Today we're trying ultra unique Japanese canned foods
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so we've got a super interesting list of
items for you all today
I've went around
Japan and gathered some of the most
unique Japanese canned foods
A lot of this I've never tried before
It'll be my first time
some of them are probably pushing the edge
In advance I do apologize if I overstepped any bounds
with some of this food but it is part of
Japanese culture and this is what they eat
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That said without further ado
let's try some ultra unique Japanese canned foods
Number one - Fried Chicken Teriyaki Mayo Flavor
You know I love fried chicken and what better way to
celebrate this video than I have karage
fried chicken in a can
Have you ever thought or like that this would actually
happen in our lifetime to have fried
chicken in a can I'm just so happy okay
let's open this one up what do we have here?
That smells like fried chicken
It's interesting because when you think of
fried chicken you think of something
that's crispy or at least I think of
something crispy but when you look at
this it's kind of gooey inside
I was thinking fried chicken like freshly hot
fried crispy fried chicken in a can this
is not the case so I'm a bit hesitant now
But anyways let's try like they're like
yeah they're like pretty decent size of
pieces of fried chicken as you can see
I think I set my expectations too high
I think they were here when
realistically they should have been here
and I think we are here so
yeah it doesn't even seem like fried
chicken it just seems like chicken of the nazi
It has the same texture and moistness as a can of chicken not as
excited about this as i thought it was
going to be
well it's supposed to have a teriyaki
and mayo sauce
You think Its okay ?
Yeah I was just expecting a little
bit more the sourness it does have that
mayonnaisey taste so I think some people
that don't like mayonnaise may not like
this as well but yeah
Karage in a can who would have thunk
Number Two - Dashi Maki - Japanese rolled egg
I think egg in general is not so strange
in a can but a Japanese tamagoyaki or
dashimaki is maybe a little bit on the
rare side you don't see this very often
this one i'm expecting to be pretty good
I don't think you can mess it up too
much because the egg always preserves
pretty well I think in a can
The eggs in uh those plastic pouches before
I have like kind of a good feeling about this one
Oh it smells like tamagoyaki as expected
you can see all the different layers
it's basically when you if you ever cook
tamagoyaki basically you get thin layers
of egg and then you just keep on folding
it into itself until it makes this thick
piece of egg let's take the first bite of this guy
hmm I knew it was going to be good
It does have like a dashi taste to it
It's super moist but it does have that egg
texture but you know what you can have
this anytime you want until 2024
like when you can just have like these
whenever because you know like tamagoyaki does go bad
I don't know if you can make it it's not
like making eggs you gotta like flip it
how long do you think it takes to make
one whole thing like this of tamagoyaki
10 minutes that's a long time when you
can just pop a can and you're good to go
This is a pretty good product you want
to try I think you should try
wow
that's big and there's like four pieces total
Itadakimasu
Oh wow they can make it this good wow
it's really good I don't taste the
artificial like can taste so much it's
not too sweet like in hmm
so this company
is in business for 75 years
Doing just eggs they're like a specialist for eggs
I like this
Number Three - Bakayaro (Horse & Deer Meat)
This one was screaming to me off of the shelves
This is horse meat this is
something that Japanese people also eat
um as part of their culture like it's
not like an everyday thing but if you go
to like Izakayas or
I'm just gonna show you guys
If you guys have an issue with it let me know
But then here it says eso
jika shio it's a type of deer that
they've seen hopefully there you go and
then they had a play on words by calling it Bakayaro
which means F U
Interesting and then its says show you as a soy sauce flavor
let's open this up
Oh
look at this so this one looks pretty red
surprisingly it's not like gooey and
like oily or anything looks like it's
gonna be super dry
let's try this piece
and this is beef jerky potential
This is something that you would get in like a
plastic pouch right before you get on
the shinkansen and have it with your beer
It's not bad at all
I really can't taste that it's deer or horse it just
tastes like meat there's no like
gaminess to it or maybe it's the sauce
like the soyu aji it has a sweetness no
it's something I would eat normally
surprisingly good I like it
I would have a few cans of this at home and just say
hey
like no I wouldn't have a few cans and
if you guys are really upset
I'm not gonna have this yeah I could keep on eating this
Try
Maiko : Screaming sound in the background
Are we eating different cans ?
No its not. No, Can you try one more ?
Maiko : No
We're never like this far apart on like food
I think Maiko just got a bad piece
There you go that was the honest truth
Number Four - Okonomiyaki
look what we have here
We have Okonomiyaki
It says it's Osaka's meibutsu
Osaka is known for Okonomiyaki
It looks like it comes in the box but
believe me you it is coming straight in a can
What does it say on here ?
first of all
I always hear like hom mani
but then Mon
how's my Osaka accent ?
Okay she rolled her eyes just for the record
usually this thing is cooked super fresh
on a griddle and you just let it cook on
top and then you put all the ingredients
and everything so I'm quite interested
to see how this whole thing works out if
it's just like in a can
okay okay if you look inside you get all
these different ingredients you get the
Okonomiyaki sauce, bonito flakes and then
you get some nori
so a lot of the cans
like say that like they recommend you
heating up this one's like you should so
maybe we should on this one
oh wow
Just look at inside there's like a shrimp smell inside
There's more than one
oh look there's two flavorful surprises in here
cool here you go all made and good
It is nice that it comes with the bonita flakes
all in a can it's pretty impressive
you don't even have to
I guess you do have to cook it but it's just ready to go
It has a really vinegary smell to it as
well like after putting on the sauce
maybe
so first of all
Not my favorite
But I think they did a really good job at recreating the taste
they have all of the sauce and the
bonito flakes and everything
It just tastes a little bit different than when you would have it fresh
and just like cooked right in front of you
That's a good point
so if you think that the world is just crumbling outside
This is a nice meal
There's no meat in it ?
oh wow it has a giant meat inside
Did you know that ?
