- Hey guys, it's Inga.
So for the next 24 hours,
I will only be eating foods that are the color purple.
A lot of people have been doing this on YouTube.
It's a very popular format
that I also wanted to try for myself
to not just experiment,
it's also just a cool way for you guys to find out
what there is out there that's edible and is purple.
So I picked purple because I wanted
a little bit of a challenge,
but not so much that I'd be starving myself.
I'm actually going to try and stay away
from anything that's artificially colored.
It has to be naturally colored purple,
which kind of just makes my job harder
than it already is.
So...
The next step is to go to the grocery store
and see what we can find
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that is purple.
All right.
Let's go!
These are rainbow carrots.
They have purple ones, so I'm gonna keep these.
And of course there's grapes.
I feel like figs might be purple?
Eggplants.
Purple.
Red onions.
Purple cabbage.
They're going in here too.
Blueberries, because they were included,
I think these are the first.
Potato chips.
Is this black?
But it's actually purple?
Prune juice.
That should be purple, right?
It's brown.
This looks pretty purple to me
even though it says blue.
There's this huge bag
of just different kinds of purple things.
Now to plan out my meals for tomorrow.
I made it back home with my giant bag of groceries!
I also changed into a purple shirt.
I'm just going to take everything out now
to see what I have.
Just to show you guys what we're working with...
This is everything I bought from the store.
I also have purple noodles.
I think are made with like, purple yam.
And then I also have this Indigo Punch tea.
This has butterfly pea flower in it.
If we add like, lemon juice or lime juice
it'll become purple.
So I thought that would be a good drink.
I think we have a good balance of protein,
fruits, vegetables, and carbs.
I haven't really planned out my meals yet.
But, yeah, so, we have a lot of food here
and let's start it off with breakfast.
This is my kitchen.
Because it's New York City, it's pretty small.
I'm gonna try to make this work.
I'm picking out all of the fruits that I bought.
Blueberries, grapes, plums, and figs.
And we also already have this blue machine smoothie
that's actually purple.
But I figured I could just make my own.
So, smoothie building time.
It's like different shades of purple.
Here's our blender, dump these all in.
Gonna pour some of this smoothie in there too.
Look at that purple!
Just to amp it up I have my blueberry chia jam.
Super purple.
And now to blitz it.
(blender whirring)
What do you guys think?
Is this purple?
Under this light it looks a little bit more purple.
So I think this is now drinkable.
I cut some fruit up.
This is what we have, you guys!
So we have the plums on top, we have the grapes.
The fig is like kinda wrinkly here.
That looks pretty purple, right?
I'm just gonna go ahead and try this now.
To me it really just looks like
a normal blueberry smoothie bowl, so...
I guess you really could make a smoothie bowl
out of purely purple foods.
I'll just be here finishing this,
then I'll see you guys at work for lunch.
We have catered lunch today.
I'm gonna try and see if we can find purple foods.
If...
That was purple hair.
If I can't find any purple foods,
I'm gonna have to cook my own, so,
let's see if we can find some.
Salad...
I don't see any.
That's red.
There's no purple.
So because we couldn't find anything out there,
I'm just going to try and make my own lunch.
Good thing I brought some stuff with me.
This is what I have.
The red onions.
Carrots.
They didn't really that many purple carrots,
but I tried to pick some out.
And then I have the octopus.
I know this is kind of intimidating maybe
for people who haven't had it before,
but it's actually really good.
And then we have the purple yam noodles.
A nice, light purple I would say.
I didn't have a sauce but because
I came into the Tasty space,
I actually found this red wine sauce
that Tasty produce Alvin was making
that is actually purple.
So, I guess we have a sauce now.
I'm just gonna toss these in there and let it cook.
And while that's cooking,
I'm just going to cut some of this onion
and the carrots up.
Noodles are now cooked.
Kind of a pink-ish purple.
I have the onions cut up,
and the carrots, and we have the octopus.
We toss it into the pan.
The purple carrots actually end up having
like orange bits in them.
I think it's smelling pretty good so far.
But the onions I feel like just have a stronger flavor
than yellow or white onions.
The octopus is actually already cooked.
I just figured we give it a little more flavor
and add the noodles in.
This is looking really purple.
I don't really know what I was expecting,
but this is pretty freaking awesome.
It's so purple!
More onions and carrots.
That's our very purple looking dish.
This actually turned out to look
a lot better than I thought it was going to.
Super excited to taste this.
But before that, a purple drink.
So this butterfly pea flower,
it's a flower that just turns liquid
into this natural blue color.
Add my hot water.
Can you see the color?
I didn't even need to add lemon
because I think this tea already has
some raspberry and apple bits in it.
I guess I already have a purple drink.
Purple tea, purple pasta.
It smells really good.
So hopefully that means it actually is really good.
So pumped!
Wow.
I don't think I've ever had
things that are this vividly colored.
That isn't, you know, artificial.
Wow, that is actually...
That's actually really good.
I think it's because the sauce is really good.
I can't believe we were actually able
to make this work.
I'll try this tea too.
(calming music)
Mm.
Fruity.
I have to show you guys how pretty the purple actually is.
Look at this color!
I didn't even have to add anything else to it.
This turned out so good.
Now I feel a little more confident about dinner.
I gotta get a second taste tester.
Ta-da!
- Whoa!
It's so purple.
- It was with your red wine sauce.
If it looked purple than that means I did it right.
- Mm!
- [Inga] Right?
- My sauce is really good!
- Oh my God, okay.
I'm about to take a snack break to eat my chips.
I have my tea here.
But Ashley is giving me really weird looks.
- I don't get it, but I support you always.
- [Inga] It's just a butterfly pea tea with lemon.
- That's not food dye?
- [Inga] No, it's not.
It's natural.
- What is in your hand?
- What is this face?
I like it, it's good.
It's a little thicker and very purple.
Like my shirt.
(lighthearted music)
I'm on my way back home, it's still light outside,
but I'm really hungry.
We're just gonna see what we can make
with the food we bought.
We have the purple cabbage, eggplant.
This is the leftover onion, red onion from lunch.
This is really cool.
This is purple shiso leaf.
So I got them from an event I went to earlier.
They're green on the other side,
but this side is purple.
There's also the squid.
Pretty purple looking.
I also just love squid,
so this worked out perfectly for me.
Can you guys see how the water is actually purple?
Here's all the vegetables I have.
Just going to stir fry it now.
I'm also just snacking on this while I'm waiting.
I'm a big sweet potato person normally,
so I think that's why I'm really loving this.
I feel healthier too while I'm eating this,
even though it's probably all just in my head.
There's a lot of sugar on this.
It looks healthier than a normal potato chip.
You can't forget the black rice.
I know it says black, it actually is purple.
I also just eat this a lot normally.
This is the one I have at home.
This is what just the black rice looks like.
You could cook this as is too,
but it would just be a little too coarse.
When you mix it with white rice, it looks like this.
Just gonna pop that in the microwave.
This is what it kinda looks like now.
Thinking of putting it in this onigiri mold I have.
Add the squid rings.
They're already cooked, so...
This is my purple dinner.
I know there's a lot of white here.
This part is purple.
It's probably as purple as it gets
without artificial dyes.
Dinner is served!
Yeah, I don't really know what I made,
but I think this looks pretty purple.
And then I also had some of the tea
left over from earlier.
I just made that into an iced version.
I don't normally cook with eggplant.
This like turned out kinda brown.
This is a pretty purple mouthful.
Here's a squid.
I should show you guys the purple side.
Even though there's no sauce to go with it,
I still love it.
I love how chewy it is.
I just love that it's a purple food
because I get to eat it on this challenge.
I think the fact that I'm also really hungry
probably also makes this really good.
Wrap this in.
Ta-da!
Mhm!
The shiso flavor is super strong.
This is really good!
I've always loved adding black rice to white rice.
I kind of like the extra texture.
I'm so satisfied right now.
I think I love the color purple even more now.
(lighthearted music)
This video is basically just me eating for 24 hours.
Do I have dessert?
Oh my God.
So, I do actually have a purple dessert
even though I don't think there's gonna be
stomach space for it.
But maybe in like, I don't know, two hours, three.
So, it was my birthday last week
and two of my friends bought me
this amazing ube cake
that I actually already ate some of.
Ube's also just like a naturally like
really beautiful purple color.
This cake is like super vibrant.
