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- What is up?
You guys, we're back in action.
- Yay!
- And the vlog squad, the vlog group,
it's only two fourths of the Japan homies,
- The other two are
- in other countries, actually.
- in another countries.
- So you guys remember I was serving
a volunteer church mission,
and then I actually left
after we posted that other video
where I was telling you guys about it.
So I left,
and I went back to Japan,
and finished,
and then Lauryn finished hers- - Yes.
- And they're still working and
doing their thing in different countries.
So, it's just us for now.
Today we're going to have lots of fun,
and we're going to tell you about it.
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We're going to the
Japanese pop-up store.
I don't know exactly what it's called,
but I guess, for like a few days,
people come and they set up
a bunch of Gachapon,
you remember those ones,
and some other
Japanese tricks and fun trinkets.
And so we're going to go,
and check it out.
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- Do any of these look good to you, Lauryn?
- Yeah.
They have a lot of cute ones
I want.
- So, guys.
- I want that one,
that one, that one,
that one.
you gotta get one of these.
- Yeah.
- That's only on the front.
- Do you mean five?
- [Sam] I think we only have,
wait, what, three coin?
Oh my gosh!
So many good options,
guys, I just,
this just makes me miss Japan more.
- Oh my gosh!
That's so cute.
They actually like fall.
- No way.
- Maybe.
Yeah.
- Okay. So guys, as you know,
we have not been able to travel to Japan,
because of COVID,
COVID-19.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic,
we have not been able to go to Japan.
So we're feeling very...
we're having withdrawals.
- You were just living there.
- Okay, I've been home for...
- During the COVID 19 pandemic.
- I've been home for like
two months now from Japan,
so I'm having withdrawals now.
- Yeah.
- And so if there's anything Japan related, food wise,
treat wise, anything at all going on locally,
then we always try to hop on that opportunity.
So today, we're here at this place in Tempe, Arizona,
and they have a little pop-up stand for Japanese stuff.
They have a bunch of Gachapon,
and they have
kakigori
which is shaved ice.
And they have
a bunch of Japanese treats and snacks and drinks.
So we're totally feeling . . .
We're feeling a fun time.
- No, it's so cute.
Look, can it flip?
- I don't think so,
but,
so this is the Gachapon,
they have it outside.
And there's more inside.
So guys we're inside,
looking at the Gachapon,
that's,
that are inside right now,
and we're not having to be like on the options.
So we're going to go back outside,
and make our purchases there.
We got our Gacha coins,
a special coin that you can find here.
And now it's time to decide.
But we're going to split up,
and go in separate ways
and come back with our Gachapon.
We'll see you then.
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You guys, I got no choice,
but to get one of these Naruto ones,
it's three coins,
but I just have to.
I love Naruto,
still haven't finished it though,
but I've been working on it.
So I think I'll get one of these bad boys.
Epic cop!
So we're not going to open them here,
we're going to open them when we get back,
so it'll be
a sweet unboxing.
- [Lauryn] Wrong way?
Is it like that?
Okay, thank you.
- We're getting some help.
- [Lauryn] Am I doing it right?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Gocha. Gocha. Pon.
- Epic win.
So it's like the train station signs,
and the different train stations in Japan,
so this one says,
Kanda to Yurakucho
So these are awesome.
I love the train stations in Japan, you guys.
So, I'm going to get one of these bad boys.
Epic cop.
- [Lauryn] What could it be?
- [Sam] (speaking in foreign language)
It says
- [Lauryn] You can see it. (laughs)
- [Sam] Very very nice.
The other week me and Lauryn went to
a different Japanese market
to try to find the vitamin C drink,
that we got so many times in Japan,
and they didn't have it.
And it was such a...
- Loss.
- Epic loss.
Lauryn was so sad- - Yeah, I was.
- But guess what? We just found it.
This one.
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So, so we're pretty excited about it.
So we're going to get a few stock up
because we...
they're hard to find.
Brand new discovery, Pocky Chocolate Coconut.
