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A few months ago, a bbc "egg fried rice" teaching video made netizens in China stunned: cooking rice does not pan rice, the water is more boiled directly with a drainage basket to cook rice, and then put under the tap water to rinse for a while... These honey juice operations not only stunned everyone, but also aroused everyone's group criticism of the BBC -
"Do you think that egg fried rice and genuine egg fried rice are two different things?" Please learn how Asians make rice before promoting egg fried rice, and use dim sum! ”
Just at the end of last month, a British program doubled "overturned", but this time, the most angry Japanese netizens...
"British Bake Contest great British Bake Off" is a food competition program that has been widely praised by British audiences, and has been in the same ratings since its launch in 2010.
Amateur food lovers from across the UK compete in baking techniques and creativity on the show, with several professional British judges scoring the game.
And because the contestants come from a variety of backgrounds, the show is full of jokes and has a lot to watch.
At the end of last month, this baking competition finally began to challenge Asian baking, opening a competition called "Japan Week".
This also makes many Japanese netizens wonder what Japanese cakes will be chosen for this show as the challenge theme.
"Is it a gong burning?" steamed bread? pancake? Or a mochi?
Good to look forward to! ”
However, the program team finally selected the content of this Japan Weekly Competition as - making buns!
clams?!
Isn't bun a Chinese classic?! Has a relationship with Japan?
Although the choice of bun theme is a bit unconvincing, with the mentality of curiosity, many Asian netizens choose to continue to watch the complete set,
But the more you look, the more question marks pop up in your head...
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This includes the Malaysian Internet celebrity "Uncle Roger uncle roger" who became popular because of the spit bbc egg fried rice, and after watching it, he couldn't help but shoot a video on the Internet to complain.
"Buns? I think buns are more like Chinese than Japanese! ”
Uncle Roger, whose original name was "nigel ng", lives in London and reviews some Western chefs or shows for Asian cuisine all year round.
In the last egg fried rice video, Uncle Roger's spit out the voice of Asian netizens, and for this "Japanese bun" program, "Uncle Roger" is also completely ruthless, opening the whole spit mode...
As usual, several contestants began the intense race in a simple kitchen in an outdoor open-air tent.
"What kind of bun can become a representative of Japanese classics?" With such anticipation, everyone began to quietly enjoy the game.
And the participants' practice began to scare stupid Asian netizens,
One contestant confided his design concept like the program team, "I want to make tempura with bun filling!" ”
It sounds Japanese, but, "I'm going to put chopped chicken breast and curry powder together." ”
The idea makes professionals sit still: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa The essence of tempura is not curry powder! It's about wrapping bread crumbs on the outside of the chicken and frying it! ”
Well, this should be a good theory and practice can't keep up...
The next contestant pulled out garlic, ginger, chili, coriander, fish sauce and soy sauce, honey, fennel, to prepare the filling.
"Why do you use fish sauce during the Week in Japan??? Fish sauce is thai and used in Southeast Asian cuisine.
What's going on here?! I thought it was Japan Week, where the hell is the Japanese stuff? ”
It can be seen that the contestants' painting style is collectively crooked...
And there's something even more speechless,
"Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce?! Why is this Chinese ingredient here?
Although the program team was taped, we didn't need to doubt it at all – this was Lee Kum Kee! ”
Then, "Uncle Roger" is devastated to find that one of the contestants is adding Indian spices to the bun skin dough...
Thai, Chinese, Indian elements are all available, but so far, no Japanese elements have appeared...
The last contestant, taking out cheese, bacon and other ingredients, said, "I'm going to make a hamburger bun." ”
Nowadays, the American element has also emerged...
"How many countries does Japan include?" India ThailandChina Usa ??? These are not Japanese buns!
Just call this episode 'put random shit in bun week'! ”
(crash ing)
Instead of abandoning the theme from within, some contestants directly tried to find a breakthrough from the appearance of the bun and win in one fell swoop.
So, an African-American woman contestant made a whole set of panda buns...
- "Wait! Pandas are Chinese! ”
Other contestants made buns in the shape of sheep, chickens, and piglets.
