My boyfriend lives in Japan and works part time at Japanese restaurant there. I live in North Carolina, and I also work at Japanese restaurant. Since we both work at restaurant I sometime talk about foods that we have ,and he is like wait what? honey I have no idea what you are talking. 😐😐😐
***** - That would cost a whole lot of money to see each other every weekend haha! Trips to Japan are very expensive... especially if you live in the US.
I am from Taiwan and many of my American friends were upset when I told them fortune cookies don't exist in Chinese speaking countries. They also questioned if I was "real Asian" when I asked them why they always pour a river of soy sauce over steamed rice.
Yeah I've lived in Qinghai China for the last couple of years and people are surprised when I tell them that there's not really anything like fortune cookies here, and that crab cheese wontons aren't in China at all. (The closest thing I've had to the cheese wontons are a local Tibetan specialty dish.) When I have visited home in America I've cooked some real dishes for them, like 'tudou si' though.
It's not like a wonton that you find in China, it uses the wonton wrap but is deep fried. It's a very popular dish in American Chinese food restaurants, but it's not authentic at all. But I have had a Tibetan dish that is similar once or twice, so I'm wondering if that's where they got the idea from.
I think I remember having fried wonton in China somewhere, but it's definitely not the standard. Maybe it's because Americans like their "American version of cheese" so much they just changed the Wonton recipe to sell more? :P
In America, we call the fried wontons that you probably had, pot-stickers. And yeah, I don't know where the cheese wontons came from. But even though they aren't really authentic, they are pretty delicious.
Steve Wolfe Dairy is for things that are either bland and flavorless (like, oh, potato) or so bad it needs something heavy to cover up it's terrible taste (like black tea).
Idk about you guys, but I hate adding ANYTHING to green tea. It's just good and will only be good as is. Stuff like sweetened green tea and matcha lattes disgust me.
I do like to add a bit of lemon or mint depending on the type of tea. Matcha is ruined when you put anything else in it. Matcha ice cream is about as close as I'll get to putting anything in matcha. Even then, there better be more matcha flavor than sweet flavor, or I don't like it
The sushi part is interesting. Here in Sweden, while some places serve rolls, still most of the sushi is the rice with sliced fish on it. So I guess the sushi "culture" is probably different in Europe from the US.
***** ok, the truth is, ppl in other country wont appreciate the food. they can serve the raw cuts and the strange taste miso soup but they prolly will end up closing the shop. so they modified the menu. its the same for green tea. So in china we have normal unsweetened greentea but the most popular one is the slightly honey flavor green tea. its not crazy sweet like soda, but you can tell theres honey.i kinda feel sad in america, when ppl think about chinese food, they think about something greasy and dirty. well, cuz american love greasy food. in china, nobody eat those garbage
***** But then again, many sushi restaurants in Sweden are owned by first-generation Asian immigrants. Often Chinese, which might attribute to the fact that we have more nigiri than rolls here. If you go to more modern and westernized places, you'll easily find crazy sricacha-mayo covered rolls and nigiri.
wangruochuan I'm from Europe and like a month ago I went to a small chinese store ran by chinese for chinese and I got for myself one of those green teas you mention. It's a strange green tea, not for the honey, I love honey, but for the after taste that tastes like flowers... loved drinking it, hated stopping :p. In my country green tea is very popular but not bottled/canned, just in tea bags (macha exists in slected places and it's very expensive) so everyone can sweeten it up as they want for themselves. We do have Arizona green tea canned though.
yeah america is weird,everything is large even if it said its the medium portion like,coffe,soda,burger,sandwich etc,also they are obsessed with sugar,even the burger buns are sweet ( I dunno how burger bun in europe is)but in asia its definetly not sweet
The buns in Europe are a bit sweeter than in the asian countries I have been, but not nearly as sweet as in America ^^ But as I said, it is not only the Food. Drinking in Public is also common in Europe for example.
The whole "Hibachi grill" thing actually started in Japan! The hot table they cook on is called a Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) Table! It was started in the 40's by a restaurant in Japan because they wanted to try cooking Western food that way and see if it appealed to the people of Japan. It ended up not working out too well, so they tried it in America and then added a "show" part to it, and people loved it! So that's why it stayed! So it is a Japanese thing, it's just not as popular in Japan ^_^ Note: Sorry if my Japanese above was incorrect or rough, i've not yet mastered the language and am still learning!
100% correct, also look up the wikipedia entry of "teppanyaki" if you don't believe Kerosene. Also, quite a bit of Teppanyaki restaurants exist for kobe beef in Japan and they charge quite a lot!
yes teppanyaki exists and started in japan , what they're saying is that americans are calling it the wrong thing. Hibachi grills, according to them, is a small stone grill that is meant for warming your hands(?) and not the teppanyaki meant for grilling food.
in the netherlands in the macdonalds. they have a sauce you can get with your fries. called 'american sause' When i was in america. they had never heard of it. and only served boring ketchup at any fries joint. in the netherlands it usulally comes with mayo. in america it comes with ketchup,. i was amazed they also sayd that americans sauce in mconalds was not served in usa. american sause was only served in the nertherlands. so very confusing
It's kind of a regional thing in the US what people like on fries- for example I believe in the south people like vinegar on their fries, I live in the Midwest and I would say ketchup is most common. My boyfriend is from the western US and he likes to mix ketchup and mustard (eeew!), some people eat them with mayonnaise etc
+Samantha A I'm from the deep south ( Georgia ) and I've never heard of straight vinegar on fries. O_O we do put it on fish sometimes though. Like, on captain d's type fried fish. It's mostly ketchup down here too ( though I hate ketchup myself XD ).
In Canada we put ketchup, gravy, Swiss Chalet sauce (it's a sauce served at a popular Canadian restaurant chain, it is not Swiss at all) aioli sauces, butter, vinegar, mayo, etc... depending on the region. We have friteries where they sell traditional Belgian-styled frites as well and then we have lots of poutineries where you can get almost anything on your poutines. My favourite is PEI fries which are basically thanksgiving dinner and cheese on fries.
I think sweetened green tea is more common in the southwest + Texas, where they drink sweetened ice black tea normally. In California and New York, i've only seen unsweetened green tea.
It is kinda interesting and weird to listen to English and Japanese at the same time lol I feel a little bit confused though, I really enjoy it! I just found your channel by accident but your videos are totally amazing, particularly to me whom like watching people discussing about cultural differences and cultural shocks. (viewer from Taiwan)
I like the dual-language subtitle. Would I be asking too much if you also make the non-kanji version for us less fluent speakers who would like to learn more by watching these videos? Thanks!
Sorry! Our old video editing program only had room for one line of "subtitles" so we either had to pick subtitles for Japanese folks or for people learning it as a second language.
I guess I'll just have to get back into my groove with the kanjis. But as long as I get the pronunciation from the audio, it's pretty easy to look up the words. Thanks a bunch for great works that you guys are doing.
Kanji is tough bro no doubt but you have to learn it if you want to read properly. If you want to practice reading Hiragana play old Nintendo JRPG's in Japanese. Because of the limited memory the Japanese versions of those games had to have the dialog all in Kana with spaces in between the words like western languages its at least helpful for memorizing the phonetics of the Kana that way you can look at one and recall teh sound it makes right away.
I remember Eat Your Kimchi commented that they noticed a lot of sushi places in Canada are run by Koreans, which is interesting bc the sushi rolls you get here are probably a lot closer to kimbap (a Korean dish with meat and rice wrapped in seaweed) than they are to sushi in Japan, which is something I never thought about until now.
From what I've noticed though, Japan takes foreign things and Japanizes them as well. I think it's a global phenomenon to adjust things to fit your culture. Like I would love it if America had all the McDonald's shrimp sandwiches that Japan has.
+Lee Kento no, absolutely not. sashimi or nigiri is all about the quality, taste, and texture of the fish and compared to cooking fish you get such a variety of tastes even among the same species in all their different variations. Rolls destroy the sushi experience and turn it into a mess of crap smashed together for people who don't like or appreciate real sushi aka fish.
I don't see Florida having "the South" culture much but perhaps the culture they do have supports good ol' Southern "Sweet Tea" anyhow, along with its many diabetes-inducing cousins peddled by big brand distributors. The high level of sweetness is something that can be sensed by retirees with failing taste buds; it can offset bitter or harsh flavors of other elements if mixing drinks for the party crowd; and it can shock your system bad enough to make you forget that you're slowly boiling to death in your own sweat during the sultry Southern summers. It is versatile I suppose, all things considered. And Sweet Tea is far more than simply adding sugar to unsweetened tea, it is a confectionary art form! While the water is heated, the sugar is added and allowed to "melt" and fully absorb into the water, literally making almost a "simple syrup" with which the tea is then brewed. It is VERY sweet, yet still pleasant if one can acclimate their taste buds appropriately. It's much better than simply dumping sugar into unsweetened tea; different taste, different texture, whole different experience. Hopefully someone from Florida can show up and shed some light on the situation!
you guys need to come to Los Angles. Here the sushi is legit(straight up piece of fish over rice), well priced, well made as is the Green Tea and no grills. This is probably because we have a high Japanese heritage population around here.
ZoraXire Ohh, so that's why I was so confused by that part of the video! Like, "What?? No, we absolutely have the real sushi in the US and it's not rare!" Had no idea that that wasn't so outside of LA @_@
To be fair, _Arizona Green Tea_ does say right on the bottle; Green Tea with Ginseng *and Honey*. So obviously it's going to be pretty sweet, especially when you look at the NV and it lists about as much sugar as Coca Cola.
