This is a.. .
Pepito. This is meat.
Is that Pepito?
No, it says Pepito right here.
Looks delicious.
Hi, I'm Omar from Young Royals.
And I'm Edvin.
We costarred together in Young Royals on Netflix.
And we're so excited we're making a season three.
It's the holidays.
And I was born in Venezuela before moving to Sweden, so I'm
going to share some famous Venezuelan foods with you.
I'm so excited.
This is Taste Buds
We are going to start with the arepas.
This is something that I personally love eating for breakfast.
Okay.
For breakfast, you can have eggs, avocado, cheese, a lot of butter.
This is chicken and avocado.
And what's this?
It looks like pancakes.
Let's take a bite. Yeah, let's do it.
Okay.
Cheers. Cheers.
Vale, vamos.
Oh, wow.
Oh, yeah. That's nice.
I actually don't do this...
I don't cook arepas myself because I'm lazy.
It's not super hard, though.
I don't get the bread
this good. It's hard to get it like this.
This is delicious.
Mine was very spicy.
It was?
Yeah, mine was good. Nice.
Funny thing, I don't really remember the first year
when I moved to Sweden. Everything was so completely different.
But I do remember everything before.
It was a big difference from Venezuela.
Yeah, I like the language, but I kind of picked the language up really quick.
Like after just six months or something, I start speaking.
I didn't really think speaking Spanish was cool.
No, I thought Swedish was cool. Yeah.
And then my mom got so mad, and whenever I said to her, like...
I’m thirsty. Can I please get a water, mom? or whatever.
She was like, I don't understand what you're saying.
She's like, I'm like super strict.
The language...
Can you please give me like, I don't
know, whatever, whatever it was, she was like: Do I look Swedish to you?
I'm not understanding a single word you're saying to me until you start
speaking Spanish.
And then thanks to her, I speak Spanish like fluently.
Yeah. Now you're like trilingual.
You speak English, Swedish and Spanish.
My mom's Arepas are better, trust me.
How long does it take to, like, make one?
Like, if I'm.
If I'm tired at home and I feel like I'm just about to go to sleep.
10 minutes.
I feel like, I want some arepas
10 minutes, 10 minutes with eggs and cheese and butter.
10 minutes.
It was good.
I think I like...
the meat one more than the chicken one.
Actually, we should try the Hallacas.
Hallacas
Yes. Okay. What does it mean?
What does hallaca mean?
It's just a name, I think. Okay, um.
But this this is.
Trying to find the meaning of all this.
This is something that you eat on the holidays.
Okay. Christmas and New Year's.
Yeah. In Venezuela.
This takes a lot of time cooking.
We are picky eater when you were a kid.
Yeah, a little more picky.
Yeah, than what I am today. Yeah.
Whenever I wanted to eat this or whenever my mom
because my mom always said to me, you have to eat
hallaca, every single Christmas.
And I'm like, Oh,
all my family were like, Are you not going to eat in a hallaca, here?
Okay, don't get away.
You have to eat it. You have to eat it. Okay.
And so sometimes they were nice to me and they made like a special hallaca
for me without like olives and stuff in it.
The kids version.
Yeah.
The kids version was super easy.
I haven't eaten an hallaca in years, I think.
This is a hard.
Okay, no, no.
You actually cook these.
So you put it in.
You put it in boiling water. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. You're not eating.
No, you're not going to eat the leaves.
You're not going to eat the leaves.
That was close. They're huge.
Oh, Bebé linda...
Tu eres mi corazon.
it looks like a real hallaca.
You got it.
You see it?
Oh, that was close.
When I was a kid I didn't like these.
Raisins.
Yes. Yeah.
You know, all of these words in English that I keep, keep forgetting.
Let's try an Hallaca.
It looks a bit like an omelet.
Well, I hope I don't forget the dough.
I never thought in my life that I would see you eating an Hallaca.
Me neither.
I don't know why you didn't like this as a kid. I don't know.
But I like it more today.
I mean, I don't hate Hallaca.
It's very like a...
This one was actually pretty good.
Yeah, this was really good.
My family, we do a lot of
traditions, especially at Christmas.
We have this thing in Sweden, which is like it's called Julmust. Super good.
Yeah.
It's like
it's like a soda.
Yeah, it's like a soda, but it tastes...
Christmas.
I don't know really what it taste like.
It's Christmas in a soda. Yeah, it's super, super good.
So we’ll mixed that with, like, beer and red wine.
I think we. What?
Yeah, it's a super weird combination.
That's a fun tradition.
I've never heard about this tradition, ever.
Me neither. That's the thing.
I've never heard anyone else outside of my family who's done this.
What I love doing is being with my family
like Christmas and New Year's Eve.
A lot of my family have moved out from Venezuela to Argentina,
the Caribbean, the US, Spain, we're in Sweden.
So it's been hard being together.
Some of my family, we're going to be together in Spain
for New Year's and Christmas Eve this this year.
So for 2023, nice for the first time in like over ten years.
Well, that's nice. Yeah.
So it's going to be so much fun. Yeah.
So we're going to do this.
I'm going to get a special one and we're going to dance to
holiday music and so on.
Holiday music. To your music?
No, not my music. Okay.
Bro.
No. This was good.
I actually enjoyed it.
Yeah, that makes me happy. Yeah. Good.
What's this?
So, are you ready for the last bite?
Yeah, so far it's two for two.
I like them both. Nice, I'm happy.
This is also something that we usually eat
during Christmas and New Year's Eve.
It's called Pan de Jamon. Super easy, you know,
Pan de Jamon. Bread with ham.
Let's try it.
Let's see if your taste buds have developed.
Cheers.
Vale.
Do you feel the sweetness?
Yeah. I was just going to say.
There's something very sweet in this.
Is there something like some sort of dough or something in this?
I mean, the bread is a dough.
Well, it's very sweet.
Is it common.
To have olives in them?
I think so, yeah. Yeah, but not bacon.
Not bacon? No.
This is something this is a twist with a bacon. Oh.
The New York. Version. Yeah. Yeah,
I think.
I think it's okay.
I was talking to our head writer, Lisa Amjorn.
She said, like, I've always pictured Young Royals in three parts,
thanks to the fandom and thanks to our audience
that we're able to make a season three because they've been so engaged,
so passionate about the story, for us to...
be able to, like, close this beautiful story.
Yeah.
With with the third season.
Is a...
It's a treat.
I think. It's crazy.
But it’s such a nice project because like it was your first acting gig
and it was the first time I there's a clear, like, breaking point
between me, before I got the part and after I got the part.
I think both of us have been we've developed so much like
as persons and as friends and as actors.
It's just a huge thing.
feeling represented in some way.
Feeling of being represented and the feeling of being accepted of
who you are.
That's what I want our audience to
remember that like.
It doesn't matter who you are.
Yeah.
You're valid no matter who you are.
Yeah, no matter the circumstance, just be yourself.
I guess that's what I want the audience to take with them.
I feel happy that we're getting to do
the third season, but also sad because it's going to end.
Yeah. Thank you for being my taste buds.
Of course.
Thank you for trying out the Venezuelan food.
Muchisimas gracias.
De nada. Gracias. De nada señor.
Bebé linda
Yeah.