Italian Chinese Food vs. Chinese Italian Food

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Channel: Mythical Kitchen

YouTube Video ID: 1ineAYDxg9E

Episode Post Date: January 20, 2026

Transcript

We're putting Italian and Chinese food
to the test in our mouths. We're mouth
testing it. I think some call it eating.
Today we're answering an unanswerable
question.
>> What's that?
>> What's the sound of one hand clapping?
That's two hands. Is a hot dog a
sandwich? No. Which cuisine from two
proud nations with infinitely complex
and rich cultural histories is better
than one another even though we know
food is completely subjective and
reliant on cultural history and comfort
and care in the hands who made it.
Am I supposed to say the countries? Why
ask the question if we can't [music]
answer it? Well, I'll tell you why. I
want to explore the deeper cultural and
culinary nuance the only way I know how
by mashing together two relatively
unrelated food cultures into one
delicious dish and seeing what deeper
stories about the world and ourselves we
can tell within that.
>> are you still talking? I want to cook.
Before us we have four of the best
Chinese and Italian takeout dishes. What
are you making today?
>> Okay. Okay.
Yeah, let's
osso buco This is insane. Why?
>> You had the entire Italy has created
some of the best food in the entire
world, especially the best takeout in
the entire world. You know, you had the
garlic breads and the pizzas and you
went osso buco?
>> It's a delicious braised dish. I'm so
excited.
>> And then gua bao.
>> This is a great dish.
>> Okay, thanks. At least you approve of
one.
To be clear, I knew she was making osso
buco and I've been roasting her for it
for like a week cuz that's a crazy pull
for Italian dish.
>> What? I Okay, sorry I'm not basic and do
like something like pizza or whatever.
>> Pizza!
The Italy's greatest culinary treasure.
I think this is from Little Caesars,
which is Italian for little kaiser.
Mapo tofu. I mean, you see you see where
this is going right here, right? Uh
yeah, yeah. Put that on there.
[laughter]
You're done cooking.
>> I'm pretty much I realized that no
matter what I make from scratch, just
putting a spoonful of that on that right
now, that's about 98% as good as this
dish could be.
>> It's probably going to be better than
what you whatever you make.
>> Damn it, I think you're right. Well,
what are you going to do? How are you
going to combine that?
>> to put that in there.
>> [laughter]
>> That's the level of culinary expertise
you come to Mythical Kitchen for.
Um you ready to get cooking or at least
mash some stuff into stuff?
>> Yeah, one or the other. Hell yeah. So
this episode means a lot to me because I
am Italian and Josh is [music] Chinese.
So [laughter]
we just want to cook from our homelands
and my nonna actually used to make this
dish for me all the time growing up.
This is osso buco. Josh likes to call it
uh bone hole. Bone hole.
Yep, because osso means bone [music] and
buco means not Bucca di Beppo, it means
hole. Just a little uh fun fact. But
these are veal shanks.
A little baby cow, I'm sorry. They're so
>> sound sorry. I mean, they're so good for
special occasions like this cooking on
the Mythical Kitchen. I'm seasoning
these up. I'm going to add a little
flour cuz I want this to thicken a
little bit. I have some neutral oil.
But I mean, fusion food I feel like I
got a bad rep last year with the sushi
burritos and the ramen burgers. I think
we need to bring it back. Get a good rep
on it.
Okay, sear these cuz we're all fusion at
the end of the day. I'm not fusion, I'm
a purebred, but I [laughter]
I was adopted, so I do have a little
white in me.
Vivian's fusion, she's half black, half
Mexican. Josh is fusion, he's half North
American, half African.
So
if you ever see Josh in the wild, don't
ask him about his South Africa trip cuz
when he got back back from South Africa,
he
talked about it for like a year.
