Are These Chinese Stereotypes True? (CANTONESE)

what are the top five most common Cantonese stereotypes that might make them a little different than other groups of Chinese people we're here to talk about it David yeah we're gonna break it down joining us today we've got KiKi Y Hello Kitty what is it J KK young KK very good and then we've got Nelson Chan or Nelly Nelly Chan I didn't know about the Rebrand n please say your Chinese name uh I don't have a Chinese name what do you mean just say it chin name is uh tanging tanging like tanun you're this is the new tanun tangan okay listen basically we have a cantones panel here all right so we're all cantones in some way and we're here to talk about what kind of might make cantones people a little bit different as far as stereotypes wise than other groups of Chinese David why are we talking about it before we well I think on our Channel we break down a lot of macro things bird's eye view you know top down macro stuff about the Asian Community you know East Asian Southeast Asian uh Daisy but we're going to get hyper granular Andrew to a group that you would only know this depth of knowledge about if you were part Kanto yourself if not full oh so if you guys are ready please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot bot boys check out smalla SAU small sauce.com uh Kanto people love the sauce and the reason we brought Kiki in is cuz Kiki I would say in America right now within the American Fishbowl environment you are the most Cantonese comedian out there by far in America really even more than Jimmy o he's pretty k no he's actually shangai you know what Kiki we're going to play some clips from Hong Kong taking the title play some clips of Kiki being and canton's on stage BR up my mom taught me really good habits yeah yeah she she she she's like Kiki do not touch yourself if you touch yourself you will get sick and die yeah she's like do you want to get sick and die KY I'm like no Mom I don't want to get sick and die I didn't know my fingers were that powerful weed for me you know I don't need it high on life I drink hot water I'm actually 150 years old yeah you know Asians yeah hell yeah Asian hot water crew right there I saw two back there I don't know you guys not with all Asians though so you might like ice water boom so I mean I think that this immediately gets into the granularity of it for example I have a cousin from Hong Kong but his he's full Shan Dong you know what I mean like he looks Korean but he just like is from Hong Kong so it's like that's not as Canto as somebody who's Canon his blood from Hong Kong right okay so you know what let's just get into it man because uh obviously we we know that uh fun canton's name FU that's the cantony spelling although the character obviously is spelled different ways uh depending on what part of China or Asia you're from actually so David what's number one man number one Cantonese people are known for their love of food and their ability to cook a wide variety of dishes also on the maybe on the stereotypical side known to eat literally everything yeah feet oh brains I grew up eating cow and pig brains my mom fried with the egg so good wait you need a brain with the eggs yeah so good y I'm not going to lie I had heard of that did you have this uh the stir fried cow brains with not with the brain no no not with the brain no but so like uh my my can and these people back home they eat it with like the little larvas you know those little insects the fried eggs with the insects this is back in the village in gongdong this is yeah in gongdong yeah okay yeah that's crazy no K so what's the old saying David about cantos what is it that anything with they would eat anything with four legs and back faces the sky that's not a table or a chair yeah but honestly like I'm just going to address it just you know cuz we we keeping it uh on a good side and a bad side right now some people said in gongdong they used to uh eat monkey brains right okay all right all right so so we started off with some negativity but I got to say Kanto food is considered canton's the larger umbrella of what is considered cantones food is considered some of the best food in the world with that being said a lot of people do say this but actually one thing I do want to not is that Cantonese food kind of encompasses a lot of other influences like Chi Chow food there's toysan there's Haka there's like Southern General Southern influences that get kind of uh combined together at a Cantonese restaurant you know what I'm saying um canones people love making soups bowong yeah oh bowong I love it tell us about some of the soups that you ate oh like H black chicken oh that's good too they like pork bone like uh one of the things that our dad loves to do is make this uh guong with like the little Goji berries and the Jin sing and the dates you know it's like slightly sweet kind of bitter but it tastes really good mies in the crock pot yeah what about uh the Hong Kong Fusion soups with like the British Russian laong the Bor oh that's good uh also uh is it that uh fish Mall soup you think that's Cantonese I think probably it's probably Kanto it's a collagen for your face I remember uh on Sunday morning my dad would spend like five six hours bowong making soup oh you have you have to do it the whole day yo this wintermelon soup the wintermelon soup with a pork super slept on guys at Cantonese restaurants at like the high-end ones you can order like those little small servings of soup out of the steamer and they come in those like little like 6 oz like 8 O A little pot Phoenix Phoenix in St Gabriel or they have the goji berry with the dates with the David what else about the food um light and subtle flavors cantones cooking does not use many spices