They often say oh the technology must be light years ahead of what we have here and in some cases, that's true

Like in the toilet technology because seriously North America. You need to stop wiping your butts with dry paper

You need to catch up with the times but most of the other technology here is readily available

Overseas like cameras and TVs and whatnot what we found that super cool in tech here isn't necessarily

Electronic tech it's more just very innovative packaging that leads to very pleasant experiences

So here's a bunch that we really enjoy here in Japan. Yes. This is a super nerdy video

And yes, we are far too excited about this stuff, but we got to show you this come along with us. You're gonna love it

For those of you that don't know I am a fanatic milk drinker

I love milk since I was a little kid, guzzling milk

Japan has some amazing milk. Growing up if you were rich enough to have a juice box

It came with a straw like this and you would

Smack your straw in and sometimes your straw would go past the hole point it would get lost

Trying to get your straw out or the straw would have like a little tiny air hole in it

Japan's got an answer for that. So here's the amazing thing about this straw

You grab it you pull it as hard as you can and you'll hear an audible click pop.

There it is and now

It's completely

Firm, it will not sink back in. It actually fits in perfectly so that you have just the right amount of straw sticking out

And it's angled at the bottom so that it gets every last drop guys

Look at this and then ready

What what

Seamless perfect drinking. I've also seen the same kind of like compact technology for chopsticks

We were traveling on Shinkansen and my chopsticks were really tiny to fit the box, and when I opened them up

They extended just like a straw and when you heard a little audible pop sound they could not be put back in

It was amazing. It was like fully extended adult chopsticks

DAVID BLAINE~~~

Every last drop

So these are little ice-cream

Kind of snacks that we fell in love with not just because they're delicious but because the packaging is so brilliant

There's two ways

You could open it on the back if you want to go one by one because you have a little bit of self control you

Open it on this side

Only one pops out at a time and when you eat these

It's an enhanced skittle. Ah it's a frozen skittle. Like a frozen skittle except without being hard. It's got like creamy

softness on the inside while still being cold

That's if you want to go one-on-one if you have some self-control if you don't have self control, you could open it from this side

Which just opens the whole package and then you can pour them all out at once

Which I think is such a small but absolutely wonderful detail, depending on how many you want to eat. I'm gonna eat all of these

Because they're just so good

mmm.... Look at the inside!

Mmm, you gotta see if you can bite one in half. These are the peach ones

These aren't even the best ones - grape ones oh man. But they are sold out. Damn. Oh

And it's made so much better with brilliant packaging

Uhm, c-can. Can. Can, c-can I have one?

Here you go, my love. M:yay~! Eeee, too cold! (too cerd!)

Onigiri I did an entire stop-motion video on this if you want to learn more about it

But today what I want to focus on is the amazing packaging

This is actually pretty baffling when you first come to Japan because you're like I don't know how to open this frickin thing

It's covered in layers of plastic. There is a three-part wrapping system

What they've done is they've taken this crispy seaweed and kept it crispy even though it's touching rice. How do they do that?

They have a plastic layering system that divides the actual nori from the rice so that it remains

Crispy up until the moment that you open it up and kind of reassemble. So we got the one

we got the two and we got the three. Never done this backwards before.

So you grab the one tap here, we pull it down the center like that and it's gonna unfold all the way to the back

like this. Step two you're gonna pull this out really gently and when it does that it's actually

Lifting from between the rice like that pull this down and then I'm gonna do the same on the third side here

I'm gonna give that a tug and you can see the plastic lifting apart

Look at that isn't that totally brilliant? This is like a complicated layered

system. I have no idea how someone thought up this ridiculousness, but you can see

still crunchy

Ready for the as Mers

Fix your brakes, you're gonna die (car in background) . This is 140 yen. So about a $1.40. White rice,

salmon on the inside and crispy nori the Japanese sandwich

You can't go wrong, but you can go wrong if you don't know how to open it

Now whenever I think about food and convenience stores in North America, it's mostly just fast-food

They could just pop in your mouth really quickly

But the level of care and detail that goes into Japanese convenience store food almost makes it feels as if you prepare.... two doggies (Simon sidetracked)

Let me try that again

Okay, the level of care that goes into

Japanese convenience store meals is stunning. If you look at this right here. This is a cold noodle sets

They have all of the toppings of the cold noodle set separate with little barriers. So they don't even touch they have the broth

Separated mustard separated and then they have a thin layer of plastic

separating the noodles just in case so the noodles don't get pre soggy. Who wants pre soggy noodles?

Nobody. So here's how this amazing meal works. Step one, take your sauce

Crack that open and pour your sauce into the noodles like so. Take your chopstick

Make sure you mix these up get a nice separation

happening with your noodles. Gently delicately gently tear them apart

Let that sauce get into all of the noodles

like

so. Add your mustard mix, that in.

Beautiful. So now all of these noodles are ready. I can start adding my toppings

your little bit of

bean sprouts there and your little bit of

pickled ginger isn't this an

Absolutely, beautiful

Little healthy meal that you can have super low calorie for this delicious bright summer meal

grab a little bit

Wildly delicious, I don't know what this is called the only equivalent I could think of is Korean Mul Naengmyun.

It has that nice little vinegary broth all cold and lovely with so many great toppings on this and if this was made,

Pre-mixed by the time he bought it. Everything would have been soggy

The noodles would have been falling apart

But the fact that you can make it on your own for a quick lovely meal at a convenience store. This gorgeous little meal altogether

325 yen

which is like roughly three dollars and 25 cents and it's just

What else can you get out of convenience store in your hometown? That's this great?

Wow he's not gonna share any. that's ah, mmm. That's gonna happen today. Oh. Yeah. Me

Share with you?

Inside of my chopstick package, oh

We have here a Japanese toothpick. What makes this toothpick special compared to other toothpicks?

You see this little ridge right here. This little ridge here is super important so that you can

Break it off

You could put it on the counter like so and then you can have a little *** stand for your toothpick

That is so smart look. Look, babe

Put it back down on the table no Big D pick it back up

Mmm, it didn't touch the table at all. That's amazing

Toothpicks. They thought about toothpicks. That is amazing. Just amazing.

I absolutely love what they do with soy milk containers here. Now the kind of box tricks

I'm used to are either two kinds there's ones with the screw top that sometimes are okay, but when you pour it

They still slosh or the other ones

If you're a cheapy like me in which you have to like flip off the top like this

Pop it up and then you have to cut at an angle. Yeah, yeah

Yeah, whenever you cut it, you always spilled some anyways

This is so much smarter. Having the little angled spout there so that it pours out a perfect angle

It's a little bit of extra work, but it's so much smarter and better the rest of the world must implement this.

This is like Wakanda level technology. Don't share your technology with the rest of the world, Japan, Wakanda

Who's my boy?

It was my little standing boy

Yeah, you're doing it.

Hope you guys enjoyed our very nerdy video on packaging

I helps to open up your eyes a little bit in your home country because maybe there's stuff that you just take for granted

but if Simon and I showed up we'd be like

Oh my god, look at this lid, this lids so cool

You know what else is cool? Curry which is why you're gonna join me for my bonus video

What's so special about this curry package? You're gonna have to find out. Look I'm on a roll

I won the last one. I got more views. I got a much better bonus video for you

Do you want to try some peach Coke and some great Pepsi don't listen to him. These are gonna be

abominations come to my video. Don't listen to him.

I can't believe your video out did my video last time.

Yes, girl. Simon's on a wreck and roll.