(upbeat music)
- Hello and welcome back to another
"Global Street Food Challenge."
Today, though, we have a very special guest.
It's Kevin, from the, Let's KWOOWK Channel, welcome.
- Thank you so much for having me, this is--
- Oh, thank you for being here.
- This is amazing to be here with you.
- Yes. (crosstalk) I like this a lot.
(both chuckle)
- How good are you at a, eating and b, geography?
- I'm pretty good at eating
and I also enjoy tasting the food that I eat a lot.
And then geography, I don't know, I guess we'll see.
I do a lot of stuff around the world,
so you would think that maybe I would know this,
but I'm not confident.
- We do a lot of stuff from around the world
but I'm still terrible at this game.
- Yeah so, who knows? (both laugh)
- Bring on round one.
(jazzy music)
The first dish is in front of you
and you can remove your blindfolds.
- Oh!
- Oh wow!
- Wait, this looks very familiar.
- It does look very familiar.
(jazzy music)
- Now all we ask of you is to scribble down one country,
the location of this particular dish.
- Wait before you bite into it,
what do you think is gonna be inside?
- It's either,
cheesy potato or meat based.
- I do think it's like a meat based thing, yeah.
- All right, cheers. - Cheers.
- So, as you might imagine,
this is sometimes served as a side or as a snack in itself.
You might find it in the drinking establishment
of this country.
- So, potato, meat, I'm gonna go for beef.
- You think there's mashed potato in here?
- I think there's potato in there.
- Yeah, it's like all binded together by potato.
- You're pretty much spot on.
Cottage pie.
Basically it's minced beef, potato, onion, carrot,
all the things that we would typically put in a cottage pie
have ended up inside this filling.
But there are lots of different fillings
that you might find for this dish and where it comes from.
- This sauce to me tastes so familiar
but I just can't place the taste.
Can you place the taste?
- That is such a better name for this game?
(Kevin laughs) - Place the Taste.
- That is such a better name for these videos.
- After about eight episodes, Kevin, you've just renamed it.
- Yeah, I think I'll just go with sauce.
Just straight up sauce.
The sauce to me has the key.
- Now remember the rules.
If you can get the country spot on
you will get five points.
- Oh.
- However, if you're both wrong,
we will look at who is closest
from the centroid of each country
and then give one point to the closest.
- If you're both wrong, we fight.
(both laugh)
- I have a little instinct.
- Yeah, I've got an instinct.
But this could go in a few different directions.
- Exactly.
- This dish was introduced to this country by the French.
- Oh.
- Hence the pane--
- I wish I knew enough history to know what that means.
(both laugh)
- That's either helped you or confused you.
But I need you just lock in an answer.
Yep, this is mince beef.
- We can't peek, right?
- No, keep it a secret - Bound with mashed potato.
Sometimes you get them with shrimp or with cheese.
Sometimes you get them with almost like a curry filling.
- I know when he's gonna say the answer
I'm gonna be like, "Oh yeah, I should've known that."
- Yeah, that's why I hate these games so much.
But I also love them because of the delicious food.
- Exactly.
- We always learn something.
You both locked in an answer?
If you can reveal them in three, two, one, go.
We've got Lebanon.
- I said Lebanon.
- And Jay is going for the UK.
(Kevin gasps)
Explain your logic.
- So me, I remember making this one dish called Kibbeh
from Lebanon and it had a very similar nature
in the filling and it was also deep fried.
- Oh, that's really interesting.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- You seem seem more confident than me.
- No, you're far more traveled than I am.
- (laughs) I don't know.
- Jay hasn't left his own borders.
And I'm guessing you said this is cottage pie,
the French pane.
- Because we also pane scotch eggs.
The filling is very cottage pie-esque.
There's no other flavorings in the filling
which makes it quite plain British food.
And the sauce is very, very reminiscent
of HP brown sauce and such.
And-- - HP brown?
- Yeah, it's kind of got that vinegary,
the Worcestershire-- - Oh right.
- Worcestershire sauce. - How do you say that?
Worcestershire sauce. - Wash your sister sauce.
- Wash your sister sauce, okay.
- Wash your sister sauce. - Okay.
- I'm gonna reveal that you are both wrong.
- Ah! Well we're not both gonna be right, are we?
- However, the clues were there.
They are Panko breadcrumbs.
This is a Tonkatsu sauce.
This is Korokke from Japan.
- Oh, so I'm--
- So definitely, surely. - Wow.
- So this is a fantastic snack.
I said drinking establishments
'cause I didn't wanna say Izakaya
but they would've been served in sort of Japanese pubs
but also sometimes alongside other dishes in restaurants
and they can have all sorts of filling.
