Welcome to “Aprons Off,” the show where we don’t really cook but we hang out with each other. So this is our first ever mukbang on the Mythical Kitchen channel. Whoo! I’m gonna bang it so hard. And we’re gonna be trying Nigerian food. Now, raise your hand if you’ve ever tried Nigerian food. I’ve never tried. I’m gonna do like, the half hand, like the “hi,” like the “no question, more of a comment.” No, I’ve had a little bit of Nigerian food. Cool. I’ve had fufu and pepper soup. Okay. And jollof, of course. Cool. But not a lot of this, which excites me ’cause eating food that I’ve never had before is like, that’s like a hobby, right? Like that’s a hobby of mine. Sure. 100%. We all have that hobby together. Have you ever tried Nigerian food before? I have not. This is my first time and I’m really excited to try it with you guys. Yeah, right. Didn’t you date a Nigerian dude? Open these bottles. You know, we don’t talk about our exes. Open these bottles. I don’t know. Only you do. I love talking about my ex. Nicole talks about all her exes. I lo- I just name ’em by first and last- There was Harvard Guy. There was Old Guy, there was Catholic Guy. I remember all Nicole’s exes. Irish Catholic guy. Be specific. We can talk about Burna Boy, though. Hi, Burna Boy. Love Burna Boy. So, we’re all gonna try different kinds of malt soda, just to start our palates off. And then we’re also gonna try some palm juice. I heard somewhere that this may or may not be alcoholic. So bottoms up. Get a little litty. These aren’t though. These are not alcoholic. They are just, they are made from barley. You know, they are malt sodas. For the YouTube algorithm’s sake, none of this is alcoholic. No. All right. Cheers. All right. So palm is a- How much do you know about Nigerian food? I kind of did a little bit of research. But I don’t know much- yum! Wow! That’s got that kinda kombucha funk to it. It sure does, but it’s like a… I’m in! This is delicious. Lemonade, not as like, acidic. It’s lemonade, palm juice. I mean like, palm sugar. Wow! I really like that. It’s phenomenal. Top palm juice, shake before serving. Man. What’s that at the bottom? It’s like a cloudy palm juice. That’s the good-good. Oh, it’s a malt. Yeah. Apparently at the restaurant, the lady, who was giving us very good service, told us that these are the three most popular drinks in Nigeria. The three most popular malts. Oh my god! Heck yeah. We got all the food from Aduke in Inglewood, right next to the original Randy’s Donuts. This is amazing! So shout out Aduke. Man, wait, I haven’t had it yet. Why did I pour it in? This is so good. Wow. It’s like a fun root beer! This is delicious. That’s what I’ve been missing out on? That’s what the malt drinks are? Can we get like, a whole pack of these every week in our refrigerator or what? We’re stocking this in the office dude. Shout out to Malta. I have a confession to make. What’s that? When my sister was breastfeeding her first child, she had a bunch of malt sodas and I was like, “That looks so good.” And I tried it and I drank like four of them in one sitting. Hold on. I know, so, I know a lot about women. That’s the thing that we can all agree on. When you’re breastfeeding you need a lot of iron, and there’s probably a lot of iron in malt sodas. That’s what I’m guessing. Okay. Right? I don’t know, I’m not a frickin’ scientist! I don’t know. All right, so what we have in our hands are fufu. Fufu! Now this fufu is made from pounded yam, and you kind of- it’s called a swallow. So a swallow is where you pick it up to eat all the other stews and soups alongside with it. So it’s like the bread that you dip. It is the bread you dip. Yes. And then this is another version. This is called amala. This is made from dried cassava, plantain, or yam. And this is- has a very deep nutty flavor that works really well, specifically with this stew, which we will try in a little bit. All of the best food cultures, they eat this way. You take something that’s starchy and you sort of like, pound it out inside your fingers and then you eat just a delicious red stew filled with chilies and spices. I want to go into the red stew right here. Okay, let’s start with some. That red palm oil on top is delicious. So this is literally called red stew. Oh, okay. This one has beef in it, and it’s filled with lots of peppers. Oh, I spilled some. Oh my gosh. Hell yes. Lots of oil, lots of red pepper. Lots of tomato. I know we just started, but like, this makes me love you guys. I’m just having a good time. This is the best man. This is the best! This is phenomenal. I’m just eating all over the the