Accurate. Chinese place I used to frequent many years ago with my dad had the wife as the server, husband as the cook, sometimes their kids would just be sitting at one of the side tables working on their schoolwork and shit. Went there every other week for years man
Don't forget the five foot flames coming off the wok burning the ceiling tiles and Unc still has all his eyebrows and eyelashes. He can even light that cigarette off it when he leans forward just right
Totally not. 2 at the most 1 if it's a small town. If you're in New York there are at least 2 in that kitchen not counting the kids working under the floors.😂
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for over 5 years & this is so on point! We had about 4 chefs total. But “Lee” handled the lunch rush all by himself. 3 waitresses, a bartender & Lee. He was amazing! And don’t EVER cross his line!!! 😂😂😂❤❤
naw they're usually underpaid chinese, but they just suck ass at anything that isn't mixing pre ordered ingredients. the average Mexican cook is miles above a Chinese cook in my experience.@@vaevictusdeus
I once got an emergency haircut in Singapore. The Chinese uncle was around 50 and can't even speak English. It was a small, shaby looking barbershop in the alley. We didn't communicate, my only request was "short hair". The best haircut I ever got in my life, not even those expensive, Japan brand salons could come close 😂
Bro, the local Chinese food joint has to have one of these 2 things: -uncle from off the boat, casually cooking everything -children up front reading/studying while working the register
My fav thing about being a regular at Asian restaurants is that once they see you come in like 3+ times they’ll start bringing you different little snacks they’ve made to try out lol
I saw a wonton recipe online and told my regular Chinese restaurant owner about it so he just went into his own supply and gave me some wonton wrappers to take home. Of course the recipe didn’t come out like it should and he probably knew I would mess it up but he didn’t want me to waste my money buying a whole pack, lol.
And it's also the most common thing in Hong Kong You'll literally listen to random people cuss when ya walk around them. But it's usually about things that totally don't require cussing. And also when people argue, sometimes there are more swears than the content which kinda makes it hard to follow if you're just someone looking at em
53 is inconceivably old. Dying young is 40 and below. Just cause you didn’t get to be a spoiled brat more. Doesn’t mean you didn’t deserve it sooner. My grandfather died young. He was 34 destroyed the entire bloodline you and all your gang bangers ruined everything then laughed
Chinese are well trained by their parents on dealing with stress. Nothing is more stressful than their parent’s lethal staring. They don’t need to put on tattoos to boost up their ego or memory
Recipe for a good east asian restaurant : - family run. - kid doing homework/playing in a corner. - menu with blurry uncomprehensible photos. - casual to worn off clothing. - owner looks at you like you're his son who just got home after 5 years of fighting GIs in the jungle. - portions big enough to feed a whole family yet costs about 7 cents total and they give you sweets to go for free after you pay
See, the place around the corner from my apartment use to just be an elderly husband and wife, she’d take orders, and he’d spit them out in no time. Then, a younger guy was there one day working with them, cranking out orders like it was nothing. Fucking love that place. Never any sweets, but the portions were huge and I swear to god, their egg drop wonton soup can cure anything that ails you.
Price changes on the menu board is just whatever number on a sticky note slapped over the old price. Seriously, I remember getting a one item combo of Sesame Chicken and noodles was 6 bucks! Now it's costing me $9!
Went to Hong Kong several years ago and our food was cooked by someone he described. It was and still is the best and most delicious noodles I've ever tasted.
@@DM-ry3nw Because they were about to either get whacked or into serious legal shit in the old country, so their family bring them over to get out of trouble.
@@user-ee4nh6ir8g criminals getting in trouble with the law in China and Southeast Asia? that’s a joke in itself😭😂 Why can’t they just be someone’s relative who just wanted to move to a country with better opportunities to make money? Cooking up food at a restaurant to get an American wage compared to laboring away in some dangerous chemical factory or steel mill for 12 hours a day everyday getting nothing for it
@@DM-ry3nwAmerica isn’t exactly a first thought for most people who aren’t accustomed to the laws of the states. Idk why tbh shits more fluid and lenient than anywhere but it’s easy to become nothing and homeless.
I saw this happen at a Korean bbq I worked at. They were kitchen staff; a sweet spanish lady who spoke only Puerto Rican and a kind Korean lady that spoke Korean 😂 I walked in the kitchen doin’ my waitress thing, and they started laughing and told me what was going on 😂 they have no idea what the other was saying, but they understood each other completely 😂
He described my favorite Chinese spot down to a T…one old man in the kitchen cooking the most amazing Chinese food you’ve ever had. His wife worked the counter with their 7 year old grandson out in the dinning room working on homework.
As someone that works at a high end casino and cooks. This man is accurate, wok station has 2 old Asian dude and they’re absolute monsters. They’re funny asf too. One of em is always saying “Remember, no money no honeys” 😂
I have 3 Chinese restaurants in my family. And even if I wanted to tell the contrary I can't, all my uncles are the chefs and they all smoke, no exception 😂
Drinks or smokes running a restaurant ain’t easy personally speaking as someone with a Chinese restaurant that has had at least 2 restaurants ran by the family
As a person who owns 20 panda express I must say that the Mexican works 3x as hard as my p.o.s. smoking uncle... Plus I get to pay the Mexican half of wat I pay my uncle ... He will be replaced in a bout. A week
So true. Some of my friend’s parents ran a takeaway and amazing how fast and taste they could cook food. True level of multitasking when you can cook, smoke, watch football, have a conversation and prep the next dish to cook.
I literally called a Chinese restaurant for my whole company of about 28 people and when I asked how long till it was done they said 10 minute...I was like are you sure? That's a lot of orders. Then with a questioning voice she said, 15 minute? Lol it was done in 10 just like she said but omg my favorite story by far. Hahaha 🤣
for anyone wondering what the curse word was: Diu lei lo mei directly translates from chinese to f**k your sister but is normally used in a general term to say f**k off
@@Moridorableboth my Chinese and Cantonese aren’t the greatest but does that translate to f*ck? Because I believe Tāmāda ni means fuck you. I might be wrong. Like I said my Chinese is terrible.
