Who else celebrates the holidays with hot pot or duck?? Btw CONGRATS to Phil for finding "The Last" 😉💍The team is so happy for you ❤️

i dont mean to be that person who mentions xmas b4 Thanksgiving even happens but i hope this yr you all do a secret santa video, those videos are always so fun to watch.

I can finally put a face to the *Jessica* ☺️ Edit : oh and she did great 💜

For Filipino Americans, it’s not a holiday party if there’s no lumpia

Why does Jessica reminds me of sadness from inside out 😅, so cute ! 🥰

I approve of Phil staying behind with the "kids" haha. Grats on the big news!

Me realizing that lunch break is essentially a mukbang...

no one realized jens pun, jen: more than one pot *its potsible*

We finally meet the sleepy and mysterious voice behind the camera. Hi, Jessica! Nice to finally meet you!

As a Vietnamese my thanksgiving consist of having a “buffet” style dinner, with Paris By Night on the T.V hahaha

Happy (early) Thanksgiving Wong Fu! And I’m glad to see Jessica’s debut on Lunch Break too!

Wesley is just really enjoying his meals in every lunch break.

Fried turkey is the best!! My uncle made it for the first time a couple years back, and our family HAS NEVER TURNED BACK to a BAKED turkey. We don’t have hot pot, but we make Hmong egg rolls, fresh rolls, Hmong sausage, sticky/plain sticky rice, papaya, mashed potato/gravy, and this year we’r making Hmong PHO ❤️

Hii Jessica! Finally we can see you here.. Waiting for many more lunch break and videos with you 🥳

Congrats Phil!!!!! So happy for you and Helen 🌹❤️

Yay congrats to your debut, Jessica!!

Congratulations Phil!! Much love from Chicago!!

asian thanksgiving: hotpot or duck

For thxging, since much of my family isn’t in the US, we usually have a huge party with a bunch of friends and we would do a huge potluck and stay up till midnight ☺️ ah good memories

Love hotpot anytime! I really like your Thanksgiving Lunch Break, you can do that every year. Welcome Jessica, it's great to see you on camera!

For two years, my family were alone for thanksgiving because either I was working or my mom was working. So, we didn’t do a turkey. We did have a small lechon/pork belly as a stand in for turkey. It was delicious. And there was lumpia too.

Yessss! I'm so happy to know our family isn't the only one to put sticky rice in the turkey. 😁

I seriously can’t get over when Wes talks seeing all the jump cuts I wouldn’t notice before until I knew that they had to edit wes’s parts so much

Yo hotpot totally goes for Asian Christmas Dinner too! Ahahhaha there's been a few years of traditional roasted turkey or pork with the classic fixings and then there's some years of..hotpot 😂😂😂 Congrats Philllllll!

I can completely relate to Wes' goat story. I had a similar experience when we celebrated one Christmas back in Dominican Republic. Our holiday dinners usually consist of whole roasted pork, that is slow cooked in a "caja china" and moro (a Dominican rice and beans dish). Growing up they tried the turkey route, but gave up unless we have non- dominican guests 😂.

Story time! I'm a 25 year old Chinese man who grew up in SGV and when I was in high school, I think that was when my family started celebrating American Thanksgiving. I remember the first two times, we bought an Asian Roasted Turkey from a Chinese Restaurant which came with sticky rice. It was pretty good. Then, senior year and after high school, we started doing American Turkey and thats pretty much when I started to cook a lot more. Nowadays, during TG, I'll roast a chicken either Peruvian style or Chinese-style and make a bunch of side dishes that often include: pumpkin pie, Japanese potato salad (doesn't go good with gravy), roasted brussel sprouts, yang chow fried rice, etc. Why do I cook such a multi-cultural meal? Because this meal really represents my ideals: I highly value the multi-cultural richness that exists in the world and with the Internet and access to the right ingredients, I can cook South American food, Vietnamese, Chinese food, Mexican food, and the list goes on. To me, TG really is about the entire family coming together and spending time with each other. Thats what drives me to work hard and cook up an entire meal for my family. I highly value my family, even more after my mother's passing this year. I don't spend time with friends during this time. I even broke ties with every person I knew from high school due to person reasons. Even though I grew up in a predominantly asian neighborhood and schools, I perceive myself as being an American before being Chinese. As someone who is smart and skilled, I feel like its my responsibility to be a friend to everyone, regardless of culture/ethnicity, and making people feel welcomed and not feel like any culture is superior to another. EDIT: Added details.