I didn't get that far
To be honest with you
I just found octopus
What was that big big chunk ?
so there's a big chunk of something suspicious
Fish ?
it's seafood
there's eggs it has icca it has saba
It has everything in here
I don't know why you didn't like
it's really really good it has a good dusty
flavor there's a little sweetness
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All right bring on more canned food
Numbe Five - Beef Tongue Stew with a demi-glace sauce
check this out
GYU-TAN in a can
so this one says aged beef tongue stewed in rich and delicious demi glace
until tender
so when I saw this one I definitely wanted to get it it
just looks so premium
I mean just look at the packaging it looks like it'd be
served right next to the caviar and it
looks like it's nikomi so it's like boiled
try to open this
okay there you go
This can I guess it's gold doesn't seem
so premium after that maybe does this
look like a premium can to you ?
Oh !!
yeah we are not popping bottles but
we're popping cans today
Maiko is looking at the package otherwise she
would have laughed at that joke
so this smells like beef stew if you've
ever had beef stew it's not so rare in
the states you know beef stew in a can
Yeah I used to have when I was a kid
I think
I even had like these like beef stew
microwavable cups you buy them from cosco
Miko : Not in a can In a like a table dinner package thingy right?
Definitely can get beef stew in a can
it smells exactly like that
so for those that don't know Gyūtan is beef tongue
just quite interesting in itself
You probably don't find that a lot in maybe
other countries but these are pretty
thick pieces of Gyūtan
look at how thick that is that is like a fatty tongue
I like it. It's definitely soft it does
have an interesting texture to it though
I think could be a little bit more moist
when you bite into it it kind of has a
corn hash or corned beef texture to it
it gets like really shreddy in the
middle i think this would be good though
if you warmed it up instead of just like
eating it cold like we're eating
everything right now the sauce itself
not too sweet I mean just a little bit
sweet but it's your like traditional
standard demigloss sauce
I wonder if you could fool someone if you heated this up
and you put it like on a like a really expensive plate
Number Six - Takoyaki
Are we not bringing the flavors?
Today right now we got up next Takoyaki
This usually comes out of a truck but
now it comes out of a can
I love Takoyaki um you guys have seen multiple
videos of me doing Takoyaki videos
This one is made by Mr.Kanso
Mr.Kanso is kind of like a restaurant that has canned foods
To be honest with you after this video I don't think I want to go
it says that this one has four pieces in here
This does not smell like takoyaki
I'm just surprised that comes in such a
gelatin mixture in here
I was expecting to be kind of a dry cookie
Oh. so just trying to take this out the takoyaki
itself is already breaking up see that
right there I just tried to pick it up
and it just broke in half from the just
a slight pressure of the chopsticks
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This video is a lot harder than I thought
This is like a mushy mushy mushy mess in here
It's like a pancake that's been sitting in a sugary water for a year
Maiko : Eww !!
It's so gooey that I don't know if I like the texture
and it has little bits and pieces of taco
yeah maybe it's just like two can you
taste this and just let me know
Let me know how you think Maiko
Well I haven't eaten yet so let me try
you're early to judge
Itadakimasu
Number Seven - Fugu Fish Curry
so this one is the most dangerous fish in the world
I don't know maybe so basically it is a
fugu curry but what's interesting is
that it says fuku here fuku yaki curry
it's by fukutaro yeah or maybe that's
why they call it just looking at the
instructions here says you're supposed
to eat it with cheese we're supposed to
heat this up well let's just do the taste
Its really really thick you can't even see the
chunks of fugu really
oh there's a big chunk right here
Look at that big chunk of fugu
Oh it has a strong like japanese curry smell but I feel like it has some
extra spices in there because it's really strong
wow that's a strong curry but it also
It also has a fishiness to it maybe that's also
where the strong curry smells coming from
Oh and it has a kick
i think it says chu kara so it's like medium spiciness
I'm just kind of scared to eat this food
You think I'm gonna be okay ?
I don't know if I can handle this
You can see why you would probably also want
to put some cheese on there just to even
out and balance the taste seems like
really acidic apparently it's fugu is
it's tough I thought it was gonna be
soft and it would kind of melt in your
mouth like a crumble but it's really texturized
I think overall this would be a really
good dish if you prepared it correctly
but just like straight out of the can
it's just too strong for me
like can you taste this ?
So I just got one step closer I'm standing behind the camera
usually just now like over there I smell the spice
Here I smell the fishiness
well that's how much that's how much
this is strong that's how strong this is
let's keep that
that's how strong this is
let's use this one
I could not eat that can. That entire can
It has a really strong fish taste
has a little bitterness you just need to warm a little bit
nothing beats fresh food huh
all right
all right so we're going to close out here
Those are my Japanese canned foods
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