A similar idea to this: skewers from all over the world! There are so many varieties and it'll be fun to see the normals trying to pin down where each one is from!
We have an annual food-focused Heritage Festival in my town. Over 100 countries participate and every culture that has some sort of kebab or skewer is serving it. I like to call it "International Meat on a Stick Day."
This is quite possibly one of my favorite Sorted videos ever. Firstly, I gotta say, as a Taiwanese-American, it warms my heart to see so much East Asian cuisine featured on this channel over the last few months. Secondly, of course, I gotta ride for my green onion pancakes and pork floss. Can't go wrong with it. Thanks for the channel for inspiring me to cook and learn about different cultures through food!
Hey, Viewer from Taiwan here. Never thought I would see a dish from my country appear on Sorted! That dish "Cong Zhua Bing" (Ben's pronunciation is not exactly... correct, but I don't blame him cause mandarin is fuckin hard) essentially describes what it is in name. "Cong" (pronounced closer to "tsong") is scallions, which is what's in the pancake. "Zhua" means "grab", which describes the final step before its served. The vendor would crimple the pancake (with hands or utensils) to crack and create flakes on the outer layer to give it more of a crispy texture. "Bing" is just simply "pancake/pastry". Therefore, the more common literal translation for this dish is "Scallion Pancake". As with the filling, we've reached a point where we put pretty much anything in it, but the most common filling you can find at a vendor is eggs with Basil leaves. Cheese, corn and other types of pork (ham, bacon...etc.) are also indeed very common.
Cong zhua bing is my ABSOLUTE favourite Taiwanese food. As a Singaporean, I look forward to eating it the most when I visit Taiwan. It’s simple and so so so delicious. Taiwan truly has loads of great food but cong zhua bing to me is god tier 😍
Woooo Taiwan Represent! I would also like them to try things like Orh Ah Mee Sua which is an Oyster vermicelli with intestines and it's usual accompaniment orh jian which is an Oyster omlette.
@@SortedFood in China, we also call them Shou Zhua Bing, which means hand pulled pancakes because in the Chinese iteration, you wrap fillings like bacon/eggs/cheese/lunch meat/etc during the last step of frothing the pancakes and (kinda)wrap it up like a burrito leaving one side sealed and one side open. It’s a very popular snack and there’s usually also sauces to be added during the rolling of the snack, like mayo, black pepper sauce, ketchup, siracha etc.
as a Vietnamese/Laotian american, i was sooo happy to see banh cuon on todays episode! Excellent job by Jamie for knowing it right away! But in Barry's defense, bahn cuon has definitely made its way in laotian culture too! :D
@@nezhat616 i am no food expert, but they are definitely very similar! (kind of reminds me of viet pho vs khmer ka thew) i wouldn't be surprised if banh cuon was adapted from cheng fun tbh. when i think of a traditional banh cuon vs a traditional cheng fun, i think some differences are that banh buon is usually thinner in terms of the rice roll, and cheng fun is usually more neutral in flavor by itself (think rice roll + shrimp that are both steamed), picking up a ton of the sauce flavor (of course there are different versions of each, but the most basic/traditional versions). There's definitely overlap in terms of filling and sauce options too. i will say one of the most traditional recipes of banh cuon is a mix of ground pork, scallions, and wood ear mushrooms (seasoned and stir-fried together before rolling/wrapping) topped with the sauce (fish sauce+sugar+lime+chili), fried onion/shallots, and slices of cha lua / yaw (vietnamese /lao name for a blended and steamed pork meat roll). Again, I AM NO FOOD EXPERT just a 50%viet 25%lao 25%chinese asian american excited about her culture's food lolol I would def appreciate and welcome more answers to your question too!
@@nilandax0 This is correct. Banh cuon should not be as thick as cheng fan. Banh cuon can have a filling or you can eat it plain with cha with vietnamese green mint and bean sprouts + fish sauce on the side or you can have it mixed together. depending on if you are north or south.
Did not expect Pljeskavica to make an appearance , I live close to the border of Serbia and it's quite common to find it here in Romania as well ..I love that thing
Heya, Sorted! A Serb here! While I don't even wanna go into the intricacies of pronouncing pljeskavica correctly, haha, here's a friendly tip that may come in handy when pronouncing food names from the Balkan region - in Serbian language (as well as Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian), the letter J is read as Y, so ajvar would sound something like "eyevar," for example. However, I don't think ajvar is used that often as a garnish with pljeskavica. Traditionally, ajvar is "zimnica", which we use as a term that encompasses a variety of side dish and garnish we prepare for the winter when there are no fresh vegetables. A lot of families pickle and ferment their own veggies, so you have ajvar (and similar dishes in jars with different flavor profiles and ingredients), bottled tomato (not ketchup!), various jams, and "turšija," which is basically a giant jar/barrel where we pickle a mix of veggies, such as carrots, tomato, paprika, cauliflower, and so on. Oh, and we also ferment cabbage and use it for delicious stuff like sarma (cabbage rolls)! As far as pljeskavica goes, the secret trick is to dice fresh onion and mix it with the minced meat before you prepare the meat. You can also add some spices to the meat or even some chilli peppers! Also, while there are several ways you can prepare pljeskavica, the best way would be on a grill and using wood as a fire source. The meat will absorb all that yummy smokey flavor and add a whole new dimension to pljeskavica. If you're ever having a barbecue, make sure to give it a try and make your own because I'm positive you won't be disappointed
Great game, I love this format! It was fun to play along, and the extra anticipation of who was geographically closer added another level of interest. Keep this one in the rotation!
Hey Sorted Food, next time you have James on the show, it would be fun to have him show off some of the new stuff he has learned and see if any of the normals can either follow along with his instructions or recreate with some hints/tips the new dishes or techniques he has learned!
I didn’t feel like cooking at all yesterday and was in the process of ordering a takeout. While doing so I was watching a Sorted video where Ebbers had cooked a duck breast… fast forward a little, I ended up cooking a full on roast chicken dinner and closed the takeout app…. Thanks guys for the constant inspiration 🙂
@@SortedFood oh definitely. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, savoury rice, sweet carrots, cauliflower with white sauce, and gravy. Much better and more filling than any takeout - plus a takeout doesn’t provide leftovers for the next day 🤣
It warms my heart to see something from 🇧🇴 Bolivia!! My mum used to feed the hot version of Api to me as a child for breakfast and it was my absolute favourite 🥰 my mother grew up in Bolivia and we live in NZ so it was her little piece of home ❤ I haven’t had it in so long because it’s hard to import but you brought my mum to tears seeing her country’s food
Gotta say, I'm from Serbia and Serbia didn't even cross my mind for the first one. Can't say I've ever seen a pljeskavica with nearly that much cheese, and I eat one about once a week
@@lanazubak6212 Ja sam recimo odmah pomislio da je pljeskavica, ili mozda neko veoma slicno jelo od komsija sa Balkana, a cim su rekli da se tradicionalno koristi flatbread znao sam o cemu se radi. Mozda je pomoglo to sto sam jeo pire krompir sa pljeskavicama u to vreme :D
Not authentic at all, we don't serve pljeskavica with ajvar here, street or restaurant. Pljeskavica is usually served just with raw onions + kajmak. Gde se to kod nas pljeskavica sluzi uz ajvar?
@@votdfak What are you talking about? You always have a variety of condiments, and ajvar is usually one of the options (so is ketchup, mayo, mustard, shredded cabbage, pickles, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, chili flakes, cheese etc.). That raw onion and kajmak only purist crap maybe only applies to Leskovac, the rest of us like our options.
