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Hey guys, it's Mike. It's Dan. You're watching the comments video for May, but this right now is not the comments video because this is an intro to the comments video because we forgot to tell you guys some information so then we had to add an R, so now that's just what it is. Yeah, so what are we going to tell them? We're going to tell you, you guys remember last year, we did something called the dumpling eating contest in Times Square? That's right. My man here ate like what? 36 dumplings in five minutes. Five minutes! And they weren't like small ones. They were not! They were not the little, oh the dough was really thin. No, no, no, no. The dough was thick. And each one was like that big. Yeah. That big. That was not a good time. Yeah, I mean you guys could probably find the video where we'll put it right here. Yeah, the video I'll put in the description box. Yeah, but Mike was a monster. So did that. This year is the second annual dumpling eating contest. So you're going to eat 100. I'm not doing it this year. Oh man. Wait, did you enter me in there? I can only like eat 10. You didn't enter me in there, right? Oh no! No, he didn't enter me in there. He doesn't. You don't know. You'll know the day you show up. But guys, come to Times Square. This is on June 26th. The competition. On Friday. The competition will start at 8 p.m sharp. So get there a little earlier. You can see us. We're going to have some other YouTube celebrities there as well. All your familiar faces plus some ones that, you know, some people we never met before that are coming up. Definitely. And the dumpling eating contest, guys, is a part of Taste Asia. It's basically a giant food festival. In fact, there's one day where we have a cooking competition and I'm actually the host for that. So if you guys are in town, come check that out too. That's on Saturday. So yeah, learn a lot about Chinese food, eat a lot of dumplings or watch us eat a lot of dumplings. Absolutely. So the dumpling eating contest between all your favorite YouTubers, not just us, not just people that you see on our channels, but our friends as well from other channels that are going to be a surprise. Yeah, we'll probably do like a teaser video. Yeah, and we'll do, you know, we'll have a little meetup afterwards so we can hang out a bit with you guys. So definitely show up and cheer us on. Yes. I'm going to be the retired champ. Yeah, you're going to retire with your belt. 36? Five minutes. But this year, I think we're only going to do like two minutes. Oh, man. Because five minutes was crazy. That was a little too much. All right, guys, enjoy your comments video, which is also us. So later. Hey, guys, welcome to OTGW. It's comments on your comments for the month of May. Yep. It's already May. No, it's already June. But we're commenting on last month's comments. It's, uh, the year is going by. Half a year has gone by. Oh, man, half a year? This comment is from our Chinese schools versus US schools video. It's from D Moose. Mike, you've mentioned several times how you felt like the odd man out, being the only Chinese in your school slash town. Would you say you felt more like a foreigner going to school in China or US? You know what? I felt like a foreigner more in the US when I was in the Midwest. OK, of course, because you're the only Chinese guy there. Yeah, and I felt very much like a foreigner. Right. But when I went to China for those two years, the first year, I think I felt like a foreigner more than any other time in my life. OK. Because when I went to China for the first year, they literally called me a foreigner. Hold on, but you just confused me because you're saying you did feel like a foreigner in the Midwest. OK, OK. In the US, I felt more like a foreigner than any other time in my life in the Midwest. OK. In China, I felt more like a foreigner than any other time in my life in the first year of the school I was there. So if you want to compare those two. That's what we're doing. All right. Yeah. China, first year, when I went there for school, I felt most like a foreigner because they literally called me a foreigner. No way. Gotcha. And everyone treated me different. Even the school treated me different. So how did you make? Did you make friends? Yeah, I made friends. I also made a lot of enemies. Really? Because, well, think about it. Enemies. Think about this. OK, so there are people who know that I'm from the US automatically assume that, OK, this guy has more money than me. So and back when I went to school in China, there was a lot of this hoodlum gang stuff going on outside my school. In Chinese schools? Yeah. I thought that wasn't allowed. What do you mean? It's not allowed. Well, because it's not allowed, but things happen. But Chinese schools are so strict. No, no, no. They're outside of the campus. These are people who a lot of them dropped out of school. Right, right. And they're now outside just doing nothing. And they're like, OK, you got money. Hey, give me 200 bucks. That's what I encountered when I went back over there. And you were like, no. I'm like, no. And then what happened? And then they're like, well, then we're going to beat you up. Then what happened? Then that was a credible threat. And then my brother's sister had to come pick me up from school at some point. OK. Because they were worried I was going to get killed. But you knew Kung Fu, though. You knew Taekwondo and Kung Fu. Yeah, but they also had like 30 people, so. