It's time for:
FOOD ADVENTURE PROGRAM FOR AWESOME PEOPLE!
The "Meat Soup" edition.
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So for those of you that didn't see our WANK last week,
we're actually putting it on hold for maybe another week or so,
because I injured my ankle saving, um, puppies... from a burning building
Actually, she broke her ankle by dancing like a dummy.
That's not true.
Okay. Not that much of a dummy.
Anyhow, WANKing takes a lot of walking,
and we have to carry our equipment everywhere,
and Martina can barely move, so we're gonna have to wait until she's fully walkable again.
I am like weak puppy. Like weak puppy-kitten, you should take care of me.
What's with your "puppies"? Saving puppies, being like weak puppies...
'Cause I like puppies.
Anyhow, so we decided that we don't wanna give up on the WANKs for now,
so instead we're gonna go to a restaurant that's nearby our home,
which doesn't take a lot of effort for me,
and we're gonna enjoy some delicious Korean food, and show you guys all about it.
So instead of WANKing, we're gonna be FAPing!
No, we're gonna be FAPFAPing: the Food Adventure Program for Awesome People-- it's the FAPFAP.
And now we go! Race you there! Last one there's a rotten egg!
Nanananana!
That's not-- the heck?
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Hey, what's that you have in your hand there?
Oh, this? This is my glove plus sock combination, because after day 45 of using crutches,
I'm starting to get, like, horrible bruised palms, even though I wrapped oven mittens around my things.
So I've got socks, and I've got my gloves, and I'm ready to go.
Look at you, with your poor little crippled hands.
When I eat with chopsticks, I feel like that scene from Kill Bill...
You know what's the best part? Doing this: squeezing your hands.
So we decided to go to a Korean traditional restaurant today...
In fact, it's even called Korean traditional restaurant...
Now, when we usually come here it's just us when it comes to foreigners or like older generations...
I've never seen another foreigner here, apart from those that we've invited.
Yeah, and I think it's because it's "Korean traditional restaurant" and so it can be
kinda scary, I think, like once you've gotten to know Korean food then you know what to expect,
but if you don't usually a lot of the menus are completely Korean, and... S: It's fully Korean.
Yeah, and the soups aren't something that necessarily look, like, easy to understand.
Yeah. You look at the picture and it just looks like... a bowl of mess,
and you have no idea what it's gonna be.
A bowl of delicious, hot mess.
Some of this mess is AWESOMELY delicious.
We've had others that haven't been all too good, like one of them was covered in like a thin, soggy, seaweed.. mush.
It was like a gelatinous seaweed, like someone had just taken it fresh out of the ocean,
and so the whole thing was like... probably 25%...
M: Jelly seaweed. S: It looks like a whale's booger... and it had the consistency of it as well.
Yeah, so we had problems with that. S: 'Cause I have eaten many whale boogers before.
You have in your time, yes. S: I know.
Now when it comes to the meat that you're dealing with here, this is definitely not vegetarian safe,
because even the broth is made out of, like, stewed bones,
so the broth will look kind of milky, but it's made from beef bones or pork bones,
so... vegetarians: just do the traditional-- S: "Andae!"
Andae, don't come here.
But if you're a meat eater, oh they've got meat.
Now, some of this is a little bit odd, like you'll find the joint tendons, and the ox ankles,
and this like elbows, and stuff like that.
And supposedly that has a lot of flavor to it, but we don't like it because
it's really, like, chewy, and I like my meat just to be, like, a clean-cut piece of meat.
I bite into it my teeth go through fine. I don't want, like, bubblegum meat.
Yeah. It tastes really good, like it does have a great flavor to it, but I'm just not used to the texture.
Almost like a firm jelly. It's like you took a jelly and, like, you sliced it, and...
Okay, well, Simon hasn't had it before, but...
It's amazing, different cultures have different things to do with their food. Right?
It is amazing Martina, thank you for being so open-minded, tourist lady.
"The more we learn!" Nanananun.
Okay.
Galbijim deokbaegi? *ordering in Korean*
I did a good job. M: Good job, Mister.
Now this is one of our favorite parts of coming to this restaurant. They actually come with, like, unlimited kimchi--
It goes on forever-- and ever! Oho!
And it's not just like store-bought, bagged kimchi with no flavor;
This is homemade kimchi, and after you've been eating kimchi for a long time, you can tell the difference.
The second kimchi is a radish kimchi. It's like that huge, white, gigantic radish,
and they marinate it in kind of like a vinegar, similar to the kimchi that we're eating now.
Don't forget to eat your kimchi, ladies and gentlemen.
So we got our food, finally. This is wonderful, I wish you could smell this stuff. Mmmm! M: So good!
So, I ordered the wang mandu seollongtang.
And basically wang mandu just means a gigantic mandu, so like a steamed dumpling.
It does come with pork inside of it, so once again, vegetarians, no.
And seollongtang is actually a soup that's been made out of simmered ox bones,
and it's been simmered for hours and hours and hours, which is why my soup is all, like, milky-looking.
And you actually season it yourself at the table, so it's kinda bland and you add salt or
hot pepper flakes and pepper, and other than that you eat it with rice, and oh my god!
I got a galbi jjim ddukbaegi
So this is like a little soup broth
and I've got these beautiful cuts of beef that, if you just take a look at it,
it's like, barely hanging on to each other, falling off the bone.
M: It's really like a stew, right?
S: It's so... such a manly meat-soup.
"Meat soup"? That sounds awful.
Look... we have-- M: Meat soup sounds disgusting. S: We have meat, you make soup. And this is what you call the meat soup! Okay?
What part of the animal is your meat from?
Uh, I think it's from... the, the cow part.
Okay, so it's from a cow. S: No, it's from ribs. Like, I'm sure that these are, like, rib.
Also they gave us a little like mustard/soy sauce kind of thing here,
so when you pick your meat you can dip it in there and give it a little bit more flavor.
I think it might have like a little bit of a wasabi zing in there as well.
Okay, we're gonna eat. Finishyyy. S: Food porn part!
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Oh man, that was so delicious. I am completely stuffed. I feel, like, warm and fuzzy in my tummy.
S: I'm gonna make a sleep... M: I'm gonna fall asleep. Wait! We gotta say bye before we make a sleep.
That's it for this week's FAPFAP.
Hopefully I'll be up and walking soon so that we continue with our WANKing specials,
but for now we're just gonna be doing some foods.
Make a sleep!
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