I feel so dissapointed. In my mind, a K-Pop cafe is like a cat cafe in Japan. Like i'd walk in and see Jimin and TOP crouching on a cat tower or some shit.
ParkTaeKook That would be great, sitting at a table with Suga and Jimin as Jin serves food. Best thing ever. (love your profile picture. Thats my phones background XD)
For this week's TL;DR we're talking about Korean Bakeries, how they're different from the bakeries we're used to, how franchised bakeries are destroying small bakeries, and how any Kpop idol's coffee shop isn't really their own coffee shop.
hey simon and martina i asked this before in other videos could you pleeeease tell me what the Titel of the piano track that is played in the beginning and during the video that would be really nice
No wonder thre's like a two storey tous les jours in malaysia 😱...the horror.....bread in malaysia r like wonderbread...hahahahha! And people eat them for breakfast like everyday......
Did you know? Eat Your Kimchi I learned this in my International Business class in Korea. When McDonald's came to Korea in the 80s, they needed to find a baker to make their buns for their hamburgers. All the A-class bakeries turned them down until a B/C-class baker named Shawnee (sp?) agreed and followed McD's recipe. They ended up making a buttload of money. As a result, the founder of Shawnee decided to make his own bakery chain. Thus, Paris Baguette and Paris Croissant were born. When those got successful, he acquired more licensing rights and got Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. It's why everywhere you go in Korea, you'll see a Paris Baguette, Dunkin Donuts, and Baskin Robbins together most of the time!!! It all came full circle to me when I learned that, haha. And also why you should never say, "Hey, let's meet in Seoul in front of the Paris Baguette, Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts!" Now when I lived in Dongtan my first year, I really loved Le Pommier. I saw that there was another branch of that across from the KBS station. Those are the only two I saw in my 3.5 years in Korea, so I think that could be a legit one, because I always saw the guys doing a bunch of shit in the back. I loved their tiramisu. :D
I live in Korea and I have suffered as you have. What makes me saddest is when it says garlic bread and it looks so lovely. But then you eat it and it's covered in SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Literally, it has had sugar sprinkled all over the top of it. :( Why is it sweet? Dear lord, I hate it so much. I want real garlic bread!
Oh the sugar coated garlic trick!!!! I've eaten so many sugared garlic breads in my time in Korea. Each time I was like, "this time it will be different" and it wasn't. We went to one restaurant in Bucheon that served savoury garlic bread with their pasta and we were blown away!
I am French and I live in Japan... White bread in Japan are okay but... Real baguette... Oh God. So hard or so fluffy but no in between. French is supossed to be hard outside and fluffy inside. I miss bread so much you have no idea. Each time I am going to Kobe I go to Paul (real French bakery chain) and buy a baguette for 600 yen and I am almost crying while eating (not really sexy I know) but yeah... XD If not, I miss ham (prosciutto style) REAL cheese and salami but at least my mom can send me those things... So I am okay :3
I'm dutch and a few years ago I went to new york. And I lost weight there! Why? Because the bread was total shit there and I refused to eat that. Yeah, I'm spoiled 😥
Sereenpower Here in germany too! Bakers start their job at 3-4am. I actually don't really like soft / fluffy bread, but I love the soft dutch bread with "Hagelslag" and peanutbutter!
*sobs* DON'T BRING IT UP! THERE IS LITERALLY NO KOREAN CHEESE MADE. They import a very very small section from Europe mostly Brie (WHY BRIE) and we've spent over $6.00 for a tiny rectangular wedge of normal cheddar cheese in desperation. A tiny thing of cheese can cost between $6.00-$15.00. But there is a wall of fake processed cheese which might be made in Korea but doesn't count as cheese in my books. :`(
Please no, I have so much pity for expatriates people, right now! Good cheese and bread is life! I could never survive in a country which have not this essentials foods!
Not sure it would work, 'cause A: flour and milk probably tastes different B: ovens (proper enough to cook bread) are pricy and hard to find. My Mom tried to make kimchi with Indian pepper and British cabbages when we lived in GB (in the late 80s'!) and failed miserably. (so I've heard.)
aeriaRIA My mother, when we lived together with my father, bought a bread making machine, because the cost of bread was going to grow even higher. The machine itself was already an oven, so when it mixed the dough, it would cook it as well. It tasted good, but my mom would usually bake a different type of bread... A healthier type, it was... Alright I guess. My father is now using it again.
My brother lives in Japan and when he comes home he eats like 1 whole big bread a day it's really insane he loves bread so much just like cheese i think it really hurts if he can't eat that good cheese and bread for so long 😂
Hahah sounds familiar! When we visit Canada my parents prepare a welcome home meal: a can of root beer, cold cuts, cheese, fresh bread. Sometimes my mom makes cheesy homemade lasagna for us to devour.
well in puerto rico we still dont have any chain bakeries so small businesses are still the norm in that matter, which is a good thing and a bad thing. mainly bad because some bakery owners are sloppy or lazy in their craft. So in a regular town you will have 4 to 7 bakeries but you will still travel to a specific one because the quality is better.
I totally agree with you on this matter. I musy say though here in soith florida I have seen slopy and lazy to the maximum. I traveled to pR last year and went to a panaderia called Lemmy or Leny. It was in Toa Baja. My God, that bread is delicious.
I live in the USA in the south. The closest we have to a bakery is the bakery section in our Walmart and Publix. And I have to say, we have a ton of Korean bakeries in my area and I would take their premade cakes over the icing covered monstrosities that American grocery stores sell any day of the week.
I personally like a lot of the cake styles in Korea, such as the lightly sweetened creams instead of icing sugar. Simon is sad about the cheesecake because it's very fluffy and not made with a lot of cream cheese, but it's actually my style! ^^ There are some things we like about Korean bakeries and some things we don't...like hot dogs everywhere...hahahahha!
Now that I think about, I've never seen a legit bakery. I'm from the American South too. There's a couple cake and cupcake bakeries around me, but I haven't had them. As for savory, I have no idea. A couple hours away from me there is a Global Foods market, and in it there's a little Asian lady (I think she was Korean but I didn't ask) who was selling fresh baked stuff. She had different pastries and cakes. She had a bun with green beans in it...like the kind you mom makes green bean casserole with.
Eat Your Kimchi my mother loves the fluffy style cheesecakes too... but lol new york style cheesecakes are more popular here in america so I have to bake them for my mom.
I live in Spain, I'm french and bread is IMPORTANT for me I can't live without bread. If I go to Italy, France, Germany and other european countries I like their bread, it's tasty. I went to USA. and i'm sorry to say that it was really not my taste!!!!!!. the bread was FLUFFY and not the good kind of fluffy, and kind of SWEET? even the integral one, or the brown one, they all tasted sweet to me. and putting a piece of ham in it was just nasty, I lived one month without bread. Until I came back to Europe. If you say that korean bread is even sweeter…..how do you survive?? Where can you find good bread then??
There are small independent bakers that have opened little shops around Korea but honestly, it's mostly only in Seoul. If you live outside of Seoul you have to travel a long distance for a loaf of bread.
It depends where you go because in America we have so many bakeries it may be difficult for you to find the right ones because some of them are owned by locals or opened by foreigners to sell baked goods from their country and others may look like a mom and pop shop but they are factory owned and they don't make anything there like Simon and Martina said. Like in my culture we do have sweet breed and it's labeled that way and we have other versions of bread too like water bread. It's very dry for me but it's a very popular bread for Puertoricans it's not sweet at all and it is fluffy. I hope you find a decent restaurant you just need to keep looking good luck.
It depends on where you live in the US. I'm from a large city so we have people from all over the world influencing the local cuisine. If I want a sweeter bread one day, I can find that. If I want a more "European" style bread the next, I can get that as well. You can find a little bit of everything. You just have to know where to look.
Diam Oh! Yes of course! But sadly I was in USA for only one month and it was in medium-small cities of Maine and Philadelphia… Next time I'll look harder^^
Josselen Gonzalez Thank you for your answer! When I went there i searched and searched for good bread but it's true that i did not have the opportunity to look into smaller and specialized shops but next time I go there i'll look harder^^ I'll try water bread if I find it in Europe!!
I live in the country of bread Bread is the main food Bread is on our national flag Bread is our national anthem Bread is our god Bread is our life Bread is our eternity BREAD IS EVERYWHEREEEEE
Beulloo Kim yes hahaha food isn't the same without bread, we eat it at least 4-5 times a day :3 I really feel bad when I travel in countries where there's no bread because I can't spent a day without eating it haha we also eat snails quite a lot :3
There's a Tous Les Jours and Paris Baguette 15 min away from me because there's a lot of korean people in my area lol. And I actually LOVE it. OMG BUT CAFE BENNE IS SO GOOD-but it's an hour away :((((((
+Grace Lee Those bakeries are in my local area too (California)! Those bakeries actually cater to my tastes more than American bakeries :P It might be because I'm a dainty eater&&have a sweet tooth x)
Bread is actually a big thing here in Denmark. Even very small cities have at least one or two bakeries. The bread is always fresh and newly baked, and a lot of bakers use a lot of time on making it perfect. I've actually never been to a bakery where they didn't make the bread them self. Only now I realize how much I am going to miss it when I move away from Denmark ;_;
Trust me, moving to Japan made me miss rye bread A Lot! :p and just "normal" bread all in all >_< japanese bread is mostly also extremely sugary.. nothing like what bakeries in Denmark make..
Well I live in the US and we have the normal bakeries. Were I live is very diverse because we have many ethic places to eat for example we have Indian, Russian, Polish, Middle Eastern and Latin/Hispanic. So in my neighborhood there are a lot of Puertorican shops and bakeries. So compared to the breads I've tasted from the supermarkets like stop n shop are very different from Puertorican breads. My favorite bread that I've had from Puertorican bakeries are call "sweet bread". They are sweeter and they are so soft and I love getting them fresh because when I do they are so warm out of the oven and when you eat it, it melts in your mouth. I've even gone to Puertorican bakeries in Puerto Rico and the bakery scene is huge! The mom and pop shops are everywhere like a chain store but they are all owned by locals and every shop as their own style of making baked goods. It's a blessing and and a curse because all the food taste so yummy but the way they make them is so fattening lol. There are food chains that are own by factories but I can't remember how many there are it's been years.
