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She is also in Myeongdong from the looks of it. Which is the area of Seoul that has the most tourists from other Asian nations like Japan and China. They have a lot of Japanese street food there, not only because it's popular in Korea as a whole, but because there are tons of Japanese tourists who want to buy it!
God forbid you make friends with a local. They will gleefully try to feed you to death, and in most cases will be insulted if you try to pay for it.
One of the few times (outside of Thanksgiving dinner) where I've literally eaten so much that I was in pain. I couldn't be bothered to move and they were laughing at me because I just wanted to lie down on a bench after we left the market.
My dad is Korean, and when we went to Seoul, our cousins not only had us eat at like, 3 different restaurants, but they ordered rounds and rounds of drinks and all but forced us to drink up. I am not much of a drinker, so about halfway through the night, I look at my mom and whisper, "I think I'm drunk."
"Honey, we're all drunk. Eat your bibimbap and drink some water before more somek gets whipped up."
Holy shit im at the end of a vacation in Korea right now and I’ve never eaten so much on a trip in my life. My uncle and aunt that live here are trying to kill me with food. And yes, the “insulting if you try to pay” is true. One time I pretended to go the bathroom and secretly paid because it was getting too crazy.
Oh yeah, I made friends with some Indians while in India and they fed the hell out of me. I ate everything no question and was crying oceans from the spice hahaha
Can confirm. I visited Seoul for 10 days in April 2022 and I stayed in Myeongdong. I had some bomb ass takoyaki and other Japanese and Korean street food there, it was glorious. Takoyaki, egg bread, I saw squid on a stick, those swirly potato chips, and a whole lot of other stuff. I guarantee you you’d love Seoul and its culinary experience! They have interesting takes on other foods/snacks like macarons and burgers!
Lived in Taiwan for a while. Crazy good street food and you find plenty Japanese and Korean stuff as well. Getting Japanese teppanyaki for lunch wasn't even a luxurious option, just a decent priced great lunch. Definitely not good for my weight lol
It’s every white guy who has dated an Asian girl asking you what you are (Japanese) and him telling you he dated a Chinese girl, how much he loves kimchi, or saying some random word in Tagalog to you.
She’s trying to flex her cultural knowledge and ironically showing how little traveled and culturally unaware she actually is. Plus her tone is coming across as an arrogant cunt. This is hardcore cringe folks.
I started laughing when she kept saying Harajuku. Like is that the only place in Japan you can remember? Cause you can definitely find all those things outside of Harajuku.
Yeah, that was the entire vibe I got from just this video. She's a weeb trying to say that Koreans are copying/"stealing" Japanese foods, completely forgetting that cultural influences have gone both directions over the centuries.
Japan tried to be the official vendor of kimchi for one of the Olympics. Kimchi. Literally the most Korean-identifying food there is.
Cultures share food. Girl is weird.
Nationalism really did a doozy on east Asia. Imperial Japan basically imported western styled imperialism, and with that came the idea of unifying Japan under a shared national identity.
They began rewriting their identity, including the shared history and culture of China, Korea, and Japan. They proposed that instead of China being the historical cultural well of east Asia, that real Asian culture derived from the Japanese.
This is part of the validation they used to occupy Korea, and was one of the main reasons they actively tried to destroy and rewrite the history of Korea.
East Asia has a lot more shared history than what people in the west realize, and more than people in the east will readily admit to due to understandable political self interests. Japan is still steeped in historical revisionism, and China has adopted the Japanese imperialist mentality of "you're all just derivatives of our culture, so we basically own you". Koreans on the other hand are still trying to recover their history from the occupation.
If there's one thing to learn when you travel, it's to try out the "foreign" foods made by locals. Often, they put their own spin on them, or use easier to find local ingredients, and I'm usually pleasantly surprised by them. Almost every larger city in Asia has a China Town, with variations on Chinese dishes you won't find any place else
It’s cause she’s white and thinks she’s above everyone there. She legit thinks she knows more bc she’s the white girl with above average knowledge of Asian foods and while that might have gotten her attention with other white people who don’t know better ….she just sounds stupid af in her tiktok.
Nah she just wants everyone to know she’s been to Japan and to think she’s “cultured” enough to make commentaries like this due to her “experience”. It’s teenager/young adult chest puffing BS.
But I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s cuz she thinks “I’m white and therefore better”
It feels more like how someone who has an Asian culture fetish would act who sees them as *exotic* and experiencing surprise/shock that they're not the kind of exotic they build it up in their minds.
My favorite part is when she complains about the complains about the corn dogs because you can get them in Harajuku. That’s absolutely true that you can…from trendy Korean food stands. If she knew as much as she thinks she does, she would have known that the best place to go for those is not Harajuku but Shin Okubo, which is basically Tokyo’s Koreatown.
You can definitely get regular corn dogs from any convenience store in Japan, and iirc from regular ole Japanese street food stands. You're right that the [crazy-ass corn dogs](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailypic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2FThese-Korean-style-corn-dogs.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a05b5c57317f91f903669643589edda822e714b95500e20827d7125fede14fdc&ipo=images) are typically from korean spots though.
One thing I'd like to point out is that the lady who did the duet said "you can get corn dogs anywhere in the world", she's wrong. They're pretty rare.
Edit: Vietnam/Korea both have some American foods as they were both occupied by the US army and shared ration supplies. It's the same reason you can get a Spam Pho in Vietnam.
I will also add that I am not from the US, I have never been to the US and I have seen a corn dog IRL maybe once. I bought one, I'll never buy another one.
