Most of us may have gotten over the collective outrage over BBC’s rice travesty last month, but one YouTuber has decided to strike back in a tit for tat with his own crime against food — rice cooker spaghetti.
Malaysian YouTuber Epic Asian shared his very own pasta recipe in a tongue-in-cheek video titled I Cook Spaghetti like Asian on Saturday (Aug 1), declaring that he wanted “to avenge for Asian people rice [sic]”.
In his battle cry against “burger people and potato chip people”, Epic Asian referenced a BBC Food video hosted by British cook and presenter Hersha Patel which had been met with disgust, indignation and numerous parodies after it instructed viewers to wash undercooked rice under a tap.
Going all out in his quest to avenge Asians and rice, the 25-year-old YouTuber — who had made another video last week schooling the BBC on the proper way to cook fried rice — started off by washing a handful of raw spaghetti and breaking it to fit into his rice cooker.<img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: YouTube/Epic Asian” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”e8dd793c-1ab2-42d6-b909-def5317491a7″ src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/pasta1.jpg”/><img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: YouTube/Epic Asian” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”b1a2689c-252c-4461-948e-2cd8c719fc4a” src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/pasta3.jpg”/>He then added some flavour with dumplings, lap cheong (Chinese sausage), soy sauce, oyster sauce and Sriracha chilli sauce.<img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: YouTube/Epic Asian” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”2c3a941c-3ee3-4598-a667-f09445e369cc” src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/pasta5.jpg”/>As if that wasn’t enough, he offered up another (questionable) hot tip — using the leftover water in the rice cooker for tea.<img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: YouTube/Epic Asian” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”b43e4953-218d-4ff0-8a24-34769a65a488″ src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/tea1.jpg”/>The video, which has racked up 40,000 views on YouTube and over 22,000 likes on Facebook at the time of writing, left more than a few foodies horrified.<img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: Screengrab/Facebook” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”0961880f-8935-491e-b668-c2e1c43d4d2b” src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/ricecooker%20spaghetti%20%281%29.jpg”/>Some also questioned why he targeted Italian cuisine instead of fish and chips, a quintessential British favourite.<img alt="" data-caption="PHOTO: Screengrab/Facebook” data-entity-type=”file” data-entity-uuid=”fe592e08-2900-48ca-bf1e-7d3d866f29cb” src=”/sites/default/files/inline-images/ricecooker%20spaghetti%20%282%29%20%281%29.jpg”/>However, Epic Asian appears to be standing by his recipe — he added in a comment that his creation, which he dubbed Spicy Lup Cheong Golden Dumpling Spaghetti, was “delicious”.
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