US TikToker Kalani Smith, from Mount Juliet, Tennessee, reviews British food to millions of viewers on his social media
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00:00A TikTok star from a small city in Tennessee has made it his mission to show the world
00:04British food is not all that bad.
00:07Food reviewer Kalani Smith, who goes by KalaniGhostHunterKGH online, racks up millions of views posting
00:14his reviews on social media, from Welshcakes to Greggs.
00:19After initially building up a following investigating the paranormal, a pivot to reviewing British
00:24culinary staples has seen Mr Smith's follower count balloon to more than 3 million on TikTok
00:29alone.
00:31Having recently toured South Wales, Mr Smith boldly declared Cardiff Market's food beats
00:36London's Camden Market's, 10 times out of 10.
00:39''The most interesting thing about this journey is that the perception around the world, especially
00:45in the US, is that the food in the UK is bland, it's bad,'' said Mr Smith.
00:50''I think my whole objective up until this point has been is to document that this is
00:55not the case.
00:57There's obviously things that are not good in every country, but there's also some things
01:01that are absolutely incredible.''
01:03''A lot of people come to the UK and they visit London, and that's their extent of visiting
01:08the UK,'' said Mr Smith, who hails from Mount Juliet in Tennessee.
01:13''Whereas I've been to so many cities in the UK that I've got a pretty good perception
01:18and understanding of the majority of food, I've had so many of the regional dishes.''
01:24Mr Smith's social media career as a ghost hunter took an unexpected turn when, on a
01:29trip to the UK earlier this year, he decided to review arguably the most British meal of
01:34them all, a roast dinner.
01:36''Things really took a change for me after that point,'' said Mr Smith, who has been
01:41a food reviewer ever since.
01:44Throughout his travels in the UK, the almost exclusive setting for his reviews, he found
01:49one cuisine particularly stood out.
01:52The UK's curry scene is untouchable, he said.
01:55''You can go to so many different parts of the UK and get a really good curry.''