Attack-a-snack: featuring a lot of interesting Chinese bits & bobs, plus plenty more! Stay tuned after the main feature for a comic convention highlight reel! Or something.
The first one is Ba Gua or Rou Gan, it's basically roasted pork slices. It's commonly considered as Chinese bacon and usually eaten on Chinese New Year, also one of the best thing in the world.
Bee Cheng Hiang is actually known for quality meats. They're actually quite well known and make some of the better foodstuffs coming out of the area, but given the generic packaging I can't blame them for expecting the worst (you don't usually see them packaged individually like that, must've been from a gas station or something like we'd get packaged beef jerky in western countries). But yeah, you can actually find their meats in some quality establishments as ingredients in various meals so unlike a lot of the bottom bin stuff that makes its way to Ashens this was totally legit. From the looks of it I'd guess it was their BBQ Pork which is great.
+Goldenkitten1 Mostly the best food comes in generic packaging...especially when you get it directly from a dairy, butcher, farmer etc. =) Quality food producers that deliver to better establishments (like Bee Cheng Hiang probably is) don´t need fancy retail packaging anyway since their marketing is solely done trough the quality of their products instead fancy marketing trough packaging or the looks of meats, fruits etc. as it is with stuff in supermarkets.
The only reason Dan seems overly squeamish is that he appears in videos alongside someone who's perfectly willing to try 40-year-old tinned chocolate from the Vietnam War. Anyone would seem too queasy next to Ashen.
I like Stuart having a comrade in his reviews. Been watching him for 10 years and he never dissapoints. Except for those Loot Crate unboxings. But those suck because how crappy the contents are, not because of Ashens. :p
Rudy VanDisarzio Haha, I'm serious. Before UA-cam, Ashens used to post his videos on Putfile and the B3ta message boards. He basically pioneered the coach reviewing genre.
I always find when you are a food taster, you should really actually get adapted to all kinds of tastes before you judge food. You gotta be internationally cultured. Ashens has shown to really understand his taste bud, and knows what a lot of food tastes like, so you KNOW when food is bad, if he says it's bad.
Wikiramblings pisses me off how judgemental and nasty people are, if you don't like him the watch a video without him. I find the friendship between them refreshing :P
Bakkwa or Barbequed Pork (the first snack) is undeniably one of the most delicious food products in existence. Best part of Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore.
What you guys don't know is the fact that, in the fungus drink, there is bird saliva in there as well. But hey, don't worry about it, honey is partially digested flower nectar regurgitated by bees so this is very similar. I am usually fairly desensitised to food and drinks and all of this looks very appetising to me.
@@BenjaminGoose “they were to die for” - a figurative expression of appreciation. “They were *literally* to die for” - still a figurative expression that is enhanced by the operative word “literally”, which enhances the figurative element by implying that the matter at hand (i.e. dying) would be faced even moreso; it breaks the recipients expectation of a figurative expression by implying it to be real, which increases the effect. You’re welcome!
I just love at 6:55 Dan tipping the packet, the head of the supposed creature emerging suddenly and then Dan pausing and then making gagging noises at the sight of it.
Oh god... Bird's nest. That stuff is literally made from a bird's nest. It's a particular type of bird which licks its nest to harden it. Then people take the nests once the birds are done with them, and use a process to extract the sugary saliva (and other things) from it. If you're wondering how they do this hygienically, I think they either boil it... or it's just as bad as it sounds.
the birds nest is also found in bat caves specifically. birds nest soup isnt that bad either, its an acquired taste yes, but it is damn good when you get used to it
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That pork floss reminds me of stuff we have in the U.S., Jack Links shredded beef jerky, it comes in a chewing tobacco can and is basically jerky powder
Yes same. When I first got a can of that stuff when I was a kid i thought you had it like chewing tobacco so I'd take a lump of it and stick it in my lip 😂
As it turns out, it’s a drink that contains both white fungus and bird’s nest. These aren’t things you normally think of as being drink ingredients, but here at Armenian Fungus Cake we wouldn’t waste your time with normal drink ingredients. This drink really does contain chunks of white fungus as well as real bird’s nest. If you’re not familiar with this particular type of nest, it’s not the collection of leaves and twigs that you might imagine. This nest is produced by the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), and it is composed of hardened saliva.
Honestly, just as with surströmming, I’d say we’re stretching the term “edible” a bit here. Rotten bird spit that the bird sat (and probably shat) on isn’t my definition of a delicacy! 😅
I don't know how many times I've watched Ashen's videos so far. It's one of my absolute favorite channels and I never get tired of his videos no matter how many times I've seen them. As someone else said, theres just something about Ashens thats so relaxing!
