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Take it easy.
Hi, I'm Melissa. Welcome to Candy Trips.
Today, we're in pretty Prenzlberg
which is part of Pankow.
This funny alien space ship behind me
is a planetarium. We're not going there,
we're going to have some food at Gobento's.
The one thing Prenzlberg
stands for is gentrification.
If you don't know what that means,
it's when artists move to an area
coz it's cheap, thus making it hip.
Then people who aren't artists
but have money move there coz it's hip.
Then rents go up and the artists move out.
WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON GENTRIFICATION?
Everyone says it's all the Swabians' fault.
CHILD TRAFFICKING IS NO MINOR OFFENCE
But there are so many here, there's no room left.
Playgrounds are full.
A HEART FOR HANGERS
The small, pretty Gobento restaurant
is in one of the few refurbished buildings.
The kind owner Markus will welcome us today
and show us how to make onigiri rice balls.
I'm hungry!
Do you want to eat?
What is Gobento exactly?
It's rice balls with different toppings
or fillings and Japanese finger food.
I don't think the mic caught it,
but my tummy growled.
You can help me prepare them if you like.
People say I look dangerous
with a knife. No idea why.
It's not the knife. You make the knife dangerous.
You hold it like this, wait,
and then you chop.
Just pull it back.
Put your thumb away. Then you just pull.
It's embarrassing. An Asian who can't cook
is like a black who can't dance.
Slowly... Gosh, it's not that easy.
Where are you from? Thailand?
I'm from Berlin. I'm half Thai, half German.
It's funny, when I'm with Thai friends
I'm not Thai and when I'm with Germans
I'm not German.
I don't exist, really. A halfling.
You're not an elf, but you're not human, either.
I keep thinking this looks like a fetish whip.
Please explain what bento is.
Bento is a box and a way
of eating several small snacks.
You can have as many as eight compartments.
However many you want.
I'm not a trained chef.
I only trained as a sushi master for five years,
but the whole training takes nine
or eleven years or so.
I was fed up with sushi.
Now I only make dishes I like eating.
The balls are made from ingredients I like to eat.
They came together gradually
and this form was created.
As if I started off with sounds and colours.
With them, you can make anything.
It's true you know.
But why did you open a restaurant?
I make food to make people happy.
It's so easy for me to do this.
You're happy when you make others happy?
Correct. That's one kind of happiness,
but there is another one.
We use this word 'happiness'
but meditating monks collect happiness
only to give it away afterwards.
DO WHAT YOU WANT
BUT NOT COZ YOU HAVE TO
Then you get true happiness.
We could philosophise for hours. But I...
Too much philosophy burns the chicken.
One compartment needs filling. With veggies,
or we'll take the flambéed prawn.
Prawn! I invented the Shrimp Dance.
Go on, show us.
Prawn have lots of little legs
and when they're not dead they're really cute.
They have shells. So it's, unpack them,
eat them. This is the Shrimp Dance.
Can you send it to me as a video reply?
The good thing is Germany is a good source
of energy of the world. We're in a good position
with good vibrations.
That's why it's called
the land of poets and thinkers.
And how everything evolved, with beer and stuff.
Lots of cool things come from Germany.
One thing is crap,
that we can't be like, yeah, Germany, you know?
I can't bring Gobento into the world
with a Germany flag and say, yeah.
I could, but people wouldn't get it. You know?
Yes. That's normal.
But it's strange that we still...
You mustn't be proud.
It's strange. Look at us.
You'd call yourself German.
Sure. I'm mega German.
So we're Germans, but it's strange.
There are still too many limits
that people put on themselves.
It's not just everyday limits,
it's also old limits
which have nothing to do with them.
They only think that they do.
Dinner is ready!
Food is ready and I can't get out!
You'd stave off drunken zombies.
We're opposing it.
If you want, I'll film you while you eat.
I'll ask you questions like, what's it like
in Berlin? Good or bad? If I say, it's horrid,
no-one would come here any more.
Tell us.
So here we have home-smoked salmon,
flambéed with rice and green tea.
This is baked ginger chicken on rice,
wrapped in lettuce.
Flambéed prawn with garlic and ginger honey
and sesame soy sauce,
a bit of ginger and beet root.
Just take the balls and bite into them. Be messy,
that's the best way to taste everything.
Just bite into it. I'll get you napkins. Enjoy.
Thank you.
I hope you liked it here,
had fun and like the food.
You have to eat here, it's delicious.
Seriously? Thanks.
I don't just want to eat the food,
I want to be the food.
Right, I'm super fatty.
That's good.
Thanks for watching.
Where should our next Candy Trip go?
Write us a comment. And dear Markus
of Gobento is giving away something.
If you want to win a nice evening for two,
tell us how you like Berlin.
The best answer wins a meal for two
at Gobento's. Don't forget to subscribe
and see you next time.
Bye!
Subtitles by Stephanie Geiges
It's the best!
Everyone needs to dance this dance.