I was silently screaming. And now I'm wheeze-laughing.
What in the literal fuck was she doing??
And Atha damn near gagging on that travesty!! Oh lawd!!
I'm well acquainted with chili crisp. I have jars of it. I use it a lot. It's delicious.
The base/inspiration recipe for the mess she created is in line with a Korean banchan (side dish) called oi muchim - cucumbers tossed in a soy and sesame oil vinaigrette with Korean chili powder called gochugaru. Chili crisp, a Chinese condiment, is getting more trendy so, as the two cultures often cross over culinarily, it's a lovely substitute for the gochugaru. The bottled dressing is a fine substitute for sesame oil & soy sauce, I guess, if one doesn't have a use for sesame oil. I can even understand the Everything seasoning - sesame, salt, garlic are all typical seasonings used in Asain cooking.
But then she added feta cheese.
And she dumped in a metric fuckton of chili crisp with no regard for what she was using. That little jar? That's the trendy Momofuku brand and it's about $15 per jar. It seems most people (including me) prefer the Lao Gan Ma brand - a jar of that almost 5 times bigger is $13 on Amazon right now. Their weak asses needed to use maybe half of her giant serving spoon's worth for that salad, not three heaping shovelfuls and....
NOT BALSAMIC VINEGAR.
At that point the whole thing was beyond fucked. I love fusion food. Tossing FETA CHEESE and (imitation) BALSAMIC VINEGAR into what's otherwise a dish with Asian flavors is not fusion food. Those things don't go together. They don't compliment each other at all. It's like wrapping sushi rolls in swiss cheese instead of nori.
And if Miss Swamp Thang there wants to keep playing at being a Youtube chef she really, really needs to learn how to use a knife properly. Foodie Youtube knows what to look for when evaluating a wannabe food channel and knife grip is a big one.
What a bunch of morons. She cluelessly hamfisted her way through a 6 month old viral Tiktok recipe - which means it's ancient and largely forgotten by now - like a middle schooler left unsupervised in mommy's kitchen while awkwardly presenting in bad lighting on a bad set with shit camera angles only to have her gnarly troll of a husband literally choke on the finished product.
Fitting. So very fitting for them.