Subscribe to my second channel otherwise I'm hitting you with a carp. kzfaq.info

My grandfather always said that the best way to cook a carp is to put it on a piece of hickory wood, cook it on the grill, and when it’s done cooking throw away the fish and eat the wood.

probably the most dignified afterlife any sewer carp has ever had

As a Japanese that fish dish almost gave me a heart attack Remember people never eat freshwater fish unheated unless it’s served at proper restaurants

So the carp was: - caught in sewage water - with the skin pierced - not properly flushed, cleaned, or dressed - not frozen to kill parasites - eaten raw - after rotting in the fridge for 2 days - again, without being cleaned or dressed, with the meat right above the organs In other words, accurate to the North Korean experience

Catching a bottom feeder in a sewage outlet and then eating in raw. Absolutely brilliant

Carp is one of the most parasite-ridden species of fish eaten commonly by humans. Serving it raw sounds great!

I loved watching the lads re-invent bow fishing in 5 minutes. "We hit them with a spear." "Too hard, what if we chucked the spear?" "Still too hard. What if we shot them with an arrow?" "That worked but it floated down the river. Oh I know, tie a rope to the arrow!"

The way an australian accent completely destroys conversation over the phone is something to behold

Carp is actually quite nice if it hasn't been raised in sewage water, caught with an arrow (piercing it's skin so sewage water spills into the meat), chucked across the kitchen floor, sliced up, left to rot for two days and then eaten raw.

"this area may be affected by sewage overflow" that is exactly where you want to catch carp to eat raw.

Most recipes I've seen for carp require that you keep it ALIVE in fresh water (like your bathtub) for several days, changing the water every day, to flush-out the mud from its system. We didn't know that one fine holiday weekend, when we decided to substitute carp for the traditional turkey. Each of us politely took one bite, and that was enough. Peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches all around...

Imagine on a bush walk you come upon a group of fully grown men firing arrows into a sewerage river. And then you ask them what they’re doing, and they tell you they’re catching carp. In a sewerage river. And then they explain that they need the carp to make raw North Korean Sashimi.

I can’t believe that someone who looks so healthy and fit always fines a way to risk his health in different ways

Me looking at his wrist brace: HE'S DONE IT, HE'S FINALLY HURT HIMSELF

You know, watching them eat that fish was real hard, but at the very least they were fully aware that it was a bad idea from the get go. I have a cousin in Idaho show me one of his favorite fishing spots. Apparently in Bumblefuck, idaho "fishing spot" translates to "the reservoir at the end of the water treatment plant." That explains so very much.

i’ve never audibly gagged at a video before. was so disturbed i had to take several breaks to process what was going on. the fact that you’re alive goes against every law of natural selection. 10/10 fantastic video

Maybe you can do an episode where you measure the length of your tapeworm in a few months.

Water distorts light, aim slightly below the fish 👍 Edit: if you want to live past 45 don't do this again

In many European countries carp is food. However, I believe you're supposed to keep it alive in clean water for a few days to get rid of the mud taste.

14:00 Actually the tail-cutting is a common thing to do for aesthetics of the food, so IDAT was correct, and that was what the writers of the book do to the fish of the dish

sometimes you gotta stop and ask yourself "is eating raw sewer fish that's been in the fridge for a day really worth the views?"

There was no part of my brain that thought for a single *moment* that you would eat the sewer fish. I have never so badly in my life wanted to delete someone elses footage.

"If the butcher tells you to jump off a bridge do you do it?" had such Balkan dad energy lol

Happy to see u guys are still alive almost 2 years after this

I never thought that a meat-jelly bundt cake would be my dish of choice, only narrowly beating out raw herpes carp sashimi but here we are.

this man never seizes to surprise me on how he’s still alive

Out of everything in the cook book these guys went for the raw carp... I personally never had North-Korean dishes before, but everything on the cook has South-Korea version of it out in the streets and they all tasted delicious. Highly recommending going to a Korean resturants and try them out. Might do the cook book justice.

I like how every place you called reacted like you were asking if they sold drugs

"Do you sell carp?" "Fish."