Oh my gosh, it's just gonna fall right over.
But this is what it looks like!
Oh, it's so soft.
Can we get a perfect slice?
Yes!
Okay, guys.
I gotta let you guys see what this looks like.
Ta-da!
Look at that purple!
It has some cream in the middle, but otherwise,
I think this is probably the most purple
of purple desserts.
Oh, this is a huge bite.
Oh yeah.
I don't normally look for ube,
but ube flavor in this is like perfect.
Almost like a coconutty taste.
(lighthearted music)
Oh, I can't stop eating this cake.
So this challenge actually turned out to be really fun.
I think there was definitely more things
than I expected that were actually purple.
Let me know what color I should try to eat for 24 hours.
I'll be here finishing this cake.
Hey guys, what's up?
It's Inga.
And for the next 24 hours I will only be eating yellow food.
Last time I did only purple foods for 24 hours,
and it turned out better than expected.
So I asked you guys what color
you wanted me to do next.
Based on the comments I got,
I think it's safe to say that yellow has won by far.
So yellow foods it is!
Same as last time, I'm gonna try to maintain
a very, very balanced diet.
We're gonna find food that is naturally yellow.
But this time before we go shopping,
I'm actually gonna look through my pantry and my fridge
to see if I can find anything that's yellow,
and we can start from there.
I was thinking that I wouldn't be able
to find that many yellow foods,
but it turns out pasta's yellow,
I have my yellow carrots,
my yellow baby carrots from last time.
Cheese is also yellow, I mean different shades of yellow.
Lemons, eggs, and garlic.
But since we're preparing for three meals,
it's probably a good idea to stop by
the grocery store anyways.
So let's go shopping!
Here we go.
Pineapple.
Definitely need that.
Golden melon.
Golden apples!
Starfruit.
Those are yellow.
And classic yellow fruit.
We have so much fruit.
Yellow peppers.
Our first vegetable.
Corn!
I found these pumpkin noodles,
they look pretty yellow to me.
Pickled radish.
They're super good with noodles.
Starfruit.
Golden kiwi, and mango.
This is tobiko, which is flying fish roe.
It's yellow, so...
My favorite honey butter chips!
This cart is so yellow right now.
It is time to make some breakfast.
I don't have anything in my wardrobe that's yellow,
but I have my Gudetama socks on.
I also have this little guy sitting in the background.
If people don't know who Gudetama is,
he is a lazy egg.
We'll be eating him today.
I also have this on my fridge.
I'm clearly just trying to find things
that are yellow to fit today's theme.
Breakfast time, let's do it!
For breakfast I usually eat either
different kind of fruits, or make a smoothie.
Sometimes I have toast and eggs.
Because we bought a bunch of fruit
at the grocery store,
I was thinking of just making a platter
of mixed yellow fruits
and then also making an egg dish to go with it.
I will need the golden kiwi, pineapple, mango.
Golden apple.
Golden honeydew.
I'm just gonna cut these all up,
and I'll make the eggs on the side.
Yellow medium.
Add for some sweetness.
What I'm trying to make is tamagoyaki,
a Japanese style omelet.
I don't have the actual pan,
so we're gonna try to do it
in this little round pan of mine.
I actually also did them in my bento box video.
I've just never had to do them one handed,
so I'm gonna put the camera down
and not screw this up.
All right guys, breakfast is ready!
This is our yellow breakfast for today.
The melon didn't turn out to be that yellow,
I think it was just the skin.
The kiwi is looking a little bit
on the greener side.
The eggs turned out pretty good.
They're like a pale yellow.
They probably would've been more yellow
if I used more yolks.
Mm!
It's like sweet and savory.
I love that.
What this has made me realize is that there are
so many different kinds of fruits that are yellow.
And they're all like really sweet,
which is not a bad thing.
I had no idea golden apples existed.
It's really cool to know that I'm able to sort of
eat what I normally have for breakfast anyways
even on this challenge.
So I still have a few minutes before work,
and I was thinking at one of the coffee shops
that I normally go to,
they have this drink called the turmeric latte
that is yellow,
so I want to go check that out
before we head to the office.
We're here.
Here it is, this is the turmeric latte.
It is now a pale yellow color.
So I've never actually had turmeric before,
so I don't know how this is gonna go.
It's like super aromatic, a sort of kick to it.
It's actually not bad.
That's my yellow drink! (chuckling)
All right, now back to work.
There's no catered lunch today,
so I'm going to be making my own lunch.
But I forgot to bring my pasta,
so I'm gonna see if I can find pasta here
in the Tasty space.
Boom!
I have my eggs, the yellow pepper,
I have Parmesan and butter.
I was thinking we could make a carbonara
of some sort vegetarian style.
In terms of our pasta problem,
Alvin donated some homemade pasta.
This pasta dough is super yellow.
I'm assuming he only put egg yolks in here.
That's perfect!
I will have to roll it out now,
and then we can go from there.
(lighthearted music)
Have my pasta strip, now to roll it.
Oh, nice, nice, nice!
Here's a pasta strip.
Ta-da!
Now we're gonna run it on the other side.
Here's our fettuccine.
This is going to be the longest lunch break
I've ever had.
I think this is good enough for one portion,
so I'm just gonna leave this here now.
Pasta is A-okay!
We're gonna cut this pepper up
and make the egg and cheese sauce.
Mixing this in.
Peppers are done.
I'm gonna set this aside.
These are just the egg yolks.
The cheese.
We'll just mix this together.
Okay!
Pasta is done.
Put this in here.
Just tossing this together.
Add a little bit more water.
Our little yellow paste.
Oh yeah, there we go.
Here it is!
The carbonara!
Normally I would put black pepper on this,
but we did say yellow challenge.
So, yellow pasta it is.
Eating time!
This smells really good.
Oh yeah, it's not bad!
This is still really creamy.
The yellow pepper kind of pulled through too.
In terms of sauce, this was literally just egg yolks
and Parmesan.
Mm!
- Very yellow.
- If you say that it's good
because your pasta dough is good,
I'm gonna shut this video down.
- Mm.
It's good.
I like the pepper.
- Do you know what flavor froyo we have right now?
- [Alvin] Pineapple.
- Is it yellow?
- [Alvin] It's light yellow!
(Inga gasps)
- We have a froyo machine,
today's flavor is Hawaiian Pineapple.
See if it really is yellow.
We got some froyo.
It really is light yellow.
I was thinking I'm gonna cut some bananas up
and put that on here too.
Pineapple froyo with banana.
There's so many yellow things!
Super refreshing.
But yeah, lunch was a great success.
In a meeting, there's cookies.
- That sugar cookie is yellow.
- [Inga] I don't know.
It looks kinda brown.
- You can't have any of that.
Inga, you can have this.
- I can have...
No cookies for me.
Snack break, and I have my honey butter chips.
Also, totally forgot that I had durian chips.
I'm gonna be feasting a little bit.
My yellow water bottle.
These are super good.
Kenah, is this yellow?
- It's yellow.
Mm! - Good?
- They're sweet.
- Oh my God, I forgot how good these were.
I know a lot of people don't like durian,
but it's actually one of my favorite fruits.
A big chunk.
Please try it.
- It's unlike anything I've ever had in my life.
Truly. (laughing)
- I'm on my way home.
Brought some more groceries, figured I could make a curry.
Hopefully it works out.
I'm ready to get some things chopped up.
Yellow squash that I just bought,
yellow carrots, corn.
I was actually thinking I would put
some apple in this too,
add a little bit of sweetness.
And then we of course have the tobiko.
It actually kind of smells like lemon, zesty.
I'll just top it off with this.
Ginger and garlic.
They're both like a pale yellow.
Yellow pickled radish which will also be a side dish.
Pumpkin noodles.
This would go well with this curry soup
which I made actually yesterday.
I would add a little bit more turmeric on it
because that's what gives it more of a golden hue.
Let's try to put this together.
The noodles are about done.
That's a solid yellow color.
This is looking good.
I'm just gonna assemble everything really quickly
and then we'll be good for dinner.
(lighthearted music)
I hope you guys are ready for this,
because I really think this is as yellow as it gets.
Ready, and...
Ta-da!
Everything sort of came together.
You see the radish, the tobiko,
that's the yellow squash
and the carrot golden apple corn mini stir fry.
I...
Sort of really just threw everything yellow together.