What a episode! Must be said, the ability of the “normals” here to identify region, and even more so influences, is simply stunning. That Baz pulled out the tie was simply shocking, and Ben couldn’t have delivered that little uppercut any better. The man was beaming for pete’s sake! The breaker condition was kind of a throwaway, though a logical one. It really drove home the idea that you don’t need to travel the world to connect with its cuisine, repeatedly it would seem, though I’m sure that helps. I really need to “food travel” more. Thanks folks!
Hello from a Taiwanese American long-time viewer! Seriously so excited to see cong zhua bing featured today 🤗 BUT I didn’t even realize that it was a scallion pancake until Ben revealed what it was 😂 it’s most commonly traditionally eaten with egg as breakfast, and the fillings like corn, cheese, and pork floss are common for another breakfast item called dan bing 蛋餅 or egg pancake. We do have a ton of Japanese influence, but not so much Dutch or Portuguese. Except for Portuguese custard tarts, we LOVE those here 😍 anyway, hope to see more Taiwanese dishes in the future!
@@Fitz1993 some people the allergy is only to raw pineapple and it's juice due to the enzymes. Where cooked pineapple and it's juices only may cause a small irritation. Another issue is pineapple juice is used in so many cocktails and fruit juices that unless your actively watching out for it you'll wind up with it sooner rather than later
@@Captainwaitwhat That's not what I asked... Obviously if you are allergic to something the impetus is on you to be vigilante and proactive enough to avoid the allergin. What I asked was, "how often are people trying to force you to consume pineapple", because they stated that no one takes the allergy seriously and that would only make sense if people were actively trying to force or coerce them into consuming it. A company adding pineapple juice to there breakfast juice isn't the same as no one caring about their allergy....
Pljeskavica is usualy paired with a flatbread called "Lepinja" pronounced as "Lepinya" and "Ajvar"-"Ayvar" but also with raw onions and "Kajmak" -"Kaymak"wich is almost like a butter that melts when warm.
I love your channel. I discovered it through Tom Scott's video and since then I have been binge watching all of your old videos. Keep up the great work, you're honestly one of the best channels on RUclips!
I feel the same as Barry in the post video clip! As a person allergic to citrus, mainly oranges, lemons, and limes it sucks!! I get offered orange juice whenever I go out for breakfast, I love seafood and have to say over and over leave the lemon off, and I can't have very many mixed drinks cause of the lime and lemon!
Would love to see more South African dishes looked at. There's so many of us here in London but I don't feel like our cuisine gets a lot of attention. You have to try the koeksisters, either hot and fresh or frozen!
You should set up a restaurant! That's why cuisines like Indian are so popular - people moved here and started selling the locals variants of their dishes from home.
Yeah, you guys have absolutely found a winner of a format, here. Love it. Would watch this all day. And I specifically mean this geographically based street food thing, not the channel at large, which is already great.
Very happy when you include bánh cuốn and Jamie guess it right. It’s one of my favourite dish ever and I’m surprise it doesn’t get mentioned much when people talk about Vietnamese food. So thank you so much Sorted for showcasing it to the boys and Western audience :)
As RUclips goes, ideas are improved and reinvented. I like this format a lot, and the twist was phenomenal. Grab 2 normals, have em guess where the hell the food is from and Bob’s your Uncle!!
Yay my favorite sorted series returns! Some Danish inspiration for future episodes: Koldskål is great in the summer, honninghjerter is a christmas classic, and æbleflæsk feels like it would trip up the boys in trying to place it.
Yooo banh cuon! My family and I have had it on many occasions, and it's an absolute classic. I love seeing the Vietnamese food representation every now and then on the channel!
This was a GREAT episode. Mixed Geoguesser with the food tasting, everyone was excited and giddy, and showed a lot of amazing dishes to people all over from around the globe. Probably my favorite this year. Cheers.
It’s so surreal hearing Hong Kong being talked about on here! I’m so happy about the fact that they liked the Taiwanese cuisine as well, scallion pancakes are such a classic at home :)
Hey, Serbian here! I got so confused by the pljeskavica cause of that flatbread that was used, instead of the original one, somun - but yet again so excited for it to be in one of your videos! It it exactly everything else that you've said
I instantly recognized the banh cuon because it's one of my favorite dishes to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant nearby. SO delicious, and happy to see it here.
I would love to see episodes where they concentrate on one ingredient and make/use it many ways. Maybe see how the normals use it vs. the chef and also unusual ways to use it. They could do kale, fennel, summer squash, tomatoes...etc
I was going to say "Mike needs to be here with a safari hat and a too-small map-themed shirt," and then Jamie said he wanted a dart, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught the similarity. ^_^
Awesome video! Loved the inclusion of pljeskavica ❤️ I was born next to the serbian border in Hungary and had pljeskavica frequently it's delicious! Also for the next episode I'd recommend the hungarian summertime favourite: lángos. It's a big fried dough slathered in garlic either in oil or butter, then topped with cold sour cream and shredded cheese. And salted! It's hearty, it's oily,it's delicious!
man, I have lived in Taiwan for 5 years and have had tons of different scallion pancakes but I really need to try more variety because I never had one like that. Usually they are a good after bar snack or early breakfast filled with egg and ham.
As an Indian living in Germany, Ajvar is something I fell in love with after moving here. I can find them in my local supermarket AND a Turkish store. I just have it with bread, and it is heavenly!
I love to see even more representation of food from the balkans, though i have to agree with one of the comments saying I didn't quite recognize it at first and that at the actual street vendors' we don't usually have the mixed meat kind 😁 hearing English native speakers try to pronounce the words is always fun too, you weren't too far off the mark! 😌
All of the Global games (Street Food, Breakfast, Holidays, Ingredients, and Cooking Techniques/Methods, etc. ) are my favorite formats. I've created a playlist of each one and one that has all of them. Sorted is by far my favorite channel. I basically have it playing on my tv 24/7. Drives my hubs crazy. 😂 He calls me Sorted's Fangirl! He's not wrong. I love the Boys and the whole Sorted crew! ❤❤❤
When I saw that last one, I immediately thought of Perú and Bolivia because here in Venezuela we have "carato" which is basically the same, but here we don't have the variety of corns they have. Awesome video, I liked it a lot!
This needs to continue, I love these competitive investigation style games. It's also interesting to see completely new food I've never heard of before :D
Love feeling seen when you include food from a home country of mine, Vietnam. I think others would feel the same about their respective countries. Thank you so much. It's very freeing and exciting to see a food I recognize
Woooo Taiwan! I'm an ABC (American Born Chinese), but my parents are from Taiwan. If you guys ever do a Sorted Vacation for food, Taiwan is somewhere you have to check out. They also recently lowered the quarintine time to just 3 days.
I concur!! Taiwanese food in general is marvelous with how FREAKING delicious everything is, even if it’ll make your gut bigger just slightly lol 😂 Also I’m on the same boat too 😬
@@kristylovesmakeup2986 Its just the general term. To go into more detail at the risk of getting some Chinese Nationalists mad. Technically Taiwan is officially calling itself the Republic of China, this is because during the Chinese Civil War after WWII; the losing side sadly was the democratic side and they ran to Taiwan. Also technically US, EU and many other country don't acknowledge Taiwan as it's own country due to Beijing's 1 China policy which countries have to choose between recognizing Taiwan or Mainland China as the "real" China. Therefore like all except a handfull of countries (one of them New Zealand if I remember correctly), recognize Mainland as the "real" China due to the economic benefits. Fun Fact: Up until Oct. 25th 1971, Taiwan held China's UN seat.
