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- My name is Amina Almas, I'm 21-years-old
and I'm from London.
I always have a YouTube channel where I just blog.
- Hey I'm Emi I work at Let's Feed Japan as a designer.
I currently live in Tokyo for about 20 years now.
- I don't consciously think about what I eat,
I do know I snack a lot.
- Hopefully this week I get to show you guys
what a 20-something-year-old eats during the week.
- Lets go, lets start.
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- Usually I have work today
but my family and I are going to some Japanese hot springs.
The cicadas are so loud.
But before we do that,
I am going to our local bakery
and getting us some bread.
So, I'm eating (speaks in foreign language)
bread stuffed with curry.
- We're at the park,
I don't know if you can see the park.
There's an ice cream on every corner.
Having a big family picnic for lunch
and we have a bunch of food here.
We have fajitas, burritos, fruit, crisp, chocolate,
just a bunch of things.
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- [Emi] This is my lunch.
It's a bento (speaks in foreign language),
just a variety of things.
- [Amina] Is it normal to have dinner at 10 PM?
I don't actually know but it's rice
with a little bit of salad and some cold water
because it's like 30 degrees in London right now.
- [Emi] It's pretty common when you go
to a resort with hot springs
to have this elaborate meal for dinner.
Pretty much a 10 course meal but miniature size.
For a main dish we had Shabu shabu,
where you have raw meat
and swish it around in hot broth until it's cooked.
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We were served this elaborate
traditional Japanese breakfast.
We have some fish, rice, egg custard and some warm tofu.
- I didn't have breakfast this morning.
So for lunch, it's fish burger chips.
So, basically in the UK
this specific fast food chain restaurant
isn't [Indistinct] so I have to get a fish burger.
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and eating marshmallows mixed with caramel
and then white chocolate.
But it's just so good.
So I've decided that I need to stop being unhealthy
and I've got water, grapes
and I'm just plenty watering.
- I'm back in my apartment just snacking on these.
They have like little cute koala prints on them.
- My dinner is a wrap and salad and juice.
I tried to be slightly healthy cauliflower,
potato and broccoli.
This does not look appetizing at all.
- [Eli] Tonight, I am making
a type of spaghetti dish that's called napolitan.
And it's basically tomato sauce, onion, green pepper,
bacon or sausage, simple spaghetti dish
for a quiet evening.
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For breakfast, just a bowl of rice with natto,
which is fermented soy beans,
sounds gross but it is delicious.
- Just had breakfast
just beans on toast with chocolate milk.
I don't think it's normal
to have chocolate milk with everything.
I just don't drink tea.
Beans on toast, British stereotype, very true,
tea with everything, British stereotype, very true.
- I'm going to be making goya champuru.
This vegetable with tofu, eggs and some bacon.
- [Amina] The pink holes are kind of a vibe.
- Welcome to my crib.
(laughs)
- [Amina] She's having a burger with chips.
She's got poached eggs.
She's got french toast.
- [Woman] No tell them I've got avocado.
- Oh and avocado, sorry. - Thanks.
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- Oh my god thank you. - Thank you.
- [Emi] Today's dinner is nikujaga
which literally translates to meat, potatoes.
All right, (foreign language)
- For dinner we just had roast chicken.
In the UK that's a single worst dinner.
We didn't have that
but it's just a thing to have chicken on Sundays.
So we just had it with chips.
Yes, it's the second time I'm having chips today.
And now I'm just having an ice cream because desert.
- I'm eating this ichigo daifuku right now.
I was grocery shopping
and on my way back I saw the store
that was selling dango and daifuku
and like other Japanese sweets,
it's really good.
(laughs)
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- It is seven o'clock I'm just eating cereal,
nothing special.
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Most big supermarkets, you can go in,
you can get a drink, crisps or a snack
and a sandwich or pasta pot for three pounds.
So that's what I'm getting for lunch.
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- Okay, so I just finished my morning meetings.
I was thinking about takoyaki the whole time.
So I'm just gonna go and buy some
because that's what I'm craving.
- [Amina] I've got a chocolate chip, no, it's not.
It's a cookie dough, sundae with fudge pieces.
What have you got?
- Belgian ruffle chocolate chip, (laughs)
with whole fudge and almond sprinkles.
- [Eli] Okay, Monday night dinner, kept it pretty simple.
This is called sanshoku-don.
I use meat, beans and egg and underneath is some rice.
I'm just accompanying it with some miso soup and green tea.
- [Amina] Okay so today's dinner is just water and pasta
with potatoes, lamb meat and coleslaw.
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- [Emi] Not so much of a breakfast, I wasn't super hungry
Just some English Breakfast tea.
- Breakfast is one toast with butter
because I'm not hungry.
That is the right amount of toast
just saying any darker than this.
- [Emi] You know it's summer in Japan
when you have to shout over these loud cicadas.
My lunch today, bought this at the convenience store,
ebi tendon, deep fried shrimp with some rice.
Gonna enjoy it with these bugs.
- Another day another meal deal of course.
Crisps, orange juice, a pasta pot
and a chocolate bar.
That is lunch.
- Yes.
I've ordered myself some Korean fried chicken,
shiny.
Oh, so good.
- Okay, so basically throughout the UK
there's this thing called Eat Up to Help Out
and it's a government scheme
where basically restaurants are 50% off everything,
their food, for every Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday for the whole month.
Just to kick start the economy
because Corona really ruined the economy.
Yes, I'm just waiting for my pizza that was 50% off.
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- [Eli] Hey, I have made the executive decision
to go out and buy ice cream, no regrets.
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Today I'm just making this simple smoothy
from frozen mangoes, frozen pineapple,
drinkable yogurt and orange juice.
- I'm literally gonna be late for work
if I miss the bus that's in five minutes
and I'm eating a banana.
- [Eli] I have a meeting that starts in a couple of minutes
so I'm really gonna rush.
So I ran to the convenience store
and bought myself some rice bowls, salmon,
red beans, sour plum with oiled kelp.
- I'm going to go to a different supermarket today
and show you guys the meal deal there.
Lunch was a tuna sandwich, crisps, banana
and a strawberry smoothie.
- [Eli] Okay, tonight's dinner is another pasta dish.
Mentaiko pasta, which is spicy fish eggs
and sea weed on top.
- For dinner we're doing the government 50% off thing again.
We're just making use of it.
I'm going to a burger place.
I think I'm gonna get a normal beef burger 50%, 50%.
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- For breakfast today, I'm having a fruit jelly cup,
pretty self explanatory.
Just so we're clear,
it's definitely called jelly, not jello.
What is jello?
- My bus is in eight minutes, nine minutes
so I'm having a banana.
If I'm early, I'll go and get some pastry.
Oh, you're in the video.
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I just got a pasta pot, fruit and a smoothie for lunch.
And my head scarf's is falling off.
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- [Eli] We have shogayaki here.
Of course I have to have my rice,
miso soup and burdock salad.
I'm gonna eat this before it gets cold.
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- This is not healthy
but I promise you my dinner was healthy.
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So the week's over.
I hope it's not too different
to what other British people eat.
- Hope you enjoyed the video.
I know I did, 'cause I ate a lot of food.
I'm eating right now, it's melting.
- It was quite a typical week of food.
Thanks for watching.
- Ah, gotta finish this ice cream.
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