"I think we know who the winner is" - "I've won by not vomiting in the sink" this has to be one of the most inspirational cooking show quotes ever

Mass-infecting carp with herpes is such a whacky villain plot Also, looking up bowfishing brought me down a rabbithole of weird fishing methods. Including electrofishing(shocking them with the flow between two poles), grenade fishing(YES) and catfish noodling(getting your hand eaten by it, sticking the other in its gills and dragging it out of the water), trout tickling(you tickle their belly, entrancing it), flounder tramping(literally just standing on a flounder until it dies.) There are also specialized, drone-mounted fishing torpedoes. A turret targets the fish, the torpedo hooks onto it and floats the fish to the surface. This technique comes from "Kontiki fishing", where larger torpedoes are used to spread a long line of hooks along the sea.

Everytime i‘m craving for food at night, I just come watch this video and the craving’s gone. Thank you IDAT

Open a restaurant in London, people will pay 1000s

i love how they didnt even consider the possibility that "red pepper 2g" could be referring tho the spice and not the vegetable ...

WE NEED MORE COOKING CONTENT!!! PLEASE!! This was honestly better than morning coffee at 4 in the morning....

This is really interesting to me. I am Czech and carp is our traditional christmas dish. Fish shops not carrying it was surprising to me.

I’m trying to convince myself that they actually switched the carp while filming and they didn’t eat the one from the sewer.

That sudden feeling of pride when you already knew they have a second channel

Its actually impressive that you caught a carp using a modified cross bow

I actually had a carp sashimi once when I was in Japan. It was one of the best sashimi I ever had. The carp meat was firmer than most fishes I had, it wasn’t too fatty and had no muddy odor because it was raised in a pond on a mountain

“I’ve never had a genuine gag reflex from eating food before” brother that was NOT food

“This dish reminds you of your mum serving breakfast in your home garden” you are not allowed to associate it with any other memory other then the one the supreme leader chooses

Of all the ridiculous goings-on in this masterpiece of a video (that I've now watched 4 times), the fucking gasp at 24:35 absolutely floors me every time. It's just so fucking intense and genuine. I long for a moment in my life that makes me audibly inhale that damn hard 😩 Incredible scenes.

2 years ago the biggest threat to their life was raw sewer carp 😢 they’ve grown so much 👏👏

This channel is the best recommendation the algorithm has made for me this year. What a wonderful mess. Much love from Brazil!

Why is no one talking about how he was planning to spear a fish using a golf flag pole, instead of the ACTUAL SPEAR GUN that he made TO CATCH FISH

25:26 This picture is so, so perfect. I feel like North Korea tourism board would 100% want to use this.

I’m just guessing here but I think “dress” the fish may have meant scaling and gutting the fish, similar to field dressing a deer which is when you remove the internal organs.

I love that one of the steps in how to prepare the “Grey mullet Soup of River Taedong” is rinsing the fish in cold water to “remove bad smell”

Ive honestly never laughed more in one of your KZfaq videos. the face you made while trying to eat the carp was everything. 10/10 would recommend.

I can't imagine KZfaq's algorithm trying to classify your channel's "genre" right now. "Oh, he makes a bunch of contraptions. He must be a maker/tinkerer channel!" "Wait, now he's got a nature video? Okay... Cooking video? Cooking video?! WHAT IS HE?!"

So it’s true that Australian sometimes have difficulty to communicate with each other xD *”You sell, KAHP?!”*

I'm a recent sub, saw Alex fight in the creator clash and see you guys in Hasan's stream from time to time. I just love you guys and I can't believe I didn't sub sooner to this channel or BoyBoy.

i actually found this channel through boyboy

Must have been quite the experience being one of those fish. Imagine just minding your own business and suddenly arrows are just flying right by you over and over again.

Just go to a public park and grab a Koi. I worked with a Asian man in the U.S. that brought Duck for lunch every day. Duck is very expensive here, I asked how he can afford to eat duck every day. He tells me "They're free, go to any park".

lowkey would love a part 2, i want more north korean recipes. probably the most dignified afterlife any sewer carp has ever had.

You nailed the pronunciation of холодец :D Good job!