As someone from Serbia, you mixed a few things into the first dish, you normally wouldn't. Ajvar is a more lunch or dinner type addition served with the main course, but can be eaten simply on bread, not put normally on pljeskavice. Pljeskavice are more served like burgers, with fresh onions, and salads in it. Also as far as dairy products we only put in kajmak.
8:40 - omg i *lived* on pork floss and steamed egg during college. steam some eggs in the microwave, add some leftover rice, garnish liberally with the rousong, and drizzle some oyster sauce or hoisin on top... *so* damn good...
@@SortedFood Also, if you haven't, make your own Ajvar. Store bought Ajvar tends to have Aubergine/Eggplant as the main ingredient, as it is cheaper. But home recipes usually only consists of a third or even less of it (some even have none).
Its so nice to see the team enjoying food from my home Serbia and sharing it with your huge audience 🥰 also just fyi ajvar is pronounced more like ayvar
i live in china, and make those bing panckes all the time. the street vendors here just use frozen ones, and you can get them at any supermarket. here they just heat the bing for a few minutes on each until it fluffs up, break an egg on the grill, lightly scramble, and drop the bing on it, so the egg sticks to the bing. they fry a piece of bacon, or a split sausage link, and big piece of lettuce, and add it to the bing with some very spicy sauce. maybe add pork floss, then fold it up and serve in a paper wrapper. very common and delicious, and easy to make at home
I’ve been watchin for yeaaars and I don’t think I’ve ever seen bannock on this channel,, 🤔🤔 I’d LOVE to see that or any First Nations foods from Canada
All great meals but I would really love the food team and Ben if they could cover New Zealand, Polynesia, and Micronesia as a region of culinary ideas. There are things like hangi (Nz) and Umu cooking that can be reasonably recreated in a smoker not exact but close there's a thing called "boil up" a soup style stew with varying ingredients that is awesome in winter. Ingredients like eel, kina(shellfish) wild boar, deer are common place so seeing your take on them would be cool. in all of the round the world vids you guys always skip over the region. and as someone who lives in the region I think it would be cool to see this slice of the world represented too.
This would be awesome (and hi from Christchurch, New Zealand!). Even including some indigenous flavours from Aotearoa New Zealand, like manuka (fabulous for smoked foods, as well as in honey) or kawakawa - makes a great tea/tisane but also a uniquely peppery flavour in foods. We also have world-class wines - Central Otago pinot noir for example. All of which might be easier to get your hands on than some of our stunning seafood or game.
I was mostly commenting on the fact that our region of the world's representation and is non existent on the channel and as a long time viewer and subscriber it would be cool to have their take. It's a consistant theme of Europe, Asia, South America, Middle East and maybe once in a while Africa and (not trying to be political) it comes across like blatant ostriching about the bad parts of British colonialism. I will get off my hypothetical soap box now.
@@mellypuff-dragon my enthusiastic cHeCk oUt ThIs CoOkBoOk was meant for Sorted. I am in complete agreement with your take on the seeming blindspot for our corner of the globe. ❤️
Not quite street food, and you might have covered this country before but two of my favourite dishes from my home country are koeksisters and melkkos 🥰 Might be nice to give the guys a sweet treat
That was such a fun episode! Will definitely try the Vietnamese noodle dish, it looked amazing. Ajvar is something you should always have a jar of in storage, it's delicious and very versatile. Definitely worth a feature in one of your staples episodes. ♥️😋
The food i eat as a Laotian is borrowed from different asian cultures, so much so i never know it's origin. Banh cuon is a dish my aunt makes from time to time and therefore i consider it a "treat". We use different sauces for it, typically a sweet and hot chili. And i was so happy to see it on here! Nobody else i know ever makes it, but sometimes i'll find it in the market. So i would love for ben to take a crack at it someday. Also thank you for the shout Barry! You dont know how much it means to me and other laotians to even get the smallest acknowledgement.
12:30 pretty close Ben! “Cuốn” would be pronounced more like “coo-uhn” with a very soft c. I always get really excited seeing my homeland represented on this channel 😁
My local Peruvian lunch shop always has a big urn of chicha morada on the counter so the color was a dead giveaway for the red corn base, but I didn't think of Bolivia.
I immediately recognized the pancake because there's a bubble tea shop near my work place in Germany where you can buy them. :) The owner is Taiwanese and she recommended the pancakes to me, I can absolutely understand Barry's reaction. They are absolutely delicious, highly recommend them! :)
I'm from Serbia and had no idea that was a pljeskavica. The bread is fine, we usually use a somun which is a turkish bread. I guess the topping might be urnebes? It's definitely not one of the more common toppings we use for it. Also, as far as I know pljeskavica is usually made with only ground beef. Street vendors are definitely not putting lamb into it since we don't have a culture of eating ground lamb and it's expensive anyways. No offence taken or anything just my observations.
I think Barry thought that Taiwanese dish was from Malaysia because it's similar to Murtabak. These all looked really good though! Super glad I moved to a large city so I can try more diverse ethnic dishes because I used to live in a tiny town that we called a "food desert."
I worked near Washington, DC for a while, and then moved to Oregon. At the time, most of the state seemed like a food desert! I got spoiled. Don't miss politics; do miss the food.
I’m not Bolivian, but we Peruvians have something super similar called chicha (chee-chah). The trick is putting the fruits (apple and pineapple, in our case) at the end, so you’ll have different textures.
SO fun! Though the pronunciation of cong zhua bing has absolutely in stitches - thank you for the much needed giggle! Pork floss is SUPER delicious over a warm bowl of chicken and century egg congee, highly recommend it!
1. Even though at first I thought "Oh, this is from around here somewhere", I did NOT recognize pljeskavica 😂 . That didn't look like any pljeskavica patty I've ever seen, especially served like that. So when they started analyzing the ingredients, I was very confused, since everything WAS pointing in pljeskavica's direction, and then the meat patty composition cinched it. 2. The J in ajvar is pronounced like Y - ayvar. It's wonderful 🥰 .
Happy Wednesday (or Weds) to SortedFood HQ and the Community! I’m looking forward to the Street Food Menu. I must also say, great videos on Street Foods in the past!
the second one is also a classic Chinese street food ～ we called them shou zhua bing(handheld bing/pancake/flatbread) we can add egg, chill oil, sausage, chicken breast, bacon…veggies etc.
I will say, another banger. On the note of bangers, ajvar with a spicy sausage (for example Sremska, a serbian sausage) in a homemade hotdog-style bun? Maybe some fried onions in there? Wonderful. Strongly recommended.
My favorite way to eat scallion pancakes is with a fried egg and white pepper! And if I feel up to making it, alongside dry noodles with black vinegar and Taiwanese sauerkraut. Anytime food, but one of my favorite memories is this meal in Keelung for breakfast 🤤
Guessed 3 out of the 4... & it was the one closest to me geographically I didn't get! 🙄 You should do a whole episode on scallion pancakes, they are so delicious.
We finally got something from Bolivia! I grew up there and it's definitely one of the least represented South American cuisines at least in America. It's oftentimes overshadowed by its neighboring country of Peru since there is a shared history and culture.
Yes! I'd like to see them try poi or laulau. I was really hoping in the "cooking methods" video a few months back that they would try cooking in an imu, or a New Zealand hāngī, but they didn't.
You guys should try laddu peethi if you haven't before. Super delicious street food from Lahore, Pakistan. It's basically balls of mixed lentils which are deep fried (the laddus), served with green chutney, sweet and sour plum and tamarind chutney, white radish and sliced onion with yogurt. It's super yum
The moment he said roasted red paper sauce, I recognized pljeskavica, I cannot describe the pride I felt at their reaction. I really hope you get to try some more Serbian food, it is absolutely delicious and ajvar (pronounced as ayvar) is the most delicious thing ever and surprisingly simple
I've been living in Serbia for 3.5 years and I've had my fair share of pljeskavice, but I've never seen them like this? Maybe because I HAVE to have cabbage on mine :D It sounds like they just did the meat and urnebes and ajvar. Is that the "traditional" way of serving it?
