- What's up y'all, I'm Joelle,
and for the next week I'm going to attempt
to recreate the favorite foods of the incredible,
talented, iconic, world-renowned Korean girl group,
Blackpink.
I've been a Blink for a while now,
so I was so excited when I saw that my friend Jasmine
made a video up on Tasty showing how to
recreate some of Blackpink's favorite foods.
So I'll be using some of her recipes
as well as a bunch of my own to dedicate one day
to each member's favorite foods.
Plus a little bonus day at the end of foods
I've seen Blackpink eat all together.
I'm very excited and let's get started with the week.
So we're starting off this challenge with Ms. Jennie Kim,
the powerhouse, and she is just a jack of all trades,
incredibly talented when it comes to singing,
rapping and dancing.
Jennie is known for being really dedicated to health
and fitness, and when she's preparing for their comebacks,
she's apparently very consistent in
having an avocado salad and detox juice for breakfast.
So that's what I decided to have, and when it comes to
a detox juice, I know that lemon, cayenne,
turmeric and ginger are really popular ingredients,
so we'll see how that tastes.
Well, I don't think I would opt to eat salad
for breakfast on a regular basis.
I feel like as far as the breakfast salad goes,
this is pretty good.
We got some eggs and protein, the avocado,
it's very satisfying.
This however, is a part of the meal that I am not
as excited about, it's not the worst thing
I've ever had, I feel like knowing that this is
good for me, it's going to help like cleanse
my bowels or whatever, makes me feel better drinking it.
It is now Lunchtime.
Jennie really enjoys ordering avocado sandwiches,
so that is what I made for my lunch today.
It's just like a nice open faced avocado sandwich.
(bread crunches) (Joelle shrieks)
My toast broke.
You know when I said I would eat Blackpink's favorite foods
this week, I never said I look as good as them
while eating it, you know.
Jennie is kind of known for being the most stylish member,
being really particular about what she wears,
so she'll collaborate with Blackpink stylists to
decide what she wears for tours or promos.
So, obviously with her impeccable fashion tastes,
she's earned the nickname human Chanel.
It is dinner time and I'm so excited.
This recipe was featured in Jasmine's video on Tasty
and is also recipe from the Queen herself,
that Jennie shared on a V Live.
And that is a pollock roe with rice.
A pretty simple recipe just with some white rice
topped with pollock roe, avocado and egg yolk
and seasoned with a little bit of sesame oil.
And I honestly feel really bad destroying this to
eat it because it looks so cute and all ends up
in the same place anyways, all right.
Wow! Yes, chef.
It's so simple, but the textures go together so well
and the avocado and the pollock roe balance each other out
salt-wise perfectly.
This beautiful melody of flavors.
We could not end day one without sharing a Blackpink fact.
And today's fact is that the name of Blackpink is meant
to represent the multidimensionality of the group
as women in the entertainment industry.
A YG entertainment rep apparently said that
the meaning of Blackpink aims to contradict
the common perception of the color pink.
Pink is commonly used to portray prettiness,
but Blackpink actually means to say that
pretty isn't everything.
It also symbolizes that they are a team that encompasses
not only beauty, but also great talent.
Alrighty, y'all it is Rosé's day.
Rosé is a vocalist for Blackpink and she has
an amazing voice but she's also a really incredible dancer.
I absolutely love Rosé, partially because she's known
as Blackpink's foodie, having the nickname
"Foodie Chang" coming from her Korean name Park Chaeyoung.
She's kind of known for eating a lot of
weird food combinations, and on a radio show she said
one of her recent food combo obsessions has been goguma,
Korean sweet potato and kimchi.
So that's what I am having for my breakfast.
We got my potato and let me get a nice piece of kimchi.
(laughs)
Mmm, we definitely have like a sweet, savory, spicy thing
going on, but this is good.
The warm potato and the cold kimchi compliment
each other so well.
Rosé girl, you're really onto something, this was yummy.
I am so excited, apparently one of Rosé's favorite
dishes is the classic Korean corn dog.
She said that she only likes it covered in sugar.
So I got one with potato because we know that Rosé likes
potatoes and the light sugar.