Bird's nest drinks and bird's nest soup are made from the nests of certain types of swiftlets, who make their nests from solidified saliva. It's a very expensive delicacy and is supposed to be very nutritious. My guess is that the "white fungus" is because it's a simulated version made from that instead in order to approximate actual bird's nest since the real thing is known to be rather expensive.
Dan comes off as such a wimp. I imagine after every video Ashens places him back into his plastic bubble where he's fed on nothing but Complan and Filtered water.
A retort pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging of a wide variety of food and drink handled by aseptic processing, and is used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods.
I think Dan would laugh at a dying child, he seems to think everything else is funny. He doesn't need to watch comedies he just opens his food cupboard and falls down in hysterics.
Except from when people shout at him. I yelled at Dan by accident at MCM Manchester, ashens laughed it off but Dan didn't seem too pleased. He eventually saw the funny side of it though, I guess.
Yay, a Polish product, at last! ^^ And even from my city! Holy crap! Glad you didn't like it! It's awful! Can you tell I'm excited from all the exclamation marks I use?! GREAT!
Asylation stop saturating our market with your Polish products! >///< (a czech, here) (I'm just kidding, btw, I've nothing against polish people or you)
Haha! Sorry! I met and befriended a Czech woman in England. She's a really nice lady! When I would visit her, she would go out of the room and talk to her Czech friend and then come back and continue using her native language for like a minute, look at my confused face and be like "Oh, wait, whoops!". It was really funny when she'd do that. Regards from Poland!
Asylation ha, nice :) my friend does that, too... like... she'd speak with somebody in portuguese or french on the phone and then continues on talkin in portuguese or french and I'm like O.O uhm, what? :D but'ey, you can understand a little czech, or...? I know I can understand a little polish, it's similar (not as czech and slovak, tho'). We can agree that we can't understand hungarian! 3x'D (nobody can, not even them) baiii, you're a nice person, that's rather rare on the internets, kudos.
***** I do understand some of it! Some of your words sound really funny for my people. :D Thank you, you seem nice too! It's a rare thing, sadly. Take care!
With a hovering brown sofa, where we see them eat noodles that are instantly cooked when opened, vegan human meat, normal human meat, and a variety of other foods that comes from a glass unbreakable air tight container.
Pipe down there, all I'm saying is that I prefered it when Ashens engages the audience directly, and he has been doing that ever since his first video on UA-cam in 2006 - so why change the format that was so popular and so successful? Dan making cameo appearances would be fine, and I'm sure he's a great guy in person, but right now he's featured in almost every other Ashens video and I don't think that he adds much to the videos other than making us a 3rd wheel.
If anyone was wondering, those "Haw fruit" things are actually made from Hawthorn berries. Yes, those same bright red hedgerow berries that we were always told not to eat as children: It turns out that they are edible after all, and actually taste reasonably nice. The compressed jellies are not the only form: Dry tablets are another - think of a "refresher", but not fizzy and considerably more fruity.
I really, REALLY want to try all that food! When I was last in the US of States (North Georgia, to be precise-ish) I bought a vacuum-packed pink sausage thing that an American member of my family loves. It was about the size of a standard British sausage. When I was walking back to my lodgings (illegally it turned out because it was next to one of their 'highways' or something) I opened it up and gave it a hearty bite. Thirty seconds later I threw up. It was like eating pickled Spam. It turned out it was out of date and well off. Strangely, I was never tempted to try a 'pristine' version.
The waffle was an ice cream snack. I've had fresh ones before. In this episode, you ate expired ice cream that hadn't been frozen while shipped, which probably fused into the waffle cone somehow. If anything was left inside of the waffle cone shell, it was probably mold.
no no. that blueberry waffle thing is like yoghurt drops. It's blueberry flavoured yoghurt filling. Don't ever freeze that, the waffle will get soggy as hell.
go to barrys bargains. i went in there and they had food that was really cheap, i bought some because it was in date for another 5 days. got it home and realised they had just stuck another label ontop of the other one, which had gone out of date 3 days ago -_-
You could give Dan a freshly baked cupcake and he'd gag at it and say "I hate cupcakes, ever since I was a baby" he'd take a tiny nibble throw it down and act like he was about to puke
You can get this delicious squid jerky in my tesco world food section sometimes, and also these spicy formed fish on a stick, they also do it BBQ flavour. Its made of a gross sounding fish, lizardfish, but its really tasty!!
People who are ridiculously fussy about food really annoy me. I bet Dan's the kind of guy who only ever orders the one same dish at a restaurant, and doesn't like foreign foods.
***** If that's your philosophy then you must be a really fun person. Is your defense for never being outgoing just "it MIGHT be a waste of time/money"? Because if so you must be a really stale, boring person.