Same! I actually really enjoy trying different breads from different countries. My favorites are from a Korean bakery right down the street from my University. They have a bacon and cheddar stuffed roll and as odd as it was the first time I had it, I've slowly grown to love them.
I'll agree on the Puerto Rican sweet bread. It's sweet, fluffy, soft, but in a weird way not so sweet. Just right. I make roast chicken sandwiches with it.
I'm Irish. Ever since I've moved to America, my bread consumption has gone way down. It's all so sweet and...just awful. If Korean bread is even sweeter then I have no idea how you guys go on. The only bread I can eat here is sour dough. And that's just because it's not sweet. It is still nothing compared to the bread back home. Milk here is awful to. And you can't get good sausages either. I've done extensive research on this too guys. I'm considering starting a club.
Yes, the sausages suck! My family hates the sausages here. We heard Irish sausages here taste like the ones back home but not really. I remember I used to buy Irish butter because it tasted like Kenyan butter here. I've gotten used to the bread here, but I only toast it.
This is interesting for me, since I grew up in America (California) and am now living in Korea. I think America's milk is overly processed and pasteurized. I've noticed the milk in Korea actually tastes a lot better, but of course growing up in America I never knew the difference. You can probably find fresher milk or raw milk or something at specialty places though. As for bread, I'm curious where you are buying your bread from? There is the normal sliced sandwich bread you can buy at any super market, which is not that special. But we also have actual bakeries and artisan breads that taste better. Hmm. . . now I want to try some bread in Ireland. :) If I ever make it to Europe I will have a tour of different breads and cheeses. Eat all the bread! :D
I have been to actual bakeries and tried artisan breads of all sorts, and while they're better, they still don't compare. One thing America does do better than Ireland though is eating out. Restaurants, fast food, everything. So much variety, and so much quality. Take sushi for example. I know maybe 4 sushi places in Ireland off the top of my head. The sushi is...okay. I live in LA and as you might expect, I'm completely spoiled when it comes to sushi. So everywhere has its positives and negatives. But yeah, I miss bread, milk and sausages.
When I traveled to Europe a few years ago I was blown away by the amount of small bakeries! I loved it! My host mom in Germany would go every morning to a bakery in her village. I wish America had a love for small bakeries. I'd support them!!
Dutch bread is the SHIT! I was born in the Netherlands and I can say with pride that their bakeries are very much what you'd expect bakery to be like. You know, the bakers working day in and day out to prepare dough and make fresh products for the following day. Moving to the UK it wasn't like that really....the mainstream bakeries aren't that great and lack a lot of authenticity you know? Seeing as I am a village girl, moving to the bigger cities with a lack of GOOD bakeries was a shock. But the smaller bakeries are decent enough once you find them:) I guess in a sense it's like Korea with mainstream bakery chains going up against smaller (more authentic) businesses. But hey! Which business sector isn't suffering from this issue....
Omg I was born in the Netherlands too and moved to the UK. And it took me and my family quite a while to get used to British food because it was different especially the milk and cheese as well as bread. It was hard at first but thankfully I am all used to British food but seriously I'd prefer dutch food much more than British. Its in my blood :p
It depends on where you are I've been to quite a few bakeries in Europe and some of the best breads I was able to find in my local bakery and they taste very good. Your best going to family ran bakeries they are the best.
I love visiting family in Mexico, because there is a bakery on nearly every corner. You find them on main streets or in a book in a residential area. they have such a variety too. There's not so sweet breads like bolillos and very sweet breads, and pies and cakes and tortillas. I'm sad that I no longer live an hour's driving distance from the border TwT
I'm from Germany and we love Schwarzbrot here. Well, at least most people I think. When I still lived with my parents we never really bought bread though, my dad always baked it himself, which was pretty cool. Now I mostly buy mine at the supermarket, which is kind of a shame.
Where I live in the States, I've seen imported Schwarzbrot but I've been a bit hesitant to buy it since it's pricey :o What is is great with? Btw, I'm not very picky. Danke und Guten Morgen aus den Vereinigte Staaten :D
Nidia Valle it's more healthier, cause it owns less calories in it than white bread... and it makes fuller, because it's whole grain or so... give it a try, mose dark breads are fine I think.
Aaahh...jetzt muss ich gute Käse finden lol. Oh ich habe das gewusst aber idk if I'll like the taste. The bread is really dark!o.o (teehee sorry for my Denglisch :3)
Nidia Valle Take some young Gouda. Best cheese for Schwarzbrot. If it's really expensive (I don't know how much you pay for young Gouda in the US), do it at least once. Schwarzbrot, butter, Gouda. Also, try putting marmalade on the cheese (I don't think Americans use that word. I don't think it's jelly. Jelly is British jam, I think. Which is not marmalade. Should still work though).
I'm German and I live in Japan so YES I know how it feels!! :O Whenever I eat some "proper" bread that my family sent me from home, my boyfriend goes "OMG how can you eat this? It's so hard, it hurts my teeth" The worst thing I've seen so far is the soft sweet bread with yakisoba in it, ugh it's just awful... Also, I can't even make my own bread since we don't have an oven (don't really know many Japanese people who do)
Same thing with the no oven thing happening in Korea. We had an oven in our last apartment which was GLORIOUS and I did make my own bread! I made a couple simple loaves which were so-so but I'm no masterbaker ^^ and then I tried making an artisan loaf of bread that took me 18 hours and I ruined it on the last proof by using the wrong cloth. It stuck to the loaf and flattened my bread totally when I removed it. SO SAD!!!!
Ahhh I know that, it has happened to me >< It's so frustrating to see something you put that much effort in beasically turning to sh*t...but at least you can say it's homemade and eat the crumbs xD That's what I always do when my cakes fail (or i say "well, i was going to make cake pops anyway")
Oh my God, I know what you're going through. I'm German as well and I lived in Japan last year and the "bread"-isles in konbinis are an absolute nightmare! I don't get why they put all that savory stuff on top/inside sweet bread. It's horrible >.< The only good thing was Meronpan but I wouldn't classify that as bread xD
Eat Your Kimchi What you guys need is a bread baking machine. You pour in the ingredients and out comes the fresh bread an hour later! Most machines will have many different settings so you can bake different styles of bread and it has a timer so you can even put in the ingredients before you go to bed and then wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread. I mean seriously, buy one!
Here, in the Philippines there's a lot of bakeries here. Some are sells expensive breads esp. if if they are not traditional bread like Baguette, etc. but most sell low or affordable price of breads that suits Filipinos taste bud like Pandesal, Pan De Leche/Soft Dough, Monay or breads that has fillings like Spanish Bread or Hopia and even Loaf Bread.
I have a weird question! What are Koreans' take on hair removal? Do they just shave and leave it at that? Or do they have waxing salons? Also, I saw on a previous video that in Korea, you can remove a spot for a cheap price. Is this also the same for something like laser clinics? Also, you said that Korean men like to take care of themselves, so is it normal for a guy to wax or generally be hairless?
Hi from Boise Idaho USA. I am so happy you are back, I have been really missing your show! Both of you are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your humor and lives with us. Oh and if you ever find yourself around here I will take you to the best bakery ever and I will buy you all the fresh "real" bread you can eat.
Oh yes! Now that you mention it, north american (and south european, for that matter) bread brings me so much sadness as a scandinavian - all tasteless and dry. I've been so dissapointed when ordering dark bread in the US, only to find out that it's just the same foam rubber in a different color :( However, I did learn after a while that it does serve a purpose in creating those fantastic sandwiches you americans have! Neutral bread goes with everything. Please keep your chain culture to yourselves, though. We have a long tradition of cafés and bakeries where almost everything is fresh baked, but in the past years more and more of the market is taken up by starbucks knock offs full of mass produced muffins and stale cakes. It might be the end of our sacred fika!
There's not many bakeries where I live in the middle of nowhere USA, lol. The only place to get bread is at the supermarket. So, I've been baking my own. It takes forever, but I love the fresh baked taste it has. I even made some Korean sweet potato buns.
You should totally find out how and start a line of fashion braces!!! You can have one that looks like robot, one that looks like muscles, skeleton, etc... Love it!
Actually it is "Mr. Bates" he is the valet, not 'master' of anything lol. When I went to Korea my friend and I really liked the donuts in Paris Baguette but we were so full of grease and spice (We were starved for it. We are both Mexican and we were living in Japan) that they didn't feel good in the tummy after a while. I think bread in Mexico is pretty good. Though not the kind you get at the supermarket. I hear a lot of Europeans complain that they can't find "european-style" bread here until they actually find out about the mom-and-pop shops where they sell it hahaha, their tears of joy~ Anyways, when I was in Japan what I missed the most was bread and coffee. Korea is better in the coffee department but the bread is about the same. Fluffy, sweet and generally not-good-for-sandwiches, expensive stuff that just makes you cry.
I'm now an short-term student in England and everyday in my school at breakfasts there's croissants and chocolate croissants. I've been told they were frozen, so I'm trying taking some back home! (I know it will defrost but I'll try anyways)
Love this video! I'm US Army, in Korea for most of this year, AND my wife is an artisan baker back in the US. It's been EXTREMELY helpful to learn what to expect, but this video has almost blown my mind.....I really don't know how I'll handle traveling out there with no good breads. Fortunately, Camp Casey does have a wonderful Euro style bakery located right on the post. So I'm not totally lost out during my time here.
I love watching Martina try to not mouth the words Simon is saying. I sometimes find myself doing that when my fiancé tells a story that I know lol. Happy to have your videos back. Nasties for life!!!
I'm from the Europe and I can't live without bread. Like seriously, I think ever sinds I was able to eat solid food I've eaten bread every day of my life. Crossants, kaiser rolls, tiger bread, baguettes, ciabatta bread. You can't take these away from me.
I'm Norwegian. I've been living in Japan for 6 months now, AND THERE IS NO REAL BREAD! I went to another city just because someone told me they had real bread. lies. LIESS!! LIEEEEESSSSS!!!! I feel the pain Martina and Simon. I feel the pain. lets pray for the loss of REAL bread in Asia.