(corndog crunches)
Mmmm mmmmm ow
Oh my jaw just popped.
This has cheese and a corn dog in it.
The texture is out of this world, you can obviously
hear the crunch, but it's so good and with the sweet
chili sauce, is like the cherry on top.
I'm in little bit in a rush to get home so I'm going to
get this to my sister before it gets cold.
I was trying to get the hot dog to my sisters and
I dropped it on the floor, but it's on the ground,
like Rosé's new single.
- Is there innards?
- Okay, my conclusion is that it is good.
The potato with sugar actually isn't that sweet,
it tastes a lot better than I thought it would.
Cheers!!!
- Taking a mid-day break from work and it wouldn't
be a Rosé day without some Flaming Hot Cheetos,
which is apparently one of her favorite snacks.
And you know, you always got to eat it with some chopsticks.
While I'm here, I figured I might as well share
today's Blackpink fun fact.
When Blackpink's song "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" debuted at 55
on the Billboard Hot 100, they became the first
Korean girl group ever ranked with a predominantly
non-English song.
Don't get me wrong, I love being able to sing along
with my favorite K-pop groups in English because
I'm still learning Korean, my Korean sucks,
but I also love seeing non-English media being
celebrated in pop culture and I hope that
as we move forward and as a genres like K-pop become
a little more globalized that people will still
really see the value in people being able to sing in
their own native languages.
Even though Rosé is ethnically Korean, she actually
grew up in Australia.
There was an interview where she was asked what kind of
foods that she misses from home that she can't get in Korea.
And one of the foods that she listed was Shepherd's pie.
So that's what I decided to make for dinner.
It's my first time making it, so please don't judge.
For those of you guys who've never had
Shepherd's Pie, it's a combination of normally
a meat stewed with some veggies kind of in like a
gravy, and topped with mashed potatoes.
I don't think I made enough mashed potatoes because
it was a very scant layer on top.
I personally really love Shepherd's pie because
it's super hearty and it's like a one-dish meal.
So I wouldn't rate my Shepherd's Pie very highly.
It was all right.
Rosé, I'll improve Shepherd's Pie.
Good morning y'all, it is Jisoo day.
Jisoo is the oldest member of Blackpink and one of the
main vocalists, she has the voice of an angel.
She's also really funny, she has a great sense of humor.
She is actually also the only Blackpink member to have been
born and raised in Korea for her whole childhood.
So in typical Korean fashion, one of her favorite foods
is rice and it is such a versatile food.
So, of course this morning, I wanted to doctor up
my rice a little bit and make it into some dakjuk,
which is just a really classic Korean rice porridge.
I also thought I would accompany my breakfast with
an iced Americano because I've seen so many photos and
like clips of Jisoo with an iced coffee and I tend to
believe that it's not just regular iced coffee,
but an iced Americano, just because they're
so common to get in Korea.
I cannot describe how comforting the smell of rice porridge
is to me, it's just so satisfying.
Like the chicken broth just soaks in to all the rice.
Espresso is so good.
Blackpink is often on the road, traveling and they
try all different kinds of cuisines.
I saw Jisoo in their reality show, Blackpink House,
having some shrimp tempura after a really late night of
performing one of their concerts in Japan.
So I decided I'd try to make some shrimp tempura as well.
I'm just having my shrimp tempura with some rice and
kimchi and my favorite Japanese barbecue sauce.
Oh my gosh, It's so good with the sauce, Ahh,
the crunch is so satisfying and of course I have
to have my rice, Jisoo's fav.
while I'm eating, I might as well share today's
Blackpink fact.
Blackpink is not just making waves in music,
but also in fashion.
Each of the four members of Blackpink serve as a
global ambassador for a luxury fashion house
with Jisoo for Dior, Rosé for Saint Laurent,
Lisa for Céline and Jennie for Chanel.
In between taking care of her dog Dalgom and being,
you know, a worldwide pop sensation,
apparently one of Jisoo's favorite pastimes is gaming.
One of the mobile games she's been seen playing is
Cookie Run, which I remember from like middle school.
I decided to download it and just give it a try.
You know, in honor of Jisoo.
I feel like it's been so long since I've played games.