I was the hostess of a family owned Chinese restaurant and that’s literally Mr. Lee in the back of the house. He’d flip out some dumplings and some beef and broccoli in a minute lol.
My favorite Chinese restaurant has their dishes ready in 10 mins. They tell every customer 10 mins and dang if they're over 10 mins ever. Food fresh, tasty and good. This place is my guilty pleasure and special treat for myself. ❤❤❤love you guys ❤❤❤
yet they can't innovate even if their life depended on it. With a culture of copying and next to no nobel prize winners or accomplished doctors that changed medicine. Other immigrants like Indians can atleast innovate and become deans and ceos, chinese have a culture of mediocrity
The only thing that separates you from a chinese uncle is the confidence. Unironically, keep calm and believe yourself. That all there is to it probably, plus the experience.
I remember we went to this REALLY Chinese restaurant in New York and they didn’t speak English very well and when we ordered he always just said ok ok in that thick Chinese accent and we saw a guy with a cigarette and just flipping a pan cussing in Chinese and it was so funny to see this
Had a little yummy Chinese restaurant in the small town I grew up in... no matter how much you ordered or for how many people... "It be 10 minutes, ok?" 🤣
@@AhairlessElkit's a almost facotoru line process where some in ingrediant pre prepared combine with extremely fast knife work. Stir fry wok is usually really fast, usually no more than few minute, which is why alot of the dishes are finely chopped
Its so true i worked in a chinese resturant for a bit and the "old man" as we all called him could make literally anything. A couple came in once and asked him if hed roast a turkey for them and he just goes "yeah sure no problem." Also called back a prank caller who ordered Pizza and told them hed make one if they brought the dough and toppings, dude was unshakable.
True story...when I was a kid my dad wanted to open a pizza shop with all kinds of Asian toppings. He really did a lot of planning and daydreaming for that. He used to make pizza with shrimp topping. @@WhyForWhatNow
I always say when the Chinese food is not as good as it usually is, grandma must be on vacation or the dad or whoever and they got the kids in there making the food because I can taste the difference. My kids always laugh at me but I know that’s,that’s the case.😂😂😂😅
@@A_R_B_Gthe food speaks for itself fam my fav jamaican breakfast spot is like that. they treat everyone like family. i had a migraine once and the waitress brought me some mint tea.
@allieboy181 yea but only cause they are paying that much more. Everything costs more now but they keep it as fair as possible they want that repeat business 💯
the uncle has also memorized all the menu item names in numbers! HEY ORDER UP, ONE 453 AND 12! And he'd know it's oyster chicken and dumpling soup 😂😂😂😂
Also helps that every item on the menu can be said in 2-6 (usually 3) words/syllables in native mandarin/canto and fully describe the dish with an assumption on cooking style. Kitchen instructions are less problematic when your language is efficient. Numbers work too but yeah.
So true! When you order from a Chinese restaurant, it doesn't matter how many items you order, it's always "10-15 minutes" or VERY occasionally 20 min if it's a super busy night in downtown. If you go to the Philippines, you have to wait for 45 min for just a pasta and soup, while there is only one other table at the restaurant of a hotel. Chinese are very efficient people! We hustled everyday growing up because it's so competitive.
In my home country in Europe we’ve got a huge Korean diaspora in one particular city I’m from. When I was getting bachelor’s I also used to work at one of their restaurants. That was actually a hard 12hr long a day long job but it taught me how to perfectly manage a shitton of things happening all around. I could’ve been cooking 6 woks, 4-6 ramens and some tempura shrimps literally at the same time. Owner of that restaurant always offered me couple of beers in the end of day on his own and other Koreans respected me as well. After all of that experience I’m not afraid of any other labour even if I have no idea how to do that job
I worked delivery for a Chinese restaurant and this is too accurate. They all were smoking heaters looking so relaxed. One guy would have his ash the length of the cigarette and never would it fall into the food.
Asian chef eh, you know not to assume but you can only represent your own race (if you're Asian then it's cool) you don't wake up one morning and decide "imma be black today". (Yes I stole that bit 😂)
This is literally my favorite Chinese place called "Hong Kong". They've been there for years. Had the washed out yellowed sign you wouldn't know it was a restaurant unless you knew the area. They upgraded it just recently though I'm glad business is working out! Anyways Walk in, looks more like someone's house. Got boxes of ingredients stacked on some tables. Price tags on old appliances. Example screens yellowed out. Menu says "no checks accepted". Kid doing his homework at the front desk taking orders. The main guy in the back on the wok. Some yelling back in forth after the order. Gets a full meal done in 5 minutes, and they make some amazing food and good portions.
@@Codex_0613 They definitely upgraded it, but it was probably because you couldn't actually read what was on it anymore. It's been there since I was a kid and was so washed out you wouldn't know it was a restaurant unless you were looking for it.
as someone who worked for a chinese boss, she made my work ethic look like garbage 😭 we literally were a small business with 2-3 workers, and a full breakfast, lunch & dinner menu. if we didn’t make the food quick enough we’d get in trouble, i’d be struggling trying to wrap a burrito meanwhile shes steady cooking 4 full meals. like how tf are you able to do that girl
because they were raised as machines basically by their parents. most asian families in the past have done so. trained an disciplined their child to the point the are so good at things, leaves em so focused on it they forget more important things or even common sense on certain matters when it comes to working at a job.
@@xandercorp6175 nah bro. 15-19 I worked min wage. I didn’t work my ass off after the second year chase I realized it don’t mean anything unless you want to stay in that min wage field…. I put most of my energy into sports which landed me a couple of scholarships and in my education which allowed me to graduate highschool and proceed with studies in university. Sorry bud, but not everyone is going to break their back for mediocre pay. Imagine working 34 hours in a week on top of school and athletics only to make 350 dollars for the week. if you want me to work my hardest at that job… YOU GOTTA SUCK MY NUTS B4 EACH SHIFT lolllllllll
I worked with an older guy who was from China. Full cantonese, zero English. Just us. He was awesome. We had full conversations while understanding eachother contextually only.