Let's give this a try.
Smells like curry.
I don't really taste the pumpkin.
I wanted to try some of that fish roe.
Mhm.
I love these, I normally eat these with rice,
but they're good like this too.
Mm.
Pretty good.
Oh, I'm really hungry.
We have the vegetables, we have fruits,
we have protein, we have carbs.
I think we have a pretty balanced meal here.
I'm finishing up some dishes now.
I have a lot of dishes to clean.
I'm gonna do some work,
and then probably time for dessert.
I got a little carried away with work,
it is now around 10 p.m.
But I made my dessert.
Pineapple ice with starfruit.
Frozen pineapple, pineapple bits, and ice.
Super creamy.
Here you see the starfruit.
It is shaped like a star.
I grew up with these, so,
it was really cool being able to find them here.
This one's kind of sour.
It's very, very tart.
The last meal of today, here we go.
Prime brain freeze material.
I think today went pretty well.
There's a lot of yellow food out there.
Let me know if you guys want me to do this again.
Leave a comment below,
and based on what I get, that will be the next color I do.
Otherwise, peace, and see you guys next time.
(lighthearted music)
Hey guys, it's Inga.
And I'm gonna be eating black foods for 24 hours.
So, we're doing this again.
I've done purple color, yellow color,
and this time because of popular demand,
I am doing black foods.
Again, this is a frame that has been done
by a lot of YouTubers.
Like Kristen and Saffron.
Just like before, we are not gonna do anything
that's artificially colored.
Everything I eat must be naturally black.
I know black isn't exactly the most appetizing color,
but I think I'll be able to find some things
that might change your mind.
It's gonna take me a while to source these black foods.
I'm gonna go to multiple grocery stores.
And from there, I'll plan my meals around that.
I'm excited, let's do this!
Walking around the store trying to find black stuff,
and this is what I found.
Black Himalayan salt.
A bunch of black truffle here.
It's kind of expensive, so maybe not.
I found this black truffle sauce.
It's a little less expensive,
so I think I'm gonna go with this.
This one looks really black.
Dark soy sauce.
I'm gonna go with this one,
it's premium dark soy sauce.
Black fungus.
Found two kinds of black rice.
I'm gonna get both.
Getting some seaweed really quick.
Black sesame powder.
Black bean garlic sauce.
Found these super cute panda ice cream bars,
but I think they have a lot of white,
so I won't be able to do it.
Preserved duck eggs.
Guys!
Look what I found!
I really wasn't expecting to find this here,
but we have some black chicken.
So I'm excited to cook with this.
Good morning!
So it is now breakfast time.
I have my black shirt on.
I only have two things in mind for breakfast.
I'm gonna show you guys right now.
I have blackberries and then I also have black soybeans.
I am going to turn this into soy milk
using my soy milk maker.
This is the soybeans after they're soaked.
So, this has been soaking overnight.
This is my soy milk maker.
I use it a lot because I love soy milk.
The process is actually super fast.
What it's essentially doing is just heating it up,
grinding it up.
About half an hour later, we're gonna have soymilk.
This is now done.
(Inga gasps)
What color is it?
Oh, it's a gray color!
I guess the beans turned out more gray in the end.
I am going to grab my sesame powder.
And breakfast is done!
I kept it super simple.
It's really just the blackberries
and the soy milk.
Here's the black sesame soy milk.
It's definitely a lot lighter than you would think.
After the process, it went from this
to a much lighter color.
Black sesame also helped a little bit.
With that being said,
I think this is a pretty typical breakfast for me.
Blackberries are always good.
Going to give this a try.
It smells super black sesame-ish.
Yeah, that's good.
The black sesame definitely adds
like a nutty texture.
I am pretty pleased.
I think the day is starting off pretty well.
Gonna finish this up,
and catch you guys at the office.
It's now lunchtime,
and I'm back here in the Tasty kitchen.
Figured I would make just a four ingredient pasta dish.
Found a couple of items that I think
we could throw together and make it work.
Gonna show you guys what I have.
Black squid ink pasta.
The Hawaiian black salt,
which I have never seen before.
Black truffle sauce.
Totally bought the black truffle sauce
because I don't think we have enough in our budget
to actually buy real truffles.
And then we have black garlic.
Comes in like this brown shape.
And then when you peel it off,
there's that black garlic bulb inside
which looks like this.
It really is just aged garlic.
The texture of it is really sticky.
I've never had this before,
this is gonna be really interesting.
The flavor is supposed to be more mild than garlic,
but it smells stronger, so.
I'm just gonna really quickly
chop up the black garlic right now.
Got the water boiling here.
Let's get to work.
Ooh, it's so squishy!
Guys, this is so interesting.
It looks like candy almost.
I don't know what that means,
but I hope it's still gonna taste good.
(lighthearted jazz music)
Salt this quickly.
Pasta is now done.
We are now going to put the garlic in.
Here we go!
Boop.
I don't want to burn it.
It's getting smoky.
It smells good though!
It looks a little bit like mushrooms at this point.
The smell of it is like super fragrant.
It's a really nice smell.
It's looking super dark, so that's cool.
I'm gonna add the truffle sauce
which smells so good!
Lastly, just a sprinkle of salt.
It's time for the grand reveal.
Ta-da!
It's super dark.
Let me try to find a garlic bit.
That's what the black garlic looks like now.
Gonna add some black pepper on there.
Okay, so, this is my black coffee,
which is normally how I drink coffee, actually.
Let's give this a taste.
Black I know doesn't really look that appetizing usually,
but I have high hopes.
Mm.
Oh.
I just got a huge bite of the black garlic.
Mm!
Oh, the black garlic is super chewy.
Think of like a gummy candy.
The squid ink pasta is good.
It's really just like normal pasta.
I don't normally eat black truffle,
I'm not that bougie.
But the black truffle sauce is nice.
I feel like an elevated mushroom sauce.
Overall, not bad for a plate of complete darkness.
This is definitely a good way to balance it out.
I wonder if this is gonna make my tongue black.
Nope, not yet.
As per usual, I'm gonna finish this up
and then I'll see you guys for the next meal.
Alvin just told me that he left some cookies on my desk
that I should be able to eat on this challenge,
so I'm going back to my desk.
Here they are.
Smells really good.
This is so dark.
It's an actual black cookie.
He did say that this is made from 100% cocoa,
so I think that means I can eat it.
This is actually really good.
It's like kind of bittersweet
more so than like, a normal chocolate cookie.
That's my snack for the day.
Thank you!
So, it's after work.
I found a boba tea place on Instagram
that sells this really cool looking
black colored boba drink.
So I'm gonna go there with a couple of friends
and check it out.
I'm here with my friends, I have friends.
This is what the drink looks like.
There's boba, grass jelly,
and I think this is like a cocoa foam.
There's a lot of white in here,
so I'm gonna try and mix it together
and see if it's gonna turn more black.
(laughing)
It didn't do anything!
Can I still drink this?
- Yeah. - Yeah, I think that's fine.
Good?
- The cocoa is very interesting.
- It tastes like chocolate milk
if you add a little bit of grass jelly to it.
- Mm.
It's like Oreo.
- This does taste like Oreo.
It's like Oreo in a drink.
So for dinner we have a bunch of things.
Black rice and then there's wild rice,
and I already cooked it in my rice cooker
as you guys can see.
Phew!
Wood ear mushroom, which ends up after you soak it
looking like this.
Black bean garlic sauce.
The dark soy sauce.
This is the century old egg
that a lot of people are scared of.
And then we also have seaweed.
Black fish roe.
I honestly wasn't expecting to find this at all,
but kind of like what happened with the truffle.
Can't exactly afford caviar,
so this is a good substitute.
I'm also realizing, there's a lot of
really expensive stuff that's black, huh?
Well, here's our caviar for the night.
And then I also have chicken soup
cooking in the background
which my roommate started for me earlier
because it takes two and a half hours.
Just based on what we have,
I'm thinking I'll probably end up making
something like a sushi roll.
I don't really want to call it sushi
because it's really just me trying to mesh
all the ingredients together.
And then we'll have chicken soup on the side.
I'm just cutting up the wood ear mushrooms.
Even though they're called mushrooms,
they're more like jelly, and super rubbery, and slippery.
When you bite into it, it's more like
a crunchy, chewy texture.
This is what the preserved duck egg looks like.
It smells super pungent.
