today we're back with an old friend
stephen lim who's brought us to bopo
mofo to introduce us to the next level
world of boba in la turns out this place
was co-founded by youtube og philip
huang from wong fu productions we're
walking now we're walking oh a car
we're jaywalking here in the oc these
cars move slower are we in the oc we're
in oc right now that was like a show
right the ocean was yeah
what'd you say
peeps got shot just what exactly thieves
get in the oceans got shot here and not
in real life
welcome thank you steven lynn as he
lives and breathes i love my youtube
godfather
youtube og
i do think that they really care about
the asian american experience and you
can see that embedded in every item
every dish every drink so it feels very
true to who i am and our community i'm
thinking that you guys should try my
favorite drink the carrot matcha latte
carrot
matcha latte my name is josh carrot oh
my gosh that's actually my name why
don't we do the brown sugar pudding yes
that's like a classic oh yeah we have a
a few moments later thank you guys so
much for coming thank you we're going to
bring it out have a seat we'll call your
name we'll bring it out to you alright
stephen
what's up how are you doing man it has
been a while yeah the last time we saw
you we filmed a video at a korean
restaurant in l.a
yeah and i've just been eating there
since you guys left i've been waiting
for you to come back
so i've just been stopping myself with
korean barbecue in the meantime
fantastic a lot's happened since we last
saw you you started a company uh-huh you
met a young lady oh i didn't turned her
into your wife young lady the way you
say that is a little creepy almost yeah
yeah i met a woman
you met a woman uh tammy cho oh so we
have that in common too we're both
chinese that is true we're both married
to korean women i don't know if i can
claim to be chinese specifically but i
got chinese blood you have chinese blood
korean animals are fun amazing yeah oh
my god when they were in town visiting
me they kept everything pristinely clean
i don't know that's a thing but there's
definitely a thing and then the food
yeah korean food oh my god
i want her to start a restaurant in la
your mother-in-law yes because like it's
it's so natural for her i just want to
say for self-defense reasons my
mother-in-law is also great
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you guys ready let's do it here's the
brown sugar pudding first so the
pudding's at the bottom lactose free
milk at the top with the tea so you
gotta mix it all together right hang on
hang on
when you say pudding
there's literally like pudding floating
exactly yeah
okay okay listen look at that i don't
know if you can see that
there's like literally like chunks so
pudding in the uk is dessert in the u.s
pudding
is like
those like circular
things that you scoop out and it's like
jello and we have sticky toffee pudding
that's maybe the most famous pudding but
it just it can be anything can be a
dessert
the tea is delicious the tea is good
fantastic it's sweet it's very sweet mmm
i got some proper pudding chunks charlie
tofu
oh it is kind of tofu texture
that's a bit disturbing wait i want to
show you guys yeah check it out oh wow
look at that that's amazing i'm just
going to eat that yeah go for it i want
it there's another one i do want to get
one as well that's the thing even though
boba literally means those tapioca
pearls it's actually more of like a
lifestyle than a drink it's more of a
lifestyle how do you get it oh there you
go oh
look it looks like egg it is eggy oh
it's beautifully eggy though yeah oh wow
this is very graceful stephen
as much as i enjoy seeing you like
laughing like a dog
we just witnessed the vulgar lifestyle
we did we did i'm just gonna say it
brown sugar boba is often like just so
so sweet whereas this is
and you can adjustably balance that's
the beauty too about bulba oh yeah ten
percent twenty-five percent you know
fifty percent fifty-one you could really
choose fifty-one just dial in you know
it's a controlling share yes i tell them
51.
next mobile all right here's the carrot
matcha latte oh
wow so that's the real carrot juice
lactose free milk and a premium matcha
give it a good mix otherwise you're just
going to be only getting carrot juice
which you
now with watcher one of your biggest
videos is actually you making boba from
scratch yes for team leo the
astoundingly good looking what a legend
muscular it's really annoying too
because like hero because like he just
works out like once a week and he's just
like
and i'm like every day pounding you know
stephen pounding away
those weights i know exactly what you're
talking about i mean this guy it's
unbelievable he basically yawns and
starts sweating because his metabolism
is just he's burning calories because
he's yawned i on the other hand i
basically have to do an iron man every
week exactly in order to stay a healthy
bmi you got a stir so uh wait i want to
try it without stirring first but then
you're just gonna get carrot juice
are you talking to me
the caramel
i've never not stirred before oh yeah
straight carrot tastes like a family but
the sweetness of the tapioca
makes it good
oh i'm just gonna say it was a lot
prettier when it was not mixed no no no
it is when you've drank this so many
times okay you're a big macho fan oh
it's in everything i do oh wow that's
what you do everything i do i just not
just eat durian it's like facials
wow yeah okay cheers cheers mate
she does my british accent is good
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no
maybe not enough
you can very much taste that distinct
carrot
and matcha flavor
simultaneously i want to love it
that's fair it's not for everybody i
don't i don't love it i don't love it
but it's
it's lovely i know it's really great had
enough characters i love it
we just are trying to feed people
vegetables without them knowing
so in line with that here is the corn
milk so real corn juice a strawberry
sorbet on top you got to mix it up
really well as well all right fantastic
thank you i just want to say real quick
phil bringing out the drinks right now
like literally taking orders this is not
just a show he's not just doing that
because we're here like this is actually
you will find him at the cafeteria one
day yeah he's just hard working you know
he's just legend yeah ledge
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i'll be honest okay this is this is this
is bad but tapioca pearls
i could do without them
i don't even honestly order them when i
get boba oh my gosh wow so when you say
committed to the boba lifestyle it's a
lifestyle okay yeah not about the balls
that sounds like a motto not even what
all right we gotta bring out some food
right now fantastic so we have our ready
for food honeywell
we have our popcorn chicken
so this is the vegan one it's made from
