- Hello everybody, welcome to my birthday vlog,
today's my birthday, I turn 37.
You know what I got for my birthday?
An ingrown hair.
No, for real, what I got from Martina,
I got this cool little scratcher map,
so we can scratch off all the countries that we went to,
'cause we've been to a lot of countries, this is amazing.
My ducky is very sweet,
and you know what else she set up for me?
So, when I come downstairs in the morning,
I had...
You see that?
She put all this tinsel?
Is it called tinsel?
What is this called?
Arts and crafts girl, what's this called?
My ducky doesn't want me to vlog this anymore.
Martina hates when these, you ready?
Wee!
Happy birthday to me!
Oh (sheep bleating) I got tangled.
Oh my sweet girl, I'm gonna cry,
she made me a little breakfast bento
look, you have the little toothpicks on there.
Ducky, this is amazing!
It's such a small toothpick!
Oh my God, Ducky come here, beautiful girl.
We are now on our way to-- - Shinjuku-eki.
- And then where are we going from there?
- Well I'm not gonna tell you,
when you're trying to put me on camera
but I'm not gonna do it to you.
- It's a surprise.
- But I did just get an alert saying that there is a delay,
because there's some kind of an accident between Harajuku,
and Shinjuku, and Shibuya-eki,
so hopefully we'll make it to Shinjuku.
- Oh.
- We have to get there by 3:30.
- Is it ram, oh my gosh, look at that,
I should not have zoomed in. - Oh wow.
- Tell me where we're going, answer me!
- No.
- One of the big things for our birthdays
that we always do--
(Martina speaking in a foreign language)
Is we always have to try to surprise each other
on our birthdays.
It happened for, Martina mentioned it once,
at the beginning of our relationship,
and we've been doing it ever since.
- When will it stop?
So much work. - Please,
I'm tired of it, no more.
Blue Bottle Coffee's here,
I was so excited when it finally came,
and then I realized it was a nightmare
because Shinjuku Station always sucks,
and it's always filled with 97 people with no tables.
- True.
- There's other good coffee shops,
which you're gonna find out in this video later on,
but Simon doesn't know (vocalizing).
- Ah, so we're going to a nice coffee shop!
- [Martina] Not right now, but it's a hint.
- Oh!
- [Martina] Eat that hint.
- I just had to turn on the camera, Martina, tell me more.
- No.
- [Simon] Spill your guts.
- No.
So there are a bunch of shops that, hey wait a second!
- Martina's telling me more!
- Did you have that on the whole time?
Seriously? - I did.
You just turn on the camera and she confesses all.
Tell me your deepest darkest secrets.
- [Martina] No.
- [Simon] What else are you hiding from me?
- Uh BTS'-- - Oh my God,
are you (duck quacks) crazy?
This is my birthday, now it's my death day!
- No, no, stop.
(light bouncy music)
- We have finally arrived at the location, we are at...
I'm not sure yet.
What?
- The last order's, shoot.
- At three? - It wasn't on the website,
it said that it closes at 3:30,
but I thought the last order would be 3:30
'cause they usually close at four.
- Gotcha.
- But they close at three. - Ah it's alright.
- Shoot, darn, and dang it.
- Well there's lots of other cool stuff
we saw on the way.
- [Martina] So, 11:30 to 2:30, the last order's at three.
- [Simon] Well we learned something new about restaurants.
- Well we didn't--
- [Simon] If you ever see a sign about when it closes--
- Give it half an hour.
- [Simon] Yeah give it half an hour.
- We did a video on food, remember?
We talked about looking at orders and stuff,
we've talked about how many times
we've been bamboozled by it but it's never caught on camera.
Oh, I have a second back up.
- Oh! - But she didn't,
she searches wildly on her map that she's pinned from before
knowing that near everything is closed,
now that it nears 3:30.
(light bouncy music)
Okay, we're in official ramen hunting mode now.
- Yep.
- This is my favorite kinda mode,
we don't often coincide on ramen hunting days,
like there's some days where Simon's like,
"I just really wanna smash a greasy bowl of ramen,"
and I'm like "Yeah I don't feel like that today."
And then we're like "Dang it,"
and then there's another time when I'm like,
"Let's go for some greasy-ass ramen,"
and Simon's like, "I just worked out and I don't want that."
And I'm like...
But today, a miracle has happened.
