Korean Food ft. Alex Reid of RaNia ♦ Tour of Gangnam

Hi friends! Today we're going to be hanging out in Gangnam. I am at the station currently, and I'm going to exit 11. Gangnam is home to a lot of K-pop entertainment companies. There's also a lot of shopping here, especially if you're shopping for luxury brands. Someone's on a date! Hello! I'm Rania and I'm a rapper, Alex. I'm hungry. You didn't eat lunch, right? Yeah. Oh, me neither. Okay. Let's eat! Feed me! What are you feeling? What am I not feeling? Look, I've eaten mandu literally five days in a row, so maybe we take a break from that. So we're just going to walk down this street, and then there's like more streets in between. So whatever looks interesting, stop me and let me know, Alex. Alright, I'm in there. Oh yeah, Alex was mentioning how in Korea, there's so many restaurants that are stacked on top of each other. Yeah, like you have to constantly be up and down. So we found a place called Jinguk Food & Pub. Why don't we take a look inside? And then if we like the ambience, we'll stay. Check out the ambience, I like that. Oh, actually it's down here. My bad. It says Jinguk. I don't know if it's open though. It seems kind of quiet. It's like a basement restaurant. Oh, it is open. Wait, can I swing it the other way? Oh wow, and there's like an even more basement area. Oh, watch out. Oh yeah, watch your head right here. See, it says, watch your head. Watch your head. This is how short it is in the whole thing. What's the difference? It's like six inches right there. I mean, check this out. It's kind of a playground in here. I mean, first to enter this restaurant, you have to go down the stairs. And then you have to go in this ceiling. That's a really small menu. It's kind of cute. Banana. If you're wondering where your utensils are, look at the table. There's a drawer that pops up. And typical Korean restaurant where they give you the bill before you start eating. So don't get offended. And I got my suyuk gukbap. Boiled pork soup. Can you do a demo? Do I do it with chopsticks? Oh yeah, yeah, sure. Do I take a bite of it or do I eat the whole thing? That dumpling wanted to go for a swim. It's so slippery. Do I eat it like in one bite? If you want to. No rules to this game. Really juicy. And potato-y. Yummy, huh? You taste the potato. It's very twitchy. Yeah. The skin is quite thick. I don't know why the image of a trampoline pops up in my head. Pizza. That's the egg pizza. Thank you. And it comes with a little dish of pickles and some chili sauce. When you eat pizza or pasta in Korea, it always comes with a pickle dish. Yeah, it does. It's because it's supposed to make it refreshing. Because you know, if something's too cheesy, they try to balance it out. Let's try some of this soup. If you want it to be a little saltier, of course you add more salt in it. Do you want to try this? I'm just going to try the broth. Oops. Everything that goes in your hand wants to go for a swim in that sauce. Let's check out what this egg pizza is about. My instinct is to cut it with my chopsticks. Oh yeah, you make the rules around here. Cut myself a little slice. It looks like a cartoony pizza. Can you eat this with chopsticks or with your fingers? Chopsticks, why not? Delicious. It's like an omelet. Oh, I love this. That's Alex's mukbang. It's so good. I guess you can put it in here. Okay. Fold it in half. It tastes American. I've got some drifting action going on here. On to round two. Bingsu. We found a bingsu shop, Homibing. Tea and ice flakes. And look at all these flavors. Mango, strawberry, blueberry, chocolate, taro, milk, melon, bean flour. Green grapes. And green grapes. I'm going to try trendy here. Green grapes? Yeah, like green grapes and melon. It's in everything right now. We were filming this in August 2016. So by the time this vlog comes out, there might be something else that's trendy. There's going to be no more green grapes. Trends in Korea, they come and go so fast. Let's go in. It looks quite empty. VIP status here. We have the place to ourselves. That could feed like four people. Like what? That's like six inches high. We have kind of Monte Cristo in blue collection. And the yellow gold collection. And what? Vegetable mold and earthworms by Darwin. By Darwin? Yeah, they're definitely light boxes. Whoa! I was not expecting that. I was expecting something like milk. But it's actually very fruity. Very melon-y. And when we eat this, we have to rotate. Because on that side, she has some ingredients. And on my side, I have all the grapes. Do you have bingsu often? Not lately. I was in a phase where I was having it every day. So I just said goodbye to Alex. She had to go to practice. I'm quite full from lunch and bingsu. I'm going to do a little bit of walking around before heading home. Also, I want to pick up some souvenirs. I'm going to head to a stationery shop. I haven't seen this before. It's a Gangnam tour bus. Let's take a look at it. So if you guys are interested in taking this bus, it looks like it goes to Gwanghwamun, Namdaemun, War Memorial of Korea, National Museum, Itaewon, Yeongdeung, all the hot spots of Seoul. And it's closed on Mondays. And it is a Monday today. So here we have a bus route showing you the prices. When you walk by these stores, you're playing a bunch of music, mostly K-pop. A lot of the businesses come and go here. But I see Bibigo is still there, as well as May Island, which I filmed here about three years ago. So I think that cafe is doing pretty well, if it's still here. It's like the quietest cafe I've ever been to in Seoul and in the world. If we go to the left, there's a multibang. Multibang is a place where you could rent per hour. You could just play video games, you could use the internet, you could watch a movie. It's a nice place to go if you're really sleepy and you need a place to nap. Another place you could take a nap is the DVD room. Funnyland. A mini arcade. On the right, we have fortune-telling shacks. We have an Italian restaurant on the first floor. Second floor is Indian food. And above, and a house that looks like a cafe. Every couple steps, I'm going to give you a ground-to-upper-level scan of some of these buildings, so you get a better idea of what's here. This restaurant is open 24 hours. And above, what is it? It looks like Japanese food. This over here is a karaoke. Second floor, they have Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. This Paris baguette is three floors tall. That's the official entrance of where Alex and I ate earlier today. I'm going to check out the art box here. Cute little stickers. What's this? Oh, they're lights. It's an egg yolk. And this one's a poop. Look at how cute that is! That's ridiculously cute. This is a mouse pad. But here it says, don't worry, be happy. I picked up two notebooks for writing and two sets of stationery to write to family and friends. I hope you guys enjoyed the look at Gangnam and what you could do here. I'm going to head back home, do some work. I have a bunch of emails to write and potential collaborators to talk to. So I'll see you guys in the next travel vlog. Annyeong!