'I love Chinese food, you know that it's true'
Alison Gold's viral music video "I Love Chinese Food" is taking the internet by storm - and viewers in China aren't as offended by it as Americans are
“I love Chinese food, you know that it’s true, I love fried rice, I love noodles, I love chow mien, chow mo-mo-mo-mo-mien!”
This is the chorus of a song titled “I Love Chinese Food”, sung by 12-year-old Alison Gold and released on Youtube on October 14.
In it, the pre-teen croons her love for Chinese food over a sugary sweet beat, prances in a field with a man dressed in a giant panda costume, and has a pillow fight with her friends, while declaring that her love for egg rolls, chop suey, fortune cookies and wonton soup is without equal.
Aside from its chorus, the song includes other choice lines such as “I smell food in the air, it’s Chinese food, my favourite, so I’m getting getting getting getting hungry” and “Chinese food takes away my stress, now I’m going to go and eat Panda Express.”
These lines were penned by Patrice Wilson, co-funder of Ark Music Factory, a musical production company in Los Angeles that filmed and promoted the video. Wilson, who appears as the video’s panda, originally founded Ark Music Factory to discover and display the talents of young singers.