Worked next to a Chinese supermarket, old dude came in after work every day to buy a Chinese newspaper (worked in a city with a lot of immigrants so we sold those) and a pack of smokes. Didnt speak a word of English, just pointing and grunting. Would ring him up several times a week, tell him "xie xie", and didn't share another word but he'd always leave with that old Chinese guy smile. One of my favorite customers.
I went to eat at a chinese restaurant that was family run with my grandmother. My grandmother asked if she could get "chinese cheese" lettuce wraps and the waitress, a 3rd gen asian american teenage girl has no idea what this means and I also had no idea. My grandmother doesn't know the english name or the chinese dish name. The waitress goes and gets her grandpa who seems to barely speak english and he immediately is like "tofu!" 😂 Somehow he understood what "chinese cheese" was better than the native english speakers.
I was guessing tofu, too. I read in a book like 20 years ago that tofu is technically a cheese, because of the process it goes through. It’s just not dairy. Iono. 🤷🏻♀️
I'm Chinese. Most of the chef's in chinese restaurant be having tattoos like some gangsta who quit to open their own restaurant the kids be on the side table doing them homeworks.
I worked in a Chinese and Korean restaurant. We had a guy from Korean doing LITERALLY what he was saying he did all the Korean dishes. Dude was a badass with his cig chillin.
Dude hahahahha!!! This is soooo fuggn funny because it is all 100% true and accurate hahaha!!! Also, no matter where you order Chinese food, or how big your order is, it is always ready in 15 minutes hahaha… I have to follow this guy!! I’ve never heard or seen him before, but this clip alone is making me a fan lol… 😬👍👍
nothing embodies the american dream more thoroughly than a chinese joint with that cook, 2 kids doin homework at one of the tables, and and the wife taking orders at the counter
So true, except for me the place I worked at the kids already graduated uni and so the husband and wife business owners needed an extra pair of hands since their previous ones are all adults so I worked there when I was 14 lol
My favourite restaurant ever was a place like that. It was a 12 foot square one-room box. One wall was all drinks fridges, one wall was a row of 10 burners with woks and one Auntie cooking at all of them at once, one wall had a single table with two metal chairs, and the last wall had the door and then just head-high stacks of bags of shrimp chips. There were over 30 menu items and they were all just different types of noodles. The most expensive menu item was $15. They were the best noodles I've ever had in my life.
Saw a guy in a chinese resteraunt flipping two woks at once while holding a conversation with his wife and daughter and taking my order at the same time. Ill forever have undying respect for those mad lads
I lived above a Vietnamese restaurant and the family owning it were the loudest people I've ever seen. I would come home from night shift and walk by their kitchen with an open back door, I would hear them yelling in Vietnamese thinking they were arguing but then someone laughed and yelled louder, and I realized this was just normal convo volume for them 😂
There’s a Chinese place in the small city i live in(barely a city at that. I’d be hard pressed to find a building thats over 3 stories and that third story is likely a storage/crawl space.) called Jin Jin’s Chinese Restaurant. All they do is take out and its the best damn Chinese food EVER. You could give them an order thats 16 items long and they’ll tell you the same thing every time. “15 minute we have it ready!” Followed by just enough time for you to confirm you heard them and then they hang up the phone. Now here’s the kicker; that 15 minutes isn’t for them, OH NO! That 15 minute is for YOU to get there. I live 5 minutes away from this place. It takes longer for me to get dressed, get in the car, and pull out of the driveway than it does to actually GET THERE. Not once, ever, in all the years ive been ordering from them, have i EVER had to wait on my food. Its ready on arrival and its hot, fresh, and delicious. Im convinced there’s some ancient chines sorcery goin on in that kitchen. That dude in the back is secretly an oriental phoenix who’s gotten bored with godhood so they took up cooking instead. Its magically fast and supernaturally good and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Precook the food so you cut prep time down by hours, the chicken that goes on your sub at subway ain't raw, it's cooked and kept frozen; the oven just makes it warm and kills the bacteria. Use cooked chicken for your chicken balls, when you deep fry it it goes down for 30 and up for 30. Donezo. No fuss, no fighting, no raw food.
I went to see if I could find where this was slash you were live, but I discovered that there's actually a shocking number of places called "Jin Jin's Chinese Restaurant" in google maps, so good job keeping your identity secret.
You know the food is gonna be good when there is two chinese kids doing their homework in the store.
Accurate. Chinese place I used to frequent many years ago with my dad had the wife as the server, husband as the cook, sometimes their kids would just be sitting at one of the side tables working on their schoolwork and shit. Went there every other week for years man
For real for real. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂 yea
Oh shit... so true haha
YES DUDE
HE became a chinese gangsta in a second when he cursed.
No difference, Cantonese are breed multitasking
true
而且百聽不厭.....😅
It literally kills me & rofl, every time 😂😂😂
No naturally 😂
Diu
Don't forget the five foot flames coming off the wok burning the ceiling tiles and Unc still has all his eyebrows and eyelashes. He can even light that cigarette off it when he leans forward just right
I'VE SEEN EM LIGHT THEIR SMOKE THAT WAY! never stopped flipping the pan, either!
what buff, tattooed guys REALLY fear...
xD
Big facts
Hahahahahhaha sooooo accurate
Best goddamn Chinese food I ever had 😂
If the menu don’t take up 85% of the restaurant walls I don’t want it
You nailed it
And numbered,with 2 ways to ask for it on the menu.
you know its unmatched in taste when they fuck up the order and its way better than what you wanted
85% mate a Chinese restaurant can cover the whole building
Yeah, 90% of the menu is 12 ingredients prepared slightly different though.
Ordered lunch for 10 guys in my dept. The lady said " oh my that's a big order.... 15 minute!" Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And I bet it was still done sooner😂
So funny true 😂😂
Man, he’s taking 90 seconds per meal in average, wth that is amazing
Why did I read that with a Chinese accent
It’s so true. Every old school Chinese restaurant is one old dude occasionally yelling “Aaa?!” making 12 things without sweating
SO TRUE
Totally not. 2 at the most 1 if it's a small town. If you're in New York there are at least 2 in that kitchen not counting the kids working under the floors.😂
Chinese people don't sweat
@@CosSer is in fact BS not even the good kind try again. Too many depictions otherwise.
