You know why. Is anywhere safe in the world right now?
Is there anywhere that's really safe right now where you can say "I'm 100% safe?"
No, I don't think so.
I don't think so either. Even countries that have their coronavirus situation more under control.
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Nobody's out in Japan. It's completely empty. There's no people in Tokyo.
Nobody's out.
How safe is Japan?
People are milking this title like so hard.
That's clickbait. That is clickbait. Yeah and I don't think it really reflects the true situation even in Tokyo.
Only downtown is empty.
I've never seen so many people out in this area.
Yeah, there's some shops that are closed. That is clearly closed.
Pachinko (casino) is clearly closed.
That's open.
There's quite a few things open still.
The watch store is open.
The clothing store is open.
But this is a local area.
So... how safe is Japan? I'd say it's doing alright.
Relatively speaking it's doing alright. Relatively...
Should we go inside?
Oh yeah.
This is Rody's first time ever in a Chinese supermarket. So he wore a suit.
I'm glad you're being very respectful today. You wore your best clothes.
Ok, let's go in. I'll show you some stuff.
Don't forget this.
So, umm... this is kind of spicy stuff.
He knows about the Youtube channel.
I know xie xie
You know what xie xie means.
Dude, he's seen... his friend found my channel and showed it to him.
And I was like "Is it ok? I secretly came in here and filmed you guys."
He's like "Oh, you gave me an advertisement. Can you do more?"
He's like "Please do more."
I'm introducing Chinese stuff to you. That's always been my favorite.
This is almond milk and then some mango stuff from Taiwan.
This is not as good as I thought it would be.
Wang laoji is like herbal tea. That's super famous.
Bing hong cha. This one. It's so sweet, but actually it tastes good.
And then snacks. Do you like peanuts? They have spicy peanuts.
Ha ha, I can't believe he saw the Youtuber channel
He's the first one that told me "Hey umm... by the way."
You never got recognized in Japan?
I never got recognized because I've only been doing this a few months. Right?
And most of the viewers are outside Japan, but apparently it's circulating here too.
See that makes me nervous because now my cover is gonna get blown.
Ok, well I'm gonna get this for sure.
Should we do down? Yeah we can go downstairs too.
This is more like cooking stuff.
Oh, you must have seen these before. This is called zong zi.
And they have them in Japan as well.
You've seen this before. The thing in the leaves. Yeah I have.
What do they call that in Japanese?
Omochi
Is that omochi?
With leaves... bamboo leaves.
Corn in a package. Have you ever seen this? Tomorokoshi in a package.
I mean the Japanese package everything, but even each individual piece of corn.
Ha ha, in China too.
Oh, that's the tofu I was telling you about.
Gan dofu
Yeah, there's a lot of spicy sauces. Those are all spicy for sure.
Definitely
And this is tang yuan. They're almost like mochi in Japan.
Sesame
Can you read some of this stuff?
No
The kanji? Or just the Chinese kanji?
Chinese kanji
Oh, this is Ningbo fengwei tang yuan.
Ningbo is a city in China.
So this is a guava. Oh no, this is Dong gua cha.
That's a winter melon. It's actually very good. I would recommend that.
Really? Over that?
I mean you can get whatever you want. You mean the coconut?
Yeah, I'll get this one.
Alright, that's pretty good.
Try it out.
Alright, now we'll go pay. There's a new guy here. Staff
Ok, so this is Chinatown?
This is not Chinatown.
You know in this area of Tokyo there's a lot of Chinese people.
This is my second time here. I already see a lot of Chinese people.
There are quite a lot and that's just a feature of this area of Tokyo. That's why my roommates live here.
Dong gua cha
Cha... yeah
Man it's so difficult. It's completely different from Japanese howthey pronounce it.
Of course yeah. But cha is kind of the same.
This is xiaolongbao. It's called shoronpo in Japanese.
I was just gonna get it to go. Take it home and eat it for dinner or whatever.
I'll probably just get the normal ones.
Do you want some?
No, I'm ok.
She said we could sit down.
Sit down for a minute and wait for our carryout.
Cool. I got carryout.
How good was the food? Very good. I'm sure it will be very good.
But the million dollar question Rody...
Is Japan safe? Ha ha
Is Japan safe? You know what is anywhere safe in the world right now?
Is there anywhere that's really safe right now where you can say "I'm 100% safe"?
I don't think so.
I don't think so either. Even countries that have their coronavirus situation more under control.
I forgot my freaking wallet.
Good thing there's no money.
I might cut that out of the footage.
No, that's good man.
That's not good. Then everyone will know I'm stupid.
That's a really good point that in Japan, if you lose something it will probably get back to you.
I lost my wallet two times. I got it back.
This is the first time I've lost my wallet here. No joke.
I didn't lose it. She gave it back to me immediately.
I don't know how I did that. At what point did I put it down? I'm so stupid I don't even remember.
I've also left a shopping bag outside on a busy street by Tokyo station.
I went in to do an interview and I realized about 15 minutes later that I left my shopping bag.
And I went out there and guess what. It was still there. Nobody touched it.
So we learned some new stuff today. I learned some new things.
It just doesn't work. How about an elbow bump? That's equally as stupid.
See ya next time.