A video about how to cook egg fried rice by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sent Asians of the Internet into a tizzy, after a London-based Malaysian stand-up comedian mocked it. The video titled ‘Uncle Roger Disgusted By This Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food)’ was significantly more popular than others on his channel, racking up more than one million views versus the average of 50,000 views on other videos. Although the BBC posted the video to its BBC Food Facebook page on April 25 last year, Ng’s video prompted renewed interest in the video, which now had over 1K comments and 2.1K reactions. “This is soooooo wrooooooong, as an Indonesian veteran fried rice maker, I’m soo not approving this!” added Firman Indra Andika, from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Despite the flood of criticism, both the BBC Food video and recipe, which now has 2.5/5 stars, are still available online.

Source: The Star July 24, 2020 10:41 UTC