Bird's Nest is a popular delicacy in some Asian countries. Bird's nests in traditional chinese medicine and the like are actual nests, weaved with the spit of the bird. The spit itself is said to have all kinds of healing properties.The white fungus in the drink is in reference to a parasitic fungus that grows over yeast. So basically, you're drinking chemically flavored bird spit and yeast fungus.
I really enjoy trying new soft drinks. Like, if it's in a can and looks weird, I will try it. My reaction to grass jelly drink was "That sounds amazing, I need to put that on the list". I have no fear. Except for the time I went to a corner store in Hawaii, saw that exact brand of White Fungus Bird's Nest Drink, and something in me went "......no", and I got wintermelon juice instead (very nice and sweet for the record) and never looked back. Okay, that's kind of a lie, I looked it up online and went "dear God it has actual bird spit and fungus in it" and felt like I dodged a bullet, but for all practical purposes, I never looked back. I have always wondered what it would have been like. Thank you for confirming my instinct. I am so, so sorry.
Just an FYI.....that "Birds Nest" fungus drink is made from the nest of the Swiftlet bird and is comprised of mostly Swiftlet bird saliva. I'm not joking. It's a high end delicacy in China. Gross!
16:26 The solid stuff is actual bits of swallow bird's nest. Exactly like the stuff they use to make bird's nest soup. Supposedly doesn't have much a taste, but rather just has a gelatinous texture.
I like Dan, I really do. Just not in your reviews and ESPECIALLY not when you're eating. I was so happy to see this, I click on the video, and there he his again. PLEASE Stu, for the sake of everything that is rancid, use him for the skits, not for the reviews.
Dan's ideal meal would most likely be butter on white toast, eaten in silence while staring at the featureless beige walls of his kitchen.
Can you win a Pullitzer Prize for a UA-cam comment?
With sprinkles
I’m sure he said he hated butter in that beer bread video 😂. So just white toast.
Funny stuff, he's vegan now, so no butter would be the reality.
I mean there's vegan butter so
I always watch Ashens before I go to sleep. He's just so relaxing.
ashens, danooct, carsandwater... all great sources of getting yo ass to sleep
+Dragonite33 And im subbed to everyone of them
Don't forget Big Clive
Right
+Afterzoro yessssss
The first one is Ba Gua or Rou Gan, it's basically roasted pork slices. It's commonly considered as Chinese bacon and usually eaten on Chinese New Year, also one of the best thing in the world.
+Michelle Yong Is kinda reminds me more of a jerky. I assume it doesn't have the same texture though.
+Michelle Yong it looks like jack links teriyaki beef strip
+Michelle Yong It's not bacon. It's basically chopped jerky. Hence, Dried meat... wtf you confuse that for bacon.
wakaka2waka
because there is a highly processed jerky you can get that does look very similar
+wakaka2waka "Considered as Chinese bacon" does not mean that it is bacon.
I love how Dan is gagging and making a fuss and Ashens is like "Yeah that's bad. Like rotten bad."
Chef Advance is just what Chef Excellence evolves into at level 36.
Stay tuned for Chef SP and Chef Micro
more like what he evolves from, nothing tops chef excellence
I think Dan should wear a blindfold for those things and only be told what something is once he has tasted it.
Unless it has a particularly nice name. Like that drink.
SlyPearTree "this is a cucumber dan....honest"
SlyPearTree funny thing is I think Ashens would have a blast doing that. I bet he would make a series of it but a different guest lol
I bet that would just make him barf at everything. Because he'd be imagining the worst.
Bee Cheng Hiang is actually known for quality meats. They're actually quite well known and make some of the better foodstuffs coming out of the area, but given the generic packaging I can't blame them for expecting the worst (you don't usually see them packaged individually like that, must've been from a gas station or something like we'd get packaged beef jerky in western countries). But yeah, you can actually find their meats in some quality establishments as ingredients in various meals so unlike a lot of the bottom bin stuff that makes its way to Ashens this was totally legit. From the looks of it I'd guess it was their BBQ Pork which is great.
+Goldenkitten1 Mostly the best food comes in generic packaging...especially when you get it directly from a dairy, butcher, farmer etc. =)
Quality food producers that deliver to better establishments (like Bee Cheng Hiang probably is) don´t need fancy retail packaging anyway since their marketing is solely done trough the quality of their products instead fancy marketing trough packaging or the looks of meats, fruits etc. as it is with stuff in supermarkets.
It's so fucking good. My mom actually makes homemade pork jerky from time to time, its amazing
I blame them
Its probably dog or cat
stuart ashen dancing in a suit.
yes.
The only reason Dan seems overly squeamish is that he appears in videos alongside someone who's perfectly willing to try 40-year-old tinned chocolate from the Vietnam War.
