I Tried Making Traditional Korean Food For A Week

[Music] so really big part of korean meals is the act of eating together as a family in fact the korean word for family is shikku which literally means a group that eats together so through this meal i thought i would share some of that korean culture with my friends even though we can't be in the same place right now all right all right welcome to day one of cooking with your boy so to start things off i thought we would do the appetizers first now what is the korean equivalent of an appetizer side dishes or panchan now i'm so positive that none of my friends have had any of these side dishes before and i'm hoping to just show them that there's more out there than you know korean barbecue or kimchi all right so let's get started right now i'm going to embody my inner korean mom every korean mom spirit out there just give me strength and we're gonna do that with an og korean mom apron country cats baby let's get it all right so the first side dish we're gonna do is the radish salad and because i don't feel like cutting all the slices of radish here's a tip for you go into your korean mother's kitchen and look for these this is um it's a thing all right [Music] honestly i'm not too concerned i feel like these are just side dishes so i don't think it'd be that hard all right radish salad is complete look at this masterpiece i told y'all i told you all the apron is where it's at all right so one down three to go and it only took me two hours jesus christ [Music] alright so since i am making kimchi i'm gonna give a call to the person who makes the best kimchi in the world mama king [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] i'm gonna try my best to save it but worst case scenario i'm gonna tell them that this is how it's supposed to taste all right here it is i really don't think they'll notice please don't notice all right recipe number three it is stir-fried anchovies i saved this one towards the end because i thought it was gonna be hard but i really feel like this might be the easiest one so far [Music] oh sh stuff the whole thing in by accident okay [Music] i'm gonna go in with the sauce now [Music] all right honestly this is looking pretty good i'm to give it a taste real quick yo this is my best one yet so far i think [Music] fire that's right get at me all right i'm on my last one the brace black beans it's nine o'clock let's just get this over with all right i think these beans are about done let's give it a check oh that is beautiful all right here it is i'm gonna hit it with the sesame seeds like this oh sesame bay all right so end of day one i am absolutely exhausted i really thought this was gonna be easy day i just spent eight hours making four freaking side dishes that's it for me i'll see you guys tomorrow welcome back it is day two today we're gonna be focusing on the main dish as well as a soup korean people love soup today i got some uh bulgogi so yeah i'm gonna be making bulgogi as well as kimchi which is basically kimchi stew you already know we can't cook without our country cat's apron i look good okay let's get to cooking oh sh oh my god probably gonna cut that out [Music] okay all right so i think this is good we're now going to move on to the kimchi stew and lucky for my friends i will be sacrificing the last of my mom's kimchi in order to feed my friends all right we got the kimchi still cooking right now oh you see that let me just give this a taste real quick [Music] all right so the kimchi stew is cooking we got our bulgogi out of the fridge and now who better to call than my very own grandma here we go i really hope she answers grandma hi baby let me tell you what i'm doing real quick so basically i'm frozen wait let me get on my lp okay is it better it got significantly worse this is my grandma who doesn't know how to use technology but i don't know what happened she just hung off how have you been feeling during um these weird times i'm taking it day by day and i'm used to this time to realize who i you forget how much love i'm surrounded by yeah you are loved and i hope that we all can get through this together knowing that the only thing we need is love and i love you thanks i love you too give yourself a break just be yourself you're more than enough thanks grandma of course any time baby all right end of day two i'm not as excited as i was when i first started but tomorrow's the last day so i just want to finish it up all right calling your night adios [Music] our final day today we're doing dessert the dessert that i picked today is called shikke which is basically rice punch now this is definitely not the hardest thing that we've made all week but it is definitely the most time intensive so yeah let's get to it [Music] now this has to sit for a few hours so i'm going to put a little wrap over it leave it alone and then come back when it's ready all right so while i'm waiting on that i'm also going to make some rice because it wouldn't be rice punch without any so i'm going to go ahead and wash this and then i'm going to use my trusty good old rice cooker my best friend don't tell andrew [Music] all right now we got our mixture and we got our rice we're gonna take our bowl and very carefully pour the mixture into the rice now i'm going to take this rice and put it back in the rice cooker let it ferment for about four hours and then i'll come back and check it again after that all right so i'm going to open this up and what we're looking for here is for a few grains of rice that floated to the top if there are none floating that's an issue because it's already 10 o'clock and i want to do this anymore so please please please please oh snap yo this is a pool oh my goodness my hard work is finally paid off all right so i transferred the punch to a big pot and now i'm bringing up to a boil and in the meantime i might as well just call this guy yo what are you up to i am killing man i was about to play xbox what are you doing did i tell you what i've been doing this week i'm sleeping no okay i don't know that's your only guest sleeping [Music] i appreciate that the fact that you're spreading that like joy man when um when's dinner um so i'm thinking i'm gonna drop it off to you guys tomorrow oh um you know i'm in phoenix right what i'm in phoenix i'm not gonna ship it how am i supposed to ship this i guess your love and your joy doesn't spread to one state over so it's cool this is not my fault all right you need to talk to fedex about this issue all right because it's not my fault bro and like i think they're really gonna like it like i think this is gonna go really well i think they're gonna appreciate the effort though man like i think the home cooked meal is less about it being perfect or good and it's more about the love that you put in the meal all right since i got you on the line i might as well just try it one more time i feel like it should be okay by now i think that's it i think that's it [Music] teamwork baby teamwork so day three is complete i'm finally done with this challenge i'm so done with this challenge the big dinner is finally tomorrow i'm a little worried but you know i tried my best so what else can i say i'll see you all tomorrow i was upstairs taking a nice little nap and uh this guy sean just texted me to go check my front porch you know how sean is weird all right let's see what this guy got going on yo this dude is weird man is that what he wants me to get what is this i've seen this movie before there's probably a bomb in here look at the packaging with my name on it this is definitely rice in a big bowl of water okay sean did he make this it's in tupperware his mom came to visit this looks really good oh shiny boy did such a good job oh look this little note look dinner is at 7 p.

m shawn's planning something i don't know what's going on we'll find out at 7 00 p.

m wait what time is it [Music] i know this quarantine has been really tough and difficult for everyone so i spent an entire week cooking traditional korean food and so that explains why you guys have a whole spread right now except for andrew i'm sorry andrew but i hope it don't taste good it's gonna be real real which one i'm joking i love you all i love you all all you guys are the best i'll see you in late real soon i'll be back are you guys eating with a fork like you're eating with a fork i mean what a fork this is actually kind of nice sharing a meal it feels like you guys are like here all right guys let's do it cheers to staying strong during this quarantine all right yes cheers hey wait wait wait wait everybody keep it up keep it up cheers to sean for hooking us up with this great meal and uh thanks a lot buddy yeah cheers all right guys i'll see you later all right this was definitely one of the most stressful weeks i've had in a very long time especially during those moments where i would face a lot of doubt i think calling my mom andrew and joyce really helped a lot because it really felt like they were in the kitchen with me encouraging me to just keep pushing forward and not give up and that was the whole point of this meal really was to remind the people closest to me that we're gonna get through this together i'm not crying my voice just gone [Music].