Epicurious: My Mukbang Obsession Taught Me to Love Wooden Spoons
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Jan. 14, 2022
Over the years mukbang videos have become my ambient background viewing of choice. I watch them while I work, clean, or complete an idle task around the house. For me, watching other people enjoy a meal provides quiet comfort and a strange sense of satisfaction—especially during a couple of years of dining almost exclusively in my own home.
Mukbang is a Korean portmanteau meaning “eating broadcast.” The trend, in which strangers on the internet consume (often obscene amounts of) food while talking to a camera, started in South Korea. But it has become so popular worldwide that the word was recently added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Watching all of these videos meant it didn’t take long to notice a trend among South Korean mukbangers and food YouTubers: Instead of eating with stainless-steel spoons, they use wooden soup spoons for slurping scalding hot stews and scooping mounds of steaming white rice.
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