Australia is lucky, our sushi has kampyo and kappa maki, nigiri sushi, sashimi in with the western avocado and tuna salad rolls. Then again, our cities are all on the coast. Fresh fish is not so hard to get. Some restaurants do what they call 'fushion sushi' which sounds like American sushi: rolls covered in sauces, deep fried crab roll, 'tempura crunch', fancy uramaki with smoked salmon, cream cheese, avocado. We get Izakaya style restaurants, rotating sushi belts, and fancy places serving ootoro and lobster tataki style... Australia likes variety I think.
In the US Pacific NW restaurants serve the American style rolls they mentioned, but you can also get nigiri or the simple Japanese style rolls. Typing this makes me hungry for a raw hunk of fish on a small pat of rice.
The sushi you say is in Japan, where it's layerd with rice and then the fish on top - I see that all the time in America.. I see both that and rolls, but maybe it's more widely available in my area. I've never seen JUST rolls, usually the sushi is very varied. Although, as an American, one also has to know when one is at an actually authentic Japanese restaurant but that's pretty easy to distinguish imo
nigiri is rice with fish or something else on top. Sushi literal translation is " with rice" so anything with rice done the same way is sushi. also us americans dont like the look of the seaweed on the outside of the roll thats why you see some inside out.
The roll you see on japanese shows are basically tuna roll or even salmon roll. The rolls you have in America are more varied and made to suit American tastes. The California roll is an American invention to start people on to sushi without the raw fish inside (and it has avocado for the California flair) The most common sushi in Japan is Nigiri which is fish (or urchin, roe, octopus or clam) on top of the rice
Yes, I know what you mean. I'm from California, and most restaurants (in bigger cities at least) will have the rice with the fish on top as well as the rolls. Even some Japanese grocery stores will have the rice with the fish on top available in the deli section along with things like California roll. They'll also have the rolls they described as being more common, like a roll with just tuna or cucumber in the middle.
The sushi thing is basically a regional thing just like many foods. Chinese food in America that resembles nothing in China, or Curry in japan resembling nothing like curry in any other country. THat reminds me, did you make a video ever about American things in Japan that don't exist in the US?
the difference is when America adapts its Garbage when Japan adapts things it improves on them, Automobiles , Trains, pocket radios, basic any kind of technology, this is where America falters, Japan is 100% Non-union.
Anissassina correct, its a Chinese - American invention. if you go to an Authentic Chinese restaurant they wont serve you fortune cookies, they might give you fresh orange slices or some tangerienes.
Japanese Pizza, it is a experience. A fried egg, dried squid, cucumber, fried rice these are things that were on a pizza menu that my friend sent me from when he was living in Japan. Dried squid pizza sounds just yuck. Not everything is better in Japanese adaption. As to the tec. stuff, South Korea is the world leader in Tec. advances these days.
In Holland we have the same thing with Chinese food. There are restaurants in every city and most towns, The dishes are the same in the whole country and mostly look and taste the same. But I understand that it's just not "real" chinese food, not even close...
Heh, I ate at a Chinese restaurant in Brussels where every dish came with a side of...get this...fries. Now, don't get me wrong; Brussels makes the BEST fries (even the Chinese restaurants), but come on! Seriously? Fries at a CHINESE restaurant?!?!
From what I know, a lot of Dutch, Chinese restaurants are based on mixed chinese, Indonesian and cantonese dishes and then adjusted to the Dutch taste, which is a lot sweeter and less spicy and less fatty. Most the dishes names are in Indonesian language like nasi goreng or bapao. Basically, Indonesians opened Indonesian restaurants (tokos?) after WWII and then the Chinese hired those cooks and adjusted the dishes later on as they saw the original Indonesian restaurants were quite popular but not adjusted to Dutch taste.
Number 3 does frustrate me a bit, being more into Korea, because occasionally I will eat 김밥/kimbap/キムパプ. Because kimbap ARE the roles that people generally always call sushi, EVERYBODY asks why I am eating sushi or starts mentioning sushi, and I am just like......... this isn't sushi....... they aren't even close wth lol >.
***** Actually, they are kinda close. Gimbap came from the Japanese makizushi during the Japanese Occupation of Korea in WWII and they do use white rice and dried seaweed.
Nicolas Aure The rice is flavoured different and the ingredients of the basic version of each are wildly different (of course varieties exist). The idea of "sushi" isn't those rolls though. It's, as they said, the fish on the rice. makizushi is just a type of sushi (one I didn't see when I went to Japan), whilst Kimbap is only rolled.
Nicolas Aure The "sushi" part comes from "鮨飯 or sushimeshi", a vinegared rice. Sushi must have that type of rice, or it isn't sushi. Kimbap does not use it.
Nicolas Aure Yeah I mean... Kimbap DID originate from makizushi, but it is quite different now. If you call it sushi, both Koreans and Japanese people will probably instantly correct you haha.
In Portugal when you go to a Japanese restaurant, nearly everything they serve is sushi. However, most of the times it's japanese style sushi, so when I was in Japan the sushi I got there was the same sort of sushi I'd had before, back home. We also have those performances in some places, though, which I didn't see in Japan. Great video as usual ^^
This video popped up in my recommendations and I became slightly emotional. It was like seeing a couple of old friends. Now I'm probably going to end up binge watching all of your videos again! Miss you Ryosuke and Grace! Hope you are both doing well and thanks again for all of the great videos teaching us about japan and sharing parts of your lives with us!
Never viewed your channel before and take exception to some facts, if you can call them that, you stated. 1. I never had sweet tea of ANY kind until I moved to Texas. Here in the Mid West we typically drink all tea simply brewed and either hot or over ice. Maybe some lemon or milk but that depends on preference. Only recently has fast food chains start offering sweet tea here. 2. Isn't the seasoned rice used for nigiri, hand rolls, and maki or rolls what's called sushi? Isn't that why raw fish in a sushi bar is called shishimi? Topped mounds of rice called nigiri? 3. There are no rolls in Japan? Hand rolls and what is known as a 'thin roll' (1/2 sheet nori, sushi rice, one filling commonly used is cucumber) aren't eaten there? Guess the family we met from Japan had it wrong eh? AND the two female transfer students last year? I agree that we Americans modify foods to suit our tastes and that if we get "authentic" foods we typically dislike it. I personally wasn't brought up eating chicken cartilage, pig anus, and other delicacies found in Japan, and have no desire to start now. This is common in all countries. McDonald's (everyone knows them) varies their menus to suit the regions tastes. I can't get a potato patty on a bun here but when in India I can. So lumping all of America together is like lumping all of Asia or of Europe together and saying everyone eats the same way and drinks the same thing. We are a melding pot here and were founded on that to begin with. So we vary by region, state, county, city, and even block. Might even say house or apartment. Please don't lump all of us together saying "Americans all drink sweetened green tea OR all green tea is sweet in America". It's like saying all Japanese love to eat wasabi by the spoonful. Simply untrue.
I think they are probably talking about something like Arizona green tea which is a highly sweetened blend that does not resemble Japanese green tea at all. You can find it all over the Midwest too. They are not talking about sweet tea which is a highly sweetened black tea popular in the south. I rather like these sweet teas but they are just not the same thing as unsweetened or lightly sweetened green or black teas you can find outside the US. Many Europeans think our black tea is terrible too. Personally I like Japanese macha green tea which is even more thick and bitter than the typical green tea you will find at a convenience store. It is the type that is usually prepared in tea ceremonies and usually served with something sweet on the side. You can find sweetened versions of macha too though as a flavoring for various products such as ice cream.
I also from the Midwest (Indiana) and I rarely (if ever) drank unsweetened iced tea. The only people I knew of who could stomach it were older women. Most of the time, we drank the sweet tea (often labelled Texas sweet tea or Southern sweet tea) or mixed it with unsweet tea to cut the sweetness a bit. Hot tea was the same way. Rarely did anyone drink it without first adding sugar or honey. As for milk, I've never seen anyone put milk in their tea here. I didn't even know that was something people did until I was 14 and met an English girl who went to my school.Individual people's experiences vary, and this channel is not meant to be a guide to other countries, just an anecdotal video diary. She is from Texas, she now lives in Tokyo. She is drawing from her own life experiences. If you want a well-researched and perfectly worded travel video, maybe you should look elsewhere. This channel is for entertainment. It's cute and funny and not always perfectly accurate, and that's okay. She can say whatever she wants. This is all about HER experience in Tokyo based on the perspective of HER experience in Texas.
Some of what you describe may be a Southern / Midwestern phenomenon. On the US West Coast, I think the only sweetened green tea I ever saw was novelty tea in the canned beverage aisle. Green tea was otherwise always unsweetened. And sushi was available in all forms, both the traditional Japanese preparations and as a variety of rolls that used the same basic premise of raw seafood, sushi rice, and seaweed (often with added vegetables to increase the diversity of roll types). The cooked-fish, slathered-in-mayo sushi was in the minority. It could also be that I'm behind the times, and that things have changed since then. (I've lived in the Middle of Nowhere, TX for the past several years.)
Where exactly in Texas did you live? Cause Dallas didn't have ANY of your problems... and everywhere else in the US I've been as well don't have these issues either... any place with sushi rolls also has nigiri and sashimi typically. Green tea is served unsweet. And a teppanyaki is a teppanyaki, while Hibachi is the name of a specific chain of restaurants.
