It's a Gender-Reversed World, But I Don't Go Out Anyway - Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Mukbang

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[Today’s stream will be browsing the forum + mukbang.]

Write food recommendations in posts and I’ll do a mukbang of those

[Comments]

– True meaning translation: gonna make content from your posts and eat food using your donations lol

ㄴ This is it

ㄴ This translation engine is insane;;

ㄴ Daeju, you punk, taking the easy way out with streams lately? In that spirit, how about some raw fish?

– Hawaiian pizza with coconut drink

ㄴ Ugh

ㄴ Satan’s favorite combination

– Just eat whatever and do your gaming stream, you fu*king bastard

ㄴ Being called a di*k doesn’t hurt cause it’s true

ㄴ Then would you be okay being called a bi*ch?

ㄴ That hurts…

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“Hello everyone, nice to meet you.”

[Yeah]

[Yo[1], meaning hi for Yellowy]

[Is this a mukbang?]

[Seems like he’s trying to cleanse his palate after eating weird stuff yesterday]

That’s right.

Actually, after yesterday’s stream, my YouTube and forum numbers started growing immediately. Since it was content with major streamers, it definitely had an impact, and even though I didn’t talk much there, being the only male presence and having a unique nickname made people talk about me—

Right now, my viewer count is a whopping 1,300, about 300 more than usual.

Moreover, this was just the number right after starting the stream, when viewership is typically lowest before content begins, so the numbers might keep climbing.

After seeing the increase in forum and YouTube subscribers yesterday, I sensed new viewers would flood in, so I prepared another food-related content like yesterday.

To somewhat appeal to my nickname Yellowy…

…though I’m not quite that yellow…

“As announced, today we’ll browse the forum and then do a mukbang.”

[Don’t you cook at home?]

[That’s why Yoseoknyeo and Yoseoknam are trending]

[What’s that?]

[Seductive and sexually skilled women and men]

ㄴ [Has been forcibly removed]

[Don’t know if it’s trending, but seeing that guy makes it feel like end times]

The forum was still actively getting posts. I only mentioned food recommendations, but people were putting in effort, uploading photos and even including drinks.

However, most were questionable just from their titles and photos.

“What’s kimchi cake…”

[Already drooling]

[Honestly, kimchi’s best with plain white rice, that’s the golden rule]

[Nah… curry’s the best]

[Isn’t ramen the golden rule?]

[Isn’t it Jjapagetti?[2]]

“Stop!”

[Ah, you startled me.]

[If you’re gonna yell, warn us next time]

[So anyway… what I’m saying is Jjapagetti is…]

[Wow, insensitive people are really problematic, just look at how they keep trying to force their opinion]

I sensed the awkward atmosphere and immediately told them to stop. By suddenly raising my voice, I was able to change the topic.

Even then, there were people trying to continue the argument, but I personally gave them a 10-minute chat restriction, and the chat became clean.

Looking carefully at the chat, there was one surprising chat log.

“Wow, let me show you this person’s chat log.”

Chat log.

It sounds complicated but it’s just a feature that shows all the chats a viewer has made so far.

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[11:04] [MovieManiac]: Daeju, yesterday’s stream was really fun! Looking forward to today’s stream!

[11:04] [MovieManiac]: Guys;; let’s control the chat a bit ㅠㅠ

[11:05] [MovieManiac]: lol the nickname Yellowy is funny

[11:07] [MovieManiac]: Hey, you’re not banning that kind of chat? No mods here?

[11:10] [SoulReaperDaeju]: I want to be Daeju’s toe. Then you’ll always look down at me coldly? ㅜㅑ[3]…

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“What on earth happened in those 3 minutes”

[lololol damn this one adapts well]

[At this rate just drop them in another country, they’ll be best friends with locals in 10 minutes lolol]

[A stream where MovieManiac becomes SoulReaper]

[This is Daeju’s fault lololol]

At first, I thought a toxic viewer had joined to show their hidden malice, but surprisingly, while such people exist, there are also people who just change according to the chat atmosphere.

So no matter how many fans I gain from now on, does this mean the chat atmosphere won’t change? A chat like this forever?

I was already getting dizzy.

There were also normal food recommendations on my tgether forum.

Honestly, I was generally good with most foods that might be controversial.

“What do you guys think about sundaeguk[4]?”

I saw a post recommending blood sausage soup and asked what others thought.

[Absolutely fucking extremely disgusting]

[Just drink the broth and throw everything else away, right?]

[No fuck seeing those coagulated blood pieces floating around would make even someone who hasn’t eaten for 48 hours go ‘ah, this is…’ right?]

[Visually disgusting? Right, but even those who say it’s disgusting would all like it in a blind taste test with eyes covered]

[And when they remove the blindfold and see what they ate, they’ll beat the person who fed them to death]

“You guys get too excited when it comes to food”

[Daeju, I’m excited…]

[Daeju, I’m nolbun-de[5]…]

[?]

Whenever food topics came up, death threats were exchanged in the already rough chat over what made them so wronged and angry.

