[phone ringing] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] - He loves this attention.
He eats it up.
[laughing] When the phone rings, my stomach starts hurting.
Here we are again, dumb dumb against the world.
My brain right now is actually scanning every single little thing that can go wrong because of this show and it's everything I ever wanted, recognition for this decade of hard work.
Yes, here is Korea, but give me this little 10 by 10 room.
Come on.
They always call me the, the [speaks Korean], the American Misses.
To really find out who I am, I don't think I'll ever have the answer to that.
Now as I've gotten older, perhaps I am reaching back to something familiar.
So I made a place that I always wanted to go to and I'm making food that I always wanted to eat and comfort myself and then share that.
[upbeat music fades] [ambient music] [ambient room sound] - This is how much I love you to let you film me right now.
I hope you understand that.
[feet shuffling] - This is so good.
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] Good.
Okay, so I had a breakdown, I had a meltdown in front of customers, but it could've been a lot worse.
You can see, this kitchen is open, that we are busting our butts and why can't people understand this is not fast food.
- Blah, blah, blah, blah [laughs].
- When she ordered, I told her, "The waiting time is going to be 40 minutes, would you like to wait or not?"
No, she stands here, puts her hands behind her back like this, like she owns the place, and keeps coming here and staring at me and going, [exhales] "Huh.
Huh, huh, huh, huh.
Huuuh.
Huh."
So finally, I lost it and I was like, "Okay, everybody free.
Your food is free.
Everyone in this room, your food is free.
Here, here, what did you have?"
I'm so darn sensitive.
But being sensitive also makes me a pretty darn good cook.
If I can just learn how to channel that.
And I just can't ignore bad behavior.
Like I said last night, "Give me this 10 by 10 room.
Give me this 10 x 10 room, please."
[Dongseop speaks indistinctly] And I owe you what?
I owe you a fantastic burger at a very bargain price.
Now what am I gonna do?
çchuckles] - Smoke.
[soft music] - Oh!
♪ [soft music continues] ♪ - I met Dongseop after I had been in Korea five days.
[soft music] I got the job as an EPIK teacher and then he worked for the school that I had gotten placed at.
I don't know.
We just got really close.
And it's one of those unexplainable things.
Totally unexpected.
I still don't get it.
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] I still don't get what that is we have.
And it's always changing as the years go by, but there's something, I think, that we see in each other in ourselves that makes sense and that's a very powerful thing.
I got one pajeon order, okay?
I was a teacher in Korea for 15 years and I was conforming to Korean culture for so long.
And then, I'd always had this craving just to do my own thing, express my own identity.
And then finally I thought, you know, the burger that I want to eat I have never eaten or seen or tasted in Asia [grill sizzles] so I guess I gotta make it myself.
[soft music] Now, as I've gotten older, perhaps I am reaching back to something familiar.
So I made a place that I always wanted to go to.
And I'm making food that I always wanted to eat and comfort myself, and then share that.
They always call me the [speaks Korean], the American missus.
And a lot of them have commented online.
Oh, I feel like I'm in a foreign country when I walk through that door.
I feel like I'm in America.
I treat everybody like I would as if we were in Tennessee.
I also consider the Korean culture while I'm here, but I also am like, "Pick up your burger.
Don't eat it with a knife and fork.
This ain't a Michelin Star restaurant, pick it up.
Eat it like an American."
But if you don't want to, there's a knife and fork on your plate, you know?
Yes, here is Korea, but give me this little 10 by 10 room.
Come on.
Give me this little 10 by 10 room.
[customer speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [soft music] [waves trickling] [bird cawing] [ambient nature sounds] [birds chirping] - I'm worried.
- Why?
- I don't know what they gonna do.
[reporter speaks in Korean] And why don't we have vaccines?
[reporter speaks in Korean] - Don't get.
- I know.
Why?
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] - Oh my God.
[Jessica laughs] [host speaks in Korean] - She says that it's your playground.
[host speaks in Korean] [Jessica laughs] [merchant speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [merchant sings in Korean] [merchant speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] She was really on that day when ... [playful music] - I mean, it's okay.
And I got you got coffee.
Last time, I got coffee.
- Oh, good.
Yeah.
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] Welcome to Tennessee.
I feel great here.
[Jessica speaks indistinctly] It's 8:15 in the morning.
