Uncle Roger HATE NIGELLA LAWSON SPRING ROLLS

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“You give white woman some green leaf, they all turn it into salad.” That killed me. 😂

Many people think uncle roger is just roasting chefs for no reason, but you gotta admit he knows his stuff

As a Vietnamese,
I, myself and my ancestors is horrified by how she rolled that damn spring roll and THEN proceeded to cut it 😭😭😭

The fact she kept calling the noodles “pasta” sent me over the edge

Mixing the noodle with the herbs makes me think she has never eaten them from an actual Vietnamese restaurant. The rolls are so pretty and elegant. Even ingredient is carefully placed. Every strand of noodle carefully laid. No mixing. NO MIXING

“Oh, great.. Get the daughter in. Destroy Asian food together. Fun family activity.“ 😂😂😂 8:00

As a Vietnamese person, I was super happy when Uncle Roger told the difference between the two noodles

My mom is not Vietnamese but has been making this dish since my elementary days. We didn't have KRclip or FB tutorials back then, she only made it from tasting the food and guessing the ingredients. Into my teenage years, I learned it's originally from Vietnam and the ingredients of my mom's recipe including the peanut sauce are pretty accurate. So I'm surprised some people got this dish wrong when there's KRclip and ebooks.

I’m not Vietnamese, but I’m appalled by her version of summer rolls. I’ve been a home cook for decades, so even I can tell the difference between mung bean noodles and rice vermicelli and why the mung bean version doesn’t work here, same with why you don’t add ANY liquid to the filling. You also don’t scissor or use a knife on the herbs, as they are tender and will turn black very quickly plus it’s part of the beauty of the summer roll to see the whole leaf and pink shrimp through the semi-transparent wrapper. And you certainly only slide the rice paper into the water and take it out immediately. It’s all about knowing your ingredients, and as a celebrity chef she has an obligation to do research before creating any recipe.

I love nigella but I was horrified by all the liquid she put IN the filling. These can be tricky to make, liquid is for dipping only. And yeah, you prep everything in seperate piles and just make tiny burritos by layering all the stuff. This was hilarious Uncle 😂

Two aunties, one spring roll killed me right away 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm not asian and I'm not a trained chef, but I've been cooking for close to 20 years and Nigela weejio always make me cry. I love asian food and I love making it, so the rolling of those killed me so bad. (Also didnt know about the noodle thing, so thanks for that Uncle Roger! Now I'll make some bomb Summer Rolls!)

In the age of the internet, it’s truly remarkable how internet chefs still don’t research before making weejio

Being Vietnamese myself, I am totally horrified, my grandparents and mother would be rolling over in their graves if they seen this weejio. Instant fail from the get go when she grabbed the wrong noodles and then called it pasta and destroyed a good rice paper sheet.

As a Vietnamese, I learned to wrap rolls with rice paper when I was 7 or 8 yrs old. Watching her soaks the rice paper in water reminds me my first try also did that and ruined the ingredients 😂. The rice paper will easily tear with too much water so I usually make it half wet (or nearly wet) then put everything on. That way the rice paper will be soft enough by the time you start wrapping and doesn’t break your roll.
Anyway, I can confirm this is one of the easiest Vietnamese dishes. The final result might be ugly at first but everyone can make it correctly and improve later

As much as I love your brilliant humor, I appreciate how informative your videos are even more.
Despite not being Asian, I've always admired and enjoyed Asian cuisines, and in recent years I've been slowly exploring different dishes and ingredients and learning to cook them myself.
It's not easy and I've made many trials and errors. It's also difficult and confusing to find good resources to learn from correctly as cooking styles and recipes often differ between chefs, regions, etc.
I've used egg noodles but I honestly never even knew mungbean noodles were a thing. I'd probably easily confuse the mungbean noodles package for egg noodles in a store.
So it really means a lot to me when your videos that always loft my spirits and make my day also enlighten and teach me new things.
I already feel like an egg fried rice expert thanks to you. The other day my mom told me she made egg fried rice for my sister but she didn't like it, so I felt like a pro ready to hear her recipe and diagnose the problem with it! I even said haiyaa when she told me she used fresh rice and didn't add any sauces like soy sauce!
As funny as it was, I also felt really grateful. Thank you Uncle Roger and Mr. Nigel for making us laugh and letting us learn with your weejios everyday! Please stay healthy and keep up the good work! 😊

Imagine being amazed with Nigela and Jamie’s cooking when the only option we had before was cable tv. 🤣😂

Geez, I've never made spring rolls before, but even I knew there were so many things wrong with this. The rice paper was painful and the cutting the rolls into fourths was absurd. 😅

"Destroy Asian food together, fun family activity"
"Don't serve to husband, serve to trash can"
Oh I love this so much 😂😂😂

1:54 I once ate a packet of what I thought was rice noodles, but after seeing this, they looked a lot more like mung bean noodles than anything. I could also see that because, as I was TRYING to chew them, one of them went down my throat and nearly killed me.

