?) she cubes it, so it's little cubes, toasted in the oven, then you mix it with everything else, then back into the oven, so it never gets quite as runny, or gelatinous in texture as I've had sometimes with congee. As a nod to Chris' comment, a lot of people who are Jewish (not not Orthodox) in my community will go out to an Asian restaurant for Christmas, or maybe it's just the Jewish people I know.... but they say all their friends and family do it too.... oi vey? Maybe it's just a Toronto/Bathurst area/Markham thing.... Diversity is wonderful...!!
Cousins taking over Thanksgiving is a transition yet to take place but definitely inevitable in my 20s (God willing). I definitely had the slaughter the goat experience and it was a humbling and insightful experience as a child that is like to pass on personally
LOL I was that one kid in the family to bring in Thanksgiving and Christmas which I bet both times my mom was secretly hating how school/tv taught me that these holidays existed. Though we started thanksgiving way later. I remember there was one day I just asked my mom if we were ever going to celebrate thanksgiving and she was like " ... do you really want to celebrate it?" Since then we have celebrated thanksgiving but this year my mom said she was too lazy to cook a huge a** turkey so she bought chicken instead :'D
The fish cake is kamaboko it's a specific type of fish cake. Naruto is the swirl fish cake that's common in ramen. Naruto's seal on his stomach is like the fish cake swirl.
my family has a seafood thanksgiving....we bust out the crabs, shrimps,lobster...like we are all off,I look forward to it!! we used to do turkey when i waa kid but it transitioned to seafood lol
Thanksgiving is an American holiday it doesn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are, anyone can celebrate thanksgiving the way they want to. Thanksgiving is a tradition of being thankful for the things you have, your family, your relatives etc.. God bless you all and I hope you all have a good blissful thanksgiving 🦃🥧🥐🫐🥘
I HATE turkey. Force myself to put a sad slice on my plate But reminding me of duck...with crispy skin...oh man!....That might be my new go-to! Thanks guys! & if no one else eats it at dinner when I bring it (1st off, they're crazy) that just means MORE FOR ME! YAY! No loss at all...except maybe running out of it
I celebrate it Canadian-style .... 2nd Monday of October with yummy turkey and gravy. Oh yeah, and family too, but let's face it, the food is why we're really there.
Is it me or does somebody relate to what I'm about to type- the symbolism behind thanksgiving was that the native Americans and English settlers got together for a big feast, but it wasn't like what we learned from school. The English settlers we're unnerved from sitting with what they considered as "savages". So there really was no peace on that day. It is what I consider as native American memorial day. Or thankstaking
I think I have the only white family that never does Thanksgiving. For years my mother and I would just eat Chinese food as it was one of the few restaurants open that day.
GOAT as in watching Patriots play. Teehee. Just kidding, I don't think Patriots ever play on Thanksgiving. Normally I go to work then hot pot with the family (or "real Thanksgiving dinner")! Maybe Black Friday shopping after. Depends on the mood.
Who else celebrates the holidays with hot pot or duck?? Btw CONGRATS to Phil for finding "The Last" 😉💍The team is so happy for you ❤️
wes chan best man...or tedddd?
Ma boi Phillllll! All the years of making shorts about romance and exes have paid off!!! Hahaha huge congrats to you and Helen!
Congratulations!!! Should have make a video on that ;)
No hot pot or duck, but we do turkey tacos with the leftovers
i dont mean to be that person who mentions xmas b4 Thanksgiving even happens but i hope this yr you all do a secret santa video, those videos are always so fun to watch.
two words. white. elephant. 🤫
@@morewongfu yeah do that too please!!!!!
I approve of Phil staying behind with the "kids" haha. Grats on the big news!
I can finally put a face to the *Jessica* ☺️
Edit : oh and she did great 💜
That’s cool, we have tamales and Cuban Coffee. We make the turkey and for a whole week, we would have turkey soup, turkey tacos, turkey toastadas and finally. Turkey Sandwich.. Downey California
Why does Jessica reminds me of sadness from inside out 😅, so cute ! 🥰
I am not Asian but growing up my parents taught us that Santa was make believe but it was still fun make believe he was real. They reasoned they couldn’t lie to us about this & expect us to believe what they said on other things. I would do the same if/when I have kids. Food growing up traditional & at my grandparents house but food now not traditional & ever changing.