Yes I remember visiting Korea last year and the first thing I missed was having toast with butter. Everything is so sweet and even baguette is sweet. Even my mum who lives there misses Aussie's butter and bread rolls
Watching this again and it's made me realize. I was born, raised, and still live in America but, part of my life I lived where my parents are from called Tonga for about a year. I got so used to the fresh fruits, veggies, and ice cream but, the bread there. The struggle was real for my young soul. It took me several months to get use to American bread once again because the bread would taste bitter, stale, or dry. Still miss it as an adult to this day.
well, I'm French and of course breads & bakeries are a BIG issue to us! ^^ Nothing's better than a nice Boulangerie/Patisserie of here! ^^ (although I didnt travel that much... was my comment too "French"?) ^^
How I envy you. I live in the USA and I'm a writer. My dream was always to go to Paris and go to a bakery, have snacks and just write the day away. The dream will come true eventually, but here in the USA many of us are given the idea France is top notch artistry in baked goods. Well, maybe not all of USA but here in upstate NY many people are of that opinion.
TreScotts1Fan Many countries thinks that, I can't really judge since it's the food I grew up with and I didn't travel enough to compare with other countries. I do think it's better than english dishes (sorry England, I love you tho!^^) I think French dishes can be surprising, unexpected but extremely good in the same time. I do think a good cook is a real artist. I hope your project to come to Paris will come true and will help you with your writting, Like any Kpop fan would say: FIGHTING!
Yes for sure us french people can't live without bread! I travel a lot and I feel sad everytime a go to a restautant in a foreigne country, especially in asia and north america that's for sure! And sometimes I see a supposedly french bakery over there, but what they make generally is completely inspired by they're own culture. I think that france has the biggest "bread culture" and we are very attached to it, more than everyone else ^_^
I live in Finland and absolutely loooove the rye bread we have in here. It's so fresh and soft and drool. My mom is from Thailand and they just have the wheat bread which you could feed to the birds. Or not... But every time we go there I have to bring rye bread for our relatives and myself because I can't live without. And some strawberry jam for my auntie so that she can eat the bread we bring. LOL
here in NYC there are at least 3 tours les jour, paris baguettes and caffe bene each. There are of course other bakeries here too. I been to Martha's Country Bakery and two Colombian bakeries. none of those bakeries sell bread like the bread at grocery stores (wonder bread). they sell pastries and cakes. Martha's Country Bakery is the sweetest out of all the bakeries I went to. It has that American style taste. :)
Whenever you guys ask about "how's this in your country?" I feel like I can't answer cuz I'm from Toronto and you already know everything about here.... :'(
That's totally not true! You know how diverse Toronto is, so you should let us know what neighbourhood you grew up in and what influenced you! When my sister moved to Little Portugal that was a new food experience for our whole family. I'm from Etobicoke but grew up with Canadian, Croatian, Chinese-Jamacian, and Japanese-Korean food. Simon is from Pickering and ate a lot of Polish, West Indian, Southern American food! After attending UofT we both learned a lot about Chinese food by living so close to Chinatown, and Kensington Market was a new culture experience too. We both have very different experiences while living in Toronto, I'd love to hear yours too! :D
Eat Your Kimchi OMG I can't believe you even saw this! But I grew up on the York University campus near Jane and Finch, and then moved to Corso Italia later. Sooooo much pasta and pizzaaaaaa. Now I live right around downtwn, near Casa Loma. the food lines are kinda blurred now. But I'm Nicaraguan, so we eat a lot of spanish food in our house. I feel so excited when you guys talk about Toronto cuz I feel like I'm in on a secret inside joke cuz I know all the places you're talking about hahahaha
there are a ton of paris baguettes, cafebenes and tours les jours popping up in ny (especially the first two mentioned) like its crazy but i love it because i really like paris baguettes cronuts lol (yes i know i could go get a real cronut but aint nobody gonna make a trip all the way to soho in 5 degree weather and wait on a line when i could just go to paris baguette lol) (but i definitely never thought they were fresh in paris baguette they have a pretty chemically after taste to be really honest...) alsoooo i love seeing kim soo hyun's face in front of tours les jours XD ummm as far as bakeries ny is extremely diverse and idk if i can truly say, at least in my experience, that there is anything that is truly "american"... by my house alone i have italian, colombian, dominican, and jewish bakeries each with their own distinct flavors and textures..the only thing that i would say is more ny is the deli culture? (but im sure that has its origin in a european country but i digress) like breakfast and lunch sandwiches from any local deli is totally the ny culture its just a matter of how fancy the ingredients and therefore how expensive the sandiwch will be haha .... oh no wait i lied... lol i guess i notice this more because i have such a sweet tooth but in terms of sweets there is a huge cupcake culture here (which i love!) also sweets in general here include cheesecake (although ill admit i like european versions of cheesecake like italian or polish cheesecake more than ny style cheesecake =/ ) pound cakes, and other sweets that im pretty sure also have italian and jewish origins but i could be totally mistaken lol anywho that was long but i hope that sorta made sense!!!
I feel so sad now for you guys. I went to pastry school a few years ago and I totally appreciate the time and effort in creating artisan breads. I typically like making bread at home during the holidays and give it out as gifts to my friends. Now that I think about it the last time I used a machine to help with bread kneading was in pastry school. You guys could try making bread. It's not as difficult as you may think. Just know that the proofing times and kneading of the bread will be what makes or breaks your bread in most cases. Unless you try making french bread. Timing is everything with french bread.
Hmmm...in my hometown there are only a few local bakeries. The big company ones are Publix, Walmart, and Panera. Although if you were to go to a Panera in North Miami most of the bakers are either students or former students of Johnson and Wales University, which is a culinary school. The small local bakeries are probably just a handful. They are mostly Italian and Cuban bakeries.
I'm from Singapore. Let me warn you first that asking me to comment on bread is like asking a French person to talk about sushi xD I'm sure there are some individual bakeries and authentic franchises from Europe here, but for the average Singaporean, one of the most common go-to places would probably be Bread Talk(a local franchise). They sell large varieties of "breads", but by that I'm only referring to the fillings and style, not the actual bread. They just all seem to be...made from white bread.(Correct me if i'm wrong?) Common fillings include curry potatoes, ham, chicken, tuna, hotdog, mushroom, jam etc.
That's so interesting. Sounds like something we call garbage bread here in North America. Don't be offended, that's just what they call it. It just means bread filled with meat or other toppings. Our bread here usually has the flavors mixed in, not really many fillings. Well, you learn something new everyday. :)
Oh from my place in North America (California), we usually call that kind of bread Asian bread from the bakeries. It's actually really popular among my school and area (high end taiwanese bakeries like 85 degrees are loved). But then again, I live in a more Asian community, where we have access to both types of bread
Bread Talk is from Indonesia, same owner of J.co donnuts .. Here in indonesia they're famous for abon bread or beef/chicken flakes bread.. Yeah i think they use white bread dough for everything because here in indonesia when people say bread or roti in bahasa, it usually refer to the white bread.
Evani Margareth Bread Talk was founded in Singapore in 2000 by George Quek, who is the current chairman. Johnny Andrean(owner of J.co donuts) manages the franchises in Indonesia :) White bread is also the more popular bread in Singapore haha.
I actually find this really interesting because when I think of a bakery I can't think of anything... There's like bakeries in the grocery stores but not stand alone much anymore. There's a few traditional Hispanic bakeries where I live but none like you guys are talking about.
Eat Your Kimchi It's like the same story when Asian goes to European or Western countries can't find good rice~ lol ps: I don't know if you still replied me or not but: *Hi~* ^^
When I was in Hong Kong last summer their Pacific Coffee's did a pretty good job in terms of bread but there weren't many opportunities for just a baguette. The subways had several cake/bun places that I would compare to meat croissants or pastries. But I sort of lived off of Pacific Coffee sandwiches when work got busy! (also I'm in love with super thick slices of white bread, i didn't realize that was a thing and it's super great)
This is super duper crazy off topic (except for that mention and picture of Siwon) but I KEEP meaning to ask this. I just forget, becasue I see other EYK videos and I have to watch them all....immediately! So I know you like Manga Martina, have you ever read Skip Beat? Me and my sister have obsessed with it since......well many years ago. A Taiwanese drama came out for it, only one season so far. Siwon and Donghae from SuJu are in it!! They're dubbed but they do an awesome job.
I live in Germany and we have a lot of bakeries at the nearby town, however you can see that the franchise bakeries are slowly taking over. It's kinda sad since a lot of the diversity in baked goods is lost with the closing of family owned bakeries.
Wait but Eunhyuk's cafe is not a franchise anymore, it's not called Tour Le Jours either, it's now called Chocolat Bonbon! I went there a couple of times while in Korea, saw workers kneading dough and whatnot too. His mom was there as well, she took orders and was super nice. So I think they might actually own it now. Don't quote me on that part though. I mean it's not really super important and I completely agree about the whole franchise bakeries taking over in Korea (which is why I went to a smaller bakery in Edae that was LITERALLY next door to a Paris Baguette instead, and the ajumma was sooo nice there) but I just wanted to point that out for the fans who might go there in the future. It's a really cute bakery!
I grew up in the US and have lived in Japan for a while too. I think the diversity of ingredients used so that the bread suits the culture is very interesting on a social level. I missed butter based baked goods while in Japan, but now I freak out if I can have the ultra thick toast bread from Japan with jam ( my staple breakfast while there).
I feel this so much-I visited Malaysia several years ago- went to their fancy fancy casino, and what did I eat- white bread sandwich with processed chicken loaf- it was HEAVENLY! lol I stayed with a friends family and her angelic Mother bought me a loaf of white bread and Vegemite, she spent literally the same amount it would cost her to buy about a weeks worth of dinners- bless her!
There's cake shops dotted everywhere around the UK, but most bakeries are chains such as Greggs or the Pound Bakery, but I'm originally from a small town that has plenty of independent cafes etc, and whenever I'm in Manchester there's lots of Chinese bakeries too!