Interesting how you look at carp when it's overpopulated trash fish. Here, in Czechia, we have pond farming industry, producing mainly carp. Local carp is considered a good food, I dare say a delicacy. We eat it on christmas eve as a traditional food.

i did some research and they did indeed catch a carp. specifically a descendant of the eurasian carp that is currently an invasive species in australia. the intense mucus coating is likely due to large amounts of bacteria in the water it was living in, as a study was done to determine if higher levels of bacteria in the water caused a higher rate of mucus production, and (shocker shocker) it did lol. so basically they ate a fish from a bacteria ridden cesspool basically that may have been full of parasites and possible diseases. not to mention it wasn't properly cleaned and dressed, nor was it treated in any way for those parasites and was left to sit for at least 24 hours after death..... lovely decision guys..... i really hope you're ok after doing this.... very risky

you dont understand how grateful i am for the music list

I don’t think they are going to survive eating day old, raw, mystery fish from a river that says no fishing because of sewage.

Korean carp is actually a different species. The invasive species in Australia is Chinese carp.

You guys are great. I’m so happy I found you. Greetings from Brazil! 😊

the fact these looked almost on par with some british food ive seen near me is crazy

I'm about 99% certain that "dressing the fish" means opening it from the anus along the bottom of it toward the head and then using the opening to remove the internal organs (gut, intestines, liver, swim bladder.) Then you wash it out before you proceed with filleting.

I've always learned that you should never eat fresh water fish raw, because of parasites and bacteria.

Really like your channel and your creativity from watching first time an hour ago… starting by the Jazz bees video. Merci.

Meat jelly is the best dish!!! I'm biased by being born into a culture which loves it, but believe me, it's just another alternative to other preserved meats, which was born in cultures which have harsh winters. It's a magnificent dish that takes half a day to watch over, but later you don't cook the meat and eat it the moment you want to. Basically, you need bones to produce thick jelatine stock, and some meat boiled to the extent it falls apart. In my family adding some bay leaf is obligatory, and allspice (pimento) is contested. We don't add peppercorns, but it's a solid option as well. Oh, and garlick goes well with the taste. Usually we just boil equal parts pork shank and any beef in a pressure cooker (otherwise it takes ages; and the water doesn't boil away), adding spices at some later points (so to get the taste into the stock, but not to degrade it for boiling them for too long). Take shallow dishes, any tupperware is fine, we have enameled containers just for that. Separate the meat from the bones, it has to fall apart, just your basic forks would be sufficient, split the meat equally between your dishes and pour the stock over. Let it cool completely, put it in the fridge to set (12 to 24 hours). After it's ready, scrape away the white layer of fat (idk, you may keep it to use within a week to fry your potatoes and whatnot), and turn it over for glossy prettiness. I prefer it when there is just enough stock to glue the meat together, I have no particular fondness for the stock jello, but there can be less meat and more of the jiggly translucent stock. Pig trotters are a solid option, but that makes for a nightmare of picking out the small bones (it's a good use of a teen in the kitchen though). Old tough chicken/rooster is also a traditional ingredient, it makes the nicest smell and taste, and that chicken otherwise it's only fit for soup. Since it's boiled for a long time, that tough meat turns nice and soft. There is a fish aspic tradition, but that actually requires some expensive fish. Or additional jelatine. Personally, I don't like it either way.

I vaguely recall you making a spear gun on this very channel that would be great for fishing.

*Makes a spearfishing gun "What should we use to catch these fish?" "I dunno, maybe a flagpole or a bow and arrow"

You guys are ozzies? Good Lord, you make Australia look like New jersey!!!!

Fun fact: The surface of the water distorts light. Unless you're looking straight down at the fish, the fish will actually be closer to the surface than it appears. So, if you're going bowfishing, you have to aim _above_ where the fish appears to be in order to actually hit it.

I...I honestly don't think they could have prepared that fish any less safely. I'd say they could drop it on the floor. But they already did. Just, wrong fish, didn't freeze, stored at room temperature for a time, parasites and diseases forever, horrific environment, STDs maybe. There is nothing else I can think of outside of actively contaminating it in some way, with some kind of hazardous chemicals. Actually, now that I think about it, that water 100% had some hazardous chemicals in it.

it took me 3 years to realise his channel logo is a magpie wearing pink crocs. i love this man

I love watching people do things that normal people don't do

You drove that gift shop into the ground financially from stealing that cook book. I hope you're proud of yourselves.