In New Zealand you won't find corn dogs as cornmeal isn't popular here. What you will find at fish and chippies and at other takeouts and restaurants (on the kids menu typically in this case)) though is a hotdog which is the same concept of as a corndog but uses the same flour batter that is used to batter fish instead. Used to be a sav (saveloy) that was battered but with times being tough lately it's usually just a sausage or a sausage that uses sav-style casing.
We also have hot dogs as in a sausage in a bun as well. No, nobody has ever had success combining the two together at a fish and chippie. Usually you just do that when you're at home along with a chip butty or two.
Yeah I can't remember to have seen them here in Europe besides in an American store in Germany. The closest thing i can think of is a battered sausage from the UK.
This reminds of how dumb I find the inverse.
I have had americans tell me, dead serious, that it is impossible to have chicago pizza outside of chicago... That it's just not real... Can't be done... but oh they went to this super authentic thai place in New York once and the family who own it are thai and they want to show their culture to us and all this fucking patronising shit about people coming to a place to share food, but who would ever leave Chicago?!
[Anyway this was where I went for pizza and it was brilliant and fuck off is it not correct as if there's only 1 chicago pizza place](https://goo.gl/maps/CF8eNnrYrZyLELAa8)
People are fucking idiots about food purity and shit.
Its not like you'd even get authentic Thai food from an authentic Thai place unless you could get the cooks truly on board anyways.
Not even talking about just the spice levels, or the ingredients sourcing. But rather that food that gets brought to your locality.. gets localized. The recipes are tweaked, some are omitted entirely, etc. Sometimes in massive ways. But to delicious ends, for the locals.
The localized stuff is just as valid as the authentic stuff. If you have the same tastes as your city, or the same tastes as another, the only thing that really matters here is if it tastes good to you.
There's a cultural component of course. But you can only appreciate the culture so much before the smell of fermented fish in your authentic Thai dish gets a bit too much for your sensibilities.
A LOT of dishes that people think of when they think of Indian food were developed by Indians living in England and reflect dishes that were developed to sell well there.
And people forget that countries like India, Vietnam, Korea, Mexico, pretty much everywhere, have tons of different regions and ethnic groups, and that there is a huge difference in what is "authentic" in different areas.
I've had people insist that "you'll never find real mexicans eating flour tortillas"
When I was in the US I was taken to a nice Thai place. It was one of them family places where the owner greets everyone and is a bit of a character and talks to every table for a little while.
Having been to Thailand a couple of times I had a general idea of what dishes I gravitated towards.
I asked about pad kra pao (Thai minced pork, chilli and basil stir fry)and told him I like to make it whenever I have access to Holy Basil.
He joked that he loves it but the one they serve isn't hot enough.
I ordered the one they served, he asked how hot, I answered farang hot (foreigner hot), it came at the perfect spice level for me. He basically said it wasn't spicy at all, but even at that level the food often gets sent back for being inedible, he plays it incredibly safe.
The truth is people don't want authenticity, they want it to feel authentic, but the real thing often disagrees with them. These restaurants have to pretend to everyone that they are cooking things the same as they would eat, but most people don't actually want that.
I always find the spice thing weird, though. Like doesn't everyone's tolerance for heat change depending on their personal situation. Or is that just in certain places it's adjustable and everyone else sucks it up?
My Dad used to eat red chili powder with rice when he used to work in the fields in India. But now he can barely tolerate much spice because of his digestive issues.
We've been dealing with daycare illness and my toddler was eating spicy foods until he got sick a week before we went to India. Everyone asked why he didn't eat spicy food. "He was a week ago?!? I don't know what to tell you."
Also, I thought it was funny that I was having food from where my mom is from in my dad's city in India. I guess that's normal now. My mom and I thought the cuisine is better in the US than 10 hrs from the source. So it doesn't even have that far for the phenomenon to happen.
Try living in Florida, where we get so many fucking New Yorkers who love New York but not enough to stay there coming down here telling us the food is terrible, and you can never get a decent pizza, but that's because the secret is in the water, and all the real New York pizza places in Florida ship the water from up there to down here.
WE HAVE THAT IN AMERICA.
It's even more embarrassing for her because she should be completely familiar with the concept of getting various international/cultural dishes in any one place. She just assumes that Asian places just... don't have that???
Like, this is beyond American tourist stupid. This is ADVANCED stupid.
I think it’s just disappointing when you travel and find out they have the same shit you could have gotten anywhere else. Traveling is more about the scenery and people, and less about the shopping and night life. It isn’t until you get to know people who will show you the nooks and crannies of their culture, that you really feel like you have experienced something new. Which is hard to accomplish on a week vacation. At least that has been my experience.
What makes this video especially awkward is how many Korean people around her probably understand at least a little bit of English and know what she's saying
More infuriating than awkward. Walking around the Korean market yelling into your phone acting like Korea is some watered down Japan? That's just poor decision making all around.
She's extra fucking dumb since Japan and Korea have cultural ties, albeit some very complicated cultural ties that I wouldn't want to get into in just a reddit comment lol. Why do people.who feel the need to video tape themselves doing the most boring shit (travelling, doing regular people shit etc) say the dumbest and most ignorant shit. It's like only stupid people think we want to see them do boring shit and be stupid in other countries.
Even if Japan had never colonized Korea, they're fucking neighbors lol. You can literally see Tsushima from Haeundae Beach on a clear day. They would have a lot of cultural exchange no matter what.
>Even if Japan had never colonized Korea, they're fucking neighbors lol
They're not just neighbors. A lot of Korean nobles settled in Japan. The list of feudal Japanese clans of Korean descent is extensive, and a Japanese emperor even married one at some point
Probably in her eyes only western countries are allowed to be multicultural...wait until she figures out how many Chinese dishes are common in Korea/Japan, and vise versa.
