Sharla: Good morning from chilly Tokyo it was actually snowing this morning
It just stopped, but it's kind of an on-and-off which is really rare for Tokyo
It's actually snowed quite a few times this year guess who I'm here to meet?
Norm: Hey guys!
Sharla: I'm here to see norm and it's actually our last vlog together
For a while for a while until I come back to Japan or you come to Korea a visit me
And I left the day up to Norm
Norm is really good at finding really cool spots around Tokyo
So, I'm counting on you Norm!
Norm: I got some exciting stuff today
Sharla: Do we?
Norm: Yeah oh man, today's stuff, this is my like
best-kept secrets.
Sharla: He saved it. He saved it right for the end.
Norm: I, I did. We were actually supposed to be doing totally different today,
we had a helicopter tour.
Sharla: Yeah, we were trying to fly in a helicopter to get a tour around Tokyo,
but they ended up not wanting us to film it
and that doesn't really work for vlogs so
Norm: They're like oh, you can film out the window, but nothing else and I was like no. No, thank you.
Sharla: That's no fun
Norm: No thank you
so
Sharla: That's okay I'm sure you have something very cool.
Norm: What we're doing today is something
the place that I'm going to be taking Sharla to today
Is a place that I have been going to for 10 years.
Sharla: And he hasn't told me about it til now!
Norm: I haven't told anyone about it, this is my secret.
Sharla: I'm excited!
Norm: You know, I might not even take you.
Sharla: No!
Sharla: Come back!
Sharla: Welcome to the 39th floor of Ebisu Garden place tower it's so high up,
I feel like I, this must be higher than Tokyo Tower or like the same?
Norm: I don't know, I, I feel like we're higher up.
You know what the real heartbreak of the view is though?
This whole white view that we have here
there should be
Mount Fuji right there.
Clear as day.
Sharla: Still kinda ruined that but,
Norm: Don't worry, I'll tell you what, I'll send you some clips that you can place them here.
~Imagine~
Sharla: Haha, look like we were there!
Sharla: So we're just walking around trying to choose where to go for lunch
everywhere looks really fancy,
but the prices are actually quite low just over 10 or 15 dollars for lunch
which is pretty normal in Japan.
Sharla: We just checked one of the like,
probably the fanciest places
and they have a
Veggie Soymilk Sautee as one of the options.
So that's choice number one
that's one option on our list.
There's also a salad bar
which Norm said was good.
So that's another choice.
Norm: Really, it's really your choice when it comes down to it,
like, it's one of your last meals in Tokyo.
I can eat here anytime I want. Sharla: Don't say that!
Sharla: This is the view from our seat;
how epic is that? What park is that?
It's at Yoyogi Park?
possibly Yoyogi Park don't quote me on that.
Okay, so this is what I was so excited about guys, Sautee of varied vegetables and soybean milk.
Sharla: Lunch is finished!
How was your lunch?
Norm: Lunch was delicious!
Sharla: It was really really good.
Norm: Very good choice.
I wouldn't have chosen this place, but you did
Sharla: yayy
Norm: and I'm glad you did.
Sharla: I liked it, it was so good!
It tasted really expensive,
but it's only like 15 dollars so
We're gonna go chill and do some editing for a bit before we head off to our next location.
Norm: Because I'm making some cheesy Instagram stories for Sharla.
Sharla: He is, go check out Norm's Instagram.
He's really great with the story.
If you go over to my Instagram,
I'll have the one pin that he made for me.
Sharla: So I don't know where we're going. Is this the right way?
Norm: Okay, you see this temple over here?
You wanna go torwards this temple.
Norm: I'm so excited about this one!
Sharla: I'm excited because you're so excited.
Norm: Ah! So I was just telling, I was just telling the people on my video
like the backstory to this
Sharla: Yeah
Norm: and like how I found it
and it was just a slightly inebriated night, where I'm stumbling through these back streets
and I found this rustic old building
that you would never consider going into
then I peeked through the window and saw something,
something that caught my interest
and it's this way.
Sharla: This way? This way?
Norm: Imagine right here
Sharla: I was gonna say this one.
Sharla: Wow
This is it
This looks pretty epic
So dagashi (did I spell that right?) are a Japanese traditional snacks and candies
and I love them so - I'm very intrigued now.
This looks really cool.
Alright guys Kanji practice time.
Can you read this?
