- Oh my God, Pringles make
crispy seaweed. - Yeah.
- This is just so strange to me, like Pringles not in a can?
Hey, what's up? Today we are trying snacks
from a Japanese $2 store, AKA Daiso.
- And it'll be the best $2 we didn't spend.
Thanks, Buzzfeed. - Thank you, BuzzFeed.
- I love Daiso, I'm a Daiso hoe.
- I'm a big, big Daiso fan, you know,
get my face masks from there,
- Really?
- Get my little lollies from there.
- Hair clips, super glue, origami paper.
- Like we'll be out and she'll be like,
"But can we like stop at Daiso before we go?"
and I'm like, "We're literally going to a bar,
"what do you need to get from Daiso?"
- Just a quick Daiso before you go out, a quickie.
- A quickie?
- Yes.
- A quickie at Daiso.
(upbeat music)
- Hi, my name is Red.
I'm a videographer for BuzzFeed Japan,
and today I want to show all
the teams cool snacks from Daiso.
So in Japan, we have like 3,000 Daiso store.
Yan Yan sticks, or you can call
Yan Yan Tsukebō in Japanese.
Breadstick and chocolate, so, so you dip
the breadstick to the chocolate and you eat it.
It's really fun to eat.
- Okay, first we're trying Yan Yan.
- I feel like I'm like a beauty influencer,
like, beauty guru.
- Is it that way when they do the...
- Shade of Yan Yan. - Hey guys,
welcome back to my channel.
- Like, subscribe, comment.
- I'm going to put Yan Yan all over my face for contour.
(Mowgli laughing)
- I've had Pocky before.
- Oh shit, I was thinking of Pocky.
- Yeah, I've had Pocky. - These are like thick Pocky.
- I have got creamy chocolate flavor.
- And I've got hazelnut cocoa flavored.
- I used to have these in primary school
and you'd bet all the kids would be like,
"Can I have a one stick though?"
- This is like a LeSnak situation,
but Japanese. - A sweet one,
yeah, yeah, yeah, a sweet LeSnak
for all you Aussies out there.
- I'm gonna lick the lid.
(pleasant music)
- I'm getting Nutella vibes.
- You're chocolate, I'm hazelnut.
Wouldn't I be getting Nutella vibes?
- I said Nutella vibes.
- Yum, this is sensational.
- This is just like childhood.
- Never had them before, but they're really good.
- Yan Yan, I'm a big fan fan.
- Next, Giant Caplico.
So Caplico looks like ice cream, but it's not a ice cream.
Also, Caplico has chocolate in the bottom
of the cone, so that's my favorite part.
- It looks sweet, I love that,
and it's a cone, like this is so cute.
- Whoa! - Is this like the shit
astronauts have at like NASA?
- Unmeltable ice cream.
- This is like out of this world, like, this is-
- This is lolly Cornettos.
- Ooh, there we go.
- Give it a little (Caplico knocking).
- This smells like fairy floss or something, or bubblegum.
- Oh my god, yours has a face on it, mine doesn't.
- Oh yeah, it does.
Got a little face on it.
Is it supposed to? - Where's my face at?
- This kinda just looks like styrofoam.
- It is very much like a, like,
strawberry ice cream taste, but yeah, it's a bit dry.
- A bit (imitates crunching) dry.
- For all you tipophobes at home, typeophobes?
The fear of little dots,
this shit would trigger the fuck out of you.
- What, is that a thing?
- People are afraid of like the honeycomb-looking things,
and this is giving me big that vibes.
- It looks like a crumpet. - Like, why?
- Like little crumpet holes.
- It don't even taste good.
- Like it's for the astronauts.
- It feels like,
it tastes like - Who can't get
ice cream in space.
- The best bit is with the cone.
The cone makes it.
- Okay. (cone snapping)
- It's chocolate - No, this is
- On the bottom. - How you do it.
- It's a chocolate cone.
- I like the chocolate bottom.
I like this way better, but I don't like the top.
It's freaky and weird.
- Next is Pringles.
I think you guys has Pringles, but this one is weird.
I mean, basically it's (speaking Japanese).
(speaking Japanese) means flavored seaweed in Japanese.
- Oh my God, Pringles make
crispy seaweed. - Yeah.
- This is just so strange to me, like Pringles not in a can?
- Sour cream and onion. - Mr. Pringles?
I thought he was like a white guy.
What is he doing in Asia?
- I'm excited, I'm not like
a huge seaweed fan, but I like Pringles.
- Look I don't like seaweed when they touch me
at the beach, freaks me out, but seaweed and rice.
- Oh, this is gonna be great.
I love crispy seaweed.
- How did you get yours open?
- There's a, there's like a little tag
on the side you pull, look.
- Oh, don't be, well, all right, there we go.
- This smells so good.
Let's do it, bone apple teeth.
- Sour cream and onion, bone apple teeth.
- Amazing.
It's crunchy but also,
feels like air in your mouth. - No shit, Mr. Pringles.
- Mm, these are really good.
- 85% seaweed.
- Do you rate it?
- I rate it, yeah, that's delicious.
I could eat the whole bag. - Yeah.
- This is lit.
It's just like the texture.
- So next, Puchao Ramune Soda.
Puchao is a soft candy, but there is a tiny gummy in it.
Gum is to taste like a blue Hawaii,
so based off the drink in Japan.
It's called Ramune.
