- Hey guys, it's me, Katie.
And this is another episode of lost in translation.
- Usually Katie puts me in the hot seat
but today it's Kelly's turn.
- If your first time joining us, we take a recipe.
We put it into Google translate.
We go from English to French, to Sudanese, to Korean
and many, many, many, many more until we bring it
back to English to give us this hilariously
translated recipe.
- We have been planning this four months.
The whole team knows.
We sent an email out.
Her boss knows.
And she said, and we quote, oh my God, I love this so much.
- Kelly has no idea.
It's been actually really hard to get from her.
Let's go do this.
- Pranking Kelly, take one.
- Can you try that thing that we just tried?
- [Jasmine] Yes.
Your turn Kelly.
- [Kelly] Shut up.
(laughing)
Are you serious?
(sad melody)
Mimo, did you know?
- [Jasmine] Yes, of course she knows.
- Holy (beep).
- [Jasmine] Good luck.
- Ready?
- [Katie] Yep.
- A great idea.
This is not a great idea.
Step one.
Cooking plate with a band of berry trees and fat spray.
I'm assuming this, fat and it's spray, cooking plate.
Spray a cookie sheet with spray, with a band of berry trees.
Do I like flour it?
I'm gonna spray this baking tray with fat spray.
Band of berries, maybe like a bowl,
but why wouldn't you just use oil?
I'm skipping the berries.
I don't know what it means.
I feel like band of berries might be important
and I shouldn't just write it off.
So I think I need a hint already.
- Who would you like your hint from?
- Jasmine.
- Your cooking plate is not so simple.
It might be a more unique piece of equipment
that you see on your card.
- Here's why maybe I think these,
I've never seen these in the kitchen before.
So somebody had to go buy them.
Your band of berries is still missing.
- This is the cooking plate?
- We've helped Kelly.
It's her first time.
- Bamboo leaves! Band of berries, bamboo leaves.
(laughing)
I've chosen grape leaves
based on the fact that there's two jars,
and that's the only reason why.
Usually I'm the one prepping the food
and I'm like laughing behind the camera, feeling confident.
I'm gonna spray this with fat spray
and line it with grape leaves.
I feel like this is the wrong decision.
I feel like I need to change my mind.
I, grape leaves felt weird.
I have no idea what band of berries is.
I don't think it's grape leave.
So I'm just gonna leave it.
Just scrap it.
It's gonna screw me over.
Step two.
Add three fourth cup of dogram,
three tablespoons of sugar,
three tablespoons of bees,
half a teaspoon of flavor
until a soft paste appears in a small bowl.
Got it.
(laughing)
Got a bowl.
I know bees make honey.
I feel like dogram is gonna be one of these beans.
- Why do you think that?
- They're here.
Oh, wait a soft pace it's gotta of flour.
I'm gonna just put the bees in first.
Three tablespoons of bees, all purpose flour
masa, it's happy on the search.
You guys are mean.
Three tablespoons of sugar.
Well, I'm just gonna go with sugar,
because I know that translating sugar
doesn't really translate.
It's the same word in every language.
And a half a teaspoon of flavor.
So I need to make a paste, so it's gotta be a flour.
I'm gonna go with all purpose because it can't hurt.
It's all purpose.
Three fourths cup of dogram flour.
This isn't gonna make a paste.
Maybe I was supposed to do water.
This is not a paste.
I think I should have done the beans
that are soaking in liquid.
And then that would've formed a paste.
We give you 1 minute cause is your first time.
Go, go, go
- Now, which beans?
I have no idea what these beans are,
but I think they're dogram.
I'm going for it.
And it feels like the texture of paste.
Three tablespoons is sugar.
Three tablespoons of bees.
I'm sticking with bees is honey and sugar.
I don't have a clean thing.
I'm just gonna eyeball it.
Three tablespoons, half a teaspoon of flavor.
My only two flavoring options are vanilla and pandan.
And I know we didn't have pandan in the culinary kitchen.
So I feel like it has to be for today.
Now, I have to mash this into a paste.
I think this is the paste like is it's gonna get,
Katie's telling me I have to move forward.
So I'm gonna put this in the fridge
and then move to the next step.
Step three.
Form a moderate skin, swizzle two cups bubble butter,
divided one half cup of, that is not English!
- This is English.
- Form a moderate skin, swizzle two cups of bubble butter
divided one half cup of disaccharides, two cups of water,
one tablespoon of coffee butter,
and one fourth teaspoon of fragrant
until flawless and flirty.
Another fragrant.