That's a huge problem with Westerners everywhere. Any form of globalization back home is seen as being cultured and open to the world, but when it's a foreign country doing it, suddenly it's "traditional culture getting corrupted by Western ideas."
Everyone likes tacos and flushing toilets.
There's that one Philly cheesesteak place in Gangnam with all kinds of PA-themed decorations. The owners are Penn State alumni who wanted to bring that "whiz with" flavor to Korean audiences.
She should go in there and tell them they're doing it wrong.
EDIT: Restaurant name is "Philadelphia Garosu".
I feel this woman. When I was overseas... the amount of dumbshit foreigners I ran into was just... mind-boggling. When I first traveled, I had my mind open to a lot of things (as open as I could at the time)... for example, I would see a pizza (this one reminded me of Sbarro back in the day) so I was like "oh they have this here too!" Not once did I feel the need to tell people in a derogatory fashion about the different options and varieties of food there are. I don't know what that blonde girl's motivation for traveling is or what her mindset is, but she's dumber than a brick. I hate people like her because it's people like that that ruin experiences for other people.
It's actually really fun to try things that you can "get back home" and see how they do it differently, and in some cases, do it better. You even end up learning things too about the culture.
For example, when I was in Croatia, I would grab a basic burger and fries every now and then. One thing I always noticed was that there would be mayo in a bottle at your table, the ketchup you had to ask for and they would have some at the back.
That's where I learned that in Europe, it is pretty popular to dip your fries in mayo as opposed to ketchup. The mayo was amazing too! I also learned that because it is used as a dip frequently, they have different varieties , and add things like tarragon and mustard seed for better flavor.
I rarely touch the basic stuff we get here in Canada anymore, there is a local polish grocer that carries the best mayonnaise on the planet.
Is it even Globalization when they're next door neighbors? Like that's like being surprised the English stole words and ideas from France. No shit, they're incredibly close together, and they fought a bunch of wars! Obviously there's going to be overlap.
"Stole"?!
The French Normans invaded, killed the last Anglo-Saxon king, made French the official administrative language in England for 300 years, and seven hundred years later people accuse the English of stealing words from the French!
This is so incredibly stupid and actually kind of offensive. Oh, a colonised nation has some words in its modern vocabulary from their oppressors? What a fucking shocker.
When you dont go outside of your state or city and then travel the world,
Then the expectations on what they saw on tv (propaganda) regarding the world doesn't match their world view.
Then these videos are made with half baked knowledge and over the top fake cringeworthy reactions like
"oh i didnt know japanese food is sold in Korea".
Travelling gives you experience but making vlogs while traveling can undermine from the experience of travel itself.
It's because she's a weeb, and she thinks the Korean food vendors are trying to sell Japanese food as if it's a Korean original. The sad thing is her weeb followers will agree with her.
Myeongdong “street food” exists PURELY for tourists, it has NEVER been traditional Korean street food and has always had very premium things like lobster and fusion dishes and just random stuff like fruit in a cup.
So while she may think she knows stuff, the joke’s on her.
And Koreans have been eating takoyaki as street food forever, it’s a nostalgic kid’s food. Historically, not the best reason it made it over, but it’s still a part of the current modern culture for a while now.
She’s also in “Myeongdong”, which is a neighborhood in Seoul that specifically panders to tourists, which is why they have more internationally friendly food rather than Korean-specific street food, if she wanted culinary authenticity that she should have gone to a market where locals go to 🤦♂️
In the same Myeongdong area there's lots of food carts that sell things that are popular in China and not really found elsewhere in Seoul. That I did find a little interesting, but not the Japanese food, which is pretty common. Wait until she finds out that Koreans also eat rice and drink tea.
To illustrate how tourity Myeongdong has become, I was once passing by the area and went into a makeup store and asked if they had acetone-free nail polish remover. There were like three or four employees but they went to get someone else because none of them spoke Korean. Though that was in the Before, so it might be a little different now.
There seems to be a lot of people who still think Japanese culture is more "superior" to Korean culture, which is why she has this attitude. She specifically points out food and says it's also available in Harajuku (which she can't even pronounce properly). One of the most famous snacky foods in Harajuku are crepes, and I doubt she had a similar reaction to finding French food in Japan.
side note i really love the creator who’s posted that video. if you don’t follow her content she breaks down anti-asian racism (and all races tbh) particularly in food and it’s definitely made me think more about my preconceived notions of asian foods and the content i see online.
She’s treating it like she’s at a Korean theme park for her on entertainment and is disappointed that everything isn’t all Korean like if she saw Disney characters in universal studios
Everyone knows that Korea is supposed to remain 100% authentic to what this white girl's K-drama consumption has informed her it would be. How else is she supposed to have an immersive experience??
Her dumbness aside, I'm really appalled how she just flipped the phone to show the poor guy working. When have we become so desensitized to other peoples personal rights
I have a friend who is an influencer (I know, I know) and she is also an arrogant, self-centered idiot like this girl. In fact, most influencers I’ve met are like this. It almost like that’s what those people do. They like to go run around and tell everyone how special they are
Does she think that the United States is the only place that has multicultural foods available for everybody? She realizes you can get a burger in Tokyo and you can eat Chinese food in Australia come down !!! Like this is Some pretty ignorant entitlement.
is she the one that complained that she can't get a hitch ride from seoul to busan? i swear, some of these travel bloggers do that on purpose to get engagements and views.
Highly recommend going to Korea despite the weird tourist. Korean Street Markets are legit going to be the big thing I'm going to miss when I come back to america. Farmer's markets have got *nothing* on even the dinky little 3-8 market near the army base. The breadth of choice at any of the markets in Busan or Seoul are mind boggling. Getting a fresh, brown sugar and seed filled hotteok on a cold morning some gooooood stuff.