And I think they like challenge people to eat this
like on survivor or something,
but it's really not that scary.
I grew up eating this in like rice porridge,
congee we call it.
It does smell very strong though, I will say.
It does smell, but don't let that keep you away.
This is what it looks like on the inside.
(lighthearted jazz music)
It's super black right now.
The only thing about cooking black food
is that you don't know.
Like, what if I accidentally burnt it?
I have my rice.
It turned out fluffier than I had expected it to.
I have my preserved duck egg and wood ear mushroom.
And then I have my tobiko.
Let's try this.
I am now going to roll this up
to the best of my abilities.
My makeshift sushi mat.
So I have my sushi roll.
I'm just gonna cut it now and plate it,
and then I will be done.
All right, guys.
Dinner is served.
Ta-da!
And here's the chicken.
Focus.
The food is literally so dark
that the camera doesn't know where it is.
Boom!
And I put the black tobiko on top of it.
This is just a smear of like a soy sauce,
a thicker soy sauce,
I tried to make it fancier
because it looks like caviar,
even though it's not caviar.
You guys have to see this.
Look at this drumstick.
That's all natural, you guys.
My roommate made this into a soup,
but I took out the soup because the soup is brown.
In Taiwan, they make chicken soup
with black chicken sometimes.
It's really good for your body.
That's what my mom told me growing up,
so I believe it.
I also have my soy milk from earlier.
That's what it looks like.
It looks appetizing.
I'm gonna try the one with the fish roe,
because it looks like fancy sushi.
There's like crunchy bits in there
both from the wood ear mushroom
and the fish roe.
The fish roe is salty.
It adds a lot of flavor.
The black bean garlic sauce is really coming through.
This one's really good!
It really isn't as terrifying as it looks.
Let me try the chicken.
It's super tender.
It's super interesting too, look.
The meat is like gray.
Look at this!
The skin is completely black.
The meat is super tender.
It's literally falling off.
This has also been cooking for like three hours.
Oh, it's super good with the soy sauce.
Wow.
I think out of like all the one color challenges I've done,
this might be my favorite meal so far.
Guys, this was so great, I'm super satisfied.
Let me know what color you guys think I should do next.
Leave a comment below, otherwise,
see you guys next time.
Hey guys, it's Inga, and this time
I will only be eating pink colored foods for 24 hours.
I was scrolling through the comments
and I saw a lot of people requesting for pink,
and so that's why I decided to go with pink this time.
So I know I mentioned doing clear colored foods,
and that's still going to happen,
I just have something really special
planned for that episode,
so please look out for it, please be patient.
Coming back to today, as always,
we will be trying to find food
that is naturally colored pink.
I can't really think of too many pink things.
The first thing that comes to mind is cotton candy,
which is not exactly the most natural.
I will do my best to find some protein,
some carbs, and some veggies and fruits that are pink.
So, wish me luck, and let's go grocery shopping again.
Pink.
I don't know.
I found these radish leaves.
This looks pink.
Bacon's usually still pink.
There really isn't a lot of pink here.
I'm not really sure what to do,
so I'm just scavenging.
I found pink salt.
Real strawberry juice puree.
These pink Korean rice cakes look really good.
Sakura.
You can put this over something.
I'm also grabbing these crab chips.
Port wine cheese spread.
Found some pink grapefruit.
It is a brand new pink day.
I don't really have any like super pink shirts,
but I do have this coral pink top
that hopefully will pass for today.
So, let's get started with breakfast.
There's not really that much for this first meal.
Three things.
This is a pink grapefruit.
So it should be a lot more pinker and sweeter
than normal grapefruit.
And then we have this strawberry yogurt.
I really like this brand
because they're usually a lot less sweet,
and they focus on using really simple ingredients.
And then I'm just going to cook up some bacon.
Then we can plate everything together.
It's definitely a lot lighter in color.
(lighthearted music)
I'm trying to keep it more pink.
So it's kind of really greasy.
And then over here, I'm realizing the yogurt,
it's a super light pink.
I'm going to pour it out and maybe add a raspberry
to make it a little more pink.
And breakfast is done!
We have the bacon, we have the pink grapefruit,
here's the yogurt.
On camera I feel like it doesn't look as pink,
but it's definitely not your usual red.
Slightly sweeter than ruby grapefruits.
And then for this bacon.
It's definitely very floppy.
I don't mind it, honestly.
Still good.
To finish off, we have this strawberry yogurt.
I guess now it's strawberry and raspberry.
Get a big, heaping spoonful.
This is perfect.
Just to get my caffeine fix in,
I was thinking of stopping by
one of my favorite cafes here in New York.
They're known actually for this really pretty drink
called the rose petal milk tea.
I'm really excited to take you guys there,
so I'm going to finish up, clean up,
and then be on my way.
(catchy music)
This is all like naturally colored rose syrup,
and these are little flower petals.
(lighthearted music)
I'm just gonna be here for a little more
before I have to head to the office.
This is my pink drink of the day.
♪ It's gonna be a gorgeous day ♪
- It is now lunch time.
I'm back here at the Tasty kitchen.
We have a bunch of assorted items.
This is what we have in total.
Pancetta and prosciutto,
both of which are ready to eat.
So we have the pink radish in berry juice,
and then we have our spices.
Pink salt and pink peppercorns.
Two different kinds of spreads.
One is this port wine cheese spread,
which is I think pink because of the wine.
And then we have this, it's called taramosalata.
Made with lemon juice, olive oil,
and fresh fish roe.
It just looked really interesting,
and I was really surprised to find out
that there's no pink color dye in this,
so I'm excited to test this out.
And then in terms of carbs,
I enlisted Alvin's help again.
And that's why on this side
we will find this pink crepe batter.
Look at how nicely pink it is.
So, the pink here actually comes from beets,
like a beet puree.
I am excited to work with this
so we can do some sort of prosciutto, radish,
crepe situation.
This meal really is gonna be a bit of an adventure.
I am going to start making the crepes first.
Normally with crepes I use butter,
but because butter is not pink,
I'm hoping this non-stick pan will work.
(lighthearted music)
Okay, I'm not gonna lie,
it looks like a giant piece of ham.
But, but...
Once we plate it, it will probably look better.
This is what it looks like!
It really does look like ham,
but that's a pretty cool looking crepe, right?
The crepes are done,
I am now going to move onto these pink peppercorns.
I'm going to try and crush them a little bit using this.
(loud crushing)
It almost smells floral.
We'll see how it tastes.
We don't even have to cook anything else
'cause they're all ready to eat.
My plan for the prosciutto, pancetta,
and the radish is to kind of roll them up
and wrap them together.
I see them do this at like cocktail parties.
Usually it's around breadsticks,
but this could be the healthier version.
Okay, so, these are done.
Just opened this port wine cheese.
I really don't think I've ever
had anything like this before.
Wine and cheese usually go together,
so I guess this makes sense.
Ooh!
Not exactly the consistency I was expecting.
It's kind of really goopy.
It smells like fish roe.
I am just going to spread these on the crepes now.
(lighthearted music)
Multiple parts completed,
so I'm just gonna throw them all on a plate
and we should be ready for lunch.
Here is lunch!
These crepes actually do look like meat,
but I promise they're actually crepes.
And then we have the filling in between.
The prosciutto and pancetta wrapped around radish
with pink peppercorn and pink salt on top.
Also, I have this drink.
It's actually mostly water
with one drop of a hibiscus tea.
Now it's pink!
Time to eat.
Actually gonna work on one of these first.
(lighthearted jazzy music)
It smells good.
I actually wouldn't mind having that as an appetizer.
They actually pair together pretty well.
It's kind of like that sweet, savory combo.
Prosciutto, they usually pair it with melon.
In this case, the daikon is the sweetness in that pairing.
And the peppercorn adds a nice touch.
This might just be something
that I would snack on at home.
Even though there's only one drop of hibiscus in here,
you can still taste it.
I think this is the one with cheese.
You definitely get the aged cheddar.
It's kind of like cheese on bread.
The crepe is good.
I'm really excited about this fish roe spread.
Interesting.
I think I liked the cheese one a little more.
The fish hits you right away.
It almost like catches me off guard,
but it's not like, bad.
I think lunch turned out to be better
than I expected.
Going to now finish it up and get back to work.
It's around 4:30 right now.
I think it's a good time to crack open
this bag of chips.
