Is Liking PF Chang's WRONG? 🧐 (CONTROVERSY + Food Review)

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  • @Bluboy30
    @Bluboy30 Рік тому +25

    I love PF Chang's and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I also love eating authentic Chinese restaurants. Eat wherever you want and people shouldn't shame you for it. And David, Target is from Minneapolis, MN.

    • @ramencurry6672
      @ramencurry6672 Рік тому

      Only been there once. The beef dish tasted weird - thumbs down. Love authentic Chinese food but to be fair, there are a lot of bad versions of it too. A good Americanized Chinese restaurant is Budakahn in Philadelphia and New York locations . Expensive though .

  • @austinhan6998
    @austinhan6998 Рік тому +27

    Asian Americans ten years ago: PF Changs is inauthentic eat at authentic restaurants!
    Asian Americans today: Why not have both?

  • @himmydawg
    @himmydawg Рік тому +20

    Had PF Changs in Vegas once for a work event. Was super excited to try it. Unfortunately I was so disappointed. Terrible food.

    • @mateooo1230
      @mateooo1230 Рік тому

      Could not agree more!!! Terrible food, their food should not be associated with Chinese food..

  • @randomrecipes5007
    @randomrecipes5007 Рік тому +10

    As a life long New Yorker non asian white male (don't know if it's in other states)... I've never had PF Changs, I always just thought it was over priced white mans Chinese... and always prefered mom, and pop Chinese shops with people I grew up eating from, and still do to this day (some of em that are still around).. I feel the need to try it out now though lol.

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      You are correct as it’s over priced for mediocre non authentic Chinese food!!!!!

  • @user-fd9wj1ph1q
    @user-fd9wj1ph1q Рік тому +10

    “I’d take authentic Chinese food any day of the week. But sometimes this stuff is great to eat” smth like that -JLin

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      It is mediocre food and definitely Not great to eat!!!!! On top of that it’s too expensive for none authentic Chinese food that is mediocre!!!!!!

  • @brainy191
    @brainy191 Рік тому +7

    The fact that people complain about this to begin with proves some people have too much time on their hands.

  • @robertlee4172
    @robertlee4172 Рік тому +4

    This book explains the origins of Chinese restaurant food in Canada, and chronicles some of the history of Chinese experience in North America throughout the last two centuries...
    Books·Canadian
    Chop Suey Nation (Available on Amazon)
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  • @ilai7893
    @ilai7893 Рік тому +6

    They're different lanes lol, it's like saying do I want Korean fried chicken/ similar drunk foods catering to western palates, or do I want a traditional doenjang jjigae/ kimchi/ seollongtang/ bossam?

  • @movealongcatdong4685
    @movealongcatdong4685 Рік тому +2

    In the Anthony Bourdain episode of No Reservations when he visits Hop Kee and orders the Chinese dishes from his past and how there was the phantom menus, his guest says (essentially) that the food the non-Chinese and the Chinese families were eating were both equally delicious.

  • @MedalionDS9
    @MedalionDS9 Рік тому +3

    I can't comment, never had it... but my take on the westernized chinese food is that... if it taste good, cheap, fills you up... it can't be bad... having said that, never gonna compare it as authentic but still has its place.

  • @babesababe5885
    @babesababe5885 Рік тому +8

    PF changs is for adults who grew up on Panda Express but want to be treated like adults😂

  • @JohnHausser
    @JohnHausser Рік тому +8

    “Chinese” comfort food ! I like authentic Asian cuisine ( especially 🇨🇳, 🇯🇵&🇰🇷) but PF Chang is not bad when you are looking for an alternative to it
    Cheers from San Diego California

  • @Muttonchop_USA
    @Muttonchop_USA Рік тому +1

    A friend and I had New Year's Eve reservations at the new P.F. Chang on University Place in NYC. Even though the main dining room was half empty they placed us upstairs where it was dark, humid and cheerless. We asked to be moved downstairs. The service was very slow and my friend's dish was cold. They also gave us a special occasion menu for $65. Then they told us it was a mistake. The NYE menu was $100! When our dishes arrived the server dropped the serving spoon on the floor and replaced it with a second set of chopsticks and a fork. They neglected to give us the cocktail menu. We had to ask for it. My shrimp was tasty but no more so than any run-of-the-mill neighborhood take-out place. To sum up my experience: meh.

