Good morning from Tokyo Station.
We definitely should not be awake and out in public yet
but we are because Emma and I are off to Kyoto
for a Tokyo Creative work trip.
Yay!
And we're going to be taking the Shinkansen
so, I thought I'd take you guys along for the adventure.
We've got 45 minutes to find a bento
and, you know, that might seem like a lot
but, it's not a lot because Tokyo station is a disaster.
We both got lost this morning on the way here.
It's a maze.
It's a miracle we met each other at all,
and now we're off to find a bento before we have to be
back here and to get on our train in 45 minutes.
So, pray for us. Let's go
So, Emma's a genuis, and she has discovered that there
are soy milk, cream donuts in the station.
They're so good.
I didn't know that.
My friend introduced them to me, they're actually just over here
Oh, I cannot wait to see them.
Down here?
Oh, this bakery right here!
It's right by the Shinkansen entrance, that's convenient.
They look so soft.
Yeah, yeah, they're super nice.
They have soy chocolate milk here if you're interested.
No way!
Should we get one each?
Hell yeah!
All deserty.
Here's your drink
Ok
The first part of our adventure was successful,
we have 2 soy milk cream donuts,
we have two chocolate soy milks
and they were really cheap, the soy milks were
2 something, the donuts like were $1.60
I thought there was a grocery shop here
That's okay, let's just wander into the area where you get onto the trains
because I believe the shop that I'm looking for, it's called Ekibenya, I think it's over there
but, I could be absolutely wrong.
*chuckles*
It's okay, I think we still have like a good 35 minutes.
Clock is ticking
Ekibenya, it's a chain that makes Ekiben
Eki means station, ben, as in bento; lunchbox
So, they're like these specific type of lunchboxes that you buy when you take the Shinkansen.
It's like a ritual, if you take the Shinkansen, you have to buy one of these lunchboxes, just how it goes.
I feel like it's going to be one of these shops
Oh, is that? No, that just says bento, but should we check that?
Maybe they rebranded or something.
The reason I'm looking for Ekibenya is because they have a vegan one.
Ummmm......
I don't think so
Yeah, I know what it looks like, it's like this round box
Does not look like it
My friend got one recently, do you want me to text her and ask?
She'll be awake, she wakes up at like 5am.
Yeah, do you think she'll remember?
Okay
We are not having any luck; did they get rid of these bento stores?
Tokyo station is not fun, you guys.
If you ever come here and you have something to do, and you're not exactly sure how to do it,
come very early.
Give yourself lots of time
Should we go that way?
Yeah
Alright
Should we ask someone?
Where's this one?
What does that even mean?
I feel like this would be hard enough without any people than on top of the maze
Oh, Ekibenya!
Ekibenya, Ekibenya!
We found it, we found it!
Thank god I can read kanji.
I'm going to have to show you guys the kanji because there's no alphabet characters on it at all.
This is the one I was thinking of
Success, we did it!
I was starting to loose hope a second ago, I'm not going to lie.
In record time, I might add.
Nice work, Emma.
What do you want to get?
I don't know, there's so many choices.
There are.
What's in the vegetable bento?
Is it like?
I don't know
Maybe I should just get the veggie bento too.
It looks pretty good
It's pretty cheap too, it's like 930 yen.
Did it.
It was a struggle, somehow.
Bye!
*laughs*
We've made it on the Shinkansen.
We gotta be kind of quiet now, we don't want to disturb people, but we are on the Nozomi Shinkansen,
from Tokyo station to Kyoto station, and the ride should be 2 and a half hours.
We had jiyuuseki tickets, which means like free seats, so the first 3 cars of the Shinkansen are available for people who have those tickets
and you can just hop on, and fingers crossed you find a seat; sometimes they're all full and you don't get one
but we were really luck so we can all sit together, so that's cool.
We are going to try out bento's, or should we have donuts? What should we start with?
We should start with the bentos and have donuts for dessert.
Alright
It's cute.
Smells good too.
It does smell good.
Smells like susumi.
I like how they put an Edomame instead of an imeboshi on the right because I do not like the imeboshi.
