(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome back to another "Global Street Food Challenge." Today, though, we have
a very special guest. It's Kevin, from the, Let's
KWOOWK Channel, welcome. - Thank you so much for
having me, this is-- - Oh, thank you for being here. - This is amazing to be here with you. - Yes. (crosstalk) I like this a lot. (both chuckle) - How good are you at a,
eating and b, geography? - I'm pretty good at eating and I also enjoy tasting
the food that I eat a lot. And then geography, I don't
know, I guess we'll see. I do a lot of stuff around the world, so you would think that
maybe I would know this, but I'm not confident. - We do a lot of stuff
from around the world but I'm still terrible at this game. - Yeah so, who knows?
(both laugh) - Bring on round one. (jazzy music) The first dish is in front of you and you can remove your blindfolds. - Oh! - Oh wow! - Wait, this looks very familiar. - It does look very familiar. (jazzy music) - Now all we ask of you is
to scribble down one country, the location of this particular dish. - Wait before you bite into it, what do you think is gonna be inside? - It's either, cheesy potato or meat based. - I do think it's like a
meat based thing, yeah. - All right, cheers.
- Cheers. - So, as you might imagine, this is sometimes served as a
side or as a snack in itself. You might find it in the
drinking establishment of this country. - So, potato, meat, I'm gonna go for beef. - You think there's mashed potato in here? - I think there's potato in there. - Yeah, it's like all
binded together by potato. - You're pretty much spot on. Cottage pie. Basically it's minced beef,
potato, onion, carrot, all the things that we would
typically put in a cottage pie have ended up inside this filling. But there are lots of different fillings that you might find for this
dish and where it comes from. - This sauce to me tastes so familiar but I just can't place the taste. Can you place the taste? - That is such a better
name for this game? (Kevin laughs)
- Place the Taste. - That is such a better
name for these videos. - After about eight episodes,
Kevin, you've just renamed it. - Yeah, I think I'll just go with sauce. Just straight up sauce. The sauce to me has the key. - Now remember the rules. If you can get the country spot on you will get five points. - Oh. - However, if you're both wrong, we will look at who is closest from the centroid of each country and then give one point to the closest. - If you're both wrong, we fight. (both laugh) - I have a little instinct. - Yeah, I've got an instinct. But this could go in a
few different directions. - Exactly. - This dish was introduced to
this country by the French. - Oh. - Hence the pane-- - I wish I knew enough history
to know what that means. (both laugh) - That's either helped
you or confused you. But I need you just lock in an answer. Yep, this is mince beef. - We can't peek, right? - No, keep it a secret
- Bound with mashed potato. Sometimes you get them
with shrimp or with cheese. Sometimes you get them with
almost like a curry filling. - I know when he's gonna say the answer I'm gonna be like, "Oh yeah,
I should've known that." - Yeah, that's why I
hate these games so much. But I also love them because
of the delicious food. - Exactly. - We always learn something. You both locked in an answer? If you can reveal them
in three, two, one, go. We've got Lebanon. - I said Lebanon. - And Jay is going for the UK. (Kevin gasps) Explain your logic. - So me, I remember making
this one dish called Kibbeh from Lebanon and it had
a very similar nature in the filling and it was also deep fried. - Oh, that's really interesting. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - You seem seem more confident than me. - No, you're far more traveled than I am. - (laughs) I don't know. - Jay hasn't left his own borders. And I'm guessing you
said this is cottage pie, the French pane. - Because we also pane scotch eggs. The filling is very cottage pie-esque. There's no other flavorings in the filling which makes it quite plain British food. And the sauce is very, very reminiscent of HP brown sauce and such. And--
- HP brown? - Yeah, it's kind of got that vinegary, the Worcestershire--
- Oh right. - Worcestershire sauce.
- How do you say that? Worcestershire sauce.
- Wash your sister sauce. - Wash your sister sauce, okay. - Wash your sister sauce.
- Okay. - I'm gonna reveal that
you are both wrong. - Ah! Well we're not both
gonna be right, are we? - However, the clues were there. They are Panko breadcrumbs. This is a Tonkatsu sauce. This is Korokke from Japan. - Oh, so I'm-- - So definitely, surely.
- Wow. - So this is a fantastic snack. I said drinking establishments 'cause I didn't wanna say Izakaya but they would've been served
in sort of Japanese pubs but also sometimes alongside
other dishes in restaurants and they can have all sorts of filling. But it was the French influence, it originated French
cuisine scene came across at the start of the 1900s.