This has me planning a hot pot dinner for thanksgiving. I love the cozy vibes

Jessica did really well! Very interactive and talkative

Or you're that type of Asian to not even acknowledge these holidays...

omg you guys are actually getting a warm lunch for lunch break! lol

My family has the best of both worlds on Thanksgiving: hot pot for lunch and turkey for dinner. I’m in a food coma every year lol

Congrats Phil 💐🎊☺️ 8:58 I think Chris is Sleepy 😴 💤 😄

One year my cousin's husband wanted to do the turkey for everyone to try, so he went to those Chinese BBQ shop and asked them to roast the turkey for him. So, the turkey ended up tasting like BBQ duck because the shop used the same marinate😂

For Thanksgiving, we always have turkey. We have an American dinner and then usually after that, we go to Black Friday. 👍 but we definitely have Asian food as well at the dinner table. My mom makes the best strawberry cheesecake in my opinion. That is usually how I spend Thanksgiving. ^^ Also congrats Phil! 👏👏

We have a full on turkey dinner for thanksgiving!!! Very Martha Stewart like with table cloth, cloth napkins, napkin rings and what not...Holiday ham, prime ribs, and salmon for Christmas. Hot pot is for New Year’s Eve

I actually like how you all have different ways to deal with the leftovers - congee, soup, fried rice; sounds great

My family comes from Mexico so we Mexicanized Thanksgiving. We have turkey but we boil it and make it with a sauce called Mole with rice on the side. We have pasta salads and Mexican desserts like flan and tres leches cake.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday it doesn’t matter what race or ethnicity you are, anyone can celebrate thanksgiving the way they want to. Thanksgiving is a tradition of being thankful for the things you have, your family, your relatives etc.. God bless you all and I hope you all have a good blissful thanksgiving 🦃🥧🥐🫐🥘

Jessica is on Lunch Break !!! Glad she finally joined in :)

We usually have hot pot or go out for a nice dinner. We also did a lot of Black Friday shopping with family.

I like how Phil always like to sneak in something at the end "How'd she do?" "This is my girlfriend Helen" (well now fiance!! congrats! ❤️)

Best wishes to Phil and Helen!

Don't forget about the other larger meat dishes like pork picnic (aka picnic shoulder, pork shoulder, etc), steamboat, brisket, etc. Those are great options too.

recently we've been doing salmon and steak for thanksgiving 😂

Cousins taking over Thanksgiving is a transition yet to take place but definitely inevitable in my 20s (God willing). I definitely had the slaughter the goat experience and it was a humbling and insightful experience as a child that is like to pass on personally

was kind of expecting this weeks video to be about Phil getting engaged haha

When I was in Iowa I was served cold pickled ham! It was fine, I didnt love it, but Phil's surprise at people eating cold ham made me laugh.

I celebrate it Canadian-style .... 2nd Monday of October with yummy turkey and gravy. Oh yeah, and family too, but let's face it, the food is why we're really there.

I did not realize how Asian you all are LOL. I grew up in Canada in an Asian household but we did all the Canadian/American traditions and holidays. I find this quite fascinating.

My mom always makes jook with leftover turkey too! One thing we're doing differently this year is roasting potatoes; the last few years the potatoes were undercooked even though the bird was cooked, so this time we're gonna follow an actual recipe and boil them first then put them in the oven separately 😂🤞

Phils mom sounds exactly like my mom! She does the exact same things for thanksgiving and Christmas!

LOL I was that one kid in the family to bring in Thanksgiving and Christmas which I bet both times my mom was secretly hating how school/tv taught me that these holidays existed. Though we started thanksgiving way later. I remember there was one day I just asked my mom if we were ever going to celebrate thanksgiving and she was like " ... do you really want to celebrate it?" Since then we have celebrated thanksgiving but this year my mom said she was too lazy to cook a huge a** turkey so she bought chicken instead :'D

Chinese here, SO is White and this will be our first year doing Thanksgiving as a family with 2 young children and we are doing 100% American style, from turkey to homemade gravy, to southern style green bean with ham to mashed potato and homemade pumpkin roll for dessert.

Our version of Thanksgiving dinner involves take out from a nearby Chinese restaurant in the 626! We don't EVER make any food commonly associated with the foods served during Thanksgiving.

Chris: I found out there’s no Santa because there are no chimneys in Florida 🤣🤣🤣🤣rofl

My family usually do turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes and gravy, egg rolls, pho, salad, and snacks

I love how Phil forgets to host the show. 😂 He just wants to eat

We did the whole Asian spread for the adults (hot pot, duck or pork belly, spring rolls etc) and then easier foods for the kids like chicken wings, fried rice, noodles

That “i love holiday ham” 😂

a mix of turkey + american sides and also some salmon & asian sauteed veggies plus rice (usually for the older gen people) :)

Jessica hunny you slay Lunch Break debut! :)

Currently eating lunch while watching lunch break 😎

My family does both--hot pot and turkey. We love the turkey from Ranch 99. It tastes like a XL version of roasted duck, haha. Goat sounds amazing too!! XD

my family has a seafood thanksgiving....we bust out the crabs, shrimps,lobster...like we are all off,I look forward to it!! we used to do turkey when i waa kid but it transitioned to seafood lol

In Singapore, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving but we have turkey, honey-baked ham and fruitcake for Christmas 🎄

It's definitely Hot Pot season. I can't wait to have it.

