[Link] Don’t you just love it – [Link] when cultures collide – [Link] in your mouth? – [Rhett] Let’s talk about that ((Intro Music)) – [Rhett] Good Mythical Morning. – [Link] We are about to taste Chinese – [Link] and German fusion dishes. – [Link] But first, this portion of today’s episode – [Link] is sponsored by Air Up, – [Link] the world’s first hydration system – [Link] that flavors plain water through scent. – [Rhett] Now, we all know that Link – [Rhett] has no problem staying hydrated, – [Rhett] but to be honest, it is difficult for me – [Rhett] to drink enough water – [Rhett] throughout the day to keep up – [Rhett] with him, and if you’re also somebody – [Rhett] who struggled to get – [Rhett] your daily water intake, – [Rhett] this product is especially for you. – [Rhett] I’ve been using this thing for a while. – [Rhett] The Mythical Crew should be able – [Rhett] to recite my whole speech – [Rhett] about it by now. – [Rhett] Look at this thing. – [Rhett] All you got to do is fill it up with water. – [Rhett] We did that. 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But it tastes flavored. – [Rhett] Air Up flavor pods – [Rhett] give your totally plain water a new scent, – [Rhett] which becomes a fun little trick – [Rhett] for your brain to make it feel like – [Rhett] you’re drinking flavored water. – [Link] Yeah, we were both pretty excited – [Link] when we first learned about this bottle. – [Link] I mean, a bottle that uses science – [Link] to make your brain feel like – [Link] you’re experiencing different flavors. – [Link] We came so close when we did our – [Link] smell tasting experiment a decade ago. – [Rhett] Well, our smell evader – [Rhett] was just a weird visor, – [Rhett] this is a lot better. – [Rhett] And the thing about taste is, – [Rhett] according to the National Institute – [Rhett] on Deafness and Other Communication, – [Rhett] about 80% of what we perceive as flavor – [Rhett] actually comes from scent. – [Rhett] So using that science to give yourself – [Rhett] a totally new flavor experience – [Rhett] while drinking water is pretty genius. – [Link] Get your own Air Up water bottle – [Link] and see all the different flavors available – [Link] by clicking the link in the description – [Link] and use code GMM to save 10% – [Link] on your purchase today. – [Rhett] And thanks again to Air Up – [Rhett] for sponsoring this portion – [Rhett] of today’s episode. – [Rhett] Now Germany is far away. – [Rhett] China, it’s far away. – [Rhett] But when you’re in the kitchen, – [Rhett] both can be right in your mouth. – [Rhett] But can they both be in your mouth – [Rhett] at the same time – [Link] With a mouth as big as mine? – [Link] Yes, but with your little mouth, no way. – [Rhett] Which is why the Mythical Kitchen – [Rhett] has mashed up those two countries – [Rhett] culinary traditions into groundbreaking – [Rhett] fusion dishes for us to try. – [Link] it’s time for – [Link] German Chinese Versus Chinese German – [Link] Jiayou! Das Gut Food. – [Stevie] We put today’s German Chinese versus – [Stevie] Chinese German mash up dishes – [Stevie] on our Instagram and the Mythical Beasts – [Stevie] voted on which they thought – [Stevie] you’d like better. The Mythical Kitcheneers – [Stevie] made those dishes, and we’re going to see – [Stevie] how well the Beasts – [Stevie] can predict your tastes. – [Stevie] The Beasts will get a point – [Stevie] for each round – [Stevie] the majority of them guessed correctly – [Stevie] If they get three or more points, – [Stevie] you’ll have to write a celebratory – [Stevie] acrostic poem for them – [Stevie] in Good Mythical More. – [Stevie] But if they don’t, the Beasts – [Stevie] will have to go to our Instagram, – [Stevie] find the photo of you guys – [Stevie] holding an Einstein figurine, – [Stevie] and they must comment, – [Stevie] that’s a German and I suckle on vermin. – [Stevie] Now for your first match up in front of you, – [Stevie] we have curry ketchup soup dumplings – [Stevie] versus General Tso’s bratwurst. – [Link] This is some weird stuff, man. – [Link] I don’t know what I’m – [Link] If I was voting – [Rhett] You’re not voting, you have to