P1Harmony Shares Their Fav Meals & Predicts The Subsequent Meals Craze

Three years in and the bilingual Okay-Pop group P1Harmony has perfected their r&b/rap vocal stability with simmering pop manufacturing and earworm hooks. That is in proof on their newest venture, the 7-track Unhappy Music. The EP’s songs are carried out by a six-member mega-high-energy choreo-performing crew consisting of Keeho (lead vocalist), Theo (vocalist), Jiung (vocalist/rapper), Intak (rapper), Jongseob (rapper and songwriter) and Soul (rapper).

Regardless of being impartial, P1Harmony hit US high 40 radio in 2023 with their single “Fall In Love Once more” and charted on Billboard and Spotify, which led to a world tour that took them by the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. They’ve additionally achieved all the main US music trade success signifiers – main artist co-signs, nationwide TV performances, and top-tier press hype. P1Harmony is on the cusp of popular culture breakthrough and there’s a palpable pleasure amongst their crew with the compounding traction.

To mark the discharge of their newest “Unhappy Music”, we caught up with the group following their Gov Ball debut and North American tour to speak about all the good meals they’ve eaten throughout the ascendancy. We obtained the news on Keeho’s Miami restaurant incident, Intak’s go-to Chicago Italian spot, Theo’s lodge and airplane must-haves, and Jongseob’s favourite soda. We additionally had P1Harmony predict the following Korean meals craze to take off overseas, share the Korean dishes they miss most on tour and had Keeho clarify why Costco fries are the perfect.

What’s in your rider relating to meals and drinks?

Keeho: We don’t actually have a listing. When we now have reveals and we arrive on the venue, they’re so good to have arrange drinks, completely different sodas, completely different Gatorades. Theo likes to have chocolate within the ready room as a result of he loves chocolate. They normally simply have snacks for us; chips and stuff. Apparently, we do have a rider however I don’t learn about it. We didn’t have a say.

So while you guys are shifting round the US or from metropolis to metropolis, you guys have a Sprinter or tour bus. What sort of meals and drinks do you’ve there?

Keeho: Properly proper now on our tour, we journey by airplane. Every time we’re in a metropolis, we’re all the time making an attempt to have no matter meals represents that metropolis. We had been in Boston and we heard lobster tails are tremendous common. So Intak and I went out and had some lobster.

While you guys are touring, in the event you’re on the airport, is there a snack that you just get to have on the airplane, or what do you decide up on the airport?

Theo: A Rooster wrap.

Keeho: Theo says he likes to get a pleasant rooster burrito wrap.

Jiung: I normally have the croissant sandwich.

While you guys get to your lodge, do you ever take something out of the mini bar? Are you guys going to get snacks at a neighborhood comfort retailer?

Keeho: Theo finds a neighborhood comfort retailer and he all the time shares up on chocolate.

Jiung: Chocolate man.

Keeho: I’m studying about that at present. I didn’t even know he was that large on chocolate. What sort of chocolate?

Theo: I like milk.

Keeho: Huh? Milk chocolate. He likes milk chocolate.

Anyone else? Or is Theo’s the resident snacker?

Jiung: I all the time have the, what was it?

Keeho: Ah, oh, taquito.

Jiung: Taquito.

Intak: Taquito!

Keeho: Additionally, in our lodge rooms, we even have a variety of several types of ramen and every time we would like ramen, they’ve it prepared for us. So, we all the time have ramen on demand.

Is there a selected model of ramen that’s your favourite?

Jongseob: Kimchi ramen.

Keeho: Theo says ramen that’s not too spicy. That is essentially the most I’ve heard Theo discuss at present. I feel he simply actually likes speaking about meals. However he stated he likes non-spicy ramen.

I learn that Soul actually likes kimchi stew, is that just like kimchi ramen?

Keeho: Soul hasn’t been capable of eat kimchi stew just lately, so he’s tremendous into the kimchi ramen as a result of he thinks that the kimchi ramen tastes higher now. As a result of we may solely actually get genuine kimchi stew again in South Korea. So when he’s out right here in America, he likes to have the kimchi ramen.

While you guys are recording within the studio, are there any snacks or meals or drinks that you just guys have to get inventive?

Jongseob: At all times I will need to have a soda.

Keeho: It’s good to have soda?

Jongseob: Any soda.

Keeho: You additionally love rooster. You all the time have rooster.

Any sort of soda or rooster that’s your favourite?

Jongseob: My favourite? Oh, that’s arduous. My favourite can also be Cider.

Keeho: Oh, it’s just like the Korean model of Sprite.

What’s your favourite sort of rooster? Is it like a fried rooster or a selected dish that you just actually like?

Keeho: So Jongseob says it varies by the point, however he likes to all the time experiment and check out no matter taste appears essentially the most distinctive.