Right?? I'm in Ohio and while you do have the "cheap" fake sushi you can buy in a grocery store...the actual, reputable "Sushi" restaurants have real sushi. Sashimi and Nigiri...And Green tea is served unsweet if preferred and depending on the restaurant, you get matcha powder and hot water. In fact, you can go into a grocery store near me and buy your own matcha powder. I'm talking regular stores...like Kroger and Walmart...
She's talking about green tea in a can not in a restaurant. Arizona (very popular brand in the USA) has a green tea and it's super sweet and good! I see it in stores all the time. (I live near philadelphia) Also Honest another popular brand has a honey green tea not nearly as sweet as arizona but obv with honey as a main ingredient pretty sweet. Lipton also has a bottle and OMG just as sweet as Arizona. Ofc tea is SERVED unsweet so is our coffee and black tea unless we ask for it sweetened or put sugar in it.
I thought the same thing the whole time I was watching, I live in Arizona, there are three Asian/international markets within 5 minutes of my house and loads of restaurants serving pretty decent international cuisine. While I enjoy the occasional sushi roll, I know the difference (as do most people I know). Green tea is always served unsweetened unless it's Arizona Tea or something. When she mentioned Hibachi the FIRST thing that popped into my brain was a tiny portable grill, NOT Teppenyaki. I've never heard Teppanyaki referred to as Hibachi.
Hi Grace, Texan in Tokyo! The Hibachi Grill idea was invented by a Japanese immigrant in the US who founded the Benihana Japanese restaurant food chain. The theatrics have always been a big draw for customers. You can read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benihana
Jacqueline Mulhern Right, it's funny how people always say "It's not Japanese!" as though Americans are breaking some sacred law or something. But if a Japanese immigrant invented it...is it not Japanese? It might not be there, but it is from someone Japanese. Same with Chinese food, I always hear how American Chinese food isn't "Chinese." ...but the restaurants are all owned by Chinese people, so where did it come from?
cloudkitt Exactly, I completely agree. When peopel come to America they bring their own recipes and foods. In new York, Chinese food was started here by the immigrants that came but they came in the late 1800s so it evolved from there. Which might be a differnet evolution of food from how it is in China now, plus China is huge with tons of different types of cuisine and regions.
+cloudkitt the difference between Chinese cuisine and American-Chinese cuisine lies in the flavors. The basic recipes is there but America-Chinese cuisine makes greater use of local (American) vegetables and seasonings more suited to American tastes. Also American-Chinese cuisine uses more soy sauce than Chinese cuisine. And there are the truly American dishes mistaken as ethnic Chinese cuisine: Chop suey and the fortune cookie. As a Chinese-American I had never eaten chop suey and my parents didn't know what it was (they were typical immigrant Hong Kong Chinese). And the fortune cookie, so common in most American-Chinese restaurants are not found in any restaurant in Mainland China. In fact, in 1992 an attempt by a major fortune cookie manufacturer to export fortune cookies to Mainland China met with little success as Chinese Nationals think the fortune cookie is too American.
+cloudkitt When Chinese people say that American Chinese food isn't "Chinese", we meant "Authentic" Chinese food. Meaning food that is actually made and eaten in Asia. Like you said, they are American Chinese food which is also the term we refer it as.
Interesting, but I lived in Japan for a couple years and there definitely were a couple Hibachi places that I went to out there... I would say that there is less showmanship - but there were definitely tables set up around big cooking surfaces with spatula flipping and stuff. I also had rolls in Japan too... it wasn't the primary offering, but they definitely had rolls out there!
In the video, there's an annotation that says (aside from Okinawa.) So I guess if you lived in Okinawa, then that explains why, but if not, then not sure.
That's funny, what you're describing as "hibachi grills" here in America is what I know as "teppan grills", at least here in California. Benihana being the most famous example. Where in America do they call them hibachi grills? Btw the "hibachi" grill that I know is what you mentioned--the little charcoal bar-b-que thing.
I grew up in a rural town in Ohio and a Japanese restaurant opened up in a city/town nearby that advertises itself as hibachi. When you go in they ask if you want a booth or to sit at the hibachi. It says hibachi on the menu too. The restaurant is staffed by Chinese people. I speak some Chinese and my husband is Chinese. When we took him there we both heard the staff speaking Chinese.
I'm confused about what you're referring to when you say sweet green tea. Do you mean actual green tea like a sweetened version of お〜いお茶 or sweetened maccha? 抹茶オレー [maccha ore-] is available all over Japan. Thank you/ありがとうございます。 To clear up some confusion below: Raw fish, etc. (cooked egg, for example) on rice is sushi. Raw fish without the rice is sashimi.
When I lived in Boulder, Colorado, there were three sushi bars in town. Only one of them was traditional (to me). One day I was dining there at the counter. A white man sitting next to me ordered scallop sushi. When served, the man angrily asked the chef, "Why no Mayonnaise?" That was a shock to me. Later I learned that the other sushi bars served scallop with generous topping of mayo.
***** theres no japanese hamburger (it looks like a burger patty but made with some other more ingredients)also its quite hard to find some of the local miso. theres a bunch of good miso brand tho.
***** Most of the pizza places I go to in Japan have corn on them. I'm always on the lookout for pizza that doesn't have corn, and some places have an American style pizza with just meat and cheese and maybe some vegetables. But, apparently there are quite a few Japanese people who think putting corn on pizza is an American thing.
Not sure if it is because you are so young or from Texas, but most of the green tea I see in the US is unsweetened still. You can now find sweetened options, but it's not as common as you guys are making it seem. Then you put you don't know where the hibachi idea came from. But up top you put a big clue where it came from (Okinawa)....duh? Also, I've had a rainbow roll in Japan. And it's kind of misleading to say Sushi doesn't exist in Japan. I think most people wouldn't be shocked to hear that a California Roll or Volcano Roll is not authentic Japanese. But your stories are pretty good.
Calvin Roberts unless you ask for hot green tea in Texas its alway bottle cold and sweet. In Texas unless someone ask for unsweetened or hot tea, you will offend them if the tea is not cold and sweet.
How did I only JUST NOW realize you are the same Grace from Gaijinpot?! I love those articles! But regarding the video, I definitely couldn't keep up with trying to read the Japanese subtitles! It's hard enough not knowing much kanji, but I couldn't even get halfway through a line before it disappeared off-screen. No slight against you, just my own limited ability.
ShaneMaesenko You'll get better over time :) There are days where I feel like I know nothing, but there are days when I realize that I've actually come pretty far :)
Markus Andersen I have N5 certification so far, so I know I can learn. It's getting used to seeing Kanji that is the problem, since I don't currently find myself surrounded by them. I really need to get back over to Japan (it's been 4 years already!) and get back into it.
Markus Andersen The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is a certification the Japanese government offers once (or twice, depending on country) per year. It's a pass/fail test at 5 levels (N5 is lowest, up to N1) which determines your proficiency, according to government standards. It can also help with getting a job in Japan. N5 and N4 are elementary-intermediate ability, N3 is the point most non-native translators/interpreters begin. N2 is "fluent, non-native" and is considered to be the most you will need as a foreigner unless you work in medical, political, or highly specialized fields; that's where N1 comes in. That's just a quick coverage, for more information, ask at your local Japanese Consulate or Embassy.
I always brew my own green tea here in America, (yeah me!) so I did not know there was such a thing as sweetened green tea. I thought hibachi grills were small charcoal grills for cooking outdoors, usually barbque. I did eat at one of those faux-Japanese 'performance' places once. it was fun. but more often i think of those big flat grills as Mongolian. Again, its all in the show. In the US I never have sushi when I am more than 2 hours from Santa Cruz, california, where the fish is fresh from the ocean. I guess I am not so typical.
Believe or not, the are reasons Americans like cold sweet teas, The Midwest and South are for the most part landlocked and very HUMID in the summer and a hot drink will not suffice. So a cold drink is needed to cool off, and sugar is needed to boost energy sapped from the humidity. That being said, I do tend to mix my tea to be half sweet half regular, because some placed really overdue the sweetness, and Canned or bottled tea never tastes right to me.
ugh i hate the desire of most americans to sweeten everything. sweetened green tea is disgusting?? D: the california roll was invented by a Japanese immigrant chef, I believe. And he wanted to make something that represented CA..i guess it got so popular so that's what sushi became in the U.S. I think in L.A./CA and NYC it's easier to find "authentic" sushi. Those are where all the ethnic enclaves are.
***** sorry can't read/speak Japanese. But google translate says you think NY sushi isn't good. Ok, that's just your opinion. I don't think there is anything wrong with something being not "authentic" -- it can still taste good. But I don't think most people actually believe sushi they eat in the U.S. is exactly like the sushi they'd get in Japan, anyway. So, it's fine as long as they're aware this is "American" sushi.
SelphieFairy California Sushi was also like a "gateway" sushi..a modified version to suit for the American tastes I believe..and that way it'll eventually lead them to the real thing... has it worked? Yes, no, maybe so.. lol Similar to the REAL Chinese food menu and the Americanized Chinese menu..
SelphieFairy Sweetened green tea shouldn't even exist. If someone wants to add sugar to it, they should just grab a sweet pastry (or wagashi-traditional Japanese sweets) or other sweet food instead of dropping a few sugar cubes into a Japanese tea. I think sugar just ruins the flavor, especially if it's made from high grade leaves/powder.
