Greetings from downtown Kagoshima it's time for breakfast before I get back onto the road to hitchhike
and I'm here in for breakfast and if you look I'm looking at it right now
I'm going to turn it around here it is in Tenmonkan, central Kagoshima, the crêpe vending machine
Now, there's a lot of interesting things about this including the owner giving his cell phone number in case there's a problem.
There's also the date to show that it's fresh; it was made yesterday on the twenty seventh
And there's like about 30 different varieties of crêpes to choose from
this one here says custard banana
this one here yeah also custard banana
Oh, they're all custard banana. But
anyways this one here says
chocolate "Nama" cream with a cake inside
this one is "Nama" caramel special
and one is a custard banana so this one has a potato in it
how weird is that
Whoa, all of them are 200 Yen, so
in this live stream from Kagoshima I'm going to unbox one of them
Which one do you think I should eat?
This one says Hershey's chocolate is inside of it I'm American, I'm sort of impartial to Hershey's
But I think maybe for breakfast, um, chocolate might be a little bit too much, huh?
The potato one huh? Maybe the caramel?
Custard looks pretty good
I think I'm going to go with the caramel with a cake inside
Well everyone's saying potato now I'm lost
I think it's going to be a big disappointment.
I think if you go with the potato it's not going to live up to expectations.
Here is the potato
And here is the "Nama" caramel.
For full disclosure I've already eaten them
And I'm going to throw that way later
But I made a vlog this morning with it and I've already eaten it
So I know which ones are the good ones.
For full disclosure.
So what do you think?
Custard sounds real good too so is that caramel
The potato I got money for two of them
I have enough money for two of them
But I really don't want to eat two crêpes
Before I start hitchhiking!
it's going to be pretty sad for the next person (who) picks me up.
Alright
they were pretty smart they put this vending machine
right where all the buses come
All the buses come, this is central entertainment area
All the buses come here going to the airport
So people are aften waiting for 30 minutes
And if you're going to be waiting for that amount of time
You're going to put a lot of vending machines
And of course you're going to put a crêpe vending machine right there
Alright; let's go for it, I'm going to put in the 200 Yen
Hahaha, the moment of truth! What's it gonna be, what's it gonna be?
I'm going to go with the caramel
You know why?
Because I know it's going to look really awesome
here we go
I'm pushing the button and then we're going to watch it come down here
Here we go; ready?
three, two, one
Oh, that's such a good sound, alright; here we are
Is that not the coolest thing?
They were so ingenious with this
They took a regular coke machine with a can
And they put it glasses in at the same shape as a can
And they put the crêpe inside of the glass jar
It's refrigerated the jar is cool
And the expiration date is on the crêpe as well
And it says here "don't throw this glass away, recycle it."
There's a recycling bin which everbody of course does it this being Japan
When you're finished with it you put the glass jar back there
but this is not the most amazing thing?
I'm just very very, just stunned with the ingenuity on
how you take something that we use abroad every day, The Coke vending machine or Pepsi vending machine
and they find a way to put a crêpe in it and sell it on the street for 200 Yen
which is more than a cola would be.
Okay, now it's time to un-box this thing while I'm holding the camera how am I supposed to do this?
I'm going, I'm going rogue, here we go
boom! Alright; recycle the glass. Here we go
It's pretty light
It's not very heavy
"Nama" caramel special
It tells the ingredients on the back; I kind of like that so you know what you're eating
alright, here we go
If I can put this camera down.
I'm using the DJI OSMO right now on this will work just fine, okay
Crêpe vending machine great 200 Yen
Looks like a crêpe
Smells like a crêpe alright
Are you ready for this? alright stay with me DJI Ozmo, hey Ozmo, hey now love and peace
I'm turning it off, here we go
Now it's time for the moment of truth we're going to bust this baby open and see
what the "Nama" caramel and cake look like
Ready?