Personally, I leaned towards liking sundaeguk.

I thought it was tasty but wouldn’t order it myself. While I also felt put off by the visuals, well, it’s not harmful, and there are even claims it’s healthy.

I moved on to another post.

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[Top 3 God-tier Seafood]

1. Oysters

2. Live octopus

3. Skate

So fucking delicious you can’t even raise your chopsticks twice lol

If you disagree that these are god-tier, you’re absolutely right lololol

[Comments]

– They’re all god-tier but

ㄴ Are you Daeju?

ㄴ You bi*ch, where in the world is there someone who can eat all three of these

– Isn’t live octopus delicious?

ㄴ Yeah next, barbarian

– Oysters and live octopus are good in jjamppong[6] though;

ㄴ That’s because the jjamppong is delicious, not those bastards

ㄴ True actually it’d be better if they gave more noodles instead of those

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“1 and 2 are super delicious, haven’t tried 3, is it not good?”

[Usually would say no but can’t tell you specifically because it’s you]

[Yeah true would probably eat anything except cactus or pufferfish]

[Want to recommend food you hate but what do you even dislike]

[Yeonhee’s cooking?]

[Ah…]

“Look everyone, anything that’s being sold is delicious.”

If they’re selling it for money, it means someone’s buying and eating it, which is why it’s profitable, so if it really tasted bad, wouldn’t they not sell it?

And I did have foods I disliked.

For example, spicy food. Why pay money for pain? If I’m getting hit, I should receive proper compensation, but instead they take my money? Isn’t this like food extortion?

What I wondered was why everyone’s taste was so different from mine.

“Aren’t you guys the ones with unusual tastes?”

[Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, this is unfair]

[Yellowy, you can’t doubt the humans!]

[Isn’t this typical psychopath mindset?]

[Daeju, if 1000 people say they hate it and one person says they like it, that means you’re the unusual one]

“Really? …Anyway! Recommend something novel, this is too boring”

Among the recommendations so far, only kimchi cake stood out as particularly unique.

I wanted to try something I hadn’t eaten before, but living alone and ordering delivery meant I’d tried most available foods, so nothing seemed exciting anymore.

Then surprisingly, there was one food I still hadn’t tried.

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[Kimpitang]

Kimchi Pizza Tang-soo-yook[7]

I understand what you thought seeing these three words combined.

But don’t talk if you haven’t tried it, this is different.

Korean: Kimchi

Western: Pizza

Chinese: Sweet and sour pork

You could say it’s humanity’s grand unification, but anyway, three god-tier dishes combined, and it’s fucking delicious

Try it

[Comments]

– Original tang-soo-yook is the most delicious

ㄴ Regular pizza is more delicious too

ㄴ Kimchi too

– But this is strangely delicious

– Sometimes I crave this food

ㄴ When?

ㄴ When you’re super lazy and want to get fat but want both pizza and tang-soo-yook

ㄴ Just the fact that you had such times shows your weight

ㄴ Is this a sting operation;;

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“Kimpitang? Heard of it but never tried it”

[Surprising, thought you’d have tried it since the visuals are totally Yellowy’s food]

[Isn’t it wrong to judge by visuals? If others judged you by your visuals…]

[By visuals what, you fu*king bi*ch]

[hehe you know~~]

[But it’s really delicious, go for it]

Sometimes I see stores on delivery apps that only sell tang-soo-yook and they do have kimchi pizza tang-soo-yook on the menu.

Honestly, I’d thought about ordering it but tang-soo-yook itself is expensive so it wasn’t easy to take the plunge. Moreover, there was the safe route of original tang-soo-yook.

But hearing about it like this made me curious.

Regardless of the visuals, people were saying it’s delicious.

By my standards, my viewers seemed almost like food critics with their picky tastes, but most of their opinions were leaning towards it being delicious, so there was no way this could taste bad.

“I’ll just order this.”

[Our house’s Yellowy orders delivery food too~?]

[Mom, what about our house’s Poppy?]

[Just ordering something ordinary, boring!]

[For real… should’ve eaten pineapple pizza with mint chocolate jam…]

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(End of Chapter)

T/N:

1. The viewer’s greeting “누하” (nuha) is a clever wordplay that combines:
i)”누렁이” (nureong-i) – his nickname “Yellowy”
ii)”하이” (hai) – a Konglish way of saying “hi”.
So, I translated it to Yo ( Yellowy).

2. Jjapagetti (짜파게티): Popular Korean black bean instant noodles

3.(ㅜㅑ) is a variation of the crying emoticon, used to express exaggerated sadness

4. Sundaeguk (선짓국): Korean blood sausage soup

5. “nolbun-de” (놀분데) is a wordplay on the previous chat “excited” (흥분돼). *Sigh* Koreans and their puns.

6. Jjamppong (짬뽕): Korean-Chinese spicy seafood noodle soup

7. Tang-soo-yook (탕수육): Korean-Chinese sweet and sour pork