- Hi, I'm Beryl,
and the theme for today's video
is a super last minute idea
because the original theme, I didn't get done in time.
(laughs)
Before we get too far, the artist today is Brian Hong.
He is an illustrator from Canada.
He said that his recent work is inspired
by his Vietnamese heritage,
and it's been a way for him to connect
with a little bit about who he is,
and I love the kind of magical-ness
and everything that I thought would pair well
with this video.
I'm gonna leave a link
to his Instagram and to his shop.
The first dish that I'm making is from Ponyo.
- Abracadabra! - Ah!
It's not, you know, I mean, it's not a bad film,
it's just like, is it my...
It's okay.
(laughs nervously)
- It's ham! - [Beryl] But the food
looks good.
So, we're gonna try to make the ramen from Ponyo.
On a side note,
I am wearing my most Ghibli inspired earrings today.
We've got Kiki's Delivery Service, kind of.
I mean, they're mismatched, but it's okay.
Personally, my favorite is actually Porco Rosso,
or The Cat Returns.
Those are both really, really good.
And I feel like people don't talk about them enough.
Okay. Anyway, I'm getting distracted.
Let's make the first ramen.
So, I'm going to this Japanese grocery store,
and it's actually the oldest Japanese grocery store
in the city.
And I live kind of close to it,
so that's pretty cool.
Also, oh my God.
It's definitely, officially summer.
Ugh, it's so hot.
It's so hot.
By the way, a lot of New York City
looks like this right now.
This is Katagiri.
Like I said, the oldest Japanese grocery store
in New York City, it was established in 1907.
I'm buying just like a single bag of rice,
because I'm being lazy.
I need some green onions for the recipe.
Oh, Kewpie Mayo.
I love you.
Look at these pancakes!
Would my pancakes look like this?
I'm just gonna get some classic chicken ramen,
some sliced ham, seaweed.
Ooh, karaage.
Look at these taiyakis, they're so cute.
Oh, these are from my sick foods video,
I remember these.
And I need to try this spam musubi.
It just looks really, really good.
Okay, so now I'm gonna head home.
La di dah.
Okay, this is good.
Okay, so we're gonna make the ramen dish
from the movie Ponyo.
If you haven't seen Ponyo, it's a story
in essence of a fish that becomes a girl.
That's literally, there's so much more to the plot,
but that's where I'm going to leave it for you.
It was released in 2008 and it was aimed at children.
So, it is different from a lot of the other Miyazaki movies,
but it's hard to kind of totally separate them.
So, when I saw it, I was super excited,
and then I was like, "Wow, this really is for children."
It's not a terrible film, but like,
I feel like most adults don't include this
when they talk about how much they love
Miyazaki's films.
This is a random fan theory about Ponyo,
but if you look at Kiki's Delivery Service,
Ponyo and Sosuke look a lot like
the children version of Mr and Mrs Osono.
Here's a photo of the two of them side-by-side.
So, the theory is that Miyazaki 19 years earlier
had foreshadowed these two characters.
I mean maybe, maybe, but you know,
we're just here to make the ramen.
So, you know, I just toasted some ham,
put in this egg, and I'm putting tons of toppings,
because I wanted it to look prettier.
And I feel like I've truly captured the ramen from Ponyo.
I feel like it looks like it.
Like it worked.
I mean, to be fair, it's not that complicated,
but I still feel like a success.
All right.
Got a piece of ham in this.
Good ham.
Kind of smoky,
adds a nice little flavor to the ramen.
You know, you haven't really added much to this ramen,
so it's more about a visual presentation,
which is really nice.
You know, I've made a lot of these
dressed-up instant noodle videos now.
And I feel like this one is cute,
but it's not that inspired.
It's okay.
Honestly, I feel like the ham
is really the best part of this whole thing.
This ramen being from Ponyo checks out,
you know, it feels like pretty basic,
kind of like a kid would like it.
I could have made it a little fancier.
To make this fancier,
I would have added some of the mayonnaise
in that last instant ramen hack that I did.
Adding the Kewpie.
My precious.
Ooh!
Oh my god, that broth is so yummy.
Um, you know, it's okay.
It was good, it wasn't bad.
Okay, I'm gonna do the onigiri now from Spirited Away.
And I'm excited because I've never made them,
but I love them.
So, I'm gonna be making onigiri
modeled after this scene from Spirited Away.
Spirited Away is probably Miyazaki's most famous film,
it did win the Academy Award in the United States
for Best Animated Film,
and it actually is the first and only
hand-drawn, non-English language animated film
to win that award.
So, you know, that's a pretty big deal.
Let's just take a moment
and stare hypnotically into my glass pot.
Hypno-toad wants you to stare into the pot.
Spirited Away until recently
was actually the top-grossing box office film
in Japanese history.
But in 2020, it was dethroned by Demon Slayer.
I really do love Spirited Away,
I think it is a fabulous movie,
and I feel like it embodies everything
that makes a Studio Ghibli film
such a masterpiece.
The backgrounds are amazing, the music is amazing,
the design, the costuming.
And this is my onigiri,
it's like the size of my whole hand,
which means it's gonna be good.
I put it in a handkerchief,
because I felt like that made it more authentic
to the film.
Nothing is more satisfying than when she eats it,
like next to that field,
like (chewing noises) "oh, I'm so hungry."
This also, like, it looks pretty good.
I got the shape right, at least.
That was only rice.
That was literally just rice.
I got no filling.
The rice was fine though.
Wait, I'll eat it like her.
(moans)
(laughs)
That was weird.
I feel like we've got an amateur mistake here,
not sure how to fix it,
but all of the tuna seems to be right here.
And then you've got this territory,
which is just going to be plain rice.
So, you know.
The tuna's good.
You know why it's good?
Because I use Kewpie mayonnaise,
the greatest mayonnaise that's ever been created.
And if you still haven't tried it yet...
(sighs) I don't know.
I don't know why you haven't tried it yet.
A lot of rice right after those noodles.
I'm gonna fall asleep.
It'd be fun to do something like this again,
but I definitely would need help,
because I don't know that much about anime or manga.
So, I'm gonna have to ask you all,
who maybe know a little bit more,
leave me a manga to read.
I love comics as you know,
so I feel like I'd probably really like it.
Or, leave me a anime series to watch.
I have literally all the streamers,
like all 7,000 of them.
Why do we have so many streamers now, you know?
What am I gonna do?
Be spending like hundreds a month?
Like, that's absolutely ridiculous.
Like, every single company wants us to do it.
(sighs)
Er, I guess that's it.
I will be looking in the comments
and until then I will see you all in my next video.