CandleKern It worked for me. The CA roll was mild enough to get me interested it in, and now I've graduated onto eating legit sushi. Though I do enjoy the fancy Americanized rolls on occasion. Rainbow roll is delish. If a CA roll or a spicy tuna roll gets people to eat the food and to maybe dive deeper into it, I'm all for it.
In Washington State, I want to say 97% of locally owned sushi restaurants are owned by a Korean family. Not talking about the big chain sushi companies - don't know who owns those. Its actually super easy to tell if a sushi place is a Japanese sushi place or a Korean sushi place: when you look at the menu and the great majority is fancy rolls like fried rolls, volcano rolls, mountains rolls yada yada, then the place is Korean. They are freakin delicious most def. But it is very funny when I'm at a Korean sushi place and I overhear someone else exclaiming how authentically Japanese the place is. Even when you can hear people working in the back yelling to each other in Korean. The truth is there are just now a lot of actual Japanese restaurants. I wish there were. I'm still on the hunt though. I've found 4 so far... One place I tried (three times) in Seattle, the sushi always came out warm because of the rice. I am so not used to warm sushi. Is sushi from Japan warm as well?
Michelle Dietrich I think it depends on the place (warm rice). I always assume if the name is something awkwardly "Japanese" (Wasabi, Nami, Sushi, etc) then it's not run by a Japanese person. But I haven't eaten at an Asian restaurant in America in like 4 years now, so it might have changed.
Y Kim They are most def. made for the American style but speaking as a person with Korean in them and being involved with many younger Korean Americans, the rolls are still popular. I don't know about sushi places in Korea though. Didn't get the chance to go last time I was there.
I was just in Japan last month and I remember being shocked because one place we ate at had a California roll XD my dad kept trying to joke with the waitress about how we were from California but she probably just thought he was crazy :P
green tea is not exclusive in japan. in all asia even india, the origins of green tea, we DONT drink sweetened tea. particularly green tea, which have a medicinal purpose. we laugh at those sweetened green tea, and calls it "american's/white people's green tea" :v
We don't have any sort of sweeteners in Green Tea in the UK either. It's sort of weird to have sugar in it I think haha I've had bottled green tea which was imported from America... I didn't like it
Izzy Gordon well, at least UK have its tea the right way. Wonder how is in your neighbourhood. Say, are you in england, wales, scotland or ireland? Pretty confusing if you just says "UK"
But the just fish on rice is the best kind. I thought that was why it was more expensive. Now you tell me it's expensive because it's more authentic? Hmm, but maybe it's cheaper there.
I actually do really like elaborate sushi rolls like the vegas roll lol But! I also love sashimi! Which is like straight up raw fish. I really want to go to Japan and try some authentic food. One day, it's definitely on my bucket list.
Oh, for sure. And that way you can make it exactly the way you like, perhaps mixing different types/blends. I'm a huge tea lover and I collect them. But sometimes when you're out, you just want a fresh and cold bottle of green tea. That's hard to find where I'm from; some Asian markets might sell 'em, or maybe Lidl. though it was even worse when I visited America, because the sweet tea was even SWEETER.
As you mentioned Lidl, I guess you are from Germany? We have unsweetened tea here in Germany for quiete some time now, you just need to look. I liked the green tea most, but blad tea is also great (I spent my early childhood in Russia, which is a black tea nation). And we have amazing tea shops everywhere (here in Freiburg I know at least 3) who sell the tea in boxes so you can mix it however you want. Even the average tea in those little bags is good, when you choose well, I have one green tea sort that is with macha and I love it.
taqu Carry it in a thermos. There are a couple of cafes and such that give you the option. Next time just say you prefer it unsweetened/no extra sugar, and a cold brew. There are Japanese markets and stores who sell it naturally as well. (:
Olga Hein Actually, I'm from Finland. We have Lidl markets here as well. Thanks for the tips, tho. :) Elise M Yeah, you're right, cafe's are the best bet. There was one small brand I once found at my local store that sold two interesting tasting blends of unsweetened ice tea in bottles. I bought one (very expensive!) before they disappeared.
I was a bit confused at first when I moved to the US hubby said he was taking me for sushi but what I was served is what I grew knowing as norimaki (海苔巻き)
Where I live (midwest US), pretty much all the sushi restaurants will have three headings under "sushi": maki, nigiri, and sashimi. Of course, most of the menu is in the maki category, but nigiri and sashimi is just whatever type of seafood you would want (with or without rice), so i guess that makes some sense...
You know what is even weirder is that all the chefs at the Hibachi grill in the Japanese Pavilion in Epcot at Disney World are Japanese nationals. They speak little English.
I had that experience on Ferry ship in Europe that did UK to Holland. For some reason one of the ships had Japanese catering crew that spoke little english. They would give me free drinks as i was chinese and i guess i looked close enough to Japanese.
In Hawaii you can find authentic Japanese food because of the high population of Japanese Americans and then all the tourists that come. So you can get pretty authentic yakiniku, ramen, sushi, etc. However once you go back in the mainland good luck trying to find "real" Japanese food!
It is so much fun watching and listening to you two. I like the colors in the subtitles and just everything about this video! Yay! Hello from another Texan!
Hey grace I was just wondering if you ever noticed the difference between how your husband's (sorry I don't know how to spell your name ) voice sounds when he speaks Japanese and when he speaks English. I find the same thing with my husband and he's Turkish. It's like in their native language they speak more in a lower register but in English most everything is said he says in a higher register what do you think?
Merelf I think my husband is the same way! I also speak higher when I'm talking in Japanese. Perhaps it's something to do with speaking your non-native tongue?
Wow, Ryosuke. Your English has REALLY improved. I've been watching your more recent vids. Congrats, learning another language, especially when there is no common root whatsoever, is REALLY hard.
In Canada (or the part of Canada where I live) hibachi is a type of small portable barbecue on which you use charcoal briquettes. The type of restaurant you described might be referred to as teppanyaki, but they are unusual. Most Japanese places are fairly authentic here in Vancouver, though the sushi is often "signature rolls" which the restaurants make up, so trendy . Some even have cream cheese and beef and things. Most people know that these are not what you would see in Japan though. I was always shocked at how small the pieces are in Japan. When I was teaching in Japan I always thought it was funny that my students who came to North America went to Japanese restaurants all the time. They told me they liked to because our sushi is so strange.
Here in Hawaii, we have an abundance of all three things. We have a place called "kobe steakhouse" (bad birthday memories) that's the choppy choppy flippy flippy place, a lot of green tea (don't know how sweet, don't like tea) and conveyor belt sushi places *EVERYWHERE*. The closest thing to sushi that I eat is spam musubis (tasty af). Something that you almost never find here is real Wasabi. It's all horseradish. Wow, this comment had no structure. If you read this, congratulations, you're winner
PokemonDiamondUS We have Kobe's in Florida as well. It's identical to the restaurant she was talking about. Same exact tricks, food, and everything. There's also one called Hokkaido but it tasted slightly different than Kobes. I prefer Kobes.
PokemonDiamondUS What part of Hawaii are you from? We have real green tea here (tbh I didn't even know Mainland Americans sweetened green tea), we have real yakiniku places (I can find these everywhere, but can only think of one Kobe Steakhouse), and we have real sushi here. I'm actually super curious as to where you get your green tea and sushi from. Also, kaitenzushi are a Japanese thing. They meant the super elaborate "sushi" like california rolls. Also, what places are you going that you don't have real wasabi? Every Japanese restaurant I've been to serves real wasabi
***** Maui. We do have yakiniku places, but they're small and a tad ghetto (IMO); I can't think of any dedicated sushi places here that aren't Genki. I don't drink tea or sushi so I couldn't tell you where to get them. We don't have kaitenzushi on Maui (as far as I know). A lot of packaged "wasabi" that I look at the ingredients, it has wasabi at the end or not there because Wasabi is expensive and has a short shelf life.
They are not hard to make at home either. It might not be the most traditional but google bisquick okonomiyaki. My friend who lived in a Japan for a few years tried and said it was pretty close the real thing. I was making batches for myself and freezing them and then I would pop them in the toaster oven in the morning.
You can find recipes online. No need to buy anything special. Making it yourself from scratch is part of the experience with traditional okonomiyaki. You are supposed to put in what you want and make it your way so you can't really go wrong even if it gets somewhat less than authentic.
When I looked up recipes the hardest thing to find was Yamaimo, but that was a long time ago. Back then I only found it at some really large and very Asian marts (H-Mart in GA, while I was living in FL) but recently even corner Asian stores here in SWFL have it. Okonomiyaki is great, but I haven't made it recently. I'm kinda craving it.
I've been stydying japanese for 2 years now, and I feel so glad I can understand most of what Ryosuke says. I feel so comfortable watching you two mixing english and japanese. (I'm brazilian, so none of these is my mother language, lol) And I can even read the subtitles in japanese when you guys talk in english, so it's a win-win situation for me =D
As someone who's lived in both countries, have parents from both countries, speak both languages, and dated women from both cultures, i find this video sliiiiiiiightly exaggerated and really misleading. Not inaccurate! But really misleading...