It's 8:15 in the morning.
Honey, it's starting.
- Tennessee Table [speaks Korean].
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] - See, this is so funny.
On camera, he looks shy, right?
On camera, he looks shy, but he loves the attention.
He loves this attention.
He eats it up.
Me, on camera, I don't care.
I'm just like blah, blah, blah.
I hate this crap.
When the phone rings my stomach starts hurting.
So he loves this attention.
- What's up?
Come here.
- He loves this attention and I hate it.
- No, I don't- - Oh, yes, you do.
Yes, you do.
[Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] - Because there on the phone my hometown [indistinct].
- Oh, that's bull.
- Yeah.
- You love all the attention.
- No.
- Oh, yes, yes.
- You try to ... - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- Watch out.
- Honey!
Honey!
Write down bacon.
You won't get it if you don't write it down.
Make a memo.
Take a memo.
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] - [speaks Korean] and bacon.
- Oh, yeah.
- And then, he'll come back, "Oh, I cannot find, ah!"
I've always been very introverted.
But over the years, I mean, I can turn it on, boom.
But that's also exhausting and then we need some downtime after that because I'm a major introvert.
I need to recharge.
Recharging is get away everybody, everything, except the puppy.
My brain right now is actually scanning every single little thing that can go wrong because of this show.
I'm thinking about there could be strange people coming in here or people could just judge me the way I'm judging myself when I'm looking like, "Oh my God, it's the Hunchback of Sehwa, you know, because I didn't stand up straight in the show and I'm attacking myself.
Oh, I didn't stand up straight.
Oh, my hair looks terrible [mumbles].
Women.
So my brain is right now scanning every single little thing that could possibly go wrong because of this show.
And it's everything I ever wanted.
Recognition for this decade of hard work.
But you know what?
You know what's sad I'm realizing now?
Recognition, it's all right here, baby.
[phone ringing] - [Dongseop] Yeah.
- I'm gonna get the pork ready.
[Dongseop speaks in Korean] [group speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] - You excited, baby?
- This is insane.
[ambient outdoor sounds] [low inaudible talking] [squeaky door latch] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [patrons chattering] [patrons chattering] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [patrons chattering] [upbeat music] ♪ [grunts] ♪ [upbeat music continues] ♪ - [Jessica] Fork.
[group laughs] [upbeat music] ♪ [upbeat music continues] ♪ [Dongseop speaks indistinctly] - More this way?
- No, this much.
- Look at ... [Jessica speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica laughs] [Dongseop speaks indistinctly] [Jessica laughs] - We never had this we need a cover window.
Oh, now it's- - I know.
- Because you made it.
- I made?
I made what?
I didn't wanna do the damn TV show.
I told you I didn't wanna do it.
- You're the one that said, "We should do it.
We should do it."
- [laughs] Really?
I did a choice?
- I can see everything here.
- But I'm now dancing.
You didn't see.
You can't see outside?
- A little.
I hope not.
[birds chirping] [drill whirring] [birds chriping] [patrons chattering in Korean] So I got a Mohawk and I changed my hair.
The shape that I like to do looks like an ice cream cone.
So even on the TV show, this stuff, I've been called ice cream [speaks Korean].
It's become quite a character of its own.
Then when I go out in town, people are like, "Are you Jessica?"
And I'm like, "Yeah."
They're like, "I saw your ice cream [speaks Korean], ha, ha, ha."
And I'm like, "Yeah."
But it's also a shield, a defense.
It makes me feel more powerful.
This is very purpose driven makeup.
Hopefully, it makes a shield, a wall of protection.
I am trying to look fearsome.
And being fearsome is a part of my true personality, otherwise, I would've not have been able to open a restaurant in a foreign country.
Hello, I'm nice, but don't mess with me.
Ah, Russian red.
Whoa, power.
That's a cock-a-doodle-doo.
Cock-a-doodle, don't mess with me.
That is what has caused holes in the ozone layer.
Not greenhouse gases, but just other women spraying hairspray.
[patron speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [patrons chattering in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [group laughs] [patrons chattering in Korean] - [Jessica] Me, I'm not famous.
Okay.
[patron speaks in Korean] We are at again.
Me and Dongseop against the world.
[patrons chattering in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] - Thank you.
- Picture, please.
- Okay.
