The dessert is probably "almond tofu" or "annin tofu" (杏仁豆腐), an agar jelly made from the milk of the nut of an apricot. It's like Chinese blancmange, if that helps
Its ok, there's an old timey mustachio'd gent and a betatted rockabilly madam making more right now. I fear the snacks may be a starting to turn though, at least one smells of skunk.
“Who the heck is this?” Answer: She is Haruka Igawa 井川遥. She is quite a famous actress and model. Guess the uploader doesn’t watch much Japanese TV or movies or read Japanese entertainment magazines much, despite his apparent long stay in Japan. In the poster, Ms Igawa is promoting the Kaku Highball, a canned cocktail drink made from Suntory’s Kaku whisky and soda water.
That reference was so specific I took to Google Maps to try and find West Happy Dragon 3 Super Buffet. There are a shocking amount of Chinese restaurants in Lumberton, Texas.
It comes down to business strategy. Is a market easier and less expensive to get in. It allows you more room to not fail or at least, break even. There will be always hungry people.
珠海酒家 Jukai 3 Chome-2-4 Gokodori, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo prefecture , Japan Just 8 min walk from Sannomiya station (JR or Hanshin line). The nearest exit is A23.
Girl I'm so sorry but, Texas is a huge state full of people, surely it can't be that surprising to learn when someone is from there! 😭 and that's coming from someone in Ontario, an even larger province
@@divinecervineAs a friend of mine (in Edmonton) reminds me regularly, Texas is jist the Alberta of the US! I remind him that in San Antonio our clouds don't have dandruff except for a day or two every few years, so it works out😂
My grandma always makes for me and my Lil brother that dessert, it's actually a potato powder mixed with water then it gets boiled, she alwats mixes it with sugar while boiling, then after done the cooking she let it cool down and put it in fridge with fruits
I don't know which happy dragon buffet 3 Lumberton Texas he's talking about... There is a happy chinese family buffet north of Houston, but in Lumberton I could only find a Vietnamese called Pho Nominal and a Chinese restaurant called Yummy Buffet....
I can't quite say if you're from Texas or not but I discovered your channel today and quickly started to think it was a possibility. Your love of burgers, ice cream, mention of diners, drive inns plus your overall dead pan, quick witted, and seasoned snark..wellll it all screamed Texan..not to mention the community and your respectful approach. As a neuro spicy travelin' woman who has been isolated in Puerto Rico for 4 years you have greatly brought joy to my frustrated sometimes struggling understimulated mind. Tho I'm great at keeping myself entertained. I love all things you discuss including history! Great comedic timing btw :) I wish we could go on a random adventure eating and taking in the sights a long the way. Oh I'm from San Antonio btw. So if you're not from Texas, I hope you enjoyed your time and of course all the great food there! mucho amor y buen provecho 👩🏾🍳✌🏾💙
The way during your filming, your 'friend' had already gone through all their dishes and either they got another set or another 'friend' was sat in front of him
“Solidified nothing” is PRECISELY the right way to define the way that ultra-light, almost non-dessert dessert jelly tastes! 😂 I also don’t know what it is, but I like it after meals as a guilt-and-flavor-free textural palate cleanser~
Lumberton native here, you can definitely find something like that at the Hot Wok, although they don’t always get the best ratings from the health inspectors.
oh trust me everyone seems like friends when you're working in a restaurant or cafe. you recognize their faces but too shy to start a conversation unless they order something on the menu or said thankyou. well, this can be different for each person but i'm an introvert who had to deal with customers. some of them do start a conversation by asking though.
Rice, soup, mapo tofu, chicken, dessert, drink, under $6. In those portions I would typically expect $12.99+ tip. Not Texas but still Southwest US. (could the dessert be like a coconut cream jelly?)
Two reason it is so cheap. Japanese people made less money on average than American and two the yen lost a lot of value to usd. As of right now it is 151 yen per dollar.
Japan goes out of there way to give you restaurants where you get isolated stalls and then on the opposite end of the spectrum sits you across from a stranger lol
You do realize it is only cheap because the yen has lost over 50% of its valve to the USD in 3 years. The yen used to be 101 yen for every dollar in 2021. This is not a good thing for them. Also Japanese people make less money than Americans on average.
