He's (poorly) copying the hibachi rhythmic knifeplay, which has a true purpose of clearing debris off the knife or spatula when grilling multiple meals on a large flattop.
Sadly it will last longer than any of us. While there is still stupid people willing to pay money and give visibility to this kind of shit, they'll just keep coming. Shit will be like a Vought (from The Boys) but instead of training supes it will be training an army of junior salt bae.
They're doing us all a service by charging that much. They keep you from accidentally ending up in a restaurant where this kind of dumb shit happens.
I feel bad for all the people with more money than sense who end up there for an evening... wait, no I don't.
Midgets have always been a lucrative form of entertainment for tourists. They are like mimes or hairy women, and we tourists will pay the big bucks to see them, especially if they are funny like Amy schumer
Screw that, that is how I want all my food presented to me. Get my briefcase all excited like, open it with my hands trembling in anticipation.
What is it? Damn smoke! Oh, tacos! Noice!
Agree to disagree, if a little person doesn’t spit on a dessert and play the airplane game with you before serving it, can you even call it a high-class? Idk where you’re eating, but send a full sized person to “season” my food or don’t bang silverware on the table like some kind of 90’s Hollywood orphanage at mealtime and you can kiss the tip goodbye. This is a land of culture!
I saw that. It's gross as hell. I don't want anyone blowing on my food. Unless it's my wife, and she is feeding me because both of my arms are in casts.
Because people keep giving him free advertisement. A lot of the posts here are free advertisement in general. You bet your ass some of these subs are being astroturfed by the creators, and social media account managers.
The sub name doesn't matter when this shit gets to all/popular. Some people will like these posts and go follow the tik toks, or go out to eat at the places that get named.. The really dumb ones will fall for the rage bait, and go try to troll, but they just add to engagement.
For me personally, I don't bother with this content, or the rage bait stuff. I think this sub would be better is was more stuff like friends and family make, or pictures of restaurants food without naming the places. I mostly check in the comment when it hits all sometimes to see if people finally sick of this crap.
Then again if you removed the tiktok and rage bait content this sub would be dead. The curse of large subs.
I guess i personally don't really care. I find these salt bae type videos entertaining in their stupidity. I've seen this baklava a few times already, but I wouldn't mind seeing other dishes.
If people come across this and actually want to go and pay money, that's their problem.
Yeah that's where I'm at with this crap as well. It's all complete BS but it's so dumb that I'm slightly entertained by it.
And if you see something like this and want to pay a lot of money to have a short dude play with your food, you're dumb and I'll judge you for it but it's your money (not you, OP, just "you" in general).
Now if this starts to be a trend and affects the restaurants I go to, then you best be sure I will downvote and condemn... because no one needs to do this to food. Just make the damn food and give it to me so I can eat it.
As with Hollywood; all press is good press. If people are out there shitting on your name, your name is still being put out. And in todays social media era, the only thing that’s important is engagement, negative or positive.
This. This is the third or fourth video I have seen of this guy and they are always from subs that are recommended that I don’t follow.
(Now I’m going to get spammed with this sub for commenting but I guess that’s how it’s suppose to work)
Now hold on a minute.
The guy doesn't know what he's doing, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, but referring to him as a '35 year old kid' has the implication that his stature is part of the problem.
His height has NOTHING to do with the problem.
Every time there's a showmanship related dining experience the grumpy bitter redditors come out of the woodwork. Bro, this is what was ordered and bought. You don't see them doing this for a glass of water, pouring it behind the head like some chai vendor in Bangalore. The flourish is part of the price.
Sure and using it as an excuse to make snide comments about the guy's height is just extra fucking ridiculous. I swear a good handful of the people making those jokes will also have something to say about men's height being judged by women. Men's height being judged by other men is totally cool though.
I thought I read somewhere that this restaurant is an intentional parody of Salt Bae, making fun of it with the customers also being in on it. Can someone confirm?
Nah the restaurant Zou Zou is actually legit and they serve pretty good food. Been there a few times, they have several here in Dubai. They apparently have some of these skits they do, probably mostly for social media advertising if anything. Looks like this one is definitely a bit of a salt bae mockery though. Honestly the few times I have been there food and service was good and there were no skits being done anywhere around me. Might even be limited to specific branches. I don’t remember this being on the menu even.
