I saw a lot of comments saying I didn’t hit the best British food spots in the video. Sooo If you have better recommendations (preferably in London), please drop the name below below so I can try them next time and make another video to redeem British food 😆
You really didn't. Last time I went to London a few years ago I found it difficult finding "good" food. Most places were like where you got that 'abomination' of a sausage roll or the fish and chips. Fish should be battered. Not breaded. Should be cod, not plaice or Polok or any other fish. The chips should be soft inside with a slight crunch on the outside. Served with salt and brown vinegar. Not tartar sauce. Maybe ketchup and mushy peas if you are particularly hungry. Gravy with chips varies from location to location. Some places it is a must. Others it's a 'no no'. British cuisine is very varied from region to region. Even wiganers ( from Wigan ) can't always agree on what make a good pie!
@@uyenninh the problem with London is that it's so very big and locals tend to avoid the centre. I'm not saying there's no good food in the centre, but London is more like a collection of villages and the really exciting and the really authentic stuff tends to happen in the more residential areas.
@@bassetts1899 Yes, I thought so! It's hard to find really good local places perhaps. And as a Brit I'm happy to acknowledge that bad versions can be pretty terrible!
Hey Brit here, If you're still here, You should try: A Greggs sausage roll and maybe one of their bakes (steak bake is my favourite) - Make sure to ask if they're still hot, sometimes they're fresh out of the oven and sometimes they can be a bit cold and sad, A Tesco meal deal (you can now get a regular Costa coffee as a drink and there are loads of snack options, including but not limited to a bakery treat, and an ice cream) A proper local chippy fish and chips (fewer the seats in the chippy the better), A Sunday roast (from a pub), Scones with strawberry or raspberry jam and clotted cream, or a cheesy scone just cut in half, toasted and buttered, Shepards/Cottage pie (from a pub), Crumpets with butter (and optionally honey or nutella) I think the places you went unfortunately didn't give you the best representation of our food, Either way, great video! Enjoying the British Vlogs
I agree with everything other than a tesco meal deal. You have been conditioned to like them because of how cheap and accessible they are when you are in desperate need of food and not at home. Do not think for a second that it is good food. And most importantly: HAVE YOU SEEN HOW EXPENSIVE THEY ARE NOW? It is a part of our culture though!
@@georgiascarlett9679 Yeah definitely not the best food but I reckon its so integral it'd be worth a try anyways. Also if you're strategic with it, getting a nice sandwich or a fancy wrap, maybe a mozzarella and pesto or something exotic, along with a Costa coffee from the machine, and a magnum (maybe not at this time of the year), its still one of the better deals given how much everything else has gone up in price
@@Spamhard I'd agree with the mound of butter, but never been too into the Marmite, hated it growing up and haven't tried it since. maybe i'll give it another shot
@@harrymcneill6495 I've always loved the stuff so I'm bias for sure. But if you do ever give her another try, remember only a really thin spread, and you want way more butter than marmite. I think for me it's just I often fancy something a bit savoury and salty, and it fits that perfect hole when on toast or crumpets.
Hi Uyen, as a fellow Asian foodie who spent 5 years in London 😉😉 - Sunday Roast at The Albion, Islington The roast beef literally MELTS in your mouth - traditional English breakfast at Regency Cafe Fun, east end type of atmosphere here - gastropub meal at The Mayflower, where the first English pilgrims left for America - tea and scones at Muffin Man - oysters at wright brothers (borough market) - Cantonese style duck at Four Seasons (so popular that “London duck” is a thing in Singapore now) These recommendations are golden, you won’t regret checking them out 😘😘
Thank you for this. I’m a British guy with a Japanese wife. I’ve been wanting to get her to try some good quality British food but fish and chips aside I’ve only been able to make most of it at home. Screen capping this comment for future reference 😊
that genuinely looks like you went to the single worst place to get fish and chips. thats not usually how its battered, and the chips look miserable. im so sad
@@palindro230 no good fish and chips is insanely good. they obviously went to some tourist trap. The fish wasn't even battered lmao... Was just some frozen bollocks. Never seen that in my whole life
@@pattheplanter you can get a decent fish an chips here, even by central london. i will admit its harder but east and south east london has some great fish and chips!
It's interesting watching this as a brit, because while I'm not sure any of that was a particularly good representation of british food I can 100% see why tourists end up finding food like this (and maybe come away thinking British food isn't good!). I imagine most of the places were tourist traps in busy areas, and will have dressed themselves up as offering high quality 'traditional' food but in reality not so much. The fish and chips in particular really didn't look great - anaemic chips and breaded fish rather than proper batter. I've had better fish and chips than that in a Wetherspoons (which is a big chain of budget pubs that does cheap basic food).
For me my stereotypical British food would also include more meat pies, roast and braised meats, soups, stews, puddings like fruit crumbles and sticky toffee pudding, cakes (and scones, but with cream and jam not on their own). Arguably also British Indian food (which is quite different to authentic Indian food) which is my favourite takeaway.
@@mrgreataukI agree, I have friends from America who when they come over make it a priority to eat Sticky Toffee Pudding (with custard) and I thoroughly agree
I'm canadian so we inherited a lot of British food and even I could tell she got unlucky. I sincerely think that if someone wants to taste authentic food from a country, they have to visit locations that aren't touristic. For example, I'm French Canadian and would tell anyone that the best poutine is found in the mom and pop diners right off the highway where the staff knows 5 words of English.
I think you were absolutely correct with your first statement about it being difficult to find authentic food as a tourist. Most of the items you didn’t like I could tell you weren’t going to like before you even tasted it because it wasn’t the authentic version. I wouldn’t have eaten it either. Fish and chips was an immediate disaster for example. I normally only eat it at the coast and then only after asking a local which shop to go to. Well done for trying so many things though, you were so brave. Glad you enjoyed our cider. It’s pretty a sneaky way to get people drunk.
@ Dees3179. Not difficult at all, in any country, especially not in the UK, to properly research well respected cuisines & customs. She totally thought she could jump on a very old, & tediously boring bandwagon, to take-down, disrespect & offend an entire nation & their culture - & she thought this would just fly because of her pointless, meaningless 'online following'. 🙄 Says more about her as a person, her 'need' for false following & her distain for anyone she thinks she can step on for fake 'likes' & a cheap laugh. How mindless, immature, uncultured & embarrassing. If you guy's enjoy 'following' this type of foolishness, that's on you.
To be fair, I dont think she would like many good versions of British food as she's not a big fan of German food and we are not that dissimilar. The Scottish fry up looked pretty decent and she didn't enjoy that. Maybe more stews and things w veg and slow cooked meat in them, or a mini pork pie with loads of mustard for flavour (but its cold so points off).
The English afternoon tea - I have no words lmao . Nobody just sits down with this in the afternoon at home like they do in Germany. If you want to have afternoon tea you go out to a pretty cafe or pub and get the beautifully presented platter with cakes, sandwiches, scones and all the jams and CLOTTED CREAM !!! Maybe try again, better research is needed. Danke für deine Videos, Uyen - super witzig, aber ich glaube ein paar englische Zuschauer sind vielleicht ein bißchen enttäuscht?
You should try the proper English tea, at a tea room or restaurant. it can be expensive, but it also includes sandwiches, cakes, scones, pastries and of course Tea. The plain scones should be cut horizontally, then buttered or with clotted cream, with either strawberries or jam!
Aww Uyen! You should've definitely gone to a restaurant or tea house for a proper high tea experience. You'd have delicious scones with jam, clotted cream, and also sandwiches etc.
yes! i'm not from UK but the first thing i think of British food is high tea with lavish layers of desserts, finger sandwiches and scones. I am so surprised she didn't have any!
Nothing like a fresh, warm scone with clotted cream and raspberry jam (I know, I know, strawberry is the usual thing, I just prefer raspberry) and a cup of good tea.
@@YunoAz right like she paid £8 for a normal cider then refuses to pay for a proper afternoon tea experience! the whole experience is what makes afternoon tea worth it
This is so fun to watch! I hope you find a friend in the UK so next time they can show you how stuff is eaten and take you to the legit places, it will be much better.
Dear Uyen, I have never put a scotch egg in the microwave 😮 They are most often eaten cold as a picnic snack or served hot and fresh in chip shops or restaurants. Sincerely, A Scottish lady
If you do microwave it, when you bite in to it it the egg will explode, and I don't mean like a little pop. I mean a bang that feels like it rips your mouth open, it burns, and feels like you've been punched in the mouth. Also, you get flecks of scalding hot egg speckled across your face that feels glued in place. When you microwave a boiled egg after it's been cooked, the steam forms around the yolk inside it, expanding inside the white, like an inflated steam filled balloon. When you puncture it it goes bang, and no more egg but lots of steam burning you instantly. I speak from experience, the experience of being 11 and wanting a hot scotch egg this was around 35 years ago. I promise you that if you were to do this, you will only do it the once, and never again. lesson learnt. I now only eat them hot if they are fresh out of the oven/fryer, otherwise I eat them cold. Blistered lips and cheeks aren't a good look. There should be a warning on those horrible prepackaged scotch eggs they sell in supermarkets and garages saying not to microwave them. They are vile those things. Nae flavour and textured like a tennis ball coated in sand. I prefer homemade ones or ones from my local butchers. Now they ARE what you call a scotch egg. A bit more expensive than those supermarket jobbies, but I'd rather pay £1,50+ for a proper one than 69p for egg wrapped in gristle. Either way, I'm not microwaving them.
If you want to eat a Scotch Egg hot, the only good way is to get soon after it finishes cooking. Those fish and chips were atrocious. Thinking back to when you visited, you probably caught the seasonal change in potatoes. Neither the tail end of the 'old' potatoes, or the beginning of the 'new' potatoes, make particularly good chips. The breading on the fish looks way too heavy. Scottish cooked breakfast without Lorne sausage? 'Flat pig' is one of the signature parts of the plate.
You need to eat a proper fish and chips. That batter isn’t typical. Usually the fish is very fluffy and moist and the batter is crispy. You have it with malt vinegar. The chips are typically crispy. I’d find a traditional chip shop or pub.
You put clotted cream or butter on the scones; they’re not meant to be eaten on their own. That was why you found it too dry. Also, during a cream tea, there would be more selection, so there would be cakes which would be less dry on their own too.
Also if the scones are completely cold the butter in them hardens and the texture becomes dry, like when stewed meat is cold. You need it at least slightly warm to bring some sense of moisture back.
Scones are only really good if they are freshly baked. That's one reason it costs £30 a head in a nice place - or we make our own at home. That fish looked dry and boring! We don't usually breadcrumb fish; batter is the norm (like thick tempura)
A little painful to watch, but I think a lot of tourists struggle to find good British food in London. When I'm in London I usually eat foreign food too. To eat good British food you need to find a good gastro pub in the countryside. Fish and Chips need to be from an actual chipshop not a pub or restaurant and if you are near the sea or up in the North of the country, even better. For fresh local ingredients and seafood Cornwall is my favorite.
You are fearless- it’s OK if people don’t agree with you keep making your videos. I find them charming and definitely entertaining. I’m so glad I subscribe to your channel a long time ago. You have an effervescent personality. Someone that I wish everyone could be more like.❤
I'm sure a lot of comments already covered this but some more British foods: - Lemon and sugar pancakes - Yorkshire pudding - Hot Cornish pasty - Sticky toffee pudding w/ custard or ice-cream - Crumpets with melted cheddar cheese and smoked paprika - Terry's chocolate orange - I prefer mini scotch eggs so you get to eat every layer at once and it's more of an egg mayo inside - I actually end up sending a lot of chutneys to Sweden that they don't have there - As we're always dunking biscuits in our tea, there's many really tasty ones other than digestives! There's also a lot of digestive varieties like ones with a chocolate - Scones are best with clotted cream & jam or have a buttered cheese scone - Battered fish is a must and the chips are usually soft anyway because they're covered in salt & vinegar
You'd be surprised at how not mentioned a lot of these items are 😢 A lot of "this is terrible, also fish is supposed to be battered", about 80% is that repeated. Lots of "hur hur of course it's bad it's British" You know I've not even seen ONE mention of roast beef?? Or that we're a nation of fisherman? No mackerel, no langostines, no crab, ONE mention of oysters, few of our puddings and confectionary (FUDGE?? WHO EATS FUDGE?) _WHO MICROWAVES SCOTCH EGGS??_ No steak and kidney pie Or any pie Fish pie Apple pie Thankyou for this list.
@@MostlyPennyCat I was also very surprised to hear about microwaving a scotch egg 😂 We have one of those old fashioned sweet shops with the huge jars that they weigh the sweets out of in our town, that would be a good visit. Oh apple pie! That reminds me of all our British crumbles too, always picking blackberries for crumbles. I am a lover of pies and love making them from recipes online. Butternut squash, caramelised onions and shiitake mushrooms, bacon, turkey, sage, it's divine 😍
@@BamboozledHeck CRUMBLES! I was trying to remember that word writing that last night. And that breakfast she ate was so SAD looking 😢 Bacon and egg pie! God I haven't had that in YEARS. Technically a flan but ho hum. I just made toad in the hole last night, but for the first time without cheating with raising agents. It tasted divine. We were genuinely shocked at how good it tasted, I was expecting nice, not glorious. And I want even trying, it was Experiment 1, I put a video up of it last night. It follows my first ever successful Yorkshire pudding without raising agents. Gave up trying years ago, decided to have another bash, found a functional recipe by Mary on the BBC website.
