It's time for Food Adventure Program For Awesome People!
The Electric edition
The Electric Edition?
Because we're eating eels today and eels are electric.
Are all eels electric though or they are specific electric eels?
Does anybody know the answer?
Simon does not have an answer for once in his life
uh no.. all eels are electric
are you sure
what's your percentage on that?
My percentage is don't get hit by car
I'm good
so we are all the way here in Yeosu, we drove for 5 hours
to have some awesome food
the seafood in Yeosu is absolutely phenomenal
and this place we're here is highly highly recommended
Yeosu is pretty much like a port city, so we're like having fresh from the water placed on the table
Grilled. Delicious eels
there's 3 different kind
we'll talk about it when we get inside
Let's eat some eels
That is pretty simple as you can see we pretty much have
which tang means soup
and you got the...
소금sogeum is salt and 구이gu-i is grilled
and then you got the...
and they say in English it is marinated eel
but they don't say tell you it's marinated
so it's spicy and a little bit sweet
양념yangnyeom is usually like the stuff they put on the chicken as well
so we are going for 2 orders of these each
cause I don't really want just plain boiled
yeah but that's not why we're here, right people?
there's something I gotta mention about grilling anything in Korea
is the differences between the grilled
so these ones actually got charcoal.
It's a word that I can't say, so don't judge me
In Korean it's like a 숯 (such) and it actually adds a flavour
almost like a smokey charred grilled flavour of things
even if you eat samgyeopsal with this, it tastes much much better
this is what you'll need for grilled fish. It's awesome
and now for some sexy food porn shots
I haven't had eel for 4 years. I'm ready for this
Oh man
Oh I never taste an eel like this before
this is lovely
Oh man
my school back then I was teaching
I remember one day I called it sick because I had food poisoning
and then when I came back, they were like "Did you eat eel?"
"Is that why you got food poisoning?" I said no and they were like don't eat any eels
because foreigners' stomach can't handle eels
I have no idea why they said that. I'm not sure I'm gonna get sick
but for some reason I had it planted in my mind
That foreigners can't eat eels
you know why, there's so much eels in supply for korean. [Simon] Yes
[Martina] is it really hot [Simon] no
Oh it's hot. You lied to me
[Simon] was it?
mmm really light flavour
you know what it reminds me of? [Simon] What?
Fish and Chips in America [Simon] Oh yeah
[Simon] Like a haddock
[Martina] It has a really light fish flavour. That's what this has
kay I'm gonna try the 양념yangnyeom one
this is the same eel except covered with the 양념yangnyeom sauce
which is usually you see on fried chicken
cutest word on the planet 양념yangnyeom
Originally the ajumma at the restaurant said that she like the salt one better
because this one just kinda taste like the sauce
so what's your opinion on it? [Simon] I think the ajumma was right
you still taste the fish but this has like a saucy flavour to it as well
you know I didn't realise how light the flavour the fish was
so it really is overpowered
now it's my turn to try it [Simon] Go for it
the only downside to really fresh grilled food in Korea is it's always scalding hot
you know when we go for... [Simon] That was really good mmm
[Martina] Let's try it again
I'm trying to help you
[Martina] yeah the salted one is better [Simon] yeah
it's so good it's not like a really strong 양념yangnyeom flavour but
the salted one add a little bit better to the flavour mmm
but once you tried the original you feel like there's no need to add an extra sauce
that's it for this week's Food Adventure for Awesome People
Every time I go to these restaurants, I'm dead tired afterwards from the warm and delicious food in my belly
we've been on this road trip, we have some of the best food we had in forever
I just want to travel non-stop and eat all your great food
I think it's really cool to go to the port cities because we're getting some of the freshest seafood we had
and you always say like oh Seoul has everything but you know what
I'm starting to realize that Seoul does not have everything