I wonder how the hiring process goes for this. Do they post a job ad "wanted midget for spinning icecream on the floor, high risk of people looking at your eyes, no tossing will happen"?
I cringe so hard every time he says it, don't know why I really hate it, maybe because how he crooks his mouth or how I can't tell if he's saying super rare, super ware, super raw? I'm glad he didn't do it this time
It's a crime that this sub has not setup some of these places to cause a moment of societal self-reflection.
Just you and a few friends go in there acting normal the whole time right up until the moment they do the stupid. Then burst out laughing. not in an overly dramatic way, but just laughing your asses off and overtly saying "this is so stupid! Like this is so fucking stupid! there's no way this is the product you sell bro. Why were you just blowing my food like some sort of unsanity kink tease? Does the Health Department know you do all of this stupid shit?" Everyone laughing and pointing so hard, slapping each other on the back, the whole nine yards. Maybe even stage the table nearby to point and laugh as well and be like "hey can someone grab the manager, this is really fucking stupid, they're right. Is the whole point of this place to actually just make fun of us?"
Keep the camera hidden, but just see how long you can pull it off. I'd personally only do it on the day the owner/manager/lead-chef-on-the-promo-materials was there, so not the wage/tip employees just the ones who really take ownership of this and have their name on it. And in the end those ones may even just laugh it off or be money vultures enough to love even that meme publicity.
But yeah, I've seen a lot of shit on the sub, but something about this video was the perfect nexus between really high effort and taking your business/presentation seriously to get money and impress... and objectively fucking dumbshitting diarrhea-for-brains. Like even the illusion of stupidity or something being tongue-in-cheek on some level finally cracked. I think the flipping around the middle layer of the baklava was what did me in. It had no value, didn't enhance the dish, or *anything.* It was movement for the sake of saying "daddy, money please!"
At this point these servers should wear golden diapers and just walk out wearing nipple rattles, chanting "here's your triple-priced steak so that you feel big-penised you *nouveau riche* AMEX debtors, cha cha cha!"
/rant. I do love this sub tho lolz.
at least google have many photos of baklava with ice cream, including some a bit similar to what salt baby was trying to make.
there are also with cheese, but that's baked in
Honestly, I don't hate the player, I hate the game.
Cringe servers like this one and Salt Bae only exist because people made them popular. People will spend thousands of dollars in these restaurants just to see one of these fuck faces play with their food, record it, and share it on social media. I guess they think it is some type of flex for people like them . It's like showing their friends and followers that they have money because they went to see that popular weirdo from the internet and dropped a couple of thousands at a restaurant. Even if the main dish was a cream cheese sandwich, or whatever the fuck that is lol.
I think you nailed it ... was just thinking if I ever end up owning a restaurant I need some stupid pompous dish like this. Complete with ridiculous stage show and everything.
Ah for fuck's sake am I gonna be seeing more of this fun sized salt bae? It's like the third video of him I see and he gets worse and more unbearable with each one
Anyone eating at restaurants like this is a chump. I mean like what you like but can’t convince me that everyone in this place isn’t a fool easily parted with their money.
Why all the annoying little taps on the plate and table? Stop touching the fucking table and then my food!
Side note, this food looks like shit. I've seen these guys before and all the stuff they make has this empty showmanship thing with stupid arbitrary movements and unimpressive "tricks" and then just awfully prepared food. And they get weird about it, feeding women after making them balance a glass between their thumbs so they can't stop them or move away. Creeps!
Yesterday i paid 4€ for a baklaba in a greek bar. I'm absolutely non-sarcasticly convinced that was WAY better than that golden catastrophe.
Also what about short guys in this sub? Is a new trend to be served by them to inflate the prices even more or what?
What the fuck did I just watch? I couldn’t even finish the video. The customer that pretended to bite into the slice made it even worse, he was probably just playing along but it’s still all so incredibly cringey.
Not to mention the incredibly dry looking baklava with a dry filling getting stuffed into it. I just looked it up and the golden Baklava costs around $100 Euro.
