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good morning from us sucks a guys in one
of my last videos I did the ultimate
guide or tour of the eSATA area and
today I've come back to a section
because there's one thing I really
wanted to show you that I've skipped
over and that is right in front of me
here a Japanese supermarket and today
I'm gonna be joined by a guest Sheri
here has come in from a humane she's
doing like a week of work in Tokyo hen
and has agreed to share some of her time
with us today we're actually gonna go
right here to say you which I figure is
a good starting point as a Japanese
supermarket because while it is a
Japanese supermarket this one is
actually owned by Walmart let's head
right - all right so now that we're in I
kind of want to get wider and smoother
shot so we're gonna switch over the
GoPro all right so we're sacrificing a
little audio quality but we'll get a
wider view and I can really introduce
the shop to you guys this way alright so
starting with the vegetable second
section and with sherry as our guide any
major differences between North American
supermarkets yeah I've noticed Japanese
potatoes tend to be a little bit you
don't really get like full-sized
potatoes like you do in North America
what else yeah and our eggplants in
Japan yeah yeah how big our eggplants in
North America yeah well they're I don't
know they're that big but they're pretty
big yeah this is something that always
surprises non-japanese people this tiny
little watermelon for like $10 you've
never seen them
though you can actually buy these at
festivals sometimes yeah
does this designate the color that the
inside is gonna be okay so if you come
to Japan and you're trying to figure out
whether the melon is orange inside or
green inside that's how you know
something that I wish we had back in
Canada it was like an entire section
just for kimchi are you kimchi fan
pickled food this entire section here is
basically just pickled foods so like a
pickled daikon pickled carrot pickled
cucumber I literally couldn't remember
the word for cucumber for a second like
as I said that I was panicking this is
something that you never see North
America what is this umeboshi
what in the world is boom a bow see yeah
yeah yeah and they're pickled with shiso
there's one very controversial food in
Japan that like people are very divided
on some people love it and other people
just hate it not all she hates it all of
this right here is not all and for those
of you who don't know what natto is not
always basically fermented soybeans they
kind of stink they're gooey
they're definitely ue q re we always get
this
not dull at school um Jim and I hated it
more than anything
oh did not know that so this is the
School Lunch style of not oh there we go
in this in these types of packages Wow
I I never knew that what are the rare
things that actually like I can't
forgive about Japan and if the tiniest
most petty thing ever but it's this what
it what is this supposed to be sherry
except its precooked it's pretty you can
eat it just like that
so when you cook it it just kind of
turns into like ham on a frying pan
rather than bacon now on that note you
can get bacon in Japan it's just you've
got to go to places like Costco or very
national supermarkets don't trust this
stuff that says bacon you'll probably
end up with heartbreak and
disappointment shall we head into one of
the aisles just see what it looks like
an entire section here just for no tea
or seaweed if you will all of this over
here is like miso and then all around
here we have soups and over here we have
foodie cupcake which if you haven't
figured out by the picture you can just
kind of like shake this onto white rice
and add some flavour to your rice um
here we have does she does she I guess
the easiest way to explain it would be
soup base yeah it's like a fish well
it's broth it's basically broth so funny
story about dusty one of the very first
times I ever tried to make miso soup I
literally just mixed miso in water and I
was like something's missing
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you need the dash so if you're trying to
make miso soup if you have miso dashi
and water you're pretty much good to go
you can also have things like tofu and
all that but among the many reasons that
I love this particular supermarket aside
from prices and everything like that is
the fact this one is open 24 hours so if
you're staying in a sexy and you're
looking for like a late-night snack
Drinker you just need to grab some stuff
this place is alright not sponsored by
the way I just like this super money
this entire section here is just like
snacks and candies all these are gummies
Japan does a lot of this like these
interconnect able gummies have you seen
this you've never seen this these are
like gummy of the year right here one of
the other things that makes a you really
good is they have a fairly large
selection of chocolates yeah they have
Twix bars they got Milky Way okay if you
had to choose one Japanese chocolate to
be your favorite out of what you see
here what would you choose while she
went right for oh yes black thunder oh
this is like a very close second for me
I would probably go with either the
almond or the macadamia nuts I really
like these this is a really popular
section right here the curry section a
lot of these so some of them are like
blocks of curry which you've actually
got like melt down and cook but a lot of
them are just like packets of curry
which kind of look like this inside and
you just heat them up you tend to just
put them in a pot of water just like
this and then chop up some veggies and
pour it over rice just gonna go around
the corner here for almost 10 years this
was my local supermarket which is why
I've chosen to show it now that I've
moved out of the area have you ever done
online shopping like supermarket
oh really countryside living I guess
that's another point for Tokyo in our
constant competition between which one
is better this entire section here is
Japanese chips and snacks do you have a
favorite like chip cutter okay so it's
like a brand of chips so do you like
this like salt flavor do you like the
consomme flavor are you like a fan of
like the boom a flavor yeah I don't this
is the umeboshi that we showed earlier
on in the video but over here is my
personal favorite section the coffee
section and it's because I love these
little like one cup tour over coffees
right here I don't think I ever saw
those in Canada the US when you were in
the States did you see this yeah
mind you I wasn't the biggest coffee fan
when I lived back in Canada so I might
have just missed it but you can
literally just just like that just pour
over one cup of coffee like these single
serving drip coffees I love that there's
