A Food Lovers Heaven In South Korea - Myeongdong Market On Rainy Day / Egg Bread & Potato Tornado
Myeongdong Food Market
Transcript
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Today's adventure
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begins as the recording of this. It is
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Saturday, April
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12th,
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2025. A dreary, rainy day. In fact, I
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had to purchase an umbrella from a
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7-Eleven as I left my hotel and I'm
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walking around. I am in the area known
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as
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Mongdong. Now, I could be pronouncing
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that wrong. In fact, in all actuality,
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most likely am pronouncing that
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incorrectly. But I am going to be in
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this vicinity of Soul, South Korea
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today. There is the cathedral here, and
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I'm going to go to the shopping district
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and the evidently very popular and
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busy once 5:00 rolls around. It's about
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1:30. Right now it's 1:25
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p.m.
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Nighttime
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Market. Welcome everyone out of the Woo
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here. Got my trusty Abu just a lot of
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water just flew off that. I'm inviting
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you, yes you, to join me for a rainy day
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here in South Korea. our first day here
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that has been raining and I believe is
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showing 80 to 100% rain every hour for
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the rest of the evening. Join me, shall
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we? Starting to come down a little more
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now. Really grateful I was able to
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purchase this
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umbrella. First thing here on the
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cathedral grounds is
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this little
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grotto. Very beautiful. Very
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beautiful. climb the stairs to get up to
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the cathedral itself. One thing I did
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notice about the 7-Eleven, I brought
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this umbrella in. They have a lot more
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of a selection than regular 7-Elevens.
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And they had tables almost like a diner.
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Never seen that at a 7-Eleven.
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now. Wow. An umbrella just flew. A huge
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umbrella that was mounted over there
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just flew completely across the
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courtyard. In
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fact, this associates worker over here
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just picked it
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up. I mean, it launched all the way from
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where those people are now standing.
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Almost hit some people. Taking it back
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over to where it was.
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So, yeah, this looks like the shopping
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district. There's a shopping street. I
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think that's what it's labeled as, the
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shopping street. And then there's also
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the night market all near the
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Starbucks cafe at beverage time. I do
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have a lot of these cups. I mean,
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mostly, you know, different cities and
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towns and theme parks that I've been to.
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I've never had an international one.
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That'd probably break in my luggage,
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though. That is That would be so cool.
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That would be so cool. The Peanuts
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characters over here. You got Snoopy
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right here. He's a barista handing out
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some stuff right there. And there's a
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picture of the cathedral right
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exploring. Right back out on the street.
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Here's a place called the Butter Shop
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over here putting out good
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vibes. Wind is definitely kicking. Mango
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Busy is the name of this store. They
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have these little characters out front.
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So, evidently after 5:00 p.m., still got
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a couple hours is when the night food
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market begins, but there's already a lot
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of vendors out here. And the police
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station has little figurines out front.
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Look at that. I love meong. I'm pretty
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sure I'm not passing that right. I
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imagine when the sun goes down, this is
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going to look so cool all illuminated
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with all the lights. Going down to the
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far end, then I'm going to turn around
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and go back. There are all like a lot of
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little side streets. It's like the most
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amount of food vendors I've ever seen.
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Have this translator app I've been using
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called
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Papago. I'm kind of curious to see what
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they wrote on the Starbucks cup there.
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Sometimes they'll do the handwritten
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stuff. So, I'll do that. Align the text
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and let's see what it says.
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Have a nice day. Thank
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you. Love it. Money exchange over here.
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So, I think I did some at the airport. I
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might exchange some more money here.
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This has no exchange
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rate. And here
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is difference from Juan, South Korean
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Juan to US dollars. 1,435
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to1. I opted out of getting that mug
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because I know that's a rabbit hole. If
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I go down, I'll probably never stop and
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I probably don't need a mug from every
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country, every Starbucks in every
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country I go to. So, I'll stick with the
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magnets and the small
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souvenirs. Kind of getting away from the
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food
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area. Get back over towards the hustle
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and bustle momentarily, but just stroll
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down this way. Artwork everywhere. Lots
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of little figures everywhere. I've just
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noticed definitely a lot of mascots for
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everything. Fashion cafe lifestyle.
