hello everybody this is doug and i am
here in a new country today south korea
i'm here in seoul south korea something
a little new for the channel and i'm
here with my friend who's very camera
shy
moon and we went to university together
at cornell university back in the states
and we know each other because we both
sang acapella stay tuned maybe we'll
sing maybe we will
all right so where are we right now
guangzhong market this is going to be a
little intro video to south korea we're
gonna go eat some food explore a little
bit
and then we'll see what else we get up
to here we go
so this is a famous place what do they
make here again
so it's like fried dough yeah
basically covered in sugar awesome yep
let's find a good spot
they're making a lot of these fried uh
is it potato pancakes or like turnip or
seafood i've had the seafood one before
that's just like a bunch of different
seafoods
fried in this pancake that you guys see
here
everyone's eating
mung bean mung bean
mung bean pancakes
with some meat in there too cool
and a lot of them have seafood octopus
yeah a lot of them are making the same
thing
okay here's the menu
okay
i don't know what do you think is best
okay let's do that whatever you think
yeah
do you try
oh makgeolli
ah i was thinking makalu were like the
rice uh cake things in the red sauce
what's that called
okay yeah my korean sucks
i know annyeonghaseyo which is hello and
kamsamira which is thank you thank you
and i know
which means half half when i ordered
dumplings one time
and that's about it
this is like a rice uh
sparkling like like fermented fermented
liquor or wine
rice wine rice one okay
come samnita
that was so fast
we've got a long day ahead of us
we can drink slow
okay let's should we try this
oh and i know another word in korean
cheers
do you like it
i like it actually you know what it
reminds me of kombucha
yeah all right it's kind of similar
yeah but it has like that sour fermented
taste anyway cheers
it's very good
okay here we go
let's give it a try in the little dip in
the soy sauce here
oh yeah that's so good
good one
i love this kind of stuff just like deep
fried street food
it's the best anything fried good
anything is anything that's fried is
good and they do a lot of that in korea
yeah fried chicken is huge here
chicken and beer
i had it for dinner last night how was
it
excellent all right so we're gonna eat
up and then we will continue see you
soon
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next thing moon what is this
okay we got it's like a fermented drink
with rice
in it let's see what it is here we go
let's stand right here
it tastes like tea to me kind of
kind of yeah it's like with some rice
it's like very light and nice and mild
refreshing okay with some rice
foreigners think it's weird huh yeah
well
it's not that weird
yeah i guess it's but it's kind of
almost like a bubble tea that there's
solids in the drink it reminds me of
bubble tea a little bit at least look at
this market and this is part of it is
closed but normally it's
even more crowded than this
wow
where to next moon
where are we off to
to get some dumbbell game i don't know
is that it
that's it but i don't know where would
be uh
let's find a good spot i think i ate
this the other day
the the blood sausage sundae yeah that
is uh some blood sausage in uh intestine
ah here we go we could go here
have you tried this
what is that
what do you think it is i think it's oh
it's pork feet
is it
go
you can see the little toe right here
and right across from me
directly opposite is
sunday this is a
blood sausage so it's a bunch of rice
and i think it's pork right
pork meat
and blood
inside of a pork intestine
oh no meat in this one okay well it's
still wrapped in an intestine
and it's a sausage and i had it in soup
the other day and it was very tasty and
this is
what's that
oh that's chicken feet chicken feet
oh you got some more oh my gosh so many
things to try so this is like a tangy
like kind of spicy sauce wow you like
dip it in i love how she just makes the
little bowl for the sauce within the
plastic that is on the plate that's so
cool so these you might think if you're
not familiar with korean cuisine that
this is
sushi
but it's not
it is korea thank you thank you so this
is um
kimbap
which basically means like seaweed and
rice keemum is seaweed uh-huh right
is rice pop is rice like bibimbap
yeah so this is just vegetables in here
with some rice wrapped in seaweed and
then we've got the
cookie
spicy rice cake taco spicy rice cake so
this is gonna be just like a chewy
rice cake yeah i love these things
no i love that it's like a big giant
noodle kind of right
yeah
okay let's see
this is a bit intimidating
it's huge
cheers cheers
i don't know i love it you like it
sweet yum i think of it as like a giant
noodle kind of very popular street snack
huh yeah okay one bite let's finish this
