hi i'm taylor and i'm joyce and today
we're going to be trying
luxury japanese canned food
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you can add a drink if you want
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in japan great things come from
unexpected places
there's pizza from vending machines
incredible meals from the convenience
store
and sushi from conveyor belts you can
buy
pretty much everything in tins from
bread
to seafood to volcanic ash
and even air captured at the top of
mount fuji then there's also the
luxurious canned food category with
options ranging from wagyu beef to king
crab legs with gold flakes
there's even supermarkets dedicated to
these sought after tins
and if you prefer to dine out canned
food bars and restaurants have been on
the rise throughout the country
where you can find everything from
drinks to gourmet appetizers
and meals served exclusively in cans knk
is one of the leading luxury canned food
brands in japan since 1712
so i set out to find some of their
products in hong kong
and was able to find a small but
adequate selection
oysters scallops
they're so cute so cute
and with my very apocalyptic looking
grocery cart and toe
i lined up social distancing style to
pay then i went home excitedly
anticipating
the taste test to see if these products
are really as good as people say they
are
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what kind of canned food have you tried
well in hong kong there's a dish that i
crave occasionally it's called language
it's how
a char so it's like canned fried
dice fish dacha oh i don't even know how
to say it
it's got like the fermented black beans
in it oh you fry it with
um this lettuce type vegetable i thought
you were going to say the abalone
because
abalone gets crazy expensive in a can
here so
it's more expensive than the fresh one
right when it's canned and like
no idea this is definitely my first time
trying japanese
canned foods so i'm really nervous i'm
actually
i feel like it's going to be good
because knowing the japanese
they do everything to perform they're
very passionate no matter what
job they do they do it very passionately
and very perfect
it doesn't matter like even more
affordable options even if you eat in
7-eleven it is
delicious oh i make it a point to go to
7-eleven every single time that's what i
do
yeah and get the egg love yes
so first up we have some sardines
oh it's very oily yeah it looks like
normal
canned sardines but very oily there's a
big
thick piece of fish like these are big
sardines yeah are you supposed to eat it
like with the bone too i think sardines
in japan you can
chew the bone okay
that's um so good it's a little sweeter
than i thought
it's really sweet and
the bone is like non-existent yeah i
don't know if it's gone or it's really
soft i think it's really really really
soft and like marinated
okay it smells a lot scarier than it
tastes that is so good
right it's good i think this looks just
like a bowl of white rice would be extra
i'm gonna say that yeah
the flavor is quite strong like it's
it's a little bit sweet
a little bit salty super soft yeah super
meaty like
yeah it is it is how do i fleshy yeah
fleshy yeah
the bones are in here but they're very
soft
yeah super soft i'm very pleasantly
surprised yeah so this is a very this is
one of the really good japanese brands
they do more luxury canned goods wow and
these
are supposed to be alongside a drink
like a beer
or a nice cocktail okay it's like beer
foods
oh um nice and crisp
oh super smoky
oh that is nice it smells like smoked
salmon
okay it reminds me of when you go to
like a really fancy like omakase
restaurant and they do like the smoked
and they use the smoke gun
yeah and they like there's like a dome
and they do that and then like
wood they're cooking with wood yeah yeah
it smells like that
oh it smells like a canadian campfire
like a canadian bonfire
not to be confused with an american
bonfire
i mean i didn't know they smelled
different taylor
canadian wood maybe it's a maple syrup
tree
i think they're just called maple trees
okay
why do we keep smelling it let's just
eat
and it looks really good too it's not
too oily
i think it has to be oil to like
preserve it right mm-hmm
are you gonna go for a tentacle or a
body i like tentacle
oh look at this nice fat tentacle
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it's chewy i'm not into it okay i know
the perfect
description for the texture texture
feels like when you have
string cheese and you bite into it
instead of
stringing it it's almost like the
poutine cheese without
without the sound yes a little bit i
told you there was canada in this
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says
bacon and mustard
oh wow you can see the little mustard
grains
yeah it kind of looks like it reminds me
of um
chinese pork belly
stew right it has like nice marbling
yeah
i think the word bacon really threw me
off but like you got strips yeah
so it's got really nice layers of meat
and fat and then
oh did you see that glob of sauce drop
oh my gosh no i feel like this would be
good if we heat it up though
oh should we cook it no or
if you were to like cook a bowl of soup
noodles
and like put this on top i think that
might be okay oh no i'm so confused like
i want to like it but i'm just not
liking it but i can't really pinpoint i
just think like it's like
the congealed sauce and like the globs
of fat that are making me like really
not like it
maybe we should have done this
blindfolded now the cockles
thought it'd be in a spicy sauce whoa
it's huge
that's a huge cockle have some sauce let
me feed it to you
get rid of this texture i don't like
cooked oysters
i don't like the texture and this is
this is reminding me of that i only like
them raw
i like it i hate it salted tires no
rubbery and chewy but bouncing it
there's like different organs inside
ourselves it's a lot sweeter than i
thought
it kind of yes the sauce is a bit sweet
it reminds me of um have you ever had
those japanese snacks where it's like a
dried
scallop i like that texture better
mm-hmm
it's tougher yeah i don't know this is a
bit mushier
for sure yeah but still with like an
outer layer of bounce no this looks
different
wait wait there's like there's snail in
there too
yeah so this is what the conch is that
one was a mussel i think
no that was a crackle we both ate cockle
yeah okay now we have to try the seeds
now i think that's why i was expecting
this
texture for some reason oh okay
yeah that's like a normal snail
texture but not too chewy i like this
texture i just wish this sauce was like