I know you’re just spoofing the random drawn-from-a-hat names American Chinese restaurants have, but the Lumberton name drop took me by surprise because I grew up and went to college not far from there.
I looked up West Happy China Dragon 3 Super Buffet in Lumberton, TX. Couldn't find any. :( Currently, Yelp has a list of 10 "Chinese buffets" in Lumberton and they struggled to complete the list... not all of them are buffets and #10 isn't even Chinese (its listed as "American")... also, #9 is called "Osaka Grill"? I assume some people in Lumberton may not care that Osaka is in Japan, but Yelp lists the place as "Chinese" so I don't know what to think.
I thought there might actually be a buffet called that in East Texas 😅 No, but there are a few 4 star places on yelp,so that was a fun little rabbit hole
Wild that you said Lumberton brother... I'm from there and can confirm that there is no place called west happy China dragon 3 super buffet. However, yummy buffet is a place, and gets the job done.
The tofu might not be what the other commentor posted about almond tofu because I think it would be pretty obvious if it was. It's most likely regular silken tofu with syrup, a dessert called 豆花 and is tofu made with soybean. It was very obvious to me when you called it "solidified nothing", although I kinda like it. There's a shop I know that sells the dessert with super sweetened soy milk instead of the regular syrup and it's actually pretty nice.
I'm from Lumberton, Tx and have never heard of west happy china dragon 3 super buffet before. Did you mean Yummy Buffet or China Star Buffet down in Beaumont?
Can you show us some incredible sashimi one day please ?...but perhaps you don't care for it ? I absolutely adore sockeye salmon, tuna, prawn, snapper sashimi 🍣🍣
That "who the heck is this?" was genuine. Lol
Yea no shit?
@@oKij1 buddy woke up and chose to be rude, dang. This era has made dudes behave like little girls.
@@PeanutButterAndJellyBros who the fuck says stupid ass shit like you just said?
Your chumming@@oKij1
@@oKij1who pissed in your corn flakes?
*"Bad fried chicken is like bad socks, it's still pretty good"* - some adult; meaning unknown
There are no bad socks when you need them. Any will suffice 😂
@@ICM9Tru dat. But also for any who didn't recognize, twas a reference to 's*x'
That's the idea, but in practice bad sx is one of the worst things on earth
When you warm them up in the dryer, they become better at toasting your feet when it's cold out
@@flamecat2249 😮 I wouldn't know about that. I never lose at anything 😎 (including virginity)
The dessert is probably "almond tofu" or "annin tofu" (杏仁豆腐), an agar jelly made from the milk of the nut of an apricot. It's like Chinese blancmange, if that helps
Exactly it is.
LAMENT
We always call it almond jello, I like it!
That's exactly what it is. ty. Also called almond jelly but almond tofu is more common.
Apricot seeds? Those are poisonous (cyanide), so you can't eat more than 3 a day. Are you sure they use apricot seeds?
That Chinese buffet name was on point lmao
The best Chinese buffet in my down is called hunan west. There is no hunan east.
My local Chinese restaurant (not buffet sadly) is called China 4. Where the hell are Chinas 1 to 3???
The one buffet in my town is just called chopsticks. Ironically they have the best fried catfish! 😂
@@delanamason715 that's honestly already reached my heart tbh. Chopsticks and fried catfish. YUMZ
@@don_quixote_irlthat's so weird since Chinese usually wouldn't use the number 4.
Man I hate when my ashtrays run out of snacks
me too
Its ok, there's an old timey mustachio'd gent and a betatted rockabilly madam making more right now.
I fear the snacks may be a starting to turn though, at least one smells of skunk.
MUST HAVE FRESH ASHES TO EAT.
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger those one's taste better, they have a nice earthy kick
Ashen One has been quite agitated because of thos
Ah yes. Mitochondria...the powerhouse of the cell
😭😭😭
Just about to comment that
I am so glad this reference was already here 😂
The person in the poster is a movie actress named Igawa Haruka
that who the heck is this was so genuine lmaoooo
Is she a newcomer or veteran actress?
@@rafifrasyid7620 Veteran for sure. Debuted around 2002 iirc. She's almost 50 now.