This lady is bonkers. Years of me having to prep and roll these for caterings and seeing her butcher these is giving me heart palpitations. 😢💔🔥

Finding someone who rages against Nigella with the same fury I feel while watching her cook has given me LIFE!!!

I don't think I would ever submerge something called rice paper in a bowl of water. I'd probably just brush a little bit on it.
Edit: After watching the video by Chef Thuy Pham it would appear that my instincts are not wrong.

"Destroy Asian food together, fun family activity" got me laughing so hard 😂

Summer Roll is the IKEA of food...
Uncle Roger never fails us with his comparisons !

This weejo pained me on a molecular level. Me and my mom were both confused. This isn’t spring roll. This is a salt roll

there're so many version of VNese spring rolls from kindergarten level to doctorate level but she still managed to ruined them all. this is too much to bear

To be fair to Nigella, the only things she messed up was:
1. Wrong noodles
2. Flavorings
3. Wetting rice paper
4. Wrapping the roll
5. Cutting basil
6. Mixing the filling/ingredients in a bowl
7. Cutting the rolls into bite size pieces
Other than that, no problem.

I'm not Vietnamese but as someone who makes and eats gỏi cuốn regularly I died inside when she doused the (wrong type of) noodles in nước mắm and vinegar... and then again when she left the rice paper soaked for a good two minutes 🥹

As an Italian person, she even managed to offend us by calling those noodles as "pasta".

In this world where it seems everybody has forgotten to laugh and to feel lighthearted..
Uncles weeijos brighten my day. Thank you!🎉

Thank you, Uncle. Someone has to call out chefs who insist on putting their spin on the classics.🤡🤡🤡

As a Korean, her noodles with vegetables looked like japchae, a korean vermicelli noodle dish made with fish sauce, sesame oil, soy sauce, and stir-fried vegetables eaten on holidays and special occasions.

I’ve never prepared or ate spring rolls yet I knew everything she was doing wrong before Uncle Roger said it😂

The type of noodles that she's using are mung bean thread noodles the type that is found in Eggrolls the deep fried version. The correct version for spring rolls/summer rolls are vermicelli rice noodles. The 2 different types that you can use for spring rolls are the flat vermicelli noodles, the one's that are use for pho and the round vermicelli noodles which are used in khao poon and laksa.

As a Vietnamese, I could say this "spring rolls" brings me more nightmare than getting a B grade 💀
Also notice that Nigella didn't use any kinds of meat in her rolls, just veggie.
Eat your salad, Nigella, don't ruin our rolls, haiyaa

His reaction to her leaving the rice paper in the water was TOO MUCH! I was laughing SO HARD! 😂😂😂😂 FLACCID TUBE!

As a certified fork lift operator, I was mortified to see how she rolled that spring roll and then cut it!

I am from Austria, but i worked in a lot of kitchens.
I even worked in an Asian-European Fusion Kitchen, where it's ok to mash things up.
But this rolls made me f-ing cry.

"You give white woman some green leaf and they turn it into salad". I've been saying that my whole life.

If she ever ate a real summer roll she’d immediately know this isn’t right at all! Where do these “chefs” get off teaching things they have no clue about?! 🤬😂🙌

"Don't blame your food, blame your own shit skill"
Uncle Roger 2023

Your videos are exactly what I need after working a shit 10 hour day at work. I don’t laugh as much at anyone else’s videos. Makes me forget about work/my problems. Thank you! Look forward to many more videos, till then I’m gonna watch the videos I haven’t watched yet.

As half Vietnamese and who eats summer rolls at least once a week I’m highly horrified by this “cooking” video 😂

I’m not Vietnamese myself but this was still incredibly painful for me to watch. The amount of mistakes she managed to cram into this short video is just… incredible.

As a Vietnamese with immigrant parents and grandparents from Saigon, Vietnam, I thank you for saying “Saigon” and being angry about this dish on our behalf 😂😂😂

Im starting to thinking that Uncle Roger hire all these people, from Nigella to Jamie behind the scene to pump up the show. I mean, there's NO WAY that people can be this BAD...