  • @lemnikim7388
    @lemnikim7388 Рік тому +2

    Foods evolved. It’s great to have creative people creating new taste or twists on ethnic foods. I love to go to a restaurant that have a mix of different ethnic origin foods. I love more diverse foods.

  • @jasonwang7028
    @jasonwang7028 Рік тому +6

    Bro PF is mid af. But if you like it, you like it.

  • @pcimprezzive
    @pcimprezzive Рік тому +2

    It’s a choice. A more expensive and maybe less authentic choice but still one nonetheless. Time will tell if PF Changs will survive in midtown but something tells me out of towners will flock to this. BTW have you guys been to the sister & less expensive place to Changs called Pei Wei. We had one in northern nj but it didn’t survive. Food was ok as well. Kinda like Panda Express but food made to order not steam table style.

  • @countrybyfire4770
    @countrybyfire4770 Рік тому +3

    So what about the ppl who don't have or know of a real Chinese food restaurant, I'm from Oklahoma and the only Chinese food we have are the Chinese own American Chinese style. And to this point no, I have never had PF Chang's, been to Panda and the one I've usually visited have gone down hill on there quality then others. But in this situation would ppl like me get a pass. Hell I'll admit that I don't know the first thing of Chinese food like really other then what I've seen you guys show and wish I could find somewhere around I live to experience the real thing.

  • @dylives7667
    @dylives7667 Рік тому +3

    That's the very definition of a 1st World problem.
    Because, in a 1st World Country, you have a plethora of options for every type of gastronomy.
    In a 3rd World Country, something like PF Changs is a blessing from the gods.
    Which is my case.
    But me personally, I go strictly for the ramen, deserts and drinks.

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      I don’t know what 3rd world country you are talking about. America is far from being the greatest country in the world!!!!!! Immigrants don’t know that America is Not a paradise. Paradise is only found in heaven if you are poor!!!!!! Vietnam have some exotic seafood such as gigantic beautiful & colorful snails, gigantic colorful cockroaches that looks like gigantic lobsters, gigantic crabs and gigantic lobsters plus other unique seafood. They may even have gigantic snakes too. I know that people in China eat snakes and dogs. Unique seafood in this so called America with freedom and choices are abalone and sea cucumber which don’t even exist in the Caucasian people’s world since these unique seafood are unknown to them. They are not served in restaurants.

  • @zachwang4605
    @zachwang4605 Рік тому +6

    I am Asian from Asia and I gotta admit - PF Chang’s is really not bad

    • @trendthis364
      @trendthis364 Рік тому

      They use some top quality ingredients

    • @revl6151
      @revl6151 Рік тому

      It’s not bad, but it’s unhealthy af

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      @@revl6151 Zach Wong and you said it’s not bad. It’s not good to me, and too expensive for not good mediocre food!!!!!!!

    • @zachwang4605
      @zachwang4605 Рік тому

      @@minlui2752 It is quite pricy that's true.

    • @zachwang4605
      @zachwang4605 Рік тому

      @@revl6151 It is probably not healthy, just like most Americanized Chinese food. I don't think it's more unhealthy than, say, Panda Express.

  • @jleigh404
    @jleigh404 Рік тому +3

    My first of PF Changs experience was the one next to my apartment building in Long Beach, as a drunken late nite on the fly need for junk food noodles. I’m sorry but it was the worst experience ever, just so awful, sickeningly oily and artificial too salty and sweet sauces. I get people like those suburban chains but yuck, and these sit down chains are so expensive.

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      You are correct as the mediocre food is too expensive!!!!!

  • @captainbao
    @captainbao Рік тому +4

    Target is based out of Minneapolis, MN 🙂

  • @pauly5418
    @pauly5418 Рік тому +3

    PF Chang is overpriced. Where I live, there are plenty of great Chinese restaurants that have better food and aren't overpriced. PF Chang also has a very limited menu. Why should I bother?

