Came here to say this, I was disappointed after the hype that we didn't end with a montage sequence of reaction. I love when they do that on Jolly, have the camera crew taste things and show them absolutely losing their minds. :D
So we had a crazy experience with the melon. We were in Vancouver on vacation at a omakase sushi counter. It was very intimate sushi theatre. Like maybe 12 people total. At the end of the meal we notice they are taking pictures with a melon and some Japanese business men who were sitting opposite of us. They were showing the melon around the counter and letting people take pictures of it. Then they have everyone be silent and tell us the men are the producers of the melon visiting from Japan and they have brought extra melon for everyone and everyone clapped for the melon. It was the best fruit I have ever tasted.
I watched a video were the Japanese farmer dude massages the melon like it's his own child. It's crazy how the time and effort they put into growing these fruits correlate to the taste
"everyone clapped for the melon" This reminds me of the Mango Cult during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Look it up if you want the full story, but basically the Pakistani Foreign Minister gave Mao a box of Sindhri mangos during his visit to China. Mao then gave the mangos to the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team (what a title for an organization) and they successfully turned these uneaten mangos into a symbol of Mao's sacrifice and generosity towards the workers of China. There were many art pieces and posters made depicting the mangos. They were preserved in formaldehyde and wax replicas of them were made and paraded through the country. People were expected to view them with reverence and awe and many people did, even being moved to tears. "One dentist from Fulin, Dr. Han Guangdi, saw the mango and said it was nothing special and looked just like sweet potato. He was put on trial for malicious slander, found guilty, paraded publicly throughout the town, and then executed with one shot to the head." Reading about China in their actual communist days is like reading about an alien planet. Amazing that the same party still has a hold on them today, only 60 years later, but they are relatively normal.
"costed" is a real word - its just used incorrectly in this video. I hope you don't work in the construction project management/accounting fields. You'd hear this term a lot and spend your days "screaming".
I lived for 3 years in a small apple-growing town in Aomori and got to eat tons of different kinds of local varieties the whole time. From local sweets and crafts made from apples, their leaves and their wood/bark, to the most delicious apple juice and apple jam you've ever had, it was all amazing. One of the things I experienced that kind of sums up Japanese fruit culture is how we had a hail storm one summer and much of the crop was damaged. Because of the Japanese preference for perfect looking fruit, they couldn't ship them to the rest of the country, so they sold them all locally at a discounted price, calling them "頑張り屋りんご" (basically "apples that tried their best").
Buntans are a pomelo variety. Like the card said you are supposed to peel the fruit, both the rind and the membrane around the individual slices. I have started trying a bunch of more expensive varieties recently and so far I found I like the common, affordable mellow gold to be the most enjoyable. Juicy, sweet and just a little tart with no bitterness as long as you peel off the membrane and veins
It's not a pomelo. It's a sweetie, a cross between a pomelo and a grapefruit. It tastes like a pomelo but it's much juicier. They started appearing a few years ago through regular grocery stores here in Europe and they are amazing. Far better than pomelo and a more appropriate size for one person😅
Welcome to Japan! I really appreciated the fact that you highlighted that culturally, fruits are a gift. As a gift, they need to look, and taste as perfect as can be. And like all gifts, they can range from mildly pricey, to crazy expensive. The drawback is: if you want to look for cheap fruits for cooking (example: wanting to make a cherry pie, with a kg of cherries), then it can be very challenging.
As a Japanese person it hurt me a little when I saw all that great melon juice dripping out onto the cutting board! It's so expensive, even the juice! When I had it one time in my life as a whole melon like that, we cooled and drank some of the juice. Great video, thank you for actually saying some of the fruits were worth the price. They really do feel like different fruit entirely.
16:49 This fruit is probably related to a Pomelo The way you're supposed to eat a pomelo is to almost score and peel the pith like you would a mandarine orange, then from the center separate the fruit into wedges. From individual wedges you peel the membrane from the middle to reveal and eat the juice sacs. The membrane of a pomelo is not meant to be eaten as it is usually very tough, chewy, and tart.
Just a note as I didn’t see it mentioned elsewhere: Japan has amazing strawberries but they are seasonal. When Babish visits they aren’t in season, so what he was getting was probably a super early batch. If you come to Japan in Dec I guarantee you can have the best strawberry of your list if $ is no object.
When I lived in Washington state years ago, I was told many times that "all our best apples are shipped to Japan". Now that I know about "luxury fruit" there, that makes a lot more sense.
Japanese American farmers started and developed the amazing fruit agriculture in Washington, among other places in the West. Of course, most of that land was stripped away/stolen from them during WWII.
The reason why they call it Earl's Favourite is because of its creation being a cross breeding of a type of melon from the UK called Earl something something (I forgot the name of the rest) with other varieties and became the "king of fruits", basically earl's favourite kid. Fruit in general is expensive in Japan even if you don't buy the gifting ones and one of the reasons why they like to buy the jelly pots with real fruit inside because it's the few chances they have to eat fruit.
If you're ever inclined to invest $11 in an exceptional apple, Wolf's Paw Apples are truly worth it. Their unique, irregular, and bumpy exterior sets them apart from the typical polished and shiny apples we’re used to, but they are the appley-est apples that have ever appled. I was sad to see them absent from the apple ranking video.
A major thing that you’re not realizing is that it’s CORPORATE gifting culture. The only people buying these are buying them either as a business expense or from corporate top 3% to other top 3%
@@kiara.moravec02 Those 10/10 fruits might be worth it for my mom, who never spends a lot on food, but would really appreciate the quality and thought. She got me a bunch of whole spices one year for Christmas. I used all that stuff.
