Shadowing Practice: RATING KOREA'S CUTEST CAFÉS 🍰₊˚⊹♡ (cheongsudang bakery, dotori, london bagel museum + more!) - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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if you didn't know the cafe culture in korea is huge so we're gonna be trying out some of these most popular cafes and some of
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if you didn't know the cafe culture in korea is huge so we're gonna be trying out some of these most popular cafes and some of
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our favorite cafes to tell you which ones are really worth going to starting out first with maybe my favorite one they have a really extreme menu with yogurt bowls baked goods drinks but i'm here for the yogurt bowls Look, he's wearing a little hanbok.
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Oh wait, that would be a she.
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My bad, queen.
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She is wearing a hanbok.
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Look at all the breakfast sandwiches.
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These are some of my favorites.
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Whoa, what is that?
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It was buried under all that flavor.
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strawberry greek yogurt is my favorite or the persimmon
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Thank you so much, kamsahamida!
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Are you ready?
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Oh my f**k!
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It's like pin drop silent Oh my f**k!
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Holy s**t!
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You can actually say that here Here we have our dotori hall Dōturi means acorn in Korean, so it's basically acorn cafe.
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And the food is so good.
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We got some new stuff today.
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That looks crazy.
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Yep.
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A little breakfast sandwich with bacon and egg.
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A fig and pistachio yogurt bowl.
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And then this is what I've been dreaming of.
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My strawberry yogurt bowl.
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It's so good.
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Oh my god.
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I get really easily icked out by yogurt, and this one tastes so delicious.
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Cheers!
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You need to get this.
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This is my favorite food of all time.
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I'm not quite sure what this powder is.
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It's so thick.
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Is this all salt?
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No, it's a bean powder.
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But does it taste like strawberry though?
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No.
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Maybe there's a jelly inside.
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Girl, you got so much powder on your lips.
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Oh my god.
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Maybe you need to cut into it.
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Oh, use a knife.
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Oh, oh my god.
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I'm sorry.
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There is strawberry filling deep in there.
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Yes.
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Okay, use a knife.
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This is so messy.
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Cut it.
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Strawberry whipped cream in the middle.
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okay that was fire what is all this powder now we have the breakfast sandwich my dad got this last time and beasted the whole thing before i could even try a bite so i'm very interested
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i understand why my dad ate it so fast the bread is really good it's like kind of sweet on the the outside.
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We just finished at Dotori.
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I think this is my favorite cafe in Korea of all time.
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We'll see if my answer changes throughout the video, but this is really my winner.
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I already know it.
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I love the big menu.
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I love the outdoor space.
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Everything is so cute.
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Highly recommend.
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A few steps away from Doitori is Cafe Onion or just onion.
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This also had one of my favorite bites from our last trip, but I've never been inside because Ashley just got it and brought it home for me.
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So I'm really excited to see what it looks like.
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Wow, it's a Chanuk style cafe.
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What are these?
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What is this?
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What the heck is this?
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What is this?
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This is where the king came in like this.
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Oh!
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There's a video of a king.
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Oh, and that's why they have the classic covers now.
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He pulled an Ariana Grande.
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He did.
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This one is my favorite.
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It's a sweet garlic bread.
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These are so good.
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Oh my god, the smell is insane.
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This is like the best thing we've had from here.
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Okay, this might actually be all of dotori.
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Like this singular bread.
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Look at that bread.
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and it's filled with cream cheese in the middle.
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It's like caramelized garlic bread with cream cheese.
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They really understand the sweet and savory vibe.
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There's like chips of garlic on top that are so yummy.
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I love it.
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Dottori and onion are so goaded, literally.
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It's gonna be tough for any cafe to beat those in this video, but we'll still try them.
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try them nonetheless by the way we're in the anguk area which is quite the cafe hot spot so we love staying here Hello!
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You hear it, I'm saying Young Young Man!
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Oh wait, this one's number one bestseller.
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Hey I
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got four bagels.
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These clearly are not New York bagels.
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Maybe they're London bagels, I don't know.
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They're really squishy, I can already tell.
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They have a lot of dankity flavors.
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Is it good?
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They said it was really good.
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For some reason I didn't wanna like this place.
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Maybe because they're doing bagels, and I'm like, really?
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But it's so good.
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What is the texture like?
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It's really doughy.
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It's kind of like an undercoat dinner roll, but in a good way.
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Next to the blueberry looks really popular.
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It's a glaze on it.
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That one's more like a regular bagel.
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It's like wet, it's like moist.
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It's good.
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Next I feel like this one looks the most appetizing.
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Cheese and honey.
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I love how all Korean food is like so overdone and shiny and sugary.
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Whoa, cheese filling.
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What is this flavor?
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It tastes like a really specific cheese from my childhood.
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Like a Danish?
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Like sprayed cheese or something.