eat. – [Link] I don’t know what I would vote for, – [Link] you know? – [Rhett] Trev? – [Trevor] Yeah? – [Rhett] How’d you get stuff in these dumplings? – [Trevor] So, curry ketchup, it’s a pretty popular – [Trevor] condiment in Germany. – [Trevor] It’s what it sounds like. – [Trevor] It’s ketchup with curry powder in it, – [Trevor] and it’s used in a dish – [Trevor] called Currywurst a lot. – [Trevor] But I used it to make curry ketchup pork, – [Trevor] which I basically took a lot of ground pork – [Trevor] and spiced it with curry and ketchup – [Trevor] and then made a gelatinize – [Trevor] curry ketchup pork broth – [Trevor] that is in there as well. – [Link] That is an unexpected flavor jumping out – [Link] of a dumpling. – [Rhett] Well, it’s really good. I don’t know – [Rhett] if I would know I was eating something – [Rhett] that wasn’t just a really good dumpling. – [Rhett] I don’t know how much I think – [Rhett] while I’m dumpling. – [Rhett] Eating – [Link] when you’re dumpling. – [Rhett] When I’m dumpling, – [Rhett] I don’t think very much. – [Rhett] I’m usually just on my phone. – [Link] Why are you on your phone? – [Rhett] When I’m dumpling. – [Trevor] Like he’s on the toilet. – [Rhett] Yeah. ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] Thanks, Trevor. – [Link] You should be here every day – [Link] to explain this dumb jokes. – [Trevor] I thought it was good. – [Rhett] That was, – [Rhett] yeah, yeah. Trevor liked that one. – [Rhett] Because we talked about it ahead of time. – [Link] Yeah. But when he told us what it was, – [Link] I could definitely taste the – [Rhett] I could taste it, for sure. – [Link] The mustard. – [Trevor] No mustard. – [Trevor] It’s ketchup. – [Link] The ketchup in it – [Rhett] It’s super good. – [Rhett] But General Tso, – [Rhett] we didn’t know how to say this – [Rhett] growing up. – [Rhett] We said “Sou”? – [Link] “To-Sao” – [Stevie] I think I said that. – [Stevie] Is that wrong? – [Rhett] Well, I don’t know how you – [Rhett] How did you say it? – [Stevie] General “Sou” – [Rhett] How do you say it? – [Link] Did you say the T too? “Tsou”? – [Stevie] It’s a little guttural like – [Rhett] Then I started saying “So” – [Trevor] That’s the way I’ve said it, – [Trevor] but now you’ve got me – [Trevor] questioning things. – [Rhett] I was told that it wasn’t a dish in China. – [Rhett] It was invented for a, – [Rhett] it was an American Chinese thing. – [Rhett] But I don’t know anything – [Rhett] about anything, Trevor, – [Rhett] so I just make things up. – [Trevor] But there is some history behind it. – [Trevor] I think it – [Link] You just don’t know it? – [Trevor] I don’t know it. I don’t know it. – [Link] I don’t know. This is this is really good, too. – [Rhett] I think these are better. – [Link] I know. I really like a dumpling. – [Link] Man, I could see this being – [Link] and that right there. – [Link] If I just try to get inside of it. – [Link] Take a dump on us. – [Link] I can see this being served there. – [Link] Remember that? – [Link] That was before your time, Turbo. – [Link] We were making jokes – [Link] that you would have loved. – [Link] Before you were born. – [Rhett] But we did say dumpling. – [Rhett] We went all the way. – [Rhett] We didn’t say, take a dump on us. – [Link] I said take a dumpling on us. – [Rhett] No, you just said take a dump on us. – [Link] Yeah, I’ve never said that in public. – [Rhett] You can’t take the “ling” off a “dump” – [Rhett] Dumpling. – [Rhett] Don’t take the “ling” off a dumpling. – [Link] That’s another name. – [Link] That’s a spin off restaurant. – [Rhett] We don’t take the “lings” – [Rhett] off our dumplings. – [Link] You know, when you and I break up, – [Link] we have a different dumpling – [Rhett] Inevitably. – [Rhett] Yeah, this one’s easy for us right here. – [Rhett] There’s no controversy. – [Rhett] We like the dump. – [Link] It just taste better. – [Stevie] 71% of the Mythical Beast – [Stevie] thought that you would like the – [Stevie] General Tso’s bratwurst. – [Link] I understand. – [Rhett] It has a lot of words – [Rhett] that sound enticing. – [Rhett] Seems like a great marketing thing. – [Link] But there’s nothing like – [Link] a good dumpling on us. ((Music)) – [Stevie] Next up, we have – [Stevie] sweet and sour-kraut soup – [Stevie] versus Sichuan beer cheese soup. – [Link] Sweet and sour-kraut. – [Link] Let’s start over here. – [Rhett] How’d you kraut this up? – [Trevor] So I started with velveted speck, – [Trevor] which speck is like a fatty German bacon. – [Trevor] And then I marinated it in – [Trevor] a corn starch mixture. – [Link] What’s the white dollop? – [Trevor] The white dollop is sesame crème fraîche – [Trevor] Yeah, and so then it’s a sweet and sour – [Trevor] soup base – [Trevor] that I’ve added a lot of sauerkraut to – [Trevor] and then marjoram and – [Link] I made a mess. – [Trevor] Some other spices, fun stuff. – [Rhett] Wow. Sauerkraut with this flavor profile – [Link] It is sour. – [Rhett] Man, I love sauerkraut. – [Link] I was not ready for that. – [Rhett] This is not necessarily – [Rhett] gonna be a crowd pleaser. – [Rhett] What’s the spicy part in this? – [Trevor] The sweet and sour. – [Rhett] The sweet and sour. Yeah. – [Rhett] So it’s got that sour meets – [Rhett] the sauerkraut. – [Trevor] Yeah. – [Link] I think you’ve done a good thing. – [Link] It’s just sometimes I don’t like good things. – [Trevor] That’s okay. – [Link] Over here, what is this typically? – [Link] And then how has it changed? – [Trevor] Uh, typically – [Link] A beer cheese soup? – [Trevor] Yeah. You start with like a base – [Trevor] of like a chicken broth – [Trevor] and then you add a German beer to it, – [Trevor] you add cream, you make it a thick – [Trevor] like chowdery type of soup. – [Trevor] Add a bunch of cheese. – [Trevor] And so I’ve used a Chinese beer, Tsingtao, – [Trevor] and I’ve added T smoked bacon – [Trevor] and a bunch of Sichuan peppercorns, – [Trevor] three different kinds. – [Trevor] And then there’s also some – [Trevor] chopped up Sichuan peppercorns – [Trevor] on top. – [Rhett] These are both very challenging. – [Link] I know, they’re, yeah. – [Rhett] Like they’re confusing. – [Link] They’re not broad, – [Link] broadly appealing. – [Rhett] It’s strange because you’re taking – [Link] I like that. – [Rhett] You’re taking which is, – [Rhett] you know, was the task. – [Rhett] Which is what makes it interesting. – [Rhett] You’ve taken things that make – [Rhett] these cuisines sort of set them apart – [Rhett] and you’ve taken the things – [Rhett] that set them apart – [Rhett] and brought them together – [Rhett] in a way like I’ve never – [Rhett] when we’ve done these episodes before, – [Rhett] you end up with this flavor combination – [Rhett] that might be, – [Rhett] there’s a point of reference for it. – [Rhett] Neither one of these – [Rhett] have a point of reference. – [Rhett] They’re like completely unique dishes. – [Rhett] No one else is doing this. – [Rhett] I’m like putting that Sichuan, – [Rhett] those peppercorns – [Rhett] with the cheese, – [Trevor] Is your tongue getting a little numb? – [Rhett] Yeah. – [Link] So weird. – [Rhett] So in that region, – [Rhett] they put these peppercorns in there – [Rhett] because it tends to be so spicy. – [Rhett] The food is so spicy – [Rhett] that they want the dead – [Rhett] in your tongue – [Rhett] when you eat the spicy food. – [Link] I like a nice peppercorn. – [Link] That is a thick cheese, man. – [Link] And now, when I breathe. – [Link] Yeah, there’s a numbing, – [Link] chilling effect. – [Link] Wow. – [Rhett] Did you go back to this one – [Rhett] after that one? – [Link] I’m afraid to. – [Rhett] Because I think you’re going to – [Rhett] really like this when you go back to it. – [Link] Oh, you think? – [Link] You’re voting for that? – [Link] It is better after eating the peppercorns. – [Link] That just means I can’t taste it as much. – [Link] Right? – [Link] I’m voting for this one, man. I mean, – [Link] you seem to make them a tie. – [Rhett] Well, no, I didn’t make them a tie. – [Rhett] Trevor is going to have to – [Rhett] tie break them. – [Rhett] He’s tasted both of them. – [Link] Yeah. Which one do you like? – [Rhett] I like this. – [Link] I’m voting here, Rhett’s voting here. – [Trevor] I like the beer cheese soup a lot. – [Rhett] All right – [Link] Okay, Trevor’s