Coconuts?
- [Lauryn] We might have to send Dree some.
- Honestly, we should.
- What is this?- What do you have up here?
Oh, I've had this.
I had this in Japan when I was there.
- Are they good?
- It's like butter,
butter-cream type beat- - Is it good?
- Buttermilk.
Yeah. It's pretty good.
The Dree addiction.
♪ Hello darkness my old ♪
- Chocolate Banana,
and we have all sorts of Pocky here.
- [Lauryn] Chocolate.
- So this is what we got so far guys.
We'll be trying them out.
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- [Lauryn] What does that mean?
- So delicious.
So guys in the end,
we're just heading out.
We had our kakigori
we did some Gachapon,
and talked to some friendly people.
It is a nice little slice of Japan
when we can't travel there- - Yeah, that was fun.
- In real life.
So it was - would you consider it an epic win, Lauryn?
- Yeah, epic win, epic success.
- It goes epic win, epic success,
epic fail or epic loss, epic fail.
- That is an epic win.
- Epic win everyone!
So it's the first epic win
back since we went to Japan two years ago.
- That's crazy.
- So long ago.
- But again, he was just living there.
- Yeah I was, I was just,
but, I still miss it.
I miss it.
So,
epic win.
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So we just drove back from the Japan pop-up,
and now we're going to taste test
a few of the snackers- - I'm so excited.
- And open up our Gachapon.
So should we...
Let's crack open these cold ones.
So, and you guys know the classic.
We love these.
So we're going to crack these open,
and then we'll do Gachapon,
when we're sipping on our cold ones together.
- It's been so long.
- Clink.
- Sam, don't look at it.
- I wanted to know
which Naruto character
I got.
- Aww.
Cute.
- You opened it.
- Who's it going to be,
who's it going to be,
Kakashi Sensei
Yay!
very cool- - very nice.
- Maybe I'll put it on my backpack for school.
- All right, next Lauryn.
It squeaks?!
Squeaky cat.
That one's only one coin.
- Leo's going to love this.
- Leo's Lauryn's dog, by the way.
- It's so cute.
- This was the Japanese train sign.
- Oh, yeah.
- Subway station sign.
It looks like we got
Kanda to Yurakucho
You know the,
you know in the train station,
that was always making that sound.
You know what I'm talking about.
So here it is,
I know none of this is focusing.
You get the idea.
And the light's on!
You can't really see.
Pretty awesome.
Love it.
I miss Japan
I miss seeing this kind of stuff.
Now we're going to move into the snackers.
So first things first, is these
- I haven't had these senbei.
- Crackers.
- So yeah, they're just like normal crackers,
but they have like a frosted coating,
white-coating,
that's really good.
So it says,
I'm not super good at Kanji,
yuki no
I don't know what the bottom one is.
So, snow cracker, maybe.
- Cute, here you go.
- Okay.
So here's the cracker.
Let's get a bite.
- That's really good.
- The nostalgia,
the nostalgia!
I'm telling you guys,
every day there's a family mart,
two minute walk from my house,
every day I'd eat one of these crackers.
- Oh, that's really good.
- Yummy.
Epic win, epic success.
Epic loss or epic fail, Lauryn?
- I would say an epic win.
- Epic win.
I also say so.
What do you think Kakashi Sensei?
You heard him everyone.
- So then we're moving on to the Pocky portion
in memory of Dree
this one
we've had many times,
but these two I haven't had either.
- I think I've had this one.
- So we're on to this one.
- Chocolate is laid on thick,
on these bad boys.
Ooh!
- That's good.
- That's really good.
I like it.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- Okay.
I say that epic success on that one.
All right, Pocky Coconut Chocolate.
I've never even seen this one before.
Ever- - Me neither.
- This is our first time.
- It's so cute.
Look, it's so cute.
- Adorable.
- I think I'm gonna like this one.
- Okay, guys. Coconut, here we go.
I've bit my lip.
- Aww.
Oh, that's yummy.
That's my favorite.