For Filipino Americans, it’s not a holiday party if there’s no lumpia
ibe Revinitup that's like egg rolls but in Filipino style, right?
@@bwingbwinggwiyomi sort of. The wrap is not made with egg though. And it can either be filled with veggies or meat ☺️
They're pretty much spring rolls
And spaghetti or pancit (for long life), adobo or lechon, and mounds and mounds of rice. Cheers!
My family's Thanksgiving menu had no Filipino food. Sorry fam, I'm coming through with Lumpia and Seniorita bread.
Happy (early) Thanksgiving Wong Fu! And I’m glad to see Jessica’s debut on Lunch Break too!
We finally meet the sleepy and mysterious voice behind the camera. Hi, Jessica! Nice to finally meet you!
Yay congrats to your debut, Jessica!!
no one realized jens pun,
jen: more than one pot
*its potsible*
Fried turkey is the best!! My uncle made it for the first time a couple years back, and our family HAS NEVER TURNED BACK to a BAKED turkey.
We don’t have hot pot, but we make Hmong egg rolls, fresh rolls, Hmong sausage, sticky/plain sticky rice, papaya, mashed potato/gravy, and this year we’r making Hmong PHO ❤️
Me realizing that lunch break is essentially a mukbang...
Hii Jessica! Finally we can see you here.. Waiting for many more lunch break and videos with you 🥳
Wesley is just really enjoying his meals in every lunch break.
Story time! I'm a 25 year old Chinese man who grew up in SGV and when I was in high school, I think that was when my family started celebrating American Thanksgiving. I remember the first two times, we bought an Asian Roasted Turkey from a Chinese Restaurant which came with sticky rice. It was pretty good. Then, senior year and after high school, we started doing American Turkey and thats pretty much when I started to cook a lot more. Nowadays, during TG, I'll roast a chicken either Peruvian style or Chinese-style and make a bunch of side dishes that often include: pumpkin pie, Japanese potato salad (doesn't go good with gravy), roasted brussel sprouts, yang chow fried rice, etc. Why do I cook such a multi-cultural meal? Because this meal really represents my ideals: I highly value the multi-cultural richness that exists in the world and with the Internet and access to the right ingredients, I can cook South American food, Vietnamese, Chinese food, Mexican food, and the list goes on. To me, TG really is about the entire family coming together and spending time with each other. Thats what drives me to work hard and cook up an entire meal for my family. I highly value my family, even more after my mother's passing this year. I don't spend time with friends during this time. I even broke ties with every person I knew from high school due to person reasons. Even though I grew up in a predominantly asian neighborhood and schools, I perceive myself as being an American before being Chinese. As someone who is smart and skilled, I feel like its my responsibility to be a friend to everyone, regardless of culture/ethnicity, and making people feel welcomed and not feel like any culture is superior to another.
EDIT: Added details.
ClassyJohn what is TG ?
@@minyoongistan5852 short-hand for Thanksgiving
This has me planning a hot pot dinner for thanksgiving. I love the cozy vibes
Congrats Phil!!!!! So happy for you and Helen 🌹❤️
For two years, my family were alone for thanksgiving because either I was working or my mom was working. So, we didn’t do a turkey. We did have a small lechon/pork belly as a stand in for turkey.
It was delicious. And there was lumpia too.
lol my dad does the exact same thing as Phil's family do. Turkey with mash potato and stuffing on the side. Then we make fried rice with the leftovers. Guess all Taiwanese parents think alike.
hello mwf, of course we celebrate but hot pot is the best with soup. the chicken cooked in hot pot also is not usual from a time at my house. the chance to cook American food is fun and I was a shy kid to like my parents keeping it hot pot style. we have a Cantonese fried chicken with shrimp chips tho. elle for tday thank day
As a Vietnamese my thanksgiving consist of having a “buffet” style dinner, with Paris By Night on the T.V hahaha
Thats cool! Better than just a whole chicken like my family hahaha
Mines buffet style too but more like we grab what we eat and sit down on the floor with our tarp. We don't play Paris by night though because our family ain't that Asian and gods, that would be torture.