an entire section 40 over here cookies
and choco pie did you ever have moon
pies all your in the States
what okay I'm moving on this is a cereal
section which is nothing shy of
disappointing do you miss the cereal
sections smooth yet frosted flakes and
you get like honey bunches of oats style
stuff this is actually my first time to
see this Hershey choco bids is it good I
think I might be buying this and
bringing it home today we're still kind
of in the snack area this is one of the
more popular like snack care you're
laughing yeah this is really okay that's
this for us
Werther's original was like the snack
that your grandma or grandpa would give
you you'd go over to their house there
would be a bunch in a bowl so you're
saying that the Maureen ugh
Mel's alright this entire area right
here is basically like nuts and fish
snacks you get some beef jerky which in
Japan is fairly heavily priced like for
a larger bag of beef jerky like this
you're looking like 760 yen and yet if
you just if you were like you know what
I'm in the mood for I'm just in the mood
for three whole squids well then this is
clearly the product for you and these
are actually really good have you had
the curry thin these are curry flavored
ten bay and they're just just
spectacular the entire section here is
really good a really popular didn't even
let me finish the sentence didn't even
give me the chance these here a happy
tongue are insanely popular amongst you
happenes people they're really they do
all right now on to this section over
here which is the alcohol section and
while I think alcohol sections are vary
from country to country there's one
major thing that I want to show that is
mind blowing okay so a little bit of a
story when I first came to Japan I came
into a supermarket around here and I
found big old bottle of vodka for like
like I think seven or eight dollars and
I bought two of them and went back home
and my roommate was like wow how do you
like vodka and I was like no really but
it was on sale he's like how much was it
I was like it was like 800 yen and he's
like do that that's not a sale that's
just Japan price example this $8 bottle
of blended whisky in Canada you're
probably looking at at least $30 that's
like a starting price for alcohol
yeah but beer in Canada is chief
but liquor especially is expensive this
is four liters of whiskey for $33 it's
got a handle - and recently that are
kind of getting into making these like
craft style beers like this kidding
grande IPA
this Ione is really good if you're into
like an IPA or a craft beer type of
stuff I really recommend that one have
you ever tried the redeye
it's basically tomato juice and beer
mixed together which sounds terrible
which is why I originally bought it it
was spectacular I am all about this cha
hun right here
like Chinese fried rice all you do is
microwave it and you're good to go
but do be forewarned that when you
microwave this it goes down to about
one-third the size it originally was
yeah so that like that entire bag is
like one serving yeah it looks like oh
there's a couple no no I would be remiss
if I didn't point out like one or two of
my favorite ice creams kulish that's
just it's like it's just a bag of ice
cream right there last year though Japan
went through this huge chocolate mint
obsession you remember that I every shop
everywhere everything was chocolate mint
so if you're looking and trying to
figure out if the cheese you picked is
cheaper expensive look at the grams
versus yen if it's fairly close to a
hundred grams per hundred yen then
you've got a really good deal okay you
know we're gonna switch cameras for a
second this entire section here is for
prepackaged Japanese Vento's which are
all fairly reasonably priced like this
one here fairly hefty bento it is it's
like four bucks
there's an entire thing over here with
just tempura and one of the things that
I like that I don't think a lot of
people know about these areas is that
usually around 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
all these foods get discounts yep
sometimes buy like $1 sometimes
but if you're coming to a Japanese
supermarket later at night like 7 8 9
p.m. head right over to like the
precooked Foods aisles because they've
got to get rid of it back on the other
camera for a second because now we are
at the sushi section and I just I love
the sushi section especially when it all
gets discounted I'm not even really a
soy milk drinker but they have all these
different flavors like they have coffee
flavored soy milk cocoa flavored soy
milk banana flavored ones there's almond
flavored ones there's ice cream flavored
ones American ones like sweet this green
one here is sweet but if you get like
the straight-up plain one it is
unsweetened and it's almost painful to
drink it I was like yeah it really does
in this aisle here there's something
that I know that Sherry's gonna be super
excited about yeah yeah Skippy peanut
butter extra chunky but since we're on
the topic of peanut butter there's
something I think they need to know
about Shari and the heads this Japanese
peanuts bata which doesn't look anything
like peanut butter or what Japanese
called peanut cream what in the world is
peanut cream it looks like jello inside
though yeah yeah I made a mistake of
buying this long time ago if you wanted
interesting culinary experience in Japan
maybe try this out if you want peanut
butters stay away from it yeah it's
cheap it's it's only 98 yen while most
Japanese supermarkets do not have a self
checkout option say you actually does in
case you're wondering these actually do
have the option to switch them over into
English and as soon as you do that not
only does this all turn into English but
it just sounds like you're in Walmart in
North America well go please scan your
first item and just because it's kind of
part of the cultural experience I want
to
you but some of the impulse items right
near the register are you've got the
pretty standard stuff of like gum and
chocolates
you got gummies you have these little
jellybeans things that are absolutely
amazing called poi 'fl these are just
fantastic little taste of home with some
M&Ms and that in a nutshell is pretty
much what a Japanese supermarket is like
I think the biggest difference out of
everything is purchase the size yeah I
think so I think is the most outstanding
difference and the obvious availability
of Japanese product but was a lot of fun
I actually genuinely enjoyed that I've
been shopping at that supermarket for
like a decade and I'm glad I can finally
share it with you guys what was your
favorite thing out of all of it did you
have a favorite is it twins wasn't it
Twix and kind of excited I know if you
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