a big bite
all right let's give the kimbap a try
ready
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okay just pretend like you haven't had
it yet
here we go
oh yeah dip it in the sauce
that sauce tastes like uh
wasabi almost a little bit yeah all
right and we are moving on once again
i'm so full pizza
you want to try this all right we got
one more thing to try there's a long
line looks very popular
this is the thing that we mentioned at
the beginning of the video which is
called
guava
so much longer than before it'll
probably be pretty fast right all right
let's see it's worth it i think long
line here we'll see you at the front of
the line okay so the name of this place
is
can you say it again
oh there it goes
so we are almost to the front of the
line now and we are watching the man
prepare
we almost missed it
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all right there it goes
secured the bag nice job moon
okay we have our
go
and it's time to drive after you
fried dough dipped in sugar with
cinnamon sugar yeah
how is it how is it
good
all right guys we are continuing on
we're going down into the seoul metro
right now
the subway
and uh it's quite an experience it works
really well it goes like everywhere i
think it's clean too clean too yeah it's
far cry from new york it's very orderly
no one really messes around no one talks
it's very silent i'll show you guys
we're going to go over to
iksan
yeah i said that you said
and it's going to be really cool
so let's do it yeah see look the tracks
are closed off from the platform
and these doors will open when a train
gets here but otherwise they are closed
so it's
safe here no one falls on the tracks
and everyone's just extremely well
behaved here it's very very different
from new york
all right we made it out so we are
heading now to
ixandang
okay i pretty much got that one i'm
gonna count that so it's something like
like one part of it is famous for like
cute cafes and stuff like that many
other parts like this
like uh-huh
kbbq so we've got the korean barbecue
places and then the cutesy area that
we're going to do seoul is kind of known
for their cafe culture right yeah
they have really nice cafes i mean yeah
look at this
it's so
just like fancy and
lots of good iced coffee it's a good
it's a good place for coffee any saudis
or other arabs watching this video would
would definitely enjoy it here because
of the so much coffee i love these kind
of restaurants they're so like clean
it's just
wood
paneling and yeah some stores and things
like that how do you say like if you
bump into someone in korea like oh sorry
excuse me
no
but i can pretend like i will oh look at
this this is a
bb gun shooting place i think
everyone's targets on the wall and you
got the gun here and there's the
shooting range
oh moon's just enjoying the ac oh
yeah
good oh it's so cold
soul is very very humid oh that's cool
wow look at this
look look at this cafe i just want to
check it out oh my gosh
we got little train trucks
it's so cool
so what's this kind of house called
hanok
let's see
i think we can find a spot
oh my gosh look at this so in here
they've got a dessert conveyor belt
okay what do we got here
ice latte nice americana oh it looks so
pretty
look at this
yeah the saudis would love it here
the coffee in korea is great
there's so many cool coffee places like
this that are like you know one of a
kind and really unique and then there's
also a starbucks like on every corner
like every corner it's crazy how is the
americano
back down the tracks okay we're just
walking along and we came across
this thing
behind us here
which is
kind of like a fortune teller thing can
you explain what it is it's like a
fortune cookie like a fortune cookie
but you get a ball out of this
little vending thing and then you break
it open
you break it open with a hammer over
there and you smash it open and then you
get a fortune that you pay a dollar for
so let's do it
we get our little tokens so now you find
the right one i was born in the year of
the rat and what were you moon
the cow the cow right next to each other
okay
so put it in here
and i get my
fortune you can definitely open it
without the hammer so it's very easy to
break open but i'm gonna reclose it
because it's more fun to break it
wow nicely done
this is like the rest of your life here
doug i'm not translating this
already guys and i think that is about
going to sum it up it was a good first
intro to seoul but there is a whole lot
more coming there is a lot to see here
and uh we'll be making a lot of videos
over the next week or so thank you so
much for the tour moon
that was a lot of fun stay tuned
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other than that thank you so much for
watching and i will see you in the next
one
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