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Oh, have cheese wings.
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Cheese wings?
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It's good.
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It's salty and sweet.
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It smells like cheese wings.
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Let's try the basil cream cheese with it.
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Oh, oh, oh, I forgot.
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I think everyone else is eating their bagels with fork and knife, girl.
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What?
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Oh, the basil is really good.
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Can I do the Earl Grey too?
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It's pretty good.
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It's maybe a little artificial tasting though.
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I can't- It's subtle.
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I like that.
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That just tastes like all great.
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Last up, we have the sussy bagel.
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Oh, this one feels so crazy, like a Play-Doh bagel.
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This cheese, to me, looks nuts.
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I think the bagel's made out of potatoes.
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There's mashed potato in it.
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What?
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It's also really good.
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Wow.
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Quick rating of all the bagels.
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7.5, 7.6, 9, 9.5.
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Definitely more like ready than a bagel, I would say, but the flavors are on point.
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If you come here with a big group and you guys all get a bunch of bagels, you can try them all.
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8 and 8.5.
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We're at the on-goof location right now, and the line is so crazy.
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I feel like that's why we've never been here yet, because we've tried multiple times, and I asked everyone who could not make it in.
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So this time you join the waitlist?
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Yeah, Catch Table.
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Okay, my mom joined Catch Table to get on the waitlist.
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And then we just walked in, so that was very easy.
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And the place is smaller than we expected.
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We thought it would be like a huge thing because there's so many people here.
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But it's pretty like normal size.
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Okay, let's leave her they said that they're sold out of all these options why?
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oh there's only matcha ones left yeah i'm really sorry they just told me in korean but you wouldn't understand aw dang it looks like we're gonna have to order the matcha korean french toast
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i'm really sorry dang no i actually i really want to get the corn toast i want the strawberry bread right there
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it closed up like 5x zoom really good up in their microscopic levels okay i'm on microscopic 1x zoom okay i cut it really weird but there we go smells amazing it smells like a corn
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we must be the three sisters the way you bean squashing this corn bean corn is
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bean squashing this game that was actually the most insane thing you've ever said in our entire lives what the hell i'm literally
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watching wait someone send this video link to pono with this exact time stamp so that he can hear that okay everybody in the comments time
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mom is so happy it's actually good really it looks like the type of food that's like overdone but it actually has the flavor to back it up i'm still laughing at the three sisters too vote.
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so crazy.
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that's pretty good.
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very delicious cornflip batter.
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i thought maybe this was just like a instagram food.
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well it's actually good.
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and mom got a chestnut milk.
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that's delicious.
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it's so good.
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i think it's pretty good, right?
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The bread feels so fluffy.
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Call me a Minecraft villager the way I munch the bread.
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What the?
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What is the name that Jack Black says?
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Crushing lobe.
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Crushing lobe.
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Call me a Minecraft villager the way I crush this lobe.
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Okay, I gotta say overall, this place definitely makes like Instagram worthy food, but it actually tastes so good and the cafe space itself is really pretty.
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I will highly recommend it.
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I give the corn a 9 out of 10 and the strawberry an 8.5.
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Overall, this place gets 9.25.
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okay nice
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Ashley got vegan shakshuka mom got avo toast and I got the big brekkie you mean the big backie?
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really bro?
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really?
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JK come on bro let me enjoy my the big brekkie more like big backie I like this.
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Ooh, very delicious.
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Okay, you're looking like the Big Bucky now.
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It's worth it.
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I think it's actually the best breakfast I've ever had.
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Really?
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I think it is sweet.
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Oh!
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You wanna try your toast, mommy?
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Mmm.
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Mmm.
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Good flavor.
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The little Bucky is eating the Big Brecky?
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Becky?
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Yeah.
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How is this possible?
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She's never gonna finish.
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I'm so fatigued.
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Amber, you're so small, this can never fit in your belly.
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Overall, very yummy, but I feel like those type of breakfast places are really popular in the U.S., so coming to Korea, it's nothing that would blow my mind.
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I really like some of the other cafes we've tried that are more, like, themed or more, like, interesting in Korea.
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My breakfast was really good.
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Yeah, it's like really good kind of basic breakfast for us.
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So if you have not been to America or Australia, then you should try.
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Yeah, but if you've had like regular brunch kind of, then, meh.
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I'll give it overall a seven out of 10.
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Greetings from Bali.
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Just kidding, this is still in Seoul.
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The last cafe of the video.
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Or is it bugging your hair?
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Stop it.
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Just brush it out.
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Just brush it out.
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Just brush it out.
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Where?
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Help me.
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It was a tiny bug.
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You're good.
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You're good.
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I have lice now.
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Wait.
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There's so many of them.
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I'm just kidding.
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For our last cafe of the video, we're going to go to the most, I think, infamous, beautiful cafe in the most Instagrammable, according to my mom.