a spicy sauce not a salty water yeah me
too
i think the image is how you're supposed
to make it
oh so you're supposed to cook it up no
not cooked but
like to kick it up a notch right now
this is the egg oh it's so cute i love
the packing it's an
egg in a can it's in a fish soup stock
so like a dashi it has bonito flakes in
it
um and kelp a little bit of seaweed
okay it looks fluffy though
like it's spongy i would say it looks
like it would be fluffy
if it weren't soaked in a broth right
like it started off fluffy
yeah it looks really good and it has a
lot of
weight to it
it mm-hmm taste like an egg no i don't
know what they fall
tastes like a fish i'm confused because
it looks like an egg but it tastes like
a fish
not eggy enough yeah not eggy
oh this will be good have you ever tried
this type of what's it called in english
mantis shrimp oh it's like a wine
is it in wine sauce with garlic it's
white wine and garlic and chicken
bouillon
maybe not a lot of people have tried
mantis shrimp before but in hong kong
we have a special type of way of eating
our seafood and it's called
typhoon shelter it's like
a lot of different garlics and spices
and they fry it together
and like the classic way of eating manta
strip in hong kong is that style bay
phong top style
so i've never had it in like a saucy way
before so
weird to me that is weird to me why is
it disintegrating
wait has it gone off it's like melting
it's not supposed to melt that's not the
texture
sale in there still i don't think canned
food goes bad right that's the point of
it
it does go bad that's like the common
misconception
it looks kind of like an alien like it's
kind of out of this world
the tail thing is throwing me off are
you supposed to eat that yeah oh yeah
you are
one bite yeah like okay timon and pumbaa
with the bugs
cheers
sorry i can't oh really bro
it's got like a stinky aftertaste i
can't
what is that taste it stays no matter
what i don't know what that is it's like
in my teeth
is it it's almost numbing it just says
spice it doesn't say what the spice is
still looks stinky in my mouth
we need something else quickly that was
really gross
okay no
lobster meat is from canada in crab
crab broth mm-hmm a little bit of sugar
a little bit of salt
okay oh yeah this is another korean one
oh it comes with a little spoon
that's so cool so pretty yeah
that's nasty man that was not what i was
expecting that's why they just feel yeah
maybe it's like a pate type situation
i'm supposed to put on crackers
yeah maybe i think we should feed each
other this is a preview of
that's why you put so much what
this is a preview of what are you doing
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this is like a preview of um how we're
gonna be
like when we're older we don't really
have teeth anymore
but we're still friends and we still
want to see each other
it's not the worst it's just the texture
to be honest flavor tastes like lobster
it's good
but it's like ground up like minced meat
almost but i think on
crackers or something like you said like
with some
like spring onion or some other flavors
which is a little bit of that because
it's very strong and very overpowering
just a little bit of that on something
it would be okay i've seen this
on the online supermarkets this is
supposed to be good i think so
these are like the top expensive ones so
far right
i think this one's oh [ __ ] another spoon
god not that texture again it's gonna be
the same as the lobster one
oh but it looks like crab meat like
it's yeah it's very thin and flaky not
like the imitation one that's like thick
and
rubbery yeah no way better this one's
okay
yeah because it's not too soft it's
bouncier yeah and then there's
you can feel the yeah you can feel the
meat texture
in general though i feel like all of
these tastes have been
in general very sweet yeah it's
surprisingly sweet i thought it would be
way too salty but
meat is sweet yeah i'm not so into like
sweet foods
but i think it tastes good oh it's so
cute blueberries
this one is for rosie oh it looks so
good
this one looks really good how can you
tell from the outside
you said that last time
okay oh oh it's whole berries it's whole
berries
i was expecting like more of a puree
yeah same yo or like a jelly or
something right
okay this looks like it's gonna be good
unlike a panna cotta or something i feel
i'm gonna get some of that sauce this is
gonna be real good
mm-hmm
yep i approve it tastes like a blueberry
the blueberries are more
soft though they are they're kind of
like cooked like a bit macerated
it's really like in between a fresh
blueberry and a blueberry jam it's like
in the middle a little bit soft a little
bit juicy
yeah i like it i approve this is good
is this a mystery one this is the last
one
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what is that yeah that's a you
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what's the u though there's no u there
was a u in front of
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why did they do this you can't see but
my toes kind of curled a little bit like
once i saw i was like oh
i thought it was gonna be layered it's
all meshed together
it smells kind of whiny
oh yeah maybe i'll put soccer
oh no i think it's a paper
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i hope that's alcohol because something
is burning
vegetable oil dried egg
vinegar dried egg corn starch
milk mustard
all right so top three my third
favorite was the blueberry
and then it's the snail and
this one because the texture was amazing
and then it's the sardine the first one
that we tried i think
i would be the exact same yeah yeah
the only one i would possibly eat again
other than is the manta shrimp no
the only one i would possibly eat again
is the tamago although i didn't like it
that much but it was
palatable the crab may be in a salad or
on crackers
or unlike in a sandwich but on its own
i would only eat the ones you mentioned
and
the egg possibly all right i guess
that's all guys that was our review
of japanese and a few korean ones uh
canned food thank you so much for
watching let us know if you tried any of
these
or what the most interesting thing in a
can you've tried
i've actually come across other ones
from the uk and from the us that had
cheeseburgers in a can
or bread in a can or a full breakfast in
a can
but unfortunately they weren't able to
ship to me
so we weren't able to try those today
thank you guys for watching uh we're
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joyce's channel it's fashion related
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