table, man. I don’t care anymore. It’s okay. It’s okay. It doesn’t matter. It’s so spicy. But it’s very flavorful and it feels like it has a lot of garlic essence and that’s what I love. Yeah. So food that has like, oil floating on the top. Some people might look at it and go like, “That’s greasy.” But, but, but – oil separating in food, in some cultures, like I’m thinking a lot of South Asian foods, a lot of Indian curries and whatnot. You know it’s done when the oil separates from the aromatics. ‘Cause no one would ever look at like, a French beurre blanc or like, a Béarnaise and be like, “That’s greasy.” Even though all it is pure butter baby, that’s pure fat. So like this, you look at it, it’s not necessarily that it’s like greasy, fatty, whatever. It has just flavor right there. Yeah. So grease is good? Yeah dude, grease is good. Grease is good! Yeah. Then it gives you energy. That’s always fun. Grease gives you the energy to do other things. Why do you think they named the movie that? What movie? Grease! Never heard of it! Let’s try this one here. This is called egusi. I have a little note card that’s gonna tell me about egusi. I dip in there too? Ground melon seed soup with leafy greens. An iconic Nigerian dish. I’m using my fingers. Do you guys care? Of course we don’t care. Piece of- no, I can’t. So when I think of Nigerian food specifically, I always think of fufu and egusi. That is just- Dude. That is so good, man. That is spicy. That is fragrant. God bless. Wow! This reminds me of like, my favorite things about Indian food, right? Yeah. Mm. You taste the spices that are like, bloomed. If you smell your fingers though, you can like smell- is that like, a fish sauce? I think what they take is crayfish powder. Mm, hell yeah. And they use that crayfish powder to season a lot of their foods. The chicken’s very, very well-cooked. What kind of meat is this? Besides the chicken. Is it just ground chicken? Like- So that’s the ground white melon seeds. So, egusi, they’ll call it like, bitter melon. It’s not the same thing as like, an East Asian bitter melon though. And they like, boil and grind the melon seeds and it gives this like, lovely texture. Wow. These are flavors I’ve never had before, and that is so exciting. It just feels like I’m at my auntie’s house, and I’m just having a good time. My auntie is from Senegal. Yeah! And so Senegal is like, you know, a West African country, culturally somewhat similar to Nigeria. Both have like, French sort of colonial influence and whatnot. The food’s really different though, but they cook with a lot of the same ingredients. So, that ground crawfish powder was in like, a lot of her food. Wait, real quick. Can we open one of these? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, of course! I feel like we need to have the same experience with this. Yeah. Wait, my hands are- I got it. I’m obsessed with the egusi, man. I got it. I can’t believe I’ve never had it before. What is this one made out of, Nicole? So, this is made out of a combination or, only: pounded yam- Wow. Cassava, or plantain. And this has a softer texture because it’s like a powder mixed with water but you still pound the ever-living crap out of it. It reminds me so much of like, masa. Specifically, this- I was reading some blogs, and they said that this is very good with ogbono soup. So I don’t know if you guys can see this, but do you see this incredible texture? Wow. So, this like, beautiful, slimy, texture is actually very well-revered in African countries. That’s really cool. And this is achieved by mango seeds. Wild mango seeds. Get the heck outta here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my god. That’s incredible. It reminds me of a soup. That’ll punch you in the face. So, that texture right there, that some people would call slimy, right? But like, you just gotta open your mind. It’s not slimy in a bad way. I love slime. I love a good goo. So gumbo, right? In America, it’s made with okra, and then sometimes you’ll have like, filé powder in it into thicken it. Super slimy okra. Okra is super slimy. Gumbo is actually a Swahili word meaning okra. And so when people talk like okra gumbo, that’s like saying chai tea or ATM machine. You know what I mean? I didn’t know that. Flavor on it is great. The texture is beautiful. Get some of the meat, Josh. What? Oh, now you got it in there. Sorry dude! This is the best day at work ever. I love this. Where are we going next? Yeah, so this is called efo riro, which means “different kinds of spinach.” In Nigerian. Hell yeah, dude. And my card says, let me just pull this out