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A lot of the times when we tell people back home that we live in Asia
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They often say oh the technology must be light years ahead of what we have here and in some cases, that's true
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Like in the toilet technology because seriously North America. You need to stop wiping your butts with dry paper
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You need to catch up with the times but most of the other technology here is readily available
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Overseas like cameras and TVs and whatnot what we found that super cool in tech here isn't necessarily
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Electronic tech it's more just very innovative packaging that leads to very pleasant experiences
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So here's a bunch that we really enjoy here in Japan. Yes. This is a super nerdy video
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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
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For those of you that don't know I am a fanatic milk drinker
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I love milk since I was a little kid, guzzling milk
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Japan has some amazing milk. Growing up if you were rich enough to have a juice box
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It came with a straw like this and you would
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Smack your straw in and sometimes your straw would go past the hole point it would get lost
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Trying to get your straw out or the straw would have like a little tiny air hole in it
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Japan's got an answer for that. So here's the amazing thing about this straw
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You grab it you pull it as hard as you can and you'll hear an audible click pop.
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There it is and now
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It's completely
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Firm, it will not sink back in. It actually fits in perfectly so that you have just the right amount of straw sticking out
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And it's angled at the bottom so that it gets every last drop guys
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Look at this and then ready
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What what
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Seamless perfect drinking. I've also seen the same kind of like compact technology for chopsticks
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We were traveling on Shinkansen and my chopsticks were really tiny to fit the box, and when I opened them up
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They extended just like a straw and when you heard a little audible pop sound they could not be put back in
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It was amazing. It was like fully extended adult chopsticks
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DAVID BLAINE~~~
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Every last drop
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So these are little ice-cream
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Kind of snacks that we fell in love with not just because they're delicious but because the packaging is so brilliant
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There's two ways
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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
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Open it on this side
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Only one pops out at a time and when you eat these
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It's an enhanced skittle. Ah it's a frozen skittle. Like a frozen skittle except without being hard. It's got like creamy
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softness on the inside while still being cold
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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
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Which just opens the whole package and then you can pour them all out at once
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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
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Because they're just so good
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mmm.... Look at the inside!
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Mmm, you gotta see if you can bite one in half. These are the peach ones
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These aren't even the best ones - grape ones oh man. But they are sold out. Damn. Oh
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And it's made so much better with brilliant packaging
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Uhm, c-can. Can. Can, c-can I have one?
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Here you go, my love. M:yay~! Eeee, too cold! (too cerd!)
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Onigiri I did an entire stop-motion video on this if you want to learn more about it
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But today what I want to focus on is the amazing packaging
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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
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It's covered in layers of plastic. There is a three-part wrapping system
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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?
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They have a plastic layering system that divides the actual nori from the rice so that it remains
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Crispy up until the moment that you open it up and kind of reassemble. So we got the one
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we got the two and we got the three. Never done this backwards before.
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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
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like this. Step two you're gonna pull this out really gently and when it does that it's actually
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Lifting from between the rice like that pull this down and then I'm gonna do the same on the third side here
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I'm gonna give that a tug and you can see the plastic lifting apart
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Look at that isn't that totally brilliant? This is like a complicated layered
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system. I have no idea how someone thought up this ridiculousness, but you can see
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still crunchy
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Ready for the as Mers
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Fix your brakes, you're gonna die (car in background) . This is 140 yen. So about a $1.40. White rice,
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salmon on the inside and crispy nori the Japanese sandwich
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You can't go wrong, but you can go wrong if you don't know how to open it
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Now whenever I think about food and convenience stores in North America, it's mostly just fast-food
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They could just pop in your mouth really quickly
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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)
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Let me try that again
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Okay, the level of care that goes into
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Japanese convenience store meals is stunning. If you look at this right here. This is a cold noodle sets
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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
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Separated mustard separated and then they have a thin layer of plastic
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separating the noodles just in case so the noodles don't get pre soggy. Who wants pre soggy noodles?
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Nobody. So here's how this amazing meal works. Step one, take your sauce
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Crack that open and pour your sauce into the noodles like so. Take your chopstick
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Make sure you mix these up get a nice separation
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happening with your noodles. Gently delicately gently tear them apart
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Let that sauce get into all of the noodles
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like
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so. Add your mustard mix, that in.
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Beautiful. So now all of these noodles are ready. I can start adding my toppings
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your little bit of
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bean sprouts there and your little bit of
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pickled ginger isn't this an
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Absolutely, beautiful
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Little healthy meal that you can have super low calorie for this delicious bright summer meal
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grab a little bit
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Wildly delicious, I don't know what this is called the only equivalent I could think of is Korean Mul Naengmyun.
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It has that nice little vinegary broth all cold and lovely with so many great toppings on this and if this was made,
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Pre-mixed by the time he bought it. Everything would have been soggy
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The noodles would have been falling apart
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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
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325 yen
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which is like roughly three dollars and 25 cents and it's just
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What else can you get out of convenience store in your hometown? That's this great?
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Wow he's not gonna share any. that's ah, mmm. That's gonna happen today. Oh. Yeah. Me
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Share with you?
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Inside of my chopstick package, oh
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We have here a Japanese toothpick. What makes this toothpick special compared to other toothpicks?
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You see this little ridge right here. This little ridge here is super important so that you can
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Break it off
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You could put it on the counter like so and then you can have a little *** stand for your toothpick
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That is so smart look. Look, babe
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Put it back down on the table no Big D pick it back up
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Mmm, it didn't touch the table at all. That's amazing
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Toothpicks. They thought about toothpicks. That is amazing. Just amazing.
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I absolutely love what they do with soy milk containers here. Now the kind of box tricks
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I'm used to are either two kinds there's ones with the screw top that sometimes are okay, but when you pour it
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They still slosh or the other ones
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If you're a cheapy like me in which you have to like flip off the top like this
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Pop it up and then you have to cut at an angle. Yeah, yeah
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Yeah, whenever you cut it, you always spilled some anyways
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This is so much smarter. Having the little angled spout there so that it pours out a perfect angle
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It's a little bit of extra work, but it's so much smarter and better the rest of the world must implement this.
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This is like Wakanda level technology. Don't share your technology with the rest of the world, Japan, Wakanda
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Who's my boy?
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It was my little standing boy
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Yeah, you're doing it.
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Hope you guys enjoyed our very nerdy video on packaging
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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
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but if Simon and I showed up we'd be like
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Oh my god, look at this lid, this lids so cool
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You know what else is cool? Curry which is why you're gonna join me for my bonus video
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What's so special about this curry package? You're gonna have to find out. Look I'm on a roll
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I won the last one. I got more views. I got a much better bonus video for you
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Do you want to try some peach Coke and some great Pepsi don't listen to him. These are gonna be
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abominations come to my video. Don't listen to him.
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I can't believe your video out did my video last time.
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Yes, girl. Simon's on a wreck and roll.