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A recent study into Asian-Australian cuisine has found that up to 90% of Australians are unable to enjoy a Chinese meal without quoting ‘that video’.
Although authentic dishes from China’s various culinary regions can be enjoyed in many of Australia’s capital cities, most people agree regional RSL Chinese is its own thing and deserves to be celebrated for the inauthentic, sticky, savourable mess that it is.
However, only one in ten of us are able to have such an experience without referring to our dinner as ‘succulent’, complimenting a companion’s judo skills or proclaiming the manifestation of democracy.
For those who have been living under a rock without wifi and do not have a single friend, the video in question features ‘90s VHS news footage of a notorious dine and dash artist/Uncle Vernon impersonator Charles Dozsa resisting arrest for the charge of eating a succulent Chinese meal with the dignity of a classically trained Shakespearean actor.
In the roughly ten years since the video was uploaded to the internet, Australians have taken to quoting the 1:09 minute video with an accelerated adaptation into our culture that can only happen in a country that’s 200 odd years westernised.
“Get your hands off my honey prawns!” jested one joker at Betoota Chinese bistro The Golden Goose, located in Betoota BarSL.
“Hellos sir, are you waiting to receive my limp prawn?”
“You get it? Because he doesn’t say prawns in the video, he says penis.”
MORE TO COME.
