(both laughing)
- Okay.
Welcome back to another episode.
It's Chris again and today,
we're gonna find a date for Nikki.
- Hi.
- Nikki, you're gonna try three different Filipino dishes
cooked by three different guys
Sound good?
- Sounds good.
I was born and raised in the Philippines,
specifically Quezon City, but ever since I moved away
and started living on my own,
I actually haven't been able to eat
as much Filipino food as I want to.
So I'm really excited for it today.
Hopefully, some of the dishes remind me a little bit
of how my mom's cooking was.
- Hi, I'm Gio.
- Hey, I'm Sam.
- Hi, I'm Jayson.
- I got this in a bag.
I've already secured the bag.
I mean, just like looking at the dishes.
- I'm pretty confident, I ain't gonna lie.
Not a usual thing in my life,
but I'm pretty confident on this one.
- I'm just gonna get stepped on.
I know already.
(all laughing)
- Like in a good way or bad?
(gentle upbeat music)
- I made a Bistek Tagalog, like beef loin.
I made it with soy sauce,
a little bit of vinegar
and then some onions and garlic.
I actually left everything to marinate overnight
and then I cooked it this morning.
It's like super fresh, as fresh as it could be.
- I marinated that with the love
that I want to like portray through the dish, right?
(Chris and Jayson laughing)
- Like marinating like the onions, the garlic,
leaving things overnight and just letting
your thoughts simmer.
- Exactly.
- I mean, I will be too.
(laughs)
- Fire away.
- Ooh, this is rice.
Mhm.
- Yeah you are off to a good start
- Oh, She is blushing.
- I need to
- She is just taking it all in.
- She's gon cry?
- She's in love already.
- I need to finish chewing before I say something.
I'm not sure if he marinated the meat, but
- Really?
Oh.
- Dang!
(Gio laughing)
- Well, maybe it needs a little bit more slice sauce
or something.
- Oh no, man.
- I feel so bad.
I wanna roast them.
- We did?
- Where did it say that in the contract?
- It wasn't in the contract.
- Wait on a minute.
- So I'm not too sure what kind of cut meat this is
- She doesn't even know
- That's pretty tender
but I feel like it's a little over cooked.
I wanna see how it's cooked actually in the inside.
- She's dissecting it.
- Dude she's cutting it up.
- The meat is fine, but it's just dry.
- A moment of silence
- For Gio
It kinda feels like he just left it in a pan
and forgot about it.
The onions are very well cooked.
So plus points for that.
- I'll take that. I'll take that. I'll take.
- Onions. Onions.
(Nikki laughing)
- Hi. My name is Gio Beef.
- I'm dry.
- Honestly, because he kind of went low effort
(Gio, Sam and Jayson gasping)
I feel like he's probably as someone
who's like relatively hot.
- Oh, okay.
- Balance, balance
- People who are attractive generally,
like don't really put in as much effort
into other people as much as themselves.
- That's like A New York times review.
- I'm confused.
- So unless he's cooking this for himself,
you know, he's probably somewhat attractive but
- I like the personality better.
So unfortunately
- Wooo
- I'm gonna have to look at the other options
before I make the decision.
- I Like her, she's like
- That was fully rounded criticism.
I'll take that dude.
(Nikki laughing)
- I like the fact that he had rice in there.
(upbeat music)
- I'm actually pretty competent of my dish.
I mean, I brought ribs cause I mean,
I think eating with your hands
is pretty much as Filipino as you can get.
So we got the pork ribs here,
a Filipino barbecue style.
Family secret recipe.
It's got like your typical soy sauce,
you got banana ketchup,
you got bay leaves, cardamom, black pepper
all spiced like all those classic looking ingredients.
The best part about this dish in my opinion
is the gravy that comes with it.
This is some scallions.
So we're gonna chop that up and sprinkle it over the ribs.
- [Chris] What do you think it says about you?
- Low maintenance.
- That smells so good.
And it's so aesthetic.
- It's the chives.
- It's the green on the brown.
- Do you know what this is called?
It's like escaping my mind.
(all laughing)
- But is it like a specific marinade?
- Okay, okay
- Thanks, Chris.
- I see, okay.
Cause it smells so good.
The fact that it's all cut up already for me.
Is he a caring type of person?
- I think you are men.
- Does he like take care of people?.
- Really? Oh, okay.
I can't cut it though.
- [Chris] I think he specifically said eat with your hands.
- Interesting flavor.
It tastes like there's some sort of secret ingredient.
I can't tell what it is.
- You're Unique man, you're unique.
- Unpredictable.
- I know I'm supposed to find faults in this,
but I'm finding it very difficult
to find something wrong with this.
(Gio, Sam and Jayson exclaiming)
- I feel like since it's a family recipe,
he comes off as like a family man to me.
- Oh.
- Is that worse than like friendzone?
- She's gonna come out and you gonna be like, Hey Kuya.
- And the fact that you were supposed to eat
this with your hands,
I feel like he might be like an outdoor
outgoing type of person.
- Wow, she is right on there
- It's like she knows you already.
- I am a little bit more of a neater person though.
