"Gogo is the heartbeat of the city and mumbo sauce is the blood that keeps it flowing" some of the realest shit I've ever heard that man is a true DMV spokesperson
Two snow white guys then go back to their six figure jobs after lunch then home to their nice suburban homes. There is literally nothing more irrelevant to them than mumbo sauce.
Listen, I'm from SW DC and I really enjoyed this video. She went to the hood (gentrified, but hood). Ordered 4 wings mumbo sauce on everything. Once you've tasted that, you'll never be the same. Great job.
As a DMV native, and especially while I'm driving for Lyft, I'm always weaving between "Washington" and "DC", and no those aren't mutually exclusive geographically. You can see how "Washingtonians" who don't dare venture past 5th St. NE/SE clearly detest living in the District and consider it "boring" 'cause all they be doin' is dart from their K St./Cap. Hill internships to their yoga lessons to snooty/hipster bars in Dupont or Adams Morgan and maybe to the 9:30 from time to time. Meanwhile, "DC folks" been keepin' it real, and it don't matter if you Chocolate City or Salvadorian or even a white dude who grew up in Georgetown, we all real proud of DC/DMV despite all the negative press we get. All of our icons, from mumbo sauce to go-go (Chuck Brown, anyone?) to Howard U and even our distinctive dialect ("Dis jont turrable, moe!") are things that nobody pays any attention to because they get overshadowed by Politics in Our Nation's Capital, which as we know are Much More Important and Much More Exciting. Contrary to the claims of "Washingtonians" (who should really GTFO back to they home and let us have ours), we KNOW that DC ain't NEVER boring (which admittedly is not always a positive thing). Wanna come to the District for your career? Get over yo' bama self, learn the history and the culture of the people who live around you, and once you learn to live AMONG us rather than ABOVE us, then maybe you'd earn our respect.
BARRR I’m visiting in one month and I’m interested in the people and the culture not so much the mall. Know anything that could give me some good locations to check out and places to go?
I love how every place has their own special food, if you ever roll through Atlanta, get lemon pepper wings, if you ride thru philly get a cheese steak, New Orleans, get a po boy etc.
Most of the time the sell different types of food to be honest thats why they call them carryout's you got to try it to know it tho! Them janks be bangin hard too! Im from NC and am in the DMV frequently and I tell ya them carryout's are the truth!
This was great. Explaining mumbo sauce in the wider context of the city and it's changing identity was pretty interesting. I know there's benefits to gentrification as the comments have stated but I think as cities get more gentrified you lose all the identity of the city and it's community. Eventually you end up with cities which all look the same, sound the same and are all pretty much identical with no unique features.
I'm from Va not northern VA and we don't eat mumbo sauce.. I don't think we should be included in that DMV thing because our way of life is totally different than Maryland DC and northern VA.. We like regular ole BBQ sauce.. That's what it's about to us.. 💯 But I would try it
@@bodman951 it's important to bring up black businesses because 1. Black people have been getting pushed out AND THIS IS ABOUT BLACK DC RESIDENTS and 2. Most businesses left in low income black communities are not black owned. The black dollar does not stay in black hands for more than a few hours, Asian ans white dollars circulate through their own people's businesses and community for days
L M you sound like a Nazis, that’s how Nazis looked at things too, now tell me what makes this any difference?!? Is it because they are black? Is that why society is blind to this form of racism?!? Btw I’m a Native and it’s kinda dumb watching both Whites and Blacks fighting each other about skin and race on Native land. Why do black people of America act like they have it worst? Knowing that Natives are suffering and dealing with racism since 1492?!? Guess thinking all indigenous people are wipe out makes it easier
I’m from SE. Mambo sauce started in Chicago in 1950s and made it way to D.C it was in soul food and carry out Chinese places then overtime it spread all over in D.C and people were making up there own recipes. I’m seeing it now in the local Grocery store, Target, etc.
The real D.C. is Mumbo Sauce, Go-Go, and a pair of New Balances. With their own style, slang, and name brand clothes!!! And if you an outta towner you might get called a bamma lol #DMV#I❤️DC
@Liu Kang Kixx I'm from DC. All I ever see is people trying to wear what the kids are wearing. I know yall got a couple of people up there trying to make their own stuff. Didnt know yall wore new balance though
It's available at my local Walmart in Oklahoma. I love it. I'm not black. I'm Native, but I love the stuff. So good on wings. The first time I tried it I had to make my own which was hard and time consuming. I'm glad you can just buy it now.
When i saw this on Facebook i was so happy. But they didn’t have the full interview. I am from South East DC. Cappers. I went to Simon Elementary. Hart Middle School And Ballou SHS. (The Old Ballou) (Big Bad Ballou) and growing up with Mumbo sauce was great. When i was in high school. I had Hong Kong on the Ave. and every day after school it will be packed!! And leaving after band practice it was packed. You will have to call ur order in just to get it before everyone else get there. I now live in Raleigh NC. And i really miss Mumbo sauce. Cuz when i have it. I feel safe and i get that home feel. I love Mumbo Sauce.
@@rodolo5917 is Hong Kong like Eddie's? Because I need a spot with good wings and that Eddie's type mumbo sauce. I grew up down the other end, good hope, 16th St. You know the area. Tell me what's Poppin
that's not how it used to be everywhere though . Even growing up in cincinnati , the neighborhoods, everyone knew each other. Technology phones and selfishness changed all of that. Neighbors almost prefer now that they dont know who lives next to them, its almost a plus, or they know as little as possible. The days of block parties with dogs running around on no leash, arguing about which ninja turtle is your favorite, are long gone. Closest thing to a block party now is a food festival, but people don't mingle, they just come with whomever, I feel bad for these kids these days.
