P-man??? (laughter)
I said like oh I don't like eating p-man what would you think?
Wth?
I don't know...
Beeeeep
oh that's useful!
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's your cozy fashion reporter CathyCat here from the streets of Tokyo and
we have the pleasure to ask the wonderful people here what .....well
we're gonna give them actually a couple of words and see if they can figure out what they are and there's a little bit of a catch in
it so please test your own Japanese skill find out what these words are let's find
out if foreigners can solve it and let's go and ask Foreigners in Japan
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P-man
p-man!
p-man I have no idea
just guess - maybe a type of animal?
P-man - Say it again?
P-maan (laughter)
fried potato! - fried potato
french fries? - French fries
P-man - What was it? - Peanuts?
P-man... P-man....
it's about this big
if I said like "oh I don't like eating p-man" what would you think
(shy laughter)
I think you thought something naughty just now no i
It's green - pickle?
Close - close?
okay it's about this big
P-man like little shots I don't know
you probably have eaten it here in Japan
no the only one I know is edamame - I know I know
I'm trying to think of.... I'm like p-man like a little pee man
Like little figurines? Like one of those fountains in Europe right?
I though of some small town fountain
what is it I don't know
it's a vegetable - vegetable? P-man? a cucumber that I don't know
food I don't know or spice - food is right
it is actually green peppers - oh wow okay yeah I like that
similar to to the African one Pima it's just chili pepper yeah
green peppers
green peppers??? - Can I have a p-man? - STOP!
Green peppers - green peppers is p-man? oh
it's green peppers - green peppers
Well I never eat those
We call them capsicum so I guess it's a bit different too
capsicum ?? How do you spell that?
capsicum
yeah we don't call them green peppers in Australia
you have your own special word for that? - yeah
yeah fantastic we learned something while we're going along with it it's fantastic!
Ok what's Baikingu
(repeats it)
Baikingu - I don't know -biking?
cycling? - cycling yeah motorcycle - nonono
A motorcycle?
Like you're riding the bike I don't know - the Viking? - I don't know
I think more of the .... Vikings???
which is used to say...?
I've never heard that - what like pillaging?
See baikingu - oh I know this one
The vikings right???
The Nose Vikings? Or like a bike where you transport yourself no no?
I am loving this
it's a buffet the all you can eat kind of.... - oh yeah I have heard about this
oh it's like how they say Genghis Khan for for all you can eat okay okay cool
biking is like an all-you-can-eat place - oh okay I didn't know
eat like a viking - oh very cool very cool okay
Where you can eat like a Viking
Ok it's a buffet where you can eat a lot of food like a strong Viking you eat all the food
Right that was so Random would you have guessed that? like where is even the connection so
apparently the root of that word is actually not in the Japanese language that's why a
lot of people were kind of thrown off what it means no it is not a European fountain
you thought that didn't you yes you did yes you did don't don't look down, but yeah those
those are some of the funny words but we have done this quiz actually before with
foreigners in Japan be sure to check out this video if you'd like to have a
laugh and also to maybe send this video to your friends and test their Japanese skill