we wanted to find out all the differences

between Wendy's in Japan and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

In Japan, our Wendy's hamburgers

come in four sizes:

junior, single, double, and triple.

In the US, our burgers come in four sizes:

junior, Dave's single,

Dave's double, and the Dave's triple.

Look at the size of this thing.

In Japan, our nuggets come in orders of five and 10.

Our US nuggets come in four, six,

and 10-piece.

Our Wendy's drinks come in three sizes:

small, medium, and large.

And in the US we also have three drink sizes,

small, medium,

you've gotta be kidding me.

Look at the size of this thing.

This might be 40 ounces, Yuelei.

Only one way to find out.

Ho!

Oh, not quite 40.

About 36 or 37 fluid ounces of Coca-Cola.

And how big's a bladder?

This looks like more than I would normally pee

in the morning.

OK, let's measure our large drink.

It measures exactly 500 milliliters.

Our Wendy's fries come in two sizes.

Small and medium.

Our fries come in four sizes,

junior, small, medium,

pew, large.

Let's weigh our largest.

[laughs]

Roughly 180 grams.

It weighs 135 grams.

Japan's chili comes in two sizes,

medium and large.

And the US, our chili comes in two sizes,

small and large.

Let us weigh the largest now.

Including the paper cup, 430 grams.

George: Let's weigh our large chili.

265 grams.

In Japan, a Wendy's burger USA double

is 730 yen, or $6.38.

Our US Dave's double goes for $5.99,

or around 685 Japanese yen.

That's a 6.16% decrease in price in the US.

Let's make it a meal.

In Japan, if you're getting your burger as a set,

it includes a small fries

and a three-piece nuggets and a drink.

It costs around 440 yen more.

Our meals only include fries and drink.

So a small Dave's double meal,

and I threw in a four-piece

because we don't have a three-piece,

works out to $10.98.

That's an 8.12% increased cost in the US.

Mind you, we did get an extra nugget.

Speaking of nuggets, in Japan,

10-piece nugget is 510 yen,

which breaks down to 51 yen per nugget.

In the US, a 10-piece nugget is $4.29,

which makes it per nugget around 43 cents.

So per nugget average,

the US is paying 8.11% less.

A Baconator double in Japan

is 850 yen, or $7.43.

In the US, you get that same Baconator for $7.49,

or 857 Japanese yen.

So close. Only a 0.82% increase.

Here is everything you can get at the Wendy's in Japan

you cannot get in the US.

And here's everything at a US Wendy's

you can't get in Japan.

One thing I want to point out is that in Japan,

Wendy's is known as Wendy's First Kitchen.

First Kitchen is a Japanese fast-food chain,

and it was acquired by Wendy's in 2016

and became a hybrid of Wendy's and First Kitchen's menus.

And we call them Fakkin,

which is the abbreviation of First Kitchen

in a Japanese way.

It's like First Kitchen's "Fa"

and kitchen's "ki" and "n."

And say: Fakkin.

Repeat after me: Fakkin.

[beep]

Got it, buddy.

Very good!

So, here are our Japan's exclusive burgers.

So, this one is bacon mushroom melt,

and this one is just mushroom melt.

We have Wendy's bacon egg burger.

We also have Wendy's cheese bacon egg burger,

and this sauce,

tartar sauce. Umai.

Everybody's curious what this is.

This one is Wild Rock.

It's got no buns.

It's got two beef patties.

I think I should try this one.

Itadakimasu.

This meat itself has a good taste

and some kind of, like, peppery flavor,

but it's a little bit dry.

I wouldn't get this again.

And last things,

we have junior teriyaki burger,

and we have junior teriyaki cheeseburger.

The big bacon cheeseburger.

The big bacon double.

Look at this! Yep, one, two, three, the big bacon triple.

I mean, I don't know what angle is best to look at this at.

And then we got big bacons on the fancy bread.

This must be the big bacons classicses.

This looks like a big bacon --

look, it's got shredded cheese and stuff on this.

Everything's bacon something with these guys.

At this point, it's just like, how many slabs of meat

do you want on your bacon sandwich?

Two things you can get at a Wendy's

in the US you cannot get in Japan

or just the junior burger and the junior cheeseburger.

Look at this little guy. Look at this.

Literally every fast-food burger place

has a version of this.

Chicken!

[grunts]

The Asiago chicken sandwiches.

We got the Asiago chicken ranch classic club.

I said that in the wrong order, but you get what I mean.

Probably this one.