- Wow. - That's a Tonkatsu sauce. - So it was the sauce.
- Yeah. - It was the sauce that had the key. 'Cause to me the filling here
does not feel very Japanese. - No, it doesn't give anything away. - Yeah, exactly, yeah. - Which is why I went British. (both laugh) - So probably don't need to tell you who is closest on that round. But just for giggles, Jay,
you are 9,224 miles away. - It's pretty close man. - Kevin, much closer with
a mere 5,403 miles away. - That's pretty much nothing. - Oh, neither of us shone in glory there. - Yeah, not yet. - But you were slightly
more glittery than I was. - Exactly. - Which means Kevin, you get a point and we move on to round two. (soft rock music) Round number two. Let's see how we get on with this one. - Oh, whoa! - Whoa!
- What? - Oh! I'm not gonna give away anything. - [Ben] (chuckles) Yep. - I'm not gonna give anything away. - We genuinely didn't know
this when we set this one up, but whilst you had your blindfolds on and we were getting sexies, we had little giggle on the sidelines. - Well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna sit back and let you have some fun
with this and I will enjoy it. - So grated cheese, a white sauce and is that bread underneath? - Is it?
- Is it? - Maybe it's not, who knows. - Cheers.
- Cheers. (soft rock music) Oh yeah. - We should stress that Kevin
probably has a better idea of what this is.
(Kevin giggles) It was not the plan. We didn't know this.
(Kevin laughs) - I'm trying to work out what
the white sauce is on the top. It's a bit like Greek yogurt-y. - Mm-hmm, okay. - Greek yogurt. - Ooh. - So it is a yeasted dough that's rolled out and then fried, often then rubbed with
a little bit of garlic, but like a clove to give you that you've
got sort of garlic scent. And then that thing on
top, Jay is sour cream. And on top of that cheese. - Usually I'd expect the
fried bread to be more sweet. 'Cause of that doughnut type consistency. - Exactly, yeah. - But the sour cream and
the cheese is really nice. I'm just perplexed by it. - Is it fair to say that this is quite a
simple classic version but there might also
be other toppings added so it might also carry some onions, maybe some ham and some meat. - Well, this is inside a rampant of books. - Yeah, well I realize it's
not the way we planned this. - This is, I will say, this is
my favorite way to have this. - Well perhaps Jay, you
can lock in an answer and Kevin, see if you can
work out where in the world you can place the taste. - Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows?
- You could well be. You could well be.
- Exactly. - So a wonderfully golden fried
crisp bread on the outside and nice and light on the
inside, sour cream and cheese, little bit of garlic comes from, turn around in three, two, one. (Mexican music) - For me it was 50-50. It was either going to be
Romania or the Netherlands. - Oh, you were pretty close.
- You're from Romania. But you live in the Netherlands. So I had to decide which direction to go and it turns out neither
of them are right. - But what you don't know about me is that I have Hungarian blood. - And we did not know that either, which is why this taste
has slightly gone wrong. (everyone laughs) - I'm sorry, but my mom is Hungarian. - Well, that's amazing. In which case, tell us
more about this dish. - Yeah, so this is Langos. I hope that's how you call it. I will say it is a little
harder than I usually have it. But then it's topped with
sour cream, garlic and cheese and sometimes just a sprinkle of salt. And you eat it piping hot as it comes out. - And our understanding is
the name comes from the word for flame, which is why it's cooked in sometimes the oven as well. So people would come to a communal oven to cook their version of it as
opposed to the fried version. So there's kind of different traditions. The fried or the baked version. - Oh, I didn't know that. - But the garlic, the sour cream, the cheese on the kind
of leavened flatbread is the way forward. - It is absolutely delicious.
- Oh yeah. - And knowing that a bit like pizza, you can have the different toppings, you can try it in different ways. - Yeah.
- It sounds really versatile. Can I make a suggestion the next time we have
a guest in this format, we get them to do an
ancestry DNA test first? So... - I can send in my blood
samples and my saliva. - Look, to be fair, he's only
taking a leaf outta your book. You put UK in the first answer. We don't need to do the
mileage on this one. Kevin absolutely takes.
- Thank you. - Full marks, five points,
which puts him at six, nil. - Ooh, oh, I'm sorry man. It feels a little bit unfair. - It is still all to play for
as we move into round three. - Let's get some mushy peas in here guys. (Ben an Kevin laughing)
Fish and chips. Yeah. (jazzy music) - Okay, the third one is in front of you. Blindfolds off.
