and the spicy chili peppers like or the even hotter facing heaven chili provide the la, pure heat. so, if you imagine, like, isla, she wolf of the ss, tormenting you with nipple clamps as the la, the ma, provided by the pleasantly deranging peppercorns, would be like the naughty nurse with the ice cubes. [ singing ] anthony: what s your uh, what s your feeling on msg? eric: i don t mind msg. anthony: yeah, i think it s good stuff. eric: i do not react to it. anthony: right. no, no. me too. nobody does. it s a it s a lie, man. eric: well, you find a lot of natural msg in tomatoes. anthony: in breast milk. in parmesan. eric: yeah, in a lot of products. anthony: yeah. you know what causes chinese restaurant syndrome? racism. [ eric laughs ] anthony: ooh, i ha a headache. it must have been the chinese
spicy. so [ laughs ] seven: not a good news. [ laughs ] eric: i feel it in my eyes already. yeah. anthony: the way it works is you order a whole bunch of ingredients meat, vegetables, noodles, fish, whatever you like, a lot of different ingredients, and you feed them into the pot. seven: we should just throw them first. anthony: yeah. i mean, cause that s gonna take a long time. let s throw that tripe in. seven: that s called, like, thousand-layer stomach. anthony: it s all going in there, man. the inner ring is a more neutral broth. the outer ring, though, is the good stuff. the hard stuff. xiao: this is now boiling. anthony: oh, that s good, man. that s good. xiao: that was eric s first bite of hot pot. anthony: awesome, right? eric: yes. anthony: and it only gets better, my friend. gao: oh, this is nice. anthony: oh yeah. seven: tofu. eric: oh, this is tofu? seven: yeah. eric: oh, it s the skin on top? seven: yeah. anthony: common ingre
anthony: all right, eric. yeah. you re getting into the spirit of things. eric: do you know he took me, he took me on this trip to make me suffer. seven: yeah. eric: to kill me slowly or fast. seven: that s what friend does to another friend. you know? that s what good friends do. anthony: yes. seven: in drinking culture of china we enjoy torturing your friends. [ eric laughs ] xiao: well, let s drink to friendship. seven: yeah. anthony: to friendship. seven: to friendship. eric: thank you. i like that. wu: ah, okay. to friendship. eric: yeah, to friendship. seven: to friendship. fe. we started doing animation. with the surface book, you can actually draw on the screen. so crisp. i love it. it s almost like this super powerful computer and a tablet had the perfect baby. (laughing) it s a typewriter for writing scripts. it s a sketchbook for sketches. .it s a canvas for painting. you can t do that on a mac.
pure heat. so, if you imagine, like, isla, she wolf of the ss, tormenting you with nipple clamps as the la, the ma, provided by the pleasantly deranging peppercorns, would be like the naughty nurse with the ice cubes. [ singing ] anthony: what s your uh, what s your feeling on msg? eric: i don t mind msg. anthony: yeah, i think it s good stuff. eric: i do not react to it. anthony: right. no, no. me too. nobody does. it s a it s a lie, man. eric: well, you find a lot of natural msg in tomatoes. anthony: in breast milk. in parmesan. eric: yeah, in a lot of products. anthony: yeah. you know what causes chinese restaurant syndrome? racism. [ eric laughs ] anthony: ooh, i have a headache. it must have been the chinese guy. go: most of the traditional,
look deep. deep into the murky depths of that most glorious and iconic of sichuan dishes. it burns. it burns you down to your soul. all: cheers. anthony: local friend xiao bin and musician friend seven. wu jiao ling and gao shin. all enjoy a good hot pot. almost everybody around here does. eric, however, seems apprehensive. anthony: so, this is eric s first time for sichuan hot pot. gao: really? anthony: i think you re really going to enjoy this. eric: yeah. anthony: so this is particularly good, right? xiao: it is known for being spicy. so [ laughs ] seven: not a good news. [ laughs ] eric: i feel it in my eyes already. yeah. anthony: the way it works is you order a whole bunch of ingredients meat, vegetables, noodles, fish, whatever you like, a lot of different ingredients, and you