He still talks about it. It was a very
meaningful trip. We got to address a
couple rumors that Lily has started
about my race, ethnicity, and or
heritage. Am I Chinese? No. No, I am
not. Do I enjoy making Chinese food in a
wok? Yes, that does not mean I am
Chinese. Am I African? Yes, technically,
but as we talked about there's nuance to
this. My family fled the pogroms in
Lithuania in the 1880s and went to South
Africa, which has a quite an upsetting
colonial history. Um this is all very
complicated and nuanced. The Russian
empire at the time was part of
Austria-Hungary as well. But anyways,
but but what I did I check
African-American on my application to
college? Absolutely not. That means
something different here. Um is Lily
Italian? Yeah. I don't Are you Are you
actually Italian? You can lie, it's
fine.
>> 100% You're 100% Lily is pure 100%
Italian. Uh Lily cucina osei piacere. Um
but I just wanted to set the record
straight for myself here. And I hate
that I had to address
uh those rumors um because I did want to
start this by saying osso buco,
more like osso basic. And I couldn't say
that now cuz I had to address the racial
rumors. Okay, these are browning. I want
to talk about this stuff. So I've been
lacto-fermenting some broccoli rabe and
I've been stinking up the kitchen for a
couple weeks now. I'm sorry to everyone
that's been in the kitchen. It's not me
farting, I promise. But in a traditional
gua bao, there is a like pickled mustard
greens, so that's what this is
replacing. And then I have a traditional
gremolata, which is parsley, lemon zest,
and some fresh garlic. And then I
toasted some pine nuts and put that in
there. So that's going to go on as
garnish as well.
Okay, these are getting brown.
Okay, these are Don't mind these little
black parts. It's fine. It's just going
to add some flavor. Gua bao is So I feel
like it's more correlated to like
Taiwanese cuisine, but it did come from
Ash Ash is Chinese as well.
Ash is
Fujian. The Fujian province, that's
where it originated.
What I'm doing right now is I'm trying
to heat this wok as hard as I can so I
get some actual proper browning on here.
But we are making mapo tofu cuz mapo
tofu is one of my favorite Chinese
dishes that you generally can't get from
like a Chinese-American restaurant. Um
but if you have some places that say if
the owners did come from like the
Chengdu area or the Sichuan province in
general, they might have a mapo tofu.
And I remember there was mapo tofu on my
like normal ass steam table Chinese
restaurant place growing up and I
remember trying it from a young age and
being like, oh this is really goddamn
delicious food. It's got Sichuan
peppercorns in there. I'm going to add
this right in here right now just to get
that toasted up. Sichuan peppercorns is
the la in the ma
Is it Is it Is Sichuan peppercorn the la
or the ma?
Ash is also Chinese, that is that is
true.
Ash knows the third most Chinese of
anyone in the room.
Is it ma, Howard? Thank you. Howard, are
you Do you want to come here and explain
your family's history? You don't have
to, Howard. Come on.
Ma la. Ma means like numbing spice and
then la means like a capsaicin spice.
The la comes from or the ma comes from a
chemical called zanthoxylum that you
find in things like Sichuan peppercorn,
also the jambu flower out in Brazil,
sansho pepper in Japan. It's one of the
coolest flavors that makes it feel like
your mouth's being electrocuted and I
love it. It changes the flavor of almost
everything else you eat. So the
combination of the ma from the Sichuan
peppercorn and the la with the Sichuan
chili, I'm going to add even more chili
in there just to have a little fun here
cuz come on, we're cooking in front of a
live studio audience. GIVE IT UP FOR
YOURSELVES.
BAM!
DO YOU GUYS KNOW what race Emerald is?
Let's play this game.
Okay, I'm going to take these out. I'm
going to add some butter.
And this is really just about like
developing flavor. I think like if you
want to impress a party or just like
yourself,
you make like a little braise. It's very
easy and everyone is always freaking out
cuz the the meat is so tender, but it's
just it's just time. This is onion.