right here. Mixed spinach in Nigerian. Western Nigerian dish with lots of green leafy veggies. Gimme your fork. Hell yeah. What? Oh, you’re just gonna take the whole thing, nevermind. Oh, I was gonna take the whole fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was gonna like, do one of these actions. Yeah, and this one has fish, but you can get it with pretty much any sort of protein you want. Which is super cool. Which I love about this place. So pretty! Mm. Excellent. This reminds me a lot of food in The Bahamas actually. Oh yeah? Because it was just like, a platter of just greens and then they would just throw like, a whole fish on top. Oh my goodness. And sometimes it’d be perch, sometimes it’d be snapper. But wow, this threw me back to vacation time. Now I wanna go back. I’m just being gross with this and I’m not gonna apologize. I’m having the time of my life. Mukbangs are gross sometimes. Not hating on you at all. Okay, I’m just gonna go in for this goat pepper soup. Nothing to me is gonna beat that egusi though, man. I am- Oh my god. Move your fingers! I need goat. Oh my god. Is it spicy? Yes. It’s really spicy. Oh god. Oh my god. I’m transforming. Holy crap. Oh, that’s the good stuff right there. But it’s like a good spicy. That’s the good- I might cry like in three seconds but. Holy… Cannoli. Wow! Bro, lemme grab some of this goat. The goat meat is very good. Goat, to me- number one animal to eat. Really? Number two, alpaca. Number three, wolf. You’ve never eaten an alpaca, and you’ve never eaten a wolf. I love goat though, man. Wolf might be good though. Werewolf or regular wolf? What? Are werewolves real? Well, here’s the thing. If you eat a werewolf as it transformed to a wolf, technically it’s not cannibalism. Right? Wait, are werewolves real or fake? Wait, that’s a solid question. Yeah. Can someone answer that for me? Can you get charged for murder? They might be real, but we don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff the government don’t want you to know. Just, you know. Loch Ness monster, that’s real. UFO, Atlantis is real. Loch Ness monster owes me three-fiddy. $350 or $3.50? It’s actually pounds. He’s in Scotland. Oh! Who’s the homie that lives in the snow? The Yeti? Yeah, the homie- Josh met a yeti once. I just thought you- I thought you meant your friend who lives in Alaska. Yeah, but she lives in Paris. I don’t know. Oh, that was her! I talked to her- What’s up? This morning! Talked to you on FaceTime today. Briana, what’s up? I’m gonna eat some jollof rice. I really liked that. Even though it burns my face. It ruined my palate though. It like, blew out my palate. Is that a goat T-bone? Yeah. Yeah, dude. Can I just drink from the bowl? Yeah, go ahead. Live your truth. We’re gonna scoot this one over, because this rice has been calling my name since we sat down. Oh my god. Oh yeah. Are you giggling? Yeah, he did giggle. I haven’t seen Josh like, express that emotion. I haven’t, I haven’t had- just getting that big slurp. I haven’t experienced that much joy from a bite of food in like, a long time. ‘Cause it’s not just spicy, it’s so, so, so fragrant like- and there’s a ton of spices that like, I’m not used to, which is freaking awesome and exciting, and one of the things I love about food, just experiencing new sensations. This god-dang egusi is like the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Try the jollof rice. Something has been awakened in us. Okay, rice! I’m gonna have- It’s gonna be the rice. Oh! My note card says: rice cooked with pureed tomato and scotch bonnet. No two jollofs are alike. Like snowflakes! Oh, that egusi, man! Wow. That’s smoky. Mm, that good. Taste it. How the hell have I never had this before? This is the best thing ever! Taste the rice! Pay attention to the rice! Rice is carbs, man. I don’t need the carbs right now. I need egusi. That’s power. I’m just gonna eat some goat. People are gonna hate the way I eat right now. I don’t think I closed my mouth chewing once. If the way I chew bothers you, don’t comment. Guys, name your favorite Nigerian track and field athletes on three. One, two- Divine Oduduru. Bolt- no, he’s Jamaican. God-dang it. Burna Boy. Well, he probably played sports when he was young. Is Burna Boy Nigerian? He is. He’s the biggest Nigerian global superstar. Also, Dotun Ogundeji, my former teammate at UCLA. Throws for the Nigerian national team, man, what up? Also, shout out almost every Kappa member. Shout out to that guy on “90 Day Fiance” that married Angela. What were you doing? You’re crazy. Was he Nigerian? Yeah, I think so. Angela. You