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you could have taken a bunch of them. 30 people? I mean, I don't know. That's crazy. I don't know. I'm just saying. So that was kind of crazy over there. That's legit threat. I couldn't really understand the teacher's accents a lot, because a lot of them have thick accents. Like Chinese accents. Yeah, so they treated me different, really different. So that's when I guess I felt most alienated. But after a year, it became OK. They kind of accepted me. I became like part of the clique. It's all good. Next one, same video. Next one is from Claudia Chang. I think we met her before. Hey, Claudia. Thanks for commenting in San Francisco. So she says, desperately waiting for part two. OMG, this discussion is too interesting. Thank you. We had a great, and we could have went on for part three, four, five, six. Yeah, we just kept talking. We were like, oh my gosh. Because we cut out a lot, too. We cut out a lot, too. Because there's more like, because I find it so interesting that you and Yi had these different experiences. Because I pretend that I know. I really don't know what it's like. I did go to school in China for half a year. But before that, I went. Have you heard of this thing? It's like, when you're four years old, they sent me to a Chinese boarding school. Not four years old. No. But I asked my mom. I'm like, why did you send me to that? They're like, oh, some kids get sent to that. No, I've never heard of that. No, that's weird. Well, anyway. Maybe I could teach you about that. But anyway, thank you. Because we were really happy that people liked this discussion. Because we felt it's very relevant to a lot of people. And, you know, there's also a comment about, but why don't you guys talk about the good and pros and cons of each school system? And not just like, you know what? We just talk about our life experiences. Not just like what? Not just like talk. Kind of like people feel like we're kind of ripping on the Chinese school system. OK, I was going to say something about that. But, you know. OK, but we're just trying to be honest about our experiences there. But also, I'll be real honest. I don't like the Chinese school system. Because I've heard from what I hear from you guys. And then seeing as how basically when you grow up in America, you have a lot of more opportunities. So to me, just by that. Look, we're trying to be honest. So just our point of view. If you don't like it, you know, don't need to watch it. Same video, Razir says, Of course, the theater major would want to skip the voluntary study session. Hey, man. That's true. That's a good point. Thank you. That's a good point. Because I know. You want to be a theater major in China? Because these study sessions are useless. They're useless. Because all they teach you how to do is memorize these facts in order for you to nail that test. In order for you to. But you know what? I would use that for practicing the piano, drawing. You know, I would use that for extracurricular activities. Would you guys? Yes, I would. You would just goof off outside of school. But I actually also did a lot of extracurricular activities. You know, like sports and piano. You know what the extracurricular activity in China is? What was that? That's what I'm saying. So I would be like, can I go? And they'd be like, no. And I'd cry. Or just run out. Me and you, we did it. All right, next is the video we did about hairstyles. Okay, right. Hey, look, Mia. Mia comments on our videos. Asian beauty secrets. What did she say? She said, lol, Dan, your Chinese still hasn't improved. How does she know that? Because at the end, we put. How does she know that? At the end, we put outtakes of you not able to pronounce anything. Just so you guys know, every time we do a video and there's a lot of Chinese in there, I have to turn to Mike or someone else to tell me how to pronounce the words. And it usually takes a few tries. Yes. That's why, like, if there's a paragraph and there's a lot of, like, Chinese words, I'm like, yo, bro, you gotta do that. So do you think your Chinese has improved? Of course I do. Really? Yes. She called you out, man. I think it does. Because how can it not? I'm speaking Chinese all the time. No, you're not. In these videos, more than