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  • Auntie Esther Choi, she's the queen of flavour

  • Uncle Roger favourite chef

  • today, we're gonna watch her make eleven dollar ramen

  • look at this ingredient

  • this is stuff even poor people like me can afford fuiyoh

  • let's see how she make it special

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  • Hi, I'm Esther, I'm a professional chef

  • and these are my $116 ramen ingredients.

  • why when Auntie Esther filming my video, she's so dirty

  • but when she filmed with Epicurious

  • she's so professional

  • look, she even dressed like vicar! what going on?

  • Hi, I'm Daniel

  • I'm a home cook and these are my $11 ramen ingredients.

  • they exchanging ingredient

  • oh

  • who this guy?

  • why he looked like muppet from Sesame Street? haiyaa

  • Did Bert come to life and become real boy?

  • very familiar with this, I got it

  • ah, Maruchan ramen, this classic instant ramen in America

  • but niece and nephew, up your instant ramen game

  • like Uncle Roger, I only eat Indomie or Shin ramyun

  • Tonkotsu Shoyu ramen is a creamy pork bone ramen

  • I had a really nice piece of pork belly that I was gonna roll along with soy sauce

  • everything on it's in a different language

  • of course it's a different language

  • that food from Japan

  • when Uncle Roger buy pasta

  • I don't want to see Chinese word on it

  • Mirin

  • I've used this before to make sushi rice, I think

  • Dried Kombu

  • this feels like cardboard

  • this is hard

  • at least Kombu just feel like cardboard

  • Jamie Oliver food tastes like cardboard, big difference

  • emotional damage!

  • With Daniel's recipe, I have simpler ingredients

  • We have instant ramen noodles

  • eggs, garlic, ginger, scallions

  • soy sauce and sesame seeds, and a rotisserie chicken

  • this is like a nice gift

  • but this rotisserie chicken look like the saddest thing

  • which Walmart you get it from?

  • five major components that make a really great ramen

  • it's the tare, which is the seasoning flavour

  • the broth, the noodles

  • the toppings and the aromatic oil

  • Auntie Esther know her ramen, fuiyoh!

  • see? she know everything about food

  • she's the perfect woman

  • I don't know how to make noodles

  • I'm scared about these noodles

  • Rose!

  • Daniel! how are you?

  • never made handmade noodles before

  • Is there any sort of tips

  • side note, every Epicurious video

  • they always call Rosemary Trout

  • this perfect name for food consultant

  • Rosemary is seasoning

  • Trout is fish

  • Uncle Roger gonna come up with Asian version of that

  • Uncle Roger are gonna call my kids soy sauce tilapia

  • make sure they grow up into food consultant

  • alright, time to get started on the ramen noodles

  • I've got potassium carbonate and salt

  • and I'm just gonna throw into the water

  • now I'm just gonna add this to the flour slowly

  • but nothing's exploded yet so that's a good sign

  • what? what can explode?

  • I know this Japanese video

  • but you're making ramen, not attacking Pearl Harbour

  • how can it explode?

  • alright, yes

  • this is, I hope long enough

  • I'm gonna trim the ends off so it's nice and square

  • and I'm just gonna cut it in half

  • so it's a little bit more manageable for me

  • haiyaa, no, don't cut in half

  • if you cut in half

  • see, your noodle gonna be too short

  • the slurping not satisfying

  • there we go

  • Oh, snap. There's so many, okay

  • look at that, see

  • see? it too short

  • you put in mouth you won't even notice it there

  • and that what my ex wife say to me all the time also

  • we gonna focus more on Auntie Esther

  • this home cook nephew don't know what he's doing

  • So, Daniel just sent me this rotisserie chicken

  • and there's actually a lot

  • let's see what Auntie Esther can do with this depressing rotisserie chicken

  • so the first thing we're gonna do, pull off all the meat

  • good

  • the chicken and separate the skin

  • nice idea, I think she's gonna use the bone to make her broth

  • bone is classic way to make ramen broth

  • and then the chicken meat can be good topping

  • and maybe chicken skin can turn into aroma oil

  • very smart, Auntie Esther, I see what you're doing

  • keep watching see if Uncle Roger correct

  • we have three different parts of the chicken, we have our chicken meat

  • our skin and then the bones

  • good, good

  • so this is the carcass, you can see here I'm kind of separating dismantling the carcass