Yeah. I've been to a Hibatchi Grill in Okinawa and I eat roll sushi all the time here. It's inaccurate for sure - maybe they shouldn't have used the term "doesn't exist"
The thing that surprised me the most is from my knowledge there is not a single open until late bank in Japan and 24hr access to atms are difficult to find if not impossible. For a 24hr city like Tokyo I find that super annoying and only use the bank to transfer money. And the fact their paperwork is so slow. I used to think Japan was a high tech efficient fast nation when really... its not.
Oh yeah and not all of them let you withdraw from a foreign bank - even though they have the mastercard or visa symbol on them...doesn't mean you can use them!
Tokyo is a 24hr city? It didn't seem like that to me. Just some nightclubs and foreigner hangouts near Shibuya open late. (actually agreeing with you... the ATMs are another example)
Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Roppongi, Akasaka, Azabujuban, etc etc Depends on which side you are on. The Tokyo/Ueno side is pretty dead at night but the Shinjuku side is alive at all times a day. Though I think Kanda and akihabara may have some things open all night. But no, not just nightclubs, karaoke, bars, izakaya, ramen, sushi, hostess/host clubs, boys/girls bars, etc open until morning or late at night then from morning til afternoon.
I loved this video, I'm Canadian and we are fortunate to have a lot of Japanese people live here (mostly in British Columbia because the weather is not too cold) so if you go out for sushi, you get sushi and sashimi. (they have the rolls too but they're called makizushi ) Green tea is always hot and unsweetened unless you ask for sugar, you can buy it in a can but again might not be sweetened unless it's made by Nestea or says that it's iced (all iced tea in Canada, canned, bottled or in a juice box is already sweetend). We do have Hibatchi grill resteraunts here but not many (Brand name) they are mostly called Mongolian grills. Hibatchi's in Canada are small charcoal grills you usually take with you to cook at the beach, park, picnic ECT..so that could be why the restaurants are not even considered to be Japanese. We also get a lot of Japanese food stuff imported from Japan, and is sold at most Asian supermarkets, (mostly found in the larger cities) you can almost get what ever you want food wise.
Maybe the sushi issue is just in Texas? Cause in Oregon Nigiri is everywhere. My husband and I actually prefer sashimi. Just a bunch of raw fish, and then little bowls of rice. Yes, conveyor belt sushi tends to be rolls, but actual good sushi is more nigiri than rolls.
I am with you on this one, Ryosuke. Sweet Green Tea sounds horrible. At most, I would like Green Tea with a spoonful of honey but, Green Tea with nothing is the best.
Hi :) I found your channel through Donna (wanted adventure living abroad) and got really into your channel. First of all; THANK YOU! For putting subtitles under every video! I wouldn't be able to understand a lot of your videos without it. And then... I really thought hibachi was Japanese. Haha. Lesson learned. But I'm kind of weirded out by the American sushi as well. Because.. Over here in germany I guess sushi isn't very traditional either, but when I first read that Americans often eat sushi with mayonnaise or hot sauce I was really confused. I didn't really know that, from my 'sushi experience' so far. 😅 So I'm glad that it's not the 'real deal' ^^ I really like kappa maki (?) - the ones with cucumber inside. :)
What I know as a hibachi is a small metal grill that you put coals in with a grate on top. I never see these in stores much anymore. I remember they were so popular in the 80s. I did know they called these hibachi grills in the restaurants.
I'm from Germany/Austria and I was like "eww, how could you ever put sugar in green tea?" But when I thought about it, recently, the sweetened green tea (but only as iced tea) seems to get more popular here as well. I never bought it, because I don't like it and I don't think there's much real green tea in that stuff, just green tea flavor. Starbucks has "matcha latte" now, something like cafe latte, just with matcha instead of coffee, you can order it sweetened, but also unsweetened. I have never heard of "hibachi", here there's so-called teppanyaki restaurants, however, the cooks don't performance. You just choose raw meat/fish/veggies and bring it to the grill station and when it's ready, it will be served to your table. We also have both types of sushi. The "American" one (but also nigiri and maki) you often get in Asian restaurants, where they offer food from various Asian countries. In Japanese restaurants here in Germany, you get only nigiri and maki AND chirashi sushi, I like this one in particular.
Im happy to live in Spain lol is more like Japan. Here we have teppanyaki restaurants (at least were i live) and the restaurant have sushi, onigiri, nigiri,etc and you pay for person 1300¥ (13€) for all you can eat!(drink included). Sooo happy and soooo good hehe
I lived in Tokyo for 25 years, and I used to buy cheap takeout sushi all the time from small shops found on shopping streets all over the city. These places all sell large makizushi with tuna, mayo, and egg, as do almost all supermarkets. People make makizushi at home, too, and sometimes put different things on them. My Japanese wife used to use avocado with raw tuna. These so-called "rolls" in America aren't Japanese, but you don't seem to get out much if you think the only makizushi available in Japan contains only one small piece of raw fish.
Yeah, I visited an arbitrary convenience store in Akasaka and bought egg makizushi, so I don't really know what this part of the video is on about. I haven't looked in sushi conveyor restaurants though.
I recently moved to an area where there are a lot of Asian grocery stores and restaurants. The first thing I noticed was the sushi looked very different then what I was use to but I still tried it anyways I was nervous about trying eel and all the weird looking ones {I don:t mean to call them weird but they were just so different then what I was use to lol { but I am glad I tried it because I love sushi a lot more now and I am spoiled and will only eat sushi from Japanese grocery storesl I can:t wait to try sushi in Japan.
All the things mentioned were Japanese American inventions. There is rarely any cuisine in America that is entirely from true to any other country's cuisine.
thats funny... here in Canada a hibachi is a charcoal type of oven that you can use to cook over. The one like you showed in dominican is called a teppenyaki grill up here.
I have a hibachi on my patio, but the one I took my mom to in Kitakyushu, was a large version where strangers sat next to each other in a circle. The hot grill shown was on two sides, the main Hibachi was in the center.
Err ... very interesting. I've never heard of "Hibachi Grill" before. Not sure if it exists in Europe at all. I've never seen it in Germany. Looks like fun, though. I hate the sweet green tea sh***!! T___T ..... Totally agree on the sushi. I've even once seen sushi with feta cheese inside. Eww. It was so dry! T_T
zoomingjapan It does exist in Europe. But I don't know the names of places (In North/South American and the Caribbean, we have Benihana, which is what most people think of in the US when you mention hibachi resturants). I think in Germany it's more properly referred to as Teppanyaki. If you search for Teppanyaki resturants in Germany, you should be able to find some.
Ceryk Thank you. I haven't been in Germany very often recently, although I am German. I've been living in Japan for the past 7 years, so I'm not sure if anything has changed in Europe. I just never heard of this Hibachi thingie before. Like Grace said it doesn't exist in Japan and I've never seen it in Europe. Teppanyaki is popular in Japan, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it in bigger cities in Europe. :D
+Anrei Kitsune You can buy them at grocery stores, depending on the location and type of store. They're just talking about something that's already made.
+Irrelephant You can find green tea without sugar. I like my tea strong without sweeteners and you just have to know where to look. Usually the organic food stores have better brands.
Also, a lot of people think bubble tea is japanese, but it's Taiwanese and much more popular there. That said, there were bubble tea shops in Tokyo, especially Harajuku or with crepe shops. On the subject of tea, milk tea I was surprised to find was usually made with earl grey or something similar. I expected it to be more like the plain black tea of the south with milk in it, but it's done more english. Even in the summer, when all the vending machines are set to cold!
what I like about the sushi rolls is that people and cheffs take something, experiment, being creative with it. and make something new or different. thats how food and anything evolves. many of those rolls really taste great and have a bigger variety of flavors than the clasic sushi. You could at least say something positive obout these 3 things. just because its not from japan or integrated doesnt mean its a bad thing :p
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lol i love how you keep going from japanses to english throughout the video xD.. speaking both makes it really fun to watch for some reason xD
+trky9al7 I find it funny too! yay! Thanks for enjoying~
love you two.
This is something very common for most of the world. As long as you're bilingual or more, it comes naturally.
Yes. My cousins and I each speak our 1st languages and understand (much easier) the other. So we go back and forth. It works.
It would never occur to me that Arizona tea has anything to do with Japan. Snapple markets their tea-flavored sugar water as being Chinese though.
+kevincrave yeah I guess you're right. It still never would've occurred to me.
I always thought it was interesting that Diet Arizon Green Tea has an oiran on it.
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My boyfriend lives in Japan and works part time at Japanese restaurant there. I live in North Carolina, and I also work at Japanese restaurant. Since we both work at restaurant I sometime talk about foods that we have ,and he is like wait what? honey I have no idea what you are talking.
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+Freier Westphale 100 They work at two unrelated Japanese restaurants.
I think he was refering to their personal relationship as a couple, not to their jobs.
***** - That would cost a whole lot of money to see each other every weekend haha! Trips to Japan are very expensive... especially if you live in the US.
レストランでくだらないパフォーマンスはいらないって感じるんだよ。
おいしいもの食べに行ってるんだから。
テーマ性のあるディナーショーとして楽しんでるんだろうけどステレオタイプのイメージだから日本人から見ると滑稽に見えるのは仕方ないよね。
I am from Taiwan and many of my American friends were upset when I told them fortune cookies don't exist in Chinese speaking countries. They also questioned if I was "real Asian" when I asked them why they always pour a river of soy sauce over steamed rice.
Yeah I've lived in Qinghai China for the last couple of years and people are surprised when I tell them that there's not really anything like fortune cookies here, and that crab cheese wontons aren't in China at all. (The closest thing I've had to the cheese wontons are a local Tibetan specialty dish.)
