all right hello everybody how you doing
this is Doug and I am here in Seoul
South Korea well actually I am on the
outskirts of Seoul and I want to
introduce you to my friend this is
Ramsay yo hello what's up he is half
have British Scottish Scottish half
Scottish British half Saudi yes
yes absolutely so we've known each other
for a while from Instagram and just
online and he lives here as an English
teacher I'm sure we'll talk more about
this in the video but where are we right
now so so we are in suwon kind of so
it's like the outskirts of Seoul in the
greater Seoul area yeah so we're going
to this restaurant they sell Jun which
is foreign pancake it's nothing like a
pancake I promise but the texture is
kind of like a pancake and you've got
different flavors you've got the kimchi
ones deep ones Seafood ones green onions
those are four famous ones so yeah we're
about to go in here and try it it's got
traditional layout inside you don't
really see a lot of foreigners on the
side already look at the stairs look at
the stairs yeah yeah yeah but this is
going to be fun it's going to be
interesting for you guys to see all
right I'm excited here we go let's check
it out
it's good
all right so what do we got here this is
tofu in Korean is
um it's really popular in Korea you can
get it as we they call this banchan
banchan is like free food you usually
get for the meal you've ordered ah okay
usually this will get some kimchi you'll
get some nuts always I do like that yeah
it's almost like an appetizer for free
and we've got is this
I know wow Cyrus will think it's tea oh
my gosh yeah so this is what I had in
the earlier video if you guys have seen
the the first video from Korea it's like
uh I think it's I think my Korean friend
said it's rice yeah something yes and
it's kind of a fermented drink right
and how do you like it
I like it I I definitely like it more
than soja
Soju is a dangerous one it will sneak up
on you you they sell it in convenience
stores here and 7-Elevens and you can
drink it on the streets and it comes in
little bottles like soda and it tastes
almost there yeah there they are behind
me the green bottles and it tastes very
mild it doesn't taste like liquor so you
think it's like a beer but if in alcohol
content it is closer to a liquor and it
will sneak up on you they also come in
tasty flavors and things so you have to
be careful anyway you know what this the
Arabic views will think this looks like
what oh you had camel milk yes it
doesn't look like it it does yeah even
the whole like presentation yeah I love
how they give it to you in this kind of
bowl thing traditionally yeah and it's
cold but it looks like it I mean it
comes in a teapot it is it's ice cold
yeah wow should we give it a try yeah
let's go for it
so in Korean culture if you're with
someone you don't know
you don't know very well you're younger
than them or you just want to be in a
kind of polite
environment manner when you drink you
turn inside this interesting yeah but if
you're with your friend you just do it
okay and you can you can't drink without
doing drum bed do you know that you
cannot yeah like Koreans are doing all
the time oh like every yeah like
it's like with us it's more like you go
to drink you just drink when you start
yeah yeah but here it's like so like
everyone drinks together yeah so it's
like you don't have to turn to the side
yeah
this is good especially now in the
summer
well I'm not allowed to complain about
the heat because yeah because you're
Saudi yes not allowed at all
and you're from Jeddah yeah you're like
the hottest most humid place maybe ever
seriously I like this stuff it's kind of
refreshing it is and uh kind of it's
kind of sweet but Tangy and sour it's
nice yeah good stuff oh uh
no we're not doing this every day
all right it has arrived wow
dude this thing is huge look at it next
to my hand
so this one is green onion and it's got
different kind of vegetables uh-huh
what's good about this one
this one it's crunch oh cool so it's
it's not very common to find a crunchy
one a big crunchy and they say
yeah okay which means crunchy look at
that we've got the is this soy sauce
yes soy sauce with onions and chilies
I'm gonna grab a piece here gonna give
it a little dip in the soy sauce
if I can grab it come on Doug and here
we go
so good yeah so good oh my god wow all
right let's try the kimchi one here we
go
it's not too spicy that's good all right
I'm gonna take some of the crunchy bit
on the side
let's give it a little dunk
oh my God yeah anyone who ever visits me
here I'm like they have to come here
it's like a staple of Korean culture
Millions this kind of food it's the
environment yeah it's so nice is this
like a drinking food yes yes okay and in