This video hits close to the heart. I'm from Canada and I've been studying in Japan for almost a year. I'm going home in a few days and when I land in Canada, I am going to get my favourite bread and just eat it. I absolutely hate the really super thick cut bread here in Japan. Honestly, I know how you feel... During Christmas, a French international student's mother and sister came here and they brought this amazing rye bread with them. When they offered me a piece, I started crying tears of joy. Not only because they offered me the bread, but also put REAL cheese on it too.
Hello!! first time commenting on your videos! I'm Korean living in Canada at the moment, in Thunder Bay to be exact. :) I did notice the difference every time I went to visit Korea (which isn't that often anymore... I haven't been there in about five years 0.o) Like the sweetness of the bread, and the icing used on cakes! I recently realized that Korea uses sweetened whipping cream as icing not buttercream or other types of icing. Also most of their cakes as I remember it was a sponge cake. Or at least fluff-er. What I do LOVE though is the castellas (japanese style cheese cake) those are to DIE for. mhmmm. Anywho, I have such troubles finding friends to hangout with when I do go to Korea because I left when I was so young, so I'm SO glad I found you guys. My family lives in Seoul, so I will definitely be visiting your cafe when I do visit!
it is called par-baked bread. It is still fresh. The baking process is finished at the store. I use to work for a proper french bakery and a lot of their bread are made, frozen and then baked on order.
I’m from Sweden, and as you guys seem to have noticed there are a lot of different kinds of that really dark, awesomely healthy wholegrain-type bread there. Now I live in Japan and I haven’t been able to find anything remotely close to the bread I used to eat. It’s pretty much the same as in Korea with a bunch of sweet, mass-produced sponge-like bread. A lot of the sweet pastry-like breads here are really delicious (especially melonpan!), but don't really work when you want to make a proper sandwich. But although there’s no wholegrain bread here (that I know of), you can find nicer baguettes and such in some of the bakeries. The problem is that there’s not really anything to put on them unless you have the cash. I’m used to being able to eat sandwiches with different kinds of cheese and ham and sausage and stuff, but even if I do find it here it’s usually imported and very expensive. In Sweden I would eat that stuff daily but here I can only do it on special occasions. Also, if anyone reading this knows where to get wholegrain (dark) bread in Japan, PLEASE TELL ME! I’m desperate… :(
Zambian Bread is super fresh; and you can buy it from the small shops by your home every morning for breakfast. There's one rectangular loaf its really AMAZING! crisp on the outside and fluffy, fresh and soft on the inside! YESSSSS!!!! Man, I miss it!
I'm from Spain, more specifically Catalonia (in Spain there's a big difference between one region to another), which is next to the Mediterranean sea. Recently there's been a franchise that has thousands of stores all over Spain and I believe they're opening some in other European countries, called Granier. But aside from that, a good portion of the bakeries are still self-owned. There's actually a really good, artisanal bakery near my house. In Catalan bakeries you can find the typical French baguettes, quite loafy and crunchy, and then there's the traditional Catalan bread which is SO FRAKING MAGNIFICIENT, literally the BEST BREAD EVER MADE, especially if it's traditionally made. It's called "pà de pagès" which means "farmer's bread". It's round and super crunchy on the outside but tender and loafy in the inside and it's just so freaking good. Like LOOK AT IT, JUST LOOK AT IT: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-ldG6ITrBR9A/U7BzPdG9vnI/AAAAAAADD5o/qNwTMWXctXk/s1600/IMG_0894.JPG I'm literally drooling omg. I've never got so excited over bread in my life. I don't think I'd be able to live in South Korea...
How about getting a bread maker and making it yourself? Its so amazing how great the bread is out of a break maker! I got one and I make bread constantly! Love it!
in south carolina breads just in the grocery stores. there are bakeries, but they dont sell any bread - just stuff like pastries. mostly cake. like the major thing they'll sell is custom/premade birthday cakes, but they'll also have tiramisu and pies and donuts in the display cases.
I taught myself to bake bread in Korea using my toaster oven, whole wheat flour I bought off Gmarket, and the regular white flour from our local grocery store (they had it almost everywhere we lived in Daejeon). It was more effort, but SO worth it for good bread. That said, Paris Baguette was good in it's own way, but definitely not life changing. It was fun to go pick out cakes for birthdays, or get a cream puff here and there. In boring old Western USA there aren't a lot of local bakeries, so that was novel for us. And I learned a life skill - bread baking! It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought. And I'll admit, having been gone from Korea for five years now, I still sometimes crave a little fluffy, sweet cream puff on demand. Alas, you'll always miss something, no matter where you are.
Ohh, we have paris baguette and tous les jours here in socal (lots of koreans here) and its SOOOO good when youre craving something sweet. But i had no idea they just straight up didnt make regular bread there!
I love how I in Australia, my local Coles has a bakery in their store and you can actually see them making it like making the dough and stuff and the best thing ever is when you buy bread and it still feels warm from the oven :D
When you guys mentioned that there was no stylish braces, it reminded me of something. My classmate recently injured herself and now has an ankle brace for it to heal. Though I didn't realize that it was a brace at first since it looked like a high top sneaker. Like seriously, it really looked like a sneaker, pure black with laces and everything. The only downside to it was that she had to wear flip flops since she couldnt really fit anything over the brace.
in Switzerland we have bakeries and the people who work there start working at like 3 a.m. to make fresh bread and croissants etc. Nothing's better than fresh bread. but the champions in making croissants are the French people (okay I haven't tried bread from all over the world but French bread and croissants taste like heaven).
DarkSailorEisblume It's a point of national pride that shops close early and on sundays because "they need to rest too!" but somehow also that employees start work at 3am. Swiss logic.
As I stayed in Europe before for couple of years and now I am back to Asia, and I totally undersstandddd what you guys talking about!! It is really very hard to find "good quality" bread here in Asia. ):
I love your videos!!! Y'all are my favorite RUclips channel ever i don't know what i would do with out y'all!!!! :) keep up the amazing work both of y'all put in your videos! ♥♥
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I feel so dissapointed. In my mind, a K-Pop cafe is like a cat cafe in Japan. Like i'd walk in and see Jimin and TOP crouching on a cat tower or some shit.
LMFAO OMG 😂
Hmph I wish
I wish...then Jin would be cooking for the customers
ParkTaeKook That would be great, sitting at a table with Suga and Jimin as Jin serves food. Best thing ever. (love your profile picture. Thats my phones background XD)
+corgicute I know right!We can only dream about it😢Thanks!I love yours too😊
I'm French and I want to open a bakery in Korea. Wait for me, I'll be here in a few years !
Yay!
Please do! :D and tell me the location, I would love to visit when I come to Korea.
Ashley Weill me too, I might be living in Korea around that time. ^-^
Hongdae?
The Manga Freak Maybe. Idk I still have a few years left, I'm still learning Korean before getting a baking diploma >
For this week's TL;DR we're talking about Korean Bakeries, how they're different from the bakeries we're used to, how franchised bakeries are destroying small bakeries, and how any Kpop idol's coffee shop isn't really their own coffee shop.
Hi EYK I really love your videos and i would love to one day visit korea, im in toronto and hope I can visit you are here one day :)
ShaniceSummers We'd love to see you there!
I'm one of first few comments!!!!!🇺🇸From,USA
hey simon and martina i asked this before in other videos could you pleeeease tell me what the Titel of the piano track that is played in the beginning and during the video that would be really nice
Did you guys know that there are Paris Baguettes in New York and California. We're being invaded! Ahhhhhh!~
Thanks to @Kendra Felices for the English subtitles!
No wonder thre's like a two storey tous les jours in malaysia 😱...the horror.....bread in malaysia r like wonderbread...hahahahha! And people eat them for breakfast like everyday......
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Did you know? Eat Your Kimchi I learned this in my International Business class in Korea. When McDonald's came to Korea in the 80s, they needed to find a baker to make their buns for their hamburgers. All the A-class bakeries turned them down until a B/C-class baker named Shawnee (sp?) agreed and followed McD's recipe. They ended up making a buttload of money. As a result, the founder of Shawnee decided to make his own bakery chain. Thus, Paris Baguette and Paris Croissant were born. When those got successful, he acquired more licensing rights and got Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. It's why everywhere you go in Korea, you'll see a Paris Baguette, Dunkin Donuts, and Baskin Robbins together most of the time!!! It all came full circle to me when I learned that, haha. And also why you should never say, "Hey, let's meet in Seoul in front of the Paris Baguette, Baskin Robbins and Dunkin Donuts!"
Now when I lived in Dongtan my first year, I really loved Le Pommier. I saw that there was another branch of that across from the KBS station. Those are the only two I saw in my 3.5 years in Korea, so I think that could be a legit one, because I always saw the guys doing a bunch of shit in the back. I loved their tiramisu. :D
Seriously...shawnee sold himself out by doing that...
I live in Korea and I have suffered as you have. What makes me saddest is when it says garlic bread and it looks so lovely. But then you eat it and it's covered in SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Literally, it has had sugar sprinkled all over the top of it. :( Why is it sweet? Dear lord, I hate it so much. I want real garlic bread!
Oh the sugar coated garlic trick!!!! I've eaten so many sugared garlic breads in my time in Korea. Each time I was like, "this time it will be different" and it wasn't. We went to one restaurant in Bucheon that served savoury garlic bread with their pasta and we were blown away!
I feel ya bro.. no one should ever eat sugary garlic bread.
I am French and I live in Japan... White bread in Japan are okay but... Real baguette... Oh God. So hard or so fluffy but no in between. French is supossed to be hard outside and fluffy inside. I miss bread so much you have no idea. Each time I am going to Kobe I go to Paul (real French bakery chain) and buy a baguette for 600 yen and I am almost crying while eating (not really sexy I know) but yeah... XD
If not, I miss ham (prosciutto style) REAL cheese and salami but at least my mom can send me those things... So I am okay :3
I'm dutch and a few years ago I went to new york. And I lost weight there! Why? Because the bread was total shit there and I refused to eat that. Yeah, I'm spoiled 😥
That's so amazing. I never would have thought that New York bread would be terrible, though I've never had any bread from there. Hmm...