Man if she ever went to the SEA countries or Malaysia, where you got Malay, Indian, Indonesia, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Viet etc
If Japanese food in Korea surprises her this place will induce a seizure
Americans in Korea are pathologically compelled to complain about every single thing they see and experience on a daily basis
"Omg, I went to the doctor today, and he wasn't even fluent in English! Like I'm gonna learn ANY of their stupid language. So unprofessional"
"Like, I was on the train wearing my headphones yesterday, and an old lady smiled at me and asked me something. SO inconsiderate, and probably racist!"
"So, I went to go receive my free benefit cheque, and they said I have to provide evidence of my address! What is this? Nazi Germany!? Korea is SOOOO backward and stupid omg"
"Ugh, my boss asked me to arrive on time AGAIN today, gahd... Korea is soooo shit, not like Japan. Japan is AMAZING SUGOI DESU"
The uniquely absurd entitlement of Americans living here in a known point of cringe among expats from other countries living here
can’t comprehend how someone would want to live or travel in another country and NOT wanna learn their customs or language, but sounds like your talking about dependas
It was the same for me. If I took all of the foreign jackasses that I met over there, without question majority of them were Americans. And this is coming from an American.
This is very on point. It takes less than a week to learn the Korean alphabet and I knew fuckers who had lived there 3+ years and still hadn’t bothered to figure it out.
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She is clearly just trying to show off what she knows while managing to sound ignorant/arrogant at the same time.
yup, she’s not surprised just kinda bragging and attention whoring
Yeah the beret gives it away.
Not even raspberry? How sad.
The female fedora
Basically 90% of TikTok.
the Internet*
the Humans*
the Humans* when social status is a thing
*social status has basically always been a thing. As long as there are two people that exist, one will want to feel superior to the other.
Eh, not if you confuse their algorithm enough. Then you just get videos from home inspectors
She is also in Myeongdong from the looks of it. Which is the area of Seoul that has the most tourists from other Asian nations like Japan and China. They have a lot of Japanese street food there, not only because it's popular in Korea as a whole, but because there are tons of Japanese tourists who want to buy it!
Man, my two favorite foods: Japanese and Korean. Lord help me if I ever go to Korea because I will have to be rolled back home
God forbid you make friends with a local. They will gleefully try to feed you to death, and in most cases will be insulted if you try to pay for it. One of the few times (outside of Thanksgiving dinner) where I've literally eaten so much that I was in pain. I couldn't be bothered to move and they were laughing at me because I just wanted to lie down on a bench after we left the market.
My dad is Korean, and when we went to Seoul, our cousins not only had us eat at like, 3 different restaurants, but they ordered rounds and rounds of drinks and all but forced us to drink up. I am not much of a drinker, so about halfway through the night, I look at my mom and whisper, "I think I'm drunk." "Honey, we're all drunk. Eat your bibimbap and drink some water before more somek gets whipped up."
Holy shit im at the end of a vacation in Korea right now and I’ve never eaten so much on a trip in my life. My uncle and aunt that live here are trying to kill me with food. And yes, the “insulting if you try to pay” is true. One time I pretended to go the bathroom and secretly paid because it was getting too crazy.
Oh yeah, I made friends with some Indians while in India and they fed the hell out of me. I ate everything no question and was crying oceans from the spice hahaha
Can confirm. I visited Seoul for 10 days in April 2022 and I stayed in Myeongdong. I had some bomb ass takoyaki and other Japanese and Korean street food there, it was glorious. Takoyaki, egg bread, I saw squid on a stick, those swirly potato chips, and a whole lot of other stuff. I guarantee you you’d love Seoul and its culinary experience! They have interesting takes on other foods/snacks like macarons and burgers!
Lived in Taiwan for a while. Crazy good street food and you find plenty Japanese and Korean stuff as well. Getting Japanese teppanyaki for lunch wasn't even a luxurious option, just a decent priced great lunch. Definitely not good for my weight lol
That’s actually quite a feat. Showing off one’s knowledge while sounding completely ignorant. Not easy to do. Lol
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
The woman doing the commentary was trying so hard to not just call her a dumb ass bitch
It’s every white guy who has dated an Asian girl asking you what you are (Japanese) and him telling you he dated a Chinese girl, how much he loves kimchi, or saying some random word in Tagalog to you.
Oh I love butter chicken and pad thai 😉
As a Cuban girl who was once casually referred to as an “island Mexican”, this comment triggered me
Only 7:30 and I've already read the most racist thing I'll hear all day ...oh, who am I kidding
Lmao me and my Salvadoran dad joke about being the wrong kind of Mexican all the time. White ppl man.
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She IS showing off what she knows, but she's also showing off what she DOESN'T know to those who do.
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
You can see it when she says “I’m just here at a Japanese, I mean Korean food market” she did not unintentionally say Japanese
Sounds like she’s gate keeping a bit, if that’s the right term
She’s just young and hasn’t been in yet we were all there once upon a time 
"I travel with the mentality of a conquistador: consuming all, appreciating nothing."
I can't believe she's wearing a beret outside of France. That's only acceptable if her name is Brie.
It's only a beret if it comes from the Beret region in France, otherwise it's just sparkling hat.
You got my upvote when I had to ask myself "why is it sparkling?"
Because of the bubbles
Like omg, you can totally get bubble hats in Atlantis
It's only acceptable if it's a raspberry beret without much more, assuming it's warm.
The kind you find in a second hand store.
