you guys need to do Trini food! - THE ULTIMATE STREET FOOD

Jamie: Just do what I do and refuse to accept the illegal US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

@@aytas23 YESI want them to try Mauby!

I agree with Jamie about the second dish, if he had only written USA it would be absolutely wrong because America does not have its own national cuisine. Jamie definitely got the 5 points with his explanation.

Do they use miles in the UK? I thought you guys used metric system?

I agree, I too would love to see more A-Z Global Dish challenge videos.

Yes! I’ve been waiting what feels like forever for the next instalment 😢

I went in to the comments to mention this.

Yes! It is an awesome series and we need more

I imagine we'll have to wait some time. they film quite far in advance, and that particular series is reliant on feedback. so they probably ly made a couple of episodes, then wanted to see how they did before continuing. there may also be additional research involved by the food team. I have no doubt we'll get our Congo episode eventually

Every US Navy vet on the West Coast just collapsed laughing at "South Korea". US Navy sailors have somewhat of a reputation for not seeing anything of a foreign land except what is found between the pier and the closest bar. In this case, Musubi at least used to be on the menu at the EM Club at NavSta Pearl Harbor, which is where I had it for the first time. Didn't even need to leave the base for this one. Granted, times change...it's been over 30 years now. The Philippines would also have been a correct answer. Kind of sad to consider that one of our most enduring legacies of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam has been to inject SPAM into the local cuisines across the Pacific Rim. FWIW, my technique for selecting a place to eat in a foreign port was to flag a local cab and ask the driver to take me to wherever he took HIS family to eat. After living onboard ship with 400 of my shipmates, I really didn't want to go sit in a bar with them...

@@kevincrosby1760 Hawaii came to my head instantly but I had no idea why. I now realise from your accounts it must have been mentioned in either a Tom Clancy or similar book I read extensively in my youth

@@BigDavie2000 Mine too but I've had it from people who picked up the recipe in Hawaii. So not much of a guess lol. Highly recommend it's delicious.

Seattle is 2.5k miles from Hawaii and yet some of my local gas stations have musubi!

There is no such thing as enjoying spam musubi too much. 🤙🏽🌺💜

Im from Indonesia too And I do not know if that is a bowl of bakso 🤔 Because it looks really different from the original

@@gudseygood3622 Yea the egg and the greens are a bit too much. Put some pak choy or scallions and you're set. The taoge is acceptable tho.

Meski yang dimakan memang bakso tapi itu bukan bakso, itu seperti miso (mie ayam bakso). Saking bangganya orang indo tiap ada masakan yg go inter, resepnya salah kaprahpun di iyain seakan gak ada yg salah.

@@imageez if you buy bakso in Indonesia with a looks like that, the restaurant owner is definitely not Indonesian. I don't know what it is, but it looks like miso (chicken meatball noodles). the only thing that's the same is the meatballs and maybe the chili sauce. But if you buy miso you will get almost the same look as in the video.

@@Vi-rb7fz Iya, makanya aku kok mikir awal2 ini apa? pas dijelasin Bakso kok kaget. beda banget sama bakso pada umumnya

I can imagine that. Need any ideas for other foods to throw them off?

Who would win in a chef battle between you and Ebbers?

@@Anna-uh3jq always looking for more global food inspo!

@@jts3014 only one way to find out....

Kush, you absolute tease

When I was in college, a friend of mine threw a party for friends and made spam musubi but made them look like sushi. He wouldn't tell them what it was till later on in the party. Once the musubi was gone, he announced what it was to people's shock. They admitted it was delicious and would not have tried it had they known, but now would eat it in the future. 😆

hehehe mungkin akhirnya turis yg datang udah parno duluan kalo ketemu penjual bakso ya ini beneran jualan atau sedang tugas

Hey don't feel bad, I knew it was a Hawaiian sushi, couldn't remember the country and I'm from the USA 😱

I never thought that intelligent agency fun fact will reach Ben either

@@JustASound83 the local meme that went overseas 😂

Hey same here! Hahaha I know bak means meat (bakkwa, dendeng), but didn't know about it!

To be fair the name is influenced by the hokkien dialect, so yeah it is quite common for indonesian to not know that

Do you happen to know when this drink became popular in Brazil? Was it between the world wars perchance?

@@patricktuminaro2248 I believe that it may have emerged during the colonization of Brazil, it would be a derivation of the mulled wine brought by the Portuguese, but as it was difficult to find wine in some parts of Brazil, it ended up being replaced by cachaça.