- So these are those like little gummies.
Look, the lemonade flavor, would I go for it?
Never.
Like the strawberry and the grape
are the OG good ones in my opinion.
- Oh, it's pretty.
- It's cute.
- Yeah. - So it's kind of like
a better Zappo.
- Yeah, yeah. - Don't come for me.
- Oh, I love Zappo as well, yeah.
- Yeah, like a better, it's got
more texture and it's less hard.
- It's not bad.
I don't know how to describe it.
- Chewy.
- Well, chewy, but the flavor.
- Like you're saying what? - Tell me it doesn't smell
like the KFC wet wipes.
- Oh yeah, it does, yeah. - Yeah.
- It's like clean, it's like...
- Like a KFC wet wipe.
- Like nice and clean and wet, yeah.
- The flavor's nice. - Still not even halfway
through it.
- Just the gum texture isn't particularly-
- It's very refreshing.
It's so refreshing.
I feel like I'm chewing a drink.
- It's a four out of 10, not quite a pass.
- I'm gonna give it a-
- You're better off drinking the actual soda.
- Yeah, just drink the soda.
- So next is mi goreng chips.
This one is not from Japanese, but we have a similar one,
it's called Baby Star, so it's also made of noodle.
- Mi goreng chips.
- I'm so excited for these, this is
very exciting. (Zotti laughing)
- How could you go wrong with mi goreng?
No, it's not possible.
- I never went through that whole mi goreng,
like, phase, like- - It's MSG in a packet.
- I'm the opposite.
I ate too much mi goreng in uni.
- Mm, flavor.
(both crunching)
- These are good.
- That's a good one, who care's about my health?
- Spicy.
- If you can't handle pepper
or coriander, this is not for you.
- Coriander?
- Some people think coriander is spicy.
I don't want to talk about it.
- Do they think like skim milk is spicy then?
- Very crispy. - Yeah, it tastes exactly like
mi goreng, which you'd assume they would.
- I'd eat them if they're there.
I wouldn't seek them out. - Yeah.
Not as good as the original noodles.
- So next is rice crackers.
It's called senbei in Japanese,
but the Australian ones is kind of thinner
because I don't know, you guys, but you guys
can't chew it because it's really hard, hard.
That's why you guys call it a rice cracker.
- These are like a rice cracker cracker,
you know what I mean?
Like rice crackers have like airiness to them.
- Oh, are you talking about those big ones?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- But this is like hard.
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- They're good, it's like a cracker kind of crisp.
- This is like fuckin' Sakata,
you know what I mean?
- Mhm.
- It 100% tastes exactly like one.
- Yeah.
- But this would be good with something else on it
'cause it's so like thick and stable,
it's not gonna get soggy.
- You can put some - Like tuna,
- Smoked salmon. - Avocado.
- Some cream cheese. - Tuna avocado.
- Not much for this one.
It's kind of what you'd expect,
dry, just tastes like a rice cracker.
- Pretty straight forward. - But it's got cute little
Japanese writing on the cut front of it
so that makes it better.
- Yeah.
- I don't know if I'd go back for a second one.
- Hm, I would eat these, I would go boom boom boom.
- Really?
- There's only two in the packet, what is this?
- It's good it's two, you know what I mean?
Two in a packet, perfect amount for on-the-go,
in your bag, in your lunch box, this would be perfect.
- And the last one is the Ice Box.
It tastes like a sports drink, and they
froze it to the cube.
So it's a really iconic, popular ice drink in Japan.
- Ice Box, this looks like my thing.
(ice rattling)
(Will groaning)
I'm so excited.
Grapefruit flavor though.
- Like a slushie.
(ice rattling)
- Can I have some scissors or something please?
(packaging crinkling)
- You could use your hands, you animal.
- I've been trying.
- Oh, there we go, there we go, there we go.
- Oh, I got it too, yeah.
- Ah!
- That smells like grapefruit.
- Yeah, it smells really strong.
- Oh, it's like little lollies.
- Oh, I've only got one big one.
♪ I got this Ice Box where my heart used to be ♪
- You know that song?
- Ah, yeah, yeah.
(ice pops) Oh!
(Simon chuckling)
- This is really good.
- I want this one here.
- I feel like Japanese sweets tend to be very sweet.
- I hate grapefruit, but I love fake sugar grapefruit.
- But this is just really refreshing.
- Oh, that's so good.
- This would be really refreshing
on a day like 32 degrees,
you're out in the sun, - Yeah.
- Or you're chilling at the beach.
- Do you know what would be really good with it?
Alcohol.
- Mm, in vodka. - Can you imagine
in vodka having this floating around the top?
It's not straight vodka, - Little cocktail.
- So you don't feel like an alcoholic, but you are,
but it's like, has a little bit of flavor.
- It's like way more practical than eating an icy pole.
- Mhm, 'cause it doesn't drip on you.
- You can just have as much as you want at a time.
- You know when like men pee on snow?
- What?
(Mowgli laughing)
Sorry, I don't know when men pee on snow.
- Yeah. - This is ten out of ten.
If one thing wins today, it's this for me.
- That was lovely.
That was excellent.
For a $2 store, that's pretty good food.
- Honestly.
- My favorite was the mi goreng chip for sure, 100%.
- Look, our $2 shops are shit.
Like they're shit house.
They're notoriously shit house, right?
Japanese $2 stores are the places to go.
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