But it was the French influence,
it originated French cuisine scene came across
at the start of the 1900s. - Wow.
- That's a Tonkatsu sauce.
- So it was the sauce. - Yeah.
- It was the sauce that had the key.
'Cause to me the filling here does not feel very Japanese.
- No, it doesn't give anything away.
- Yeah, exactly, yeah.
- Which is why I went British.
(both laugh)
- So probably don't need to tell you
who is closest on that round.
But just for giggles, Jay, you are 9,224 miles away.
- It's pretty close man.
- Kevin, much closer with a mere 5,403 miles away.
- That's pretty much nothing.
- Oh, neither of us shone in glory there.
- Yeah, not yet.
- But you were slightly more glittery than I was.
- Exactly.
- Which means Kevin, you get a point
and we move on to round two.
(soft rock music)
Round number two.
Let's see how we get on with this one.
- Oh, whoa!
- Whoa! - What?
- Oh!
I'm not gonna give away anything.
- [Ben] (chuckles) Yep.
- I'm not gonna give anything away.
- We genuinely didn't know this when we set this one up,
but whilst you had your blindfolds on
and we were getting sexies,
we had little giggle on the sidelines.
- Well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna sit back
and let you have some fun with this and I will enjoy it.
- So grated cheese, a white sauce
and is that bread underneath?
- Is it? - Is it?
- Maybe it's not, who knows.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
(soft rock music)
Oh yeah.
- We should stress that Kevin probably has a better idea
of what this is. (Kevin giggles)
It was not the plan.
We didn't know this. (Kevin laughs)
- I'm trying to work out what the white sauce is on the top.
It's a bit like Greek yogurt-y.
- Mm-hmm, okay.
- Greek yogurt.
- Ooh.
- So it is a yeasted dough
that's rolled out and then fried,
often then rubbed with a little bit of garlic,
but like a clove
to give you that you've got sort of garlic scent.
And then that thing on top, Jay is sour cream.
And on top of that cheese.
- Usually I'd expect the fried bread to be more sweet.
'Cause of that doughnut type consistency.
- Exactly, yeah.
- But the sour cream and the cheese is really nice.
I'm just perplexed by it.
- Is it fair to say
that this is quite a simple classic version
but there might also be other toppings added
so it might also carry some onions,
maybe some ham and some meat.
- Well, this is inside a rampant of books.
- Yeah, well I realize it's not the way we planned this.
- This is, I will say, this is my favorite way to have this.
- Well perhaps Jay, you can lock in an answer
and Kevin, see if you can work out where in the world
you can place the taste.
- Maybe I'm wrong.
Who knows? - You could well be.
You could well be. - Exactly.
- So a wonderfully golden fried crisp bread on the outside
and nice and light on the inside, sour cream and cheese,
little bit of garlic comes from,
turn around in three, two, one.
(Mexican music)
- For me it was 50-50.
It was either going to be Romania or the Netherlands.
- Oh, you were pretty close. - You're from Romania.
But you live in the Netherlands.
So I had to decide which direction to go
and it turns out neither of them are right.
- But what you don't know about me
is that I have Hungarian blood.
- And we did not know that either,
which is why this taste has slightly gone wrong.
(everyone laughs)
- I'm sorry, but my mom is Hungarian.
- Well, that's amazing.
In which case, tell us more about this dish.
- Yeah, so this is Langos.
I hope that's how you call it.
I will say it is a little harder than I usually have it.
But then it's topped with sour cream, garlic and cheese
and sometimes just a sprinkle of salt.
And you eat it piping hot as it comes out.
- And our understanding is the name comes from the word
for flame, which is why it's cooked in
sometimes the oven as well.
So people would come to a communal oven
to cook their version of it as opposed to the fried version.
So there's kind of different traditions.
The fried or the baked version.
- Oh, I didn't know that.
- But the garlic, the sour cream,
the cheese on the kind of leavened flatbread
is the way forward.
- It is absolutely delicious. - Oh yeah.
- And knowing that a bit like pizza,
you can have the different toppings,
you can try it in different ways.
- Yeah. - It sounds really versatile.
Can I make a suggestion
the next time we have a guest in this format,
we get them to do an ancestry DNA test first?
So...
- I can send in my blood samples and my saliva.
- Look, to be fair, he's only taking a leaf outta your book.
You put UK in the first answer.
We don't need to do the mileage on this one.
Kevin absolutely takes. - Thank you.
- Full marks, five points, which puts him at six, nil.
- Ooh, oh, I'm sorry man.
It feels a little bit unfair.
- It is still all to play for as we move into round three.
- Let's get some mushy peas in here guys.
