It’s time for
FOOD ADVENTURE PROGRAM FOR AWESOME PEOPLE
The Chinese Food Edition!
Sooooooooooooo
Its kind of really crappy weather outside?
Really bad
Monsoon season is now in full effect in Korea
Making everyone mopey and
unwilling to leave their houses.
And we’re not going to leave the studio with all our camera gear
So we’re going to be filming some
Inside the studio today.
Yeah, we haven’t been doing a lot of delivery videos
We haven’t even done Chinese-Korean food before.
Chinese food in Korea is really really different
Than the Chinese food that I grew up with.
Yes.
Ok we’re going to get to ordering now
And I’m feeling a little nervous
Because I’m really nervous whenever
I call on the phone..
Cause no one understands my accent.
I hope it doesn’t go terribly wrong
Na nan a nan a nan a
As soon as I am in a position of pressure
Regarding to speaking Korean
My mind farts out
And I can’t remember numbers or
Words and I’ll say the wrong thing
And it’s scary and horrifying.
AHHH
Oh god, it's dialing.
M: It's not.
M: Here I go.
(KOREAN ORDERING)
M: I gotta call back.
M: I gotta call back because sometimes they don't let-
-you call/dial with a card and I totally forgot.
S: They got cash.
M: Do you?
S: Yeah.
M: Really?
Then I’m not going to call them back
Because that was scary! Scary!
Didn’t like it!
Get the gibblies out! Go go go!
I did it!
So our food arrived and funny detail...
They gave us like..
Six chopsticks because
“The amount of food they ordered
must be for six people!”
We ordered a lot more
So we could show you
YES! That is why we did that.
We’re not going to eat all this
We did not order this food because we wanted to eat it all
This is way too much for two people to eat
YES IT IS
I could never finish this amount of food.
For science.
If you want to order for yourself
Like one dish
Or you want a special half-and-half
They have special combo versions.
I’m gonna order,
Some jjajangmyun.
NO! no wait! I gonna order some Tang Soo Yook.
Ah! I want both but I can’t eat two servings of each!
What am I gonna do?
Well don’t worry!
With Chinese food Korean delivery,
You can have the best of both worlds!
Really?! How so?!
You can order a half-and-half of each
For the price of one order!
That’s amazing!
Tell me more!
Instead of jjampong or jjajangmyeon
You can get jjamjjamyeon!
You can get oojjamyeon! Bokjjamyeon!
Bokjjammyeon! Tangjjamyeon!
And even Tangbokbab!
What do those even mean?
You don’t know stupid??
Then why are even ordering Chinese food?
I just!
Here we go!
Here we go here we go again!
What’s the topic?
Men!
Simon knows the song
So here’s jjajjangmyun
This big fat little blob of noodle here
It's not really well separated
Ok so, jjajangmyun is made with like a
Black bean
And I’m pretty sure it’s made with
A lot of like lard as well
So it’s not very healthy
So its not vegetarian friendly
The lard makes it better.
And you know what I feel bad
Because it’s Ramadan now
And a lot of people were saying via Twitter like
Please be considerate of us fasting during Ramadan
Sorryyyy guys. Nope. Sorry.
But it’s very delicious
Really delicious
And if you guys have ever seen Coffee Prince
There’s a scene at the beginning
In the first episode
Where she has a showdown with the dude
She actually-- And Simon can show you
She takes two bowls to begin with
But Simon's gonna do one
She like makes it into a fist and,
“Look this is my entire meal in one chopstick
but I’m not, I can't eat that all
It’s very, very sticky and filling.
Hey, jjajjangmyun eating race. GO!
What? I don’t want to be throwing.
Over here we have the
Gochu japchae.
So this- gochu means pepper,
OR, penis…
Normally we get just chapchae,
And it’s like the noodles
But this one is supposed to be pepper chapchae and this is actually just
No noodles.
I think maybe the pepper replaces the noodle
And it comes with a ggotbang? Like
Flower Boy, its like a flower bun.