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This is Tungsudong Bakery.
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I actually have not heard of a single food that's popular here.
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All I know is that you go here for the vibes.
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Like, it just looks horrible.
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So, we're going to go in and we're going to take a look at the menu.
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and we'll report back.
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Yes.
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We'll see if the vibes are indeed gorgeous.
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Let's look at this.
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Here's the menu.
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It looks like they have some blocks, some tuboids.
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Minecraft cube, Minecraft dirt block, snow block, desert terrain block.
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This is so pretty.
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There's fishies.
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Bye.
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oh i almost dropped it okay here's what we got at chamsurong bakery we got a mugwort soy bean milk which is pumpkin rice drink
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and then we got a little strawberry shortcake look how gorgeous so let's see if the food looks up to the rest of this place what the let's try this mugwort soybean milk i don't even know what i thought that's a gray looking matcha it's a great matcha
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on the menu it said woodworm and i never heard of that before but it is mugwort careful it's made of worms okay we got worm milk It's yinjongi on top, the soybean powder.
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Oh, it's sweet.
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It's just like random.
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Well, we did have to buy three things since there's three of us here.
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That's a thing that a lot of Korean cafes do.
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So then we got off to the register and they were like, I don't know what to order.
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So we got kind of the last random thing that we ordered.
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And another thing to know in Korea is that when you do takeout, you're not allowed to sit down.
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If you order something to go, you cannot sit at a table.
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So you'll always have to pick either like sitting in or getting the hell out of there If you eat there, they'll be like, um, you have to leave I'll say for this one,
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it's kind of just like a random sweet milk We kind of got this as like a panic order I think you could have picked something better off the menu But six and
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a half out of ten This smells so good So shike is a rice drink and this is pumpkin flavor I think they added like ginger and stuff It smells very fall-like Okay,
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that one is really good Sometimes shike is a little too sweet for me This one's really balanced It's like a perfect fall batter Now for the piece de resistance.
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Let's get into this strawberry cake.
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Oh my god, it feels so light.
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Look at that texture.
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This is really good.
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I just love strawberries and cream.
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The texture is a little bit like tres leches, tres leches cake.
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Like, it tastes like the cake was soaked in some, like, milk.
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Did I just say tres leches, like, horribly?
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I'm like, the first time and then you fixed it.
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Okay.
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Okay, we just finished at Changsudong.
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That gets a number one for ambiance out of the whole video.
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Number one.
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Number one.
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Number one if you want to get Instagram photos there.
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But I think for food, I still have to give dohtori and onion my number one spots.
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Those are unbeatable to me.
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Those are like mind-blowing.
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This one has like good food, but it's more about the ambiance.
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Yeah, I think that's my review.
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Honestly, love going to Korea and trying all the cafes.
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If you guys have any favorite places in Seoul, let us know because we'll definitely be back.
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I don't know when, but we will be back and I need to try them all.
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So if you guys have a Korea trip coming up, I hope you guys save this video and try them out.
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But that's it for me.
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So thank you guys for watching.
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See you next time.
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In this lesson, you will practice your English listening and speaking skills through a fun and engaging YouTube video that explores the vibrant café culture in Korea. As you watch, you’ll be exposed to real-life conversations filled with descriptive language related to food, ambiance, and personal experiences. This is a perfect opportunity for those seeking to enhance their IELTS speaking practice or improve overall conversational skills, particularly through the technique of shadowspeak.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

  • Café culture: The social atmosphere and environment surrounding cafés and coffee shops.
  • Yogurt bowl: A common dish made with yogurt topped with various ingredients such as fruits and granola.
  • Breakfast sandwich: A sandwich typically consisting of egg, meat, and cheese, served in the morning.
  • Acorn: A type of nut; in the context of this café, it also refers to a theme or style.
  • Whipped cream: A light, fluffy mixture made from cream that is often used as a topping for desserts.
  • Fig and pistachio: Flavors that can be added to yogurt bowls, showcasing the variety of ingredients used in café dishes.
  • Kamsahamida: A Korean phrase meaning "thank you." It's useful to express gratitude after enjoying a meal.
  • Messy: Referring to something that can cause spills or is difficult to handle, often used when discussing food.

Practice Tips

When shadowing along with the video, focus on mirroring the speakers' tone, speed, and emotions. The relaxed and enthusiastic style of dialogue makes it an excellent resource for practicing natural conversation. If you're using a shadowspeaks app, try to repeat phrases immediately after hearing them to develop your speaking fluency. Don't worry about making mistakes; instead, concentrate on emulating the rhythm and pitch of the speakers. When practicing with this specific video, note that the pace might vary; some parts are quick and filled with excitement. Use pauses strategically to allow yourself time to articulate your thoughts clearly. This will also help you improve your IELTS speaking practice, as clarity and confidence are key components of successful communication.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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