Form a moderate skin.
So like that's to make the Jo
on moderate heat cause I have to milk bubble butter,
this is bubble butter.
Okay, let's look for butter.
That's a lot of tapioca starch.
I feel like that's gonna be my flour.
Bubble butter,
bubbly, aromatic,
airy.
Sizzle, swizzle is melt.
I just keep thinking like in a pan, I'm gonna melt
two cups of bubble butter, but what is bubble butter.
Dise... what is that other word?
- Disaccharide.
- Disaccharides.
See, I didn't do well on my SATs.
(laughing)
- I don't know the chemical names for things, nope.
I know I'm using water and it needs to be evenly combined.
From a moderate skin I think that means over moderate heat.
I told you guys, I can't do this.
- You can, you can do it.
And you thought two cups was too much for butter, like
- Boba, tapioca, bubble butter.
Yes! I.
Okay.
Boba is made from tapioca starch.
Those are the bubble butters,
and two cups of flour makes a lot more sense
than two cups of butter.
Disaccharide.
- You want a hint?
- Yeah, I need a hint.
- You really?
I have no idea what that means.
- Saccharin?
- Sugar.
- Hey, that was a pretty good hint.
- I only know that from translating the other recipe.
I only have one hint left
and I'm on step three.
Two cups of water, I can do that.
Water yourself.
That feels good.
Let me get a whip.
I feel better because I've seen Jasmine make Bobba.
I think half tea's been fragrant is gonna be this vanilla
Cause it's fragrant and it's the only thing I have left.
It didn't say what to do.
I'm assuming I need to stir it cause it's already clumping.
And the coffee butter, maybe oil, but I don't see any oil
And the only oil I see is like canola or vegetable.
I'm just gonna add it.
I'm gonna do half what it says
because I don't know if it's right.
- That's the way the recipe works.
- Right, this has gotten very thick and gelatinous.
It's not very well combined
which I know was it was supposed to be flawless and flirty.
This is very flawed.
Step four.
Wake up to a large mixture
and cook over low heat.
Well, I've been doing high heat.
Oh... maybe that's why it's not flirty.
Step five.
Turn off the oven and continue to bake
until the dough begins to separate
on both sides of the mold.
That's what I just said.
It's like totally clearing from the pan.
Oh my God it's one ball!
- Wow.
- Jasmine doesn't look clean, wow.
That's how I talk to my kids.
I'm like, wow.
Oh wait, I was supposed to remove from the oven.
I got this.
Turn off the oven and continue to bake
until the dough begins to separate
on both sides of the mold.
So we're, we're there.
Step six.
Add meaty filets and learn to communicate.
Did my husband already learned to communicate?
(laughing)
Add meaty filets.
This is sweet.
Coconut meat, coconut meat!
And learn to communicate
and fold to combine.
Now which one?
I have shredded
or large flakes.
I'm gonna go with large flakes because it's meatier.
I switched my mind from super meaty to like medium meaty.
So it incorporates better.
It didn't tell me an amount.
So I'm just gonna guess,
it's not incorporating anymore
but it's given it a nice layer, a nice coaty.
And I think that's the best I can do.
So let's go to the next step.
Convene, cut a spoon bunch of flour with kitchen scissors.
Put one of them on the floor of the oven cup.
Convene from what I'm doing, remove it, put it here,
cut some off and put 'em in here.
But how much?
All right, I'm just gonna cut it.
I just cut off a ball.
I'm just gonna keep filling these cause I'm confident woman.
- [Katie] Are you feeling good?
How are you feeling?
- So I'm just gonna keep filling these cups
with a couple spoons of this dough until they're all done.
Add one food to a server and a table spoon of flour on top.
I'm a confident woman.
And I feel great about getting my paste out
and seeing what I just do here.
So what I think I'm doing is putting some of this here
and then adding more dough on top and seal it in.
I apologize, recipe.
This is, I'm not trying to do an injustice
but it's Katie and Jasmine's fault.
I think Jasmine's a genius, after being in these shoes
like her word association is so good.
And I'm like, how does she know that?
It's because she did well on her SATs.
(laughing)
So I added one food to server.
I'm just assuming this dough is that got translated
to flour.
Step nine.
Fill a bowl with flour. Return the rest.
I think that meant what I just did.
Number 10.
Add water to the central pan
and rupture slightly. Put a bucket on it.
So they are steeped.
I think what this means is fill a pot with water and jelly.
It's rapidly boiling and put a steamer basket on top.
So I've added water to the central pan
and I'm gonna let it rupture rapidly.
