🍫 Try this chocolatey dish! This dish is called “brownies”, and they’ve been known to help brighten my mood after seeing comments that inspire videos like these In all seriousness, thank you for those who understand why I make videos the way I do. Your kind and supportive comments help me get through the lows I experience on social media.
@@roxychav1749it's not on the website yet. I guess it hasn't been uploaded yet. But that's ok, I can wait. They say good things come to those who wait... And from the video I can tell that the recipe is going to be great! 😃👍👍
I'm not fussy but there's about 3 flavours that ruin any dish for me I'd rather have a more accurate description than named after something relevant 100 years ago
As a southern African American most of our dishes don't have names...if they do most don't particularly share it. I learned to cook by ingredients and technics, I couldn't name a dish lol. And I can cook.
i am bengali and its kinda similar for us too. all chicken dishes are just chicken and all fish dishes are just fish. the most specific we get is by describing the type of gravy so like macher jhol for fish gravy and shoshsho diye macher jhol so fish gravy with mustard. the name is literally just the description of the dish
Well as another Southern Black American I feel like everything my family has made and eaten had a name even if it was simple like Greens Black eyed peas Mac n Cheese Ribs what ever what ever the end. It's just food it has a name. What's the drama? Why hide?
@@TychoKingdomThose aren't name of a dish but ingredients. Their isn't any shame? Where does my comment come of shameful? If I'm baking chicken I have a zillion ways to do it, but still call it back chicken. Other countries or cultures have a name for each dish. It's just a difference in culture. There is nothing wrong with that. This discussion wasn't a degrade on any of them. Just different. I imagine if we had it we wouldn't have called a century egg that but maybe pickle egg or ferment egg?
@@TychoKingdom you misunderstood. As another Southern African American lmao, I didn’t find out all these named dishes til moving regions, social media and having friends of different culture. Dishes like rice and gravy, baked chicken and even boiled crawfish, we make our own way with no name. I go to my Viet friends and they say a name in Vietnamese and then i see the dish and say “Oh that’s rice and gravy with a different spin on it” I had to learn how our food is seasoned so specifically with different influences from Cajun, African, and etc cultures. And that’s probably why we have so many dishes with no name but a specific taste that deserves its own name.
@lilly_koii Not necessarily. Imagine if you were some other nationality and were watching American food channels on RUclips. You might remember (or observe) ground beef, tomato, and oregano. That could lead you to spaghetti, pizza, tacos, and more. So, no, you couldn't "still find it."
@@lisahinton9682Which is why you watch the full video to see if they’re making what you wanted?? Yes you can still find it. If you remember the way it look and the ingredients then you can rule out some of the options. If it doesn’t work for you then oh well but it works for others even if it was for a dish that is worldwide known and simple.
@@lisahinton9682 No in her case it would be like calling spaghetti “ground beef tomato pasta/noodles”, not just listing out random nondescript ingredients.
@@politefroggy omg your comment just made me register for the first time that that is what those pop ups are in the comment sections on shorts sometimes lol I just automatically Xed out of those cuz they are pop ups
Because we might not know what tinola is, but we probably know what ginger, chicken, and soup are. It helps introduce people to something new in a way they can visualize and anticipate the flavor of. I appreciate it, thank you!
I appreciate you naming it this way. I am also a Filipino American, but wasn’t exposed as much to my culture due to living apart from family. You’ve really helped me re-explore my culture and find dishes that I can explore with my non-Filipino husband and the rest of my family around ingredients I know they love. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
It's also super helpful for those of us who are a bit picky or scared when trying new things! I latch onto familiar ingredients when trying new foods to get an idea of if I may like it or not because my anxiety makes it hard to try new things. So describing the ingredients first rather than opening with the name helps to determine if I want to try it or not.
As someone who is white and is blessed with a Filipino aunt who married into my family, I love your channel. She taught us so much about her culture, and she loves American BBQ, so we have a fusion of Filipino and American food in her home. Most of her dishes are not traditional Filipino, she adds what she learned from US recipes to them and her American dishes have a Filipino flare, like the way she seasons her hamburgers, so delicious ❤
Because most Filipinos do not know their tradition or culture. At least when they say their dish was innovated, they are not pretentious. Because a lot of the Filipino food celebrated in America are just lame or mundane in the Philippines.