@@CosSer just tell them they are having a daughter I bet they sweat it.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for over 5 years & this is so on point! We had about 4 chefs total. But “Lee” handled the lunch rush all by himself. 3 waitresses, a bartender & Lee. He was amazing! And don’t EVER cross his line!!! 😂😂😂❤❤
Did you ever pick up on any Cantonese?
Tbh.. Chinese cuisine has a simple base with which you can make a ton of different stuffs. Unlike other cuisines
@@darsedsun29op25that is just factually worng😅
@@okokconan455 whilst ”factually” contradicting my lived experience, kindly factually correct your ‘wrong’ spelling.
@@darsedsun29op25 speak for yourself, Chinese cuisine is so grand whatever you are having doesn’t represent all
I love how many registers his voice dropped when he slid into Cantonese.
I love the "He's not even a chef, he's somebody's uncle, from Hong Kong" 😂
the voice crack xD
The realest thing
chinese restaurant in Dallas Texas
not a single one in kitchen a chinese
they are all Mexican
@@highbuddhada_texas original Mexicans are from Asia anyways lol
@@Michelle-rdz17elaborate please lmao
the most average chinese restaurant chef:
If your average chef can do this, imagine if you had the best.
10 / 10 for comprehension
The "most average" Chinese restaurant chef would probably be Mexican > . >
naw they're usually underpaid chinese, but they just suck ass at anything that isn't mixing pre ordered ingredients. the average Mexican cook is miles above a Chinese cook in my experience.@@vaevictusdeus
in fact no kitchen in the world is in that hurry, let the customers wait , I mean take a break . You work everyday. And dont be so intense
I once got an emergency haircut in Singapore. The Chinese uncle was around 50 and can't even speak English. It was a small, shaby looking barbershop in the alley. We didn't communicate, my only request was "short hair". The best haircut I ever got in my life, not even those expensive, Japan brand salons could come close 😂
for a sec I thought bro pulled a pan out of his inventory
For real
Bro, the local Chinese food joint has to have one of these 2 things:
-uncle from off the boat, casually cooking everything
-children up front reading/studying while working the register
1000% Real Life 😂😂😂
That's how you know the food is real.
True American spirit
That's the place right by my house and I love it. Always a killer meal.
Theres a Chinese place downtown that was like that forever. Then the girl grew up so one thing missing
As a guy that was a prep cook for a Chinese joint once and is now currently the only non ex-con at a restaurant this is 100% accurate
You ain’t wrong, my brother. Rlj
Nin excon in a resto? Wow the thing that the girl from ratatouille said was legit hahahaha
The fact he says * I cannaeu*
"i killed a man with this thumb"
such a huge accomplishment
My fav thing about being a regular at Asian restaurants is that once they see you come in like 3+ times they’ll start bringing you different little snacks they’ve made to try out lol
I saw a wonton recipe online and told my regular Chinese restaurant owner about it so he just went into his own supply and gave me some wonton wrappers to take home. Of course the recipe didn’t come out like it should and he probably knew I would mess it up but he didn’t want me to waste my money buying a whole pack, lol.
that uncle vs italian nona would be a glorious cook off
This need to become a thing
Causally cussing in Cantonese is the funniest concept I've ever heard in my entire life.
I feel like this is what Stephen Chow movies are built on... lol.
And it's also the most common thing in Hong Kong
You'll literally listen to random people cuss when ya walk around them. But it's usually about things that totally don't require cussing. And also when people argue, sometimes there are more swears than the content which kinda makes it hard to follow if you're just someone looking at em
Casually Cussing in Cantonese is now my band name
@@pabloschulman4726
"du o lahyoo..."
😅
What does it mean, if i may ask you?
That was my dad. Worked hard to provide for us. Died young at 53 from lung cancer. RIP, Baba.
bless your heart
Lots of love and empathy to you, and your family, for the loss of your Baba.
R.I.P man... 🙏🙏 much love to you and you're family 😊🥰
53 is inconceivably old. Dying young is 40 and below. Just cause you didn’t get to be a spoiled brat more. Doesn’t mean you didn’t deserve it sooner. My grandfather died young. He was 34 destroyed the entire bloodline you and all your gang bangers ruined everything then laughed
I’m sorry for your loss. That’s too young to die.
Omg you are so on point with this one! No truer words. I work in a kitchen with tattooed guys and they be stressing over poached eggs. 😅😂😅😂
😂😂
miss, introduce them to some Cantonese 🤣🤣
😂😂
Chinese are well trained by their parents on dealing with stress. Nothing is more stressful than their parent’s lethal staring.
They don’t need to put on tattoos to boost up their ego or memory
“He’s not even a chef, he’s some guy’s uncle” 😂
Recipe for a good east asian restaurant :
- family run.
- kid doing homework/playing in a corner.
- menu with blurry uncomprehensible photos.
- casual to worn off clothing.
- owner looks at you like you're his son who just got home after 5 years of fighting GIs in the jungle.
- portions big enough to feed a whole family yet costs about 7 cents total and they give you sweets to go for free after you pay
yes
Cliche
See, the place around the corner from my apartment use to just be an elderly husband and wife, she’d take orders, and he’d spit them out in no time. Then, a younger guy was there one day working with them, cranking out orders like it was nothing. Fucking love that place. Never any sweets, but the portions were huge and I swear to god, their egg drop wonton soup can cure anything that ails you.
Price changes on the menu board is just whatever number on a sticky note slapped over the old price.
Seriously, I remember getting a one item combo of Sesame Chicken and noodles was 6 bucks! Now it's costing me $9!
Bro your comment is way too accurate😅
Went to Hong Kong several years ago and our food was cooked by someone he described. It was and still is the best and most delicious noodles I've ever tasted.
And Hong Kong was completely different to China
@@sigmamale6128true its better.
@@sigmamale6128and Scotland is different from Britain
That's the magic of msg
@@sigmamale6128same people devided by an imaginary lines.