Earlier than you guys began in your US tour, had been there any cities the place you had been excited to get to strive the meals?

Intak: I obtained one factor, Chicago carbonara?

Keeho: So final time, Intak and I, once we had been in Chicago, we had fettuccine alfredo pasta with shrimp. And he cherished that pasta a lot that each time we come again to the states, he’s simply ready to return to Chicago to have the fettuccine alfredo pasta once more.

The place was the carbonara?

Keeho: I feel the restaurant we had it was Rose one thing. It was Rosebud in Chicago.

I noticed that you just guys went on a tour and also you went to Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. Are there any meals that you just tried whilst you had been touring that you may share that had been actually good or actually bizarre or simply one thing that was a shock?

Keeho: After we went to Beijing, we had Peking Duck, however they’d the entire head on it and Jongseob tried the top of the duck.

How was it?

Keeho: There was not a variety of meat on the top so you’ll be able to’t even say if it tasted good or dangerous, but it surely was very a lot a brand new expertise.

Something on any of the opposite continents, like in Latin America, New Zealand, or Australia that you just all tried that was form of attention-grabbing?

Jiung: For me, once we went to Philly for the collab with Pink Sweats we obtained Philly Cheesesteak. It was actually good.

Keeho: For me, once we had been in Europe, I feel we had been in Germany, however they’d Schnitzel. I keep in mind once I was in ninth grade of highschool, we went to Germany and the Czech Republic and Austria for a college journey and I keep in mind having schnitzel each dinner after which it jogged my memory of that and it was like, “Oh, I miss this style of schnitzel.” It was good.

Let’s discuss Korean meals. So what do you guys take into consideration Korean meals exterior of Korea? Have you ever tried any that’s good or is none of it pretty much as good as at residence?

Jiung: L.A. and New York have excellent Korean meals.

So you’ll say the Korean meals in L.A. and New York is value making an attempt, however perhaps not in different states?

Keeho: So Theo says it’s solely honest judgment if you’ll be able to go and eat on the restaurant itself. He didn’t get to try this for lots of different stops in different cities besides L.A. and New York so he can’t actually make a good judgment. However he does really feel like L.A. And New York have actually, actually good Korean good and even generally it tastes higher than precise Korean meals in Korea. He actually, actually likes the Korean meals in New York and L.A.

What’s every of your favourite Korean dishes from residence? If every of you may identify one dish that you just miss whilst you’re touring?

Jiung: It’s a noodle… In Korea, known as Kal-guksu.

Keeho: Kal-guksu.

Jiung: I miss that so much. That’s my favourite.

Theo: Yukke.

Keeho: Yukke. Beef tartar.

Intak: Pork stomach.

Jiung: Rooster stew.

Intak: Rooster stew. Unique Korean-style rooster soup dish.

Keeho: Pork stir-fry.

Keeho, I noticed a evaluate you probably did on-line of the perfect french fries. You talked about how you like the french fries at Costco. Have they got Costco in Korea or was that out of the country?

Keeho: They do have Costco in Korea, however I’m referring to the Costco again in my hometown in Toronto. So once I had french fries in Toronto at Costco, Costco fries are good and massive and likewise actually crispy, however tender on the within with the proper quantity of saltiness, they by no means go fallacious.

And what about Shake Shack? Do you get the cheese sauce at Shake Shack or no?

Keeho: Yeah, after all. I really like the cheese sauce.

Are you able to share what occurred with the restaurant incident in Miami? I heard you didn’t get right into a restaurant due to the way you had been dressed.

Keeho: I took myself out on a date and I used to be wanting up tremendous good eating places in Miami. I had walked half-hour to get to a restaurant and as quickly as they tried to go in, they stopped me and stated, “You’re not allowed in.” I used to be like, “Why?” And so they’re like, “You’re carrying shorts and you’ve got a hat on.” And I used to be like, “Oh shoot.”

Did you return after you modified otherwise you went to a special restaurant?

Keeho: Our lodge was fairly removed from that restaurant. I went to a different restaurant that was shut, and so they had the identical restrictions, however I had already modified by then, so it was tremendous. It was MILA that I obtained rejected from. After which the one I went to was known as, it was like an Asian fusion restaurant. I overlook what the restaurant that I did find yourself going to although.

Oh, it was known as Attractive Fish!

What do you suppose the following Korean meals needs to be that will get actually common exterior of Korea?

Keeho: Okay, that is form of a craze. I feel it’s slowly beginning to occur. Intak says positively rice cake, sizzling rice cake, spicy rice cake.

Is {that a} cooked merchandise or is {that a} dried rice cake?

Keeho: It’s like a tender rice cake. It’s simply the rice cake itself in spicy crimson gochujang sauce.

Jongseob: It tastes so good.