@H S NY prices are higher than about anywhere in the world ma dude... For 10 CAD dollars I get 3 huge pieces of fried chicken, fries and a salad here in MTL. OK from the most guetto sort in the city (but it's the best one IMHO, and I've been to some fancy-pants places)
I actually found out about Mumbo sauce while working as a delivery driver in college at a Chinese restaurant in Florida. The owners were nice folk who gave me free food to take home from time to time, guess they must have moved to Florida from D.C. Mumbo wings with fried rice is freaking delicious and totally addictive.
As a DC native y’all did a great job with this video. I grew up 4 blocks from grand china, it was great to see actual spots around the city I can recognize
Ok, as a DMV native I think I can speak on this. It's not "just a sauce" lol. And the people that are wondering why the video went into detail about the changing culture of D.C. Is because those two topics (mumbo sauce & culture) go hand in hand. You literally cannot have one without the other. There is a reason why all the white people were clueless and had no idea what mumbo sauce even was! That is because they lack the CULTURE that D.C. Brings which is why half the video was spent talking about how much the culture is changing. Wouldn't you be upset if you spent generations and generations of time and energy to create and manifest this product and in a few years, people moved into the city and didn't even know what that product was? Or worse didn't even care to find out? It's not just a sauce. And if you grew up here you would know that. It's the principle, the culture. It's insulting to natives and that's why they're upset. It's like you coming into someone's house and not even saying hey just walking in and kicking your feet up and opening their fridge lol
lhighfive you actually believe that BS? I bet you more people knew what it was then didn't know. they just showed the few people who didn't know. most white people have heard of mumbo sauce. we all know that Chinese food shops invented it.
lead poisoning actually most white people didn't know what mumbo sauce is. In fact if you leave the DMV most people in general don't know what it is. It's specifically a dmv thing but more specifically it's a black thing.
Exactly lighfive! Very well put. The lack of understanding the culture and what it was in its hey day, for example, is what's the issue. I spent most of my youth in the DC Area as well and remember a lot of things like Georgia Ave day, the Caribbean Carnival parades, Howard homecomings, when BET was actually BET lol, etc. To see Black people in many different roles and carrying themselves with a sense of pride (a pride not in the sense of being reactionary to stick it to "the white man") is why I loved the DC Area. I feel privileged to have experienced that as a kid hence why I truly don't feel inferior to whites and other groups. The vibe in the DMV is one of a kind. This is what the transplants fail to understand.
A lot of people here are getting angry saying "Complex is pushing a liberal agenda," Complex aren't the ones telling the story, the people they interview how either grew up with the product, are a big part of the product or the product is a big part of them are talking, saying how they feel about their food. People saying it's a race thing or a liberal thing, its not. You see it happen in every culture, Italians and their pizzas and pastas are always angry on buzzfeed videos and at pizza chain stores. Talk to anyone from the south about barbecue and they'll rip your head off if you say you cook it in an oven. Where every you go there are people who identify with their food. Do I agree with it? not really, but to say that Complex has a racial agenda is stupid. Good food comes from poverty because you have to be creative with what you have, and when that's the only thing you have how else are you going to react.
yo this capital city mambo sauce just made my life, i used to live in baltimore and go to dc every weekend just for it but since i moved i been craving that shit UGH THANK YOU FOOD GRAILS
This sauce is def popping. When I moved out here from the west coast. I heard about it and tried it and got hooked. Only thing I wish was that this sauce came from black owned restaurants. What that guy said '' Chinese ppl are smart they know what we like and we buy it '' something like this was invented by black folks and the dollar needs to be kept in the community.
I thoroughly enjoy these videos. I love learning about the food culture of these communities in other cities outside LA where I'm from. I also enjoy learning how food culture reflects the actual struggles/changes within a region. Culture will evolve but what's most important is keeping a sense of community. Talking to your neighbors, saying wassup the person next to you in line at the store. learn about one another. And if you got triggered from seeing another video on a black community I'm sorry but this is just people lives and their food this channel is trying to bring a light to. And the reason why we feel a way about white people and our food is because we feel like they don't care about us. They don't come to our neighborhoods, eat our food and talk to us. Let food be what connects us. Go to a neighborhood you normally don't go to. go eat. ask whoever is sitting down what their favorite dish is. when you finish tell the server/clerk it was delicious and thank you. make community, male friends. I promise you after that youll be thinking differently about your RUclips comments.
@@michaelsquare9325 no it’s because you colonized the world and forced you’re food onto us. You all eat foods from BIPOC cultures even “your foods” are not really from white people they’re from cultural blending. Like most ingredients in “white” dishes aren’t even from “white” countries.
First saw this vid 2 years ago and was intrigued. Just had my first taste of it from Jerry's Carry Out earlier today, then bought a bottle of "spicy mambo" on the way out of town. I love it all.
"Black Branding" is totally real and I didn't know it until he said it. Then it clicked. There are million dollar apartments in Shaw right above a Giant supermarket that has a giant piece of art depicting black artists on the side of it. I feel like I'm going to see it everywhere now...
As a Massachusetts resident, my first exposure to the idea of Mumbo sauce was the mcdonalds version they had fot a limited time with their nuggets. Since then, its been something i crave very often haha. I got both capital city flavors, mild and the sweet and hot, and mixed them together to get the perfect heat level for me. To anyone who sees this, please try it! Its absolutely incredible!!
