Kalyani Saxena

I mean, it's probably not Courtney's fault, necessarily.

I'm not saying she's completely innocent either, but...

Yeah.

And we're going to get into some opinions because I think it's kind of it is a little bit of a murky picture.

But there was a lot of Asian American creators who were really unhappy about this because here they are seeing this egg.

And yeah, like it's been called different things online before, like jammy eggs, soy marinated eggs.

But what's happening right now is that this recipe from their heritage is being attributed to a white person.

creator and uh like courtney this is her invention this is her creation here's one creator who goes by the username at kayla wong ton she's responding to a video of a white woman who posted a video making the eggs with the text quote so chronically online i'm putting my hard boiled eggs in a soy sauce bath and then the caption of that video says quote in courtney we trust

what do you mean you're chronically online so now you're making soy marinated eggs as if like soy sauce and eggs is such a crazy combination to them and then they're not even giving credit to like asian people they're giving credit to courtney cook which i love courtney cook like i always watch her videos but just calling it her food with the captions saying thank you for sharing your delicious food with us oh my god

And then here's one more clip I want to play from a TikTok video by someone who goes by the username at Princess Pauli.

There's another layer here, too, that, you know, many Asian-Americans who grew up in this country grew up having their food made fun of like.

Oh, that smells.

Oh, that stinks.

I'm I am well versed in what that experience is like.

So to sort of see that food now being celebrated is is great and is one thing.

But I think that there's also a level of like.

pain and frustration seeing that food now that it's being celebrated attributed to someone who isn't part of that community.

I mean, it's just, it was not going over very well on TikTok.

There are some creators who felt differently that, you know, this is...

This is just kind of how food recipes are online.