Anyone would seem too queasy next to Ashen.
I wouldn't. I got stomach of iron and bowels of steel.
YouSoSpice and a hollow head...
tom price No, that i do not have. I got a headful of wondrous stuff. Ellipsis.
YouSoSpice good for you
tom price You mean "good for you..."
I like Stuart having a comrade in his reviews. Been watching him for 10 years and he never dissapoints.
Except for those Loot Crate unboxings. But those suck because how crappy the contents are, not because of Ashens. :p
10 YEARS, LIES
Rudy VanDisarzio
Haha, I'm serious. Before UA-cam, Ashens used to post his videos on Putfile and the B3ta message boards.
He basically pioneered the coach reviewing genre.
fair deuce.
+Sir Sebastian why the lack of videos
shouldn't you be eating candy?
"I'd happily eat this as part of a meal! Put it on top of something, maybe, some soup? Or a hat? Full of scorpions?"
you okay there stuart old buddy
I've had it before. Placed on top of chicken porridge and it tasted delicious. I kept trying to find it in stores but I can't :(
You okay there old Stuart old buddy old pal old mate?!
why
+winterwolf211 chicken..... porridge? What?
i saw this comment right when he said that!
This couch has seen some serious shit lol
+Sir Ernest it has seen some even more serious shit
+Sir Ernest I dont remember, but it has probably seen some literal shit in it's time...
***** HAHAHA
***** That definitely isn't me...
It's covered wars, you know...
I miss the times Ashens nearly vomits from bad food. I'm guessing his stomach is armerd plated by now.
...or he doesn't have one at all ._.
I always find when you are a food taster, you should really actually get adapted to all kinds of tastes before you judge food. You gotta be internationally cultured. Ashens has shown to really understand his taste bud, and knows what a lot of food tastes like, so you KNOW when food is bad, if he says it's bad.
Surstromming sure would make him puke.
***** unless you are a hardcore sweden. Im swedish and I can say Im not hardcore.
Im not even swedish, im Danish, but i actually like the taste of suströmming. I dont exactly love it, but i dont dislike it Esther
Food: *Exists*
Dan: *Gags*
Dan and Ashens are so funny together, there is a contrast between the two and their friendship is very enjoyable. Great video.
Wikiramblings pisses me off how judgemental and nasty people are, if you don't like him the watch a video without him. I find the friendship between them refreshing :P
Loki Agnomen Agreed.
Dan is just another Ashens to me, He's just as great!
Loki Agnomen Agreed.
Dan is just another Ashens to me, He's just as great!
Basically Something Different I think people who hate him feel threatened by the idea ashens has a friend and its not them lol
I guess, Maybe
Bakkwa or Barbequed Pork (the first snack) is undeniably one of the most delicious food products in existence. Best part of Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore.
nice actar chan!
Had that in nyc with some Chinese friends. Was not expecting it to be so good.
It's Beef Jerky's Final Form then lol....how beef turns into pork I have no idea
Konata~!! X3
I'm from Singapore too, lol
What you guys don't know is the fact that, in the fungus drink, there is bird saliva in there as well. But hey, don't worry about it, honey is partially digested flower nectar regurgitated by bees so this is very similar. I am usually fairly desensitised to food and drinks and all of this looks very appetising to me.
Chef Advance is Chef Excellence's Eastern Arch rival.
shit just got real
3:47 Start has inhuman streanght confirmed
I love how when stuart says ,"Its pork floss!!" Dan is so thrown off he doesnt know what to say so he just does "oh! Yes it is!"
grape? those are clearly blueberries on the wrapper.
Oh my gosh, thank you... I was wondering if I was the only one who saw that... Thought I was going crazy! Haha
damn it I was gonna post the same thing
Maltfalc Yes! Thank you. I was getting frustrated.
Maltfalc Yeah, blueberries, like those one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus
***** I'm not clicking that
My Sushi chef at work used to make me sweet rice balls stuffed with lime and soy sauce infused pork floss. They were literally to die for.
Literally?
@@BenjaminGooseit's an expression.
@@TheLivingCatastrophewait for the random dude with too much time on his hands to cry about people using literally too much as if it matters
@@BenjaminGoose “they were to die for” - a figurative expression of appreciation.
“They were *literally* to die for” - still a figurative expression that is enhanced by the operative word “literally”, which enhances the figurative element by implying that the matter at hand (i.e. dying) would be faced even moreso; it breaks the recipients expectation of a figurative expression by implying it to be real, which increases the effect.
You’re welcome!
Does Dan enjoy his diet of bread and water?
Will Ready no. He uses photosynthesis.
