TGIF Feature: That time Egg Fried Rice became a boiling controversy

 

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Comedian Nigel Ng watches in horror the BBC cooking demonstration.

Earlier this month, Britain-based Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng uploaded a video of a woman demonstrating how to cook egg fried rice on the BBC that stirred up a hornets nest of controversy while generating millions of views on YouTube and Twitter.

Ng watched the offensive video in his alter ego character of Uncle Roger, who hilariously slammed the BBC chef, Hersha Patel, for not washing the rice first, and then -- horror of horrors

"What she doing? Oh my god. You're killing me, woman. Drain the -- she's draining rice with colander! How can you drain rice with colander? This is not pasta!" he said in Uncle Roger's heavy accent.

Patel and Ng recorded a meeting they had afterwards and plan to do a collaboration. (He speaks English without a stereotypical accent.) In a follow-up video, she said she was just following a BBC recipe. She gave a knowing look at the camera and said, "I do know how to cook rice."

Finally, Ng shows us the proper way most modern day Asians use to cook rice.