- You gotta teach me a Japanese curse word.
- No! Why?
- Because I wanna learn.
- No! - No?
- That's the first thing you learn in a language.
- No.
- Hi I'm Rie!
- Hi I'm Gadiel!
Last time I challenged Rie to make a Dominican dish,
solely in Spanish.
This time, the tables have turned.
She's challenging me to make a Japanese dish,
while she explains it to me in Japanese.
- This is not going to be easy.
- So this is the ingredients.
- Oh okay!
- [Rie] I'm gonna give you a little Japanese lesson,
so we can go over ingredients in Japanese.
- Got it.
- So this dish is Japanese
home-cooking. - Yeah.
- Something you don't find in restaurants.
- So this is like the
when you were young,
this is like the first dish you learned how to make?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Okay!
So what am I gonna expect?
This is like a soup?
- We'll see.
- Are you nervous?
- I am a little nervous.
- You don't need to be! - I don't wanna mess this up!
I don't wanna mess this up. - Why, you won't be,
I will give you instructions.
- Okay.
- In Japanese.
- I know.
- Ready?
- Yes.
- See, what she said.
- Tamanegi, grab the onion.
- Yes!
- Oh oh! - Oh my god!
- Okay yeah,
take this off right?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Cut it, cut it.
- In half?
Yeah.
- Wow, wow, wow.
- I had to Google half.
- Is this how you cut the onion? No, no, no.
- Oh, okay okay.
We got this.
- [Rie] We got this.
No need to be nervous.
- Okay.
- Gadiel, it's simple, and this is just cooking.
- Okay. - Yeah,
we are not saving world.
- Yeah?
- Okay. Ninjen.
Carrot!
Okay so cut that off?
Ah so I just peel the skin.
Oh, okay.
Okay. This is how you do it,
I haven't peeled anything in a long time.
- Do you cook at home?
- I do, but I haven't done it in a long time.
There we go, we did it!
Do it in little circles.
- Aki in Japanese,
Aki is autumn,
like a season.
Fall? Four season?
- Cuttin' it at an angle? - Yeah, angle.
- Oh okay.
Like a (speaks Spanish).
- Yeah, this called rangiri.
It's
not a Saturn shape, it's
kinda different.
Oh oh, your finger!
When you cut something,
also like you want to hold like
like this.
- [Gadien] Like this? - [Rie] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Gadien] Oh okay.
- [Rie] Curled.
- And we learned something together, right here.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right, let's do this.
- Nice!
All right!
- Is that the beef?
No this is the potatoes.
Aight, and you want me to peel the potatoes?
- [Rie] Japanese and Spanish sounds
similar. - Similar to a sense somewhat.
My mom's always posting pictures
of my little Japanese cousin singing.
They think they're a Bachata artist.
- What's Bachata?
- Bachata is like,
it's a Dominican music.
You wanna learn? - Yeah.
- One two three, stop.
- [Both] One two three, stop. - oh okay.
There you go.
My mom's so used to me
making a mess like this in her kitchen,
she will kill me.
She will be like "(speaks in Spanish)"
which, the exact translation is
"I will throw you out the window,
so you will land and explode."
- Okay.
Which means we're gonna cut it down or?
- Yes!
- Do you remember how to count?
- A little bit.
- Yes! - Yes?
My bad, I'm so sorry.
- All right, good job.
Okay!
- I did it!
How do I say "I did it" in Japanese?
- Yes!
- This right here.
This is so cool.
This reminds me of my country,
like the
pigeon peas, like we'll wash and hand-wash it.
We pick out the bad ones, the rice.
Whatever rice had the peas,
we take it out one by one.
- Yeah it's like
sitting down the table with grandma right?
- Yes.
- [Gadien] It reminds you of family.
- [Rie] Hey.
- It smells like home.
- We're gonna grab all this,
and we're goin' cook it.
- Operation tomodachi!
- Yeah. - Yeah!
- We're gonna put water in there. Right?
No we don't.
Turn this on?
- The oil?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- And we're gonna put the oil first?
- Do you remember ichi?
- Ichi is one of these right? - No no, ichi is-
- Is the meat.
- Ichi is
- Oh ichi! One!
- Yeah, so one teaspoon.
- Okay okay, okay okay.
- So osaji is tablespoon. - Tablespoon.
So one tablespoon.
- Nice.
- So grab the onion.
- And put it
all of it, all of it?
- That's the-
- Wow, good job!
- [Gadien] There you go, that's the carrots.
- And the potatoes.
- [Gadien] All right. - [Rie] Wow, wow, wow.