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Another coffee shop right there. Just
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coffee everywhere you
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look, which I love. An octopus on a
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stick for 10,000
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W should be like $6,
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$5,
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$7. That is octopus on a
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stick.
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HBA. It's a peanut place perhaps. I
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think I might have passed one of these
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the other day. But again, a little
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mascot here. A little uh little nut
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right there in the front door. So
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amazing how many K-pop stores there are
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here. K-pop is very very
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popular. Korean pop boy bands. Well,
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might just be boy bands. I think it's
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just pop music all around. I'm not real
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familiar with it, but it's everywhere
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here. It's a whole thing here. Seen a
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lot of too are these cat cafes
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everywhere. Cat cafes.
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Chicken skewers over here. Chicken.
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I'll do a chicken. Chicken one. Chicken
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one. A little chicken skewer here.
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5,0001.
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Starting off
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the starting off the food for the eve.
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Oh, this looks different. Never had
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anything like this. Egg bread. This
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looks to be some sort of bread with a
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egg on top of it. Right there. These
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lights kind of mess with the camera a
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little bit. So, it's giving those kind
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of zoom in. It gives like the little the
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camera is not reacting well to these
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lights directly above it. But egg bread.
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I think I'm going to try one of these
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egg breaths. I'll do 1,000 W for this.
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really is not a bad price for a little
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little egg
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bread. Still kind of hard to get used to
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a thousand. This is only This is less
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than a
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dollar. Definitely is exactly as it's
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described. Egg, bread, bread with an egg
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inside of it. Like a lot of bread there.
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it. Wow. That's warm. Not expecting the
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yolk to be in there. Okay. It's like a
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hardboiled egg with the cover with the
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shell off of it inside.
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bread, like a sweet bread.
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Two things that I didn't think would go
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together, but pretty good.
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tasty. I got to say, the egg bread
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freaking amazing. This is fried baby
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crab right here in those little fried
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baby crab. Grilled scallops, cheese, and
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butter right here. Grilled
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scallops, cheese, and butter. I'm going
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to get some of these. Yeah, there we go.
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Grilled scallops, cheese, and butter.
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10,000 W for this one. 10,000 W. It's
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making them up fresh right there.
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All right, we got the flame going and
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everything. Cooking it up. Getting the
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scallops all ready to rock.
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Little goodness for the taste
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buds. All right. Some interesting food.
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Man, that that egg bread was something
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else. I' never had that before, but
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didn't know I needed that. But man, that
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was some tasty
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stuff. Pretty pretty cool to watch,
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though.
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Look like I'll get a show along with the
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10,0001.
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Also a little bit of a show
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toasty. Yeah, this place is like foodie
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heaven. Like foodie central overload.
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Not that I'm a foodie, but I do like
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food. So, I guess you have a I'm a
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moderate not I'm not a good food
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reviewer, but I just like eating I like
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eating food. But this is definitely if I
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would say this would be a foodiey's
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dream if I was a foodie. Just a novice f
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low tier foodie. All right, let's give
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this a try. It's on the half shell here
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or on the It's on the
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shell. That's good. Warm. A lot of
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cheese. A lot of
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cheese. It's
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good. That's
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tasty. Go in on another one. Freshly
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cooked. Cruise
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bowl. Get the moderate cheese bowl going
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on.
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Never had anything like this before.
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Very interesting. They serve it on the
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on the shell.
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This place is a beehive of activity, I
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got to tell you. Look, even some pigeons
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over there. Mary Poppins would be very
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proud. And Hitchcock. Yeah, he's uh
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Just grilling up some shrimp there with
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grilled shrimp. That's tempting, too.
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That's very tempting.
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I do love some
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shrimp. All right, what's what's next on
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the option board? What's next? Some
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street corn over here.
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I think I'll get some of the corn there.
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Corn? Yes. Yes. This one. All right.
