Living Cheap - Tiny Korean Apartment ($509_month)!

Mmm, it's kind of like banana jam on

a piece of bread. Ahem, hello and

welcome to my new Airbnb. Well, it's not

really new because I've been here for

about a week now, so I thought I'd give

you a guided tour of my $509 a

month Airbnb. Now, this is in fact the

cheapest Airbnb that I could possibly find

on Airbnb. Now you might be thinking,

oh, if it's only $500 a month, it must be

really, really bad. It must be a really

horrible place to stay in. Well,

actually, it's pretty nice. As you can see

already, it looks pretty modern, pretty

clean, and it's fairly comfortable to live

in. Okay, so we start off at the entrance.

This is where you take off your shoes,

and we have a washing machine where I wash

my clothing. Yes, I do laundry. You see

that? That is my laundry,

and I got some laundry washing liquid.

Just goes into here, very easy.

So here is the kitchen, um, pretty basic

kitchen, but you have everything you need.

We've got a cooking stove and we've got a

sink and a microwave, lots of storage.

Plenty of storage. Some Doritos.

And if you pull this out— oh, the

extractor fan starts buzzing!

And we have some warning signs up there.

Got some plastic spoons, some soap.

All of this was provided to me. I only had

to buy this I had to buy my own

pot because they didn't give me a pot.

Okay, back to the entrance. Reset.

So if we turn left, you can see the

bathroom and shower. So the shower

head is up there, and you stand here, and

the entire room gets wet, which can be a

bit annoying because I have to take out

the toilet roll every time I have a

shower. Otherwise, the toilet roll will

get wet. There's a very useful drain here,

which is nice because sometimes I'm

feeling lazy and I need to go to the

toilet, and instead of using the toilet,

I just empty my watering can standing

here. You just have to be careful not to

forget that you've emptied your watering

can onto the floor and you, you don't step

into it barefoot. Now we will

step into the living area where we have a

fairly large-sized bed. Easily fits 2

people. It's a bit low down, but that's

okay. It means you have more space.

Over here we have a wardrobe where

I keep my rubbish and my backpack,

and there's more storage down here.

And some hangers. It's a bit smelly.

We have a fridge. I'll show you what's

inside my fridge. Got lots of ingredients

for my cooking channel. So I have some

cheese, pizza cheese. Got some doenjang

jjigae sauce. Got some mushrooms.

Got some garlic and cream, tomato,

bean sprouts, tofu, and some spaghetti.

As you can see, there's no meat. That's

because I'm trying to be a vegan this week

for my second channel. Little challenge.

I thought I would challenge myself to not

eat meat. Got some rice and coffee, very

nice. And there's a metal bar up

there. Where you can hang your laundry

like so. And then here we have a table

where you can put your laptop and your

iPad, more storage. So you can just sit

here like this, do some computing. It's

very comfortable. Yeah, I like it.

Also have a free hair dryer, and the floor

Is heated, so it's very nice to walk

around barefoot. The interesting thing

about Korean apartments is they don't use

the heating thing, the air conditioning to

heat the room like Japan does. All Korean

all Korean apartments have heated floors,

and that heats up the entire room. It's

really good. I like it. So if I open the

blinds, I can show you the view from

outside. Prepare yourself. Da da da da.

Ooh. Korea. So if you're feeling lonely,

you can look out onto the streets and see

the people walking around. Oh, look at

them crossing the streets with their

umbrellas. Hello!

Say hello! Say hello!

You might be thinking, oh, isn't it really

noisy with all this traffic going past?

But it's not actually noisy. If I stop

talking for a few seconds, you can see how

quiet it is.

Pretty quiet. And that's because there is

a double layer of sound insulation.

I'll show you. So not only do we have one

window, we have a second window.

See how noisy it is if I open it.

And we also have this mosquito insect net.

I'll give you a view of the outside.

Yeah, it's pretty cool. So mosquitoes

can't get in, and then we close this,

gets quieter, and then we close this.

Gets even quieter. So I don't really have

a problem with the noise. The main problem

is, well, there's a clothing store right

below me and they're always playing Korean

K-pop, K-pop music all day long from 10

AM to about 8 PM. So yeah,

I am forced to listen to constant K-pop.

The other problem when it comes to sound

and noise is the staircase to the

apartment is right next to my room, so I

can hear everyone going up and down the

stairs. And for some reason, Korean people

like to stomp when they walk. They go

upstairs really noisily. It's like they're

angry with the staircase. I still can't

believe that I got such a good place just

for $500 a month. In England, there's no

way you'd be able to get this kind of

place in the capital city of London. I'm

in the capital city of Korea, Seoul.

Okay, I'm not in the center, but I'm still

quite close to the center. I'm only about

20 minutes away from the main center bits,

so it's not like I'm on in the outskirts

or in the middle of nowhere. I'm still

right bang in the middle, near the middle

of the capital city of the whole country,

and it's only $500 a month. That's

unbelievable. In London, it would cost me

at least $2,000 a month to be able to live

in London. When I was looking at the

Airbnb listing, I thought it was going to

be grimy and dirty, really run-down, but I

think it looks nice. Look, they've given

me this nice green wallpaper

with leaves, so it looks like you're in

nature. They also gave me this free bottle

of water.

Hello and welcome back to another episode

of Cooking with Daniel. Today we're going

to be making some premium spaghetti, and

for the ingredients I will be using this

bag of mushrooms and this

tomato.

Now my first tip when it comes to making

spaghetti is snap the spaghetti sticks in

half like this so it's

shorter and easier to eat. If you don't

snap it in half, then it won't fit into

the pot. You see, perfect size.

Next we add the water like

so. And then turn on your

stove to gas mark 12.

Okay, whilst the spaghetti is boiling, we

will prepare the tomato first by cutting

out this green bit.

There you

go.

So now that the spaghetti has finished

cooking, we will now cook the vegetables

to make the spaghetti sauce.

Add some steak seasoning for flavor.

And there we have it, delicious spaghetti

with Homemade, handmade tomato sauce

and mushrooms.