Really?
Yeah
I love it.
Oh really?
Yeah, I love it.
I've never gotten this certain bento before and I'm really impressed with it.
It's got a really nice selection of dishes.
There's a whole bunch of steamed vegetables here.
Some rice, a different type of rice, and it looks like it's got some soy meat on top.
Some pickles, and then a little, tofu hamburger right here, which I'm really happy about.
I forgot the best part, deep fried tofu, which is always amazing.
It's my favourite part so far, it's so good.
I'm going to try the bamboo because that looks really good.
I like the tofu hamburger.
It looks yummy.
I like the flavour of the bamboo.
It's like they cooked it in some kind of soup stock.
It's actually much more flavourfull than I was expecting.
Sometimes when you get veggie stuff here, it's a little plain.
I actually think I prefer this to like meat bentos.
I always feel kind of weird with the meat bentos because its so like cold.
It just feels wrong.
But, this is really good.
I really like this like fake, meat, crumble thing they put on top of the rice, it kind of tastes like miso.
I am so impressed with this.
They've done a really good job.
The deep fried tofu is heavenly.
Ok, the mushrooms, they're really good.
They're good?
Where are the mushrooms?
I think it's underneath the hamburger.
Oh, under the hamburger.
I'm shook.
Oh, it's maitake, mushrooms.
Oh my god, it's so good.
Wow.
That's impressively good.
I could eat a bowl of that.
I have to confess that I've never really liked these Ekibens.
Everyone makes such a big deal out of them, they're always like excited to get them when they go on the Shinkansen.
But, often, they're pretty gross.
But this, the quality of it is so good.
This is so yummy.
I would rate this 10/10.
If you're looking for a veggie bento, find Ekibenya; hopefully you have an easier time than we did
and get this one, I think you'll really love it.
Yeah, I'm definitely switching to this one from now on.
Right?
Another cool thing about the Shinkansen is that it has power outlets, so you can charge your phone, you can charge your computer;
I like to bring my laptop with me since the ride is usually 2 or 2 and a half hours long,
get some work done on the train on the train; it's a very smooth train ride.
It wavers a little bit but it's not like the regular train you would take through the city.
It's a lot smoother and I find it really easy to get work done.
We've decided we're hungry again.
It's time for the soy donuts.
This smells so good!
Seriously my favourite thing to get from Tokyo Station.
I haven't had like a proper super unhealthy donut like this in so long.
It's so good.
I missed all the cream.
Haven't gotten to the cream yet.
But so far, like
Just having a donut, yeah
It's so satisfying, so chewy, and
Just tastes like a normal, jelly donut.
It's a little messy with all the powdered sugar.
Oh, the cream is good
Nice find, and $1.60
Is that a happy face? What is that?
Or is that just a fluke?
Am I going to have a lucky day now?
Sometimes, if I'm feeling luxurious, I eat, I buy 2 of these.
I can see that.
Yeah.
I think when I'm too lazy to venture all the way to the bento shop, I'll just grab like 3 of these.
I'd give it a solid 9, the only thing that could make it a 10 is if it wasn't soy cream and it was jam filled
because I love jam filled donuts and they just don't exist here.
I'd take soy cream and jam.
That would be really good.
That would be my 10.
Rasberry strawberries.
Yeah
Make it happen, bakery.
How's the soy milk?
It's good, it is very like,
I've never found a soy milk, like a flavour so much that it tastes like soy, so it is quite soyee, but it is really good.
So, as long as you like soy flavour.
Yeah
Yeah, that's good.
But yeah, I see what you mean.
Actually, if you want a soy chocolate milk that doesn't really taste that much like soy milk, I suppose
the one that keko man does, the cocoa one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hope you guys really enjoyed watching out Shinkansen adventure from Tokyo to Kyoto.
We will be in Kyoto for the next 3 days, and if you're interested in seeing what we got up to here
keep your eyes out for my next video and make sure to check out Emma's channel if you're not subscribed to her already.
I will have her link down below.
Thanks so much for watching guys and I will see you very soon.
Bye!