Melhor época do ano! Vem São Jão!

Yeah, I see spam and think - Hawai'i, Japan (because I saw it a lot at emmymade channel, previously emmymadeinjapan), South Korea (because Maangchi prepared it few times on her channel as well).

Or you can assume it's from Guam. Having lived in both Guam and also Hawaii the amount of spam the Chamorrans eat is astronomical. If my memory serves per capita no other place in the world eats more.

@@HalfUnder well I learned something today, because I had no idea spam was popular in Guam!

@@HalfUnder How does Guam not tip over with all those Spam tins on it?

@@HalfUnder Yesss! I was going to say this! I'm part Chamoru and at one point Guam was the largest spam consumer in the world. Plus we also have a Japanese influence, too :)

Polish guy here as well. And I have to agree - I wouldn't call it a polish pizza, let alone I wouldn't say that Poland is famous for it. I hope it won't make people think that this more or less shallow dish is our nathional one.

100% agree. It's a popular street food but there are way more famous and way more delicious polish dishes.

At this point it is also sad, because while we did have a LOT of delicious zapiekanka places, I feel like they are dying out as kebab stores become more and more common. I would say that they have basically replaced zapiekanki.

I thought it was Belgian for a moment, bc in Belgium they have something called a 'Mitraillette', which is also a baguette, but it has chips, spicy sausages and sauce on it. Ugh, I really want one. 😄

Just as they lifted the cloche I knew I see a zapiekanka, but in fact on the streets I see kebab places everywhere (like someone here already mentioned), even in towns / small cities, or food trucks with burgers, Belgian fries, pita bread with falafel. Zapiekanka was popular street food years ago, now not really.

I mean to be fair it isn't. We might view ourselves that way in the UK but internationally we are just "The UK".

Vem são jão!!! Melhor época do ano!!

The addition of tofu already makes it fancy. Their version even has soft boiled eggs :D That's not a 15k Rupiah bowl of food, it's more like a £15 bowl of food.

Come on, this is not how I have ever had Bakso in Indonesia, let alone from a street kaki lima. I call bullshit.

@@timb2606 well try to appreciate their effort to try to make it rather than calling it bullshit

Thank you for sharing! I'd love to give it a go at home and your input will allow me to get the right things!

@@emmet-jamesblondel1708 if your lucky enough, you could get the bakso flour mix in an asian grocery.. you just have to add mince meat and cold water with the mix.. you should really try it!

The only things id consider american are burgers and peanut butter and jelly. Pretty much everything else is heavily influenced by the migrants who brought it with them. Since were almost all here because our ancestors migrated it just a big melting pot

@@GonzoDonzo By that logic only African food is real because everything else was made by migrants.

While I do agree to a point, we Americans have an awful habit of putting our own twist on foods. Might be fun to try and throw them off with Americanized versions of foods. And ce, fried chicken and Biscuits and gravy are totally America foods too! 🤣

@@christophernorton6050 i just remembered ambrosia salad. That would be a fun one for them

Yes agreed! And we know where they have been, so what does that leave 35-40 states and then 100+ versions haha

By the look of it, it's kinda look Mie Ayam and Bakso combined, which something common in Indonesia too, anyway the fun fact is really on point tho😂

Omg spam jam! Yah, totes real!

So true! I think at least half of our traditional foods make us sweat and are very hot and dense and they just don’t get it 😂

When I realized it's zapiekanka I had a smile on my face the whole episode.

Kijang satu ganti.

I mean, so do most people from Hawaii.

Honestly as Czech I often forget Hawaii belongs to USA. I mean the place has culture, how can that be part of USA :D Jokes aside, from what I saw in media, because I never ever got anywhere close to there, I always see it as closer to Asia than US

@@Xemantha The media plays it up. I’ve never been, but I know a lot of Hawaiians currently living in the continental states. From their descriptions, it’s no more different than other tourist stops in the US. There are suburban neighborhoods over there, as well. And there are many extremely interesting separate cultures and natural wonders in the whole country.

As a mainland American I would also consider Hawaii and Puerto Rico as their own countries, it’s not like they asked us to show up and take over the US is occupying those islands.

@@Heiryuu Hawai kinda did after their last king went corrupt.

Yaaaasss i am so hungry now!

That'd be epic

hoping both Sorted (and myself one day!) go to Hawaii! the food and culture just look so fascinating!!

Maybe even a series? So many amazing delights to discover.

