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The Best Chinese Hand-Pulled Noodle Dish in New York is This Big Tray of Chicken Cult Following

The Best Chinese Hand-Pulled Noodle Dish in New York is This Big Tray of Chicken Cult Following

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
In this episode of Cult Following, host Serena Dai a self-described member of this cult-beloved restaurant talks to owner Wendy Lian about how the restaurant went from under-the-radar spot to neighborhood mainstay
Date: 2020-05-20

Comments and reviews: 10


Why is everyone praising her over this rubbish? This is literally all the descriptions for the food, other than what they are. Da Pan Ji: This is the perfect amount of spice! You're gonna get a little bit of a tingle, but not too much! You're gonna have a little bit of the tingle, but not too much! You're gonna have just enough where you wanna keep eating. I'ordered Da Pan Ji at other restaurants, and let me tell you, they are not as good as they are here. This is why this place has a fricking cult following, is the Da Pan Ji with these noodles. disgusting eating sounds What's the taste like? What's the texture like? She missed out the 2 most important parts of food! Taste and texture! Pork Pancake: So it's almost like a griddled bun but it's flat and crispy on the outside. So the texture inside, it's quite fluffy. So that's pork in there, kind of a savory sauce on it, and a little bit of cilantro, just a nice, savory treat. All those juices in there just make it mmm smack it's good. So she described the texture of the Mo this time. That's an improvement. What's the pork's though? And the taste of the savory sauce? I mean, tons of things are savory, so, you know. And what do the juices make them now? Wait. So it's good. Ok. Egg & Tomato Huimei: Ooh yeah! Hits the spot! I mean the noodles are perfect. And they're perfect because they're thick and they have a bite to them but they're also really slippery and chewy. It's just an amazing texture. They do it well. Cool story. So the noodles are thick, chewy, but slippery. What happened to everything else? And is that your description? Many things are like that. Mochi is thick, chewy, and slippery. Is this mochi you are describing? Guys, this isn't hard. All you need to do is eat and describe. Sure, not anyone would be able to make it so it is as if we taste the food from listening to descriptions of it, but come on. She is being paid to eat now, not to review food.
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Large noodles, fried chicken AND potatoes all in one bowl? SOLD. The pancake explanation reminds me of an experience from my childhood. When I was a little kid new to the US with Polish immigrant parents, still too young to realize that regular American kids had different takes on food names, I invited my friend (bi-racial african-american and irish descent, if that helps to paint a picture of an All-American kid) from up the block over to eat because we were having pancakes, my favorite dinner. In retrospect, I think I blew his mind that anyone would be eating pancakes for dinner, so he joined me without even asking his Mom, so as to avoid a response he didn't want to hear. When we actually ate, confused is not the right word when he saw fried potato patties, sour cream and mustard. Dismay or deep disappointment would be my choices. In my defense, I'd never even heard of a pancake in the traditional American breakfast sense. I'm not sure if sweet breakfast foods existed in the village my parents grew up in. I think his Mom rang doorbells until she got to our house (this was the early 80's when TV told mothers that child murder and kidnapping were around every corner of every city) and spanked the shit out of him right on our stoop while weeping in relief that her son wasn't being skinned alive to make a lamp shade. I felt terrible, not only for his punishment, but that he risked a beating for pancakes that never even existed. We're still connected on Facebook to this day, and he definitely knows what a potato pancake is now. I don't think he likes them much, but he's been over for dinner plenty of times. I definitely love his Mom's smoked pork ribs.
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YouTube comments sections are a typical example of human sheep, I bet most people comment hate without even knowing why they hate her, they just follow the dislike ratio and think 'yeah that's probably about right' and just comment dumb comments. I've only seen a few actual comments genuinely criticising her reviews, the rest is just a sheep train. I see this same pattern in all kinds of videos where there's a new host or an old one is replaced. getting quite ridiculous.
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Yes, yes, and yes! This is definitely one of her better videos. I'm not a fan of her's whatsoever but I have to give her a big round of applause. I'm proud to see her comfortable enough with a cult following to be able to talk about the food well and with some passion. Serena, stick with the stuff you know and bring in guest for the cult followings that you are kind of familiar with.
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I think you and the edit team are slowly getting a grasp of what people want to see, a good intro with background info but not too much, you presented more than one dish and added your personal flair to it + they didnt edit your video down to just 1 dish and one comment seems like youre listening to the criticism and applying some of the things you were/are lacking, gj: )
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Serena was actually really good during this episode. She seemed really comfortable and was genuinely portraying her excitement to the viewers. I can understand dislikes in the past but this was a great episode. Only improvement I would say is talking about the different flavours of the food instead of just texture.
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Hey Serena, I visited this place a few days ago thanks to your video. It's very quite good. The big tray chicken had too much anise seed, as my two brothers and I agreed it was quite overpowering, but the rest of the food was delicious and I would certainly visit again the next time we go. Thank you for the video.
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Serena was actually really good during this episode. She seemed really comfortable and was genuinely portraying her excitement to the viewers. I can understand dislikes in the past but this was a great episode. Only improvement I would say is talking about the different flavours of the food instead of just texture.
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Improvement. I wish she talked more about the flavors and ingredients of the sauce in the spicy chicken and noodles dish. She only described the pork pancake sauce as savory. Savory how? Soy based? Curry-like? Gravy-like? She needs more descriptors or comparisons.
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honestly, she should've covered more Chinese restaurant though. She presents better and looks like she has skill for comnunicating well in Mandarin. Her past videos didn't do her justice, perhaps. They're definitely less enjoyable than this
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