Asian Foodies Are Overrated & Need to STOP!

is being an Asian foodie overrated a group of Asian guys on the internet are debating this right now yeah but as an Asian it's not your duty to be a foodie maybe or maybe not Andrew people are debating this on the internet right now this guy wrote a heated Reddit post basically saying being a foodie is overrated by Asians in the west and uh this got the internet arguing all types of way so make sure you like subscribe and turn on your notifications but you know what has to do with food and it's not overrated SMA sauce check it out uh there's nothing wrong with using SMA sauce on your food because it makes it taste better and it adds this cool tingly kick real quick let me Define foodie uh as by Oxford dictionary a person with a particular interest in food a gourmet but what do you think he's referring to he's not referring to being Gordon Ramsay right right no I mean that be a uh highlevel chef but what he is referring to in this post and essentially to sum it up he's talking about a group of Asians and it's mostly about Asian guys in this post but he does address Asian women but Asian guys who just like to game right they'll play League of Legends and then go out and try to go get Korean barbecue hot pot then get boba afterwards and he's saying that type of lifestyle and like valuing sweet tasty decadent Foods all the time is not actually good for you and it's not making you a stronger man so he is kind of taking on this he's kind of he's kind of saying that it's not as uh masculine to be a super big foodie when and I believe he himself the op the original poster was a foodie who got reformed lost a bunch of weight and said man this was so much better for my life as an Asian guy right because I guess for him he imagines like ooh I'm trying to seek out the yummiest restaurant what's the newest restaurant I want to try the new f with the bone marrow I want to try this new Boba flavor this new Omas as a guy uh especially an Asian guy um you need to more focus on being masculine rather than eating delicious food here real quick let me just read some of it let me just read some of it based on my observations growing up with a bunch of different asian brothers from different backgrounds every single one of us is a sort of foodie yes we have good taste and we love good food culture but listen guys you you just see Asian guys Asian girls they reference food in their dating profiles it's the equivalent of white girls with tacos and margaritas and just look at some of the tables at C kbbq next time you go how many groups of three to five single guys are there stuffing their faces looking like standard leagues Of Legend players and man I just know there's all these sausage fest groups of guys that hop on Discord then they play league or valerin then they go stuff their faces with high calorie food in Boba every weekend and we just say it's because we're Asian Foodies as an excuse for this terrible Behavior wow so he's kind of calling out Asian dudes for calling themselves Foodies to mask the behaviors of kind of being like these he's kind of framing it like loser guys hedonistic Glutton possibly right he also goes on to say that being an Asian girl foodie and possibly being skinny fat is a lot different than being an Asian dude and being skinny fat like he said it plays a lot better for the women than it does a man right you're saying a man if you don't have any muscle mass you don't do physical activities all you want to do is eat delicious food as a dude you're not going to get much out of life but as a girl you can still get something out of life doing that well you could still be like pretty right or you could still be cute quick thoughts this post made me laugh and it made me laugh because of the way he characterized it um have you seen these groups of people I I guess I mean Fred over here Fred did you game with your friends this weekend on Discord and then go get hot pot he did he did that Fred just told Fred's in sh I'm I can't speak for all the Fred's friends over here I'm not saying Fred is the epitome of what this guy is talking about but Fred did game go get H but no what I'm saying is I get what he's saying I you know I consider myself a foodie David because I am into food we are into food we film a lot of the new restaurants we are seeking things we have tried more food than like 99% of people on Earth you mean thousands of restaurants I've spent so much of my income on food so I can't say I'm not a foodie but I do think that there's different levels to it and I think what he's more referring to in my opinion is the overall holistic lifestyle of just trying to kind of pack yourself with dopamine and Chase these easy delicious foods while you do these low um uh uh uh low physical activities you know like like specifically gaming and then go eating a bunch of Korean barbecue and then go getting Bob afterwards you're intaking tons of calories and you didn't burn anything he he was blaming the whole stack on just the foodism but it's a stack of behaviors in a layered just position right we have a foodie crowd on our Channel kind of maybe not as much for the talking videos but definitely the food videos but what I'm saying is I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying food it's really like the other stuff around it that I think he's talking about that all combines together right I I think his tone of like persecution made me laugh though like just how serious he took it man he was he was mad I will say this though a lot of people who engage in foodism I don't think they um engage in holistic cultural experiential foodism and that's really what we do right we watch videos on Georgia as a country then go to like five different Georgian restaurants and try Kaji porri it's not just like cheeb cheeb yeah I mean we we're kind of exploring culture at the same time so kind of like you know Anthony bouraine and Gordon Ramsey you would not call these guys losers because they're you know well Gordon's a chef too you know they're David Chang opened up a bunch of spots he's kind of fat I would say to be honest but he's like laed for being I