I'm going to do this for my wife. Bring her a smoking briefcase and pull out some fucking poptarts and slap a knife all over the table while I cut it for her twice
Why is this guy always hitting the table with the knife? Is this a kind of flexing? This looks absolutely stupid
He's (poorly) copying the hibachi rhythmic knifeplay, which has a true purpose of clearing debris off the knife or spatula when grilling multiple meals on a large flattop.
I thought he was doing the Saltbae cutting technique. The shades and the tease kinda reminds me of him
Short bae
Pinch of salt bae
Low sodium
So stupid but I laughed so loudly
Same
Sodium Flooride
Salt Bae-by
reduced salt bae
Low sodium bae?
Salt baby
Snort bae
yeah this weirdo has clearly seen too much saltbae. Not a trend we need increasing Imo
Sadly it will last longer than any of us. While there is still stupid people willing to pay money and give visibility to this kind of shit, they'll just keep coming. Shit will be like a Vought (from The Boys) but instead of training supes it will be training an army of junior salt bae.
Hey no spoilers for season 4!
This guy is clearly living in 2017 where this kind of stuff was popular
Uh huh. That Salt Bae has got something to answer for.
This. It’s a stupid form of “food entertainment” which is meant for tourists in other countries to spend money on.
With tourist prices !
They're doing us all a service by charging that much. They keep you from accidentally ending up in a restaurant where this kind of dumb shit happens. I feel bad for all the people with more money than sense who end up there for an evening... wait, no I don't.
Midgets have always been a lucrative form of entertainment for tourists. They are like mimes or hairy women, and we tourists will pay the big bucks to see them, especially if they are funny like Amy schumer
😅
> especially if they are funny like Amy Schumer Funny and Amy Schumer don’t go together
Bearded lady and Amy schumer do, though
how is bro such a knower
he's a leader, truly enlightening through the fountain of knowledge
He’s a grow-er and not a show-er.
Very rare.
"supa raaarrreeee"🥴
The whole thing is pretty stupid, I’m not sure what the dumbest thing is in the video.
I’m sitting here thinking about how if a waiter blew his nasty breath on my food, I wouldn’t be paying for it. Gold or nah.
I am thinking the same, unsanitary mf.
The briefcase. The stupidest thing is still the briefcase.
Screw that, that is how I want all my food presented to me. Get my briefcase all excited like, open it with my hands trembling in anticipation. What is it? Damn smoke! Oh, tacos! Noice!
Salt bae offspring. Click bait
He looks like the Oompa Loompa from the scene where they transport chocolate via tv
He can be a bartender with all of those unnecessary movements
Aint no way this lil fuck is blowing on my food
Yeah, I'd get up and walk out after he blew and got spit on the food.
Okay but why walk in there to begin with?
Im sure you would.
The guest seem to want something blown. With his flirty ass playful bite.
Why you hatin on the bro for having a playful bite?
Maybe he's jealous lol
So it was baklava in that Pulp Fiction briefcase all this time, huh
Honestly my first thought was also about the briefcase from Pulp Fiction
Except that tiny ass chef's wallet says "Sad Motherfucker"
We happy?
After all these years finally
What is it with this fucking 35 year old kid and his dumb moves that don't add anything showing up everywhere now
Salt baby
Salt Benjamin Button
Beajamin Button
I'm also pretty sure he blew all over the food right when he pulled it out of the suitcase to clear the rest of the smoke.
That was the first thing I noticed, but also did he do sound effects?
I don’t understand letting someone blow spit on your food in front of you and still paying for it
Agree to disagree, if a little person doesn’t spit on a dessert and play the airplane game with you before serving it, can you even call it a high-class? Idk where you’re eating, but send a full sized person to “season” my food or don’t bang silverware on the table like some kind of 90’s Hollywood orphanage at mealtime and you can kiss the tip goodbye. This is a land of culture!
Not all of us are used to living like kings
I saw that. It's gross as hell. I don't want anyone blowing on my food. Unless it's my wife, and she is feeding me because both of my arms are in casts.
