most people just hang out on the main streets and they really avoid the side streets and in doing so

you're really missing out on some of the coolest places that Hongdae has to offer so today we want to show you our three favorite hidden gems in Hongdae.

MARTINA: You know what sucks though, if only we had somebody that was visiting Korea for the first time, SIMON: I know, that would be perfect.

MARTINA: We could take them with us and like show them all these locations SIMON: and give them that experience. MARTINA: Ahh

MARTINA: If only SIMON: If only

DIANA: Hi I'm Diana from Florida, I'm the winner of the airbnb2Seoul contest. SIMON: OK, wait you're confused

A few months ago we went on the meet your kimchi tour where we met a couple thousand people at our meet ups

we teamed up with airbnb as well to host a contest where we could bring four of you awesome viewers to come to Korea

and to experience traveling like a local, and we personally decided to host the first winner.

MARTINA: So you need to look into the camera and then I want you to tell the camera how it feels to be flying out to Korea

because you won the airbnb2seoul contest! Yay!

MARTINA: and because they picked and airbnb that's in Hongdae we get to play host in our favorite neighborhood SIMON: Ooo we're so Hongdae biased.

Nah nah nana nana nah~ DIANA: ???

SIMON: So the first place we're going to is one of our favorite lunch places in Hongdae

It's called Bear Bibimbap, it's not actually called Bear Bibimbap, that's just what we nicknamed it

and it's really really cute on the inside, come check it out with us.

I like how in our last video we literally just said, 'Don't just come to Korea and have the bibimbap.'

and then we're like, 'Come to Korea, uhe, enjoy the bibimbap.'

SIMON: This is a really special bibimbap. MARTINA: It's a really deluxe extra delicious amazing bibimbap okay?

The whole reason this place is called like namul is the focus on the vegetables that go into it

you can have bibimbap with just like mediocre, but these vegetables are just like, it tastes homemade, sesame bunsik is

amazing, and the side dishes, like the banchan here, oh my God guys

Okay, this is a great bibimbap experience if you're gonna try it for the first time, or the second,

or the third, or the two-thousandth.

SIMON: Add some, as much as you'd like, I like it a lot.

So make sure when you get your dolsot bibimbap let it sit for at least a minute or two

so you don't mix it right away or else you won't get all the crisp that you need, but now that we let it sit a bit

you can see the bottom, oh yeah, you don't get that if you rush it. Martina likes to eat hers really really crispy

I think this is good enough for me. I'm gonna start mixing this up.

MARTINA: So good right?

DIANA:This is the best bibimbap ever. MARTINA: I know. SIMON: Mhm

MARTINA: What the. SIMON: It's great. MARTINA: Did you even..

MARTINA: Did you chew? SIMON: Sorry I like food.

DIANA:(laughs) MARTINA: We're still, what is SIMON: Okay time for our next place

MARTINA: I'm not ready. SIMON: Yes you are

Another reason we dig staying at airbnbs is because when you go to a hotel they tend to recommend

very touristy packages to you but it doesn't really have a local feel to it, but when you stay at an airbnb

and you have an awesome host they'll recommend things to you that other places just don't know about.

because they don't live in those neighborhoods. As your current Hongdae airbnb host I'm gonna recommend

taking you for cupcakes! SIMON: Really. MARTINA: The best cupcakes ever!

MARTINA: All the cupcakes that you've ever seen damaged, hurt, and fought over. SIMON: The winner gets the cupcake and will not share at all with anybody

SIMON: The winner gets the only red velvet cupcake that we have, we went out to Chikalicious which is our

favorite cupcake shop in Hongdae. SIMON: We have a box of four, and you're not gonna throw

all four of them. MARTINA: Are from this cupcake shop and we've never taken you guys there.

SIMON: Let's go MARTINA: I'm just gonna get a head start on Simon right now, 'cause...

So we're at Chikalicious which is my all time favorite cupcake shop in all of Seoul, probably in all of Korea.

They're always changing their flavors and today I see one that I've never seen before and I'm really excited.

Simon got the new Autumn special one, it's the maple bacon, which I like to just call the Canadian cupcake

lets be honest. This one is the Nutella cupcake that is amazing and of course one of my favorites

the carrot cupcake with the most amazingly cheezy creamy icing sugar ever.

Are you gonna be finishing yours?

But for really reals, the reason I like this place so much is because the actual cake of the cupcake is so incredibly moist

A lot of places you go to focus on like the outside icing sugar looking pretty, and then you bite into it

and you're like, this tastes like grease and the flavor is all gross and disgusting. This place has moist delicious

well flavored cupcakes, and the icing on top is fluffy not too sweet, this one's actually like a cream cheese because it's a carrot cake muffin, right?

Come on guys. Do the red velvet, do the carrot cupcake, try the lemon one, if you like tea go for the earl grey, the matcha one also delivers,

they have a hidden Oreo one. SIMON: I have a question; Why would you throw my cupcake?

MARTINA: You have no video evidence of that ever occurring.

SIMON: Nah nah na, Duckie!

MARTINA: (laughs) SIMON: YOU, dick, you, AH my frosting! You're such a sore loser!

So the last place we're gonna take you to is Magpie's our favorite beer place in Korea. They make

delicious micro brewed beer. A lot of our Korean friends don't even know about this place. Let us show you what it's all about

It's so good

MARTINA: Mm. SIMON: Oh yeah

MARTINA: That is not a one shotter, let me tell you. DIANA: No. MARTINA: Nooo.

SIMON: I like this a lot more than regular Korean beers. MARTINA: mhm. SIMON: easily.

MARTINA: I mean sometimes you wanna go for a Cass and a Hite when you're eating chicken 'cause you just want some water to wash down your food.

SIMON: If you just want some good beer, this is the right place. MARTINA: Yeah

MARTINA: Did we mention they have pizza?

SIMON: So I want you to look at the camera, and I want you to tell us how it feels to have spent a day walking around Hongdae.

DIANA: (excited noises) eyk: You're in Korea!

SIMON: So hopefully this video inspires you to explore the side streets of not just Hongdae but the rest of Seoul

because the side streets are really the veins that pump blood and life into the rest of the city.

MARTINA: Oh I like that. SIMON: Thank you! How poetic. MARTINA: You're so smaart.

and hopefully if you're staying at your airbnb your host is gonna be able to tell you all the cool things that are happening in your city because a hotel isn't

really gonna be able to do that. If you want to know all the places that we went to make sure you click our blog post

we have all the cards and all the addresses of the places as well so you can explore this way if you want to.

MARTINA: And if you want us as your Airbnb hosts, well, you should have gone to our fan meets. SIMON: You shoulda could

MARTINA: The contest, you just entered it, came to our fan meet, and then was flown to Korea and stayed here

SIMON: Watch eatyourkimchi, get free trips to Korea, I don't see a problem here. MARTINA: Neither do I.

SIMON: You should probably subscribe if you haven't already.

MARTINA: So what you're gonna do is, you're both gonna look into the camera, and then you have to tell the camera how it feels to be flying to Korea because

you won the the Airbnb2Seoul contest! CROWD: (cheering)

MARTINA: To have won the Airbnb2Seoul contest. CROWD: (cheering) MARTINA: You're going to Korea!

MARTINA: because you won the Airbnb2Seoul contest. CROWD: (cheering)