Attack-a-snack: featuring a lot of interesting Chinese bits & bobs, plus plenty more! Stay tuned after the main feature for a comic convention highlight reel! Or something.
The first one is Ba Gua or Rou Gan, it's basically roasted pork slices. It's commonly considered as Chinese bacon and usually eaten on Chinese New Year, also one of the best thing in the world.
Bee Cheng Hiang is actually known for quality meats. They're actually quite well known and make some of the better foodstuffs coming out of the area, but given the generic packaging I can't blame them for expecting the worst (you don't usually see them packaged individually like that, must've been from a gas station or something like we'd get packaged beef jerky in western countries). But yeah, you can actually find their meats in some quality establishments as ingredients in various meals so unlike a lot of the bottom bin stuff that makes its way to Ashens this was totally legit. From the looks of it I'd guess it was their BBQ Pork which is great.
+Goldenkitten1 Mostly the best food comes in generic packaging...especially when you get it directly from a dairy, butcher, farmer etc. =) Quality food producers that deliver to better establishments (like Bee Cheng Hiang probably is) don´t need fancy retail packaging anyway since their marketing is solely done trough the quality of their products instead fancy marketing trough packaging or the looks of meats, fruits etc. as it is with stuff in supermarkets.
The only reason Dan seems overly squeamish is that he appears in videos alongside someone who's perfectly willing to try 40-year-old tinned chocolate from the Vietnam War. Anyone would seem too queasy next to Ashen.
Wikiramblings pisses me off how judgemental and nasty people are, if you don't like him the watch a video without him. I find the friendship between them refreshing :P
What you guys don't know is the fact that, in the fungus drink, there is bird saliva in there as well. But hey, don't worry about it, honey is partially digested flower nectar regurgitated by bees so this is very similar. I am usually fairly desensitised to food and drinks and all of this looks very appetising to me.
Bakkwa or Barbequed Pork (the first snack) is undeniably one of the most delicious food products in existence. Best part of Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore.
I always find when you are a food taster, you should really actually get adapted to all kinds of tastes before you judge food. You gotta be internationally cultured. Ashens has shown to really understand his taste bud, and knows what a lot of food tastes like, so you KNOW when food is bad, if he says it's bad.
I like Stuart having a comrade in his reviews. Been watching him for 10 years and he never dissapoints. Except for those Loot Crate unboxings. But those suck because how crappy the contents are, not because of Ashens. :p
Rudy VanDisarzio Haha, I'm serious. Before RU-vid, Ashens used to post his videos on Putfile and the B3ta message boards. He basically pioneered the coach reviewing genre.
@@BenjaminGoose “they were to die for” - a figurative expression of appreciation. “They were *literally* to die for” - still a figurative expression that is enhanced by the operative word “literally”, which enhances the figurative element by implying that the matter at hand (i.e. dying) would be faced even moreso; it breaks the recipients expectation of a figurative expression by implying it to be real, which increases the effect. You’re welcome!
I just love at 6:55 Dan tipping the packet, the head of the supposed creature emerging suddenly and then Dan pausing and then making gagging noises at the sight of it.
That pork floss reminds me of stuff we have in the U.S., Jack Links shredded beef jerky, it comes in a chewing tobacco can and is basically jerky powder
Yes same. When I first got a can of that stuff when I was a kid i thought you had it like chewing tobacco so I'd take a lump of it and stick it in my lip 😂
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With a hovering brown sofa, where we see them eat noodles that are instantly cooked when opened, vegan human meat, normal human meat, and a variety of other foods that comes from a glass unbreakable air tight container.
I don't know how many times I've watched Ashen's videos so far. It's one of my absolute favorite channels and I never get tired of his videos no matter how many times I've seen them. As someone else said, theres just something about Ashens thats so relaxing!
As it turns out, it’s a drink that contains both white fungus and bird’s nest. These aren’t things you normally think of as being drink ingredients, but here at Armenian Fungus Cake we wouldn’t waste your time with normal drink ingredients. This drink really does contain chunks of white fungus as well as real bird’s nest. If you’re not familiar with this particular type of nest, it’s not the collection of leaves and twigs that you might imagine. This nest is produced by the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), and it is composed of hardened saliva.
Honestly, just as with surströmming, I’d say we’re stretching the term “edible” a bit here. Rotten bird spit that the bird sat (and probably shat) on isn’t my definition of a delicacy! 😅
Bird's nest drinks and bird's nest soup are made from the nests of certain types of swiftlets, who make their nests from solidified saliva. It's a very expensive delicacy and is supposed to be very nutritious. My guess is that the "white fungus" is because it's a simulated version made from that instead in order to approximate actual bird's nest since the real thing is known to be rather expensive.
Oh god... Bird's nest. That stuff is literally made from a bird's nest. It's a particular type of bird which licks its nest to harden it. Then people take the nests once the birds are done with them, and use a process to extract the sugary saliva (and other things) from it. If you're wondering how they do this hygienically, I think they either boil it... or it's just as bad as it sounds.
the birds nest is also found in bat caves specifically. birds nest soup isnt that bad either, its an acquired taste yes, but it is damn good when you get used to it
A retort pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging of a wide variety of food and drink handled by aseptic processing, and is used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods.