- We both have agreed. - It's a birthday miracle,
we're both like "Let's go smash a bowl of ramen."
And we're both like "Yes!"
I'm sorry.
This is really (speaks in foreign language) honestly.
It's temporarily closed, it's a total fluke.
It's temporarily closed.
- [Simon] Yeah, all right.
What else you got on this list here?
- See, this is when people don't understand
when we say ramen hunt.
- We've been walking for hours.
(Martina vocalizing)
I think we might finally have found a place that's open.
We're going for Hakata style ramen--
- And Hakata style ramen is so good, it's so creamy.
- Okay, let's go girl, let's go.
(light upbeat music)
Yeah boy!
Yes everybody,
we are wearing matching shirts on my birthday.
Cheers love. - Cheers.
And I look like a gigantic woman,
and you look like a tiny boy.
- Oh no! - Oh no!
(Simon speaks in foreign language)
Did you say (speaks in foreign language)
as though you live in Busan?
- Stop it, you're so huge.
- Do you have your tiny half drink halfling?
Yours is poured in but a thimble.
- Ready?
Cheers.
- Ding!
I don't know how I'm going to get through this.
- Gorgeous egg.
We are starving but we are dedicated, alright?
- That's enough.
- That's enough. - We need to eat.
We need to eat. - It's time for me to eat.
- [Narrator] Oh, Hakata style ramen,
you are a dirty, tonkatsu ramen with a thick oily top,
unforgiving with your lush broth
clinging to those thin noodles.
Ooh, light, bouncy,
but not too overpowering for them.
I can't wait to slurp these up, heck yes,
I could eat these everyday.
(record scratches) - Why you keep meowing?
Why do you keep meowing?
Explain yourself to me tiny sir, huh?
I'm trying to do a voice over, hm?
Mommy's trying to do a sexy food porn voice over, and you,
where are you going?
Do you wanna go up here?
Come on, let's get you up here, wanna smell the window?
There you go, hi-yah, for you.
I know you like that, I do indeed.
- [Narrator] And these tiny Fukuoka style Gyoza,
they are sinful, you could eat 10 of these just by yourself.
Oh danger, we are in danger.
Oh my God, this egg, it's been smoked,
it literally tastes smokey,
and delicious soft yoke at the same time, ooh.
- I would say that was quite the scrumptious meal,
wouldn't you say so, darling?
- I would indeed, I liked smashing that bowl of ramen,
and those 10 gyozas, along with the lemon sour.
- Burning secret question is, where are we going next?
- Okay, now we're going on an adventure.
- So we have left our little shop now, wait, what?
We've left our...
I'm going to try this again.
So we just left our ramen shop,
and now we're on our way for coffee, it's 4:30 p.m,
I know we shouldn't drink coffee this late,
but if we don't, we're gonna die.
That's it, so we gotta have some coffee, or we're gonna die.
(upbeat quirky music)
So we are at the-- - 4/4 Seasons Coffee.
- 4/4 Seasons Coffee, this is the first time
I've ever had to wait in line for coffee.
What?
Waiting in line?
For coffee?
This better be good. - I have a theory.
- [Simon] Let's hear it.
- Okay, some shops are very meticulous
with their hand dripping.
That's what they wanna do.
And there might only one barista, or two baristas,
and so what you're waiting for is really good coffee,
in a neighborhood that is surrounded by a lot of chains,
because we are in the Shinjuku area,
it's like a lot of chains,
and so it's like you gotta wait in line
for someone to drip each person a coffee,
and every coffee takes what, three to five minutes?
- Alright, let's see what this coffee is all about.
Because I need it, all about, inside of my stomach.
(people chattering)
- Almost everyone has the pudding.
- [Simon] Yeah, I hope they're not sold out.
- Okay so I wasn't even gonna go for pudding,
I should have known,
the first thing on the list said pudding,
of course should get it.
I have to try the pudding, that's like my,
I have to put it up against my own, you know?
- [Simon] You'll be putting it up against your own.
(horn honks)
Can't light it.
- [Martina] It's a representation of your age, 30--
- [Simon] Okay you don't have to put that many
candles in my pudding, hey. - This is 30.
- [Simon] Hey.
- Come again.
(Martina mumbles)
It was so lovely, it's called 4/4 Seasons Coffee
in Shinjuku, and they were so crazy busy when we got here,
as you saw, and I asked them if it's always like this,
and she's like they just got really popular
from their pudding, and originally I wasn't gonna get it,
and I was like alright, I'll get the pudding, ya know?