- It reminds me of
- That's my favorite one.
- That's really good.
It reminds me of the Girl Scout Cookies.
- Samoas?
- Samoas.
- Those are really yummy.
- Really good.
All right.
And last but not the least,
the classic Almond Crush.
- Let's just have a little- - We know it, we love it.
Tribute to Dree right now.
♪ Hello darkness my old friend ♪
She's still alive.
- She's alive,
but she's not here.
- I miss Dree.
- Where is she?
I can never remember the name of the place.
- She's in Cape Verde.
- Cape Verde.
One like equals on heart to Dree.
I am surely grubbing for likes this whole video.
Like, it's like- - Oh my gosh.
- A new thing every time.
- Here we go, Almond Pocky, classic.
Dree,
we love and miss you.
Yup, good as always.
- Yum!
- Gummy Choco.
Surprisingly, I don't see this lot in Japan,
like at the convenience stores.
- Oh, really?
- I've looked because I really liked it.
So that's what they look like.
They're little...
So basically they're just little gummies,
that are coated with chocolate.
Oh gosh!
They're really good though.
Here's the fruit mix.
- That one would might be my least favorite one though.
- Hmm?
- Yeah.
- This is called
Peko Poko
Biscuit.
Yeah, okay.
Peko Poko Biscuits
Cute.
- So cute.
- Look how cute it is,
even on the inside.
- Guys I'm telling you,
Japan, thank you for always having amazing packaging
on your snacks.
- Like, they're all like,
they have like different animals.
I'll take the alligator.
Look how cute this is.
Cute.
- I got Fox.
The nine tailed fox from Naruto.
Pretty good.
Sorry, sorry for talking
with my mouth full.
- I'll start talking,
covering your mouth.
There's a lot of snacks like this,
that are like just a chocolate and the cracker.
- Yeah.
So it wasn't looking super special honestly,
- But, it's good.
- It's fine,
but personally I prefer a little more chocolate,
chocolatey.
- So, I don't know.
- I liked it though.
- It was okay, I guess.
What was your favorite- - I guess there's more.
And the least favorite one?
These are so good.
- Yeah.
- Least favorite was definitely these,
but I think it also just my own personal preference.
- Really? Why were they your least favorite?
- I liked all the other chocolate ones, better.
Like the chocolate itself.
- Oh, okay.
- Is it even chocolate?- - Yeah, it is.
Reasonable picks, I guess.
I'd say my favorite, definitely this.
I think just cause it was new.
- Really? We both picked that one?
- I really liked this.
It was yummy.
I like,
I like when Pocky has new stuff.
This was definitely a win.
My least favorite,
the Peko Poko Biscuits
biscuits.
Just cause, I don't know.
I've had- - Cute though.
a hundred things like it,
and- - Yeah.
Personally I prefer a little more chocolate.
The ratio,
the biscuit chocolate ratio's a little bit,
so yeah,
but it's good,
everything was good,
but I just think that out of all of them,
this was the most 'eh',
- Yeah.
type beat.
Thank you so much for watching the vids.
We love your comments.
We haven't posted a long time
because we both been gone.
- Yeah.
- Doing our voluntary church missions,
but now we're back.
So the two of us are back.
Isaac and Audrey are still gone,
like we said.
But, we're going to start making more videos
starting with this one.
Now, we'd love to hear what kind of videos
you guys want to see us to do,
cause right now we're...
We can't really go to Japan.
Leave your suggestions.
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Love you, bye- - Bye.
Love you, bye.
- Should we keep that or should we cut?
Keep.
We're keeping it.
Gosh! Oh my gosh.
We're getting in a car accident.
We're getting in a huge car accident.
We just went to the Japan pop-up,
and now we're going to...
I'm kind of famous in my neighborhood.
So, if you think that me and Lauryn should be dating,
please leave a like,
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- That says nyo nyo,
- That's N-Y-O N-Y-O,
by the way.
- It's fine.
- Oh wait.
- Wait, so.
- Oh my gosh! Car Accident.
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