(Curly speaking Spanish)
(whistling) (playful music)
- When in doubt.
- Just dance. - Just dance.
(both laughing)
- Hi, I'm Rie.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
I participated in a lot of food challenges for Tasty,
but I thought it would be fun
if you teach me your favorite Salvadorean dish,
but with a twist.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
What's lista?
- Ready. - Okay.
(both speaking Spanish)
(both laughing)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- Yay!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
No, okay.
(both laughing)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- I only understood.
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- That's all you need to understand.
- Great!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
So put the pork on top of the cutting board?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
Cube? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Uh-huh.
- Cubes of pork.
- [Curly] Yeah, uh-huh.
(Curly speaking Spanish) (Rie speaking Spanish)
I guess its the pan?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking and counting in Spanish)
- Perfect. - Five.
(Curly laughing)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Aceite is oil. (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Poquito is a little bit.
(Curly speaking Spanish) - Okay!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Charita, is a spoon.
Teaspoon.
- It's a little baby.
- All right. (Curly gasps)
(Rie laughs)
- I didn't do anything.
- You scared me.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Yay!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- You point to this color,
so we gonna cook this pork until golden brown.
(Curly speaking Spanish) - Yay!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- Uh-huh, oh perfect.
Now you're trilingual.
- Yeah!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Salt. (Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Fiesta is party?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
16!
- Okay. - 17?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Younger, 14.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- 15 minutes!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Okay. (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Salt.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Verdura is vegetable?
(Curly speaking Spanish) Perfect!
- (Rie gasps) Okay! (Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Okay! Okay!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] So cut everything?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Okay, so mitad is half.
- Perfect! - Okay, so half pepper.
So put in here?
(Curly speaking Spanish) (Rie speaking Spanish)
- Next I think you said vegetables, right?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Tomato? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- This knife is very dull. (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Same size?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- After I cut the tomato, put it in the bowl?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Okay. (laughing)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- What does it mean? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Do you understand?
- No.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] One onion?
I actually learned Spanish
when I was in college just for one year.
- Oh wow, a little bit?
- [Rie] One thing very confusing was
you guys have to find out
which is female and which is male, right?
- Yes, its super confusing.
I always tell people that I learned Spanish
at the exact same time that I learned English.
- [Rie] Uh huh.
- So I only spoke in Spanish with my mom,
and I only spoke in English with my dad.
So I suck at both languages. - Yeah.
- But I'm really, really, really good at Spanglish,
so like I can kinda jump in between the two
and you understand what I'm saying.
And sometimes I mess up the tenses in English,
and sometimes I mess up the tenses in Spanish, but I'm like,
"Who cares?" - Yeah.
"Like you get what I'm saying."
- Yeah, exactly.
So onion.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- All the vegetable (speaks Spanish).
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] It's a good color?
- Oh, yeah! - Oh!
(Curly singing in Spanish)
This is why I like suck at cooking,
'cause I'm dancing in there,
and not paying attention to what I'm doing.
(Rie laughs)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- The food processor.
- Exactly!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Carne and vegetable together in the process.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- It's like moist and tasty?
- Uh-huh.
I threw that Spanglish in there you heard that moist?
(Rie Laughs)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Oh okay, so you have to make a nice color,
so you don't want to move it around.
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Oh okay!
(Rie and Curly laugh)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- Yes, Rie! - Yes!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Everything?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Yes!
Yes, my friend!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Oh, everything.
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- Perfect! - Yay!
- Wow, now do you if cebolla is a boy or girl?
- Cebolla sounds like a boy?
- I don't know either.
It's a girl.
- It's a girl?
- Goodbye my little sweet baby.
(food processor hums)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- So first, I move this to a bowl?
- Uh huh. (Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie laughs) (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Still don't understand.
Must be coming down.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Four cups of masa.
Masa is cornflour?
(Curly and Rie counting in Spanish)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Mix flour and salt.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- More.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Like, you have to, you have to hear a song in your head.
(salsa music)
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Tres cup of water.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Oh, it's like a clay texture.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] A little bit more water.
- What's really beautiful is that this is like
a tradition that comes from like our indigenous roots.
And so these are kind of traditions and techniques
that our ancestors would've used to make this food.
- Yeah!
- So it really is something that is really special to us.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- So when you shape it, you need water on your hand?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
It's very close to how I make onigiri,
which is a rice ball.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Oh, oil too! (Curly speaking Spanish)
- So in Japan when I make rice ball,
we put salty water on your hand.
So water, you know, prevent rice sticking to your hand
and also salt gives the flavor.
- Oh wow, okay. - Yeah.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Push, push.
- Usually.
(Curly speaking Spanish) (hands clapping together)
It's very traditional to go like this.
(hands clapping together) It's this sound.
But it also takes a lot of practice,
and its something I haven't mastered yet, either.
- Okay, so I'm just gonna take it slow.
