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mind-blowing japanese package designs
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so this video got me pretty excited
because it's something that i wanted to
share with all of you for quite some
time but just
didn't ever do it japan is some of the
most clever and should i say
ingenious product packaging that i've
ever seen and i wanted to spend some
time in this video and bring some of it
to light because i've been in japan for
so many years and
some of these product designs i'm just
finding out just recently so yeah i
think some of these
might blow your mind as they blew my
mind as well but before i start like
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all right let's do this vacuum sealed
bottles
so this is quite ingenious and probably
one of my more favorite ones in this
whole lot and it has to do
with this soy sauce bottle if you look
at it it just looks like a regular soy
sauce bottle
it doesn't look any different so what's
so special about
this bottle is that it has like a air
vacuum system built in
there's actually a pouch in here you
can't really see it right now
but it prevents air from actually
contacting
any of the soy sauce which keeps it
fresh for 90 days
so basically when you squeeze out the
soy
sauce like this what you'll usually have
is you'll have
air coming back in if you don't have
this type of bottle but what's unique to
this particular soy sauce is if you look
at the top here
you can see like the main hole where the
soy sauce comes out and then you have
two holes
here at the top and one of the holes
connected to the bag and then you have
the other hole connected to the bottle
so basically
as you use the soy sauce then the bag
gets
smaller and smaller well the bag itself
doesn't get smaller and smaller
and the air leaves
this is having so much trouble trying to
explain this technology
okay here's all the air coming back in
that there is a bag right there half of
it is empty so basically all of the air
is getting
sucked back in and it's going all inside
of the bottle but down to the bag so the
soy sauce never
touches any air which is pretty amazing
i think this is general like probably
common knowledge for people
in japan i mean i'm sure you knew for 10
years but again
this video is to share with people all
of the stuff that i am learning here in
japan
what's also interesting it's not just
soy sauce they've kind of expanded their
lines so this is also in like
meeting which is like a cooking liquid
liquid it's a cookie liquid well
there you go this is pretty awesome and
just keeps everything
super fresh for 90 days the hidden but
maybe not so hidden cup noodle sticker
so cup of noodles you would think that
this
design couldn't get any better they have
reinvented or should i say improved
innovated
on the cup of noodles you know i always
say cup o noodles but it's just cup
noodles but it's like saying
yeah i have no good examples okay so
basically you have your standard cup of
noodles you open it up like so
and then you pour all the hot water in
and you always get
this lid that would be kind of like
popping open the ingenious thing is
at the bottom here it has a little
label that comes with it let's take this
tape it down like that so it comes with
its own tape which is
ingenious someone should have thought of
this a long long time ago what do you
think they came out with this like how
long ago
as far as i remember it's there so it's
always been here yeah to be honest
i haven't eaten cup noodles in a long
time i've never used this
ever like we always put a fork or
something on that we never is this to
the bra
like specific to the brand
i seriously don't think they have this
in the states or just like we've been
doing it
all wrong like my entire life like i
never knew this existed we should have
like
explosions every time like
the two in one sauce packet alright this
one
is an oldie butt goodie it is the
ketchup
and mustard packet you can see it's all
in one
and it is so so useful you can just get
your sauce
all in one go do you hate me this is
like frozen it's like a cold hot dog
i didn't want to get a stomach ache okay
well
you know it's actually pretty cool this
bag itself comes in a microwavable bag
like microwave
okay this oh this is hot because i just
re-migrated look at that let me just
show you how simple this
is you ready okay
okay i didn't do the best job so there
you go
you have the mustard and the ketchup but
i'll do it again on b-roll so it looks a
little bit better
you can see the mustard and the ketchup
and the plastic pouch
easy as that and you have a very nice
juicy dog with ketchup and
mustard they should make it with a
different sauce huh yeah maybe like
mayonnaise
and ketchup or barbecue sauce avocado
yeah and salsa oh
hey the first conbini to do this
wins the built-in tray so
this next one is one of those things
that i feel like they should have been
like doing long long time ago it just
seems
so natural but it's like they still
don't do this a lot so
this is a tray built into the package
or a package built into the tray they're
both it's
that's all the same the way this whole
thing works is it's kind of in a weird
triangle shape you open it you pull it
apart like this
and hopefully i don't spill everything
but it turns into a tray you have the
cartilage
good to go and then you can just go
cheers michael another good thing about
this is you can just microwave it as it
is
yeah i guess you don't have to you know
wash any plates or anything like that
just throw this away and you're done so
like simple easy i've had a friend
before they'll take a potato chips bag
and they'll just like cut a hole
like on the side that's an interesting
way to eat potato chips
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all right bring on the next product
microwave ready packages
so this one michael really loves in fact
she buys it for herself
quite often it's one of those packages
that is super simple
basically this is what you get on the
