um I would say that each of these is kind of becoming a dangerous country
oh wait I go to the restaurant someone might pay my meal? - yes
how do you how do you survive that? - well I just stay indoors
I would recommend visiting any national park
hey guys and girls on ask Japanese it's your flashy fashion reporter Cathy cat and today
we're going to go ask the foreigners on the streets of Tokyo
what is good and what is absolutely terribly bad about your country?
everyone was surprisingly honest so let's go and ask foreigners in Japan
so for me the best thing is food no doubt the food and architecture
art and it's just like there's a lot of beautiful places to visit so those two things
which city do you recommend? - um Venice
Venice yes I love Venice so much I cried when I left, I didn't want to leave, i loved it so much
it's really nice yeah definitely come to Venice
What's good about Belgium?
Um I would say the food too and yeah
place I would recommend is Bruges maybe - What can people find there?
horses and a river I haven't been... Venice is better I guess
And the chocolate how about the chocolate!??!
yeah the chocolate and the fries
Fries? - yeah Belgian fries are the best in the world
so definitely yeah if you go to Belgium please eat fries
You mean like potato fries? - yeah yeah well I think in English you call them french fries
but yeah it's a trend in Belgium but yeah I would recommend french fries
what makes them so special I thought it's just potato and you throw them in the fryer what's... what makes them special?
Maybe because we fry them twice and I don't know it's just yummy I mean you should try it
oh my God you're making me so hungry right now
we've heard the good what's the bad what do people ... what do people need to know before they go?
I would say that Italy is kind of becoming a dangerous country so you have to be careful
like of your belongings not leave them like on the chair if you go like to a cafe and you go to the toilet or something
and also what else?
oh transportation is really bad so like trains don't come on time and sometimes there's no English
and so it's pretty hard to get around if you're a foreigner and you visit for the first time
so even Italian people sometimes, like you know, don't know what to do
oh okay so you're not by yourself if you don't know where to go apparently even the locals don't know?
yeah like it happened to me sometimes too like I had to catch the train and like the how do you say in English...?
the the platform number changed and it was just like one minute before departure and they just say it in Italian
so if I was a foreigner I would be like "?"
in trouble
you'd be so lost
yeah be careful and like search before going getting trains
how about in Belgium? actually basically it's the same
so maybe Europe is all the same I don't know but yeah there's no announce in English either it's like mostly in French
and uh how do you say Dutch maybe ask someone if you're traveling "is it the right stop?" and yeah
the trains are mostly late and there's a lot of bus strikes too so yeah maybe you want to check the news before going somewhere
Anything else you can think of?
I know a good thing about Italy like compared to Japan like getting a SIM card in Japan is so difficult
oh God yeah - it's terrible
but in Italy it's super easy it's really cheap you get fast speed internet so like even if you go there for a week it's really easy
to get a good plan without having to make like a contract so that's a good thing about Italy
we just talk about this! - yes well we were having a cafe before so yeah
like the Wi-Fi here isn't good - yeah
I would say people are nice but Japanese people are nice too so hmm but like it's a different kind of friendliness
I think same with Italians right they're kind of very friendly yeah
um I think that uh the people are really good in Australia, the weather not so good.
not so good? I thought it's like sunny skies and...?
no we have been like hit with like massive storms and just wind and rain and stuff like consistently for a while now
my image is like sunny skies and people surfing none of that?
so there is you'll still have people go out and surf that's the crazy - but in the storm?
yeah you've got some crazy people out there so - okay
how long has that been going on for?
um ever since uh back when we started having like the bushfires and stuff like that
the weather's just kind of been like not what it usually is so yeah - that's the not so good where's the good?
uh the good is the people the people are really awesome, very very friendly
what makes them awesome give them some examples
um a lot of people like if you you know are lost they'll help you with directions
um a lot of people um like to "pay things forward" as well like if you're at a restaurant
um a lot of people will then go and pay for your food um as like a Pay It Forward sort of thing like a yeah
I go to the restaurant someone might pay my meal? - yes some people do do it
not everybody but some people will do it - a stranger?
yes they don't know me?
yes - wow okay why?
it's it's like a like a "Pay It Forward" thing like I know I do it myself just to like make
somebody's day and make them smile and I think my favorite thing is seeing the look on their face
when they're you know it's made their day it's it makes them smile so
really nice what kind of thing did you pay them before?