Thank God for Capital City!! We've been using their Mumbo sauce for a couple of years now in PA. People always comment on it when we use it on wings & BBQ.
1/2 cup tomato paste 1 cup distilled white vinegar 1 cup pineapple juice 1 cup sugar 4 teaspoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon powdered ginger 1/4 teaspoon hot sauce or more if you wish
I looked through a few of the recipes and articles when you search for Mumbo Sauce recipe and it was the one that was most repeated. www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/mumbo-sauce_b_1376194.html
I am thankful for this series. The chance it brings to see how other people in other parts of the country think, feel, and act is too good to pass up. Using food as a segway to talk about what people think and feel is likewise a stellar idea, and I hope you guys keep it up.
Jerry Yum's Carry-out has some great mumbo sauce. I get 5 wing's with pork fried rice and mumbo sauce over everything so bomb and a half and half lemonade ice tea mix🙌
I don't care what race tries the sauce. I just want it to be a DC thing and let other states try it to give a little of what this city is about. Also I like how the city is becoming more safe and diverse just other people could enjoy this city.
This was one of my favorite pieces that fwf has done. I get the weird inner turmoil that one goes through when an individual or group of people take something seacret to you and turn it into something that it's not or exploit it. In a way it takes away from whatever may be seacret to you and becomes less yours and less special. Anyways my point is this was rad and keep it up! thx
yeah well its videos like this that make it harder to be a secret lol. now everyone knows about it and its no longer a secret. i wouldve never heard of this stuff if it wasn't for this video.
LOVE Capitol City Mumbo sauce! Local store out in the burbs in Maryland started stocking it after I bugged them. Got hooked after trying the real stuff!
I loved the shot of the Peace Vigil. You captured DC really well in this video. I loved recognizing the locations (Yum's Chinese, Ben's Chili Bowl). I must say I did not know what mumbo sauce was before this, but I'm white. There's obviously a big divide between middle-class DC (white) and lower middle-class / poor DC (Black). If you read between the lines you can see that Mumbo Sauce is mostly a black thing.
I had my first mumbo sauce and wings at a Chinese restaurant on Rhode Island Avenue just across the MD/DC border. They also had a great steak and cheese sub. Later found out that they were busted for buying DC lunch supplies from crooked school workers.
I’ve eaten CC mumbo almost everyday since I moved here years ago and I’ve even been making a pretty close version for a few years. When I make it I usually make about a half gallon. My favorite mumbo meal is fried chicken with biscuits, I drown everything in it and go to town.
YUP. Got some the other night, same exact sauce. Idk why these people are so insecure they have to pretend they invented the motherfucking pink-kind of sweet and sour you get with chicken at Chinese food places.
Brumsly Brumbino wrong. Mumbai sauce is a bit spicy and way less tangy than sweet and sour. And again, it’s different everywhere you go. So at it’s base, they’re similar, but it’s really more than that
As someone from DC and growing up eating 4pc chicken wings w/fries, mumbo sauce on everything from Danny's lol..its so fuckin dope to see my city like this! #killMoe😂😂😂
Yall childish. It is tied to our identity because you can't find it anywhere else. You say it's too political but you probably never even heard of the sauce before this video. Don't be disrespectful
@@FecalMatador it's barbeque sauce, ketchup and hot sauce. Totally different. Also sweet Asian food is an American thing rarely accepted in Asian countries.
Thank god for you.... I have been in Ohio for 25 years now and I can only get the sauce when I go home to see my family! Now that it’s in a bottle I have my sister send me one of each once a month.
I don't like the mumbo sauce that's dark and taste like barbeque sauce. The light red orangy colored mumbo sauce and its more of an sweet and sour flavor is my fav!! That's mumbo sauce I grew up on in the 80’s and 90’s. Nice mini documentary about my favorite city, #DC ❤️
why fuck are you guys so mad in the comments section? I think this video was an interesting cultural exploration while at the same time got me hyped to try mumbo sauce.
I remember playing in the street and carry out runs back in the late 80's it's amazing how time goes by. DC is changing because rent went up and pay stood still for years we couldn't keep up
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Two black men introduce an Asian woman to Mambo sauce at a Chinese carry out
LOVE IT
I always find fried chicken to be the best at chinese food places I would imagine they would do a good job at making the sauce too.
@@OGRUclipsEnjoyer 🤢
@@stephanieduncan9143 Is that the face guys make when you catfish them on Tinder?
there is a chinese restraunt near me that sells mumbo sauce with food
Boom Tingz they definitely freeze their chicken -_-
"Gogo is the heartbeat of the city and mumbo sauce is the blood that keeps it flowing" some of the realest shit I've ever heard that man is a true DMV spokesperson
thank you sir. peep our channel about our chicken & mumbo sauce events :)
harDCore is as DC as gogo music, it doesn't get much attention either.
Chicken & Mumbo Sauce how often do you have these events?
@@likefatherlikeson90 follow their IG @chickenandmumbosauce
Tai, ABSOLUTELY
I wish this dc was popularized more than the tourist area
1:42 home girl behind them turned her head laughing at them when they said they’d never heard of it lmaooo
''People who are new to the city probably don't know what Mumbo sauce is''
shows white guys
''I dont know what mumbo sauce is''
LMFAO
Temi Onifade welp thats gentrification aka culture killing
Showed a lady too, why didn’t you mention her?
Two snow white guys then go back to their six figure jobs after lunch then home to their nice suburban homes. There is literally nothing more irrelevant to them than mumbo sauce.
