\u201cBritish Chinese food\u201d trend leaves TikTok confused by bizarre takeout orders TikTOK: Soogia, Laura Kate Griffiths, CorysworlddThe spotlight has come on the UK in recent weeks on TikTok as a new trend of Brits showing their Chinese food orders is leaving people around the world confused. Social media trends always come and go, but trends relating to food usually stay for a while. Possibly inspired by muckbangs (people eating food for videos), a trend that\u2019s circulating TikTok is people showing their takeout deliveries. A subcategory in this new trend is Brits showing what their Chinese takeaway. With dishes such as chips (fries), salt and pepper chicken and curry sauce, it has left people across the world, but particularly those of Chinese descent, confused. One of these TikTokers is Soogia, a Chinese-American content creator who makes videos about cultural appreciation, who made a video dedicated to the different food cultures. What does a \u201cBritish Chinese\u201d usually consist of? Saying her For You page had been filled with videos of \u201cBritish people eating Chinese food\u201d, Soogia went on to explain that the videos had left her confused as she didn\u2019t recognize any of the foods. \u201cOne interesting thing is that all their plates look almost exactly the same and is filled with things that I don\u2019t recognize as Chinese food, with the exception of like chow main noodles.\u201d She went on to explain: \u201cThey all have something called chicken balls. I don\u2019t know what chicken balls are. And they all order French fries, or chips, with their food. I have never seen French fries offered at an American Chinese food restaurant, I don\u2019t think, ever. That\u2019s so interesting to me.\u201d However, Soogia went on to say that the one thing that she found the most interesting was the choice of sauce. \u201cCurry sauce. And like, lots of curry sauce, like pools and pools of curry sauce all over all of the Chinese food,\u201d she explained She went on to say that she was in no way trying to judge or criticize Brits for their Chinese food order, but just said she was so shocked at how much it differed to an American Chinese food order. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s just the algorithm, but I didn\u2019t see any dumplings, any hot pot, no mapo tofu, bao buns, no long beans. No American Chinese foods staples like broccoli beef or kung pao chicken.\u201d She continued: \u201cIf they love it \u2013 fine! I just know that there\u2019s such a beautiful world of Chinese food beyond to what they just have on their plates.\u201d Brits are now defending their takeaway orders As Soogia\u2019s video racked up 2.7 million views within just a day and had over 29.2k comments at the same time, it made people across the world discuss Brits\u2019 culinary habits. However, one user by the name of corysworldd decided to stitch Soogia\u2019s video to better explain what a British Chinese takeaway is. \u201cI never thought I\u2019d have to speak on the behalf of Britain. I literally have half a GCSE and I don\u2019t know anything about anything really. But I am gonna answer your questions as best as I can,\u201d Cory started the video He continued by saying that people do refer to their foods as \u201ca Chinese\u201d or \u201can Italian\u201d, which was something that Soogia had also been confused about, he went on to explain the importance of curry sauce. \u201cCurry sauce is the best thing ever. So it\u2019s the texture of gravy, but it tastes like curry. They even do it in McDonalds over here,\u201d he told the viewers. Viewers were not on board with the \u201cBritish Chinese\u201d food He also explained that he knew that the food that Brits get in Chinese eateries in the UK is not considered authentic Chinese food. \u201cThe owner of my local Chinese shop is from China, but the food they eat is completely different to the food they serve us.\u201d He continued: \u201cChicken balls are available in any Chinese shop you go in. It\u2019s basically a boneless chicken, but it\u2019s deep-fried. All the Chinese shops I\u2019ve been to sell ribs, and chips as well. They also do containers, it\u2019s called a half and half, where it\u2019s half rice and half chips with curry sauce poured over the top.\u201d Having answered most of the questions people had from Soogia\u2019s video, people still weren\u2019t convinced. One person said: \u201cWhy do they drench it in curry sauce??\u201d Another wrote: \u201cIt all looks very \u2018poutine-ish’\u201d while a third said: \u201cHey! Are you joking?\u201d \u201cI find stuff like this so interesting \u2013 I wanna know why or how they decided this was the way to do it,\u201d a fourth user said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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