well that's not going to play i'm your
host jordan i'm here with ian alex sarah
we got christina and shirley behind the
camera it is the whole crew here today
and today we are doing something very
special we are checking out
vegetarian options
in tokyo you excited guys
loving some vegan options absolutely
ready for it we have a whole bunch of
things here we got
ramen we got we got curry we got snacks
we got burgers what should we start with
boys and girls what's personal menu i
reckon to curry the curry yeah it's too
warm yeah let's do it
let's start with the curry we've
separated the curry into tiny bowls so
guys ready let's uh shall we yeah
we got this
one thing i've noticed being in japan
for quite a long time is that previously
vegan food you could find very specific
vegan restaurants but a lot of chains
like
um it's a very you might you guys must
know affording
the place yeah yeah
there's other burger places with way
back burgers who really focus on vegan
food but
all these major changes now they all
seem to have some kind of vegan option
right which certainly wasn't the case
even like five years ago
yes that's the things like vegan souls
have changed over the last 10 years like
five 10 years ago me my friend came to
japan went to a ramen store my friend
wanted a vegan ramen so i saw so you
know vegan ramen of course brings out
the ramen
vegetables
on it it's so good to ask the guy like
what's the soup
vegan vegan
that's the problem like a lot of the
players didn't understand like you know
what vegetarian vegan meant really but
like places like a coffee toilet they
have like really good like actual vegan
vegetarian options so even like the the
curry itself
is vegetarian it's interesting they have
a lot of veggies in here and i can taste
a lot of skim on also like pickled
veggies and it complements the kind of a
sweet spicyness of the japanese curry
and i'm surprised how accurate the
flavor is it's pretty good yeah
i don't think if unless you're someone
who like is looking for the meat you
wouldn't notice that it's vegan and i
think that's when they do a good job
especially with this kind of fast food
stuff so long as you don't notice
yeah years and years of music i went to
a burger king i remember i asked for
like a vegetarian burger and i basically
i do occasionally go to vegan
restaurants or vegetarian restaurants
just to try out you know different kinds
of vegan food out there because actually
recently there's a boom or spike in the
number of vegan restaurants and even the
kombini like the local like shops will
store like snacks and like what's that
convenient again that has natural
awesome natural like mlm
this is something that sherry picked up
for us it's from bio ralph so uh it's
inside one of the supermarkets here
called life and they have a whole range
of like vegan products right here what
we have is like couple rice but it's
sadly um not vegan it's vegetarian um
because it has egg and cheese but
they're they have like instant um
chinese cooking things they have instant
soup base yeah soup base um it's like a
vegan hamburger i saw that it was like a
hamburger soy meat yeah it looked
amazing and it was reasonably priced i
feel like if you're trying to eat like
meat-free or vegan stuff in japan
everything's really expensive like vegan
cheese and all that but there this place
was reasonable so yeah surprisingly
cheap i want to make these vegan
noodles
so mine is the original tantan noodle
soup which is what sarah got i've got
hot on a salad
i've got soy butter
thanks alex oh
rules out in this on this one
so i'm going to try the vegetarian taco
rice
it looks so good is it actually soy meat
you can try a bit
put it on the lid
so i put it on the lips
it's fine so you need that lip to make
the noodles actually yeah anyway so they
use soy meat and uh it's flavored
heavily so i mean the texture's fine
it's chewy for me it's great like i'm
not too fussy um would recommend
wouldn't get it and it's not that bad it
was like 600 yen that's 67 for
a reasonably like heavy meal like they
can take on the go i would buy that
that's pretty cheap yeah yeah the good
thing about this one is it tells you
what allergens they are inside here in
english so this one doesn't have meat
fish egg milk msg oh is have you guys
heard of teaspoon no no i don't know
really so this is one of the best places
in tokyo to go for ramen that's vegan
and they have a few locations so there's
three that are you know around the town
there's one in tokyo station
but then they have two at narita airport
that one's honestly the one anne has it
the best oh that's a good job oh can we
exchange right now okay well i've never
seen this before but uh i
place on the lid
too warm while waiting so i've got a
soup basting i'd get put in my one do
you have that on your one no i have a
tiny
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like the standard one yeah yeah do you
like it i love it yeah it's the best
yeah yeah because it's kind of like this
heavier noodle base where they have like
they originally use soy milk so it's
actually not too far from getting the
vegan they just have to substitute like
the minced meat for soy milk yeah i i
love that
you get like a soup based one where you
get like the dry one yeah so i always go
there's a restaurant where i live and
they have the dry one i really really
like it alex actually always gets angry
because there's a dish called laksa
which i cook in curry laps and i cook
the soup away i like it it dries it
until all the noodles are soggy that's
not how we eat it all malaysian's out
please tell these guys
let him enjoy his food how he likes it
thank you i'm on ian's team stop this
take my money 100 yen
so one thing though you said so that one
that you were just eating sarah that's
from just at the chain supermarket right
and they have like a vegan section in
there and i've noticed other like
supermarkets now like i have the
conception so myself and emma we often
message each other when we find
something kind of vegan
and the one thing that kind of would
always stop me the one thing i thought
couldn't be replicated
was mayonnaise
what they say in japanese
like someone who loves mayonnaise
mayonnaise on everything
yeah
i put mayonnaise on everything
but i had vegan uh emma recommended me a
vegan mayonnaise was it from cupi or uh
no no they probably do one though cube
is a big brand of mayonnaise but no is
this one from i think the same uh
probably from the same supermarket from
life
and i can tell the difference it was
like so that is that yeah
that sounds great
one more i have a question though is it
healthier than the probably not for 8
000 calories but it takes tastes really
