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  • No spicy?

  • Ahhh

  • I'm sorry..

  • How you guys met?

  • Why- What you see in him?

  • At a food festival.

  • Food festival?! Must be bland food festival.

  • Only potato.

  • Hallo, it's Uncle Roger!

  • Today, Uncle Roger gonna work at my friend's restaurant.

  • It's called Mei Mei

  • And Uncle Roger need a job because I'm running out of money.

  • And I need money to buy rice.

  • Looks like this is the restaurant I'm supposed to work at.

  • but I don't know why they can call this restaurant.

  • If you take a look,

  • No door, no table. Only one chair and they call this restaurant.

  • Shutter not even fully open.

  • I think this restaurant gonna go out of business soon..

  • So this is my friend, Liz, who is the boss of this..

  • restaurant.

  • Tell our viewers, what is this restaurant?

  • This restaurant is based on a Singaporean kopi tiam.

  • So we specialize in Hainanese chicken rice and nasi lemak.

  • All things I missed from home.

  • Uncle Roger think Malaysian food better but..

  • Huh.

  • Some people don't like good thing.

  • You're in for a very hard day work.

  • Is your food good?

  • Very good!

  • Do you use MSG?

  • No.

  • No?

  • Because it tastes good already without it.

  • So many spices but really no MSG.

  • Hmmmm~

  • So tender, so moist. Opposite of Auntie Helen.

  • Uncle Roger don't like induction stove.

  • Liz, why you use induction stove? Where is the fire?

  • This costs 30 grand.

  • 30 grand for no fire..

  • If no fire where is your wok hei?

  • So you Asian restaurant but no MSG and no fire?

  • The people in here don't like MSG

  • So we don't use

  • No MSG and you have Michelin star?

  • Yeah.

  • That means my food is good.

  • So- What- What do you want me to do here today?

  • Well Uncle Roger, I don't trust you near the chickens today,

  • but we're going to get you on the till serving some customers.

  • Okay. Uncle Roger can do that.

  • Hey man.

  • Hi.

  • What you want?

  • What you want?

  • Can I get a Nasi Lemak but no peanuts?

  • Nasi Lemak no peanut? Why why no? That's the best part of Nasi Lemak is the peanut

  • Why you don't want peanut?

  • I'm allergic

  • You're allergic to peanut?

  • Why so weak?

  • So weak.

  • You scare peanut?

  • Big man like you scare peanut?

  • Haiyaa

  • Uncle Roger growing up in Asia

  • I scare earthquake, I scare flood.

  • I never scare peanut.

  • How you raise family if you scare peanut?

  • The little brown nut you scared?

  • Why no peanut? What's wrong with you?

  • What wrong with you?

  • Should I.. could somebody else..

  • Do you work here?

  • Yeah, Uncle Roger work here

  • Today first day!

  • Today first day.

  • You got problem?

  • Don't worry about it man, I'm-

  • No no just eat peanut, hospital very close

  • Don't worry.

  • Do you have anything vegan here?

  • What? What is vegan?

  • Like.. no animal products.

  • No animal product?

  • So you go your life, just eat leaf?

  • Why you don't know how to enjoy life?

  • No vegan product.

  • Go away.

  • Go away.

  • Go to other restaurant.

  • Go eat your lettuce there.

  • How? How are people vegan?

  • Vegan don't know how to enjoy life.

  • Crispy pork is the best thing in the world.

  • And they want to eat spinach.

  • Haiyaa

  • Vegetable taste like sad anyway.

  • Don't eat vegetable.

  • Hallo! What do you want?

  • Could I have a Hainanese chicken rice, please?

  • Hainanese chicken rice, no problem.

  • One second.

  • Ok. Give them 10 minutes.

  • They'll make rice for you.

  • Where are you from?

  • I'm from Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong? Okay!

  • Uncle Roger never been to Hong Kong.

  • But Uncle Roger know bit, bit Cantonese

  • You know?

  • (Good morning, pretty girl)

  • How you doing?

  • Hainanese chicken rice coming up.