Lol
j mula gentrification is fucked but I don’t take part
Listen, I'm from SW DC and I really enjoyed this video. She went to the hood (gentrified, but hood). Ordered 4 wings mumbo sauce on everything. Once you've tasted that, you'll never be the same.
Great job.
Yo, she needs to go to the Eddie Leonard’s on Naylor Road if she wants that serious mumbo sauce
I'm from NE DC brother but moved to the Midwest as a child, still to this day can't find a better sauce for chicken💯💯
7 wings with fried rice for 9 bucks? Not bad at all
1.00$ish per wing in Canada
U dc niggas are lucky😢
And that’s in DC. I have my ass in the middle of a fucked up low price economy and wings still be 10 pieces (not whole) for $8.
Exactly
Out here in cali the wings will be small and like 5 for 10 bucks smh
I got 9 dollars everyday for that deal
I mumbo, YOU mumbo, HE SHE WE mumbo
Llllmmmmbbbbbbbooooooo!!!
Brady Roscher I've never liked a comment so fast before
Mumbology, the study of mumbo
Its 1st grade!
I'm sorry I doubted you
1:45 I swear they hired those guys to look white af
Pool
They must’ve paid the lady after them to look black af
The white people that show up in this series make me so embarrassed to be white
DC is filled w dudes that look like that
For surr
@@nathanielwellman297 That's the objective. It's okay to be white.
As a DMV native, and especially while I'm driving for Lyft, I'm always weaving between "Washington" and "DC", and no those aren't mutually exclusive geographically. You can see how "Washingtonians" who don't dare venture past 5th St. NE/SE clearly detest living in the District and consider it "boring" 'cause all they be doin' is dart from their K St./Cap. Hill internships to their yoga lessons to snooty/hipster bars in Dupont or Adams Morgan and maybe to the 9:30 from time to time.
Meanwhile, "DC folks" been keepin' it real, and it don't matter if you Chocolate City or Salvadorian or even a white dude who grew up in Georgetown, we all real proud of DC/DMV despite all the negative press we get. All of our icons, from mumbo sauce to go-go (Chuck Brown, anyone?) to Howard U and even our distinctive dialect ("Dis jont turrable, moe!") are things that nobody pays any attention to because they get overshadowed by Politics in Our Nation's Capital, which as we know are Much More Important and Much More Exciting. Contrary to the claims of "Washingtonians" (who should really GTFO back to they home and let us have ours), we KNOW that DC ain't NEVER boring (which admittedly is not always a positive thing).
Wanna come to the District for your career? Get over yo' bama self, learn the history and the culture of the people who live around you, and once you learn to live AMONG us rather than ABOVE us, then maybe you'd earn our respect.
BARRR I’m visiting in one month and I’m interested in the people and the culture not so much the mall. Know anything that could give me some good locations to check out and places to go?
BARRR absolutely
Kill thas real shit.
BARRR if u dont say slim or koe at least knce a dy then u aint from dc
@@hungjury7482 ja like, moe, errybody,
I love how every place has their own special food, if you ever roll through Atlanta, get lemon pepper wings, if you ride thru philly get a cheese steak, New Orleans, get a po boy etc.
LA get sum tacos
Cleveland a polish boy my town look it up
New York with the chopped cheese or a pizza slice
NC bbq
@@tabblack43 yeah love I live in Charlotte I'm from NYC but the BBQ here is like next level
I love how DC people call Chinese stores “Carry outs” we just call them Chinese stores lol
We call them Carryouts in Bmore too. We call hair stores Chinese stores.
Curry out would be more accurate
In NY, we call them Chinos... lol
Carry-outs don't have to be Chinese food. The can serve soul food, bbq, or something else. It's
Most of the time the sell different types of food to be honest thats why they call them carryout's you got to try it to know it tho! Them janks be bangin hard too! Im from NC and am in the DMV frequently and I tell ya them carryout's are the truth!
This was great. Explaining mumbo sauce in the wider context of the city and it's changing identity was pretty interesting. I know there's benefits to gentrification as the comments have stated but I think as cities get more gentrified you lose all the identity of the city and it's community. Eventually you end up with cities which all look the same, sound the same and are all pretty much identical with no unique features.
I'm from Maryland and mumbo sauce is incredible. It's definitely a staple within the DMV.
SebaPrototype I'm from northern Virginia and u def right. So is checkers and rally's lmao
lead poisoning why must you hate on dc😂
I'm from Va not northern VA and we don't eat mumbo sauce.. I don't think we should be included in that DMV thing because our way of life is totally different than Maryland DC and northern VA.. We like regular ole BBQ sauce.. That's what it's about to us.. 💯
But I would try it
Bruh Mumbo sauce is a staple in the DMV
Division of motor vehicles?
This is the definition of America. One city, two cultures, both rarely if ever dip into the other, both are in their own bubble
Man, I always watch first we feast with an empty stomach ending up grumpy, cuz all they talk about is chicken wings, fried rice and fries. Damn.
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Godanm u took this thought out of my mid
Im doing that right now
Factss
Am watching this thing while fasting , now am hungry
I’m a an East Oakland native, but stayed in the 804, for over 7 years, miss that mumbo sauce.
I was born and raised in SE DC. Been loving mambo sauce since 85' from Wah Luck Carryout Alabama Ave SE.
Thats not in DC. Its like right over the line.
CHEERS TO THE BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS.... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍷🖤
Nah cheers to the owners you dumb fuckbstop making it a race thing
@@bodman951 it's important to bring up black businesses because 1. Black people have been getting pushed out AND THIS IS ABOUT BLACK DC RESIDENTS and 2. Most businesses left in low income black communities are not black owned. The black dollar does not stay in black hands for more than a few hours, Asian ans white dollars circulate through their own people's businesses and community for days
cheers to business owners, how about that? fuck u to all the pussies crying about race, were all in the same shit.