know, “Angela!” Angela? Angela! Angela got her groove back? No, that’s Stella. Was Angela Bassett in that? Angela Bassett is Stella. Angela is Stella. There we go. We’re getting it. We’re good. Look at us: cultured. Should we eat a meat pie or throw it away? There’s too much food. What’s this, Nicole? I’m gonna just keep asking you. That’s goat meat. Oh god. I can’t eat this. It’s barbecue goat? Mhm. I can’t eat it! Speaking of the texture of meat, there was a Nigerian dude- this is a fun story that like, shows the diversity of what people enjoy in food. There’s a Nigerian dude who’s doing a whole goat barbecue over in Van Nuys, right? A bunch of like, white people came and ate his goat and they were like, “Hey, this is tough.” And then Nigerian people came and they ate it and they loved it. And so he was like, “Cool, I’ll cook it longer, lower and slower and make it more tender.” White people came and they ate it and they’re like, “This meat’s great. It’s so tender.” Nigerian people were like, “Why can’t I chew this meat? Like, it’s just falling apart. What’s the point? It’s meat. It’s meant to be chewed.” That’s true. So he is kind caught this a weird place like, some people- having tender, tender meat is not the end all be all for a lot of people. I can’t chew through this. You gotta chew this goat. Is it rude to suck your fingers? It depends. If you have somebody else do it, it’s not. We’ve probably violated a lot of like, Nigerian etiquette. Sorry. My bad. I’m just vibing. I’m having a good time. Hand me a patty. Oh yeah, dude. Patty. Are these called patties in Nigeria? No, they’re called meat pies. I ate from that one. I ate from that one. I ate from that one. I’m sorry. Is there like a culture is like- does it matter what hand you eat with? ‘Cause I know in India, it matters what hand you eat with. So I think in Islam right? It’s like, you don’t eat with your left hand. I know Nigeria is a big Islamic population. Yeah, I’ve been doing a little bit of both. I’m sorry, I’m a lefty and I- Wait, why is that a thing? You use your left hand for other things. Yeah. It’s basically like a- Well is it, does it come from… Use your left hand to like- Not like that, not like that. No. Another- Wait. The one that makes you go like- or the one that makes you go? I think more the second, but sometimes the first happens. No, no. You’re supposed to use your left hand so when people come up to you, you can shake it with your right hand. Like you’re like this. Pass. I don’t know. Well, damn. We’re ignorant and I’m sorry. This is an incredible, incredible… meal. What are your favorites? What are your favorites? List them out. Red stew. Red stew. I haven’t had that in a while, wait. I’m going back. Top two. Not one. What about you, Josh? What’s your favorite? Dude- you- oh, that egusi, man. That egusi awoke something in me. I love the red stew. Is this the ogbono? Yes. The texture on that. I’m not gonna lie- I love that texture. A little challenging for me. It’s not my thing. Really. I understand. I would love to love it. It’s a little bit like natto. I love it. Jollof’s fantastic too. The fish is good. Pepper soup. Wow. Egusi, man. I’m… in love, in love. I can’t wait to do this again with you guys. Oh! Oh, the bell! Oh no, that was the bell! Is the game over? You know what that means? Time to answer some advice. Oh, okay. Put 30 seconds on the clock for each of us. We’re going to answer WaifuLele’s statement. “If I over-season a dish with salt, can I recover the dish or do I gotta yeet it into the trash?” Josh, 30 seconds. Go. Never yeet food into the trash. You can always save it depending on what your standards are for what you put in your mouth. As you can see, I have none. What you do, no matter what you over-season, dump a quart of water in it, turn it into soup, add potatoes to it, that soaks up salt. Add beans to it, add rice, add anything. But for real, I’ve over-salted food. Turned it right into a soup. Great little hack. And then you get soup. Nicole. 30 seconds. All right. No, you do not need to yeet anything if you just, well, sometimes whenever you put like, too much spicy food, sometimes you might have to yeet it. But salt, just add like a little bit of sugar, a little bit of lemon juice, and it’ll like, totally eradicate it. And if that doesn’t work, then you’re screwed, WaifuLele. Sorry. If you over-salt your food, give it to the saltiest mother-effer in the room and have them eat it. You’re welcome. That’s smart. Thanks so much for watching. Put your question in the comments below. We’ll see you next time. 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