From my understanding, the agricultural industry in Japan realized that they could not compete with foreign producers in price on mass-produced fruit due to things like amount of arable land due to the mountainous nature of the country, cost of labor, etc. So, instead, they opted to focus on going for very high quality, developing a variety of special breeds of fruit to market at a premium rate.
Lol naw. Japanese here. This "only fruit available is pricy fruit" narrative is incredibly racist and not something I thought I'd see from a TH-cam channel I respect.
@@alitaschratwieser4055he's not saying that that's the only fruit available but that natively grown fruit is expensive because it's expensive to grow there just like most places most fruit is probably imported in japan
Funny enough, from what I've heard this explanation also works if you replace the word "fruit" with "beef". I wonder if there are any other products with that approach in Japan.
As a Thai I'm glad you loved the mango! If you visit Thailand I recommend trying the Ok Rong mango. I like it more than the Namdokmai as it's super sweet and also incredibly fragrant. It's just not as visually appealing (wrinkly skin and smaller) but it's more delicious!
My experience is it's pretty much the same fruit but much cheaper. They sort it at the factory and the ones without blemishes end up in the fancy department store. The melon is of course an exception.
Persimmons taste like dates when dates are ripening. Dates are called Khalal in iraq before they ripe. They are yellow and crunchy similar to an apple, when they ripen half way, that’s what a persimmon tastes like.
I think I've seen how those grapes are grown. Much like the melon they doctor the fruit on the vine by removing at least every other bud so that the remaining grapes get more room and energy to grow.
kiwis can survive incredibly low temperatures, and so you can grow them yourself. they form a vine that will climb whatever tree you allow it to - and that vine gets massive. you could have hundreds of them in about 2 years after starting the seed (which is the hardest part)
@purposefully.verbose woah. Didn't know it was a vine. And now I went to the wiki to look it up, I also learned its alternative name is Chinese gooseberry. Wild.
I was able to get seeds for the same species of musk melon they use for the luxury fruits and I have to say even without going the extra mile to make a perfect melon it's one of my favorite plants in the garden. They're quite easy to grow, and produce tons of beautiful small yellow flowers that attract tons of pollinators. Whenever the plant is cut or pruned it produces a rather lovely cucumber-like scent, and the immature melons are edible too, tasting exactly like cucumbers except slightly sweeter and with a firmer, crunchier texture. The mature melons themselves are just so incredibly sweet and juicy, it almost becomes hard to believe that you could just grow such an amazing fruit. The only issue is they are susceptible to powdery mildew so be on the lookout for that.
In Japan, we classify different types of oranges with different names. The typical orange is called “orange” like the one you bought. Different varieties like honeybell orange has different name “デコポン/dekopon”. If you say”dekopon” in japan, no one is going to think of oranges but just think of it as different citrus fruit.
that big green citrus fruit reminds me of a Pomelo which has Grapefruit genes in it. to eat them you peel not only the pith but also the membrane around the flesh.
Thank you for the fantastic video. For anyone coming to Japan, you cannot miss peach and grape (purple one called kyoho 巨峰). A little expensive but more common than some fruits shown here and worth it. You can purchase the same fruits shown in the video but a little inferior shape for much lower price at local stores and that's how Japanese can eat often. Also Japanese usually peal pear (nashi) and apple skin.
I buy Asian pears at my local market in the Midwest of the USA. They’re $5 a piece and I always say “Wow that’s expensive until I eat it!” Worth every penny!
Much like his other ratings/reviews, this one is just as contaminated by knowing anything about what he's eating outside of whatever is in front of him.
I belive the price is also for the shape of the fruit, the more perfectly round a orange/ fruit is with no blemishes and imperfections on the skin = more expensive, then after that comes the flavor.
The best fruit I've had in Japan was at local farmers market and oddly my local train station. A family of farmers had setup at my station and they sold apple cider, juice, raw apples, and jarred fruits. Fantastic seasonal local fruit is just hard to beat.
The most offensive part of this video is every time Andrew says "costed" instead of "cost". "Costed" is apparently a real word, but it doesn't mean what he wants it to mean.
His tense is actually a proper use. Most commonly used in Canada rather than amaerica. I must admit it doesn't exactly flow through your ears but it is infact proper
People who haven't had the grapes don't understand how a grape can be life altering. Had the shine muscats in 2016 in Tendo, and still think about them from time to time.
I hope his stomach is ready for the amount of grease he's going to consume if he does lol. We have some great fruits and desserts but a lot of the traditional food is fried and fatty
What about mikan (satsuma)? It is a more familiar citrus fruit in Japan than mandarin or navel. That red apple is a variety called Fuji. I prefer Jonagold. Fuji's are juicier, though. Next time, try some Japanese fruits like figs, akebi, loquats, and Japanese cherries. But they all have their own season, so they may be hard to find. Biwa is not as sweet as other fruits, so you may not like it. The best mango brand in Japan is “Taiyo no Tamago” (the sun's egg) from Miyagi Prefecture. It is hard to find even for Japanese people, but it is said that once you try one, you will not be able to eat any other mango
These gift fruits are usually given to people who have been hospitalized. Alternatively, Japan has a culture of giving gifts in summer and winter to family members, business associates, and others close to them. Fruits are one of these options. In addition to fruit, other gifts often include food and beverages such as sweets, alcohol, and seasonings, as well as daily necessities such as towels and detergents.
An intelligent person would have looked up the word first and then realize that it exists. Those who believe they are right by default however, are not intelligent people.