Everytime I call peking, I can order 20 items, they tell me" orda redy Ina 15 minuts" 😂
The cook at my local Chinese restaurant will do all of that while singing Chinese songs at the top of his lungs. He’s honestly really good.
Forgot to mention he also wearing flip flops and dirty Shorts.
Also has a gold tooth, a face towel over his shoulder and a shiny silver watch on his wrist.
😂😂😂😂😂 Trueee!! I saw it!
Why do I know exactly what yall are talking about? I am a white American girl who's never been outside the country. 😂
Our guy sat on the back stoop, smoking whenever he had a chance.... miss ya, Cam!❤
Don't forget the gold chain around his neck and a couple tattoos he got at 14 years old
Every chinese restaurant brought their one uncle from the triad to cook for them and it slaps
Why the triad tho
@@DM-ry3nw Because they were about to either get whacked or into serious legal shit in the old country, so their family bring them over to get out of trouble.
@@user-ee4nh6ir8g criminals getting in trouble with the law in China and Southeast Asia? that’s a joke in itself😭😂
Why can’t they just be someone’s relative who just wanted to move to a country with better opportunities to make money? Cooking up food at a restaurant to get an American wage compared to laboring away in some dangerous chemical factory or steel mill for 12 hours a day everyday getting nothing for it
Most Chinese restaurants I’ve been to have a bunch of 5 foot illegals cooking with their Spanish music blasting 😂
@@DM-ry3nwAmerica isn’t exactly a first thought for most people who aren’t accustomed to the laws of the states. Idk why tbh shits more fluid and lenient than anywhere but it’s easy to become nothing and homeless.
Can’t forget the kids doing their homework behind the counter
That uncle cussing "diu lei" is soo accurate 🤣
What does it mean?
@@KatinkaMaika actually its diu lei lo mei ( with the lo mei fading out) , means fuck you ( and lo mei is a variation for the swearing for mum[lo mo])
There are also some uncles who frequently cuss "wo cao"
And there's a mexican back there too speaking to him in Spanish but somehow they still understand each other 🤣💕
You live in Texas?
I saw this happen at a Korean bbq I worked at. They were kitchen staff; a sweet spanish lady who spoke only Puerto Rican and a kind Korean lady that spoke Korean 😂
I walked in the kitchen doin’ my waitress thing, and they started laughing and told me what was going on 😂 they have no idea what the other was saying, but they understood each other completely 😂
Soon as I seen this I was like, Texas lmao! I'm from El Paso
@@TengenHasAFavoriteWifewtf a Spanish lady speaking Puerto Rican??? Lol
@@TengenHasAFavoriteWife "speaking Puerto Rican", you mean Spanish?
The voice crack “he’s somebody uncle at hong kOng”
😂😂
i know nobody mentioned it
Aaaaaaawe I noticed that too!
I’m dying from that lmao
Yes i laughed too
Maybe he's calling out uncle Roger casually
He described my favorite Chinese spot down to a T…one old man in the kitchen cooking the most amazing Chinese food you’ve ever had. His wife worked the counter with their 7 year old grandson out in the dinning room working on homework.
I like how he casually adds those DLLM to his jokes. 😂
As someone that works at a high end casino and cooks. This man is accurate, wok station has 2 old Asian dude and they’re absolute monsters. They’re funny asf too. One of em is always saying
“Remember, no money no honeys” 😂
Aye, words to live by. Get that money, boy!
Sounds like a wise dude 😂
And I just KNOW that food good as a mf too
BRO i work as a server in my hometown and our noodle chef says that same line all the time when the restaurant is dead !
Super spot on haha
no money ain't funny 😂
I have 3 Chinese restaurants in my family. And even if I wanted to tell the contrary I can't, all my uncles are the chefs and they all smoke, no exception 😂
Drinks or smokes running a restaurant ain’t easy personally speaking as someone with a Chinese restaurant that has had at least 2 restaurants ran by the family
As a person who owns 20 panda express I must say that the Mexican works 3x as hard as my p.o.s. smoking uncle... Plus I get to pay the Mexican half of wat I pay my uncle ... He will be replaced in a bout. A week
The smoke from cooking poses no threat to my lungs, as they're already accustomed to cigarettes🤣
@@BigHo3Swayz3yeah like that’s true
Do they curse in cantonese
So true. Some of my friend’s parents ran a takeaway and amazing how fast and taste they could cook food. True level of multitasking when you can cook, smoke, watch football, have a conversation and prep the next dish to cook.
I literally called a Chinese restaurant for my whole company of about 28 people and when I asked how long till it was done they said 10 minute...I was like are you sure? That's a lot of orders. Then with a questioning voice she said, 15 minute? Lol it was done in 10 just like she said but omg my favorite story by far. Hahaha 🤣
If you’re ever in SF Chinatown, A-1 is literally run by this uncle but he also waits the tables and hands you your bill. It’s a one man show
Ima have to drop in there one day soon
As a Chinese person in sf I must check it out
do it bro. Their bow jai fan is pretty solid @@JacobDaDJ
While you're three I also really like G&Y bakery and cafe @@JacobDaDJ
@@laserbeamlightning as someone who lives on Lombard I can confirm I can walk to both of those places
The reason why there arent many asian "chefs" is because everyone can cook😂
"If Yen can cook, so can you."
No wong can cook PBS
Vegan n Christian....cool...me 2
how does it feel living life without living it?@@lydiapetra1211
I’m Asian but I can’t cook ;-;
Every episode of every Gordon Ramsey show
even the japanese yakuza houseman can't beat him....yet
for anyone wondering what the curse word was: Diu lei lo mei directly translates from chinese to f**k your sister but is normally used in a general term to say f**k off
mom, not sister...just saying
you have angered team nei
Tá mādē
@@Moridorableboth my Chinese and Cantonese aren’t the greatest but does that translate to f*ck? Because I believe Tāmāda ni means fuck you. I might be wrong. Like I said my Chinese is terrible.
老母（mom） but due to the nature of spoken cantonese you say 老mei
i worked delivering for a family owned chinese place and this is the most accurate shit i have ever heard.