When I was thinking about it at first, I was like,
how in the world is Jisoo have time to play games in
between rehearsals and touring and all the stuff
that she has to do but she's flying,
she's traveling while on tour, so I feel like it does
make sense that Jisoo was able to play games,
you know, while on the road or just, you know,
killing some time and relaxing.
Uuuh, I died, That was so fast.
Any Jisoo stan knows that it wouldn't be an eating
like Jisoo day without what dish?
That's right, chicken skewers, baby.
There are literal compilations out there of Jisoo expressing
her love for chicken and she even made a song about it
in one episode of Blackpink House.
The casual version of this that you'll see sold often times
on the streets in Korea, is called dak-kkochi,
I think I'm saying that right.
And I made mine with two different sauces,
One is a soy sauce garlic base,
and a second one is a Gochujang red pepper based sauce.
Mine definitely look a little saucier than the ones
Jisoo ate in Blackpink House.
This one's really good, it's so savory and it gets
like a little charred from the grill and it's so yummy.
I'm amazed also that the chicken is like still juicy
cause I always over cook my chicken, Yay!
(clapping)
I was nervous with this one, I hope it is up to Jisoo's
standards of being a song worthy chicken skewer.
I am so excited for Lisa day.
Lisa is the machine, the youngest member of the group
and she's the main dancer and rapper, she is so powerful.
She's also known to bring a lot of positive energy
to the group, which I think is so, so sweet and
a well known fact about Lisa is that she's
actually from Thailand, not Korea.
To honor Lisa's home country for breakfast, I thought
I'd make Tom Yum Soup, it is a Thai hot and sour soup
with seafood and it's super, super flavorful and will
definitely wake me up this morning.
There's a lot of really fun ingredients that I've
actually never cooked with before.
oooh, she's spicy, she's got a kick.
I like that there's so many layers to the flavor of
this dish, it has a little bit of sweetness,
which I think honestly comes from the chili paste
and the shrimp but also a lot of like savory umami
from the fish sauce, and of course we got a lot of heat.
Not only does Lisa do obviously all the Blackpink promo
and work that the other girls are doing,
but she also creates her own dance videos on her personal
YouTube channel called Lili-film.
And she'll just make these super high production
dance concept videos and they honestly are so high quality,
they could be like their own music video.
I'm so impressed with the fact that while she's in this
world-famous girl group, she's also creating
so much additional content for viewers.
I feel like all the Blackpink girls do that so well
of just doing so much for their fans.
For Lisa's day I was tempted to make Gochujang,
the Korean stew that Jasmine made in her video for Tasty.
But I feel like Lisa likes so many other foods that I just
wanted to include a good variety.
I don't know if I heard this correctly, so don't quote
me on this but I feel like I've heard her say that
she said that she would want her last meal on earth to
be sushi so, you know, I had to go get it.
I know she likes spice so I got some spicy tuna.
I also had to get some sweet Thai tea since there's this
episode of Blackpink House where she's posing with milk tea,
like an advertisement in the girls' hotel room
and they're all making fun of her.
So I always thought it was crazy impressive,
how not only our most K-pop idols required to speak Korean,
obviously, but they also have to learn Japanese
since often times K-pop groups will release Japanese
versions of their songs and they obviously do a
lot of tours and press in Japan so, blows my mind!
One of my favorite like most heartwarming moments of
Blackpink's reality show is when they're in Thailand,
they were surprised by Lisa's parents coming in to create
this beautiful feast for them.
And the girls all saw the table before Lisa's parents
came out, but what gave away the fact that
it was Lisa's family that prepared the meal,
was this fondue pot that Lisa remembered from
when she was a child,
her stepdad is actually a Swiss chef.
So I decided to replicate the fondue that he
surprised Lisa with.
I've actually never made fondue for myself like this before
but I'm very excited to try, oh my gosh, it is so good.
Oh, you can hear the sizzle.
(sizzling)
The fondue is interesting, I feel like I can really
taste like the white wine coming through and I put a
lot more garlic than the recipe called for.
I feel like garlic always makes everything taste better.
Obviously have to share today's Blackpink fun fact.
And today's fun fact is that Blackpink was positioned as an
extremely international group with three fourths of the
group spending time outside of Korea while growing up and
with Lisa actually being YG, their entertainment
company's first international star.
