so if there's something you need to know about Sam it's that he loves
supermarkets wherever he goes anytime we're visiting in new country or even in
new city for it uh-huh I have to go in and check out the supermarket yeah not
just to get the essentials I need to go through every aisle he does hey guys now
that we're in Nikko, Japan take a look at this this is probably one of the most
scenic backdrops I've ever seen for a supermarket there is a mountain behind
it but yeah so we're gonna be going inside and showing you guys what a
Japanese supermarket is like this is our first supermarket here in Japan so let's
go let's go lead the way my friend this is all you he's doing it with pep in his
step oh yeah supermarket or oh yeah he's got
his little basket all right let's go this is somewhere in between a basket in
a cart I mean it is a cart but look how small it is you're gonna put your basket
in there that's how it's done so let's go in I'll probably have to open the
door for you no I've got it he's got it he's got it okay he's got it
fresh produce yes you I've been eating a lot of these cucumbers these are
actually one of the most affordable fruits and vegetables in in Japan
I'm telling you fruits and vegetable time to be really expensive but look at
this I get three for 158 Yen if you just chomps on them like that just like that
I need to get some greens in my body really okay and today - Wow it's like a
rabbit and some of the most expensive fruit you can find is watermelon just
a half of watermelon 780 Yen you're talking seven US dollars at
the last place we stayed there's Olympic grocery store in Tokyo
there's a whole one that costs I think it is 20 no 2000 Yen which is about 19 US dollars and
fruit usually comes wrapped dude like gold 498 Yen that's like about five dollars
less than five dollars less than one half all but one thing I'll say about
the quality of Japanese Cruiser produces its next
yeah so I mean you pay a fortune but it does taste really good
that being said I'm not sure I'm willing to pay five dollars for a single Apple
whoa leaks whoa well leaks are cheap we're
not gonna be making any soup or anything as a sword or like a baseball bat okay
Audrey hear is something that's affordable carrot carrots for 125 Yen. That is just about over US buck.
are you gonna pull a Bugs Bunny no cucumbers are enough cucumbers are enough ooh look at
those Mandarin yeah again pricey $9.00 980 Yen so you're talking about nine US dollars
for six little mandarins they are out of season though you buy them in the winter. It is summer now. not yeah so I'm still carrying around my
peanut butter and jelly so I'm gonna need some but bananas are probably the
cheapest food how much these I think it's either to get to 98 for the package
I could be wrong or it might be that might be four per unit or a banana or per 100
grams either way these tend to be relatively affordable so we're getting
some bananas for me and it's lots of three options Kiwis
pamplemousse what it was called Oh grapefruits are those turnips I think these
are white radish the size of it you like I have a good
what do you call this a saber something I see man it's heavy too again that's a
good price I'm not sure if that is for the whole thing or just per unit I think it might be per unit it says one
I have a feeling that could be a unit but I do not read a Japanese nor do I
speak it so we also have some pickled items these would be like little side
dishes ooh remember when we almost had that on ice
cream yes yeah where were we we took a day trip Kamakura yes where they
had fish flavored ice cream it no thank you
this is a deal guys only 464 Yen no that's not the price it's five eight oh no it's
on sale twenty five twenty percent off for sashimi that looks good that looks
like salmon and tuna could be a frontrunner for dinner yeah we are
shopping for dinner by the way more sashimi options this one's amazing 980
now Sam has found snails or are those many clams those are many classes not
239 Yen that's it that's a good deal but again how are we gonna eat those how are
you
we are eventually going to reach the the pre-made meal suction I think that's
where dinners going to be coming from I'm thinking of getting the seaweed look at
that 187 Yen you go wrong at that price good doesn't even look like a salad that's
just seaweed. The Sushi section. it is Sam's we found the pre-made food
section
Woah! If you were a hungry boy or girl it's normally 580 on sale for 464 Yen 24
percent pieces that looks really good let me go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 by 3 Wow yeah 27
pieces this should be this is your meal this looks good
which one do you think you want? I'm thinking about this one that's a good price but
there's also another one here so many options I'm also thinking this one too
although it doesn't have that stuff you like I do but it doesn't have any any
salmon pieces might be a deal breaker with you I am going with this one can't
beat that 580 Yen that's a good price it's about five US dollars in the
basket it goes gonna be my primary option for dinner yeah I don't think you
can get the sushi is that cheap in Canada no way that's that's actually a bar
over here just give me here gyoza is good the only thing is we don't have a
microwave how much there is we're getting this look how many pieces you
get for 398 Yen it's 10 10 pieces for like less than 4 US dollars all right
we are piecing dinner together her those are good too
