$7 Picnic Vs. $323 Picnic

we are back it's your host stephen lim driving but also we have another host driving andrew hill nicki adam whose car are you in i think i'd rather be in stephen's car what dang get right driver and why are we in two cars today you might ask it's because we're going on a picnic that's right today i'm worth it we're going to be trying three picnics at three drastically different price points to find out which one is the most worth it at its price that's why we're all driving separately is because we're all meeting at our picnic location picnics are having a little bit of resurgence right now it's a great way to meet up with people to dine outside in a responsible socially distance manner and this will be taking place over three days whoa whoa whoa whoa we're about to picnic for three straight days is this like picnic chella sure our three picnics are not all strictly picnic specific food but they will be foods that travel well and are convenient to eat outdoors all right andrew what is the first restaurant that we're going to be enjoying today first we're going to see manager jana at jengalov hots an armenian restaurant that specializes in one dish only and the name of the dish is jungle of hots drinkyal of hot the translation is bread with herbs it's a national dish we have few restaurants in capital of armenia yerevan same name same dish here in glendale we have a lot of americans who love it as vegan food the dough is very simple it's a flour water salt and the filling we have usually 12 different types of herbs whatever we do in armenia it's exactly same what we do here we don't use any machine everything goes by hand and to open the door very thin it's not too easy that's how this restaurant was made to show customers the process of making the dish and i like it i appreciate it because the dough is so thin it's not oven it just all flat stuff it takes like 30-40 seconds one and another side and it's ready i have a lot of customers friday saturday sunday people take like 10 20 breads by going outside because it's nice and easy you don't get dirty non-greasy people who grew up in armenia i grew up with this dish i have a customers who come say oh it's so good you open here it brings back memories so it's a simple and it's a healthy dish we're back picnic season been a while since i've seen you in person you've gotten stronger i have thanks for noticing hey you got a little buffer today not just today we have a yogurt drink i've had like the asian yogurt drinks it's gonna taste like that you think i'm not sure i've never seen this before cheers wow i thought i was gonna get milk or yogurt and i got neither it really has the same sort of like mouth drying and puckering as greek yogurt we're starting off with something very simple oh but this is perfect picnic food it comes in a box you can pick it up with one hand [Music] it's delicious it's really good reminds me of the chive dumpling we had in taiwan so dense with green vegetables you know what is surprising about this it's kind of juicy in a meat kind of way to be honest when i saw it i was like oh i kind of feel like i'm going to be disappointed when i bite into that just cause i'm so preconditioned to like order things with meat but this is very satisfying we should have a picnic ability like how much does it picnic reclined position one-handed does it picnic there's picnics this picnics there's also dessert it's just dessert with walnuts and honey oh my goodness look at the inside this is a fire hose of deliciousness into your mouth i think this might be the most comfortable we've ever been ask me about picnic steve you picnic oh i picnic adam do you pick nick we're now in our second day of picnicking now on day two we're really getting into the elongated picnic mode but before we get there picnic fact woven baskets were the earliest vessel used to transport food because they were light and versatile but also sturdy if there's anything this fact says about humans is that we were born to picnic weaving in general is i think is one of the most impressive inventions the idea that you're taking a strand and turning it into something with structure and strength i don't know if prehistoric andrew would have been able to figure that one out i am most certainly sure that prehistoric andrew would not have figured out weaving we're now on our way to see jihi at perilla la which is not a restaurant but it's a to go only business that sells korean banchon and this particular business comes recommended to us by our friend sorry a baby squirrel was just walking so slowly across the road i always slow down for animals so perilla la was actually recommended to us by friend of the show riya really used to work with jihy rye said oh you're looking for picnic foods you gotta go to perilla la it's i mean during pandemic i have a lot of time to think and i always have this idea of making korean bunsen with californian produce bansan is a little korean side dishes that can be eaten with rice so i grew up in korea my grandma started a restaurant very similar model they are known for their bantam i used to work at rossi canyon i learned a lot about how to treat great produce basically it's combination of what i've