@@BamboozledHeck Going to make toad 2 tonight, adjust quantities to adjust the texture, I want it lighter. And because I live with my in laws there's lard in the fridge so maybe try that with Toad 3. (I get a bit obsessed with perfecting and then documenting my own recipe, but through SCIENCE!!) My wife won't complain, who likes food and is also a scientist. Technically she's more of a real scientist than me as she actually works in a lab coat and uses a microscope. My channel is Mostly Penny Cat, hence the name, but I hope to do more cooking videos as well as putting my recipes up online which I do. Although that's more for my benefit, as otherwise I'll forget my custom recipes. I spent 15 years perfecting "rice" and wrote it up.
I've also never seen a fish look like that at a fish and chip shop. You need to have it with salt and vinegar and mushy peas and tartare sauce on the side. Also, your scones are missing the clotted cream! That's why they're dry. We also have plenty of moist cakes, like Victoria Sponge, Lemon Drizzle etc. We also don't eat this type of afternoon tea daily or even frequently. London has one of the most varied food scenes in the world. We are very lucky here in the UK that you can find the foods from most countries. I don't think this was a very accurate representation of all the UK has to offer gastronomically.
You're right about not being able to find our authentic food. That's a large part of why everyone thinks we have bad food, we don't sell it, we make it at home.
@@mygirldarby because if you go out to eat, most people want to eat things they *don't* eat all the time at home! So we go out to try all sorts of interesting food from around the world, or if we do go out to eat British food, it's usually food which is more difficult to make at home (e.g. fish and chips - you can make it at home, obviously, but most people don't want to faff around with deep frying things these days), or where the meal is more of an "experience", e.g. a big Sunday roast in a pub, or a fancy afternoon tea. Or it's high end, more expensive gourmet food where you're paying to be cooked for by a very skilled chef using top quality ingredients, but obviously that comes with a price tag. Or at the other end of the scale, it's cheap filling basic food you grab and go when you're out and about and just want a simple but tasty lunch (e.g. Greggs - a cheap bakery chain which is famous for its sausage rolls). Unfortunately a lot of the restaurants that play on the "traditional British food" thing are tourist traps, not places locals would usually eat in. That's not to say you *can't* get good traditional British food outside of people's homes, but you do have to look a bit harder for the best places to go. Head a bit more off the tourist trail, find out where the locals actually eat. Probably the best place to get traditional British food is a decent pub - look up reviews online to find out which pubs do the best food and try those, they're going to offer the closest to "real" British home cooking. Or if you want "real British food" but don't mind trying something a bit less traditional, look for well reviewed restaurants that are described as "modern British", these tend to fuse the best of traditional British cuisine with more modern elements and influences from around the world, and probably represent the best of what real British food is in the UK these days.
@@mygirldarby Those running food places, unless very expensive (which given their nature are rare e.g. St. JOHN), tend to be immigrants because the work is very hard and relatively insecure. It's also useful for when you lack English proficiency and/or face hiring discrimination. When you have better opportunities, you head a family-run cafe cafe and cater to the locals; you don't have the standards of elsewhere (though I think part of this is also because food isn't anywhere near as important in the UK as it elsewhere in the world) Judging British food by British cooking is like judging Italian cuisine by spaghetti hoops, in my opinion
@@andrewmacpherson301 So you've never been to a pub, or a fish and chip shop and you think our cooking and cuisine is _bad???_ That sounds like nonsense to me, sorry. You really have nobody in your entire family who can cook?
Couple of things: 1) With ‘beers’ - we actually divide them into Lager (the golden stuff most people are used to drinking), ale/ bitter (dark brown, bitter stuff you tried) and stout (black stuff). These are made from hops. Cider of course is made from fruits (commonly apples, but can be from other fruits like pear etc). 2) Sausage rolls/ scotch eggs can be eaten both hot or cold (commonly room temperature when it is taken out for picnics). It is tastier eaten hot since the fat from the pastry and pork will be rendered down, otherwise it is flavourless. There is also pork pies which were sold at Ginger pig - these are eaten cold or room temperature, never hot. 3) Fish n Chips - the fish you had was breaded and fried. This is the original form of Fish n Chips which was brought over by Jewish immigrants and was eaten cool (due to religious reasons). However, the more popular form of fish n chips these days is with the fish coated in a flour batter (sometimes with beer added). This puffs up when cooking similar to tempura batter and the fish ‘steams’ while cooking. A good chippy will have chips that are crispy on the outside, and fluffy in the inside. Some places go through extra effort and do triple cooked chips. Also depending on the region you eat your fish n chips, you can have simply salt n vinegar or tartare sauce/ curry sauce/ gravy to accompany it. 4) Traditional afternoon tea consists of 3 distinct parts - the finger sandwiches (usually there is a variety of these but the classics would be cucumber sandwich, coronation chicken), scones (which is eaten with clotted cream and jam) and a selection of cakes/ patries (e.g. victoria sponge). Messaged you on Instagram, if you ever come over to London again, reach out to me. If time permits, will be happy to take you around!
Guuuuuuurl ..as a German who lived in the UK for 5 years, you might wanna give aaaall those dishes another try when you visit again. 🙈 also, I know that British tea time/high tea can be extremely expensive, but for the best experience you cannot skip the cost here. Unless you know what you are doing and know what to buy and how to prep it for tea time 😅 I’m sad to see, that your experience was not as good as I know could have been. 🥲🫶🏼 Much luv
I was going to say, as an Irish person, like afternoon tea is one of the things that made it's way here, and it's more about the experience. I want to take my mother for one soon. I'm trying to choose wisely though, I don't know how much it is in the UK, but it's 70 euro per person in Adare Manor, so I might go elsewhere 🤣
I've never done an expensive cream tea, but i've heard they're good. That said i can totally imagine doing what they did... getting towards the end of the trip and just not wanting to spend any more money 😅 So spending a similar amount on a massively inferior product. That said you can make them at home. The hardest thing to get is the clotted cream.
Not really. All the expensive stuff in central is also amazing like the Guinea in Mayfair. Just Google great places. So easy to find. But crep is also expensive.
Tourist traps don't make it easy on people. I'm a bit of a foodie when I can afford it and learned that good restaurants tend to have three points in common: - The owner works there or if it's a chain, it has 5 locations max - They look and are clean - Even if an interior designer got involved in the decor, there is some painting/bauble/curtain/etc. that was clearly added without their approval
I have no idea where you found that fish and chips meal, but that is not what it's meant to look like. That looks like it was breaded and cooked in the oven, instead of battered and deep-fried. For anyone else watching, do not judge fish and chips based on that, it's not typical.
A few years ago I went to London and I ate fish and chips for the first time. It sounded so yummy, but it unfortunately wasn't at all. Perhaps I bought it at the the same place as Uyen? 😂 I mean, millions of Brits cannot be wrong, can they?
@@Winona493 I'd say a couple of things. First, I feel like fish and chips gets talked up a bit much. It's only intended as fast food. People would get it as a treat when they were on holiday in Brighton or wherever and eat it walking the pier, it's not meant to be the be all and end all. Second, it really, really depends on where you get it. In Scotland you pretty much can't get a bad fish supper, but everywhere else quality varies dramatically from shop to shop. Never ever buy it from a place that sells other foods like kebabs or burgers, they'll suck. It can even vary depending on time of day, it's often better to get it during busy times like 1pm or 7pm when they're making everything fresh to deal with the rush.
@@deojnwedofuWE I live in the west coast of Ireland and I feel like 99% of the fish and chips you get here are good. Even from pubs. But I suppose if you live next to the Atlantic ocean and can't get battered fish right questions need to be asked 🤣
@@fionamb83 Similar story in Scotland, you really have to try to get a bad fish supper. Scotland takes its fish supper seriously. In England & Wales it's not the same, quality varies wildly. Rule of thumb, anywhere that sells other foods like kebabs and burgers or a chinese, they're not doing good fish & chips. Usually great down in Cornwall and Devon, as you'd expect.
i think the issue is the places tourists typically go seem to be making the food more fancy... British food is better when it is simple and home made in my opinion. and the Scottish breakfast not having square sausage is criminal! lol. hope you liked the UK and especially Scotland!
Yeah I think the tourist places always do the worst version of traditional food and it's hugely over priced. I've think this is true of all countries though. I've heard so many people talking about how unimpressed they were food in major European attractions that are known for their food and I think it's so often just low quality versions being sold to non locals.
@jeanettemullins That's right. For example: I have eaten the best but also the worst pizza of my life in Italy. The worst was also in a tourist place and was more expensive than the good one.
Love you and the content you make, but there were a few things in this vid that were a bit off. I think next time, maybe make a friend here who can guide you and tell you when things don't look 100% right (like the fish and chips you had xD). I think the issue is that London is so multicultural and full of tourists, the main places that sell "traditional English food" end up just catering to tourists and people who don't know what to look forward to. Also, one KEY thing, in English cuisine, it's pretty standard that YOU season the food, not the chef. Usually pubs will provide you with salt, pepper and general condiments to apply to your liking. Personally, I like salt and vinegar on chips and then I dip them in ketchup. Thanks for coming and showing us off so optimistically!
Yes, the seasoning thing is, I think, where a lot of tourists go wrong! We eat a lot of condiments with our meals, but unless you're with a British person who tells you what goes with what you wouldn't know what you're meant to have with each food or even that you *are* supposed to have condiments with the food! Some places don't have the condiments out on the table either, they'll ask "do you want any sauces?" when they bring the food, or there's a shelf or whatever somewhere nearby with a selection of things you can help yourself to. The scotch egg, for instance, would have been so much more tasty with a bit of mustard! Although would also have been much better if it was smaller, scotch eggs aren't supposed to be so big, you're meant to get egg *and* meat in one mouthful!
@@MsRainingDays but breaded is such a cheap basic version of fish n chips. Its not what you get from a chippy. Its more what id expect from spoons, or iceland lol.
@@WookieWarriorz In Scotland we do both, Breaded fish is called Special Fish in chip shops here, as here Breaded fish is often preferred, especially by older folks. I like to get it often even though I'm English, it can be very nice, stays crispy longer than battered fish.
8:50 I've seen many comments about the state of that fish and chips and I have to agree, not good, the batter is the wrong kind also, but I haven't seen comments about the fact that there is no mushy peas! Authentic fish and chips needs mush peas!
@@euansmith3699 the best way is to put jam on the bottom half and cream on the inside of the top half then bring them together never try to spread the cream on the jam
While you were in York, you should have tried the York hog roast co, do a great meal in a Yorkshire pudding wrap and also great English afternoon tea. Head to Betty's tea room. However for the scone you need to add clotted cream and jam Also for the best fish and chips, you need to head Whitby.
Thompsons Fish & Chips in York is to die for. The fish is thick and juicy, with a lovely batter, crunchy outside and when you cut it you see the flakes of the fish. I moved to Ireland and I missed it.
The best fish and chips I've ever had is in Hastings. Also Pevensey Bay, Herne Bay and Perth. I've never had a _bad_ meal from a chippie in Scotland, they were all top quality.
Uyen, next time you are in the UK we can give you some recommendations. And also... I feel like the people of Cornwall and Devon need a formal apology for what happened to those scones 😂
Hey, at least she could unite you all in a room together, because gouging a chunk out of them is neither cutting with a knife nor ripping it open with your fingers. Instead, you'll all be furious :D
Uyen is the most adorable human in the entire world, completely butchering the culture but in the most enduring way.😂 I adore you thank you for these wholesome videos
We have so many kinds of tea rituals in the UK. Afternoon tea: a fancy event at a nice restaurant. Party tea: usually for children, selection of sandwiches, savouries (scotch eggs, sausage rolls, cheese and pineapple on sticks ect) cakes and biscuits (cookies). Tea and cake: Usually consumed on the weekend but it could be any day. Cream tea: scones with clotted cream and jam. Tea with bread and jam: consumed when you get home from work or school. Tea break: a short break in the work day for tea and biscuits (cookies) or tea and cake if it's someone's birthday. Elevenses: morning tea or coffee break with a sweet treat of some sort usually at 11 o'clock.
Just want to add that the pineapple and cheese on sticks normally get presented by being stuck into half a cabbage covered in tin foil so it looks like a cheesy hedgehog. At least it did in the 90's...
Borough is pronounced- Bur-rah :). It's an incredibly touristy place, and certainly not where you'd find the best sausage roll in the UK. £6.50 is daylight robbery! And in most places now it's a 12.5% service charge. We hate this.
yes and Yorkshire is not York-Shire, of course everyone who hasn't been to UK gets this wrong. Only 2 acceptable pronunciations: York-shurr or York-sheer.
@@Hardlywerkin in reality the 12.5% is put on the bill regardless of party size, I’ve seen it many a time before. Very few people have the nerves to request it be reduced or removed from the bill.
I only eat fish and chips by the seaside after a long day at the beach- then it’s perfect, British food is traditionally very heavy because it’s a cold country and the workers needed easily portable meat and carbs to stay warm while working xx
I had fish and chips close to the coast at Bath, the stuff you get in newspaper bags. It was all right but not to kill for... If I could make a recommendation, go for curries in Indian restaurants. They are also a decent pub food. But I miss Indian takeaways...