Eat Your Kimchi Dutch bread is awesome ^-^ We have a lot of bakeries that use a lot of their precious sleeping time to make some super fresh bread :D
Sereenpower
Here in germany too! Bakers start their job at 3-4am. I actually don't really like soft / fluffy bread, but I love the soft dutch bread with "Hagelslag" and peanutbutter!
Jason Pent hagelslag is very nice indeed Haha. I love the soft bread with a nice crunchy outside :D
Sereenpower
For sweet stuff I'm okay with fluffy bread.
But for everything else my favorite is the sour-dough bread my father makes! :P
this is my favorite series on your channel. could you bring it back for japan???
We're shooting a TL;DR like video this week, I think!
Now talk about Korean cheese as compared to European/North American cheese
*sobs* DON'T BRING IT UP! THERE IS LITERALLY NO KOREAN CHEESE MADE. They import a very very small section from Europe mostly Brie (WHY BRIE) and we've spent over $6.00 for a tiny rectangular wedge of normal cheddar cheese in desperation. A tiny thing of cheese can cost between $6.00-$15.00. But there is a wall of fake processed cheese which might be made in Korea but doesn't count as cheese in my books. :`(
Eat Your Kimchi Can you get Feta Cheese? :(
Please no, I have so much pity for expatriates people, right now! Good cheese and bread is life! I could never survive in a country which have not this essentials foods!
But Brie is good though! (Well French Brie hehehe I don't know for other countries' cheese)
+Miss Anonymous Food itself is already amazing, why compare it?
Note: take bread maker to Korea.
YES! It's very important :D
Not sure it would work, 'cause A: flour and milk probably tastes different B: ovens (proper enough to cook bread) are pricy and hard to find. My Mom tried to make kimchi with Indian pepper and British cabbages when we lived in GB (in the late 80s'!) and failed miserably. (so I've heard.)
That is totally what i'm saying it could make it and bake it in like 2 hours! no more overly sugary korean bread!
aeriaRIA My mother, when we lived together with my father, bought a bread making machine, because the cost of bread was going to grow even higher. The machine itself was already an oven, so when it mixed the dough, it would cook it as well. It tasted good, but my mom would usually bake a different type of bread... A healthier type, it was... Alright I guess.
My father is now using it again.
Pahaha gurl i was thinking the same thing for thus wholeeeee vid hahaha
Great vieeo. You guys always have original content. Seriously I love the thought and work you put into your videos.
That's really kind. Thank you :D
After all these Years!!!! the first time you finally noticed me!!!!! omg
and you're welcome
Missdaebak senpai(s) has noticed you
RBLXDev Hahahaha Simon and Martina are my senpais
I kept thinking about Kim Tak Goo during this whole video... .__.
Same here! xD I love that drama!
Hahaha!
Dat drama is my life!!!!!!!! :D
I'm with you on that! xD
My brother lives in Japan and when he comes home he eats like 1 whole big bread a day it's really insane he loves bread so much just like cheese i think it really hurts if he can't eat that good cheese and bread for so long 😂
Hahah sounds familiar! When we visit Canada my parents prepare a welcome home meal: a can of root beer, cold cuts, cheese, fresh bread. Sometimes my mom makes cheesy homemade lasagna for us to devour.
well in puerto rico we still dont have any chain bakeries so small businesses are still the norm in that matter, which is a good thing and a bad thing. mainly bad because some bakery owners are sloppy or lazy in their craft. So in a regular town you will have 4 to 7 bakeries but you will still travel to a specific one because the quality is better.
I totally agree with you on this matter. I musy say though here in soith florida I have seen slopy and lazy to the maximum. I traveled to pR last year and went to a panaderia called Lemmy or Leny. It was in Toa Baja. My God, that bread is delicious.
I live in the USA in the south. The closest we have to a bakery is the bakery section in our Walmart and Publix. And I have to say, we have a ton of Korean bakeries in my area and I would take their premade cakes over the icing covered monstrosities that American grocery stores sell any day of the week.
I personally like a lot of the cake styles in Korea, such as the lightly sweetened creams instead of icing sugar. Simon is sad about the cheesecake because it's very fluffy and not made with a lot of cream cheese, but it's actually my style! ^^ There are some things we like about Korean bakeries and some things we don't...like hot dogs everywhere...hahahahha!
Out of all the grocery stores Publix has the best bakery and deli though. So there's that lol
I never buy anything from the Walmart bakery. I'll just eat a bag of sugar with some food coloring k thanx.
Now that I think about, I've never seen a legit bakery. I'm from the American South too. There's a couple cake and cupcake bakeries around me, but I haven't had them. As for savory, I have no idea. A couple hours away from me there is a Global Foods market, and in it there's a little Asian lady (I think she was Korean but I didn't ask) who was selling fresh baked stuff. She had different pastries and cakes. She had a bun with green beans in it...like the kind you mom makes green bean casserole with.
Eat Your Kimchi my mother loves the fluffy style cheesecakes too... but lol new york style cheesecakes are more popular here in america so I have to bake them for my mom.
I live in Spain, I'm french and bread is IMPORTANT for me I can't live without bread. If I go to Italy, France, Germany and other european countries I like their bread, it's tasty.
I went to USA. and i'm sorry to say that it was really not my taste!!!!!!. the bread was FLUFFY and not the good kind of fluffy, and kind of SWEET? even the integral one, or the brown one, they all tasted sweet to me. and putting a piece of ham in it was just nasty, I lived one month without bread. Until I came back to Europe.
If you say that korean bread is even sweeter…..how do you survive??
Where can you find good bread then??
There are small independent bakers that have opened little shops around Korea but honestly, it's mostly only in Seoul. If you live outside of Seoul you have to travel a long distance for a loaf of bread.
It depends where you go because in America we have so many bakeries it may be difficult for you to find the right ones because some of them are owned by locals or opened by foreigners to sell baked goods from their country and others may look like a mom and pop shop but they are factory owned and they don't make anything there like Simon and Martina said. Like in my culture we do have sweet breed and it's labeled that way and we have other versions of bread too like water bread. It's very dry for me but it's a very popular bread for Puertoricans it's not sweet at all and it is fluffy. I hope you find a decent restaurant you just need to keep looking good luck.
It depends on where you live in the US.
I'm from a large city so we have people from all over the world influencing the local cuisine. If I want a sweeter bread one day, I can find that. If I want a more "European" style bread the next, I can get that as well. You can find a little bit of everything. You just have to know where to look.
Diam Oh! Yes of course! But sadly I was in USA for only one month and it was in medium-small cities of Maine and Philadelphia… Next time I'll look harder^^
Josselen Gonzalez Thank you for your answer! When I went there i searched and searched for good bread but it's true that i did not have the opportunity to look into smaller and specialized shops but next time I go there i'll look harder^^ I'll try water bread if I find it in Europe!!
I live in the country of bread
Bread is the main food
Bread is on our national flag
Bread is our national anthem
Bread is our god
Bread is our life
Bread is our eternity
BREAD IS EVERYWHEREEEEE
so i guess you are living in france or turkey
Beulloo Kim yep France haha
+Beulloo Kim it could also be spain, we eat bread in all dishes haha
+b2st__paradise really? i didn't know that :D since i love every kinda pastry, you can be sure that I'll search for it on the internet :D
Beulloo Kim yes hahaha food isn't the same without bread, we eat it at least 4-5 times a day :3 I really feel bad when I travel in countries where there's no bread because I can't spent a day without eating it haha we also eat snails quite a lot :3
And now Spanish subtitles are up! Thank you to whoever made them :D
+Simon and Martina no problem! I love you guys
+Simon and Martina French subtitles! Aww yeah! Thank you to whoever made them :D
+Simon and Martina you're welcome!! :3 that was great to make :D Love you guys!
+Simon and Martina super junior
There's a Tous Les Jours and Paris Baguette 15 min away from me because there's a lot of korean people in my area lol. And I actually LOVE it. OMG BUT CAFE BENNE IS SO GOOD-but it's an hour away :((((((
+Grace Lee Those bakeries are in my local area too (California)! Those bakeries actually cater to my tastes more than American bakeries :P It might be because I'm a dainty eater&&have a sweet tooth x)
Bread is actually a big thing here in Denmark. Even very small cities have at least one or two bakeries. The bread is always fresh and newly baked, and a lot of bakers use a lot of time on making it perfect. I've actually never been to a bakery where they didn't make the bread them self. Only now I realize how much I am going to miss it when I move away from Denmark ;_;
***** Må være ærlig og sige, at jeg heller ikke kan fordrage rugbrød xD
Trust me, moving to Japan made me miss rye bread A Lot! :p and just "normal" bread all in all >_< japanese bread is mostly also extremely sugary.. nothing like what bakeries in Denmark make..
Wienerbrød er noget af de bedste :D don't know if it is danish :D
Wienerbrød kaldes sjovt nok for "Danish" på engelsk :p
Gør det?! Det vidste jeg ikke... Hahaha ^^
Well I live in the US and we have the normal bakeries. Were I live is very diverse because we have many ethic places to eat for example we have Indian, Russian, Polish, Middle Eastern and Latin/Hispanic. So in my neighborhood there are a lot of Puertorican shops and bakeries. So compared to the breads I've tasted from the supermarkets like stop n shop are very different from Puertorican breads. My favorite bread that I've had from Puertorican bakeries are call "sweet bread". They are sweeter and they are so soft and I love getting them fresh because when I do they are so warm out of the oven and when you eat it, it melts in your mouth. I've even gone to Puertorican bakeries in Puerto Rico and the bakery scene is huge! The mom and pop shops are everywhere like a chain store but they are all owned by locals and every shop as their own style of making baked goods. It's a blessing and and a curse because all the food taste so yummy but the way they make them is so fattening lol. There are food chains that are own by factories but I can't remember how many there are it's been years.
Same! I actually really enjoy trying different breads from different countries. My favorites are from a Korean bakery right down the street from my University. They have a bacon and cheddar stuffed roll and as odd as it was the first time I had it, I've slowly grown to love them.