Earl's Favourite is the name of a particular musk melon cultivar, because they all have insane names. Like Early Christiana, Murray's Pineapple, or Ananas D'Amerique A Chair Verte.
To my knowledge, when you go strawberry picking in Japan, you're usually given sweet milks to dip them in. Maybe that would enhance the strawberry's flavor to a 9 or 10!
My next door neighbor neighbor spent 13 years in Japan as a translator and teacher. She would have "loved" the fact that you stepped outta-the-box and tried the gifts that are really personal annnnnd how sometimes people save up their money to give "the perfect gift". Thank You!
“Earl’s Favorite” is the name of the cultivar/variety. Usually indicates the particular lineage of how the fruit was bred, what its “parents” are, etc.
I have eaten a lot of gold kiwis, they sell them in the supermarket here in germany (not those huge expensive ones of course). They are generally very sweet and juicy. I prefer them over normal Kiwis...
Though there are absolutely things to critique about japan's gift culture and the gift fruit industry, I am ABSOLUTELY the kind of person who would prefer to give and receive gifts that can be shared like premium food.
@@bigchooch4434 The validity of a spoken word is entirely up to the person speaking. There is no correct or incorrect way of speaking, there is only your way of speaking and other people's way of speaking.
@ I’d argue that is valid. Languages are defined by their usage, it’s how new words are created and new rules are made. Anyway, you intentionally disregarded the other thing I said so feel free to try reading that again
At the Asian Market in Austin TX today my son was telling me about how Japan treats their fruits like treasures and here you are this evening! This was so interesting. I'd be interested to see your responses to Icelandic food which can require an adventurous spirit.
Wait first Golden Kiwi ever saw? In Slovakia you can buy them, for slightly larger price than normal green kiwi, (Not this Japanese type) and I would say it has "honey hint" taste. That fruit at 17:00, isnt it some type of Pomelo?
I'm not an expert but I am pretty sure I'm correct on this. I've had experiences with some of those ridiculously expensive Japanese fruits. When those expensive designers fruits are bought in Japan, they are not meant for casual & random eating. Those generally are meant for gourmet experience rather. They sell regular cheaper fruits for casual eating in Japan. After people buy the expensive fruits, you time them for best ripeness and flavor designed for optimal consumption. Each fruit has a different optimal timing to eat, after brought home or after given as a gift. That is why often they come with multi-page manuals explaining how & when they should be eaten with serial numbers, etc. I don't think these fruits are meant to be eaten immediately after you bought, unless it's specifically designed & sold so for an immediate eating. Some of them are. Others aren't.
Great episode. I enjoyed living vicariously through Andrew. I might never get to Japan and I doubt I will pay $200 (that would be almost $300 in 🇨🇦 dollars!!!)
Really feel that cost should be taken into account in the ranking here. A $100 apple being disappointing stings far more than a $1 apple being disappointing
I lived in Aomori prefecture for almost 10 years and let me tell you that I have never and will never have better apples in my life. I used to go apple picking every fall season and eating the apples directly off the tree is such an amazing experience. They are super juicy and sweet. Now that's something you should do for an episode next year, apple picking in Aomori 😉
I agree 100%. I lived in Aomori for 3 years as a JET in an apple growing town and they are the best apples on Earth. I can't even eat Nagano apples anymore.
Honestly I think those fruit are "CEO meeting in 2 hours go out and get a 200 dollar gift for the visitors", they don't care what they get they only care that it cost A LOT of money, and similarly to expensive alcohol this is the industry that spawned from that.
Some of the fruit isn't expensive because it's supposed to be gourmet, it's expensive because Japan has more food laws for fruit than the USA has for every food product. Some of them are also expensive for gift-giving culture itself. Sometimes, especially in places of employment, apology gifts are supposed to hurt your wallet just a little.
The gift boxes of fruit we saw in Seoul (I am aware Seoul is not in Japan don’t flame me, they also love expensive fruit gifts in Korea) last time I visited were beautiful. The aesthetics were on point. Can’t speak to the taste because I didn’t drop 200 clams on a fruit basket but man were they pretty.
Earl's Favourite is a variety of melon. The Yubari King melon, also well known, was a hybrid between Earl's Favourite + Burpee's "Spicy" Cantaloupe. I grow the Ichiba Kouji and it's very similar to what you just ate. Juicy as heck, green flesh, and netted skin. Perfect. I grow 2 per vine though, since I'm not a snob. =P
As somebody who grew up in a family that loved pears and had pear trees in the garden as soon as he cut and bit into that pear I knew it was going to be delicious before he gave us the description. I could almost feel the ridiculously juicy but also smooth yet a little grainy texture on my tongue. Just the sound told me that it was perhaps a very excellent pear. If you know you know.
Golden kiwi is very common in new zealand, and the exported ones are amazingly sweet (with much smaller and super soft cores)! One of my favourite fruit.
Betterhelp isn’t a “scam.” They do provide the service they advertise and they do in fact help people, however, they are a complete and utter failure in terms of proper data retention and privacy. I would classify them as a dishonest and immoral company, but they aren’t a scam.
I think also if you haven't experienced real therapy, had the luxury of a dedicated, trained therapist who isn't juggling a massive caseload, maybe it appeals? Kind of like if Folgers is the only coffee you've ever had, you wouldn't know what quality even actually tastes like.