I'm pretty sure he only seems like a fopt wimp is because he's next to ashens. Alone he's probably got completely normal tastes XD
confucius' diet was similar lol
rice and water
THATS IT
Pretty sure bread and water would make him gag.
2:43 That woman is holding a package that she is already on... MIND BLOWN
PRESSURE
INCEPTION
Packageception
POWER
Wtf?
I just love at 6:55 Dan tipping the packet, the head of the supposed creature emerging suddenly and then Dan pausing and then making gagging noises at the sight of it.
Oh, how I adore "Scissors, paper, stone!"
But where I come from, we call it "Quartz, parchment, shears."
purple grape..... cmon guys, theres blueberries on the packaging:P it's quite obviously blueberry flavouring
+Morten Bakke I was thinking that too!
Ikr ? Must be blind or something.
English is fine hun.
7:53 "Oh, you didn't enjoy that one-"
"STUART WHAT THE FUCK MAN" is the reaction I was hoping for.
I nearly died laughing
I sometimes eat food too
This is what you decided to comment on?
(The fuck is this...)
***** Of course you do.
*****
Here's a solution!
DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS.
cos your stuck in pipes
These comments are all atrocious
I guess if you're eating blueberry expecting grape it will taste off.
The first thing looked like a Vacuum sealed scab.
+Rat Trap crab jerky?
+NeATaNDtURdy *Scab* Crab jerky might be nice.
That dancing was just divine
Fucking hell Dan is fussy... what does he like? Spaghetti hoops? or just bland bit of bread and butter?
Some people are disgusted by the smell of some food and they want to puke, I can't eat pork because of that.
Sweaty ball flavour.
Butter? I'm sure he prefers a generic bland sunflower spread low in sodium.
I wish there were a version of each video that has Dan's whining edited out.
Well dan is a chef so he is used to the most excellent of food
"I think this is purple grape" with a clear picture of blueberries on the front.
Ashens is a pretty cool guy. He drinks bird's nest fungus and doesn't afraid of anything.
Oh god... Bird's nest.
That stuff is literally made from a bird's nest. It's a particular type of bird which licks its nest to harden it. Then people take the nests once the birds are done with them, and use a process to extract the sugary saliva (and other things) from it.
If you're wondering how they do this hygienically, I think they either boil it... or it's just as bad as it sounds.
Ugh... At first I thought it was some kind of fungus that's like Kombucha, but no, it's far, far worse...
Ah, someone beat me to it, I wanted to be the bearer of bad news!
I pity anyone who drinks this stuff without knowing what it is.
HaVVoC
Well, it actually has fungi in it too!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremella_fuciformis#Economic_usage
fearofshorts Yeah, I could guess that because of these floating lumps... Anyway, wouldn't drink that, no way.
the birds nest is also found in bat caves specifically. birds nest soup isnt that bad either, its an acquired taste yes, but it is damn good when you get used to it
Hmmm fungus drink dude nice vid
Barry approved
yes
His seal of approval
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I was dumb lost my account password. I appreciate any tips you can give me
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That pork floss reminds me of stuff we have in the U.S., Jack Links shredded beef jerky, it comes in a chewing tobacco can and is basically jerky powder
Yes same. When I first got a can of that stuff when I was a kid i thought you had it like chewing tobacco so I'd take a lump of it and stick it in my lip 😂
Soon 1 million people will have watched two men eating afternoon tea.
Three Musketeers Productions Its happened.
No that was just me watching it 1 million times.
Nuclear Hedgehog
Soon 1.5 million people will have watched two men eating afternoon tea.
1.3 million in 2019, so technically the truth.
@@jamescollins6085 1.5m in 2021...
birds nest is a very expensive chinese delicacy that funnily enough is banned in australia , get your bucket ready because its made from sparrows bile
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It is very expensive in where I live. The process of getting the nest is very dangerous.
Bile? So like saliva and stomach acid?
Javan Clarke
yep
+imbetterthanyouis ewwwww
I bet Dan is the kind of guy who won't eat anything like this but will go home and eat a fucking Rustlers.
RUSTLERS BE CHOONG
Rustlers are fantastic you shut up right now god I love rustlers they be chong
Michael Bergatov Yes well anyone who says "they be chong" i expect to like them.
aha, i dont know who made Rustlers cuss im a noob :P but thanks to the people that did and shipping it to my country! taht sauce is amazing
NeoDragoN7676 XD I'd never even heard of that expression before i read the comment above me.
You need to offer a prize for the first person to cosplay as Godmonster.