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      Very well said, and their food is mediocre so it should not be overpriced in the first place!!!!!!

  • @mikemiller6483
    @mikemiller6483 Рік тому +5

    Listen if you like Chilis, Cheesecake Factory, PF Changs, who care?!

  • @TY-ob7fz
    @TY-ob7fz Рік тому +2

    My cousin used to bring me to HoJo and their all you can eat clam strips.

    • @TY-ob7fz
      @TY-ob7fz Рік тому +2

      They’ll compete with Chinese/Asian restaurants in midtown Manhattan. Also Vietnamese and Japanese.

  • @labticsean
    @labticsean Рік тому +3

    I rather go to China town to get Chinese food

  • @Kimberly-wt1nu
    @Kimberly-wt1nu Рік тому +2

    We eat PF Chang and traditional mom-and-pop so I would say they compete.

  • @filippofittipaldi8050
    @filippofittipaldi8050 Рік тому

    I love authentic Chinese food. I eat at such places every chance I get. Also, I do like PF Chang's. PF Chang's for me is more of place to go with less adventurous friends. Generally, my Asian friends turn me on to authentic Asian restaurants. Not being Asian, I'm not anywhere near an expert on authentic food.

  • @GIN.356.A
    @GIN.356.A Рік тому +2

    No it's not wrong. While Chinese food is so much more than just PF chang's, it's great that PF chang is offering delicious and easily accessible Chinese food in the form a corporate chain.

  • @MsKhasee
    @MsKhasee Рік тому +2

    Live and let live bro, it’s not as if criticism will make the food better there. They have a huge monument to “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” sitting in Union square right now😂

  • @mizueeats5415
    @mizueeats5415 Рік тому +6

    I love PF Chang's i think it's just a matter of taste

  • @nexusyang4832
    @nexusyang4832 Рік тому +2

    Trying to compare PF Chang against traditional mom and pop place is like comparing iPhones to Androids. They may have a lot of similarities and do the same things but their implementations are different and as such people will have their own preferences. Is it wrong to have your own preferences? No. Just as long as you make it difficult for others to have their own choice and force them out of the market with see shady tactics.

  • @tinymongoose
    @tinymongoose Рік тому +2

    Let people eat what they like, lol. Personally, I would want more traditional food but I've been surrounded by americanized asian food my whole life.

  • @msascuinonducorduco
    @msascuinonducorduco Рік тому +1

    No, it's not wrong. I enjoy eating PF Chang's from time to time. I would eat it more if they didn't add sugar to it AT ALL. Some foods shouldn't even have sugar, if people likes sugary sauce then it has to be on the side not in the food. I would enjoy authentic chinese foods more than PF Chang's.

  • @AskAnAsianGuy
    @AskAnAsianGuy Рік тому

    PF just more westernized environment contrary more authentic spots where the clanging chop sticks isn’t to the Anglo palette.

  • @eternalbraid
    @eternalbraid Рік тому

    Target is from MN, hence the Target center for their sports arena

  • @fantasticfrankieb
    @fantasticfrankieb Рік тому +2

    I lived in AZ for over 20 years and still NEVER ate at PF Chang’s.

  • @petergaylord4241
    @petergaylord4241 Рік тому +3

    Most Americans didn’t grow up in NYC, San Francisco or a place like that. So, as a general rule, PF Chang isn’t competing with traditional Chinese Cuisine, but rather burgers, pizza, Olive Garden or Applebees. For 98% of Americans it’s a first baby step. Some will stick with it. Some will have broadened their views to later try the real thing. It serves it’s purpose. Overall it’s a positive thing.

  • @NyssaSayWhat
    @NyssaSayWhat Рік тому +1

    I go to China town every summer just to walk around and try new things. Because I see them on UA-cam and tiktok. But I do love pf changs. I won't hold you. I do not think these big chains belong in the city. Nyc is for culture. Erase that and you erase the city.

  • @nomanor7987
    @nomanor7987 Рік тому +9

    Yes it’s wrong.