@@SortedFood Yess. A whole series of different Indian or South Asian foods. That would be amazing

​@@SortedFood yes. within India the food within different regions is interesting. but that is true of other countries like Italy.

@@SortedFood spin the wheel and do a series of street food on every country... Street food around the world is as varied and different as the national dishes.

Ohh yesssss...India is a culinary universe like no other.

Awesome, best of luck with the cooking!

Just had a couple this morning, am I crazy or did they skimp on rice and overdo the seaweed

Be sure to use a Hawaiian teriyaki sauce, not an Asian one... Makes a big difference

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@@englishatheart you are correct. My apologies

Yeah you could do a Seattle style hot dog (cream cheese and sautéed onions)

@@zackstockdale1948 They are tasty!

Right? Even as an American I feel wrong saying spam musubi is from the USA. It's not; it's from Hawaii lol.

@@aimeevang3145 Hawaii is part of America - each region has their own version of street food (kimchi tacos in Los Angeles). I think it would be hard to find just one street food that would represent everyone

@@aimeevang3145 As an American, I totally agree. Spam masubi is way too region-specific to just call it American. Saying Texas-style Barbeque, spam masubi, Philly Cheese steak, and eggs benedict are all just "American" just feels wrong.

I don't think it was a "weird hang-up", so much as a technical limitation/"second level thinking" of the game: One of his comments suggests that the app they use measures from the capital of the chosen country ("that'd be DC"), which makes Hawaii a very high-risk pick, since it is so far from the capital of the US, that if he was wrong and it was a different Asian country, he'd have absolutely no chance of getting the 1 point. Like, if it turned out that it WAS South Korea, he'd have been better off picking PORTUGAL, since that's closer than Washington DC. So he had two options: Go with "South Korea", and if it's not right, he's still in contention for the 1 point. or Go with Hawaii, and if it's not right, he's screwed.

@@AllWIllFall2Me I’m not even a foodie tho, and I know that ANY dish with spam is either Hawaii or Philippines based, that’s like the two big centers of spam based cooking.

​@@spiderdude2099 And as a foodie and food writer, if you asked me the two big centers of Spam-based cooking, I'd have said "Hawaii and South Korea", as South Korea is the second largest producer and consumer of Spam after the US and its territories. I wouldn't have put The Philippines in the top 5 if asked before today. (Upon researching your point, however, I do think it's probably number 3 per capita*. I just had personal bias shaping my opinion, as the Filipino restaurants in my area DON'T typically serve much spam...probably because they don't want to be conflated with the local Hawaiian restaurants by ignorant mainland Americans) But the fact that both of us pick Asian countries for our #2 spot is the problem/what Jamie was grappling with: Yes, obviously to you and me, Hawaii was correct and should have been picked, but if you're not certain of that (and, as Brits, it's not crazy that they don't know that) every other answer is "An Asian country or pacific Island". (Hell, both Taiwan and Hong Kong both also have Spam dishes) Which means if your goal is to get on the board, rather than get 100%, it's smarter to guess somewhere on the Pacific Rim, since Hawaii has such a big drawback if you're not correct.

@@AllWIllFall2Me ok cool dude. Its really not that major, but I get your reasoning. Hawaii seemed obvious to me and I’m sure many others, he should have went with his gut regardless.

@@AllWIllFall2Me I have heard that spam is also fairly Common in part of brasil

Hahahha ready with walkie talkie..

And then there's a story about an agent that make bakso so good, he resigned and opened a bakso restaurant instead

Seitan is not really a big thing in Indonesia, though. Unless you’re vegetarian in which I’d feel sorry for you because our people have such a poor understanding of the diet 😂

for me, it should be with mushrooms and gouda cheese with a sprinkling of chives and ketchup :D

Finally!! And a great teaser for the lads...as Jamie said, it's not something you'd associate with Poland unless you've been there (eh, Jamie!!) or are Polish. Great series, btw...carry on, boys!

