Hey guys! Good morning! I'm hanging out with Taylor again
and we have a busy day today
First we are gonna go... I hope the first thing we are doing is the lunch!
Because I'm starving!
Oh my god I'm so hungry right now
I only ate those little oranges, that's it
We were editing our vlogs this morning so we didn't have time to get ready
So we rushed to get here, it's like 3pm now
So yeah we're going to have some Japanese kaiseki lunch
It's kind of a fancy Japanese lunch, so I'm excited for that. Never done that before!
And then we are going to do some sword fighting!
They're gonna teach us how to sword fight
and we're actually gonna cut some stuff, with real swords
It's gonna be quite a long vlog I think
So grab a cup of tea and some cookies, and I hope you guys enjoy this!
Yay! We found the person that we were here to meet!
We met her and we're gonna head to sword fighting
It looks like sword fighting is first
We're gonna get some food from the convenience store
Because I'm so hungry and I think if I try to do any form of exercise right now
I would just fall over and die
Onigiri~ onigiri~ onigiri~
Whoa they've got some weird onigiri
I really like the tuna one~ where is it?
Here we go
If you're ever looking for tuna onigiri
Oh this one has English on it, but they call it "sea chicken"
But it's not chicken, it's tuna
Oh those ones look good too
Have you ever seen this?
Yeah weird eh? It's like a lasagna onigiri
Okay, sushi and onigiri
I got some tea so I guess I don't need a drink
Ooo the strawberry milk tea is back!
They bring it back every winter, it's really really yummy
So we just got changed, this is what we're wearing
We're inside the dojo right now
It looks like there's lots of other people practicing here
It should be interesting to watch them
Check out this place!
There's samurai armor
This place is awesome!
This is so much cooler than my dojo in Canada
Look, they gave us a present!
It's some kind of calligraphy towel, so I'll take a look at that later
Rolling up these bamboo mats and we're going to cut them!
with the swords later! Hopefully! If we do it properly
Holding it like this is no good
It's better to hold it like a golf club
There should be about 1 or 2 fingers of
space between your hands
We're actually gonna cut this in a minute
First we need to imagine how we're going to cut it
First bring the sword to the point you will cut
Then breathe in and breathe out
In through your nose and out through your mouth
Looks good!
But the angle is wrong
The angle is a little wrong
But you cut it so YAY
The angle isn't the same as your kimono right?
You want it to match your kimono, so about there
That was very cool
Beautiful
They wear this when they're going to fight
They fight wearing this?
They wear this during preparations before battle
It's really detailed with gold and super pretty
It's the real version of what we wore when we did the samurai photoshoot
You did great cutting with the sword
So I'd like to present you with this certificate
You completed the Ryuohryu seminar
November 21, 2015 - Congratulations!
We are all finished the sword practice!
That was lots of fun!
I did kungfu in Canada for like 4 years
I haven't done martial arts in a while so it was really cool to get back into it
I'm really really happy that I actually cut the tatami
Because that would have been really sad if I couldn't have cut it for my video
I was able to do it! It was pretty difficult
The sword was really heavy and my arms started to get really tired
I was really scared I was gonna drop the sword so I held on really tight
But YAY I did it!
Now we're in the station buying tickets
We're gonna take the train to a close by station and go have some dinner!
Some fancy dinner~
You guys often ask me if there's English in the stations
For the most part (if not always) there's English directions
and the names of the stations
We just arrive at the restaurant and this is what the table setting looks like
It's super fancy and the chefs are right behind the counter here
So we get to watch them make everything
Just a little just a little
Cheers!
This is such a little restaurant
There are 4 seats at the counter here
And there's one more room in the back with two tables
That's it, it's really small and private, it's nice
We serve kaiseki cuisine, which is a Japanese traditional food
It was born out of the tea ceremony in the 16th century
As you can see, they speak English here! The chef also speaks English
And they give you an explanation here of everything that you're going to eat
So that's also very cool
At this restaurant you can choose to get the vegetarian course, which we did
So they won't use any fish or meat
All the soup stocks will be made with probably konbu, instead of the fish soup stock
So yay! That's good to know for lots of you guys who are vegetarian
Yum this looks good
So this is steamed mushrooms with carrots and other vegetables
and there's a little bit of wasabi
Itadakimasu!
