Korean SASHIMI NOODLES & Hamburger Steak BBQ in South Korea

Hey guys, it's Mike Chen before heading out on this food day is still early let's do a little Japanese snack time with the sponsor of this video, Sakurako and Tokyo treat. Sakurako first. And this month's theme is Okinawa retreat and of course with every single box of Sakurako you get 20 traditional, authentic Artisanal Japanese snack items including Japanese teas and one Japanese tableware item which this month is chopsticks Brown sugar candy, this is amazing. Jello, Okinawa cinnamon cookie, brown sugar bun, yuzu jelly, sugar cookie I'm sensing a pattern here. Brown sugar seems to be the dominant flavor in this box This is good Be even better with some tea Noki Chinsuku cookies Hmm these are one of the most popular cookies you'll find in Okinawa So crispy and milky. I think an orange bun Sweet, a little tangy, beautiful, airy bun with a sweet potato filling All right, Tokyo treat next. 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It's the aroma of the beef noodle soup emanating from this place I just it's so easy to get distracted in this country because wherever you're walking to you're gonna pass by at least a dozen or so places that you're gonna want to eat at and I'm Really easily distracted around food. So let's go get some of this first There's actually a lot of good tasting Thai restaurants around here. This is stir-fried pork and Basil. Oh, look at this. I noticed that in South Korea this vegetable is used a lot. This is garlic stems This is one of my favorite vegetables. It gives a really really nice crunch. Usually this dish comes with basil I don't see basil here. Oh, nice gooey egg. Over rice is some onions in here, cucumbers on the side, carrots Just like what I expect from a Thai dish Extremely spicy. The meat is very flavorful. You taste the umami in this dish Not overly sweet, which I appreciate. Gotta add some vinegar to it though Take a spoonful with some eggs, douse some vinegar onto this I wish it had the basil but the garlic stems give off such a nice garlicky crunch And although I came in here because I smelled the non-spicy beef soup But couldn't resist a Tom Yum one. Peanuts on top, scallions, looks like some mushrooms Vermicelli noodle on the bottom, ground pork Over Tom Yum broth It's kind of tastes like a Korean version of a Tom Yum broth. Way less vinegary and a little sweet. I'm just gonna go ahead and Add a bunch of vinegar onto this. I mean, it's still good, but Tom Yum for me, it's gotta still have the sour They're still a little too sweet over sour for me. I'll just keep adding the vinegar Pretty much used up the entire container of vinegar That's perfect. The heat level is definitely there, actually. Just up that a bit as well They did give you a ton of noodles in this bowl. Oh, that's good. Noodles are chewy, broth Is meaty, very vinegary now You get a nice snap From the mushrooms and some of that great aromatic crunch when you bite into the scallions Even better when you slurp some of the noodle soup And then take a bite of the stir-fried pork and garlic stem Which balances out that spicy vinegary broth really really well. Oh, man. Might have been a mistake is Pretty hot outside. I'm gonna be sweating. I might walk to the next place But each one of these dishes under $10. The flavor is great. The portion is fantastic. This was a well worth it pit stop Mi Bidong. Yeah, this is it. This is a really popular seafood place. Look at this That's what I saw the picture of. It's salmon, but it looks like noodles. Lying out the door, even though it's way past lunchtime I like the menu, pretty straightforward and they have an English menu, which is great. This is a must get I think they serve uni and crud and everything instead of crab shell marinated shrimp Tendon soup, marinated salmon. I think it's this All right, dishes are arriving and things are smelling really really good Check this out. Look at this first thing. You're just smelling the intense aroma that's coming from this crab that's on a little stove right now and It's an egg yolk, uni, ikura, crab meat all being cooked on top Of a crab shell. So this is beautiful in so many ways. Man, that aroma is just intense Also got a couple rice plate. This one is tuna belly With uni on top. It's a rice bowl. This one uni, tuna Caviar, ikura. I think some shrimp in here as well. Oh, there's lobster in here as well Holy moly. This is beautiful This is some next-level beauty. I wish you guys could smell this right now Like it