And you’re supposed to like put it inside
Its got shrimp, mushrooms, onions
It actually tastes very, like, sesame,
So this does have, like, a Chinese food taste to it
And this one is tang-soo-yuk which is like
Supposedly really popular amongst high-school students.
So if you go to a ddeokboki restaurant you can order ddeokbokki, and you can order this
Which is pork and breaded and deep fried
And they always serve it on the side
It’s like a sweet and sour pineapple sauce
But it’s so thick and syrupy.
Like you can see it dangling there
Ooo, that doesn’t look good.
But it tastes great.
And then we got
For service, which means for free,
Geun-Mandu, which is just like, fried, mandu (dumpling)
And you usually only get friend ones
Consistently at a Chinese food restaurant
Most Korean places do steamed.
And we also got for service little spring rolls
Which are so-so
But I haven’t had spring rolls in a long time
So I’m not gonna complain about it.
And of course there is the jjajangmyun.
Before we eat all this,
How about some sexy food porn shots.
OOOOoooooOOOooOooOoo.
I don’t know how sexy this can be.
Oh, God its so good, just.
That was a bad idea.
Interesting jjajangmyun facts!
Jjajangmyun is kinda like the bachelor food of Korea
So if you’re a dude and you’re living by yourself
You will probably be ordering jjajangmyun a lot
This is the equivalent of macaroni and cheese for college students
So you know the whole culture of like
Valentine’s Day and then White Day
We did a couple of videos before
But the month after white day,
There’s black day.
For single people!
Who don’t have any special person to love.
And what they usually do on black day
Is eat jjajjangmyun.
People will get together
To eat jjajangmyun together, in sadness.
So there’s like a big group of people all single,
Eating it together.
With a big pile of tissues in the middle so they can all cry.
Or they can meet each other, and no
Longer be a part of Black Day.
Third interesting jjajjangmyun fact!
When people move into a new house,
They traditionally order jjajangmyun
I don’t know if that’s supposed to be
Something that’s supposed to be passed down in Korea,
Or if it’s just really easy to eat
And you don’t need anything much but a chopstick
But that seems to be a thing to do
And I’ve even seen it in the We Got Married dramas,
Where they move in and they have jjajangmyun, so..
Fourth interesting fact!
This is supposed to be Chinese food!
Oh right!
But I’ve never actually had anything like this in Canada
For any of the Chinese food that I had
And any of the Chinese food that I had in Canada,
I can’t find here in Korea.
Listen! Toronto has an entire China Town
Where Chinese people who only speak Chinese
Who make Chinese food, with Chinese restaurants,
It is legit Chinese food,
And this does not exist.
AND,
Our friend that lived in China said that,
This is not in China!
Never sees this in China!
So Chinese food in Korea is really like,
Korean-fusion take on Chinese food.
Chinese people who have come to Korean and had jjajangmyun!
I want your opinion on this!
Can you get this meal in China or not?
And you can’t even answer that because
You’re in China and you can’t watch YouTube.
NA Nan a nan a nan a. You can’t watch the YouTubes!
This is not very good date food by the way guys.
Unless your idea of a date is
Getting covered in grease
And not getting any napkins.
Korean deliveries provide everything for you,
Except for napkins.
Um, why didn’t you get me a napkin?
I didn’t know that you needed any
Look at me!
Oh! Sick! AH GAHD! Gross!
So that’s it for this week’s
Food Adventure Program for Awesome People
I am unnaturally stuffed and I am going to go take
A four-hour nap.
I barely ate any of mine because
I’m not a piggy!
I’m going to sleep.
Simon, is a due-ji (piggy), you hear me?
Do you hear me?!
Hey Leigh, do you want some food, Leigh?
*nods*
Do you want some of my jjajangmyun or …
Oh…..
Do you want some of mine?
Do you want some of this?
Do you want the last gun-mandu?
What if I eat it?
What if I eat all of it?
Ok.
These are the best part about ordering delivery in Korea.
You don’t have to clean anything up, you just dump it
All in the bag that they provide for you
And you leave it on the stairwell.
Pretty cool right?
Finished! Freedom.