I disagree, I think a lot of British food has been lost due to various historical upheavals like the industrial revolution and the world wars, and the high fashion for eating French and American foods. There is a scarcity of British food because people don't cook, don't cook British food and people who can cook follow fashions to cook international trends and are condescending toward British food. Moreover I think a lot of British food like pancakes, streaky bacon with eggs, Cheddar, sandwiches, macaroni cheese, trifle, oat porridge, mash and gravy, doughnuts, gets mistaken as American.
A few years prior we visited Cornwall. The food we ate was absolutely delicious. Nothing to complain from me. From breakfast to fish and chips and tea time. Everything was great! It was a pleasant surprise, thought the food would be bad but really everything was good!
South West England has such good food! There's a real focus on locally produced ingredients, it's so good - it's so frustrating to see people eating at tourist spots in London and then judge all UK food based on these tourist traps!
@@azborderlands It's probably my favorite region of the country because while roasts are a revelation, I love fresh seafood - places that look like a whimsically painted garden shed are now places I look for because that's where I've had just amazing meals. Less of a seagull threat in the less touristy areas too!
You need to network and go with local influencers when you travel, they will take you to the real places with good food. It's a shame because there is some really great food in the UK!
If you need a network to find British food in Britain, I guess even locals don't like it much and hence it's scarce and going out of existence. Every other country, you don't need guides or network to find local cuisine. All we can infer is that British food is useless
@@WarriorOG-ql7gv No, what you find when you don't know anyone that lives there is the places aiming at tourists. 99% of the population isn't visiting or eating there, thats why networking will steer you clear of them. The food and tastes you get are whats aimed at tourists not locals. Good quality British food you will find in small pubs, especially in more rural areas. But honestly it can be hard to find a resturant for, because its what a lot of people are just eating at home. Resturants focus on either foreign food, cause it's novel and people are unlikely to make it at home, or food that's just more difficult to do. If I was getting British food from a place I'd get fish and chips or a pie of some kind. But anything else, I do know some pubs I could get it decent but most of the time I'd rather just make it myself. British food is more of a home cooking culture than a resturant culture.
@WarriorOG-ql7gv Talk more out of your arse please 😂. Even when I was Italy it was difficult to find where the locals ate, every restaurant in Rome was owned by Indians with terrible food 😂
Best Meal to have in the UK is a proper Sunday Lunch Roast, ideally with Pork Belly and a slab of Cracklin as well as yorkshire Pud and red cabbage, as well as cauliflower and cheese as a side with a decent wine, beer or cider; however you have to find a pub that does good food for that. Whever I live, I always find at least one that provides a high quality of food. Sausage Rolls are different wherever you go, best roll I had ever was at the Laughing Dog Cafe in Brighton.
Loving the comments criticising Uyen's fish and chips, defending our national dish! I am a vegetarian these days but when my Filipino wife wanted to try fish and chips for the first time I made sure it was from a take away. Some pubs do great fish and chips but there is always the risk of the breaded rubbish.
Most of the 'bad British food' stereotypes are from tourists who mainly have visited central London which is full of terrible tourist places. I think we Brits are more cosmopolitan in our food tastes than many other countries, which is why there are so many 'foreign' restaurants.
exactly, we like variety in our food, which is why it's so ironic that we get mocked for having bland cuisine! Like no, there's a reason we all enjoy curry
This is really funny to me. Imagine going to the capital of a country and you can’t find a single authentic local restaurant? That is like saying Saigon or Bangkok don’t serve authentic dishes. And most tourists would only have time to visit one or two cities for their first time experience in a country. You can’t expect them to completely skip London and go to some small towns because their food is better. If the biggest city with the largest population can’t even serve authentic and good British food, it just means that the food is bad.
@@Angelus9015 There are quite a few authentic local restaurants, but London is HUGE so they're scattered all over the place, while those conveniently located in the center tend to be posh and pricey. Also, Londoners are VERY cosmopolitan and there are lots of immigrants (in addition to tourists), so restaurants cater for their tastes by offering mostly international food options. Then there's the plethora of fast food places which serve cheap, unhealthy fried food, which Brits of all backgrounds seem to love, but I'd avoid. It's difficult to find typical British food in London, because London isn't a typical British city!
@@GonzoTehGreat Bangkok, Saigon and Tokyo are way larger than London and you can easily find cheap and good authentic local food in the heart of the city. These cites are also very international and receive more tourists than London. They don’t just cater to local taste buds because international restaurants are everywhere due to the sheer amount of tourists in these cities. It’s just unbelievable to me that you can’t find many good English food in London considering the size and density of people who stay there. Is there no demand for good English food?
I’d recommend Betty’s tea room for afternoon tea if you’re in York. It’s really good if a bit pricy, and would have given you a far more authentic experience
Alot of the rolls etc, are all designed for workers to take to the fields with them in the past (before we connected with/conquered parts of the world and discovered that spices existed other than Salt)
You need to go to Greggs for a sausage roll, a chippy for fish and chips and always include your choice of mushy peas, curry sauce, gravy, tartar sauce, salt&vinegar etc. and then I would also recommend a pie from a chippy or a traditional pub
My private English teacher, who has lived in Spain for more than 50 years now, used to tell me that the real good English food was that homemade in the towns and villages, that the one in the capital usually was bad, especially fast food. As far as their coffee, I cannot stand it, honestly, Starbucks is a big NO for me, but I do believe her, taking into account that they use a lot of sugar, but less salt, exactly the opposite to the general preferences in my country. Shepherd's pie is delicious, btw.
I feel like this is still the case. Though you can find good English food at most decent gastropubs in London, the hit rate will probably be better outside of London.
Starbucks is American. Why are you equating Starbucks with British coffee? There are so many good little coffee shops that make proper coffees in cities and towns. Do you even live in the UK or were you just some tourist that thought Starbucks was British?
Maybe, you should come to Germany. Traditional Cafes (or coffeehouses) have sometimes wonderful self-made tarts and gateaux and cakes. They usually do not have such a lot of sugary and artificial flavored coffee stuff. I went to a teahouse in Schottland and had a tea and crumpets and teacakes. It was okay. But it was not really to kill for. Chips with vinegar also was not my cup of tea, I am afraid. I like shepherd`s pie, though. And curries. But they were best in the Indian restaurants.
@@mattj5492I have lived in the Uk. They don’t traditionally drink coffe and I really struggled to have good coffee years ago . Now you have specialty coffee shops where you pay 4 pounds for a coffee. Is that traditional? No
British food gets a bad reputation but when it's good, it is great, It's warm, comforting and full of flavour. is it as exciting as say Vietnamese, probably not, but it doesn't make it any less good. Also, always go to were the locals go, same as with anywhere.
Honestly even as a Londoner myself it’s hard to find a good pub. So as a tourist to find even one dish that you liked is wonderful! Glad you enjoyed the Chinese food too! (You are right, Digestive biscuits in tea are the best at Tea Time)
You didn't actually eat many of the foods British people eat! We are famous for roast beef, sunday lunches, proper battered fish and chips, meaty sandwiches, pies, anglo-indian dishes like chicken tikka masala,... you did at least try a full breakfast haha
i moved to england from austria 7 years ago. to experience real english food, you are better off in the north. sunday dinners with roasted vegetables, pies etc. the food is actually so much better than what we think it is. that fish and chips you had looked awful!!!! usually the batter is light and crispy and chips crunchy and flavorful. next time, visit whitby!!!! you both will absolutely love it! the north of england is so underrated for tourists, it is a shame!
Yes, they should come to visit more of northern England next time, not just York! It's such a shame so many tourists only really go to York and miss everything else we have to offer round here, there's some pretty spectacular countryside & coastlines, gorgeous towns and villages, some lovely pubs, and some great restaurants. And Yorkshire being the home of the Yorkshire pudding, you've got to come here and have a Sunday roast, especially if you go to a decent pub where they serve locally raised meat and other local ingredients.
Scarborough (near Whitby) would be a great choice too, a lovely traditional British seaside town with super traditional fish and chip take aways on the seafront and benches overlooking the sea to eat them on! There is a lovely very British and reasonably priced bed and breakfast there called Mansion House with gorgeous flowers in summer and amazing breakfasts, and a fenicular railway (like a tram) down to the beach. For a traditional roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding, visit any pub around the country on a Sunday.
Real fudge is butter and sugar, clotted cream would be the traditional version I suppose. It's a type of cream that is extra creamy. But make sure you buy the stuff with butter and cream, not crap stuff with vegetable oil!! ❤
@Sheila-ph6js there is traditional fudge which is sugar milk and butter , boiled till maybe 115'c which you then work with a spoon before putting into a mould, my mum used to make it all the time when we were kids, american fudge has condensed milk and other stuff in it and is basically a cheat version of a already simple recipie , it's generally smoother , the traditional stuff often has a slight crystallisation texture of the sugar to it. It's basically toffee with different ratios
Omg Uyen, I was snorting watching this video, especially the tea part lol German boyfriend should have got you a lactose free milk so you can have the full milk tea experience ;) Hope you'll have a better experience next time if you dare to give it a go again. As recommended by many people here you should try a Sunday roast, shapherd's or cottage pie (or both), crumpets maybe a trifle (although probably not best if you lactose intolerant) but it's sure tasty. Love watching your videos, I don't have a German bf but I do have an English husband so can relate to the international relationship shenenigans, although I'm Easter European so the cultural differences are not as significant. Please never change!
I am in hospital for a few weeks due to covid, I began to develop cabin fever and cried nearly non stop, your video really helped me todsy and I could relax a bit. Thanks a lot! Please make more long videos if possible
I think instead of "tea time" what you were thinking of was "cream tea" Cream tea is the thing that people pay lots of money for, tea time is just....well a time when you have tea, and maybe a biscuit, so i can understand how if you googled "tea time" you might have just got biscuits and tea. And German boyfriend is correct that Cream Tea does involve scones, but you're not supposed to eat them on their own, you have them with clotted cream and jam.
Whoever your english friend was, get another one. He took you to the wrong places. Let's start with fish and chips. Your fish should be battered, yours was breaded. The scotch egg should have seasoned sausage meat, if you weren't impressed with it, then it wasn't seasoned as it should, but a Scotch egg was a quick snack if you were in a hurry. Sausage roll? Go to Greggs lol. Your scone is traditionally eaten with whipped/clotted cream and jam. You didn't even try jellied eels...maybe not lol. But don't go to flashy pop ups to get British food, go to a cafe anf for heavens sake, eat battered fish, not breaded fish.
Tbf The Ginger Pig is legitimately great quality, I think a traditional sausage roll or scotch egg would be pretty bland to a Vietnamese person even if it was well-seasoned for a Brit.
@@abbykoop5363 however, when she checked back about the Scotch egg it sounded as if there was a British friend present. that was in London, not so sure about all the other places
You really should try a proper afternoon tea at a restaurant or tea room sometime! It's not just the type of food and tea, but how it's served and presented too that makes it a culturally British experience. The tea rooms usually serve cream tea which is more informal, but super nice; with scones, clotted cream, jam and tea. Really fancy versions of afternoon tea can also include champagne and different pastries, chocolates and sandwiches etc.
Fish and Chips is only good from a chippy by the seaside. The stuff you get in London pubs is just for tourists. Go to a seaside chippy, get some battered cod and chips with lots of salt and vinegar, preferably wrapped up in a newspaper.
Lots of things you needed to know before you try British food. You definitely should have gone out for high tea. It’s not the sort of thing most people would be able to recreate to the same level as you would get at a restaurant or cafe. If you are going to have scones even just at home you needed to put jam and cream on them. Otherwise they would be very dry. Also, it matters where you get things like fish and chips. You probably could have gotten some good British food from a decent pub. Maybe something like a Sunday roast. But again it matters where you go for that.
@@carolinegreenwell9086 Are you sure? Because she said she was going to spend £30 per person. Either way, I’m aware they’re different as I am a British person who lives in London. But my recommendation stands that she should have had high tea out at a restaurant or cafe. Is worth the exorbitant cost, especially when on holidays.
@@lotsofstuff9645 there's actually quite a lot of confusion over the term "high tea", which isn't helped by the fact that a lot of tourist places have started misusing that term because that's what tourists think it's called! Which has led to even British people getting them mixed up. High tea was actually just the traditional working class evening meal, it's not fancy food, it's called "high" because you'd eat it at a high table (as opposed to afternood tea which was traditionally eaten at lower tables because it's a snack, not a proper meal, although these days you'd typically eat at at a high table too!). Most people wouldn't call it "high tea" these days, though, it's a very old fashioned term, but many people (especially working class northerners) still call their evening meal "tea" (which confuses non Brits, because it may not involve actually drinking tea at all!). Whereas "afternood tea" is the thing most people are thinking of when they say "high tea", it was originally eaten as a substantial afternoon snack by the upper classes, and consisted of things like dainty cakes and sandwiches, eaten alongside tea served in china tea cups. Now of course it's available to the plebs as long as we're willing to pay for the privilege! There are also "cream teas" which are tea served with scones, clotted cream & jam, typically served in tea rooms, and especially popular in southwest England.
@@sqshhm Yes, we always called our dinner “tea” and our dessert “afters”. My mother is from Yorkshire. But as with everything, there is a difference between the origin, or original meaning of something and it’s current or commonly used meaning today.
@@sqshhmall of the colonies call the ‘fancy’ British afternoon tea ’high tea’. So it’s no surprise tourist places have started using that term. I don’t know of anywhere that advertises a high tea anywhere in the world that uses that original definition of a working class dinner. Elsewhere that would just be tea time.
