Me watching in horror as he eats the first few items: "He's taking... such... huge... bites." Me seeing a shirt change, and realizing he didn't try 60 items in one day: " Oh thank god."
the worst part of these videos is watching ProZD NOT realizing how fucked he's going to be when that video comes out with the new UA-cam policy in place.
I work at a CCF. Cheeseburger spring rolls do indeed slap and the Spicy Vodka pasta is the best pasta on the menu by a country mile. Seeing all these menu items out in the wild feels unreal after being surrounded by them day in and day out for so long. The menu is massive and most of it is bland or outright bad. They’re notorious for skimping out on sauces too. Edit: SungWon calling the Chicken Parm Pizza Style “an insult to food” is the most correct he’s ever been, what a revolting dish.
I worked at one ~15 years ago, and definitely did not understand the appeal of the Louisiana chicken pasta. It is literally oil and red pepper flakes with no sauce. I'm pretty sure the chicken quesadilla had bacon in it back then and was pretty good, but my go-to shift food was the cream of chicken with artichoke and mushroom soup the roughly 1 day a week they had it.
@@Pies_By_Arvid They now have cream of chicken 6 out of 7 days since they decided to cut down to just 3 soups instead of having a diff. soup each day. 2 Soups avail. each day with clam chowder being avail. only on Fridays. Truly a glorious time to be alive.
my favorite food I've ever eaten from CCF was the shrimp scampi/steak Diane plate, which I did eat in house. I was not a big fan of the pasta carbonara, though that's in part bc I got takeout and was eating it barely warm so it was gluey. Flavor wasn't super impressive, but it was at a catered event so at least it was free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you think it would have been different if he didn’t order them to-go? I feel like the few times I have gotten their food to-go either it will be less food or just taste worse idk
Please do a video of you rating dishes from your FAVORITE restaurant so you can enjoy doing at least one of these challenge videos. You've suffered enough
no S tiers handed out :( best food item: possibly culturally "blasphemous" cheeseburger springrolls @ 15:25 runner up: another appetizer in mozarella sticks @ 27:33 best cheesecake: 3 way tie between "sandwich cookie", smores, and vanilla bean best rated entres: meatloaf and "white-nonsense" :P tamales in A- tier 2 other appetizers were in the A- tier: potato tots, and buffalo wings some good food ratings: B+ 3:50 Spicy Rigatoni 16:27 Spicy cashew chicken - SungWon said it was better than any other offering at a certain other company 21:15 Orange chicken A- 12:11 potato tots 22:30 Buffalo wings 22:51 sweet corn tamales - not tamales - doesn't know what white non-sense this is :P, but he liked it 25:11 famous factory meatloaf - like a tv dinner, but he likes it :) A 27:33 mozarella sticks - good crisp A+ 15:25 Cheeseburger springrolls - deemed possibly blasphemous by SungWon Cheesecakes: B+ 10:34 Dulce De Leche (I don't speak Spanish, so I don't know if I spelt it right) A- 5:27 "sandwich cookie" Cheesecake 9:20 Smore's cheesecake on his bday 19:18 Vanilla bean cheesecake - SungWon likes the flavor worst rating: F 14:55 Skinnylicious asian chicken salad another bad rating D is for dynamite shrimp @ 23:17 reminds SungWon of shriveled male genitals an insult to food 23:50 D+ chicken parm addendum: I stand corrected, S tiers were given out 14:16 SungWon's mother's cooking - S tier!!!
Not saying they should, but "Big Gun" might be a good play. I'm eating packaged ramen that hit the best by date in November, and I'd rather eat this over anything from Cheesecake Factory. Expired Spicy Shin with an beaten egg and "American" cheese mixed in with a fried egg on top, no contest.
@@Daniel-91897 You haven't heard of the games Legendairy Cattleclysm or Moogic : the Gathering? You can look it up, in the mean time I'm going to set up for my cheese tasting phase.
“Hi friends. Want to come over for dinner? We’re ordering from Cheesecake Factory, you can only order things we haven’t ordered before, and you have to let Sungwon taste everything first. Our treat!”
@@brookeoconnell4146 USD?? There's no CCF where I am, so this video and others like it are my only exposure to what they even offer, but that's so much money for *any* food, let alone food I can make quickly at home and make better. More laborious dishes are another matter, but pastas?? This is wild.
I didn't realize how fun it would be to watch someone eat way more than I can! Recently got bariatric surgery and can only eat a few small bites per meal before I'm full. My eyes are SO MUCH bigger than my stomach now, it's crazy. Thanks for letting me indulge vicariously through you, Sungwon!
The best thing I've had at Cheesecake Factory was the bread they give to your table at the beginning. It was so good, nothing else could really compare afterwards.
I am irrationally excited to watch this dude eat food for the next 30 minutes, sung won could recite poetry for 30 minutes and I would probably still watch it
Hoping SungWon's friends were safely a few rooms away while he tried their dinners, because otherwise that must've been awkward as hell to hear someone talking about how bland the thing you're about to eat is.
Cheesecake Factory has a massive menu and excels at none of it. I only go there if I wanna share a slice of cheesecake with friends. Cause I can't finish them by myself, they're too rich for me, I wanna take a nap after a few bites of one.
@@alienpotato1834 There is no world in which the cheese cake factory makes anything close to what is considered good "jambalaya" I would bet $100 it ain't even got spice worth putting on a spoon 🤣
I think I've been to the Cheesecake Factory all of once. I remember the cheesecake being solid, but I'm not surprised that the average menu item is kind of shit when their menu is roughly the size of the complete unabridged works of Tolkein. The storage situation has to be an absolute marvel, and I wouldn't be surprised if the freshness and stuff varies wildly.
The best cheesecake I ever had was a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in NYC that served ricotta cheesecake with a fresh berry sauce. Been chasing that high ever since. 😭 I don't think he's done Sonic yet, I'd love to see him navigate some of the drink mixes lol
Sampling parts of friend's dishes reminds me of what if a poison food tester for a king ran a vlog for the royal dishes. "And here we have the fried porpoise nuggets... Lacking a little color on them." *mmff* "Ugh, I didn't know grease was supposed to be a seasoning. Zero flavor. The only thing the chef is feeding after this dish is the hounds after our Lord's blade has had a proper word with him."