I was before. It's just that you guys are throwing these, like, historical terms at me. Like, that's hard. I agree with you, Mia. I don't think it's Chinese improved at all. Dude. Wait, was Mia just trolled? Mia just trolled me. Yeah. She just trolled us. No, not us, you. She didn't do anything to me. All right, Mia, watch out. I'm gonna, I'm gonna troll. I actually troll Mia sometimes, but she doesn't. Yeah, sometimes. I don't think she knows it's me, because I don't do it under, off the Great Wall. Well, you watch her videos? About, you know, eyeliner stuff? No, about like... How to put on makeup in a day? No. What do you watch? Like, about, you know, taking care of your skin. Okay, all right. Beauty routine. Good for you. I'm gonna keep this looking good, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you do. Yeah, man. All right, same video. Pigboycool says, Qing Dynasty hairstyle and clothing are the ugliest Chinese style in history. All style and dress prior to Qing style looks awesome. Wow, that's a pretty bold statement, and it got a lot of likes. It's like, wait, so what? Come on, I agree to a certain extent. Really? The guy's haircut with that, you know, with the braid. Right. And the half-shaven head. That's kind of weird. It's weird, but like a lot of Chinese and a lot of things in ancient China were weird. No, no, no, but I'm just saying. I'm just saying this particular hairstyle. Right. It's a little weird. I think it's pretty cool. Really? I think it's pretty cool. Why don't you sport that for us? Well, it would take me like 15 years. I think you should try. I mean, like, wait, hold on. To grow hair that long. First of all, that's the real hair, right? Yeah. That's not a wig. No. So you would have to not cut your hair from you were a baby to grow it that long. Whatever. Down to your butt. I think it takes like, I don't think it takes your whole lifetime. Maybe it takes like three, four years or something. No, more than that. No, way more than that. Ask a girl. I don't know. That's crazy. But I kind of agree with the hairstyle. But I would say the royal royalty, especially the princesses, what they call a gege in the royal courts, their outfits are actually quite beautiful. Yeah, from the Qing Dynasty, the Manchurian. They had very tight, like, kind of like the what I think cheap house took that style. They have flower pot shoes. Yeah, you like that. Yeah, we learned all that from Shen Yun, actually. Exactly. Because they were very, like, elegant. Yeah. But the men was kind of another story. Oh, wow. Okay. So this is the Korean food video we read. I read this. Yeah. I read this. So Fantic 1980. Yi totally has something for Mike. She can't take her eyes off him. So cute. Yeah, I read that one. I just laughed. Because the comment below was like, actually, he's my girlfriend. And probably she keeps looking at you because, like, you're so silly. Why am I silly? You're really silly. I'm just a passionate food... Because you make really funny comments, you know, so she's just like... And usually during the day, she gets tired of looking at me. That's true. She does get tired of looking at you. But that was a really funny comment. I actually read that one. Maya Price says, same food video. Wish you guys could do this in LA. I don't know any good Korean restaurants. Well, you know what? Yeah. We are actually exploring that option right now. So we are exploring contacting places over there that would have us over. So we get like a good chunk of places. We'll fly over or do a bunch. We'll tell you guys where to eat. That's awesome. I already have some favorite places I go to in LA. Those are going to remain secret for now. Yep. I went to a couple Korean places. They were really good. Not just Korean places, but there's a couple of really nice Chinese places, Korean. You know, there's good stuff to eat in LA. I feel like the hot pot scene in LA is much better than New York and the Korean barbecue scene in LA. It's much better than New York. Yeah. I'm going to make this bold statement. I think the Asian food across the board in LA is way better than New York, period. No, I wouldn't say that. What do you think is better in New York? I think street food is much better in New York. Consisting of what? Like, for example, if I, first of all, can I just knock one thing about you LA people here? Okay. That night market, sorry, that night market. Okay. That's just a train wreck. So I've never been there. The 626 night market is just a train wreck. Why do you say that? First of all, the lines are like down the block for every single vendor, except for like the churro guy. He didn't go to like night market and eat churro. No, you didn't. And also the skewers. Skewers, folks, LA people. Skewers should not be $3 each. They're not $3 each. How much are they in New York? One. They're a dollar. Like $1.25. But wait, forget the price. Were they good? They're