You're not a Chef lol, you don't know what tf you're talking about
I worked as a waiter in Chinese restaurant, and yes I agree!
I was the hostess of a family owned Chinese restaurant and that’s literally Mr. Lee in the back of the house. He’d flip out some dumplings and some beef and broccoli in a minute lol.
My favorite Chinese restaurant has their dishes ready in 10 mins. They tell every customer 10 mins and dang if they're over 10 mins ever. Food fresh, tasty and good. This place is my guilty pleasure and special treat for myself. ❤❤❤love you guys ❤❤❤
you know that uncle is from hongkong when he says diunei
And Nephew in the corner is studying to be your nephrologist.
The recipe for success is right there.
After all that msg you're going to need one
@@rellsw02LOL
Msg isn't harmful dumass@@rellsw02
@@rellsw02Salt is more dangerous than msg.
yet they can't innovate even if their life depended on it. With a culture of copying and next to no nobel prize winners or accomplished doctors that changed medicine. Other immigrants like Indians can atleast innovate and become deans and ceos, chinese have a culture of mediocrity
Speaking as a professionally trained chef, these people have more skill and power than I will ever have
Sad
That's because your child has to learn how to cook and pass down their secrets.
@@ZatchZXman gotta have kids for that to happen lmao
The only thing that separates you from a chinese uncle is the confidence. Unironically, keep calm and believe yourself. That all there is to it probably, plus the experience.
I cook for a living, I wouldn't wish this life on my kid.
You can"t find a better comic clip on YT, masterfull
I remember we went to this REALLY Chinese restaurant in New York and they didn’t speak English very well and when we ordered he always just said ok ok in that thick Chinese accent and we saw a guy with a cigarette and just flipping a pan cussing in Chinese and it was so funny to see this
Had a little yummy Chinese restaurant in the small town I grew up in... no matter how much you ordered or for how many people...
"It be 10 minutes, ok?" 🤣
Bro same. Ordered like 140 dollars worth of food and "be ready in 15 minutes for you"
You forgot to mention it took 32 seconds to complete the entire phone call. They just go “uh huh uh huh uh huh, okay, uh huh, 15 minutes”
@@AhairlessElkit's a almost facotoru line process where some in ingrediant pre prepared combine with extremely fast knife work.
Stir fry wok is usually really fast, usually no more than few minute, which is why alot of the dishes are finely chopped
*5 minutes later*
"Here you fud"
@@stalwartzero7001 also very rare for my order to be wrong. I love the place near my house. We go like twice a month
Its so true i worked in a chinese resturant for a bit and the "old man" as we all called him could make literally anything. A couple came in once and asked him if hed roast a turkey for them and he just goes "yeah sure no problem." Also called back a prank caller who ordered Pizza and told them hed make one if they brought the dough and toppings, dude was unshakable.
Sounds like a pretty bad ass dude !!!!
Kudos to him I’ll be still rockin the kitchen and doing well
I wish that continued into the kids actually bringing the ingredients and then having a wholesome meal, how awesome would that have been 😭
Thats awesome & all, but now all.i can think about is a chineese version of pizza
Szechuan chicken pizza
Bbq pork pizza
Omfg thankyoub😂
@@WhyForWhatNownow I want a general tso's chicken pizza. I might have to make that mashup. 😂❤😂
True story...when I was a kid my dad wanted to open a pizza shop with all kinds of Asian toppings. He really did a lot of planning and daydreaming for that. He used to make pizza with shrimp topping. @@WhyForWhatNow
Bro became sanji for a minute
I always say when the Chinese food is not as good as it usually is, grandma must be on vacation or the dad or whoever and they got the kids in there making the food because I can taste the difference. My kids always laugh at me but I know that’s,that’s the case.😂😂😂😅
Much respect the the Chinese families cooking delicious food and keeping the prices fair for the people
@@A_R_B_Gthe food speaks for itself fam my fav jamaican breakfast spot is like that. they treat everyone like family. i had a migraine once and the waitress brought me some mint tea.
@@A_R_B_Gfood is everything for Chinese
Chinese spots gone up in my area. 4-5 years ago it was like 7 or 8 for a combination plate. Now it’s about 11 or 12
@allieboy181 yea but only cause they are paying that much more. Everything costs more now but they keep it as fair as possible they want that repeat business 💯
@@brickchains1 Yeah it's just inflation like you say
The voice crack on Hong Kong is everything to me
YES! LOL I love the little family restaurants. Those guys in the back rock.
How did he perfectly explain my grandfather
Before he described the wife beater and cigarette, I had already imagined it y'all 😭😭😭
usually a bandana on too.
@@myztklk3vthe rising sun bandana
Why the crying emoji?
its the one emoji above laughing really hard, laughing so hard tears come out lmao@@loco_tom
😂
the uncle has also memorized all the menu item names in numbers! HEY ORDER UP, ONE 453 AND 12! And he'd know it's oyster chicken and dumpling soup 😂😂😂😂
Also helps that every item on the menu can be said in 2-6 (usually 3) words/syllables in native mandarin/canto and fully describe the dish with an assumption on cooking style.
Kitchen instructions are less problematic when your language is efficient. Numbers work too but yeah.
@@Yorushima yesssssd
I loved the "YES CHIEF!!! YES CHIEF!!!! 2 MINUTES X2 ITS STILL RAW!!!!"
So true! When you order from a Chinese restaurant, it doesn't matter how many items you order, it's always "10-15 minutes" or VERY occasionally 20 min if it's a super busy night in downtown. If you go to the Philippines, you have to wait for 45 min for just a pasta and soup, while there is only one other table at the restaurant of a hotel.
Chinese are very efficient people! We hustled everyday growing up because it's so competitive.