These are those crab shrimp chips that I found.
Should hold me through until dinner.
This is actually really pink.
I guess it comes from the crab and the shrimp.
This is what it looks like.
It really just tastes like shrimp chips,
which I love, so.
- I'm here with Inga.
What are you eating?
- Pink chips.
- On brand for today.
(laughing)
- [Inga] Please try this.
Are the chips pink?
- These are definitely pink.
- [Inga] You like it.
- They're good, I would eat more of them.
- Well, I'm back home.
It's still pretty early,
but I think because of the limited amount
of pink foods I've been able to find,
I haven't been eating that much.
So it's all like digesting very quickly,
so I am going to have an early dinner today.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing.
I know I'm missing some pink vegetables,
so I might have to have radish again.
But let me show you guys what I have right now.
This super long fish sausage made with fish paste,
as you can see in the ingredients here.
Pink peppercorns, pink salt.
Then we have the salmon flakes that I bought
that are more like a coral pink,
kind of like my shirt.
And then we have this really cool sakura powder.
This is how they normally serve it, on rice.
I haven't had this in a long time,
but it's also a type of fish flake.
It's like kind of sweet and savory,
and it's a very pretty pink color.
And then we have these Korean rice cakes.
I know they usually use like natural food coloring
to add some color to their rice cakes.
I think there's like some kind of filling in there
that's kind of sweet,
but I'm missing carbs.
I'm really not entirely sure how it's going to go down,
but I'll probably pan fry this sausage
and try to pair up the rice cake
with the seasoning we have.
Yeah.
Ta-da!
It's definitely pink.
Let me try to cut it up.
It smells kind of fishy, which makes sense
'cause this is fish paste.
So the sausages are done.
I'm gonna bring back the radish that we had earlier.
So I'm just gonna cut it and put it on top
of the sausages.
Just gonna repeat these steps.
The rest of the ingredients I don't really need to cook.
Like the salmon's cooked, the rice cakes are cooked.
I'm just gonna throw them all together
into the final plate.
I hope you guys are ready for this.
Here is our super pink dish!
So you can see the sprinkled on sakura
on the rice cakes, the radish, the fish sausage,
and I put the salmon flakes in the middle.
So I think visually it's pretty appetizing,
but I don't actually know if the combinations work.
For drinks I found this kombucha.
It's pink because of the guava puree that's in it.
Let's give it a try.
That's a bite.
Mm.
The fish sausage is a very interesting texture.
It has less of a bite than what I'm used to.
Kind of reminds me of those like little fish sausages
that we used to eat as a kid.
So now I'm gonna eat the rice cake
with the little sakura on top.
Actually with the sakura powder, it's pretty good.
There is sort of like a sweet filling inside.
I think it's like sugar and peanuts which isn't pink,
so I'm gonna try and nibble around it.
My roommate thinks I'm crazy for trying to eat this
without the filling.
I'm gonna try the sakura powder as is, actually.
It's so interesting!
The first bite is sweet, and then it becomes savory.
You can definitely taste the fish in there
but also a lot of sugar.
A little bit of kombucha.
Oh, it smells so nice!
I love guava, and I was really sad this time
that I wasn't able to find pink guava.
Ooh, that's so good.
I never even knew that this was available.
I know you guys wanted me to try eating something else
that wasn't pasta, so here I am.
I see you.
(chuckling)
I always end up playing with my food.
Really feel it up to the brim with pink.
That's so good!
I guess it makes sense because this normally goes on rice,
but wow, that combination was unexpectedly good.
I really like that.
I'm going to finish up here,
and then gonna finish off the day with a dessert.
I'm honestly so excited about this.
Cure packaging aside, I think it just comes
in like the perfect portion size.
Strawberry milk bars!
Ta-da!
It's really just like strawberry milk,
but frozen in strawberry milk.
I honestly think pink foods was pretty difficult.
It was more of a struggle to maintain a balanced meal.
Somehow we managed to make it through the day.
I hope you guys enjoyed.
Let me know in the comments below
what color you want to see next,
and see you guys next time.
Hey everyone, this is Inga.
Today I'm filming a very, very special episode for you guys.
For this video, I will be eating only clear foods
for 24 hours.
All right, so here we go.
This is the episode.
I'm actually in Tokyo, Japan right now.
Ta-da!
That's the beautiful Tokyo Tower.
So I know after having done some research
that Japan actually has a lot of clear
and translucent foods,
so I am going to sort of include that
under the umbrella of clear foods today.
I don't want to just be eating and drinking water all day.
I am actually currently walking to the supermarket.
I have a list of items that I want,
but I'm also just going to check out
what they have at the store, so,
really hoping this works out.
Sugar candy.
I think you eat it just like this.
Never seen this before, but this is like,
almost like clear sesame oil.
I don't know what it is, but I'll figure it out.
This is clear.
I feel like this daikon could come in handy.
Not sure why it's clear, but it works.
Got these liquid sugars.
They're completely transparent.
How cool does this look though?
I'm at this matcha place,
but I found this clear coke.
- [Woman] Kuzumochi.
- Kuzumochi.
This is kuzumochi.
That is very clear.
I'm als going to get this, I think it's mung bean noodles.
And then I also found this!
I know they become translucent.
Yuzu salt candy.
I'm on my way to the soy sauce specialty store
that my friends at Tasty Japan told me about.
I am super excited because apparently
they have over a hundred types of soy sauce,
so can't wait to find this amazing clear soy sauce.
(lighthearted music)
So you get to sample it, and I just tried some,
and it tastes exactly like normal soy sauce,
so I am shook.
Morning, everyone!
So it is now daytime here in Tokyo.
I am definitely still jet lagged.
You guys know how normally I would eat fruits for breakfast.
Well, there's a couple of fruits
that are kind of like clear and translucent.
But apparently these types of fruits
are not that common here in Tokyo.
I was not able to find any of them.
So I'm afraid I won't be able to eat fruit
this time around.
I know it's not the best way to start the challenge,
but I am also a little bit sick,
so a warm cup of water
was what I was going to drink anyways.
Not my proudest moment.
I'm really sorry, breakfast today
is a little bit disappointing,
but we do have a lot of really cool, interesting things
lined up for the rest of the day.
Now I'm going to go back to packing some things up.
I've got a bunch of videos to shoot
at the Tasty studio space today,
so I'll see you guys there.
I am ready and on my way to work.
Thought I would treat myself because
I only had water this morning,
so I wanted to try that yuzu salt candy I bought.
Here it is.
It's super clear.
Guess I'm just curious because it says
there's salt in here too, so...
Oh my God, that's really good.
You do actually taste the specks of salt in there too.
I just got a pocket of one, and I really like it.
The salt probably helps bring the sweetness out.
I don't think you could ever really go wrong
with handmade candy.
This is exactly what I needed.
So I made it to the office.
I got lost a couple times,
I actually took the wrong train this morning.
But I'm here at Tasty Japan!
Getting ready to make a clear lunch.
I don't really know how this is going to go down.
At the supermarkets there was a lot of things,
a lot more things than you probably expected.
'Cause I wasn't expecting to find half as many
things as I did.
I think the biggest challenge here is to
make it into not just an edible meal,
but like a tasty meal.
Or a meal that is really good.
Let's just see what we have to work with.
We have a lot of stuff here.
We have rice wrappers.
We probably see this the most
when we're eating, I think, Vietnamese cuisine.
Clear soy sauce.
I'm super excited to play with this.
Some form of substitute for sugar.
Rice vinegar.
I was trying to find white vinegar,
but this is what they had in the Tasty kitchen.
White sesame oil that I've never seen.
Usually sesame oil is a dark brown, I would say.
Pickled daikon, because they've been pickled
they are much more translucent.
Mung bean vermicelli.
I think I grew up eating this quite a bit.
Two types of sashimi.
I don't know what kind of fish they are, so...
We're gonna ask Red to help.
- [Red] This is Madai.
And this is hirame, it's kinda chewy.
And this is one is kawahagi.
- There isn't like a specific way to eat it?
- With soy sauce and wasabi.
- I can work with that, maybe.
Thank you!
I don't think I've even ever seen this before.
Super translucent.
You can almost see through it.
I'm not gonna be able to use the tuna in the middle
because it's not clear.
I think what I'm gonna do is kinda cook the noodles,
cut up the daikon, marinate the sashimi a little bit.