I work there, our managers literally tell us not to let people order the Alfredo because it's made from scratch and tastes so plain (besides that there's too much nutmeg in the recipe), and the clientele we get typically expect like olive garden or Applebee's microwave Alfredo. In fact, there are a LOT of dishes that they tell us at all costs to make the guest pick something else lmao
@@xc7525 haha I'll try. A lot of it is pretty subjective and based less on the dish actually being terrible and more on the fact that we don't trust our usual clientele to have the appropriate pallette. Stuff that some people love but gets sent back with enough regularity that it's just not worth the trouble to sell given how fucking huge the menu is. Sometimes we just don't trust the kitchen to execute a particular dish. But then, there's times when the GM is like "here's our 5 new items for the winter rollout... These 4 suck, do not sell them, especially in this region. They'll be gone in 6 months". So I'll list what we're told to avoid selling, but it's not necessarily always that the dishes that are trash. Alfredo: as mentioned above. Plus the Carbonara, Cacio E Pepe, Farfalle, Chipotle pasta, Da Vinci, all have some sort of cream sauce and are much better, tastier and more complex dishes. Chicken and Broccoli pasta. This one actually just got axed. Actually better than Alfredo, but people come in, see "Chicken and Broccoli pasta" in a menu with 250 items and tiny print in a dark ass restaurant where it's hard to read, and just assume it's Alfredo with chicken and broccoli like Applebee's or olive garden. It's actually not a sauce based pasta, but has some other veggies, LOTS of garlic and oil. Not what people expect, so they'll send it back without trying it when they see it. Loaded Baked Potato tots: this one actually just got removed two days ago after almost 10 years of deception. I actually don't mind them, but the name implies crispy tots with bacon, cheese, sour cream on it. Not leftover mashed potatoes mixed with bacon and cheese and deep fried. A bit weird. Not bad but not what is advertised really. Sweet potato enchiladas: One of my personal fucking favorites, but didn't last long on the menu for obvious reasons. Loved that shit though. Stuffed cheddar burger: our burgers generally are great actually, provided there's a competent cook in that station for the shift. This one in particular sucks ass though, great idea, poor execution, it never comes out looking or tasting very appealing, and can't be cooked to order because of the cheese inside, which is a problem because a lot of picky "well done burger and steak" people come in. Teriyaki chicken: They wised up and removed it last year. Who tf orders teriyaki and is not upset when they get some weird, bone in chicken piece with teriyaki sauce on it? And we don't even have fucking fried rice, you just get plain white rice. California cheese steak: Another that lasted way too long, but is gone now. Mostly inoffensive, besides that the best idea they had for bread was to put it on a probably-already-cold piece of our hard, stale ass, shitty sourdough baguette. Chicken and Biscuits: This is in my personal top 5, although I avoided it for 5 years because it looks so fucking weird. It's essentially a blown up pot pie, grilled chicken, peas, mushrooms, carrots, onions in a gravy like mixture, a side of Mash potatoes, and then you get these two weird ass 'biscuits' that are really more like cornbread in texture and flavor. They are a bit sweet and actually not bad, but def don't taste like a biscuit, and they look worse than they taste too, for sure. Strawberry Shortcake: 3 of those same biscuits, but with some sugar sprinkled on, strawberries around it (not even glaze, just sugared berries), 3 scoops of ice cream, and some whip. Not really anything to do with what people associate with strawberry shortcake, besides strawberries. Plus they're a fucking pain in the ass to make and slow down the bakery. Paradise colada: Thankfully removed after one menu cycle. The name implies some new, unique, fruity blended drink with pineapple and coconut. For some reason, literally the strongest drink on the menu, passing the Mai Tai (which is pretty good), and tastes like hand sanitizer, or what I imagine the Passion Fruit Spray in 'Elf' tasted like. Most people give Will Ferrell's reaction when tasting this. Chicken Parm pizza style: Not usually as bad as in this video at my more established and competent location, but thank God we're out of this shit 5 days a week. It's fucking ground chicken, and spicy for some reason. Just not a good dish, the Parm sandwich and romano are definitely better choices (which isn't saying much, the romano is pretty bland and meh too, when the menu has several awesome chicken specialties to choose). 4 cheese pasta: Fine. But not very cheesy, and yet somehow worse than our regular marinara with the cheese addition (I actually love the spaghetti and meatballs). Then the dollop of ricotta on top makes the dish seem cold when stirred in. Not worth the trouble, there's many better pastas to choose, it's a boring ass dish. Truffle honey chicken: The truffle oil is actually not bad (and very fucking expensive apparently), but we get a looooot of clientele that sees honey and chicken and orders without a clue what truffle oil is. Very strong, pungent smell and taste that is completely off putting if you don't like it. Broccoli: we don't microwave shit (except I think spinach dip, but 6 of the 7 stations don't have access to a mic period), and they don't steam it for some reason, they just cook it in the pasta water, and it takes like 2 years to get edible. Exasperating the issue is the fact everyone orders well done, double steamed, extra soft or whatever... Gets sent back a lot, no matter how long they cook it. We have solid fries, mash, made from scratch to order Mac, and other veggies. No reason to order plain ass, hard broccoli stalk. Chicken Madeira: One of our best dishes, but since COVID supplies have been weird, and the new chicken product is hit or miss, sometimes still great, sometimes it's rubbery as hell. It's sad, but it's hard to recommend this amazing dish now. Meatloaf: It's actually awesome, all the comfort food is shockingly well done. But it's not cracker barrel meatloaf with ketchup, it's individually grilled, topped with sauteed onions, mushroom gravy... But we're in the southeast, this isn't what people expect when they say meatloaf. Chicken and waffles Benedict: We thankfully have regular chicken and waffles now, they're harmless. But this dish... Someone who's gonna order chicken and waffles at a place with this many options, not the type of person who's gonna want poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Bang bang chicken and shrimp: The name implies spicy, as does the menu description. Like with most "spicy" dishes on the menu, it's greatly exaggerated or outright false. The dish is sweet and fruity, with a very peanutty flavor, applesauce, coconut... Too much going on. In addition, your location has a lot to do with it. If it's a new location, good luck. But an established, competent staff can make a lot of great things there. It's a scratch kitchen, even fucking ranch, Bleu cheese, honey mustard, made fresh daily. It's funny when salads start getting sent back for tasting spicy, we know there's way too much garlic in the ranch. Thing is, it's impossible to properly execute a menu so large consistently on a daily basis, especially as busy and large as those restaurants typically are. The fact that it goes as smoothly as it does on an individual and corporate level is incredible to me.