My family did crab for Thanksgiving because my aunt was getting sick of turkey (she usually makes most of the food) and I'm so glad because the crab was so delicious. And we also sit on the floor with a tarp every time so that's kind of funny that Jen's family does the same thing and we put our food on the table, buffet style too. We have less people though and we actually do talk just because we're so close. It's like a casual Thanksgiving while my other family (my dad's side) is a traditional Thanksgiving (around the table, basic Thanksgiving stuff like turkey and mashed potatoes, I also drank a lot of apple cider). We also sort of Asian gambled on my mom's side (I say Asian gambling because it's a Vietnamese game called Bau Cua ca cop, where we have a mat with a pear, deer, crab, fish, chicken and prawn and we bet on money on which animal or thing the three dices will land on and if the dice lands on the animal or thing we picked, we get double the money, (get to keep what you bet on plus double so 1 dollar = 2 dollars). If two dices land on the same animal or thing you get triple the money and so on but we've never seen three dices land on the same animal or thing before). Also, my mom and dad sort of did santa but also not. My dad or mom used to drink the milk and eat the cookies when I woke up but I figured out that Santa wasn't real when my mom told me to put pocky on my list (because she already bought it) and my mom told me to brush my teeth but I went downstairs to check instead but it wasn't there so I went upstairs to brush my teeth and suddenly when I went downstairs, it was there. Yeah, I kind of connected the dots. My mom and dad didn't do a great job of doing the tooth fairy either because they told me to put the tooth in the bathroom, because why not and then if I put it under my pillow, I could feel them lifting it because I'm a light sleeper. At least they tried. 😅
Deep fried turkey is the best and most times it takes less than an hour to cook
Congratulations Phil!! Much love from Chicago!!
I seriously can’t get over when Wes talks seeing all the jump cuts I wouldn’t notice before until I knew that they had to edit wes’s parts so much
Love hotpot anytime! I really like your Thanksgiving Lunch Break, you can do that every year. Welcome Jessica, it's great to see you on camera!
Jessica did really well! Very interactive and talkative
I can completely relate to Wes' goat story. I had a similar experience when we celebrated one Christmas back in Dominican Republic. Our holiday dinners usually consist of whole roasted pork, that is slow cooked in a "caja china" and moro (a Dominican rice and beans dish). Growing up they tried the turkey route, but gave up unless we have non- dominican guests 😂.
My family comes from Mexico so we Mexicanized Thanksgiving. We have turkey but we boil it and make it with a sauce called Mole with rice on the side. We have pasta salads and Mexican desserts like flan and tres leches cake.
Yo hotpot totally goes for Asian Christmas Dinner too! Ahahhaha there's been a few years of traditional roasted turkey or pork with the classic fixings and then there's some years of..hotpot 😂😂😂 Congrats Philllllll!
asian thanksgiving: hotpot or duck
I did not realize how Asian you all are LOL. I grew up in Canada in an Asian household but we did all the Canadian/American traditions and holidays. I find this quite fascinating.
Congrats Phil 💐🎊☺️
8:58 I think Chris is Sleepy 😴 💤 😄
I actually like how you all have different ways to deal with the leftovers - congee, soup, fried rice; sounds great
I just realized as an Asian parent u can just tell ur kids that since they didn’t get a good grade they were naughty
Yessss! I'm so happy to know our family isn't the only one to put sticky rice in the turkey. 😁
One year my cousin's husband wanted to do the turkey for everyone to try, so he went to those Chinese BBQ shop and asked them to roast the turkey for him. So, the turkey ended up tasting like BBQ duck because the shop used the same marinate😂
Our version of Thanksgiving dinner involves take out from a nearby Chinese restaurant in the 626! We don't EVER make any food commonly associated with the foods served during Thanksgiving.
my family is Italian American. So on Thanksgiving we eat lasagna and many other Italian foods, that we make from scratch. Christmas is almost the exact same, but instead of lasagna we make homemade ravioli XD
Don't forget about the other larger meat dishes like pork picnic (aka picnic shoulder, pork shoulder, etc), steamboat, brisket, etc. Those are great options too.
