(upbeat music)
- In Japanese we say (foreign language).
- (foreign language)
- What do you say?
- We say (foreign language).
That's Korean.
- Okay.
- And we say come and get it.
(upbeat electronic music)
Hey, I'm Alyssa.
- And I'm Motoki
and this is "Expert, Amateur, Fraud."
A show where we try to figure out
who the expert is and who's faking it.
- And today we're gonna be interviewing three.
(drum roll)
- Mukbang
- What is this?
- You don't know what Mukbang is?
- No.
- What?
It's basically a, like a really popular
South Korean thing where
people eat food and people watch it.
- Oh!
Okay.
Now how do they eat it?
Is there like a certain way? - With their mouths usually.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- Hi, I'm Rachel and I do Mukbangs.
The most important thing to me about Mukbang in general,
is just making sure that I enjoy the food
and I make sure other people feel comfortable and safe
in the community that I've created.
- (whispering) Hello.
- Hi.
So this is like very traditional,
like Korean street food.
These are like my favorite meals to eat
like right before I leave for school.
- What are you studying in school?
- I'm actually a med student.
- Oh my God.
What should we kick off with?
How does this-- - Okay.
- I'm really salivating at the mouth.
- That's Fishcake Soup right there.
I do have a favorite Mukbang partner and that's my mom.
- Oh, cute.
- Oh, I love that. - Yeah.
- How did you get involved with it then?
- I first started Mukbang because I love food, obviously.
- Of course.
- But, I wanted to show other girls
that it's okay to eat a lot.
- Oh yeah.
- Okay, so do you guys wanna try this?
- Smells amazing.
(slurping) (chewing)
- This is really good.
- It tastes like home.
- As I'm sure a lot of people
who aren't familiar with Mukbangs,
there's some assumptions that it's kinky.
Right? - Yeah.
- It's like arousing in a sense.
- I mean, I do think it's arousing
- But not in like sexual.
- Uh.
- Could be.
- There is a stigma against Mukbang for sure.
There's so many reasons behind why someone
is going to watch someone else eating.
- Yeah.
- And at least for me the biggest appeal was that
it felt like I was eating with a friend.
- You know, I recently adopted a dog
because I was very like anxious
and having like a rough time.
And it really helped me, you know
'cause even though I didn't have anybody there with me
- Right. - it was like me and my dog
were eating, so had I known about this
I would probably turn that on too.
Me, my dog and you.
- I was gonna say, you and your dog
could watch the Mukbang together.
- Yeah.
(crunching)
(dishes clattering)
(crunching)
- It's so good.
- 1... 2... 3...
(soda cans popping)
(slurping)
(gasping)
- [Motoki] What do you do when you have to burp?
- You go for it.
(burping)
- Okay.
- This is amazing.
This is like my new favorite drink.
- Yeah.
- I think we should actually try the rice cake.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- How spicy is it?
I bought these even though I can't handle spice that much.
But it's for like, you know, you only live once.
- I'm having a hard time picking it up.
Slippery little boogers.
- It's a good spice.
(countdown beeping) - Mmm.
(chips crumbling)
(chewing)
(loud crunching)
- Okay.
(crunching)
- So is there a technique to like
have your mouth a little open so the sound reverberates out?
- Honestly I kinda think there is.
I'm not an expert.
(suspicious sound effect)
I'm not. - What?
- I mean, I mean, I'm not that great at that kind of stuff
but I think you should like, like kinda.
- Okay.
(loud crunching)
- Are there any foods that you guys
just don't really vibe with?
- I'm just lactose intolerant.
- Me too.
- I like potatoes.
- Oh. - I love that for you.
(giggling) - I do too.
(giggling) - I didn't hear the question.
- Cheers.
- Cheers. - Yes.
- To us, to us. - Yeah.
(funny gulping)
(laughing)
- Okay, so what did you think about Rachel?
- Rachel's spread was incredible.
I loved how she had a personal story.
She talked about doing it with her mom.
- I felt like she knew a lot about it.
- Yeah. - But at the same time
it made me think that she enjoys watching
so she might be a watcher.
- Yes. - You know?
- Hi, my name is Ayden and I do Mukbangs.
My strategy today was to be interactive with the hosts.
Make all the foods with them.
- Wow, you got the whole smorgasbord.
- Oh yeah.
- I'm Ayden. - Nice to meet you.
- I'm gonna turn the fire on real quick.
(metal popping)
- I love this sound.
