Korean
Royal
Cuisine
Simon & Martina
are going to eat...
Royal Cuisine!
This is something that people eat in Korea
maybe once in their lives altogether.
This is Soozee's first time eating it
M: First time ever. S: and she's like a grandmother now.
S: She's old. M: Yup, Soozee's like 90.
So we've made an effort to travel out
to actually have this food.
We need to get started cause this is like a multi-course meal of delicious,
hand-made, loving foods.
*gracefully* Na na na na na na na~
So if you look at the banchan (side dishes) on the table right now,
we've got nine side dishes.
And you might just think like, 'Oh it's a nice square shape', but actually
the amount of banchan that you get
directly relates to your 'rank'.
So if we were royalty
like mega prince and king kindda thing,
we'll have 12 side dishes.
Because we are apparently 'nobility',
We're nobles, not royals.
So the amount of side dishes is actually very very symbolic.
Food lovers... Are you ready for this?
This is good~
That pork is so tender.
S: The marinade isn't overpowering here. M: I'm making one.
M: That's fantastic. S: Mmm-hmm.
You have never had Korean food like this before.
That marinade and those vegetables.
It almost tastes like a maki-roll.
It has like a sesame,
kind of seaweed-y taste to it.
There seems to be so much food here already,
and there's still more coming.
How did any king
not explode.
I don't understand, this is way too much food.
A lot of Korean food we have,
it will be very like one dimensional. Like gochujang, or maybe something salty.
But I'm finding a whole bunch of different flavors like
sweet
sour
and then like ocean?
And then like, it's like this combination of flavors that come together.
This is like an ante up version of tangsuyuk.
I really wonder how much room these bowls must cost.
You could murder somebody with a bowl like this.
Hey what am I doing right now?
Shake that brass?
*NO ONE LAUGHED*
At first, I thought that was mu.
It's not mu?
I thought it was mu also.
No. It's like a... kind of like a noodle that I've never had.
This is like, kind of like a little sweet mustard.
It's really good.
This is my style.
I'm trying~
Oh Simon.
S: I'm trying. I feel like the lady is judging me so harshly. M: Oh Simon...
My chopsticks skills are usually on point.
Get some mushrooms as well.
Honey right there.
Let me see what this taste like.
Is that nice?
It's really light.
It's so hard for me to figure out what's my favorite part of the dish so far.
How many times in one bite will you get this many colors
in one mouthful of food. This is amazing.
First time eating pine needle.
The mushroom is so finely shredded
and then the pine needle is just like.
S: I've never tried eating pine needle before. M: I know.
We should have more pine needle in our diet.
This is one of the first times that I actually feel at a Korean restaurant in which
somebody is bringing you out food with a sense of pride to it.
Usually it's just like 'here it is. eat it.' and walk away.
But this lady here is telling us about every single flavor.
You can see her like, watching as we're eating.
She's listening to our reactions,
trying to explain it more.
She's really passionate about this.
Can you ask her
S: if she has any sons that either of you can marry. SZ: No.
This again.
As your king,
I have the right to marry you off.
So this is not usually on the menu
or is actually part of this course.
So this is a really newest menu they are trying.
That broth.
M: It just did not hit me. S: If samgyetang tasted like this, I would eat it everyday.
It's almost like a wild mushroom soup
meets samgyetang.
Wait... Are we forgetting someone?
S: Leigh, I think it's time. L: Oh yeah.
It's like breaded too.
Isn't that nice?
Here Leigh, try the oldest thing you've ever
possibility eaten.
Suffer like all of us.
Leigh
This is for you.
*gasps*
I'm so disoriented by all the deliciousness.
What am I talking about again?
Why am I here?
M: The pineapple you don't even taste strongly. S: No.
M: It's like it just kind of cuts the flavor. S: Yeah.
So it's not like super meaty.
Usually whenever we do our food, we're just like,
Ohhhhh yeah! This is awesome!
But now we just feel like a part of something sacred.
This seems so intense.
This is a different way of cooking style as well in Korea right.
So it's like, this is not common. This is not. Even I'm Korean.
I've never tasted anything like this.
It's like, my mom doesn't cook this.
This is not like everyday cuisine.
So, royal cuisine is not about the dishes
but they are like cooked different.
Really great ingredients,
all over the country.
The best of the best always comes to the king.
I want to be a king now.
Here's something you probably haven't tried before.
3 year old kimchi.
That's strong.
That can get your car running a lot faster.
I dont even know what that means.
Is it ssam yeong or san yeong?
Ok, 4 year old kkaenip.
It taste like wine.
Soaking in like a wine.
I am now going to try
the oldest thing that I've ever eaten
in my life.
S: This is 7 years old. M: Garlic stem?
Garlic stem.
It's been in Korea longer than I have.
Salty?
Salty.
M: And then you're supposed to eat it with rice. S: With rice.
Do I smell cinnamon?
It's definitely cinnamon-y here before.
Oh yeah cinnamon.
It's almost like an apple pie stuffed in ddeok.
But no apples.
This right here is supposedly very expensive.
In Korea you see this all the time.
Like in emart or in the markets or whatnot.
But this is made in the olsal way
in which they actually fry this
through heating up sand.
This is a Korean rice krispies square.
Zee Royeal Korean RiceKrispi Square~
So that's it for the most
epic food adventure program that we have ever gone on.
This is a very Korean food adventure to the max.
Ultra food adventure.
I would say that we'll never be able to have like 7 year old kimchi ever again.
I would probably never have anything like this for the rest of my life.
Yeah and the flavors were not only good, it was just like
I've never even tasted that flavor in Korea.
We're gonna talk a lot more about this in our blog post
so make sure you click on the link here and we will be able to explain some of the
backstory behind these amazing dishes.
And speaking of backstory...
There was a very honored job for somebody
to check the royal stool.
Now I want to bestow that honor
upon either Leigh or Soozee
S: because I care about them so much. M: What an honor!
So I'm going to let them rock, paper, sissors
and the winner
is going to check my sh** later on.
Let's do it!