The 'Hot Ones' spinoff is a cross-cultural ode to spicy food — and to the wild ones who love a little heat.
creeps across chef Esther Choi’s cheeks as she takes her second bite of spicy tteokbokki at a restaurant in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. She remains mostly unfazed though, on this first episode of First We Feast’s new YouTube series “Heat Eaters.”
Choi is your fearless guide on this thoughtful spinoff of “Hot Ones,” where we’re taken on a lip-searing flavor crawl through a different cultural enclave in every episode. She begins, of course, with the cuisine she knows intimately.While Choi is now at the precipice of what I like to affectionately call a gochujang-glazed empire, she started off helping out in her family’s kitchen as a kid.
“Risk takers,” Choi says, when I ask her if there’s a “type” of person who loves spicy food. “It’s people who have that free spirit or are willing to try different things. I think you have to be a little fearless and kind of open your mind to it — and your body just kind of adjusts.”I get what Choi means here, but her words resonate on a deeper level. There’s something both beautiful and poignant about this fellow child of immigrants talking to me about taking risks and being brave.
How could it be? “Hot Ones” viewers know from years of devouring the show that watching people squirm and sweat from consuming spicy food while trying to carry on a conversation is hilarious and somehow relatable. Plus, there’s an undeniable vulnerability to it. “It’s the bond that’s created by two people experiencing spicy food together,” she says. “That emotion is so real on camera because we’re actually eating and experiencing it together — and dying together.
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