I thought i preferred a name in the description but i think actually your way is better. I tend to skip over things that dont feel familiar when im just browsing for entertainment, so finding a way to make it relatable to people who dont know the dish but do know the ingredients is actually a great idea that incidentally gets me out of my comfort zone.
I'm African, Nigerian to be precise. If we said the names of any of our dishes apart from "Jollof rice" no one would recognize them. So thank you for sharing your part of the world with us.
I have many dietary restrictions so it's very helpful if a recipe title or food name is in the language I can easily understand or at least, got some label/description of what could be in it. Though I always ask for more details, knowing that it's fish rather than shrimp or chicken rather than pork ...just by the name.... helps a lot ❤
People will always complain about something. You can never win. Even if you name it, some would still complain about it. Or they'll even go on to complain about how you described it, etc.
i agree with some of these comments; it's super informative! Plus, it helps knowing what these dishes are so I can better talk about it and describe it to my friends so we can make it together and enjoy.
This is helpful because there’s many times where I might be intrigued if I got a description, but freaked out by the name (I’m a picky eater) or similar, and it’s often easier to remember a description than a name (particularly when the name is in another language)
I do not mind captions or titles really but that's so thoughtful of you. I can see how that works especially for people who do not know or cannot easily remember the names of food that they have tried.
I’m Filipino too but most of the meals cooked in our household mostly has no names too. We just say “yung ano na merong ganito” 😅 It was only when I was in highschool did I get to know the names of the dishes because my dad would usually cook early and then leave for work. So once I was older and would have talks with my friends we wiuld just also give the descriptions of the meals we had throughout the week but not once put a name on it. Didn’t realize it was a weird thing until you pointed it out now that people have been saying it. 🤷🏻♀️ Btw, if you want to confuse the people on here, remember we have a Filipino dish that’s very similar to other ones and get it mixed up a lot coz we dont know the difference among them: Afritada, Menudo, Kaldereta, and Mechado 😁 people are getting upset with not having names on foods so give them this 🤣
I think she made this video because a lot of her new filipino viewers were complaining about not saying the name of the dishes she makes, they didn't understand that she's trying to share our culture especially the dishes to everyone
I learned about a lot of Filipino dishes from your videos and I’m not even Filipino. I remember having a conversation with a Filipino about the dishes I learned about! I think this is so awesome! Thank you for being to share parts of your sulfite with us!
That makes total sense. Many non-Filipino probably wouldn’t stop and watch a video if they didn’t recognize the name or maybe the name of the dish sounds strange or unappealing to them. BUT when you present it using terms they are familiar with they are much more likely to watch the video and even try the recipe. I’m the end it doesn’t really matter what you call it as long as it tastes good. ❤️
The way you do the non-dish names really helps me! It helps me know what the dish is cause the actual name wont help me know, really well. Ignore the haters and keep doing what you do!
also! as someone who is a picky eater/generally doesn’t try new foods all the time, it’s much more comforting to hear “chicken ginger soup” than a new word to me like “tinola”. knowing what a dish is by its ingredients/flavour/texture makes it far far less intimidating for people like me :)
That's the best way to introduce something new to people. Ingredients are more familiar to us and when you introduce the dish based on them, it'll instantly make people associate with the flavours that they already know. Its a better and more engaging cue for our brains, than a name that wouldn't mean anything for those unfamiliar with it.
I prefer your approach. This way, I'm introduced to all sorts of food I didn't know about. If I just wanted a recipe for a food I already know about, I'd probably look it up elsewhere.
This is also good for people looking to make a new dish based off some ingredients they already like or have. It would also be a good practice for people who adapt recipes to post based on the ingredients of their new dish vs the original name of the dish.
I actually really love your approach! I like trying new foods, but I don't always know how to seek them out. Going based off ingredients lets me satisfy a specific craving or avoid something I may not be in the mood for or have the right ingredients to make today.