For thxging, since much of my family isn’t in the US, we usually have a huge party with a bunch of friends and we would do a huge potluck and stay up till midnight ☺️ ah good memories
Chinese here, SO is White and this will be our first year doing Thanksgiving as a family with 2 young children and we are doing 100% American style, from turkey to homemade gravy, to southern style green bean with ham to mashed potato and homemade pumpkin roll for dessert.
was kind of expecting this weeks video to be about Phil getting engaged haha
My family usually do turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes and gravy, egg rolls, pho, salad, and snacks
DROOLING PHO SHO 😍
Greeous I love how it just gets more Asian as the list goes on BUAHAHAHAA
We did the whole Asian spread for the adults (hot pot, duck or pork belly, spring rolls etc) and then easier foods for the kids like chicken wings, fried rice, noodles
For Thanksgiving, we always have turkey. We have an American dinner and then usually after that, we go to Black Friday. 👍 but we definitely have Asian food as well at the dinner table. My mom makes the best strawberry cheesecake in my opinion. That is usually how I spend Thanksgiving. ^^
Also congrats Phil! 👏👏
We have a full on turkey dinner for thanksgiving!!! Very Martha Stewart like with table cloth, cloth napkins, napkin rings and what not...Holiday ham, prime ribs, and salmon for Christmas. Hot pot is for New Year’s Eve
I like how Phil always like to sneak in something at the end "How'd she do?" "This is my girlfriend Helen" (well now fiance!! congrats! ❤️)
5:20 whoever did this flashback, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
but actually how tho?
My family has the best of both worlds on Thanksgiving: hot pot for lunch and turkey for dinner. I’m in a food coma every year lol
Soo much food! Food coma for sure LOL
omg you guys are actually getting a warm lunch for lunch break! lol
a mix of turkey + american sides and also some salmon & asian sauteed veggies plus rice (usually for the older gen people) :)
In Singapore, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving but we have turkey, honey-baked ham and fruitcake for Christmas 🎄
Phils mom sounds exactly like my mom! She does the exact same things for thanksgiving and Christmas!
Or you're that type of Asian to not even acknowledge these holidays...
Best wishes to Phil and Helen!
My family does both--hot pot and turkey. We love the turkey from Ranch 99. It tastes like a XL version of roasted duck, haha. Goat sounds amazing too!! XD
For viet hotpot, we do have the chinese style soups, but for our own style i think we call it steamboat(?) (saw it being called that on a menu). Its mostly seafood or just fish hotpot.
We usually have hot pot or go out for a nice dinner. We also did a lot of Black Friday shopping with family.
I love how Phil forgets to host the show. 😂 He just wants to eat
I grew up in the Philippines so we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. But my first year here in the US, I worked on Thanksgiving lol so my mom and sister and I just grabbed dinner at Cracker Barrel 😂 And then I moved to live with my other sibs and we mostly cook Filipino food but I think this year they want to have some turkey too 😂
Chris: I found out there’s no Santa because there are no chimneys in Florida
🤣🤣🤣🤣rofl
People who say they don't like turkey, just haven't ate a good one.
not really the case, everyone is different to their preference. turkey does have its own flavor and some people can't take that flavor very well. kinda like not everyone want a good durian.
turkey is dry af, that's why there's gravy
I agree
@@SkyreeXScalabar nah, you just gotta cook it right...its not dry at all
@@pandalala888 nope turkey is drier than chicken, that's why it needs gravy
recently we've been doing salmon and steak for thanksgiving 😂
Well first I'm Canadian so my Thanksgiving already happened in October. 2nd my family usually get whole cook chicken sold at grocery store because it's a family of 4 and non of us like Turkey. And sometimes to be fancy we make chicken Korean porridge. And that's our Thanksgiving meal.
This year we went out to eat at a restaurant and most of us got Steak
Jessica is on Lunch Break !!!
Glad she finally joined in :)
I never had turkey for Thanksgiving. My mom just buy those full chicken in Safeway that comes in a big box.
SAME! But this year I will make turkey :)
My mom always makes jook with leftover turkey too!
One thing we're doing differently this year is roasting potatoes; the last few years the potatoes were undercooked even though the bird was cooked, so this time we're gonna follow an actual recipe and boil them first then put them in the oven separately 😂🤞
Having serious hotpot cravings at 4:21AM now :")
Does anyone's family also use hot pot and an electric skillet or is it just my family?
My dad used to stuff the 🦃 with sticky rice, Chinese sausage, shirataki mushroom. It was actually really good. Then caucus goes into congee next day
My family usually just eat a full chicken on Thanksgiving, but this year I will roast a turkey for them :)
I know I know, I can't say I ever had an Asian Christmas... um, I'd like to weigh in on the stuffing though... That wasn't a bad description... my family uses butter, celery and raisins as well. Then yes, I think Phil said baked; my Mom made it from scratch, so yes, she put everything in a ceramic casserole dish and baked it. I have a feeling she used one or two eggs as well.