Onion plus carrot
plus celery equals
six Correct. [laughter]
Mirepoix. Everyone's saying that I talk
too much about my trip to South Africa,
but I barely even talked about it. I
didn't even show them the photos of me
at the Cradle of Humankind outside of
Krugersdorp, Johannesburg or when we saw
the migration of water buffalo in Kruger
National Park. And then when I ate one
of those water buffalo, I cannot
recommend water buffalo enough. It's
delicious. When I get back from a long
trip or even just a long day in the
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we're getting a nice good stir-fry cook
on that. Going to hit it.
Cooking away. This is getting spicy. A
little bit OF SOY.
OW! GOT ME IN THE EYES. GOD DANG IT.
IT'S A LITTLE bit of sugar. Caramelize
it. Pow!
A little bit of dark soy.
You want to get that BREATH OF THE
>> [laughter]
>> WOO! BREATH OF THE WOK GOING IN THERE.
All right, we're going to start adding
our chili paste cuz you really want to
fry this chili paste to mapo tofu. So,
we're going to adding the doubanjiang in
there.
Then we're going to add a little bit of
Guilin style chili paste to it. One a
little bit darker, one a little bit
lighter. Both very hefty flavors, but
this is going to be the base of our
flavor in here. And you really want to
fry that chili paste in there.
>> [laughter]
>> God, Jesus Christ, that's awesome.
Oh, dodging it like a Street Fighter
character.
Cuz effectively like you're making what
I would be more familiar with something
like a bolognese, but you really want to
like caramelize that in there. Same
technique that Lilly was using with the
osso buco to like caramelize the tomato
paste. We're just caramelizing bean
paste in here. All right, check this
out.
Going to add some water to this. I'm
going to add some cornstarch slurry to
thicken it up, but I just want to shut
down that cooking process right now.
This is good. I'm going to mince this
even further. To me like I love when
meat is used more as a condiment. You
know, like the meat is here to flavor
the tofu, which is then going to flavor
the pizza. That tofu is going to add
like such a luscious mouthfeel. Okay,
these veg have softened. So, I'm adding
the garlic cuz I didn't want to add it
before cuz the garlic would burn and we
don't [music] want that. And then we
have some tomato paste. I'm just going
to eye it. Just like a couple
tablespoons. One, two. Good to go. Don't
waste a little ramekin. And then we're
going to give this a stir and we kind of
want the tomato paste to just stick on
the bottom of the pan. It's going to
[music] cook that tomato paste down
and create like more of a robust flavor.
Oh my gosh, it smells so good already. I
don't know why Josh is against my
bone hole.
I didn't I did nothing with your bone
hole. Not You nothing against nor for.
You're trying to mess with my bone hole.
Now, here's the thing.
Making ranch dressing.
You all right?
Who's over there dying? Here's the
thing. Food like families, geography,
regions, it's all very complicated. And
the thing is, you know, if you love
something, you let it go. And if it
comes back to you, be like a bird. Fly
far, far away from here.
We're going to go ahead and add our
Sichuan chili. We're going to add
shallots, garlic, and ginger in here.
I'm also going to add just a little bit
of sugar just to get some caramelization
on it. So, we're making a chili oil
right now, but this is also um just
going to be used as an ingredient for
ranch dressing. Hear me out. Do you need
to make your own chili oil to make ranch
dressing? No. Should you? Absolutely
not. Do we inexplicably get paid to do
this? Uh yes, we do. So, that's kind of
what we're going with here. But I'm
going to perfume this oil. Uh-oh. Uh-oh,
with a little bit of star anise
and cinnamon. And of course, two of the
ingredients in Chinese five spice is a
Chinese two spice. I'm going to pour
that hot oil over all of the chili
flakes with the Sichuan peppercorn in
there. You can smell
that cinnamon and anise in there really
perfuming. And then you're just going to
see a nice sizzle in there. That's a fun
time for all the girls and boys. Now,
put that in there. Don't Don't maim
yourself. Remember what we said about
maiming in the kitchen? To not to. So
good at giving advice. Look at that
though. This is already looking so
delicious. Okay, see that all that Do
you Do you see that?
