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Actually Ramen in Japan is considered Chinese food. All the Japanese ramen restaurants you see in the US would be considered Chinese restaurants in Japan.

Wow. You really committed to that “But wait! That’s not all!”. Well done.

This! This is the content we need. Thanks for the lesson... can’t wait for the next one!😊🙏🏽

Chop Suey came from the gold rush where taishan Chinese made gold miners mixed ingredients because they ran out of prime ingredients. It is actually a popular taishan thing to do in China back in the days.

Informative but fun. And told by a very beautiful teacher: the phrases became instantly memorable.

Chop Suey is basically leftovers. Take whatever miscellaneous bits you have lying around, mix them together, and voila, Chop Suey.

珍珠奶茶真的太好喝了, and as I continued to watch the whole video, amazing editing! Loved it

You’re hilarious! I’ve been eating Chinese food at least twice a week and I honestly feel horrible about my pronunciation after watching this video. Live and learn, I guess.

You're right. Tsingtao is from the Wade-Giles romanization system, used before Hanyu Pinyin was introduced. It's still the de facto system used in Taiwan...

The best explanation I ever saw, thanks a lot!

Thank you for the very interesting informations

You're too funny and just as equally genius . Thanks for the great video. 谢谢

More Chinese and Asian traditional food pls 😘

Love your videos!

Good work girl. It's very informative and accurate. Wood ear mushroom is named so because it grows on tree trunks and looks like ears of a tree. Most of the Chinese restaurants in the U.S. are owned by Cantonese. Thus, the pronunciation of these dishes.

Thank you jj for ur corrections!❣

The early chinese immigrants in the US mostly speak Cantonese or some southern china dialects, not exactly putonghua. So the chow mien, kung pao, chop suey, tsingtao etc.

So proud of you on perfect pronunciations 👍

great topic!

你是很好笑 great sense of humour and timing into your editing! ^^

You’re so humorous! 😆

I can't with the situation ladies goin on up top 🤣🤣 So smart omg 😂

Its mesmerizing listening to you!

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Awesome!

please do a part 2 on this same subject!!

Your hair looks great!

Thank you so much. This was very educational. I've been saying some of the dishes incorrectly. lol

I’m hungry now lol I’ll have one of everything thanks!

Wow! We speak Tai San in our family - my mother’s dialect. Thank you for enlightening me (and I’m not being ironic). I really enjoyed watching your prgm. Xie xie

4:12 That Mu shu pork you showed, I have never seen it look that way before. The Chinese American take outs in USA, sell it as shredded vegs (cabbage, some wood ear) stir fried with shredded pork or beef, maybe even chicken. Its usually sold to be wrapped in a thin pancake, and eaten like a hand made spring roll.

Very interesting. Now if I can just remember how to pronounce these dishes when ordering at my local Chinese restaurants here in North Carolina. You did leave out one dish that I order a lot and that is General Tso's chicken. If you ever have a chance in a future vid could you pronounce the proper way to say it so I can make the restaurant staff smile? Thank you for sharing.

Dear JJ, thank you for making videos😊 it's pretty funny because many people might watch your videos to learn Chinese but I watch it to learn English!😂 I like your character, you are so funny😄 Greeting s from Germany :)

You teach mandarin ? I love your channel and videos!❤🇨🇳

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Note: you speak mandarin and your pronunciation of these dishes is in mandarin. The American chinese dishes are actually derived from toisanese/cantonese. The first groups chinese immigrating to the west (america) were from southern dishes. Chop suey is "dap suey" toisanese Or "chap sue'y" chopped up stuff Not sure if I it was mentioned in comments earlier or on this video

Enjoy your video! Quite entertaining to learn from you. These common Chinese food people usually mispronounce and don’t know their origins.Interesting.

Love you sooooo much

Haha number 1 is my favorite of all time😋😋Also consider branching out all your contents we still buy it😋😋

Hello！ Came here after watching Yang's video! You So beautiful, like a Hollywood star 😊

You crack me up! When she mentioned ABG’s lookin all cute 😂

I like your channel

So true about the ramen origin, and it is not the only thing they got from China. I love cross-culture exchange, it raises the bar!! Look at ramen, Japanese developed their own version of it, and it is for the best, it is different and absolutely awesome!!!! Love it!