@@Morghena There really isn't a traditional way, we just very often pair grilled meat in any form and ajvar. For pljeskavica many people would say that onions are a must. Anything you like really
@@gorjancica Thanks for letting me know! I don't remember seeing ajvar as a topping option in any of the pljeskavica shops I've been to, so I was a bit confused
@@Morghena nah, what would you call the most traditional way of serving it is with only chopped raw onions, but tbh there isn't any real tradition about it. I do recommend finding good pljeskavica and eating it just with onions because it let the meat shine. Ajvar isn't commonly used among street vendors as it is too expensive to be used as free condiment xD it's very rare to see someone using it with pljeskavica although you can ofc. Kajmak is also delicious on it because it melts beautifuly on hot meat and it's more common as higher end addition. Most popular everyday condiments at street vendors are ketchup and mayo, chilly flakes, onions, cabbage, letuce, tomato, pavlaka(sour cream) and ofc urnebes. Prety much everyone has it own personal combination out of this ingridients and you can pretty much put anything so you do you 😊
@@vladakocinac4971 Oooh it makes sense that it's too expensive for the street vendors. Though urnebes usually comes with at least 50RSD extra too. Kajmak is delicious! I'd love to try it with just the onion, but my stomach doesn't like raw onion unfortunately. So I usually get my Pljeskavica with pavlaka, cabbage, urnebes, ketchup and then lettuce and kajmak if they have it. Now I'm hungry :D But it's way too hot for grilled meats 😭
I was absolutely not expecting to see Api Morado here, mi grandma used to make it in winter and it was delicious along with buñuelos. If you do another one of these and want to add a street food from my country, I would suggest making Salteñas, it would totally confuse them (they're also delicious and have a unique way of eating them)
Ecxactly what I was going to suggest. Salteñas!!! I have ever had api moradathough. I only know it as chicha morada. But casa del camba makes a great white chicha.
@@susysiemens6910 chicha is more of a drink for the heat, like mocochinchi, Api is a thick drink, just like how you imagine hot chocolate should be, it also gets very hot and difficult to cool down, I can't count the amount of times I burnt my tongue with it. Also Chicha morada is a national drink of Peru, Mocochinchi is the Bolivian one
Another Taiwanese fan here! Big shout out to the content creator of this episode~ Thank you for bringing another Taiwanese favorite to the channel! Also, if you plan to pay a visit to Taiwan by any chance, I would love to be your interpreter! If that really happens, it would be such a high light in my interpreting career and a huge dream come true🥳🥳
A similar idea to this: skewers from all over the world! There are so many varieties and it'll be fun to see the normals trying to pin down where each one is from!
Great idea 👏
They should do sosaties from South Africa!
And the loser gets skewered in the comments!
Australia: prawns on a stick
We have an annual food-focused Heritage Festival in my town. Over 100 countries participate and every culture that has some sort of kebab or skewer is serving it. I like to call it "International Meat on a Stick Day."
This is quite possibly one of my favorite Sorted videos ever. Firstly, I gotta say, as a Taiwanese-American, it warms my heart to see so much East Asian cuisine featured on this channel over the last few months. Secondly, of course, I gotta ride for my green onion pancakes and pork floss. Can't go wrong with it. Thanks for the channel for inspiring me to cook and learn about different cultures through food!
I love green onion cakes, but I've never had pork floss (I'm as WASP as you can be, lol). Now I know what to search for.
First thing I bought at a bakery when I flew back home (Singapore) was Pork Floss Bun. Love the savoury sweetness of pork floss.
I'm pescatarian, but even I think pork floss is the food of the gods.
To me that looks like chicha morada- a Peruvian drink
@@bjdefilippo447 You can make fish floss as well it's actually pretty easy.
Hey, Viewer from Taiwan here.
Never thought I would see a dish from my country appear on Sorted!
That dish "Cong Zhua Bing" (Ben's pronunciation is not exactly... correct, but I don't blame him cause mandarin is fuckin hard) essentially describes what it is in name.
"Cong" (pronounced closer to "tsong") is scallions, which is what's in the pancake. "Zhua" means "grab", which describes the final step before its served. The vendor would crimple the pancake (with hands or utensils) to crack and create flakes on the outer layer to give it more of a crispy texture. "Bing" is just simply "pancake/pastry".
Therefore, the more common literal translation for this dish is "Scallion Pancake".
As with the filling, we've reached a point where we put pretty much anything in it, but the most common filling you can find at a vendor is eggs with Basil leaves. Cheese, corn and other types of pork (ham, bacon...etc.) are also indeed very common.
Thanks so much for your informative comment and breaking that down for us 😀
Cong zhua bing is my ABSOLUTE favourite Taiwanese food. As a Singaporean, I look forward to eating it the most when I visit Taiwan. It’s simple and so so so delicious. Taiwan truly has loads of great food but cong zhua bing to me is god tier 😍
Woooo Taiwan Represent! I would also like them to try things like Orh Ah Mee Sua which is an Oyster vermicelli with intestines and it's usual accompaniment orh jian which is an Oyster omlette.
@@SortedFood in China, we also call them Shou Zhua Bing, which means hand pulled pancakes because in the Chinese iteration, you wrap fillings like bacon/eggs/cheese/lunch meat/etc during the last step of frothing the pancakes and (kinda)wrap it up like a burrito leaving one side sealed and one side open. It’s a very popular snack and there’s usually also sauces to be added during the rolling of the snack, like mayo, black pepper sauce, ketchup, siracha etc.
That pulling pork.. seasoning they were using, do you know what that's called? I'd like to try some.
as a Vietnamese/Laotian american, i was sooo happy to see banh cuon on todays episode! Excellent job by Jamie for knowing it right away! But in Barry's defense, bahn cuon has definitely made its way in laotian culture too! :D
But the sauce he made was wierd tho
I agree on all counts!
Hi! Question out of sheer curiosity how is banh cuon different from cheng fun if you don’t mind me asking?
@@nezhat616 i am no food expert, but they are definitely very similar! (kind of reminds me of viet pho vs khmer ka thew) i wouldn't be surprised if banh cuon was adapted from cheng fun tbh. when i think of a traditional banh cuon vs a traditional cheng fun, i think some differences are that banh buon is usually thinner in terms of the rice roll, and cheng fun is usually more neutral in flavor by itself (think rice roll + shrimp that are both steamed), picking up a ton of the sauce flavor (of course there are different versions of each, but the most basic/traditional versions). There's definitely overlap in terms of filling and sauce options too. i will say one of the most traditional recipes of banh cuon is a mix of ground pork, scallions, and wood ear mushrooms (seasoned and stir-fried together before rolling/wrapping) topped with the sauce (fish sauce+sugar+lime+chili), fried onion/shallots, and slices of cha lua / yaw (vietnamese /lao name for a blended and steamed pork meat roll).
Again, I AM NO FOOD EXPERT just a 50%viet 25%lao 25%chinese asian american excited about her culture's food lolol I would def appreciate and welcome more answers to your question too!
@@nilandax0 This is correct. Banh cuon should not be as thick as cheng fan.
Banh cuon can have a filling or you can eat it plain with cha with vietnamese green mint and bean sprouts + fish sauce on the side or you can have it mixed together. depending on if you are north or south.
