Its for the rich and spoiled folks who have caretakers, trust funds, onlyfans investors, or rich parents. There's alot of people we'd never understand like this in the world.
Erewhon customers are willing to pay a premium to have the flavor efficiently removed from their food. It's a highly satisfying form of self flagulation. The poors wouldn't understand.😂
Erewhon cracks me up. Pretty much all the food looks decent but not extremely exceptional, similar to what you'd get at any nice grocery store. You can very much get much better value for your money from other places, including actual high end restaurants. The thing is Erewhon is betting on their regulars believing that more money equals better quality, and everyone else going once for the novelty. Either way they're making *bank* with mid food.
Great observation. This kind of reminds me of Hans Christian Anderson's tale of the emperor's new clothes. The store is the equivalent of the con men promoting their "magnificent" yet invisible clothes, and it's gullible, status-seeking patrons are the emperor.
Stores claiming to sell organic or boutique grocery are really expensive. We have some in calgary. Some times I think they raise there prices as way off attracting just wealthy people.
Whole Foods is mainly for health conscious people. It's on the higher side but you will find products there you typically don't find in Walmart or Costco
7:55 You can get good chorizo at any Mexican grocery or even homemade quality at small carnicerias all over SoCal. Then just buy a 50¢ potato. You can easily fry up both and have 5x the amount of food for a fraction of the price. Probably more authentic flavors too.
Next time you’re in Manila, try One World Deli and Joel’s place. They are grocery store/deli with tables where you can buy stuff and have them cook it.
Ive been there, No way am i spending my hard earned money for ANYTHING.. I think tourist buy something to say they've been there.. Not me. I have better things to do with my money.. The place with the clams looked really good to me...
The Clam place was brilliant ab-so-clam-it-lutely deliciousness! But the other place.. nope. For these prices, it should all be cooked to order. Served on real plates and cutlery. Except the sausages, aka wallet-happinees suppositories. Rather by a plane ticket back to Manila Buffet.❤😊😊 Thanks, Mikey! You're the best foodie out here!🥰🥰💕💖🌸
I bet you miss the food prices in Philippines already Mikey, haha! You should definitely try the tuna omelet from 7/11 when you comeback, it's such a peppery -savory meal considering it's a microwavable food. Welcome back to the US! 💪
I’m all about capitalism but charging $7 for a breakfast sausage should land you in jail for treason. Nobody should be promoting this store, it’s counter productive for the rest of the country.
$7.50US each for absolutely trash looking chipolata sized sausages is outrageous. Aus is expensive AF and the bbq joint I work at charges $9 for a 200g house made jalapeño and cheddar sausage
Even if I had the money, I wouldn't give Erewhon my business if their food is that inconsistent for what you pay. I'd pay what, about $2/link at the most for sausages that big and that, well, underwhelming.
It’s funny when influencers take about how fresh things are. After all he did call frozen carbon monoxide treated fish really fresh. In reality properly frozen seafood is better and safer than some of the “fresh” seafood. If only you guys knew how some of these fishermen stored the seafood.
I live down the street from Erewhon in Venice CA. It’s always busy and I only go there once a month because the food is good but it’s just so damn expensive. Never tried the smoothie and I’m not going to. 20 bucks is a whole meal not worth it for a drink.
I'm sorry but $7.50 for a single sausage is absolutely ridiculous 😂 the burrito, home fries, pizza and smoothie looked really good though
Its for the rich and spoiled folks who have caretakers, trust funds, onlyfans investors, or rich parents.
There's alot of people we'd never understand like this in the world.
Beers were ten dollars when I was younger..
Yup nuts
So privileged
Apology accepted.
Good ‘ol Democratic policies.
na man If I'm paying $20 for a drink it better be at least half Johnny Walker 😁
😂 😂 My thoughts exactly
Yup
Same!!! 😂
The UFC fighter ? Lol
@@kylertatumtv9443
😂 that’s awesome
For a healthy store, the best looking stuff for the value was the pizza and homefries. That's humorous
Erewhon customers are willing to pay a premium to have the flavor efficiently removed from their food. It's a highly satisfying form of self flagulation. The poors wouldn't understand.😂
It reminds me of Whole Foods, most of the in house prepared foods are often flavorless. At least on the savory side.
@@Teampegleg I ain't even know that...
mike chen trying the hailey bieber smoothie was not on my 2024 bingo card
Lol
I'd actually refuse to shop in there on principle. Those prices are way overinflated. They are simply out to rip the public off
10:36 mom arguing with her kid🙎♀️ “please don’t pull it out! Please don’t pull it out!” 😆
i tought it was some kind of eletronic voice lol
Erewhon cracks me up. Pretty much all the food looks decent but not extremely exceptional, similar to what you'd get at any nice grocery store. You can very much get much better value for your money from other places, including actual high end restaurants. The thing is Erewhon is betting on their regulars believing that more money equals better quality, and everyone else going once for the novelty. Either way they're making *bank* with mid food.