Agreed, Mister
I love your comments, I always read them in your voice :D
I always read my comments in my own voice too :D
I'll cosplay chef advance. *starts work on a giant hitchhiking hand*
***** A restraining order.
The "Pork Floss" reminded me of the jerky snuff they sell in those cans that look like chewing tobbacco. lol
As it turns out, it’s a drink that contains both white fungus and bird’s nest. These aren’t things you normally think of as being drink ingredients, but here at Armenian Fungus Cake we wouldn’t waste your time with normal drink ingredients. This drink really does contain chunks of white fungus as well as real bird’s nest. If you’re not familiar with this particular type of nest, it’s not the collection of leaves and twigs that you might imagine. This nest is produced by the Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus), and it is composed of hardened saliva.
Honestly, just as with surströmming, I’d say we’re stretching the term “edible” a bit here. Rotten bird spit that the bird sat (and probably shat) on isn’t my definition of a delicacy! 😅
Just so you know, the stuff floating in the drink wasn't fungus, it was the actual nest of a bird. Bird Nest soup/drinks is popular in Vietnam.
I don't know how many times I've watched Ashen's videos so far. It's one of my absolute favorite channels and I never get tired of his videos no matter how many times I've seen them. As someone else said, theres just something about Ashens thats so relaxing!
Bird's nest drinks and bird's nest soup are made from the nests of certain types of swiftlets, who make their nests from solidified saliva. It's a very expensive delicacy and is supposed to be very nutritious. My guess is that the "white fungus" is because it's a simulated version made from that instead in order to approximate actual bird's nest since the real thing is known to be rather expensive.
I love watching these guys suffer, while I enjoy a nice Ham N' Cheese toastie
Extremely Moist ???
A tesco microwave one that is
yeah, nice try Tesco
Why am I watching 2 men eat food together and talk on UA-cam at 4 am
Grammar nazi allert! O_o
Cuz sweg
jtean chhin
*alert
Cuz sweg
Shrek is love
Shrek is life
lol - birds nest drink: "It tastes like in your mouth when you're sick"... well probably because it's birds spit that you are drinking right now :'D
Dan comes off as such a wimp. I imagine after every video Ashens places him back into his plastic bubble where he's fed on nothing but Complan and Filtered water.
A retort pouch is a type of food packaging made from a laminate of flexible plastic and metal foils. It allows the sterile packaging of a wide variety of food and drink handled by aseptic processing, and is used as an alternative to traditional industrial canning methods.
I think Dan would laugh at a dying child, he seems to think everything else is funny. He doesn't need to watch comedies he just opens his food cupboard and falls down in hysterics.
Pork floss is boss
"...he just opens his food cupboard and falls down in hysterics"
That is the funniest fucking mental picture ever. I applaud you.
SpinalChamp Ha.
Except from when people shout at him. I yelled at Dan by accident at MCM Manchester, ashens laughed it off but Dan didn't seem too pleased. He eventually saw the funny side of it though, I guess.
EraPonyProductions
How can you yell at someone by accident?
Yay, a Polish product, at last! ^^
And even from my city! Holy crap!
Glad you didn't like it! It's awful!
Can you tell I'm excited from all the exclamation marks I use?! GREAT!
Mhm.
Asylation stop saturating our market with your Polish products! >///< (a czech, here)
(I'm just kidding, btw, I've nothing against polish people or you)
Haha! Sorry!
I met and befriended a Czech woman in England. She's a really nice lady! When I would visit her, she would go out of the room and talk to her Czech friend and then come back and continue using her native language for like a minute, look at my confused face and be like "Oh, wait, whoops!". It was really funny when she'd do that.
Regards from Poland!
Asylation ha, nice :) my friend does that, too... like... she'd speak with somebody in portuguese or french on the phone and then continues on talkin in portuguese or french and I'm like O.O uhm, what? :D
but'ey, you can understand a little czech, or...? I know I can understand a little polish, it's similar (not as czech and slovak, tho'). We can agree that we can't understand hungarian! 3x'D (nobody can, not even them)
baiii, you're a nice person, that's rather rare on the internets, kudos.
*****
I do understand some of it!
Some of your words sound really funny for my people. :D
Thank you, you seem nice too! It's a rare thing, sadly.
Take care!
When your great great great great great grandchild inherits the Ashens name will I get to see an interplanetary food special featuring danbot 3000?
If you're immortal.
With a hovering brown sofa, where we see them eat noodles that are instantly cooked when opened, vegan human meat, normal human meat, and a variety of other foods that comes from a glass unbreakable air tight container.
Nah you’ll be dead 💀
“What do you think, Danbot?”
“VOMIT SEQUENCE INITIATED.”
HEY! If you don't like dan, then STOP WATCHING! WHAT AN EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE IDEA!
We where watching way before Dan came.
Fuck dan! And fuck you! Loser! You get lost! And take dan with you bitch!