I'll always say, there is a lot of cuisines better than British food. But UK desserts, cheese and bakery I think are some of the best in the world. I will die on this hill.
Aged beef, salmon, scallops, lobster, lsngoustine, venison, cod……. All world class. Several three Michelin star chefs traveljed the world for the best beef. Winners: Scottish highlands and Galicia , northern Spain,
@@JohnSmith-sm7ez Don't get me wrong, I do really like British cuisine, and you can get some high quality stuff for sure. I'm from here. But if I were to choose between UK or another cuisine if the food was laid on a table, I'd likely pick the foreign one first, unless I'm really fancying something British.
@RendererEP but could part of the reason you'd choose foreign food be because it's just more interesting to eat something you haven't eaten so often in your life and might not make at home? For me in your hypothetical situation which food I'd choose would depend on exactly what was offered, if the British food was stuff I haven't eaten much before and the foreign food was something I've eaten many times and could get anywhere (e.g. a standard Indian or Chinese takeaway dish) I'd choose the British option.
@@sqshhm could also be because I eat about 70% mediterranean food at home since I have a Maltese mother. And thats what I mainly know how to cook when cooking for myself. So I likely just have a different palette to be honest. But yes your point stands, for example I don't have Chinese often so if its infront of me, i will go for that since I don't have it often, so perhaps you are still correct. So maybe I get more excited for food I have less, but I would say it depends on what it is. If I had the choice between a chinese restraunt or Indian restraunt vs a Carvery, I think I would choose the carvery.
If you had told me you were coming to York I would have made you both a cup of tea and a biscuit for free! 2pm is a bit early though. I prefer 4.30pm until 5pm.
The 'dmn' with the lemon custard cracked me up 🤣. Your face made me smile. I don't think i can do English tea time. I mean milk with water? Or water with milk? How on earth is that tasty? I don't think you would taste anything of the tea just water. And then ofcourse the dry scones that look like stone dry. The breakfast however i won't have any problems with, that looked yummie!!! Thanks Uyen for the marvelous show again.
To be fair, it looked like the sort of crud that gets sold to tourists who don't know any better and won't be back. Borough Market is a notorious tourist trap, after all.
When you come back you definitely need to try a proper roast dinner. Also I feel like you need to see a National Trust property if you liked the historic building of the pub!
Just an observation. It seems that most colder climate areas have heavy fatty foods. Maybe because the people needed to have more fat on their body to keep warm. Also the spicier ingredients don't grow in the cold climates so the evolution of northerner's tastebuds didn't evolve to enjoy those flavors. I love your food videos!
No actually this is the first time I've seen anyone fail so badly at finding decent British food in Britain. The fish and chips, the afternoon tea, the breakfast, and I'm not saying a scotched egg is a delicacy, but what was that??? BestEverFoodReviews Deliberately ate some of the most disgusting traditional food we have but had better food overall than Uywen! Even the pie she had came with mash seperate to the pie which is a sin
@@georgiascarlett9679 Yeah, poor Uyen! No wonder she didn't have a good time! Fudge that looked like it didn't crumble at all, a scotch egg with a terrible ratio of meat to egg, a Scottish breakfast with no sausage or fried mushrooms/tomatoes, weak chips, THAT FISH, pie and mash separated (still good tbf) and the absolute worst interpretation of afternoon tea I've ever seen 😂
As a non-Brit, I truly don't get it. I like visiting pubs in the suburbs or small towns and always had amazing British food there. Of course, I lack the home-cooked experience for comparison, but none of my travel buddies ever thought the food was bad? But I also read up on the dish I want to eat first, and check the pub's reviews in regard to food, and generally steer clear of touristy places. I thought that was normal procedure when you want to try a local delicacy abroad, but apparently not :/ Let people talk. I'm out there clumsily trying to recreate my faves at home, such as steak & ale pie, shepherd's pie, beef stew, yorkshire pudding, cheese scones... scruuumptious! 😋
@@MoonshineMist We're definitely good at hearty hobbit food 😁 You just can't judge british food based on casually going around london (or edinburgh or york, etc) because so so much of it is tourist traps
I have been living in the UK for three years now. I am from Belgium, and I really miss healthy food. Traditional Belgian food and the food available in stores is generally very healthy (fries are really not the only traditional dish at all !!). Anyway, it is very difficult to find healthy organic products at a reasonable price here-organic eggs, milk, meat, or vegetables. I’m not even talking about traditional food, but just products available in places like Sainsbury’s or Tesco. Waitrose is somewhat better, I suppose, but far too expensive for everyday life. I live in a village near Oxford, so not in London. Perhaps it’s different there.
I have had afternoon tea and cakes in the same back garden of a hotel in York. I walked down from the city wall which was at the end of the garden. It is not a castle in the background. It is York Minster, which is a Cathedral.
I see so many of these videos trying British food! There’s so many incredible restaurants here, especially in London! You need to go to some of the amazing gastronomy pubs! Fish and chips is best by the coast, and afternoon tea is delicious if you don’t buy only beige dry biscuits from the supermarket 😂
Since I haven't seen (or just overlooked) anyone talk about the lemon curd, here's the deal: much like custard, puddings and frostings for cakes can be thickened with egg yolk, so it curd. Curd is similar to a jam, but jams can be thickened with a bunch of ingredients (from starches to the natural enzymes from strawberries that jellify liquid if boiled long enough) while curd is specifically thickened with egg. Usually egg is whisked and a little bit of the liquid added to gently bring to temperature and not instantly scramble it. Then it is added to the pot and brought to a boil and stirred until thickened. This cooks the egg completely making it 100% safe to eat and results in a creamy, rich texture.
I always find traditional British food while I am in England and Scotland. You should have gone to a local pub for food. Stay away from tourist traps. It didn’t look like you had mushy peas with your fish.
Ah, London is a surprisingly difficult place as a tourist to find good british food easily because it's so multicultural, which I do love! But these places in the biggest cities don't need to be good because they can just rely on tourism, so for this exercise, a smaller town or city would have been easier to find higher quality places, because they can't just rely on one-time customer tourism to exist, they have to keep a good quality to keep a consistent local customer base. I don't know if any of the things you ate looked like usual British versions of those foods, sadly 😥
If you want a cheap and accessible afternoon tea experience head to an M&S cafe. Buy the scone that comes with clotted cream and jam. You halve the scone, horizontally, and eat it with jam and cream. Afternoon tea in a posh hotel or restaurant may include a warm savoury item, like vol aux vonts, and/or dainty sausage rolls. Also a selection of sandwiches, may include open sandwiches flavours vary but maybe egg and cress, smoked salmon and cream cheese, ham, cheese and onion, tuna, coronation chicken etc etc. As well as a scone, jam and cream there may be other cakes eg victoria sandwich, chocolate éclairs, fondant fancies etc etc.... The digestive biscuits you ate also come with milk chocolate, dark chocolate and caramel and chocolate 😋. I think a typically british dish that you could create for yourself easily at home is Cottage Pie, it is minced beef cooked in a gravy with a mashed potato topping, baked in the oven. You could make a video!
I'm normally perfectly happy criticising the food produced on our soggy, sheep-infested patch of mud, but almost everything you ate seemed like tourist versions of normal food, as in it was big, bland, overpriced and sold in the confident belief that they'll never have a repeat customer. Our food is bad enough, but apart from the breakfast and the hideously extortionate beer, some of that stuff looked like every reason the EU don't want us back on a plate 🤣
Where you in Edinburgh or Glasgow for that fish and chips? That was overcooked and no batter!! Go to a local chippy in a small town (yes I know Edinburgh is on the coast) on the coast and get proper fish and chips with a crispy batter coating, not overcooked, on your fish and thick chunky tasty chips. I'm amazed you couldn't find high quality local food in the London. It's the capital it should be giving tourists the best of British. We have some realy fine quality food and when cooked properly its great. Love your honesty in the foods you chose.
Not in central London. The food is nasty in central London. She needs to go further out where most people live. Oh and that Scottish breakfast was terrible. I've had a better one in Whetherspoons. The best bacon I've had was in Yorkshire though amongst farmers.
I would highly recommend going out for an afternoon tea- it isnt only tea and cakes, there are sandwiches, fruits, different types of pastries.. it really is worth the money and the point is atmosfere as well
I saw a lot of comments saying I didn’t hit the best British food spots in the video. Sooo If you have better recommendations (preferably in London), please drop the name below below so I can try them next time and make another video to redeem British food 😆
The best British food is Indian
You really didn't.
Last time I went to London a few years ago I found it difficult finding "good" food. Most places were like where you got that 'abomination' of a sausage roll or the fish and chips.
Fish should be battered. Not breaded.
Should be cod, not plaice or Polok or any other fish.
The chips should be soft inside with a slight crunch on the outside.
Served with salt and brown vinegar.
Not tartar sauce.
Maybe ketchup and mushy peas if you are particularly hungry.
Gravy with chips varies from location to location. Some places it is a must. Others it's a 'no no'.
British cuisine is very varied from region to region.
Even wiganers ( from Wigan ) can't always agree on what make a good pie!
@@uyenninh get a ploughman plate in a worker pub
Dont go to London if you want to eat British food lol
@@uyenninh the problem with London is that it's so very big and locals tend to avoid the centre.
I'm not saying there's no good food in the centre, but London is more like a collection of villages and the really exciting and the really authentic stuff tends to happen in the more residential areas.
Anyone else from the UK feel like mostly these didn't look like particularly good versions of these dishes? Is that just me?
No they all looked sad :( the Scottish breakfast, fish and chips, scotch egg, all disappointing.
@@bassetts1899 Yes, I thought so! It's hard to find really good local places perhaps. And as a Brit I'm happy to acknowledge that bad versions can be pretty terrible!
It's not you at all. They desperately needed better guidance to all of this. Afternoon tea was cider, beer and olives? What the hoo?????
honestly i didn't think the other video on the UK was very accurate/representative either
problem is the majority of the places making "british" food are just crap anyway because people will eat slop
That fish and chips is a CRIME
They should be ashamed of serving that!
Right though, fish in breadcrumbs 😐
Think it was plaice so would be breaded but definitely not the right kind of location or fish and chips.
It should be a beer batter right? I only had fish and chips once and got horrible food poisoning, but I remember something about beer as an ingredient
even the sausage roll dont look right, this has to be a setup 😂😂
Hey Brit here,
If you're still here,
You should try:
A Greggs sausage roll and maybe one of their bakes (steak bake is my favourite) - Make sure to ask if they're still hot, sometimes they're fresh out of the oven and sometimes they can be a bit cold and sad,
A Tesco meal deal (you can now get a regular Costa coffee as a drink and there are loads of snack options, including but not limited to a bakery treat, and an ice cream)
A proper local chippy fish and chips (fewer the seats in the chippy the better),
A Sunday roast (from a pub),
Scones with strawberry or raspberry jam and clotted cream, or a cheesy scone just cut in half, toasted and buttered,
Shepards/Cottage pie (from a pub),
Crumpets with butter (and optionally honey or nutella)
I think the places you went unfortunately didn't give you the best representation of our food,
Either way, great video! Enjoying the British Vlogs
I agree with everything other than a tesco meal deal. You have been conditioned to like them because of how cheap and accessible they are when you are in desperate need of food and not at home. Do not think for a second that it is good food. And most importantly: HAVE YOU SEEN HOW EXPENSIVE THEY ARE NOW? It is a part of our culture though!
Only true way to have crumpets, imo, is a crpa load of butter and a thin spread of marmite. Superior crumpet consumption.
@@georgiascarlett9679 Yeah definitely not the best food but I reckon its so integral it'd be worth a try anyways. Also if you're strategic with it, getting a nice sandwich or a fancy wrap, maybe a mozzarella and pesto or something exotic, along with a Costa coffee from the machine, and a magnum (maybe not at this time of the year), its still one of the better deals given how much everything else has gone up in price
@@Spamhard I'd agree with the mound of butter, but never been too into the Marmite, hated it growing up and haven't tried it since. maybe i'll give it another shot
@@harrymcneill6495 I've always loved the stuff so I'm bias for sure. But if you do ever give her another try, remember only a really thin spread, and you want way more butter than marmite.
I think for me it's just I often fancy something a bit savoury and salty, and it fits that perfect hole when on toast or crumpets.
Hi Uyen, as a fellow Asian foodie who spent 5 years in London 😉😉
- Sunday Roast at The Albion, Islington
The roast beef literally MELTS in your mouth
- traditional English breakfast at Regency Cafe
Fun, east end type of atmosphere here
- gastropub meal at The Mayflower, where the first English pilgrims left for America
- tea and scones at Muffin Man
- oysters at wright brothers (borough market)
- Cantonese style duck at Four Seasons (so popular that “London duck” is a thing in Singapore now)
These recommendations are golden, you won’t regret checking them out 😘😘
You are doing the whole country a service with this post. THANK YOU
Thank you for this. I’m a British guy with a Japanese wife. I’ve been wanting to get her to try some good quality British food but fish and chips aside I’ve only been able to make most of it at home. Screen capping this comment for future reference 😊
Thank you for sharing these, I hope she sees them and tries some actually nice British food! ☺️
By the look of the comments, everyone found this just as painful as I did, but good on you for having a go with no insider help
that genuinely looks like you went to the single worst place to get fish and chips. thats not usually how its battered, and the chips look miserable. im so sad
😂 I don't feel as betrayed anymore as I did when I saw that disgrace of a fish
fish and chips is basically the definition of sad
@@palindro230 no good fish and chips is insanely good. they obviously went to some tourist trap. The fish wasn't even battered lmao... Was just some frozen bollocks. Never seen that in my whole life
I think that place is called London.