Great observation. This kind of reminds me of Hans Christian Anderson's tale of the emperor's new clothes. The store is the equivalent of the con men promoting their "magnificent" yet invisible clothes, and it's gullible, status-seeking patrons are the emperor.
$70 for 1.5 lbs of dog food !! 🤯
Watching your dog eat cat poop to chase it: Priceless
its A5 prime for little mickey tho
Erewhon is like the cybertruck of grocery stores.
My 3rd world brain can't comprehend paying $20 for a smoothie 😂
I know! Here it converts to 116!!!
Nobody here actually does lol, the only people who go there regularly are the rich or social media influencers showing it off or just trying to flex
A runny egg on top of the chorizo and potatoes would be perfect.
Supermarket for the Hollywood stars I guess.
Pretty much. Quality is high, but it's a store meant for people who are very specific and money is not a big deal.
They're giving Disneyland food prices a run for their money 😂
I thought Whole Foods is the most expensive grocery store in America but I was wrong!
We joke that Whole Foods is Whole Paycheck, Erewhon is Entire Salary!
damn
Stores claiming to sell organic or boutique grocery are really expensive. We have some in calgary. Some times I think they raise there prices as way off attracting just wealthy people.
Whole Foods is mainly for health conscious people. It's on the higher side but you will find products there you typically don't find in Walmart or Costco
whole foods is cheaper ever since Amazon bought it out
7:55 You can get good chorizo at any Mexican grocery or even homemade quality at small carnicerias all over SoCal. Then just buy a 50¢ potato.
You can easily fry up both and have 5x the amount of food for a fraction of the price. Probably more authentic flavors too.
homemade food is the best. That place just sell that for big prices.
Considering what I just spent on a few days of food at my local store, being the "Most Expensive grocery store" isn't that big of a flex.
how about a NYC Bodega next!
The ocky way
Mike taking a hit for the team lol
Why you say that... if you don't mind me,
He doesn't read comments.
@@fooey88Okay…?
@@PlasmaWisp100 Ok...?
@@fooey88 Ok.
If I hear someone says that a food taste "healthy" I assume that food tasted terrible.
YES😁
it's when you can taste individual ingredients and they taste fresh. not overpowered by spices
Next time you’re in Manila, try One World Deli and Joel’s place. They are grocery store/deli with tables where you can buy stuff and have them cook it.
Wagu beef dog food 😂
He's looking heavier and tired. The eating, traveling and aging are catching up to him.
It's probably jetlag.
That place does remind me of a tidier Whole Foods
With all those expensive items you can best believe they still pay their workers 17-19 an hour and the managerial staff most likely gets 20-25$
Fr lmao
$7.50 for a sausage!!!!!! Man, a butchers in the uk will give you about 10/12 excellent sausages for that
Lmao but then you’d have to go to the UK
@IamnotJokic the whole point is Butchers anywhere incl. The u.s would have better quality sausages from somewhere else
@@milkonbean well obviously. I’m sure ppl know that but ppl go to food courts to have it served and a place to hang out
2:54 Did you say my favorite word yet?????😂😂😂
Let me guess ...umami? 😂
Never ever play that drinking game. 😄
Ginormous!
Mike Chen seems to have traded his adventurous palate for the predictable fare of buffets and convenience stores.
Variety is the spice of life they say
$47 for breakfast, $25 for bottled water, Wagyu beef dog food… what has the world become?! 😢
Sorry. I'll take the budget for a week's eating at Erewhon and fly to Tokyo or Seoul and eat at 7-11s.
Playing music in the background Rihanna and kpop cracked me up in the first food place 😂
How is your dog doing?😢
10:15 I'm sorry wagyu beef dog food is just outrageous 😂
Hi Mike
Delicious food. Thank you for sharing.
right in time for my dinner
Ive been there, No way am i spending my hard earned money for ANYTHING.. I think tourist buy something to say they've been there.. Not me. I have better things to do with my money.. The place with the clams looked really good to me...
The Erewhon in Pasadena is packed with people while the Wholefoods is pretty empty. These people are too good for Wholefoods 🤦🏻♀️
I must be peasant I shop at safeway and superstore.
It's funny when Uber rich people complain about food prices 😂
I shopped there last time I was in LA and some of the things are way overpriced but other stuff was reasonable for what it was albeit expensive
Hi Mike, could you make a vlog on a average convenient store in America? Ty keep up the good work
Cow-liflower?