Girl, your explanation is perfect! 10/10! You should do one about Mongolian beef...... that's one dish that got me like... huh? what is that? Oh oneo more, my friends and I called it white girl scrimps. it's the walnut mayonnaise prawn..... it's not something we eat at all!

8:47 I'm currently studying Japanese and your pronunciation was definitely a good attempt! :D Nerding out a bit, sorry, but to be more specific: with 「中華そば」 (chūkasoba), you stretch out the 'chuu' sound out more because there's an extra 'u' character (it's the same when saying the 'chuu' in 「中国」(chūgoku). But you definitely had the right idea! In Japanese, all the syllables are said with the same length (which you did)! It would be incorrect to put stress on a certain part of the word because Japanese isn't a stress-based language like English. However, it does have a pitch-accent system which is a whole 'nother can of worms. ^_^" Sorry to go so in-depth, couldn't help myself! I'd honestly love to see more Chinese pronunciation videos like this. I learned so much. P.S. It was also super nice seeing the hanzi beside the romanized words as I was able to recognize some of them from my kanji studies. :D

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When I need to get the Cantonese pronunciation, I just enter the Chinese words in translate.bing.com , choose _Cantonese (Traditional)_ and click on the speaker icon. 炒面 in Cantonese is pronounced _chow meen_ .

I can't speak or understand a word of Cantonese, but your Cantonese sounds quite legit to me, hahahaha.

JJ You missed the main thing about muxurou - its served with bing. So it essentially Chinese tacos, or perhaps even more like a Chinese version of a crepe. Its kinda fun to eat, because you get to hone your chopstick skills as you load the crepe with the muxu rou/cai, jia jiang, and then roll-it up yourself. You then grab another one and keep going until your filling stash is depleted.

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The geography lesson was good too.

i like the map you use to share and show where Qingdao is.

YOU GOODS nailed it.

Great video! Do you watch mandarin dramas? Maybe you can do a video list recommending your favorites? I'm trying to practice my listening skills by watching more mandarin shows.

Correct !

Being Chinese I find it cute watching this video 😄😄

Miscellaneous bits xD noooooooo I remember my fourth grade teacher telling the class about chop suey. Then I ordered it one day and let's just say that's the only time I've ever had it hahaha

Good work, and your pronunciation of Chop Sui is not far off.

Your 7th one reminds me of why China capital city Beijing (to sound like Mandarin) was once written Peking (to sound like Cantonese).

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I've never had any of these foods 😢

Thank you for this entertaining video. Some additional notes: Kung Pao Tsing Tao --> these use the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese common before Hanyu Pinyin was introduced and popularized. If pronounced correctly, they sound like their Pinyin equivalents (Gong Bao and Qingdao). This was commonly used before 1980 internationally (including in the US) to represent the Mandarin pronunciation of words. You will still see this in place names in Taiwan (eg, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung) and in person's names (eg, Mao Tse Tung, Chiang Kai Shek, Chou En Lai). The Toishan words Chow Mein (pronounced like Chou (rhymes with "Joe") & men (like the English word "men", not the Pinyin "men") Chop suey ("suey" is pronounced like "Sue - ee") *** Hope that you will seriously consider learning 台山話 after you learn Cantonese. That is the original main dialect of Chinese in the US from the mid 1800s until about the 1980s, when Cantonese became somewhat more prevalent. Today it is hard to say which dialect is more prevalent. Depends where you are. And why stop there? next go on to Taiwanese / Hokkien / 閩南話. And then the Fuzhou/Fuching (福州/福清話) dialects. Might as well learn the major dialects of Chinese spoken in the US, esp. in New York City, since they are all so accessible. Finally, the official policy of the US Government is to use traditional characters when publishing anything in the Chinese language in the US (eg, all IRS and voting and immigration material in Chinese language in the US uses traditional characters). Maybe you can try to include traditional characters in your subtitles and notes (even if you already have simplified characters). The UN did not switch over to simplified characters until 2015. The US government has not.

