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)
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.
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......
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 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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
*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!
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..
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).
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)
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!!
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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?
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 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
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
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!
I live in California near a Tous les Jours, and my friends and I went together when I said it was a bakery. They were all like WTF why is everything Korean I thought this was supposed to be French!
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.
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'm from Lebanon and bakeries are extremely important for us. The awesome thing is that there are bakery chains that staple their logo all over their merchandise just like the ones you mentioned, but there are actual "Masterbakers" operating in the kitchen of each and every one of those bakeries preparing bread and sweet goods all day long ^^
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
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)
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~* ^^
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.
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...
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
there was a documentary about german food in asia and there was a korean man who fell in love with german bread when he studied in germany. for that reason he learned how to bake it from a german baker and opened a german bakery in korea. i don't know if it still exists, but it could be worth a try
I'm from South Africa, we have this Bakery chain called Fourno's which is like a restaurant/bakery/patisserie where they usually bake breads and things (e.g. toasted bacon and cheese croissants) that you won't find easily in your neighborhood supermarket (like factory bread-loaves). But the most neighborhood supermarkets bake fresh buns at least twice a day as well, so we never have a shortage of bread. If I go to Korea I would probably cry, I am way to addicted to bread.
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).
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.
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 have the opposite experience from you guys. I move to the states 14 years ago, and ten years later, I'm back to Taiwan where there is really no owner-made bakery around at all. I missed the days when I lived in South California and went to bakeries that I loved and bought their bread and coffee and tart and all kinds of sweet goody. God, I missed America.
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.
Im portuguese and bread and bakeries are A HUGE part of my life, my city, my country, everything in here! Throughout Lisbon there are some very well known bakeries that sell a huge variety of bread, pastries, cakes and so on and in every street you will have 1-2 small business bakeries, with fresh bread coming out every now and then. Living without them would make me very sad now that I think about it!
If you're ever in Damyang, there's this bakery I go to on the way to work most days called Heungboo Bakery in a small town called Changpyeong, about 30 minutes north of Gwangju. It's amazing. No western pastries, but I like everything I've eaten there, and it's my mission to try everything in the shop.
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)
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.
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!
I live in New York, specifically Queens. I go through Flushing to get to school, which is almost completely populated by Asian people. Mainly Korean and Chinese. There are literally so many Paris Bagettes, and Tours Les Jours. They even have a newly popular one called Cafe Bene. I'm not sure if it's new there in Korea, but I've seen them in Flushing, and in Steinway(both in Queens, New York) near my school.
Here in Scioto County, Ohio we have 4 bakeries that do everything from scratch. There's Union Mills Confectionery (West Portsmouth), Helen's Bakery (Portsmouth), Scent From Heaven (New Boston) and Wheat Ridge (Amish place in Blue Creek). There's not much else here worth talking about, but at least we have a good variety of fresh baked goods.
I live in Malaysia, and I can say that in my hometown, in the Sarawak state, there's a chain of bakeries with quite a few of its shops around town. But I think they're trying to keep making home-made baked-goods, so each shop is assigned to make a certain range of baked goods (some make pastries, some make biscuits, all make bread and cakes) and then distribute the foods to all shops across town daily. So every shop sells the same products... in a way. To put it simply...
In Japan last summer, my friend and I tried croissants at a place named Jean-François, after its creator, a French baker using its cred to open overpriced shops in Asia. The texture and butter ratio were perfect but we were really surprised to see that sugar came separately in a little bag. Maybe Japanese customers don't perceive croissants as being a classic breakfast/goûter food, because while their other non-traditional desserts were terribly sugary for my taste, their croissants were not. As French people, it's part of our duty to try french things around the world and make mean comments about it (that's what makes us so lovable) but it is so nice to see how your culture is seen and re created elsewhere. It was really touching to see Japanese people eat their croissants with cutlery (what), being so delicate towards this french thing full of butter. Well it's obviously easier to say that kind of nice cosmopolite things when on holidays : when I lived in Sweden for a year, I was going crazy because they only make hard cheese and put cinnamon everywhere. But the croissants at ICA are really good, would recommend.