I grew up in the Philippines so we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. But my first year here in the US, I worked on Thanksgiving lol so my mom and sister and I just grabbed dinner at Cracker Barrel 😂 And then I moved to live with my other sibs and we mostly cook Filipino food but I think this year they want to have some turkey too 😂

My family did crab for Thanksgiving because my aunt was getting sick of turkey (she usually makes most of the food) and I'm so glad because the crab was so delicious. And we also sit on the floor with a tarp every time so that's kind of funny that Jen's family does the same thing and we put our food on the table, buffet style too. We have less people though and we actually do talk just because we're so close. It's like a casual Thanksgiving while my other family (my dad's side) is a traditional Thanksgiving (around the table, basic Thanksgiving stuff like turkey and mashed potatoes, I also drank a lot of apple cider). We also sort of Asian gambled on my mom's side (I say Asian gambling because it's a Vietnamese game called Bau Cua ca cop, where we have a mat with a pear, deer, crab, fish, chicken and prawn and we bet on money on which animal or thing the three dices will land on and if the dice lands on the animal or thing we picked, we get double the money, (get to keep what you bet on plus double so 1 dollar = 2 dollars). If two dices land on the same animal or thing you get triple the money and so on but we've never seen three dices land on the same animal or thing before). Also, my mom and dad sort of did santa but also not. My dad or mom used to drink the milk and eat the cookies when I woke up but I figured out that Santa wasn't real when my mom told me to put pocky on my list (because she already bought it) and my mom told me to brush my teeth but I went downstairs to check instead but it wasn't there so I went upstairs to brush my teeth and suddenly when I went downstairs, it was there. Yeah, I kind of connected the dots. My mom and dad didn't do a great job of doing the tooth fairy either because they told me to put the tooth in the bathroom, because why not and then if I put it under my pillow, I could feel them lifting it because I'm a light sleeper. At least they tried. 😅

my family is Italian American. So on Thanksgiving we eat lasagna and many other Italian foods, that we make from scratch. Christmas is almost the exact same, but instead of lasagna we make homemade ravioli XD

Having serious hotpot cravings at 4:21AM now :")

this video give me a good idea that if i should star showing my kid for asian style celebration for Thanksgiving.

Jessica is so cute!! lunch break debut!

wanna hear more from chris! he was so quiet during this episode haha

Looks like Chris is the only one who is really enjoying that hotpot. I love love love hotpot!

My dad used to stuff the 🦃 with sticky rice, Chinese sausage, shirataki mushroom. It was actually really good. Then caucus goes into congee next day

For viet hotpot, we do have the chinese style soups, but for our own style i think we call it steamboat(?) (saw it being called that on a menu). Its mostly seafood or just fish hotpot.

I remember Jessica from their "Office Makeover" video

Well first I'm Canadian so my Thanksgiving already happened in October. 2nd my family usually get whole cook chicken sold at grocery store because it's a family of 4 and non of us like Turkey. And sometimes to be fancy we make chicken Korean porridge. And that's our Thanksgiving meal. This year we went out to eat at a restaurant and most of us got Steak

ah the christmas specials

"Goat is G.O.A.T." - Wes Chan 2019

Congrats Phil!

5:20 whoever did this flashback, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn but actually how tho?

My family usually just eat a full chicken on Thanksgiving, but this year I will roast a turkey for them :)

Phil can probly relate: norcal Chinese families would go to Reno! During xmas

lol my dad does the exact same thing as Phil's family do. Turkey with mash potato and stuffing on the side. Then we make fried rice with the leftovers. Guess all Taiwanese parents think alike.

Hello Jessica!!

Can’t wait to see what you guys eat for Christmas 😁

We had both duck and turkey. Also a buffet of other chinese food.

People who say they don't like turkey, just haven't ate a good one.

I never had turkey for Thanksgiving. My mom just buy those full chicken in Safeway that comes in a big box.

That’s cool, we have tamales and Cuban Coffee. We make the turkey and for a whole week, we would have turkey soup, turkey tacos, turkey toastadas and finally. Turkey Sandwich.. Downey California

yes! haha my family have hot pot instead of turkey. its so much better because of the possible combinations instead of just a plain turkey

So when are y’all posting these episodes on Spotify?

Does anyone's family also use hot pot and an electric skillet or is it just my family?

Vid makes me really wanna eat hotpot right now!

Hell yea. Christmas in vegas

Australia doesn’t have thanks giving ☹️ wish we did though!

Bout to invite Wes to my caribbean thanksgiving

OMLLL this is soo true for me

how we had our thanksgiving was based on who’s house we went to that year, like the families would take turns hosting so it changed based on that. our family would do hot pot, and other families would do potluck, traditional american thanksgiving, etc. one thing that remained the same tho is that we would participate in black friday shopping after lol