Did not expect Pljeskavica to make an appearance , I live close to the border of Serbia and it's quite common to find it here in Romania as well ..I love that thing
same i'm from sweden so we have it here
I honestly didn't recognize it at all cause the presentation was so off
So delicious. I used to go to a Balkan restaurant in Germany with my family as a kid and they had it. I always have a jar of Ajvar in my fridge. ♥️
@@shurin3126 indeed they used some version of flat bread, lepinja is not flat bread.
@@janjordy I mean it is literally Balkan flat bread so?
Heya, Sorted! A Serb here!
While I don't even wanna go into the intricacies of pronouncing pljeskavica correctly, haha, here's a friendly tip that may come in handy when pronouncing food names from the Balkan region - in Serbian language (as well as Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian), the letter J is read as Y, so ajvar would sound something like "eyevar," for example.
However, I don't think ajvar is used that often as a garnish with pljeskavica. Traditionally, ajvar is "zimnica", which we use as a term that encompasses a variety of side dish and garnish we prepare for the winter when there are no fresh vegetables. A lot of families pickle and ferment their own veggies, so you have ajvar (and similar dishes in jars with different flavor profiles and ingredients), bottled tomato (not ketchup!), various jams, and "turšija," which is basically a giant jar/barrel where we pickle a mix of veggies, such as carrots, tomato, paprika, cauliflower, and so on. Oh, and we also ferment cabbage and use it for delicious stuff like sarma (cabbage rolls)!
As far as pljeskavica goes, the secret trick is to dice fresh onion and mix it with the minced meat before you prepare the meat. You can also add some spices to the meat or even some chilli peppers! Also, while there are several ways you can prepare pljeskavica, the best way would be on a grill and using wood as a fire source. The meat will absorb all that yummy smokey flavor and add a whole new dimension to pljeskavica.
If you're ever having a barbecue, make sure to give it a try and make your own because I'm positive you won't be disappointed
Great game, I love this format! It was fun to play along, and the extra anticipation of who was geographically closer added another level of interest. Keep this one in the rotation!
Thanks so much for watching, so glad you enjoyed it :)
Couldn't agree more! It's like GeoGuesser but with food which is infinitely more interesting.
Agree completely! Had to watch with almost no sound the 1st time watching it today and still LOVED it. Smiled throughout.
You said everything I was going to. This was very fun.
@@luucyharris that was exactly my thought! Love that game, love this show, loved the combo. :-)
Hey Sorted Food, next time you have James on the show, it would be fun to have him show off some of the new stuff he has learned and see if any of the normals can either follow along with his instructions or recreate with some hints/tips the new dishes or techniques he has learned!
Great idea!
As someone who hasn't been watching for a while, can I ask why James isn't appearing as much?
@@uatoto7783 He left Sorted to be a development cook for another place.
@@perryt2039 ohhh:(
@@uatoto7783 yeah :(
I didn’t feel like cooking at all yesterday and was in the process of ordering a takeout. While doing so I was watching a Sorted video where Ebbers had cooked a duck breast… fast forward a little, I ended up cooking a full on roast chicken dinner and closed the takeout app…. Thanks guys for the constant inspiration 🙂
This is wonderful! Hope you enjoyed the roast?
@@SortedFood oh definitely. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, savoury rice, sweet carrots, cauliflower with white sauce, and gravy. Much better and more filling than any takeout - plus a takeout doesn’t provide leftovers for the next day 🤣
thats great!
similar things happened to me, i wanted a burger, but for the same price made beef and broccoli for the whole family!
SortedFood, saving us from ourselves since ...
It warms my heart to see something from 🇧🇴 Bolivia!! My mum used to feed the hot version of Api to me as a child for breakfast and it was my absolute favourite 🥰 my mother grew up in Bolivia and we live in NZ so it was her little piece of home ❤ I haven’t had it in so long because it’s hard to import but you brought my mum to tears seeing her country’s food
Calculating the miles to see whos the closest/farthest is so fun! It's like geoguesser but with food
Gotta say, I'm from Serbia and Serbia didn't even cross my mind for the first one. Can't say I've ever seen a pljeskavica with nearly that much cheese, and I eat one about once a week
Stvarno sam mislila da je to neki kebab a ne pljeska
E al kunem ti se, nema smisla
@@lanazubak6212 Ja sam recimo odmah pomislio da je pljeskavica, ili mozda neko veoma slicno jelo od komsija sa Balkana, a cim su rekli da se tradicionalno koristi flatbread znao sam o cemu se radi. Mozda je pomoglo to sto sam jeo pire krompir sa pljeskavicama u to vreme :D
Not authentic at all, we don't serve pljeskavica with ajvar here, street or restaurant. Pljeskavica is usually served just with raw onions + kajmak. Gde se to kod nas pljeskavica sluzi uz ajvar?
@@votdfak What are you talking about? You always have a variety of condiments, and ajvar is usually one of the options (so is ketchup, mayo, mustard, shredded cabbage, pickles, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, chili flakes, cheese etc.). That raw onion and kajmak only purist crap maybe only applies to Leskovac, the rest of us like our options.
sorted has THE best community. i always look forward to these videos. thanks, boys, for always keeping it interesting and teaching us new things
Thanks for watching! We would be here without you peeps 😀
What a episode! Must be said, the ability of the “normals” here to identify region, and even more so influences, is simply stunning. That Baz pulled out the tie was simply shocking, and Ben couldn’t have delivered that little uppercut any better. The man was beaming for pete’s sake! The breaker condition was kind of a throwaway, though a logical one. It really drove home the idea that you don’t need to travel the world to connect with its cuisine, repeatedly it would seem, though I’m sure that helps. I really need to “food travel” more. Thanks folks!
No other RUclips channel has a laugh and plays these funny food games like sorted food! Absolutely brilliant
Glad you like them :)
@@SortedFood how can I get the recipe for the duck pancake?
Hello from a Taiwanese American long-time viewer! Seriously so excited to see cong zhua bing featured today 🤗 BUT I didn’t even realize that it was a scallion pancake until Ben revealed what it was 😂 it’s most commonly traditionally eaten with egg as breakfast, and the fillings like corn, cheese, and pork floss are common for another breakfast item called dan bing 蛋餅 or egg pancake. We do have a ton of Japanese influence, but not so much Dutch or Portuguese. Except for Portuguese custard tarts, we LOVE those here 😍 anyway, hope to see more Taiwanese dishes in the future!
Poor Barry with the pineapple. I was wondering where that extra glass came from. 😋
I also have a pineapple allergy, eating/drinking the juice brings me out in horrific hives but like Barry, no one takes it seriously!!
@@kristylovesmakeup2986 What do you mean no one takes you seriously... How often are people trying to force you to consume pineapple?
@@Fitz1993 some people the allergy is only to raw pineapple and it's juice due to the enzymes. Where cooked pineapple and it's juices only may cause a small irritation.
Another issue is pineapple juice is used in so many cocktails and fruit juices that unless your actively watching out for it you'll wind up with it sooner rather than later
@@Captainwaitwhat That's not what I asked... Obviously if you are allergic to something the impetus is on you to be vigilante and proactive enough to avoid the allergin. What I asked was, "how often are people trying to force you to consume pineapple", because they stated that no one takes the allergy seriously and that would only make sense if people were actively trying to force or coerce them into consuming it. A company adding pineapple juice to there breakfast juice isn't the same as no one caring about their allergy....
@@Fitz1993 Exactly. If you know you have a serious allergy to something, you know how to avoid it.