is so incredibly intense. I think you're supposed to just mix everything together Pop the egg I'm trying to be as careful as I can because I don't want to Waste a single drop of anything that's sitting on top of this crab shell right now. Oh, wow Look at that They kept all that great innards from the crab right here That is the most tasty part of that crab So that you gotta mix it with the meat with the creamy yolk That is just pure crab essence Speechless by how delicious this is. I mean the creaminess of the egg, the popping ikura, the delicious sweetness of the crab meat Mixed in with all that great innards, and I didn't even incorporate The creamy uni yet in that, in a bite Each bite of this, you're basically tasting the best The ocean has to offer. Wrapped inside a silky bubble that is an egg yolk. To say this is delicious is Just a major Understatement. It's so freaking good. Can't really use chopsticks for this. Bring out a spoon This has been cooking a little too long. So the egg is not as runny anymore The deeper you dig The more you'll find the crab innards Everywhere and that really is what ties this dish together. I mean the umami shock with every single bite. It's just exhilarating For your taste buds. Holy crap, this is good. That's a must try. 100% must try. And look at this two tempura Fresh veg, tomatoes, greens, and underneath this, check this out Kind of shaped like noodles, but fresh cuts of salmon Look how beautiful that is. I mean look at this. It's like noodles, but salmon. I've never had anything like this before. And inside the bowl, not just the salmon, but Freshly cooked tempura. Oh, this is so beautifully fried and light and toasty on the outside. Oh, wow They kept a head on the tempura. Add a little bit of wasabi on top First of all, the tempura is Absolutely beautiful. The outside shell, it's just so incredibly light. The meat is fresh It's sweet. I would like a bit of more of a wasabi kick And this is all soaked in delicious soba broth So refreshing, a hundred percent Need some wasabi Salmon is sweet It's fatty. It's so amazingly fresh. I'm not an expert again on eating raw salmon But it's the most melt-in-your-mouth texture and refreshing flavor coming out of anything from this bowl. Bowl number two Tuna belly, fresh uni, salted plum Wasabi nori. So this one just mix in The wasabi. There's some sesame on the rice Chase that with some, they give you a side of a fish roll What I like about this place is that whether your dish is being Cooked over a little stove or presented to you in soba broth or over rice It just highlights the natural flavors of the fish, of the uni. Everything just tastes Ridiculously fresh and just goes perfectly with all the condiments they put in here, including a salted plum There's some ginger in here, some greens. All that down to the sesame seeds and the rice perfectly accompanies the delicious seafood And there's a little broth too All right, this one not only has uni, but lobster Caviar, tuna, looks like a giant scallion. No wonder there's a line out the door when you get to this place It's not only so pretty There's some corn on the bottom too Hmm. Oh, there's some raw onions in here for an extra kick This is definitely my favorite vegetable. Everything you're tasting from the fattiness of the tuna to the sweetness of the lobster It's to the creamy nori and the popping ikura Even that nice hit you're getting on your tongue from the raw onions and scallions. It's just so unbelievably perfect and harmonious Nothing covers up that great fresh flavor of the seafood. Wow, the crunch, the acid, everything just enhances the sweetness With the creaminess of it. I really, really, really like this place. And when you get to the end Don't forget to do one last thing. Take your broth And just pour it into your rice This might just be the best part That broth pretty much tied all the different flavors together. If you weren't satisfied before this will 100% leave you happy and fulfilled Been wanting to come back to this place, this chocolate place. 