I love the Puerto Rican sweet bread! Taste wonderful with coffee
I'll agree on the Puerto Rican sweet bread. It's sweet, fluffy, soft, but in a weird way not so sweet. Just right. I make roast chicken sandwiches with it.
I'm Irish. Ever since I've moved to America, my bread consumption has gone way down. It's all so sweet and...just awful.
If Korean bread is even sweeter then I have no idea how you guys go on. The only bread I can eat here is sour dough. And that's just because it's not sweet. It is still nothing compared to the bread back home. Milk here is awful to. And you can't get good sausages either.
I've done extensive research on this too guys. I'm considering starting a club.
Omg hi Ray 😁
Yes, the sausages suck! My family hates the sausages here. We heard Irish sausages here taste like the ones back home but not really. I remember I used to buy Irish butter because it tasted like Kenyan butter here. I've gotten used to the bread here, but I only toast it.
This is interesting for me, since I grew up in America (California) and am now living in Korea. I think America's milk is overly processed and pasteurized. I've noticed the milk in Korea actually tastes a lot better, but of course growing up in America I never knew the difference. You can probably find fresher milk or raw milk or something at specialty places though.
As for bread, I'm curious where you are buying your bread from? There is the normal sliced sandwich bread you can buy at any super market, which is not that special. But we also have actual bakeries and artisan breads that taste better. Hmm. . . now I want to try some bread in Ireland. :) If I ever make it to Europe I will have a tour of different breads and cheeses. Eat all the bread! :D
I have been to actual bakeries and tried artisan breads of all sorts, and while they're better, they still don't compare.
One thing America does do better than Ireland though is eating out. Restaurants, fast food, everything. So much variety, and so much quality.
Take sushi for example. I know maybe 4 sushi places in Ireland off the top of my head. The sushi is...okay. I live in LA and as you might expect, I'm completely spoiled when it comes to sushi.
So everywhere has its positives and negatives. But yeah, I miss bread, milk and sausages.
MsDorkwithaspork Hi ^^,
When I traveled to Europe a few years ago I was blown away by the amount of small bakeries! I loved it! My host mom in Germany would go every morning to a bakery in her village. I wish America had a love for small bakeries. I'd support them!!
Ahh seeing Eunhyuk in the thumbnail gave me nostalgia
Daww hearing that about the franchises made me disappointed
watching your vids now and ACTUALLY planning a Seoul trip now :D
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Dutch bread is the SHIT! I was born in the Netherlands and I can say with pride that their bakeries are very much what you'd expect bakery to be like. You know, the bakers working day in and day out to prepare dough and make fresh products for the following day. Moving to the UK it wasn't like that really....the mainstream bakeries aren't that great and lack a lot of authenticity you know? Seeing as I am a village girl, moving to the bigger cities with a lack of GOOD bakeries was a shock. But the smaller bakeries are decent enough once you find them:) I guess in a sense it's like Korea with mainstream bakery chains going up against smaller (more authentic) businesses. But hey! Which business sector isn't suffering from this issue....
Omg I was born in the Netherlands too and moved to the UK. And it took me and my family quite a while to get used to British food because it was different especially the milk and cheese as well as bread. It was hard at first but thankfully I am all used to British food but seriously I'd prefer dutch food much more than British. Its in my blood :p
I know right! You can take the girl out of holland but you can't take the holland out of the girl😂🙌
Exactly 🙌😝😎
It depends on where you are I've been to quite a few bakeries in Europe and some of the best breads I was able to find in my local bakery and they taste very good. Your best going to family ran bakeries they are the best.
Couldn't agree more Natalya:)
I love visiting family in Mexico, because there is a bakery on nearly every corner. You find them on main streets or in a book in a residential area. they have such a variety too. There's not so sweet breads like bolillos and very sweet breads, and pies and cakes and tortillas. I'm sad that I no longer live an hour's driving distance from the border TwT
When I was in Korea I fell in love with Paris Baguette! Tteok, Bingsu's, and crazy pastry things!
Aww man I thought you guys were gonna record going to the bakery and film the different types of items along wish tasting a few....
they do have a video like that! itd an older one, from a few years ago tho
I'm from Germany and we love Schwarzbrot here. Well, at least most people I think. When I still lived with my parents we never really bought bread though, my dad always baked it himself, which was pretty cool. Now I mostly buy mine at the supermarket, which is kind of a shame.
Where I live in the States, I've seen imported Schwarzbrot but I've been a bit hesitant to buy it since it's pricey :o What is is great with? Btw, I'm not very picky.
Danke und Guten Morgen aus den Vereinigte Staaten :D
Schwarzbrot is amazing with cheese! That used to be my lunch back in elementary school. :)
Guten Abend aus Deutschland!
Nidia Valle it's more healthier, cause it owns less calories in it than white bread... and it makes fuller, because it's whole grain or so... give it a try, mose dark breads are fine I think.
Aaahh...jetzt muss ich gute Käse finden lol. Oh ich habe das gewusst aber idk if I'll like the taste. The bread is really dark!o.o (teehee sorry for my Denglisch :3)
Nidia Valle Take some young Gouda. Best cheese for Schwarzbrot. If it's really expensive (I don't know how much you pay for young Gouda in the US), do it at least once. Schwarzbrot, butter, Gouda. Also, try putting marmalade on the cheese (I don't think Americans use that word. I don't think it's jelly. Jelly is British jam, I think. Which is not marmalade. Should still work though).
I'm German and I live in Japan so YES I know how it feels!! :O Whenever I eat some "proper" bread that my family sent me from home, my boyfriend goes "OMG how can you eat this? It's so hard, it hurts my teeth"
The worst thing I've seen so far is the soft sweet bread with yakisoba in it, ugh it's just awful...
Also, I can't even make my own bread since we don't have an oven (don't really know many Japanese people who do)
Same thing with the no oven thing happening in Korea. We had an oven in our last apartment which was GLORIOUS and I did make my own bread! I made a couple simple loaves which were so-so but I'm no masterbaker ^^ and then I tried making an artisan loaf of bread that took me 18 hours and I ruined it on the last proof by using the wrong cloth. It stuck to the loaf and flattened my bread totally when I removed it. SO SAD!!!!
Ahhh I know that, it has happened to me ><
It's so frustrating to see something you put that much effort in beasically turning to sh*t...but at least you can say it's homemade and eat the crumbs xD That's what I always do when my cakes fail (or i say "well, i was going to make cake pops anyway")
no space I'd say :/
Oh my God, I know what you're going through. I'm German as well and I lived in Japan last year and the "bread"-isles in konbinis are an absolute nightmare! I don't get why they put all that savory stuff on top/inside sweet bread. It's horrible >.< The only good thing was Meronpan but I wouldn't classify that as bread xD
Eat Your Kimchi What you guys need is a bread baking machine. You pour in the ingredients and out comes the fresh bread an hour later! Most machines will have many different settings so you can bake different styles of bread and it has a timer so you can even put in the ingredients before you go to bed and then wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread. I mean seriously, buy one!
Here, in the Philippines there's a lot of bakeries here. Some are sells expensive breads esp. if if they are not traditional bread like Baguette, etc. but most sell low or affordable price of breads that suits Filipinos taste bud like Pandesal, Pan De Leche/Soft Dough, Monay or breads that has fillings like Spanish Bread or Hopia and even Loaf Bread.
You guys sure do make me chuckle, the humor is on point.
Bread is the substance of love and life x3
Agreed!
Eat Your Kimchi I'm sorry I just whent fully-fangurilla mode, YOU answerd my comment!!! thank you so much!!! ( °٢° )
I'm from Germany, so I think it would really hit me. I can't live without bread ㅠㅡㅠ
I have a weird question! What are Koreans' take on hair removal? Do they just shave and leave it at that? Or do they have waxing salons? Also, I saw on a previous video that in Korea, you can remove a spot for a cheap price. Is this also the same for something like laser clinics? Also, you said that Korean men like to take care of themselves, so is it normal for a guy to wax or generally be hairless?
Hi from Boise Idaho USA. I am so happy you are back, I have been really missing your show! Both of you are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your humor and lives with us.
Oh and if you ever find yourself around here I will take you to the best bakery ever and I will buy you all the fresh "real" bread you can eat.
That Starbucks comparison was so helpful thank you SIMON!
Am I the only one who put their hands in the healing circle?
You're not alone ^-^
+Logan Schenk (Mochipandabear) no..
Oh yes! Now that you mention it, north american (and south european, for that matter) bread brings me so much sadness as a scandinavian - all tasteless and dry. I've been so dissapointed when ordering dark bread in the US, only to find out that it's just the same foam rubber in a different color :( However, I did learn after a while that it does serve a purpose in creating those fantastic sandwiches you americans have! Neutral bread goes with everything.
Please keep your chain culture to yourselves, though. We have a long tradition of cafés and bakeries where almost everything is fresh baked, but in the past years more and more of the market is taken up by starbucks knock offs full of mass produced muffins and stale cakes. It might be the end of our sacred fika!
Hahaha! Disappointment is going to a chain bakery as someone of Scandinavian decent and buying "rye bread"
There's not many bakeries where I live in the middle of nowhere USA, lol. The only place to get bread is at the supermarket. So, I've been baking my own. It takes forever, but I love the fresh baked taste it has. I even made some Korean sweet potato buns.
You should totally find out how and start a line of fashion braces!!! You can have one that looks like robot, one that looks like muscles, skeleton, etc... Love it!
I'm European and this made me cry#ripbread
TheOmega453 me too :'(
Actually it is "Mr. Bates" he is the valet, not 'master' of anything lol.
When I went to Korea my friend and I really liked the donuts in Paris Baguette but we were so full of grease and spice (We were starved for it. We are both Mexican and we were living in Japan) that they didn't feel good in the tummy after a while. I think bread in Mexico is pretty good. Though not the kind you get at the supermarket. I hear a lot of Europeans complain that they can't find "european-style" bread here until they actually find out about the mom-and-pop shops where they sell it hahaha, their tears of joy~
Anyways, when I was in Japan what I missed the most was bread and coffee. Korea is better in the coffee department but the bread is about the same. Fluffy, sweet and generally not-good-for-sandwiches, expensive stuff that just makes you cry.