takoyaki takoyaki as well did you have a big appetite
uh no we've we've had a lot of takoyaki so I'm not like particularly craving it
right no okay there's also yakisoba yakisoba yeah
stir fried noodles it's a good price 298 look at all the three look at all the
spring rolls you get for 298 Mapo tofu It looks like mapu tofu
yeah like the prepackaged meal options in Japan at both the supermarkets and convenience stores
is legendary like you just be eating all day long from here and that's kind
of what's the time with you grab our meal so we go to supermarket or the
convenience store another option yakitori
yakitori croquettes we're not sure what's inside of them
there's probably labels that explain it but yeah the ones we've had have been
pork with lots of onion you know what I think you tempura mmm nice jumbo shrimps
30% off normally for 474 Yen on sale for 331 you know I'm terrified of tempura
because of something you bought home you brought home the other day do you
remember Sam thought he was getting me vegetable tempura and it was fat it was
like fatty tendon yeah I couldn't even eat it and I've been scarred for life
ever since haven't had tempura are you off of tempura? for a while so
here we have some set meals check that out that Fancy little bento box sets
398 Yen and you get rice with nori salmon this insane value cat some you
can get a little side dishes and omelettes do you think we should add that to our and you even get a little pasta
should we add that to our dinner can we eat that much that's the question is there anything
we'd put away I don't know no no this all looks really good
no we still have a few more days left here we'll be back and look you can even
get some kind of like American style style
pasta spaghetti why should we should say that's Italian
yeah I don't know that sauce is its look again here's something to keep in mind
Hear is something to keep in mind guys is that in the evening that's when they start to discount the food yeah you
usually get an initial discount of like 20% and then if you come right before it
cools this sometimes you get even more like 30 40 percent off yeah you've got some
sandwiches happening over it whoa whoa that's like a hotdog bun what is that
with spaghetti and tomato so it's only it's less than a dollar now 102 Yen 20% off but
still I'm not willing to do that no this is the Japanese sweet section I think
these are Mochis these are like little pancakes stuffed with red bean psate I may be ready in case
could be sakura flavored like Cherry Blossom I think it's only 178 or
strawberry once a week I say we add this to the dinner dinner basket is this
like matcha cake or something green tea cake it is on 113 Yen but this looks beautiful
I'm tempted to get this one too we are now in the drinks section this is pretty
special here in Japanese supermarkets you won't find a country that offers more
iced coffee beverages like look at this yeah just an entire section and they're
all they all feature copious amounts of sugar
yeah you know what they're pretty good I've gone hooked I know they are really
good it's almost like having a like a coffee yeah
yeah they're quite thick quite thick so it is a bit like a milkshake I've never really looked at the frozen section in a Japanese grocery store. You can get frozen berries
little pizza type things french fries interesting it's mostly it's even some
frozen noodles interesting I'm pretty excited for what we have going on here
I've got to say I know it's it's looking better all of the time here's the ice cream section guys and there's a
whole there's like three or four different options for just green tea
matcha ice cream and then look there's mochi down there as people keep all
frozen mochi you know what that's a good price we had mochi stuffed with ice
cream and we were in Malaysia we went to Street Market oh so good
these are just individual ones you can buy it yeah I've had this one before
of course there's Ben and Jerry's yeah yeah the the for the foreign ice cream
is more expensive look you've got Haagen Daaz over here here and uh different kinds of
haagen-dazs Salty caramel I caught you eating that on more than one occasion
you must be sandwich Hagen does so let's talk about snacks and chips because
they've got some pretty unusual flavors one of my favorite ones and they also
have even created these are just awesome they you don't like them no I think
they're great I think they're absolutely great oh I just saw those these are seaweed flavored ones
shrimp crackers with seaweed flavor is also more seaweed flavor here but chips with
seaweed I just saw them right there they're they're seaweed and salt taste
yeah I love those Sam brought those home the other day and oh my gosh that was so
disappointing you do like oh no okay so when we traveled in Argentina I was
fascinated that they had like an entire wall dedicated to Yerba Mate here
here's green see it's green tea look at all the different kinds you can get I
can't I honestly can't say what's different between them some of them are
obviously we love like powders and others are tea bags I actually got these
my last apartment I had a bigger box something like fifty or sixty and we
drank them all get a pack of it but you know what at our hotel we have free tea
free green you can get it hot or iced yes you can now ramen noodles
No tour of a Japanese grocery store would be complete without showing all the
ramen and let's look these are all just cups of ramen an entire huge aisle like
