(Jalissa laughs)
(upbeat electronic music)
- So, guess what, y'all?
- Hell, yeah.
- Hell, yeah, what?
We haven't even started yet.
We did a collaboration with.
- Tasty! - Tasty!
(laughing)
If you guys don't know what Tasty is,
- It's the biggest pages in Buzzfeed.
- It literally is all food,
and you know, we love food.
Not only did we collab with them,
we brought an authentic signature Dominican dish to Tasty.
Mangú con los tres golpes is mangu,
which is mashed plantains,
just like how you would mashed potatoes,
but with platano verde
fried salami, fried queso y huevo.
But let's talk about the experience from the beginning.
- From the beginning.
- You know to start off the day, I was excited.
I woke up so excited today.
It's the Tasty collab me and Gadiel are doing.
So look where we are in the Tasty kitchen.
- Hi.
- This is Matthew.
- Hi.
- He's leading it because he's a tasty chef.
Matthew's one of the producers at Tasty
who we reached out to to make this video
and he was happily on board.
- He was super excited,
yo, I think Julissa hit him up on Wednesday,
on Friday he was already ready to go.
- He was so enthusiastic about our food.
- Our food.
- About bringing our food to light.
- Yeah.
- And showing everybody that follows Tasty
what we have to bring to the table.
He's like teaching me how to do this,
look how I have to film top down.
Matthew was so welcoming,
teaching us how Tasty does their thing and showing us around
but we didn't know what we were in for.
I had never been upstairs to the Tasty kitchen before.
I didn't even know where it was at.
So going up there and seeing how massive it was
and then seeing all these different shoots
happening simultaneously, I got nervous.
- [Gadiel] Julissa's all nervous here, you got this girl.
- Like it's really hard to cut out or mask so don't do that.
- Right.
- You got this, girl.
You've been on so many videos and done so many things.
- I know.
- And that point you were nervous, why was it?
- I think it was because I was taken out of my element.
This is something I have never done before.
So it was like 'Oh, espera.'
'I have to make sure that I do this right.'
- Right.
- [Jalissa] For all our people
that were gonna watch us represent,
you know, no pressure, and then also for Matthew
because I feel like-
- [Gadiel] He took a risk
- He took a risk with doing this,
on top of the fact that like
Tasty doesn't do things like this
and he was like
'I'm putting personalities in front of this.'
- When it comes to mangu, it's so easy to make.
To make that shit in our own kitchen.
- Mm-hm
- But Tasty is so intricate
- We could not, we couldn't get it right.
- It was tiring as hell.
Doing things over and over again.
- [Jalissa] Over and over but the same way over and over.
- Like directly over the bowl, like over that bowl, okay.
- Okay, got it.
- Okay, go for it.
Nice, perfect.
- Can I come in? Did he do it wrong?
- It's not bad, just a little bit to the left
and a little bit more centered.
- Never knows what he's doing.
- Tea.
- K, ready, three, two, one, go.
Oh, no, you have to like,
you have to like have it all the way, there we go.
- [Gadiel] I feel like he was having a lot more fun with us.
- [Jalissa] Yeah.
Because every-
Every two seconds 'Gadiel, pay attention,'
'Gadiel, pay attention,' 'Gadiel, pay attention.'
- Yo tengo ADD, I can't pay any attention to anything.
- Pay attention.
- [Matthew] We're trying to get introductions and not-
- We're listening, Matthew's telling us
what we're supposed to do and Gadiel's standing there
and then looks at me after.
- [Matthew] So, um
- My bad, this is a good filter.
- No, no, no, yes.
(both laugh)
He had so much patience with us.
- He did.
- Even though we were joking the entire time.
But it was so cool, apart from it being like
something that we don't normally do, right.
- Yeah.
- It was good to see something,
another complete different part of Buzzfeed.
I think that being there allowed me to appreciate
that department so much more.
- So much.
- I was like
if you're really putting all this effort into doing this.
I think that that was the best part of it
although we were working so much,
although it was so much more,
much more energy was taken from us then we expected,
we were like so happy to just be doing it
because we were doing something that we love.
- [Gadiel] And we were having fun.
- We were having fun,
something that we normally do on Saturday or a Sunday
We were doing it while we were working.
I definitely feel like after it was all said and done,
I went home, I remember I even text you and I was like-
- Yeah, we were so proud that day.
- I was proud, I text Gadiel and I was just like,
'Man, today we had a good time like I enjoyed it,'
'it was so good, and it made me happy.'
Like, we did that.
- The funny thing is when you texted me
I was thinking about texting you too.
- That's so funny.
Yeah, cause you text me back right away
(both laugh)
- It was so much fun working with you.
- And then doing something different together
like two people coming from the same place
but then doing something outside of our comfort zones
but within that we did something that we know
which was cook something for our people.
- Our people.
- And it was to put our people on the map.
- Yeah, I feel like it was our job
not only to represent Dominican Republic
- Absolutely.
And we'll continue to do that
because I think that we already have that bug in us.
- Yeah.
- That that's like what we want
and I think that I'm not gonna stop
until everyone's represented.
So yeah, shout out to Tasty
for giving us the opportunity to make something
so memorable that will live on forever.
- Yeah, it was a whole lot of fun
and it was great experience
and it was also a great learning experience, you know.
- Absolutely. Dominicano forever.
(Jalissa laughs)
- Plantano power.
(light Latin music)