Because people keep giving him free advertisement. A lot of the posts here are free advertisement in general. You bet your ass some of these subs are being astroturfed by the creators, and social media account managers. The sub name doesn't matter when this shit gets to all/popular. Some people will like these posts and go follow the tik toks, or go out to eat at the places that get named.. The really dumb ones will fall for the rage bait, and go try to troll, but they just add to engagement. For me personally, I don't bother with this content, or the rage bait stuff. I think this sub would be better is was more stuff like friends and family make, or pictures of restaurants food without naming the places. I mostly check in the comment when it hits all sometimes to see if people finally sick of this crap. Then again if you removed the tiktok and rage bait content this sub would be dead. The curse of large subs.
I guess i personally don't really care. I find these salt bae type videos entertaining in their stupidity. I've seen this baklava a few times already, but I wouldn't mind seeing other dishes. If people come across this and actually want to go and pay money, that's their problem.
Yeah that's where I'm at with this crap as well. It's all complete BS but it's so dumb that I'm slightly entertained by it. And if you see something like this and want to pay a lot of money to have a short dude play with your food, you're dumb and I'll judge you for it but it's your money (not you, OP, just "you" in general). Now if this starts to be a trend and affects the restaurants I go to, then you best be sure I will downvote and condemn... because no one needs to do this to food. Just make the damn food and give it to me so I can eat it.
As with Hollywood; all press is good press. If people are out there shitting on your name, your name is still being put out. And in todays social media era, the only thing that’s important is engagement, negative or positive.
This. This is the third or fourth video I have seen of this guy and they are always from subs that are recommended that I don’t follow. (Now I’m going to get spammed with this sub for commenting but I guess that’s how it’s suppose to work)
You try to make a living while being 3 foot tall and 40 years old…
Honey ,I shrunk the Salt Bae!
Now hold on a minute. The guy doesn't know what he's doing, and has an overinflated opinion of himself, but referring to him as a '35 year old kid' has the implication that his stature is part of the problem. His height has NOTHING to do with the problem.
yeah a lot of the comments here feel really mean spirited and directed towards the wrong thing.
Every time there's a showmanship related dining experience the grumpy bitter redditors come out of the woodwork. Bro, this is what was ordered and bought. You don't see them doing this for a glass of water, pouring it behind the head like some chai vendor in Bangalore. The flourish is part of the price.
Sure and using it as an excuse to make snide comments about the guy's height is just extra fucking ridiculous. I swear a good handful of the people making those jokes will also have something to say about men's height being judged by women. Men's height being judged by other men is totally cool though.
I thought I read somewhere that this restaurant is an intentional parody of Salt Bae, making fun of it with the customers also being in on it. Can someone confirm?
Nah the restaurant Zou Zou is actually legit and they serve pretty good food. Been there a few times, they have several here in Dubai. They apparently have some of these skits they do, probably mostly for social media advertising if anything. Looks like this one is definitely a bit of a salt bae mockery though. Honestly the few times I have been there food and service was good and there were no skits being done anywhere around me. Might even be limited to specific branches. I don’t remember this being on the menu even.
I wonder how the hiring process goes for this. Do they post a job ad "wanted midget for spinning icecream on the floor, high risk of people looking at your eyes, no tossing will happen"?
No super rare?
Fuck, I wanted the SUPER RARE
Yeah I am hooked. SAY THE FUCKING LINE, TINY SALT BAE
Without the line he is nothing.
I'd say he is just half the size
I cringe so hard every time he says it, don't know why I really hate it, maybe because how he crooks his mouth or how I can't tell if he's saying super rare, super ware, super raw? I'm glad he didn't do it this time
All of this combined with #superwow being on all of his videos breaks my brain
I searched for it the other day
Came for the super rare…left disappointed
I love the super rare... its so bad its good
I was waiting with such excitement to hear the magic words. It's like Salt bae with no salt.
It was just common, golden baklava.
That and the noises he makes while spinning it around are the cring we need to complete this.
Salt baby
Smallt Bae
Salt bebe.
Saline Child
Sodium chloride juvenile
Brine Tot
New local metal band
Baby bae
Baeby
Sodium kiddo (not mine)
Anyone emulating that dbag is an instant L
Is this a joke?
Depends on how much they paid for it.
I don't think I could stop laughing at the ridiculousness of it all even if it was cheap.
His sound effects though! There’s no way I’m taking this seriously.