same. They're the same exact quality. And I'm waiting in a line. Do you see a line in any one of our skewer people? All right. I go to this night market, wait around for like half an hour to eat like a $3 skewer. That's like horrid. But you're talking about, I got to clarify something, because you're talking about Chinese street food. Because there's a lot of other kinds of street food. First of all, okay, the night market, horrible. I give you Korean barbecue. I give you guys Chinese hot pot. We take street food, Korean little stalls too. We take stalls. We take food court. We take that. We have the better food court. Yes. We have better northern food here. Okay. I could see that. Yeah, I think they might have better dim sum. Yeah, because the dim sum in New York. It's not that good. I'm sorry. It's horrible. It's not just, it's not that good. Like horrendous. I'm sorry. I don't really have a good opinion of New York Chinese food. Yeah, you don't. Because I'm sorry. I mean, we go to a lot of places and I'm not, I like it, but I've had better on the West Coast. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Well, you know, certain things you guys do better. Certain things we do better. Yeah. But you know who does it all better? Vancouver. So if any of you guys want to get Mike there, all you got to do is be like, hey Mike, I got a free room in my house and I'll introduce you to all the places and guaranteed he'll probably fly there. Yeah. I basically went to all the places when I was there. No, but I'm just saying like, I love that place. Next, same video. I like this one. Laura Palacio says, Mike made such a huge mess with his food. Lol, like a baby. Bro, you had all of that chicken feet sauce, like all over your mouth, bro. You know what? That's the sign of a good meal. That's true. You know what it is? Like, all right. I also make a big mess when I eat Italian food. You know, when they take that little comb for the crumbs. There's like crumbs all over. Yeah, whatever. At the end of your meal, when they come by and they have to scoop all the crumbs. It's like a mountain of crumbs on my table. I'm just, you know, I'm a passionate eater. I'm an enthusiastic eater. It shows from the sauce on my face to the mess I make on the table. That's why you need to bib yourself. I always bib myself. If you guys ever go eat with me, I always bib myself. I got two things to say. Whenever we go out to eat, like I just put the napkin on my lap. You're a clean eater. And every time I look over at you, even if you have a bib on. The bib is covered in sauce. Yeah, but also you also still manage to get some food on yourself. That's true. You have a bib on. Like, how do you do that? You know what? We're going to create the OTGW bib. We're going to do it. Yeah. Would you guys like to have that? It would have to be disposable. Yeah, disposable. No one wants to reuse bibs. Wash your bibs. Yeah, you're going to treat that like a shirt. Yeah, you take it to the bathroom and you wash it. Nobody washes things in the bathroom. All right. The other thing is too, I used to be a waiter, right? And so we used to keep that crumb, crummer in our pocket. Let me just tell you, we rarely used it because people don't create such a mess. But if you were in the restaurant, I guarantee you, I'd have to come over every five seconds. They would have to actually use like a bulldozer attached to the crummer and just like bulldoze his way around the table. It would be a record. Yeah, it actually would be. So now we're at the Asian identity video. Hao Han Zhao says, my grandma in China also calls me a banana because I'm yellow on the outside, well, yellow on the outside, but white on the inside. Well, a grandma calls her. I've never heard of family members actually saying, you're so white, like you're a banana, you're a Twinkie. You're a Twinkie. You hear other people calling, you never hear family, especially a grandma. Yeah. Maybe the grandma's like super into like... Yo, grandma knows her terms. She might be watching YouTube videos. Yeah, if she ever, next time you show up and she's like, you Twinkie? Yeah. Yo, she knows her stuff. Yeah, or like, what was the, or like if she had a boyfriend that was Caucasian, the grandma's like, you brought home an egg. That'd be funny. It'd be awesome if she was like, grandma, where'd you learn that term? And she's like, I watch OTGW videos. Nothing's cooler than an older Asian person. Exactly. That's like cool. And that's cool. That's with it. So if you like that, you like that. All right. Same video? Yeah. So KWMS27 Misaki says, oh my God, my mom said that she was going to send me to China to properly learn Chinese. Embrace it. I, you know how much I didn't want to go to China? I can imagine. Here's, because I'm like picturing in my head, I'm like, everything is gross over there. Right. Everything is dirty. I'm going to be living in a third world country. You know, the plan I devised to get out of this was, which was this, I wrote it down on a piece of paper. I was, my plan, I was supposedly, because I didn't know this, I was a kid, you know, but flying from China, I stopped at Tokyo. Right. Okay. So I was thinking I'm going to stop at Tokyo and then go to China again. I don't know. Like, I'm thinking that's the flight route. You're like 16. This is what you're making up. I'm 13. 