I had to have my gallbladder removed a year ago. Since then, I've liked going to The Cheesecake Factory because it doesn't give me a stomach ache. But in watching this video, I finally put together why. It's because it has like... no flavor. It's "white people nonsense," as you said... which just happens to be great for a person with no gallbladder.
I love these videos. They are the best to watch when eating a meal yourself. And here I thought that The Cheesecake Factory was a bougie place with high quality food.
Excuse me for expecting a company called 'The Cheesecake Factory' to only make cheesecakes & Not Fettuccine Alfredo. Like, I guess I was just the idiot for thinking that.
This is giving me vibes of like, ProZD went to cheesecake and didn’t get seated for an hour and a half and is doing this as a hit piece to get back at them.
I love this series he does because it's kind of a cool human psyche experiment to guess what his grading will be for each food item based on his body language and critique, makes it a more engaging video to watch.
OK but as an Australian without access to this stuff, these videos are always 100% my jam and this one is no exception. I freaking LOVE cheesecake and there's no Cheesecake Factory here so I gotta live the experience like this until they open up down under. Cheers for the vid!
You're not missing much! Cheesecake Factory is a fever dream. The decor is incredibly garish and tacky and their menus are as thick as a novel. A suburban homage to capitalism.
Re: the grocery board, it’s fun. Just like our house it takes a while before we get things off our list and it’s fun to watch things get added and removed!
Based on the time it takes to get food delivered, I feel like it rapidly effects the quality of the food vs, fresh at the restaurant. Though, I've never had CheeseFactory.
Theoretically, yes. Functionally, I'm not so sure in this case (I've had it delivered before and much of the time it was pretty much same same only sadder looking)
I really don't understand how people do take out and then judge the food. Has anyone ever had leftover legit alfredo? You have to eat that shit hot and immediately. So many of these dishes are ones that would really never do well sitting for a while. And then when something is "bland without the sauce"... yeah. It's supposed to be. The flavors are supposed to go together. I'm just baffled every time I see people do "shit tons of takeout" videos cuz there's NO WAY it's gonna be the best that dish could be at that point. Especially when people do fast food versions of these videos. Like what? Cold fast food is not good? The hell you say! LOL
I'm very skeptical of anything out of Cheesecake Factory. For a menu that large, I doubt anything is being prepared in-house. The best item continues to be the brown bread.
Thank you for calling out restaurants leaving the tails on the shrimp. No I didn’t pay for this shit just for you to avoid doing one of the preparation steps so it can look bigger on my plate
as someone who bussed for the cheesecake factory for 3 years. not one food is microwaved. its just all shit. the chefs have to learn so many dishes that they all come out bland to meet standards.
My friends got Cheesecake Factory during a con last year bc there was one across the street. I wasn't super hungry so I got the loaded potato tots. I had the same opinion as you in this video! They're actually really good! 😊
In my experience the best thing on their menu is the plain cheesecake and it's honestly the same quality, albeit in bigger slices, than what you can buy at Costco. A friend used to be a manager at one and would invite us out to dinner just about weekly and between my friends and I ordered I had a sampling of maybe 95% of their menu. There is nothing on their menu that is worth their inflated full price. Money can be better spent at a nice local restaurant or even just a cheaper fast casual chain if you crave consistency. Man, his exclamation about the shrimp tails still being on killed me.
I'd like to know if your friends agreed with your views? How'd you get them to order from there? If it I did this, I'd have to pay for their meals to get them to agree to eat there 😂
@30:51 “You guys better watch this one!” I watched the entire video! 😂 This is the only 2nd food tasting video I’ve watched of yours other than the Caviar one. Both were nice!
I was so disappointed when I ordered their fettuccine alfredo and it was identical to the frozen kind you can get at Trader Joe's, down to the texture of the noodles, lmao. Another stellar video!
Imagine my surprise when I expected ProZD to eat 60 cakes and/or pastries only for the video to start with fettuccine. Today I learned that Cheesecake Factory makes things that are not cheesecakes.
I don't know if it's parasocial to be invested in the grocery list across the various videos in this series, but I can't help it over time I expect it'll evolve into an ARG
I was once taken to a Cheesecake Factory for my birthday. We both agreed that we'd never seen a menu so long with absolutely nothing appealing on it. It's Applebee's with cheesecake.
Imagine being one of ProZD's friends, allowing him to take a bite of your food and him declaring it's a D- rank before you even get to it.
"I genuinely could not eat that. I'm so glad I don't have to finish that. B-, it's okay."
this is an insult to food, D rank, oh, here you go, please enjoy
and he dripped some of the dressing/sauce from his mouth back on the food lmao
LOL I didn’t think of that! “F - not fit for human consumption. Here’s your food back!”
And licking the fork before stabbing their food lmao
Me watching in horror as he eats the first few items: "He's taking... such... huge... bites."
Me seeing a shirt change, and realizing he didn't try 60 items in one day: " Oh thank god."
Cheese gerberyers
😂understandable lol there’s one where he says he’s doing it over multiple days or weeks or months, but I can’t remember which
@@povee911the Campbell’s soup one was 6 months lol
the best part of these videos is watching ProZD realize he's made a horrible mistake and start yelling at the food. A+ i love these
"It's just.. It's sugar and whipped cream.. It's mush. It's just mush."