There's something so prideful about seeing Andrew being able to go out and do these things that would've never even been considered years ago for him and team members and friends. I'm so proud of how far they've come and the opportunities they've had like being present for a custom tasting and cooking experience, getting to go to Japan as a team, getting to delve into the fruit market like this, it's great to see. Here's to many more moments of easy living and happy times🥂
The Buntan is also known as Pomelo. They're sold pretty commonly here in Austria (I think imported from China). I like to peel them and then eat the segments individually by removing the skin of the segment and then eating just the juice vesicles directly. Pretty delicious and gives a nice eating experience, definitely better than cutting it and eating it like an orange slice.
Fun fact that if you remove the clear skin from the grapefruit sections, you remove the bitterness most people try to cover with sugar. The fruit itself is sweet.
I used to get an orange in my christmas stocking because back in the UK where I'm from they used to be expensive (at least for poor people like my older relatives). I don't think people appreciate just how available things are these days compared to even just 50 years ago. I could be wrong though.
Same in Germany. And I think there are many families who still do this as a tradition where you get an Orange, 2 mandarins and some nuts (Walnuts, Hazelnuts and Peanuts).
ages ago, in the middle of the indian ocean we were doing at sea replenishment on the USS California. after 3 hours of hard work, last few cases came on board and the deck boss called for a break. He busted open a case of those asian pears and passed them out. 106 degrees out, sun beating down and in my hand was simply the fruit of the gods. Best thing have ever tasted. I've bought Asian pears since but they've obviously not been picked ripe.
Did the crew love the Melon too? They were so excited for it, I was hoping to see their reactions at the end.
Came here to say this, I was disappointed after the hype that we didn't end with a montage sequence of reaction. I love when they do that on Jolly, have the camera crew taste things and show them absolutely losing their minds. :D
I'm assuming they did since the camera cut IMMEDIATELY once he said, "Okay guys let's devour this thing"
I would of loved to see their experience and the actual messy and enjoyment of the fruit.
So we had a crazy experience with the melon. We were in Vancouver on vacation at a omakase sushi counter. It was very intimate sushi theatre. Like maybe 12 people total. At the end of the meal we notice they are taking pictures with a melon and some Japanese business men who were sitting opposite of us. They were showing the melon around the counter and letting people take pictures of it. Then they have everyone be silent and tell us the men are the producers of the melon visiting from Japan and they have brought extra melon for everyone and everyone clapped for the melon. It was the best fruit I have ever tasted.
I watched a video were the Japanese farmer dude massages the melon like it's his own child. It's crazy how the time and effort they put into growing these fruits correlate to the taste
Yugafu?
Which restaurant?? I’m from Vancouver and MUST know!!
"everyone clapped for the melon" This reminds me of the Mango Cult during Mao's Cultural Revolution. Look it up if you want the full story, but basically the Pakistani Foreign Minister gave Mao a box of Sindhri mangos during his visit to China. Mao then gave the mangos to the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team (what a title for an organization) and they successfully turned these uneaten mangos into a symbol of Mao's sacrifice and generosity towards the workers of China. There were many art pieces and posters made depicting the mangos. They were preserved in formaldehyde and wax replicas of them were made and paraded through the country. People were expected to view them with reverence and awe and many people did, even being moved to tears. "One dentist from Fulin, Dr. Han Guangdi, saw the mango and said it was nothing special and looked just like sweet potato. He was put on trial for malicious slander, found guilty, paraded publicly throughout the town, and then executed with one shot to the head." Reading about China in their actual communist days is like reading about an alien planet. Amazing that the same party still has a hold on them today, only 60 years later, but they are relatively normal.
@@bairdterris8437likely Sushi Okeya Kyujiro. It’s a very cool experience.
I feel like Babish is in too deep if he now calls meals not on camera 'freelance eating'.
Recreational eating
“costed” had me internally screaming every time
Yep
Yep
it'll be too soon if I ever hear it again
"costed" is a real word - its just used incorrectly in this video. I hope you don't work in the construction project management/accounting fields. You'd hear this term a lot and spend your days "screaming".
@@sk8erpunk8389 Yes, and we wouldn't cringe when hearing it in the correct context.
Can I just say, I do like those B&W shots with the colorful fruit, very artful
true
I lived for 3 years in a small apple-growing town in Aomori and got to eat tons of different kinds of local varieties the whole time. From local sweets and crafts made from apples, their leaves and their wood/bark, to the most delicious apple juice and apple jam you've ever had, it was all amazing. One of the things I experienced that kind of sums up Japanese fruit culture is how we had a hail storm one summer and much of the crop was damaged. Because of the Japanese preference for perfect looking fruit, they couldn't ship them to the rest of the country, so they sold them all locally at a discounted price, calling them "頑張り屋りんご" (basically "apples that tried their best").
"Apples that tried their best" is the cutest thing ever! 😍
"Person that tried their best" wouldn't be a bad epitaph...
Buntans are a pomelo variety. Like the card said you are supposed to peel the fruit, both the rind and the membrane around the individual slices. I have started trying a bunch of more expensive varieties recently and so far I found I like the common, affordable mellow gold to be the most enjoyable. Juicy, sweet and just a little tart with no bitterness as long as you peel off the membrane and veins
While i lived in China I feel in love with pink pomelos, they are amazing.
It's not a pomelo. It's a sweetie, a cross between a pomelo and a grapefruit. It tastes like a pomelo but it's much juicier. They started appearing a few years ago through regular grocery stores here in Europe and they are amazing. Far better than pomelo and a more appropriate size for one person😅
@@andradacreta6922 IMO, Pomelos are the perfect size for one person! I haven't seen Buntans in my area of the US, but I love pomelos.
@@andradacreta6922 thanks for the further detail. There are many delicious hybrid varieties of pomelo to seek out, hope to try them all.