(Ben an Kevin laughing) Fish and chips.
Yeah.
(jazzy music)
- Okay, the third one is in front of you.
Blindfolds off. - Exciting.
- Pull it back, pull it back, pull it back,
pull it back, pull it, whoa.
- [Ben] Similar color.
Very different-- - Interesting.
- It's got hot dogs in it. (whimsical music)
Doesn't it kind of look like an empanada?
- It does look quite empanada-y.
- Yeah. - It's bread.
- Wait, what? - It's bread.
There's hot dogs in here. - Yeah.
- I'm seeing onions or what is that?
Yeah, onions, mustard.
- Oh, there's a-- - Jam? What is this?
- Steam coming out of Jay's?
Still hot.
- There's like stuffing in it.
There's rice.
- Rice? - What the (beep) is this?
- This is like a bunch of cultures just clashed together
and formed this. - Have a taste.
- Dig in.
You're pretty right though.
It's kind of a bread dough
that has been wrapped around a filling.
Sometimes it's pork, sometimes it's beef,
sometimes it's a mixture of pork and beef.
This is pork.
- This doesn't come together for me.
It doesn't feel like a dish.
It feels like a random thing.
Like AI generated this.
- Yeah.
- You haven't sort of got to the filling yet
which naturally obviously you would eat the whole thing
and...
- Oh, you feel that spice in there?
- We've got like sage and onion stuffing in there.
It feels like what you'd stuff a Turkey with.
I'm so confused. - Yeah, it feels sage-y.
- You know in like a Cornish pasty
it used to be split into two parts,
so you'd have the savory part and the sweet part.
- What is that? I don't even know what that is.
- I'm gonna go down to mines that'd have a pasty
and on the one side it would have meat and potato.
And on the other side
it would have a jam or something sweet in it
so that they had lunch and pudding in one handy.
- That's smart. - Handheld meat packet.
- This dish quite literally translates to meat pie.
It is in our instance a pork sausage filling with rice,
onion, inside bread dough,
which is kind of then folded and crimped over
and then fried.
Once that's done, it's then cut into
and then we put in frankfurter or wiener or hot dogs,
mustard, ketchup, and raw onion.
- That feels so strange 'cause to me,
this part and this part
feel like two different places in the world.
- [Jamie] Mm, I'm really enjoying it.
- Yeah, it's not bad.
- It's really unusual because of the mixture of flavors.
- One thing it hasn't got in it is egg.
- Egg?
- There's definitely no egg in this.
And for those of you who do know the dish,
you'll know why that's important.
- No egg.
What country hates eggs?
- So there is an old joke
that some of the traditional cafeterias
and street food vendors who would serve this,
the server would ask, "Would you like it with egg?"
And you're supposed to respond, "No," with money.
And I think the translation is,
"Do you want to sort of pay with it by egg
"as opposed to money?"
And that's because egg is slang for penis
in this particular place.
I don't know if that helps narrow it down
- So it's not a English speaking country.
At least we know that 'cause you have to translate it.
- Yes, yeah. - Yes.
- [Ben] And this dish translates to meat pie.
- I think it's a, first of all
this culture likes to have fun.
We can establish that. - Yes, yeah.
- Like you look at this and you're like,
"These people are fun."
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Right, see if you can scribble down a country.
- I don't even know which continent to aim for.
- Same. - All right.
I am sticking a pin in a map.
- And that is why we love this particular video game
because this was completely new to all of us.
We are learning too.
Spin your boards in three, two, one,
Switzerland and Brazil.
- Did I spell this correctly first of all?
- I would've gone for a Z rather than an S,
but no they might spell it that way.
- Okay, okay.
So for me, I picked the country that just was a clash of,
not a clash, but a mixture of European cultures
because the hotdog in there, the mustard,
it just felt like a European thing to me.
So I was just like, "Okay, Switzerland, they have fun."
(everyone laugh)
- I tried to think of a country that has rice in its culture
and meats like sausage and that kind of thing is out there,
but also puts things in bread.
- So I can reveal with my poor pronunciation
that this is Lihapiirakka.
- Oh, that's European. (Jamie chuckles)
That's Swedish or something. - It's Finnish.
- Oh!
- [Ben] This is from Finland.
(Jamie groans)
- Yes, at least a little bit of my instincts were good.
- Finland did come to my mind, but I dismissed it
because I couldn't think of any reason
why it would be Finnish.
- 'Cause I also thought about Finland
but I was like, "They definitely have fish
"or some fishy thing in there."
- Do you think that's--
- Kev, you're about five times close than Jamie
who was 6,685 miles away.
- Can we check the math on that?