When I have visited home in America I've cooked some real dishes for them, like 'tudou si' though.
Cheese in Wonton? how? sounds more like ravioli or something
It's not like a wonton that you find in China, it uses the wonton wrap but is deep fried. It's a very popular dish in American Chinese food restaurants, but it's not authentic at all. But I have had a Tibetan dish that is similar once or twice, so I'm wondering if that's where they got the idea from.
I think I remember having fried wonton in China somewhere, but it's definitely not the standard.
Maybe it's because Americans like their "American version of cheese" so much they just changed the Wonton recipe to sell more? :P
In America, we call the fried wontons that you probably had, pot-stickers.
And yeah, I don't know where the cheese wontons came from. But even though they aren't really authentic, they are pretty delicious.
Sweet green tea is the worst. If I have green tea, it had better taste like a leaf.
Milk in sweet green tea ...... just doesn't work. It is very bad.
Steve Wolfe Dairy is for things that are either bland and flavorless (like, oh, potato) or so bad it needs something heavy to cover up it's terrible taste (like black tea).
Sweetened green tea is an abomination that should have never existed.
Idk about you guys, but I hate adding ANYTHING to green tea. It's just good and will only be good as is. Stuff like sweetened green tea and matcha lattes disgust me.
I do like to add a bit of lemon or mint depending on the type of tea. Matcha is ruined when you put anything else in it. Matcha ice cream is about as close as I'll get to putting anything in matcha. Even then, there better be more matcha flavor than sweet flavor, or I don't like it
The sushi part is interesting. Here in Sweden, while some places serve rolls, still most of the sushi is the rice with sliced fish on it. So I guess the sushi "culture" is probably different in Europe from the US.
***** she wasn't completely correct about sushi, but that's ok
***** Yeah, it's the same in denmark. Here we have a lot of nigiri, and they are my absolute favorite! :D
***** ok, the truth is, ppl in other country wont appreciate the food. they can serve the raw cuts and the strange taste miso soup but they prolly will end up closing the shop. so they modified the menu. its the same for green tea. So in china we have normal unsweetened greentea but the most popular one is the slightly honey flavor green tea. its not crazy sweet like soda, but you can tell theres honey.i kinda feel sad in america, when ppl think about chinese food, they think about something greasy and dirty. well, cuz american love greasy food. in china, nobody eat those garbage
***** But then again, many sushi restaurants in Sweden are owned by first-generation Asian immigrants. Often Chinese, which might attribute to the fact that we have more nigiri than rolls here. If you go to more modern and westernized places, you'll easily find crazy sricacha-mayo covered rolls and nigiri.
wangruochuan I'm from Europe and like a month ago I went to a small chinese store ran by chinese for chinese and I got for myself one of those green teas you mention. It's a strange green tea, not for the honey, I love honey, but for the after taste that tastes like flowers... loved drinking it, hated stopping :p.
In my country green tea is very popular but not bottled/canned, just in tea bags (macha exists in slected places and it's very expensive) so everyone can sweeten it up as they want for themselves. We do have Arizona green tea canned though.
honestly, sometimes i think, from an european pov, america is stranger than Japan.... Oo
Hahaha definitely!!!! I thought the same.. Sweet green tea? Ew.. And wht the are doing to normal food sometimes makes me sad xD
Exactly ^^ And not only the food puzzle me sometimes xD
yeah america is weird,everything is large even if it said its the medium portion like,coffe,soda,burger,sandwich etc,also they are obsessed with sugar,even the burger buns are sweet ( I dunno how burger bun in europe is)but in asia its definetly not sweet
The buns in Europe are a bit sweeter than in the asian countries I have been, but not nearly as sweet as in America ^^
But as I said, it is not only the Food. Drinking in Public is also common in Europe for example.
Leth Fuil and they are wonder why they have a very high obesity rate,and start blaming metabolism for why asian cant get fat and why they are fat :D
The whole "Hibachi grill" thing actually started in Japan! The hot table they cook on is called a Teppanyaki (鉄板焼き) Table! It was started in the 40's by a restaurant in Japan because they wanted to try cooking Western food that way and see if it appealed to the people of Japan. It ended up not working out too well, so they tried it in America and then added a "show" part to it, and people loved it! So that's why it stayed! So it is a Japanese thing, it's just not as popular in Japan ^_^
Note: Sorry if my Japanese above was incorrect or rough, i've not yet mastered the language and am still learning!
100% correct, also look up the wikipedia entry of "teppanyaki" if you don't believe Kerosene. Also, quite a bit of Teppanyaki restaurants exist for kobe beef in Japan and they charge quite a lot!
yes teppanyaki exists and started in japan
, what they're saying is that americans are calling it the wrong thing. Hibachi grills, according to them, is a small stone grill that is meant for warming your hands(?) and not the teppanyaki meant for grilling food.
Izuchoux Oh yes of course! I don't know why they call them Hibachi's in America! I've never been to the US though, so i've never been to one there.
Yeah, I'd never heard it referred to as "Hibachi", just Teppanyaki.
cboehm24 Me too, yeah!
in the netherlands in the macdonalds. they have a sauce you can get with your fries. called 'american sause'
When i was in america. they had never heard of it. and only served boring ketchup at any fries joint.
in the netherlands it usulally comes with mayo. in america it comes with ketchup,. i was amazed
they also sayd that americans sauce in mconalds was not served in usa.
american sause was only served in the nertherlands.
so very confusing
I had the exact same thing, really confusing indeed!
It's kind of a regional thing in the US what people like on fries- for example I believe in the south people like vinegar on their fries, I live in the Midwest and I would say ketchup is most common. My boyfriend is from the western US and he likes to mix ketchup and mustard (eeew!), some people eat them with mayonnaise etc
+Samantha A I'm from the deep south ( Georgia ) and I've never heard of straight vinegar on fries. O_O
we do put it on fish sometimes though. Like, on captain d's type fried fish. It's mostly ketchup down here too ( though I hate ketchup myself XD ).
In Canada we put ketchup, gravy, Swiss Chalet sauce (it's a sauce served at a popular Canadian restaurant chain, it is not Swiss at all) aioli sauces, butter, vinegar, mayo, etc... depending on the region. We have friteries where they sell traditional Belgian-styled frites as well and then we have lots of poutineries where you can get almost anything on your poutines. My favourite is PEI fries which are basically thanksgiving dinner and cheese on fries.
+ TheDaily DaysAndGuns My family is from the Maritimes and we put vinegar on our fish but we also put it on fries too; We use malt vinegar mostly.
I never thought of green tea as something sweet. Maybe it's because my dad brews his own at home and he doesn't sweeten it.
I've always heard "hibachi" grills called teppanyaki grills.
I think sweetened green tea is more common in the southwest + Texas, where they drink sweetened ice black tea normally. In California and New York, i've only seen unsweetened green tea.
makes sense, I live in the California area.
honestly they may have been talking about arizona green tea. which tastes nothing like green tea but is found everywhere in america at liquor stores.
Did you always drink the tea hot? I was wondering if in places where they primarily drink sweet teas if they were getting iced teas basically.
It's refreshing to see roysuske speak in jappanese, very cool video ~
It is kinda interesting and weird to listen to English and Japanese at the same time lol
I feel a little bit confused though, I really enjoy it!
I just found your channel by accident but your videos are totally amazing, particularly to me whom like watching people discussing about cultural differences and cultural shocks.
(viewer from Taiwan)
laura640 Haha thanks! I like confusing people~ :) (Ryosuke)
It's like when Han responds to Chewy's AAAAGGGWWAA...WA...WAA with English
Are there "American Things" in Japan that aren't actually things in America?
taco Bell dosent exist in Mexico so it is not just Japanese stuff
Cowboys!
it's always been called teppanyaki or yakiniku in Hawaii. i guess because they are so many Japanese here.
Same here in California, usually just teppan grill. At least the places I go. I thought a hibachi grill was the little tabletop bbq's for apartments.
Yeah it's called teppanyaki in the UK too!
Same in AZ, A Hibachi to me is a short little grill.
same here.
It's called teppanyaki in Japan too, they're just more popular with tourists.
I like the dual-language subtitle. Would I be asking too much if you also make the non-kanji version for us less fluent speakers who would like to learn more by watching these videos? Thanks!
Sorry! Our old video editing program only had room for one line of "subtitles" so we either had to pick subtitles for Japanese folks or for people learning it as a second language.
I guess I'll just have to get back into my groove with the kanjis. But as long as I get the pronunciation from the audio, it's pretty easy to look up the words.
Thanks a bunch for great works that you guys are doing.
On jisho.org you can look up the Kanji by their component radicals. It's actually pretty quick in my experience.
Kanji is tough bro no doubt but you have to learn it if you want to read properly. If you want to practice reading Hiragana play old Nintendo JRPG's in Japanese. Because of the limited memory the Japanese versions of those games had to have the dialog all in Kana with spaces in between the words like western languages its at least helpful for memorizing the phonetics of the Kana that way you can look at one and recall teh sound it makes right away.
kanji is H E L L
California roll is actually invented in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
Actually the "California roll" was invented in California by a Japanese chef. That's why it's called California roll.