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宮保鸡🐔丁 是有真的歷史考據 ，" 相傳宮保雞丁是清朝光緒年間的署理四川總督丁寶楨所發明，是他招待客人時叫家廚煮的菜餚。由於丁寶楨後來被封為東宮少保（太子少保），所以被稱為「丁宮保」，而這道菜亦被稱為「宮保雞丁」"

It’s not exactly incorrect but merely the English and Mandarin pronunciations

Is it just me or does she sound like a totally different person when speaking english than chinese? She's so sassy when speaking english but so soft when speaking chinese lmao

Hoisan: choo men, chop suey: dop thlwee

Actually I think the Japanese ramen we’re familiar with is considered Chinese-Japanese food like how there is Chinese American food. Haha it’s so new to see a video about Toisan dialect 🤣 it is the most common dialect in the older Chinese communities in the US

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Interesting

You are so funny

Most of your dishes are used overseas and in China they may not be the chief dish. Qingdao beer ofcourse is the exception.

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So glad you brought in the other chinese dialects instead of just relating everything to mandarin.

In all over Europe there are other favorite dishes from the Chinese take out. Babi pangang, babi ketjap, loempia (big egg roll), saté etc.

tsingtao is cantonese sound of the words!

In Indonesia, Chep Suey is called Cap Cay

我来自内蒙古呼和浩特的，我们的杂碎面非常有名，主要是羊或着猪的内脏熬制的汤做面！

Chop sued and fortune cookie, are invention from here, USA😄😄😄

but I never recall a dish name Chop Suey, though I live in GuangDong🌚🌚

So cute you are.

A lot of how English pronounces Chinese dishes comes from the Cantonese pronunciation. Like for chop suey in canto it’s “zap sui”

Back when I was a kid, I remember there's a chain restaurant in Beijing called 美国加州牛肉面大王, The California Beef Noodle King USA. and people saw that sign for the 1st time were always like WAIT WHAT😂 Now days people from the north-west province make thier own la mian restaurants, offering cheaper and bigger size of noodles, are spreading everywhere, usually using the similar sign such as 兰州拉面 (Lan Zhou la mian) 老马拉面 (Ol' Ma la mian?) etc. I wonder is there are La Mian restaurant in NYC?

Can you do this for English words that are of Chinese origin? I've just realised Boobs are Boba, and then there is Luck from Lok. I think Ketchup is from South East Asia (maybe Chinese). Other words?

ramen is also pronouced like 拉面 because in japanese ra pronouce la

If you go to Chinese American take out places, they sell Lo Mein, and Chow Mein. What you think of as Chao Mian would look just like the Lo Mein. The Chow Mein they sell in these take outs, is this veg and meat stir fry in a white sauce, and they give you a bag of fried noodles to go with it. The Chow Mein I think is something take outs sell to Americans, and just throw any name on it, thinking Americans would never care or know the difference.

JJ - You left out the most common mistake amongst Westerns- Feng shui (Chinese: 風水)

Informative video about the origins of these food names. Not sure it's accurate to say Americans are saying things "wrong" as much as they're not pronouncing it with hyper-precise Chinese. I mean, most Americans have a hard time even pronouncing "ni hao" and "xie xie" "correctly." By this standard, a lot of people also order food with Italian or Spanish words "wrong" because they don't use an appropriate accent. (Ever notice how Giada diLaurentiis tended to hyper-Italianize random words like "mozzarella" or "pecorino"?) Also, as you acknowledge, some of the phrases you identify sound much closer to the American when pronounced in Cantonese.

Hi JJ! Your cantonese pronunciation of 雜碎 is slightly off.. the first syllable has a slightly lower tone than the second syllable. Right now you said them both with the same tone :) But great attempt and thanks for a fun and informative video :)

Interesting enough, Kung Pao Chicken , Moo Shu Pork , Tsingtao Beer are all from Shan Dong Province.😉

In Japanese, the ''r'' is pronounced as ''l'', so ramen is actually pronounced ''lamen'', pretty close to the Chinese equivalent.

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就像 Chang应该是Zhang, Chang = 常

Good，I can't speak more English😂

I love Boba.

Many of the early Romanization of these words were from Cantonese. That's why the pronunciation is so different than Mandarin.

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I believe some of these are because of Cantonese.

Oh Chopsuey is Chinese? Wow. Didn’t know.