which is the reason why Cantonese cuisine has light and subtle flavors yeah hota we like like light you know easily good for your skin nothing too fried too spicy nothing too too salty you know honestly like as far as like red and green peppers like there's not a lot of that you know what I mean I have never ever in my entire life gotten an upset stomach or diar from eating Kanto food oh true ever but I'm saying Hey listen I like Sichuan food I probably I might have had diarrhea 30 times 30 times from eating such immediately yeah no such a lot of lot of that uh hot red oil is true but I will say this so on the flip side although I think candes food is delicious and palpable for almost anybody there is a lot of people out there who would say that Cantonese food they've described it as Bland because it's very light and flavor especially Hong Kong Cafe food which is its own breed of Cantonese food Kiki can you speak so good though like the spam and egg sandwich and then you cut the the the sides you know and it's and then like you you were talking about the macaroni soup with a little bit peas and carrots if you're like looking for something that like hits you hardcore with the spices and flavor profiles it's not probably going to be Kanto food but I guess us being Kanto you don't need that to eat the food right like you don't no cuz Canon canones people like uh to eat breakfast a lot so you know they have a lot of you know clean healthier you know light breakfast options almost like everything is like Doon and I yeah kind of like dimsum it's it's you can almost eat it all for br you know at dim some restaurants even though it's like 1:00 p.m. you can literally order everything yeah like do you when you guys go get dimsum do you get the uh latu yo and the SE or no nothing I don't but my husband does cuz he's like Americanized yeah yeah I don't I don't I don't D I have to admit when I was younger I never would get the extra sauces but maybe it's because I've eaten so much other food like sichan or Korean that I need I need to I need some of it now first of all are you smer kantos dimsum got the best chicken feet I've had chicken feet from other ethn ethnicities Cuisines and I got to say the one at dimsum that is fried marinated then steamed with the black bean and the little bit of like sweetness from the Red barbecue that one's the best one kantos got the best's got the best chicken feet I'm not saying on it I think the no sauce white one is slept on too though all right it's cool with the red vinegar I know what you're talking about I know I just can't do the white chicken feet what do you think white chicken feet no it's cold it it looks like a real feet in front of my face do it number two number two point about Cantonese cuisine Seafood is quite prominent on Cantonese cuisine because the guangong region of China is located near the coast obviously Hong Kong maau you're from maau you're from Hong Kong lot of fish yeah dingu oh we love dingu my dad loves IAT what about abalon do you value abalon oh yeah yeah I love that oh yeah yeah I grew up being my dad all right so would you guys say that for protein wise Seafood is your favorite or you did you be take pork chicken or beef I like chicken the most like guy you know like the steam chicken with K yeah now what you going with yeah I'm more of a guy person I'm a guy person too but I'm going to say Hoy Se and seafood is Right close number two but se but it's expensive in America though it is like it's always like double those shrimp you know the shrimp with the garlic and the the tong oh yeah yeah with the fun SOB F about shrim about the mantis guys I think canton's cooking uses like all the different styles of cooking steaming frying brazing boiling uh stir fry everything kantos use it all but but mostly steaming though like steaming is the thing that makes Kanto food the most unique yes I agree that kantos may steam more than other people I think kantos might steep more than any other culture on Earth yeah cuz it brings out the natural flavor and then we use ginger and garlic you know like natural stuff not just relying on the spice and rice is the staple food because the Guangdong region is very suitable for growing rice climate wise yeah yeah I mean guys we all know like in the north of China they do eat rice but they also eat noodles a lot more like so in the South especially like between anywhere from like Thailand up to probably the middle part of China right like rice is like pretty much the staple so there's this saying in uh mainland China that says uh should you be so lucky to be born in sujo live and find a wife in Hong Joo eat in Guang Joo and die in Li jooe and I had to look up li Joe Li Joo I guess has really good wood for like coffins cuz you know like these Chinese sayings they're trying to like say something about the different regions right right uh anyway they said eating eating Guangdong guangong got hella good food hey they didn't say find the wife and Hong Joo though don't get the wife hey hongo ladies kidding gong Hong Kong go go find a wife in Hong Kong yeah hell no hell no I know oh gosh such a big reaction why hell no they reject you this is a different do we guys stereotypes of HK women oh jeez bang I'm a princess but I I have my limits to how prin Hong I just think you could get a better deal than a I ain't looking for a prin I don't know yeah anyways Point number two about canton's David what is the second stereotype of cantones people uh cantones people are often thought as hardworking business-minded mertile and willing to travel to far away places to H for Commerce yes yeah I mean I would say canton's people if we're encompassing essentially Southern Chinese they've been leaving China to go everywhere in the world for centuries