That line, while reviewing cheesecake, is hilarious.
the worst part of these videos is watching ProZD NOT realizing how fucked he's going to be when that video comes out with the new UA-cam policy in place.
@@soupysoup931 what's the policy?
Total A+ I love these
I work at a CCF. Cheeseburger spring rolls do indeed slap and the Spicy Vodka pasta is the best pasta on the menu by a country mile. Seeing all these menu items out in the wild feels unreal after being surrounded by them day in and day out for so long. The menu is massive and most of it is bland or outright bad. They’re notorious for skimping out on sauces too.
Edit: SungWon calling the Chicken Parm Pizza Style “an insult to food” is the most correct he’s ever been, what a revolting dish.
Which is weird because it is my go-to dish whenever I have to suffer going to Cheesecake Factory since it is the *least* insulting dish on the menu.
I worked at one ~15 years ago, and definitely did not understand the appeal of the Louisiana chicken pasta. It is literally oil and red pepper flakes with no sauce. I'm pretty sure the chicken quesadilla had bacon in it back then and was pretty good, but my go-to shift food was the cream of chicken with artichoke and mushroom soup the roughly 1 day a week they had it.
@@Pies_By_Arvid They now have cream of chicken 6 out of 7 days since they decided to cut down to just 3 soups instead of having a diff. soup each day. 2 Soups avail. each day with clam chowder being avail. only on Fridays.
Truly a glorious time to be alive.
my favorite food I've ever eaten from CCF was the shrimp scampi/steak Diane plate, which I did eat in house. I was not a big fan of the pasta carbonara, though that's in part bc I got takeout and was eating it barely warm so it was gluey. Flavor wasn't super impressive, but it was at a catered event so at least it was free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you think it would have been different if he didn’t order them to-go? I feel like the few times I have gotten their food to-go either it will be less food or just taste worse idk
Sungwon spending over $300,000 to get this video out to us, truly a man dedicated to his craft
CHAPTERS (with grades)
0:28 - Fettucine Alfredo - C
1:16 - Spicy Tuna - C+
2:12 - Stuffed Mushrooms - B-
2:54 - Original Cheesecake - B
3:41 - Spicy Rigatoni Vodka - B+
4:17 - Street Corn - B
4:37 - Fried Macaroni and Cheese - B
5:21 - Oreo Dream Extreme Cheesecake - A-
5:56 - Crispy Brussels Sprouts - B
6:18 - Cacio E Pepe Pasta - C-
6:53 - Pasta Da Vinci - no grade, "marginally better than Cacio E Pepe"
7:36 - Celebration Cheesecake - B+
8:20 - White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake - B
8:35 - Toased Marshmallow S'Mores Galore Cheesecake - A-
9:24 - Coconut Cream Pie Cheesecake - A-
9:47 - Cinnabon Cinnamon Swirl Cheesecake - B
10:14 - Salted Caramel Cheesecake - B
10:47 - Dulce De Leche Caramel Cheesecake - B+
11:24 - Caesar Salad - C+
11:37 - Beet and Avocado Salad - C
12:05 - Loaded Baked Potato Tots - A-
12:30 - Truffle-Honey Chicken - C+
13:26 - Four Cheese Pasta - C-
13:53 - Caramel Apple Cheesecake - B-
14:27 - Chicken Madeira - C+
14:52 - SkinnyLicious Asian Chicken Salad - F
15:20 - Cheeseburger Spring Rolls - A+
15:48 - Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake - B-
16:26 - Spicy Cashew Chicken - B+
17:00 - Tex Mex Eggrolls - C+
17:16 - Key Lime Cheesecake - B
17:31 - Grilled Steak Tacos - B-
17:56 - Fried Zucchini - B
18:20 - Avocado Eggrolls - C+
18:40 - Asparagus Fries - B-
18:59 - Louisiana Chicken Pasta - C
19:17 - Vanilla Bean Cheesecake - A-
20:07 - Factory Turkey Burger - C+
20:30 - Cuban Sandwich - B
20:47 - Mushroom Burger - B-
21:07 - Orange Chicken - B+
21:28 - Chicken Taquitos - B-
21:46 - Fresh Banana Cream Cheesecake - B
22:09 - Chicken Samosas - A-
22:25 - Buffalo Wings - A-
22:40 - Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes - A-
23:14 - Dynamite Shrimp - D
23:39 - Chicken Parmesan "Pizza Style" - D+
24:10 - Lemon Meringue Cheesecake - B
24:19 - Chicken Pot Stickers - C+
24:33 - Buffalo Blasts - B
25:09 - Famous Factory Meatloaf - A-
25:36 - Caramel Pecan Turtle Cheesecake - B
26:04 - Classic Basque Cheesecake - B-
26:48 - Buffalo Chicken Strips - B
27:16 - Crispy Fried Cheese - A
27:51 - Pretzel Bites With Cheddar Cheese Fondue - B-
28:24 - Korean Fried Chicken - B
29:12 - Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Cheesecake - B-
29:52 - Pineapple Upside-Down Cheesecake - B
Doing the lord’s work 🙌🏼
I appreciate the work for the time stamps but I’d appreciate even more if you included the scores. 😅
The people demand a tier list
omg😂
Oof, look like they missed my favorite item, the BBQ ranch chicken salad
turns out that cheesecake factory food actually tastes like it's made in a factory. really immersive
Please do a video of you rating dishes from your FAVORITE restaurant so you can enjoy doing at least one of these challenge videos. You've suffered enough
@@JinbaHGS can’t forget Kettle
Did he do panda express?
@@gumandcoffeeyeah he did!
