- Hello.
- Hi.
- (laughs) How do we start?
- Welcome.
- [Rie] Just like this?
- To the show Rie.
- Thank you.
- We are bringing Rie as a special guest today.
- Thank you.
- To watch something that we've previously
made and react to it.
Adam, what are we watching today?
- [Adam] We're watching Rie's favorite "Worth It"
episode of all time.
- Which is: Coffee!
- Coffee.
- Wow.
- You were very confident in that answer.
(chuckles)
- Somehow I like that episode a lot.
- It's the episode I get asked about the most.
- Uh-huh.
Oh, coffee?
- The expense of coffee.
- Oh, yeah!
- What was it like?
- [Rie] It was-
- Is it really worth it?
- "Worth It: Japan"!
Adam, Andrew, and I are taking on Tokyo.
This is part two of three parts, the pan series.
- [Rie] It's so hot.
- Today we're doing: coffee.
We brought our good friend, Tasty producer,
bodyguard, translator.
- See, he...
(laughs)
- Oh my goodness.
(laughs)
- Gray was a bad color choice.
- It looks like you can see his lung outline.
We choose the worst times to go.
- [Rie] Yeah.
- Apparently, anyway.
- We went during summer time twice.
- Oh my gosh.
Can we talk about this train ride?
- Sure.
- It's really quiet on the japanese trains.
- Yeah, so quiet.
- You really shouldn't be filming or talking-
- [Rie] Yeah.
- That loud.
But we did it.
(chuckles)
- Well that's our first time.
We didn't, we,
we know nothing.
Yeah, well it's really fun going to
visit the factory.
Like, coffee roaster.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause it's like, located in different place.
And like, it's big for, ya know like...
Tokyo is kinda small and everything is kinda small.
- What?
- Tokyo is small?
- I mean, like..
- It's dense.
- Dense.
- Oh, dense.
Gotcha.
- Everything's tight.
- Yeah, but this place was kinda
big.
Spacey.
- Episodes about drinks are really hard because
- it can lack visual interests.
- [Rie] Oh.
- Especially something like coffee.
- And so, I was really glad that we got to go
visit an actual roaster and see all the stuff get made.
- This was one of the coolest places.
Oh, that's, that's one dollar.
- A hundred yen.
- Kampai.
- Great color.
- Who did that?
- Adam.
- Adam made that, okay shout out to Adam.
- Can you believe like, past like,
before Annie joined.
- You guys are the only crews, basically.
- You film, you do audio.
You film.
- (sighs) Yeah.
- And people maybe think it's like, larger scale thing.
But it's basically we ran like, five people.
- (chuckles) Yeah.
(laughs)
- My haircut is way too new.
(laughs)
- Whenever we have to do a big travel trip
I'm like, time to chop it off.
Also, because it was going to be so hot there.
I was like, better cut it short.
- Hey, it's our old friend.
- The first coffee shop in Tokyo.
Guess what year it was founded?
- 1887.
- Wait, you did not see my fact, did you?
- No, but I made an educated guess.
- That was amazing.
- What year is it?
- 1888.
- Impressed with himself right now.
(laughs)
- I think...
I think we had maybe like, heard something in
an interview.
- That I was able to ballpark it-
- Like that.
- I like this music, too!
- Music choice, fire in this episode.
- Yes!
(foreign language)
- This guy was very cool.
- Yeah.
- Look at those deep shadows.
- So, you were saying earlier how
you often get asked about the last location.
- Yeah.
- I feel like this middle coffee was actually the
more crazy tasting thing for me.
- I've never tasted a coffee like that before.
- It was unbelievably fruity.
It tasted like a fruit cereal.
- Yeah.
I feel like, let's, let's keep watching.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- It's crazy how smooth this coffee is.
- It's almost like a coffee tea.
Do you taste blueberries?
- Yes.
- Little bit.
- Tasted like blueberries.
- This is like an episode of Scooby Doo.