@@pattheplanter you can get a decent fish an chips here, even by central london. i will admit its harder but east and south east london has some great fish and chips!
It's interesting watching this as a brit, because while I'm not sure any of that was a particularly good representation of british food I can 100% see why tourists end up finding food like this (and maybe come away thinking British food isn't good!). I imagine most of the places were tourist traps in busy areas, and will have dressed themselves up as offering high quality 'traditional' food but in reality not so much. The fish and chips in particular really didn't look great - anaemic chips and breaded fish rather than proper batter. I've had better fish and chips than that in a Wetherspoons (which is a big chain of budget pubs that does cheap basic food).
For me my stereotypical British food would also include more meat pies, roast and braised meats, soups, stews, puddings like fruit crumbles and sticky toffee pudding, cakes (and scones, but with cream and jam not on their own). Arguably also British Indian food (which is quite different to authentic Indian food) which is my favourite takeaway.
@@mrgreataukI agree, I have friends from America who when they come over make it a priority to eat Sticky Toffee Pudding (with custard) and I thoroughly agree
I'm canadian so we inherited a lot of British food and even I could tell she got unlucky. I sincerely think that if someone wants to taste authentic food from a country, they have to visit locations that aren't touristic.
For example, I'm French Canadian and would tell anyone that the best poutine is found in the mom and pop diners right off the highway where the staff knows 5 words of English.
I think you were absolutely correct with your first statement about it being difficult to find authentic food as a tourist. Most of the items you didn’t like I could tell you weren’t going to like before you even tasted it because it wasn’t the authentic version. I wouldn’t have eaten it either. Fish and chips was an immediate disaster for example. I normally only eat it at the coast and then only after asking a local which shop to go to. Well done for trying so many things though, you were so brave. Glad you enjoyed our cider. It’s pretty a sneaky way to get people drunk.
Pub...go to a British pub...even the fish and chips would be bearable...but that you really need to go to the coast
i had fish and chips at poppies and it was really good. the one she ate looked questionable at best.
That’s not really cider though. It’s alcopop.
@ Dees3179. Not difficult at all, in any country, especially not in the UK, to properly research well respected cuisines & customs. She totally thought she could jump on a very old, & tediously boring bandwagon, to take-down, disrespect & offend an entire nation & their culture - & she thought this would just fly because of her pointless, meaningless 'online following'. 🙄
Says more about her as a person, her 'need' for false following & her distain for anyone she thinks she can step on for fake 'likes' & a cheap laugh. How mindless, immature, uncultured & embarrassing. If you guy's enjoy 'following' this type of foolishness, that's on you.
To be fair, I dont think she would like many good versions of British food as she's not a big fan of German food and we are not that dissimilar. The Scottish fry up looked pretty decent and she didn't enjoy that. Maybe more stews and things w veg and slow cooked meat in them, or a mini pork pie with loads of mustard for flavour (but its cold so points off).
The English afternoon tea - I have no words lmao . Nobody just sits down with this in the afternoon at home like they do in Germany. If you want to have afternoon tea you go out to a pretty cafe or pub and get the beautifully presented platter with cakes, sandwiches, scones and all the jams and CLOTTED CREAM !!! Maybe try again, better research is needed. Danke für deine Videos, Uyen - super witzig, aber ich glaube ein paar englische Zuschauer sind vielleicht ein bißchen enttäuscht?
You should try the proper English tea, at a tea room or restaurant. it can be expensive, but it also includes sandwiches, cakes, scones, pastries and of course Tea. The plain scones should be cut horizontally, then buttered or with clotted cream, with either strawberries or jam!
Aww Uyen! You should've definitely gone to a restaurant or tea house for a proper high tea experience. You'd have delicious scones with jam, clotted cream, and also sandwiches etc.
This!
yes! i'm not from UK but the first thing i think of British food is high tea with lavish layers of desserts, finger sandwiches and scones. I am so surprised she didn't have any!
Nothing like a fresh, warm scone with clotted cream and raspberry jam (I know, I know, strawberry is the usual thing, I just prefer raspberry) and a cup of good tea.
@@YunoAz right like she paid £8 for a normal cider then refuses to pay for a proper afternoon tea experience! the whole experience is what makes afternoon tea worth it
A number of people here are confusing afternoon tea with high tea.They are not the same.
I feel British people after watching the Uyen’s version of tea time will feel like Italians after watching American butchering Italian dishes! 😂
yuuuuup 😂 what a terrible time she put herself through for no reason!
The whole video was like that!
@@fleshen Was she just in the wrong area?
This was the saddest afternoon tea that I had ever seen in my life. It was painful to watch! 😂
Is it anything like Italians watching Brits butcher Italian food or worse?
This is so fun to watch! I hope you find a friend in the UK so next time they can show you how stuff is eaten and take you to the legit places, it will be much better.
Dear Uyen,
I have never put a scotch egg in the microwave 😮
They are most often eaten cold as a picnic snack or served hot and fresh in chip shops or restaurants.
Sincerely,
A Scottish lady
If you do microwave it, when you bite in to it it the egg will explode, and I don't mean like a little pop. I mean a bang that feels like it rips your mouth open, it burns, and feels like you've been punched in the mouth. Also, you get flecks of scalding hot egg speckled across your face that feels glued in place.
When you microwave a boiled egg after it's been cooked, the steam forms around the yolk inside it, expanding inside the white, like an inflated steam filled balloon. When you puncture it it goes bang, and no more egg but lots of steam burning you instantly.
I speak from experience, the experience of being 11 and wanting a hot scotch egg this was around 35 years ago. I promise you that if you were to do this, you will only do it the once, and never again. lesson learnt. I now only eat them hot if they are fresh out of the oven/fryer, otherwise I eat them cold. Blistered lips and cheeks aren't a good look.
There should be a warning on those horrible prepackaged scotch eggs they sell in supermarkets and garages saying not to microwave them. They are vile those things. Nae flavour and textured like a tennis ball coated in sand. I prefer homemade ones or ones from my local butchers. Now they ARE what you call a scotch egg. A bit more expensive than those supermarket jobbies, but I'd rather pay £1,50+ for a proper one than 69p for egg wrapped in gristle.
Either way, I'm not microwaving them.
If you want to eat a Scotch Egg hot, the only good way is to get soon after it finishes cooking.
Those fish and chips were atrocious. Thinking back to when you visited, you probably caught the seasonal change in potatoes. Neither the tail end of the 'old' potatoes, or the beginning of the 'new' potatoes, make particularly good chips. The breading on the fish looks way too heavy.
Scottish cooked breakfast without Lorne sausage? 'Flat pig' is one of the signature parts of the plate.
I know someone who microwaved a whole egg Scotch egg and it blew up.
@@martinthompson4707 The breading on the fish shouldn't have been there. Traditional fish and chips is battered.
Yeah cold scotch egg with a bit of salt on the egg, also they are way better cut
You need to eat a proper fish and chips. That batter isn’t typical. Usually the fish is very fluffy and moist and the batter is crispy. You have it with malt vinegar. The chips are typically crispy. I’d find a traditional chip shop or pub.
It looks as if the fried fish in the video is coated in breadcrumbs rather than in batter.
I agree. That fish and chips looked terrible and not traditional at all. It looked like that frozen, breaded rubbish you get in supermarkets.
Malt vinegar is so good!
@@mysteryegg340 tenner says it was exactly that.
I could find better fish and chips than that plate in the US and Canada
You put clotted cream or butter on the scones; they’re not meant to be eaten on their own. That was why you found it too dry. Also, during a cream tea, there would be more selection, so there would be cakes which would be less dry on their own too.
You're right, but the cakes and bread in Germany are outstanding and are far superior to ours. ❤
In the US, the scones are served dry & wrong & are not delicious
Also if the scones are completely cold the butter in them hardens and the texture becomes dry, like when stewed meat is cold. You need it at least slightly warm to bring some sense of moisture back.
Scones are only really good if they are freshly baked. That's one reason it costs £30 a head in a nice place - or we make our own at home. That fish looked dry and boring! We don't usually breadcrumb fish; batter is the norm (like thick tempura)
what is (true) clotted cream?
A little painful to watch, but I think a lot of tourists struggle to find good British food in London. When I'm in London I usually eat foreign food too. To eat good British food you need to find a good gastro pub in the countryside. Fish and Chips need to be from an actual chipshop not a pub or restaurant and if you are near the sea or up in the North of the country, even better. For fresh local ingredients and seafood Cornwall is my favorite.
Probably the best place for traditional British food is a pub at the coast
She needs to watch Jolly to see how proper food reviews are made.... just saying...
@@ticketyboo2456They’d warn her from trying British food. 🤣
@@dayeti6794They are arseholes.
No body goes to the UK for the food, so i don’t think foreigners search for a place that could be good
You are fearless- it’s OK if people don’t agree with you keep making your videos. I find them charming and definitely entertaining. I’m so glad I subscribe to your channel a long time ago. You have an effervescent personality. Someone that I wish everyone could be more like.❤
I'm sure a lot of comments already covered this but some more British foods:
- Lemon and sugar pancakes
- Yorkshire pudding
- Hot Cornish pasty
- Sticky toffee pudding w/ custard or ice-cream
- Crumpets with melted cheddar cheese and smoked paprika
- Terry's chocolate orange
- I prefer mini scotch eggs so you get to eat every layer at once and it's more of an egg mayo inside
- I actually end up sending a lot of chutneys to Sweden that they don't have there
- As we're always dunking biscuits in our tea, there's many really tasty ones other than digestives! There's also a lot of digestive varieties like ones with a chocolate
- Scones are best with clotted cream & jam or have a buttered cheese scone
- Battered fish is a must and the chips are usually soft anyway because they're covered in salt & vinegar
You'd be surprised at how not mentioned a lot of these items are 😢
A lot of "this is terrible, also fish is supposed to be battered", about 80% is that repeated.
Lots of "hur hur of course it's bad it's British"
You know I've not even seen ONE mention of roast beef??
Or that we're a nation of fisherman? No mackerel, no langostines, no crab, ONE mention of oysters, few of our puddings and confectionary (FUDGE?? WHO EATS FUDGE?)
_WHO MICROWAVES SCOTCH EGGS??_
No steak and kidney pie
Or any pie
Fish pie
Apple pie
Thankyou for this list.
@@MostlyPennyCat I was also very surprised to hear about microwaving a scotch egg 😂
We have one of those old fashioned sweet shops with the huge jars that they weigh the sweets out of in our town, that would be a good visit.
Oh apple pie! That reminds me of all our British crumbles too, always picking blackberries for crumbles.
I am a lover of pies and love making them from recipes online. Butternut squash, caramelised onions and shiitake mushrooms, bacon, turkey, sage, it's divine 😍
@@BamboozledHeck
CRUMBLES! I was trying to remember that word writing that last night.
And that breakfast she ate was so SAD looking 😢
Bacon and egg pie!
God I haven't had that in YEARS.
Technically a flan but ho hum.
I just made toad in the hole last night, but for the first time without cheating with raising agents.
It tasted divine.
We were genuinely shocked at how good it tasted, I was expecting nice, not glorious.
And I want even trying, it was Experiment 1, I put a video up of it last night.
It follows my first ever successful Yorkshire pudding without raising agents. Gave up trying years ago, decided to have another bash, found a functional recipe by Mary on the BBC website.
@@BamboozledHeck
Going to make toad 2 tonight, adjust quantities to adjust the texture, I want it lighter.
And because I live with my in laws there's lard in the fridge so maybe try that with Toad 3.
(I get a bit obsessed with perfecting and then documenting my own recipe, but through SCIENCE!!)
My wife won't complain, who likes food and is also a scientist.
Technically she's more of a real scientist than me as she actually works in a lab coat and uses a microscope.
My channel is Mostly Penny Cat, hence the name, but I hope to do more cooking videos as well as putting my recipes up online which I do.
Although that's more for my benefit, as otherwise I'll forget my custom recipes.
I spent 15 years perfecting "rice" and wrote it up.
I've also never seen a fish look like that at a fish and chip shop. You need to have it with salt and vinegar and mushy peas and tartare sauce on the side. Also, your scones are missing the clotted cream! That's why they're dry. We also have plenty of moist cakes, like Victoria Sponge, Lemon Drizzle etc. We also don't eat this type of afternoon tea daily or even frequently.
London has one of the most varied food scenes in the world. We are very lucky here in the UK that you can find the foods from most countries. I don't think this was a very accurate representation of all the UK has to offer gastronomically.
The chips also looked so sad! Plus for scones/sausage rolls, I think she would've got better ones at a proper bakery instead.
isn't tartare sauce an American invention? you really eat it in UK?
@@negljbreakergaming yes, alot of US inventions are in the UK, ketchup is very popular in the UK too
@@negljbreakergaming Tartare sauce originated in FRANCE!
@@RuBella21 my bad, I looked it up after asking
You're right about not being able to find our authentic food. That's a large part of why everyone thinks we have bad food, we don't sell it, we make it at home.
Why wouldn't you sell it too?
@@mygirldarby because everyone thinks English food is bad.