I came here for Ashens, not Dan and Ashens, and have been for the past 5 years.
anon ymous TomTheEpicRobloxian What's your guy's point? I was trying to get people like you to stop bitching about it.
Pipe down there, all I'm saying is that I prefered it when Ashens engages the audience directly, and he has been doing that ever since his first video on UA-cam in 2006 - so why change the format that was so popular and so successful?
Dan making cameo appearances would be fine, and I'm sure he's a great guy in person, but right now he's featured in almost every other Ashens video and I don't think that he adds much to the videos other than making us a 3rd wheel.
I understand. It's just pretty frustrating seeing people constantly whine on about it.
By the next food-y episode Ashen will be scoffing down century egg after century egg while salivating profusely.
5 years later and im still not over “scissors paper STONE”
I actually like Dan. He provides good contrast to to Stuart. Keep up the good work.
He's gay
SkyBlue 1988 ...so what??
Juliette Green just saying
Great observation
@@15-Peter-20 he's stuarts boyfriend
Bee Cheng Hiang is from Singapore! we have that every chinese new year actually.. glad you liked it!
If anyone was wondering, those "Haw fruit" things are actually made from Hawthorn berries. Yes, those same bright red hedgerow berries that we were always told not to eat as children: It turns out that they are edible after all, and actually taste reasonably nice. The compressed jellies are not the only form: Dry tablets are another - think of a "refresher", but not fizzy and considerably more fruity.
I really, REALLY want to try all that food! When I was last in the US of States (North Georgia, to be precise-ish) I bought a vacuum-packed pink sausage thing that an American member of my family loves. It was about the size of a standard British sausage. When I was walking back to my lodgings (illegally it turned out because it was next to one of their 'highways' or something) I opened it up and gave it a hearty bite.
Thirty seconds later I threw up. It was like eating pickled Spam.
It turned out it was out of date and well off. Strangely, I was never tempted to try a 'pristine' version.
"a hat, full of scorpions." Well done, sir.
The waffle was an ice cream snack. I've had fresh ones before. In this episode, you ate expired ice cream that hadn't been frozen while shipped, which probably fused into the waffle cone somehow. If anything was left inside of the waffle cone shell, it was probably mold.
Bollocks, they're from Poland and say store in a cool dry place on them.
You show them guy four years later
no no. that blueberry waffle thing is like yoghurt drops.
It's blueberry flavoured yoghurt filling. Don't ever freeze that, the waffle will get soggy as hell.
7:36 "Oh dear, You didn't enjoy that one"
whenever i eat food i usually go by the rule of if the food smells bad then it probably tastes bad
That's not true on an unbelievable amount of levels
Most cheeses smell bad but taste good ( in my opinion )
Snow Board i didn't say it true, i just said that its a rule that i follow
SwirlyLapin Cheese pasta smells horrible but it's the feast of gods
dartzu Cheese pasta smells horrible? What kind of pasta have you been eating?!
“Also a good source of fiber”
“No it’s not” 😂😂😂
"smells of nothing but vague sweetness" sounds a bit like a grunge album
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend (Song is jarringly interrupted by the sound of Dan retching)
If anyone wants to try out some truly awful food in the UK, go to a shop called Cool Trader. They have some shockingly bad cheap food in there.
Aw yeah, there's one of those near me, are they really that bad? Might have to plan an expedition tomorrow
Palodin I saw a curry and chip ready meal that not even the packaging could sell...
go to barrys bargains. i went in there and they had food that was really cheap, i bought some because it was in date for another 5 days. got it home and realised they had just stuck another label ontop of the other one, which had gone out of date 3 days ago -_-
Some branches have changed their name to Heron Foods seemingly to try and shake off that reputation.
It will not work.
Liam Hughes Well yh, changing the brand means nothing without changing what they sell...
0:34 pops into my head from time to time, and it makes me really happy
Never a disappointing day in the life of Stuart Ashens
OH MY GOD IT'S ME AT THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDD
cool :)
N I FOUNDEDED IT!!!!111 :D
Well it was slightly damp so it could well be true
Which one was you?
The person that looks like somebody shoved something up his arse while group Hi5'ing with Ashens :D
0:25 The interlude about the comic con was great. =D That got me laughing. Good choice of music for the effect aswell! Good job! ^_^
10:38 Look! At the left corner of the floss! It's grown a face!
You could give Dan a freshly baked cupcake and he'd gag at it and say "I hate cupcakes, ever since I was a baby" he'd take a tiny nibble throw it down and act like he was about to puke
Oh boy they sent you the worst flavor of the Yogo-wafel.
Omg, that first "beef jerky" thing you ate was dog. Dried spiced dog.
Oh God no....
Plot twist
That's not very nice for you to say. I've had it before, it's pork.
And?
