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good morning and welcome to
a very snowy iwate prefecture i'm joined
by my friend norm today
because norm wanted to come out here to
the middle
of nowhere in the countryside to
experience some snow
because it's pretty rare down in
southern japan you don't see snow very
much in tokyo
but up here in the north we get it every
day for months in the winter
we're going to go on a little snowy
adventure today i've brought us
out to hiraisumi which is a very
historically important area of iwate and
there was lots of power here so
because the city is so important it's
been really
well preserved and it's just beautiful
it's quite a small area but
it's gorgeous so i hope you guys enjoy
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but on to the exciting temple which we
have figured out it's a temple it's not
a shrine
flashback right now we're looking up
this is a buddhist temple but
there's a shrine gate right there a
torii gate and we're trying to figure
out why
this guy is
had no idea just learned something new
yeah that's really awesome
and a flashback
we are here what do you think i'm just
trying to catch snowflakes with my time
i am norm's way too excited we get snow
maybe once a year in tokyo and this year
we kind of didn't
it was yeah we never stated and at night
and this is beautiful
it is very nice i have to say it has
been snowing non-stop for months up here
in iwate but this is really beautiful
the temples look extra pretty in the
snow i'm not gonna lie so i'm happy i
could bring you guys out here and show
it to you but this is takokuno iwaya
it's a very cool buddhist temple that's
built
into the side of a cliff how awesome is
that
there's a really nice lake here uh i was
last here in the summer
pond small lake there's a little ocean
here
there's usually fish in here i hope
they're not in here
anymore that would be very sad do they
hibernate
under the water i have always wondered
what happens to all the koi
that are out in these ponds do they like
in the winter scoop them out i really
hope so is there a koi scoop
are they just frozen in time until it
melts
maybe on the way out i can ask the guy
that too that's a good idea
the guy is really nice yeah this is so
cool
and nobody else is here we've got it all
to ourselves
probably one of my favorite things about
coming up to northern japan is that
you can come out to places like this and
there's almost always
no one it's so true even in the summer
when it was like really nice weather
there was nobody here
uh do you want to go inside i do okay
let's go
to be happy there's no hornets when i
came here in the summer this is where
they attacked me
pretty nice eh i'm just excited about
the snow more than it's actually a
really nice contrast of you got the open
field
got the houses here the forest the
mountain this probably changes a lot
season by season
it does it's so pretty in the fall
with the golden rice fields that looks
like it's probably a sakura tree
definitely is we should come back in the
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pretty cool eh it is where do you want
to go next
are you hungry this town is actually
famous for mochi do you like kochi
mochi is fantastic and they have this
style of serving it that i've never seen
anywhere else in japan but okay
yeah i'll just say that leave it as a
surprise
but i hope you like it
okay that's pretty cool they're alive
they're alive and they dig their way
into the dirt
they're just waiting there learning new
things every day this is michi noweki
uh gambike i think is the name of it
it's just a little roadside station
but they do serve the special mochi
so hopefully norm likes it it'll be an
experience
oh great either way i feel like there's
a bait and switch kind of thing going on
here
look i got this great mochi it'll be an
experience hey i didn't say great
don't put words in my mouth all right
so you order from this machine here
okay this is what you want i think can't
read the kanji but i'm pretty sure this
is it
okay ten dollars
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then you take your ticket and you give
it to them at the counter
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this is where i saw it really there were
wasps in here
what is with you and what they like me i
don't know what it is
i don't know i'm starting to wonder if
there are actually wasps you're just
imagining
you're just like imagining these
non-existent laws
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wow it's different flavors than last
time
it actually looks really good honestly
okay so last time i got it there was a
natto one i was like are you kidding me
really but this time i don't see enough
though
i think sharla had this like really
malicious plan that she was gonna
have me eat like natto mochi and like
that's the only bad one though there
were more
so last time we came here there was a
natto one
there was a shrimp one it was all over
the place
but this time it actually looks really
good so i think you might like it
which is good most of them look very
sweet
this is zunda which is soybean but it's
usually sweet
this is red bean paste also sweet black
sesame which should be delicious
daikon we've got she packet deep fried
tofu pocket this one looks like some
kind of citrus
peanut and this one might be chicken
i don't know but let's dig in enjoy
coming in here there was this atmosphere
of like i'm gonna get you with this
mochi
i'm gonna get you and i feel like we
ended up with really good mochi and
charlotte's plan is backfired
no i'm very happy that it's good flavors
this time i recommend starting with the
savory ones and working your way to the
sweet ones
got a whole plan what this oh this is
what what
it's just died but it's not even
watching oh
the confusion did they for
the [ __ ] did you just dig into mine
i thought they like forgot to put the
mochi in mine because last time it was
like three mochi on each row this one's
my favorite
so it's an inari tofu pocket with mochi
inside
it's delicious
and where should i start
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it's nice right it's all really good
i'm back try the shiitake i really liked
that one last time
i thought it was kind of unique but i
thought it was really good
kind of tang to it does it it's got a
tang almost like a shiso kind of
does it yeah i swear they just change up
the flavors like daily whatever they
feel like they're like i'm gonna throw
some shiso in here today
it's fun though you don't know what to
expect no really good
i'm really intrigued by this orange one
i'm not a fan of yuzu
i really hope it's not yuzu it kind of
looks like marmalade though
it's very orange
wait it does
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why does it smell like pumpkin is it
pumpkin
what i was expecting a really strong
orange smell
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squash it's very sweet
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it has a very subtle sweet flavor
you know what i said peanut for this one
but i think it might be chestnut
hmm it's almond
oh my god that is delicious did you like
the almond one i loved it
holy crap that is so good
i'm so happy that there's so many
different flavors that i didn't try last
time
thoughts on the mochi well she was good
positive
didn't expect to walk out it's very
filling because they give you like nine
different well i guess eight they kind
of skipped out this time with that
little patch of daikon that was weird
but ate mochi you get really full off of
them
wow really sweet it's really snowing
are you sick do you understand my pain
every day this is what i deal with every
day
it is really pretty though i think we
need like a slow motion norman join me
okay let's go so what are your thoughts
on north japan did you have a nice trip
i had an amazing trip
would you recommend that people come up
here in the winter absolutely i would
look at this
it is nice the snow is very powdery i've
noticed
like i said we've had three straight
months of it and it's been really nice
snow the whole time like it hasn't been
slushy it's been these really soft
flakes that are really nice to walk on
once it piles up so
also the roads are clear yeah they don't
salt the roads here but they do a really
nice job of clearing them off
they're used to it it's know so much up
here that they're prepared for it so
it's not too bad to drive in the winter
for the most part sapporo have heated
sidewalks yeah they do
they'll have like the hot water running
under the road i guess and it melts all
the snow
it's quite impressive but i hope you
guys enjoyed our little snowy adventure
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bye for now guys
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