Racist Sister in Law Tells Me Making Food at a Chinese Restaurant Doesn’t Count as Being a Chef
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | racist sister-in-law tells me making food at a Chinese restaurant doesn't count as being a chef. |
| 0:06.8 | Here's what happened. |
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| 0:13.2 | For context, I've been married to my wife for around 10 years and we're a mixed race couple. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Asian and she's Caucasian. |
| 0:20.5 | I've gotten along with her family, my mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. |
| 0:25.4 | But I always felt like her father-in-law and other sister-in-law, Sarah, never liked me. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm a professionally trained chef with 15 plus years of experience and I work at a high-end Chinese |
| 0:36.4 | restaurant, a spin-off of a popular one in Beijing in a large US city. |
| 0:41.5 | My crew and I have won several awards and I've been explicitly told I'll be the next |
| 0:46.4 | executive chef. |
| 0:47.7 | Sarah is also a professionally trained chef and works at a popular upscale French restaurant in the city. |
| 0:54.0 | She constantly brags about it and no joke compares herself out loud to Ramsey and |
| 0:59.7 | Burdane. |
| 1:00.7 | Whenever I'm at my mother-in-law and father-in-law's house and helping out in the kitchen, |
| 1:05.0 | Sarah is always criticizing everything I do, whether it's chopping, braising, marinating, |
| 1:11.0 | whatever. |
| 1:12.0 | She always butts in with comments like, um, I think you should actually do X like this. |
| 1:18.1 | I've been patient for my wife and sidestepping these comments, saying things like, |
| 1:23.2 | thanks, but I think I'll stick to the way I do it. |
| 1:26.0 | Things came to a head two weeks ago, when my wife, |
| 1:29.4 | father-in-law, mother-in-law, and I were in her parents' kitchen prepping for dinner for my mother-in-law and I were in her parents kitchen prepping for dinner for my mother-in-law's |
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