like we're talking about when I say centuries I mean like 2 300 years ago going to Southeast Asia okay even a hundred years ago going to Latin America Panama the Caribbean America the Western world like Southern Chinese have been leaving southern China for centuries to work anywhere from fujien to tzo to guangong to I would say those three region Haka people they are some of the first Chinese why do kantos love going abroad so much to move there build their life and build their business I feel like they like the challenge they they're like extroverts I feel like they they're Fearless like my my dad started his business in Hong Kong and then we immigrated to Seattle and then he buildt another bu and your you said your grandparents are from too originally to yeah my my grandparents were from toau so and then they moved to guangong then they moved to Hong Kong yeah something like that they moved to Hong Kong Kong and then yeah my dad he he his parents died when he was young so but he started he was the licy for Walt Disney in Hong Kong had like 20 something storees so he was like he wants to be like you know like the businessman big time yeah he that's swinging for home runs David do you remember what Dad would always say about gongal though he wouldd always say yo he's like guys you have to remember the canones region is the wealthiest region because they were a big port for all the trading and the merchants for so long that's why ktow is so wellb built and he'd always make remind us that that there was uh kantos always did really good business I will say this on the negative side David there is a negative perspective on this oh I guess that uh cantones people are maybe a little mercenary with their loyalties I guess or like you know they just go where where the money is right like kantos I think the stereotype is partially that kantos or Southern Chinese are merchants and may possibly value business over nationalism in the country it's probably true on a probability scale but no uh you you said your parents went through a huge risk to swim to maau right yeah they so tell tell us the story of how your parents took the risk man when they were like teenagers they just like snuck to maau illegally and then what they swam or they got a boat or what uh they got a boat okay that would been crazy if they swam but yeah but the boat could have overturned though too sh I think my dad probably swam a portion of it just to get you know get to get to the end of it right right uh cuz he was a good swimmer so um yeah and to your point they have this saying in China Beijing love the nation shanghan will deal the nation and the cantones sold the Nation Oh but that's it depends on how you proce that's the business you know aspect of hey man listen man in this life the only thing Kos love the teen teen teen teen Teen um Point number three they are known for get it by done by any means pragmatism but then also some people say like some crudeness oh of cantones so you're saying explain this by get it done by any means like get their work done by any means yeah just get it done but it's not like uh caught up you know how like Japanese people they're so like about the process and the niceties and the oh yeah we're not I had to learn to not be like that cuz I produce so many shows it's just like get it done get you know it's it's almost like more important than the person you said you had to learn to not be like CU I learned that from my dad he just like hry up like no brain stupid okay and so I become like that like I'm like this is the way to do business this is the way to get things done and you're saying that people in the western world was offended by it yeah I'm just like especially from a woman an Asian why were you cursing people like [Music] f so that's in my brain I have to be like it's it's okay they're they're just slow we're in America they just need more cuddling or whatever right right right yeah Nell what do you think about the the to get it done I I call it ATV like you know like an allterrain vehicle okay ATV and it doesn't matter if it's a mountain a flat Road a bumpy road a downhill uphill ATV will get it done but it ain't necessarily the smoothest ride like it's going to be a little whereas like you know is all about make it smooth finesse yeah yeah my dad is like always like you know just get it done doesn't matter like how you don't have to give it 100% as long you know as long as you get it done you right as long as the watch gears turn yeah it's like let's say if he's like you know building something like you know got to you don't got to make the house a 10 out of 10 you just got to build the house right right right I I you know what I always say and I know there a lot of people going to see it this way or that way it's just pros and cons given the situation that you go into with that mentality that's cool that you you have that mentality my dad is like do it do it 150% or you stupid n my dad my dad is half ass horrible really that's nice oh that's great is there a crudeness there's pros and cons to it too cuz you know you want it if you want it to be like done really nicely he ain't going to do it you know he's just going to give you 70% but he get it done though if if you building Wong you need to be Tom do but if you're building a uh uh Omas you need to be he he's a w type of guy yeah U moving on point number four and of course like we said guys there's always a variance in every culture we're just talking about the overarching stereotypes or way the perception goes Point number four common cantony stereotypes superstitious Andrew they cannot use the number four because what what does four sound like sounds like death right say right and then funo fun and they deeply believe in TCM traditional