with me. So, – [Link] listen, here’s the thing. – [Link] You have to get this one, – [Link] and the next one’s right – [Link] in order to not lose this one. – [Link] If you do lose this, – [Link] it’s three times in a row – [Link] and we’re starting to question. – [Rhett] Yeah, how well do you know us? – [Rhett] I mean, like, we feel distant. – [Link] This was a hard one, though. – [Stevie] 76% of the Mythical Beast – [Stevie] thought you’d like the – [Stevie] Sichuan beer cheese soup. – [Link] Right. Beer cheese soup. – [Rhett] Right, right. Yeah. – [Link] Right. So Trevor helped you out. ((Music)) – [Stevie] Next up, we have congee fried schnitzel – [Stevie] and blutwurst fried rice. – [Link] Blutwurst? – [Rhett] Dang a schnitzel, that’s congee? – [Link] What’s? So, congee is like – [Link] a congee fried chicken. – [Trevor] Congee is like a Chinese rice pudding – [Trevor] where you take a bunch of rice – [Trevor] and you boil it in way too much water – [Trevor] until it becomes a paste. – [Trevor] So I marinated some pork steaks – [Trevor] in chili oil, garlic, ginger, – [Trevor] scallion, fish sauce. – [Trevor] Marinated them. – [Trevor] And then yeah. Made congee – [Trevor] and coated it and fried it. – [Rhett] Man. – [Link] And it’s pork, not chicken? – [Trevor] Correct. – [Rhett] This is one of those where – [Rhett] the flavor combo – [Rhett] is really, really working. – [Rhett] There’s nothing confusing about it at all. – [Rhett] Tastes like a really good – [Rhett] fried pork chop. With – [Link] But a little different. – [Rhett] With a little bit – [Link] Of peppercorns. – [Link] No, I think that’s from the last round. – [Trevor] There’s chili oil. – [Trevor] So there’s Lao Gan Ma in there. – [Rhett] Dang, Trevor. – [Link] I ain’t never going to hate – [Link] on a fried pork chop, man. – [Rhett] Okay. – [Rhett] Now, this is a little – [Rhett] interesting looking over here. – [Link] I was scared because – [Link] I thought she said blood – [Link] and it is red. – [Trevor] Yeah. So blutwurst is – [Trevor] a German blood sausage. – [Trevor] So what I’ve done is – [Trevor] I’ve taken actual pork blood and – [Link] Oh, you did? – [Trevor] Steamed rice in pork blood and water. – [Rhett] But that doesn’t always make it bad if it’s, – [Rhett] because I’ll eat a blood sausage, – [Rhett] I just don’t like congealed blood. – [Trevor] Yeah, and then there’s, – [Trevor] I fried it with all spice time soy sauce, – [Trevor] pork, fat and then I also cut up – [Trevor] German blutwurst in there. – [Trevor] Yeah, and green onions. – [Link] You shouldn’t had told me eating that – [Link] Before I ate it. – [Rhett] Tastes a little like Christmas. – [Link] Christmas? – [Rhett] There’s cloves in there. – [Trevor] Oh, I thought you’re making a joke – [Trevor] because it’s red and green. – [Rhett] Maybe I just taste Christmas – [Rhett] when I see red. – [Link] I take a little bit of blood. – [Link] Because you kept saying the word blood – [Link] and Stevie said blood. – [Link] I was like blood? – [Link] And she was like blut. – [Link] And I was like, okay. – [Link] And then you’re like, blood. – [Rhett] Eat some of this – [Rhett] and get it out of your system. – [Link] I just got to go back to this, – [Link] which we are clearly voting for, – [Link] even though Rhett thought – [Link] this was okay. – [Stevie] 75% of the Mythical Beast – [Stevie] thought you’d like the – [Stevie] congee fried schnitzel better – [Link] You’re still in this. – [Rhett] You do know us, maybe? – [Link] Maybe we made it easy for you. ((Music)) – [Stevie] And for dessert, we’ve got – [Stevie] pumpernickel fortune cookies – [Stevie] versus red bean strudel. – [Link] Pumpernickel, what’s this sauce, homie? – [Rhett] Hold on. Read your little fortune. – [Rhett] Okay. What is it, Trevor? – [Trevor] It’s just chocolate, pecans and coconut. – [Rhett] Okay. – [Link] How could this be bad? – [Link] It can’t be. – [Trevor] Thank you for having faith in me. – [Link] Okay. A dream you have will come true. – [Link] Chin related dreams are ineligible. – [Rhett] Oh, I think that one might be for you. – [Rhett] I think this one might be for me. – [Rhett] And