@@shuu-sama6608 oh wow long last career
It's a running joke that he will always fail to recognise a popular face featured on a poster or sign. 😂 In one video, he said that about Suda Masaki.
ayoooo
I'm literally from down the street of Lumberton, that mention scared tf outta me lol
I drove through there twice this month lol
scared the shit out of me ngl
Please go to the restaurant and order the egg drop and tell us how it is lol
I live in Lumberton and had to stop and hear him again lol
Have you been to West Happy China Dragon 3 Super Buffet?
"Some rabbit food" got me good😂
I was looking for that comment😂
That was hilarious 😂
Me it was : taste like solidified nothing
🤣😂
I literally paused the video to search for the comment "rabbit food" hilarious 😂 😂😂
Canada be like: That'll be 50 bucks.
Don't forget to add 20% tip.
Out of your money that been 15% taxed
🥲
Jezus if your meal is 50 bucks you guys must be earning some astronomical salaires like 3-4 thousand a month?
@@szn7548 Considering rent cost almost that much, pretty much, used to live in Kelowna.
No but that solidified nothing is always my favorite
Same here. Love solidified nothing😅
“Who the heck is this?”
Answer: She is Haruka Igawa 井川遥. She is quite a famous actress and model. Guess the uploader doesn’t watch much Japanese TV or movies or read Japanese entertainment magazines much, despite his apparent long stay in Japan. In the poster, Ms Igawa is promoting the Kaku Highball, a canned cocktail drink made from Suntory’s Kaku whisky and soda water.
That reference was so specific I took to Google Maps to try and find West Happy Dragon 3 Super Buffet. There are a shocking amount of Chinese restaurants in Lumberton, Texas.
A lot of the bigger cities in texas have massive asian immigrant populations nowadays and every restaurant they open is named something like that lol
@@rheawelsh4142 As a Texan I have noticed that uptick but I've never seen it so dense before lol
@rheawelsh4142 Lumberton is not a big town tho. So it's funny. It's like a suburb of Beaumont tx
@@heatherluper7021 Exactly! It's so small and yet there's like 12+ Chinese buffets
@@Jfunkey there are only 2 lol
You should try かつれつ亭 in osaka. Right next to ishibashi handai mae, god tier katsu kare imho. May be a bit biased though.
Ngl bro, you fumbled thats the perfect set up for a romcom, “The stranger I ate lunch with changed my life”
Booooo lol
Not only they give you good food, but introduce you to a new friend! 😊
It seems that Chinese food is always the most economical option whichever country that you go to.
Fr. That's their biggest selling point for me.
@@mandy11254 Yup and they always serve the biggest portion for quite affordable pricing.
It comes down to business strategy. Is a market easier and less expensive to get in. It allows you more room to not fail or at least, break even. There will be always hungry people.
That bad socks joke is going over most people's heads lmaooo 😂💯
"who the heck is this?' LOL
I love your clips man and the remarks 😊 with it ,greetings from the Netherlands ✌️
i absolutely adore his sense of humor 😂
The dessert might be almond jelly! I love it 😙
Its interesting that when people want to see how far money will go, they generally head to a chinese establishment.
The bad socks joke made me belly laugh so hard once I caught on. Funniest joke in his videos yet.😂😂😂
中国料理は本当に美味しいですね〜
$5.33 will get you a muffin at NYC Starbucks
珠海酒家 Jukai
3 Chome-2-4 Gokodori, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo prefecture , Japan
Just 8 min walk from Sannomiya station (JR or Hanshin line). The nearest exit is A23.
日本は物価安すぎるからもっと値上げしてほしい
Even if I had already ordered, hell if I had already paid, I’d leave if you seated me in front of a stranger lol
I'm sorry, Texas???
I'm from Texas. Are you from Texas???
I got really excited for no reason, huh?
I too am from Texas except there’s no reason to be excited about that.
Girl I'm so sorry but, Texas is a huge state full of people, surely it can't be that surprising to learn when someone is from there! 😭 and that's coming from someone in Ontario, an even larger province
@divinecervine It's surprising to me. Like an Easter egg in real life. I enjoy the little things.
@@divinecervineAs a friend of mine (in Edmonton) reminds me regularly, Texas is jist the Alberta of the US!