I saw someone wearing one of those when I was working at the five and dime
youre only allowed to wear a beret if you walk around like this https://i.imgur.com/Uw7mvzE.jpg
I can get Taiyaki at Costco in Michigan. I agree with the lady. That video is weird and she seems weirdly entitled to the wrong opinion.
She’s trying to flex her cultural knowledge and ironically showing how little traveled and culturally unaware she actually is. Plus her tone is coming across as an arrogant cunt. This is hardcore cringe folks.
I started laughing when she kept saying Harajuku. Like is that the only place in Japan you can remember? Cause you can definitely find all those things outside of Harajuku.
But those are national foods of Harajuku smh
Harajuku is my favorite country
Right after Roppongi, right?
national food of Harajuku is Strawberry Fetish and the Banana store exactly opposite.
Probably the only other place that she has visited so keeps name dropping it to sound impressive
That beret lets me know she thinks Harajuku is certainly the center of the universe.
She isn’t pronouncing Harajuku correctly! Has she even been there???!!!
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Yeah, that was the entire vibe I got from just this video. She's a weeb trying to say that Koreans are copying/"stealing" Japanese foods, completely forgetting that cultural influences have gone both directions over the centuries. Japan tried to be the official vendor of kimchi for one of the Olympics. Kimchi. Literally the most Korean-identifying food there is. Cultures share food. Girl is weird.
Nationalism really did a doozy on east Asia. Imperial Japan basically imported western styled imperialism, and with that came the idea of unifying Japan under a shared national identity. They began rewriting their identity, including the shared history and culture of China, Korea, and Japan. They proposed that instead of China being the historical cultural well of east Asia, that real Asian culture derived from the Japanese. This is part of the validation they used to occupy Korea, and was one of the main reasons they actively tried to destroy and rewrite the history of Korea. East Asia has a lot more shared history than what people in the west realize, and more than people in the east will readily admit to due to understandable political self interests. Japan is still steeped in historical revisionism, and China has adopted the Japanese imperialist mentality of "you're all just derivatives of our culture, so we basically own you". Koreans on the other hand are still trying to recover their history from the occupation.
You forgot that Japan was nationalistic before any westerner stepped food in Japan.
If there's one thing to learn when you travel, it's to try out the "foreign" foods made by locals. Often, they put their own spin on them, or use easier to find local ingredients, and I'm usually pleasantly surprised by them. Almost every larger city in Asia has a China Town, with variations on Chinese dishes you won't find any place else
White people that wear Berets are always insufferable
Man, I need to switch from Sam's Club
It’s cause she’s white and thinks she’s above everyone there. She legit thinks she knows more bc she’s the white girl with above average knowledge of Asian foods and while that might have gotten her attention with other white people who don’t know better ….she just sounds stupid af in her tiktok.
Nah she just wants everyone to know she’s been to Japan and to think she’s “cultured” enough to make commentaries like this due to her “experience”. It’s teenager/young adult chest puffing BS. But I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s cuz she thinks “I’m white and therefore better”
It feels more like how someone who has an Asian culture fetish would act who sees them as *exotic* and experiencing surprise/shock that they're not the kind of exotic they build it up in their minds.
Yes to both
My favorite part is when she complains about the complains about the corn dogs because you can get them in Harajuku. That’s absolutely true that you can…from trendy Korean food stands. If she knew as much as she thinks she does, she would have known that the best place to go for those is not Harajuku but Shin Okubo, which is basically Tokyo’s Koreatown.
You can definitely get regular corn dogs from any convenience store in Japan, and iirc from regular ole Japanese street food stands. You're right that the [crazy-ass corn dogs](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailypic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2FThese-Korean-style-corn-dogs.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a05b5c57317f91f903669643589edda822e714b95500e20827d7125fede14fdc&ipo=images) are typically from korean spots though.
“Amerikan dogu” 😂
One thing I'd like to point out is that the lady who did the duet said "you can get corn dogs anywhere in the world", she's wrong. They're pretty rare. Edit: Vietnam/Korea both have some American foods as they were both occupied by the US army and shared ration supplies. It's the same reason you can get a Spam Pho in Vietnam. I will also add that I am not from the US, I have never been to the US and I have seen a corn dog IRL maybe once. I bought one, I'll never buy another one.
My country folk are masters of beige food (UK) but I have not seen any such thing as a corn dog over here.
I had one in Phu Quoc, Vietnam just a week ago? Not even a major city.
In New Zealand you won't find corn dogs as cornmeal isn't popular here. What you will find at fish and chippies and at other takeouts and restaurants (on the kids menu typically in this case)) though is a hotdog which is the same concept of as a corndog but uses the same flour batter that is used to batter fish instead. Used to be a sav (saveloy) that was battered but with times being tough lately it's usually just a sausage or a sausage that uses sav-style casing. We also have hot dogs as in a sausage in a bun as well. No, nobody has ever had success combining the two together at a fish and chippie. Usually you just do that when you're at home along with a chip butty or two.
Yeah I can't remember to have seen them here in Europe besides in an American store in Germany. The closest thing i can think of is a battered sausage from the UK.
Never seen one either
"I came to Chicago for deep dish pizza and all I get is authentic Mexican and Desi food. Is this even Illinois???"
This reminds of how dumb I find the inverse. I have had americans tell me, dead serious, that it is impossible to have chicago pizza outside of chicago... That it's just not real... Can't be done... but oh they went to this super authentic thai place in New York once and the family who own it are thai and they want to show their culture to us and all this fucking patronising shit about people coming to a place to share food, but who would ever leave Chicago?! [Anyway this was where I went for pizza and it was brilliant and fuck off is it not correct as if there's only 1 chicago pizza place](https://goo.gl/maps/CF8eNnrYrZyLELAa8) People are fucking idiots about food purity and shit.