+akichi Hidekazu Tojo invented California roll in Vancouver. google it
It's probably called a "California Roll" because it has avocado in it. Anything with avocado in it is called "california ~"
I remember Eat Your Kimchi commented that they noticed a lot of sushi places in Canada are run by Koreans, which is interesting bc the sushi rolls you get here are probably a lot closer to kimbap (a Korean dish with meat and rice wrapped in seaweed) than they are to sushi in Japan, which is something I never thought about until now.
From what I've noticed though, Japan takes foreign things and Japanizes them as well. I think it's a global phenomenon to adjust things to fit your culture. Like I would love it if America had all the McDonald's shrimp sandwiches that Japan has.
I swear this girl must have had the most sheltered life ever.
Most green tea I've ever had in America was unsweet.
Depends on where you live. America is pretty big. Especially in the south things tend to be sweeter.
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I live in Memphis, Tennessee, which is indeed the south, but the only sweet tea we drink is made from black tea.
CapTrainT I'm from SC, but I'm not a big tea drinker, so I wouldn't know as much about selection. :)
She's from Texas. They like tea sweetened in the South. Up north though it's unsweet.
it was probably that huge can if Arizona green tea lol
Sushi in America has mutated so significantly, but deliciously, from the original, that there are now "American style" sushi restaurants in Japan.
Kimbab is a lot like American sushi rolls....
American style sushi roll is the greatest innovation in sushi history
cheri teleri kimbap is korean lol
+Lee Kento no, absolutely not. sashimi or nigiri is all about the quality, taste, and texture of the fish and compared to cooking fish you get such a variety of tastes even among the same species in all their different variations. Rolls destroy the sushi experience and turn it into a mess of crap smashed together for people who don't like or appreciate real sushi aka fish.
Jaime M we change things up and often make them better tasting
Thanks for speaking in both languages. The captions must take forever!
dmango Ryosuke's a trooper. He's going to try to subtitle some of our videos (at least once a week) from here on out~
alll i drank hot green tea never heard of sweet green tea
Same! figured its like an american thing?
Trust Americans to take something nice and good for you and pack it full of shit and call it what it isn't huh?
Maybe they were talking about the Lipton stuff or the Arizona stuff
First time of ever hearing of it too. But they said it was in florida so maybe a southern thing? I hear they love over sweetened teas over yonder.
I don't see Florida having "the South" culture much but perhaps the culture they do have supports good ol' Southern "Sweet Tea" anyhow, along with its many diabetes-inducing cousins peddled by big brand distributors. The high level of sweetness is something that can be sensed by retirees with failing taste buds; it can offset bitter or harsh flavors of other elements if mixing drinks for the party crowd; and it can shock your system bad enough to make you forget that you're slowly boiling to death in your own sweat during the sultry Southern summers. It is versatile I suppose, all things considered. And Sweet Tea is far more than simply adding sugar to unsweetened tea, it is a confectionary art form! While the water is heated, the sugar is added and allowed to "melt" and fully absorb into the water, literally making almost a "simple syrup" with which the tea is then brewed. It is VERY sweet, yet still pleasant if one can acclimate their taste buds appropriately. It's much better than simply dumping sugar into unsweetened tea; different taste, different texture, whole different experience. Hopefully someone from Florida can show up and shed some light on the situation!
you guys need to come to Los Angles. Here the sushi is legit(straight up piece of fish over rice), well priced, well made as is the Green Tea and no grills. This is probably because we have a high Japanese heritage population around here.
Disneyland and the Harry Potter Park of course!
They have those in Japan as well.
Silicon Valley as well- I'm Japanese-American, and even I can actually accept a lot of the Japanese food around here as actually being Japanese XD
ZoraXire Ohh, so that's why I was so confused by that part of the video! Like, "What?? No, we absolutely have the real sushi in the US and it's not rare!" Had no idea that that wasn't so outside of LA @_@
Those are Koreans, m8.
To be fair, _Arizona Green Tea_ does say right on the bottle; Green Tea with Ginseng *and Honey*. So obviously it's going to be pretty sweet, especially when you look at the NV and it lists about as much sugar as Coca Cola.
Teajava got it right, they bottled just unsweetened Java tea.
also i believe they dont say that the tea are japanese on their bottles, or japanese inspired, its not only in japan that exists green tea.
Paulo Sousa you are correct, there are All kinds of green tea from, India, China, and elsewhere.
Paulo Sousa - It doesn't say that, but the bottle is covered in typically Japanese cherry blossoms. So, I see how that'd get mistaken.
TheMrVengeance most likely Chinese green tea, its the cheapest.
Australia is lucky, our sushi has kampyo and kappa maki, nigiri sushi, sashimi in with the western avocado and tuna salad rolls. Then again, our cities are all on the coast. Fresh fish is not so hard to get. Some restaurants do what they call 'fushion sushi' which sounds like American sushi: rolls covered in sauces, deep fried crab roll, 'tempura crunch', fancy uramaki with smoked salmon, cream cheese, avocado. We get Izakaya style restaurants, rotating sushi belts, and fancy places serving ootoro and lobster tataki style... Australia likes variety I think.
got similar things when I wsd in hk...and its close enough to japan tht u think it wouldn't happen lol
Same in California.
In the US Pacific NW restaurants serve the American style rolls they mentioned, but you can also get nigiri or the simple Japanese style rolls. Typing this makes me hungry for a raw hunk of fish on a small pat of rice.
Great videos, you two make a wonderful couple. You gel so smoothly and effortlessly. Glad I came across your videos.
The sushi you say is in Japan, where it's layerd with rice and then the fish on top - I see that all the time in America.. I see both that and rolls, but maybe it's more widely available in my area. I've never seen JUST rolls, usually the sushi is very varied. Although, as an American, one also has to know when one is at an actually authentic Japanese restaurant but that's pretty easy to distinguish imo
nigiri is rice with fish or something else on top. Sushi literal translation is " with rice" so anything with rice done the same way is sushi. also us americans dont like the look of the seaweed on the outside of the roll thats why you see some inside out.
The one question I have is why I have seen the "roll" sushi in Japanese TV shows?
The roll you see on japanese shows are basically tuna roll or even salmon roll. The rolls you have in America are more varied and made to suit American tastes. The California roll is an American invention to start people on to sushi without the raw fish inside (and it has avocado for the California flair) The most common sushi in Japan is Nigiri which is fish (or urchin, roe, octopus or clam) on top of the rice
Yes, I know what you mean. I'm from California, and most restaurants (in bigger cities at least) will have the rice with the fish on top as well as the rolls. Even some Japanese grocery stores will have the rice with the fish on top available in the deli section along with things like California roll. They'll also have the rolls they described as being more common, like a roll with just tuna or cucumber in the middle.
You can also get makizushi rolls in Tokyo. This chick is a complete phony.
The way this video is uniquely bilingual is super fun and great. I love it.
The sushi thing is basically a regional thing just like many foods. Chinese food in America that resembles nothing in China, or Curry in japan resembling nothing like curry in any other country.
THat reminds me, did you make a video ever about American things in Japan that don't exist in the US?
the difference is when America adapts its Garbage when Japan adapts things it improves on them, Automobiles , Trains, pocket radios, basic any kind of technology, this is where America falters, Japan is 100% Non-union.
I herd fortun cookies arnt a thing
Anissassina correct, its a Chinese - American invention. if you go to an Authentic Chinese restaurant they wont serve you fortune cookies, they might give you fresh orange slices or some tangerienes.
Japanese Pizza, it is a experience. A fried egg, dried squid, cucumber, fried rice these are things that were on a pizza menu that my friend sent me from when he was living in Japan. Dried squid pizza sounds just yuck. Not everything is better in Japanese adaption. As to the tec. stuff, South Korea is the world leader in Tec. advances these days.
I will say that Korean food is still fairly Korean in America. I guess it has not been popular long enough to be Americanized.
In Holland we have the same thing with Chinese food. There are restaurants in every city and most towns, The dishes are the same in the whole country and mostly look and taste the same.
But I understand that it's just not "real" chinese food, not even close...
Heh, I ate at a Chinese restaurant in Brussels where every dish came with a side of...get this...fries. Now, don't get me wrong; Brussels makes the BEST fries (even the Chinese restaurants), but come on! Seriously? Fries at a CHINESE restaurant?!?!
+ZhangtheGreat lol I found it weird how when I was in Ireland and the Chinese restaurant served pizza and fries and fried chicken.
From what I know, a lot of Dutch, Chinese restaurants are based on mixed chinese, Indonesian and cantonese dishes and then adjusted to the Dutch taste, which is a lot sweeter and less spicy and less fatty.
Most the dishes names are in Indonesian language like nasi goreng or bapao.
Basically, Indonesians opened Indonesian restaurants (tokos?) after WWII and then the Chinese hired those cooks and adjusted the dishes later on as they saw the original Indonesian restaurants were quite popular but not adjusted to Dutch taste.
smashtommy That sounds plausible. ;)
Even in Korea they have "Chinese" food that isn't Chinese.
Number 3 does frustrate me a bit, being more into Korea, because occasionally I will eat 김밥/kimbap/キムパプ. Because kimbap ARE the roles that people generally always call sushi, EVERYBODY asks why I am eating sushi or starts mentioning sushi, and I am just like......... this isn't sushi....... they aren't even close wth lol >.
***** Actually, they are kinda close. Gimbap came from the Japanese makizushi during the Japanese Occupation of Korea in WWII and they do use white rice and dried seaweed.
