by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim
editor@charactermedia.com
Korean food is a wonderful thing. From the meats to the veggies to the seafood and every grain of rice, there is such a wide range of tastes and pleasures within every dish.
Leave it to the loud, bearded guys at Epic Meal Time to smash it all together in their own charming way. Add in Seth Rogen and James Franco, and you have the best or worst cooking segment ever filmed, depending on your mood and sobriety. In that context, the enormous Korean BBQ lasagna they threw together is either the nastiest or most delicious thing you’ve ever seen.
The actors were on hand to promote their upcoming movie, The Interview, in which their characters are tasked by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un when they travel to North Korea. According to Rogen and Franco, nothing screams authentically Korean more than fries and pasta. And Koreans apparently eat everything with kimchi, gochujang and ssamjang, which might not be too far from the truth.
Pack in bulgogi (which Franco says is named for the lead prosecutor in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi), kimchi pork belly and kimchi pancakes in between the kimchi pasta layers, and you have an enormous spicy lasagna with a touch of cultural ignorance. Of course, it’s James Franco and Seth Rogen, so what can you do.
Check out the video below:
