good morning good morning guys greetings from Pearson International Airport here
in Toronto as you can see Audrey's not with me
it is time for another solo adventure I am heading back to a country that I
absolutely love that I have a very long history with heading back to South Korea
on a work project for two weeks but at the moment right now I'm quite hungry so
I'm gonna sit down grab some food and I'll tell you a bit more about the
project once I've got some food in front of me guys lunch was a greasy affair I
decided to get great giant burger basically a burger with two patties
sweet potato fries and a ginger ale it was from the place I think it was called
custom-built burgers it's my first time to have it here in Pearson and I was
just craving a burger haven't had it for a while
definitely hit the spot but it was not a very conducive area for me to do
speaking Clips is like communal sitting so yeah Korea so excited to be heading
back to Korea a country where I have more history
really than anywhere else aside from Canada I mean this is where
it all began for me many years ago I started teaching English in Korea that's
where I met Audrey for the first time that's also where I really got bitten by
the travel bug and now things have kind of come full circle because I've been
invited along with a few other youtubers to participate basically in a blogger
trip organized by Korean Tourism Organization
and yeah we have a pretty amazing itinerary ahead of us for the next six
seven days we're gonna be doing a lot of different things that I didn't get to do
when I lived in Korea for instance I never went to the DMZ the demilitarized
zone which is the border between South Korea and North Korea all beginning to
do that also I never got to experience a full temple stay in Korea and so I'm so
pumped to do that we're gonna be spending our time in Seoul Busan and
Gyeongju and there's an even bigger surprise so that's special surprise is
that David is joining me my good pal David up DavidsBeenHere I mean my
buddy who I went to India with in the fall and filmed for three weeks in India
together yeah it's gonna be so good to see him I can't wait to team up with him
and we found out we were on the same project just kind of flying by accident
I just emailed him and said like hey man what are you doing at the spring and
summer they told me I'm going to Korea I was like no way and so I told him
the dates that I was going and you know we found out we were on the same trip
and not only we're on the same trip we're in the same group so that means
we're gonna be traveling together the whole time and we've added an extra week
to our itinerary so we're gonna be doing even more together for like renting
Airbnb s post trip and so yeah it's gonna be so cool to see him so cool to
team up with him again and make some really good content in South Korea I'm
flying with Air Canada today as the good news is that it's a direct flight
the bad news is that it is one of those mega long flights something like 13 14 or
15 hours I yeah so it's gonna take a long time to get there but I know that
upon arrival I'm gonna have so much adrenaline so excited to go back to
Korea I mean literally been craving Korean food for months on end so I'm
gonna get to indulge that itch and also to visit some places in Korea that I've
never been to before. Showtime!
back in Korea guys it feels so good at the moment adrenaline is winning out
over jet leg that was an incredibly smooth flight for like 13 14 hours or
whatever that it was we had turbulence for maybe 15 or 20 minutes and the rest
was entirely smooth I mean I didn't really sleep that much I was just
nodding off here and there and what's really on my mind at the moment it's
Korean food I'm thinking of all the delicious Korean food items I want to
try now that I'm back in Korea that includes of course Korean barbecue
things like some samgyupsal (삼겹살) galbi dolsot bibimbap Korean pancakes that
haemul pajeon on some of the different jiggaes oh my gosh I'm just gonna feast
like there's no tomorrow while I'm in Korea I just know it immigration was an
absolute breeze there's like basically no lineup whatsoever
and now the bags already coming out so it looks like I'm gonna be heading to
the hotel really soon
hi-yah well I have made it into the hotel I was the very last person to
arrive on this trip and the funny thing is I have dinner in 15 minutes there's a
group dinner so I'm gonna have the world's fastest shower and we'll catch
up with David in a little bit
guys so I haven't shown you a whole lot in this video we've been in the airplane
and showed you going to the hotel now we're gonna go have some Korean barbeque
this is where the action starts and the man behind the camera over here is wait
really let me flip the screen over what a great friend David Mann I'm so glad to
see you go together again we're together again love days we did the huge indie
adventure number in Korea of all places and you're gonna I'm gonna basically be
showing you a something called samgyeopsal (삼겹살)
I don't think you've ever had this before I've never had it I don't know
Korean food that well I've never been oh cool man I can't wait I can't wait to
take you in to this place looks like they specialize in it this is go to
Bauer some man Korean pork belly. For this belly. let's do it
while our huh oh you think it yeah
giant so the samgyupsal (삼겹살) has arrived it has been cooking for a while so it
arrived in two big slabs and so as you can imagine it was just cooking on the
grill just like that was two big slabs then after it started to get a little
bit more brown the guy came over and flipped it a couple of times and then
when I cooked even more he slices it a little individual pieces which is
eventually how we're gonna eat it and when you order samgyeopsal (삼겹살) all in Korea
it's you have to order two portions since you can't just order one and they were
thirteen thousand one each so very reasonably priced about twelve US
dollars for one person to come and have like a meat extravaganza and the coolest
thing about Korea is that it comes with all the sides the sides are called ban
chan and so everything you see at this table from this mixed salad this mixed
spicy salad with the pepper paste it has beef sprung has different kinds of
greens a ssamjang sauce with this red pepper paste and soybean as well and
then you also have of course the staple of any Korean barbecue you have leafs
and you have the perilla leaves which you eventually wrapped over these in
okay we're gonna be eating well this I'm excited for this so it is time to try
the Samgyupsal (삼겹살) it has been beautifully prepared as you can see