learned at the restaurant with the flavor that i grew up with i go to santa monica farmers market i have a relationship with farmers i always check with them and they just tell me what's good in the season i do marinated okra that's like one of the most popular menu okra is not traditionally korean ingredient i think it would be nice to add a char flavor and i use the vinegary soy sauce overnight and i also have an eggplant dish which is from my family that they actually use it even right now at their restaurant so the only difference i use there on the chili and my mom probably used korean chili and nori chip it takes over a day i used two nori sheets together and then sweet rice porridge i spread it on top of it and then i dehydrate and then become like dry chips a lot of my bunsen it looks really simple but i have to wait like i ferment a lot of stuff it's amazing to see how flavor changes the good thing about my food you can pick up and then live in your fridge a lot of my guests they told me like oh yeah i'm picking this up to camping and i was like oh that's actually a good idea because it holds well i'm also learning because it's not just about cooking i have to talk to a customer they have a lot of questions i have to post on instagram i started cooking at my old apartment and there's no light i bought the white box and i took the photo from my iphone it's all like learning process and i i feel grateful to do that [Music] picnic day two day two when it's a picnic day it's a great day prilla if you remember our first time eating on this show korean barbecue that's right perilla a type of leaf shall we napkin so jihi's given us a bunch of different dishes i think we should start with one of her favorites the okra cheers cheers that is not okra it tastes like the word barbecue the delicious char when you bite it it's like cooling apart and falling apart in your mouth kind of like the way that barbecue does yeah i'm honestly shocked by it what did you do to the okra what you're tasting is time and not t-h-y-m-e okay chip break chip break oh oh my gosh oh bam bam hey chicharron shut up this chip is in town now it's a seaweed chicharron yeah this picnic's real hard so this is cabbage layered with perilla leaf that is delightful i mean it's really pretty much exactly sauerkraut you know what you do next what this egg looking thing that i think is egg i mean i never thought i would eat an omelet on a picnic it's not just an omelette though it's like a crepe these green beans are catching my eye each of these you can just grab very easily with chopsticks just go boom done all right so i want to go to this one next it's like cucumbers like kimchi like pickled is that pineapple i think it's melon picnic picnic yo yo yo okay shut it down this is the best one that's got everything going for it it's pickled it's a little spice behind it let's go to the eggplant cheers stephen here if you like eggplant this is like the most eggplanty eggplant you can eat in your life you want to take a real trip go back to the okra house back to where we started and this is how you picnic around and around you go so like what you're saying is that this food picnics this food picnics [Music] okay picnic day three and stephen and i are just along for the ride in the back because at our last picnic we're gonna be enjoying some delicious wine so before our last picnic picnic fact most historians agree that the word picnic is derived from the 17th century word picnic though at the time it was used to describe a social gathering that was more like a potluck where everyone would contribute a different food item by 1802 the term in the activity had made its way to london where a group of francophiles people who love french culture established a picnic society at which they were known to eat drink and put on small shows and performances i love how it was upgraded to a dinner and a show outdoors it also feels like it was more of an outdoorsman's kind of club have you ever been part of a food club i have not i guess this show is a little bit of a food club all of our millions of viewers we're all part of the worth it club this is our own worth it society wait now i feel like it's a cult speaking of picnic society we're on our way to our last location now we're going to see chef curtis stone at his new pop-up at the grove called picnic society so at picnic society they have a number of curated baskets the basket that we're gonna have features an assortment of charcuterie that comes from chef curtis's other restaurant gwen i love how they're paying homage to the original picnic society kind of like fanny packs back in style baby i'm curtis stone and we're in picnic society which is a pop-up by gwen gwen's a butcher shop and a dining room and the butcher shop is sort of the heartbeat of the dining room we pull together a beautiful selection of meats game wagyu and we make all of our own chakrutari what we were seeing at gwen was a lot of people were coming in and buying things that would be sort of ideal for a picnic we sort of just got a little playful with the idea and thought we'd do it as a business and then we got the opportunity to come over here to the grove and do a pop-up restaurant so here we are we've a