>> [laughter]
>> It's in this one.
See that? Like sticking on there? That's
flavor. You want that.
Okay, I'm adding the veal back in here.
>> the tortured memories of the baby cow.
Okay, you know what? Get over the baby
cow. We're eating the baby cow. We're
going to put like more red wine than you
think.
Okay. And then [music]
I have some homemade veal stock.
I'm just going to add that in there.
Uh Lilly, you said homemade veal stock.
We have a fair amount of culinary
producers shaking their head no.
Okay, it might be Swanson's chicken
broth.
>> [laughter]
>> Everything else is real. I promise this
is baby cow.
>> [laughter]
>> And we have some fresh thyme, a bay
leaf. Can't forget the bay leaf. And
then we're just going to let that simmer
for like 3 hours.
Hot damn, that is delicious and salty
and fat. God damn it, that's good. God.
Listen, when we're talking about like
what cuisine is better than another, you
have China. 1.4 billion people, like a
huge multicultural
conglomeration that is inexplicably sort
of just under one sovereign roof due to
a lot of very complicated
socio-political, geopolitical factors.
You have Italy. Italy, the dish that
you're making?
That's German, dude. That's Austrian.
That's an Alpine dish. That's a northern
Italian dish. It has nothing to do with
like you go down to like Sicily, do you
see like caponata, which is just like
that is so Arab inflicted. Like why are
why are osso buco and caponata both part
of the Italian canon? Italy didn't exist
until about Mussolini. Yeah, we can say
it. The Republic of Italy did not exist.
It was united by Garibaldi's red in the
1890s. You know, Lilly's flipping me off
now. Now, Lilly, I'm sorry I insulted
your proud Italian heritage. IT'S NOT
IT'S NOT SAYING IT'S AN INSULT. IT'S
JUST SAYING like the concept of Italy
and the concept of China is it's weird
that we're uh presupposing the existence
of the sovereignty when these foods
These foods predate both of those.
You crazy. I feel crazy. We're going to
add some cornstarch slurry. This should
be nice and [music] thickems. Mapo sauce
is done. That is looking about as thick
as I want it. Now, you could just break
up the tofu in there. I'm going to slice
it.
You see it?
You guys got it? You.
All right.
Back over here. Get in there. Get into
the pot.
Hell yeah.
This is what I'm talking about. This is
what I got. This is my mapo tofu. We're
going to let this simmer a little bit.
Just get it to kind of, you know, get to
know each other a little bit more. Just
like you and that, you know, couple in
the hot tub in Montana hot springs, you
know?
And then we're going to plate up a
pizza.
I can't stop thinking about how I lied
to our dear audience about the veal
stock. I've I've like never lied. That
was like the first time. WHY IS EVERYONE
LAUGHING?
NO, I DON'T. I really don't. Okay, this
is a bao dough. And you might be like,
why is it yellow? And it's because I put
polenta in it. I finely ground polenta,
which is the base to a lot of osso buco
or bone hole. I wanted to incorporate
that into my little clam shell buns.
>> [music]
>> So, I'm going to roll this out not too
thin. I wanted to make sure that I
didn't use any extra flour to roll this
out just because I don't want that to be
too dry.
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Uh me and Nicole are over there and
we're doing things bigger and better
than ever. Now, Nicole's still on
maternity leave, but she's going to be
back sooner than later. Uh she already
had the baby. Um baby's out. Baby's
cooked.
Yeah, but Nicole will be back soon and
you can come hang out with us. That's
where we get to have a sort of deeper
connection with y'all. We don't have to
worry about gaming the old algorithm. We
can just sit and chat. And Nicole has a
happy, healthy baby. Is Nicole's baby
happy? Do we know?
