Nick DiGiovanni - I Cooked Against Uncle Roger

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

I can't believe what happened at the end. Watch to see who wins!

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Fuiya! We'll be cooking each other's most famous hometown dishes. The challenge will be judged by the toughest chef on the internet, Chef Rush. The stakes are high.

If I lose, Uncle Roger will take away my Uncle Roger I won't have MSG for one week. Chef Nick, Uncle Roger, you have 30 minutes to prepare the dish of your dreams and your time starts down. Okay, oh my God. Lobster! So what's happened here is Uncle Roger's giving me everything I need to make one of his favorite home-found dishes.

I've done the same, giving him all the ingredients he needs to make a lobster roll. Ah, New England lobster row. Nice. Uncle Rogers... Chakuitiao. Yeah? Chakuitiao, not fat. The pronunciation, not fat. Not fat.

This is the first time a white guy ever make Chakwee there on YouTube. Historic moment. Okay, so this here is basically the Malaysian version of Pad Thai, so I'm not shooting completely in the dark here, but I have never tasted nor made this dish. Gonna treat Loster like my ex-wife. Okay, Loster, thank you for your service. And now it's that. Fueh-yo!

What is this? That Chinese sausage. It smells very strong. Mmm. I'll just slice on a nice angle like this. Now that my sausages are prepped out, I want to start cooking my cockles. These are beautiful small clammy. small clams from New Zealand.

That hard to get ingredients. Good job. There's been five minutes and no cooking yet. Relax, Chef Rush. Cooking about preparation. You don't want premature cooking. You know what I mean? Okay, now the water boiling. We're gonna put lobster in there, put it back on,

steam for maybe six to eight minutes. Six to eight minutes doesn't sound like enough time to me. Steam for 10 minutes. These cockles are gonna cook very quickly, so I don't wanna fully cook them through now. I just want them to begin to open up and I'll finish cooking them in the walk. While lobster cooking, we're gonna make the brown butter.

The brown butter is a very difficult part of this lobster all recipe and one that I'm wondering whether or not Uncle Roger will struggle with. I know he's an uncle, but making brown butter takes precision. Brown buttered jasmine, butter that brown. It's very easy. Put a bit of MSG in there. Put some milk powder in there. Ten minutes down, you'd hurry up, 20 minutes left. Don't worry, Chef Rush.

This lobster I make, I'm gonna put protein powder in there, your favorite. You got 20 minutes left. My caclos have already opened up, so I'm gonna take these out the heat right now. We'll finish cooking them later. Let's check in on Uncle Roger's lobster. The one thing I'll say is he's. He's put way too much water in the pot. And the lobster is not looking good.

He also left the rubber bands on, which is gonna give terrible flavor to the lobster old. What you're doing? You left the bands. Oh, shh. The lobster gonna taste like rapper. Uncle watch, it really f***ed up this time. That is a technique that I have never seen before.

It's not technique. Don't learn from this. Because I don't have very much time right now, I am gonna cook both of my noodles in the same pot. I don't know if Uncle Roger's gonna be upset at me for this, but I think the rice noodles might take just a moment longer to cook, so I'm gonna put those in first. Now for the chalme noodles. With this system I'm using,

I'm gonna cover the top with the strainer, then in go my chau-me noodles. I think butter nice and brown now? Hey-ya, tasting the brown butter. Uncle Roger, you okay? Yeah, I undercooked the brown butter. The lobster gonna taste horrible. Sorry, Uncle Nick.

This is the most famous dish from all of New England. You have to do it properly. The New England ancestor crying. Oh no, Uncle Nick, do you have another lobster? What? This will overcooked? No, it's not. What?

That's not done. How you tell? When it's all the way nice and red, like this color here, the kind of lighter red color, then it's done. But you want to leave it slightly undercooked because you're gonna cook a bit longer in brown butter. No. No? Okay, a little bit more.

I've already salted my water, but I also wanna add just a touch of MSG into that just to give that some nice extra Uncle Roger inspired flavor. Good, good. I'm gonna take these noodles out and rest them here. Uncle Roger, what do you think of my method of cooking both noodles in one? Hmm.

I think that noodle over-o-cooked. I think so too. We all f*** up to date, okay. I'm gonna cook these rice noodles for the second time. This time I need to watch more carefully. I will say the lobster actually looks pretty well cooked. Ah, thank you, thank you. Good job, good job.