Pljeskavica is usualy paired with a flatbread called "Lepinja" pronounced as "Lepinya" and "Ajvar"-"Ayvar" but also with raw onions and "Kajmak" -"Kaymak"wich is almost like a butter that melts when warm.
I love your channel. I discovered it through Tom Scott's video and since then I have been binge watching all of your old videos. Keep up the great work, you're honestly one of the best channels on RUclips!
I really freaking loved how much homework Ben did on Taiwan, great job all around in nailing all the cultural influences!
I INVOLUNTARILY SCREAMED WHEN BARRY GOT BOLIVIA CORRECT!
THAT WAS AWESOME TO WATCH!!
I feel the same as Barry in the post video clip! As a person allergic to citrus, mainly oranges, lemons, and limes it sucks!! I get offered orange juice whenever I go out for breakfast, I love seafood and have to say over and over leave the lemon off, and I can't have very many mixed drinks cause of the lime and lemon!
Quote of the Day: “It’s got bits in it, Barry!”
(This assessment is the Food Journalism I’m living for!)
Thanks for this entertaining video, it was a lot of fun to watch and guess with you guys.
Thanks for watching Dvid, and thanks for the Super Thanks!
Would love to see more South African dishes looked at. There's so many of us here in London but I don't feel like our cuisine gets a lot of attention. You have to try the koeksisters, either hot and fresh or frozen!
Or vetkoek and mince. Or boerewoers. Or bunny chow. Or a gatsby. Or whatever they eat in Gauteng (walky talkies? Dunno if that's GP specific).
bobotie!
You should set up a restaurant! That's why cuisines like Indian are so popular - people moved here and started selling the locals variants of their dishes from home.
@@SouthTonik definitely a Gatsby. And Cape coloured koeksisters.
Would like to see some African dishes from that country.
Yeah, you guys have absolutely found a winner of a format, here. Love it. Would watch this all day. And I specifically mean this geographically based street food thing, not the channel at large, which is already great.
nice to see more Vietnamese cuisine in Sorted’s videos as a local. Have you lot been to Vietnam before? Would love to have you here personally!
My mind is on Vietnamese food very often, even as a European.
Ben and Mike's gone to Vietnam before, that's all I know
Very happy when you include bánh cuốn and Jamie guess it right. It’s one of my favourite dish ever and I’m surprise it doesn’t get mentioned much when people talk about Vietnamese food. So thank you so much Sorted for showcasing it to the boys and Western audience :)
As RUclips goes, ideas are improved and reinvented. I like this format a lot, and the twist was phenomenal. Grab 2 normals, have em guess where the hell the food is from and Bob’s your Uncle!!
For the drink, when Ben mentioned "purple or white" I was so sure it was Dragonfruit. 😂 is that what Jamie was thinking too??
I literally thought the same thing!
Probably. Corn doesn't really register as "fruit", does it?
As a Taiwanese, I wish Barry would have the opportunity to try the deep fried scallion pancakes. They are even better than the normal ones!
Mmmmm yum. He would love that.
This could be one of the best episodes I've seen so far. That food looks flippin great ! Another great video 👍👌👏👏👏
Yay my favorite sorted series returns!
Some Danish inspiration for future episodes: Koldskål is great in the summer, honninghjerter is a christmas classic, and æbleflæsk feels like it would trip up the boys in trying to place it.
Yooo banh cuon! My family and I have had it on many occasions, and it's an absolute classic. I love seeing the Vietnamese food representation every now and then on the channel!
This was a GREAT episode. Mixed Geoguesser with the food tasting, everyone was excited and giddy, and showed a lot of amazing dishes to people all over from around the globe. Probably my favorite this year. Cheers.
Malaysia!! Thank you for thinking of us.. Looking forward to seeing you guys create Malaysian food ❤️
So glad the viewers were left in the dark to play along.
Thank you for a fun episode.
It’s so surreal hearing Hong Kong being talked about on here! I’m so happy about the fact that they liked the Taiwanese cuisine as well, scallion pancakes are such a classic at home :)
Hey, Serbian here! I got so confused by the pljeskavica cause of that flatbread that was used, instead of the original one, somun - but yet again so excited for it to be in one of your videos! It it exactly everything else that you've said
I instantly recognized the banh cuon because it's one of my favorite dishes to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant nearby. SO delicious, and happy to see it here.
I would love to see episodes where they concentrate on one ingredient and make/use it many ways. Maybe see how the normals use it vs. the chef and also unusual ways to use it. They could do kale, fennel, summer squash, tomatoes...etc
RABBIT, please!
I was going to say "Mike needs to be here with a safari hat and a too-small map-themed shirt," and then Jamie said he wanted a dart, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught the similarity. ^_^
Yeah i instantly thougt of GMM as well
I know right? Same!
definitely want to see the sorted boys back on the gmm set, and for a rousing game of international taste test to boot! haha
@@betsym3708 That's how I found Sorted initially!
@@fairygirl626 same! Good first impression and I've been watching Sorted ever since.
Awesome video! Loved the inclusion of pljeskavica ❤️ I was born next to the serbian border in Hungary and had pljeskavica frequently it's delicious!
Also for the next episode I'd recommend the hungarian summertime favourite: lángos.
It's a big fried dough slathered in garlic either in oil or butter, then topped with cold sour cream and shredded cheese. And salted! It's hearty, it's oily,it's delicious!
Langos is a killer dish. I eat it every time I go to Budapest.
man, I have lived in Taiwan for 5 years and have had tons of different scallion pancakes but I really need to try more variety because I never had one like that. Usually they are a good after bar snack or early breakfast filled with egg and ham.
American-born *Taiwanese, as Taiwan is a nation in its own right.
@@chimpaflimp I don't understand the point you're trying to make.
@@chimpaflimp It's a food channel, not a platform to discuss geopolitics. Chill out for once.
@@bugsygoo They literally talk about how food, culture, ethics, and politics are inherently intertwined ALL THE TIME, numbnuts - sit your arse down.
Born and raised in Taiwan. Never seen that kind of scallion pancake either 😂
As an Indian living in Germany, Ajvar is something I fell in love with after moving here. I can find them in my local supermarket AND a Turkish store. I just have it with bread, and it is heavenly!
That is exactly how it is meant to be eaten. :D
Maybe a bit of feta or some similar Balkan style old white cheese.
I love to see even more representation of food from the balkans, though i have to agree with one of the comments saying I didn't quite recognize it at first and that at the actual street vendors' we don't usually have the mixed meat kind 😁 hearing English native speakers try to pronounce the words is always fun too, you weren't too far off the mark! 😌
Thank you!
Classic street version is with kajmak and raw onions. Pljeskavica is not served with ajvar.
@@SortedFood Also... "ajvar" is pronounced ayvar, not ajvar. :D:D:D
All of the Global games (Street Food, Breakfast, Holidays, Ingredients, and Cooking Techniques/Methods, etc. ) are my favorite formats. I've created a playlist of each one and one that has all of them.
Sorted is by far my favorite channel. I basically have it playing on my tv 24/7. Drives my hubs crazy. 😂
He calls me Sorted's Fangirl! He's not wrong. I love the Boys and the whole Sorted crew! ❤❤❤
Great to see such a variety of dishes, plus Barry was absolutely hilarious in this video! But please keep him safe from any more pineapples :D
When I saw that last one, I immediately thought of Perú and Bolivia because here in Venezuela we have "carato" which is basically the same, but here we don't have the variety of corns they have. Awesome video, I liked it a lot!