Oh this is going to be awesome ready here we go 3, 2,1 oh yeah
Look at that, man they put in a lot of cream
You can see that caramel oozing out, look at that, whoa
Vending machine crêpe all right here we go
That's so sweet This is so darn sweet
I think the caramel's a little bit too much
They put a piece of cake in it I don't know if you can see that
So there's a piece of, I think it's Kasutera cake with bit caramel
Visually it looks really awesome but the taste is a little bit too sweet
Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to put this to the side
That's enough of that and
Should we try another one? Hmm let's see here
Gosh I could go for a coffee too
See these coffees they're all heated
And these are cold
I'll go with the coffee
Oh, they have Tully's coffee here I'm going to get that
Alright, back to the crêpe vending machine.
Alright you know what everyone was asking to go for the potato one
it says "Imo" so I'm going to go for that one, that's this one here.
Kagoshima is famous for the "Satsuma Imo"
So I'm sure it's going to be okay.
All right here we go, potato
We're going potato this time.
This is for science people and my breakfast
Alright, potato crêpe
Let's go the one in the middle
Oh; wait it's flashing! They're all sold out!
What! No! Nooo!
It's hard to see but this light here that's flashing "URIKIRE" which is sold out
Darn
Oh man, I'm sorry you're not going to get a chance to see, um, the potato one
Alright, plan C.
Alright what've we got here?
We have "Rare cheese cake" this is a "Rare cheese cake" with strawberry
Ok wait; now I'm changing my mind "Rare cheese cake with strawberry"
"Chocolate and custard"
And that's about all that's left.
And another "Nama" caramel I'm not eating that, chocolate and banana
So those are your choice custard or cheese cake we got one custard
We get some cheese cakes here
We got some chocolate cheese, they're all flashing, flashing custard strawberry
Alright looks like we're going to go for the rare cheese cake
God; now the cheese cake are really coming in
Cheesecake is gonna be like this Japanese cheese cake that's really light not heavy like the New York style
But just gonna go for it OK rare cheese with strawberry here we go
Nice! I love that sound, it's like you won something. Boom!
Looks just like the last one
Please recycle in the bin
the expiration date and here's a label telling you the ingredients on the crêpe again
This is really nice I like
I'll put the camera down again
Another unboxing
Ok
Recycle
and it says here "Rare cheese."
"Rare cheese." I don't know what that means in itself. "Rare cheese."
It's cheese I guess you can't find anywhere except for this vending machine right
Breakfast, OK
This one looks a little bit less like a crêpe
It's very light
Here we go
Busting open a rare cheese cake crêpe
Oh, there's not a lot of strawberrys in here
But it's mostly cream and that rare cheese looks pretty good
Oh wow, that cheese is in there real good
Ok, here we go!
Sweet
Needs more strawberry
That one had some strawberry in it
It's good
I think the cheese you really have to be a fan of cheese cake to like this rare cheese because it's too rich
because there's already a bunch of cream
It's like just rich cream with um
Regular cream and then there's not enough strawberry, so
It's a bit of a letdown
I like the caramel one better
I'm going to put this down too
Alright
So, all in all
A crêpe vending machine's a pretty cool idea
I like the fact that they put it right in the middle of the city
A high traffic, a high trafficked area
I like how you can recycle it right there
I like how they took a regular normal Cola vending machine, drink vending machine, and they found a way to put
cheesecake in it
not cheese cake but crêpes in it
of so many different flavors like cheese cake and custard and banana
And that's just "Cool Japan" right there.
Alright folks so; that was my breakfast it was nice to share that with you
I'm going to get a coffee try to find where the highway connects up to go up to Kumamoto
And start hitchhiking and today I'm going to make it to Kumamoto
Take a look at the castle
I'm really interested to see how Kumamoto's been doing since the earthquake happened last year
And they've reopened the castle to the cherry blossoms this year which is
sort of a really good thing
So I'm looking forward to that;
and hopefully I get there before it gets dark, so
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Now I got to clean up that mess
Alright John and Kagoshima over and out! Back to the road!