shelf it is just a plastic
pouch this one is super super useful
because you can just put this entire
package
as is straight from the shelf into the
microwave and it will cook
inside of the bag the way this one works
is
a little hole right here is for steam so
it like cooks
in the bag itself as it cooks the steam
will come out
right here and we'll just kind of
dissipate and it'll cook your food so
when you're ready to go
you just open it up here at the end of
the day do you use a bowl
i don't instruction says you're supposed
to pour it into a bowl
yeah but you don't necessarily have to
that's why i buy this because i get lazy
at night after retiring work yeah just
eat it straight from the pouch
yeah yeah yeah yeah all these other
types too they're like different brands
this one is meiji
this one is from kanoor oh it's also
ajinomoto this one
i don't know what do you guys think
would you buy something like this
double notch bags for our pleasure this
next one is
also pretty cool basically you think
it's like your regular pack at the top
you have your like standard notch right
here you open it up you can see that the
oil eggs are just at the top right here
you just like eat the coil egg once you
get towards the bottom then you try to
like stick your hands in here and it
gets kind of
way deep in there and you gotta like
your fingers get all messy so if you
look
closely they have a second notch so you
can rip it open
just like this boom you are back at the
head of the class
you are on top and you have all of your
goodies
ready to go yeah it's really great it's
really that convenient right like i
don't see why other packages
don't do this it's just a lot of snacks
do it a lot of
mommy do it i think it's getting pretty
popular
you would think you know just to make it
easier for the consumer like that's the
whole point of this whole like thing is
just
just little ideas or like little
innovations that make
eating or consuming these products just
so much easier what's also nice is like
the things that you're supposed to
keep a lot of them like the little like
gumdrops or like little candies these
days in japan they're all
like built in ziploc oh yeah it's
frustrating when he doesn't have it
which is rare like i was looking at the
whole entire candy section and they're
all like ziploc bags
the pudding notch so a lot of people
don't know about this
in fact i didn't know about it until
michael told me so everyone
loves pudding or pudding here in japan
it's kind of one of those like childhood
favorites that they grow up with you
know if you ever go to a restaurant then
they actually have this
upside down and you have caramel on the
top this one you can see
that the caramel is at the bottom and
the pudding is at the top
little did i know that this little guy
here
is the key to all of this and what
happens is if you were just to open this
up
obviously doesn't fall but you break it
open introduces air in the case itself
once you break this open
and putin will fall down flat perfectly
onto your plate let's see if i can do
this
front of the camera break this right
here
boom now that the air has been
introduced you can see
just gotta squeeze it like so and
boom pop down just like a fancy
restaurant
the refill bags that got me hooked what
separates these
new type of refills here in japan this
is like
shaped in an interesting way this part
right here
is designed to hook into the bottle
itself
so that you don't have as much spillage
and it goes
straight into the bottle like sometimes
you'll like be pouring it'll just kind
of go all over the place whereas these
ones are made to just like
kind of lock into place and stay
attached to the bottle while you're
pouring so
it just makes it so much easier so let
me just try to open this up right now
it comes open like that and you just
pour it in like this
and as it drips it is perfectly
being poured and it kind of all hooks in
place
there you go all done filled up and
nothing was spilled they do have
a tube built into here that just helps
everything pour out
and what's nice is like they have this
for like every refill nowadays here in
japan
this one here this is a softener
different shape but you can see that
again
it just hooks into place yeah it just
makes it super simple and i just love
how the product has been designed
the frozen singles alright so
frozen food anyone this looks like your
ordinary a frozen
package but it is a little bit different
and see
the frozen treats come in little
packages
what's really cool is that they come and
you can
rip it open just like that cook one
nugget at a time so you know
i think a lot of japanese people they
prefer to
eat one chicken nugget at a time
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this is often used for making bentos
they kind of pack them
individually so you can just kind of rip
out one and cook it
just like that six chicken nuggets is
kind of
i'm just so used to growing up like with
that costco mindset so you get like a 20
pound bag of chicken nuggets from the
freezer section you're like a million
chicken nuggets in like this big
like ziploc bag i don't even know if
it's ziploc it's just like a big bag
here in japan you get like
individually packed chicken nuggets
similar thing
with this minchi katsu comes apart
just like that so basically like if you
wanted to make a bento you would just
take
these two keep them up and then you're
good to go with the bento what's so
great about this
is you have no time in the morning moms
don't have time in the morning yeah and
like you don't usually could eat single
dish
every morning so you just pop this in
the microwave good and you don't have to
like put it in a tiny tray and wrap it
that's like painting the ass yeah just
like rip rip rip
pop it in and then you can make the
bento for your kid yeah it's perfect for
mothers single and married busy moms i
know
some moms that aren't so busy well
depends on how you're getting busy
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