Check out the Mcdonalds one. Surprising amount of S tier foods
@@gumandcoffeeAt least since today, I actually saw it (again) last night. 7/22/24 is today.
no S tiers handed out :(
best food item: possibly culturally "blasphemous" cheeseburger springrolls @ 15:25
runner up: another appetizer in mozarella sticks @ 27:33
best cheesecake: 3 way tie between "sandwich cookie", smores, and vanilla bean
best rated entres: meatloaf and "white-nonsense" :P tamales in A- tier
2 other appetizers were in the A- tier: potato tots, and buffalo wings
some good food ratings:
B+
3:50 Spicy Rigatoni
16:27 Spicy cashew chicken - SungWon said it was better than any other offering at a certain other company
21:15 Orange chicken
A-
12:11 potato tots
22:30 Buffalo wings
22:51 sweet corn tamales - not tamales - doesn't know what white non-sense this is :P, but he liked it
25:11 famous factory meatloaf - like a tv dinner, but he likes it :)
A
27:33 mozarella sticks - good crisp
A+
15:25 Cheeseburger springrolls - deemed possibly blasphemous by SungWon
Cheesecakes:
B+
10:34 Dulce De Leche (I don't speak Spanish, so I don't know if I spelt it right)
A-
5:27 "sandwich cookie" Cheesecake
9:20 Smore's cheesecake on his bday
19:18 Vanilla bean cheesecake - SungWon likes the flavor
worst rating:
F
14:55 Skinnylicious asian chicken salad
another bad rating
D is for dynamite shrimp @ 23:17 reminds SungWon of shriveled male genitals
an insult to food
23:50 D+ chicken parm
addendum:
I stand corrected, S tiers were given out
14:16 SungWon's mother's cooking - S tier!!!
Half an hour of ProZD eating cheesecake? The Cool Cow from hit card game Legendairy Cattleclysm™ has blessed us once more
Count Cornelius Cheddar will be most pleased to hear this news
Not saying they should, but "Big Gun" might be a good play. I'm eating packaged ramen that hit the best by date in November, and I'd rather eat this over anything from Cheesecake Factory.
Expired Spicy Shin with an beaten egg and "American" cheese mixed in with a fried egg on top, no contest.
@@youtubeviolatedme7123 I’m sure he’ll be filled with _udder_ disbelief
I don't know what this means, but I love it
@@Daniel-91897 You haven't heard of the games Legendairy Cattleclysm or Moogic : the Gathering? You can look it up, in the mean time I'm going to set up for my cheese tasting phase.
If a restaurant has a menu as long as a novel, it means all their food is made in a microwave
Or an oven
Or a hot bath
Or a kiln
Most of all, if it's from Cheesecake Factory, it's going to have twice the calories of a comparable item
Wrong. They prepare everything from scratch. Cheesecake factory is underrated.
Stop bringing facts into this. People wanna doomer
@@yunleung2631found the CEO
@@yunleung2631it's one of the most popular restaurants out there, how is it underrated?
“Hi friends. Want to come over for dinner? We’re ordering from Cheesecake Factory, you can only order things we haven’t ordered before, and you have to let Sungwon taste everything first. Our treat!”
Are you kidding me? I’d 1000% take them up on it. Cheesecake Factory is unreasonably expensive
This stuff is *expensive* too?? Why do people eat there?
@@A_T216 I mean. Most of the entrees are $25-30 and a slice of cheesecake is around $11. Which for Applebees caliber food is crazy to me.
@@brookeoconnell4146 USD?? There's no CCF where I am, so this video and others like it are my only exposure to what they even offer, but that's so much money for *any* food, let alone food I can make quickly at home and make better. More laborious dishes are another matter, but pastas?? This is wild.
The self-questioning disbelief with which he utters this rating at 22:22 is soooo revealing and funny. I love these videos Sungwon thank you
it was the one at 15:43 that got me (specially with him going for another bite after) but ye same vibe lmao
Yea this one is just like it too, thanks for time-stamping hahaha
"AND THE TAILS ARE STILL ON? WHY?!!!" - Exactly what my wife says at every restaurant ever.
Tbf, the most efficient way to de-tail is to bite the head and pull, and idk I don't think most restaurants would get away with that
I didn't realize how fun it would be to watch someone eat way more than I can! Recently got bariatric surgery and can only eat a few small bites per meal before I'm full. My eyes are SO MUCH bigger than my stomach now, it's crazy. Thanks for letting me indulge vicariously through you, Sungwon!
As an Aussie I was so confused why cheese cake factory was selling anything other than cakes. This has been a great cultural exchange haha
The best thing I've had at Cheesecake Factory was the bread they give to your table at the beginning. It was so good, nothing else could really compare afterwards.
they sell it at stores now
ProZD tries sixty different ways to test Gods resilience, I must say that chicken fettuccine alfredo looked good on the surface
Looked like every other fettuccine Alfredo I've ever seen but ok
I wonder if he went back and tried it again if it would be a higher tier. Some of it was so bad lol
@@ToastyBB That's the point. Those later dishes looked like abominations against nature.
They forget the cheesecake but remember the Brussel sprouts? I'd call the cops.
I am irrationally excited to watch this dude eat food for the next 30 minutes, sung won could recite poetry for 30 minutes and I would probably still watch it
I love how he is about to talk so much crap on the cheeseburger spring rolls and then stops himself immediately and gives them an A+ haha
Hoping SungWon's friends were safely a few rooms away while he tried their dinners, because otherwise that must've been awkward as hell to hear someone talking about how bland the thing you're about to eat is.
He said they were there silently 😂 and I think they all knew he was reviewing Cheesecake Factory. They probably ate the food anyways 😂
As long as it isn't a "trying meals prepared by my friends" video, I think they'll be okay with it. Now _that_ would make things awkward.
Omg that is HELLA AWKWARD girl!!!
@@mackenziedesire7515 Let's Try 30 DIFFERENT DISHES MADE BY MY MOTHER IN LAW
"Fucking bland bland bland!"
if they were real friends they'd know what they were getting into ordering from a chain restaurant
Cheesecake ranges from absolutely rotten to the most beautiful piece of food I've ever had
Ok
First cheesecake was in NYC. Been a fan ever since but I normally just get blueberry cheesecake.
I get sick of any cheesecake after 2 or 3 bites lol
Cheesecake Factory has a massive menu and excels at none of it.
I only go there if I wanna share a slice of cheesecake with friends. Cause I can't finish them by myself, they're too rich for me, I wanna take a nap after a few bites of one.