Yes, it's like a savory bread pudding. My Mom uses bread that was already baked though, so it retains it's shape(?) she cubes it, so it's little cubes, toasted in the oven, then you mix it with everything else, then back into the oven, so it never gets quite as runny, or gelatinous in texture as I've had sometimes with congee.
As a nod to Chris' comment, a lot of people who are Jewish (not not Orthodox) in my community will go out to an Asian restaurant for Christmas, or maybe it's just the Jewish people I know.... but they say all their friends and family do it too.... oi vey? Maybe it's just a Toronto/Bathurst area/Markham thing....
Diversity is wonderful...!!
I want hot pot for Thanksgiving. Make that three hot pots. Then wash that down with some Baja fish tacos.
Currently eating lunch while watching lunch break 😎
Jessica is so cute!! lunch break debut!
Cousins taking over Thanksgiving is a transition yet to take place but definitely inevitable in my 20s (God willing). I definitely had the slaughter the goat experience and it was a humbling and insightful experience as a child that is like to pass on personally
LOL I was that one kid in the family to bring in Thanksgiving and Christmas which I bet both times my mom was secretly hating how school/tv taught me that these holidays existed. Though we started thanksgiving way later. I remember there was one day I just asked my mom if we were ever going to celebrate thanksgiving and she was like " ... do you really want to celebrate it?" Since then we have celebrated thanksgiving but this year my mom said she was too lazy to cook a huge a** turkey so she bought chicken instead :'D
The fish cake is kamaboko it's a specific type of fish cake. Naruto is the swirl fish cake that's common in ramen. Naruto's seal on his stomach is like the fish cake swirl.
ty for clarification. we all just call it naruto for fun
I remember Jessica from their "Office Makeover" video
Can’t wait to see what you guys eat for Christmas 😁
Turkey, mash potatoes, Mac n cheese, prime rib, sticky rice, egg rolls
my family has a seafood thanksgiving....we bust out the crabs, shrimps,lobster...like we are all off,I look forward to it!! we used to do turkey when i waa kid but it transitioned to seafood lol
We had both duck and turkey. Also a buffet of other chinese food.
ah the christmas specials
Looks like Chris is the only one who is really enjoying that hotpot. I love love love hotpot!
Bout to invite Wes to my caribbean thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is an American holiday it doesn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are, anyone can celebrate thanksgiving the way they want to. Thanksgiving is a tradition of being thankful for the things you have, your family, your relatives etc.. God bless you all and I hope you all have a good blissful thanksgiving 🦃🥧🥐🫐🥘
Phil can probly relate: norcal Chinese families would go to Reno! During xmas
I HATE turkey. Force myself to put a sad slice on my plate But reminding me of duck...with crispy skin...oh man!....That might be my new go-to! Thanks guys! & if no one else eats it at dinner when I bring it (1st off, they're crazy) that just means MORE FOR ME! YAY! No loss at all...except maybe running out of it
I celebrate it Canadian-style .... 2nd Monday of October with yummy turkey and gravy. Oh yeah, and family too, but let's face it, the food is why we're really there.
Is it me or does somebody relate to what I'm about to type- the symbolism behind thanksgiving was that the native Americans and English settlers got together for a big feast, but it wasn't like what we learned from school. The English settlers we're unnerved from sitting with what they considered as "savages". So there really was no peace on that day. It is what I consider as native American memorial day. Or thankstaking
this video give me a good idea that if i should star showing my kid for asian style celebration for Thanksgiving.
That “i love holiday ham” 😂
I think I have the only white family that never does Thanksgiving. For years my mother and I would just eat Chinese food as it was one of the few restaurants open that day.
"Goat is G.O.A.T." - Wes Chan 2019
Australia doesn’t have thanks giving ☹️ wish we did though!
GOAT as in watching Patriots play. Teehee. Just kidding, I don't think Patriots ever play on Thanksgiving.
Normally I go to work then hot pot with the family (or "real Thanksgiving dinner")! Maybe Black Friday shopping after. Depends on the mood.