(chopping) (upbeat pop music)
- Hi, everybody!
Here, I'm in YouTube Space LA.
You guys like Korean ramyeon?
Please ask me.
Ask me if I like ramyeon or not.
(claps) Ready?
Go!
- Hey, Maangchi.
(Maangchi laughs loudly) Do you like ramen?
(jimmy laughs) - He's an actor and singer.
- Hello, hello, audience.
- Jimmy Wong, and we met where?
We met through - We met
online. at YouTube Next Up, yeah.
(Maangchi laughs) - We met online.
We met on OkCupid - Online, yeah.
about three years ago. - No date, no date.
(both laugh)
- So three years ago,
right, yeah. - Three years ago
So, he-- in New York.
- Yeah, he was one of the YouTube Next Up members.
We got together.
At the time, I didn't talk to you much
because I'm shy.
I was shy.
- Me too.
- Yeah, you were?
- [Both] Yeah.
- You were just surrounded by the really cute girls,
(Jimmy laughs) "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy!"
- Have you ever tasted Korean ramyeon?
- No, I never have. - Oh no!
I like Japanese ramen, Really?
but I've never had Korean ramen.
- Always, I have preconception about ramyeon,
like a kind of junk food.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But, when you travel or emergency situation.
All college students living with skeleton budget,
they love this ramyeon.
So, I did a lot of experiments.
This is the best method of how to cook ramyeon.
Let's start.
- Let's start.
Look at all these fresh ingredients
you have in front of us, so you got green onions.
We have an egg.
What's in here?
- This is kimchi! - Kimchi.
Yeah, kimchi. I got really excited.
- When you make ramen, we just use this tin pot.
Very quickly boil it.
Right. - Heats up well,
a lot of surface area on the bottom
for the heat. - How is your personality?
- You are like a tin pot?
- Teen pop?
- A tin pot.
- Oh, tin pot.
(Jimmy laughs) - You are quickly excited!
- Yeah, just like... (laughs)
- I'm going to make this for one portion.
One ramyeon. - One person.
Two and a half cups.
No three cups or no two cups.
- No. - [Both] Two and a half cups.
(Maangchi laughs) - Hey!
Cooking is a science, guys, with a little experimentation.
How are you gonna do half? (gasps)
Look at this!
You have a smaller cup.
- Yeah, this is half a cup.
- These are cute!
I like the color.
- Cheap, cheap one.
- Yes.
Affordable.
- Okay, two and a half cups.
First, let's boil water.
- Let's prep some ingredients.
Let me cut some green onions right here.
- Yesterday, Korean grocery store,
I found really cute
green onions. - Wow, look at how small,
these are!
- When you make pancakes, so, so delicious!
- Oh, I love Korean pancakes!
That's my favorite part of going
to Korean barbecue. - Really, actually,
tomorrow I'm going to make. - Really?
You are invited, yeah.
- I will be there.
- Chop it up nicely, beautifully.
Like this. - There we go.
Yeah. All the way down?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Easy!
Easy!
- Be careful!
Ooh, ooh.
- You're about to do all of it for me.
Here we go.
- [Maangchi] Are you cooking at home?
- [Jimmy] Yeah, my mom taught me how to cut.
- Oh, my god!
That's good!
- Thank you.
- Reminds me of someone that I met.
He's a professor, and he said,
"Oh, I never liked cooking.
"I can not cook."
But-- - Ah!
Yeah, so I said, "Oh no!
"Home cooking is good."
"But, I like to learn cooking."
So, he told me, so funny story.
He said, he used his microwave oven.
"Okay, I'm going to cook this one,"
so he brought something microwaveable.
And then, suddenly, sooner or later, on fire!
(Jimmy laughs) And then, he forgot something,
like remove the tinfoil
(Jimmy laughs loudly) or some of the string.
- He didn't take it all the way off first.
How do I say
I love kimchi in Korean? - (Maangchi speaks Korean)
Oh, boy.
Okay, say it again. - (Maangchi speaks Korean)
(both speaking Korean)
Very good!
(both speaking Korean)
Okay, good! (laughs loudly)
- Yes, I speak Korean!
I did it.
- Now, water is boiling.
We are going to dump this into boiling water.
- Make sure you don't
get the packets in there. - Oh, you know that!
Can't toss these in, yeah.
- You said, you never had Korean ramen, how do you know?
- Well, 'cause every ramen
has this thing. - Oh, okay.
(Maangchi laughs) I haven't had Korean ramen.
I've had Japanese ramen, Chinese ramen,
I guess. - So, can you open it?
Yes, ready?
- Yeah.
- And go!
- Well!
And-- - In goes the powder.
This is spicy.
I chose a spicy ramyeon. - Very.
- I like spicy.
- And then, we have to boil this one minute.
Okay, one minute!
Turn over the ramyeon to cook nicely.
- So, it's very floppy at this point,
but take the whole thing and flip it.
- Yeah, and then, egg.
- [Jimmy] Oh, an egg in!
I thought - Ooh!
we were hard boilin' this. Egg.
- [Maangchi] (laughs) No, No!
- [Jimmy] It's got it
all in here. - We don't need that.
We are going to cook one more minute.
Done!
Remove from the heat and then--
- [Jimmy] Green onions in there.
- [Maangchi] And dried vegetables
that come with the package.
- [Jimmy] This is nice.
Look at how beautiful that is!
- [Maangchi] So, this is for you, Jimmy.
- [Jimmy] Thank you.
- [Maangchi] You never tasted Korean ramyeon.
Usually, when we eat,
we eat this way.
Jimmy, looking at me.
This is a nonfictional feast.
- Nonfictional feast, correct.
- So, this one, we usually eat this way.
- You eat with the lid? - Ah.
(Jimmy laughs) - Okay, you eat this.
- Do it, do it, yourself!
What are you talking about? - No, no, feed me,
No, no! feed me!
You are not my baby, okay, okay.
(slurps)
(Maangchi laughs)
Whoa!
- That was good.
- Okay, then. That was really good.
Spoon and soup.
(slurps)
(Maangchi laughs)
- That's hot! Spicy.
Oh. Yeah, I love the spicy.
- And the kimchi.
And rice. - This is full-service food
Yeah. right now, this is great.
- Very good.
Delectable.
That's the word of the day.
And a little kimchi
to top it off too. - Yeah, it goes with kimchi,
but if you don't have kimchi, you don't have to.
Just make ramen this way,
but add lots of green onion and one egg.
- That's good!
Enjoy her recipe! - Enjoy my recipe!
- [Both] See you next time.
- Bye!
(upbeat pop music)
- Yeah.
- Ready?
- [Voiceover] Go ahead.
(slurps)
There you go.
- Get that, towards the end there,
the (imitates slurping sound).
- Or black bean noodles. (laughs)
- Black bean, yeah, exactly.
- Have you ever tasted it?
- No. Oh, people love that
Is it-- black bean noodles, yeah.
- My recipe, very popular.
- So, a traditional Koren dish?
- It's a Chinese-Korean.
- Ah, you're welcome. - You guys have
Oh, that's right. zhajiangmian, yeah.
- You know that?
Oh, wow, surprising. - Your pronunciation
was pretty good.
- Zhajiangmian.(laughs) - Zhajiangmian.