@@mygirldarby because if you go out to eat, most people want to eat things they *don't* eat all the time at home! So we go out to try all sorts of interesting food from around the world, or if we do go out to eat British food, it's usually food which is more difficult to make at home (e.g. fish and chips - you can make it at home, obviously, but most people don't want to faff around with deep frying things these days), or where the meal is more of an "experience", e.g. a big Sunday roast in a pub, or a fancy afternoon tea. Or it's high end, more expensive gourmet food where you're paying to be cooked for by a very skilled chef using top quality ingredients, but obviously that comes with a price tag. Or at the other end of the scale, it's cheap filling basic food you grab and go when you're out and about and just want a simple but tasty lunch (e.g. Greggs - a cheap bakery chain which is famous for its sausage rolls).
Unfortunately a lot of the restaurants that play on the "traditional British food" thing are tourist traps, not places locals would usually eat in. That's not to say you *can't* get good traditional British food outside of people's homes, but you do have to look a bit harder for the best places to go. Head a bit more off the tourist trail, find out where the locals actually eat. Probably the best place to get traditional British food is a decent pub - look up reviews online to find out which pubs do the best food and try those, they're going to offer the closest to "real" British home cooking. Or if you want "real British food" but don't mind trying something a bit less traditional, look for well reviewed restaurants that are described as "modern British", these tend to fuse the best of traditional British cuisine with more modern elements and influences from around the world, and probably represent the best of what real British food is in the UK these days.
@@mygirldarby Those running food places, unless very expensive (which given their nature are rare e.g. St. JOHN), tend to be immigrants because the work is very hard and relatively insecure. It's also useful for when you lack English proficiency and/or face hiring discrimination. When you have better opportunities, you head a family-run cafe cafe and cater to the locals; you don't have the standards of elsewhere (though I think part of this is also because food isn't anywhere near as important in the UK as it elsewhere in the world)
Judging British food by British cooking is like judging Italian cuisine by spaghetti hoops, in my opinion
@@andrewmacpherson301
So you've never been to a pub, or a fish and chip shop and you think our cooking and cuisine is _bad???_
That sounds like nonsense to me, sorry.
You really have nobody in your entire family who can cook?
Couple of things:
1) With ‘beers’ - we actually divide them into Lager (the golden stuff most people are used to drinking), ale/ bitter (dark brown, bitter stuff you tried) and stout (black stuff). These are made from hops. Cider of course is made from fruits (commonly apples, but can be from other fruits like pear etc).
2) Sausage rolls/ scotch eggs can be eaten both hot or cold (commonly room temperature when it is taken out for picnics). It is tastier eaten hot since the fat from the pastry and pork will be rendered down, otherwise it is flavourless. There is also pork pies which were sold at Ginger pig - these are eaten cold or room temperature, never hot.
3) Fish n Chips - the fish you had was breaded and fried. This is the original form of Fish n Chips which was brought over by Jewish immigrants and was eaten cool (due to religious reasons). However, the more popular form of fish n chips these days is with the fish coated in a flour batter (sometimes with beer added). This puffs up when cooking similar to tempura batter and the fish ‘steams’ while cooking. A good chippy will have chips that are crispy on the outside, and fluffy in the inside. Some places go through extra effort and do triple cooked chips. Also depending on the region you eat your fish n chips, you can have simply salt n vinegar or tartare sauce/ curry sauce/ gravy to accompany it.
4) Traditional afternoon tea consists of 3 distinct parts - the finger sandwiches (usually there is a variety of these but the classics would be cucumber sandwich, coronation chicken), scones (which is eaten with clotted cream and jam) and a selection of cakes/ patries (e.g. victoria sponge).
Messaged you on Instagram, if you ever come over to London again, reach out to me. If time permits, will be happy to take you around!
Guuuuuuurl ..as a German who lived in the UK for 5 years, you might wanna give aaaall those dishes another try when you visit again. 🙈 also, I know that British tea time/high tea can be extremely expensive, but for the best experience you cannot skip the cost here. Unless you know what you are doing and know what to buy and how to prep it for tea time 😅
I’m sad to see, that your experience was not as good as I know could have been. 🥲🫶🏼
Much luv
I love that you as a German wrote this 💚
There's some really good £20 afternoon teas in London tbf. A single Google gets you them.
I was going to say, as an Irish person, like afternoon tea is one of the things that made it's way here, and it's more about the experience. I want to take my mother for one soon. I'm trying to choose wisely though, I don't know how much it is in the UK, but it's 70 euro per person in Adare Manor, so I might go elsewhere 🤣
@fionamb83 the one in the Chester beatty silk road cafe is fab. It's Persian inspired if you'd be into that. It's €30 iirc?
I've never done an expensive cream tea, but i've heard they're good. That said i can totally imagine doing what they did... getting towards the end of the trip and just not wanting to spend any more money 😅 So spending a similar amount on a massively inferior product. That said you can make them at home. The hardest thing to get is the clotted cream.
15:05 Hm, it's just black tea 😂😂😂
I love you ❤❤❤
Thank you for your un-local-ness🎉🎉🎉
The food isn't bad. It's the quality that varies massively. Typically the more expensive stuff is a tasteless tourist rip off. Try takeaways instead.
Yeah she fell for the tourist traps.
Not really. All the expensive stuff in central is also amazing like the Guinea in Mayfair. Just Google great places. So easy to find. But crep is also expensive.
@@JohnSmith-sm7ez everything is expensive in London, Just like all tourist traps.
Tourist traps don't make it easy on people. I'm a bit of a foodie when I can afford it and learned that good restaurants tend to have three points in common:
- The owner works there or if it's a chain, it has 5 locations max
- They look and are clean
- Even if an interior designer got involved in the decor, there is some painting/bauble/curtain/etc. that was clearly added without their approval
I have no idea where you found that fish and chips meal, but that is not what it's meant to look like. That looks like it was breaded and cooked in the oven, instead of battered and deep-fried. For anyone else watching, do not judge fish and chips based on that, it's not typical.
A few years ago I went to London and I ate fish and chips for the first time. It sounded so yummy, but it unfortunately wasn't at all. Perhaps I bought it at the the same place as Uyen? 😂 I mean, millions of Brits cannot be wrong, can they?
@@Winona493 I'd say a couple of things. First, I feel like fish and chips gets talked up a bit much. It's only intended as fast food. People would get it as a treat when they were on holiday in Brighton or wherever and eat it walking the pier, it's not meant to be the be all and end all.
Second, it really, really depends on where you get it. In Scotland you pretty much can't get a bad fish supper, but everywhere else quality varies dramatically from shop to shop. Never ever buy it from a place that sells other foods like kebabs or burgers, they'll suck. It can even vary depending on time of day, it's often better to get it during busy times like 1pm or 7pm when they're making everything fresh to deal with the rush.
@@deojnwedofuWE I live in the west coast of Ireland and I feel like 99% of the fish and chips you get here are good. Even from pubs. But I suppose if you live next to the Atlantic ocean and can't get battered fish right questions need to be asked 🤣
@@fionamb83 Similar story in Scotland, you really have to try to get a bad fish supper. Scotland takes its fish supper seriously. In England & Wales it's not the same, quality varies wildly. Rule of thumb, anywhere that sells other foods like kebabs and burgers or a chinese, they're not doing good fish & chips. Usually great down in Cornwall and Devon, as you'd expect.
i think the issue is the places tourists typically go seem to be making the food more fancy... British food is better when it is simple and home made in my opinion. and the Scottish breakfast not having square sausage is criminal! lol. hope you liked the UK and especially Scotland!
Link sausage is fine, but where were the tattie scones?
Yeah I think the tourist places always do the worst version of traditional food and it's hugely over priced. I've think this is true of all countries though. I've heard so many people talking about how unimpressed they were food in major European attractions that are known for their food and I think it's so often just low quality versions being sold to non locals.
@@Nettietwixt Honourable exception, Bologna. Almost impossible to get a bad meal there.
@jeanettemullins That's right. For example: I have eaten the best but also the worst pizza of my life in Italy. The worst was also in a tourist place and was more expensive than the good one.
That breakfast was garbage.
Suggestion: Next time pay for a formal tea in a fancy restaurant.
But then she wouldn't have got McVities!
Love you and the content you make, but there were a few things in this vid that were a bit off. I think next time, maybe make a friend here who can guide you and tell you when things don't look 100% right (like the fish and chips you had xD). I think the issue is that London is so multicultural and full of tourists, the main places that sell "traditional English food" end up just catering to tourists and people who don't know what to look forward to. Also, one KEY thing, in English cuisine, it's pretty standard that YOU season the food, not the chef. Usually pubs will provide you with salt, pepper and general condiments to apply to your liking. Personally, I like salt and vinegar on chips and then I dip them in ketchup. Thanks for coming and showing us off so optimistically!
Yes, the seasoning thing is, I think, where a lot of tourists go wrong! We eat a lot of condiments with our meals, but unless you're with a British person who tells you what goes with what you wouldn't know what you're meant to have with each food or even that you *are* supposed to have condiments with the food! Some places don't have the condiments out on the table either, they'll ask "do you want any sauces?" when they bring the food, or there's a shelf or whatever somewhere nearby with a selection of things you can help yourself to.
The scotch egg, for instance, would have been so much more tasty with a bit of mustard! Although would also have been much better if it was smaller, scotch eggs aren't supposed to be so big, you're meant to get egg *and* meat in one mouthful!
She doesn't seem to have friends, even in Germany.
:...it's edible..." :))) Uyen's German assimilation has succeeded :))
Yes 🤣🤣🤣
plus she is spoiled silly when it comes to all sorts of bread.
i thought the same hahaha xD
And: "There's nothing to complain about" 😂
Proper fish and chips, the fish should be in batter not breadcrumbs
Proper beer batter?
That looks to me, as an American, like southern style fried cat-fish. It's got a buttermilk/egg wash dipped in breadcrumbs.
Exactly, And cooked in beef dripping not sunflower oil.
Try indian food ❤
You can get both options in Scotland
Also GIRL WHAT IS THAT BATTER 8:37 !? That is not a battered fish 😭 that is an abomination.
😭
It's breaded some people prefer it
@@MsRainingDaysYeah but it's not fish n chips, it's breaded fish with chips 😂😂
@@MsRainingDays but breaded is such a cheap basic version of fish n chips. Its not what you get from a chippy. Its more what id expect from spoons, or iceland lol.
@@WookieWarriorz In Scotland we do both, Breaded fish is called Special Fish in chip shops here, as here Breaded fish is often preferred, especially by older folks. I like to get it often even though I'm English, it can be very nice, stays crispy longer than battered fish.
6:42 a 'full English breakfast' (I know you said Scottish I'm just adding to it) would have tomato and mushrooms too with that without the haggis
8:50 I've seen many comments about the state of that fish and chips and I have to agree, not good, the batter is the wrong kind also, but I haven't seen comments about the fact that there is no mushy peas! Authentic fish and chips needs mush peas!
Typically scones are eaten with clotted cream and jam to counter the dryness.
Of course, you need to get the ingredients the right way round too; first the jam, and then the cream. I mean, we aren't Janners, are we. 🤭
@@euansmith3699 Absolutely.
@@euansmith3699 the best way is to put jam on the bottom half and cream on the inside of the top half then bring them together never try to spread the cream on the jam
Scones shouldn't be dry in the first place. If they're supermarket scones they're likely not fresh and scones need to be fresh!
Yeah but proper scones shouldn't be dry, they should be a tiny bit moist. If they're dry they've not been made properly or they're stale.
While you were in York, you should have tried the York hog roast co, do a great meal in a Yorkshire pudding wrap and also great English afternoon tea. Head to Betty's tea room. However for the scone you need to add clotted cream and jam
Also for the best fish and chips, you need to head Whitby.
Thompsons Fish & Chips in York is to die for. The fish is thick and juicy, with a lovely batter, crunchy outside and when you cut it you see the flakes of the fish. I moved to Ireland and I missed it.
Agreed. Betty's and Whitby. Cleethorpes uses to be good too, but it was going downhill before I left the UK.
Yorkshire pudding, yes
Totally agree about best fish ‘n chips being in Whitby. Second best Brighton and Hove
The best fish and chips I've ever had is in Hastings.
Also Pevensey Bay, Herne Bay and Perth.
I've never had a _bad_ meal from a chippie in Scotland, they were all top quality.
Uyen, next time you are in the UK we can give you some recommendations. And also... I feel like the people of Cornwall and Devon need a formal apology for what happened to those scones 😂
Hey, at least she could unite you all in a room together, because gouging a chunk out of them is neither cutting with a knife nor ripping it open with your fingers. Instead, you'll all be furious :D
Uyen is the most adorable human in the entire world, completely butchering the culture but in the most enduring way.😂 I adore you thank you for these wholesome videos
More UK videos, please 😊. Try visiting the Peak District or Lake District in the summer.
We have so many kinds of tea rituals in the UK.
Afternoon tea: a fancy event at a nice restaurant.
Party tea: usually for children, selection of sandwiches, savouries (scotch eggs, sausage rolls, cheese and pineapple on sticks ect) cakes and biscuits (cookies).
Tea and cake: Usually consumed on the weekend but it could be any day.
Cream tea: scones with clotted cream and jam.
Tea with bread and jam: consumed when you get home from work or school.
Tea break: a short break in the work day for tea and biscuits (cookies) or tea and cake if it's someone's birthday.
Elevenses: morning tea or coffee break with a sweet treat of some sort usually at 11 o'clock.
Elevenses is so underrated!