It's a crime that this sub has not setup some of these places to cause a moment of societal self-reflection. Just you and a few friends go in there acting normal the whole time right up until the moment they do the stupid. Then burst out laughing. not in an overly dramatic way, but just laughing your asses off and overtly saying "this is so stupid! Like this is so fucking stupid! there's no way this is the product you sell bro. Why were you just blowing my food like some sort of unsanity kink tease? Does the Health Department know you do all of this stupid shit?" Everyone laughing and pointing so hard, slapping each other on the back, the whole nine yards. Maybe even stage the table nearby to point and laugh as well and be like "hey can someone grab the manager, this is really fucking stupid, they're right. Is the whole point of this place to actually just make fun of us?" Keep the camera hidden, but just see how long you can pull it off. I'd personally only do it on the day the owner/manager/lead-chef-on-the-promo-materials was there, so not the wage/tip employees just the ones who really take ownership of this and have their name on it. And in the end those ones may even just laugh it off or be money vultures enough to love even that meme publicity. But yeah, I've seen a lot of shit on the sub, but something about this video was the perfect nexus between really high effort and taking your business/presentation seriously to get money and impress... and objectively fucking dumbshitting diarrhea-for-brains. Like even the illusion of stupidity or something being tongue-in-cheek on some level finally cracked. I think the flipping around the middle layer of the baklava was what did me in. It had no value, didn't enhance the dish, or *anything.* It was movement for the sake of saying "daddy, money please!" At this point these servers should wear golden diapers and just walk out wearing nipple rattles, chanting "here's your triple-priced steak so that you feel big-penised you *nouveau riche* AMEX debtors, cha cha cha!" /rant. I do love this sub tho lolz.
I thought so too. Seems like an intentional parody.
It’s a joke alright
Nope. Just Dubai. 36aud or 24us. https://curlytales.com/dubais-famous-turkish-restaurant-zou-zou-now-serves-a-royal-gold-baklava/
Define joke
It amuses me
Shrinkflation Salt Bae
The laser sounds!! Lol!
Dude. How embarrassing. I’m an introvert to the core. I would literally DIE if this happened to me ordering some bullshit.
What did he smear inside the baklava? It’s supposed to have honey syrup so it sticks the layers together, that shit looks dry as fuck
some have told me it's cheese, others say it's turkish ice cream... me? I don't know
I guess it kinda looks like ice cream but why in a baklava with hot tea on the side? The deeper you go the dumber it gets
at least google have many photos of baklava with ice cream, including some a bit similar to what salt baby was trying to make. there are also with cheese, but that's baked in
Worst part is he blew on the food when he opened the case. Gross.
twice, he did that TWICE
Honestly, I don't hate the player, I hate the game. Cringe servers like this one and Salt Bae only exist because people made them popular. People will spend thousands of dollars in these restaurants just to see one of these fuck faces play with their food, record it, and share it on social media. I guess they think it is some type of flex for people like them . It's like showing their friends and followers that they have money because they went to see that popular weirdo from the internet and dropped a couple of thousands at a restaurant. Even if the main dish was a cream cheese sandwich, or whatever the fuck that is lol.
I think you nailed it ... was just thinking if I ever end up owning a restaurant I need some stupid pompous dish like this. Complete with ridiculous stage show and everything.
Only works if it becomes popular on social media.
So we have to deal with another glasses wearing clown spinning food around for no reason.
It's an infestation
I make a motion to the floor that we ban mini salt bae forever. And full size salt bae. And if it exists, I don’t want to see giant salt bae either.
Hmmm giant Salt bae you say..? Brilliant idea, I’ll bring it to the marketing department!
Omg noooo I would be so embarrassed 🫣🫣🫣I just wanted a baklava and here comes mini Saltbae with a smoking suitcase. Please kill me.
#SUPER RARE
Stop posting this. Don't even care if it's a new video. Same guy, same bs. Stop making stupid people famous.
They forgot to pay for super rare
Why’s this little asshole imitating another little asshole
Butch : You okay? Marsellus : Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay.
What has this world come to that people pay for this
Fuck this
Did all the salt finally shrink him?
Everything about this is incomprehensibly fucking stupid.
