these are costco products that are only
available in japan
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okay so we are here in costco in tokyo
japan and i wanted to show you some
products that are only sold in japan
well i think they're only sold in japan
i actually haven't been to a us costco
in a while and i know that there are
costco's all throughout the world but i
think these products are only sold in
japan you can let me know if you have it
in your country but for the most part i
think these are products that are only
available in japan and if you guys want
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so i think we're gonna go
sit down on a nice sofa and do the rest
of this video all right so let's start
with the seafood
don't you like seafood michael this is
my favorite section
seafood i have no food in my mouth so
anyways yeah so let's begin with the raw
seafood here in the costco this is
probably one of the things that
surprised me the most here in japan
there's just so much selection first of
all we have all this type of sushi back
when i was in the states i don't
remember having this many options in
japan a lot of the seafood like the raw
seafood here is meant to be eaten raw
whereas a lot of the fresh seafood that
you see in the states is really not
supposed to be like eaten raw like
you're supposed to like cook all of that
yeah and then also what was kind of um
interesting is they have also seaweed
which you know it's not naturally eaten
a lot of other places like not normally
eaten whereas it's just like staple here
in japan seaweed so definitely have that
also i don't think you'll have this but
they had the sea grapes
it looks really fresh and then ikura and
tarako it's starting to like become a
little bit more popular around the world
but still it's been like a major
delicacy here in japan so there's quite
a bit of that i think there's like a
pretty good selection of poke here i
don't think it's good selection maybe if
they had one in hawaii do they have with
costco in hawaii
i feel like they'd have a lot of pokey
there
so this one is probably an easy one it's
one of my favorite sections the alcohol
section obviously they're gonna have so
many different japanese brands here from
beer you have asahi kirin and just like
a lot of minor ones and all the
different variations michael what's your
favorite beer like the super dry
orion orion for those of you don't know
that is an okinawan beer they also have
the like toast
oh
the happy beers
i think um
is a low malt beer has a tax category of
japanese liquor that most often refers
to beer like beverage with less than 60
70 malt content so it has a lower tax
they do have that as well yeah you're
just gonna get a lot of japanese brands
here yeah and then the sake now if you
guys love sake there's a lot of japanese
sake they had kubota i made it in japan
video with asahi shuzo and they have
that sake in costco maru everyday sake
1200 yen for three liters
dude that'll get you super wasted
but it is world renowned so maybe you
know it is in other costcos but they do
have just like a huge variety japanese
sake um the prices might be a little bit
different i don't know if it's gonna be
cheap or not you guys can let me know
there's also fruit wine as well you guys
are into that at the end of the day
there's just a lot of japanese brands
like when i go to a japanese costco i
actually go there to buy western
products because we have japanese stores
everywhere so i go there to buy like a
huge thing of ribs or furniture not
furniture furniture i've never seen you
go in there
like like laundry detergent or something
you know well if you guys want to see
what we bought actually i'll leave it at
the end of the video maybe roll some of
that b-roll at the end so you guys can
see strawberry shortcake yeah strawberry
shortcake
they do have strawberry shortcakes in
the states they do i i i think a western
person created i thought strawberry
shortcake is a japanese thing shortcake
is a crisp crumbly cake made from butter
which is how it got its name this is
american shortcake this is japanese
shortcake they use sponge completely
covered with whipped cream so it's not
crispy so what you're saying is the u.s
has a shortcake but they don't have a
japanese shortcake yeah they're
different which is pretty much just a
regular strawberry kick
all right let's move on to the next one
i'm getting tired of this one
okay michael snuck good times for
example they're gonna have kitkats
everywhere all around the world but they
have one of my favorites black thunder
we have that on the regular in the house
because i love it so much they at one
point did like a mcflurry collaboration
with black thunder that was really good
yeah
and a happy thought was it different
flavors or just uh
they only had one flavor
so it's happy diamond what's also
interesting is they have like a lot of
old school festival type candies
i think like people go there for like
summer candies and went out or like
school parties or something and bio
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the next section is one i kind of pretty
much grew up on when i was a little kid
it's the frozen food section just a
little story background like lived in
like seattle redmond area and we like
went to costco pretty much every week
and so my parents would just load up on
frozen costco food so i could just you
know pick whatever food i wanted for
that week probably not the healthiest
growing up but it is what it is i'm
quite familiar with a lot of the the
different stuff i mean obviously it's
changed over time but they they have a
lot of the foreign brands here in japan
but one thing i did notice was that they
had longanisa which is like a filipino
sausage i don't remember seeing that in
the u.s which is interesting because you
won't actually see filipino sausage in
anywhere here in like in like regular
japanese supermarkets they had a couple
different kinds they had sweet longanisa
and they had hot manganese and then they
also had like this sweet tacino which is
another kind of like filipino meat
yeah it's really not the best treat
though
it's so oily okay after you cook it and
all like the leftover oil is like
sitting in the pan you don't feel the
best
it is so good
this next one is definitely not my
favorite section
that was i think it has the most demand
seasoning
dressing sauces
sauces cooking sauces cooking supplies
if you guys have a suggestion how we can
name this like if you go there you'll
see like a lot of cupi which is a
japanese brand they're like different
dressings they have meeting which is
another like japanese cooking product
they have cooking sake honzo yeah let us
know if you guys have these in your
country so one other note if you go to
the pharmacy health and like kind of a
nutrition section of costco you can find
a lot of japanese products again mainly
because i think it's like really
difficult to import um they do have like
centrum and all those kind of things but
they do have like japanese specific ones
they have like all the painkillers
cold medicine
just everything that you can find at the
drugstore yeah a little bigger and
cheaper oh they even had diet stuff yeah
yeah yeah yeah i guess it might be
different than a lot of other costco's
but i can say like a majority of the
products were from japan yeah what's
interesting is if you buy stuff in that
area then you can't actually buy it in
the regular san yet like buy at the
pharmacy that was so weird i don't know
if that's something just japan does
i'm sure it's like
the last one is our favorite the food
court we've actually gone there and had
lunch and dinner we've gone there's so
many times that like to be honest with
you it's quite a long ways for us to get
there we literally have to rent a car
because we don't have a car and we have
to drive about like an hour to get there
in an hour back so it's really a big
trip for us it's like a mini vacation
wolfy loves it actually he loves all the
food at the food court okay so we are at
the food court now and there are some
foods here that are i think only sold in
japan there's some new stuff too
is also having a good time right now
this time we got the bulgogi bake
chicken nuggets potato and the quinoa
chicken sandwich the thing that was like
really surprising like i don't really
ever had like solid chicken nuggets and
potato that's like a
big bucket of chicken nuggets and potato
that's like more than 20 pieces for like
that one that's like crazy to be fair
though it was a little bit soggy i guess
it wasn't like your mcdonald's crispy
chicken nuggets like the newest one out
of all of them is the quinoa chicken
sandwich
sauce i was decent the bread has
actually sold in the store the tender
was decent overall like the bread was
like a little too heavy for me if you're
really really hungry it's like it's
going to fill you up the bulgogi bake
was really good
the meat was really sweet for me
that they use a buki mix thing that they
have in the meat section but it is
pretty good and it's huge it's like as
big as wolfie's arm
it's like what are you guys doing why do
you keep on putting this piece of breath
okay so that's pretty much it those are
items that you can find here in japan
that you might necessarily not find in
other costcos all around the world let
us know what you thought about the
prices but yeah that's pretty much it if
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