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Tina Choi

Tina Choi, known as Doobydobap, is a Korean food creator and recipe developer sharing home cooking, personal stories and food trips around the world.

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Overview

Also known as: Doobydobap
Work: Food creator, recipe developer and food scientist
Education: Food science at Cornell University
Started posting: 2021, building a portfolio during the pandemic
YouTube breakout: A storytelling video about fried egg over rice

Mini bio

Cooking away from home.

At 14, Tina moved to Connecticut for boarding school and missed Korean food. She called her grandmother for recipes and learned to cook with what she could find nearby. Her dorm kitchen became a place to feed friends as well as herself.

A portfolio became a career.

After studying food science at Cornell, Tina struggled to find work during the pandemic. She began posting cooking videos as a portfolio in 2021, starting on TikTok. On YouTube, a short about fried egg over rice helped her break through. Cooking footage paired with personal voiceovers became a way to tell her story.

From the kitchen to the road.

In 2023, Tina and chef Kevin Kroløkke opened Mija Seoul, a restaurant she funded through her YouTube earnings. The restaurant later closed. Her channel has continued through cooking guides, family meals and food trips, including 2026 journeys through Korea, China and Malaysia.

Creditschronological, newest first

Cooking and travel videos

2026A Beginner’s Guide to Chinese CookingCreator and host
2026I Cycled Across Korea (to Eat)Creator and host
2021Do You Ever Dream About.. Chili Oil Ramen?Creator

Food and restaurants

2023Mija SeoulCo-founder with Kevin Kroløkke

Podcast appearances

2022This Is TASTE 159: DoobydobapGuest

Quotes

I use food to tell stories and show a glimpse into my life.Tina Choi, Tubefilter

In her April 20, 2022 interview about becoming a food creator.

Trivia

Her boarding-school friends called her the “prep cook” because she was learning to cook in prep school.
When Korean ingredients were hard to find, she substituted Italian parsley for perilla leaves and pepperoncino for gochugaru.
She told TikTok that she likes to sketch her food before developing recipes.
“Don’t yuck my yum” grew out of her experience of classmates reacting badly to the Korean food in her lunchbox.
In her 2022 Tubefilter interview, she named post-production as her favorite part of making videos.