Uncle Roger Reviews Culinary Class War: Convenience Store Challenge Episode

"Culinary Class War" features creative convenience store cooking competitions.

### Convenience Store Gourmet Cooking Competition
* 🍳 A cooking competition show, similar to "Squid Game," features chefs using only convenience store ingredients to create gourmet dishes.
* 🧑‍🍳 The show is described as having many episodes, but the reviewer focuses on a particularly impressive episode centered around a convenience store challenge.
* 🏪 The challenge highlights the vast difference between Asian and American convenience stores, emphasizing the variety and quality of Asian options.
* 💰 The competition focuses on creating **gourmet food** on a budget, demonstrating how to save money while still producing high-quality meals.
* 📺  A sponsor, ExpressVPN, is promoted for unlocking geo-restricted content on various streaming platforms, such as Netflix, to access a wider variety of shows.
* 🌶️ The judges' reactions and the contestants' stress levels are highlighted, showcasing the pressure of the competition and the unconventional ingredients.
* 🍜  The contestants prepare various noodle dishes, showcasing different techniques and flavor combinations, with one contestant's Pad Thai and another's You Po Mien receiving particular attention.
* 🍰 The winning dish, a creative and unexpectedly delicious tiramisu made entirely from convenience store ingredients, is praised for its ingenuity and restaurant-quality presentation, solidifying the contestant's win.

(foreign language) - Fuiyoh, this show's so epic. (foreign language)

What? Everything's so epic, and then suddenly, "You are a spoon." Are they big spoon or little spoon?

And look, so many chefs in this warehouse. Imagine if a bomb hit this place! It would take Korea decades to have good food again.

Korea would feel like Britain. (foreign language) What, survival? Uncle Roger never felt this hype about spoons before.

This show feels like "Squid Game." I think if they lose, they die. This show has so many episodes; it's too long,

but my niece and nephew told Uncle Roger to review this one specific episode. It's the best one.

And don't worry, they're not going to spoil anything. (foreign language) What is that?

(foreign language) (foreign language) Ahh. Convenience store challenge, fuiyoh.

That's very cool because in Asia, convenience stores all look like that, you know? Nice and clean, colorful.

You can get so many different cool things. That's not how convenience stores are in America. Go to any 7-Eleven out here.

It's just stale hot dogs spinning, and homeless people selling you crack. It's amazing, also. (foreign language)

So they have the term "convenience store food gourmet." Nice. I see why everybody likes this convenience store episode now

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(foreign language) Ah. Those must be the judges, Asian Penn and Teller. Go, go, go, go, go.

This is what Black Friday in America looks like. (foreign language) Balsamic dressing?

What? What convenience store is going to have balsamic dressing, haiyaa? What are you going to ask for next?

Caviar? (chef sighs) (foreign language) Everybody's so stressed. Uncle Roger would be stressed too,

if I were in this competition, having to make convenience store food. I'm just going to make some instant noodles and call it a day.

(rock music) (foreign language) Hmm, pad Thai, okay. (foreign language)

How are you going to turn instant noodles like that into pad Thai? (foreign language) Chicken breast, crab stick.

Well, fuiyoh, Asian grocery stores you can get whelk. Nice.

The only non-traditional meat you can get at a Western grocery store is rat. (foreign language)

Ah, canned whelk like that. That is good. Convenience store canned whelk,

the whelk soaking in very flavorful liquid. So he can use the liquid to flavor his noodles.

Nice idea. (foreign language) Correct, sweetness important. Acidity important also, correct.

Usually in pad Thai, we use tamarind. (foreign language) I don't think he's going to be able to find

tamarind in a Korean convenience store. (foreign language) Lemon. Hm. (foreign language)

I guess lemon has good acidity also, okay. (foreign language) (tense music) (bell dings)

(foreign language) No, no, no, you don't want your food to remind people of you, haiyaa.

Otherwise, all the fried rice Uncle Roger serves in my restaurant is going to taste sad and bitter.

Okay, let's see your pad Thai instant noodles. (foreign language) Ah.

Fried egg on top also, fuiyoh, nice. (foreign language) (Uncle Roger laughs)

I like this guy. Twice the packet means twice the MSG. (foreign language) Shocking explosion in your mouth.

This nephew has a way with words. That's what Uncle Roger tells all the aunties. (foreign language)

Spirit of drunk. This noodle must taste like regret. (foreign language) Of course it has harmony

because pad Thai is just this existing flavor already. Everybody likes pad Thai. So you know, if you copy pad Thai flavor,

it's going to taste good. (paper rustles) Ah, another noodle dish. I guess it's a convenience store.

So I think everybody's going to make some type of noodle dish. (foreign language) You po mian?

(foreign language) What? Korean convenience store no chili powder? Okay. You're not that great after all.

(foreign language) Pouring oil over chili powder is a good technique because chili burns very fast.

If you heat up oil in a pan, then you put chili into the oil, the chili will burn.

But the other way around, if you put oil into chili, then you're going to cook the chili without burning it.

Bring out more flavor. (foreign language) I think she's searing like that to get rid of moisture.

Okay. So in that case, searing without oil is okay. I remember with Jamie Oliver making pad Thai,

he tried to sear some ingredients with no oil. So he called it, what, like dry frying.

This isn't that, okay? This one, she's doing it on purpose and later, you po mian, she's going to pour oil on it.

So that's going to be oily already. Jamie Oliver, when he dry fries, it's not because he's trying to bring out flavor.