@@Broockle it's a hit or miss menu. There's really good stuff and trash.
“Looks like I made it at home.”
Don’t sell yourself that short
Monkey's Paw: I'm buying everyone Cheesecake Factory!
Yay!
But I get a bite of every order.
Giving him a bite? No big deal. Imagine having to eat the Dynamite Shrimp after watching him almost die from it
This is the human suffering I subscribed for.
I love how he sounded confused as he gave the Cheeseburger Spring Rolls an A+.
yep, we need more of these
I wonder if ProZD enjoyed every dish from somewhere would the video not do well
None of them being S ranked is the most scathing review I've seen. Amazing video
My favorite part is when he just starts eating everyone's food and telling them how shitty it is.
As a cheesecake factory lover, the food looks greater when eating at the place itself, the pasta did indeed look sad after delivery.
@@DrMario_666 You play overwatch.
@@navivaldez6240 this is a fantastic insult.
@@navivaldez6240 yes they do. Good observation skills. Gold star for you.
im disappointed that he didnt try the jambalaya pasta. it's the best thing on their menu!
@@alienpotato1834 There is no world in which the cheese cake factory makes anything close to what is considered good "jambalaya" I would bet $100 it ain't even got spice worth putting on a spoon 🤣
"What in the white nonsense?" That should be Cheesecake Factory's new slogan.
Can't wait for the inevitable Olive Garden or Applebee's video
If you think I'm gonna watch a deep voiced Korean man taste 60 different Cheesecake Factory items on video for 31 minutes
you'd be right.
At this point it's a fairly tried and true video format. The only way it could be more classic is as a stream.
Now I kinda want fellow deep-voiced Korean man Markiplier to do food review videos like this.
I thought he was Vietnamese-
I think I've been to the Cheesecake Factory all of once. I remember the cheesecake being solid, but I'm not surprised that the average menu item is kind of shit when their menu is roughly the size of the complete unabridged works of Tolkein. The storage situation has to be an absolute marvel, and I wouldn't be surprised if the freshness and stuff varies wildly.
These keep getting better, the dialogue of the Camera is always a welcome addition to the comedic but homey atmosphere.
It reminds me of old UA-cam
The best cheesecake I ever had was a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in NYC that served ricotta cheesecake with a fresh berry sauce. Been chasing that high ever since. 😭
I don't think he's done Sonic yet, I'd love to see him navigate some of the drink mixes lol
You can't just drop that without a name or address.
Sampling parts of friend's dishes reminds me of what if a poison food tester for a king ran a vlog for the royal dishes.
"And here we have the fried porpoise nuggets... Lacking a little color on them." *mmff* "Ugh, I didn't know grease was supposed to be a seasoning. Zero flavor. The only thing the chef is feeding after this dish is the hounds after our Lord's blade has had a proper word with him."
I like how the fridge whiteboard says "why are you reading this, weirdo?" as if it's a funny easter egg to the viewers. 👍
And then "STILL READING, EH?!" Later on 😆
I was so afraid that you were gonna do it all at once.
Hearing one of your cats meowing in the background during the four cheese killed me :D
Perhaps if i ever make it to a Cheesecake Factory, I'll be able to use this knowledge to order a good dish.
Havent watched the full vid yet, but their burgers are great, specifically Macaroni and Cheese burger
He should do a video where he revisits all the S Rank foods he's eaten. I just want this poor guy to be happy lol...
I work there, our managers literally tell us not to let people order the Alfredo because it's made from scratch and tastes so plain (besides that there's too much nutmeg in the recipe), and the clientele we get typically expect like olive garden or Applebee's microwave Alfredo.
In fact, there are a LOT of dishes that they tell us at all costs to make the guest pick something else lmao
omg what dishes so i know what not to order lol
@@xc7525 haha I'll try. A lot of it is pretty subjective and based less on the dish actually being terrible and more on the fact that we don't trust our usual clientele to have the appropriate pallette. Stuff that some people love but gets sent back with enough regularity that it's just not worth the trouble to sell given how fucking huge the menu is. Sometimes we just don't trust the kitchen to execute a particular dish. But then, there's times when the GM is like "here's our 5 new items for the winter rollout... These 4 suck, do not sell them, especially in this region. They'll be gone in 6 months". So I'll list what we're told to avoid selling, but it's not necessarily always that the dishes that are trash.
Alfredo: as mentioned above. Plus the Carbonara, Cacio E Pepe, Farfalle, Chipotle pasta, Da Vinci, all have some sort of cream sauce and are much better, tastier and more complex dishes.
Chicken and Broccoli pasta. This one actually just got axed. Actually better than Alfredo, but people come in, see "Chicken and Broccoli pasta" in a menu with 250 items and tiny print in a dark ass restaurant where it's hard to read, and just assume it's Alfredo with chicken and broccoli like Applebee's or olive garden. It's actually not a sauce based pasta, but has some other veggies, LOTS of garlic and oil. Not what people expect, so they'll send it back without trying it when they see it.
Loaded Baked Potato tots: this one actually just got removed two days ago after almost 10 years of deception. I actually don't mind them, but the name implies crispy tots with bacon, cheese, sour cream on it. Not leftover mashed potatoes mixed with bacon and cheese and deep fried. A bit weird. Not bad but not what is advertised really.
Sweet potato enchiladas: One of my personal fucking favorites, but didn't last long on the menu for obvious reasons. Loved that shit though.
Stuffed cheddar burger: our burgers generally are great actually, provided there's a competent cook in that station for the shift. This one in particular sucks ass though, great idea, poor execution, it never comes out looking or tasting very appealing, and can't be cooked to order because of the cheese inside, which is a problem because a lot of picky "well done burger and steak" people come in.
Teriyaki chicken: They wised up and removed it last year. Who tf orders teriyaki and is not upset when they get some weird, bone in chicken piece with teriyaki sauce on it? And we don't even have fucking fried rice, you just get plain white rice.
California cheese steak: Another that lasted way too long, but is gone now. Mostly inoffensive, besides that the best idea they had for bread was to put it on a probably-already-cold piece of our hard, stale ass, shitty sourdough baguette.