17 degrees Celsius There's a chocolate bingsu I didn't get last time. Maybe it worked out for the best. Now it's really hot. Much more suitable for this dish Look at this. So this is made with really good chocolate. The chocolate that they make inside this chocolate shop comes with almonds Chocolate sauce, chocolate pearls. I'm thinking chocolate sauce first Then the chocolate pearls It's kind of weighing the middle down. I feel like the middle is like a little hollow. There you go Gosh, it's so soft Mmm, I've had countless bingsu in the past Never a chocolatey one With this high quality The whole thing is so fluffy. It just feels like when the first snow of the winter comes and you get Catch it on the tip of your tongue and that snowflake just delicately Dissolves and melts and gives you such a amazing comforting feeling. It's like that except it's snowing chocolatey Snowflakes, but that comforting feeling is the same. Not too sweet. A little bit of bitterness Especially with a crunch of the chocolate pearls and the almonds. This is so good to eat right now It's humid outside as well hot just sitting here at the park in front of you. Delicious shaved ice It's like the highlight of my day right now. Well Anytime there's food in front of me, it's pretty much the highlight of my day. One last meal I think this is a Hanbok steak place. Look at this There's grills all around the table. This whole counter is shaped like a horseshoe. There's a big grill in the middle They serve traditional Korean steak, they serve duck garbi They cut everything on a grill in the middle of this horseshoe table and then the table themselves have Charcoal right at the edge So your meat stays hot on these metal plates and the meat is served with a selection of Banchan, soup, rice and this whole set, at least the duck garbi set, less than 10 bucks for this whole Banchan and the duck garbi. Oh, look at this. So this is a very very traditional Korean dish It's basically like a Korean sauceberry steak Inside, look at how juicy the patty is. A little bit of onions, scallions inside Charred, a little sweet from the marinade and also the onions, a slight little crunch from the onions as well Super juicy and fatty and there's dipping sauces, different types of dipping sauces as well. Let me try this No, some kind of yuzu, clean my palate Little seaweed. I've only had this dish when it was cooked with a wok. I never had it freshly grilled like this over charcoal And it's just so awesomely smoky Hmm, take a bite of meat Bite of the chilies also, add a little wasabi to it The wasabi does so well balancing out the fatty, fatty patty. I love these grated onions It clears out your palate so well Gets you ready for the next bite. The meat with the marinade is really flavorful enough But add a little wasabi and taste that delicious fatty beef even more. Also got this traditional Korean steak. Oh wow, this may not look like it, but this is so unbelievably juicy. And when you put it into your mouth You just get ready for that thing to melt Wow, because it's freshly grilled over wood charcoal, that smoky flavor is so pronounced. A little bit of salt and pepper Or if you want a little bit of mustard to kind of balance out the fattiness of the meat You're eating the smoky meat. You're getting the aroma of the meat cooking in the middle of the room and the size you're served with This pairs so well with the meat That is a quality Quality piece of steak. Not a single bad bite of food today. And this place again, just on our way back to the hotel We randomly saw it. Was really interested in the layout of this grill. Came to try it out. No regrets This is a really delicious steakhouse And they're so nice here. They just brought me over. What is this? I think this is a taco. Oh, it's heated up on a nice hot plate Some kind of taco with vegetables. I think there's beef in here, tomato sauce some cheese on the bottom so he's calling this a Burrito, so they told me to wrap this up and eat it. Oh, this is a hefty thing I think he's saying add some of the beef in here So I'm gonna add some slices of beef into this burrito This is pretty awesome. Actually, they just brought me What was actually for the burrito, this is the duck galbi. Okay. Oh my gosh How juicy this is I was just eating it with my with my steak, but Put the duck galbi in there. You can see again how much juice there is in this little patty So good it hurts. The tomato is fresh. Everything in here is fresh actually The tomatoes are tart also really sweet and a little bit of cheese the crunch from the vegetables What a great way to eat that patty everything here from the fresh banchan to the amazing meat to the service This is a heck of a place and definitely worth checking out I'm gonna finish up and I think that wraps it up for me today I'm gonna hit the gym hard and burn off as much as I can And as always all the places I went to listed down below for you guys Thank you all so much for watching till we eat again. See you later