they've laid it on some cabbage here so it doesn't overcook
and so this is like perfectly done so the eat it the Korean way you just grab
it with your chopsticks like this you don't get into the ssamjang sauce which
is a combination of red pepper paste and soy bean can't even give it a little bit
of salt pepper there lay it down nicely in the leaf and what I like to do is
grab a whole thing of garlic and put it in there it's really potent then you put
something you put that raw garlic in there and you taste the flavor you wrap
it up into a one biter this is the one biter so many different competing
flavors like the meat because it is pork belly
it's very fatty very juicy and it's really nice to complement it with the
lettuce which is also juicy but then you have the intensity of the red pepper
paint sauce along with the garlic which is like it's like an explosion of garlic of
well as one delicious bite you can also have it on its own we can do grab a
piece like this grab it directly to the mouth
he's doing some meat even more that way Wow I'm in heaven right now man
Korean barbecue guys this is a plus all right dude you are gonna try like samgyeopsal (삼겹살)
for the first time oh that's a parilla leaf bro yeah did you do with the
stem you can yeah dip it right in there grab the pork belly we get some of the salt and pepper why
not right in there wow
grab a little garlic clove that yeah I gotta warn you this dish leaf is a lot stronger than
the lettuce oh yeah you're gonna notice is there anything else did you put in
this huh I think that's pretty good it looks good to me all right
he's trying it so I'm gonna wrap it up I mean everything except the stem
that's strong that is like a fragrance yeah yeah it hits you man Wow I'd love for everyone
that was the garlic yeah put some of the mass garlic the combination with the
pork belly and the hot sauce hot sauce is like delicious out for that
everything in my extract yeah yeah I actually have that on my rice sometimes
when I get Korean rice yeah if it's available I just like throw it on the
rice I mean does it enhances everything I love it
so good man so what do you think of your first Korean barbecue experience here
here in Korea your first day in Korea man perfect and there's a whole lot
there's so much more we can try we've got galbi we've got chicken with God
oh man it is okay we're gonna hit it up we're gonna do it we're gonna do it all
all right so this is Cass fresh this is what Sam is telling me is one of the
main beers of the country yeah there's four it look at a light beer yeah it's a
light beer Cass OB Hite and Caffrey yes you the four main ones in Japan and
in Korea they love the light beers with the food yeah you know obviously it
pairs well and easy to drink this like almost a liter no you can go to town an
event this your my friends cheers Cheers man and how you say it locally is Gombe
Gombe our first of many nights in Korea first
the flow here we go besides the the pork belly this is just
so incredible I know the salads out of this world
look at that oh man oh my god all that red chili paste yeah that's
amazing I'm trying to get a little bit but I can't it's so good it's always
like it's almost like a seaweed salad makes me like cabbage yeah if you can
believe this this cut of meat here is basically it's basically what's
considered like the cheapest levels of Korean barbecue like dude we're gonna be
eating so much barbecue in Korea I might know what a barbecue experience huh oh
my god my favorite barbecue ever wasn't that awesome I was like better then I
don't know if it's better than Brazilian barbecue but yeah it's up there though
it's really up there I mean just love spice the fresh veggies yeah on the
combination putting the pork belly in to leave ya with the garlic I like to do I
like to do it yourself aspect too I got you cooking it on the grill and I then
it's right in front of you like yeah right there
ah yeah anyways the cool thing too is that any side dish you want you can
throw on the grill you don't get that with the cabbage with the garlic and you
eat forever this yeah and the total price I believe it came to thirty seven
thousand won which is like 30 bucks yeah so two beers and two big pieces of pork
belly I mean that was hey we didn't eat it anymore okay no you want to get a
pancake I was like nah oh I would have blown up if we got a pancake you know
what are we walking like something like nightlife yeah our Sunday so like no one
here so here we want to keep the good times going and found a craft beer place
yeah it's called the Michen Dak which means the crazy chicken I don't think
we're gonna have any chicken but we're gonna find a beer we all have a good
beer let me see what they got they got right behind us and with some they have
some Styles some IPA some browns and anything strong yeah 6.5% nothing ten
percenter no you know what's crazy is when I first came to Korea like over ten
years ago there was literally no craft beer scene and now it's it's they've got
a really phenomenal but it's exploding worldwide fielding worldwide
worldwide phenomenon we got something so he's getting a Hefeweizen
we got a german-style beer and I'm getting a pale ale so you know pale ale is
not an IPA IPA is an Indian pale ale this is a little less so it's less hops
you know lighter is like 5% here is like a 4.6 percent and I love this setting
here cool restaurant they have a sports on right border they have they have
soccer on then right here they're pouring the beers so they have the kegs
the tap actually this place is buzzing place on a Sunday night
Gumbai come back
Wow Korea beer it's good this is wines
really sweet yeah yeah how about words mine's off I'm pretty hoppy but nice
really nice little fruity flavor to it so this is the local Korean craft pepin
bison German inspired beer hey guys is very light and fruity
it tastes a bit like a sweet grapefruit to me I like it I mean at this point in
the night I don't think I can handle something that's strong with all that
barbecue in my belly so this is perfect I'm going to try yours
you'll just really good to use a bit more stronger I think something yeah
what a night dude so it's so cool to reunite with you glad
you like Korean barbecue because we're gonna dive in a lot more of it oh I
can't wait man we have at least three or four more rounds of that we're ready but
the salad man salad that's spicy salad oh oh so good
so good nothing it right now though I'm glad we're outside of our hotel we both
need to use the toilet Haha Cut! I hope you guys enjoyed this video please leave a
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