13. You're making this up in your head. So then here's my plan. All right. I was like, when I get off in Tokyo airport, and I wrote this down elaborately, when I get off in Tokyo airport, I will sneak away. Yeah. And my profession, no, no, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to sneak away into the woods. Then I'm going to be found by a ninja clan. I knew it. I knew you were going to be a ninja. When you have an obsession with ninja. That was my plan to not go to China. Obviously, I didn't become a ninja. Or maybe I have, you don't know. You know what I would have done? What? I would have just been like, okay, just send me to military school in America. Don't send me to China. Just send me. Because I wouldn't learn Chinese at military school. No, but I'm saying you're as you, because your parents also sent you there for discipline. Right. So if that happened to me, I'd be like, just send me. How about Chinese military school? No, no. That's like the worst. I'd be like, send me to American military school. I will go there. Well, I should have went there. I turned out fine. I ended up loving the culture there. Embrace it. Take this as an opportunity. Think of it as studying abroad, you know? But I would add one thing, though. I'd be like, when you're in China, though, you try to make an effort to also try to learn more traditional Chinese things outside of China. Because you're not going to learn a lot of that when you're in China. So there's going to be a lot of great things, a lot of great experiences. But kind of put, what am I trying to say? Take everything with a grain of salt. Also, here's where it kind of messed me up a little bit, coming back to the US. I don't know if you're going to have this problem. But since I was in China, I didn't learn much English. So when I came back, right away, I was taking my SATs. And I didn't even know the meaning of bread or something simple. I'm like, what is that? I don't know what that means. So if you want to eventually go to school, I don't know where you are. But let's say you're in America, you're going to take standardized testing. You need to keep up on your grammar. Keep it up. OK, so this is the Dove video we did about the beautiful average door. Jackie Wu says, I'm sure Mike will walk through the beautiful door. Yes. Dan will walk in and out multiple times through the beautiful door and sing I'm beautiful no matter what they say. You're probably right. I'd be like, beautiful, average. I'd be like, selfie myself. Yeah, we definitely got to selfie it. I mean, it didn't happen unless you selfied it. Yeah, because we're all beautiful. That's right. The more you know. Same video? Yeah. So Lulu Chinese Doll Meng says, too bad that this video and the previous one with the 15-year-old are not in Chinese. I'd love to show them to my mother so that she would stop criticizing me about my physical appearance. That's right, Lulu. That's one of the things that I don't like is a lot of Chinese parents, they criticize their kids, especially girls, about their appearance overly. Too much. Yeah, too much. What you can do is you can actually put, I think they're going to have on YouTube an auto-translation. Oh, OK. Yeah, so you can show your parents that. But you know what? Chinese parents, they only trust doctors or something. So they might not trust. They'd be like, No, no good. Those two, no good. Right. You know, it's ironic because traditional Chinese culture is about health, about wellness, and holistic healing of the body. So Chinese parents in the past, I'm sure they would tell you how to take care of your body. But nowadays, they don't really tell you that much. How come you're fat? How come you don't look good? How come your skin not so soft? Like, yeah, it's true. But you know what? You can show her our video. And we'll come over and we'll talk to her. Yeah, she probably won't listen. All right, so now it's time for the May Fan of the Month. And again, you guys can become Fan of the Month if you comment and here, Facebook, just, you know, make yourself stand out. Yeah, send us some photos. Yeah, do whatever. Send us some, send me some pies. Yeah. Send me a steak. But this month, our Fan of the Month is Manda. Yeah, I think I'm saying that right. I'm not. So message us on Facebook to claim your tight-fitting, good-looking, off-the-grid-wall t-shirts. That's right. That's right, guys. Anyway, thank you all so much for watching. See you later. Peace.