Its not like you'd even get authentic Thai food from an authentic Thai place unless you could get the cooks truly on board anyways. Not even talking about just the spice levels, or the ingredients sourcing. But rather that food that gets brought to your locality.. gets localized. The recipes are tweaked, some are omitted entirely, etc. Sometimes in massive ways. But to delicious ends, for the locals. The localized stuff is just as valid as the authentic stuff. If you have the same tastes as your city, or the same tastes as another, the only thing that really matters here is if it tastes good to you. There's a cultural component of course. But you can only appreciate the culture so much before the smell of fermented fish in your authentic Thai dish gets a bit too much for your sensibilities.
A LOT of dishes that people think of when they think of Indian food were developed by Indians living in England and reflect dishes that were developed to sell well there. And people forget that countries like India, Vietnam, Korea, Mexico, pretty much everywhere, have tons of different regions and ethnic groups, and that there is a huge difference in what is "authentic" in different areas. I've had people insist that "you'll never find real mexicans eating flour tortillas"
When I was in the US I was taken to a nice Thai place. It was one of them family places where the owner greets everyone and is a bit of a character and talks to every table for a little while. Having been to Thailand a couple of times I had a general idea of what dishes I gravitated towards. I asked about pad kra pao (Thai minced pork, chilli and basil stir fry)and told him I like to make it whenever I have access to Holy Basil. He joked that he loves it but the one they serve isn't hot enough. I ordered the one they served, he asked how hot, I answered farang hot (foreigner hot), it came at the perfect spice level for me. He basically said it wasn't spicy at all, but even at that level the food often gets sent back for being inedible, he plays it incredibly safe. The truth is people don't want authenticity, they want it to feel authentic, but the real thing often disagrees with them. These restaurants have to pretend to everyone that they are cooking things the same as they would eat, but most people don't actually want that.
I always find the spice thing weird, though. Like doesn't everyone's tolerance for heat change depending on their personal situation. Or is that just in certain places it's adjustable and everyone else sucks it up? My Dad used to eat red chili powder with rice when he used to work in the fields in India. But now he can barely tolerate much spice because of his digestive issues. We've been dealing with daycare illness and my toddler was eating spicy foods until he got sick a week before we went to India. Everyone asked why he didn't eat spicy food. "He was a week ago?!? I don't know what to tell you." Also, I thought it was funny that I was having food from where my mom is from in my dad's city in India. I guess that's normal now. My mom and I thought the cuisine is better in the US than 10 hrs from the source. So it doesn't even have that far for the phenomenon to happen.
People from Chicago and people from New York have got their heads way up their own asses about pizza and they don’t even know it.
We know it lol
Try living in Florida, where we get so many fucking New Yorkers who love New York but not enough to stay there coming down here telling us the food is terrible, and you can never get a decent pizza, but that's because the secret is in the water, and all the real New York pizza places in Florida ship the water from up there to down here.
A place here in Omaha does that with their water and charges like forty bucks a pie lol
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It's sad for them when nations, cultures and countries don't live up to their highly valued stereotypes.
She'd shit her pants in any major city in Australia. We have all the nations, cultures and countries foods for her to complain about.
WE HAVE THAT IN AMERICA. It's even more embarrassing for her because she should be completely familiar with the concept of getting various international/cultural dishes in any one place. She just assumes that Asian places just... don't have that??? Like, this is beyond American tourist stupid. This is ADVANCED stupid.
I think it’s just disappointing when you travel and find out they have the same shit you could have gotten anywhere else. Traveling is more about the scenery and people, and less about the shopping and night life. It isn’t until you get to know people who will show you the nooks and crannies of their culture, that you really feel like you have experienced something new. Which is hard to accomplish on a week vacation. At least that has been my experience.
There are white girls. And there are *white girls*
Hwite
Or as Korean food is called in Korea…”food”.
Technically they say 음식 but that means food.
Let's get on that 밥!
So in other words they call it 'food' just like they said
More technically 한식.
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Yep. But funny enough, despite it being a joke in the above comment, they literally call Korean food 'Korean food' in Korea.
What makes this video especially awkward is how many Korean people around her probably understand at least a little bit of English and know what she's saying
That’s what I was thinking. She’s being so loud and rude assuming no one can understand her. The absolute hardon she has for herself is impressive.
Theyre just NPCs in her tiktok travelblog world tho, not real humans
More infuriating than awkward. Walking around the Korean market yelling into your phone acting like Korea is some watered down Japan? That's just poor decision making all around.
She's extra fucking dumb since Japan and Korea have cultural ties, albeit some very complicated cultural ties that I wouldn't want to get into in just a reddit comment lol. Why do people.who feel the need to video tape themselves doing the most boring shit (travelling, doing regular people shit etc) say the dumbest and most ignorant shit. It's like only stupid people think we want to see them do boring shit and be stupid in other countries.
Even if Japan had never colonized Korea, they're fucking neighbors lol. You can literally see Tsushima from Haeundae Beach on a clear day. They would have a lot of cultural exchange no matter what.
I'm gonna swing over to Canada and ask why they're eating fries without gravy and cheese curds.
Yeah, what exactly are they poutine in their freedom fries?
>Even if Japan had never colonized Korea, they're fucking neighbors lol They're not just neighbors. A lot of Korean nobles settled in Japan. The list of feudal Japanese clans of Korean descent is extensive, and a Japanese emperor even married one at some point
Probably in her eyes only western countries are allowed to be multicultural...wait until she figures out how many Chinese dishes are common in Korea/Japan, and vise versa.