- Exciting. - Pull it back, pull
it back, pull it back, pull it back, pull it, whoa. - [Ben] Similar color. Very different--
- Interesting. - It's got hot dogs in it.
(whimsical music) Doesn't it kind of look like an empanada? - It does look quite empanada-y. - Yeah.
- It's bread. - Wait, what?
- It's bread. There's hot dogs in here.
- Yeah. - I'm seeing onions or what is that? Yeah, onions, mustard. - Oh, there's a--
- Jam? What is this? - Steam coming out of Jay's? Still hot. - There's like stuffing in it. There's rice. - Rice?
- What the (beep) is this? - This is like a bunch of
cultures just clashed together and formed this.
- Have a taste. - Dig in. You're pretty right though. It's kind of a bread dough that has been wrapped around a filling. Sometimes it's pork, sometimes it's beef, sometimes it's a mixture of pork and beef. This is pork. - This doesn't come together for me. It doesn't feel like a dish. It feels like a random thing. Like AI generated this. - Yeah. - You haven't sort of
got to the filling yet which naturally obviously
you would eat the whole thing and... - Oh, you feel that spice in there? - We've got like sage and
onion stuffing in there. It feels like what you'd
stuff a Turkey with. I'm so confused.
- Yeah, it feels sage-y. - You know in like a Cornish pasty it used to be split into two parts, so you'd have the savory
part and the sweet part. - What is that? I don't
even know what that is. - I'm gonna go down to
mines that'd have a pasty and on the one side it
would have meat and potato. And on the other side it would have a jam or
something sweet in it so that they had lunch
and pudding in one handy. - That's smart.
- Handheld meat packet. - This dish quite literally
translates to meat pie. It is in our instance a pork
sausage filling with rice, onion, inside bread dough, which is kind of then
folded and crimped over and then fried. Once that's done, it's then cut into and then we put in frankfurter
or wiener or hot dogs, mustard, ketchup, and raw onion. - That feels so strange 'cause to me, this part and this part feel like two different
places in the world. - [Jamie] Mm, I'm really enjoying it. - Yeah, it's not bad. - It's really unusual because
of the mixture of flavors. - One thing it hasn't got in it is egg. - Egg? - There's definitely no egg in this. And for those of you who do know the dish, you'll know why that's important. - No egg. What country hates eggs? - So there is an old joke that some of the traditional cafeterias and street food vendors
who would serve this, the server would ask, "Would
you like it with egg?" And you're supposed to
respond, "No," with money. And I think the translation is, "Do you want to sort of pay with it by egg "as opposed to money?" And that's because egg is slang for penis in this particular place. I don't know if that helps narrow it down - So it's not a English speaking country. At least we know that 'cause
you have to translate it. - Yes, yeah.
- Yes. - [Ben] And this dish
translates to meat pie. - I think it's a, first of all this culture likes to have fun. We can establish that.
- Yes, yeah. - Like you look at this and you're like, "These people are fun." - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Right, see if you can
scribble down a country. - I don't even know which
continent to aim for. - Same.
- All right. I am sticking a pin in a map. - And that is why we love
this particular video game because this was completely
new to all of us. We are learning too. Spin your boards in three, two, one, Switzerland and Brazil. - Did I spell this correctly first of all? - I would've gone for
a Z rather than an S, but no they might spell it that way. - Okay, okay. So for me, I picked the country
that just was a clash of, not a clash, but a mixture
of European cultures because the hotdog in there, the mustard, it just felt like a European thing to me. So I was just like, "Okay,
Switzerland, they have fun." (everyone laugh) - I tried to think of a country
that has rice in its culture and meats like sausage and that
kind of thing is out there, but also puts things in bread. - So I can reveal with
my poor pronunciation that this is Lihapiirakka. - Oh, that's European.
(Jamie chuckles) That's Swedish or something.
- It's Finnish. - Oh! - [Ben] This is from Finland. (Jamie groans) - Yes, at least a little bit
of my instincts were good. - Finland did come to my
mind, but I dismissed it because I couldn't think of any reason why it would be Finnish. - 'Cause I also thought about Finland but I was like, "They definitely have fish "or some fishy thing in there." - Do you think that's-- - Kev, you're about five
times close than Jamie who was 6,685 miles away. - Can we check the math on that? 'Cause I'm not too sure.
