🎵 Vince Guaraldi Trio - Thanksgiving Theme
Hello, this is Soiona from South Korea.
Last year, in the fall of 2019, I flew to New York.
There, I met some of the most wonderful people.
This documentary is dedicated to every one of them.
Ella(Grandpa), she's drinking the soup too.
Aww sick, come on Sally you're in for a treat
Hooo
That's ham and uh, pineapples.
Grandpa: Ham.
It's what would you find on hawaiian pizza.
You want soup?
Uh-huh, I do!
(gasp)
Thank you so much!
Are those pineapples...?
No.
What are they?
I don't know, ask her.
So what's in the soup?
Umm...
boy: Soouup stuff.
girl: Winter ballinde, (?)
Isn't it jellyfish...?
(disbelief) No, there's no jellyfish!!
WHAT'S THAT STRINGY THING I JUST ATE??
Dude
That's NOT JELLYFISH!!
Well my dad was a chef.
He worked in the restaurant all his career,
since he came to the United States.
The turkey has been marinated the same way that
it's been marinated ever since we first started.
Everything was my dad,
so it literally just started from my dad.
It's actually my mom that makes the marinade.
If it's like a Burmese dish, then my mom would do it.
But if it's like a Chinese dish, it'll be my dad.
That phrase too many cooks in the kitchen?
That's them sometimes. (laugh)
Because they each have their own method.
And they'll be like:
"Why are you doing it this way?" 
"Why are you doing it that way?"
And then, like,
"It's not you cooking, so you stay out of it."
So whatever my dad makes is not a
traditional american turkey.
Americans, they usually
put stuff into the cavity of the turkey.
My mom does a very...
It's a Chinese kind of seasoning, so it's different.
And Louie being an American, loves it.
You're ready for it; you're ready for it.
(I drooled)
20... 22 pounds.
22 pounds?
Yeah.
And how many hours (to cook)?
Three hours.
So, as we got older,
We continued the thanksgiving tradition 
that my father started.
This is bacon,
to go with the mac and cheese.
that's the elbow,
and that's the cheese.
So for dessert we have a pie,
Oooh
Look at this little chicken!!♡
It's a turkey.
Oh, that's turkey.
It's Thanksgiving: turkey.
And then we have sides: stuffed mushrooms,
stuffing.
This stuffing looks so different than the one i had at school.
This is homemade.
They look so much better.
Mushroom in, 20 minutes out.
Is it good?
It's awesome.
It's terrible.
It's terrib..? Nooo don't say that!
Oh yeah it's done!
Good to go.
Woaaaaahh
KIDS, DINNER UP!
*sees camera
*dances
You want a little bit of everything?
Yes, I dooo.
Okaayy
Ham,
mashed potato,
This is homemade gravy,
stuffings,
bread, egg noodles,
corn are the kids' favorite.
striiiing beeeaaaanssss
and you always come back for seconds.
Yes, I will. (I sure did)
Stuffing,
and mac n cheese.
There're jelly too.
You want to try jelly?
Cranberry jelly.
With bread?
You're supposed to eat this with turkey, I think.
Oooohhh
okay!
So is this the typical thanksgiving
dinner?
Probably so,
but there might be some components
missing.
I'm not really sure.
This is OUR typical thanksgiving dinner.
We are not the typical "white family".
WE ARE ASIAN
So you think this is not typical?
For other people, no I don't think so.
I know people eat a lot of like cranberry sauce and stuff
Okay.
I think. I forget what it's called.
So I noticed you watching football.
Yes. It's common over here.
They used to have one game on Thanksgiving,
then it went to two games,
then it went to three
Now I heard there's four games on thanksgiving.
So it's become a tradition.
Getting ready for christmas shopping tomorrow.
big sales start.
Macy's thanksgiving parade,
I don't know if you got to see,
I've never gone to the parade itself
because I can't get up that early.
(gasp)
You didn't see..?
Ooooohhh
I should have said something to you
May I ask you what your favorite part of
Thanksgiving is?
Food.
Mashed potatoes.
Mashed potatoes?!
Having two days off from work
ice cream
Fooood
And, uh drinks
basically for family.
spending time with family
spending time with family
and eating food.
So when you're with your
friends you might act differently,
but when you're family you could
actually be yourself.
Family.
I figure if we're this close,
hopefully the kids will learn from that as they grow older
and have their own family.
One day we won't be able to cook, right?
So we need them to do the cooking.
Hahahaha
For us, we continue from our parents.
Hopefully they will continue, too.
You have to come to an empty belly,
and you have to leave full.
Just bring your appetite.
Because there's always so much food that
that you have to eat.
If you don't eat, it's like an insult to the cooks.
Okay?
So, you are ready.
All you need is your appetite.
Wow.
We stuff ourselves till we die,
we laugh till we die,
death comes forth between this family.
but we always come back together.