Chicken and Biscuits: This is in my personal top 5, although I avoided it for 5 years because it looks so fucking weird. It's essentially a blown up pot pie, grilled chicken, peas, mushrooms, carrots, onions in a gravy like mixture, a side of Mash potatoes, and then you get these two weird ass 'biscuits' that are really more like cornbread in texture and flavor. They are a bit sweet and actually not bad, but def don't taste like a biscuit, and they look worse than they taste too, for sure.
Strawberry Shortcake: 3 of those same biscuits, but with some sugar sprinkled on, strawberries around it (not even glaze, just sugared berries), 3 scoops of ice cream, and some whip. Not really anything to do with what people associate with strawberry shortcake, besides strawberries. Plus they're a fucking pain in the ass to make and slow down the bakery.
Paradise colada: Thankfully removed after one menu cycle. The name implies some new, unique, fruity blended drink with pineapple and coconut. For some reason, literally the strongest drink on the menu, passing the Mai Tai (which is pretty good), and tastes like hand sanitizer, or what I imagine the Passion Fruit Spray in 'Elf' tasted like. Most people give Will Ferrell's reaction when tasting this.
Chicken Parm pizza style: Not usually as bad as in this video at my more established and competent location, but thank God we're out of this shit 5 days a week. It's fucking ground chicken, and spicy for some reason. Just not a good dish, the Parm sandwich and romano are definitely better choices (which isn't saying much, the romano is pretty bland and meh too, when the menu has several awesome chicken specialties to choose).
4 cheese pasta: Fine. But not very cheesy, and yet somehow worse than our regular marinara with the cheese addition (I actually love the spaghetti and meatballs). Then the dollop of ricotta on top makes the dish seem cold when stirred in. Not worth the trouble, there's many better pastas to choose, it's a boring ass dish.
Truffle honey chicken: The truffle oil is actually not bad (and very fucking expensive apparently), but we get a looooot of clientele that sees honey and chicken and orders without a clue what truffle oil is. Very strong, pungent smell and taste that is completely off putting if you don't like it.
Broccoli: we don't microwave shit (except I think spinach dip, but 6 of the 7 stations don't have access to a mic period), and they don't steam it for some reason, they just cook it in the pasta water, and it takes like 2 years to get edible. Exasperating the issue is the fact everyone orders well done, double steamed, extra soft or whatever... Gets sent back a lot, no matter how long they cook it. We have solid fries, mash, made from scratch to order Mac, and other veggies. No reason to order plain ass, hard broccoli stalk.
Chicken Madeira: One of our best dishes, but since COVID supplies have been weird, and the new chicken product is hit or miss, sometimes still great, sometimes it's rubbery as hell. It's sad, but it's hard to recommend this amazing dish now.
Meatloaf: It's actually awesome, all the comfort food is shockingly well done. But it's not cracker barrel meatloaf with ketchup, it's individually grilled, topped with sauteed onions, mushroom gravy... But we're in the southeast, this isn't what people expect when they say meatloaf.
Chicken and waffles Benedict: We thankfully have regular chicken and waffles now, they're harmless. But this dish... Someone who's gonna order chicken and waffles at a place with this many options, not the type of person who's gonna want poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.
Bang bang chicken and shrimp: The name implies spicy, as does the menu description. Like with most "spicy" dishes on the menu, it's greatly exaggerated or outright false. The dish is sweet and fruity, with a very peanutty flavor, applesauce, coconut... Too much going on.
In addition, your location has a lot to do with it. If it's a new location, good luck. But an established, competent staff can make a lot of great things there. It's a scratch kitchen, even fucking ranch, Bleu cheese, honey mustard, made fresh daily. It's funny when salads start getting sent back for tasting spicy, we know there's way too much garlic in the ranch.
Thing is, it's impossible to properly execute a menu so large consistently on a daily basis, especially as busy and large as those restaurants typically are. The fact that it goes as smoothly as it does on an individual and corporate level is incredible to me.
Holy crap I was gunna says that's alone but it's prolly only like .02% of the menu. Thank you!!
@@xc7525 that's the key. Avoid a few pastas? There's 10 more. Avoid one burger, there's still several great options. Etc. Etc.
NUTMEG??
I had to have my gallbladder removed a year ago. Since then, I've liked going to The Cheesecake Factory because it doesn't give me a stomach ache. But in watching this video, I finally put together why. It's because it has like... no flavor. It's "white people nonsense," as you said... which just happens to be great for a person with no gallbladder.
I love watching ProZD and GF being fairly indifferent, confused, pleasantly surprised for 30 minutes. Great ep. Hamburger Eggrolls blow my mind.
That's his wife :)
I love these videos. They are the best to watch when eating a meal yourself.
And here I thought that The Cheesecake Factory was a bougie place with high quality food.
If you mean bougie like expensive, for sure, but apparently not the quality :,)
Excuse me for expecting a company called 'The Cheesecake Factory' to only make cheesecakes & Not Fettuccine Alfredo. Like, I guess I was just the idiot for thinking that.
Such an emotional journey, my body almost couldn't take it, but I managed to watch through it. Thank you for doing this for the people.
I ate delicious home-cooked Korean food for dinner while watching this video and his disappointment somehow made my meal even more tasty
This is giving me vibes of like, ProZD went to cheesecake and didn’t get seated for an hour and a half and is doing this as a hit piece to get back at them.
"Cheeseburger spring rolls...! Which sounds... blasphemous." I CRIED
“I don’t like any of their cheesecakes”
*licks fork
I love this series he does because it's kind of a cool human psyche experiment to guess what his grading will be for each food item based on his body language and critique, makes it a more engaging video to watch.
I think the sauce keeps disappearing because the noodles absorb the sauce while in transit
Yeah the Louisiana has a delicious, mildly spicy sauce you can dip the breaded chicken in. Sad to see the delivery ruin it's score so much.