This needs to continue, I love these competitive investigation style games. It's also interesting to see completely new food I've never heard of before :D
Love feeling seen when you include food from a home country of mine, Vietnam. I think others would feel the same about their respective countries. Thank you so much. It's very freeing and exciting to see a food I recognize
Woooo Taiwan! I'm an ABC (American Born Chinese), but my parents are from Taiwan. If you guys ever do a Sorted Vacation for food, Taiwan is somewhere you have to check out. They also recently lowered the quarintine time to just 3 days.
I concur!! Taiwanese food in general is marvelous with how FREAKING delicious everything is, even if it’ll make your gut bigger just slightly lol 😂
Also I’m on the same boat too 😬
How can you be American born “Chinese” when your heritage is Taiwanese?! Genuinely curious.
@@kristylovesmakeup2986 Its just the general term. To go into more detail at the risk of getting some Chinese Nationalists mad. Technically Taiwan is officially calling itself the Republic of China, this is because during the Chinese Civil War after WWII; the losing side sadly was the democratic side and they ran to Taiwan. Also technically US, EU and many other country don't acknowledge Taiwan as it's own country due to Beijing's 1 China policy which countries have to choose between recognizing Taiwan or Mainland China as the "real" China. Therefore like all except a handfull of countries (one of them New Zealand if I remember correctly), recognize Mainland as the "real" China due to the economic benefits. Fun Fact: Up until Oct. 25th 1971, Taiwan held China's UN seat.
As someone from Serbia, you mixed a few things into the first dish, you normally wouldn't. Ajvar is a more lunch or dinner type addition served with the main course, but can be eaten simply on bread, not put normally on pljeskavice. Pljeskavice are more served like burgers, with fresh onions, and salads in it. Also as far as dairy products we only put in kajmak.
As someone from Taiwan, I can't tell you proud I was when Barry said our dish was the best thing he had this year 💓
Love the little dance Barry did at the end! This by far has been the best format for Taste Testing
This was a world class idea, I enjoyed it. Wish I was one of the tasters. More please. That scallion pancake had me drooling.
8:40 - omg i *lived* on pork floss and steamed egg during college. steam some eggs in the microwave, add some leftover rice, garnish liberally with the rousong, and drizzle some oyster sauce or hoisin on top... *so* damn good...
Just a heads-up: Ajvar is pronounced more like "Ayvar". Loving the pljeskavica, although it's a shame you couldn't get real lepinje for the bread!
Thanks for the pronunciation tip 👌
@@SortedFood Also, if you haven't, make your own Ajvar. Store bought Ajvar tends to have Aubergine/Eggplant as the main ingredient, as it is cheaper. But home recipes usually only consists of a third or even less of it (some even have none).
Haha yeah was looking for that comment. It sounded so weird
@@m.h.6470 We have a store bought one here from the brand "Granny's secret". 94% roasted red paprika and some other stuff. To die for!
I got confused by the pronunciation, too. 😂
Its so nice to see the team enjoying food from my home Serbia and sharing it with your huge audience 🥰 also just fyi ajvar is pronounced more like ayvar
So happy to see Sorted try some Taiwanese street food!
i live in china, and make those bing panckes all the time. the street vendors here just use frozen ones, and you can get them at any supermarket. here they just heat the bing for a few minutes on each until it fluffs up, break an egg on the grill, lightly scramble, and drop the bing on it, so the egg sticks to the bing. they fry a piece of bacon, or a split sausage link, and big piece of lettuce, and add it to the bing with some very spicy sauce. maybe add pork floss, then fold it up and serve in a paper wrapper. very common and delicious, and easy to make at home
I've been to 12 countries and Taiwan has some of the best food I've tried in the world. Visited many times and miss the food so much! 🥲
I’ve been watchin for yeaaars and I don’t think I’ve ever seen bannock on this channel,, 🤔🤔 I’d LOVE to see that or any First Nations foods from Canada
All great meals but I would really love the food team and Ben if they could cover New Zealand, Polynesia, and Micronesia as a region of culinary ideas. There are things like hangi (Nz) and Umu cooking that can be reasonably recreated in a smoker not exact but close there's a thing called "boil up" a soup style stew with varying ingredients that is awesome in winter. Ingredients like eel, kina(shellfish) wild boar, deer are common place so seeing your take on them would be cool.
in all of the round the world vids you guys always skip over the region. and as someone who lives in the region I think it would be cool to see this slice of the world represented too.
This would be awesome (and hi from Christchurch, New Zealand!). Even including some indigenous flavours from Aotearoa New Zealand, like manuka (fabulous for smoked foods, as well as in honey) or kawakawa - makes a great tea/tisane but also a uniquely peppery flavour in foods. We also have world-class wines - Central Otago pinot noir for example. All of which might be easier to get your hands on than some of our stunning seafood or game.
You could check out the cookbook Hiakai by Monique Fiso for some inspo!
I was mostly commenting on the fact that our region of the world's representation and is non existent on the channel and as a long time viewer and subscriber it would be cool to have their take. It's a consistant theme of Europe, Asia, South America, Middle East and maybe once in a while Africa and (not trying to be political) it comes across like blatant ostriching about the bad parts of British colonialism. I will get off my hypothetical soap box now.
@@mellypuff-dragon my enthusiastic cHeCk oUt ThIs CoOkBoOk was meant for Sorted. I am in complete agreement with your take on the seeming blindspot for our corner of the globe. ❤️
I’m pretty sure Kina is sea urchin? (I grew up in New Zealand and that’s what I’ve always know it as)
Not quite street food, and you might have covered this country before but two of my favourite dishes from my home country are koeksisters and melkkos 🥰 Might be nice to give the guys a sweet treat
I loved the twist with the scoring! Keep that scoring method for future episodes. Also, super great guesses from the guys as they got going!
That was such a fun episode! Will definitely try the Vietnamese noodle dish, it looked amazing.
Ajvar is something you should always have a jar of in storage, it's delicious and very versatile. Definitely worth a feature in one of your staples episodes. ♥️😋
Vietnamese viewer here. It’s so amazing to see Banh Cuon used in this video. I love it and I glad Jamie loved it as well
I absolutely need the recipe of that first one. It sounds amazing!
yes! recipes please!!!
The food i eat as a Laotian is borrowed from different asian cultures, so much so i never know it's origin. Banh cuon is a dish my aunt makes from time to time and therefore i consider it a "treat". We use different sauces for it, typically a sweet and hot chili. And i was so happy to see it on here! Nobody else i know ever makes it, but sometimes i'll find it in the market. So i would love for ben to take a crack at it someday. Also thank you for the shout Barry! You dont know how much it means to me and other laotians to even get the smallest acknowledgement.
The excitement over the Taiwanese dish really made me want to try it and that’s why this show is important
12:30 pretty close Ben! “Cuốn” would be pronounced more like “coo-uhn” with a very soft c. I always get really excited seeing my homeland represented on this channel 😁
My local Peruvian lunch shop always has a big urn of chicha morada on the counter so the color was a dead giveaway for the red corn base, but I didn't think of Bolivia.
I also thought Peru when I saw the color.
I thought Peru also!
That crunch on the cong zhua bing sounded so satisfying. I would love to try that at some point.
I immediately recognized the pancake because there's a bubble tea shop near my work place in Germany where you can buy them. :) The owner is Taiwanese and she recommended the pancakes to me, I can absolutely understand Barry's reaction. They are absolutely delicious, highly recommend them! :)
Wo wohnst du?
@@celianeher7637 Ich arbeite in der Stuttgarter Stadtmitte. :)
I'm from Serbia and had no idea that was a pljeskavica. The bread is fine, we usually use a somun which is a turkish bread. I guess the topping might be urnebes? It's definitely not one of the more common toppings we use for it. Also, as far as I know pljeskavica is usually made with only ground beef. Street vendors are definitely not putting lamb into it since we don't have a culture of eating ground lamb and it's expensive anyways. No offence taken or anything just my observations.