There was this blueberry that pulls off a rubber mask,
and it's like, oh my god.
- Can you pause?
Like, Andrew kinda watch this way, right?
I would stand by, like off the camera.
- Yeah.
- And I was laughing so hard, you were...
- Scooby Doo?
- Yeah.
And I think I laughed so hard, I think you look at me.
(chuckles)
- See?
- Oh.
- Wow, this coffee's hitting me, this is great.
Let's go party.
(laughs)
We didn't find the party.
- Oh, blueberry.
It's like, how did you get in here?
(laughs)
- Refresh yourself, and also it's good for
your skin, apparently.
- The train bento boxes was some of my
favorite food we ate on that whole trip.
I remember there's this food court in like,
the bottom of a mall.
- Yes!
- That you would like, go pick up your stuff at
before you got on the train.
Unbelievable.
- Shout out to eatyourkimchi in Japan.
Sammy Martena.
- Right, yeah.
- They gave us the rec, actually, for where to
pick up the bento boxes.
- Yeah, for sure.
That was super cool.
(violin music)
- Alright, here it is.
Great job, by the way.
- Oh my god, this place.
- This place.
So first off, this place was like out in a
suburbs somewhere.
- Yes, I was...
Relying on my Google map.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause like, it was literally middle of nowhere.
- Yeah.
- This place, I found it.
And I was like, really excited.
Oh, it's gonna be great.
And he was asking, so like when we arrive.
And he was like, oh do you wanna see the barrel?
And he took me to, it's like little kitchen there.
Opened the refrigerator, there was like
tiny barrels in the refrigerator.
I was like, what have I done to you guys.
(chuckles)
- Raced all the way to Japan, motivated by this
one cup of coffee, and we get there.
- Honestly, I see a lot of myself in this guy.
- (laughs) Okay.
Please explain.
- He opened a cafe just in a residential place,
kinda in the middle of nowhere.
But, I imagine it's just a place that he really likes.
He named it after his favorite motorcyle,
which is like, I would do that, too.
He has like, an extensive collection of
antique fine cups like this, like this gold...
What is it, Austrian or Swiss cup from the
1700s or something like that.
- Yeah.
- He kept saying it was older than Mozart, right?
- Yeah (laughs)
- Oh yeah, he kept saying it was older than Mozart,
older than Mozart.
There's this cup of coffee, which costs $900,
but then he was also showing us this
slow extraction method of dripping coffee.
So, earlier when you see the cloth filter,
that he tamps down and is pouring water into,
he literally sat there and dripped water into it
over the course of maybe like 45 minutes.
- It was more than that.
It was an hour.
- Until a single bead dripped out of the bottom.
And I remember I was there on the tripod with the macro lens
just like...
Any minute now.
And then like check my watch.
- It was like shooting Animal Planet or something.
(laughs)
- Like, waiting for the cicada to come out of the ground
after seven years of being burrowed.
- It really was.
- Yeah.
I have a behind the scene picture on my Instagram.
You are like, traffic.
(laughs)
- And so that slow extraction method is
what is in the barrel.
Like, he did this 22 years ago to fill that barrel.
Which is crazy in itself.
- Yeah, it looked like a camacho, like coffee camacho.
Like, single drip.
- Wow, okay.
- Beautiful shot.
(sighs)
and it was like, 11.
We are drinking coffee. (chuckles)
- Yup.
- It's a thick liquid, too.
- Yes.
- You know, it's like, syrup-y.
- It's been sitting around for 22 years, so.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- Yeah, it's basically like,
price of refridge, like electricity.
- Right.
For 22 years.
- Also.
- That slo-mo!
(string music)
- Oh, whoa.
It's really good.
It's like, somebody took chocolate tazer
and just like, rammed it into my mouth.
- This tastes a lot like a dessert wine.
Instead of making chocolate milk, it's like you used
wine instead of milk and you made chocolate wine.
- And also, we had to shoot...