let me show you it goes all the way down here all ramen all ramen and on the
other side are we also looking at ramen no we've got some soups instant miso soups so of them
these are like instant miso soup some of them ah
yeah do you have a favorite type of ramen of like the noodle cup variety
right to be honest I've mostly just tried Korean ones yeah the Shin Ramen
Shin Ramen is my favorite which would be right here so we found the cookie cracker aisle and
check out the shrimp stuff I've never had these crackers never had these
there's only 158 Yen the only 158 you get a pretty big pack they're very light
very light we also have peanuts yeah and wasabi flavor nuts flavor of course
where she would of course do you like thoseyou never them have we I don't think they have
actually here it's going into this going in the container okay maybe that'll be a snack for hiking
tomorrow yeah yeah we've got quite a bit of food for tonight I'm not sure we
need all of it oh and there's a soju not soju there's a sake
sake aisle I'll check out all these bottles yep I can't say I know which is good or
yeah never bought one but it's not astronomically priced. No some of them you get
like for like under ten bucks Under 1000 Yen yeah seaweed my friends seaweed makes an
appearance in so many meals it is for rolling like sushi yeah like these are
more snack size oh sorry these are more snack sized okay so you can eat them
on their own or you can also just take these little ones and kind of wrap them
around some rice that you ar eating for a much more delicious taste of course there also is
an international wine section it's not just sake really nice collection of
wines here we drink this yeah wine all that because that and I'll show you know
this is what we have to keep that at home it's on sale. Frontera.
Frontera from Chile Cab Sav it's a really nice table wine I mean it's not gonna be
the best wine you've ever had but it's really really good for the price yes
it's only 498 Yen so you're talking like four something US bucks that is cheaper
than what we pay in Canada what is going on you're gonna have a Chilean
wine with a Japanese dinner. Exactly. wow I guess at that price though it's kind of hard
to argue because it probably costs double in Canada. Cool, I've never seen this before. Look at this.
this is like what would you would even call this a tin of beer for like a
festival or like drinking in your backyard like this and like chug it
if you having a barbecue you wanted to drink some nice beer. Wow.
look there's a huge beer section here to So the main beers that I've been able to
notice here I don't know if I'm saying this right saying this right I see Asahi Asahi Kurin
is another major brand Sapporo as well oh you've had that one you know I've had
that a lot those are the three big ones I think okay
I see them in supermarkets all the time but tonight its wine its
wine something this town Nikko is known for its the tofu skin
tofu skin look this is there's all different kinds you can get from here
you know we're gonna make an effort to go out to a restaurant and actually try
some dishes made with champion enrollment form and I think also watch
another video someone try to deceive with sushi instead of nori instead of
seaweed it was wrapped in tofu skin I try that
right Sam okay I think I've got everything let's have a quick to you one
more time so we've got mochi we've got bananas cucumbers is that the
wasabi flavored peanuts tempura tempura sushi gyoza and wine I think we're doing
well okay I'll let you know the final price for that check out
so you know scanning out and they basically transfer the items from one
basket to the next to make sure they haven't missed anything and then you get
the basket and you bring it over to this bagging section and you put everything
in plastic bags so that was amazing in this tiny little town they spoke to
us and in fluent English first time at a grocery store first time here in Japan yep that is all
of our time in Osaka and I know we've been here what like a month and a half
was impressive I know very nice lady do so you can buy things here they have
lots of plastic bags and tape and string so yeah putting Sam to work so I'll let
you guys know the price point as soon as we get outside yeah it's a pretty good
deal yeah we'll just finish bagging everything or they also you should
mention they give you sets of chopsticks so they do yeah and the chopsticks in Japan come with a
toothpick so that you can clean your teeth afterwards I know they think of
everything over here customer service to the max there we go two bags
we'll take out grocery shopping mission accomplished yep so price point was two
thousand five hundred and fifteen yen which is just under twenty three US
dollars I think that's an absolute steal look at all the stuff you bags full of
wine includes food includes fruit vegetables snacks so yeah that's gonna
be more than just one meal obviously yes and the other one to last us a couple
nights too so that's fantastic also I feel like we need to take a moment to
appreciate the beauty right there like New Year's the supermarket with the
mountains yes they're so hot when we first arrived and now the temperature is
wonderful so yeah I'm gonna go back and eat this and maybe go for a walk later
anyways hope you guys enjoyed this Japanese supermarket tour and yeah
please let us know what you thought was the most interesting part if you've
tried any of these items or you would like to try some of these items bye for now