I am from Mexico, but now I live in Texas and even though there is a lot of Mexican bakeries here, it is just not the same as sweet bread from Mexico, it is something I really miss, by the way your videos are so awesome! I love you guys you always make me laugh!
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.
My father sometimes goes to Seol for work related stuff and theres this bakery in the seoul bullet train station (I guess thats what its called?) and oh my gosh, the stuff you get there is frickin amazing. they have like beautiful pastries that melt in your mouth and buns made out of pure amazingness. You guys should really check out that place! I think the bakery's called something something paris
My first job after high school was working at a bakery in a small rural town in Southwestern ON. Everything is made from scratch except the beverages and the coffee isn't the greatest. They're famous for their 10 different kinds of homemade breads, pie and amazing butter tarts. Their baked goods and cookies were also amazing. I gained at least 10lb over the 5 months I worked there, just from eating all the delicious broken cookies and squares. And the prices are much better here. $3 for a bread made this morning and $2 for day old bread, after 3 days it's $0.50-$1
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 NYC I'm noticing the franchise Caffe Bene is popping up a lot. There is a tour les jour and paris baguette location(s) yet Caffe Bene really expanded within a year or so.
I live in the United States and oddly enough the city I live in is growing rapidly in Korean population. There used to be one oriental superstore but now we have multiple locations of this chain of Asian markets, it's great. And we do have a tous lajour (sorry about spelling) not sure if it's a franchise or a knock of the actual chain. We also have a couple of other independent bakeries with Korean treats! I'm not Korean, but love getting the sweets and bubble tea:)
Well, I live in Texas, so there aren't many home-baked kinda places. However, I am a Colombian and I visit often with my parents. They have TONS of bakeries. Like you can literally never go hungry because you can find a bakery. At least where I'm from, Bucaramanga which is the capital of a 'state' there, you can always find freshly baked bread. In Colombia, chain restaurants are located in malls, and restaurants and other stuff along the streets are family-owned.
It'd be a great idea for Martina to work with a tattoo artist or someone who can make realistic drawings to make alternative fashion braces. It may not be possible to do 3d, but it'd be possible to work with different fabrics and patterns, maybe some lace or types of soft decorations. Kinda like Viktoria Modesta's gorgeous prosthetic legs made by The Alternative Limb Project. Imagine braces with beautiful realistic designs or Martina's wicked funky drawings, it'd be so awesome!!
I'm Mexican and I'm so grateful that in Nashville, TN there are more than a couple Mexican bakeries. All of the bakeries make their own bread here. Occasionally some bakeries only make non custard/cream bread. and others just focus on pastries. I really can't imagine not having Mexican sweet bread in my life.
I'm Singaporean and over here we have tons of bakeries with the kind of bread that you guys would love to eat. Basically Singapore is a melting pot of different cultures but you can always find a typical loaf of bread in supermarkets or bakeries that is similar to the ones you find in American or Canadian bakeries or stores. 😄
My little town in California has its own bakery chain... There's only 3 bakeries open just in town... They bake their good daily... They bake cakes, scones and all those sweet goods to french rolls and other (sandwich worthy) bread. The main location is also a restaurant so you can get more than just a sandwich... It's very good!! So popular....