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Some grilled corn.
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Freshly grilled corn on the
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cob. I love corn on the cob.
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This is a a beastly piece of corn. This
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thing has got some weight to it right
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there. It's got some weight to
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it. 3,0001 for this one. 3,0001 for the
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corn. 20,0001. You can get some lobster
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over here. I don't know if I'm going to
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get any lobster, but they definitely
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have some lobster going on. 20,000 baked
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cheese for 5,0001. It's just cheese.
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It's been baked. Right over here,
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there's a little cow right there with
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glasses on. I think I'm going to get
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some baked cheese. Why not? Why not,
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right? Baked cheese for
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5,0001. All right. Is I think he might
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actually take the flame out, too, and
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bake the cheese.
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is uh slicing them up there. So maybe
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five slices of baked like five little
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fingers baked cheese. There was no fire
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involved with this one. It was just on
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the grill. There's garlic bread over
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there. So there's my little cheese
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slices. Little
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uh cheese slices there or grilled
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cheese. Not a sandwich, just the cheese.
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Self-explanatory what this is. It is
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cheese that's on a stick that is cooked
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on a grill. It's grilled.
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lot. That's a lot of cheese. I think I
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might have hit my food quota for the
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day. I uh I'm getting pretty pretty dang
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full, be honest. Pretty I think I've hit
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my food quota for the night. One more
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thing, the tornado, potato. I never seen
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anything like this. A tornado, potato,
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which is on this little stick right
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there. You can choose a few flavors.
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Cheese, which I've had definitely had
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too much cheese. There's chili powder or
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onion powder. I could get on the tornado
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potato. Just roll it around on the chili
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there. Get the chili flavoring on it.
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The chili on the tornado action. There
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it is. The tornado potato. Look at this
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thing. Looks like a drill. I'm kind of
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glad I went with the chili powder. The
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chili powder is pretty tasty. I've had
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enough cheese so far. I said I got my
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food quota, but this will definitely uh
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top off the eve. Another cat cafe. Look
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at this. Right. This cat. Hello. This
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cat, this uh cat right here is promoting
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the cat cafe. Hello. I think I'm
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finally moderately getting used to the
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time change or the time of being in the
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future cuz I am way ahead time wise than
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what I'm used to in Florida.
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yesterday just really kind of hit me.
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Wasn't really feeling too well. In fact,
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I was at the theme park, Loady World,
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and I just felt like I needed to go back
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to the hotel and rest.
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So, left a little earlier than I wanted
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to, got some good sleep, got back on
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track
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timewise. I think it took about 3
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days to get acclimated to the time
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difference. I mean, it's a
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massive time
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difference. Feeling a little under the
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weather last night and now I feel good.
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Got some
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rest. I feel like I'm on track
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again. Fact, I didn't even eat
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yesterday. So, I was pretty hungry just
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now.
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So, ate enough
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tonight. Jet lag is real. And where I
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bought the umbrella was right this
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inside the 7-Eleven. Go back inside the
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7-Eleven. Just kind of peruse
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around. Get a few things that I need for
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the hotel room. Mostly just water,
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bottled
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water. Some personal stuff that I need
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for the room since I'm going to be here
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quite a bit longer. Staying in the same
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room, which is kind of nice. Don't have
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to check in and out so I don't have to
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move my stuff. Kind of centralized doing
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all the soul area, greater soul area
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stuff.
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Start walking back to the hotel now.
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It's a dreary day today. Dreiest day
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I've been here so
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though. Just like in
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Philly. Sure, these are all over, but
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when I think of the love sculpture, I
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think of Philly,
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
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Pennsylvania, city of brotherly
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love. Also, South. Look at
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this. Two arrows on that. The traffic
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vehicle or a construction traffic
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vehicle. Oh, it's blinking. I think the
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lights might be out.
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because of the weather. No, the lights
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seem to be working, but they do have
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officers out in the road.
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today. I'll see you in the next video of
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the vlog.
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Thanks for watching. The vlog is
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over. I love
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this. I don't know why this makes me
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happy.