I was thinking that too... about mr. Bates....
Come to England and try our bread!!!!
But mainly,, come to England!
Also hey!
We'd really love to come to England and try your pubs. I'm not sure how good they are, but I imagine they'd be glorious!
Eat Your Kimchi They are indeed glorious ^_^
Eat Your Kimchi they are loads!!!
Also our biscuits are top noch ( ^ω^). (∩＿∩)
I'm now an short-term student in England and everyday in my school at breakfasts there's croissants and chocolate croissants. I've been told they were frozen, so I'm trying taking some back home! (I know it will defrost but I'll try anyways)
Love this video!
I'm US Army, in Korea for most of this year, AND my wife is an artisan baker back in the US. It's been EXTREMELY helpful to learn what to expect, but this video has almost blown my mind.....I really don't know how I'll handle traveling out there with no good breads.
Fortunately, Camp Casey does have a wonderful Euro style bakery located right on the post. So I'm not totally lost out during my time here.
I love watching Martina try to not mouth the words Simon is saying. I sometimes find myself doing that when my fiancé tells a story that I know lol. Happy to have your videos back. Nasties for life!!!
I'm from the Europe and I can't live without bread. Like seriously, I think ever sinds I was able to eat solid food I've eaten bread every day of my life. Crossants, kaiser rolls, tiger bread, baguettes, ciabatta bread. You can't take these away from me.
OHMYGOSH YES KAISER ROLLS!! I used to live in Germany and my family is from Poland and I live off bread and baked stuff.... I want bread now...
omg croissants
Well you can always bake
Kaiser rolls are the only thing keeping me alive
***** same tbh
You're telling me that as a German I'm screwed in Korea with the bread thing? That sucks.
Same here as an Austria person. I'm used to eating bread 24/7...or at least twice a day.
I'm Norwegian. I've been living in Japan for 6 months now, AND THERE IS NO REAL BREAD! I went to another city just because someone told me they had real bread. lies. LIESS!! LIEEEEESSSSS!!!!
I feel the pain Martina and Simon. I feel the pain. lets pray for the loss of REAL bread in Asia.
Yes I remember visiting Korea last year and the first thing I missed was having
toast with butter. Everything is so sweet and even baguette is sweet.
Even my mum who lives there misses Aussie's butter and bread rolls
Watching this again and it's made me realize. I was born, raised, and still live in America but, part of my life I lived where my parents are from called Tonga for about a year. I got so used to the fresh fruits, veggies, and ice cream but, the bread there. The struggle was real for my young soul. It took me several months to get use to American bread once again because the bread would taste bitter, stale, or dry. Still miss it as an adult to this day.
well, I'm French and of course breads & bakeries are a BIG issue to us! ^^ Nothing's better than a nice Boulangerie/Patisserie of here! ^^ (although I didnt travel that much... was my comment too "French"?) ^^
How I envy you. I live in the USA and I'm a writer. My dream was always to go to Paris and go to a bakery, have snacks and just write the day away. The dream will come true eventually, but here in the USA many of us are given the idea France is top notch artistry in baked goods. Well, maybe not all of USA but here in upstate NY many people are of that opinion.
Same! I don't think I'd survive in Korea
TreScotts1Fan Many countries thinks that, I can't really judge since it's the food I grew up with and I didn't travel enough to compare with other countries. I do think it's better than english dishes (sorry England, I love you tho!^^) I think French dishes can be surprising, unexpected but extremely good in the same time. I do think a good cook is a real artist. I hope your project to come to Paris will come true and will help you with your writting, Like any Kpop fan would say: FIGHTING!
Elias Menkin Thank you. Fighting!
Yes for sure us french people can't live without bread! I travel a lot and I feel sad everytime a go to a restautant in a foreigne country, especially in asia and north america that's for sure! And sometimes I see a supposedly french bakery over there, but what they make generally is completely inspired by they're own culture. I think that france has the biggest "bread culture" and we are very attached to it, more than everyone else ^_^
I only clicked this coz Hyukjae on thumbnail
B-But I like wonder bread...
I live in Finland and absolutely loooove the rye bread we have in here. It's so fresh and soft and drool. My mom is from Thailand and they just have the wheat bread which you could feed to the birds. Or not... But every time we go there I have to bring rye bread for our relatives and myself because I can't live without. And some strawberry jam for my auntie so that she can eat the bread we bring. LOL
here in NYC there are at least 3 tours les jour, paris baguettes and caffe bene each. There are of course other bakeries here too. I been to Martha's Country Bakery and two Colombian bakeries. none of those bakeries sell bread like the bread at grocery stores (wonder bread). they sell pastries and cakes. Martha's Country Bakery is the sweetest out of all the bakeries I went to. It has that American style taste. :)
NOTICE ME MARTINA AND SIMON SENPAI! Hehe I love your videos,lots of support from Serbia ^.^
Hi!
Whenever you guys ask about "how's this in your country?" I feel like I can't answer cuz I'm from Toronto and you already know everything about here.... :'(
That's totally not true! You know how diverse Toronto is, so you should let us know what neighbourhood you grew up in and what influenced you! When my sister moved to Little Portugal that was a new food experience for our whole family. I'm from Etobicoke but grew up with Canadian, Croatian, Chinese-Jamacian, and Japanese-Korean food. Simon is from Pickering and ate a lot of Polish, West Indian, Southern American food! After attending UofT we both learned a lot about Chinese food by living so close to Chinatown, and Kensington Market was a new culture experience too. We both have very different experiences while living in Toronto, I'd love to hear yours too! :D
Eat Your Kimchi OMG I can't believe you even saw this! But I grew up on the York University campus near Jane and Finch, and then moved to Corso Italia later. Sooooo much pasta and pizzaaaaaa. Now I live right around downtwn, near Casa Loma. the food lines are kinda blurred now. But I'm Nicaraguan, so we eat a lot of spanish food in our house. I feel so excited when you guys talk about Toronto cuz I feel like I'm in on a secret inside joke cuz I know all the places you're talking about hahahaha
Did someone else stare at Simons bugger all vid? O_O
yup lol
'Bugger'..? Here in Scotland, that's a swear word haha. What's it mean in this context - I can't work it out? :^P
***** or "booger"... the thing hangin' out Simons nose, or what little kids pick their noses for to eat...
myLOVEforKPOP
Ohhhh I see!! Haha poor Simon, I didn't notice!! Thanks for the explanation :'^)
there are a ton of paris baguettes, cafebenes and tours les jours popping up in ny (especially the first two mentioned) like its crazy but i love it because i really like paris baguettes cronuts lol (yes i know i could go get a real cronut but aint nobody gonna make a trip all the way to soho in 5 degree weather and wait on a line when i could just go to paris baguette lol) (but i definitely never thought they were fresh in paris baguette they have a pretty chemically after taste to be really honest...) alsoooo i love seeing kim soo hyun's face in front of tours les jours XD ummm as far as bakeries ny is extremely diverse and idk if i can truly say, at least in my experience, that there is anything that is truly "american"... by my house alone i have italian, colombian, dominican, and jewish bakeries each with their own distinct flavors and textures..the only thing that i would say is more ny is the deli culture? (but im sure that has its origin in a european country but i digress) like breakfast and lunch sandwiches from any local deli is totally the ny culture its just a matter of how fancy the ingredients and therefore how expensive the sandiwch will be haha .... oh no wait i lied... lol i guess i notice this more because i have such a sweet tooth but in terms of sweets there is a huge cupcake culture here (which i love!) also sweets in general here include cheesecake (although ill admit i like european versions of cheesecake like italian or polish cheesecake more than ny style cheesecake =/ ) pound cakes, and other sweets that im pretty sure also have italian and jewish origins but i could be totally mistaken lol anywho that was long but i hope that sorta made sense!!!
I feel so sad now for you guys. I went to pastry school a few years ago and I totally appreciate the time and effort in creating artisan breads. I typically like making bread at home during the holidays and give it out as gifts to my friends. Now that I think about it the last time I used a machine to help with bread kneading was in pastry school. You guys could try making bread. It's not as difficult as you may think. Just know that the proofing times and kneading of the bread will be what makes or breaks your bread in most cases. Unless you try making french bread. Timing is everything with french bread.
Hmmm...in my hometown there are only a few local bakeries. The big company ones are Publix, Walmart, and Panera. Although if you were to go to a Panera in North Miami most of the bakers are either students or former students of Johnson and Wales University, which is a culinary school. The small local bakeries are probably just a handful. They are mostly Italian and Cuban bakeries.
is simon wearing makeup?
I was just thinking that. He looks too flat and soo dewy.
Zeba F he definitely wore bb cream in a bunch of EYK videos. thanks korea
Note to self.. Take a loaf of bread when going to Korea. I am from Europe, England and I love my pastries and bread.. 😄
Mina Begum YAS ENGLAND THE BREAD IS RLLY NICE
I'm from Singapore. Let me warn you first that asking me to comment on bread is like asking a French person to talk about sushi xD I'm sure there are some individual bakeries and authentic franchises from Europe here, but for the average Singaporean, one of the most common go-to places would probably be Bread Talk(a local franchise). They sell large varieties of "breads", but by that I'm only referring to the fillings and style, not the actual bread. They just all seem to be...made from white bread.(Correct me if i'm wrong?) Common fillings include curry potatoes, ham, chicken, tuna, hotdog, mushroom, jam etc.
That's so interesting. Sounds like something we call garbage bread here in North America. Don't be offended, that's just what they call it. It just means bread filled with meat or other toppings. Our bread here usually has the flavors mixed in, not really many fillings. Well, you learn something new everyday. :)
Oh from my place in North America (California), we usually call that kind of bread Asian bread from the bakeries. It's actually really popular among my school and area (high end taiwanese bakeries like 85 degrees are loved). But then again, I live in a more Asian community, where we have access to both types of bread
C Yuan Haha I'm from New York state. It always amazes me how things have different names depending on the region.
Bread Talk is from Indonesia, same owner of J.co donnuts .. Here in indonesia they're famous for abon bread or beef/chicken flakes bread.. Yeah i think they use white bread dough for everything because here in indonesia when people say bread or roti in bahasa, it usually refer to the white bread.