I'm so used to bread here in Denmark that I actually have a hard time whenever I'm out of the country. We have this special bread here called 'rugbrød' and you really can't get it anywhere else than here.. You can get something that like looks like 'rugbrød' but it taste like sadness and tears of children. It's sooo sweet and it's so hard that if you drop it it'll make a hole in the ground... Bakeries in Denmark are amazing. Everything is made from scratch in the bakery itself, no frozen bread sent to the shop! So whenever you step into a bakery you can most likely smell freshly baked bread, cakes and so on.. And most bakeries are like small cafées as well so you can enjoy whatever you buy in the shop with a cup of coffee.. It's pretty cozy ^^
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 am in Cornwall, England and we have this amazing bakery called Warren's! Everything in there tastes amazing, the bread, the pasties, the muffins, cookies, buns, seasonal cupcakes! It's all delicious! If you are ever in Cornwall I seriously recommend it! :)
In Finland we mostly eat rye bread and dark bread which is really healthy though it could taste bitter if you're a first time tourist in here. However we also eat toast and buns, and the "white bread culture" is spreading quite fast but mostly people still think fluffy bread is no bread at all, it's more like a treat than actual food XD
I live in the US, but in my area there's an Asian style bakery. the bread is slightly sweeter than typical north american bread, but its extremely soft. most of the stuff I get are the filled buns, but the do sell bread loaves. Hands down my favorite bakery, and one of my favorite restaurants too. I do like basic bread with soft springy, airy insides, but with crusty chewy exteriors. Bread like that is made with just flour, water, yeast and salt. It can be easy to make at home and I make it myself from time to time. However it can be harder in places like Korea, when homes typically don't have ovens.
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 >
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
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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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 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.
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!~
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
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.
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!
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
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 ^^,
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:)
Am I the only one who put their hands in the healing circle?
You're not alone ^-^
+Logan Schenk (Mochipandabear) no..
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?
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 ^^
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
Ahh seeing Eunhyuk in the thumbnail gave me nostalgia
Daww hearing that about the franchises made me disappointed
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).
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)
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!!
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.
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....
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"
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 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 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.
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'm from Germany, so I think it would really hit me. I can't live without bread ㅠㅡㅠ
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!
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.
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
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
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 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.
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 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?
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
B-But I like wonder bread...
When I was in Korea I fell in love with Paris Baguette! Tteok, Bingsu's, and crazy pastry things!
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
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
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!
I live in California near a Tous les Jours, and my friends and I went together when I said it was a bakery.
They were all like WTF why is everything Korean I thought this was supposed to be French!
I'm European and this made me cry#ripbread
TheOmega453 me too :'(
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.
im korean and i love korean bakeries (franchise and small, self-owned) but i also love european breads as well
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 ^_^
watching your vids now and ACTUALLY planning a Seoul trip now :D
I'm from Lebanon and bakeries are extremely important for us. The awesome thing is that there are bakery chains that staple their logo all over their merchandise just like the ones you mentioned, but there are actual "Masterbakers" operating in the kitchen of each and every one of those bakeries preparing bread and sweet goods all day long ^^
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
NOTICE ME MARTINA AND SIMON SENPAI! Hehe I love your videos,lots of support from Serbia ^.^
Hi!
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)
My aunt makes her own, seriously that bread maker is awesome. It kneads the dough for you and bakes it! Tastes fantastic.
That Starbucks comparison was so helpful thank you SIMON!
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
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
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.
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...
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
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
You guys sure do make me chuckle, the humor is on point.
SENPAI NOTICE MEHH!!!
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there was a documentary about german food in asia and there was a korean man who fell in love with german bread when he studied in germany. for that reason he learned how to bake it from a german baker and opened a german bakery in korea. i don't know if it still exists, but it could be worth a try
I'm from South Africa, we have this Bakery chain called Fourno's which is like a restaurant/bakery/patisserie where they usually bake breads and things (e.g. toasted bacon and cheese croissants) that you won't find easily in your neighborhood supermarket (like factory bread-loaves). But the most neighborhood supermarkets bake fresh buns at least twice a day as well, so we never have a shortage of bread. If I go to Korea I would probably cry, I am way to addicted to bread.
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).
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.
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 have the opposite experience from you guys. I move to the states 14 years ago, and ten years later, I'm back to Taiwan where there is really no owner-made bakery around at all. I missed the days when I lived in South California and went to bakeries that I loved and bought their bread and coffee and tart and all kinds of sweet goody. God, I missed America.