'Cause I'm not too sure. (Jamie giggles)
- Lihapiirakka translates to meat pie
and it very much is a fried meat pie filling.
It does bounce between pork or beef filling.
And you're right, I think the closest part of that
was the mustard and the kind of the wiener
or the frankfurter kind of vibe, goes in the middle.
But they also sometimes add mushrooms
sometimes add some cheese.
It's a real hodgepodge of street food delights.
- When I first bit into it, I was like,
"It doesn't make sense."
But the more I ate it, the more I wanted to finish it.
So Finnish it.
- Yes.
- Oh no.
- There you go.
- Kevin, at the moment you have seven points,
which I think is about the highest of anybody of all time
on this particular game and there's still a round to go.
- Wow! - Round number four.
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(whimsical music)
- Last one.
Remove the blindfolds.
- These smell so good.
- Ooh.
- Meat on a skewer. - Yes.
- Possibly a hot skewer.
See if you can identify any of the flavors
and the meat itself.
- Smell any spices?
I think this smells like lamb, maybe.
- [Jamie] I'm getting fennel seeds or cumin seeds on there.
- [Kevin] It looks very spiced up.
- [Jamie] It does look very spiced up, yeah.
- [Kevin] And I like that.
- Mm.
- You think it's lamb? - Mm-hmm.
- Cumin? Cumin. - Definitely cumin.
- Yeah. - Oh, or is it fennel.
Oh wow. - Seeds, chili flakes.
- So far you're a bit unsure
whether it's cumin or fennel.
I can tell you it's both.
- Okay, yeah. - So well done.
- Nice.
- It is also lamb.
- Very tender.
- Spiced up lamb on a skewer.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes they would be sort of wooden sticks,
bamboo skewers, sometimes they're metal.
And the bamboo obviously perhaps more traditional
on the streets, so you can take them away
and you don't have to bring back the metal skewers.
But the metal skewer perhaps more
in more of the restaurant setting.
- I think a lot of cultures do this style of street food.
So I think it's a little difficult.
- One thing I will say, is this dish is believed
to have originated from some of the nomadic traditions
of people within this country
who relied heavily on animal husbandry for their sustenance.
And then obviously the skewering of meat
is something that could be done easily while in motion.
Now a street food stand is static and you come to it.
But this was a way of being able to move
and skewer meat as you move
and not have to carry too many pots and things like that.
Right, you've both scribbled something down.
Turn your boards around in three, two, one.
(Kevin makes music sounds)
- Oh!
- Look at us. - We both win!
- Yay! - Yay!
- Oh, that means I can't win. (Kevin laughs)
- You are both as close or as far as each other.
What are the chances of that?
- I just felt like I saw a lot of lamb dishes
in that Northern African part of the world
and just the skewer-ness of it
and then the nomadic people that you mentioned.
It just all connected with me, I don't know why.
- Yeah. I was going lamb,
that spicing sort of blend was very
and then the other one was Turkey
because such a big country,
I just thought if we are going off Istanbul
and it's over there, then yeah,
from the centroids perspective, I'm well amiss.
- You are both well amiss. - Oh, well amiss.
- However, the logic is very strong.
So this is from predominantly Muslim communities.
The cumin and the lamb
is also associated with a number of dishes in the area.
This was originally from the Xinjiang region
but the dish is called Chuan'r.
- What? - And it is from China.
- What?
- What? - So close to Nepal
and kind of the spicing of Biangbiang noodles
if you remember the cumin lamb and the chili.
- Wow, I would've never guessed that.
- I would never associate the spices of cumin and fennel
with Chinese. - Me neither.
- So fennel, one of the Chinese five spices.
- Well, apart from that one.
- And cumin and it is the Muslim community
and often to quarter sort of north-west of the country.
So you are both 5,139 miles away.
- Yes! - Yes.
- But that means you are both equally far
and take a point each.
So it finishes 8-1.
- Yes! - What a win.
- Yes. (laughs)
- Oh, I mean I didn't get zero but.
- Thank you for being happy for me.
- Well, I am happy for you, I was happy for me as well.
But I'm mainly happy for you.
That is, you've come in and absolutely stonked that.
- Wow! - Yeah.
- I did not expect that.
But I had a very good time.
Thank you for having me.
- Well Kevin, thanks for joining us, for playing along,
while Kevin was here he has also done
a sub 10 minute Burger challenge.
The question is, was he sub 10 minutes?
You'll have to watch it to find out.
But thank you so much for joining us.
Check out everything
from the Let's KWOOK Channel in the links downstairs.
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- A lot, congratulations. (claps)
- Nicely done. - Well done.
(everyone applauds)
- Thank you guys.