I thought zabon was pomelo?
Welcome to Japan! I really appreciated the fact that you highlighted that culturally, fruits are a gift. As a gift, they need to look, and taste as perfect as can be. And like all gifts, they can range from mildly pricey, to crazy expensive.
The drawback is: if you want to look for cheap fruits for cooking (example: wanting to make a cherry pie, with a kg of cherries), then it can be very challenging.
八百屋行けばあるよ アメリカンチェリーでしょ？ COSTCOとか
@@lwwwwl パイのため、２－３キロ高すぎ。地元に２－３キロが５００円ぐらい。それでフルーツパイ作れるな。
I do not welcome this type of forefingers as Japanese.
MOTTAINAI
千疋屋の果物、特にメロンは買って直ぐに食べては駄目だよ
何故なら最高級の果物は食べ頃になると柔らかくなってプレゼントとして運ぶのに適さないから
箱から出してパーフェクトな形と色を眺めながら、説明書に書かれた状態に熟すまで数日、待ってから食べよう
直ぐに食べたいならお店では買わずに高級なレストランで注文すべきだ
仰る通りですね
最高なものは最高の状態で食べないと！
Peenar gongle
@@ok_ok_ver2 peenar?
the creature feature, featuring the creature
Thank you. I will remember your directions and treat them with utmost importance.
Lol. Jog on mate.
23:05 "$200 is an incredible amount of money to spend on a piece of fruit." me when people buy me big Christmas presents
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@@DylanMurray360Did not get the joke until this reply haha
As a Japanese person it hurt me a little when I saw all that great melon juice dripping out onto the cutting board! It's so expensive, even the juice! When I had it one time in my life as a whole melon like that, we cooled and drank some of the juice. Great video, thank you for actually saying some of the fruits were worth the price. They really do feel like different fruit entirely.
If i'm japanese, imma be ashamed we have fruits priced like those
@@jeboks777 why?
@@jeboks777these fruits are meant as gifts though
@@jeboks777 You do realize these are luxury food items right?
@@jeboks777I would rather receive luxury fruits than luxury watches
16:49
This fruit is probably related to a Pomelo
The way you're supposed to eat a pomelo is to almost score and peel the pith like you would a mandarine orange, then from the center separate the fruit into wedges. From individual wedges you peel the membrane from the middle to reveal and eat the juice sacs. The membrane of a pomelo is not meant to be eaten as it is usually very tough, chewy, and tart.
My favorite Japanese fruit is the white-fleshed peach, available at most grocery stores and fruit stands in July and August.
Yeah. Missing out not having the peach - best fruit IMO.
@@dolan-duknot in season when he travelled unfortunately
Oh yes! I spend ridiculous money in stores with imported food that are white peach flavoured. Juice infused castella
Just a note as I didn’t see it mentioned elsewhere: Japan has amazing strawberries but they are seasonal. When Babish visits they aren’t in season, so what he was getting was probably a super early batch. If you come to Japan in Dec I guarantee you can have the best strawberry of your list if $ is no object.
It would've been cool to see the other guys' reactions as well, I felt like you teased us, foreshadowed us even, and no payoff. Great video tho
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Stop harassing and leave him alone.
@@KaizCh You're harassing an innocent person. Stop being toxic and leave him alone.
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When I lived in Washington state years ago, I was told many times that "all our best apples are shipped to Japan". Now that I know about "luxury fruit" there, that makes a lot more sense.
Washington is obsessed with apples. They have over 30 main types and loads of hybrids
ワシントン産のりんごは日本では高級品では無いよ。
日本で売られてるリンゴで高級なのは
青森県産のりんご。
Japanese American farmers started and developed the amazing fruit agriculture in Washington, among other places in the West. Of course, most of that land was stripped away/stolen from them during WWII.
The reason why they call it Earl's Favourite is because of its creation being a cross breeding of a type of melon from the UK called Earl something something (I forgot the name of the rest) with other varieties and became the "king of fruits", basically earl's favourite kid.
Fruit in general is expensive in Japan even if you don't buy the gifting ones and one of the reasons why they like to buy the jelly pots with real fruit inside because it's the few chances they have to eat fruit.
If you're ever inclined to invest $11 in an exceptional apple, Wolf's Paw Apples are truly worth it. Their unique, irregular, and bumpy exterior sets them apart from the typical polished and shiny apples we’re used to, but they are the appley-est apples that have ever appled. I was sad to see them absent from the apple ranking video.
Mfs now calling buying an apple "investing in it"
Just get a Sweetango, it's the evolution of Honeycrisp, it's bigger, juicier and with a bit more tang than Honeycrisp, hence, Sweetango
I'm from SouthAmerica. I eat a bag of this every day for less
I wanna make an apple pie with those
A major thing that you’re not realizing is that it’s CORPORATE gifting culture. The only people buying these are buying them either as a business expense or from corporate top 3% to other top 3%
or a really special gift that you only get like once every blue moon for someone who's really passionate about fruit😂
Yeah, him calling it a "huge market" is nonsense.
@@kiara.moravec02 Those 10/10 fruits might be worth it for my mom, who never spends a lot on food, but would really appreciate the quality and thought. She got me a bunch of whole spices one year for Christmas. I used all that stuff.
Nah you and your friends must be really poor. My family and friends eat these daily lol
@@DuehheeDjdjkdodkdk-qr7ij Kid, you aren't impressing anyone
From my understanding, the agricultural industry in Japan realized that they could not compete with foreign producers in price on mass-produced fruit due to things like amount of arable land due to the mountainous nature of the country, cost of labor, etc. So, instead, they opted to focus on going for very high quality, developing a variety of special breeds of fruit to market at a premium rate.