Sometimes food names that aren’t familiar to us put us off before we even know what it is. Offering a simple explanation of what it is and what it’s similar to before introducing the dish makes it more inviting to people who might like the flavor but are put off by the unfamiliar
I appreciate the way you share and teach us!! I have been thinking of starting my own food channel but I have no knowledge about dishes and their proper names. I learn most things from Foodies like You!! It's the one thing stopping or encouraging me. I wish to learn more from the experts since many dishes I know are different from the people around me. Thanks for everything!! 💕 💕
A friend of mine works in a small cafe and she's said how many times calling something what it's called has caused some problems. Particularly with these cupcakes they make who's main pull is the rosewater flavoured cream on top, calling it a floral cream similar to Turkish delight just ends up working better because if someone doesn't like Turkish Delight (which uses rose water) won't like the cupcakes cream.
Your videos throw me back to childhood when I used to go to Filipino dinners pretty often. (I’m Cameroonian American) The lumpia was always my go-to! 🥰
I think it's sweet of you to teach your boyfriend about your culture. The two of you are so cute together. Please share this brownie recipe with us though? They look delicious.
I love watchin your shorts and guessing the name. I'm Filipino-American, and fortunately grew up in a place where my parents could get most of the ingredients for the filipino food so I was raised on it. It's also fun to watch different filipinos' takes on dishes
As an experimental home chef, most of my dishes are unnamed and just me messing around to make something that tastes good. I've been told on more than 1 occasion to write them down but I'm just not in that headspace when I'm creating!
I appreciate what you do, and your recipes all look delicious! It helps to introduce people to something new by describing it. "Ginger chicken soup" sounds comforting, while many people might not know what "chicken Tinola" is, but then we learn the name during the video. What we dont need is the videos that make these delicious meals from around the world and strip them of their titles so they popularize without anyone knowing their name.
I appreciate you for this so so much! There are few Latin American chefs I follow and I feel rude for wishing they would do the same, like no one is obligated to translate their culture into English or dumb it down, but I can’t keep up or recreate any of their recipes because I don’t have a baseline knowledge of Spanish
When I was teaching ESL, we always started out with descriptors first. It causes the brain to link up visually. Then, it’s much easier for the second language to stick. You’re doing it exactly right. 👍🏼
I’m glad you do that, Filipino American but I know nothing of the culture. My grandma didn’t teach my dad or my anything about it. I’m glad I can at least know the names of some dishes I used to eat.
As someone who’s half Filipino but due to some things never really grew up with much of the culture despite *wanting* to. videos like these are really important to me.
Its also more eye catching, if someone sees a random word they dont know to describe a food, they might not be insterested. But if you describe whats actually in it, people will get a general idea of how it could taste and be more inclined to click.
This is exactly how I was introduced to biryani, which has very quickly become one of my favorite dishes! I vaguely explained the flavors and look of the dish and my waiter at this Indian restaurant immediately knew and was so excited to give me the name to this dish I had been craving for everrrrr but had only ever had once without knowing the name of
Those brownies look intense...ly yummy! And I like your approach with introducing new dishes. I'd be more likely to try a chicken ginger soup than something called "tinola" without having any clues as to the ingredients. But it is great that you share the official name to give credit and share knowledge about Filipino culture. ❤
Another reason might be because a lot of the time when you make something and say it's name there so many people who say "that not how you make so and so! That's not authetic so and so! " So this probably helps with that because ik this day and age there only one exact way to make a dish 🙄 when in reality a lot of different people have their own way of doing it
Completely agree and support your decision jeanelle! 🙏🤗 Personally i dont mind that you tell us the name in the title and video at all and knowing more about Philippines or any other culture really, traditional foods and dishes,, is very great! I love and highly support every type of diversity in our small but very varied big world 👌👌xD, but its also 100% fine and dandy if you want to keep the brief mentions as such 🫂❤️ acceptance and respect is what makes us humans truly be one and live at peace, so hope everyone's doing fine 🙏 its all gonna be alright, stay safe and have the best weekend night 👋👋(:)) ☺️☺️💕💕💗.
This is also a great way to introduce something new to someone. A flashy name doesn't tell you much about what's in the dish in a lot of cases. If it sounds too exotic, some people might be intimidated, but if it's a dish with rice and pork, or a dessert made from coconut flesh, that comes across a lot easier.
I bought pandan and ubi extract because of your channel. Its the best in little waffles but i think im going to break out my pizelle machine for tge family reunion and make pandan pizelles and ubi pizelles. Im sure the flavors will really come through in the tiny crispy cookie. Maybe I'll figure out a way to serve ice cream too plus the purple and green in the extraxts will make the cookies colorful.
