International Fried Chicken Taste Test

Today, we're trying fried chicken from around the world. Let's talk about that. Good. Mythical Morning. It's been scientifically proven that everything gets more. delicious when you deep fry it. And atop the list of proof is chicken. It's a dish so delicious when deep fried that nearly every. country has its own version. And you may be familiar with Japanese karaage or more popularized versions of.

fried chicken from around the world, like Korean fried chicken. We got some good Korean fried chicken here in this town. Thai fried chicken. But today, we'll explore some of the lesser known crunchy coatings from around the globe. It's time for Where in The World Do These International Fried. Chicken Dishes Come From? Okay, boys, you know the drill. Eat your chicken. Throw your dart at the country you think it comes from. And Link, since you've been doing so well with fries, we got fries this time around, too,

for you to throw. Wow. Twice in a row, Link. They're different again. You can make it a trifecta. But curly fries, I don't. I don't. I mean, I think there's more that can cling to the board. I just don't know that they're. Okay. This is the thing. If they're aimable, but. The fries, anytime the fry. The fry ketchup. hits. Like, I get one little point. You get ketchup splashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll definitely take it. Of course, we have Chase, the six piece cartographer who will be measuring your darts.

Six piece. Why are you six piece? Oh, there it is in the pocket. Because there's six of them. And. Are those real, or is that? No, no. It sounded like wood. Yeah, it's plastic. That's amazing. You can get plastic chicken wings out there in the world. Very realistic looking, Chase. Thank you. You're welcome. You made it, huh? No, Amazon did. And. I think this is the first time I've said this, but, Link, you're on a two game win streak for this game.

I haven't known what to do with myself, Stevie. Well, we have got you a little advantage this time. Because we're starting to feel bad. Help him out a little bit. Yeah. Your round of choice. You're gonna be able to have a world class dart thrower. throw for you at some point in the game. So just, you know, let me know what round you want. What's that face about? It sounds like a prank. Would I lie to you? Yep. No. Can I eat this chicken?

Because it's here. I'm so hungry for it, and I got the thigh. If I can pick up a piece of fried chicken. I think I'm gonna pick up a thigh. off of a plate. I'm going with the leg, just because it's easy to eat. It's got ketchup and mayo. on it. Yeah, I was like. Drizzle it on it. Is that gonna be hot sauce? That is some good fried chicken. And then you got.

more ketchup. and mayo underneath. I guess I'm going first. Because. That's big home fries. I'm on quite a roll. Yes, you are, Link. I will endeavor to eat all of that. thigh. There's more thighs coming, man. Well, I mean, I hope. I mean, should I use. a tight curl? No, I just ate it.

I think I do need to use a tight curl. Tight curl will be easier for. Easier to throw. Trajectory, but not as much. area covered. This is the only other tight curl in my whole batch, though, because I just ate the other one. So I might have to reuse this one. Get used to it. All right, I'll pick it up. Dang, that's good. Mayo. on fries. is certainly. a Nordic thing. I mean, when we were in Amsterdam, everywhere I looked, they were. They were advertising mayo, trying to put it on all types of fries and everything.

Am I gonna go up to Finland or am I gonna come down to. Germany? I think I'm gonna go up to Finland, of course. That's my guess. Throwing my fry dart. Oh, yeah. Nice. Okay. That's good. Look how big that. Oh, gosh, this is. Yeah, I, hey, I was complaining, and. And I shouldn't have been. Yeah, well, Finland, it's gotta be Finland.

I mean. What else could it be? When I thought that this might be hot sauce, I was like, are they doing this thing somewhere else? But this ketchup. it's gotta be Finland. I mean, you may actually be in Finland. You may have a zero here because of your giant ketchup blob. Hey, I didn't request it. Talk to your team. Okay, well, listen, I feel fine because I have a professional. dart thrower who's gonna, world class. dart thrower.

World class it said. World class, my ass. Okay. It's a good throw, man. Feeling good. So you just went along with him, huh? I was going to Finland as soon as I saw it. Mayonnaise on fries. Come on. Okay. Right. Well, this is called. papi pollo. Okay. AKA french fries and fried chicken covered in ketchup and mayo, which is a popular street food in.

Ecuador. Oh, Rhett. Well, I should have missed to the left. Could have done something. Could have done something. Papi pollo. All right, Link, you had forty. Rhett, forty-six piece. There you go. Six piece. Ecuador liking to put mayo on stuff. Had no idea. Now we know. We'll never forget that piece of information. Whoa, look at this. Totally different type of fry. It's like a shell.

There's so much batter. And there's. Lime. Throw some. I don't want to. I want to taste it without. Because I know what lime tastes like, and I might be able to try to find some spice in here that I. You know what I'm saying? I need all the help I can get. I'm just trying to lime you a little bit. What would you call this type of frying? It's like the shellization. of chicken. There's definitely something in the batter. I can't tell what it is, though. Very tasty. A little subtle.

