Alright so good morning from Seoul, South Korea.
It is a bit of a lazy weekend today.
A slow start.
Sam was watching baseball so I've been waiting for him to be ready.
Yeah, my team lost.
The Cubs lost.
Womp womp.
I'm a little depressed.
But anyways today we're kind of doing brunch so we're at Caffé Bene (카페베네) which
is one of our favorite coffee chains and Cafe Bene (카페베네) is huge in Korea.
Like a few years back they had close to a thousand branches spread out across the country
so it is super popular.
So yeah, we're here to have some drinks, some food and we'll be showing you that as soon
as it arrives.
So funny story.
Originally we came here because we wanted to eat their gelato waffle because when we
used to live in Korea that is what we'd get every single time.
And their waffles are so good because they're all like caramelized and fluffy and they are
just amazing.
So we came, we placed our order and then we noticed like the buzzy thing.
It was calling us back right away and we're like wow?
That was fast.
Too fast.
But no I go downstairs and guy is like waffle impossible.
So I guess I don't know they were out of dough or maybe something happened so we had to change
up our order so I'll show you what we got instead.
And I think it still looks good.
It is not going to be gelato waffle but we're still getting one of their top specialties
here which is their gelato.
Nokcha (녹차)!
And we're getting the green tea nokcha green tea (녹차) flavor.
Yes.
And what else do we have?
And we have a hot cheese bagel with jalapeno.
That looks pretty good.
You can see the cheese oozing out.
Yeah.
And then this I'm pretty sure is a new product.
I haven't seen it before on the menu.
It said topping pastry.
So we've got some kind of pastry here with whipped cream and chocolate powder.
It is definitely big!
Yeah.
And a drink.
Vanilla latte.
Alright Sam what are you starting with?
Ah, I'm going for the good stuff.
Going for the green tea gelato.
Oh la lah.
Look at that.
Oh man, that is so good.
Such a rich rich green tea flavor.
Alright, what is next.
What are you going to get in to?
How about your coffee?
Why don't I try that.
Vanilla latte.
My vanilla latte.
So let's rip off the top here.
Try that.
Take the lid off.
Show us how frothy it is.
Good point.
Because otherwise you can't even see it.
The viewers want to see.
Frothy.
Very frothy.
How is that?
That is a good latte.
Yeah.
Although it doesn't have that strong of a vanilla taste.
But really creamy.
Really good.
Alright, so we're going to share the bagel.
Cutting that in half.
Oh yeah.
Man, look at the cream cheese.
Oh wow.
Thickly stuffed.
Totally oozing out.
Woah.
Totally oozing out.
So this one in the middle it has cream cheese but they also put like I guess a regular mozza
cheese and melted it on top of the cream cheese so it is like decadent.
Look at how cheesy that is.
I know.
And you also see the chunks of jalapenos.
Look at how thick that is.
That might be.
It is a behemoth.
Mmmm.
Is it good?
Yeah.
That is really nice.
So how would you describe it?
Super cheesy with a bit of a kick.
So Sam is going to attack the topping pastry before it melts.
Yeah, time to attack this big bad boy.
So I think they put some whipping cream and cocoa powder on it.
I'm not entirely sure.
It is slowly losing its shape.
Oh wow.
Just from cutting it it kind of has the consistency of a cinnamon bun.
So let's try that here.
Mmmmm.
Oh wow.
Okay.
Yep.
That is definitely whipped cream.
Yeah.
With a bit of cocoa on top.
And the pastry itself it looks like really big but it is actually really kind of light
and fluffy.
Yeah, very light and fluffy and it is perfect for putting this type of topping like a whipped
cream on top of it because it is just adds a lot to it.
Is there anything in the pastry?
Does it have raisins.
Um, let's investigate.
Let's actually investigate that.
I didn't get anything on my first bite.
Investigative eating.
I don't think so but it does have chocolate.
It does appear to have chocolate on that.
Chocolate is always a good thing.
That is really good.
Yeah.
Nice and light.
So what is your favorite thing so far that we've ordered?
Well, I mean obviously the gelato but I haven't tried this one yet so.
The bagel?
No, the bagel is up next for me.
Why don't I just take a bite right here.
I'm going to take one of yours.
Go for it.
Just stealing yours.
Mmmmm.
Oh wow.
I'm kind of glad you ordered something a little bit savory.
It is spicy too.
I'm feeling that spice.
I keep saying that.
Yeah.
This is really pleasant.
Sometimes it is good when you know like because they didn't have the waffles this is getting
us out of our I wouldn't say our comfort zone but out of what we'd normally order.
It forced us to try something new.
It forced us to try some new things.
We decided to make the video so we're rolling with it today.
So we polished off all of that food.
It was really good.
The two items we liked the most were the jalapeno bagel with cream cheese and real cheese and
also the green tea gelato.
That was fantastic.
So in terms of price point it came to just under twenty thousand Won (원).
So I think it was actually was it nineteen thousand?
Yep.
So that is ₩19,000 KRW and roughly that is about sixteen or seventeen US dollars and
not bad value.
I mean we got three different food items and really large drink.
So it is not super cheap but it is the kind of place that you want to come and relax and
have a nice sweet treat basically.
Yeah, so if you guys come and check out Cafe Bene (카페베네) make sure you get the
waffle.
Yes.
Demand the waffle.
Hahaha.
Alright, that's a wrap from Seoul (서울).
Tata.