- Yes! (Curly speaking Spanish)
- So you're putting in your palms.
So you're palming it.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Like that?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie speaking Spanish) (Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] Poquito bean.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Yeah, its sticky.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- It's too much ingredients inside.
(Rie laughs)
- Am I doing okay?
- Yeah. - Okay.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
(Rie anxiously breaths)
- Don't worry, my pupusas look like that too.
(both laughing)
- So it's not great.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- Okay, if you have a crack, you kind of fix it.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
Yeah, you're doing good.
- [Rie] Yay!
I think this is my first one, so I can do better.
- Everybody makes it differently, you know?
Like we are not like this monolith of people
that make the same food.
Some people make it a little thinner,
my tia, Rosa, makes them super thin,
and she even uses a different masa.
My grandmother makes them really crispy.
Other people make them like a little soggier,
a little wider, a little thinner, not with too much masa.
- [Rie] Yeah.
- So I'm excited just that you're making this,
and just like seeing what we do.
Yeah, so you can close it up.
- [Rie] This closing part is the difficult part.
- [Curly] But you're doing it so well!
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- [Rie] Like you said its like a dumpling.
- Yeah. - It's kind of helped.
- You're also doing cool things,
'cause when you turn it,
when you were turning it like this somehow.
- [Rie] Yeah!
- [Curly] That's the thing the grandma does,
she turns it this way.
- Oh, I was like using kind of like dumpling techniques.
- [Curly] Yes, use that dumpling technique.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
It can be a lot bigger than this.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
Which is fine too, if you have this at home its fine.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- This? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Oh, so you kind of like this, use this?
- [Curly] Uh huh.
- Wow, so you only use little?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- While we wait, we like to dance.
- Okay!
- Ready? - Yeah!
- And go, okay!
We go, okay, and bring it back and bring it back.
Lets go, lets go!
Okay!
Throw it up, throw it up! - I'm not as good as you!
(Curly and Rie laugh)
- Still a little white.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] You want to have a golden brown color?
(Curly speaking Spanish)
[Both] - Yeah!
- Yep, looks good!
- Yay! - Mmm!
It smells good too! - Yeah.
- It smells like a Salvadoran house hold in here.
So there's also a traditional way that you eat them,
and it's also up for debate all the time.
Different people from the same country
say that you should eat it differently.
Some people eat with their hands, like people in my family,
then there are people in different parts of the country
that eat with a fork and a knife,
and the debate is a real one.
- You are team hand or team fork?
- I'm team hand.
- Oh! - It just makes me feel like
even more connected to my people.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] So it looks good, so lets put it on the plate.
[Both] - Yeah!
(Curly speaking Spanish)
- [Rie] This is curtido? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Wait, did you just say pollo? (Curly speaking Spanish)
- Pollo is chicken.
- No, it sounds like it though.
- You just asked a question that a lot young Latin kids
ask their moms all the time.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
It's not chicken.
- What's repollo?
- It's like cabbage.
- Okay! - Yeah.
(Curly speaking Spanish)
I'm going to get mine and then we can compare.
- Yes. - Okay, cool, BRB.
All right, here we go!
[Both] - Wow!
- [Rie] Your's more uniform and smaller, and like flatter.
- [Curly] You did yours all by yourself, which is amazing.
- [Rie] Thank you.
- [Curly] Look I've seen so many pupusas
that look like that I'm so happy for you.
They look so delicious! - Thank you!
- So do you want to try one?
- Yeah, can you teach me how to eat it?
- Yeah!
So again, the debate is whether we use a fork or not.
But since its me, we're not going to use a fork.
- Yes, I don't see any forks around.
- [Rie] Demonstration.
- Yes. - How to eat pupusas.
- [Curly] Super small, the size of my mouth, right?
And then you scoop it.
You get a little bit of curtido.
- I'm going try, the same way.
- That's bomb, that's good.
- Mmm.
- [Curly] That's really good, right?
- Next turn mine.
- [Curly] I'm excited for this.
- So, same way?
Hope it's as good as yours.
- Wow, this is great.
Wow, I can already taste the chicharron.
That small bite that I had.
- [Rie] I think curtido, it helps a lot.
It kind of cuts the fat.
So, its like very nice harmony in your mouth.
- Rie!
I'm so impressed.
- [Rie] Thank you!
- [Curly] This is what you might find like at my house,
and this what you'd what find at a restaurant.
Because a lot of people like
to get more for their money, right?
So they'll get bigger ones.
- Thank you so much for teaching me pupusas.
- [Curly] Thank you so much for making them.
It really is something we are really proud of.
- Yeah, I feel like our friendship become like.
- I agree!
- Thank you so much! - Thank you, too!
- [Outro Voice] Oh yes!
(upbeat music)
- He's going twerk.
I'm not going to do it!
(Rie laughs)
- That's how you make those pupusas
taste real good right there!
- Okay, do it!
(upbeat music)
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