that one’s for you. – [Link] Others take notice – [Link] of your wonderful radiance, – [Link] but your hair, glasses – [Link] and general demeanor – [Link] distracts them. ((Laughing)) – [Link] Who? ((Laughing)) – [Link] Others take notice of your wonderful radiance. – [Rhett] General demeanor. ((Laughing)) – [Rhett] What is it about Link? – [Link] Others do take note – [Link] of my wonderful radiance. – [Rhett] It’s his general demeanor. – [Link] I’m gonna try a little bit of this with, – [Link] sans dip. – [Rhett] What makes this German? – [Trevor] Pumpernickel. – [Rhett] The pumpernickel. Yes. – [Link] Because it has the word nickel in it. – [Link] I’ve always thought pumpernickel – [Link] was kind of coin tasting. – [Link] Like it has a metallic ness to it. – [Link] Am I wrong? – [Rhett] I think so, – [Rhett] but I don’t know. – [Link] That is good, and then – [Link] a little bit of this – [Trevor] That’s a little German chocolate cake – [Trevor] kind of reference there – [Trevor] with the coconut. – [Rhett] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. – [Rhett] Now there’s a third one here. – [Rhett] Oh, others take notice – [Rhett] of your wonderful radiance, – [Rhett] but your hair, glasses – [Rhett] and general demeanor distracts them. So – [Link] They wanted to make sure – [Link] I got that one. – [Rhett] Yeah, just in case. – [Rhett] Okay. Now, over here. – [Link] A Toaster Strudel. – [Rhett] Did you say red bean? – [Trevor] Yes. – [Rhett] Oh, I love a red bean dessert. – [Link] In a strudel? – [Rhett] Is there apple in there as well? – [Trevor] Yeah. So I made – [Trevor] a classic German strudel dough, – [Trevor] but I did add red bean into the dough – [Trevor] and then. – [Link] Pretty. – [Trevor] Thank you. Thank you. – [Trevor] And then I cooked down apples – [Trevor] in red bean with sugar and cinnamon – [Trevor] and some lemon juice. – [Link] This is a tough round. – [Link] It could go either way. – [Link] They’re both excellent. – [Link] Are you going to have to shame yourself – [Link] on the Internet? – [Link] Or are you going to get an acrostic? – [Rhett] I have a very mild preference – [Rhett] for this one. – [Rhett] If you agree we’re good. – [Rhett] If you have a stronger preference – [Rhett] for this one, then we can go here – [Rhett] because I like both of them. – [Link] I’m trying to decide which one – [Link] has more of the other thing in it. – [Link] Like, I guess it’s the – [Rhett] The red bean ness. – [Link] Pumpernickel doesn’t come through – [Link] as much as – [Rhett] That red bean sort of blandness, – [Rhett] which is why I like red bean. You know? – [Rhett] It’s like it does, it makes you, – [Rhett] it’s a different experience with the desert. – [Rhett] It’s really interesting to have that – [Rhett] put into a strudel. – [Link] Yeah. – [Rhett] But we’ve got good fortunes. – [Rhett] I mean, you – [Rhett] and your general demeanor. – [Link] I know we got really good fortunes. – [Link] And I’ve never seen a fortune cookie – [Link] look quite like this. – [Link] I don’t know. – [Link] I find myself going back to this. – [Link] Let’s do it. This had to be close. – [Stevie] 61% of the Mythical Beasts – [Stevie] thought you would like the – [Stevie] pumpernickel fortune cookies better. – [Rhett] Wrong again. – [Link] All right. We’re going to post it – [Link] on our Instagram. You have to comment. – [Link] That’s a German and I suckle on vermin. – [Rhett] So embarrassing – [Link] To the Einstein bobblehead photo. – [Rhett] Thanks for subscribing – [Rhett] and clicking that bell. – [Link] You know what time it is – [Jeffrey] I’m Jeffrey. – [Christina] I’m Christina. – [Jeffrey] And we’re from Augusta, Georgia. – [Christina] And we’re here at Lake Ipsi in Germany, – [Christina] where we just got married. – [Jeffrey] And it’s time to spin – [Jeffrey] the Wheel of Mythicality. – [Rhett] Oh, they’re going to – [Rhett] have some schnitzel later. – [Link] Oh, yeah. Congratulations. – [Rhett] Click the top link to watch us – [Rhett] learn German slang – [Rhett] in Good Mythical More – [Link] And to find out where – [Link] the Wheel of Mythicality – [Link] is going to land. “