(gas starting) (metal popping)
Yeah. - That's fire.
- So, the theme is supposed to be red foods.
It will get there.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So this is a Korean corn dog.
There's sugar on the outside.
- Okay. - There you go.
- Cheers. - We're touching.
- Big bites.
(crunching)
(chewing)
So there was supposed to be a cheese bowl.
(giggling)
- This is so much better than an American corn dog.
- I know, I agree.
(oil sizzling)
- Nice, that's nice.
(meat sizzling)
- How often do you make these videos?
- I try to go every weekend
just because I like to share and try different cultures.
Share my culture at the same time.
- I think there's a lot of people who say that,
you know Mukbang doesn't take skill.
- Mhm.
- But what would you say to that?
'Cause I feel like there's a lot
you still need to know and experience.
- I think eating is a skill
and like I love to eat in front of people.
- Do you have like a video channel?
- No, no. - Or like a live channel?
- I always, I have a setup like this with the camera.
It's like a first time interview type deal
while I'm doing the Mukbang.
So we'll let that cool down for a little bit.
Love, Elotes.
- One time, I got some street corn when I was roller blading
and I fell, - Mhm.
- and the corn fell too, but I still ate it.
- What?
- Five second rule. - Do you like that story?
- Was there dirt on it?
- Yeah, but I was like, I can't let this go to waste.
- Honestly, I, this was supposed to go
so much smoother than this.
- No, you're doing amazing. - Nah.
- You have a lot of things you're balancing.
- I guess it's like when I do Mukbangs,
first step, I cook. - Yeah.
- It's just pure cooking, no talking.
- Oh, okay.
- And then when I'm eating,
I guess I'll try to connect more.
- Yeah. - It's kind of meditative
in a way. - No, that's a lot.
- Yeah, so this is just new to me.
I just thought we were.
It's a little bit of a time constraint.
(countdown beeping) - No, it's okay.
- Give me a second, sorry guys.
- No worries.
It looks amazing. - Sorry.
So basically this is Elote with cotija cheese
and Hot Cheetos.
This is so bad.
- What's more important to you, the taste or the look?
- Obviously the taste.
- Okay, me too. - But it should look good too,
that's the problem.
- It's alright. - It's hard for me
to enjoy something when it doesn't look good, but cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
(crunching)
- Mmm. (chewing)
- Now just to see your experience,
could you do like a a mock thumbnail pose?
And we just admire you.
(camera clicking)
- [Motoki] Oh! - [Alyssa] Mmm.
- That's actually pretty good.
- This is incredible.
- I think I should have prepared everything first
instead of doing it the way I usually do it.
- I like the process though.
- No, but honestly I knew we would be talking.
Actually here we have chop six right here.
- Thank you.
Again, no table manners, so you grab
as much as you can noodles wise
- Mhm.
- and you just slurp it all in.
- Oh hell yeah.
(blowing noise) Blow on it a little bit.
(slurping)
- Mmm. (finger snapping)
- [Ayden] That's another sound.
- Oh yeah, a little slurping action.
(slurping) Let me try some of that steak.
- Absolutely.
- That was amazing
and you just made it right in front of us.
- In Japanese we say (foreign language) to like eat.
- (foreign language)
- What do you say?
- We say (foreign language)
That's Korean.
- Okay.
- And we say, come and get it. (bell ringing)
- Come and get it. (laughing)
- Can I?
- It's like a K-drama.
(dramatic music)
- Thank you so much, that was so romantic.
Also parts of Mukbang, you gotta try new things.
I've actually never tried that before.
- [Alyssa] Oh, okay. - [Ayden] But I got it
'cause it's red.
I wouldn't want to do this with anybody else.
- Alright. - This looks awesome.
- And you said you love this right?
(soda cans popping)
Cracking this open? - Yep.
(soda can popping) (soda fizzling)
- Cheers. - Cheers.
(slurping)
- Tastes like a summer day.
(loud slurping)
(swallowing) (sighing)
- That's like a beer commercial right there.
It's all the (slurping) (sighing).
- I could use a beer right now with how this went.
(laughing)
I could use a beer right now.
I had it pictured a certain way in my head,
but it didn't, I didn't really execute it that way
but I mean, I don't even know what I'm saying anymore.
- I know Ayden was definitely into his process
a lot, he loved the process.
(fingers tapping) Yeah.
- Everything about what he was doing was fantastic.
- Yeah. - He was cooking in front
of us and that's another sound,
the (mimicking fire sizzling).