  • But do you want extra garlic or anything?

  • Yep, extra garlic would be nice.

  • Extra garlic good good.

  • Asian people, we love garlic.

  • We treat garlic like money.

  • Never enough.

  • Do you want any drink?

  • No, I'm okay.

  • No drink?

  • Why you don't order drink?

  • You thirsty, you choke on your rice.

  • How, what you do?

  • Are you gonna die from chicken rice? That's very sad.

  • Must order one drink.

  • Okay.

  • If you give me a free drink, I'll have a drink.

  • Give you free drink? No no no.

  • Don't flirt with Uncle Roger like that.

  • Uncle Roger at work.

  • Here you go, Hainanese chicken rice for you.

  • Leave us good review on Google.

  • Don't leave bad review

  • I will come find you and hunt you down.

  • Hallo, how are you doing?

  • I'm alright, thank you.

  • Okay, what you want?

  • What you want at Uncle Roger restaurant?

  • May I have a portion of the Hainanese chicken rice, please.

  • Hainanese chicken rice, no problem.

  • Okay okay.

  • Hainanese chicken rice-

  • Oh no, sorry. One second, one second.

  • Why?

  • W h y?

  • Hello, Tony. Hi, how you doing?

  • Yes, I'm free to talk right now.

  • No problem, no problem.

  • There just one customer but I got her food in my hands

  • So don't worry, just talk.

  • Tell me, tell me everything.

  • So long, no see.

  • No, no

  • You wait, you wait

  • So long-

  • Uncle Roger!

  • What?

  • Get off the phone!

  • Why?

  • Come off, you've gotta serve a customer!

  • But this phone call important

  • Haiyaa

  • Friendship more important than work.

  • Maybe this job not suitable for Uncle Roger after all

  • Hallo! How you doing?

  • Hello mate. Good, thank you!

  • Can we have a hainanese chicken rice? Yeah we can do hainanese chicken rice. But uh..

  • not not spicy no spicy why oh i'm sorry why are you like this why

  • are you scared spicy white people hate flavor

  • you put salt and pepper in everything in your gammon you love gammon for some

  • reason gammon is the most bland food why you don't like spice tell uncle

  • roger why you don't like spicy hurts my tonsils hurt your tonsil yeah

  • you don't need tonsil cut it off why you be with him so pussy can't even

  • handle spice how you guys met tell me why what you see it's a good

  • food festival food festival must be bland food

  • festival only potato oh my god this is no i don't think you

  • will like the hainanese chicken rice trying to be a

  • convert oh okay okay Uncle Roger get you one

  • do you want one also yes please yes two with spice for me

  • with spice okay this is good white woman this one good

  • okay okay two hainanese chicken rice here you go

  • enjoy let me get you cutlery too here do you guys know how to use

  • chopsticks i'm okay try try it's uncle roger

  • culture really good yeah looks yummy and the

  • sauces did we just yes i thought about the spice for this

  • one yes Uncle Roger play trick on you

  • need to train him to like spice white people are allergic to everything no

  • don't come back leave a good review on google leave a good review

  • on google if you leave bad review i will find you

  • you forgot your woman uncle roger worked all day today so

  • tired now Uncle Roger think i did very well what do you think liz

  • oh uncle roger you shouted somebody for having nut allergies

  • that's not allergy not normal what what you mean

  • well we we don't want to kill anyone here at MeiMei okay okay okay what else

  • what else shouting at customers leave a google

  • review which but but you like google review i help your business grow

  • as long as they live good reviews okay yeah

  • that's why i forced them uh giving spicy food to people who don't want spicy food

  • but that's how you train people to become spicy food

  • lover because you don't force feed them when will they ever try they always eat

  • potato only but and also uh being on the phone during

  • service the phone just one customer that's my good friend tony he have a lot

  • of children i haven't talked to him in a

  • long time friendship important speak to tony after work

  • not during work okay so do i get to come back tomorrow

  • if you like Uncle Roger video come down to see MeiMei at Borough market

  • london come see liz she's so nice

  • michelin star very good

No spicy?

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