I remind him that in San Antonio our clouds don't have dandruff except for a day or two every few years, so it works out😂
"Who the heck is this " got me dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
My grandma always makes for me and my Lil brother that dessert, it's actually a potato powder mixed with water then it gets boiled, she alwats mixes it with sugar while boiling, then after done the cooking she let it cool down and put it in fridge with fruits
Probably the only time Lumberton got a shout-out on RUclips.
I don't know which happy dragon buffet 3 Lumberton Texas he's talking about... There is a happy chinese family buffet north of Houston, but in Lumberton I could only find a Vietnamese called Pho Nominal and a Chinese restaurant called Yummy Buffet....
There's also one called "Hot Wok" and 2 others
Y’all took that WAY too Literal🤦🏻♀️
@@anabella4166 Ik, but it would have been way too funny if the place actually existed.
Pho Nominal is 🤌🏻🤌🏻 the best
Better than fast food from a chain
I can't quite say if you're from Texas or not but I discovered your channel today and quickly started to think it was a possibility. Your love of burgers, ice cream, mention of diners, drive inns plus your overall dead pan, quick witted, and seasoned snark..wellll it all screamed Texan..not to mention the community and your respectful approach. As a neuro spicy travelin' woman who has been isolated in Puerto Rico for 4 years you have greatly brought joy to my frustrated sometimes struggling understimulated mind. Tho I'm great at keeping myself entertained. I love all things you discuss including history! Great comedic timing btw :) I wish we could go on a random adventure eating and taking in the sights a long the way. Oh I'm from San Antonio btw. So if you're not from Texas, I hope you enjoyed your time and of course all the great food there! mucho amor y buen provecho 👩🏾🍳✌🏾💙
The way during your filming, your 'friend' had already gone through all their dishes and either they got another set or another 'friend' was sat in front of him
“Solidified nothing” is PRECISELY the right way to define the way that ultra-light, almost non-dessert dessert jelly tastes! 😂 I also don’t know what it is, but I like it after meals as a guilt-and-flavor-free textural palate cleanser~
I love the improved mic/settings. However the lower tone and down to earth vibe from before ain't there and it is a feeling that can be misssd
😂 watching all your shorts to make my sickly day brighter, instead made it worse, craving for some raaaaammmeeeeeen 🍜
Shout out to lumberton Tx. My dad used to live there on rice st 😂
He shut down the "who's with you, is it your girlfriend?!" comments real quick, lol
I'm glad we're gonna see more of medic! :D
Lumberton native here, you can definitely find something like that at the Hot Wok, although they don’t always get the best ratings from the health inspectors.
Lolol I wonder why he chose to say Lumberton ? Maybe he’s actually been thru.? Just wild as heck to be mentioned 😂
oh trust me everyone seems like friends when you're working in a restaurant or cafe. you recognize their faces but too shy to start a conversation unless they order something on the menu or said thankyou. well, this can be different for each person but i'm an introvert who had to deal with customers. some of them do start a conversation by asking though.
the name of the american chinese resturant was extremely accurate
"first thing I saw was ashtrays and there was nothing left to eat in them"
No no no hold the function.. excuse me, what? 😂
Reminded me of parasite eve when he mentioned mitochondria. I could be wrong.
The hours sign 🤣 I have no idea what time they close or open either, based on that
The Lumberton shoutout is CRAAAZY 💀
WAIT are you from Lumberton?!!!!! I graduated from there. My jaw dropped 😂😂😂😂
I'll call myself "Soldified Nothing" from now-and-then
the " who the heck is thisk?!" got me lmaoo😭
Zhu hai is my home town!! I’ve never seen it mentioned abroad anywhere that’s so cool
That bad socks joke had passed about five seconds into the ether before I suddenly got it and spurted out my coffee.
Lol I dunno why, but my favorite thing is when you interrupt yourself for a joke 🤣
Thanks for sharing. Love your videos
Rice, soup, mapo tofu, chicken, dessert, drink, under $6.
In those portions I would typically expect $12.99+ tip. Not Texas but still Southwest US.
(could the dessert be like a coconut cream jelly?)
Two reason it is so cheap. Japanese people made less money on average than American and two the yen lost a lot of value to usd. As of right now it is 151 yen per dollar.
Love your videos!