Bay BossMAN right I know that feeling 😂😂 like 😳 okay congrats doe.
L M you sound like a Nazis, that’s how Nazis looked at things too, now tell me what makes this any difference?!? Is it because they are black? Is that why society is blind to this form of racism?!? Btw I’m a Native and it’s kinda dumb watching both Whites and Blacks fighting each other about skin and race on Native land. Why do black people of America act like they have it worst? Knowing that Natives are suffering and dealing with racism since 1492?!? Guess thinking all indigenous people are wipe out makes it easier
I’m from SE. Mambo sauce started in Chicago in 1950s and made it way to D.C it was in soul food and carry out Chinese places then overtime it spread all over in D.C and people were making up there own recipes. I’m seeing it now in the local Grocery store, Target, etc.
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The real D.C. is Mumbo Sauce, Go-Go, and a pair of New Balances. With their own style, slang, and name brand clothes!!!
And if you an outta towner you might get called a bamma lol
#DMV#I❤️DC
@Rasheed Lewis Silver Spring.
@Rasheed Lewis baaahhhhaaaahhhaaa. Born in Cheverly MD. Live in Montgomery County MD. Rockville. Lived in the DMV all of my life.
You said it all day every day! White T-shirt gray sweatpants, New Balance & a pair of Tims and don’t forget that mumbo sauce ! Uptown DMV
@Liu Kang Kixx I ain't even know Baltimore had a style 🤣😂
@Liu Kang Kixx I'm from DC. All I ever see is people trying to wear what the kids are wearing. I know yall got a couple of people up there trying to make their own stuff. Didnt know yall wore new balance though
Dude said "Chinese people are smart, they know what we like, and we buy it"...smdh
Kay Flip nigga I dont eat that bullshit so quit saying everybody
@JBourneID the chinese invented it. And black people have taken it and made it their own with their modifcations to sell. So you're good.
Christopher Bryson How is Chinese Food bullshit? LOL
@@davelee6002 are you sure about that statement lol. Check who invented mumbo sauce before you look stupid.
@@assassinfearx its brought up in the show. it came from a chinese takeout. i dont mind looling stupid, it happens in life.
It's available at my local Walmart in Oklahoma. I love it. I'm not black. I'm Native, but I love the stuff. So good on wings. The first time I tried it I had to make my own which was hard and time consuming. I'm glad you can just buy it now.
That's not mumbo😂 it's OK, but fr it's not mumbo
BIG UP TO THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY OWNED MAMBO SAUCE BRAND ‘CAPITAL CITY MAMBO SAUCE’! PHENOMENAL!
When i saw this on Facebook i was so happy. But they didn’t have the full interview. I am from South East DC. Cappers. I went to Simon Elementary. Hart Middle School And Ballou SHS. (The Old Ballou) (Big Bad Ballou) and growing up with Mumbo sauce was great. When i was in high school. I had Hong Kong on the Ave. and every day after school it will be packed!! And leaving after band practice it was packed. You will have to call ur order in just to get it before everyone else get there. I now live in Raleigh NC. And i really miss Mumbo sauce. Cuz when i have it. I feel safe and i get that home feel. I love Mumbo Sauce.
Hong Kong by far has the best Mumbo Sauce I've ever tasted.
Simon was the shitt
@@rodolo5917 is Hong Kong like Eddie's? Because I need a spot with good wings and that Eddie's type mumbo sauce. I grew up down the other end, good hope, 16th St. You know the area. Tell me what's Poppin
I went to Anacostia, i lived on Alabama ave. And Yums was the spot.
Yes sir!! Corner of Benninng and Minnesota
Yall actin like the dude wanted his block to be a warzone. He just wanted people to be friendly again. That's what he said.
that's not how it used to be everywhere though . Even growing up in cincinnati , the neighborhoods, everyone knew each other. Technology phones and selfishness changed all of that. Neighbors almost prefer now that they dont know who lives next to them, its almost a plus, or they know as little as possible. The days of block parties with dogs running around on no leash, arguing about which ninja turtle is your favorite, are long gone. Closest thing to a block party now is a food festival, but people don't mingle, they just come with whomever, I feel bad for these kids these days.
Japaneze Cheeze
These wings prices in DC are crazy low. Here in NYC 4 wings with fried rice is like $ 7-8.
@H S NY prices are higher than about anywhere in the world ma dude... For 10 CAD dollars I get 3 huge pieces of fried chicken, fries and a salad here in MTL. OK from the most guetto sort in the city (but it's the best one IMHO, and I've been to some fancy-pants places)
I actually found out about Mumbo sauce while working as a delivery driver in college at a Chinese restaurant in Florida. The owners were nice folk who gave me free food to take home from time to time, guess they must have moved to Florida from D.C. Mumbo wings with fried rice is freaking delicious and totally addictive.
AussieFanXCIV What city in Florida? Was it Orlando? I had mumbo sauce there, the red-orange one.
Mumbo sauce is essentially a urbanized sweet and sour sauce...which is why chinese spots are the ones who proliferated it in the city.
AussieFanXCIV where in fl did u get the mumbo sauce?
The blood mumbo sauce the right one. The BBQ kind of one is Aiight I guess. The pink one is watered down and trash.
Drew Coleman I ain't even seen the pink one hope I don't😂
keyvon datham same bruh xd
I never even seen a pink mumbo sauce
It’s like a dark watery pink omg it’s horrible 🤢
Where can I find the blood mumbo? All I ever had has been the pink shite all my life.