And then I'm gonna put this bamboo bucket on top.
Step 11.
Put the flowers in a basket with a lid,
cover with a fork for 15 minutes
and the buns will be light and shiny.
We're calling these flowers, cover with a fork.
A fork is a lid.
- Why is a fork a lid?
- I don't know.
I'm gonna put the flowers in here
and steam them for 15 minutes.
This is rupturing slightly.
I'm gonna add my flowers.
And it says to it, doesn't say steam
but cook them until the buns are shiny and light,
15 minutes.
- What do you think shiny and light means?
- Shiny and light.
So I'll come back in 15 minutes
and then we'll move on to the next step.
These have been steaming for 15 minutes.
Let's see if they are light and shiny.
Oh, I feel like I overfill the bottom layer.
When I was cutting the pieces I wasn't like
thinking about presentation
and I should have.
Like this guy's just like about to jump off the cliff.
He's like, I'm done.
Step 12.
Draw a 10 inch square piece of plastic paper
on a flat surface.
Separate the abracadabra
in the middle of the plastic.
Parchment?
My baby boo baby.
Separate the abracadabra
in the middle of the plastic.
Isn't not like what a magician says?
I need a hint, I need a hint.
- You want your final hint?
- Final hint.
- Sometimes a magician says this word
before they open a door.
- Open Sesame.
Don't genies say that? Not magicians.
- Magical people.
- 10 inch piece of plastic paper.
So plastic didn't translate.
I'm assuming, I'm just guessing.
I know there's sesames involved
because genie say it, not magicians.
So I'm gonna roughly make a 10 square
of plastic wrap.
So separate the abracadabra in the middle of the plastic.
So I'm just gonna sprinkle the abracadabra
in the middle.
(gasp)
Step 13.
With the help of the banana master,
take some of the food out of the pot
and put it on the hammer.
So I was supposed to use the banana leaves?
With the help of the banana master.
I didn't need the banana master's help.
Take some of the food out the pot and put it on the hammer.
Out of the pot and put it on the hammer.
Step 14.
(laughing)
Put the my leaf cake in a plastic bag to cover papa.
(evil laugh)
Pack the present. Leftovers are all the same.
Leftovers are all the same means
do it with the rest.
Hammer, was I supposed to like pound it?
There's no more I can do here.
Honestly, all I think is like, keep coding these
in Sesame seeds and then cover with plastic.
I'm gonna get one more sheet of plastic to wrap it,
to cover papa.
I'm covering Papa.
And then it's just telling me to store it
but I don't know how it's supposed to be stored.
So I'm just gonna coat the rest of these
with the Sesame seeds,
wrap them up like a present and then read the next step.
I've already tasted each element and it tastes really good.
I just think I have the visual off.
Which as the food stylist is really sad.
Leave the bread for 20 minutes.
Okay, leave it.
They do feel warm.
So I'm wondering if leave the bread
for 20 minutes means like chill it.
So I'm gonna go pop these in the fridge for 20 minutes.
I don't know if it's right
but then we'll read our final step.
Open the cake and give it here.
Open the cake, I think that means
take these out of the plastic wrap
and then give it to my friend.
(laughing)
I think it's time to secret idea, in real life.
- [Katie] Open your eyes.
- Oh!
Look how these are so cute.
And the color is way better.
I would like know these are called.
- So this is called Bánh Xu Xe.
It is a Vietnamese dessert also known as a conjugal cake.
It's traditionally served at Vietnamese weddings
and the stickiness signifies the stickiness in marriage.
- Aww, that's so cute.
I definitely did too many Sesame seeds.
I'm just noticing a lot of differences.
Cheers to a great idea.
That's a lot of Sesame seeds.
I love the inside.
I don't like how many Sesame seed are put on
but this bean paste is so good.
- Cheers.
- The paste is good.
To be honest, it tastes really similar.
This tastes close to the real thing,
is just a lot of sesames seeds.
- The texture on this is better.
- It's really good.
(laughing)
- She's my boss!
- All right, let's try the real one.
This is way better.
There's no comparing like, no, this is incredible.
It's sweet and not too sweet.
The coconut is incorporated.
This is amazing.
These are both really good, but the original is
definitely better.
No contest.
All I have to say is I'm coming for you ladies.
You're up next.
This was so much fun.
A lot harder than I could have ever expected.
And if you guys have any ideas,
how I can get back at Katie and Jasmine,
shoot me a DM and we will get the ball rolling.
Bye.
- Bye.
- Oh yes.