think he's a massive dude I bet he's kind of strong too I will say this there's so many levels of watching what you can eat as a Asian foodie you know you could cut out carb sugar and fried foods or you could just don't don't take it as intense do the light version Andrew you cut out simple carbs you cut out added sugars and you cut out like battered and deep fried foods so you can still eat pan fried things you know there's like many levels of how you can avoid this situation listen I don't think it's that people out there don't understand how many calories are in Boba it's not that it's not that people are ignorant to it I what the op is really talking about is this attitude from particularly Asian guys who want to kind of like be essentially the Asian-American version of what's happening in China which is like lie flat let it rot you know like you're kind of Tong ping by line you're kind of giving up as a man but you're using your foodism and gamerm as an excuse to as a what is that what does that word mean py that's like uh in government conspiracies okay pop up that word yeah so it's like using it as a cover or as an excuse and be like oh well you know what I just like food so I like exploring new foods but it's like nah to be honest you actually just don't want to do a lot in life that's kind of what I think he's getting at actually and you want to be in Pro Asian spaces and you might not feel comfortable outside of those Pro Asian spaces there's nothing wrong with wanting to be in Pro Asian spaces like f dim suum BBQ sushi buffets but it's like you can't mask your other voids in your life with that right and it's kind of being like Oh well I'm proud of being Asian because I only go to Asian restaurants but then you don't do anything else that's an issue right what are you doing for Asians yeah yeah yeah but anyways I I I think I think we should get in the comment section and then I want to give my thoughts at the end of what people should be doing instead okay somebody said that all Asians are sort of Natural Born Foodies all Asians tend to talk about food more than most western people obviously not all Western people I think Italian people really like to talk about food people in the Mediterranean but it sure seems like the average Baseline for discussing food in amongst Asians is higher than your average American like your average americ might discuss the Vibes or the decor the Ambiance or the service at the restaurant more than likely Asians will get together at a spot and discuss the food quality no no definitely Asians love talking about the food taste and no it's true because Asian food is really good so I I I don't blame Asians that's in a weird way it's kind of part of Asian culture to kind of nerd out on food or geek out on food be a little bit more geeky about food right right right I mean it's sort of like traveling everybody likes traveling but it really has to do with like how much are you willing to deal with the unappealing aspects of traveling that make you like a true 10 out of 10 wanderluster traveler person um I think somebody just came through and said listen there's nothing wrong with enjoying food duh like 97% on PE of people on Earth enjoy food but you just can't make being a foodie be your whole personality what do you think about that but what if you made being a foodie your personality but you uh supplemented it with cooking cultural studies trying to learn other langu or learn other ping outside of your comfort zone yeah yeah I would say so I mean just like you can't be a mukbang channel for life you know what I mean like you know how we never wanted to do mukbangs because to me just eating food on camera solely is not interesting enough I want to support businesses I want to explore culture I want to understand where these chefs come from because we all learn something from it and the audience learns something from it but it's not that I only want to eat on camera watch me eat oh this chicken watch me CLE off the chicken it's like be more cultural be more worldly not just ASMR like sensory just like like you said like just like oh it's so crispy it's so crispy exploring different restaurants I think is a very easy low barrier way to understand different cultures we always said this so it's like traveling the world without traveling the world right and you don't have to be in dangerous areas you can go to a nice version of the restaurant in that culture and you can experience it on some level and ask a bunch of questions be interested in it you'll learn a little bit of it eight out of 10 times the purveyor of that country wants to talk to you about their country or their culture yeah at least the owner does I don't know if every server does but yes so that's why I think if you have the exploratory mindset then that is like kind of a cool masculine thing to have but right if you are following to the tea this stack of pattern of behaviors that the op is referring to where you are getting like 6,000 calories on a Saturday after gaming a bunch yeah I agree I I think what he's saying is people are using those fatty High caloric delicious dinners as an excuse like they did something for their life like more than likely you're right you're probably going to those dinners with your friends and there's nothing wrong with going to dinner with your buddies after gaming there's nothing wrong with that but you have to understand if you're all single guys then you're not going out meeting women or you're not doing something better for your life are you building a business are you doing anything that can better your life is that a I'm not saying you could be hitting the gym you could be doing martial arts not saying you have to go hit the club I'm just saying the op is just wondering like guys what are you're giving up a lot of other stuff and you're feeling like you did something that night oh I went out with my boys in head kbbq it's like no they're and they're usually sharing probably some sort of pop cultural critique or like uh Derpy jokes amongst each other right yeah there's nothing wrong with that though just you have to understand which how much of your life