So with their diverse backgrounds, it makes sense that
they're able to connect with and relate to just a really
wide array of fans that also led to them being the first
K-pop girl group to perform at Coachella.
It would be a travesty to let Lisa's day go by without doing
a little dancing so my sister Micah and I, are going to try
to learn the "Kill This Love" dance, which I realized
I can't show you with the music because of copyright.
You can see our process and us trying to do this dance
over some nice copyright royalty-free music.
Well, it is the last day of our challenge so, today
I'm just making a bunch of foods that I've seen all the
girls enjoy together, particularly in their show.
In one of those episodes, Jennie wakes up early to make
all the girls pancakes with fruit and all these beautiful
little toppings, which I thought was so sweet.
I am attempting to make Japanese souffle pancakes as a way
to you know, make it fancy, but I know these are
notoriously difficult to make.
Inga has a video up if you want to follow her recipe,
but who knows how many times I'll need to try to make
these before they're right.
Despite my many failures they're well worth the effort,
the texture is like out of this world.
It's so fluffy and light and the sweetness is so subtle.
Also makes me feel better that in Blackpink House,
as Jennie was making her pancakes, she kept flipping
them wrong because that's exactly what I did.
You and me Ms. Jennie, both struggling with our pancakes.
For lunch today I'm making another dish that
I've seen Blackpink cook together, and that is,
kimchi-bokkeum-bap or kimchi fried rice.
They made it specifically with pork belly and seasoned it
with Gochujang, so that's what I'm doing today.
I decided to pair my kimchi-bokkeum-bap with a
cheong-gochu, just a green chili pepper.
In the episode of Blackpink house when they were
eating this, Rosé was just munching on this pepper
and they're really often eaten with gochujang,
just dipped in and eaten raw.
It's just like a really yummy, fresh way to break up
the greasy heaviness of the fried rice.
It is the final meal of our Blackpink eating challenge,
but we're ending off with a bang.
It's inspired by the episode of Blackpink House when they go
to the jimjilbang, which is just a Korean spa.
There's charcoal saunas and you can get your body
scrubbed down but they also normally sell snacks,
literally so relatable.
They want to go have a spa day but were so distracted
by the snacks.
They had sweet potatoes, dumplings, duck, rice cakes,
noodles, corn, all this stuff.
I'm not even going to lie to y'all, this has probably
been one of the meals that I'm most excited
for in this whole week's challenge because it's just
80% carbs.
I will say the only part of this meal that
I actually cooked, is the sauna eggs.
These eggs are slow roasted and they're really
commonly served at any Korean spa.
It's actually perfect to pair with my ChapaGuri,
which is a combination of jjapaghetti,
which is black bean noodles and Neoguri,
which is a seafood ramen brand in Korea
and it got so popular for people to make the two
together that now they just manufacture like bowls of
ChapaGuri which has the two mixes mixed together for you.
But in Blackpink House, Rosé was really feening for some
black bean noodles so that's why I decided to get this.
And before I get into dessert, I wanted to finish
off this meal with our Blackpink fact.
On Spotify, Blackpink is the second most streamed K-pop
artist after BTS, making them the top most streamed K-pop
girl group reaching 300 million streams in 2020.
I didn't want to end off our last day without a little of
dessert.
I'm having some sikhye, which Rosé was very enthusiastic
about getting at the jimjilbang.
It is a sweet rice drink, it's so refreshing and so sweet
and it has a little bit of a grainy texture cause there's
actually grains of rice, like floating around in there.
Sadly, as we're at the end of our eating like
Blackpink challenge, looking back in the photos,
trying to figure out which day was my favorite.
And I have to say I think the winning day from this
week was Jisoo's.
The dakjuk and the chicken skewers, the shrimp were
all top notch.
I would highly recommend trying to make any of those
dishes on your own as well as honestly,
anything from this week was so delicious and so much fun.
So I hope you all enjoyed and thank you so much for watching
and if there's any other celebrity or group that you'd like
me to try to eat like,
please let me know in the comments down below and
I'll see you on the next one.
Bye!
(soft upbeat music)