(Sorry I don't know how to spell these)
All you can eat!
dagashi
Sharla: I love how they have like all the old Showa era.
Posters
Beer advertisments
So, they way this bar works is you pay a 5 dollar cover charge
and you can eat all the snacks you want
and they have an amazing selection.
You pick up a basket
and you can choose whatever you'd like
and bring it back to your table.
This is so fun
How have I never been here before?
They have my favorite
Yeah, they do they have my favorite!
I love these!
I showed these in a video before.
They're amazing
Norm: And I will say Sharla, we got really lucky today.
Sharla: Why?
Norm: Because it's so quiet in here.
Sharla: It's usually busier?
And it's a Friday night isn't it?
Norm: Yeah, this place is usually pretty packed.
Sharla: Super lucky.
Sharla: I got a Soju base with ramune
oh god dammit
So that it blocks it
Life hacks with norm
Norm: Alright, so you'll notice, there's this little pinch in here, that is meant to hold the ball providing you're not drinking it too quick
I was at a festival once and watched a mother tell her little daughter
That if you drink it so fast that the ball falls past that you're drinking it too quickly
So parents use this to teach their kids to enjoy their drinks a little more slowly
Sharla: What did you get? Is that one of those Vitamin C drinks?
like an energy drink with whiskey
Sharla and Norm: Cheers!
Time for the haul.
Let me show you guys what I got I actually got some things that I've never tried before which is
surprising because I love (sorry don't know how to spell it) and I buy them all the time.
Number one we have don don yaki
I love the originals, but this is kimchi flavor so that's fun. These are another one of my favorite. I usually get the cherry version.
Hey
Get out of the. I usually eat the cherry version of these, but they had a soda flavor, which looks really good.
These are hard Mochi candies
it's kind of hard to explain. I've always thought of them as mochi.
This is Mochi Taro
I've showed you guys this in a video before it's really similar to don don yaki.
Some orange cigarettes like the ones you can find in canada actually, but I've never had orange flavored ones. This is (spelling idk)
(can't spell) stick soybean powder stick it looks like mochi so that one should be good
These are mini yogurts. They're called yogurts, but they're not yogurt. There's nothing dairy in these
So I'm very interested
to see how they taste; like what are they? I probably shouldn't ask.
And they come with a little wooden spoon to eat it with it's super cute .
And last but not least I got some strawberry flavored ramune candies.
Alright starting off with the don don yaki ~kimchi flavor~
Here's what they look like they're made from rice, they're like a deep-fried mochi
Norm: While she was telling you about that
I ate 10.
Sharla: They're so good.
They're kinda
There kind of sour they've got like a vinegary taste of them like salt and vinegar chips
I could easily just down the entire pack right now.
Norm: My bags almost empty.
Sharla: So here's the
original of those.
It's sauce flavored.
Sauce in Japanese is like an okonomiyaki sauce.
Kind of like barbecue?
It's really all I can explain it as for those of you that haven't had it before
Also really good, but I actually think I prefer the kimchi one.
How about the (can't spell)
The ingredients are kinako, sugar
and sugar.
Wait what
Norm: Nice.
Best ingredients ever.
It's only made out of Kinako, I figured it would be mochi, but it's literally
just a stick of Kinako.
Interesting, all right
Norm: These are really good, but they're very chewy
Sharla: Interesting okay, you have to like mochi, but with no rice involved and just soy bean powder
It's got a very Japanese taste to it. I feel like this would be really good with like some green tea or something
I'm gonna try this creepy yogurt thing that contains no yogurt whatsoever. It's made from
plant oils, sugar
cornstarch and
stevia
Basically just sugar and oil
It smells like that really
Cheap icing that you get on cakes at Walmart
Kind of looks like it too. Not expecting too much flavor-wise out of this
We will see
It really tastes like icing, the icing on a cheap cake.
This is like one of my least favorite things
It's got a slight lemon flavor to it which is nice
that's the best part about it, but
I hate that kind of icing, so this one gets a no for me if I go out and then come back and pay another $5
Norm: I wonder
Sharla: Probably right.
Their not gonna complain.
Norm: I don't think like (?)
Sharla: Alright, our night is planned.
Gonna be here til midnight.
Norm: This is so much better than the helicopter.
Sharla: So cool
This is definitely a must of you're in Tokyo on vacation
it's like an opportunity for you to try all the traditional Japanese snacks for five bucks.
Norm: Yeah
Sharla: How cool is that?