Evani Margareth Bread Talk was founded in Singapore in 2000 by George Quek, who is the current chairman. Johnny Andrean(owner of J.co donuts) manages the franchises in Indonesia :) White bread is also the more popular bread in Singapore haha.
I actually find this really interesting because when I think of a bakery I can't think of anything... There's like bakeries in the grocery stores but not stand alone much anymore. There's a few traditional Hispanic bakeries where I live but none like you guys are talking about.
My aunt makes her own, seriously that bread maker is awesome. It kneads the dough for you and bakes it! Tastes fantastic.
If I ever go to Korea: I'll bring bunch of deodorant and bread. It's going to be the only thing in my bag.
Then you give an airport agent the wtf is with this person
Eat Your Kimchi It's like the same story when Asian goes to European or Western countries can't find good rice~ lol
ps: I don't know if you still replied me or not but: *Hi~* ^^
Hope you guys will replied me someday but just wanna to tell you guys that I missed you both so much! SimonandMartina Stawski
I just clicked the video bc I saw eunhyuk
Ramla Deadass seen this video already but it showed up on my recommendations so I knew there was no Eunhyuk in it but I clicked it anyway #noragretd
When I was in Hong Kong last summer their Pacific Coffee's did a pretty good job in terms of bread but there weren't many opportunities for just a baguette. The subways had several cake/bun places that I would compare to meat croissants or pastries. But I sort of lived off of Pacific Coffee sandwiches when work got busy! (also I'm in love with super thick slices of white bread, i didn't realize that was a thing and it's super great)
This is super duper crazy off topic (except for that mention and picture of Siwon) but I KEEP meaning to ask this. I just forget, becasue I see other EYK videos and I have to watch them all....immediately! So I know you like Manga Martina, have you ever read Skip Beat? Me and my sister have obsessed with it since......well many years ago. A Taiwanese drama came out for it, only one season so far. Siwon and Donghae from SuJu are in it!! They're dubbed but they do an awesome job.
SENPAI NOTICE MEHH!!!
HAI!
..... Wait... I was just watching cat videos..... HOW DID I GET HERE. Like if you get that (iisuperwomanii)
I live in Germany and we have a lot of bakeries at the nearby town, however you can see that the franchise bakeries are slowly taking over. It's kinda sad since a lot of the diversity in baked goods is lost with the closing of family owned bakeries.
Wait but Eunhyuk's cafe is not a franchise anymore, it's not called Tour Le Jours either, it's now called Chocolat Bonbon! I went there a couple of times while in Korea, saw workers kneading dough and whatnot too. His mom was there as well, she took orders and was super nice. So I think they might actually own it now. Don't quote me on that part though. I mean it's not really super important and I completely agree about the whole franchise bakeries taking over in Korea (which is why I went to a smaller bakery in Edae that was LITERALLY next door to a Paris Baguette instead, and the ajumma was sooo nice there) but I just wanted to point that out for the fans who might go there in the future. It's a really cute bakery!
I grew up in the US and have lived in Japan for a while too. I think the diversity of ingredients used so that the bread suits the culture is very interesting on a social level. I missed butter based baked goods while in Japan, but now I freak out if I can have the ultra thick toast bread from Japan with jam ( my staple breakfast while there).
I feel this so much-I visited Malaysia several years ago- went to their fancy fancy casino, and what did I eat- white bread sandwich with processed chicken loaf- it was HEAVENLY! lol I stayed with a friends family and her angelic
Mother bought me a loaf of white bread and Vegemite, she spent literally the same amount it would cost her to buy about a weeks worth of dinners- bless her!
There's cake shops dotted everywhere around the UK, but most bakeries are chains such as Greggs or the Pound Bakery, but I'm originally from a small town that has plenty of independent cafes etc, and whenever I'm in Manchester there's lots of Chinese bakeries too!
This video hits close to the heart. I'm from Canada and I've been studying in Japan for almost a year. I'm going home in a few days and when I land in Canada, I am going to get my favourite bread and just eat it. I absolutely hate the really super thick cut bread here in Japan.
Honestly, I know how you feel... During Christmas, a French international student's mother and sister came here and they brought this amazing rye bread with them. When they offered me a piece, I started crying tears of joy. Not only because they offered me the bread, but also put REAL cheese on it too.
Hello!! first time commenting on your videos! I'm Korean living in Canada at the moment, in Thunder Bay to be exact. :) I did notice the difference every time I went to visit Korea (which isn't that often anymore... I haven't been there in about five years 0.o) Like the sweetness of the bread, and the icing used on cakes! I recently realized that Korea uses sweetened whipping cream as icing not buttercream or other types of icing. Also most of their cakes as I remember it was a sponge cake. Or at least fluff-er. What I do LOVE though is the castellas (japanese style cheese cake) those are to DIE for. mhmmm. Anywho, I have such troubles finding friends to hangout with when I do go to Korea because I left when I was so young, so I'm SO glad I found you guys. My family lives in Seoul, so I will definitely be visiting your cafe when I do visit!
it is called par-baked bread. It is still fresh. The baking process is finished at the store. I use to work for a proper french bakery and a lot of their bread are made, frozen and then baked on order.
I’m from Sweden, and as you guys seem to have noticed there are a lot of different kinds of that really dark, awesomely healthy wholegrain-type bread there. Now I live in Japan and I haven’t been able to find anything remotely close to the bread I used to eat. It’s pretty much the same as in Korea with a bunch of sweet, mass-produced sponge-like bread. A lot of the sweet pastry-like breads here are really delicious (especially melonpan!), but don't really work when you want to make a proper sandwich.
But although there’s no wholegrain bread here (that I know of), you can find nicer baguettes and such in some of the bakeries. The problem is that there’s not really anything to put on them unless you have the cash. I’m used to being able to eat sandwiches with different kinds of cheese and ham and sausage and stuff, but even if I do find it here it’s usually imported and very expensive. In Sweden I would eat that stuff daily but here I can only do it on special occasions.
Also, if anyone reading this knows where to get wholegrain (dark) bread in Japan, PLEASE TELL ME! I’m desperate… :(
Zambian Bread is super fresh; and you can buy it from the small shops by your home every morning for breakfast. There's one rectangular loaf its really AMAZING! crisp on the outside and fluffy, fresh and soft on the inside! YESSSSS!!!! Man, I miss it!
I'm from Spain, more specifically Catalonia (in Spain there's a big difference between one region to another), which is next to the Mediterranean sea. Recently there's been a franchise that has thousands of stores all over Spain and I believe they're opening some in other European countries, called Granier. But aside from that, a good portion of the bakeries are still self-owned. There's actually a really good, artisanal bakery near my house. In Catalan bakeries you can find the typical French baguettes, quite loafy and crunchy, and then there's the traditional Catalan bread which is SO FRAKING MAGNIFICIENT, literally the BEST BREAD EVER MADE, especially if it's traditionally made. It's called "pà de pagès" which means "farmer's bread". It's round and super crunchy on the outside but tender and loafy in the inside and it's just so freaking good. Like LOOK AT IT, JUST LOOK AT IT: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-ldG6ITrBR9A/U7BzPdG9vnI/AAAAAAADD5o/qNwTMWXctXk/s1600/IMG_0894.JPG I'm literally drooling omg. I've never got so excited over bread in my life. I don't think I'd be able to live in South Korea...
How about getting a bread maker and making it yourself? Its so amazing how great the bread is out of a break maker! I got one and I make bread constantly! Love it!
That ponytail is fabulous on Simon, lol.
Strangely compliments the beard.
in south carolina breads just in the grocery stores. there are bakeries, but they dont sell any bread - just stuff like pastries. mostly cake. like the major thing they'll sell is custom/premade birthday cakes, but they'll also have tiramisu and pies and donuts in the display cases.
Also bath and body works has a bread scented candle!!! It's a totally the same scent of butter and fresh baking bread
I taught myself to bake bread in Korea using my toaster oven, whole wheat flour I bought off Gmarket, and the regular white flour from our local grocery store (they had it almost everywhere we lived in Daejeon). It was more effort, but SO worth it for good bread.
That said, Paris Baguette was good in it's own way, but definitely not life changing. It was fun to go pick out cakes for birthdays, or get a cream puff here and there. In boring old Western USA there aren't a lot of local bakeries, so that was novel for us.
And I learned a life skill - bread baking! It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought. And I'll admit, having been gone from Korea for five years now, I still sometimes crave a little fluffy, sweet cream puff on demand.
Alas, you'll always miss something, no matter where you are.
You guys have really nice skin. You should do some sort of skincare tutorial :)
Ohh, we have paris baguette and tous les jours here in socal (lots of koreans here) and its SOOOO good when youre craving something sweet. But i had no idea they just straight up didnt make regular bread there!
I love how I in Australia, my local Coles has a bakery in their store and you can actually see them making it like making the dough and stuff and the best thing ever is when you buy bread and it still feels warm from the oven :D
im korean and i love korean bakeries (franchise and small, self-owned) but i also love european breads as well
When you guys mentioned that there was no stylish braces, it reminded me of something. My classmate recently injured herself and now has an ankle brace for it to heal. Though I didn't realize that it was a brace at first since it looked like a high top sneaker. Like seriously, it really looked like a sneaker, pure black with laces and everything. The only downside to it was that she had to wear flip flops since she couldnt really fit anything over the brace.
in Switzerland we have bakeries and the people who work there start working at like 3 a.m. to make fresh bread and croissants etc. Nothing's better than fresh bread.
but the champions in making croissants are the French people (okay I haven't tried bread from all over the world but French bread and croissants taste like heaven).
DarkSailorEisblume It's a point of national pride that shops close early and on sundays because "they need to rest too!" but somehow also that employees start work at 3am. Swiss logic.
As I stayed in Europe before for couple of years and now I am back to Asia, and I totally undersstandddd what you guys talking about!! It is really very hard to find "good quality" bread here in Asia. ):
I love your videos!!! Y'all are my favorite RUclips channel ever i don't know what i would do with out y'all!!!! :) keep up the amazing work both of y'all put in your videos! ♥♥