You're still up, Link. I'm not gonna think. Oh, bless you. Bless you, six piece. Oh, thank you, one piece. I don't know. What? I'm winging it. Chase! I'm using the same. dart. as round one. It kind of has a tempura. Tempura. Tempura. Which might. lead me to the far east,

especially when you're throwing the lime on it. Singapore, perhaps? That's got to be my guess. But it was way over there. It's way over there. What if I'm wrong? Maybe I got to come back. to the west of Singapore a little bit. Could be Mongolia. So I'm gonna go. somewhere in that vicinity. But that was too far. And did it almost didn't leave any mark.

You got some. You got some up there. Yep, I got a little bit. Well, definitely. I was hoping you wouldn't say tempura, because that's what I was going to say. But then you didn't get close to Singapore. Nope. So I left the door open. But here's the thing. I spent some time in. Portugal over the summer, and. a guy who was taking us on a tour, he said. that. tempura frying.

was actually from Portugal originally, and it. got into the east because of Portuguese. explorers. And I didn't know if this was, like, Portuguese propaganda. or if it was real, and I never looked it up. So I'll just put that into the comments. Well, hold on. Where does that send you, then? Germany? Well, I'm just saying that it could push it into Europe, but this is. There's nothing German about this. It's got lime. I mean,

Singapore is the only guess that I have any. business making. And you've given me a little window into Singapore, so I'm gonna try to get as close as I possibly can. You wanna use your advantage? Not yet. Definitely closer to the scene. Consistently high and to the left. Maybe I should aim low and to the. Or the right. I should aim in low and to the left. You just had har cheong gai, which literally translates to shrimp paste chicken.

Shrimp paste. Did you just say hard young guy? No, I didn't. It's chicken that's been marinated in shrimp paste and then. deep fried. And it's a favorite dish of locals in. Singapore. We're both so right. I could have gotten closer, though, if. The last throw when we weren't right. So that's shrimp paste? Yeah. There was something a little bit weird about it, but. Very subtle. I could not place it. Rhett, you had seven.

And Link, there's a little ketchup splatter there, gets you to eighteen. Oh, come on, Chase. Thank you, Chase. You didn't have to see that. Sharp eyed. Needed it. I don't know if you heard, but. the apocalypse came. and went. Yes, I survived it. Stevie survived it. Link, unfortunately, didn't make it. But Stevie and I learned archery. We learned how to scavenge and not only survive, but we thrived. And I made a new best friend. That's what I did. What? Yeah, this is all part of Rhett and Link and Stevie,

really without Link, survive an apocalypse. A special on the Mythical Society. That's out now. It's available to first, second, and third degree. Plus. you can get twenty-five percent off all monthly plans for my birthday. now through October eighteenth. So lots of good stuff happening at the Mythical Society. All right, this is a beautiful plate. of. fried chicken. What is this under here? That looks like a breast. That's the. That's the breast. I can't go with that.

I gotta go with the. Good Lord. So we've got. some pickled onions. Lots of pickled stuff. Shredded. lettuce, peppers. sliced plantain, or. whatever that is. Wow. This is messy. Good gracious. That's incredible tasting. So juicy. There's so much going on.

So good. Well. I get weak in the knees for some. Some pickled onion. Can I ask a technical question to the judges? Sure. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. If my world class dart thrower person. turns out not to be world class, turns out to be ass. What happens? Do I get another throw? I don't know. We have to, like, play it out. That doesn't sound fair to me. And you know,

just cause someone's world class doesn't mean they can't also be ass. So here's the thing. Warn them for foul language. This is Honduras. I'm going crazy. Okay, let's just be honest with ourselves here. This is Honduras. Honduras was like, I think, the place where bananas were born, discovered, and first. brought to North America. Well, that's Central America. Yeah. And there's just too many things happening that scream Honduras.

here for this not to be Honduras. I haven't been too great at throwing. my darts today, so. I'm going to bring in the world class dart thrower for my advantage. Are you sure? Let's do it. See what happens. Let me go get him. Okay. Glad to be here. Cause, you know, I've been darting. the hell out of this series for the last couple,

so, you know. Okay, before he throws this dart. I am here to do you a solid. What is the rule? You're saying Honduras? I believe that this feels like a violation of some sort of. spirit of competition. Oh, you think there's a conflict of interest here? Yeah. No, no, no. I'm. I walked away, and then. a different me that is a world class. dartist came back.

I'm just a winner. If you want. If you want. If you want in on this. I want you to know. You're welcome to it. That you will be judged. Forever, by your relatives, by the internet at large. They don't watch. If you. do not, you know, do a good effort throw. I mean, what's going to happen in the comments is. the number of. He's a chump. You know, I don't want to give you what you should say, but the number of things. I mean, the Reddit thread devoted.

to this moment will be something that will live in infamy forever. You'll have to just go and you'll have to take Reddit off of. your phone like I've done. That's what you'll have to do. if you don't do a great throw. And your answer is Honduras? Yep. All right. It's been a long time since I've used one of these. Why don't you use it? Why don't you use a fry? Yeah, I should use a fry. I'll even give you a bigger one. Look at that.

Look at that. This is your advantage. See how much bigger this one is? All right. Here we go. Honduras. I don't even know if this is the right answer. Do you want my opinion on this? All right, here we go. Three, two, one. A little high. It's a little high. Chase.

