hey guys welcome back to my channel we
are in kyoto again today and i'm
standing out front of a burger king
i've got a couple friends joining me and
we're going to be trying out
some new menu items all right so helping
us out with the burger tasting today our
chad my friend from university you
haven't seen in years
so i'm super excited to catch up thanks
for joining us thank you for having me
and we got dave in japan i'm i'm a guy
who makes videos on youtube
why are you always here for my food
videos why are those only ones you show
up it is rather coincidental isn't
it i can't say i'm overly excited about
this
because i you know i i thought burger
king bacon double cheeseburger let's do
it
but then you said plant-based whopper
and my excitement sort of went down if
i'd known that i don't think i'd have
come all the way to kyoto
this
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is
do you want cheese chili or the chicken
one
uh cheese cheese
cheese chicken
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i'm pretty excited this is the first
time that like an actual
burger chain has had a plant-based
burger in japan they have one at
mossberger it's not very good
but you know like a well-known burger
chain they're finally doing a
plant-based burger
i've got high hopes fingers crossed
would you
in burger king as you'd expect looks
really good
so chad got the ugly burger i think this
is a japan
only menu item it is ugly is that a
cheese bun
i think it is oh wow look at this what
makes it the ugly burger
is it just a bun i think it is in it
it's got beef cheese tomato onion
it's kind of like a whopper pretty much
but like i think it's like got the whole
cheese bun thing going it looks pretty
good honestly
you want a burger to be ugly yeah it's
too pretty it's probably not going to
taste good so
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oh yes it's like a party in my mouth
the flavors complement each other rather
splendidly if i try to say so myself
oh this is this is good i rather like it
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what are you doing get your heads out
it's like a mcdonald's chicken nugget
but it's not apparently it's got cheese
in it so it must be good
can i swear it tastes like [ __ ] so hard
i could kill someone with this look at
it i can't
crush it between my fingers it's so hard
like unobtainium
no one out of ten
hungry the pigeon whisperer
look he's scared he's gonna fight me
all the birds have come for their
delicious taste of burger king
want more oh god we've come outside
because of the inevitable copyright
claims from the music in the restaurant
so this is the burger king flame grilled
plant-based
whopper i've heard that this thing is
pretty good so
we're gonna test it out today not being
a fan of meat myself
i'm assuming i'm probably gonna like
this but chris
who eats a lot of meat and probably
doesn't like plant-based food
very much we're gonna get his opinion as
well so it'll be balanced
it's a balanced review he's gonna get it
first
you're in charge of pigeon disposal chad
all right
so i'm quite big fan of burger king when
i was a student at school i used to go
like every week get the
bacon double cheeseburger it was
glorious but in japan burger king is
quite rare
and uh i don't know why but i'm not that
bothered
but what i've noticed while we were
going outside a minute while charlotte
was ordering there were quite a few
people taking photos of the plant-based
whopper
poster so they're quite excited and i
saw like two
yakuza style guys chomping into one so
if yakis are like it must be good i mean
they're probably just normal japanese
guys who i just assumed to be yakuza
because they looked
they had short hair and ear piercings
right here we go
first impressions [ __ ] off pigeon [ __ ]
off pigeon
charlie gave the pigeon a chicken nugget
and now you won't go away
we're making an important video for
charlotte in japan it's not sharla in
japan
charmeleon charmander sharp charizard
all right
first impressions it's got that kind of
light brown color that doesn't look like
a burger
it's a bit too light i've had a beyond
burger it was all right but you can
always
tell that it's not beef
it's right bad i can tell it's not beef
if you gave this to me without telling
me it was a
plant-based burger i would still think
i'd be able to work it out but
that's not an issue because it's still
kind of got the juiciness
of a good burger they've drenched it in
mayonnaise onions tomatoes to sort of
just help disguise it as well
but the texture is pretty good i'm
probably going to say this but i'm
going to give it an 8 out of 10. you
don't have to point a gun at my head to
get me to eat this plant-based burger
i'd actually enjoy it willingly
where's my sponsorship money from burger
king
this is a tasty burger so the last time
i had a
plant-based burger was the moss burger
it wasn't very good it was it was very
healthy tasting i want to say oftentimes
when you get plant-based
options for things they think that you
want something that's extremely healthy
and organic and
not junk food but i really like it when
fast food companies realize that you
want it to taste
like a junky burger you don't want to be
healthy you just don't want it to have
meat in it so
i think they've done a good job here
there's tons of mayonnaise
ketchup onions all the dressings on it
unlike the moss burger
initial thoughts it does have a slight
like
tofu dog taste i grew up on veggie dogs
because my family is vegetarian
it does remind me of that veggie dog
flavor
but like chris said they've drenched it
in mayo and ketchup and pickles and
onions
it tastes really good this is close to a
10 out of 10 for me
the only thing is i guess if they could
get rid of that veggie dog flavor
somehow it would be perfect
but it's juicy it's covered in sauce it
tastes like a regular
junk food burger which is what i wanted
so thumbs up to burger king for coming
out with this i hope it sticks around
apparently it's a limited time menu
so with the olympics hopefully coming up
in the future
restaurants around japan have been
releasing plant-based options for
the inevitable tourists with different
dietary
restrictions that will be coming to
japan i don't know we'll see but
hopefully they keep it because this is
freaking delicious i know they have this
in a few other countries it might only
be asia at the moment but if you're in a
country that has the plant-based burger
king burger
try it it's amazing chad reaction cab
you're good where's the pigeon going
he's gone well he didn't get the burger
he took matters into his own hands
he's out there somewhere though probably
thanks so much for watching guys i'm
glad this ended on a positive note and
the burger's actually really good
i'll link chad and chris down below in
the description box so check them out
and i'll see you guys again soon bye for
now
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bye
you