- Hi, I'm Hitomi.
- And I'm Ayaka.
- Hi, my name is Hinano.
- Hi, my name is Aoi Takeya.
- Today we're gonna try some drugstore sushi.
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- My experience with drugstore sushi.
To be honest, I don't recall the last time
I had drugstore sushi,
but I'm assuming the last time I had it,
I had a few drinks or something.
- I may have, but only when I'm drunk, I think.
- My experience, definitely during times of desperation.
- My friends got food poisoning from it, so you know?
We'll see, but we're trying it for you guys.
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- It honestly doesn't--
- Yeah, it look that bad.
- Look too bad.
- The rice looks nasty.
- To be honest, if this was served at like some,
I don't know, like a Boran restaurant or whatever,
I would, yeah, I could see this.
- The fish looks very kinda dry.
- Maybe with a little, you know, better plating,
the sushi is kind of--
- Oh yeah.
- It looks a little tired.
- Yeah, definitely.
- It's like falling asleep a little, but--
- Visually, I feel like, it's not,
it's selling us what it's telling us, you know?
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I'm gonna start with this guy
'cause I feel like this is a safe one to go with, right?
- I am a salmon girl.
- The salmon, oh, perfect.
I'm tuna, so.
- All right, perfect.
- I will try the same one. - Okay.
- It's very orange.
I wonder if it's naturally this color,
or has it been--
- Maybe it's tuna.
It's just orange at this point.
- And your tuna is salmon.
- Let me a bite out of it.
- Okay.
- Mmm.
- Not bad.
- Not as bad as it looks.
- It's not that bad.
Like mine, I could eat this.
- Well, I mean, I told you this is my first time
like eating this sushi when I'm sober.
It's not that bad.
- Something about the rice though.
It's like, I don't know.
- The rice is chewy.
- It's very.
- But it's cold.
The sushi is cold.
And one of the worst things about drugstore sushi
is when it gets warm.
- Oh yeah.
- And mushy.
- If this was like I was in college,
and I just needed to treat myself
and this is all I could do.
- [Producer] That is a spicy California roll.
- Oh!
- This is...
All right.
Let's go, actually, I don't want any.
- So this is salmon.
- Salmon. But inside it's like,
there's like spicy tuna, cucumber, avocado.
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- This rice is really not,
it's not doing it for me.
But it's not a nice kick to it.
- Am I dumb?
I feel like I just had a like same one.
- Yeah.
- I didn't really taste like salmon.
- You can't taste any fish.
Like, I could taste the cucumber.
That's fresh.
- Try this one, the-- - The tuna?
- The tuna one. - Why not?
This is like tuna in tuna, I'm assuming?
- Yeah, it's a tuna inception.
This is like same things on the inside.
Another cucumber, tuna, avocado.
- Right, right.
And that's it.
- [Hinano] Not bad, right?
- Yeah, I like this one.
I actually like this one.
I like that, I like this tuna
better than the one that's just like the tuna in tuna.
- I think the spicy tuna is the saving grace.
- Yeah, yeah, it is.
It's kind of like a nice kick to it.
- I can't taste fish.
- No, not at all.
- It looks scary.
It looks the most, personally,
it looks the most not the one that I want to eat.
- Do you like the salmon or tuna?
- Is there wasabi under here?
Yeah, nope.
A perfect little square, square meat.
This is I don't know.
- When I go to like a drugstore and get sushi now,
I think the ones that actually have a fish on top
and then a little bit more tuna or whatever,
I think that's the go-to.
- I think by having that spicy mayo sauce and eel sauce,
it masks that everything else that doesn't have much flavor.
- It's definitely something that you would eat in secret,
or I would eat in secret.
I wouldn't want anyone else to know that I had this.
- I feel like it was cheap enough,
I will get full after eating all that, so--
- You're good, you're good.
I agree.
- But if I was in Japan, I'll be like,
"Gimme, gimme. I want more."
- Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
I think this is like a quick, easy bite
you can get at a drugstore, so, you know,
when I'm like really, really hungry.
- I don't know if I'm gonna eat drug sushi again.
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