This is also super helpful to do for neurodivergent people too who have bad memories but can remember ingredients! ❤ I also want to thank you for your videos because the way you introduce dishes makes it easier for people like me to remember what they're called too. :) ❤❤
Growing up, my family had a dish we made called “Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup.” We got the recipe from a magazine, and made it quite a few times and loved it. Fast forward 10 years or so, I realized it was a recipe for Pho! And because I was so familiar with my family’s recipe, I immediately loved the authentic restaurant version even more than our recipe. Sometimes you need to present things in an accessible way for people to become familiar with different tastes and textures. And it opens their mind to new experiences in the future. (Plus, I always knew it was a Vietnamese dish, which I think is pretty cool.)
No, you've got the right idea here, stay confident in yourself! This works for my picky autistic son too! He won't know what, say, kimchi jjigae is, but when I explain it's his beloved kimchi and soup, suddenly he's way more likely to try it because he knows what to expect. Thank you for sharing your culture through food, I really appreciate it!
There are some dishes in the Philippines that is called different in other islands. I don’t even know some of their names but I too can describe it. I love how you described the food, and gives us a visual and auditory experience since we can’t taste it through the screen 😂. It entices us to make it, and try it out for ourselves. We love your channel! I have no Filipino family that live close by. There are only two Filipino ladies in my town, me and the other lady name Mary. I have a 3 year old who is growing up with no Filipino roots, except for the food. I get the recipe from your website too. Your channel is helping my child keep the most important tradition that we have: our amazing food. Thank you.
I love to cook, and when people ask me what is the name of what i am cooking, i said it doesn't have a name, just my own cooking, because i just use whatever ingredients i have available at home.
You never need to feel guilty over using your language or calling a Filipino dish by its name. Culture is such a beautiful and important thing and you should be proud to share it with others
🍫 Try this chocolatey dish! This dish is called “brownies”, and they’ve been known to help brighten my mood after seeing comments that inspire videos like these
In all seriousness, thank you for those who understand why I make videos the way I do. Your kind and supportive comments help me get through the lows I experience on social media.
Please can I have the recipie? 🙏🙏❤❤❤
@@tlims6401it’s in the description
We need the brownie recipe its not in the description
@@melissamcclain34I think if you look it up on the website it’ll show you the recipe I’m not sure though
@@roxychav1749it's not on the website yet. I guess it hasn't been uploaded yet. But that's ok, I can wait. They say good things come to those who wait... And from the video I can tell that the recipe is going to be great! 😃👍👍
Calling dishes by their flavours is super helpful for people that aren’t so adventurous in food !!
Sure....but you can do both with no extra effort 😂
@@vibrantchill7212 she does both of them
@@vibrantchill7212 I didn’t say you couldn’t
I'm not fussy but there's about 3 flavours that ruin any dish for me I'd rather have a more accurate description than named after something relevant 100 years ago
As a southern African American most of our dishes don't have names...if they do most don't particularly share it. I learned to cook by ingredients and technics, I couldn't name a dish lol. And I can cook.
love this. it makes sense to me.
i am bengali and its kinda similar for us too. all chicken dishes are just chicken and all fish dishes are just fish. the most specific we get is by describing the type of gravy so like macher jhol for fish gravy and shoshsho diye macher jhol so fish gravy with mustard. the name is literally just the description of the dish
Well as another Southern Black American I feel like everything my family has made and eaten had a name even if it was simple like Greens Black eyed peas Mac n Cheese Ribs what ever what ever the end. It's just food it has a name. What's the drama? Why hide?
@@TychoKingdomThose aren't name of a dish but ingredients. Their isn't any shame? Where does my comment come of shameful? If I'm baking chicken I have a zillion ways to do it, but still call it back chicken. Other countries or cultures have a name for each dish. It's just a difference in culture. There is nothing wrong with that. This discussion wasn't a degrade on any of them. Just different. I imagine if we had it we wouldn't have called a century egg that but maybe pickle egg or ferment egg?
