- It's fun to play with.
It's fun to play with.
- Whoa.
(Ev gasping) (whimsical music)
- If you could see what Ev can see right now.
- For anyone who doesn't bite their ice cream,
you have a major problem.
- [Announcer] Meanwhile.
(slurping noises)
(upbeat music)
- Today we are trying Korean ice cream.
- And guessing the flavors.
- Based on its appearance.
- With each one becoming more and more unique.
I feel like it's gonna be super creative
and way better, potentially, than what we're used to.
- How special, let's get started.
- Let's get started.
(speaks Korean)
My name is Shona.
I'm an Australian born Korean
from a platform called Kozziecom.
Koreans enjoy ice cream all year round.
In fact, there's a Korean saying
"That the colder day, the better the ice cream tastes."
So it's not rare to catch a Korean eating ice cream
in the middle of winter.
The team at Buzzfeed asked me to show them some
of Korea's most popular ice creams.
First up, we have Subak Bar.
It's a watermelon resembling ice cream on a stick.
With little chocolate coat of peanuts, resembling seeds.
It's best had on a really, really hot day.
And it's really fun
because it looks exactly like a watermelon
- Cute.
- Oh my God, mine's bendy.
- Oh, it smells like tutti frutti.
- Why does my one have a knob and yours doesn't?
- You can't ask that, right?
(both laughing)
You can't just ask people why they have knobs, man.
I reckon this is gonna taste like...
I just forgot all fruit in general.
- Dude.
- Apple.
- This nah, bro.
Come on.
- Okay, it looks like a red watermelon,
but it tastes like cantelope.
- It...
- Taste like watermelon.
- It doesn't really though.
- Does it not?
- It tastes like what kids think watermelon tastes like,
you know?
- What do kids think waterman tastes like,
in your experience?
- Watermelon flavored lollies.
I'm trying to get a seed.
Mm, I've got one.
Chocolate.
Yeah, it's chocolate.
Mm, that's a nice little add,
little texture crunch in there.
- But the seeds are peanuts.
- Peanuts?
- Ooh, that's a surprise.
They don't look like peanuts.
- They're so small.
- This is definitely not.
- Branching out.
- Buzzfeed, I know a good nut, but I see one.
- The next ice cream is B.B.BIG.
It's a creamy red bean bar.
That's both sweet and refreshing at the same time.
Red bean is also really prominent flavor in Korean food
and during Korea's early history, grain was super expensive
so people consumed a lot of beans instead.
It's red color was also thought
off to ward off any negative energy.
- Ba, ba, ba, ba, big! (explosion sound)
- Its big, it's kind of like a BBC.
You know, the channel British Broadcast.
- Ooh!
- Mine's all icy.
- It looks like a sausage.
(both laughing)
- It does.
It looks like a hot dog.
- Oh, why is this turning into
like an OnlyFan's Buzzfeed edition?
- Yeah.
(Fash giggling)
- [Tom] Come on guys, it's just an ice cream.
It's just an ice cream.
- Okay, lemme try.
Oh wow.
- Like what?
- That's not what you were expecting.
Is that, what is that?
What is that?
- Whoa.
Oh, I love these.
I know exactly what this is.
- We've never tasted something like this before.
- It's just a red bean.
Oh, no way.
I never would've thought of that.
That's crazy.
'Cause it's red and there's beans.
That's insane.
- I have no idea what this tastes like.
- For Chinese, we know know we instantly
'cause we have this for soups.
- This is very unique, interesting,
never been done before.
- No.
- It's different.
It's good.
- So go to your Asian grocery
and get some B.B.BIG's, my friend.
And you'll have big bean energy.
- Next ice cream, please.
- Korean food is really big on the Ddan-Jjan combination.
So sweet and savory or sweet and salty.
So this next dessert is sort of like that,
shape's like a corn.
This next ice cream has a thin layer of chocolate
inside its wave with these little chewy kernels inside.
The sweetness of the corn is like a vanilla bean substitute
and it's definitely worth a try
because it's that perfect combination of sweet and savory
- Little sweet corn.
- Oh my God it's like a baby sweet corn.
- God, the detail that they put in the wave bar.
It's so impressive.
- Corn flavor.
That's my guess.
- Oh, what makes you share that?
- Smells like corn.
- Ooh, is that chocolate?
- It smells like corn.
- Do I smell chocolate?
- Smells like popcorn and pancakes.
- What's what do you call this?
- Corn.
- No, like the shell.
- Corn.
- Lets try it.
- Oh that's soft.
- Ah, looks like a banana inside.
There's chocolate,
there's vanilla ice cream I assume.
- Don't feel like a banana look.
- Oh my God!
- What are we?
What is that?
- That's corn flavor.
You're literally tasting sweet corn.
- Look.
- Oh what?
Let's open this bag look, look, look, look, look, look.
- There is corn pieces in the ice cream.
- If you loved sweet corn though,
this is an ice cream for you.
How many people love sweet corn?
- I like sweet corn.
I love sweet corn.
- How many people love it that much?
- I freaking love sweet corn.
- I'm definitely saying this one is my favorite so far.
- My favorite food is sweet corn.
(laughter)
- I like, I love sweet corn man.
- Sweet corn is awesome.
- Introducing Samanco, the cross between a wafer
and an ice cream sandwich with a sweet red bean filling.
Don't judge a book by it's cover though.
This tastes nothing like fish.
Growing up Korean in Australia I have so many memories
of following my mom to the grocery
and sneaking in some of these little ice creams
into her baskets.
- There she is!
- Oh hello.
- Looks like the classic Australian...
- Book where the fish has rainbow scales
and then it like gives the scales out to all its friends.
- What is it called?
That book?