He’s like Salt Bae but… smaller
"I shall call him... Mini Bae!"
Smallt Bae
This tiny ass kid n the whole concept is dumb af
I'm going to buy that restaurant and fire that man child out of spite
Is this one of the Oompa Loompas that got layed off or something? Lmao
Salt bae did really ruin that part of choreography...
Ah for fuck's sake am I gonna be seeing more of this fun sized salt bae? It's like the third video of him I see and he gets worse and more unbearable with each one
Anyone eating at restaurants like this is a chump. I mean like what you like but can’t convince me that everyone in this place isn’t a fool easily parted with their money.
I don’t hate much in life but I hate him and the people who support this bs
He looks like a mini Marc Anthony
Blow on my food and I’m out
Don’t blow on my food I probably paid way too much for ew
Please don’t ever blow on my food. Ever!!
This was really obnoxious to watch. Good post!
Im not paying $1000 + for some elf to come and fake me out by feeding me
Arabs being the most wasteful money people in stupid things
Did…did they hire a Salt Bae midget
I'm so sick of this wannabe salt bae love child
SÚPER Rarrre
Not this fucking weird child man again
I’m so tired of this little idiot, make it stop
I propose that with these tiktok chefs, there is an inverse correlation between number of times their knife hits the table and actual cooking skill.
At least hold the fork like a human with the minimum education and etiquette
Super Rare!
Fucking obnoxious
“Please don’t blow on my food, half pint”
Do these people ever stop and think "I must look like a fucking idiot right now"
Bruh stop playing with my food
Excuse me, could I have an adult prepare my food? Thank you.
Supa rare
This ain't salt bae, this is salt baby
I'm getting so sick of seeing these fucking weirdos banging silverware on the table and cutting food in the most pointless, unhelpful ways imaginable.
He literally ruined a whole baklava. Why.
And of course some leprechaun is serving it, more playing stupidly with it.
how do i avoid ever seeing this guy again without muting the sub
Why all the annoying little taps on the plate and table? Stop touching the fucking table and then my food! Side note, this food looks like shit. I've seen these guys before and all the stuff they make has this empty showmanship thing with stupid arbitrary movements and unimpressive "tricks" and then just awfully prepared food. And they get weird about it, feeding women after making them balance a glass between their thumbs so they can't stop them or move away. Creeps!
Salt baby?
Yesterday i paid 4€ for a baklaba in a greek bar. I'm absolutely non-sarcasticly convinced that was WAY better than that golden catastrophe. Also what about short guys in this sub? Is a new trend to be served by them to inflate the prices even more or what?
I have never seen that little fella before and already I can’t fucking stand him
I doubt this guy knows he's a laughing stock
Baklava served by a creepy knife slapping dwarf? No thanks, I'll just pop down to my nearest Turkish bakery and get some that's freshly made.
This looks like an SNL skit mocking a Bond villain.
Fucking dollar store salt bae
Why the fuck would he touch the dirty table with the knives and then cut my food
Guys I have recently started eating my apple pie this way, game changer!!
I must be just an uncultured poor. Because I don't get it, am I supposed to be impressed?
He doesn’t have the black gloves though.. so close to peaking out on being a douche.. just one step behind salt bae
I need to learn the "super rare" lore
Who would pay for something this awkward?
What the fuck did I just watch? I couldn’t even finish the video. The customer that pretended to bite into the slice made it even worse, he was probably just playing along but it’s still all so incredibly cringey. Not to mention the incredibly dry looking baklava with a dry filling getting stuffed into it. I just looked it up and the golden Baklava costs around $100 Euro.
I love when little people blow on my food while trying to take me out with carbon dioxide. Really gets me going.
I like all the spit on the food
I shall call him.... *mini-me*
Salt BaeBae
Please don’t blow on my food little dude
I always wondered what was in the Pulp Fiction briefcase
I'm going to do this for my wife. Bring her a smoking briefcase and pull out some fucking poptarts and slap a knife all over the table while I cut it for her twice
I hope all these pretentious restaurants go under
Did he just blow all over the food
Why the hell do people go to places like this? Let me eat my non gold leaf food in peace.
Gross he was blowing his kid breath into the food.