As a DC native y’all did a great job with this video. I grew up 4 blocks from grand china, it was great to see actual spots around the city I can recognize
Ok, as a DMV native I think I can speak on this. It's not "just a sauce" lol. And the people that are wondering why the video went into detail about the changing culture of D.C. Is because those two topics (mumbo sauce & culture) go hand in hand. You literally cannot have one without the other. There is a reason why all the white people were clueless and had no idea what mumbo sauce even was! That is because they lack the CULTURE that D.C. Brings which is why half the video was spent talking about how much the culture is changing. Wouldn't you be upset if you spent generations and generations of time and energy to create and manifest this product and in a few years, people moved into the city and didn't even know what that product was? Or worse didn't even care to find out?
It's not just a sauce. And if you grew up here you would know that. It's the principle, the culture. It's insulting to natives and that's why they're upset. It's like you coming into someone's house and not even saying hey just walking in and kicking your feet up and opening their fridge lol
lhighfive 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
lhighfive you actually believe that BS? I bet you more people knew what it was then didn't know. they just showed the few people who didn't know. most white people have heard of mumbo sauce. we all know that Chinese food shops invented it.
lead poisoning actually most white people didn't know what mumbo sauce is. In fact if you leave the DMV most people in general don't know what it is. It's specifically a dmv thing but more specifically it's a black thing.
lhighfive people just don't understand.
Exactly lighfive! Very well put. The lack of understanding the culture and what it was in its hey day, for example, is what's the issue. I spent most of my youth in the DC Area as well and remember a lot of things like Georgia Ave day, the Caribbean Carnival parades, Howard homecomings, when BET was actually BET lol, etc. To see Black people in many different roles and carrying themselves with a sense of pride (a pride not in the sense of being reactionary to stick it to "the white man") is why I loved the DC Area. I feel privileged to have experienced that as a kid hence why I truly don't feel inferior to whites and other groups. The vibe in the DMV is one of a kind. This is what the transplants fail to understand.
A lot of people here are getting angry saying "Complex is pushing a liberal agenda," Complex aren't the ones telling the story, the people they interview how either grew up with the product, are a big part of the product or the product is a big part of them are talking, saying how they feel about their food. People saying it's a race thing or a liberal thing, its not. You see it happen in every culture, Italians and their pizzas and pastas are always angry on buzzfeed videos and at pizza chain stores. Talk to anyone from the south about barbecue and they'll rip your head off if you say you cook it in an oven. Where every you go there are people who identify with their food. Do I agree with it? not really, but to say that Complex has a racial agenda is stupid. Good food comes from poverty because you have to be creative with what you have, and when that's the only thing you have how else are you going to react.
If it’s a race thing then why did they give it to the Asian takeout instead of creating their own restaurant?
yo this capital city mambo sauce just made my life, i used to live in baltimore and go to dc every weekend just for it but since i moved i been craving that shit UGH THANK YOU FOOD GRAILS
All of these food grail episodes are amazing.
you know if a food is loved by the black community anywhere its gonna be good
chilly22 not true
So true......ignore these bland mayonnaise eatin cretins....lol
I wish blatant ignorance would just stay in its lane and let people live. 🙄
M T just like you guys shooting up schools and overdosing in the street with yall kids.
racist
3:26 I did not expect her to talk like that😂😂
You are not the only one, I replayed it a few times to make sure fr fr
Looking like Asian Elizabeth warren
At all! 😂😂 She ain’t really lose her original accent she just added DC accent on top of it.
@@LaLaKnight lmao so true
This sauce is def popping. When I moved out here from the west coast. I heard about it and tried it and got hooked. Only thing I wish was that this sauce came from black owned restaurants. What that guy said '' Chinese ppl are smart they know what we like and we buy it '' something like this was invented by black folks and the dollar needs to be kept in the community.
Exactly
It was definitely invented by us tho.
I thoroughly enjoy these videos. I love learning about the food culture of these communities in other cities outside LA where I'm from. I also enjoy learning how food culture reflects the actual struggles/changes within a region. Culture will evolve but what's most important is keeping a sense of community. Talking to your neighbors, saying wassup the person next to you in line at the store. learn about one another. And if you got triggered from seeing another video on a black community I'm sorry but this is just people lives and their food this channel is trying to bring a light to. And the reason why we feel a way about white people and our food is because we feel like they don't care about us. They don't come to our neighborhoods, eat our food and talk to us. Let food be what connects us. Go to a neighborhood you normally don't go to. go eat. ask whoever is sitting down what their favorite dish is. when you finish tell the server/clerk it was delicious and thank you. make community, male friends. I promise you after that youll be thinking differently about your RUclips comments.
Yess!!! Thank you!!
This guy gets it.
I guess that's why our cuisine is copied the world over. Right?
@@michaelsquare9325 no it’s because you colonized the world and forced you’re food onto us. You all eat foods from BIPOC cultures even “your foods” are not really from white people they’re from cultural blending. Like most ingredients in “white” dishes aren’t even from “white” countries.
I definitely have to pay homage to DC. We had the sauce in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn take-out spots probably had family in DC. ❤
First We Feast, you are putting out truly excellent content. What a joy to watch.