Have we asked her?
Healthy. Nicole has a healthy baby. It
formed with a full set of teeth.
Making a pizza dough. The pizza dough is
inspired by scallion pancakes. Going to
go ahead and add yeast and a little bit
of sugar. I'm going to cut I'm going to
cut the amount of sugar. I'm on a diet.
I'm going to go ahead and add this. This
is called blooming the yeast. You're
letting that yeast sort of activate.
Yeast is a yeast bacteria or it's like a
it's like an insect mammal fungus.
What is yeast? Yeast is a human. So, the
little baby human yeasts are alive and
what they're doing is they're they're
ingesting the sugar and they're farting
out carbon dioxide and that's going to
go ahead and allow our dough to rise. We
got some flour that is mixed with salt.
We're going to let that bloom in there.
Okay, we're going big.
Go big or go home. I'm just going to do
one for now cuz I think that's all that
will fit into the steamer.
I'm going to do that and we're going to
carefully
go like that and then I'm going to put
oil on here so it doesn't stick. And
then we're just going to fold it over
and then pop it in our steamer.
>> [panting]
[sighs and gasps]
>> Okay,
just go in there. You doing okay?
Goodnight. Set a timer for 7 minutes.
Alexa, set a timer for 7 minutes.
>> [laughter]
>> Okay, I could have done that. I'LL BE
RIGHT BACK.
NO. I GAVE Lily crap for osso buco not
being Italian through my very narrow
lens of what it means to be Italian and
so I'm making ranch dressing which I
also understand to not be Italian so
Lily I owe you in in the northern uh
provinces of Italy an apology. Nonna
accepts your apology. Yeah, thank you
nonna. Uh grazie nonna. I'm going to go
ahead and add a fair amount of
mayonnaise and then
Lily talked about like oh celery, onion,
carrot is mirepoix. Well, sour cream,
mayonnaise, and buttermilk
it's ranch dressing baby. So we're
making ranch. Ranch combination of
mayonnaise and dairy products and we're
leaving this a little loose because
we're going to add a fun special
ingredient. One, MSG got to be in the
ranch.
MSG monosodium glutamate not actually
bad for you. Add a little bit of garlic
powder in there. Garlic powder, onion
powder, MSG to me is kind of what makes
ranch and some sort of herb. Then our
addition
we're going to go ahead and take
a big old scoop of those chili oil
solids.
Drop those right in there
and this should just become what is I
believe the most fun color for foods.
Yep. If you see a food that is this
color
you're about [music] to have a really
good time. What do you think it's going
to taste like?
Wobble mark.
Were you laughing with me or at me
Taylor? It's important that I know. At.
Damn it. Okay, it's been 7 minutes. The
This is done. Look at that. It really
got nice and fluffy.
>> [sighs]
[gasps]
>> I can blow on the food. It's fine.
I'm going to put it here and I'm going
to do a little assembly.
This is my finished osso. It's been
simmering away for
like 4 hours.
Okay, oh my god. It's so tender. I'm not
going to say it's because it's from a
baby but it does help. We're going to go
ahead and stream this yeast water
into this dough mixer right here. You
could do this by hand. Typically I do do
it by hand cuz I have a deep distrust of
machines. I watched Terminator 2 from a
very young age and that sort of made me
scared of KitchenAids. You know how it
goes.
And then Edward Furlong made me scared
of drugs. Scallions. This is way too
fast. I turned it faster.
Okay, we're going to let this knead.
When you start kneading dough it's going
to look a little bit drier than when the
flour actually hydrates and it keeps
mixing. It's just so fast. Slow it down.
Calm and taste. Skynet is not taking
over yet.
We're just going to do that for a while.
We're going to let this knead. I feel
pretty good about this ranch and uh
that's about it. We're going to let this
dough knead for 5 minutes. We're going
to wrap it. We're going to rest it.