(Jamie giggles) - Lihapiirakka translates to meat pie and it very much is a
fried meat pie filling. It does bounce between
pork or beef filling. And you're right, I think
the closest part of that was the mustard and the kind of the wiener or the frankfurter kind of
vibe, goes in the middle. But they also sometimes add mushrooms sometimes add some cheese. It's a real hodgepodge
of street food delights. - When I first bit into it, I was like, "It doesn't make sense." But the more I ate it, the
more I wanted to finish it. So Finnish it. - Yes. - Oh no. - There you go. - Kevin, at the moment
you have seven points, which I think is about the
highest of anybody of all time on this particular game and
there's still a round to go. - Wow!
- Round number four. If you are enjoying this, there are some small things you can do that make a big difference to us. Like the video, subscribe if you aren't, click the notification
bell and select all. Thanks! (whimsical music) - Last one. Remove the blindfolds. - These smell so good. - Ooh. - Meat on a skewer.
- Yes. - Possibly a hot skewer. See if you can identify any of the flavors and the meat itself. - Smell any spices? I think this smells like lamb, maybe. - [Jamie] I'm getting fennel
seeds or cumin seeds on there. - [Kevin] It looks very spiced up. - [Jamie] It does look
very spiced up, yeah. - [Kevin] And I like that. - Mm. - You think it's lamb?
- Mm-hmm. - Cumin? Cumin.
- Definitely cumin. - Yeah.
- Oh, or is it fennel. Oh wow.
- Seeds, chili flakes. - So far you're a bit unsure whether it's cumin or fennel. I can tell you it's both. - Okay, yeah.
- So well done. - Nice. - It is also lamb. - Very tender. - Spiced up lamb on a skewer. - Yeah. - Sometimes they would
be sort of wooden sticks, bamboo skewers, sometimes they're metal. And the bamboo obviously
perhaps more traditional on the streets, so you can take them away and you don't have to bring
back the metal skewers. But the metal skewer perhaps more in more of the restaurant setting. - I think a lot of cultures
do this style of street food. So I think it's a little difficult. - One thing I will say,
is this dish is believed to have originated from some
of the nomadic traditions of people within this country who relied heavily on animal
husbandry for their sustenance. And then obviously the skewering of meat is something that could be
done easily while in motion. Now a street food stand is
static and you come to it. But this was a way of being able to move and skewer meat as you move and not have to carry too many
pots and things like that. Right, you've both
scribbled something down. Turn your boards around
in three, two, one. (Kevin makes music sounds) - Oh! - Oh! - Look at us.
- We both win! - Yay!
- Yay! - Oh, that means I can't win.
(Kevin laughs) - You are both as close
or as far as each other. What are the chances of that? - I just felt like I
saw a lot of lamb dishes in that Northern African part of the world and just the skewer-ness of it and then the nomadic
people that you mentioned. It just all connected
with me, I don't know why. - Yeah. I was going lamb, that spicing sort of blend was very and then the other one was Turkey because such a big country, I just thought if we
are going off Istanbul and it's over there, then yeah, from the centroids
perspective, I'm well amiss. - You are both well amiss.
- Oh, well amiss. - However, the logic is very strong. So this is from predominantly
Muslim communities. The cumin and the lamb is also associated with a
number of dishes in the area. This was originally
from the Xinjiang region but the dish is called Chuan'r. - What?
- And it is from China. - What? - What?
- So close to Nepal and kind of the spicing
of Biangbiang noodles if you remember the
cumin lamb and the chili. - Wow, I would've never guessed that. - I would never associate the
spices of cumin and fennel with Chinese.
- Me neither. - So fennel, one of the
Chinese five spices. - Well, apart from that one. - And cumin and it is the Muslim community and often to quarter sort of
north-west of the country. So you are both 5,139 miles away. - Yes!
- Yes. - But that means you are both equally far and take a point each. So it finishes 8-1. - Yes!
- What a win. - Yes. (laughs) - Oh, I mean I didn't get zero but. - Thank you for being happy for me. - Well, I am happy for you,
I was happy for me as well. But I'm mainly happy for you. That is, you've come in and
absolutely stonked that. - Wow!
- Yeah. - I did not expect that. But I had a very good time. Thank you for having me. - Well Kevin, thanks for
joining us, for playing along, while Kevin was here he has also done a sub 10 minute Burger challenge. The question is, was he sub 10 minutes? You'll have to watch it to find out. But thank you so much for joining us. Check out everything from the Let's KWOOK Channel
in the links downstairs. - Subscribe to Sorted Food a lot. - A lot, congratulations. (claps) - Nicely done.
- Well done. (everyone applauds) - Thank you guys.