Norm: So especially if you're traveling in a group and you come to a place like this,
you find something, try it if you like it. great if you don't like it, you've got other people to pawn it off on
Sharla: I've got a present for you, Norm.
Norm: Oh was it bad?
What?
It's confusing
Sharla: What is it remind you of?
Norm: Okay, you know like lemon meringue pie?
Sharla: Okay
Norm: It's like the meringue from lemon meringue pie has been left out too long
and it's like gotten this like thickness
or, or
The best I can think is like, a melted marshmallow
Sharla: No, your giving it too much credit.
That sounds kind of good
I said that it tasted exactly like the cheap icing on a Walmart birthday cake.
Norm: Oh my god, that's it!
Sharla: Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
Norm: What kind of cakes did you have as a kid that that's what came from your mind?
Sharla: No, those are the ones when you go to someone elses birthday party and they always have that cake, and you just scrape off all the icing.
Norm: Oh my god.
Sharla: Holy crap.
Norm: This cookie is so chocolaty inside.
Sharla: That's a bit much.
Okay I'm trying the fruit soda mochi
Norm: I am loving this cookie
Sharla: I love this bar!
Why am I just finding this now? Damn you norm!
Norm: Sorry, I'm a huge believer and saved the best for last.
Sharla: It did make for an epic last vlog
They're squishier than I remember
They're really soft
They're Ramune flavor so, Ramune flavor
Norm: This is sour spray
And it tastes like super water. This, this is terrible.
Sharla: These are really good.
Norm: Yep
Sharla: Clear your palette.
Norm: Clear my, my super water palette?
Sharla: It's like typical orange candy flavor
Norm: Oh yeah
Ichigo (?) (sorry I am really bad at this lol)
Norm says these are somehow different from rocket candies
Norm: These one, they like,they crumble in your mouth.
Sharla: Did you know that in America, they have a different name for rock candy?
They don't understand what they are when you say,do they call them Smarties? Is that right?
Norm: What's smarties?Then what do they call smarties?
Sharla: Yeah, right? I know.
Ooh! these are, whoa, these are really good!
They really dissolve in your mouth quickly
and it's like a really fine powder.
They're way better than rock candy.
But it tastes like a strawberry
Norm: I wouldn't go so far as to say they're better than rocky candies, you might start a fight there, but they're good
Sharla: They look the same, look exactly the same. The way they dissolve (came out?)
so much better.
All right our baskets empty, know what that means?
So apparently one of Norm's favorites is this Katsu
Katsu is usually pork or beef
But this one's like a fake one made out of fish
And I've always been too scared to try these but apparently was just one of Norm's favorite snacks
So we're gonna watch him eat it and try to understand why he likes it
Norm: It's got a bit of like that ham flavoring to it
It's got a nice crispy outside, the sauce is a nice touch because when you eat like a Katsu like a cutlet
It's always got the sauce on it right? So between the breading and the sauce alone
Just kind of tricks your brain
Wonderful
Sharla: The store's covered in snacks, it's not that just one area
they have them hanging in baskets
in front of the kitchen here.
They all have something different in them.
Okay, I got a couple of things I want you to try.
This one.
Norm: It's like fear factor
Oh my god. It says that it's pudding.
and this one
come in a tube
I feel like no matter how I open this, it's gonna end really terribly.
Oh this is not.
We're already off to a very bad start.
Oh my god. I already- my stomach's already like
''Why are you doing this?''
You see that?
Is that showing up?
Alright.
Well, you only live once.
Like, once you know what to expect,
It's still terrible.
But,
it's
it's bearable
Alright guys, I feel like Sharla is about to
wrap up this vlog so before she does,
I just personally wanted to say
thank you
to you guys
I have shared some of my very exciting
upcoming secrets with Sharla
hopefully minds will be blown
anyways, so many of you come over to join
so many of you have accepted me on this channel
spending time with you and Sharlas leaving Japan,
we are all sad about that
exciting adventures are coming
I just wanted to take a second to say thank you from
me to you guys, Love every single one of you
Alright Sharla is coming back, I gotta put her camera back
Sharla: We are going to enjoy the rest of our two hours here
eating as many snacks as we possibly can
Make sure to go check out Norms channel, his videos are amazing
and I know that you guys are gonna love them
he has really, really nice looking content on his channel
so I will link it down below
thanks so much for watching
and I'll see you again soon!
Bye!
~Cute Outtro~