We're going to give it a first proof and
then we're going to start rolling it out
and making the za.
>> [laughter]
>> So it's a a technique my cat taught me.
We got our scallion pancake dough. Now
this is this is very thin and that's
what you want. We want to do an
I'm not making Italian food at all. This
type of pizza is literally not Italian
at all. This is a a New York style pizza
served with ranch dressing invented in
either Alaska or California most
commonly associated with Wisconsin and I
think that's
the most beautiful thing in the world.
Do you just fist bump with Wisconsin?
Hell yeah dude. Go go Badgers.
Um we just need a
New Glarus Spotted Cow ale. Only
Wisconsin. Yeah.
Lake Geneva.
Yeah, that's a place. That's a place in
Wisconsin.
Dungeons and Dragons was invented there.
No Yeah, well. All right, so we're
going to go ahead and we're going to
[laughter] add
we're going to add ladles. Well, no.
Switching up the order here. Here's
here's why. Unclear. But what we're
going to do I'm going to brush the crust
with chili oil cuz I want to make sure
that we get a nice like sesame seed
chili oil crust and then I'll fill the
mapo tofu around that.
There we go.
Add
sesame seed around that cornicione
is crust
>> [music]
>> and Italian. Lily, do you know that as
an Italian? Of course. See.
Focaccia. Okay, I'm going to do the
broccoli rabe first. Broccoli rabe
goes down. I'm not going to do that much
cuz I don't want it to overpower it. It
does have like a little bit of
bitterness which I like but if you do
too much no good.
Okay, I'm just going to bare hand my
veal
and just shred it inside the bun. I
can't see but you can see. Let me know
if I'm doing good.
And then we have some of our
gremolata which I'll just add [music] on
top.
And then I'm just going to tweeze some
This is just like a simple pickled
shallot. I made it like a little bit
sweeter. That's it. This is my osso buco
or bone hole gua bao.
Now we're going to go on
the mapo.
Try and be gentle with this cuz I don't
want to rip the crust. Normally you do
like a swirly swirl but I don't think
that's how we're going to win today.
Dude, this is something.
We're switching tools. In the middle is
where the levees are going to break. So
you got to sort of stir away from the
middle. Guys, what do you think the
chances are that this comes out of the
oven as a whole pizza that we can slice
and serve? Five out of 10. Five out of
10? That's good. I like my odds. We're
going to take cubes of mots. Hefty dense
cubes of mots that melt wet
and we're going to dot this around
cuz I want this to still kind of like
keep some of that mapo bare. I don't
want this to like fully cover the pizza
like a Costco cheese pizza. Costco, best
Italian restaurant in America.
Have you had their chicken and broccoli?
Is the Rizzler Italian? The Rizzler,
yeah.
Of course he is. No, the Rizzler is a
child I felt really differently about
>> [laughter]
>> about the Rizzler um after seeing like
adult men approach him at a park. Have
you ever seen that? There's like
11-year-old Rizzler is like trying to
monkey bars and a guy comes up and he's
like bro you're a legend. He's just like
hello mister. I'm like oh god, who's
making him do all that? You know who it
is. Okay, we're going to pump this in
there.
This looks awesome.
I'm going to put some fresh grated
pecorino when it comes out. Right now.
Now we pray. Lily, say a prayer in
Italian.
>> [laughter]
>> And a ciao bella felice navidad to all
you at watching at home.
>> [laughter]
>> You put the thing on the thing.
You put the thing in the thing. Exactly.
Dude, okay I I've been and I need to
tell people what I've been doing. I've
just been eating from this large pot of
osso buco for the last 15 minutes and we
take little shots of all the food to put
in the episode and I'm fully a believer.
I'm an osso believer over here.
>> That's so funny.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I It's osso. It's
osso.
Yeah, it's not good but really I'm
impressed. Can I eat yours? Yeah. You
want to eat mine? Yeah. Switch.
>> Okay. Switch.