You got to dip that burrito in the salsa it would taste even better
The Clam place was brilliant ab-so-clam-it-lutely deliciousness! But the other place.. nope. For these prices, it should all be cooked to order. Served on real plates and cutlery. Except the sausages, aka wallet-happinees suppositories. Rather by a plane ticket back to Manila Buffet.❤😊😊 Thanks, Mikey! You're the best foodie out here!🥰🥰💕💖🌸
Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪
Mikey Chen at Erewhon is the content I needed !!!
And here I thought Publix was expensive…. 😂
I bet you miss the food prices in Philippines already Mikey, haha! You should definitely try the tuna omelet from 7/11 when you comeback, it's such a peppery -savory meal considering it's a microwavable food. Welcome back to the US! 💪
Typical prices in Australia lol but I have to admit the sausages for $7.50 each is insane
Their breakfast burritos are surprisingly good.
Remember folks those prices are going higher in less than 1 month ❤. Since most of those are imported and under tariffs influence.
Good, let them pay more for the mid food.
It’s 2am again and I’m so hungry 😭😭
And they most likely still use seed oils.
For people with too much money to blow and just want to flex. Not for us poor people.
Wealthy people love paying high prices for Any and everything …remember the $55 collard greens from Neiman Marcus?
I’m all about capitalism but charging $7 for a breakfast sausage should land you in jail for treason. Nobody should be promoting this store, it’s counter productive for the rest of the country.
Erehwon is mostly just a place influencers shop to appear richer than they actually are.
I'm sorry but. Damnnnnn! Enjoy Mike. The food looks ok.. 🐞😋
Those are scallops not mussels.
No wonder why it's called Erewhon (nowhere backwards)... Nowhere else will you find prices that insane.
lol😂
nohwere
Not quite nowhere backwards but close enough!
Disneyland food is actually sort of cheaper compared to them 😂
Wearing a shirt from my home town.🥰
That pigeon at 15:17 is a cutie.
So, your in California telling us the prices and we're supposed to be surprised?
$7.50US each for absolutely trash looking chipolata sized sausages is outrageous. Aus is expensive AF and the bbq joint I work at charges $9 for a 200g house made jalapeño and cheddar sausage
Hey Mikey in case you make it back to Houston,TX.. my buddy Danny from The PhoFix has expanded his menu there for you to try.
Yeah Erewhon is overly expensive but the food is legit
Bet that store has really big windows because the really see their customers coming lol
Even if I had the money, I wouldn't give Erewhon my business if their food is that inconsistent for what you pay. I'd pay what, about $2/link at the most for sausages that big and that, well, underwhelming.
I don't even charge half that price for my spicy sausage link and it is at least two times that size.
OK, but why is the Olipop less expensive at Erewhon than at my local grocery store?
If I'm paying that much for the sausage they better give me the whole pig😮
Nearly $50 for breakfast that’s a hard pass for me I’m sorry but the local ramen shop I frequent is cheaper than that
I thought Wegmans was crazy expensive, it doesn’t compare to that
A blue state having overpriced goods? Who would’ve thought 🤯🤯😂😂
It's a flex grocery store. People shop there as a status for saying they are rich and can afford to shop there.
Did I hear Diddy products 😂😂😂
EREWHON = NOHWERE 😮 🤯
That’s not even how to spell nowhere so whoever came up with this is a genius
@niki420yuh 🤣
It’s funny when influencers take about how fresh things are. After all he did call frozen carbon monoxide treated fish really fresh. In reality properly frozen seafood is better and safer than some of the “fresh” seafood. If only you guys knew how some of these fishermen stored the seafood.
You should team up with Kimono Mom, as she us touring the United States. They internet celebrities combination would serve both of you well.
That’s the Erewon in Pasadena. Their food is very rich in flavor. Not worth the price, in my opinion
4:14 Erewhon!?
HELL NO!!!
Good thing you're a youtuber and can afford it.....
I thought the Fresh Market was expensive.
Hello from Alaska!
00:34 STAN RED VELVET
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STREAM LIKE A FLOWER BY IRENE OUT NOV 26TH!!!! 🐰🌸
Mikey chen next time you come to LA can you review The Sorce in Buena park.
Yeah… no.
Did that menu read $114 and $79? WTF?!?
Go to a quick trip!
Times supermarket in Hawaii? Lol
I live down the street from Erewhon in Venice CA. It’s always busy and I only go there once a month because the food is good but it’s just so damn expensive. Never tried the smoothie and I’m not going to. 20 bucks is a whole meal not worth it for a drink.
Prices gonna make wonk eye wonkier
I would never shop here. I'd rather see affordable options that have good flavor.
00:34 red velvet power up
it's not a chorcheeso burrito from maverick... if you know you know.
I would need mushrooms on my pizza
You have to youtuber to eat at these places , its all a tax write down though.😂😂😂
Everyone gets the conceit? Right ? Ererwhon? It means nowhere
give me that $15 will give you 2 lbs/1kg of garlic longganisa
the answer is, WHY?
What is restructured water ?