Just want to add that the pineapple and cheese on sticks normally get presented by being stuck into half a cabbage covered in tin foil so it looks like a cheesy hedgehog. At least it did in the 90's...
Borough is pronounced- Bur-rah :). It's an incredibly touristy place, and certainly not where you'd find the best sausage roll in the UK. £6.50 is daylight robbery!
And in most places now it's a 12.5% service charge. We hate this.
yes and Yorkshire is not York-Shire, of course everyone who hasn't been to UK gets this wrong. Only 2 acceptable pronunciations: York-shurr or York-sheer.
Yep. It looked exactly like the sort of place that knows it doesn't have to bother with repeat customers.
It should only be a 12.5% service charge for groups of 4 or more. It's optional and you can request for it to be removed.
@@Hardlywerkin in reality the 12.5% is put on the bill regardless of party size, I’ve seen it many a time before. Very few people have the nerves to request it be reduced or removed from the bill.
@@mattj5492 You're not wrong!
I only eat fish and chips by the seaside after a long day at the beach- then it’s perfect, British food is traditionally very heavy because it’s a cold country and the workers needed easily portable meat and carbs to stay warm while working xx
I had fish and chips close to the coast at Bath, the stuff you get in newspaper bags. It was all right but not to kill for... If I could make a recommendation, go for curries in Indian restaurants. They are also a decent pub food. But I miss Indian takeaways...
I disagree, I think a lot of British food has been lost due to various historical upheavals like the industrial revolution and the world wars, and the high fashion for eating French and American foods.
There is a scarcity of British food because people don't cook, don't cook British food and people who can cook follow fashions to cook international trends and are condescending toward British food.
Moreover I think a lot of British food like pancakes, streaky bacon with eggs, Cheddar, sandwiches, macaroni cheese, trifle, oat porridge, mash and gravy, doughnuts, gets mistaken as American.
yeah i wish she could have known about how fish and chips has always been the food of the workman and not to go to a touristy restaurant for it
I really have to say that you are the most pleasant and likable person I have ever seen.
poor uyen was so unlucky with the fish and chips! im glad shes up for a round 2!
A few years prior we visited Cornwall. The food we ate was absolutely delicious. Nothing to complain from me. From breakfast to fish and chips and tea time. Everything was great! It was a pleasant surprise, thought the food would be bad but really everything was good!
South West England has such good food! There's a real focus on locally produced ingredients, it's so good - it's so frustrating to see people eating at tourist spots in London and then judge all UK food based on these tourist traps!
When can just stop at one of those random food sheds on the side of the road, and have the best breakfast of your life in Cornwall😂
@@azborderlands It's probably my favorite region of the country because while roasts are a revelation, I love fresh seafood - places that look like a whimsically painted garden shed are now places I look for because that's where I've had just amazing meals. Less of a seagull threat in the less touristy areas too!
Him saying "the prices are royal too" is so German 🤣 the great art of complaining...
I think the UK equivalent would be 'a king's ransom'.
You need to network and go with local influencers when you travel, they will take you to the real places with good food.
It's a shame because there is some really great food in the UK!
Good plan!
Or just kind locals that follow the page
If you need a network to find British food in Britain, I guess even locals don't like it much and hence it's scarce and going out of existence.
Every other country, you don't need guides or network to find local cuisine.
All we can infer is that British food is useless
@@WarriorOG-ql7gv No, what you find when you don't know anyone that lives there is the places aiming at tourists. 99% of the population isn't visiting or eating there, thats why networking will steer you clear of them.
The food and tastes you get are whats aimed at tourists not locals.
Good quality British food you will find in small pubs, especially in more rural areas. But honestly it can be hard to find a resturant for, because its what a lot of people are just eating at home. Resturants focus on either foreign food, cause it's novel and people are unlikely to make it at home, or food that's just more difficult to do.
If I was getting British food from a place I'd get fish and chips or a pie of some kind. But anything else, I do know some pubs I could get it decent but most of the time I'd rather just make it myself.
British food is more of a home cooking culture than a resturant culture.
@WarriorOG-ql7gv
Talk more out of your arse please 😂. Even when I was Italy it was difficult to find where the locals ate, every restaurant in Rome was owned by Indians with terrible food 😂
Best Meal to have in the UK is a proper Sunday Lunch Roast, ideally with Pork Belly and a slab of Cracklin as well as yorkshire Pud and red cabbage, as well as cauliflower and cheese as a side with a decent wine, beer or cider; however you have to find a pub that does good food for that. Whever I live, I always find at least one that provides a high quality of food.
Sausage Rolls are different wherever you go, best roll I had ever was at the Laughing Dog Cafe in Brighton.
0:15 Mate...what is that? Cos that aint fish and chips. 15 secs into the video and I know what side of the argument shes on
It’s because she doesn’t know where to go, so she doesn’t know the real taste of proper British food
Loving the comments criticising Uyen's fish and chips, defending our national dish! I am a vegetarian these days but when my Filipino wife wanted to try fish and chips for the first time I made sure it was from a take away. Some pubs do great fish and chips but there is always the risk of the breaded rubbish.
Or the frozen rubbish.
Most of the 'bad British food' stereotypes are from tourists who mainly have visited central London which is full of terrible tourist places. I think we Brits are more cosmopolitan in our food tastes than many other countries, which is why there are so many 'foreign' restaurants.
exactly, we like variety in our food, which is why it's so ironic that we get mocked for having bland cuisine! Like no, there's a reason we all enjoy curry
Exactly .. don't stick to London or tourist areas .. No locals will be eating there!
This is really funny to me. Imagine going to the capital of a country and you can’t find a single authentic local restaurant? That is like saying Saigon or Bangkok don’t serve authentic dishes. And most tourists would only have time to visit one or two cities for their first time experience in a country. You can’t expect them to completely skip London and go to some small towns because their food is better. If the biggest city with the largest population can’t even serve authentic and good British food, it just means that the food is bad.
@@Angelus9015 There are quite a few authentic local restaurants, but London is HUGE so they're scattered all over the place, while those conveniently located in the center tend to be posh and pricey. Also, Londoners are VERY cosmopolitan and there are lots of immigrants (in addition to tourists), so restaurants cater for their tastes by offering mostly international food options. Then there's the plethora of fast food places which serve cheap, unhealthy fried food, which Brits of all backgrounds seem to love, but I'd avoid.
It's difficult to find typical British food in London, because London isn't a typical British city!
@@GonzoTehGreat Bangkok, Saigon and Tokyo are way larger than London and you can easily find cheap and good authentic local food in the heart of the city. These cites are also very international and receive more tourists than London. They don’t just cater to local taste buds because international restaurants are everywhere due to the sheer amount of tourists in these cities. It’s just unbelievable to me that you can’t find many good English food in London considering the size and density of people who stay there. Is there no demand for good English food?
I’d recommend Betty’s tea room for afternoon tea if you’re in York. It’s really good if a bit pricy, and would have given you a far more authentic experience
Yes it’s a shame they missed out on afternoon tea there
Alot of the rolls etc, are all designed for workers to take to the fields with them in the past
(before we connected with/conquered parts of the world and discovered that spices existed other than Salt)
You need to go to Greggs for a sausage roll, a chippy for fish and chips and always include your choice of mushy peas, curry sauce, gravy, tartar sauce, salt&vinegar etc. and then I would also recommend a pie from a chippy or a traditional pub
My private English teacher, who has lived in Spain for more than 50 years now, used to tell me that the real good English food was that homemade in the towns and villages, that the one in the capital usually was bad, especially fast food. As far as their coffee, I cannot stand it, honestly, Starbucks is a big NO for me, but I do believe her, taking into account that they use a lot of sugar, but less salt, exactly the opposite to the general preferences in my country. Shepherd's pie is delicious, btw.
I feel like this is still the case. Though you can find good English food at most decent gastropubs in London, the hit rate will probably be better outside of London.
100% correct
Starbucks is American. Why are you equating Starbucks with British coffee? There are so many good little coffee shops that make proper coffees in cities and towns. Do you even live in the UK or were you just some tourist that thought Starbucks was British?
Maybe, you should come to Germany. Traditional Cafes (or coffeehouses) have sometimes wonderful self-made tarts and gateaux and cakes. They usually do not have such a lot of sugary and artificial flavored coffee stuff. I went to a teahouse in Schottland and had a tea and crumpets and teacakes. It was okay. But it was not really to kill for. Chips with vinegar also was not my cup of tea, I am afraid. I like shepherd`s pie, though. And curries. But they were best in the Indian restaurants.
@@mattj5492I have lived in the Uk. They don’t traditionally drink coffe and I really struggled to have good coffee years ago . Now you have specialty coffee shops where you pay 4 pounds for a coffee. Is that traditional? No
British food gets a bad reputation but when it's good, it is great, It's warm, comforting and full of flavour. is it as exciting as say Vietnamese, probably not, but it doesn't make it any less good. Also, always go to were the locals go, same as with anywhere.
Honestly even as a Londoner myself it’s hard to find a good pub. So as a tourist to find even one dish that you liked is wonderful! Glad you enjoyed the Chinese food too! (You are right, Digestive biscuits in tea are the best at Tea Time)
So funny. Such honest reactions. I love Uyen. 😂
9:20 this is what foreigners look like using chopsticks in Asia lol love your content btw, greetings from China
You didn't actually eat many of the foods British people eat! We are famous for roast beef, sunday lunches, proper battered fish and chips, meaty sandwiches, pies, anglo-indian dishes like chicken tikka masala,... you did at least try a full breakfast haha
i moved to england from austria 7 years ago. to experience real english food, you are better off in the north. sunday dinners with roasted vegetables, pies etc. the food is actually so much better than what we think it is. that fish and chips you had looked awful!!!! usually the batter is light and crispy and chips crunchy and flavorful. next time, visit whitby!!!! you both will absolutely love it! the north of england is so underrated for tourists, it is a shame!
Yes, they should come to visit more of northern England next time, not just York! It's such a shame so many tourists only really go to York and miss everything else we have to offer round here, there's some pretty spectacular countryside & coastlines, gorgeous towns and villages, some lovely pubs, and some great restaurants. And Yorkshire being the home of the Yorkshire pudding, you've got to come here and have a Sunday roast, especially if you go to a decent pub where they serve locally raised meat and other local ingredients.
Scarborough (near Whitby) would be a great choice too, a lovely traditional British seaside town with super traditional fish and chip take aways on the seafront and benches overlooking the sea to eat them on! There is a lovely very British and reasonably priced bed and breakfast there called Mansion House with gorgeous flowers in summer and amazing breakfasts, and a fenicular railway (like a tram) down to the beach. For a traditional roast dinner with Yorkshire pudding, visit any pub around the country on a Sunday.
Real fudge is butter and sugar, clotted cream would be the traditional version I suppose. It's a type of cream that is extra creamy. But make sure you buy the stuff with butter and cream, not crap stuff with vegetable oil!! ❤
Fudge was invented in America and is not traditional at all.
@Sheila-ph6js no it wasn't, it's British! And tablet is Scottish.
@Sheila-ph6js there is traditional fudge which is sugar milk and butter , boiled till maybe 115'c which you then work with a spoon before putting into a mould, my mum used to make it all the time when we were kids, american fudge has condensed milk and other stuff in it and is basically a cheat version of a already simple recipie , it's generally smoother , the traditional stuff often has a slight crystallisation texture of the sugar to it. It's basically toffee with different ratios
Omg Uyen, I was snorting watching this video, especially the tea part lol German boyfriend should have got you a lactose free milk so you can have the full milk tea experience ;) Hope you'll have a better experience next time if you dare to give it a go again. As recommended by many people here you should try a Sunday roast, shapherd's or cottage pie (or both), crumpets maybe a trifle (although probably not best if you lactose intolerant) but it's sure tasty. Love watching your videos, I don't have a German bf but I do have an English husband so can relate to the international relationship shenenigans, although I'm Easter European so the cultural differences are not as significant. Please never change!
I am in hospital for a few weeks due to covid, I began to develop cabin fever and cried nearly non stop, your video really helped me todsy and I could relax a bit. Thanks a lot! Please make more long videos if possible
I think instead of "tea time" what you were thinking of was "cream tea" Cream tea is the thing that people pay lots of money for, tea time is just....well a time when you have tea, and maybe a biscuit, so i can understand how if you googled "tea time" you might have just got biscuits and tea. And German boyfriend is correct that Cream Tea does involve scones, but you're not supposed to eat them on their own, you have them with clotted cream and jam.
Whoever your english friend was, get another one. He took you to the wrong places. Let's start with fish and chips. Your fish should be battered, yours was breaded. The scotch egg should have seasoned sausage meat, if you weren't impressed with it, then it wasn't seasoned as it should, but a Scotch egg was a quick snack if you were in a hurry. Sausage roll? Go to Greggs lol. Your scone is traditionally eaten with whipped/clotted cream and jam. You didn't even try jellied eels...maybe not lol. But don't go to flashy pop ups to get British food, go to a cafe anf for heavens sake, eat battered fish, not breaded fish.
Tbf The Ginger Pig is legitimately great quality, I think a traditional sausage roll or scotch egg would be pretty bland to a Vietnamese person even if it was well-seasoned for a Brit.
spot on mate lol
What I heard was that she did NOT have a British friend which was why they were just doing their best.