@@TychoKingdom you misunderstood. As another Southern African American lmao, I didn’t find out all these named dishes til moving regions, social media and having friends of different culture. Dishes like rice and gravy, baked chicken and even boiled crawfish, we make our own way with no name. I go to my Viet friends and they say a name in Vietnamese and then i see the dish and say “Oh that’s rice and gravy with a different spin on it” I had to learn how our food is seasoned so specifically with different influences from Cajun, African, and etc cultures. And that’s probably why we have so many dishes with no name but a specific taste that deserves its own name.
it's also helpful if someone doesn't remember the name of the dish but the main ingredients, they can still find it
Right? It just feels like haters can't think about long term stuff lol
@lilly_koii
Not necessarily. Imagine if you were some other nationality and were watching American food channels on RUclips. You might remember (or observe) ground beef, tomato, and oregano. That could lead you to spaghetti, pizza, tacos, and more. So, no, you couldn't "still find it."
@@lisahinton9682Which is why you watch the full video to see if they’re making what you wanted?? Yes you can still find it. If you remember the way it look and the ingredients then you can rule out some of the options. If it doesn’t work for you then oh well but it works for others even if it was for a dish that is worldwide known and simple.
@@lisahinton9682 No in her case it would be like calling spaghetti “ground beef tomato pasta/noodles”, not just listing out random nondescript ingredients.
@@lisahinton9682ah yes spaghetti with onlye ground beef tomato and oregano, hmmm.. I do love me some spaghetti less spaghetti, really? Really man?
Okay side note but we NEED that brownie recipe! Those look amazing!
RUclips asked me to rate this comment- excellent 😂
@@politefroggy omg your comment just made me register for the first time that that is what those pop ups are in the comment sections on shorts sometimes lol I just automatically Xed out of those cuz they are pop ups
Need recipe
brownie? you mean american chocolate pan cake?
she uses the broma bakery blog recipe!
It's a no win situation. People will always complain but you just keep going Jeanell! Those brownies look amazing af just like all your food ❤❤❤
thank you!
@@Jeanelleats❤
Because we might not know what tinola is, but we probably know what ginger, chicken, and soup are. It helps introduce people to something new in a way they can visualize and anticipate the flavor of. I appreciate it, thank you!
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I appreciate you naming it this way. I am also a Filipino American, but wasn’t exposed as much to my culture due to living apart from family. You’ve really helped me re-explore my culture and find dishes that I can explore with my non-Filipino husband and the rest of my family around ingredients I know they love. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
It's also super helpful for those of us who are a bit picky or scared when trying new things! I latch onto familiar ingredients when trying new foods to get an idea of if I may like it or not because my anxiety makes it hard to try new things. So describing the ingredients first rather than opening with the name helps to determine if I want to try it or not.
As someone who is white and is blessed with a Filipino aunt who married into my family, I love your channel. She taught us so much about her culture, and she loves American BBQ, so we have a fusion of Filipino and American food in her home. Most of her dishes are not traditional Filipino, she adds what she learned from US recipes to them and her American dishes have a Filipino flare, like the way she seasons her hamburgers, so delicious ❤
Because most Filipinos do not know their tradition or culture. At least when they say their dish was innovated, they are not pretentious. Because a lot of the Filipino food celebrated in America are just lame or mundane in the Philippines.
omg thank you for the kind words! and yes. filipina aunties are the best!
@@Jeanelleats❤
Hxk❤
I thought i preferred a name in the description but i think actually your way is better. I tend to skip over things that dont feel familiar when im just browsing for entertainment, so finding a way to make it relatable to people who dont know the dish but do know the ingredients is actually a great idea that incidentally gets me out of my comfort zone.
I'm African, Nigerian to be precise. If we said the names of any of our dishes apart from "Jollof rice" no one would recognize them. So thank you for sharing your part of the world with us.
I don't even recognize that, so I fully get the point:)
@@plant_12 wow, really? Where are you from?
I have many dietary restrictions so it's very helpful if a recipe title or food name is in the language I can easily understand or at least, got some label/description of what could be in it. Though I always ask for more details, knowing that it's fish rather than shrimp or chicken rather than pork ...just by the name.... helps a lot ❤
The brownies looks delicious!!
