Okay ready?

Hey, I'm Martina and welcome to Martina's Midnight Munchies

for real because it's really late. [ ??? ???? ]

We are pretty hungry, but we had an intense day.

Yeah, we're too tired to leave anymore.

And luckily we love places that have kitchens, as you know.

You've seen a lot of our videos where we cook. So, I'm gonna make a miso hotpot.

So, let's get the ingredients for hotpot and let's get back to the hotel and cook.

She's gonna go crazy and gettin' a bottle of wine.

Mhmm!

So, I'm gonna grab this one and anything I don't finish, I can really just bring back with me.

Sho-ga. This is shredded ginger.

And I think it makes, like, everything taste great.

And I'm also gonna get the shredded garlic.

Here we go. Fresh garlic.

I think this five dollar wine will suffice for my recipe

of putting wine in my mouth.

Ha ha!

Now, I'm not getting sake that's delicious. I'm getting sake that's really, really cheap.

Because I just need something to cook with.

Ooh!

Sake milk cartons for when you can't admit that you have a problem.

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[ ??? ????? ] Aah!

I'm gonna get this eco cup. Heck yes, then I'm gonna grow a plant in it later.

Garlic or ginger or mochi? Dan: Ooh!

Let's go garlic.

Martina: Go straight to the pricey section!

Royal pork!

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But seriously I'm gonna get the royal pork.

"Miso from Kyoto...

Dashi bag. Mitsuba. Mushrooms. Sake."

"Bottle of wine?" Question mark? Let's get rid of that question mark right now.

Well done. And we need to get eggs.

I'm gonna replace cabbage with bok choy.

Okay, so we're almost done. I think we've got everything.

Let's get going. Simon's offloading a lot of footage.

I'm hungry as heck.

To the hotel room.

Basically a nabe is super simple.

You're building a dashi base.

Which, I've made a lot of videos on explaining how to make that soup base.

Conveniently, Japan often sells a lot of these pre-made packs.

I'm gonna add this into the pot.

You guys can see, it's just like granules.

So this is instant dashi.

If you smell it...

You smell it, Dan?

Dan: Oh! Martina: Oh!

He went in for a deep smell. Yeah, that's um...

Dan: It smells like the sea.

Martina: It smells like the sea.

Don't worry if you're not super precise.

It's not gonna be the end of the world for your soup.

The veggies are gonna add a lot more water, as well.

So I don't want to, like, over water things.

This stuff is great. It is so very Japanese.

When I first came here, I didn't understand what this was.

But every hot pot has this in it.

Lots of veg!

Da!

I feel like I need to develop my own cooking personality like all those people online.

Like, if you guys are cooking fans, name it.

Ready?

[ ??????? ????? ] Now I'm going to whip the butter.

Eh? Eh?

Simon? Eh?

Simon: Aw, that's Gordon Ramsey!

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Martina: I love that sound.

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Sake is gonna be part of this to add more flavor and I'm gonna be adding in a little bit of garlic and ginger.

And if you caught our gyoza livestream, this is leftover shoyu from that.

So I kept it as well.

Not Daiginjo,

but actually pretty good!

Pretty good for cooking cause mirin is like a kind of sweet sake.

I got ourselves some good old fashioned Kyoto Negi.

This stuff is so big. I can literally stand here and stick this onion into Dan's ear uncomfortably.

This is to me that the baguette of Japan.

Like, I love coming home with giant green onions.

I'm tired so I'm saying weird stuff, guys. Welcome to Martina's Midnight Munchies.

Now I'm gonna work on putting in some of the bigger, stocky pieces.

We're gonna toss them in, BAM! Who am I? Emeril.

I beat you guys to the comment section.

Let's get some more stemmy bits.

The reason I'm doing this is because this will release a lot of water and add a lot of flavor.

And this I want to cook very lightly at the end.

So it's not overcooked, so we have fresh veg that's like nice and healthy.

I will admit that I'm not sure if this is hard or soft tofu.

Which is a bit of a problem because it definitely should be hard tofu if it's going to survive the boiling.

We're gonna cut these into big chunks so that they don't fall apart.

Ooh.

It's feeling like it's on the medium side.

I definitely should have gotten a firmer tofu.

And look at this horrific job I just did.

What- What's happened here?

[Simon from other room:] What have you done?

Martina: Oh, my gosh.

Dan, look away! Look away!

See, it's like, medium firm.

Which means I'll be- have to be really careful when I boil this.

I'm sorry tofu.

I'm gonna keep this for breakfast in the morning.

And now you add the peanut butter.

It does look like peanut butter though, doesn't it?

You guys always make fun of me for this.

You're like, "Oh, why don't you just dump it in and stir at the bottom?"

I'm like, "That's not the way you're supposed to do it, y'all."

I'm gonna add in the chicken meatballs

because they take about ten minutes to cook.

[ ??????? ????? ] I'll save the rest of these chicken meatballs and make a cheeky omelette in the morning.

[ Laughter ]

Was that, like, the best sexy Nigella?

Dan: Oh, it was Nigella? Aw.

Martina: Just for a midnight snack!

Eats a raw chicken meatball!

Mushrooms are starting to cook down.

I am going to now add in the shabu shabu meat, and we're gonna add it bit by bit.

It's gonna cook really, really quickly.

It's gonna be like a real fast process now, so get your...

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quick hat on.

Oh God. It's gonna go terribly wrong.

The hot pot's gonna be great!

Simon: I'm so excited girl, it smells so good!

>> I swear.

Simon: You're doing a great job!

>> I'm pulling through, y'all!

Simon: Hey, thanks for making this great dinner. Ducky, this looks so amazing.

>> No problem.

>> Woah.

Alright.

Mmm.

Mmm.

Mmm.

This is so much, like, a creamier, milkier-

>> Yeah, it's creamy, right?

>> It almost tastes like a tonkotsu, in a way.

>> Yeah, I was really tempted to add a little of the soy milk.

>> Yeah. >> Because that makes it a little creamier.

>> Wow. >> But...

And this is just, like, a couple ingredients.

You know, like this would be better with a little hot pepper flakes on top.

[?????????], and stuff like that you know?

>> Mitsuba really makes it.

Mmm.

Martina: Honestly, I love cooking with you guys and chatting to the camera.

It makes me feel, like, less lonely when you're cooking, you know?

The base recipe is in the info box, but make sure you play with flavors.

Keep testing the broth until you get what you like.

The key is don't overcook the veg.

Check out 48 hours in Kyoto if you want to see where this video came from.

We explore inside the hotel and around Kyoto.