  • correct, if you break bone, more flavour will come out

  • to extract more flavour from the bones

  • this is ready, I'm just gonna add water to our stock

  • Uncle Roger love seeing the dead chicken in that pot fuiyoh

  • vegetarian niece and nephew, you're missing out

  • see? with chicken, you can make delicious broth like this

  • just kill one

  • don't be pussy, just kill one chicken

  • for aromatics for the broth

  • we want to build as much flavour as possible

  • so, to the chicken, we're just gonna

  • wait,aromatic already? that's a bit early

  • add some of the scallion

  • usually we only put aromatic in there after the broth boil for a few hours

  • but maybe Epicurious give them time limit

  • so Uncle Roger understand

  • many western cooking show, they book studio kitchen like this

  • but then they only book few hours

  • I don't know why

  • maybe they no budget

  • ginger, we're just going to give it a quick chop as well

  • and I like to leave the skin

  • ginger good

  • Because it's stock

  • same with garlic, I'm just gonna give it I'm just going to give it a nice pound

  • Auntie Esther pounding

  • Uncle Roger favourite thing to watch

  • skin on

  • throw it in the pot with the chicken

  • and let this go for two hours on a rolling boil

  • only two hour

  • maybe a bit longer, but like I said

  • Epicurious no budget

  • tare is a seasoning liquid that goes into ramen

  • and that's basically what gives the salt to your ramen

  • and to really give this tare a great umami

  • we're gonna be using the chicken flavour packet

  • yes, fuiyoh!

  • see?

  • Auntie Esther also love MSG just like Uncle Roger

  • that flavour packet in every pack of instant ramen, that the MSG

  • makes shit good

  • that why Auntie Esther queen of flavour

  • in the instant ramen noodles

  • now this is like gold, I love this stuff

  • Uncle Roger love it too

  • to that we're going to add ginger and garlic

  • this will go five minutes

  • make sure the seasoning packet is well incorporated

  • extract some of that flavour from the garlic in here

  • good, good

  • there we have it, our beautiful tare

  • we're gonna be using the scallions

  • the ginger and the garlic to make an aromatic oil

  • so we're adding the oil

  • and we're just going to turn this on

  • medium high heat

  • okay

  • as we mince our ginger and garlic

  • more pounding

  • ginger, I'm peeling it with a spoon

  • peel ginger with spoon, good technique

  • here is our beautiful aromatic oil

  • and then this is our crispy topping

  • that's gonna give so much texture to this ramen

  • nice, very smart idea

  • So Daniel sent me these eggs

  • and instead of just cracking the egg in the broth

  • we're gonna be making onsen tamago

  • onsen tamago, that is egg in hot spring bath, very nice texture

  • silky smooth egg

  • it like the better version of egg benedict

  • always choose onsen tamago

  • egg benedict for uncultured people

  • nobody just order egg benedict for the egg

  • people only order egg benedict for the Hollandaise sauce

  • if you need sauce to make your egg good, you fucked up

  • but Onsen Tamago, you can have it just by itself

  • it's so delicious

  • the reason why we're doing four cups of boiling to one cup of cold

  • is because we want that sweet spot of the temperature of one sixty seven

  • then we're just going to cover it

  • and let this sit for fifteen minutes

  • and let's test one out

  • let's see

  • it's very exciting

  • okay, good, there's one

  • don't cut to my muppet nephew, I want to see Auntie Esther egg

  • you see how the yolk is

  • fuiyoh!

  • semi-set

  • this woman nailing everything, except Uncle Roger

  • let's see what muppet nephew getting up to

  • Been a couple of hours

  • Look at that. How nice does that look?

  • This smells so good, whatever I was smelling before

  • this is completely ramped up

  • there's like way more sweet, way more savory

  • oh, it just looks so dark and rich and thick

  • dark and rich and thick

  • that Uncle Roger favourite type of woman

  • so if you dark and rich and thick

  • slide into Uncle Roger DM

  • while that's going, I'm going to start cutting my braised pork belly

  • it's like disrespectful how good that looks

  • I think it's missing a little glaze on the outside, you know?

  • Gotta hit it with the torch!

  • no, no

  • don't give this guy torch

  • someone with this much eyebrow should not use flamethrower

  • you're gonna burn them off haiyaa

  • I'm gonna flip these over and do the same thing

  • the chashu too thick, who want to bite into this like that

  • sliced thinner!

  • yeah

  • broth has been going for about two hours

  • and you can see the carcass is broken down

  • it's starting to thicken

  • So we're going to strain it through a Chinois

  • nice

  • use a ladle to kind of push out all of that flavour

  • squeeze it all out

  • like how my ex wife squeeze out all my money

  • so we have our chicken skin

  • nice

  • we have our chicken meat, we're gonna fry the chicken skin

  • good

  • if you go to a Japanese restaurant

  • you can even just order to skin separately

  • correct

  • and that the inspiration

  • skin, the best part

  • so many health conscious people, they don't eat chicken skin

  • because they scare cholesterol haiyaa

  • what the point of living, if you don't eat chicken skin

  • you call it cholesterol, Uncle Roger call it enjoying life

  • you hear a little sizzle, I think that's ready

  • I love this idea

  • I kind of now want to do this at my restaurant

  • see that oil coming out?

  • you can put that in aroma oil, Auntie Esther

  • hope she'll remember

  • you know it's done when it kind of holds together like that

  • remember that seasoning packet?

  • I'm just gonna sprinkle it

  • mmm, she double MSG her ramen, fuiyoh

  • this woman go above and beyond

  • two MSG packet for one dish

  • that why Uncle Roger in love with her

  • as soon as it cools, it's like ultra ultra crispy

  • and I can't resist, I'm sorry, but I gotta taste it

  • nice crunch

  • but I think she really forget to use the oil from chicken skin

  • one small mistake Auntie Esther

  • nobody perfect

  • so Daniel send me sesame seeds and

  • sesame seed, good topping

  • plain sesame seeds doesn't have that much flavour

  • but once you toast it

  • it changes completely

  • Correct

  • sesame has a lot of oil

  • always toast your sesame seed

  • don't eat raw sesame seed, you're not baby bird

  • cut a scallion, which we're just gonna slice

  • The restaurant, we call this sexy scallions

  • see, Uncle Roger know

  • sesame seeds that we toasted, we're just gonna grind it up into a powder

  • our last two toppings are ready to go

  • just cook our noodles and we're ready to assemble our ramen

  • starting with our chicken, some of our crispy mixture

  • nice

  • the crispy chicken skin

  • next, I'm gonna do with the egg

  • of course we have our scallions

  • last but not least, aromatic oil

  • ah, small mistake there, Auntie Esther

  • plating order for ramen, you start with tare and aroma oil

  • and then you pour the broth in

  • let the broth mix with the oil and the tare

  • you're not supposed to use aroma oil like little drizzle over the ramen

  • that looks awesome and this is my take on Daniel's ramen recipe

  • that look pretty good fuiyoh

  • this woman, such amazing chef

  • she can make two minute ramen in two hours

  • why Auntie Esther when she's filming with me, she's so dirty

  • but when she film with Epicurious

  • she looks so innocent

  • and why she dress like vicar

  • Rosemary is seasoning and then trout is fish, not bad

  • Uncle Roger gonna name my kids soy sauce

  • Uncle Roger gonna name my kids soy sauce tilapia

  • don't cut to muppet nephew, I want to see Auntie Esther egg

  • muppet nephew, god

  • alright, the ramen noodle saga continues

  • what saga?

  • this ramen, not Star Wars, this muppet nephew love talking shit

Auntie Esther Choi, she's the queen of flavour

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