that takes up so there was a bunch of people on Reddit Andrew that actually agreed with him that said I put my foodism on Paws for a while or I stopped doing it or I cut it down by half I lost body weight I mean body fat percentage I saved money I feel better about myself do you think that that how about just finding a balance right yeah I mean listen if you want to eat delicious food for one of those meals a day then just eat a little bit less early on in the day fast get an air fryer own do some protein shakes in the morning and then don't eat like lunch or breakfast you know what I mean and then for dinner you can kind of treat yourself out with friends that's what I would suggest that's what I do that's what I want to do I want to when we're here in the office at home not eat very extravagantly and eat fairly cheaply and healthy and then we get to go out and either film or go on a date you know what I mean and go to a nice restaurant that's or a better Delicious Restaurant what I'm saying right right right I do think listen guys you know there was a couple other points we didn't get to touch on in the post he was saying that Asians we tend to uh store fat more in our faces and we uh a lot of Asian food is delicious but it's kind of high sodium that makes the cells retain water makes you look more bloated he was like saying all this stuff it doesn't give you you know yeah I mean the model looks or whatever like that sure sure I think there's definitely true to it man um ultimately I'll say this listen if you're using kbbq for some sushi skewers whatever you want to say whatever foodie experience you're having really going out with your friends and having really spicy food doing any sort of drinking Foods together you cannot use it as a security blanket I think it's okay every once in a while you cannot go to that as your safe space you know what I mean and I don't know if I it was never Our intention to do that but at one point we probably did promote a lifestyle that was similar to what he's referring to not that that was Our intention but we probably did right I guess unintentionally I guess by just yeah I mean just by the sheer amount of food that we were eating on camera the intention was always to explore or support business and if you look at what and if you look at how we're having those pings go it's a holistic experiential foodie Excursion yeah listen if you're a guy and you guys are gaming and then you go out to eat with your friends nothing wrong with that but if you're just sitting at the restaurant you're not experiencing anything new you're not learning anything new about the food you're not talking to other people nobody watch a Mr history video about this country and you're not talking to the waiter or the owner or building that relationship I mean these are all things that are beneficial to your life they really make your life better honestly it makes your life more fun and interesting to know people that own restaurants that own bars that own stores that own markets like it's fun you know and those are that's your neighborhood build an Asian world or Community you need to like derive some other value of other than just the tasty calories other than the numbness yeah and I think like this Foodies listen it's just another thing to be nerdy about and I I'm we're nerdy about food I mean we had to get nerdy about you know I'm nerdy about chili oil you know what I mean like we've tried a bunch of chili oils eaten all I've eaten all like 25 different brands you know what I mean and so I'm saying like there's nothing wrong with being nerdy about it but it's like how many what are how many things can you be nerdy about like are you nerdy about anime gaming are you nerdy about Boba and food are you nerdy about and you're not nerdy about it's too much consumption it's too much consumption you might want to mix it up with some huberman body hacking weight training martial arts if you don't like martial arts some ISO skill work with basketball and some people get nerdy about the dating apps and trying to attract women that's true too some people get nerdy about fashion skare some people get nerdy about skincare some people are nerdy about making money only you only have so much time and energy to be nerdy about things right I'm nerdy about a lot of things you're nerdy about things you love basketball sneakers you're nerdy about that but it's like you can't you you have to understand what the things that you're nerdy about and how they impact your life right and if you're only nerdy about things that are not making you a stronger person then you just have to acknowledge that like just acknowledge it I'm nerdy about consumption but you have to know and you have to know what that's going to do and this just this guy is frustrated and in instead of me telling you guys what to do I'm just going to be like hey if you do that lifestyle you are probably going to breed these results that's very logical that's just logical so it is what it is you choose your life you got to take a honest look at your life and say what portion of my life is based around consumption and what portion of my life is uh being proactive creating production yeah I'd love like you guys to be at dinner and to be talking about you know building like an Asian-American blog together or something talking about it going creating content while you guys go eat friends maybe you guys have a group of three guys that you guys create content for businesses you know kind of like all the Instagram guys like uh hungry artists or righteous eats you know like these guys are are adding to the world right right right shape-shifting people's uh behaviors by just highlighting different things anyway let us know what you think of this Reddit post in the comment section below is being an Asian food especially for an Asian guy overrated could it even be damaging you know I always remember this lyric from nice and smooth Andrew when he's like uh too much of anything makes you an addict too much of anything guys even the nourishment of the Soul Food let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time with the hotop boys be out peace