♪ Intro music ♪
Martina: Good morning, Singapore.
We are on the hunt for a good hawker center.
Alright, what's the name of the place that we just came to, Simon?
Simon: Okay, we're here... we're gonna go to Lau Pa Sat.
S: Guys, we've been walking around for ten minutes and everything looks so good,
and I feel like a donkey between two bushels of hay. I have no idea what to pick--
S: I wanna eat everything! M: The only thing we're avoiding
M: ...is the Korean food, because (S: yeah!)
M: we can get Korean food in Korea, so... S: They say it's authentic Korean food,
S: I've never seen that kind of Korean food in Korea.
S: We're going that way?
S: Okay.
M: I think what we're gonna have to do in the end
(S: Yeah) is...
just buy like, one dish from every location and eat something.
S: Yes.
M: I just got like a shrimp dumpling soup
instead of the wontons I put, put dumplings because
you know I love dumplings.
S: Uh huh.
Korea does not have a lot of dumplings like this -
(S: no) so I really miss this kind of food.
Yeah!
M: With a nice noodle inside of it.
M: Good broth, and you've got fish ball soup?
S: I don't know necessarily what I got -
I just saw a line-up for it and I'm like - - M: Yeah, this is fish ball.
S: Yeah, I'm, I'm trusting them.
M: Yeah, flat rice noodle. OH, you got two kinds of noodles in there.
S: I think so.
M: Okay, some fish cakes -
and I don't know what this could be, uh
Fish cake or... an egg?
S: The lady was like, "What do you want?"
and I said, "Yes!"
S: Hi! Yeah. Okay!
S: Uh, can I get some of this?
Okay...
And also...what else should I try?
M: You want dubu (tofu) or do you want chicken?
S: Chicken!
Is that...yeah, chicken, yeah?
Sauce? Yeah, sauce is good.
Um... (M: Why don't you try a hard boiled egg?)
S: Oh, and egg also.
Yeah, yeah.
An egg...
and...
I'll have some of that.
Yeah!
Eggplants. Yeah, yeah, good.
(Is that all?) Thank you!
S: That's mine right there. Woo!
M: Alright, Simon. (S: Okay.)
M: Let us know what you're eating.
S: This is some glorious chicken
battered in something, covered in like little baby peanuts.
M: Delicious?
Grabbed my mango juice.
S: So, they just...
S: We went to the fruit stand and we were like
"Hey, how about we just blend some fruit?"
And they just
took a whole bunch of mangoes
and blended it.
Nothing else!
S: Remember when we - -
M: Remember when we accidentally bought a $48 mango in Korea? (S: Mmm!)
S: Woah! That door just opened up
and we got a nice
gust of air conditioning.
*Excited Simon* Woo!
We're waiting in line
now at Tim Ho Wan.
This is supposed to be really, really good and - - M: Dim sum.
S: And the line up goes all the way outside and wraps around.
And it goes back in.
M: We've been warned that, like, you might have to queue for sometimes an hour or more.
S: Somebody supposedly waited for that. M: So, we're gonna have to...*interrupted*
Stranger: You guys will give me like a hundred won? (S: Pardon?)
*They gasp and go "Ooh!"* S: Somebody already claimed it!
S: Okay, so we ordered lots of stuff - far more than we can eat, but that's not going to stop us from trying to eat everything.
S: Until we explode. This is our one time! Korea, why don't you have dim sum?
M: Okay, we're good. S (echoing): Okay, we're good. Order it all - eat it all.
M: Alright, I got one - I did one, one, one, one. That's like...1, 2, 3, 4...5...6...
M: Good enough, right? S: I hope so. If not, we order more.
*Music during montage*
S: Okay, we definitely got too much food.
I'm already starting to feel stuffed and we only had like -
M: We did not get too much food, okay?
I'm gonna eat all this food. S (mouth full): Aw yeah!
Holy snap, that's great.
S: I don't even know what this is called or if I'm even eating it right.
S: Is that one good?
Okay, so, there's only two things we don't know. I don't know what this is.
Tastes like...potatoes or something?
This is supposed to be egg cake, I think. But it's kind of savory.
And I don't know...carrot, well, I mean, carrot cake.
But - (S: *unintelligible*) I've never had that before. Yeah.
S: So we met a nasty behind us and she told us that we have to get these buns.
Even though we're full we're still gonna eat them.
S: Rip that open!
*Magical unveiling music*
S: Aw, yeah...
S: Guys...I can't believe we almost missed out on this. (Sexy food porn shot music)
S: This is the most glorious *pause*
bun...
we've ever had. It's like a cookie on the outside it's so sweet.
S: Mmm!
S: Next time we come here, I'm ordering, like, four of these.
S: I wanna eat (M: This is the line up still! Behind us.) I wanna eat till I hate my life.
S: Look, it's starting to curl all the way around. (M: All the way around and goes off that way.)
S: That's how good this place is! M: They're giving out bottles of water!
S: That's really nice of them!
I could, I could eat here every day!
I eat this dim sum every daaay.
Okay, some of us are gonna go to Chin Chin's Eating House.
This is what Anthony Bourdain suggested in "The Layover".
I'm gonna go in there and order exactly what he ordered.
And I hope that he wasn't lying to me about this being a good place.
Anthony Bourdain!
I'm sure you probably just called me a "dirty hipster" anyways.
M: I was like, "Simon, I want something cold and refreshing, like coconut juice,"
And they're like, "You want coconut? Me give you coconut."
S: *in accent* You want coconut? We do cutting, putting in straw, you drink.
M:That's pretty badass. (S: It's so natural)
M: It-It taste really like meaty? 'Cause you can taste all the fiber and everything.
S: You have a bug in your mouth, eat that bug.
S: Eat the bug. There you go~ AAAAAHHHHH
S: Oh my gosh, look at this badass-ness. Ooohh~ It's still bubbling.
S: And here's the Chicken Rice.
S: Here's Chicken. Here's Rice.
Chicken. Rice.
S: This is a lot more food than the two of us can eat. (M: Ah~ Gwenchanayo~)
S: Even when I ordered it, they were like, "Are you sure?" And I'm like, "YEEESS"
M: I can eat it all o3o.
S: Here's Singapore. This is your dish.
S: Ah you needed this. There you go, put some hot sauce on that.
S: There you go~
S: And how was it? *Martina's Nod Approval*
M: I'm trying to get some fish, in here.. S: There you go, there's the fish head.
S: You got to eat that all in one shot. (M: And eat the eyeball, if you want to.)
I don't know what I've done, just gonna pick up things so it's fine. (M: No, that's what I wanted.)
S: There you go, look at that fish meat.
S: Uh huh, lovely thank you.
S: So here's my first attempt at fish head curry.
S: Not sure if I'm doing this guys,
if I'm doing this right.
S: Mm, oh that's good. (M: Uh huh)
I don't know which one I like more.
S: I love curry flakes though M: This is the one with coconut peels S: Mm
M: You like coconut S: Oh yeah we're so biased towards coconut M: The chicken is really
M: it's very beautifully cooked, like it's so soft.
S: If we picked between chicken rice and fish head curry
would that be like blasphemy?
S: Like picking between like YG and SM M: You'd get like kicked out.
S: Why you so three head biased(?).
*unintelligible Simon words*, I dunno this is great.