Seeing this, everyone should understand - this is basically a blind play with the theme of Japanese weekly buns...
However, the bun session is not over, and the Japanese themes of this issue also include "making a 'kawaii cake'" and "matcha crepe".
The so-called kawaii cake is that the contestants have made the appearance of the cake cute, echoing kawaii,
The matcha creed is a Japanese specialty matcha powder that is evenly sprinkled on the cake after the whole crepe is made...
This "Japan Week" themed baking contest is completely over after the three sessions of "Buns", "Cute Cakes" and "Matcha Powder Crepes"...
Do you think that there is a kind of rush to expect to come, and rush to leave?
Asian netizens feel this way...
"Uncle Roger," lamented, "I love certain parts of the show, but I don't know why they call this a Japanese week." The contestants were so British that they wanted to stuff Chinese food out of the way into Japanese buns. It's weird, it's weird. I don't understand why they chose buns. ”
"The show is no worse than BBC Egg Fried Rice, but viewers of this wildly popular British show see China, India and Japan all in the same country.
Next time please call this 'Asia Week', then there is no problem with all these things you have made! ”
"Uncle Roger" is polite this time, but after watching the panda and the hamburger, many Japanese netizens are very angry,
Japanese actress Naoko Mori, who loves Asian food, thinks this episode is simply ignorant + racist,
"It's like you're lazily doing an outdated Show with an East Asian theme of 'China, Japan, whatever,' with a little bit of the word cute (in fact, everyone on the show basically mispronounces kawaii and reads it as kowaii (horrible meaning...)))
Sprinkling a bit of matcha powder on a pancake is not Japanese food, or baked.
Not only is this an offense to us Japanese and our culture, you may also offend Chinese and many loyal viewers of the show.
You might think, or at least wish you had some simple searches and fact-checks before you did this episode.
Please, do it a little better. ”
Subsequently, Mori Naoko further expressed her anger,
"My personal opinion on the show is not about how these contestants understand Japanese food or how they bake it, it's up to them that makes the show interesting and makes people want to see it."
My biggest question about the show is that they use buns as a traditional Japanese food, but in fact they are traditional Chinese food.
This is an error message,
This is equivalent to saying that the croissant is British food or that the apples are Japanese, and if these two things appear on the show, I am sure that many people will stand up and say that this is wrong.
(Naoko Mori's cooking)
Yes, buns are popular and are often available in Japan, but they are not Japanese food and many people who are not in Asia know this. You just have to go to Google and you will immediately know that the bun comes from China.
If the show really wanted to do a Japan Week, they could have introduced a lot of Japanese baking. If the program team felt that there was no need to continue exploring, they would only think that matcha was the representative of Japanese baking.
In my opinion, if they really want to do bun programs, they should change the theme of this issue to China Week. ”
It is not wrong to complain about the program group that is a little careless.
And many Asian netizens also feel the disrespectful message conveyed behind the program.
"The point of racial discrimination is:
Buns - Chinese food
'Cute cake kawaii cake – there is no such food at all
Matcha French Millefeuille Crepe - Huh
Imagine when japan has so many spicy food, the program team chose these ones...
Program team please work harder"
"Ignoring the origin of the buns from China, using French technology, but they think it's Japanese stuff because they sprinkle some matcha on it, it's an insult to real Japanese baking."
Everyone was angry at the unprofessional attitude of the program group,
"I was looking forward to Japan Week, but the idea of treating all Asian food as Japanese food is inherently racist — you think Asians are exactly the same. It's not fun at all, especially now that East Asians are being blamed for the coronavirus. ”
The news website also commented that "the first show did not realize the potential of 'Japan Week' at all, although it is not the only one." They can't embody the theme of Japan. ”
However, this matter may not be entirely dependent on the program team, because the show's most important judge, Paul Hollywood, in April this year, in a food show called "Paul Hollywood Eats Japan", also said that "I was very scared before, I thought that Japan only had rice and noodles, and now I found out that they are also baking!" ”
Now look at this "Japan Week" full of strange Asian buns, it doesn't feel so strange...