Could you please say the exact measurements .Can't wait to try it
I'd like to know as well :(
The recipes are on her website, link is in the description
Looks a bit under done but yummy
People will always complain about something. You can never win. Even if you name it, some would still complain about it. Or they'll even go on to complain about how you described it, etc.
i agree with some of these comments; it's super informative! Plus, it helps knowing what these dishes are so I can better talk about it and describe it to my friends so we can make it together and enjoy.
This is helpful because there’s many times where I might be intrigued if I got a description, but freaked out by the name (I’m a picky eater) or similar, and it’s often easier to remember a description than a name (particularly when the name is in another language)
Also is good for the algorithm it reaches people who don’t know the dish and people who do😊
I do not mind captions or titles really but that's so thoughtful of you. I can see how that works especially for people who do not know or cannot easily remember the names of food that they have tried.
I definitely prefer it with the description. Much more likely to be like, "hey that sounds interesting!"
I’m Filipino too but most of the meals cooked in our household mostly has no names too. We just say “yung ano na merong ganito” 😅
It was only when I was in highschool did I get to know the names of the dishes because my dad would usually cook early and then leave for work. So once I was older and would have talks with my friends we wiuld just also give the descriptions of the meals we had throughout the week but not once put a name on it.
Didn’t realize it was a weird thing until you pointed it out now that people have been saying it. 🤷🏻♀️
Btw, if you want to confuse the people on here, remember we have a Filipino dish that’s very similar to other ones and get it mixed up a lot coz we dont know the difference among them: Afritada, Menudo, Kaldereta, and Mechado 😁 people are getting upset with not having names on foods so give them this 🤣
Orange ulam is what i call those. 😂
I think she made this video because a lot of her new filipino viewers were complaining about not saying the name of the dishes she makes, they didn't understand that she's trying to share our culture especially the dishes to everyone
Basta caldereta is goat 🤣. If it's not goat, it's all afritada to me. I only learned about menudo when I moved.
@@myyou7335menudo has liver or liver spread in it so another distinction.
You aren't renaming the dish, you're just describing it😂
I learned about a lot of Filipino dishes from your videos and I’m not even Filipino. I remember having a conversation with a Filipino about the dishes I learned about! I think this is so awesome! Thank you for being to share parts of your sulfite with us!
i always appreciate creators doing that regardless if i know the dish already, it just makes finding it a lot easier!
It also helps to know what it tastes like when you describe it in more simpler terms since we cant smell or taste it
That makes total sense. Many non-Filipino probably wouldn’t stop and watch a video if they didn’t recognize the name or maybe the name of the dish sounds strange or unappealing to them. BUT when you present it using terms they are familiar with they are much more likely to watch the video and even try the recipe. I’m the end it doesn’t really matter what you call it as long as it tastes good. ❤️
The way you do the non-dish names really helps me! It helps me know what the dish is cause the actual name wont help me know, really well. Ignore the haters and keep doing what you do!
also! as someone who is a picky eater/generally doesn’t try new foods all the time, it’s much more comforting to hear “chicken ginger soup” than a new word to me like “tinola”. knowing what a dish is by its ingredients/flavour/texture makes it far far less intimidating for people like me :)
That's the best way to introduce something new to people. Ingredients are more familiar to us and when you introduce the dish based on them, it'll instantly make people associate with the flavours that they already know. Its a better and more engaging cue for our brains, than a name that wouldn't mean anything for those unfamiliar with it.
I prefer your approach. This way, I'm introduced to all sorts of food I didn't know about.
If I just wanted a recipe for a food I already know about, I'd probably look it up elsewhere.
This is also good for people looking to make a new dish based off some ingredients they already like or have. It would also be a good practice for people who adapt recipes to post based on the ingredients of their new dish vs the original name of the dish.
I actually really love your approach! I like trying new foods, but I don't always know how to seek them out. Going based off ingredients lets me satisfy a specific craving or avoid something I may not be in the mood for or have the right ingredients to make today.
That's actually very smart! I like this approach
Sometimes food names that aren’t familiar to us put us off before we even know what it is. Offering a simple explanation of what it is and what it’s similar to before introducing the dish makes it more inviting to people who might like the flavor but are put off by the unfamiliar
I appreciate the way you share and teach us!! I have been thinking of starting my own food channel but I have no knowledge about dishes and their proper names. I learn most things from Foodies like You!! It's the one thing stopping or encouraging me. I wish to learn more from the experts since many dishes I know are different from the people around me. Thanks for everything!! 💕 💕
A friend of mine works in a small cafe and she's said how many times calling something what it's called has caused some problems. Particularly with these cupcakes they make who's main pull is the rosewater flavoured cream on top, calling it a floral cream similar to Turkish delight just ends up working better because if someone doesn't like Turkish Delight (which uses rose water) won't like the cupcakes cream.
