what's going on what's going on
this is something you have to just get used to in japan we're out eating dinner and suddenly
everything starts to move and it's not because you had too much alcohol it's really moving
you know why i keep getting these earthquakes on tape because i always carry a gopro camera
in my purse i'm like always ready oh that's an earthquake man that's a strong earthquake
That's some scary stuff.
that's way in the north of here and that's pretty big dang and we felt that all the way
down here that's like a seven or eight hour drive from this place that's far
the first time i ever felt an earthquake in japan i freaked out
it was like something i'd never experienced i was in a classroom and this student was sitting across
and i just stopped immediately and they're like what's wrong
what's wrong it's just an earthquake and i said it's just an earthquake
and i thought it was just the alcohol i guess not
welcome to japan the earthquake should not come as a shock to anybody but perhaps like me you were
rather surprised to see how people react here to earthquakes they are just another reality
of living over here hi my name is anming i'm an american who has been living in china and japan
since 2012 and even after all of these years there's just certain things that
are still shocking to me certain things that i can't get used to
or certain things that surprised me and today i'm breaking them down into a list
we're eating some fugu today are you scared
no a little bit scared after being told in america for so long how dangerous
and poisonous the japanese blowfish is i was terrified to try this and i could not
grasp why anyone would want to eat this in the first place until i actually tried it myself
it's kind of chewy
this is his first time eating blowfish too even though he's japanese
my family would have called me crazy for doing this in the us and they're probably watching this
video cringing but one of the most shocking things about coming to japan is seeing how
safe the food is and that this raw food or poisonous blowfish just had this reputation that
didn't match reality now if you want to see a sketchy restaurant in tokyo i'm going to take you
to the sketchiest most dangerous restaurant i know pigeons are closing in they have made
a big mistake they don't know what's coming next but i know
we come here every monday we know what happens with the french fries
i thought they put warnings up now they did they they didn't see it
they did a good job fending them off for a
long time and then they just came now everybody's looking
here's our hero for today
ha i got you right but really that is the most dangerous restaurant i know
and the birds here are huge in fact the crows are about three times the size of crows in america
and birds often attack people here so beware the next thing on the list is something that
really surprised me coming over from china where i had been told that a lot of chinese traditions
a lot of confucianism a lot of old traditions had been preserved by japan only to find out that a
lot of young people are not interested in japanese traditions wearing a kimono going to a tea
ceremony these are things that foreigners really like including myself so every time i went out
with my japanese friends and wanted to do these very traditional things i felt like i was being
that foreigner because they really weren't into it but i guess on a good note i got some of them into
this including my boyfriend who found out that hey it's not so bad and maybe he likes it a little bit
so now you can see you became japanese today last time first time wearing a kimono first time
doing the tea ceremony yes even though you lived here for how many years 34 years
This is a matcha float. It's pretty good. Well done.
very well done when i first heard about matcha i thought it sounded gross
But now I really like it.
he is a japanese teacher he doesn't know how this how to read these kanji oh my gosh
i want her to be my japanese teacher she knows a lot can i can i can i get serious I have
to remember wait something like this you feel confident with this one
can i see the answer you can check
you got it yes so you can be a japanese teacher after all i can yeah i'm glad actually
i think like more than 90 of people cannot write this down wow you're the top 10% of japanese
You've redeemed yourself that was your test i wasn't expecting that but you did
it good job i hope like your audience is gonna like get interested in japanese
they're on board they're ready they want to learn all right if you want to learn follow daichi-san
stuff you'll never find in a textbook you can only find here okay thank you thank you bye-bye