I really, REALLY want to try all that food! When I was last in the US of States (North Georgia, to be precise-ish) I bought a vacuum-packed pink sausage thing that an American member of my family loves. It was about the size of a standard British sausage. When I was walking back to my lodgings (illegally it turned out because it was next to one of their 'highways' or something) I opened it up and gave it a hearty bite. Thirty seconds later I threw up. It was like eating pickled Spam. It turned out it was out of date and well off. Strangely, I was never tempted to try a 'pristine' version.
The waffle was an ice cream snack. I've had fresh ones before. In this episode, you ate expired ice cream that hadn't been frozen while shipped, which probably fused into the waffle cone somehow. If anything was left inside of the waffle cone shell, it was probably mold.
no no. that blueberry waffle thing is like yoghurt drops. It's blueberry flavoured yoghurt filling. Don't ever freeze that, the waffle will get soggy as hell.
You can get this delicious squid jerky in my tesco world food section sometimes, and also these spicy formed fish on a stick, they also do it BBQ flavour. Its made of a gross sounding fish, lizardfish, but its really tasty!!
I think Dan would laugh at a dying child, he seems to think everything else is funny. He doesn't need to watch comedies he just opens his food cupboard and falls down in hysterics.
Except from when people shout at him. I yelled at Dan by accident at MCM Manchester, ashens laughed it off but Dan didn't seem too pleased. He eventually saw the funny side of it though, I guess.
Dan comes off as such a wimp. I imagine after every video Ashens places him back into his plastic bubble where he's fed on nothing but Complan and Filtered water.
If anyone was wondering, those "Haw fruit" things are actually made from Hawthorn berries. Yes, those same bright red hedgerow berries that we were always told not to eat as children: It turns out that they are edible after all, and actually taste reasonably nice. The compressed jellies are not the only form: Dry tablets are another - think of a "refresher", but not fizzy and considerably more fruity.
You could give Dan a freshly baked cupcake and he'd gag at it and say "I hate cupcakes, ever since I was a baby" he'd take a tiny nibble throw it down and act like he was about to puke
I really enjoy trying new soft drinks. Like, if it's in a can and looks weird, I will try it. My reaction to grass jelly drink was "That sounds amazing, I need to put that on the list". I have no fear. Except for the time I went to a corner store in Hawaii, saw that exact brand of White Fungus Bird's Nest Drink, and something in me went "......no", and I got wintermelon juice instead (very nice and sweet for the record) and never looked back. Okay, that's kind of a lie, I looked it up online and went "dear God it has actual bird spit and fungus in it" and felt like I dodged a bullet, but for all practical purposes, I never looked back. I have always wondered what it would have been like. Thank you for confirming my instinct. I am so, so sorry.
go to barrys bargains. i went in there and they had food that was really cheap, i bought some because it was in date for another 5 days. got it home and realised they had just stuck another label ontop of the other one, which had gone out of date 3 days ago -_-
16:26 The solid stuff is actual bits of swallow bird's nest. Exactly like the stuff they use to make bird's nest soup. Supposedly doesn't have much a taste, but rather just has a gelatinous texture.
We used to have this stuff called Jerky Chew which was essentially the same as that Pork Floss. There were pork, beef that came in a myriad of different flavors. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good, it's basically shredded jerky.
Pipe down there, all I'm saying is that I prefered it when Ashens engages the audience directly, and he has been doing that ever since his first video on RU-vid in 2006 - so why change the format that was so popular and so successful? Dan making cameo appearances would be fine, and I'm sure he's a great guy in person, but right now he's featured in almost every other Ashens video and I don't think that he adds much to the videos other than making us a 3rd wheel.
Omg. I've actually eaten half the food in this food special. The first entry is called Bak Kwa, or pork jerky. Bee Cheng Heng (can't remember the actual spelling) is actually the name of the manufacturer/shop/brand. If I'm not wrong, it's from Hong Kong, but it can be found all over Asia. It's especially popular during Chinese New Year. Bee Cheng Heng also produces pork floss, and theirs is pretty darn good. It's not typically consumed as a snack, but added as a topping for the main dish.
People who are ridiculously fussy about food really annoy me. I bet Dan's the kind of guy who only ever orders the one same dish at a restaurant, and doesn't like foreign foods.
***** If that's your philosophy then you must be a really fun person. Is your defense for never being outgoing just "it MIGHT be a waste of time/money"? Because if so you must be a really stale, boring person.
The first item is Barbecued Roast Pork, its usually eaten during Chinese New Year and that product is from one of the top brands for Bak Kwa (what we call it) in Singapore.
Just an FYI.....that "Birds Nest" fungus drink is made from the nest of the Swiftlet bird and is comprised of mostly Swiftlet bird saliva. I'm not joking. It's a high end delicacy in China. Gross!