Oh my gosh, you guys, it's like an adult pudding
so like you know the purin video, if you guys don't know,
I'll link to it for the end, that I made, this is that,
but it's like super creamy, and smooth, huge serving size.
And the caramel on top is so close to being a dark burnt.
- [Simon] Yeah.
- Like on the dark chocolate side.
- [Simon] It's such a mature flavor.
- Very mature.
Oh. - Loved it.
- And I put lots of candles in Simon's purin.
(Simon laughs)
- [Simon] Into my what?
- Purin, purin, pudding?
- [Simon] It's called purin!
- I can never remember! - Purin!
(relaxing music)
(speaking in foreign language)
- Alright, here's the deal-yo.
- I can't squat so I'm gonna sit.
- Okay.
- I'm taking Simon to this thing, a VR arena,
they have like, you can drive Mario Go Kart,
and you're like actually in the game,
and like there's a whole bunch of things to choose from,
no scary things, like remember the VR horror?
- No more horror stuff. - No more scary things.
- We'll be doing Mario Kart.
- Maybe we'll take them out, who knows?
And what I want you guys to do in the comment section below
is to cast your vote,
who do you think is gonna come up victorious?
Is it gonna be loser Simon,
or is Martina gonna take pity on him on his birthday,
and let him be winner Simon?
- I don't like the both of those options.
- Why? - Both I'm inferior,
that I either lose, or you let me win.
None of that, you are getting destroyed,
pummeled, and bum smacked.
- How dare you?
- Those are your three options.
- Excuse me, I have to play with my wrist brace
and finger thingies. - Pity me!
- Cast your votes,
we'll see you guys back here in a couple hours,
we probably cannot record.
- I don't think we have any rights to this.
So cool!
Whoa!
- Aren't you excited? - This is so fun!
- I know!
- [Simon] So those of you might have remembered us
doing these two right here,
now they've expanded to many more.
- [Martina] So there's Pac-Man,
which you have to pay extra for,
I don't know what this is but I wanna play it,
of course we're gonna do this,
I'm really tempted for us to do one of these dumb things,
look it's like a bicycle with flying,
this is all the stuff you wanna do.
No to fishing, I'll be okay,
that one might be too intense for us,
Dragon Quest costs more money, so it won't come on.
White Water Rafting?
Dragon?
Look, dinosaurs, we can drive away from dinosaurs,
zombies, no way, the plank one we did,
terrifying and so much fun, this is the VR nightmare one,
no more, again it was so scary,
this will be too intense for us, Mega Box we've done before,
this is some kind of gun run.
This one is-- - Godzilla!
- Oh my God, okay, what do you wanna do?
Here's what I wanna do.
This, this, this, this, this, this, this,
this, that, this, and that.
- So all of them? - We can't do them all.
- Okay so all of them. - No, we can't do them all.
- Come on. - What do you wanna do?
- [Simon] Mario Kart!
- [Martina] And?
(upbeat techno music) Mario Kart.
- [Simon] So fun, that was too fun.
- That was absolutely amazing.
Oh my God I'm like pouring sweat.
- That was absolutely amazing! - Wasn't that amazing?
So fun - We did the Mario VR
and like-- - Yeah.
- Okay so when you first put on the goggles, you're like,
I don't know what's going on,
and as soon as it starts it's just wild,
it's like I felt terrified, the piranha plants were huge.
- My heart is racing, my adrenaline is surging,
this was absolutely wild.
What's your heart rate at, 130?
I can't even check mine.
I also found that I couldn't help but shout in this one.
- I screamed the whole time. - I tried not to,
but I couldn't control myself whatsoever.
- Because they put headphones on you
so you really are there.
Oh my God. - Right.
Okay, Pac-Man?
- I think we gotta do Pac-Man.
- Or do we need to do something more like skiing?
(upbeat techno music)
(Simon shouting)
(upbeat music)
- [Martina] Sorry, sorry.
(upbeat music)
(people chattering)
(light orchestral music)
- [Woman] Congratulations!
(upbeat techno music) - You were serious!
Guys that was amazing.
- [Simon] Are we still recording?
Thank you, thank you!
- Thank you. (speaking in foreign language)
- Do you wanna get something to drink?