It's meat cooking.
- Hi, I'm Terrell and I do Mukbangs.
The only thing I would say for people
considering a Mukbang channel is to just have fun with it.
Like, express yourself, like if you burp,
if you're sloppy with it.
You're eating, like you're gonna do it every day
for the rest of your life until you die.
So just like eat and like don't care what people think.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Hey!
- What's your name?
- Terrell.
- Terrell, nice to meet you.
- Okay. - I'm already drooling.
Okay, so this is gonna be a seafood Mukbang.
I'm from Baltimore, Maryland.
So seafood's really big where I'm from.
We got the crab legs, sausage, shrimp, boiled eggs and corn.
And then we have Cajun chicken wings right here.
And then you have the sauce.
There's already sauce on hand
but we need like extra, extra sauce.
- Of course.
- like extra. - Always.
- If it's not wet, like I don't know what you doing.
The thing with seafood, you're gonna get messy.
So don't wear a white shirt.
That's like, only tip I have, don't ever wear white
when you're doing Mukbang. (giggling)
So yeah, but this you wanna like,
you know make the good sounds - Yeah.
- like some droopy. (liquid trickling)
we're gonna squeeze this over it.
- [Alyssa] I love citrus.
(lemon liquid squeezing)
- Okay, and then I have a second one
'cause like I said, I'm extra.
Something that you really wanna embrace
is don't be shy to like make noises.
So if you have to burp or you know, when you're cracking it
or you know, you're dripping it or drooling,
don't be scared to make the sounds.
They love the sounds.
- My mom would tell me never to burp.
- No, you can burp this is like a safe space.
- Okay. - The only rule is
that there's no rules.
So I'm gonna start with the boiled egg
and then I normally get this.
- So you're kind of talking it through
while you're making videos and whatnot.
- Yeah, like things in pop culture.
So I'll maybe bring up like the BBL trend
and stuff like that or like Adele's music.
- Sure.
- Or like different things that are going in my life.
Like I got a new job recently.
- Oh cool.
- 'Cause it's like a sharing experience.
- Right, right. - Yeah.
- Okay, so we're gonna start.
(chewing) - Mmm.
- Oh my god.
- Mmm.
- That's really good.
- Yeah, that's fire.
- So I'll be like, you know
y'all let me tell you about this crazy day, like
I was at the market and they didn't have anything I had
or you know, my mom was getting on my nerves you know,
- Oh, sure. - just little small talk.
- I love that.
- How did you get involved?
- I think it was first when I started
making different videos
and then I didn't notice that when I drink,
I make really loud gulps.
So I just kept it going.
And then you move on to food and here we are.
- Mmm.
- And then this is my favorite part.
When you can really make it like droopy.
Like droopy, that's like, that's the word of the day.
Droopy, we're gonna say that.
- Droopy.
I need to trademark that. (bell dinging)
- Did you ever go to Red Lobster?
- Red Lobster, yeah.
- You know how they have the lobsters in the tank.
- Yes.
- It makes me sad.
- Awe, rest in peace.
- While we're just eating.
So wait yeah, so you just break this?
- So yeah, you just break it off.
(cracking) like that.
and then you just see the meat just unravel.
I'm gonna bite it even though
it's really not good for your teeth.
(cracking)
- That was a cool sound.
- So like the big thing with Mukbang is that
people, they have a long day of work
and they wanna wind down
so they're gonna watch you enjoy your good food
and it's gonna make them feel good.
So as long as you feel good
and you like the food, it could be anything.
It could be slop. - Yeah.
- If you like it, they're gonna like it.
- Yeah.
- So that's the way my story goes.
- Yeah, I love that.
- Terrell, food was dank.
- He's in the world for sure.
- Yeah.
- I couldn't take my off of him.
The way he was eating everything.
I don't think he's a fraud.
I think he's, um.
I don't know.
- If you ever go to Baltimore, please,
please get some seafood, get some crabs, get some shrimps,
crawfish and crabs and crabs and crabs.
Just don't catch crabs.
- Hello everybody.
- Hi.
(mouth noises)
- What did you think about Mukbangs
since, starting the episode
you had no idea what even Mukbang was.
- I found it to be more artistic and vulnerable
than I thought it was going to be.
- Yeah.
- It is a vulnerable thing to watch someone eat.
I have no idea
- It's hard. - Whose the expert.
Truly, this is one of the most
confusing deliberations we've ever done
because I truly don't even know what I'm talking about.