- Fish scale Australian book children's.
keywords, keywords, keywords guys, keywords.
You'll find it if you Google it.
Let's do a little...
We're doing that?
Open. unboxing fish unboxing.
- Sorry fishy.
- Wow.
Its green, music that oh, there's more!
- You're so excited about this.
Is that red bean again?
- I think so or jam.
- We're very fishy.
I think this is like sardine.
- You being serious?
- That's definitely mache right?
- Oh, here Mache.
- You would love that one.
I love this one.
'Cause this reminds me of being a kid.
Yeah, vanilla ice cream wafer like a red bean card.
- This is like green tea mache.
I love green tea much.
- Yeah green tea mache and a red bean.
- I should put green tea in everything.
Green tea is good, it's like the best tea.
- This is so fun.
The little detail, the different flavors,
the textures going on.
I am a big fan.
- I'm about to introduce you to my most favorite ice cream,
Screw bar.
Shaped like a Guabegi,
which is a really popular Korean street food snack.
It's like a twisted donut.
This ice cream is a strawberry/apple flavor combination.
And it's just so sweet and perfect
on a really hot summer day.
I'm trying so hard to not sexualize any of these.
This one's called Screw.
(nylon paper rustling)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude.
- Dude, ah, looks like a screwdriver, like a screw.
(laughter)
- Like you screwed it with a screwdriver.
- It's fun to play with.
It's fun to play with, yeah.
Whoa!
For anyone who doesn't bite their ice cream.
- Oh, 100%.
- You have a major problem.
- [Announcer] Meanwhile!
(slurping)
- You wanna put in like your Instagram photo?
- I just spot on you, sorry.
- No that's alright.
You can spin on me a bit more if you want.
(both laughing)
(speaks Korean)
- I feel nothing.
- I really like this one.
It's very fun.
I love the shape.
- But flavor wise it's a mystery.
- Describe it.
- I'm thinking bro.
I dunno, man.
- I'm gonna say apple and strawberry.
- Strappleberry?
- [Tom] Its strawberry and apple, I mean.
- Oh, so the middle must be apple then.
- Apple, yeah, yeah.
- Okay, moving on.
- You needs to go with that audience like, "Ah!"
- If you know a Korean you probably know
that most of us love to drink.
So do yourself a favor
and the next time you are having a big night out,
definitely pick up a Tank Boy ice cream.
Tank Boy is based off the Korean pear,
which is super hydrating
and the best part of this ice cream
is when you get to rip off the tip
and then share it with a friend.
- He just took that off me.
Show it to the camera.
- Bottle.
- It's like a little baby's bottle.
- Yes, you're trying to imply this is very phallic
and I guess it does match the color of mine.
And I guess your one matches the color of yours.
I reckon this is like your cult flavor, bro.
- Yeah.
Yeah bro.
- Oh, oh, oh!
- I think you pop it.
- Oh!
- You did it, okay.
- Oh my!
- Sorry, dude.
- What the hell?
- What?
- This is so good.
- No it's okay.
Nothing happened.
- Like it tastes like iron brew or something,
creaming soda.
- Looks really good, not your cold flavor.
I'm just, I lied, I was wrong.
Like a fruity flavor.
It's like an apple kind of thing.
- I'm gonna go with bubble gum straight off.
Blue, bubble gum.
- I'm gonna say it's apple or pear.
- I'm gonna go like a creaming soda flavor.
- That is pear.
- Ah, pear.
- Soda.
- Yeah, right?
Cool, we're actually pretty good there.
- Last up we have the Bingsu,
a popular shaved ice cream dessert
that's both nutty, fruity and refreshing
at the same time.
Pings will trace us back
to Korea's earliest tours on dynasty.
Adding ice was only really accessible
to the elite back then and it wasn't until the 1920s,
when merchants started popping up all around town
and since then it's really become a dessert for the people.
- Oh!
- If you could see what F can see right now.
- This deserves an Instagram story baby.
- Whoa being so...
- Being so.
Oh, is that someone's hair?
- It looks a bit like yours.
You're right.
You losing hair already?
Eh, this is so fun
- I think this is a moment
where we have to do our little cheeky heart,
'cause like it's cute.
And then a buckle.
Oh my God.
- So wait, what are we looking at here?
Some sort of fruit?
- Yes that is...
- Shaved ice?
- That's very floss.
This looks like...
- Rock melon
- Rock melon oh yeah.
And then we have a little part
of condensed milk. - Condensed milk.
Oh my God.
- You ready?
- What are the magical experience?
- Oh my God.
My mom hates this condensed milk, no, bring soup.
What, why?
- No, she took me once to Bing soup
and she was like did we just pay $16
for half a bottle of ice?
She got really mad.
- Oh, mm mm.
- What flavor is the white stuff?
- Well, that's fresh melon.
- All right.
So that's all three compartments.
The furry floss, the rock melons...
- Oh and a bit of ice cream.
- And whatever's underneath all this furry ice cream.
- Like just tastes like sugar, but this doesn't.
- Oh, it's actual fruit.
- That's really yummy.
Actually tastes really healthy.
You could almost have this a breakfast.
- What did you think this was?
- No, because they serve like ice bowls.
- Oh it very creamy
- Mum, you're wrong, this is great.
Yeah, I know it's half a ball of ice,
but this is good ice.
- So fun, so sweet, so many different textures...
- Might take that away.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- One more, one more.
- That was great.
I'm surprised.
I actually didn't realize
it was so much different Korean ice creams
that I haven't tried.
- I'm having Bingsu every breakfast from now on
and for desert I'll have my strawberry screw.
(laughter)
- Like if you agree, breathing's crucial,
like if you breathe.
- Got any other cream snacks or ice creams
that you want us to try,
let us know in the comments below.