so just like if I'm at a cafe like if I see you know say a dad and daughter date or an elderly lady sitting there having a coffee for the day or something like that
and it's kind of like who I'll choose and pay for their meal and stuff like that so
Australia oh we could win for like beaches good weather
if you like beaches I mean we travel outside of Australia as much as possible so we're not really saying go to Australia
yeah it's going for I guess you know the Gold Coast Cairns if you want that sort of stuff like that's quite popular with tourists International tourists so yeah
we got theme parks don't we a couple of theme parks um big buildings beautiful beaches yeah nice people nice area nice weather
we're from Adelaide so we have nice little bars and it's nicer and quieter we've got the Adelaide Hills
and we've got lots of wine so yeah - a lot of famous wineries Barossa Valley
Wine cheese meat you got me there how is it for like Nature you said nature what is special about your nature
um I know there's Uluru I've not been myself but it's a big big rock in the middle there that's pretty famous and
lots of natural land forms that are supposed to be beautiful lots of yeah Barry reefing and up in Darwin and stuff
there's lots of.... yeah - lovely ranges yeah
yep all right so we heard something good what's bad?
the people
why? - ah pretty rude
some of them some of them quite rude, it depends
yeah if you're used to the people here and then you go to Australia you're probably a bit of a culture shock I think
yeah everyone seems a lot more polite here yeah a lot nicer
you said people are rude, how rude?
um it depends what sort of people in what area it depends if you're in a big footy game and football's on
and it's pretty rough gross people... - doing what?
um just loud and obnoxious really drunk and just very
yeah Australians can't handle their drinks well they tell everyone they can, we're like the the biggest drinkers I don't know
there's a lot of drinkers but they just get too drunk too silly
yeah you don't get any of that here hey everyone's pretty well behaved
think people tend to be too focused on themselves and it's the opposite of Japan where people are
so focused on other people and how they appear in public
so you got to be aware of people being a little bit more elbow out kind of?
I think so yeah you have to be more careful about that
so but if you are a tourist and when it comes to the America what can you recommend what's great about your country
um I would recommend visiting any national park especially out in Utah and California
Zion National Park is really beautiful they have Red Rocks everywhere and like huge Cliffs
um you can also visit Washington DC that's where I was born, it's really cool like all The Monuments and everything
and Parks you might enjoy that... I think New York everybody loves New York yeah
you just have to be careful not to go to the bad area so probably go with a tour group that's what I would recommend because
I hear a lot about people getting pickpocketed like having their stuff taken definitely
exactly definitely when you're in the big city like be aware of your surroundings and maybe have your backpack in front
or have a special backpack that can't be open except from the inside like when you take it off
so a bag like this in America would be difficult?
I think so I would recommend having one that has like zippers on the inside like on the back right here
so that only you can open it so nobody can take stuff out
yeah but this is good for the airport and for traveling... at least keep your money all the way at the bottom
and any valuable items so people can't take them
be careful especially Japanese people get targeted a lot because the images that they carry a lot of cash with them
in Taiwan I would say well the food is really good like the street food Night Market
something they should be aware of is I'd say like the weather because it gets really really hot in Taiwan
especially during the summer - hotter than Japan?
yeah hotter than Japan it's more humid too so it just feels a lot more hot like hotter - what's like an average humidity and temperature in summer?
probably like 98% because it's like always raining yeah and sometimes it gets to like 33 degrees Celsius
but like it feels like 35 yeah
how do you survive that? - well I just say indoors
oh good what's like the biggest difference between Taiwan and Japan?
I'd say it's really similar actually because um like we got 7-Eleven and like a lot of stuff from Japan actually
yeah probably just a temperature or like the weather
don't go to fast food places, I don't recommend. I don't really like fast food.
why you not recommend fast food places? - not tasty. it's not good
compared to Japanese food it's not tasty - no it's nasty
I wouldn't go to Seattle - oh why?
a lot of homeless and kind of horrible - dirty really dirty
but what I recommend? - recommend us something what's good about America?
Not that much. I'm half Japanese half white so I see like both sides Japan and America
I feel like Japan just it's just way cooler it has better food just and America is just dirty a lot of crime rates
and like it's just I don't know I just recommend Japan more I like Japan more
is the McDonald's then different in Japan and in America?
Japanese McDonald's have the Teriyaki Burger but America doesn't have that it's like different so
the other quality how is that in comparison?
oh the burgers we have like the meat quality is different it's like it's way better in Japan yeah
in the states its gross
it's got like hair in it or something
it is not tasty and baad
you are not selling this to me no no
what's great about Germany is just how environmentally friendly Germany is really a lot of awareness about that
also I mean hey the sausages and the beer are pretty good and the way we train our dogs to literally come with us on the train
or into the restaurants without causing any problems pretty cool and we got a couple of really nice castles right
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