  • @nylesprint
    @nylesprint Рік тому

    Great topic

  • @aeradox2348
    @aeradox2348 Рік тому +4

    I've never tried PF Chang's before but this video made the food look pretty good to eat

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому +1

      It’s mediocre food and too expensive!!!!!!!!!!

  • @danafisher8613
    @danafisher8613 Рік тому +1

    Can we normalize that people like what the hell they like. You can like all types of versions of food… Otherwise I am gonna need people to stop saying Ethnic foods made by someone NOT Ethnic and saying it’s the best… how SWAY it’s not based off family recipes etc and aren’t giving credit to where they got their recipes from…. That goes for who ever said Taco Bell is the Best Mexican Food… again HOW SWAY … I like PF Chang’s I also LOVE Chinese restaurants that you just know Grandma is in the back cooking or it’s her recipe that will never be changed. There is room to like it all but don’t start with the inspired is the better than the real thing.

  • @reggieclarke2036
    @reggieclarke2036 Рік тому +1

    The type of people who eat at PF Chang's are not going to like authentic Chinese food. And without suburabnites rolling in to have a meal, most NYC restaurants would close.

    • @Jimmy_none
      @Jimmy_none Рік тому +1

      Huh? New Yorkers basically eat out everyday, 98% of customers live in the city. People from the suburbs don’t even make a dent in the economy of restaurants unless your in 42

    • @reggieclarke2036
      @reggieclarke2036 Рік тому

      @@Jimmy_none Where do you get 98% from ? When they threatened to put tolls on the east river crossings, restaurants complained it would hurt much of their business.

    • @Jimmy_none
      @Jimmy_none Рік тому

      @@reggieclarke2036 you think people from the suburbs really make us any relevant income that’s laughable. Maybe those restaurants on 42 second street. I got 98% because I’m in that field I see the numbers. Don’t make a dent.

    • @reggieclarke2036
      @reggieclarke2036 Рік тому

      @@Jimmy_none Yes, they do. Look at all the cars that roll into the West Village, East Village, Chelsea, SoHo, Chinatown ... pretty much everywhere in Manhattan. Go stand by the bridge and tunnel exits. It's not that difficult to comprehend. Again, what you are saying doesn't jive what restaurants were saying when there was a debate about tolls.

    • @Jimmy_none
      @Jimmy_none Рік тому

      @@reggieclarke2036 cars to areas? Most people don’t drive when they come to the city that’s one. Two you literally just mention a couple neighbors hoods. What about he restaurants in the Bronx, queens , Brooklyn and states island. How many tourist go to restaurants located in the Bronx?

  • @jdbrown1964
    @jdbrown1964 Рік тому +2

    Areas of new York like many other cities in US, it's being gentrified.

  • @badmondaywang
    @badmondaywang Рік тому

    it looks like the food tat my in-house helper who in her life never seen Chinese food is trying to cook Chinese food for my family for the first time.

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      Very well said!!!!! And it’s too expensive for mediocre food!!!!!!

  • @robertlee4172
    @robertlee4172 Рік тому

    Food snobs will be heartbroken when they find out Little Caesar's Pizza is not authentic Italian.

  • @stevinoname
    @stevinoname Рік тому +2

    pf chang is banging

  • @wallball5
    @wallball5 Рік тому

    He's really in the restaurant yelling his review

  • @AskAnAsianGuy
    @AskAnAsianGuy Рік тому

    Target is from Minneapolis

  • @fredyuen2489
    @fredyuen2489 Рік тому

    This is a resturant you go to if you're drunk, not if you want real authentic chinese food

  • @Vankotimanusvanij
    @Vankotimanusvanij Рік тому

    PF CHANGS is salty. I like panda express

  • @georgiasmith7615
    @georgiasmith7615 Рік тому +1

    To me it seems a bit expensive for the quality of what you get. When I’m in the mood for Americanized Chinese I just go to Panda Express

  • @robotmuseum
    @robotmuseum Рік тому

    The mom and pop Chinese restaurants here are all like pf change

  • @pam3122
    @pam3122 Рік тому

    Wrong lettuce

  • @robertdepesci3418
    @robertdepesci3418 Рік тому

    people! dammit stop censoring food

  • @johnclark1146
    @johnclark1146 Рік тому

    Hey, where was the Lucy Liu eye candy? Not even a name drop. I give this video a 3.5 out of 5 for false advertising.