Wrap them up with this.
We have a bunch of sauces,
so I think I can play around with that a little bit,
and we can take it from there.
Sweet, savory, sour.
Umami maybe?
Let's try to make a sauce using these different condiments.
Starting with this clear soy sauce.
I feel like if you covered this up
and I didn't know what color it was,
I would've totally thought it was just normal soy sauce.
(calming music)
Because it's clear, I think I like forget
that it's actually really salty.
Vinegar.
This doesn't smell like anything right now, but, oh!
I kinda wanna taste it.
It tastes just like simple syrup,
so I think we're on the right track.
Sugar, sesame oil.
This is just a clear sauce.
I'm gonna taste it a little bit.
I feel like it's a little on the sweeter side,
so I'm gonna add a little bit more soy
and a little more sesame oil.
Yeah, I think that works.
Now that I have this marinade,
I can try to marinate them.
This is what it looks like.
As much as I want there to be wasabi,
can't use it 'cause it's green.
You guys see that?
This is the fish.
Oh wow.
Crazy!
Fish.
These are all safe to eat raw,
and that's why we're doing this.
Put these in there.
Whoa.
Whoa!
Hard to believe that this isn't water.
Gonna set that aside.
This is what the vermicelli looks like.
It's actually translucent and not white.
Gonna go ahead and toss that in.
Can't even really see the noodles in there
because it's so clear,
but here are the noodles.
Just going to rinse the noodles really quick.
I think I've got most of the things prepped.
It's time to do some wrapping.
This is what they look like.
It's literally just a clear sheet.
If you wanted to pixelate your face,
this is one way to do it.
Right now it's kind of hard,
so all you have to do is put it in warm water.
Just a few seconds.
So, you see how it goes in?
I think that's good.
And now it's even clearer than before.
A lot floppier too.
So I'm gonna set that down here.
It's actually a lot stickier now.
Fish on here.
We're going to sauce this a little bit,
I think just with some soy sauce and sesame oil.
Now to put some of these.
Add a little bit of daikon,
just for extra flavor and texture.
(catchy music)
Okay!
This is our first wrap.
It looks really cool.
It's kind of like a cocoon of sorts.
Gonna make a couple more of these,
and then let's serve it up.
This is it.
These are our clear spring rolls.
You can see the vermicelli, the fish.
I will say it's a little more opaque now.
There's a lot of things here
that aren't completely like transparent.
They're clear in a more translucent type of way.
And when you put all those elements together,
I guess they do appear a little more white on camera.
I just have some soda water.
This is our clear meal.
I'm just gonna go right in for it.
I really don't know what to expect.
Hm.
There's a lot of flavors going on I have to say.
I think the marinade actually worked out pretty well.
And because the daikon's pickled
the sweetness really adds a lot to it,
but I'm really confused, I'm gonna try that again.
Now you can see the insides.
It probably just looks like really bland food.
In a way, I almost say it would've made
a very healthy way to have a meal.
Considering what it looks like and what it tastes like,
I think you would be pleasantly surprised.
This is gonna be pretty quick for me to finish,
but I actually also have a dessert for this meal.
I know, usually it comes after dinner,
but I think I actually found enough things.
So I am going to bring in dessert
after I finish these up really quickly.
I was really looking forward to this.
This is called the kuzumochi.
So this is actually a super popular
traditional snack in Japan.
Like, you know how mochi is typically made of rice?
This one's made of kuzuko
which is another type of starch.
Mochi is usually white.
This one is actually more of a translucent color.
This is usual served with soy bean powder
and a type of sweet syrup,
but in my case today we will not be using these
for obvious reasons.
In its place, I have actually bought this syrup.
Ooh!
I'm gonna scoop a bite out so you guys can see.
So...
Whoa!
Now that's satisfying.
This is kind of the texture we're looking at,
it's very jiggly.
You can see the spoon through this.
I'm gonna take a bite without putting syrup first.
Mm!
It's already a little bit sweet.
Oh!
It almost looks like a raindrop cake.
It's so jelly-like.
(lighthearted music)
I feel like I've might've had it before
because I've never actually eaten it as is.
So this is super cool.
I'm really treating myself here today.
I have a lot to work on while I'm here,
so I'm going to wrap this up really quickly
and then get back to work.
So I am taking a small break from work
to actually work on the raindrop cake
that I want to have for dinner.
I think it takes some time to set in the fridge,
so gonna prepare it now and then hopefully
be able to bring it home.
Oh, but before that!
I wanted to try a candy.
This is maltose candy.
Don't know if you guys have seen this before.
The last time I saw it actually
was when I was doing dragon beard's candy.
I will be eating it as is
just like this little guy here.
Think I need a toothpick maybe?
The struggle is real.
Oh, it's so sticky!
It's not always this clear.
This is super clear.
I've seen this being served on streets before.
Yo!
Ya!
The perfect glob of sugar, oh!
I'm just playing with my food again.
Oh, there you go.
Look at that.
Do you want this?
- Okay, sure.
Itadakimasu.
So sweet!
- Wait, I'm gonna show you.
(gasps)
This is like what kids eat.
- Festival or something.
- It's so good, but it's also so much sugar.
Now that snack time is over,
and now that I have sugar in my hair,
I'm gonna get back to the raindrop cake.
I'm just using the recipe from Tasty Japan.
I'm gonna link you guys to the recipe I'm using
in the description box below.
This is actually the same pot
they use in the video,
so I can't go wrong with that.
(calming saxophone music)
That's done.
(Inga exhales)
Gonna work a little bit more now.
All right guys, so, change of plans.
I know I said I was gonna go home,
but it's already dark out.
It gets dark really early here.
It's like already past dinner time
and I'm really hungry,
so I'm just going to make dinner here,
since I have all the ingredients with me anyways.
I was thinking of making something fairly quick.
I also consulted with Red beforehand
to make sure I wasn't doing anything too bizarre
with the ingredients here.
Condiments aside, we really only have three things.
These cooked bean sprouts.
Bean sprouts normally aren't that translucent,
but after you cook them they become pretty see-through.
Over here we have what they call tokoroten.
I really hope I am saying that right.
This is again, one of those things that
is very common here in Japan.
It is actually made from seaweed, or algae.
And then we have these little baby fishies
called shirasu.
It actually says right here that it's meant
to be consumed raw, so that is also super interesting.
I actually think I had this yesterday at a restaurant.
You guys recognize the sugar substitute from earlier
and the clear soy sauce.
Sake and mirin.
They're both just like pretty common cooking wine.
I'm probably gonna combine all of this to make a sauce.
Let's make this work!
We have the clear soy sauce first.
Mirin.
Sake.
Sugar.
Normally I can kind of see how much I want
based on like the color of the mixture.
Because everything is clear, it's kind of trippy.
Just had a little bit of a taste.
It's really hard to know how much to add of anything
when it's just...
Look at how clear that looks.
It's like I'm just boiling water.
Bringing this to the stove top,
reduce it a little bit.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna chop this up.
There's a lot of water in this,
so I'm gonna pour that out.
Oh, it's so clear!
It's actually already in noodle form.
I couldn't even tell from the packaging.
Whoa!
This is so interesting.
Wow.
Let me try it.
Mm.
I don't really think it smells like anything,
but the texture of it,
it's like a little softer than gelatin.
It doesn't taste like gelatin though.
It's a clear fish.
Isn't that insane?
Seafood.
They actually start out translucent,
it's just that after we cook it, it becomes opaque.
(calming music)
This is what we have.
This might look a little bit terrifying,
because you can actually see the little fishies,
but I also grew up eating like little fishies
like this with rice, usually it's cooked.
I've never had them raw like this.
I'm excited to try it.
The last thing to do really is just
to drizzle on the sauce that I made.
I'm just gonna cool it,
and then pour it over this.
I'm now ready for dinner!
I haven't added the sauce yet,
this is what the sauce ended up looking like.
It's still very much clear.
Can you guys still see me through it?
(calming jazzy music)
There you have it.
It's a clear bowl of noodles and fish and vegetables.
It turned out pretty clear!
I bet when this video first started
you guys had no idea what to expect.
This is probably the last thing you had in mind.
This is wild.
Oh, also!
Here it is!
I've heard of clear cola here,
but I didn't actually expect to find it.
I really want to start this meal off by drinking this.
Yeah, it even smells like Coca-Cola.