In my home country in Europe we’ve got a huge Korean diaspora in one particular city I’m from. When I was getting bachelor’s I also used to work at one of their restaurants. That was actually a hard 12hr long a day long job but it taught me how to perfectly manage a shitton of things happening all around. I could’ve been cooking 6 woks, 4-6 ramens and some tempura shrimps literally at the same time. Owner of that restaurant always offered me couple of beers in the end of day on his own and other Koreans respected me as well. After all of that experience I’m not afraid of any other labour even if I have no idea how to do that job
“Delay no more” hit different 🤣
I’m too fucking high I thought that frying pan was real and I was so confused when it disappeared 💀💀
😂😂 Yh
Brotha same
Same I kept rewinding the video trying to figure out where tf it came from😭
I saw that shit appear, and didn't even question it! LOL!
Bro same wtf?
This is why there was never an episode of Kitchen Nightmares about a Chinese restaurant.
Been tons liar.
@@CZcamsname804 Really? What episodes were they? I know they did a Japanese sushi restaurant once, but that's not really the same thing.
@@AliceGrimm97 I’ve no clue what ep but I’ve watched a good couple also Chinese contestants on HK
@@CZcamsname804 HK? You mean Hell's Kitchen? That's a different show
@@AliceGrimm97 yes an I am just saying there is also Chinese contestants on it…
Im rolling at the "DLLM" 😂
accurate, Popeyes takes longer than some Chinese restaurants
I worked delivery for a Chinese restaurant and this is too accurate. They all were smoking heaters looking so relaxed. One guy would have his ash the length of the cigarette and never would it fall into the food.
Yeah and the ember on the cigarettes is like a third the length of the whole ciggy, we used to call them Devil Fingers
@@dontmatter369That only happens to old men who suck down half their cigarette in one drag 😂 It's an impressive sight to behold honestly
Facts
@@GlorifiedGremlin they will be coughing up blood in no time
@@SahilP2648 Not always. Some smoke til the day they die
I now have an uncontrollable urge to become an Asian chef because that drip is immaculate 😂
That you wackson ? 😂
no joke i got so interested in him as soon as that ciggeh and soft swearingg came out 😭 like "ooh, who is he"😏
Asian chef eh, you know not to assume but you can only represent your own race (if you're Asian then it's cool) you don't wake up one morning and decide "imma be black today".
(Yes I stole that bit 😂)
@@KosmoZer0 ffs it was a joke
@@KosmoZer0 ❄️
He is no chef,he is somebody’s uncle,hahahhahahahhaha 😂
Absolutely beautiful delivery
This is literally my favorite Chinese place called "Hong Kong".
They've been there for years. Had the washed out yellowed sign you wouldn't know it was a restaurant unless you knew the area. They upgraded it just recently though I'm glad business is working out! Anyways
Walk in, looks more like someone's house. Got boxes of ingredients stacked on some tables. Price tags on old appliances. Example screens yellowed out. Menu says "no checks accepted".
Kid doing his homework at the front desk taking orders. The main guy in the back on the wok.
Some yelling back in forth after the order.
Gets a full meal done in 5 minutes, and they make some amazing food and good portions.
this was really good
Hong Kong in San Diego? If so, place is awesome!
@@christophermoreau1931 Nah Chicago. Figured there's probably a few named that.
I can guarantee you they didn't "upgrade" it
it broke and they had no choice but to replace it
because we Asian are cheap af
@@Codex_0613 They definitely upgraded it, but it was probably because you couldn't actually read what was on it anymore.
It's been there since I was a kid and was so washed out you wouldn't know it was a restaurant unless you were looking for it.
as someone who worked for a chinese boss, she made my work ethic look like garbage 😭 we literally were a small business with 2-3 workers, and a full breakfast, lunch & dinner menu. if we didn’t make the food quick enough we’d get in trouble, i’d be struggling trying to wrap a burrito meanwhile shes steady cooking 4 full meals. like how tf are you able to do that girl
honestly... you have to disrespect it a little lol
just get it out its not even food anymore its a dollar here/a dollar there...
Bc she own the joint and her life is on it. You the min wage worker. You should not be working that hard. Just hard enough to keep your job
because they were raised as machines basically by their parents. most asian families in the past have done so. trained an disciplined their child to the point the are so good at things, leaves em so focused on it they forget more important things or even common sense on certain matters when it comes to working at a job.
@@Boosted_aj If you practice for that minimum wage life, you'll be perfect for it.
@@xandercorp6175 nah bro. 15-19 I worked min wage. I didn’t work my ass off after the second year chase I realized it don’t mean anything unless you want to stay in that min wage field…. I put most of my energy into sports which landed me a couple of scholarships and in my education which allowed me to graduate highschool and proceed with studies in university. Sorry bud, but not everyone is going to break their back for mediocre pay. Imagine working 34 hours in a week on top of school and athletics only to make 350 dollars for the week. if you want me to work my hardest at that job… YOU GOTTA SUCK MY NUTS B4 EACH SHIFT lolllllllll
That’s how you know that food gonna be LIT.
My local spot has the "Uncle" in the back for sure. Food is amazing 😅
The cigarette adds to the ✨wok hei✨
I worked with an older guy who was from China. Full cantonese, zero English. Just us. He was awesome. We had full conversations while understanding eachother contextually only.
Worked next to a Chinese supermarket, old dude came in after work every day to buy a Chinese newspaper (worked in a city with a lot of immigrants so we sold those) and a pack of smokes. Didnt speak a word of English, just pointing and grunting. Would ring him up several times a week, tell him "xie xie", and didn't share another word but he'd always leave with that old Chinese guy smile. One of my favorite customers.
This is so on point and you know that food's going to be banging too lol hahaha
I actually thought the pan was real for a second
I didn't realise until I read your comment!
I did too 😂
It's not? Jeez! I'll go watch it again.
i kinda freaked out when it vanished outta nowhere
My eyes didn't question it at all until it disappeared and turned back into the microphone 😂
I used to work as support in a kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, I can confirm, that dude exists. 😂
And he was fun to work with too.