How do I do it? Just go hard? Just go
hard.
Ooh, oh my gosh.
Just put it in here. This is so awesome.
Okay, try something crazy.
This is bomb. Dude, this is so good. The
veal like when you taste the polenta it
does add like sweetness to it.
>> Mhm. But like all of the wine and the
aromatics come through cuz the veal is
so delicate.
Oh, is it spicy? A little spicy.
But like in a really flavorful
good way. Sometimes if if you haven't
noticed after 6 years all I want to make
is spicy food. This to me that's the
easiest way to just get flavors and jam
it with aromatics and spice.
There's a delicateness to this.
Like you get the lemon zest from the
gremolata. You get all of those
aromatics. You get the wine. The veal
bottom multiplied by it.
It's like beautifully balanced. I'll do
what you did. You got the scallion. You
got the cheese.
You got the Sichuan peppercorn that
numbing feel in your mouth. I love it.
That was good man. Very good.
Can I eat mine? Mhm. Switch.
Well, I'm going to put this down.
>> the pizza that got messed up.
>> [laughter]
>> Don't look Don't look at this one.
>> like a little mouse just like nibbled
through. I'll take this.
Should I go ranchy? I got to go ranch.
We're good cooks.
We're good. We're good cooks. All right.
All right. I've been telling people that
we're not good cooks.
I
I am, right?
This is tough and this is close. They're
very differently flavored. I don't think
we should be the ones to judge. I think
we should get we should get people in
here to eat it.
>> Okay.
Need the ranch.
Mhm.
This is that floppy toppy pizza.
All right, I'm kind of excited for this
one.
The flavor on that is crazy.
They're both good.
Damn Josh.
All right, everybody ready? Mhm. Put the
ranch on the ballot.
The democratic process has commenced and
the votes have been tallied. Now for the
ceremonial reading of the votes by the
person who is being voted for, seeming
like a rigged election.
One vote,
Josh.
>> Crap.
>> [laughter]
>> One vote, the Italian woman, Lilly.
>> Woah. It's one to one. One vote, Josh.
It's two votes for Josh.
Three votes, Josh. THAT MEANS JOSH IS
the winner and finally a pity VOTE FOR
JOSH. OH MY GOD, TWO MORE VOTES. We have
Lilly
and Lilly. That makes the final score of
four to three. Josh still wins
despite an attempted rigging of the
election. We're
going to go raid Lilly's house. Uh
dude, I I thought that was really
spectacular. You made me a believer in
osso buco and that's what's really
important today. Yeah, I mean you
deserve this win. It was really good
with the ranch. The ranch is not
Chinese. Yeah,
>> [laughter]
>> but it is Italian and that's what ranch
dressing is all about. You had all the
opportunities to put a ranch on your
osso buco.
>> I dipped it in there and it's pretty
good.
>> buco didn't make the plate.
>> Fine.
>> Uh hey, this is really fun though and I
really like cooking with [music] you.
>> had a good time with my friend. You want
to do it again? Am I your friend? Yeah.
You're my
f-f-f-friend, too.
>> Okay, whatever.
>> All right, yeah. Anyways, thank you so
much for stopping by Mythical Kitchen.
We got more episodes all the time.
Lilly, give them the outro. I don't want
to do that.
What? I don't know what you say.
>> I don't know what to say either. I say
something different every time.
>> Usually like click the link. Yeah. Click
the link. Watch our show.
>> We'll put a link in there. What's your
favorite link to go to? What's your
favorite URL on the internet? I was
going to say something inappropriate.
Say it.
>> [laughter]
>> Say it. Tell them. Tell me. Tell me.
TELL ME. PORN.
UM AGAIN, WHICH is very rare. I
get a burrito and I eat the burrito
alone. Yes.
>> Alone.
>> And I can't believe
>> not allowed to when I'm there.
>> I know, but like there is something
special about like eating a burrito
alone.

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