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.
Im portuguese and bread and bakeries are A HUGE part of my life, my city, my country, everything in here! Throughout Lisbon there are some very well known bakeries that sell a huge variety of bread, pastries, cakes and so on and in every street you will have 1-2 small business bakeries, with fresh bread coming out every now and then. Living without them would make me very sad now that I think about it!
If you're ever in Damyang, there's this bakery I go to on the way to work most days called Heungboo Bakery in a small town called Changpyeong, about 30 minutes north of Gwangju. It's amazing. No western pastries, but I like everything I've eaten there, and it's my mission to try everything in the shop.
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)
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.
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!
I live in New York, specifically Queens. I go through Flushing to get to school, which is almost completely populated by Asian people. Mainly Korean and Chinese. There are literally so many Paris Bagettes, and Tours Les Jours. They even have a newly popular one called Cafe Bene. I'm not sure if it's new there in Korea, but I've seen them in Flushing, and in Steinway(both in Queens, New York) near my school.
I'm an exhange student in Korea atm and omggggg I miss bread!! Not only that, but the fruit yoghurt thingies are way too sweet here as well!
Here in Scioto County, Ohio we have 4 bakeries that do everything from scratch. There's Union Mills Confectionery (West Portsmouth), Helen's Bakery (Portsmouth), Scent From Heaven (New Boston) and Wheat Ridge (Amish place in Blue Creek). There's not much else here worth talking about, but at least we have a good variety of fresh baked goods.
I live in Malaysia, and I can say that in my hometown, in the Sarawak state, there's a chain of bakeries with quite a few of its shops around town. But I think they're trying to keep making home-made baked-goods, so each shop is assigned to make a certain range of baked goods (some make pastries, some make biscuits, all make bread and cakes) and then distribute the foods to all shops across town daily. So every shop sells the same products... in a way. To put it simply...
In Japan last summer, my friend and I tried croissants at a place named Jean-François, after its creator, a French baker using its cred to open overpriced shops in Asia. The texture and butter ratio were perfect but we were really surprised to see that sugar came separately in a little bag. Maybe Japanese customers don't perceive croissants as being a classic breakfast/goûter food, because while their other non-traditional desserts were terribly sugary for my taste, their croissants were not.
As French people, it's part of our duty to try french things around the world and make mean comments about it (that's what makes us so lovable) but it is so nice to see how your culture is seen and re created elsewhere. It was really touching to see Japanese people eat their croissants with cutlery (what), being so delicate towards this french thing full of butter. Well it's obviously easier to say that kind of nice cosmopolite things when on holidays : when I lived in Sweden for a year, I was going crazy because they only make hard cheese and put cinnamon everywhere. But the croissants at ICA are really good, would recommend.
I am from Mexico, but now I live in Texas and even though there is a lot of Mexican bakeries here, it is just not the same as sweet bread from Mexico, it is something I really miss, by the way your videos are so awesome! I love you guys you always make me laugh!
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.
My father sometimes goes to Seol for work related stuff and theres this bakery in the seoul bullet train station (I guess thats what its called?) and oh my gosh, the stuff you get there is frickin amazing. they have like beautiful pastries that melt in your mouth and buns made out of pure amazingness. You guys should really check out that place! I think the bakery's called something something paris
My first job after high school was working at a bakery in a small rural town in Southwestern ON. Everything is made from scratch except the beverages and the coffee isn't the greatest. They're famous for their 10 different kinds of homemade breads, pie and amazing butter tarts. Their baked goods and cookies were also amazing. I gained at least 10lb over the 5 months I worked there, just from eating all the delicious broken cookies and squares. And the prices are much better here. $3 for a bread made this morning and $2 for day old bread, after 3 days it's $0.50-$1
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 NYC I'm noticing the franchise Caffe Bene is popping up a lot. There is a tour les jour and paris baguette location(s) yet Caffe Bene really expanded within a year or so.