  • @nexusyang4832
    @nexusyang4832 Рік тому

    People get butthurt too easily.

  • @yinglish119
    @yinglish119 Рік тому

    When people ask what is a good American Restaurant we can all go to. I always reply with PF Chang's or Panda Express.

  • @ac70998
    @ac70998 Рік тому

    I like some of the topics you guys discussed. But dude can you pls stop yelling 😂 0:20

  • @motiask
    @motiask Рік тому +1

    Well, all I can say is… an ex took me to PF Chang and order the lettuce wraps and all I can say is A for effort cause he is eating his greens and the food is cooked by a C level cook a non Asian. Oh well, what ever makes people happy. I am more impress with a dude showing me he knows how to use chopsticks.😝😁

  • @robertlee4172
    @robertlee4172 Рік тому +1

    How angry am I?...First off , critics don't know squat about running a restaurant. Any restaurant. Apologies to any critic who've owned and ran a restaurant, I'm pointing my finger at those who haven't. The majority of food critics, 99.999% of them. Second of all...AMERICAN CHINESE FOOD IS AUTHENTIC. This hearkens back to the days when the first group of Chinese immigrated to America in the 1850s. They couldn't get traditional jobs in the towns or cities they moved in to. So. with the ingredients they could source, they made Chinese food. Obviously not tofu, lap cheong, nor salted dry anchovies. They had to cater to American tastes. Fried rice and chow mein hit the mark. They sold millions of bowls. Damn good chow for pennies a serving. The chef made money, the customers were satiated, everyone was happy. Thirdly, and most important of all, Chinese immigrants had a way to earn enough to raise their families. (even if the exclusion laws made it even more difficult)
    Let the critics write about THAT!

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      Oh my God, you must be another American born Chinese!!!!!! In reality, it doesn’t matter that much if it’s authentic Chinese food or not. But, what matters is that Americanized Chinese food just don’t taste good!!!!!!! I am a ABC and I still know the difference between good and bad Chinese food!!!!!! The history doesn’t make the food taste better!!!!! If it don’t taste good like the food in China, then it’s not authentic. And I don’t need to be a god damn chef to know that!!!!!!! I wasn’t born in China, but I lived in Hong Kong for a whole year. I speak fluent Cantonese.

    • @robertlee4172
      @robertlee4172 Рік тому

      @@minlui2752 "Americanized Chinese food just don’t taste good"
      I suppose you just skipped over the part where I said "They had to cater to American tastes". As far as the Chinese restaurants go, last time I checked, they're still serving fried rice, chow mein and wonton soup on a daily basis. Nothing wrong with that at all. Who are you to tell them how to run their business?
      You and your food snob friends need to get off your high horse and support family run restaurants. Chinese parents have been providing for their children in America for the past 150 years with their culinary skills, when no one else would hire them.
      Manchu Wok - $41 million in annual sales,
      PF Chang - $1.2 billion annual sales
      Panda Express - $3 billion annual sales
      Go ahead, argue about that.

  • @seenenough1200
    @seenenough1200 Рік тому

    Rather have PF Chang's than Panda Express, and Chinatown is overrated.

  • @osifielDoperAtive
    @osifielDoperAtive Рік тому

    PF Chang rocks! Great selection. Always the BEST when you have so many restaurants to select. Imagine living in North Korea or Russia right now. We take so many things for granted. Mom n Pop venues along with Big Box Chains… THAT’s AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸

    • @minlui2752
      @minlui2752 Рік тому

      Believe me when I says America isn’t a paradise, but immigrants believe it is!!!!!!!! People are dying to get into America!!!!! Paradise can only be found in heaven if you are poor!!!!!!! Filthy rich wealthy people can find paradise almost in any country perhaps even in North Korea and Russia!!!!!!!!!!!!