It's time for..
Food Adventure Program for Awesome People!
The soup dumpling edition.
So we're going to a... SECRET LOCATION
Martina - Did you like my secret pose? You didn't do one.
Simon - Whoa.
Martina - You didn't do a secret pose!
Simon - Well because you didn't tell me about it
That's why it was secret!
Martina - Everyone knows that you do a secret pose.
Okay ready?
Simon - Okay.
Martina - We are going for SECRET DUMPLINGS today
And the reason why they're so secretive is because
they're not actually Korean mandus.
Simon - I know we had these in Singapore:
There's soup dumplings and they're dumplings that
you bite into and the soup kinda is in them.
Martina - It kinda pours out.
Simon - We love mandu here in Korea as well.
A lot of it is very similar.
Sometimes you want something different.
Martina - Yeah.
Simon - We heard about this place:
We're gonna go here and try out some different
kinds of dumplings.
Martina - So let us know:
Is it Chinese or Taiwanese or...
Where is this dumpling from?
Do not get in a fight in the comments section
while we eat delicious mandu
QUICKLY BEFORE THE SCOOTER COMES OMG!
Simon - In case you couldn't tell:
This place is totally bumpin'!
Martina - So this is the menu:
It's actually very simple.
So what we ordered today was:
We had two of the xiao long bao;
which is the soup dumplings that we had
when we were in Singapore?
We got the saewoo ones as well,
which is just the shrimp version.
And this one here,
which I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure it's beef
because there's like this 'flour beef' in Korean
It's 16 bucks so I'm guessing that's like
AMAZING SUPER GOURMET
which one day we will try.
And then we go in to different kinds of noodles
which I have no idea what kind of noodles these are
because I've never ordered them before.
And then the mapo dubu
which I find interesting:
It's so popular in Chinese restaurants,
and it's just kinda like a ground up beef and
like a sauce mixed up with tofu.
Either way we're here for these two bad boys.
*ordering in Korean*
Martina - Now this is one of the greatest complaints
we have living in Korea:
We're always confused as to why we can't
get Chinese food in Korea;
Simon - Right!
Martina - You know we did-
Simon - We're so close, we're like basically connected
to China, well North Korea's-
Martina - Kind of.
Simon - in the way...
Martina - I know, but, like, we're close enough that
there should be some legitimate Chinese food
but you actually cannot seem to find it!
Like even though we have the jjajangmyeon
video that we did before, where we talked about
like "Korean Chinese food," a lot of our friends
that are from China, like Taiwanese friends,
or from Hong Kong or whatever,
They're like: That's not Chinese food.
So, today we have gone to this secret location:
Is it secret? It's on a main street kind of.
Simon - Well, it's not a big, flashy franchise.
You gotta know this place in order to come here.
Martina - Leigh, how did we find this place?
Leigh - Well, when I was studying at EWHA Women's University,
I had a lot of friends that were Taiwanese
and they introduced me to this place because
they said it was the bomb diggity.
Martina - Now how did they know this?
How did they know this? Is there like the EYK version for
people who are coming from different countries? Like -
Simon - Can we, like, give inside information about
where good Canadian food is?
Leigh - Umm, Canadians have their own food?
*sad noises*
Martina - Leigh, can you put a picture of your face up
and cover it in poop?
*laughter*
Simon - Right now.
Martina - Right now.
Martina - Ooh, time for some sexy food porn shots.
Martina - Alright, so a couple things:
Is this the best soup dumpling I've ever had?
No, it is not, *slaps Simon's hand away* but
when you're in Korea, and you want something different,
you don't necessarily want to have, the Korean-style
mandu, this is definitely something I would recommend trying.
Simon - Oh yeah.
Martina - It's got the gingery taste to it,
it's using a different kind of pork,
I have a few small complaints that I would pick out
as a picky-picky person:
So for example, there are some holes in the dough here,
which means that I picked up one of my dumplings
and it kind of just poured out everywhere.
And it should be completely sealed up.
They're supposed to be, like,
sixteen tiny delicate folds
Simon - Right.
Martina - But that's when you go to like,
a master restaurant or something.
Simon - Mmhmm. This place isn't perfect,
but it does actually give us something that we were
Martina - A flavor that we were craving?
Simon - Hankering, you know?
Martina - Yeah, exactly. I mean I would definitely
come back again and order something again,
but I wouldn't want people to come here
and say something like,
"Oh, you know, this isn't the best I've ever had, and this isn't this and that,"
It's not like that.
Simon - It's not the best food in the world, but it's still good if you've been eating a lot of regular Korean mandu.
Martina - Do you think that Korean mandu, every place might like be a little bit different?
It might have a little bit of a twist to it,
but the majority of mandu shops in Korea, it's pretty much the same.
Simon - Pork and onion.
Martina - Yeah. You can find a couple of rare exceptions
like, I like the mapo mandu,
That one has like, a beef one, that's very different,
but the majority of places, it's kind of the same, so this is a really nice change.
Simon - Question, Leigh: Would you like one of these mandu?
Leigh - I would!
Simon - SKILL TESTING QUESTION TIME!
Name two members of EXO.
Simon - Holy sh**, you actually got that quickly!
Martina - Ding ding ding!
Simon - How did she know that?
*celebratory music*
Simon - I was prepared to give you hints,
Leigh - Been studyin' up!
like what's body odor and then cut the B in half,
and you got like -
Martina - Well done Leigh, you have earned yourself a soup dumpling.
Not something you should feed someone apparently.
As Leigh spews --
Simon - It's not a sexy romantic adventure.
Martina - sweet, sweet juices all over her face.
Simon + Martina - Leigh! Come closer!
Simon - Okay, so that wasn't the best dumpling we ever had in our lives.
Martina - We didn't want to explain too much on camera in case he understood us
and then it would be embarrassing to him, but
The dough is really doughy,
Simon - Yeah.
Martina - He didn't make an effort to twist it
completely shut, like,
Simon - A lot of the juice fell out of it, but -
Martina - The pork wasn't very tender, he should have
massaged it more in the bowl,
to kind of tenderize it.
It was kind of like eating a rock... pork.
Simon - Whatever, the flavor was yummy.
Martina - I will come back through sheer desperation for soup dumpling locations.
Simon - It had the taste that we were hankering for,
it's not a perfect dumpling but if you want something
different then this is yummy.
Martina - If you guys live in Korea and you know of any
other location that's super good, let us know and then we'll -
Simon - Super good.
Martina - We'll do the super redemption soup dumpling edition.