I'm Vietnamese, i let my grandpa watched this with me, he's a veteran from the war time so he knows quite some english. And right at the moment she pulls out the mung bean noodle is the moment my grandpa goes mad lad mode and start swearing at her and take it as an insult. Summer roll (a.k.a Gỏi cuốn in Vietnamese) is so much easier than spring roll and the fact that she still messed up had me jaw dropped.

I’m not Asian. But I make these all the time and have watched all the videos and read all the cookbooks. Watching her use wrong noodles, add sauce, and then SOAK the rice paper made me so anxious.

It is interesting because apart from summer rolls there is another type in Vietnam that i believe we call it spring rolls, the kind similar to summer rolls but are fried or deep fried. Here we actually use mung bean noodles and some other ingredients (spring onions included rlly), mince them and mix them together like what the ladies in the video do :D This is funny because the one supposed to be summer rolls turned out to be like the fried spring rolls in the video. Also the fact that the lady left the paper for so long soaked in water is a crime and painful to watch

that mung bean noodle spot was exactly what I've been messing up with my rice wraps, thanks uncle Roger!

Wow. After reading a lot of comments from Vietnamese people I actually felt their pain! I'm a HUGE fan of Vietnamese food and Nigela gave me anxiety, too.

Me as a Vietnamese, watching this with a bowl of instant noodle, laughing hysterical inside 👌

What's even worse about Nigella's "spring rolls" is she didn't add any prawn meat, arguably the best part of a spring roll

the rice paper in the water for that long had me screaming at the top of my lungs to the point my vietnamese ancestors woke up.

You got to imagine she was there for the cheque for minimal effort. No way you have rice paper roll like that and think "yeah, this is correct"

“Blending into kitchen wall “ … I loved Uncle Roger! 😂😂😂

Watching her destroy one of the best dishes is beyond painful

As a Vietnamese, I can’t believe that spring/summer/fall or even winter rolls. What did she do?😢 It was heartbreaking. It’s definitely NOT OUR ROLLS.

As a Vietnamese, I must tell my foreign friends that Uncle Roger knows very well about Vietnamese spring rolls,From what kind of noodles to choose to all the little details, it's so precise, I'm amazed that Uncle Roger has such a thorough understanding of Asian food.

My personal favorite doing spring rolls wrong video was Gordon Ramsay's. He commits hard to a lot of the same mistakes like pre-saucing, mixing all the ingredients together, and telling you to soak the wrapper for 30 seconds in warm water.

This one really got me, I'm basically a nobody with limited social media, female in my 40s of NOT Asian ethnicity and I found a KRclip recipe 7 years ago and I followed every step. My spring rolls came out pretty and tasty, did not added any liquids and only used a peanut dipping sauce, delicious! My family asked me to make them again. I'm not saying this to brag, I'm saying this because it's not a difficult recipe to make and I can't believe a professional chef-I think, I don't follow Nigella Lawson-murdered spring rolls. I was feeling your pain uncle Roger, it was borderline cringe!

You need to give Nigella credit where credit‘s due. This clip is from her 1999 show Nigella Bites, a time where Asian ingredients were practically unknown in the west. Nigella did real pioneer work on a level that other Europeans at the time didn’t reach. Thanks to her, Asian dishes became so popular that today, even in small cities, we have an Asian supermarket.

I’m so glad I watched this. And also glad no one watched me make summer rolls…now I know I did almost everything wrong! 🤣🤣🤣

". . . serve to trash can." I agree Uncle Roger. It looked disgusting.

The fun thing is that even if you've never seen or heard of this dish before, you can still see she's doing everything wrong

It’s like she’s never eaten or seen a spring roll before, but decided to make a video how to make spring rolls anyway.

Don't blame the summer roll 🤣I was laughing out loud!

“When it comes to summer roll, WHITE IS RIGHT, but don’t repeat that anywhere, niece and nephew, you’re going to get into trouble!” 😂💀❤ Uncle Roger, you are literally my favorite human. #sorrychildren

I found Uncle Roger's reaction to Nigella Lawson's attempt at making Vietnamese summer rolls hilarious. Uncle Roger seems to have a love-hate relationship with Nigella, as he has complimented her in the past, but he is now mocking her. He is confident that Nigella cannot mess up such a simple dish since it's easy to make. However, as he watches her cook, he can't help but point out all of her mistakes, from using the wrong type of noodles to putting soy sauce and other liquids in the rolls.
I couldn't stop laughing when Uncle Roger compared the summer roll to Ikea furniture, where all you need is a bit of soaking, chopping, and rolling. He is a comedian with a witty sense of humor and hilarious comparisons.
Uncle Roger's disdain for Nigella's cooking reached a new level when she used scissors instead of her fingers to pluck the herbs. He tells her to use her fingers because she is known for her elegant fingering, which is a funny remark. The way Uncle Roger comments on her cooking is just too funny.
Overall, the video was entertaining to watch, and I can't wait for Uncle Roger's Haya comedy special.