@@abbykoop5363 however, when she checked back about the Scotch egg it sounded as if there was a British friend present. that was in London, not so sure about all the other places
@@abbykoop5363 She says she has a friend who's living in the UK, would suggest she was using him as the guide.
You really should try a proper afternoon tea at a restaurant or tea room sometime!
It's not just the type of food and tea, but how it's served and presented too that makes it a culturally British experience. The tea rooms usually serve cream tea which is more informal, but super nice; with scones, clotted cream, jam and tea. Really fancy versions of afternoon tea can also include champagne and different pastries, chocolates and sandwiches etc.
18:09 well that will be one interesting flight home... 🤣
Fish and Chips is only good from a chippy by the seaside. The stuff you get in London pubs is just for tourists. Go to a seaside chippy, get some battered cod and chips with lots of salt and vinegar, preferably wrapped up in a newspaper.
Lots of things you needed to know before you try British food. You definitely should have gone out for high tea. It’s not the sort of thing most people would be able to recreate to the same level as you would get at a restaurant or cafe. If you are going to have scones even just at home you needed to put jam and cream on them. Otherwise they would be very dry. Also, it matters where you get things like fish and chips. You probably could have gotten some good British food from a decent pub. Maybe something like a Sunday roast. But again it matters where you go for that.
she needed afternoon tea, not high tea - they're different
@@carolinegreenwell9086 Are you sure? Because she said she was going to spend £30 per person. Either way, I’m aware they’re different as I am a British person who lives in London. But my recommendation stands that she should have had high tea out at a restaurant or cafe. Is worth the exorbitant cost, especially when on holidays.
@@lotsofstuff9645 there's actually quite a lot of confusion over the term "high tea", which isn't helped by the fact that a lot of tourist places have started misusing that term because that's what tourists think it's called! Which has led to even British people getting them mixed up.
High tea was actually just the traditional working class evening meal, it's not fancy food, it's called "high" because you'd eat it at a high table (as opposed to afternood tea which was traditionally eaten at lower tables because it's a snack, not a proper meal, although these days you'd typically eat at at a high table too!). Most people wouldn't call it "high tea" these days, though, it's a very old fashioned term, but many people (especially working class northerners) still call their evening meal "tea" (which confuses non Brits, because it may not involve actually drinking tea at all!).
Whereas "afternood tea" is the thing most people are thinking of when they say "high tea", it was originally eaten as a substantial afternoon snack by the upper classes, and consisted of things like dainty cakes and sandwiches, eaten alongside tea served in china tea cups. Now of course it's available to the plebs as long as we're willing to pay for the privilege!
There are also "cream teas" which are tea served with scones, clotted cream & jam, typically served in tea rooms, and especially popular in southwest England.
@@sqshhm Yes, we always called our dinner “tea” and our dessert “afters”. My mother is from Yorkshire. But as with everything, there is a difference between the origin, or original meaning of something and it’s current or commonly used meaning today.
@@sqshhmall of the colonies call the ‘fancy’ British afternoon tea ’high tea’. So it’s no surprise tourist places have started using that term.
I don’t know of anywhere that advertises a high tea anywhere in the world that uses that original definition of a working class dinner. Elsewhere that would just be tea time.
I'll always say, there is a lot of cuisines better than British food. But UK desserts, cheese and bakery I think are some of the best in the world. I will die on this hill.
Aged beef, salmon, scallops, lobster, lsngoustine, venison, cod……. All world class. Several three Michelin star chefs traveljed the world for the best beef. Winners: Scottish highlands and Galicia , northern Spain,
@@JohnSmith-sm7ez Don't get me wrong, I do really like British cuisine, and you can get some high quality stuff for sure. I'm from here. But if I were to choose between UK or another cuisine if the food was laid on a table, I'd likely pick the foreign one first, unless I'm really fancying something British.
@RendererEP but could part of the reason you'd choose foreign food be because it's just more interesting to eat something you haven't eaten so often in your life and might not make at home? For me in your hypothetical situation which food I'd choose would depend on exactly what was offered, if the British food was stuff I haven't eaten much before and the foreign food was something I've eaten many times and could get anywhere (e.g. a standard Indian or Chinese takeaway dish) I'd choose the British option.
@@sqshhm could also be because I eat about 70% mediterranean food at home since I have a Maltese mother. And thats what I mainly know how to cook when cooking for myself. So I likely just have a different palette to be honest. But yes your point stands, for example I don't have Chinese often so if its infront of me, i will go for that since I don't have it often, so perhaps you are still correct. So maybe I get more excited for food I have less, but I would say it depends on what it is. If I had the choice between a chinese restraunt or Indian restraunt vs a Carvery, I think I would choose the carvery.
If you had told me you were coming to York I would have made you both a cup of tea and a biscuit for free! 2pm is a bit early though. I prefer 4.30pm until 5pm.
The 'dmn' with the lemon custard cracked me up 🤣. Your face made me smile. I don't think i can do English tea time. I mean milk with water? Or water with milk? How on earth is that tasty? I don't think you would taste anything of the tea just water. And then ofcourse the dry scones that look like stone dry. The breakfast however i won't have any problems with, that looked yummie!!! Thanks Uyen for the marvelous show again.
Best fudge is in Cornwall or Devon. Find a little fudge shop in a seaside town, and you're golden.
That fish and chips looks awful, where on earth did you get that cardboard?
You can get delicious traditional food in many pubs and in the restaurants in the hotels, which you can also visit without being a hotel guest.
2:30 That is a Scotched Egg. Usually it is eaten with condiments, like mustard, tomato sauce or Worcestershire sauce... maybe Maggi sauce?
Her hating on the scotch egg was agonising!
you can also eat them cold, I do
Scotch egg is not a scotch egg without some Branston Pickle
Maggi makes everything delicious!
To be fair, it looked like the sort of crud that gets sold to tourists who don't know any better and won't be back.
Borough Market is a notorious tourist trap, after all.
The fudge being like sugar is funny considering kendal mint cake is also a thing lmao
When you come back you definitely need to try a proper roast dinner. Also I feel like you need to see a National Trust property if you liked the historic building of the pub!
We've had the most traditional British food ever yesterday. Indian.
I hate the racist comments making out uk is little india. Indians make up about 8 percent of the country and most of us like them
Well, you can put our colonial efforts down to us just wanting to find something good to eat. We just took "going out for an Indian" a bit too far 🤣
Just an observation. It seems that most colder climate areas have heavy fatty foods. Maybe because the people needed to have more fat on their body to keep warm. Also the spicier ingredients don't grow in the cold climates so the evolution of northerner's tastebuds didn't evolve to enjoy those flavors. I love your food videos!
on behalf of all of britain, thank you for saying at least a few were good. usually we dont get that much 😭❤️
No actually this is the first time I've seen anyone fail so badly at finding decent British food in Britain. The fish and chips, the afternoon tea, the breakfast, and I'm not saying a scotched egg is a delicacy, but what was that??? BestEverFoodReviews
Deliberately ate some of the most disgusting traditional food we have but had better food overall than Uywen! Even the pie she had came with mash seperate to the pie which is a sin
@@georgiascarlett9679 Yeah, poor Uyen! No wonder she didn't have a good time! Fudge that looked like it didn't crumble at all, a scotch egg with a terrible ratio of meat to egg, a Scottish breakfast with no sausage or fried mushrooms/tomatoes, weak chips, THAT FISH, pie and mash separated (still good tbf) and the absolute worst interpretation of afternoon tea I've ever seen 😂
As a non-Brit, I truly don't get it. I like visiting pubs in the suburbs or small towns and always had amazing British food there. Of course, I lack the home-cooked experience for comparison, but none of my travel buddies ever thought the food was bad? But I also read up on the dish I want to eat first, and check the pub's reviews in regard to food, and generally steer clear of touristy places. I thought that was normal procedure when you want to try a local delicacy abroad, but apparently not :/ Let people talk. I'm out there clumsily trying to recreate my faves at home, such as steak & ale pie, shepherd's pie, beef stew, yorkshire pudding, cheese scones... scruuumptious! 😋
@@MoonshineMist We're definitely good at hearty hobbit food 😁 You just can't judge british food based on casually going around london (or edinburgh or york, etc) because so so much of it is tourist traps
Great video! Those fish and chips looked sad though. I'm glad you both enjoyed your trip!
I have been living in the UK for three years now. I am from Belgium, and I really miss healthy food. Traditional Belgian food and the food available in stores is generally very healthy (fries are really not the only traditional dish at all !!).
Anyway, it is very difficult to find healthy organic products at a reasonable price here-organic eggs, milk, meat, or vegetables. I’m not even talking about traditional food, but just products available in places like Sainsbury’s or Tesco. Waitrose is somewhat better, I suppose, but far too expensive for everyday life. I live in a village near Oxford, so not in London. Perhaps it’s different there.
Your Scottish breakfast is missing the classic square sliced sausage….
I have had afternoon tea and cakes in the same back garden of a hotel in York. I walked down from the city wall which was at the end of the garden. It is not a castle in the background. It is York Minster, which is a Cathedral.
I see so many of these videos trying British food! There’s so many incredible restaurants here, especially in London! You need to go to some of the amazing gastronomy pubs! Fish and chips is best by the coast, and afternoon tea is delicious if you don’t buy only beige dry biscuits from the supermarket 😂
Since I haven't seen (or just overlooked) anyone talk about the lemon curd, here's the deal: much like custard, puddings and frostings for cakes can be thickened with egg yolk, so it curd. Curd is similar to a jam, but jams can be thickened with a bunch of ingredients (from starches to the natural enzymes from strawberries that jellify liquid if boiled long enough) while curd is specifically thickened with egg. Usually egg is whisked and a little bit of the liquid added to gently bring to temperature and not instantly scramble it. Then it is added to the pot and brought to a boil and stirred until thickened. This cooks the egg completely making it 100% safe to eat and results in a creamy, rich texture.
I always find traditional British food while I am in England and Scotland. You should have gone to a local pub for food. Stay away from tourist traps. It didn’t look like you had mushy peas with your fish.
Ah, London is a surprisingly difficult place as a tourist to find good british food easily because it's so multicultural, which I do love! But these places in the biggest cities don't need to be good because they can just rely on tourism, so for this exercise, a smaller town or city would have been easier to find higher quality places, because they can't just rely on one-time customer tourism to exist, they have to keep a good quality to keep a consistent local customer base. I don't know if any of the things you ate looked like usual British versions of those foods, sadly 😥
Pubs...go to pubs for traditional fare.ok the standard can be erratic but still your best bet
@@skyblazeeterno 100% - even tourist trap pubs know they need to have a decent menu these days
@@srspeep had the best roast of my life in a tiny pub for locals
If you want a cheap and accessible afternoon tea experience head to an M&S cafe. Buy the scone that comes with clotted cream and jam. You halve the scone, horizontally, and eat it with jam and cream. Afternoon tea in a posh hotel or restaurant may include a warm savoury item, like vol aux vonts, and/or dainty sausage rolls. Also a selection of sandwiches, may include open sandwiches flavours vary but maybe egg and cress, smoked salmon and cream cheese, ham, cheese and onion, tuna, coronation chicken etc etc.
As well as a scone, jam and cream there may be other cakes eg victoria sandwich, chocolate éclairs, fondant fancies etc etc....
The digestive biscuits you ate also come with milk chocolate, dark chocolate and caramel and chocolate 😋. I think a typically british dish that you could create for yourself easily at home is Cottage Pie, it is minced beef cooked in a gravy with a mashed potato topping, baked in the oven. You could make a video!
I'm normally perfectly happy criticising the food produced on our soggy, sheep-infested patch of mud, but almost everything you ate seemed like tourist versions of normal food, as in it was big, bland, overpriced and sold in the confident belief that they'll never have a repeat customer.
Our food is bad enough, but apart from the breakfast and the hideously extortionate beer, some of that stuff looked like every reason the EU don't want us back on a plate 🤣
Heartbreaking to watch someone eat a dry scone without jam and clotted cream! 😂
Appreciate this British food & drink perspective. Very interesting! You look stunning in red!!!
Dear foreigners, this is what England outside of the major cities is actually like. 4:14
Where you in Edinburgh or Glasgow for that fish and chips? That was overcooked and no batter!! Go to a local chippy in a small town (yes I know Edinburgh is on the coast) on the coast and get proper fish and chips with a crispy batter coating, not overcooked, on your fish and thick chunky tasty chips. I'm amazed you couldn't find high quality local food in the London. It's the capital it should be giving tourists the best of British. We have some realy fine quality food and when cooked properly its great. Love your honesty in the foods you chose.
London has great food, you just won't find it in places like burough market.
I refuse to believe that anywhere in Scotland served that as a fish supper.
@@peterclarke7240 Borough Market has amazing food, it's one of the best food destinations in London.
Not in central London. The food is nasty in central London. She needs to go further out where most people live.
Oh and that Scottish breakfast was terrible. I've had a better one in Whetherspoons.
The best bacon I've had was in Yorkshire though amongst farmers.
A proper British breakfast is Heaven on a plate 😊
To me, as a German, honestly, it is too heavy, and the lunch is too light. And why do you always have crisps for it, that is not very healthy.
With fish and chips normally battered is more common than breaded if you get it from a restaurant I think battered is normally better
I would highly recommend going out for an afternoon tea- it isnt only tea and cakes, there are sandwiches, fruits, different types of pastries.. it really is worth the money and the point is atmosfere as well
Normally, I can't stand watching people eat, but Uyen does everything so delicately that I am here for it.