Lol naw. Japanese here.
This "only fruit available is pricy fruit" narrative is incredibly racist and not something I thought I'd see from a TH-cam channel I respect.
@@alitaschratwieser4055he's not saying that that's the only fruit available but that natively grown fruit is expensive because it's expensive to grow there just like most places most fruit is probably imported in japan
Funny enough, from what I've heard this explanation also works if you replace the word "fruit" with "beef". I wonder if there are any other products with that approach in Japan.
@@alitaschratwieser4055 you mean in the comments?
@@alitaschratwieser4055how is this racist it’s quite literally just economics
As a Thai I'm glad you loved the mango! If you visit Thailand I recommend trying the Ok Rong mango. I like it more than the Namdokmai as it's super sweet and also incredibly fragrant. It's just not as visually appealing (wrinkly skin and smaller) but it's more delicious!
Would've been interesting to compare it with the super market versions of the fruit.
My experience is it's pretty much the same fruit but much cheaper. They sort it at the factory and the ones without blemishes end up in the fancy department store. The melon is of course an exception.
I live in Thailand and during mango season there are more of those $15 mangoes than you can eat just falling off trees everywhere.
Persimmons taste like dates when dates are ripening. Dates are called Khalal in iraq before they ripe. They are yellow and crunchy similar to an apple, when they ripen half way, that’s what a persimmon tastes like.
huh thats actually pretty cool little fact there.
I would say persimmons taste cinnamony
Personally I prefer the soft persimmons.
I think I've seen how those grapes are grown. Much like the melon they doctor the fruit on the vine by removing at least every other bud so that the remaining grapes get more room and energy to grow.
10:17 gold kiwis slap, and they are available at a lot of US grocery stores these days. Way better than green kiwis.
I legit don't eat green kiwis anymore. Ahaha.
Japan even has red kiwi now.
kiwis can survive incredibly low temperatures, and so you can grow them yourself. they form a vine that will climb whatever tree you allow it to - and that vine gets massive.
you could have hundreds of them in about 2 years after starting the seed (which is the hardest part)
@purposefully.verbose woah. Didn't know it was a vine. And now I went to the wiki to look it up, I also learned its alternative name is Chinese gooseberry. Wild.
Yeah I was suprised he hadn't had one before, they are worldwide
I was able to get seeds for the same species of musk melon they use for the luxury fruits and I have to say even without going the extra mile to make a perfect melon it's one of my favorite plants in the garden. They're quite easy to grow, and produce tons of beautiful small yellow flowers that attract tons of pollinators. Whenever the plant is cut or pruned it produces a rather lovely cucumber-like scent, and the immature melons are edible too, tasting exactly like cucumbers except slightly sweeter and with a firmer, crunchier texture. The mature melons themselves are just so incredibly sweet and juicy, it almost becomes hard to believe that you could just grow such an amazing fruit. The only issue is they are susceptible to powdery mildew so be on the lookout for that.
日本の果物の一番のお勧めは、さくらんぼ🍒です。佐藤錦という品種がお勧めです。
In Japan, we classify different types of oranges with different names. The typical orange is called “orange” like the one you bought. Different varieties like honeybell orange has different name “デコポン/dekopon”. If you say”dekopon” in japan, no one is going to think of oranges but just think of it as different citrus fruit.
that big green citrus fruit reminds me of a Pomelo which has Grapefruit genes in it. to eat them you peel not only the pith but also the membrane around the flesh.
Thank you for the fantastic video. For anyone coming to Japan, you cannot miss peach and grape (purple one called kyoho 巨峰). A little expensive but more common than some fruits shown here and worth it. You can purchase the same fruits shown in the video but a little inferior shape for much lower price at local stores and that's how Japanese can eat often. Also Japanese usually peal pear (nashi) and apple skin.
Love the use of black & white against the colourful fruits while you read the cards. 👌
I am Japanese. Even though it is expensive, it is worth buying. It is delicious. I recommend Takano Fruit Parlour when you come to Japan.
I thought Babish was going to shed a tear over the cantaloupe 😂 great series! Thank you for posting this video!❤😊
I buy Asian pears at my local market in the Midwest of the USA. They’re $5 a piece and I always say “Wow that’s expensive until I eat it!” Worth every penny!
It's crazy how as the price increases the quality goes up too. The Top 3 prices all got a 10/10 and they cost around $70-200
Much like his other ratings/reviews, this one is just as contaminated by knowing anything about what he's eating outside of whatever is in front of him.
日本人だよ。めっちゃ、聞き取りやすい英語と内容が分かりやすかったから最後まで見たよ。千疋屋さんのフルーツはお墨付きだから、間違いないのだ。柿が好きなら、梨も好きだろうと思ったよ。案の定、マンゴーもね。ものすごく美味しいバナナ🍌もあるから、それも食べてみてね。
I guess it wasn't peach season, because those are awesome.
with xmas just around the corner...ranked eggnog would be nice
That would be awesome.
expensive melons are labour of love it's the only fruit they kept on one single stem for the whole six month 😋
I belive the price is also for the shape of the fruit, the more perfectly round a orange/ fruit is with no blemishes and imperfections on the skin = more expensive, then after that comes the flavor.
Fruit taste testing videos are the best!!please also do one on unusual native fruits, herbs or vegetables 😍
Time to make a gatorwine sangria with all those fruits
The best fruit I've had in Japan was at local farmers market and oddly my local train station. A family of farmers had setup at my station and they sold apple cider, juice, raw apples, and jarred fruits. Fantastic seasonal local fruit is just hard to beat.