beautiful big patio here at the grove and then we have a terrace up here on the first floor which we call the backyard it's really cozy but still very individual you know when you think about a picnic it's actually a beautiful way to dine because you really linger you graze on the food we've got beautiful blankets lawn games anything that you could imagine to create the perfect picnic is in this building so there's a few ways you can go about ordering your picnic basket you can either build your own or you can let us build it for you so the gwen basket really celebrates everything about gwen the big highlighter is a beautiful selection of cured meats teresa's an incredible butcher and she runs the the butcher shop over there at gwen she's also learned the charcuterie very very closely she's studied it she's moved to italy wagyu brusola brussola is air-dried beef and we sourced it from blackmore's wagyu beef production in australia a couple of years ago we actually went to blackmore farms in australia to interview uh mr black dave itself yeah and if it was a couple of years ago there's a chance you saw the steer that you're gonna taste today it's a beautiful product to start with and hopefully we make it even more special and what goes so brilliantly with cured meats is wonderful cheeses and then all of the things that you'd expect to eat really well with that dried mascartel grapes some crackers some paste we make a chicken liver parfait i learned how to make it with marco pierre white when i cooked in europe and it reminds me of my childhood growing up in tough restaurants we make beautiful olive oil and sea salt sticker bread dom is one of our incredible pastry chefs here and he bakes that stack of bread as well as making all the beautiful sweet things that you can come and find chocolate chunk cookies so we get big chunks of velarana chocolate i like to think the cookie's just there to hold the chocolate chunks together picnic society we like to say you bring your own weather to the picnic it's very true you know like a picnic is meant to be a time that you spend with people you care about and it's not meant to be rushed [Music] i'm extremely comfortable it's not just this deluxe blanket that we've gotten just for this occasion what is this this is made by trilby nelson and you can buy these at picnic society because you can buy everything you need for a picnic look at this box it looks like a briefcase you ready to pop it open i'm gonna pop it three two one okay so we opted to also buy a bottle of wine and we have a nice greek rose roses do that really incredible job of still being like but they can hold up to that beautiful cured meat and it matches my blanket come on cheers stephen to three picnics [Music] yo that's nice whoa i just i just saw the chocolate chip cookie that that's for dessert steven yeah i know but it's a thing you can start with it it's pigmented yeah true don't try to throw your rules on me i'm starting with a chocolate chip cookie you want to start with a cookie we'll start with cookies oh my gosh you can't go wrong with chocolate chip cookies it's almost like a chocolate panini now let's get to some savory food i say we kick off the party with a little parfait oh man that's good bread look at this i don't think i've ever spread chicken on bread before [Music] my hearing just cut out for a second okay so let's do cheese next so i love a cheese that's just kind of like butter so this one was a bloomy rind sheep milk cheese i love cheese we got some dried grapes here so in australia you remember the museum muscadel that's wine produced from this type of grape these grapes are crazy i think it's time for a posture change i'm leaning over steven are you seeing the sunset right now look at these clouds look at the mountains it's time for some meat i think so so good it has this incredible like jamminess to it it's borderline fruit leather there's duck spectacular so that's the darkest one this duck is the best bacon i've ever had i want a pickle now because i've had a lot of really fatty meats pickle cheers so steven does this meal picnic this picnics and i could do that because i'm outside [Music] that was a picnic trilogy i've really developed a new appreciation for the picnic i think i'm going to be picnicking a lot more in the future it's time to tell me which picnic was the most worth it at its given price point i think all three of these truly picnicked i think my winner is gonna be perilla la because i had no concern about taking my time with that food and i think for me that's what's best about a picnic you know i really love the picnic society and those meats were just perfect but the question today is does it picnic and yes while the pitting society does picnic and while perilla la does picnic jenga love hots they really picnic you can grab and go you can bring it to a hike you can bring it to the beach adam who's your worth it winner all right that does it for worth it picnics i'm picnicked out see you next week when we do worth it savory pies [Music] you

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Length: 16min 45sec (1005 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 01 2020

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