good um
i got i got a little trivia thing so if
you guys can get it so my alarm you can
only use la with maya i think it's like
you can't say that like ketchup a lot it
doesn't mean you like it but my lies
i found out recently we'll have to ask
shorty to confirm if this is true or not
but i found there's one for pakchi which
is a coriander
someone who loves korean can you guess
what it is
all right our vegan noodles are ready
let's give them a go guys give me one
comment
sour spicy and hot that's not bad at all
sauce is pretty good actually i'm not a
man that likes instant ramen but this is
actually very durable may try some no
all right connect right
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i'm nice
look at him learn from ian
which is precisely why i took you you
sorry sarah
the other day is blue jam cafe in
azerbaiju yeah it's uh it's a shame it's
actually a moving location soon so it's
gonna be closed for a little while but
um which is why we went to check it out
and we had another reason why we went
we were actually on tv oh japanese
superstar if you want to find out more
on why we were on tv check out the link
down in the description below
uh we have a new blog post about it
i love boujam cafe the food is really
really good was that not actually uh
just a vegan restaurant they just have
lots of vegan options it's easy there
but there's actually one more reason
whether yeah the art of the store is
fantastic and perhaps uh someone to my
right knows about the art and why it's
so good i started a little side project
a little while ago and in a number of
cafes and restaurants in tokyo i have
some frames on the wall and each month i
rotate the artists in there and it gets
the cafe is kind of likely to change the
artwork and we're going to have some
events and stuff like that but right now
in blue jam cafe this month chris brawl
of all people uh his artwork is on the
walls there my little project's called
artillery if you check it out be amazing
uh it's not just the gallery things also
once a month in tokyo in one of the
locations we have a big event and we got
the first one this month so if anyone is
visiting japan in the future watching
this um check out the articley.com
website and please come to future events
and you can meet people
i won't be there no yes you will do i
get free drinks yeah okay i'm coming
for free
one we've got two more things to try
this one is the
vegan moss burger the green burger green
burger so ultimately it's a plant-based
burger and moss burger is actually the
first ever fast food restaurant in japan
to produce a plant-based burger how
amazing proud of you most burger dish
you did it what's burger
it actually comes with this this is a
make teriyaki mayonnaise so we call it
teri mayo i never saw this until i moved
to japan and it's the
piece greatest
engineering i think i've seen in the
last 10 years basically when you buy
something from a conbini like you get
like the american dogs they call it
which is like a corn dog which comes
with like a ketchup thing but instead of
having a little sachet where you rip it
and get it everywhere just you just
click these together
okay
oh
sexy
it's a lot of sauce science
nice
nuts
moss burger this burger um the patty is
made up of three items cabbage konyaku
and soy beans
and then the bun is actually it should
be green but it's not green today i've
sliced up the burgers pretty good guys
go for it each
i don't like raw tomatoes
yes
thank you
by the way do you guys know what does
mos mountain ocean sky no
very close action mountain ocean sun
mountain standing tall and firm like a
mountain having a heart as broad and
deep as the ocean
and having passion like the sun that
never burns out
that's
deep also it tastes reasonable
reasonable just yeah i prefer no sauce
and that's like oh 80 sauce i love sauce
the last thing we have to try is various
muji i feel like in japan in the
last couple years definitely the food
side of mooji has grown and grown i do a
lot of my food shopping in muji because
there's
it's like pre-made like curries and
sauces but there's such a variety now as
you can see here and also like vegan
stuff you can get um soy they get soy
handbag steaks you can get soy like
minced meat you can get soy there's like
nuggets there's so many different styles
of like soy meats available from fuji
now so i'm very excited to try relax
some snacks from it i want to open the
there's a spinach stick staple
jordan's found something you like holy
these are good oh my god the
roasted green tea ones are really good
no ain't nothing
this one's actually really good from
them fruit chips
i like fruit chips oh i got an apple
um so inside here there's also
persimmons so known as in japanese
which is apparently emma's favorite one
so if you want to eat like emma buy
these bananas
wait what
there are some restaurants or products
that says plant-based items on it but it
doesn't necessarily mean that it's vegan
or vegetarian so just be careful go to
the back use google translate try to
like see what you're allergic to or you
can't eat
that's the best way to go about it in
japan well happy cow which is kind of
globally used but it's very commonly
used here too
if you guys are living in japan there's
a weekly subscription based
service that you can get where you can
order meal kits oliver it's made from
fresh ingredients from all the farmers
around japan and they offer a vegan
option
so vegan option is from purple carrot
purple carrot is an american baby's
website and they have incorporated like
all their vegan recipes inside basically
everything all the ingredients like
carrots tomatoes they're all like
pre-portioned for you let's say to make
this
dish for example you you only need like
half a carrot for example so that's all
they're going to give you and they're
going to give you like pre-portioned
they give you the recipe and you make it
exactly and it's super easy anyone can
do it and but michaela shiori and myself
are on the subscription assume it's
great it's always six boy o-i-s-i-x
really easy to navigate if you don't
read japanese that's fine turn on google
translate one more time that's how i do
it
i'm cute and the good news is now they
have it in some supermarkets you might
see a section that says oysters and then
the kids are all there this is not
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yeah i think it was a lot of choices
cool thanks guys i mean a lot of vegan
food these got me a lot of vegan food
i'm feeling really full i'm gonna go
take a nap so guys until next time i'll
see you later oh my god get off me bye
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