- She eats proper, she has to join the wild side.
- Oh word.
I feel like he would take me hiking
and I'm not really sure I'm down for that.
I'm more of a gamer
and I like to stay indoors most of the time.
- I could get along with him I think.
If he opens up a restaurant I'll probably go.
- Oh yo, that's pretty sick .
- I got a customer.
- Revenue.
- The fact that he neatly arranged a dish
and kinda like put it together in a really
really aesthetic way gives me creative vibes, I guess.
Like, I don't know he might be a fellow creative like me.
- Bet you can create something lovely with her.
- I can create a beautiful future.
- Wooo.
- We'll found out
- Low maintenance?
This is so high effort though.
I feel like low maintenance was like the first guy.
- What!
- That'd be great.
- I would love, that means he knows me.
- She's not gonna like me cause mine doesn't have rice.
(upbeat music)
- [Jason] My dish today is a fusion.
Instead of a sausage, egg and cheese.
I'm making longanisa egg and a garlic keilor.
- Wow.
- Now I'm the one sweating.
- This, the pandesal.
And then I hatched the egg.
whenever I cook, I always try to go ham.
- Possibly.
Hopefully, you need something,
something different, you know.
We'll see if that, that different we'll get would get her.
- Oh, longanisa on a burger.
I've never seen this before.
Did he tell you how I'm suppose
am I supposed to reconstruct it myself?
- So IKEA burger.
- Am I supposed to smear this inside too?
- Okay.
- I'm dead. She ate the garnish.
- That is juicy.
- The egg just leaked out.
- This tastes pretty good.
- Yes. Let's go.
- I was a little, oh he used pandesal.
I feel like he used like a spin the wheel type thing.
Put random Filipino ingredients on it
and then put something together.
Oh actually, no, it sounds like breakfast.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- I think the fact that he made me a breakfast dish
means he's an early morning person.
- I am a morning person.
- You are.
- I wake up at 5:30 in the morning.
- Unfortunately I am usually not awake for breakfast.
- That's okay.
- You can cook for her in. She's gonna get breakfast in bed.
- That's gonna be lunch sometimes.
- There was effort in plaiting it.
I actually do enjoy it.
I would eat this
but maybe without the lettuce and the tomatoes.
- Tomatoes are garnish.
- I know.
- Should've put some instructions.
- It says under the tomato stop. Okay.
- The fact that he kinda left everything out
for me to put together
makes me feel like he's the type of person
that if I say I'm cold, wouldn't tell me to like,
go grab my own jacket instead of giving me his.
- Oh my God!
- I feel so mean saying that.
- Where did you get that from?
- That's the vibes that I'm getting from this.
- No.
- That is the complete opposite.
- That's the type of person is just like, you know,
if I see a bug and I want him to kill it,
he hands me the slipper and has me do it myself.
I don't know. I feel like he gives like the bare minimum.
- Wait, Okay, now that changes things
you should've told me that from the very start,
because I thought this was..
- That's like a 180 real quick.
- I thought this is pan de sal taken off the shelf
and then cut open.
(Nikki laughing)
- I feel so bad saying all that.
- Good, okay they don't get it.
- This tastes like it was from like a bakery.
I apologize.
- I have been humble.
- I've just been humbled.
I know when to admit when I'm wrong.
(laughing)
Yo I just like wrecked this guy.
- [Chris] You call him low effort
and he baked the pan de sal from scratch
- The second one.
As much as this one tasted really good.
The fact that I feel like he's a nature type person
kinda puts him probably the least likely for number one.
It was probably the most homey.
I feel like it would be very relaxing
and comfortable to be around them.
Whereas this person
I feel like is a little bit more exciting honestly.
The fact that it's so different,
it is the most surprising and I do like that.
So I'm going to go with this guy, number three.
- Well done Jayson
- Yeah.
- Hello?
- Hi.
- Hello, how are you guys?
- I'm Gio
- Sam.
- I'm Jason.
- Nice to meet you guys.
- Nice to meet you too.
- Yes.
- Your food was just still pretty good.
- Just not great but pretty good.
- Okay, so in this episode,
you guys are actually going to be going on a mini date
and you guys are gonna go off
and talk on your own off camera.
And then we'll check back in in a bit
and see if you guys wanna go on another date
on your own after that, sound good?
- Alright.
- Cool.
- Sounds good.
- Wait, can you
- [Jayson] Don't do, don't do that.
- Don't pull that.
(all laughing)
- Hello? Yeah.
- [Chris] Would you actually give her?
- No.
Dude I told her like, I will literally knit you a blanket.
- Yeah, he's sweet.
- I'm not salty at all.
I'm not upset.
- I'm just happy, man.
I'm happy for them.
- Totally happy for them, yeah.
- Since I'm flying back on Monday,
I'm back to LA and he's gonna be around here.
We decided we're gonna do a little long distance e-dating.
- Yes, and we promised them, right?
- Yes.
So we're gonna be playing valorant together.
- Yes sir.
- And we both suck.
I guess we make a great pair.
I'm so sorry.
- Okay, maybe this is a mistake.