Chinese medicine you're saying Cantonese you think believe in TCM even more than other regions of China is that is that The Stereotype right yes yeah I think by the way all regions do we're just talking about like extremity of belief in sure sure sure I think but what do you can we just confirm here with the super Kanto panel what do you think about the number four oh say is not good say is very you know you know you know uh the elevators uh in China they don't have the number four in the floors that's how superstitious they are and he you know how you avoid all the ition guys you just don't speak Chinese you just don't understand Chinese so it doesn't matter uh funo was your my mom was very into funo with her little thing it's always the moms it's always the moms yeah funo TCM what is TCM traditional Chinese medicine like making a soup for this yeah oh that's all I all they believe I don't go to the doctor hey they don't believe in Western medicine bro I I I don't I just I just take take Soup whenever I feel sick take Soup bam I feel better and all I do acupuncture he like you tired you sick uh what what is everybody's view on acupuncture Andrew I believe you recently got it done I got acupuncture done it's great you sleep so deep after you do it I think you got to go to the right place though you got to go find the right acupuncture expert yeah yeah acupuncture I've never done it cupping what cupping I have yes you haven't done acupuncture guasa guasa is good I do that my face too now the GU that's such a phenomenon on IG all the white people showing you I'm like do you really need to just use your fingers you know hey I someone did give me a face roller and I've been using it a jade one right no they give you a jade one rock one my homie does that like every every day I don't know it feels good I'm not listen generally you listen to your body if it feels good and it doesn't mess you up then would you guys think of what did you think about gwenneth palro on goop saying that an ancient Chinese secret was to put the Jade eggs inside of the hooa she's just saying that so she could sell those eggs for $500 a pop right yeah I've never had one but I'll try it if it's good what does it do is it a c you doing yeah I was I was like man there's probably other ways to maintain the pH B Jade yeah it was Jade she's just making up apparently Gwyneth palro just inventing her own ancient wait do we have a theory on why we think K these people are so superstitious uh I guess why like because they believe in gu and spirit Spirits so they believe in spirits more but why because they've seen it do you think they're further from theen I don't know I feel like they've seen it you seen gy and the spirit I feel like they're very spiritual people too though yeah maybe I don't know maybe they hold on to those things a little bit more I think maybe because they're further from the cult Revolution I also think Guangdong is kind of a starting to be a transition region between East Asia and Southeast Asia too yeah yeah I think so do you guys agree with this side point that uh Canton or the Cantonese region you know guangong it kind of feels like it is a transition point between the Chinese and like South and Vietnam for example I mean it is technically it's the Border part that's that no true CES don't like to say that yeah that's true all right moving on guys Point number five other idiosyncracies the odd tendency to wear sandals and flip slops For All Seasons I do love sandals and flipflops but I think men that's for men right your D hey your dad though right yeah your dad be got no he doesn't he's not with the flipflops well you know why you could wear flipflops like Mainland yes Mainland yes in Hong Kong maau no we're styling like sneakers and you know Mainland yeah Mainland it's flip-flops all day but given the climate of the South it would mean that a lot of people you can wear sandals like in Hong Kong because it's like very warm humid you just let your toes hang out there right but we swagging over there that's true ma H H that's true Hong Kong that was like the first like nice suits in China where they're fromong they love Nikes Adidas Pumas W Wong got all s all right I got the side I got the side one guys why does it seem like there's so many Cantonese hype beasts like beast.com comes from cantones love sneakers hypebeast.com is based out of Hong Kong like there's so many Nike stores in Hong Kong and you know you ever seen like the the couples the girls and the girl girl couples they they always all decked out in Nike oh the girl girl couples the most be yeah to her Tower my friend they buy it and then they they they they resell and make so much money but they do love it they said they Cel people like to eat out two out of the three meals of a day they love to eat out I eat out all the time I got time to cook man yeah why would we cook it's like cleaning and buying the good like just Coke I mean just go and you know what it is it's better it's F you know what it is I think cantones people know how much trouble it is to cook good Cantonese food so we're just like yo let's just put it on someone else man I'm going to go out to eat and pay someone else to do it because I understand how much trouble it is to cook each dim suum dish you got to chop the garlic then you got to chop the minc it's like man just prepering the food takes hours half the day just to prep the food you know you got to marinate it you got to cook the soup you know it's just a whole day of cooking if you don't prepare it's not going to taste good honestly it's like especially even making your own K Chong as simple as it is is so much work you might as well just go get the GU guy and get extra extra K Chong um people in that are Cantonese call everybody