soy fiber and then our maple tops
that looks so good thank you very much
you have not mixed as well as he has
look at that separation it's
it's wild i've never had this dream
before okay is it very corny
it is it is it is cornier than corn no
it's not it's corn milk extremely corny
yeah
okay i was not expecting that that is
next level very moorish is it first
taste was like whoa and then the second
and third i was like i want more one
more
i really want to try these maple syrups
my mouth is so much
look at that
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and the egg man oh i've never had it
with the egg oh
the dish and the tofu together i don't
know if i've ever combined those two
things
oh my golly jolly yeah that's worth a
round of applause holy moly
is it all right genuinely though that's
like that's a life-changing moment it's
unbelievable that is time you shipped to
london
i would eat maple tofu at home but then
at school i'd have tater tots at the
cafeteria you know so it's like just
like this mix of just eastern western
flavors and just growing up in america
but also being eating a lot of just like
our food at home too so like all the
best ideas it's like how did no one
think of that before right i'm so glad
you like you guys thank you so much for
inventing incredible let's move on to
the chicken and this is a carnivorous
chicken and this is a vegetarian chicken
yes normal chicken first okay yeah that
popcorn chicken is that's delicious
what is this saying i've not had this
but this vegan one looks you haven't had
this you kept banging this up i wanted
to try it okay
you wanted to buy it
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it looks crazy
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that tastes more like a chicken nugget
than that does it does it tastes so
chickeny are you sure it wasn't a
chicken that was vegetarian
that might actually show you how we've
been conditioned to our chicken nuggets
to like not be actually chicken
i don't know how to describe just like
the feeling of popcorn chicken at a boba
shop but it's just like all of the
nostalgia comes back every time you bite
into this and it's
i don't know
it's just it's just like makes you want
to cry you know you know how emotional
yeah this was a place where i felt like
i had a sense of my identity you know i
had a place in the world at a boba shop
right and so
i had my boba and i had my popcorn
chicken whereas like you know at school
it was like this is like meatloaf and
you know hot dogs i'm like oh well cool
it's not my experience but like yeah
this is me this is mine and you went to
school with meatloaf
that's right
you must be old
you know last but not least my favorite
thing here honeywell shrimp burger
you're taking a lot of allergy boxes
honey and walnut shrimp
there's the honey it's the whole insect
kingdom yeah yeah
the whole nut kingdom yeah shrimp
crustaceans yeah not for the week
okay okay
i don't know if this was inspired at all
by the fish filet at mcdonald's was it
so actually in japan they actually have
an ebby burger which is like a shrimp
katsu filet and that was part of the
inspiration
okay shrimp patty exists but it's yeah
it's not that common in america but
honey walnut shrimp never heard of that
yeah we threw the nuts and the honey on
there hello cheers
this
is good
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i love this eye contact that we make
actually
it's
unbelievable
can you open a branch in london i'm
serious i want something like mine
oh next level
next level this is the combinations are
all ready
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i've had a lot of shrimp burgers in
korea
that's the best that's wow
wow
so can you agree
i haven't had a lot of shrimp burgers so
yes
i agree
i guess something i was curious about
it's like when we were coming here i
really wanted
to experience
local food the way that people here in
la eat it but i didn't really have any
concept of what that is and obviously
taco bell was one side of that i feel
like this is a much better size
unexpected but absolutely incredible
honestly it really just comes from i i
just love our food and just the food
that we make and the inspiration from
like our culture too if i was gonna open
up a business like i wanted to do this
and so yeah um that's that's awesome man
your passion definitely shows through
because this tastes amazing i'm so glad
i'm so good my co-founder eric too is a
big reason why a lot of these exist so i
have one more surprise for you guys
so you have done though a lot of
different cooking for watcher you've
granted a lot of dishes what was the
hardest challenge that you had the most
stressful one yeah when i did it for the
michelin chef
because
how do you out do somebody's
you know
yeah that was stressful this is what
this is a problem i have been flipping
married to a master chef oh my gosh yeah
it must be so hard
the problem is pretty much every single
time i try and cook anything she'll come
over like while i'm making it and just
be like
just do this right here and change
things sorry i'm just feeling so
emotional on your behalf you're an idiot
all right guys so typically at you know
after like a big chinese dinner there's
some dessert right yeah yeah yeah so we
have this black sesame
milk here we call it the hey sesame oil
because hey is a play on wood for black
and white nice exactly hey zuma this is
a black sesame honey puree
i know it looks like your face is i'm
fascinated it's it's a it looks crazy
but when you mix it all together it
tastes like the black sesame like rice
balls that you get like in those like
soups
and it kind of looks like a groshau test
yeah tell me what do you see and then
it'll and then yeah what do you see in
there yeah what do you see ah
daddy issues
okay let's do this come on
i don't know how much i should serve for
i'm gonna keep
whoa
yes
okay
black sesame dessert
yes i see what you're going for oh
that's delicious i like it that is good
just wanted to give you like a little
dessert yeah
but it's a light man this has really
opened my mind to what boba can actually
be yeah right the boba potential in the
world you asked me to take you to one
place so i was like this is the first
place we gotta go i mean it has lived up
to the incredible amount of hype you
gave oh good yeah definitely man if this
was in london we would be going here
every week right yeah genuinely well
thank you stephen for the invite thank
you phil
for your um well just for your existence
yeah genuinely for you i'm just glad
that you guys liked it and we will try
to bring it to london someday make it
happen we've had some other we will be
that brit brits come by but uh this but
this is special still yeah no this thank
you guys this is the next step in the
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