Let me try it.
It kinda tastes a little bit more like cola candy.
Cola tasting products, it tastes like that.
This is crazy.
All right, so now for the main course.
Apparently, there are many ways to enjoy this.
The packaging actually came with a sweet sauce,
but you can eat it sweet or savory.
Let's try this.
The sauce turned out really good,
and the little fishies are like
little pockets of umami sprinkled through.
I actually really like the fish.
For people who are not a fan
of a more slimier texture,
you probably wouldn't like it.
But...
It's like sashimi.
And then the bean sprouts are a nice crunch.
I think the sauce I made was a variation of teriyaki.
You wouldn't expect to see teriyaki in this color.
This is still the coolest thing ever.
So I'm gonna slowly work on this,
and then we can finally get to dessert.
This is it.
This is the moment of truth.
Let's see if I was able to do it.
Shall we?
You just...
(chuckling)
I wasn't even able to slowly do it,
but here it is!
Oh my God.
I did it.
It's so beautiful.
Wow.
I have never made a raindrop cake before.
I know it's just water and sugar,
and there's no reason to freak out,
but I'm so excited to eat it.
I have my syrup from earlier.
(lighthearted music)
Oh, that's so cool.
Super excited!
I'm just gonna dig right in, you guys.
(lighthearted music)
Wow.
The flavor really is just of sugar and water,
but the texture is so pleasing.
I know this sounds crazy,
but you can feel how jiggly it is
as you're eating it.
Mm.
This is so great, this was the best thing to end on.
It's super refreshing.
I feel like I'm getting at least two cups
of my eight cups of water per day.
So I actually made two raindrop cakes for safety,
and this one turned out even more amazing.
This challenge, honestly,
I thought it would be pretty much impossible.
I thought I'd be drinking water, that's it.
I can't stop eating this, I'm sorry.
I should stop.
I think as I was shopping around here,
I found so many more things that I thought they would be.
That kind of blew my mind a little bit.
It's always so amazing to see the different kinds of food
from different cultures,
and like how when you're in different places
there's just so many more things to discover.
This challenge was actually pretty insightful.
It gave me this opportunity to try out different things,
like things maybe outside of my comfort zone,
maybe things that I've never even thought
of trying before.
And I felt like I learned a lot from it,
I hope you guys did too.
Now that I've finally done clear foods,
let me know what else I should be doing.
Whether it's a different color,
maybe a different challenge.
I'm open to any ideas you might have,
so, let me know.
Until then, see you guys!
Hey guys, this is Inga.
And this time I will only be eating blue foods
for 24 hours.
This is probably the most requested
one color food challenge.
So I have been doing a lot of research,
but unfortunately there really are just
not that many naturally blue foods in the world,
and a lot of the ones that I was hoping to find
I couldn't find them here in New York.
Apparently the blue lobster,
and I don't know if this is true,
but the odds of catching one
is like 1 in 200,000,000.
But with that being said,
I will try to find most if not all
of the remaining blue foods.
And this time I am starting with the internet.
I feel like a lot of the things that I want to find
I might not be able to find in store,
but I know that they have them online.
Just to be safe, you guys.
First off, we have this butterfly pea flower tea.
Drink places use it to make like blue themed drinks.
I also found this Blue Majik powder.
So the Blue Majik powder is a dietary supplement.
Essentially, it's spirulina extract.
This type of blue-green algae
that has a lot of health benefits.
I also got this blue cornmeal.
I thought this would be really fun
for us to work with.
Next thing as per usual,
I am going to head to, I think,
at least two grocery stores just to explore options
and see what we can find that's blue.
Blue corn chips.
I found a blue velvet cake,
but I'm pretty sure that's not natural coloring,
so we're not gonna go for it.
Found this kombucha that is a beautiful blue.
They use blue spirulina to make it blue,
which means it qualifies.
Blue potato chips.
Super interesting.
I have never had these before,
so I'm excited to try it.
Good morning everyone!
It is a gloomy day today in New York.
It is raining outside,
which I guess is on brand
since today is a blue foods day.
I am excited but also nervous about today
because there isn't too much to work with,
but I'm gonna try to make the most out of it.
For breakfast I found this juice shop,
this juice place that actually sells
Blue Majik smoothie bowls.
It basically looks like an acai bowl but blue.
So I think I'm gonna head over there
and buy us some breakfast.
I will check back in with you guys
when I'm on the way.
I am walking to the juice shop now,
hopefully I find what I'm looking for.
It would make this day start off a lot easier.
I just ordered this bowl.
Bought my smoothie bowl, I also bought this drink.
They both use blue spirulina as coloring,
so I'm excited to try it.
I am going to head back to the office now though,
so I can sit down and eat this properly.
I made it to the office.
There's a lot of blue.
I think because the blueberries were kind of smushed,
so they're a lot more purple here.
Usually for their protein bowls
you can order like three toppings.
I basically said I wanted three servings of blueberries,
because everything else, they weren't blue.
Let's open this up.
Oh my goodness.
Look at this blue bowl.
Oh wow, the blueberries are definitely still frozen.
I'm just gonna mix it together.
Smells really good.
There's a lot of things that went into this.
But the blue spirulina really did just make it
into this like, super blue looking bowl.
I'm just gonna go right for it, a big bite.
Brain freeze.
I think everything else in this bowl right now
kind of covers however the spirulina tastes,
but I like it.
And obviously the frozen blueberries are really good.
I will say though that the fact that it is blue
does kind of come off as intimidating.
It's kind of crazy to think that this is all natural.
We've come to association blue with
just anything that's unnatural.
I have to run to a meeting now,
and I'm curious to know what everybody else
is gonna think.
- What do you have?
- [Inga] Can I show you my breakfast?
(laughing)
It smells good though, smell it.
- Oh, it does smell good.
- [Inga] It's a color day.
- Blue.
- [Inga] It's a blue color day.
- Oh, what? - What is that?
- It looks like you blended a smurf.
It is a pretty color.
- [Man] I don't know, that looks gross.
- All right, I'll be here.
The meeting is now over.
People said it smelled nice.
I actually really like this shade of blue.
Even though yeah, it does look more like paint
than actual food.
This is super filling, which is really nice actually.
I really thought that today I'd be starving.
This is definitely sustenance.
We're off to a great start!
Gonna clean up a little bit, and then go work,
and I'll see you guys for lunch.
We are back here in the Tasty studio.
It's a little weird, but I feel like
I'm still really full from breakfast.
There was a lot of ingredients
packed into that bowl.
A lot of nutrients, which is probably a good thing.
Based on what you guys saw
when I went grocery shopping,
there weren't actually that many things.
Most of it was like drinks or powder.
But I think I have enough to work with.
So I'm gonna show you guys what I have for lunch.
We have red cabbage.
I found this hack that can turn this red cabbage into blue,
so we're going to test that out today.
Purple or blue potato, it goes by both names.
Blue corn tacos from that taco kit I found.
Blue potato chips, made from naturally blue potato.
We really only have four items,
but I think I can make some sort of taco
with potato and cabbage inside.
I'm gonna start off by cutting up the potatoes
into bite sized pieces to put into the taco shell.
I know right now it's super purple,
but once we cook it this color will change
into a purple-ish blue, so be patient with me
while we continue to do this.
Got my potatoes, toss this in.
I think I'll check on this
after I finish cooking the cabbage.
The hack I found was that if you add
baking soda to red cabbage, it becomes blue.
I'm planning on adding a bit of baking soda
when I'm sauteing the red cabbage,
and hopefully that will turn it into blue cabbage.
I'm grabbing a blue spatula.
Toss this in.
I'm just gonna cook it a little bit
before adding anything else.
I want it to become a little more soft.
You see how the colors changed slightly?
This is what we were originally working with,
and this is the color it's become.
The potatoes are pretty much ready,
so I will take them out.
There it is, our blue potatoes.
So now that the cabbage is a little softer,
I am going to add some baking soda.
(lighthearted jazzy music)
DO you guys see that instant color change?
It's definitely like an aqua blue color.
I'm gonna turn the stove off.
I think at this point it really is the plating.
(lighthearted jazzy music)
This is what we have.
There's three different colors of blue going on.
There's that really beautiful blue
coming from the potatoes.
Like a greenish-blue with the red cabbage
plus baking soda.
The taco shell is more of a gray-ish blue.