- [Simon] Maybe, I think I need, I am dripping with sweat.
- [Martina] But first, this needs to immediately come off.
- Oh, it's my birthday.
What a cool memory, this was, third place,
I don't know why we were third place,
probably because there were two other people
that came here today.
- That was really, really fun,
it was like entering all those TV shows.
What's the one that we-- - Like Tron,
I felt like I was in Tron.
It was great, I liked it more than Mario Kart
- It was so much fun, I did too!
Mario Kart was overwhelming, but it was fun,
and I really enjoyed it, I would do it again of course
but Pac-Man one was like,
I wanna bring all my friends here,
but I don't think you can do it with more than two people.
- Yeah.
I think you'd just run into everyone.
- 'Cause we were like aggressively--
- Were you dodging ghosts also,
like when the ghosts came, I was like...
It was wild, I was pouring with sweat.
- And by was you mean are, I can feel it,
I'm trying to like--
Eww.
(playful bouncy music)
- [Simon] 10-minute break?
Okay.
- The last order is, shoot,
it's temporarily closed, it's a total fluke.
- [Simon] 10-minute break?
Martina.
(playful bouncy music)
- Oh ducky!
- Oh yes!
Oh my gosh ducky, what is this, what's inside?
I wanna eat all of it.
- [Martina] Are you gonna stand,
can you try to attack him at least?
(Martina humming)
Simon uses unenthusiastic chopping.
Are you feeling hyped to play as a Dragon Quest character?
- I am very ready, we're gonna have a backpack and swords.
And I'm gonna go around and beat the shit out of slimes.
- [Martina] Now here's the thing,
you're really bad at dodging,
do you think you're gonna learn how to dodge,
or are you just gonna smash--
- No dodging, no blocking, this is just violence,
nothing but violence.
(upbeat music)
What do you think?
- I mean I have a whole new level of respect
for every video game character ever,
'cause I'm like pouring with sweat, nevermind,
Simon is pouring with sweat,
Simon, was this an excellent time or what?
- Look, I had sweat dripping down into my eyes,
swinging a sword is so much work,
I can't believe it. - And you had a shield.
- I had a shield, I'm just exhausted.
This is the workout of a lifetime, this is so much fun,
highly recommend it, 10/10, do come here, this is great.
- [Martina] Just less clothing.
- Less clothing, come here naked if you can,
no, actually don't. - Yeah, don't do that.
- Well I had such a fun time on my birthday.
(Martina sneezes)
(Martina mumbling)
- You gotta hold the camera tight, girl.
- [Martina] Sorry, please let's go home,
I can't hold my own weight anymore.
- Great job, okay, come on, I gotcha.
See ya and thank you girl.
Stop zooming in on my pimple.
Okay so this video isn't over yet,
we got stopped by a really cool YouTuber.
- Hi!
- Your name is?
- My name is Retsu Watanabe, I'm YouTuber in Japan.
- [Martina] What's your style of YouTube video?
- Everything, it's crazy.
Crazy video, I make crazy videos.
- [Martina] It's his birthday.
- It's his birthday, it's my birthday today as well.
- How did this happen? - Same birthday.
He stopped us because he wanted to do a reaction video
and he gave us 1,000 yen for each reaction.
- Happy birthday! - Happy birthday!
- [Martina] Good luck on your videos!
Happy birthday! - Check this video!
(relaxing music)
(speaking in foreign language)
- I'm so happy and full.
I know we said that this birthday was over,
and it faded to black, and then it like fades out again.
- [Simon] Well we're gonna share this place
for the rainbow ladder support team.
- Yeah, so if you're part
of the rainbow ladder support team, part of the perks
is that we send out these newsletters once a month,
and we do locations that we don't vlog about,
but that are like really, really good.
So if you're coming to Japan it's called like a pin,
and all that kinda stuff.
So I believe this one is gonna be going there, right?
- [Simon] Whoa this is definitely going there.
This is very cool. - For those of you
that already live in Japan,
you probably know where we are, for those of you that don't.
- [Simon] Someone else is just vlogging also.
- Yeah.
- [Simon] Thank you everybody
for watching my little birthday vlog.
If you wanna see more Japanese VR stuff,
we did a video about this a few years ago,
so make sure you check that out,
or if you want a few more laughs,
make sure you check out the bloopers.
Thank you again everybody,
we'll see you next week with another video, bye bye.