I'm a fisherman, but I absolutely will not handle a carp bare handed. They're so awful.

The straight translations are amazing. “Even a single drop on the instep…” as in, the “tongue” of a shoe… and mis-translating “pharmaceuticals” for health. I’m dying. Send pharmaceuticals!

our country, vietnam, has a similar dish to the NK meat jello called “thịt đông”, which we (my family) usually have for the Lunar new year. me personally dont like it because of the combination of the texture and taste (i still like fruity flavor jello) but my dad really fucken dig it. good for him..

bro put his entire bloodline at risk for a cookbook

As a Russian guy, who was made to eat those meat jelly every New Year, this was rather odd to see that some Australians are volunteering to this torture themselves :D We call it "Holodets" (from "holod" - "cold") or "Studen" (from "stud" - old word for "cold"). And you've actually nailed it pretty perfectly - you would immediately get respect from my grandpas (who have both passed away before USSR was over). Just put more garlic there! I also like that Modern Talking "Brother Louie" - adds to that Perestroika nostalgic feeling. And that Perestroika is actually what you need to understand those 2 grams of pepper and 10 grams of egg - imagine if you had only 1 pepper for the whole grocery store serving 10 thousand people and only 10 eggs for the same number of people. Now you get it. I wonder why those Koreans don't have "Coated salted fish" salad (slice salted fish to pieces, cover it with grated boiled potato, beetroot, egg and mayo) - this is a true legend of communists cousine! :D

Carp can actually taste quite good, provided it lived in clear, oxygenated water with no sewage or corpse or STD content. It's regularily consumed in central Europe.

I swear too God make a movie with you two. And the funny shit you guys do.. your both hilarious in your own ways man. I'm barely seeing this video. I subscribed a couple months ago. But your comedic timing is spot on. And so refreshing. Because your not trying to hard

The funny thing about carp is that it really isn't that bad to eat, it's strictly the fact that they can survive in really disgusting water that they are considered bad for eating Fish is pretty flexible as far as getting it to taste however you want so as long as the water is clean it *should be fine to eat *you should always check for parasites and diseases before eating it regardless of the fish

the only thing I learned from this is that bow fishing is fucking dope

north korean hair cake next

The way they're promoting those recipes in that book is akin to that of some RPG game food, since it not only fills you up, it heals your HP AND buffs you at the same time! lmao

I'm absolutely fascinated by how these two men can be so aware but yet have no actual sense of safety for themselves. Literally announcing the likeliness of parasitic infection right before he eats it. I can't. Please be a swap for some sushi rolls you deconstructed.

The “dead dog floating in the river” just makes it more authentic to the original North Korean version

Shooting the carp with a bow and arrow was awesome, attempting to eat any part of the carp was less awesome.

More cooking shows, please! Binging with Babish has nothing to fear from you.

watching from North Korea thank you for video showing how great Gods chosen country truly is!!!

Fun fact : if you ever decide to eat a fresh fish raw , be sure u freeze it before hand , they can cause brain worm infestation

They might actually need ivermectin after this one

The inherent palatability of carp, in the absence of its unfortunate immersion in contaminated aqueous environments, a perilous encounter with an arrow resulting in the transcutaneous breach thereof, thereby facilitating the unwelcome ingress of sewage effluents into its musculature, followed by an inauspicious trajectory across the expanse of the culinary workspace, subsequent to which it is subjected to precision amputation, left in a state of protracted putrescence for an interval spanning two diurnal cycles, culminating in its eventual consumption in a state of uncooked rawness, must be duly acknowledged.

The takeaway line made me laugh out loud actually, I see water like that a fair bit in Chicagoland

Theres absolutely nothing unfunny about his uncle dying from a bet that he could swallow a whole boiled egg like a snake, thats absolutely insane.

The Australian gov should really just invest in your mate training a killer group of bow fishers