From my experience the geography teaching in the US is a lot more limited than in the UK, we have Europe so close and so much of our history is tied with Europe that we learn about it frequently all through high school. The videos I see online of the US population naming fairly well known countries incorrectly would lead me to believe that isn't true overseas, I think a lot of the US school teaching is insular and therefore you guys learn less about countries overseas :) There are some great channels if you are interested in seeing more of the world including some of the most remote places - Drew Binsky jumps to mind immediately :)

I was super confused because Spam Musubi is popular in Japan, Korea, probably the Philippines, and Hawaii to my knowledge but my immediate thought was Hawaii. My grandmother lived there for 10 years and she would make me Spam Fried Rice and she LOVES Spam musubi

To be fair, as a Korean American I know we like to use spam in things like stews (like they mentioned, another iconic use for spam is in kimchi stew, which is absolutely iconic), but I know it's less common in rolls, at least from what I've known. Of course, that's just my personal experience, so it's entirely possible other people have had different experiences, but the first thing I thought of when I saw it was "that's definitely a Hawaiian dish"

It also comes to our available foods and restaurants. UK is famously bad for it's own cuisine (excluding full English breakfast). However we have culinary menus from the world over. negatively because of the old timey empire, positively because we are a very modern international country (and let's hope it stays that way!). So essentially, we have cuisine knowledge: because we have vast cuisine choices locally.

I've been trying for a few months. The shipping is initially 150 dollars to ship to UK from the company I order poi, mochi crunch, crack seeds, etc. The only thing I think would be worth shipping to them is Aloha Shoyu, but they don't accept gifts per the website. I desperately wanted to see them eat li hing mui for poker face.

@@LeilaniLovesElephants There are a couple local stores and crack stores on Kauai that you can pay for your purchase online. Then a local will pick it up, pack it, and ship it to you Internationally from the local shipping center like DHL. Its about half the cost. They usually charge $15 to $25 USD for the service. Companies charge the price of the items, tax, international shipping, then outrageous in house "handling fees". Yes like Great Britain its an island and almost everything is important so prices are higher. However $150 is retail robbery. If you're truly interested. Im happy to give you a few websites of local families that you can work with.

@@timgibson7597 many mahalos! 🤙🏽🌺💜

nothing wrong with dark chocolate on savoury food. I once had a chocolate chicken dish. That was weird, but tasted quite good.

over the years the description of several sandwiches included "open'. the hot brown was an open sandwich. by way best hot brown was not at Louisville brown hotel but rather Galt house in the 80s also in Louisville.

I bought an "open faced" steak sandwich not that long ago... just a full steak on a piece of toasted bread

Cheers for the influence, what you call hagelslag / muisjes is what we call meses in Indonesia now. Still a breakfast staple aswell.

we Indonesian also love chocolate sprinkles, maybe because the Dutch have a long history here 😂

The trendy food in the US right now is Korean. I think there is a chance Indonesian will be next.

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Im from Indonesia too And I do not know if that is a bowl of bakso 🤔 Because it looks really different from the original bakso.

@@gudseygood3622 mungkin krn sayurannya. sayur yg dipake di situ beda ama di indo. agak ragu sih pas liat daging bulet2, tp sayurnya cerah warna-warni gitu ... wkwk

@@ffine1148 Bedo pol, malah koyok panganan liyo

@@gudseygood3622 biasanya emg kalo sayurnya g ada, diganti ama yg mirip2 dan ada di sana. kek sawi ganti selada gitu.

@@ffine1148 Hei kowe iso boso jowo Ra?

Ready with walkie talkie... god that part is literally driving me laugh too hard

Yeah…as someone who doesn’t drink wine, I couldn’t have cared less about that video! I was bitterly disappointed when this got took down!

A cooking channel having a full-length ad for a drug company was weird. They took down the wrong video.

Thanks so much Gary - you legend!

I only had with cachaça, but never with apple.

I'm from SP and there it's always made with wine, some fruits and spices if you're being fancy and cachaça to put some alcohol back in I now live in the south and here it's usually just hot wine with either eggnog or marshmallow

@@miiamoore marshmallow? that's crazy! I'm from parana, now living in SC, and think I've always had it with wine and vodka, plus some spices like cinnamon

@@brazilianana oh cool! I live in curitiba Nas feirinhas de inverno, como não pode álcool, tem o marshmallow pra acompanhar e adoçar

my favorite is mie ayam! I don't really like bakso tbh 🤣

@@itsdragherjade omg mie ayam is also so good!! I'd eat bakso with rice when i feel under the weather and need something warm 😆 bakso is so versatile, they sell fried/ grill bakso too when i was in high school

Love this 😂

My dog jumped when I yelled Hawaii!

Oh! Throw some egg in there, boom breakfast noms!

From what I've seen, Brazil has a cuisine that is not widely seen in the western world but is highly compatible with it. It would be interesting to see more South American influences make their way into food culture that is typically dominated by Asian, Italian and Indian notes.

Oh this festival that they mentioned has a full menu of traditional foods hahah it’d be great!