(upbeat music)
- [Andrew] Ah!
- Worth It One Stop.
- We're in Nagoya, Japan!
And that is the Nagoya Castle.
It's actually lit right now,
and we're with my best friend, Rie McClenny.
- Hi! - I think it works like this,
she's your best friend but I'm her best friend.
- Ooh, that one hurt!
And you're here with us because we're doing an awesome,
spectacular episode on custom Japanese candy.
- We call it Kintarō-ame.
Kintarō is Japanese folktale character.
Traditionally, the candy has Kintarō face on it.
- The process is extremely satisfying,
that's what really what we're here for.
- Not too many spoilers, but we do have a very
special design, we're not gonna give it away right now.
- That's right, you're not gonna see Kintarō on our candy,
you're gonna see somebody else.
- Oh man, the wind is crazy, also
there are crows caw-cowing.
What do they say in Japanese?
- Caw-caw.
- So, we have some caw-caw and some
whoosh-whoosh (Rie laughs) going on right now.
- Let's do it.
- Alright, let's do it!
- [Passerby] Am I in the frame? (upbeat guitar lick)
- We sent in our own design to
make our special custom candy.
Spoiler alert, the design is of
our co-producer, Adam Bianchi.
- We thought it would be a good design because there's
lots of complications (others laugh) about his face.
You know, you have this facial hair here, the glasses.
(quick drum rhythm)
- So how do you make the candy?
- How is each part of Adam's face made?
- So what are you doing to help make these shapes
and keep everything even during the process?
- Oh!
I think I messed up already. - Oh no, oh no!
- Oh no, this is gonna be a very
ugly version of Adam, I'm sorry!
Can I cut?
(chuckles)
- [Rie] So, do you want to do it, Andrew?
- [Andrew] Sure.
(candy snaps)
Ooh!
Ah!
(concerned gasps)
- [Rie] He almost lost a finger!
- [Steven] I noticed that there's a lot of people
working together on this, what's the
importance of doing everything by hand?
- We got some candy.
- So not only did we see the candy get made,
we got to get our hands in the mix.
- Yeah...
And we did not do a good job.
- We did probably the least challenging part.
- [Steven] Yes!
- So we just lived this moment,
but I wanted to call your attention again...
- Oh man!
- To that.
It's weird because Adam is holding
the camera and filming me show him this.
It's very hard, like this could be a murder weapon in Clue.
And then it tapers off into this
little tail end where you get...
(Steven laughs)
Candy Adam.
- Rie, what do you think about this?
(laughs)
- Rokurokubi.
Adam, Adam Bianchi.
(laughs)
Like the level of sculpture happening here
is really amazing.
- Let's pull out the candy.
- I'm gonna put this away cause I...
- Please.
- It's too much to look at.
- We should bring out the ones we made first, right?
- Sure, yeah.
- Just to be clear we made 50 pounds of candy.
- About 35 hundred pieces of Adam.
- I believe these are the ones that we made (wheezes)
and I just looked at this for the first time!
This is like if you took Adam and put my hair on him.
- Yours are too thin and then some of mine were too thick
so when we got in the rolling machine,
the edge of it just sliced across his face.
(plastic crinkling)
Look at that guy.
It looks like you're about to go into a time warp,
and you've like frozen and then your
body starts swirling in space.
- Hey, some of them are pretty good though.
If you pick one out at random, okay,
it's gonna be awesome, watch this.
Watch... (strained mumble)
Alright, you ready?
- Yeah this isn't the 50 pounds, there's many boxes of this.
- Oh man!
- So because these one's are good to go,
they're actually individually-wrapped which is great.
Oh yeah, he's much chunkier in the right-sized one,
he's got a much chubbier face, which I like.
- I think the word is, uh, chiseled.
- Look at that one, that's a good Adam.
I mean, it really looks hand-painted, right?
With, like, a single hair paintbrush.
Alright, I'm gonna eat this now, cheers.
(chewing)
Did you chew it immediately?
- Oh wait... (chuckles) how do you eat it?
- It's a hard candy, Steven!
Great flavor, tea smell. - Mhm.
What I like about it is that it's also not insanely sweet
which was what I was expecting when I saw them make it.
No.
- Was it right side up?
(laughs)
- How about me?
(laughs)
- Ew!
- The light outline around his ears
is potentially the most present to me.
- The different portions of his
face dissolve at different rates.
Pretty soon you can feel this texture
of his face against your tongue.
And I'll have like, the little bumps of the outline
of the eyes, yeah I'm licking his eyes right now.
- You're making it really weird.
- Yeah it was just surprising how good this candy turns out.
- What's that supposed to mean?
(laughs)
(delicate piano music)
- [Andrew] Oh yes!