Korea when you go out drinking you want
to grab a beer or something apparently
you pretty much have to order food like
they won't just give you drinks unless
you're at a club or something right
there's you come to a place like this
where people are sitting and and
drinking beer or Soju or um
you have to get food luckily the food is
so incredible so it's a good problem to
have
alrighty guys so we just finished up at
the restaurant what was the name of it
again the name of the restaurant it's
actually called John Chan yes it's the
same as the dish we had same as the dish
okay I like that very simple so we just
finished up there now we are going to a
cafe Street and if you guys don't know
the cafe culture in South Korea is
absolutely huge like the cafes are just
so nice so fancy the coffee's incredible
it's just like really great aesthetic
and you'll see what I mean and as I've
told you Ramsay is half Saudi and I have
always thought that the cafe scene in
Saudi Arabia is like Top Notch so for
this to be coming from a Saudi you know
it has to be very good so we're gonna go
check it out yes we're actually getting
on the same bus on the same bus all
right and that's the other things public
transport here is is uh pretty handy
convenient so we're gonna head over
there and then uh catch up with you when
we get over
all right so we are just arriving at the
cafe street it's very pretty nice light
hanging they put these up actually
because of Ukraine uh okay they want
these colors the blue and yellow colors
yeah so what should we expect to see
here lots and lots of couple couples
yeah Korean couples are kind of famous
for being very cuddly I guess you could
say so they've got like celebrations
every now and then like every 10 days
every 10 days yeah literally 10 days 20
days 25th anniversary third year like
30th day yeah anniversary yeah this
whole like block is like cafes it's
usually much busier than this this is a
popular place on Halloween and Halloween
people people celebrate that here
it's not so much celibate it's like
commercial Panda they just like go out
for it oh it's a reason to like go out
and get wasted yeah yeah yeah I mean
that's basically what it's like at
College in the U.S I just love the like
clean aesthetic with the with the cafes
like
got the Porsche here
do a lot of the rich people come and
hang out here here's another one
yeah a lot of them
they're almost blinded yeah seriously
this does remind me of like I mean
they're a little smaller and like more
homey as opposed to like
bougie looking but right right in the
Riyadh like this kind of reminds me of a
lot of the cafes in Rio the new ones
yeah like the the double High ceilings
just like the they pour the coffee out
of like a giant flask and all this stuff
it's so trendy with the shape of the
window and everything
okay
so that is where we are guys if if thing
a thing
so in Korea they say ing which means a
continuation of something ah okay so
they'll say Oh They'll say in Korean
they say oh I'm running or oh ing in
Korean it's
which means oh I'm continuously doing it
or I am doing it okay yeah
all right how English is the thing have
you heard of her conglish yeah Korean
English yeah so they call it conglish
there's like a lot of words in Korean
where like what's the famous word
fighting for example fighting so like
you know when you're playing sports and
you want to like encourage people you're
guess come on you can do it let's do
this yeah in Korea they say fighting
like they'll just say it as a statement
fighting so the first time I heard that
I was like what where and I was like oh
it's more encouragement I'm like oh come
on so there's like a lot of English
words that have been
transferred into the Korean language
that don't mean what they mean in our
language interesting so they use English
words but they don't mean what they mean
for us or they're like Loosely related
yes it's like fighting is one of them
what's another one ing is another one
I'm sure I'll I'll think of more all
right let's check it out here we go
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what are we doing here yeah so usually
Cafe is in Korea they have like
specialty or signature drinks and that's
kind of like the attraction for the cafe
so they each have their own kind of yeah
yeah so like for example in this
particular Cafe I like it because
they have peanut butter like this peanut
butter latte wow they're so good all
right so what did I get
you got the eye in Spanish yes I've
never even heard of it yeah I don't
think they've gone in Spanish
Saudi or America I haven't seen them in
the UK it's I as far as I remember it's
a German drink I could be wrong so it
sounds German yeah I think it's German
