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Awkwafina gets a wok lesson from Uncle Roger

Nigel Ng pairs a chow mein collaboration with news that his cookbook is a New York Times bestseller.

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Can niece @awkwafina finally learn to cook?

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Nigel Ng has his work cut out supervising Awkwafina: the vegetables arrive in a heap, the wok-tossing needs intervention, and plating with long cooking chopsticks presents another challenge entirely.

"Can niece @awkwafina finally learn to cook?" brings the actor and comedian into a commercial kitchen to make chow mein under Uncle Roger's watch. It's an Apple TV partnership promoting Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook, with Ng's famously exacting cooking character supplying the running commentary. His most practical intervention is a demonstration of the circular wrist motion needed to toss the ingredients. "Your body moving more than your ladle," he tells her.

The collaboration has passed 1.2 million views and is the strongest of his two uploads this week. Viewers are discussing the onion skin left on during chopping, the late addition of MSG and moments when Nigel's own voice seems to break through Uncle Roger's accent. The finished noodles get a qualified verdict: a little dry, but considerably better than their beginnings suggested.

The other upload, "My cookbook is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER", gives the week a milestone beyond the kitchen. Meanwhile, his older Nick DiGiovanni Korean fried chicken review and torch ginger ingredient hunt remain among the channel's busiest videos. The latter connects neatly with the cookbook, whose recipes include the flower-enhanced fried rice.

Subscribers held steady this week, though the channel has grown over the past month. Daily views are currently below their usual level, a pattern also seen at food channels including Mark Wiens and Binging with Babish. Patrick Zeinali is enjoying a stronger-than-usual daily audience. For Ng, the week's distinctive pairing is a bestseller announcement and a celebrity pupil who needs help getting dinner onto the plate.

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What viewers say

That MSG probably single-handedly saved the ENTIRE dish
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Never in my life had I seen someone chopping an onion with the skin still on 😭
@oliverl2172See it on YouTube
Scared Uncle Roger so hard that Nigel's voice came out
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2 more comments

Even as a Nigerian I knew MSG was Uncle Roger's missing ingredient!!
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Not efficient energy transfer 😂
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