The most offensive part of this video is every time Andrew says "costed" instead of "cost". "Costed" is apparently a real word, but it doesn't mean what he wants it to mean.
His tense is actually a proper use. Most commonly used in Canada rather than amaerica. I must admit it doesn't exactly flow through your ears but it is infact proper
People who haven't had the grapes don't understand how a grape can be life altering. Had the shine muscats in 2016 in Tendo, and still think about them from time to time.
You should go to Puerto Rico for a culinary deep dive: a tropical paradise, zero jet lag, and you don't even need to use your passport!
I hope his stomach is ready for the amount of grease he's going to consume if he does lol. We have some great fruits and desserts but a lot of the traditional food is fried and fatty
Great idea!!
@@XxTesla21xXsounds fine to me, but I’m American, we love fried and fatty foods, I love Puerto Rican food 😋
love that you can hear at the end someone rubbing their hands together in anticipation of tasting that melon
😂
What about mikan (satsuma)? It is a more familiar citrus fruit in Japan than mandarin or navel. That red apple is a variety called Fuji. I prefer Jonagold. Fuji's are juicier, though. Next time, try some Japanese fruits like figs, akebi, loquats, and Japanese cherries. But they all have their own season, so they may be hard to find. Biwa is not as sweet as other fruits, so you may not like it. The best mango brand in Japan is “Taiyo no Tamago” (the sun's egg) from Miyagi Prefecture. It is hard to find even for Japanese people, but it is said that once you try one, you will not be able to eat any other mango
These gift fruits are usually given to people who have been hospitalized. Alternatively, Japan has a culture of giving gifts in summer and winter to family members, business associates, and others close to them. Fruits are one of these options. In addition to fruit, other gifts often include food and beverages such as sweets, alcohol, and seasonings, as well as daily necessities such as towels and detergents.
I think the price isn’t just about the taste but also reflects the high cost of production.
The Shimano apple with the grayscale all around sent me to death note lol Babish should have said "Did you know Shinigamis like apples?" 😂
BABISH PLEASE.. "COSTED" IS NOT A WORD!!!! ITS JUST COST!!!!
I wish we weren't accosted with such grammatical errors.
Dear grammar n%*is: your annoying!
An intelligent person would have looked up the word first and then realize that it exists.
Those who believe they are right by default however, are not intelligent people.
the best melons i ever had were in Italy studying abroad. I would go to the fruit stand every day and eat a whole melon to myself 😄
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Babish: Cuts the kiwi with a knife used to cut grapefruit.
Also Babish: Tastes like grapefruit.
Earl's Favourite is the name of a particular musk melon cultivar, because they all have insane names. Like Early Christiana, Murray's Pineapple, or Ananas D'Amerique A Chair Verte.
real kiwi fans will be proud of you for eating the skin, job well done
To my knowledge, when you go strawberry picking in Japan, you're usually given sweet milks to dip them in. Maybe that would enhance the strawberry's flavor to a 9 or 10!
My next door neighbor neighbor spent 13 years in Japan as a translator and teacher. She would have "loved" the fact that you stepped outta-the-box and tried the gifts that are really personal annnnnd how sometimes people save up their money to give "the perfect gift".
Thank You!
Is this like a lottery to see who bought the piece of fruit that will make you immortal?
“Earl’s Favorite” is the name of the cultivar/variety. Usually indicates the particular lineage of how the fruit was bred, what its “parents” are, etc.
I have eaten a lot of gold kiwis, they sell them in the supermarket here in germany (not those huge expensive ones of course). They are generally very sweet and juicy. I prefer them over normal Kiwis...
I'd like to see blind comparison of these fruits to normal Japanese grocery store fruits
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Though there are absolutely things to critique about japan's gift culture and the gift fruit industry, I am ABSOLUTELY the kind of person who would prefer to give and receive gifts that can be shared like premium food.
"Costed" is to estimate the price of work or a project". cost, cost, cost
Costed is valid in British English and some US dialects
@@beclops Or in other words... is not correct. "Axe a question" is also "valid" in "some US dialects," AKA not valid. At all.
@@bigchooch4434words are things humans made up to communicate ideas. If the idea was communicated then it is correct.
@@bigchooch4434 The validity of a spoken word is entirely up to the person speaking. There is no correct or incorrect way of speaking, there is only your way of speaking and other people's way of speaking.
@ I’d argue that is valid. Languages are defined by their usage, it’s how new words are created and new rules are made. Anyway, you intentionally disregarded the other thing I said so feel free to try reading that again
Whoever did the color editing on this one did an excellent job! Very cool
The muskmelon looks like a cantaloupe on the outside, but a honeydew on the inside.
At the Asian Market in Austin TX today my son was telling me about how Japan treats their fruits like treasures and here you are this evening! This was so interesting. I'd be interested to see your responses to Icelandic food which can require an adventurous spirit.
Wait first Golden Kiwi ever saw? In Slovakia you can buy them, for slightly larger price than normal green kiwi, (Not this Japanese type) and I would say it has "honey hint" taste.
That fruit at 17:00, isnt it some type of Pomelo?
We can buy golden kiwis in America, too.