[patrons chattering in Korean] - Thank you.
- Thank you so much.
[Jessica speaks in Korean] - I love you, Jessica.
- I love you.
You're fabulous.
- I love the Tennessee.
- [Jessica] Thank you.
[phone rings] That's all.
Oh, no, nevermind, dang it.
Oh, next page.
Oh crap.
[patron speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] - Thank you.
Please tell her I said, "Hello."
- Can I get a picture?
- Yeah.
Sure, sure.
Oh, that's so sweet.
Hi, grandma.
[laughs] That's so cute.
- [Interviewer] You gonna get some help?
Another person working here?
- Well, the problem is in Korea, you know, they're really set on the age thing.
So I have so many older customers right now.
I'm worried about hiring a younger person because older people will not listen or follow a younger person.
I do need somebody who's got thick skin and can handle not only the crazy customers running around here, but also handle me, which is like the Gordon Ramsay without the skill in the kitchen, so ... - [Interviewer] You're getting close with the hair.
- I am, aren't I?
I am.
[patrons chattering in Korean] [phone ringing] [soft music] [patron speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] - Everyone, same time [speaks Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [patrons chattering in Korean] - [speaks Korean] one shot [speaks Korean] same time.
Like, [speaks Korean].
[Jessica speaks in Korean] So it's okay.
Everything's fine.
Okay.
Name?
Cheeseburger [speaks Korean].
[patron speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] - Set A, okay.
Would you like [speaks Korean] or [speaks Korean] coleslaw?
[patron speaks in Korean] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] Love the energy today.
This is fantastic.
[soft music] [grill sizzles] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [phone ringing] [insects buzzing] [wind blowing] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [grill sizzles] [patrons chattering in Korean] - Thank you.
- Thank you.
Goodbye.
Enjoy.
[Jessica speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] Thank you.
[patron speaks in Korean] [patron speaks in Korean] [slaps wall] [waves crashing] [mixer whirring] [phone rings] [patrons chattering in Korean] [rain pattering] [rain pattering] [rain pattering] [wind blowing] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica speaks in Korean] [patrons chattering in Korean] [grill sizzles] [Jessica speaks in Korean] - Thank you so much.
- Thank you.
[Jessica laughs] [wind blowing] [Jessica screams] [Dongseop speaks in Korean] [Jessica pants] - I can't breathe.
[ambulence engine] [crickets chirping] [thunder rumbles] I dropped a pot of boiling water on my leg.
- So we did riding ambulance.
- Ambulance, yeah.
- 911 [laughs].
But, you know, Korean 911 ambulance is free [laughs] - Oh, that's as good as a firework show.
Oh.
And this is one of my favorite moments with you, just sitting here watching a lightning storm.
Can we go to the beach and look at it?
- Yeah.
[waves crashing] Ah, the typhoon is gone.
Look at that.
It's gone.
[waves crashing] [birds squawking] - Mmm!
[Dongseop sings in Korean] Oh, it's huge.
[Dongseop sings in Korean] [footsteps] [Jessica sings in Korean] Come on, look at that, it's a beaut.
I'm gonna look at my compost.
Are there worms in there?
Oh, there's grubs.
I'm pretty sure that's a really good sign 'cause they're eating stuff and pooping it and that's wonderful.
[Jessica vocalizing] What is that growing?
Okay.
Sweet corn does not belong here.
It does not belong in a windy environment.
I've been trying to grow sweet corn for about five years.
Why do I keep growing a sweet corn?
Because every year I grow that corn I start noticing that as the corn grows it detects that it's windy there so it starts growing a sturdier stalk.
Here, just like that corn, we have to adapt to here.
No, this is the one place you are not allowed to yell at me.
[patron speaks in Korean] See you Wednesday.
[Jessica laughs] Bye, Jessica.
- I don't even know who that was.
♪ Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name ♪ ♪ And they're always glad you came ♪ To really find out who I am, you know, and what my purpose is on this earth, I don't think I'll ever have the answer to that, but through this creation of this house and this business, garden.
Hello, hello, hello.
The things that originally came from here, from here, has gotten me a lot closer, you know?
And I can't give that up.
I'm gonna keep doing things like that that come from here, not from out there.
Live action, we have a fig ready.
Yes!
Is there any more?
That one was hiding.
Come on!
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