So mad at the "four cheese" pasta 😂 this is making me feel better for never trying cheesecake factory
*The most items he's ever done in a video*
*No S Tiers* 💀
I like how Anne Marie went from making sporadic random noises in earlier videos to now giving full on director's commentary
He finally set up the cheese tasting phase
OK but as an Australian without access to this stuff, these videos are always 100% my jam and this one is no exception. I freaking LOVE cheesecake and there's no Cheesecake Factory here so I gotta live the experience like this until they open up down under. Cheers for the vid!
You're not missing much! Cheesecake Factory is a fever dream. The decor is incredibly garish and tacky and their menus are as thick as a novel. A suburban homage to capitalism.
I love watching these mainly for his slow decent into madness
We've entered the cheesecake tasting phase
I think those cheeseburger eggroll things are the most confused sounding A+ I've ever heard from you
There is a place near me that makes a cheesesteak egg roll that is absolutely incredible.
Re: the grocery board, it’s fun. Just like our house it takes a while before we get things off our list and it’s fun to watch things get added and removed!
I'm very invested in the trash can
Cheesecake factory is one of those places that can be awesome or terrible. It all depends on the kitchen staff.
Imagine my surprise when I was expecting a lot of cheesecake and he pulls out a bowl of pasta
lol at the list on the refrigerator
"Why are you reading this, weirdo?"
Based on the time it takes to get food delivered, I feel like it rapidly effects the quality of the food vs, fresh at the restaurant.
Though, I've never had CheeseFactory.
should sandwiches, salads, and cheesecakes suffer so much
Theoretically, yes. Functionally, I'm not so sure in this case (I've had it delivered before and much of the time it was pretty much same same only sadder looking)
Anyone notice the whiteboard saying “still reading EH!!!”. Sungwon knows his audience haha
Going from "F. Fuck this" item to an "A+?" item. Best comedic timing.
Hahah I loved the Asian chicken salad part. “Cuz it’s Asian you know - just like my home country” 😂
I really don't understand how people do take out and then judge the food. Has anyone ever had leftover legit alfredo? You have to eat that shit hot and immediately. So many of these dishes are ones that would really never do well sitting for a while. And then when something is "bland without the sauce"... yeah. It's supposed to be. The flavors are supposed to go together. I'm just baffled every time I see people do "shit tons of takeout" videos cuz there's NO WAY it's gonna be the best that dish could be at that point. Especially when people do fast food versions of these videos. Like what? Cold fast food is not good? The hell you say! LOL
I'm very skeptical of anything out of Cheesecake Factory. For a menu that large, I doubt anything is being prepared in-house. The best item continues to be the brown bread.
Please do a bunch more of these. You can write all of these meals off as tax expenses because it's for production purposes.
Thank you for calling out restaurants leaving the tails on the shrimp. No I didn’t pay for this shit just for you to avoid doing one of the preparation steps so it can look bigger on my plate
I’ve been considering going on a Cheesecake Factory date recently so I really appreciate your takes on what not to get 😅❤
as someone who bussed for the cheesecake factory for 3 years. not one food is microwaved. its just all shit. the chefs have to learn so many dishes that they all come out bland to meet standards.
Dude…can we just appreciate how much torture Sungwon had to go through the make this vid.
I totally misread the title and thought you were going to try 60 cheeses! That's what I want to see!
My friends got Cheesecake Factory during a con last year bc there was one across the street. I wasn't super hungry so I got the loaded potato tots. I had the same opinion as you in this video! They're actually really good! 😊
"This freaking soap oil" is how I've always tasted oil. People who request putting oil on their hoagies completely obliterate my mind
In my experience the best thing on their menu is the plain cheesecake and it's honestly the same quality, albeit in bigger slices, than what you can buy at Costco. A friend used to be a manager at one and would invite us out to dinner just about weekly and between my friends and I ordered I had a sampling of maybe 95% of their menu. There is nothing on their menu that is worth their inflated full price. Money can be better spent at a nice local restaurant or even just a cheaper fast casual chain if you crave consistency.
Man, his exclamation about the shrimp tails still being on killed me.
i love the confusion with which he gave the beef wonton things an a+ lol
Can we get a video of you reviewing 60 items from your favorite food place? would love to see it.
My favorite lines were "Wreched!" and "An insult to food!"
I'm only a few minutes in, but I thought Cheesecake Factory was only known for..... Cheesecakes?
I'd like to know if your friends agreed with your views? How'd you get them to order from there? If it I did this, I'd have to pay for their meals to get them to agree to eat there 😂
@30:51 “You guys better watch this one!” I watched the entire video! 😂 This is the only 2nd food tasting video I’ve watched of yours other than the Caviar one. Both were nice!
"They are allowing me to take a bite"
Nom nom nom nom
I was so disappointed when I ordered their fettuccine alfredo and it was identical to the frozen kind you can get at Trader Joe's, down to the texture of the noodles, lmao. Another stellar video!
I like how pretty much every single "A" item was just something that was breaded and deep fried, says a lot about their food.
I ate at Cheesecake factory once, and never again lol
ur local delivery drivers must think you love the cheesecake factory
Do an all stars episode! Grab your favorite stuff from across your lets eats.
Imagine my surprise when I expected ProZD to eat 60 cakes and/or pastries only for the video to start with fettuccine. Today I learned that Cheesecake Factory makes things that are not cheesecakes.
You reviewed sixty items from the Cheesecake Factory, but somehow never tried my personal favorite, the Steak Diane. x.x
Loved that spring roll rating. "A+?"
With how much food you got, you should really do a group taste test.
It's over multiple days.
@@mattrobinson5099 Yeah, but those were still three meals + a large piece of cake per day.
25:20 the way it flies off the knife with that music in the background sent me into fucking hysterics
Dude. The Korean fried chicken and lemon meringue cheesecake is my jam!
This dude is single-handedly making all of his groceries job expenses
I don't know if it's parasocial to be invested in the grocery list across the various videos in this series, but I can't help it
over time I expect it'll evolve into an ARG
I was once taken to a Cheesecake Factory for my birthday. We both agreed that we'd never seen a menu so long with absolutely nothing appealing on it. It's Applebee's with cheesecake.