Crazy he lives in NYC too and never seen golden kiwi
I'm not an expert but I am pretty sure I'm correct on this. I've had experiences with some of those ridiculously expensive Japanese fruits. When those expensive designers fruits are bought in Japan, they are not meant for casual & random eating. Those generally are meant for gourmet experience rather. They sell regular cheaper fruits for casual eating in Japan. After people buy the expensive fruits, you time them for best ripeness and flavor designed for optimal consumption. Each fruit has a different optimal timing to eat, after brought home or after given as a gift. That is why often they come with multi-page manuals explaining how & when they should be eaten with serial numbers, etc. I don't think these fruits are meant to be eaten immediately after you bought, unless it's specifically designed & sold so for an immediate eating. Some of them are. Others aren't.
Great episode. I enjoyed living vicariously through Andrew. I might never get to Japan and I doubt I will pay $200 (that would be almost $300 in 🇨🇦 dollars!!!)
This is now a bucket list for me. The juice pouring out of some of these... Yessssss
Really feel that cost should be taken into account in the ranking here. A $100 apple being disappointing stings far more than a $1 apple being disappointing
I lived in Aomori prefecture for almost 10 years and let me tell you that I have never and will never have better apples in my life. I used to go apple picking every fall season and eating the apples directly off the tree is such an amazing experience. They are super juicy and sweet. Now that's something you should do for an episode next year, apple picking in Aomori 😉
I agree 100%. I lived in Aomori for 3 years as a JET in an apple growing town and they are the best apples on Earth. I can't even eat Nagano apples anymore.
Honestly I think those fruit are "CEO meeting in 2 hours go out and get a 200 dollar gift for the visitors", they don't care what they get they only care that it cost A LOT of money, and similarly to expensive alcohol this is the industry that spawned from that.
My goodness, the editing on this one is just astounding!! Loved the black and white transitions. Voting for Thailand next!
Some of the fruit isn't expensive because it's supposed to be gourmet, it's expensive because Japan has more food laws for fruit than the USA has for every food product.
Some of them are also expensive for gift-giving culture itself. Sometimes, especially in places of employment, apology gifts are supposed to hurt your wallet just a little.
The gift boxes of fruit we saw in Seoul (I am aware Seoul is not in Japan don’t flame me, they also love expensive fruit gifts in Korea) last time I visited were beautiful. The aesthetics were on point. Can’t speak to the taste because I didn’t drop 200 clams on a fruit basket but man were they pretty.
Think of the fruit as wine. There are ok wines, and there are exceptional wines for special occasions.
the video starts at 4:12
Earl's Favourite is a variety of melon. The Yubari King melon, also well known, was a hybrid between Earl's Favourite + Burpee's "Spicy" Cantaloupe. I grow the Ichiba Kouji and it's very similar to what you just ate. Juicy as heck, green flesh, and netted skin. Perfect. I grow 2 per vine though, since I'm not a snob. =P
Is "costed" the correct past tense of "cost"? Sorry, English is not my first language, but it sort of sounded wrong...
You’re right, “costed” is wrong. The past tense for this meaning is just “cost” again.
As somebody who grew up in a family that loved pears and had pear trees in the garden as soon as he cut and bit into that pear I knew it was going to be delicious before he gave us the description.
I could almost feel the ridiculously juicy but also smooth yet a little grainy texture on my tongue. Just the sound told me that it was perhaps a very excellent pear.
If you know you know.
Melon Tree? When did the vines become trees?
Right?! I was like, did he just say a tree... 🤨
Learned about an orange I can be on the look out for in the US and added another thing to do for my next visit to Japan. Thanks!
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Golden kiwi is very common in new zealand, and the exported ones are amazingly sweet (with much smaller and super soft cores)! One of my favourite fruit.
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I thought at first in the thumbnail that the fruit was Devil fruit from One Piece lol
There's something so prideful about seeing Andrew being able to go out and do these things that would've never even been considered years ago for him and team members and friends. I'm so proud of how far they've come and the opportunities they've had like being present for a custom tasting and cooking experience, getting to go to Japan as a team, getting to delve into the fruit market like this, it's great to see. Here's to many more moments of easy living and happy times🥂
Musk melon tree? I thought they grew on vines.
probably bad translation on the card
The Buntan is also known as Pomelo. They're sold pretty commonly here in Austria (I think imported from China).
I like to peel them and then eat the segments individually by removing the skin of the segment and then eating just the juice vesicles directly. Pretty delicious and gives a nice eating experience, definitely better than cutting it and eating it like an orange slice.
Andrew,
The past tense of cost, is cost. “Costed” isnt a word.
Costed is actually a word and it is technically the proper grammar in this scenario, you can Google it
Fun fact that if you remove the clear skin from the grapefruit sections, you remove the bitterness most people try to cover with sugar. The fruit itself is sweet.
I used to get an orange in my christmas stocking because back in the UK where I'm from they used to be expensive (at least for poor people like my older relatives). I don't think people appreciate just how available things are these days compared to even just 50 years ago. I could be wrong though.
I'm in Canada and, same!
One massive orange at the bottom of my stocking every year lol.
Same in Germany. And I think there are many families who still do this as a tradition where you get an Orange, 2 mandarins and some nuts (Walnuts, Hazelnuts and Peanuts).
@@Staniii2360 yes! All of those too!
Yes “Earl” is a title referring to the Earl Of the Elon region. His makes his selection of favorite melons semi annually and they are limited to 5.
ages ago, in the middle of the indian ocean we were doing at sea replenishment on the USS California. after 3 hours of hard work, last few cases came on board and the deck boss called for a break. He busted open a case of those asian pears and passed them out. 106 degrees out, sun beating down and in my hand was simply the fruit of the gods. Best thing have ever tasted. I've bought Asian pears since but they've obviously not been picked ripe.
I hate that I love this. The expensive Japanese fruit market is high variance but sometimes incredible.