It's because he's trying to sell non-stick pans. (foreign language) Okay, cooking noodles.

Mm, Uncle Roger never had you po mian with corn before. In traditional you po mian,
very simple ingredients.

Just like spring onion, red
pepper, some sort of vegetable. That's it. (foreign language)

Mmm. Fuiyoh, actually looks good. (foreign language) Yeah, that's very impressive.

(foreign language) Loud slurping. That's very normal when you're
eating noodles in Asia.

That means you're enjoying it. (foreign language) Spring onion oil? Fuiyoh, she had time to
make spring onion oil?

Spring onion oil is a nice
aromatic oil for this dish. (dramatic music) (foreign language)

What, you're not giving her more feedback? You just say thank you, haiyaa.

Uncle Roger wants this job as judge. Come on, please. "Culinary Class War"
season two, as Uncle Roger.

I'd become just like these two people. I'd wear an orange suit. How about that? That'd be a nice job, you just eat.

Don't have to describe the flavor, don't need to give any feedback. You just eat and judge them silently.

(foreign language) A minus. But earlier when you were ranking,
you gave people numbers, 8.7.

What, what does A minus mean? A minus means failure in Asian culture. Okay, what's her dish?

Another noodle dish, haiyaa. (foreign language) Chicken chow mein, boring, boring.

(foreign language) So you just got the chili oil from a packet and got chicken and put it on the noodles.

Mm, that's not interesting. (packet rustles) What, what is this guy doing? (foreign language)

Your hobby is convenience store? You need a better hobby,
little nephew, haiyaa. Get a PlayStation or something.

But this guy's just chilling
on the floor eating chocolate when everyone around him
is frantically scrambling.

I think he's like the main character in an anime. Everybody's scrambling but he's just having a 10-minute internal monologue.

(foreign language) Cream bun? Okay. What is he going to make and that looks like,
that looks like cookies.

(foreign language) Dessert? (foreign language) Fuiyoh! This guy, not only is he
making something different,

he's predicting what everybody's going to make. This guy's not a chef, he's Sherlock Holmes. He's like that smart guy from "Death Note."

(foreign language) Tiramisu from convenience
store ingredients? Huh? (foreign language)

He's just chilling there eating chocolate. Fuiyoh, this guy is a sigma male. 10,000 aura.

Uncle Roger needs to be more like him. Maybe that's how I'm going to
win Auntie Esther back.

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Tiramisu has two components: the biscuit base called ladyfingers and then the cream part on top.

(foreign language) See? That's the ladyfinger layer. Fuiyoh, he even dipped it in coffee, smart.

(foreign language) Okay, okay, smart again. Fuiyoh, this guy's good.

(foreign language) Chestnut puree. (foreign language) Granola on top.

Wow, the fact that he knows convenience store yogurt has granola in it. This nephew really loves convenience stores.

I think he spends more time in 7-Eleven than with women. And what is that?

Chocolate, extra chocolate on top? (foreign language) Uncle Roger likes how cocky this guy is.

(rock music) So confident. (foreign language) Wow, this looks straight from Italy.

This looks like a real dessert you can get at a restaurant. (dramatic music) (foreign language)

Texture looks good, nice and soft. (dramatic music) (foreign language) That's a good sign.

When cooking show judges try to eat more of your food, you know you've made something good.

Usually cooking show judges, they just take one small bite. It's like they're so scared the food is poisoned.

(foreign language) Mm, whipping cream adds air bubbles to it. He whips the cream to mix with chestnut puree.

(foreign language) That's the face Uncle Roger makes when Uncle Roger realizes Uncle Joshua is cooking with Auntie Esther behind my back.

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Uncle Roger's initial reaction to the show, comparing it to "Squid Game".

Comment on the show's dramatic tension and unexpected elements.

Humorous exaggeration about the potential impact of a disaster on Korean cuisine.

Comparison to other cooking shows and Uncle Roger's own experience.

Discussion about the show's length and the specific episode being reviewed.

Introduction of the convenience store food challenge and its cultural context.

Comparison of Asian and American convenience stores.

Explanation of the show's appeal and its focus on budget-friendly cooking.

Advertisement for ExpressVPN, highlighting its cost-saving benefits.

Discussion about the limitations of streaming services and how ExpressVPN can help.

Example of how ExpressVPN allows access to geo-blocked content.

Mention of ExpressVPN's compatibility with various streaming platforms.

Highlighting the multi-device functionality of ExpressVPN.

Competition Begins: Pad Thai and Other Dishes

Introduction of the judges and the start of the cooking competition.

Uncle Roger's humorous reaction to an unexpected ingredient.

Uncle Roger expresses his stress and preference for simpler dishes.

Analysis of a contestant's pad Thai recipe using convenience store ingredients.

Discussion of ingredient availability and substitutions.

Analysis of the contestant's flavor balancing techniques.

Analysis of another contestant's noodle dish.

Discussion about the availability of chili powder in Korean convenience stores.

Explanation of a cooking technique for using chili powder.

Comparison of a contestant's searing technique with Jamie Oliver's approach.

Comparison of a contestant's you po mian with traditional versions.

Description of a contestant's unconventional approach and choice of dessert.

Comparison of the contestant to fictional characters known for their intelligence.

Step-by-step analysis of the tiramisu creation process.

Uncle Roger's positive assessment of the final product.

Announcement of the winner and Uncle Roger's concluding remarks.