Subtitles section Play video
-
Hey guys! I have some exciting things to show you.
-
You probably know by now how much of a picky eater I am.
-
And the thing I love second best about Japan (after Jun) is Japanese food!
-
So today I have some of my favorite foods from Japan to show you.
-
So I'm super excited about it; I hope you guys will like them, too.
-
And all of these are things that are really super easy and
-
quick to make because you guys know how much I hate cooking.
-
So these are perfect meals for me!
-
So the first thing I want to show you is something called furikake.
-
Now furikake is like seasoning, like flavored seasoning that you can put on rice.
-
Because if you're someone like me and you're not used to eating rice every day eventually
-
after a while you're just like NOOO! NO MORE RICE, PLEASE!!
-
So you need a little something extra to make it taste a little bit better.
-
And as far as furikake goes this one is fairly healthy.
-
It's 12 shurui no yasai, so there's 12 different types of vegetables in here.
-
Okay, so I'm going to show you what the furikake looks like on some rice.
-
Sorry if this rice doesn't look very good because I don't have my rice cooker here.
-
So as you can see it's just little flavoring that you
-
add to your rice so it tastes a little bit better.
-
I don't know how easily I can pick this up with chopsticks—
-
I probably should have used like a fork or a spoon or something.
-
Let's see!
-
It tastes so good!
-
It doesn't taste like vegetables at all, even though it looks like vegetables.
-
It's a little sweet.
-
I would say there's like...
-
there's a little bit of a salty kick, and there's also a little bit of a sweet flavor.
-
One of my favorite Japanese foods is karashi mentaiko for pasta sauce.
-
And what it is is—mentaiko are like little fish eggs
-
and it sounds kind of weird but they're so good!
-
And this is actually my favorite type.
-
I've probably had mentaiko in about like... at least five different restaurants in Japan.
-
So I've had like five different versions of restaurant mentaiko
-
plates anywhere between like maybe $7-13 and these little packets that you can get at the
-
store for like $1-2 are absolutely my favorite!
-
It's so much cheaper than the restaurants and it tastes so much better.
-
So this one, karashi mentaiko, it has a little bit of a
-
spice flavor to it so it makes it taste really good.
-
Okay, so inside here there's two packets of sauce and nori, or seaweed.
-
I actually don't have spaghetti but you can eat this with any type of pasta at all.
-
And I already tore the package but you can see there are two steps here:
-
boil noodles and pour the packets on the pasta.
-
So, so easy to make!
-
But I like heating the sauce up first so that the sauce is warm, too.
-
But all I do is I just put it under the water when I'm draining
-
my boiled water for pasta so you don't even have to put it in the microwave or anything.
-
It smells so good!
-
And if I zoom in you can see just how small
-
the little mentaiko eggs are so this isn't something that will gross you out easily—
-
like you can't really even see them if you're looking at it normally.
-
So it's really easy to eat as far as fish eggs go!
-
Sorry, I'm not a plating expert like Jun.
-
This doesn't look as good as it would if he had made it.
-
It's been so long!!
-
Hisashiburi~
-
Oh, it's so good!
-
And then we have Calorie Mate!
-
And what Calorie Mate is, is it's a type of Japanese nutrition bar.
-
And these are perfect for me because they're so small and you can take them with
-
you anywhere and there's a ton of different vitamins and minerals in them.
-
And for me, sometimes when I wake up in the morning my stomach just does NOT want food!
-
So I can't eat right away and if I have to go somewhere I need to
-
take breakfast with me or something when I can finally eat it later.
-
So Calorie Mate is perfect for me for that.
-
There's a ton of different flavors: there's chocolate, which is my absolute favorite.
-
There's maple, cheese... let's see, potato, and fruits!
-
And actually I haven't tried these before.
-
So sometime I'll do like a taste test comparison for you guys.
-
They come in little packets like this.
-
And they're just little sticks, and I'll show you.
-
They're a little... [dry]. It kind of looks like a little biscuit.
-
This is so good! This tastes so good.
-
It's not like a really super strong flavor.
-
It's just a little bit chocolatey.
-
When I first went to Japan Jun made all of
-
my meals for me and he brought me out this green drink one time and I was like, "What
-
is this?!" But it was so good!
-
And it was Matcha au lait.
-
And ever since then I ask him to make me matcha au lait all the time.
-
Matcha is a finely ground green tea powder—it's
-
one of the most expensive types of green tea.
-
And there are so many things that are matcha flavored in Japan.
-
Like there's tons of matcha desserts, there's matcha ice cream,
-
there's matcha mochi...
-
And some of them, like matcha itself is really bitter, so I
-
don't like matcha ice cream at all.
-
But this one is really sweet.
-
I love this drink!
-
All right, so here we have our blendy stick, and as you can see there are two steps:
-
pour it into the cup and then pour hot water into the cup and mix.
-
So, very easy.
-
And I'm a rebel—I'm doing it backwards.
-
I already have my hot water.
-
Delicious!
-
This is definitely something you have to try!
-
I got all of these off of Rakuten Global Market, which is the international version of Rakuten.
-
And if you don't know what Rakuten is, it's the biggest online "shopping mall" in Japan.
-
We don't really have a comparison for it here because not only do they have individual stores
-
where you can find pretty much everything in Japan
-
(like as far as normal products go I have yet to see
-
something I haven't been able to find selling on Rakuten),
-
they also have an auction website
-
(which I've bought a bunch of dresses off of before, and I was going to show you those
-
the last time I was in Japan but I ran out of time so look forward to that later),
-
and they're also a bank, with like credit cards and everything, which Jun uses.
-
So Jun and I have used all of the different parts of Rakuten and it's huge, it's really
-
great, and now they have an international website so if you're not in Japan you can
-
buy pretty much anything from Japan that you want to look for.
-
So I put all of these links
-
down in the description below, and if you're watching this video right now actually starting
-
tomorrow they have an international campaign for like free shipping and they also have
-
like a contest where you can win I think like plane tickets or something, so I put that
-
link down in the description, too.
-
Thanks for watching guys! I'll see you next time!