That’s like Mild sauce a Chicago staple... goes on everything from fries to wings to pizza puffs🙌🙌
Yeah but mild sauce is actually fire, mumbo looks sus tbh
@@bj3stock nah bruh mumbo sauce is jhi tuff
I swear a Chicago thing for 50 years I bet someone from Chicago moved to dc or someone visit Chicago and tried to make mild sauce
Yes. Mild sauce is a must in black Chicago
Yeah this def look like some Harolds mild
First saw this vid 2 years ago and was intrigued. Just had my first taste of it from Jerry's Carry Out earlier today, then bought a bottle of "spicy mambo" on the way out of town. I love it all.
"Black Branding" is totally real and I didn't know it until he said it. Then it clicked. There are million dollar apartments in Shaw right above a Giant supermarket that has a giant piece of art depicting black artists on the side of it. I feel like I'm going to see it everywhere now...
Clinton Leonard 🤔 you right af
and sadly those apartments are too damn expensive for blacks folks to actually live in
Sorry but they only make it cool for other blacks to follow. This isn’t like how hip hop is to fashion. This is food lol
Grew up in Laurel, moved to Brooklyn when I was 10. Live in Philly now. I feel like I’m just destined to live in cities.
As a Massachusetts resident, my first exposure to the idea of Mumbo sauce was the mcdonalds version they had fot a limited time with their nuggets. Since then, its been something i crave very often haha. I got both capital city flavors, mild and the sweet and hot, and mixed them together to get the perfect heat level for me. To anyone who sees this, please try it! Its absolutely incredible!!
Lol at people from outside the DMV commenting on inside the DMV
mathew, born, raised and still live in the DMV.
Inside the beltway.
I'm brought up in dmv area and I'm proud of it😑
I lived in Landover MD in Prince George County and love mumbo sauce.
I'm here because of the mambo sauce McDonald's has right now. This was fascinating to learn about!
Thank God for Capital City!! We've been using their Mumbo sauce for a couple of years now in PA. People always comment on it when we use it on wings & BBQ.
1/2 cup tomato paste
1 cup distilled white vinegar
1 cup pineapple juice
1 cup sugar
4 teaspoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon powdered ginger
1/4 teaspoon hot sauce or more if you wish
Fuck that's going to be sweet
I'm thinking the same thing, sounds like sweet and sour sauce minus the sour.
yeah that sounds like slightly savory syrup to me
im gonna need you to show your sources, if you pardon the pun
I looked through a few of the recipes and articles when you search for Mumbo Sauce recipe and it was the one that was most repeated. www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-goldwyn/mumbo-sauce_b_1376194.html
You can now get Capital City Mumbo sauce in stores like Walmart in the condiments section. I highly recommend it.
I am thankful for this series. The chance it brings to see how other people in other parts of the country think, feel, and act is too good to pass up. Using food as a segway to talk about what people think and feel is likewise a stellar idea, and I hope you guys keep it up.
Jerry Yum's Carry-out has some great mumbo sauce. I get 5 wing's with pork fried rice and mumbo sauce over everything so bomb and a half and half lemonade ice tea mix🙌
Basically a great tasting way to die lol.
Thats what im talking about.
Einhorn is a man!, ....oh-EINHORN IS A MAN!!!!!!
I just got taken home to DC from CA. This video had my old band and also had one of the singers from another band I was in. Small world
I don't care what race tries the sauce. I just want it to be a DC thing and let other states try it to give a little of what this city is about. Also I like how the city is becoming more safe and diverse just other people could enjoy this city.
more safe? homicide has been on a steady rise since Obama got into office
@@kevintyson1947 ooh get him with them statistics
@@silvermediastudio what do you say to that EH
This was one of my favorite pieces that fwf has done. I get the weird inner turmoil that one goes through when an individual or group of people take something seacret to you and turn it into something that it's not or exploit it. In a way it takes away from whatever may be seacret to you and becomes less yours and less special. Anyways my point is this was rad and keep it up! thx
yeah well its videos like this that make it harder to be a secret lol. now everyone knows about it and its no longer a secret. i wouldve never heard of this stuff if it wasn't for this video.
Secret**** bruh ur killin me.
LOVE Capitol City Mumbo sauce! Local store out in the burbs in Maryland started stocking it after I bugged them. Got hooked after trying the real stuff!
mumbo sauce is the goat come to dc get wings and fries with mumbo sauce that shit a1
Wow the history on mumbo sauce is epic I love it. I love how DC is super passionate about it. I’m def going to try it out
Watched this vid a couple months ago and i HAD to try this sauce. Surprisingly, it's now sold on Amazon... delicious!
I grew up in Arlington. I can attest, there is a real difference between “Washington” and “DC” 😂
6:40
That’s how it’s starting to be in all cities.
Idk any of the people on my block past my next door neighbors.
one of the videos of all time
Sweet nd sour sauce with tamarind mustard hotsauce vinegar
Or soy sauce and ketchup
Sweet and sour, ketchup and Louisiana.
Im from Chicago!! We do "Mild Sauce" Wale dissed our wings!!😂😂 I see Y now
Do Da History.. They Can THANK CHICAGO.. #BLESS
It's so popular that their is a short story called mambo sauce, which is why I'm here
I loved the shot of the Peace Vigil. You captured DC really well in this video. I loved recognizing the locations (Yum's Chinese, Ben's Chili Bowl). I must say I did not know what mumbo sauce was before this, but I'm white. There's obviously a big divide between middle-class DC (white) and lower middle-class / poor DC (Black). If you read between the lines you can see that Mumbo Sauce is mostly a black thing.
It’s a huge Black Middle to Upperclass DC population in DC & surrounding DMV area.
@@Arjr72 And do they eat Mumbo Sauce? It feels like a lower class thing to me.