The blue potato chips kind of turned out
more a vibrant purple, which I wasn't expecting.
I guess that just means they retained
more of it's like raw purple color.
Honestly, not bad at all.
If you see the potatoes, it's very, very soft.
The cabbage is a little more interesting.
I feel like the baking soda definitely changes
the flavor a little bit.
Slimier textures.
Not sure if I would normally do that.
But color wise, you can see that they all
kind of blend together.
Blue is my favorite color though,
so I am all for it.
Remember how I also bought an extra drink
that features Blue Majik and electrolytes,
which it says right here.
And I wanted to show you guys what Blue Majik is.
Because I was so curious to know what it was.
Spirulina extract for healthy joints.
I am gonna pour some of this out.
Whoa!
Instantly you can see how blue it is.
This is crazy, this is completely natural,
believe it or not.
It's such a pretty, vibrant blue.
It's super pigmented.
It does smell a little funky, I have to say.
Fishy.
But I guess since it does come from algae,
that would make a lot of sense.
(lighthearted music)
Yeah, I do not get any of that Blue Majik flavor.
There's also lime juice, lemon juice,
maple syrup in here.
It makes sense that it's covered by the other things.
All natural Gatorade.
Honestly, I think they pretty much just taste
like regular potato chips,
just like how the blue potatoes I had.
It's just that it is this blueti...
I almost said blue-tiful.
I've said blue too many times today.
It's really just visually different.
It's nice sometimes to, you know,
add a little bit of color to your plate.
All right, so I'm just gonna be here
finishing up my lunch.
Not sure if I'm actually gonna be snacking
anything later.
I'm feeling pretty full.
Surprisingly.
Remember how I told you guys
that I wouldn't have a snack today?
So apparently...
Oops, gotta let myself in first.
Apparently, Alvin said he got me a small dessert,
so I am taking a break from work
to go see what it is.
The upper shelf of the fridge, in a blue bag!
Woo hoo!
Excited.
It is a box, everything is blue, super on brand.
There's a note.
"I don't know how to make macarons,
so I got you a blue one from the store.
They said that the color is natural."
But he forgot the flavor.
And that he ate the rest of the macarons he bought.
Classic.
This is so pretty!
I love this.
I wonder if it's also the Blue Majik powder
that everybody's been using.
Almost like a fruity sweetness.
This was exactly the type of thing I needed.
Wow.
Thanks Alvin, I appreciate it.
Yay!
All right, time for me to go back to work now.
I have a meeting with Alvin,
and he brought back some snacks.
And this, this is blue!
This was made with what?
- Butterfly pea flower.
- Amazing.
I'm taking off the coconut sugar.
Yay, blue!
It's good.
It just tastes like sticky rice.
I think it's because I didn't eat the sugar.
Wow, this is already more desserts
than I thought I would have.
Great stuff.
I am back home.
So there's two things I really want to do.
One is dinner, of course, and the other is dessert.
I know I had a little dessert snack earlier,
but I really wanted to try and make
a blue dessert myself.
But first things first, let's start off with dinner.
We pretty much only have 2 things.
One is the blue cornmeal which I plan on using
to make some cornbread,
and then we have some blue corn tortilla chips.
I do have some leftover blue-red cabbage from earlier,
so I'm going to eat that with this meal too,
just to get my veggies in.
I think playing with this would be quite fun.
I would say it's like a very faint blue.
I already got started on making the cornbread batter.
This is what it looks like now.
This is pretty much the color
of the cornmeal we bought, so,
I'm just gonna put this now into the baking pan,
and then pop it in the oven.
(catchy jazz music)
While I'm waiting for the cornbread to bake,
I am going to get started on dessert.
So the dessert I wanted to do today
is pretty much just the butterfly pea flower tea,
but in jelly form.
I really hope this works!
They really are just flower petals.
It's like an oddly herbal smell.
Ooh, did you guys see that?
I love how it instantly turned blue.
This is so cool.
I am in awe.
So I'm just gonna let this steep for a while.
It's been about 15 minutes,
and I wanted to show you guys
what the butterfly pea tea looks like.
Look at that.
It's so blue.
I love it!
I can't believe this is natural coloring.
Right now I'm gonna combine this with some more water,
and then we're gonna add in the agar-agar.
And then we can pour it out into the molds.
Okay, so now that the jelly is in the fridge,
the cornbread is pretty much done.
I just took it out of the oven,
and I am super excited!
If you guys take a look at this,
you can see the blue peeking through.
(Inga gasps)
It just smells amazing in here.
So, I am super...
Wow, I'm like salivating,
that's why I can't even talk.
I am really, really looking forward to this.
I'm just going to let this cool,
and the next time you see me
I will have this plated and we'll be ready to eat.
Excited!
The meal is completed.
Here is the final reveal.
This is my meal right here.
There's like different shades of blue going on.
Purple-ish blue.
The cornbread.
It's like a little darker than the normal cornbread.
You can ese the blue cornmeal inside.
It's not like that super vibrant blue you would expect.
The blue cabbage from earlier.
I feel like after it sits for a while
it becomes even more blue.
It's almost like a turquoise kind of blue.
Over here I have some blue ice
that I made earlier.
They are super pretty, I'm super proud of these.
I made this blue ice with some black goji berries.
This is what the black goji berries look like.
It also gives that like vibrant blue color.
I have this kombucha.
Super, super blue drink.
It has kombucha in it, coconut water,
ginger juice, and Blue Majik,
which I feel like has been featured
very heavily this episode.
Yeah.
Woo hoo!
(lighthearted jazz music)
Wow.
Now that's pretty epic.
Percy Jackson would be so proud.
This is incredible.
Wait, you guys have to look at this.
It's like solid shapes of blue
in a sea of blue.
Tastes really good.
Again, I don't taste the Blue Majik portion
because it was combined with ginger juice.
It's the ginger that stands out the most.
Even though it's completely blue,
it tastes just like a lemon and ginger kombucha.
Which is amazing.
I want to start with the cornbread.
It really did smell so amazing.
All I did really was just
following a basic cornbread recipe,
but substituting regular cornmeal with blue cornmeal.
The blue is very, very subtle.
I'm gonna go right for it.
(claps) (catchy jazz music)
This is really good.
I don't know if there is too much of a difference
between cornbread made with regular cornmeal
and blue cornmeal,
but I do feel like the flavor in this one
is a little nuttier.
I really like this cornbread.
I only cut three slices here,
but I'm pretty sure I'll be eating all of it.
Because I'm hungry!
I just want to show you guys this cabbage again.
It kind of looks like seaweed at this point.
And I have the blue corn tortilla chips.
I feel like they're pretty popular.
It almost tastes a little bit sweeter,
and it feels grainier, which I kind of like.
I like it when chips have like different textures.
It's not as like smooth and refined.
I'm a big fan of blue corn apparently,
I didn't know that until now.
If you haven't had a chance to try blue corn tortilla chips,
maybe try and grab a bag next time
when you're buying chips and salsa.
I feel like you guys would like this too.
I'm very pleased with this dinner.
I am going to finish this off, give it a few hours
before we dig into dessert.
I finally finished cleaning up.
I am ready for dessert!
So I took the jelly that I made earlier out,
and they came out pretty cool.
Hold on, let me show you guys.
Ta-da!
I added in some blueberries for decoration.
Also, I loved the shape of these molds.
It's the same one that I used in my other video
where I made edible jewelry,
and so these came out super pretty.
Let me try one now.
Whoa!
How cool is that color?
It's a very comforting shade of blue.
And this, again, was all just the doing
of the butterfly pea tea.
There is no artificial food coloring in here at all.
Because it's agar-agar, it's like a clean cut.
There's a little bit of sugar,
but for the most part it still tastes
like the butterfly pea tea.
It's like sweetened herbal tea.
And a blueberry to end it off.
(chuckling)
So, that is the end of my blue color food challenge.
I hope you guys enjoyed it, as always,
I had a lot of fun putting these creative dishes
together for you.
Also, this time, I will be linking some of the things
that I used in the description box below
if you guys ever want to try this challenge yourself.
Definitely, if you make any one color food dishes,
send them to me, I would love to see them,
it's always so fun seeing what you guys can do.
Now that I've finally done blue foods,
let me know what other color you want me to do.
Other than that, I will see you guys in the next video.
Bye!
(lighthearted jazz music)