Chow and error. 15 minutes down, 15 minutes to go. This better be perfect. This is the scariest judge ever. Ooh, I forgot ice bath, ice bath. And speaking of ice bath, I'll rinse them under cold water now to stop the cooking process.

Uncle Nick keep copying me. Hurry up. Uncle Roger gonna be slow on purpose, so Nick overcook his noodle. I'm not cooking these noodles again. Sabot touch. Twist out lobster claw, pull and twist. I remember, this is lobster.

You always have to take it out. This lobster full of . It's a female lobster, those are eggs. Those are eggs? Oh, okay. Don't matter, you don't want to eat egg anyway, you know? My favorite part. What?

Let's see if Uncle Roger remember how to do this. How you open the claw? You make it look so easy. Stand back. That is a beautiful lobster claw. You should save that for the top of your roll. Take the tail. Tail?

That's not the tail. Oh, no, did the hit. Do you remember what I taught you? I think you crack it open. Nope, I'll give you a hint. Fork. Ah, okay, okay, what the fuck? What the fuck?

So you stab it and scoop it out? Pull, twist, leverage. Ooh. Bean sprouts? Where are my beans sprouts? Why are you wasting food? What's that? Bean sprouts, you're welcome.

Thank you, chef. I'm so scared. It is finally time for me to cook, and I'm going as quickly as I'm going as I'm going as I'm going. because my uncle title is in the hands now of Chef Rush and he is hungry. My walk is very nice and well seasoned and I think Uncle Roger would be proud. Uncle Roger I've ever been proud of Nick? Every day. Every day I'm proud of him, you know?

He just wins dreamy. You know what I mean? Mayanay's in both. Put the lobster in there. Brown butter go in. Mm. Perfect brown butter. Good, good, good.

Perfect brown butter. Mix them all together. Sprinkle bit more MSG, squeeze of lemon. Finally chop some celery because Uncle Roger like the crunch of It's there? Mm. Taste test. Mm.

Mm. Once that pork lard is hot, in goes my Chinese sausage, which I'm gonna cook for about two minutes. Get it nice and crispy. Do we have some salt here? Salt, salt? I sure hope we have salt. Yeah. Cooking channel with no salt.

Hiya. And I own a salt company. Oh yeah. Once that's nice and crispy, I'm gonna move that off to the side. In goes my egg. Let's get that nice and fluffy. We didn't have any garlic chives, so instead I'm using these green onions.

In they go. Less than 10 minutes, Oh no, no, no. Oh no. Usually I just talk on my channel. Today I actually have to cook. I don't like this. Uncle Rogers recipe says five peeled green prawns.

I'm gonna go off script and leave them with the shells on. What? No! How are you gonna eat prawn shells? Extra flavor. Okay, okay. These are gonna cook very fast, so I do not want to let them go for too long. And these ones are beautiful.

Almost as beautiful as Uncle Rogers' ex-wife. What? Have you seen a lot of the ring? She looked like column. That's terrible. I can't forget about the whites of the onions, which I'll add. in now and then I know that when I add my sauce in I want to put it onto the side of my pan. See all those flames giving us that extra flavor? Then it'll go off script again and give a little bit of that water from the cockles.

And of course all of those cockles themselves. No cockle is supposed to take out of shell. I like it like that. You're like trying to make paella now. And then to finish and go my noodles. Wow this looks good. Time to taste. I still want a little bit more seasoning. Uncle Roger come show me your tossing. You put too much in there you know. Oh. That's why he's the uncle. Don't distract me. I'm trying to finish up your lobster roll. Two minutes left, they better be on the plate. Chef Ross gonna love this.

Uncle Nick going down today. I noticed this dish was traditionally served on a banana leaf, so I'm gonna try to impress the judge today by placing it over this beautiful leaf as a prop. I really hope he likes it. Five, four, three, two, one. Hands up. Hoo!

Oh my God. What you think? It's a little small for me. What? This is a one normal people portion. You're not normal. That's true, yeah. Time to see who's the better chef.

First up, we have Uncle Roger's lobster roll. It looks pretty solid. Roll is toasted. It looks juicy. It's a little bit rubber. Not much. Could use a little bit more sauce to go along with it because the bread is soaking it up. Not the best lobster roll I ever had, but definitely not the worst.

Next up, Nick's Chakritale. Chakuitale. Chakritel. Nick's noodle dish. I love the little fake leaf. I love the bowl. I love these whole ponds. It smells very flavorful.