This guy just doesn't miss!!!! He's operating on ALL CYLINDERS!!! Outstanding short! 😂😂😂😂
That curse at the end, was fucking gold 🤙😎
One of the best “diew lay lo mo” I’ve ever heard. Almost as golden as Stephen Chow’s. 😂😂😂
i felt that in my soul lol
exactly thinking the same.. he got stephen chow cussing vibe
I went to eat at a chinese restaurant that was family run with my grandmother. My grandmother asked if she could get "chinese cheese" lettuce wraps and the waitress, a 3rd gen asian american teenage girl has no idea what this means and I also had no idea. My grandmother doesn't know the english name or the chinese dish name. The waitress goes and gets her grandpa who seems to barely speak english and he immediately is like "tofu!" 😂 Somehow he understood what "chinese cheese" was better than the native english speakers.
I was guessing tofu, too. I read in a book like 20 years ago that tofu is technically a cheese, because of the process it goes through. It’s just not dairy. Iono. 🤷🏻♀️
It is called fermented bean curd/tofu.
its doufuru (tofu ru)
LMFAO “Chinese cheese” AS A CHINESE IM DEAD💀💀💀
And they’re usually tuned into a Chinese soap opera at the same time 😂😂❤️
I'm Chinese. Most of the chef's in chinese restaurant be having tattoos like some gangsta who quit to open their own restaurant the kids be on the side table doing them homeworks.
The way his voice cracked when he said “Hong KONG” was hilarious 😂
Hong KoOng
I worked in a Chinese and Korean restaurant. We had a guy from Korean doing LITERALLY what he was saying he did all the Korean dishes. Dude was a badass with his cig chillin.
Dude hahahahha!!! This is soooo fuggn funny because it is all 100% true and accurate hahaha!!! Also, no matter where you order Chinese food, or how big your order is, it is always ready in 15 minutes hahaha… I have to follow this guy!! I’ve never heard or seen him before, but this clip alone is making me a fan lol… 😬👍👍
Bro forgot to mention the make-shift headbands😂😂
nothing embodies the american dream more thoroughly than a chinese joint with that cook, 2 kids doin homework at one of the tables, and and the wife taking orders at the counter
Totally my family.
So true, except for me the place I worked at the kids already graduated uni and so the husband and wife business owners needed an extra pair of hands since their previous ones are all adults so I worked there when I was 14 lol
My favourite restaurant ever was a place like that. It was a 12 foot square one-room box. One wall was all drinks fridges, one wall was a row of 10 burners with woks and one Auntie cooking at all of them at once, one wall had a single table with two metal chairs, and the last wall had the door and then just head-high stacks of bags of shrimp chips. There were over 30 menu items and they were all just different types of noodles.
The most expensive menu item was $15.
They were the best noodles I've ever had in my life.
Sounds pretty awesome. That is sweet dude. !!! Rlj
Thats a fucking story right there.
do you remember the name?
12 foot square is barely enough to stand, let alone having 10 burners...
I love this outfit! Obsessed with the jacket. Honestly the cigarette really pulls it all together
Jimmy's "cooking motion" seems well practiced 😶
You ever watch his cooking channel?
Is in his blood
It’s like checking which forearm is most muscular on a guy.
Yes chef
Yes! The way he carried the pan that told, he did lot of cooking!
Saw a guy in a chinese resteraunt flipping two woks at once while holding a conversation with his wife and daughter and taking my order at the same time. Ill forever have undying respect for those mad lads
Hahaha i don’t know how the hell people do that.
@aleynamutlu4206 I suppose when you do it for however long you get pretty good at it
The Hong Kong voice crack is real💀💀💀
when he said dllm i felt that
That yellow isn’t from dye, it’s the cigarette stains from 40 years of smoking
Sweat, cigarette, dirt. It was white when he got it.
Cussing casually in Cantonese had me dying lol
I'm someone wondering what the cuss was 🤔
@@SacredMilkOG according to another comment, he said "F--- your mother"
@@nim4464 interesting... was hoping for a wider reply/pronunciation 😅
@@SacredMilkOGI’m not good with Pinyin or romanizing Chinese (especially not Cantonese), but he said “fuck your--“ I couldn’t hear the rest.
Someone with a Lot of Knowledge, Please Translate what he said?! 😂😂😂
Jiyang working on that middle out D2F algorithm with that hand motion
Chillin behind the Wok 😂😂😂😂
Been working at a Vietnamese restaurant for three years now and this is 100% accurate
I lived above a Vietnamese restaurant and the family owning it were the loudest people I've ever seen. I would come home from night shift and walk by their kitchen with an open back door, I would hear them yelling in Vietnamese thinking they were arguing but then someone laughed and yelled louder, and I realized this was just normal convo volume for them 😂
There’s a Chinese place in the small city i live in(barely a city at that. I’d be hard pressed to find a building thats over 3 stories and that third story is likely a storage/crawl space.) called Jin Jin’s Chinese Restaurant. All they do is take out and its the best damn Chinese food EVER. You could give them an order thats 16 items long and they’ll tell you the same thing every time. “15 minute we have it ready!” Followed by just enough time for you to confirm you heard them and then they hang up the phone. Now here’s the kicker; that 15 minutes isn’t for them, OH NO! That 15 minute is for YOU to get there. I live 5 minutes away from this place. It takes longer for me to get dressed, get in the car, and pull out of the driveway than it does to actually GET THERE. Not once, ever, in all the years ive been ordering from them, have i EVER had to wait on my food. Its ready on arrival and its hot, fresh, and delicious. Im convinced there’s some ancient chines sorcery goin on in that kitchen. That dude in the back is secretly an oriental phoenix who’s gotten bored with godhood so they took up cooking instead. Its magically fast and supernaturally good and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Precook the food so you cut prep time down by hours, the chicken that goes on your sub at subway ain't raw, it's cooked and kept frozen; the oven just makes it warm and kills the bacteria.
Use cooked chicken for your chicken balls, when you deep fry it it goes down for 30 and up for 30. Donezo. No fuss, no fighting, no raw food.
I went to see if I could find where this was slash you were live, but I discovered that there's actually a shocking number of places called "Jin Jin's Chinese Restaurant" in google maps, so good job keeping your identity secret.
There's a trick for that.
One secret I'll let you in on is the
' pre marinade '. A bit of heat gets the infusion active and voila ...tasty meal ready in a short time 😄
Love reading comments like this. What city is that? I found a couple on google but I’m not sure which one it is