Yeah? I do see. a streak of ketchup in a lake in Canada. Comes down to Canada. No, right there. Right there. No. See what I did for you? You're going all the way to middle America. I got to. Okay, great. Hey, that was world class, man. Like Tornado Alley. Gravity. Can't help myself. I mean, I wouldn't have known that this was Honduras unless you. were so emphatic about it. Well, maybe I'm joking. Maybe this is a funny joke. Did you think I was gonna miss it.

intentionally to the south. and give you Argentina? I feel like this could be Argentina. It could be. I mean, I've never been to Honduras. Pickled onions? I don't know. I really don't know. I've never been to Honduras either. I know it's good. Okay. He missed it. There's not even any ketchup.

There's no ketchup. There's. I mean. Okay, there's ketchup on the top of the board. There's ketchup on the top of the board. Well, that's. That's your ketchup. There's no ketchup up here. Is there ketchup on top of the? On the very. Like, the ridge on the top? Oh, there's ketchup behind it. I can measure from behind, and pull it over. How did I even do that? I don't know, man, I almost feel sorry for you right now. I don't have. I'm just, like. I don't really have an explanation, except.

When you get on the board, you start at. three. Karma or something. Okay, are we measuring from the back? Is that what we're doing? How about this, Chase? How about this, Chase? We make a new one of these for every game, right? Yeah. Yes. So I would like you to pierce a hole from where it is on the back, and he can measure from there. Okay. I feel like that's a good compromise. I just burped in the middle of. compromise.

We had a teacher that would do that. A teacher? A teacher. You know, he passed away recently. It got kind of soggy up here. He would. He would burp while talking. What's happening? He wore a tracksuit. I don't know. Pink and black. You want to redo this whole round? Nope. Where's the hole? Where's the. Where's the hole? Great, now it's where's the hole? Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Yep. You just had. pollo chuco,

a popular street food made by piling layers of food on a platter. Fried green plantains, shredded cabbage, fried chicken, tomato sauce, chimol. pink sauce and pickled vegetables in. Honduras. We were right. We were. Rhett, you had ten. and Link, forty-four. Okay. That is pretty big. That was generous too. So. Thank you. How embarrassing.

This is. So. a deep fried. entire chicken. I mean, I've seen. people nearly died doing this at Thanksgiving with a turkey. Are you supposed to just like, tear it off? Because it's got like these. I mean, you need to carve it. It's got these cuts in it. The way that you. I think it's like. pull chicken. Like you just pull it. You step up and you pull it. Step up and you pull it. Or maybe that's just so it fries down into the crevices.

It's got a nice. That's a juicy breast. Thing to it. Seasoning. I'm losing miserably. Shooky, shooky. You gotta go first. I gotta go first. You taste that spice on there? You like it? I do. I like it too. I would. I mean. What is it? It makes me think of.

some chicken that I've had around town. It's got like. Thirty. So, thirty-nine centimeters? I don't know if this is recoverable. Would you like to KFC that? Yeah. That's a long ways. Yeah. But if I made like, the wrong choice. But I'm gonna. I'm not put. I'm not picking the middle of the map because it's a safe choice. I actually think this is. Libya. Like. No. Oh, yeah. Because it's. not on the map. It's a little bit like.

It tastes like some chicken that I've had at like, Armenian restaurants. So I'm thinking somewhere. eastern. Europe, Middle east-ish. Okay, that's not. I'm going high and right. Okay, Chase, show me. Show me the. differential again. KFC it? Yes, again. I want to KFC it again. I'm gonna use this little curly fry now that my other one got so soggy.

Okay, well, crap. So. You could do it, man. I mean, I guess I'm hoping that. it would have to be Australia. or like, the Americas. I don't think this is the Americas. I felt like there was like an, like an Indian spice, but I can't go anywhere near there. So. I'm just gonna. I don't think it's. far east or Australia. So I'm just gonna try to.

get. in the zone of winning. to the east of you. Here we go. Oh, wow. Did you see that thing go everywhere? Hold on. You got a lot of ketchup on the board. Yes. That was fabulous. You got a good spread. Oh, gosh. Good spread. I'm in trouble, maybe. Spreading them. Spreading them. You just had lahori chargha. A whole chicken prepared with the skin removed and with deep cuts into. the chicken that allow it to soak in extra flavor before being.

steamed and then fried. It's sprinkled with chopped masala and lemon and sometimes. dipped in a mint chutney. The name lahori comes from its city of origin, Lahore, which is in. Pakistan. Wow. You were right, Link. This is from that part of the world. What has happened? Link, you had. sixteen. Rhett, nine. Okay.

Rhett, you're back on top again. You're gonna use fries next time? A new kind of fry? I'd like to go back to straight fries. Okay. We can talk about it. But for now, your punishment is that you have to do a shot of buttermilk in Good Mythical More. Yum. Thanks for subscribing and clicking that bell. You know what time it is. It's my thirty-first birthday. We just played International. Darts, will it ice cream sundae and a blind water taste test.

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