I think it's the food equivalent to people mimicking the sound of a language without understanding what they're saying. She's mimicking what she thinks a spring roll looks like to understand what she's making.

I'm just a home cook and I would never have the audacity to do what she did, let alone put it on the internet. It's like she's never eaten one, never seen one, never read a recipe for one, and just guessed how to do it after looking up ingredients.

this is the difference between writing food columns and being an actual chef, which she has no training for, perfectly evidenced in her 'there are no rules' attitude of cooking.

I agree 100% with Uncle Roger. They looked bad, wrong, and unappetizing. That said, Nigella doesn’t give a hoot about authenticity-she just likes expedience, and eating.

I am honestly surprised that uncle roger did not make the joke that flacid summer roll is exactly why auntie helen left

Thanks to this video I found out I was using the wrong noodle for my vietnamese rolls. I was wondering why they were so hard and chewy. Thanks Uncle Roger!

If you want an American version of what happened imagine someone making a pizza but using pie crust. They put in a mixing bowl Tomato sauce, cheese, melted butter, garlic, and veggies then stir that all together and slop it on to the pie crust. "Pizza is difficult to eat; its too flakey"

Omg, who on earth told Nigella this was ok? 🫣 Thank goodness, Uncle Roger is here to set things straight 🙌🏻 .

When she kept adding liquid and his panic was just multiplying lmao this dude is so funny

Uncle Roger is so right, there are many ways of making spring rolls, her way is very different, however, it is edible 😂

You know... Uncle Roger is really making us realise that 2000s TV show presenters are today's podcasters. Just make a presence and do things and people will watch you.

Uncle Roger won't give up on roasting Nigela. I Love it!

I am surprised how a famous chef doesn't do research before demonstrating these mistakes on the show.😂😂😂

My family and I make horribly inauthentic spring rolls (I put tuna and hoisin sauce in it, heresy, I know) but this is just on a whole other level...

Thanks Rodger 叔叔 for explaining the difference between rice and mung bean noodles!

Wasn’t watching your channel for a while and i absolutely love the demonstration of the different noodle types 🥰

I’ve only ever seen her cook a few things, but every time it kinda feels like she’s winging it 😂 I wouldn’t try her for free… no you could pay me, I still don’t want it 😂

My daughter came in as I was watching this and told me how one of her friends shouted HAIYAA when she saw what was for lunch that day and FUIYOOO when she sees something good. My daughter asked her if she watches Uncle Roger and her friend says “who doesn’t?!” Her friend said because of your videos, she makes the best ramen now. These kids are 12 mind you. You are literally changing lives. Keep up the good work!!

Watching this guy always make me laugh, Originality on point ❤

I went to watch Auntie Thuy's video. It is good and short (to the point). And I wanna point out she didn't even dip the rice paper in the water, just dipped her fingers in water and transfered a bit that way (which is smart) so she didn't risk making them too wet.

This is why none of my recipes ever turn out like they show on tv. They intentionally show all wrong things so you'll think you messed up and keep watching their show to 'get better'. What a strategy

The funniest part is that, even though the recipe is all wrong, I learn how to correctly make the dish from Uncle Roger's commentary.

Omg now I know why some places it’s too damn hard to eat the rolls 🤣 the mung bean noodles flying around and sticking to my face

This is wild. Like, I'm white, have eaten summer rolls one time in my life and the first time I made them, I directly noticed things like no liquids in there or no long soaking of the rice paper being no-gos (and I did it out of memory, without any recipes at hand!) This makes me a firm believer of Nigella having looked at the recipe like 5 minutes before they started recording

As a Viet, i never cook (or rather little to never) but Nigella made me cry. The noodle is just dead wrong 😭
Imagine the spring rolls with near invisible noodles 😢, it needs some white colours to mix with the meaty colour and the veggie
Edit: spring rolls is now more of some broke marriage between a steamed shrimp roll and a sushi roll, didn't go well at all

Laughing all the way through but "don't serve to husband, serve to trash can "finished me for a bit as couldn't see for crying laughing. 😂😂😂😂👍

As a Vietnamese,Im impressed you know the difference between the noodles👍🏻

I absolutely love Uncle Roger videos and stand up. I died laughing because as a white woman I do a lot of salads haha

That is the most educational commentary video i have seen so far from you.
Very well done!