The, how do you call?
- Ramp up?
- Yeah.
It was 2 a.m.
(laughs)
- And then we got some food afterwards, right?
- Yes, we went to restaurant at three, and we went
back hotel at like, 4 a.m.
And start shooting next day at like, nine.
- Is this what you expected coming onto the show?
- No.
(laughs)
- Everyone's like those fancy boys, spending money,
traveling the world.
Thousand dollar cups of wine.
- Yeah, like you guys are most hardworking people.
Like, I was thinking like,
yeah I'm not sure if I wanna come.
(laughs)
- But you did.
- It's like whole week we shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
And there's no, no no like it was fun, but like.
(laughs)
- It was one of our first international real
hardcore trips.
So, learned a lot making that one.
And it's been a lot better since.
- Coffee, coffee.
- Steven's had a lot of coffee.
- And you get so hyper.
- I don't remember being so hyper.
- I think it's because we drank coffee.
- Some of the best scenes, you know like backgrounds,
we've ever had on the show.
- And we don't have any location scout people.
So like, we just like, oh it's like castle
for cake episode.
Like, it could be good.
Or like, this is also.
- Oh, why didn't you pick the cake episode?
That one was so good.
- Oh yeah.
- I wanna watch that.
- Next time.
- Chocolate cake.
- I'm so tired.
(laughs)
- That guy was so cool.
Great location, and possibly the best tasting
cup of coffee I've ever had.
The other two places are things that you
can't really get anywhere else.
My Worth It winner was the pour over coffee from
coffee unlimited.
Might be my favorite Worth It location ever.
- Wow, I said that?
(chuckles)
Sorry.
- What?
- The feeling of that shape will resonate with you
for the next 24 hours.
But I gotta say, roast star is where it's at.
Rie, who's your Worth It winner?
- You're so tired!
- (slowly) My Worth It winner...
- (slowly) is not Japan.
(laughs)
- We don't need to replay this.
- Adam, who's your Worth It winner?
- [Cameraman] Coffee elemetary school.
- I knew you all, all you fancy kids were gonna say that.
That's okay, 'cause roast star it will always
warm my heart.
'Cause you're a winner in the end.
Okay, that was it for part two of three for Japan.
Stay tuned for the next episode, which comes out next week,
where we take on Rie's favorite thing.
- Cakes.
Right?
(laughs)
- I mean, do people ask you about how that tasted?
Like, the 914 dollar coffee.
- Yeah, I think like most asked thing was the grapes.
And my dad was, he was like...
Wow.
Like, he was, basically called me stupid.
(laughs)
Like, why did you spend that much money for grapes?
- Somebody's gotta try it, that's the show.
And I think that was when I realized that like,
people were like was it worth it, should I buy that?
And I'm like, no, you should not buy it.
I think it's worth having the experience
so that we can share that experience with the world
through our show.
- Yeah.
- That's how I felt about it.
- We should just re-watch all of the Japan episodes.
- With my dad?
(laughs)
- No, just with you.
(laughs)
- One more secret I will share about this trip was
I learned that I need to learn how to
manage my emotions on a long international trip
where everybody's working.
You're just so exhuasted.
Physically, it puts you on edge emotionally,
I don't know if this interesting at all.
- No, I feel the same way.
- You don't realize the toll it takes on the
other aspects of your wellbeing.
- Yeah.
It's truly a different...
working environment than anything else.
Like, traveling on it's own,
even when you travel for vacation, you feel like
you're in a whole new world.
You can do that for work, as well?
It's just like. (blows air)
I will always have fond memories of our Japan trip.
- It was fun.
- Third trip, what should we do for our third.
- No, second.
- No, what should we do for our third one?
- Oh, what should we do.
Oh yeah, second could be good.
I know some people.
(laughs)
- Alright, that's been another episode of
Worth It watches Worth It.
Thanks for watching.
- Thank you!
- There will be more of these.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)