00:00Don't I seem regal?
00:01Doesn't it seem like I don't talk about poo-poo, pee-pee,
00:03and on stage?
00:05Didn't I fool you with all of this beautiful lighting
00:08and the food?
00:11Yeah, right?
00:25There's a lot of things that make LA special,
00:28but for me, it's really the people and the food.
00:32That's what it really comes down to,
00:33because I'm from San Francisco,
00:35so this is kind of sacrilege to say,
00:37but I think LA has the best people.
00:40It's very diverse, and that's why you get access
00:42to really specific, amazing cuisine like this
00:45that doesn't have to cater to, like, a mainstream palate.
00:50Bistro Na is straight up my favorite Chinese restaurant
00:52in Los Angeles.
00:53I'm gonna have to think a little bit harder about, you know,
00:57if I'm gonna make it, like, my favorite Chinese restaurant
00:59in America, because it might start a bunch of fights
01:01that I don't really feel like getting into.
01:04But in LA, I will say, hands down,
01:06this is my favorite Chinese restaurant.
01:08One of my friends brought me here the first time,
01:11and he was like,
01:12this is food that they served in the imperial court
01:15during the Qing dynasty.
01:17Usually, you would have to go to, like, China
01:19and go on a tour with your family,
01:22where there's someone leading you with, like, a flag,
01:25with, like, 10 senior citizens
01:27who have nothing better to do but, you know,
01:31eat meal after meal like that.
01:32But this was the first time I had this kind of food
01:34in America.
01:36Look at this.
01:36This food has, like, pedestals.
01:38There's, like, carvings on the side.
01:41And then this right here, this is made out of the collagen
01:44from pig's feet.
01:46And then it has little bits of broccoli, and it's beautiful.
01:49It looks like a piece of jewelry.
01:51Where else are you gonna get that?
01:52I took my mom here, who was such a hater,
01:56and I was prepared for her to cook through everything,
01:58and she loved it.
01:59It passed the Tami test.
02:01I've had so many great memories here.
02:03I've celebrated so many amazing birthdays
02:05and reunions here,
02:07so this place really has a special place in my heart.
02:44The whole reason why I did this today
02:47was because I love this restaurant so much.
02:49And after COVID,
02:50so many of my favorite restaurants went out of business,
02:53and I felt like I could have done more
02:56to shine a light on how great they are
02:57and to draw people to come.
02:59So I really hope people come to Bistro Na,
03:01and that this place lives on forever.
03:03And then I just hope that people can appreciate
03:06after seeing this, like, just have so much gratitude
03:08for, like, what all the immigrant communities
03:12have contributed to make L.A. so special.
03:44This light on the light on the light on the light on the light.
03:55The Strap is the Greek
03:56The Strap is the same as the construction of the century
03:57It is the denser and the construction of the French
04:02we have built in the U.S.
04:02It's going to be out, four of them.
04:04This was from the宋代 and the秦代.
04:07The same was also being held in the spring.
04:09This construction is the same as China.
04:12It is our own factory, our own工廠, and our own factory.
04:15And they運 to America, and come to the United States.
04:19This is the restaurant's biggest room.
04:22It's a building in Beijing.
04:27If there is a tour, it's a theater,
04:30It feels like a guest room.
04:33I'd like to invite your friends.
04:37There are also traditional traditional Chinese temple.
04:45These are very important.
04:48For example, this is a chair.
04:50This is a chair.
04:51There are large chairs and small chairs.
04:54This is a chair.
04:55This chair is made of a chair.
04:59The chair is made of a chair.
05:00It is made of five-inch chair.
05:01It's not a chair.
05:04The table is usually an old table.
05:07It's a chair that every customer can share it.
05:10This is a shared understanding of China.
05:14It's not very similar to the Western.
05:16The Western table is a long table.
05:19It's a chair.
05:21In China, it's a large table to share the menu.
05:31This restaurant is so amazing because usually when you go to a Chinese restaurant they don't really give a shit
05:37about ambiance and you know it's a lot of like fluorescent lights the best you'll get is like a pink
05:45tablecloth and a man dressed in a maroon bow tie and and you know like that's a vibe too but
05:51this is a whole different level.
05:56Look at that okay see this is how you know it's really quality because see how the skin is very
06:02separate from the meat and that's like really puffy that's how you know how that it's like really crispy.
06:15What's great about LA it's this metropolis where you can like just be transported into a totally different world.
06:24That is something you can only get in LA and that feels like home to me.
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