Thanks so much for your feedback, I'll pass this onto the food team. Hayley @ Team Sorted
Ground beef? I'm from the south and it's either pork or a mix of pork and beef. But yeah, def no lamb.
They put ajvar in it, it seems! Though tbh I've never tried it with ajvar, and I'm from serbia also 😂
@@pause.r Yeah, urnebes I get, but ajvar seems weird :D
The little dance at 16:01 is the most dad-esque thing I think I've ever seen Barry do 😂😂
I think Barry thought that Taiwanese dish was from Malaysia because it's similar to Murtabak. These all looked really good though! Super glad I moved to a large city so I can try more diverse ethnic dishes because I used to live in a tiny town that we called a "food desert."
I worked near Washington, DC for a while, and then moved to Oregon. At the time, most of the state seemed like a food desert! I got spoiled. Don't miss politics; do miss the food.
Baz for the clutch. That was fun to watch, loved it. The boys were on today. Synced up.
I need to try that drink, never heard a drink described as having bits in it, sandy, powdery and like a broken tea bag. I’m so intrigued
I’m not Bolivian, but we Peruvians have something super similar called chicha (chee-chah). The trick is putting the fruits (apple and pineapple, in our case) at the end, so you’ll have different textures.
It’s delicious! In my opinion, it’s best served hot but to me it tastes like a warm, thick cinnamon drink ❤️
SO fun! Though the pronunciation of cong zhua bing has absolutely in stitches - thank you for the much needed giggle!
Pork floss is SUPER delicious over a warm bowl of chicken and century egg congee, highly recommend it!
I love how they both were too amazed by the food to be competetive, especially with the second dish
I can see a lot of research and cooking went into this game. Worth it. I knew two of them but totally didn't know the rest so well done!
Hah, as someone from Serbia, I can't say a lot of research went into it, lol
1. Even though at first I thought "Oh, this is from around here somewhere", I did NOT recognize pljeskavica 😂 . That didn't look like any pljeskavica patty I've ever seen, especially served like that. So when they started analyzing the ingredients, I was very confused, since everything WAS pointing in pljeskavica's direction, and then the meat patty composition cinched it.
2. The J in ajvar is pronounced like Y - ayvar. It's wonderful 🥰 .
Hot Adjvar in a little ramikken with crusty buttered bread to dip in, is a wintery treat. Heavenly
Would love the recipes for these, they look amazing
Wow! That was incredible!!! Who would have believed it?!? Well done to both!
Happy Wednesday (or Weds) to SortedFood HQ and the Community! I’m looking forward to the Street Food Menu. I must also say, great videos on Street Foods in the past!
the second one is also a classic Chinese street food ～ we called them shou zhua bing(handheld bing/pancake/flatbread) we can add egg, chill oil, sausage, chicken breast, bacon…veggies etc.
I will say, another banger. On the note of bangers, ajvar with a spicy sausage (for example Sremska, a serbian sausage) in a homemade hotdog-style bun? Maybe some fried onions in there? Wonderful. Strongly recommended.
I found ajvar in the grocery store and I've been putting it on and in things since :)
My favorite way to eat scallion pancakes is with a fried egg and white pepper! And if I feel up to making it, alongside dry noodles with black vinegar and Taiwanese sauerkraut. Anytime food, but one of my favorite memories is this meal in Keelung for breakfast 🤤
Guessed 3 out of the 4... & it was the one closest to me geographically I didn't get! 🙄
You should do a whole episode on scallion pancakes, they are so delicious.
That's pretty good going - bravo! 👏
We finally got something from Bolivia! I grew up there and it's definitely one of the least represented South American cuisines at least in America. It's oftentimes overshadowed by its neighboring country of Peru since there is a shared history and culture.
The homesick fan in me would love to see some local Hawaiian food. Even if it might hurt to see it messed up lol
yeah homesick a mixed blessing. pain + happy. what do you cook yourself?
Yes! I'd like to see them try poi or laulau.
I was really hoping in the "cooking methods" video a few months back that they would try cooking in an imu, or a New Zealand hāngī, but they didn't.
You guys should try laddu peethi if you haven't before. Super delicious street food from Lahore, Pakistan. It's basically balls of mixed lentils which are deep fried (the laddus), served with green chutney, sweet and sour plum and tamarind chutney, white radish and sliced onion with yogurt. It's super yum
The moment he said roasted red paper sauce, I recognized pljeskavica, I cannot describe the pride I felt at their reaction. I really hope you get to try some more Serbian food, it is absolutely delicious and ajvar (pronounced as ayvar) is the most delicious thing ever and surprisingly simple
I've been living in Serbia for 3.5 years and I've had my fair share of pljeskavice, but I've never seen them like this? Maybe because I HAVE to have cabbage on mine :D It sounds like they just did the meat and urnebes and ajvar. Is that the "traditional" way of serving it?
@@Morghena There really isn't a traditional way, we just very often pair grilled meat in any form and ajvar. For pljeskavica many people would say that onions are a must. Anything you like really
@@gorjancica Thanks for letting me know! I don't remember seeing ajvar as a topping option in any of the pljeskavica shops I've been to, so I was a bit confused
@@Morghena nah, what would you call the most traditional way of serving it is with only chopped raw onions, but tbh there isn't any real tradition about it. I do recommend finding good pljeskavica and eating it just with onions because it let the meat shine. Ajvar isn't commonly used among street vendors as it is too expensive to be used as free condiment xD it's very rare to see someone using it with pljeskavica although you can ofc. Kajmak is also delicious on it because it melts beautifuly on hot meat and it's more common as higher end addition. Most popular everyday condiments at street vendors are ketchup and mayo, chilly flakes, onions, cabbage, letuce, tomato, pavlaka(sour cream) and ofc urnebes. Prety much everyone has it own personal combination out of this ingridients and you can pretty much put anything so you do you 😊
@@vladakocinac4971 Oooh it makes sense that it's too expensive for the street vendors. Though urnebes usually comes with at least 50RSD extra too.
Kajmak is delicious! I'd love to try it with just the onion, but my stomach doesn't like raw onion unfortunately. So I usually get my Pljeskavica with pavlaka, cabbage, urnebes, ketchup and then lettuce and kajmak if they have it. Now I'm hungry :D But it's way too hot for grilled meats 😭
Oooh, that surprise finish with the last question! This really was such a fun vid
I was absolutely not expecting to see Api Morado here, mi grandma used to make it in winter and it was delicious along with buñuelos.
If you do another one of these and want to add a street food from my country, I would suggest making Salteñas, it would totally confuse them (they're also delicious and have a unique way of eating them)
Ecxactly what I was going to suggest. Salteñas!!!
I have ever had api moradathough. I only know it as chicha morada. But casa del camba makes a great white chicha.
@@susysiemens6910 chicha is more of a drink for the heat, like mocochinchi, Api is a thick drink, just like how you imagine hot chocolate should be, it also gets very hot and difficult to cool down, I can't count the amount of times I burnt my tongue with it.
Also Chicha morada is a national drink of Peru, Mocochinchi is the Bolivian one
Another Taiwanese fan here! Big shout out to the content creator of this episode~ Thank you for bringing another Taiwanese favorite to the channel!
Also, if you plan to pay a visit to Taiwan by any chance, I would love to be your interpreter! If that really happens, it would be such a high light in my interpreting career and a huge dream come true🥳🥳
Still waiting for you guys to try some Chilean food, I can provide you with my grandma's recipes if you wanted!
Thank you so much for the kind offer 😀