I had my first mumbo sauce and wings at a Chinese restaurant on Rhode Island Avenue just across the MD/DC border. They also had a great steak and cheese sub. Later found out that they were busted for buying DC lunch supplies from crooked school workers.
I’ve eaten CC mumbo almost everyday since I moved here years ago and I’ve even been making a pretty close version for a few years. When I make it I usually make about a half gallon. My favorite mumbo meal is fried chicken with biscuits, I drown everything in it and go to town.
It’s just sweet and sour sauce at the Chinese spots anywhere else you go
Quan Gotti yes lol
YUP. Got some the other night, same exact sauce. Idk why these people are so insecure they have to pretend they invented the motherfucking pink-kind of sweet and sour you get with chicken at Chinese food places.
Brumsly Brumbino wrong. Mumbai sauce is a bit spicy and way less tangy than sweet and sour. And again, it’s different everywhere you go. So at it’s base, they’re similar, but it’s really more than that
Nah totally different
Quan Gotti hell no
okay D.C. you got it💜... yo miss info” always got that 411’hun.
much love yo
🙏🏾✌🏾🐜
Very well produced. I hadn't heard of Mumbo sauce until I watched a jljupiter video and searched it out. Subscribed.
As someone from DC and growing up eating 4pc chicken wings w/fries, mumbo sauce on everything from Danny's lol..its so fuckin dope to see my city like this! #killMoe😂😂😂
Man this episode made my mouth water a lot
Im From Inglewood Cali. Went to DMV to Be wit Family. One of the Best Discoveries on that trip Was the Mumbo Sauce.
Man people are really over analyzing a sauce out here
They made it too political. Now I don't even care about the sauce. 🤣
Rouge R. Its as if their entire identity is supposed to be tied to this sauce. If i was from their area id be pissed for being misrepresented
@@Theogrn Nah im from the area and it might sound silly to outsiders but mumbo sauce means a lot to us because its unique to our community
@@1017Evelin exactly..
Yall childish. It is tied to our identity because you can't find it anywhere else. You say it's too political but you probably never even heard of the sauce before this video. Don't be disrespectful
2:00 "If you wanna unlock the mysteries of Mumbo, you have to experience it in its natural environment"
Sounds like an animal documentary 😂😂😂
Mostly blacks in this documentary
While watching was anyone else feeling hungry & mesmerized by wale’s voice at the same time?
ketchup,honey,duck sauce,hot sauce , & sweet and sour 👍🏾
👍💯
Chicago Mild Sauce
Truuuu
Yesss 👅
was thinking that while watching this.
That Chicago Mild Sauce is just Open Pit Barbecue Sauce, which is trash.
SpankBuda ....... lmao they tried to sue Chicago for the name and it was rejected cuz it’s was and still a Chicago sauce
5:17 AND YOU ENDED UP MARRYING JUST THAT!!!! 😂 😂 🤣
Shoppers even selling MUMBO SAUCE now. I should look at the ingredients. lol
Been eating this all my life.
fr real fam just make everything at home. way cheaper lol
a great way to tell if someone has actually had mumbo sauce is when they tell you that it’s super spicy.
They got the two whitest guys and the craziest looking white guy to be interviewed 😂
BelieveThePanda They would never interview down home rough and rumble blue collar white guys tho...
Wow who would’ve thought they would’ve asked citied people who are usually successful people and they couldn’t find any black people
@@bodman951 oh would you stop it...
What a bitch
In the Chi we call that "mild sauce" lol
Frank Castle it’s just sweet and sour sauce with hot sauce. Asians been doing that shit for millennia
@@FecalMatador it's barbeque sauce, ketchup and hot sauce. Totally different. Also sweet Asian food is an American thing rarely accepted in Asian countries.
@@FecalMatador negative
@@stevieg4040
look up recipe bro two different sauces
@@FecalMatador not even close
Thank god for you.... I have been in Ohio for 25 years now and I can only get the sauce when I go home to see my family! Now that it’s in a bottle I have my sister send me one of each once a month.
I don't like the mumbo sauce that's dark and taste like barbeque sauce. The light red orangy colored mumbo sauce and its more of an sweet and sour flavor is my fav!! That's mumbo sauce I grew up on in the 80’s and 90’s.
Nice mini documentary about my favorite city, #DC ❤️
why fuck are you guys so mad in the comments section? I think this video was an interesting cultural exploration while at the same time got me hyped to try mumbo sauce.
Nathan Walker right lots of...tears
Very good video. Mumbo Sauce is a DC thing that needs to go national.
who here see a leprechaun say yeah. YEAHHH!!
YEAHHH
Capital city mambo sauce is bomb af.
Not really.
Naw Moe
Just a regular sauce
I remember playing in the street and carry out runs back in the late 80's it's amazing how time goes by. DC is changing because rent went up and pay stood still for years we couldn't keep up
I’m guessing it’s like our “Mild Sauce” her in Chicago!!! 🔥🔥🔥😜 Best M. Sauce n Chicago tho..........UNCLE REMUS!!!! And chicken 🍗!
West side baby
Mumbo Ain’t nothing but mild sauce
wale and shy glizzy!
Use to spend summers in Fairfax village all the way from N.Y. and feel in luv with Mumbo sauce.
The classic bens chili bowl on an empty stomach you will leave very happy that’s guaranteed!🔥
Uh its ok.. lines be way to long for a decent chill dog
...have you tried setting it to *WUMBO?*
i always had this in Brooklyn back in the 80's, DC probably gave it a name.
asian lady “everyone thinks their bomb “ going to her carry out. i like good hope carry out in se dc
If you not from the city, you'll NEVER understand.
Foh