outside of Guangdong a northerner even though they are probably from other parts of southern China like basically anybody that's not Cantonese as a northerner from the perception that's a stereotype I I'm not good with uh directions I'm directionally challenged that you would say that that's true yeah yeah no I it is true because sometimes Andre you'll talk to K like really K people they're like and you're like but you're like yeah but I've been in northern China they don't eat that they're just thinking like anywhere outside of that zone is Northern it's kind of like you're not Cantonese you're a northerner that's abely call them it's kind of like when people say oh are you Mandarin or Cantonese but it's like those aren't really directions like canton's yes More Southern but Mandarin can be suchan it could be Shanghai it could be Northern China but I think when people say Mandarin they're referring to a northerner but it is true that anywhere outside of Guangdong like even once you get to Guang XI they're more likely to use Peppers cuz even in like they have that uh guo latu Orum L anyway what do you think about calling everybody langai Lang even if they're not good-looking naturally yeah go I always call them Lang Lang but is that kind of a lie them happy isn't it gong Mo that's capping that's capping right gong capping capping you know what capping is when in America you say that's cap it's like gong dawa oh gong dawa so isn't there you see somebody who's not a lang or not a lang you call that gwa no no oh my God no it's kind of like just a in English term you call someone like a bro or sis just like it's a slang you're saying that's not your bro it's not your sis yeah yeah exactly I don't know man but it's also when they're very not attractive you're like that's that's that's how like that I ain't going to care but kantos do be capping though when it comes to that hey hey no no no that just go that just goes to show you how much kantos love the money cuz they'll say anything to serve you oh l oh yeah buy this buy that no there's this famous scene in uh right remember when the girl looks like super ugly making the T B and then all of a sudden he's like a whole when they say that it's so funny that's the type of humor um some people are saying you know there's just some interesting um like ways of talking uh F like you know what I mean okay Fano okay is like a you it's just a very unique Cantonese language trait you know what I mean like instead of like replacing like like like tala with the l in man it's like K okay so they moved a to a like a z sound and then they moved it into the middle of the sentence basically if you write out spoken cantones it does look different than written yeah cantones is one of the hardest like languages to speak and like learn right if you didn't grow there's so many tones in the Cantonese language I think there's like nine tones right you say a little off is totally something else like like there's like a poem where like the sound is like like there's like T like a bunch of different words but they sound the same yeah in cantones like what like Lei Lei is a good one yeah there's a like Le is you also what and uh some people are saying like that that doesn't make any sense in Mandarin because it would be like tala Edan but then we shortened Idan into go oh that's true so basically this was just a list of uh you know what I mean like uh sa day gu you stupid no you silly so the GU the sa day the day is like uh also something that is not Mandarin it's only in spoken cantones right but then you can write it out like in a comic book format anyway ultimately guys we didn't get to all the Kanto stereotypes what is your favorite unique trait about kantos just to end off the video what my unique trait that we're so tuned what does that mean like stuck up so arrogant yeah like confidently arrogant yeah we fly yeah like like we got that Swag yeah I would say I would say like kind of like a pirate I don't know how to say like a pirate it's like not a pirate but you know what I mean yes swashbuckling pirate Andrew what's your favorite trait I think between the food and also I do think there is something cool that kantos can go anywhere on Earth and make something happen and build a community build a Chinatown now maybe not all those China towns are nice they're not all like Japan towns but let's be honest like it takes a lot of gut and grit to go everywhere in the world yeah and make something like that that is admirable on many levels so yeah yeah I would say that ATV likeness to go into any place and build something and build a community like we're talking about like Afghanistan or some environment that is like unbelievably harsh soil for like plants to grow in those Canto plants they can Sprout to totally disregard every aspect of living a good life just to go somewhere for business and get and and build like functioning economic system yeah now what's your favorite part is it the food man I just think uh our our our willingness and willpower to be successful I think that's you know we do whatever it takes to you know accomplish that you know we could devote our whole life to you know just trying to be as successful as possible I think a lot of kanes people at least for me and how I was grow you know how I grew up I think that's you know something that really makes us stand out for sure anyway guys let us know what you think in the comments section below these were common Kanto stereotypes like we said they're not going to apply to everybody no stereotypes apply to any group at 100% but it's just something that's out there in the internet and The Ether let us know what you think in the comments section below check out Kiki stuff 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