This is the fried Asiago club with bacon.

And then there is the spicy,

which I'm assuming is this one.

And then they got the grilled.

That's pretty good.

Don't like Asiago?

Wendy's got you covered.

So many chicken sandwiches at Wendy's

that of course are not Asiago'd.

This is the grilled chicken sandwich.

As you can see, it is grilled.

And then we have the grilled chicken big bacon.

Man, they must've gotten some deal on bacon for Wendy's.

Everything's got bacon on it!

I'm going to go ahead and assume this is the

big bacon fried chicken sandwich,

'cause it has bacon on it.

So you have the spicy big bacon cheddar chicken.

In Japan, our Wendy's have pasta,

which were originally on the First Kitchen menu.

So here we have ramen-style soy cream pasta

with spinach and ham.

Expires 2023,

January 20.

Joe, I'll keep this for you.

Nah, my guy, you can go ahead and throw that out.

And next we have ramen-style dandan soup pasta

with spinach and ham.

So, dandan soup is kind of like a spicy chili-flavored soup

with miso and pork mince.

Dandan soup and dandan ramen are very popular in Japan.

Tomato sauce pasta

with mozzarella and bacon.

All right, next we have beef cheek meat cream spaghetti.

Plastic.

Mm.

Next we have carbonara spaghetti.

Naotomo: Carbon-AR-a.

Carbon-AAH-ra.

Carbona-rrra.

A-rrra? OK.

Carbra-rrra.

[crew laughing]

It's got bacon

and this creamy carbona-rrra sauce.

Molto bene!

Last thing I have is spicy cod roe spaghetti.

So, spicy cod roe in Japanese is mentaiko,

and mentaiko spaghetti is also very popular in Japan.

Unfortunately, some Americans I know

don't like mentaiko so much

because of the texture and smell.

But for me, mentaiko,

it's super Fakkin delicious.

Uh, it's been a while since I got this one.

It's been, like, three hours.

Itadakimasu.

Mm.

Joe, try it out.

I appreciate the offer, George,

but you can go ahead and finish that,

'cause it looks Fakkin disgusting.

We got salads.

Over here on this end, the first one

looks like we got the Parmesan Caesar salad.

Comes with, of course, Caesar dressing

and what looks to be Parmesan crisps.

This next salad is ridiculous.

We're going to go ahead and put quotes around salad.

Wendy's has a taco "salad" that comes

with tortilla chips, sour cream, signature salsa,

and, if that wasn't enough, chili.

And before we continue,

you confirmed that the taco salad

is supposed to have chili on it?

They told you that.

Just gotta get the chips all around here.

I can't believe this.

This is so gross.

Signature salsa, then chili.

Oh, it smells so bad.

Oh, God.

Eh.

I'm just -- this is just like eating chili

with tortilla chips.

They said there was some salt --

I'm just pushing this s--- around.

On to the next salad,

the Southwest avocado salad.

Oh, my God, there's bacon on it!

That's weird.

That was in Dave Thomas' obituary.

"I want everything to be covered in bacon."

But yeah. Chicken, avocado, bacon, cheese, and some sauce.

This makes sense.

And the last salad,

apple pecan salad.

That smells.

Oh, 'cause it's got blue cheese on it.

Roasted pecan bits.

Pomegranate vinaigrette!

Mm. Apples are nice.

It's kind of nice to get a little bit of actual fruit,

something nutritious while doing this.

It's like my body's like, "What is this?!"

So, here are Japan's side menu.

We have a few flavor options for fries.

So we have happy butter flavor fries.

Happy butter flavor.

It has just subtle buttery flavor. Mm.

Burnt butter soy sauce flavor.

Rip it off. Bwah!

I don't know what's going on here, but it's pretty good.

Much better than this.

Savory steamed potato butter.

It gets quite strong buttery flavor.

Definitely I prefer this one

than the happy butter flavor.

This is not happy.

This one is chicken consommé flavor.

Mm.

This is the best fries I've ever had in my life.

Now I'm going to introduce you

this spicy chicken breast.

Wendy's in the US also has baked potatoes.

See what we got.

Of course, there's your regular.

And this one, oh, yeah.

This one's got, like, chives and stuff in it.

If I was to stop here, you would go,

"Wow, what a tasteful selection of healthy potatoes."

But of course we don't stop here.

We move on to absolute baked-potato madness.

Ah, No. 1, oof.

Cheese baked potato.

Drowned this thing in cheese.

It's like -- ooh!

It's, like, caked to the side. Blech.