I live in the United States and oddly enough the city I live in is growing rapidly in Korean population. There used to be one oriental superstore but now we have multiple locations of this chain of Asian markets, it's great. And we do have a tous lajour (sorry about spelling) not sure if it's a franchise or a knock of the actual chain. We also have a couple of other independent bakeries with Korean treats! I'm not Korean, but love getting the sweets and bubble tea:)
That ponytail is fabulous on Simon, lol.
Strangely compliments the beard.
Well, I live in Texas, so there aren't many home-baked kinda places. However, I am a Colombian and I visit often with my parents. They have TONS of bakeries. Like you can literally never go hungry because you can find a bakery. At least where I'm from, Bucaramanga which is the capital of a 'state' there, you can always find freshly baked bread. In Colombia, chain restaurants are located in malls, and restaurants and other stuff along the streets are family-owned.
It'd be a great idea for Martina to work with a tattoo artist or someone who can make realistic drawings to make alternative fashion braces. It may not be possible to do 3d, but it'd be possible to work with different fabrics and patterns, maybe some lace or types of soft decorations. Kinda like Viktoria Modesta's gorgeous prosthetic legs made by The Alternative Limb Project. Imagine braces with beautiful realistic designs or Martina's wicked funky drawings, it'd be so awesome!!
I'm Mexican and I'm so grateful that in Nashville, TN there are more than a couple Mexican bakeries. All of the bakeries make their own bread here. Occasionally some bakeries only make non custard/cream bread. and others just focus on pastries. I really can't imagine not having Mexican sweet bread in my life.
I'm Singaporean and over here we have tons of bakeries with the kind of bread that you guys would love to eat. Basically Singapore is a melting pot of different cultures but you can always find a typical loaf of bread in supermarkets or bakeries that is similar to the ones you find in American or Canadian bakeries or stores. 😄
My little town in California has its own bakery chain... There's only 3 bakeries open just in town... They bake their good daily... They bake cakes, scones and all those sweet goods to french rolls and other (sandwich worthy) bread. The main location is also a restaurant so you can get more than just a sandwich... It's very good!! So popular....
Also bath and body works has a bread scented candle!!! It's a totally the same scent of butter and fresh baking bread
I'm so used to bread here in Denmark that I actually have a hard time whenever I'm out of the country. We have this special bread here called 'rugbrød' and you really can't get it anywhere else than here.. You can get something that like looks like 'rugbrød' but it taste like sadness and tears of children. It's sooo sweet and it's so hard that if you drop it it'll make a hole in the ground...
Bakeries in Denmark are amazing. Everything is made from scratch in the bakery itself, no frozen bread sent to the shop! So whenever you step into a bakery you can most likely smell freshly baked bread, cakes and so on.. And most bakeries are like small cafées as well so you can enjoy whatever you buy in the shop with a cup of coffee.. It's pretty cozy ^^
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 am in Cornwall, England and we have this amazing bakery called Warren's! Everything in there tastes amazing, the bread, the pasties, the muffins, cookies, buns, seasonal cupcakes! It's all delicious! If you are ever in Cornwall I seriously recommend it! :)
In Finland we mostly eat rye bread and dark bread which is really healthy though it could taste bitter if you're a first time tourist in here. However we also eat toast and buns, and the "white bread culture" is spreading quite fast but mostly people still think fluffy bread is no bread at all, it's more like a treat than actual food XD
I live in the US, but in my area there's an Asian style bakery. the bread is slightly sweeter than typical north american bread, but its extremely soft. most of the stuff I get are the filled buns, but the do sell bread loaves. Hands down my favorite bakery, and one of my favorite restaurants too.
I do like basic bread with soft springy, airy insides, but with crusty chewy exteriors. Bread like that is made with just flour, water, yeast and salt. It can be easy to make at home and I make it myself from time to time. However it can be harder in places like Korea, when homes typically don't have ovens.
I don't always eat bread, but this video compelled me to eat a slice of bread while watching the rest of the video.