- It's so, like, thick.
(coughing)
(laughing)
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- Hey y'all. What's up, I'm Destinee,
and I'm here in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
I've pretty much lived in Korea for the past 11,
almost 12 years, it's pretty much where I'm from.
Both of my parents were military, and we moved to Seoul,
which is about an hour and a half north,
in January of 2008.
I was going into the middle
of my freshman year of high school
and my sister was in the 7th grade.
We graduated high school out here
and my family decided to stay in Korea.
So this is pretty much where I go home every summer,
every Christmas break.
So, like, Korea is home to me.
Being a military kid, we always bounced around
from country to country, state to state,
and when we came to Korea,
I didn't really appreciate the fact that we were in Korea.
When people asked me what it was like growing up in Korea,
I would tell them it's like growing up
in any major metropolitan city,
because I really didn't know the difference,
aside from this time there were Korean people.
While we were in Seoul, I was pretty much a tri-athlete.
Every spring, summer, fall, I was doing some kind of sport.
So I literally was in school, in practice, shower, bed.
And so I never really got to experience much
of the Korean culture outside of my Korean teammates.
But over the past year and a half or so,
they started to shut down the base in Seoul,
so everybody's moved south to Pyeongtaek.
So this is my first time really getting
to hang out with my family,
in a different part of Korea than what I'm used to.
I figured with my niece's birthday coming up,
it would be a good way to explore a new side of the country,
while also getting to see my niece.
So, I'm linking up with one of my good friends Suvin,
who I went to high school with,
and she's gonna take me to a place called Sulbing.
Sulbing is a Korean dessert,
that's pretty much like shaved ice.
So think, snow cones, in New Orleans.
So the very popular Korean Sulbing dish is called Patbingsu.
Patbingsu is literally
bean shaved ice.
Sulbing was a super popular dish in high school.
Everybody was out, that was their Friday night thing to do,
was go and get Sulbing.
I don't know how I feel about having shaved ice
that has beans on it but, again,
I said I'm here to try something new,
so I'm gonna go for it.
I'm gonna bring my sister along to help me film,
but I also don't think she knows what she's in for.
Let's go!
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- [Destinee] Suvin!
- Ah, you scared me!
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Hi, how are you are you? - Hi, long time no see!
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- So you poured over it?
Ohhh!
- You don't have to do all of it,
you could do it later, leave half of it,
when that's all melted, you can pour more, it's up to you.
- Okay, and you said this is like a what?
- Condensed milk.
- Condensed milk, okay.
So this is the green tea with rice cake, right?
- [Suvin] And this is the original one.
- [Destinee] Oh.
Oh, this is good.
(Suvin laughing)
This is so good.
I was nervous because I'm like,
green tea doesn't really have a flavor for me in tea form.
- No, but ice cream at Baskin Robins is so good.
- This is really good.
Okay, now let's see, this is the cheese one, right?
- Oh, yeah.
Try it, it's the chunky cheese - I don't know man...
- But I know these are cheesecake.
- Oh, it tastes like cheesecake!
- Well, there's like chunks of weird cheese.
- Maybe I grabbed a cheesecake bite then.
I've now grabbed a chunk of cheese.
That's strange. - Right!
Now you can see, I told you, there is cheese and cheesecake.
But this one is my favorite.
- Okay, and this is the mint chocolate chip?
- With Oreos.
When it's melted I just mush it all together.
I'm sure this is kind of similar.
- Yeah, I imagine.
This is really good.
I think of all of these,
I think the green tea is my favorite though.
So I'm glad I went with this.
It tastes like...
I don't know, almost minty.
It has a slight hint of mint.
- Like when I ask my friends
"Have you been to the Korean Baskin Robbins
and had green tea?", they're like "Green tea ice cream?"
They think it just tastes like tea and smells like tea but-
- Yeah!
- It tastes like milk and sugar and the scent is green tea.
- Yeah. It's definitely very sweet.
It's definitely sweet, but it's not like-
- [Both] Chocolate chip.
- Yeah, it's not this kind of sweet.
Do you want to get in on this Rae?
We've already dug into yours.
- Yup, thanks.
(Destinee laughing)
- [Suvin] I didn't have any Oreos though.
I left the Oreos for you.
- [Destinee] You like it?
- Yeah, it's like mint chocolate chip.
- [Destinee] Uh-uh. Try this green tea one!
- [Raven] Do I need to get a rice cake?
- [Destinee] Yeah!
- [Suvin] You just gotta like mush it, and then just mix it.
- It is good, it has more of a flavor, like you said,
rather than just...
- [Destinee] Tea.
- Tea, yeah
- [Destinee] Did you try the cheese?
- Yes.
- [Suvin] You think it's a little different, right?
- Yeah, it tastes like- - [Suvin] A little unique!
- It tastes like melting string cheese in your mouth.
- We saved the best for last.
We completely forgot to order the one that had beans.
(Suvin laughing)
- [Destinee] The final...
- I'm so nervous about this bean-
- No, it's good. It's like chunky chocolate. Kind of.
Red bean paste.
- Red bean paste.
- So they pound the red beans. - Yeah
- But it's really sweet,
it's not like those taco beans you put on tacos.
- Yeah, that's exactly what I thought it would be.
- And those are rice cakes.
- Oh, okay! - It's like chewy.
- It's so, like, thick.
(Suvin coughing)
(Destinee laughing)
It's good!
I'm not mad at it.
I do think I'll stick to my green tea,
but now I can say I've tried it.
- It does have that kind of texture type-
- [Suvin] Kind of chunky?
- Like you know when you chew beans,
and it's like in between the beans?
(Suvin laughing)
- [Destinee] You're going to stick to mint chocolate chip?
- Yeah, definitely will.
But it's not like I thought of pinto beans on my ice cream-
- [Destinee] (laughs) Yeah, that's exactly what I thought.
That's exactly like Chipotle beans slapped on top.
Well, I'm glad we got to do this!
- It was fun! - I'm glad we got to meet up
and you told up about so many other places.
I'm glad I got to see you girl!
- Throwback!
- Cut!
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