Your videos throw me back to childhood when I used to go to Filipino dinners pretty often. (I’m Cameroonian American) The lumpia was always my go-to! 🥰
calling a dish by what it contains is also helpful to picky eaters and those who might be intimidated by names they don’t recognize/understand.
I think it's sweet of you to teach your boyfriend about your culture. The two of you are so cute together. Please share this brownie recipe with us though? They look delicious.
those brownies made my mouth water ...they look so delicious
I love watchin your shorts and guessing the name. I'm Filipino-American, and fortunately grew up in a place where my parents could get most of the ingredients for the filipino food so I was raised on it. It's also fun to watch different filipinos' takes on dishes
Making food from all cultures accessible is a big step towards teaching people to be kind about food they don't know or haven't had
As an experimental home chef, most of my dishes are unnamed and just me messing around to make something that tastes good. I've been told on more than 1 occasion to write them down but I'm just not in that headspace when I'm creating!
Omgosh this chocolatey dish looks amazing. I want some.
PLEASE i need a recipe for these
Those brownies look amazing 🤩
Keep up the good work
I appreciate what you do, and your recipes all look delicious! It helps to introduce people to something new by describing it. "Ginger chicken soup" sounds comforting, while many people might not know what "chicken Tinola" is, but then we learn the name during the video. What we dont need is the videos that make these delicious meals from around the world and strip them of their titles so they popularize without anyone knowing their name.
I got surprisingly emotional at this explanation. ❤
That is the BEST looking brownies I've ever seen ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Those brownies look so good 🤤
I appreciate you for this so so much! There are few Latin American chefs I follow and I feel rude for wishing they would do the same, like no one is obligated to translate their culture into English or dumb it down, but I can’t keep up or recreate any of their recipes because I don’t have a baseline knowledge of Spanish
I wanna say something.... The brownies look soooo good 🤤🤤
When I was teaching ESL, we always started out with descriptors first. It causes the brain to link up visually. Then, it’s much easier for the second language to stick. You’re doing it exactly right. 👍🏼
Great idea! Food is a wonderful thing that should be shared with everyone!
Those brownies look so good!!!!
A lot of the foods you make make me really wanna try em so knowing it's actual name is a good thing!😊
I love this explanation ❤
I’m glad you do that, Filipino American but I know nothing of the culture. My grandma didn’t teach my dad or my anything about it. I’m glad I can at least know the names of some dishes I used to eat.
I think a description is better anyways, because it makes it about the food.
As someone who’s half Filipino but due to some things never really grew up with much of the culture despite *wanting* to. videos like these are really important to me.
Its also more eye catching, if someone sees a random word they dont know to describe a food, they might not be insterested. But if you describe whats actually in it, people will get a general idea of how it could taste and be more inclined to click.
These brownies look amazing! Can I have the recipe please?
Those brownies look so good pls drop the recipe!!!
Tinola is my favourite! Those brownies look so yummy 😋
This is exactly how I was introduced to biryani, which has very quickly become one of my favorite dishes! I vaguely explained the flavors and look of the dish and my waiter at this Indian restaurant immediately knew and was so excited to give me the name to this dish I had been craving for everrrrr but had only ever had once without knowing the name of
This is actually a great approach, because 11/10 I'll search with a description instead of title, like one does.
Those brownies look intense...ly yummy! And I like your approach with introducing new dishes. I'd be more likely to try a chicken ginger soup than something called "tinola" without having any clues as to the ingredients. But it is great that you share the official name to give credit and share knowledge about Filipino culture. ❤
THOSE BROWNIES ARE MY DREAM!!
I feel like the way you do it would also make it easier if someone forgot the name of a dish and was trying to look up a recipe.