Dog is better stewed than made into jerky, suppose it still tastes good like that though.
*edit* Only from what i've heard, never tried it myself.
Can you imagine him having a complete studio with that same sofa?
That drink is probably a take on birds nest soup, which is basically birds spit. Yummy
You can get this delicious squid jerky in my tesco world food section sometimes, and also these spicy formed fish on a stick, they also do it BBQ flavour. Its made of a gross sounding fish, lizardfish, but its really tasty!!
I see someone sent you our famous BBQ pork from Singapore.
Its BBQ pork from Singapore, Ashens.
These videos are so god damn comfy, absolutely love them
Personally, I really like these collaborations.
Stuart Ashen - The Man With The Cast Iron Stomach.
i actually quite like the company dan brings to the channel with these old videos
Did anyone else replay the dancing part a thousand times?
+RJ M no
Why would we?
+RJ M You're the only weirdo bud, sorry.
+RJ M Yes.
+RJ M Are you also entertained by nice jangly keys and balloons on a stick?
You still have a mobile above your bed don't you?
Chef Advance is the man
I have seen you a lot in ashens' videos
JT Smith :) I feel special! Or I have no life. Either way I haven't binge-watched (or watched at all) any Ashens videos in probably a month or so.
Make more videos, I have rewatched a million times
People who are ridiculously fussy about food really annoy me. I bet Dan's the kind of guy who only ever orders the one same dish at a restaurant, and doesn't like foreign foods.
What's wrong with that, it isn't harming you is it?
*****
Holy shit are you kidding me.
It's because he only has excellence!
*****
If that's your philosophy then you must be a really fun person.
Is your defense for never being outgoing just "it MIGHT be a waste of time/money"?
Because if so you must be a really stale, boring person.
AdventEdge Because everybody loves to have judgemental people as friends.
IT'S PORK FLOSS!!!
................(bursts into laughter)
:D
Geometry Dash VideoPlayer Jack links makes the same stuff just over priced.
Gorioth Farcrey
Jack Links doesn't even make decent jerky anymore. They used to. Pemmican is by far the best major brand now.
Yes! It is?
Bird's Nest is a popular delicacy in some Asian countries. Bird's nests in traditional chinese medicine and the like are actual nests, weaved with the spit of the bird. The spit itself is said to have all kinds of healing properties.The white fungus in the drink is in reference to a parasitic fungus that grows over yeast.
So basically, you're drinking chemically flavored bird spit and yeast fungus.
PORK FLOSS = a great name for man. Right that settles it, 10/10 calling my son that
I really enjoy trying new soft drinks. Like, if it's in a can and looks weird, I will try it. My reaction to grass jelly drink was "That sounds amazing, I need to put that on the list". I have no fear.
Except for the time I went to a corner store in Hawaii, saw that exact brand of White Fungus Bird's Nest Drink, and something in me went "......no", and I got wintermelon juice instead (very nice and sweet for the record) and never looked back.
Okay, that's kind of a lie, I looked it up online and went "dear God it has actual bird spit and fungus in it" and felt like I dodged a bullet, but for all practical purposes, I never looked back.
I have always wondered what it would have been like. Thank you for confirming my instinct. I am so, so sorry.
Delcat Delcat tbh there probably wasn’t even real birds nest in it cos it’s like $150 for 500g
"I think snacking wise, we'll have to stick to our local snacks of dried human flesh"
_Disturbingly sinister laugh from Dan_
0:14. "It's never been nice. It's not gonna be nice now".
Just an FYI.....that "Birds Nest" fungus drink is made from the nest of the Swiftlet bird and is comprised of mostly Swiftlet bird saliva. I'm not joking. It's a high end delicacy in China. Gross!
Yea, plus anything made from the nest of that bird is also illegal in the US if i remember correctly.
16:26 The solid stuff is actual bits of swallow bird's nest. Exactly like the stuff they use to make bird's nest soup. Supposedly doesn't have much a taste, but rather just has a gelatinous texture.
Woo! I love your food specials!
I hope you are having a nice day 👋
@@moto_45__ thanks c:
i wonder what dan ACTUALLY likes?
My iPad froze exactly after he said 'Happiness starts here'.
NO STUART, UNHAPPINESS. UNHAPPINESS! *sobs as if he has been back stabbed*
I like Dan, I really do. Just not in your reviews and ESPECIALLY not when you're eating. I was so happy to see this, I click on the video, and there he his again. PLEASE Stu, for the sake of everything that is rancid, use him for the skits, not for the reviews.
I respectfully disagree, I think he adds quite a lot to the reviews.
Muzer0 Exactly, I really don't see why people dislike him so much.
How about no, Icecreamtub.
Agreed it is getting slightly annoying