- That's it yo!
Japan and the Dominican Republic in the house,
right here! - Yes!
Okay so Gadiel,
let's
- Okay, let's stir this up.
Okay so we don't want the bottom to burn,
am I right?
- Okay keep stirring it.
- We really wanna like
mix in the onion, the carrots, and the potatoes right?
- Water! - Yes.
- Water.
- Okay.
- Which is the beef right?
- We're gonna do the whole beef in there?
Okay.
- Okay.
- Don't just drop it all in there.
- Okay.
Stir this up.
- All right?
Just leave it like that?
- Okay so
that's when we add the sake.
- That's good.
- You want me to put this one?
- You know what, when I was younger,
I took Sato karate.
- Karate?
- Karate.
- Yeah, martial arts and stuff like that. But I was a kid,
so I don't remember half of the things.
Don't know why,
but that's how they taught us.
I've never fought in my life in the street like.
- That means to leave it alone?
- Sato means-
- Does that mean to put this in there?
- Sato is the sugar?
- So that's two.
- Oh you saw that yo!
She said it all in Japanese y'all!
And I listened!
- You told me this before.
- This right here.
- The three, right?
- Oh! Four!
- No!
- Five.
- Okay. - It's origami time.
- Oh okay! Oh awesome.
- Okay.
Let's put the corner right here.
- Right here?
Did I mess that up? - No, no, no.
Right's gonna be that corner?
- Yup, you did great.
- Whew, we did the first one!
- Yes, whew.
- Okay this one is going to go over here.
Make sure I-
You know what this reminds me of? Marie Kondo, right now.
- Why?
- Because she teaches you how to fold, and all that stuff.
Now I fold my clothes like she does.
- So I'm like a cooking Marie Kondo?
- Yeah you are.
- So the whole thing,
oh so we're gonna fold them in half.
- We did it!
- We did it. - We did it!
This is like a paper plane.
- We're gonna cut it in there?
- So we're gonna clip want me to cut the rest of it,
from there.
Wow!
No!
- It's a good lid.
- Does everybody know this?
Like how to do this like?
- I learned at the culinary school.
This lid is very useful when you're braising stuff.
- Wow!
- Its a technique. - Are y'all getting this?
Y'all getting this up there?
- What she said.
- Wow!
- No, this.
- This.
And then we're gonna drop this in there?
- Gentle.
- Like gentle?
- Okay.
- Ni is one. - No.
- Then two.
- Two,
three,
pun is
oh two to three minutes.
- Yes.
- Oh two to three minutes.
- And you are done.
- Yes!
- We did it!
we did it, high five! - Yes! Gadiel,
- Okay.
- Make it nice.
- Make it nice? Oh okay.
Okay I got it.
So we put more caldo?
- Caldo? What's caldo?
- Caldo is stew.
- This is not a stew.
- It's not the stew? - Yeah.
So I think this is enough.
- It looks delicious though.
- Yeah! - I can tell you that.
- As in "listen I'm dying to try it out.
- Okay and I am going to bring mine,
- Okay - and then we can compare.
- Okay Gadiel,
- Wow! - This is mine.
- Why does yours look better than mine?
The taste is what I'm after- - taste is important.
- [Gadiel] You think it's gonna taste the same?
- [Rie] I think so, you did great!
- [Gadiel] Thank you, you're so nice.
- So you are dying to know the name of this dish.
- Yes, I'm dying to know.
- Okay so this dish name is nikujaga
- So niku is meat.
Jaga is potato.
So meat and potato.
- Meat and potato - Yeah!
- So let's try mine first.
Yeah, dig in.
- Aight let's do it.
- And also this dish is tastier the next day.
'Cause it's like absorbed all the nice flavor.
- Interesting.
- [Rie] Tastes just like home.
- [Gadiel] For real?
- And let's try yours.
- All right.
- It's delicious!
- I like yours better.
- I think it's because
I made it yesterday.
- I wanted to teach you this because
you taught me pollo guisado. - Si.
- It's very homey food, right? - Yeah.
- I do feel like I'm at home.
I take a bite and I'm like
"I'm in Sasabu Japan right now",
you know what I'm saying?
- Yeah.
- You like it?
- I love it.
- Are you gonna make it at home?
- Yeah.
- Gadiel is gonna make it at home,
- He's gonna tag me on Instagram,
- I will.
- If you do it please tag me on Instagram,
Gadiel or my Instagram.
Do you wanna finish with dancing?
- All right let's do it, come on.
- [Both] One two three, yeah.
(upbeat music)