it's got like an Americano base and then
cream on top cool here they are very
fancy I get this all the time I come
here after a long day at work work hours
along in Korea so
I like coming here and chilling just
having my drink yeah dude here's the
thing like a lot of people will complain
about it being expensive
but I don't know I would rather pay the
money and get what I asked for because
it is a thing in Korea where you will go
to my the chain you can coffee shops
yeah it's not like back home where like
Dunkin Donuts especially in Boston has
its reputation you know it's good
Starbucks has its reputation and fans
here it's okay I miss each spot of the
same chain could be different yes okay I
I will say this and I will struggle to
find someone to disagree with me Koreans
love their Americans yeah I've heard
that Yes actually like most Koreans why
I don't know but they just go for the
americanos so that's why they don't mind
going to any kind of coffee shop because
Americana is yeah it's kind of if you go
wrong with an Americana you might as
well close yourself
yeah yeah but here it's like okay I know
I'll come here I'll pay the money I get
a nice environment yeah and also the
crowd and the tracks is usually
it's not so like transient and out the
door it's like a little more yeah like
more like people who like their coffee
it's like a craft coffee things yeah so
it's like that that can uh
sure quiet usually calm these look like
cocktails it's crazy it's so fancy huh
yeah so that's the iron spider the iron
spanner all right
oh yeah wow oh my God what is that wow
that is good I don't even know what that
flavor is on there
it's like the kind of cream I guess that
is really good Ein spanner I'm now an
iron spanner man so like if you had to
describe the cafe culture in Korea like
like what is it about
it's about photos photos
if you
have you ever been in Korean Instagram
no look at the difference if you do
hashtag Boston
mm-hmm
Okay so we've got people
and then we've got views and babies
doors Skies there isn't really a common
theme right at least in my opinion right
yeah it's just people's lives yes
you do hashtag that's the area we're in
now it's a lot of food pictures
and people sell things it's all about
like how they look uh-huh the makeup
and
something I personally find interesting
is
Instagram and Korea is used for lack of
a better way to explain it a hunting
ground hunting ground yes so like if
someone is in a relationship the kind of
pictures they post it's very different
from the kind of pictures they post if
they're singing It's like signaling that
you're open or not yes and almost
go as far as seeing 90 probably 80
percent of pictures of people including
people on Instagram are unnatural as in
like makeup or digitally touched up all
digitally touched to a point where
people are unrecognizable wow yes it
just looks
to me unnatural like airbrushed yeah
yeah so it looks like a natural it's
like that's not how the human body is
right right so like they'll like play
with the chin and play with the nose and
the proportions are all over the place
but the lights are like through the room
so it's like the Instagram world is very
much about beauty about appearance yeah
so these places are kind of like the
studios for that interesting so people
want to come here they want to get their
fancy drink be seen with it take photos
with it so there's a cafe that is big in
Saudi not the whole touching the photos
up but the taking pictures of coffee man
oh my gosh interesting so there's this
Cafe called solism and if you all I did
was hashtag Solas look at the pictures
that come up okay it's all about like
here and it's everyone taking the same
picture in front of the sun yeah so it's
like there isn't really a view picture
or like whenever it's that it's someone
posing yeah and another thing you'll
notice it's
mostly girls yeah you'll be outside
walking around and you'll see couples
and it's basically the guy taking
thousands of pictures of the girl it's
like influencers in the wild that kind
of thing the guy's job is to take
pictures that's funny alrighty guys and
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rain now so uh that is gonna be the end
of the video I hope you guys enjoyed it
just a quick look at a traditional
Korean food spot and the cafe culture
which is absolutely incredible here I
love it thank you so much to Ramsay for
showing me around really appreciate that
and it's super interesting to hear his
insights on life in South Korea as an
expat he's been here for years so
hopefully that's not the last you guys
will see of him but other than that I
want to say thank you so much for
watching and I will see you in the next
one bye-bye
thank you