- But what does your stomach say?
Your gut.
(intense music)
- [Motoki] Come hither
- Hello.
- [Alyssa] Welcome back.
Hello.
- Well obviously thanks for feeding us.
- [Alyssa] Truly, every--
- It was a pleasure.
- It was the most amazing food I've ever had.
- You tell everyone that?
- No, no, I don't really.
I'm like still thinking about it, I mean it.
I didn't know much about Mukbangs, so thank you guys so much
for letting us in on this really cool thing.
Anyway, let's get into it.
- Yes.
For expert...
we thought Ayden.
We thought you actually displayed a lot of experience.
You were really trying to make sure that everything fit
and you were deliberate in how you were doing things.
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- [Cameraman] 1... 2... 3...
(alarm buzzing)
- No.
Oh my gosh.
- Tell us. - Okay.
- I'm actually the fraud.
- What? - Whoa!
Okay. - Oh my gosh.
- That was, so wait, when you were like nervous,
was that part of a play or was that real?
- No, not at all.
I had it pictured in my head how it was gonna go.
I actually wanted it to be more like interactive between us.
Like for example, the Elote part,
I thought we would all like, kind of do it together.
- Oh.
- I was just distracted.
I wasn't expecting questions, I guess, in a way.
- When you did like mess up, like, it really did seem like
you were like, no, this isn't what it's supposed to be like.
And like, that's why we were like,
oh he's like taking this really seriously.
- Yeah, we thought was important to you.
- Yeah, so, okay.
- So if I were to put my whole life savings
on what they would've guessed me as
I would've lost all my money like I'd be broke right now.
I would've never, even in a million years guessed
that they would think I'm an expert.
- Ah. Not looking good. - Okay, so zero for three.
Next up, we're going to say who we thought the amateur was
and we went with Terrell.
There was just a lot of stuff you were doing
where I was like I can see this video.
- Well, the only thing was like
you said Mukbang at one point.
- Yeah, I say Mukbang.
- [Alyssa] Yeah.
- That's fair.
but that's the thing, it's like
I don't know if that's even a big deal.
- 'Cause we don't know.
Again, we have no idea what we're talking about.
- So we thought you were an amateur we'll see.
- We thought you were an amateur.
- We'll see.
- [Cameraman] 1... 2... 3...
(alarm noise)
- Oo word. - Yes, oh my gosh.
You had such a good,
- You got it right. - like poker face.
Tell us about your experience.
- So yeah I am an amateur.
I'm just starting out to like really get into
like my content creation.
But I'll be a expert soon.
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm mad as (beep) that they guessed it right.
I wanted them to, you know, get it wrong.
I wanted to be like the expert or the fraud,
but you know, it's all good, it's all good.
You know, it's all love and peace in the middle east.
- Sorry.
Okay first off, sorry.
- It's okay. - We messed up.
- We messed up. - Don't worry about it.
- Obviously you did an amazing job.
We just thought that you were like, a big watcher
because you talked about like your
personal experience with like enjoying watching.
- Yeah.
- And like doing it with your mom.
So we were like, oh, she's so good at this and like,
- Yeah. - And we were like,
but she's probably too busy with med school.
(laughing) I hope you're not like
offended at all.
- Yeah, seriously. - [Rachel] No.
- Just because you're amazing. - No, I'm actually not.
- Your voice was perfect too
because we were talking about that.
- Okay, well I'm actually like kind of happy
that you guys like thought I was the fraud
because I think that really like plays into why
I started a YouTube channel.
And I think that I do kind of break stereotypes
in terms of like, I'm very into like medical things
but I also love eating and I just have a lot
of other like hobbies
and I kind of wanna show other people out there
that that's okay.
- I love that.
And that's also gonna make you an incredible doctor.
I want you to be my doctor.
- Thank you, I would gladly.
- I got a lot of problems.
- I just kind of wanted to share my story
with other people on the internet out there.
But I think it was super eyeopening
just to see how my story kind of affected
a lot of other young girls out there.
They DM'd me about how like
I've helped them through their eating disorders.
I've helped them to be able to feel less food guilt.
And I feel like that's probably been
the most rewarding thing about it.
- I've never whispered that long in my life.
- It's alright, at least we got one.
- And like we said-- - We're clinging on
for dear life. - Yeah, we got one.
And a reminder, this is kind of our first
introduction to this.
If you know a lot about this
we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
- Who's your favorite Mukbanger?
Thank you all so much for watching though.
Appreciate it.
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