What was intended to be a comedic video sparked a firestorm of dismay and disbelief, speaking to a broader, long-standing debate about the intersection of food, ethnicity and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 \u2014 Loved for its simplicity and versatility, the main ingredient in fried rice is undoubtedly perfectly cooked grains of rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when a BBC Food host used an eyebrow-raising method of cooking rice while making the beloved dish that\u2019s found all over Asia, controversy ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a video published by award-winning presenter Hersha Patel back in April 2019, the cooking show host began her version of egg fried rice by cooking unwashed rice in a pot of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before the rice is fully cooked, Patel then drains the rice with a strainer and rinses the grains under tap water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the clip was uploaded over a year ago, it began resurfacing after UK-based Malaysian stand-up comedian Nigel Ng watched it and decided to kick up a fuss over Patel\u2019s cooking methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Chinese cuisine, fried rice is best made using cold, leftover rice to maintain the integrity of each grain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ng voiced his shock and confusion using his Uncle Roger alter ego in a YouTube video that lasted over seven minutes earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The comedian began his reaction video by mocking Patel for telling viewers to not be afraid of the dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho\u2019s afraid of egg fried rice? It\u2019s the most common dish, everyone eats it,\u201d Ng said in an exaggerated accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel then shows viewers a \u201csimple\u201d way of cooking rice which she claims many are afraid of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFirst step all wrong already,\u201d Ng said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am not confident this video is gonna be good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel then shocked him again by cooking rice grains that were unwashed straight in a pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWait, so you don\u2019t wash the rice? How you don\u2019t wash the rice just (sic) cook the rice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNow, the rice stinky like you! Where you learn how to make rice, some white people cooking school or something?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The BBC host\u2019s next step further riled up the comedian when she drained the half-cooked rice as though it was pasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019re killing me, draining rice in a colander,\u201d Ng said, telling his viewers to invest in a rice cooker instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy are you running water through? You\u2019re ruining the rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFirst, you use (a) colander to drain the rice and then you put water then why bother drying the rice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWho cooks rice like this? How did this woman get on BBC Food?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long before Ng lambasted Patel, who has her own YouTube channel Cook with a Little Indian<\/em>, Facebook users did not hold back after watching her egg fried rice tutorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m suspecting some uncooked rice were present,\u201d one comment said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis video is a total blasphemy,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ng\u2019s clip has since garnered over 645,000 views and more than 3,400 comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere was a moment where every Asian person in the world felt a strange and unexplained shiver and a sudden turn in their stomach,\u201d one person commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery Asian knows you use one-day-old rice when you\u2019re frying rice,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: MalayMail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What was intended to be a comedic video sparked a firestorm of dismay and disbelief, speaking to a broader, long-standing debate about the intersection of food, ethnicity and culture. KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 \u2014 Loved for its simplicity and versatility, the main ingredient in fried rice is undoubtedly perfectly cooked grains of rice. So when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-international","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}