I’m so excited I found a Filipino baker on RUclips two of my favorite things! I’m Filipino as well and love baking
Another reason might be because a lot of the time when you make something and say it's name there so many people who say "that not how you make so and so! That's not authetic so and so! " So this probably helps with that because ik this day and age there only one exact way to make a dish 🙄 when in reality a lot of different people have their own way of doing it
Those brownies look SOOOO good. With all the toppings and you cooked them to perfection
i need this brownie recipe
Completely agree and support your decision jeanelle! 🙏🤗 Personally i dont mind that you tell us the name in the title and video at all and knowing more about Philippines or any other culture really, traditional foods and dishes,, is very great! I love and highly support every type of diversity in our small but very varied big world 👌👌xD, but its also 100% fine and dandy if you want to keep the brief mentions as such 🫂❤️ acceptance and respect is what makes us humans truly be one and live at peace, so hope everyone's doing fine 🙏 its all gonna be alright, stay safe and have the best weekend night 👋👋(:)) ☺️☺️💕💕💗.
it makes it a hell of a lot easier to search for too
It's obvious... She wants the title to be eye catching....at the end she's an influencer
This is also a great way to introduce something new to someone. A flashy name doesn't tell you much about what's in the dish in a lot of cases. If it sounds too exotic, some people might be intimidated, but if it's a dish with rice and pork, or a dessert made from coconut flesh, that comes across a lot easier.
These brownies look delicious 🤤
Had this problem for years trying to figure out what cassava was lol
I bought pandan and ubi extract because of your channel. Its the best in little waffles but i think im going to break out my pizelle machine for tge family reunion and make pandan pizelles and ubi pizelles. Im sure the flavors will really come through in the tiny crispy cookie. Maybe I'll figure out a way to serve ice cream too plus the purple and green in the extraxts will make the cookies colorful.
This is also super helpful to do for neurodivergent people too who have bad memories but can remember ingredients! ❤
I also want to thank you for your videos because the way you introduce dishes makes it easier for people like me to remember what they're called too. :) ❤❤
Growing up, my family had a dish we made called “Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup.” We got the recipe from a magazine, and made it quite a few times and loved it.
Fast forward 10 years or so, I realized it was a recipe for Pho! And because I was so familiar with my family’s recipe, I immediately loved the authentic restaurant version even more than our recipe.
Sometimes you need to present things in an accessible way for people to become familiar with different tastes and textures. And it opens their mind to new experiences in the future. (Plus, I always knew it was a Vietnamese dish, which I think is pretty cool.)
No, you've got the right idea here, stay confident in yourself! This works for my picky autistic son too! He won't know what, say, kimchi jjigae is, but when I explain it's his beloved kimchi and soup, suddenly he's way more likely to try it because he knows what to expect. Thank you for sharing your culture through food, I really appreciate it!
These look heavenly
As a filipino i love this and your cooking looks amazing
It also makes it easier to search for online and be found be a wider range of people
Yummm. Please try Lebanese food ❤
Trueeee. Love Lebanese food
The sass of the last comment lmao
Your approach is unassuming and triggers curiosity.
I like how you do videos. I'm a Black Jamaican and familiar with very few Filipino dishes.
these brownies look like heaven
I need the brownie recipe!
There are some dishes in the Philippines that is called different in other islands. I don’t even know some of their names but I too can describe it. I love how you described the food, and gives us a visual and auditory experience since we can’t taste it through the screen 😂. It entices us to make it, and try it out for ourselves.
We love your channel!
I have no Filipino family that live close by. There are only two Filipino ladies in my town, me and the other lady name Mary. I have a 3 year old who is growing up with no Filipino roots, except for the food. I get the recipe from your website too. Your channel is helping my child keep the most important tradition that we have: our amazing food. Thank you.
This approach definitely works. Over time I relized I picked up a fair amount of filipino food/ingredient names and it all traces back to your videos.
wait is that hagelslag and chocoladevlokken on the brownies? That's honestly such a good combo 😭
I love to cook, and when people ask me what is the name of what i am cooking, i said it doesn't have a name, just my own cooking, because i just use whatever ingredients i have available at home.
Those brownies looked beautiful 😊
You never need to feel guilty over using your language or calling a Filipino dish by its name. Culture is such a beautiful and important thing and you should be proud to share it with others
She is, that's why she's describing the dishes so that people who are not familiar with it could get an idea
That looks SOOOOO GOOD