Japan goes out of there way to give you restaurants where you get isolated stalls and then on the opposite end of the spectrum sits you across from a stranger lol
The powerhouse of the chicken
Two Great restaurants in one video. Well played.
The dessert I think is almond jelly
You're correct!
Our lil Yaksha boi's favorite dessert
If you know you know 😏
@@JAB6322🤝
$6 in the states gets you a drink not even an appetizer (depending on the restaurant)
You do realize it is only cheap because the yen has lost over 50% of its valve to the USD in 3 years. The yen used to be 101 yen for every dollar in 2021. This is not a good thing for them. Also Japanese people make less money than Americans on average.
Have you ever actually been to Lumberton Texas????
That's haruka igawa on that poster, she's an actress
I know you’re just spoofing the random drawn-from-a-hat names American Chinese restaurants have, but the Lumberton name drop took me by surprise because I grew up and went to college not far from there.
"All this food for only 45 cents! ........Oh.. I see..." 🤣
The price dropped from $6.82 to $6.62 😮
I looked up West Happy China Dragon 3 Super Buffet in Lumberton, TX. Couldn't find any. :( Currently, Yelp has a list of 10 "Chinese buffets" in Lumberton and they struggled to complete the list... not all of them are buffets and #10 isn't even Chinese (its listed as "American")... also, #9 is called "Osaka Grill"? I assume some people in Lumberton may not care that Osaka is in Japan, but Yelp lists the place as "Chinese" so I don't know what to think.
That’s a lot of food for 6 US dollars.
A Big Mac from McDonald is $8-$14.
Come to India sometime! You'll get indian thali serbed for free here
that value is insane
Jukai is literally where I from 😅, quite surprised someone in Japan actually opened a restaurant under its name
you can get like one value menu burger or a single slice of pizza for that price here crazy how expensive food is in north america
wow that would probably cost me at least $19+ and minus the dessert lol
Damn, I didn’t realize the yen had crashed so hard. A yen was about 9/10 of a penny when I lived there
I thought there might actually be a buffet called that in East Texas 😅
No, but there are a few 4 star places on yelp,so that was a fun little rabbit hole
Wild that you said Lumberton brother...
I'm from there and can confirm that there is no place called west happy China dragon 3 super buffet.
However, yummy buffet is a place, and gets the job done.
The lady in the poster sits and eats with you
I definitely think that it can be beat! Maybe egg, ham and cheese toast!
Dude said mitochondria, my brain need to think hard and recall that memory from my high school biology class :")
The tofu might not be what the other commentor posted about almond tofu because I think it would be pretty obvious if it was. It's most likely regular silken tofu with syrup, a dessert called 豆花 and is tofu made with soybean. It was very obvious to me when you called it "solidified nothing", although I kinda like it. There's a shop I know that sells the dessert with super sweetened soy milk instead of the regular syrup and it's actually pretty nice.
the mitochondria line made me cackle 😭
Geez how bad did yen depreciate? I remember it being almost 1,000 yen to 10usd
Been watching you for a while and now you mention Lumberton. Are you from my neck now the woods.
I'm from Lumberton, Tx and have never heard of west happy china dragon 3 super buffet before. Did you mean Yummy Buffet or China Star Buffet down in Beaumont?
I'm fairly sure that dessert is some kind of a soymilk/tofu pudding thing
Juhai is right next to Macau, their food is pretty bland in Canton land, surprised it's spicy in that restaurant.
Really like these shorts man! Keep it up dawg!
Never thought I’d hear Lumberton referenced in one of these videos.
Bad socks are the worst, I gotta disagree that they’re pretty good
The idea is if you have nothing, even bad socks are ok
Wooooosh
@@OhNoTheFacethatd be wholesome but still wooooosh
For 5 bucks thats amazing
The solidify nothing is sweet tofu. There's no taste except for the syrup
Thats insane. I know exactly where Lumberton Texas is. I lived in Beaumont for many years
Mapo tofu really flies under the radar of food influencers. A good one hit something nothing else quite does.
Did you know the mitochondria is the power house of the cell?
'jukai' is a great jhené aiko song
Can you show us some incredible sashimi one day please ?...but perhaps you don't care for it ?
I absolutely adore sockeye salmon, tuna, prawn, snapper sashimi 🍣🍣
Some rabbit food lol 😂