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Popping me in my mouth. A little spicy. Beautiful looking prine. Okay. That was melting your mouth. They were cooked perfectly here on this one. I think I've made my decision. Chef Nick, Uncle Roger. After tasting both dishes, I've decided it's a tie. Huh?

So I need more from both of you. You guys, when I make fried rice? Oh, my God. Ten minutes on the clock starts. Now, let's see who can make better fire rice. Ah, but it just so happens that I have a trick under my sleeve today. You see, I'm gonna try to beat Uncle Roger with his own worst enemy.

What is that? No, that Jamie Oliver fire rice recipe, no. Uncle Roger don't like this Jamie Oliver recipe. Will he make our ancestor cry again? Ha-ya. Look at this shit. If Nick beat me with Jamie Oliver recipe, Uncle Roger gonna quit YouTube.

Quit fucking around, you got eight minutes left. The great thing about Jamie Oliver's fried rice recipe is it only has one, two, three, four, five ingredients. This I can definitely do it in just 10 minutes. Egg five rice, Uncle Roger, make too many times now. I'm going to challenge myself with new technique. First, you whisk the egg. I have to whisk it to it really, really fine. Very important step.

Make it even finer. Use the colon. Ayah. I know Uncle Roger doesn't like Jamie Oliver and especially doesn't like this recipe. And that's why I'm using it here today. Why you want to torture Uncle Roger like that? I know it's not traditional but I'm gonna follow this recipe other than one change today. I'm gonna add just a touch of MSG.

MSG cannot save Jamie Oliver food. He doesn't even have any soy sauce in here. Yeah, that's the problem. Okay, maybe two changes. Now, niece and nephew pay attention. This super cool technique stir with right hand and poured egg in there in thin tread with left hand. Fooyo! What on earth is Uncle Roger doing with his eggs?

Egg shred, foo yo! Have you seen this before, niece and nephew? Nice and crispy. Hmm? Impress? Impress? He doesn't put the eggs in first? Why doesn't he put the eggs in first?

I don't know. Ask him? Ask him? My eggs are in, so I'll let those get nice and fluffy and then begin to mix them up. I actually think I'm going to be able to make this taste pretty good. Four and a half minutes left. Uncle Wacha, waste too much time making the fancy egg. My egg has gotten nice and fluffy and it's looking really, really good. Once the egg is cooked, I'll go in with some of my day-old rice.

What? That hate crime? Hate crime? YouTube cancel Uncle? Time to move this rice around a little bit. And while I do it, I'll hit it with just a little bit of MSG. I know what you're thinking. Uncle Nick so far ahead of you,

it easy to be fast if everything wrong. What some sexy spring onion, nice and long cut at the buyers. See? This one of my favorite Asian ingredient, Chinese sausage. Since Nick have this from his last challenge, Uncle Roger is gonna use this also. This is vegetable oil. Don't be like Jamie Oliver and use olive oil.

Garlic go in. Shall it. Chinese sausage go in. And it's start to get fragrant crack egg. I just want, I'm gonna... At this point, I'm gonna... At this point, I'm gonna... Two minutes left!

Oh, hankort, I don't know if I can finish. One of the final steps of Jamie Oliver's recipe is to take this tofu and then crumble this around my whole walk. I don't understand this part at all. I'm also gonna toss in a few green onions, and at this point, we really need to get this on the plate. Almost done. Poth a few more time.

Get it on the plate. I haven't cooked this fast since Master Chef. Five, four, three, two, one. Hands up! Initially Uncle Roger worried Uncle Nick gonna follow Jamie Oliver recipe 100% but he take all the mistake Jamie Oliver make and then improve with proper technique and ingredient maybe actually stand a chance it was so bad I couldn't follow this is chef Nick new and improved Jamie Oliver's fried rice nice color profile looks good

smell of green onions it's melting in my mouth presentation wise I love they had the little playfulness to put it into a to go container overall it's a very solid fried rice. I don't know if Uncle Roger gives Jamie Oliver enough credit. So with that said, we all know no one makes fried rice better than Uncle Roger. So we gotta see if he brought this A game today.

Presentation on it is top notch. I love the shredded eggs. That takes a lot of skill. He added some protein. Now let's taste. Lots of lots of flavor. He's not all hype. He knows his way around some quiet rice.

This one's gonna be tough. The winner of the day's challenge is Nick. Uncle Nick. No. I keep it. Take me all of a five, right? Hey.