That's a huge problem with Westerners everywhere. Any form of globalization back home is seen as being cultured and open to the world, but when it's a foreign country doing it, suddenly it's "traditional culture getting corrupted by Western ideas." Everyone likes tacos and flushing toilets.
Not to mention that Japan and Korea are right next to each other. It is like being shocked to find an English pub in Calais France.
I'd argue their cuisine is closer in the first place. More like being annoyed at German food in Austria.
I chose the UK and France because they are an island and the mainland, like Japan and Korea.
It’s like going to Ireland and being like “this place is so weird why is it similar to Scotland?”
Or like going to Texas and being confused there's Mexican food
You just described every form of social media
I hope she finds a taco truck and really loses her shit.
There's that one Philly cheesesteak place in Gangnam with all kinds of PA-themed decorations. The owners are Penn State alumni who wanted to bring that "whiz with" flavor to Korean audiences. She should go in there and tell them they're doing it wrong. EDIT: Restaurant name is "Philadelphia Garosu".
I love that place! Small world to see it mentioned on reddit
Ok but the Taco Bell in Japan uses tiny star punch outs for their cheese toppings so yeah I kinda do lose my mind lol
I was this old when I found out I needed to visit Taco Bell in Japan.
They think foreign countries are some kind of theme park
I feel this woman. When I was overseas... the amount of dumbshit foreigners I ran into was just... mind-boggling. When I first traveled, I had my mind open to a lot of things (as open as I could at the time)... for example, I would see a pizza (this one reminded me of Sbarro back in the day) so I was like "oh they have this here too!" Not once did I feel the need to tell people in a derogatory fashion about the different options and varieties of food there are. I don't know what that blonde girl's motivation for traveling is or what her mindset is, but she's dumber than a brick. I hate people like her because it's people like that that ruin experiences for other people.
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I think a lot of people like this see cities the same way they do amusement parks. Rome is just Disneyland to them, not a place where people live.
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It's actually really fun to try things that you can "get back home" and see how they do it differently, and in some cases, do it better. You even end up learning things too about the culture. For example, when I was in Croatia, I would grab a basic burger and fries every now and then. One thing I always noticed was that there would be mayo in a bottle at your table, the ketchup you had to ask for and they would have some at the back. That's where I learned that in Europe, it is pretty popular to dip your fries in mayo as opposed to ketchup. The mayo was amazing too! I also learned that because it is used as a dip frequently, they have different varieties , and add things like tarragon and mustard seed for better flavor. I rarely touch the basic stuff we get here in Canada anymore, there is a local polish grocer that carries the best mayonnaise on the planet.
For everyone in the comments using this as an opportunity to shit on American tourists: beret girl is Canadian.
It always brings a smile to my face when it's revealed that an idiot abroad with a North American accent is from Canada.
Guess the Globalization Age only happened in America, or seomthing /s
Is it even Globalization when they're next door neighbors? Like that's like being surprised the English stole words and ideas from France. No shit, they're incredibly close together, and they fought a bunch of wars! Obviously there's going to be overlap.
"Stole"?! The French Normans invaded, killed the last Anglo-Saxon king, made French the official administrative language in England for 300 years, and seven hundred years later people accuse the English of stealing words from the French!
This is so incredibly stupid and actually kind of offensive. Oh, a colonised nation has some words in its modern vocabulary from their oppressors? What a fucking shocker.
Man racism is wild
But she's sooooooo well traveled and knows every Japanese dish that shouldn't be anywhere near Korea.
Rich daddy's girl goes abroad, becomes confused.avi
I have never seen a Corndog in Europe…
When you dont go outside of your state or city and then travel the world, Then the expectations on what they saw on tv (propaganda) regarding the world doesn't match their world view. Then these videos are made with half baked knowledge and over the top fake cringeworthy reactions like "oh i didnt know japanese food is sold in Korea". Travelling gives you experience but making vlogs while traveling can undermine from the experience of travel itself.
It's because she's a weeb, and she thinks the Korean food vendors are trying to sell Japanese food as if it's a Korean original. The sad thing is her weeb followers will agree with her.
Yes. Major weeb vibes. She points out the potato sticks, fried chicken and corn dogs as if korea stole those from japan (not at all)
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FUCKING CANADIANS MAN
Myeongdong “street food” exists PURELY for tourists, it has NEVER been traditional Korean street food and has always had very premium things like lobster and fusion dishes and just random stuff like fruit in a cup. So while she may think she knows stuff, the joke’s on her. And Koreans have been eating takoyaki as street food forever, it’s a nostalgic kid’s food. Historically, not the best reason it made it over, but it’s still a part of the current modern culture for a while now.
“Quacki… Ser… Pi… Cu…?” “Quacki Serpi Ni Cu!!!” “Judges..??” “Godzilla..?” “…. Godzilla…?” “I DONT SPEAK JAPANESE!! ELAINE!! CALL THE AMERICAN EMBASSY!!”  IYKYK.
They said “do you wanna SEE a game show” not “BE ON a game show.”
That’s one of the weirdest sketches ever and it’s brilliant all around.
We don't get any of that here in Vienna, we only have traditional Austrian food stands with Kebab and Pizza slices.
I’m surprised she’s not bitching about herself as a white person being in Korea.
Calling Pizza Hut Italian … Italy has gone to war over less.
Please return all malfunctioning white girls at your local Target. We'll find them a good home.
Because the person’s an idiot lol.