It's really light and fluffy
That was a lot of wasabi!
So here's a list of all the things we're going to eat today
The one we just had now was steamed mushroom with grated turnip and other vegetables
Next is sushi! Yay!
Sashimi
Some more mushrooms it looks like
Wild rice with yuzu miso, that sounds good!
Some kind of sorbet
Fried potatoes... Ooo fried tofu! Yes!
Looking forward to that one!
Sushi of myoga
Sweet potato dumpling
Gingko nuts
Wow it's so pretty
Ground cherry
Egg yolk pickled in miso
Wow it really looks like sashimi!
That's so cool!
So traditionally the third dish would be sashimi
But because this is the vegetarian version, they made some vegetable sashimi for us
It really looks like fish actually
This is really similar to fish
That tasted so much like sashimi
Not so much the flavour, but just the texture
And it was chilled... so it really really felt like we were eating fish!
If you're vegan or vegetarian and you wanna try something Japanese style
and you wanna try sashimi, I really recommend trying that!
I'm not sure if there's any other restaurants you can get something like that
It seems like something super fancy that maybe only a place like this would have
But it was so cool and yummy!!
And all made of vegetables!
This is dobinmushi, simmered food in a teapot
Mushrooms, gingko nuts and honewort
I wonder what that is... I don't know
Mmm it smells so nice
Next, please drink the soup
Pour the soup into here
Baked stem of wild rice (makomo) with yuzu miso paste
Aww that's cute
The stem? And then the rice is like up here somewhere?
Wow, I've never eaten that before!
But it's a different kind of rice
Ahh a special kind
It's really nice! I've never had that before
Mmm it's really sweet!
It's kind of similar to corn
So next is a citrus sorbet
Sour! It's really sour!
The purpose of this... one sec I can't talk
So the purpose of that one was to clear your palate
So the tastes from the food that we were eating before that don't interfere with the next ones
It worked! It tastes very citrusy, and clean
The producers of the ingredients
He met them and took photos
That's so nice
This is tempura! It has crispy rice on the outside
and tempura mushroom as well
Yessss I love fried tofu!
This is fried tofu of corn
I don't know what that means, maybe the outside is corn flour possibly?
And then it's got a thick starchy sauce made from arrowroot
So the tofu itself has corn mixed inside of it it looks like, it's yellow
If you've ever had the Japanese corn soup, it tastes just like that
Really sweet and yummy! This is really good!
Makomo (rice stem) and mushrooms
This is my favourite part of the meal
The miso soup and rice
It looks so good
Mmmm yum!!
This is vegetarian miso soup so it's not made with fish broth
Wow this looks yummy!
Can you see it? It's like matcha
Yes~ my favourite part of the meal
Pumpkin dumpling
Oooh pumpkin~
Anko (red bean paste) inside
Yum~ these are my favourite kind of sweets
Hey do you guys remember what this utensil is called?
I talked about it in my wagashi video
Bonus points if you remember!!
Avoid the front. Sometimes the front has a beautiful design
So please avoid it to keep this place clean
So like this, turn it twice and then you can drink it
When you drink the last drop, please drink it with a slurping sound
It means "I drink it deliciously - even the last drop"
Yay matcha! I haven't had matcha in a long time so I'm excited for this
Elevator of doom~ literally can only fit two people in here
And it goes so slowly! I'm surprised we made it to the first floor alive
Alright guys, we are finished and super full!
The food was really really delicious!
And all super healthy!
So I don't feel bad about eating so much
Because it was mostly vegetables
The dessert at the end was so good!
So we're gonna catch a taxi home now
Time to go home and edit this vlog I guess
See you guys later!
Hey guys, I'm back home now
I'm just gonna edit the vlog from today right now
and get it ready, and then I'll put subtitles on it
So it'll probably take me a while to get it up
These are all other videos that I'm working on right now that haven't been completed yet
This pokemon centre tour video will probably be up before this vlog
So I'm gonna do that and then go to sleep
Hope you enjoyed this vlog, please give me a thumbs up if you did!
and I will see you soon! Bye!
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