Foodie Shows

You know, while I was in Japan, what continually impressed me besides how pretty the girls were?

The utterly mind-numbing and soul-destroying food variety shows. It is the most boring show in Earth. IThe only thing more boring than it is my job.

Every foodie show on every network (I don't care whether it is NHK or some channels from deserted town in Shikoku Island) or started off with some dumbass going to some restaurant somewhere and exclaiming "What a fucking exotic restaurant! Wow, look at the food!"

They then looked at the food as if they never seen it in their life even though it could be just fucking soba aka buckwheat noodle in cold soup.

This idiot or bimbo will then take one bite of the sushi, tempura, soba or some common shit and then looked like he/she just had an orgasm and exclaimed "OSHIIIIII!!!" And then giggled like a moron who just spotted a shiny object.

Boring foodie show after every boring foodie show start out and end the same way. Some dumbass take one bite of the food and then rolled his eyes in mock ectasy as if it is the greatest thing he has ever eaten and give some superfluous compliment like "Wah, so nice!" or "OMG! I have never tried anything like this before!"

Now that I am back in Singapore, I realise every single local foodie show follows the same pattern. A guy and girl compere will go to some hawker centre, eat some common food like minced pork noodle and proclaimed it as the best thing since sliced bread. They then interviewed some customers to get some typically good reviews like "I come here every day leh."

I always wanted to ask foodie show producers what happens if they get negative reviews like the following:

"Fuck man, this is the worst thing I ever eaten. Wasted trip."

"What shit is this?"

"Is this pork or chicken?"

"Wah lau, $5 to eat this half burnt pork chop?"

"Bak-chou mee say bak-chou mee lah, what famous southern China Fuzhou double happiness noodles???!"

Tonight while watching the famous Floyd on the Discovery Travel and Living Channel, I got my answer. In case, you do not watch Floyd shows, Floyd is this old gentleman chef that travels to all around the world and then cook on the spot for the locals.

Floyd was cooking for some climbers in Peru (I think). He was cooking fish and then when the climbers sat down to eat, he told the climbers, "Please sit down and eat and give me your comments. Of course, if you don't like the food, your negative comments will be edited out of the show. HA HA HA HA HA HA."

Well, at least the old man is honest.