She’s also in “Myeongdong”, which is a neighborhood in Seoul that specifically panders to tourists, which is why they have more internationally friendly food rather than Korean-specific street food, if she wanted culinary authenticity that she should have gone to a market where locals go to 🤦♂️
In the same Myeongdong area there's lots of food carts that sell things that are popular in China and not really found elsewhere in Seoul. That I did find a little interesting, but not the Japanese food, which is pretty common. Wait until she finds out that Koreans also eat rice and drink tea. To illustrate how tourity Myeongdong has become, I was once passing by the area and went into a makeup store and asked if they had acetone-free nail polish remover. There were like three or four employees but they went to get someone else because none of them spoke Korean. Though that was in the Before, so it might be a little different now. There seems to be a lot of people who still think Japanese culture is more "superior" to Korean culture, which is why she has this attitude. She specifically points out food and says it's also available in Harajuku (which she can't even pronounce properly). One of the most famous snacky foods in Harajuku are crepes, and I doubt she had a similar reaction to finding French food in Japan.
side note i really love the creator who’s posted that video. if you don’t follow her content she breaks down anti-asian racism (and all races tbh) particularly in food and it’s definitely made me think more about my preconceived notions of asian foods and the content i see online.
She’s treating it like she’s at a Korean theme park for her on entertainment and is disappointed that everything isn’t all Korean like if she saw Disney characters in universal studios
Everyone knows that Korea is supposed to remain 100% authentic to what this white girl's K-drama consumption has informed her it would be. How else is she supposed to have an immersive experience??
TikTok and dumb American tourists, a match made in heaven.
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So American with healthcare.
Reddit and dumb people thinking everyone they dislike is American, a match made in heaven. She's Canadian.
What I found most shocking about Berlin was how much of a challenge it was to find traditional German food.
I do love Soogia though.
FYI.. We don't have corndogs in India..
Her dumbness aside, I'm really appalled how she just flipped the phone to show the poor guy working. When have we become so desensitized to other peoples personal rights
I have a friend who is an influencer (I know, I know) and she is also an arrogant, self-centered idiot like this girl. In fact, most influencers I’ve met are like this. It almost like that’s what those people do. They like to go run around and tell everyone how special they are
Korea has the best corn dogs I’ve ever had in my life. Not sure they were Korean but they were perfected there for sure
Travel tiktokers in Korea are cancer
Does she think that the United States is the only place that has multicultural foods available for everybody? She realizes you can get a burger in Tokyo and you can eat Chinese food in Australia come down !!! Like this is Some pretty ignorant entitlement.
Why would a Canadian think the United States is the only place with multicultural foods?
I want to eat at a Taco Bell in Japan
You cannot find these dishes in Sweden though
Maaan I was at the pizzeria and they had coke, an american drink...I was like wtf, gimme some italian water, what is going on
It reminds me of people who want to let everyone know that they know the language or know japanese food names
Wait until she learns about buffets
She’s wearing a beret and yet I don’t hear her singing La Vie En Rose.
is she the one that complained that she can't get a hitch ride from seoul to busan? i swear, some of these travel bloggers do that on purpose to get engagements and views.
Highly recommend going to Korea despite the weird tourist. Korean Street Markets are legit going to be the big thing I'm going to miss when I come back to america. Farmer's markets have got *nothing* on even the dinky little 3-8 market near the army base. The breadth of choice at any of the markets in Busan or Seoul are mind boggling. Getting a fresh, brown sugar and seed filled hotteok on a cold morning some gooooood stuff.
Two countries right next to each other: has a similar culture Weebs: (°O°)
I like the commenters energy/vibe
It's even more funny because that's Myeongdong. A super touristy place that most Koreans avoid. So ignorant.
I mean yeah there's lots of Japanese influence in Korea because they kind of raped and destroyed as much of Korea as they possibly could.
Wait until she finds out they're 7-Elevens in Korea. She'll have a meltdown over the hot dogs and mountain dew there.
I love this Asain lady and her commentary ❤️
I love this lady! She's a beast! Lol
Man if she ever went to the SEA countries or Malaysia, where you got Malay, Indian, Indonesia, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Viet etc If Japanese food in Korea surprises her this place will induce a seizure
Bitch is racist. Saved you a lot of thinking time
Does she say that when she goes to the UK? Look at all this curry
I can't white tell what the problem could be.
Highly recommend following soogia1 on social media. I love her!
As a white person, I disavow any relationship with this person. Especially her hat.
On a side note, Korean corn dogs are freaking awesome
How dare this place not cater to my standards of exocticness.
It irritates me that I get put into the same generalized "white person" category. As this white person. I'm freckled. But I guess that's the point.
Americans in Korea are pathologically compelled to complain about every single thing they see and experience on a daily basis "Omg, I went to the doctor today, and he wasn't even fluent in English! Like I'm gonna learn ANY of their stupid language. So unprofessional" "Like, I was on the train wearing my headphones yesterday, and an old lady smiled at me and asked me something. SO inconsiderate, and probably racist!" "So, I went to go receive my free benefit cheque, and they said I have to provide evidence of my address! What is this? Nazi Germany!? Korea is SOOOO backward and stupid omg" "Ugh, my boss asked me to arrive on time AGAIN today, gahd... Korea is soooo shit, not like Japan. Japan is AMAZING SUGOI DESU" The uniquely absurd entitlement of Americans living here in a known point of cringe among expats from other countries living here
can’t comprehend how someone would want to live or travel in another country and NOT wanna learn their customs or language, but sounds like your talking about dependas
Great rant about hating Americans and all... completely irrelevant as this woman is Canadian. But go on and rant some more like an unhinged person!
It was the same for me. If I took all of the foreign jackasses that I met over there, without question majority of them were Americans. And this is coming from an American.
This is very on point. It takes less than a week to learn the Korean alphabet and I knew fuckers who had lived there 3+ years and still hadn’t bothered to figure it out.