Have a look. Ta-da! - AAAH! -AH!
Everyone has their own pizza. - THEIR OWN PIZZA?
We will feel so guilty afterwards and on the next day.
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese. Pizza! Pizza Pizza!
If I say that magic word three times what are you thinking of?
Pizza right? On that note pizza, that magic word, that tasty food
that many of us are enjoying
Do Japanese people eat pizza
the same way we might be doing in the west?
Let's go and find out. This time we're gonna go ask Japanese people if they finish a whole pizza
pizza parties what their opinion of pizza is. I am so hungry already. Let's go hit the streets of Tokyo
and ask them! Don't forget subscribe, tick the notification bell let's head off
and ask Japanese people about pizza. PIZZA!
When I say "American food"
what do you think of first? - Hamburgers.
Steak. - Fried potatoes! - Sweeet doughnuts.
I see. Here we go. Ta-da. - Aaaah! - Aaah!
We didn't say this one. - But that would be one of the things we think of. - What is it?
Pizza! - American style
American Pizza is so huge! ... So huge.
How thick! - This is a pizza party! - What is a pizza party?
On a pizza party, everyone has ordered
their own pizza. - WHAT? - One pizza per person?!?
A whole pizza? - Not just a slice, a whole pizza. - No waaaay!
I would be full eating just one slice. - Wait
Do you never do pizza parties where you order one pizza for yourself?
One pizza for 4-5 people. - We only share it with friends.
How many pizza slices can you eat then?
One or two slices. That's it. They are pretty... - big right.
There will be other things eaten with it like salad. We get full that way
One or 2 slices is enough. Is that different in the US?
It's ok to order one pizza per person, then watch tv or play games together.
Why do you not do that in Japan? - We share.
Our culture is about sharing. We share that food.
Our stomachs are smaller and we diet more
we worry about calories a lot.
You worry about it a lot? - Oh yeah we do like
I will always check the back of food. If I see a tasty looking bread...
I will look at the calorie count. If it's like 700cal I will put it back
and search for something around 200-300kcal. If it is over 500kcal it's too cruel
Too bad! - So you don't eat a whole pizza because of the high calories? - Yeah
one pizza would be as high as 2000kcal
I would have to run the whole of the next day to work that off.
Pizza is bad. I only eat it on special occasions
I highly avoid eating it casually as part of my everyday
On special occasions? Like when? - Christmas!
I did a Christmas party with a friend. The two of us shared a whole pizza!
Half and half. - Yes! - And you?
Yeah I can eat it on Christmas or on a Birthday!
Apart from these two big events, I don't allow myself to eat pizza.
Now ... I wanna know. Have you ever eaten
a whole pizza? - You mean 1 pizza to myself?
No way! Have you? - I totally have.
And you're still skinny? - Didn't that take you 3 days?
What drinks do you expect to be at an American pizza party? - Cola!
Cola? Beer maybe. - What do you have in Japan with it?
Green tea! - Yeah green tea mainly. Pizza is so bad...
so you can't follow it with bad drinks. That's too much.
I think some people try to hide their guilt with Oolong tea
because it is said to burn more calories.
Dark teas like that. - Teas that are said to help burn body fat
Drink those. We Japanese have to be careful...
otherwise we will feel too guilty. - We may enjoy that pizza but
after that or on the next day we will definitely feel so guilty.
That's why we drink strong fat burning teas
to feel better. - Yeah I do that. - Does that work?
Not sure if it does. But it eases our bad conscience.
Even if we drank Cola, it might be about the same but still
on a day when we eat pizza we try to feel less guilty
I love pizza so much. I think this is showing a lot. I love pizza. Japanese
pizza is very expensive because it is not a dish that is eaten as frequently
as it might be in your country. As we have seen there are no big pizza parties where
everyone gets their own pizza. It is generally a thing that is shared. I found that really interesting because
pizza for me is a food that I have and enjoy, while people that we interviewed in this interview
said "no pizza is not a thing to just eat"
it's a thing to share with a group of people. You don't have pizza by yourself.
Well... I totally do. I felt that a lot
like I did something wrong there because people where laughing when I said I can eat a whole pizza by myself.
I totally can eat a whole pizza by myself. It gives me a feeling of achievement in a way
So there is a difference in the relationship with food, especially to pizza.
You have it on special occasions like parties or Christmas or similar things like
that. I find that very interesting even though there is a
Japan-only pizza service. We have Pizza-Hut and similar but Pizzala
is a Japan pizza service that actually is made in Japan
and they try to win against the foreign competition by aiming their pizza more
towards Japanese people with a bit more seafood, interesting toppings and a lot of variety
and sometimes beef from a certain region. They try to win against the
or at least compete with the other brands that are already established around the world.
So very interesting if you come to Japan, I can recommend you try out some of the Japanese-only flavors
on pizza. Oh man now I am so hungry. Director are you hungry now? He's hungry.
We never had pizza. We should get pizza some day director. Oh Pizza Party
no we had a pizza party in a livestream! If you would like to see more stuff what
we're doing don't forget to be subscribed and tick the notification bell especially, otherwise you will
miss the cool livestreams that we are doing. We had one with pizza. Oh man pizza.
I said that magical word so many times now that you're all hungry. I am sure you are.
Hmm maybe I get pizza tonight. Anyways so, now we know why Japanese people don't seem
to finish a pizza by themselves. I hope you learned something. Don't forget
Give us a like as well and I really need some pizza now. Hope you have a great day and I catch you soon! Bye!