Nicolas Aure The rice is flavoured different and the ingredients of the basic version of each are wildly different (of course varieties exist). The idea of "sushi" isn't those rolls though. It's, as they said, the fish on the rice. makizushi is just a type of sushi (one I didn't see when I went to Japan), whilst Kimbap is only rolled.
Nicolas Aure The "sushi" part comes from "鮨飯 or sushimeshi", a vinegared rice. Sushi must have that type of rice, or it isn't sushi. Kimbap does not use it.
I see haha. I didn't really read the comment correctly.
Nicolas Aure Yeah I mean... Kimbap DID originate from makizushi, but it is quite different now. If you call it sushi, both Koreans and Japanese people will probably instantly correct you haha.
In Portugal when you go to a Japanese restaurant, nearly everything they serve is sushi. However, most of the times it's japanese style sushi, so when I was in Japan the sushi I got there was the same sort of sushi I'd had before, back home. We also have those performances in some places, though, which I didn't see in Japan.
Great video as usual ^^
That was a fun video :)
Hmmm, so what are the top 3 American stereotypes that don't exist in America? That would be interesting to see as well.
This video popped up in my recommendations and I became slightly emotional. It was like seeing a couple of old friends. Now I'm probably going to end up binge watching all of your videos again! Miss you Ryosuke and Grace! Hope you are both doing well and thanks again for all of the great videos teaching us about japan and sharing parts of your lives with us!
Never viewed your channel before and take exception to some facts, if you can call them that, you stated.
1. I never had sweet tea of ANY kind until I moved to Texas. Here in the Mid West we typically drink all tea simply brewed and either hot or over ice. Maybe some lemon or milk but that depends on preference. Only recently has fast food chains start offering sweet tea here.
2. Isn't the seasoned rice used for nigiri, hand rolls, and maki or rolls what's called sushi? Isn't that why raw fish in a sushi bar is called shishimi? Topped mounds of rice called nigiri?
3. There are no rolls in Japan? Hand rolls and what is known as a 'thin roll' (1/2 sheet nori, sushi rice, one filling commonly used is cucumber) aren't eaten there? Guess the family we met from Japan had it wrong eh? AND the two female transfer students last year?
I agree that we Americans modify foods to suit our tastes and that if we get "authentic" foods we typically dislike it. I personally wasn't brought up eating chicken cartilage, pig anus, and other delicacies found in Japan, and have no desire to start now. This is common in all countries. McDonald's (everyone knows them) varies their menus to suit the regions tastes. I can't get a potato patty on a bun here but when in India I can.
So lumping all of America together is like lumping all of Asia or of Europe together and saying everyone eats the same way and drinks the same thing. We are a melding pot here and were founded on that to begin with. So we vary by region, state, county, city, and even block. Might even say house or apartment. Please don't lump all of us together saying "Americans all drink sweetened green tea OR all green tea is sweet in America". It's like saying all Japanese love to eat wasabi by the spoonful. Simply untrue.
I think they are probably talking about something like Arizona green tea which is a highly sweetened blend that does not resemble Japanese green tea at all. You can find it all over the Midwest too. They are not talking about sweet tea which is a highly sweetened black tea popular in the south.
I rather like these sweet teas but they are just not the same thing as unsweetened or lightly sweetened green or black teas you can find outside the US. Many Europeans think our black tea is terrible too.
Personally I like Japanese macha green tea which is even more thick and bitter than the typical green tea you will find at a convenience store. It is the type that is usually prepared in tea ceremonies and usually served with something sweet on the side. You can find sweetened versions of macha too though as a flavoring for various products such as ice cream.
Maybe you don't realize how sweet the tea is but I live in the midwest too and it's a lot of "green tea with honey" as iced tea. I like it though :p
I also from the Midwest (Indiana) and I rarely (if ever) drank unsweetened iced tea. The only people I knew of who could stomach it were older women. Most of the time, we drank the sweet tea (often labelled Texas sweet tea or Southern sweet tea) or mixed it with unsweet tea to cut the sweetness a bit. Hot tea was the same way. Rarely did anyone drink it without first adding sugar or honey. As for milk, I've never seen anyone put milk in their tea here. I didn't even know that was something people did until I was 14 and met an English girl who went to my school.Individual people's experiences vary, and this channel is not meant to be a guide to other countries, just an anecdotal video diary. She is from Texas, she now lives in Tokyo. She is drawing from her own life experiences. If you want a well-researched and perfectly worded travel video, maybe you should look elsewhere. This channel is for entertainment. It's cute and funny and not always perfectly accurate, and that's okay. She can say whatever she wants. This is all about HER experience in Tokyo based on the perspective of HER experience in Texas.
Some of what you describe may be a Southern / Midwestern phenomenon. On the US West Coast, I think the only sweetened green tea I ever saw was novelty tea in the canned beverage aisle. Green tea was otherwise always unsweetened. And sushi was available in all forms, both the traditional Japanese preparations and as a variety of rolls that used the same basic premise of raw seafood, sushi rice, and seaweed (often with added vegetables to increase the diversity of roll types). The cooked-fish, slathered-in-mayo sushi was in the minority.
It could also be that I'm behind the times, and that things have changed since then. (I've lived in the Middle of Nowhere, TX for the past several years.)
Where exactly in Texas did you live? Cause Dallas didn't have ANY of your problems... and everywhere else in the US I've been as well don't have these issues either... any place with sushi rolls also has nigiri and sashimi typically. Green tea is served unsweet. And a teppanyaki is a teppanyaki, while Hibachi is the name of a specific chain of restaurants.
I was wondering the same thing...
Right?? I'm in Ohio and while you do have the "cheap" fake sushi you can buy in a grocery store...the actual, reputable "Sushi" restaurants have real sushi. Sashimi and Nigiri...And Green tea is served unsweet if preferred and depending on the restaurant, you get matcha powder and hot water. In fact, you can go into a grocery store near me and buy your own matcha powder. I'm talking regular stores...like Kroger and Walmart...
She's talking about green tea in a can not in a restaurant. Arizona (very popular brand in the USA) has a green tea and it's super sweet and good! I see it in stores all the time. (I live near philadelphia) Also Honest another popular brand has a honey green tea not nearly as sweet as arizona but obv with honey as a main ingredient pretty sweet. Lipton also has a bottle and OMG just as sweet as Arizona. Ofc tea is SERVED unsweet so is our coffee and black tea unless we ask for it sweetened or put sugar in it.
I thought the same thing the whole time I was watching, I live in Arizona, there are three Asian/international markets within 5 minutes of my house and loads of restaurants serving pretty decent international cuisine. While I enjoy the occasional sushi roll, I know the difference (as do most people I know). Green tea is always served unsweetened unless it's Arizona Tea or something. When she mentioned Hibachi the FIRST thing that popped into my brain was a tiny portable grill, NOT Teppenyaki. I've never heard Teppanyaki referred to as Hibachi.
I've lived in America my whole life and I didn't know sweetened Green tea existed. I'm in California, maybe it's different in Texas.
Hi Grace, Texan in Tokyo!
The Hibachi Grill idea was invented by a Japanese immigrant in the US who founded the Benihana Japanese restaurant food chain. The theatrics have always been a big draw for customers. You can read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benihana
Jacqueline Mulhern Oh yeah Benihana that was the first one I went to as a kid near Disney World in Orlando.
Jacqueline Mulhern Right, it's funny how people always say "It's not Japanese!" as though Americans are breaking some sacred law or something. But if a Japanese immigrant invented it...is it not Japanese? It might not be there, but it is from someone Japanese.
Same with Chinese food, I always hear how American Chinese food isn't "Chinese." ...but the restaurants are all owned by Chinese people, so where did it come from?
cloudkitt Exactly, I completely agree. When peopel come to America they bring their own recipes and foods. In new York, Chinese food was started here by the immigrants that came but they came in the late 1800s so it evolved from there. Which might be a differnet evolution of food from how it is in China now, plus China is huge with tons of different types of cuisine and regions.
+cloudkitt the difference between Chinese cuisine and American-Chinese cuisine lies in the flavors. The basic recipes is there but America-Chinese cuisine makes greater use of local (American) vegetables and seasonings more suited to American tastes. Also American-Chinese cuisine uses more soy sauce than Chinese cuisine. And there are the truly American dishes mistaken as ethnic Chinese cuisine: Chop suey and the fortune cookie. As a Chinese-American I had never eaten chop suey and my parents didn't know what it was (they were typical immigrant Hong Kong Chinese). And the fortune cookie, so common in most American-Chinese restaurants are not found in any restaurant in Mainland China. In fact, in 1992 an attempt by a major fortune cookie manufacturer to export fortune cookies to Mainland China met with little success as Chinese Nationals think the fortune cookie is too American.
+cloudkitt When Chinese people say that American Chinese food isn't "Chinese", we meant "Authentic" Chinese food. Meaning food that is actually made and eaten in Asia. Like you said, they are American Chinese food which is also the term we refer it as.
Interesting, but I lived in Japan for a couple years and there definitely were a couple Hibachi places that I went to out there... I would say that there is less showmanship - but there were definitely tables set up around big cooking surfaces with spatula flipping and stuff.
I also had rolls in Japan too... it wasn't the primary offering, but they definitely had rolls out there!
Right?! I always eat rolls here
In the video, there's an annotation that says (aside from Okinawa.) So I guess if you lived in Okinawa, then that explains why, but if not, then not sure.
killer slowpoke I live in Tokyo, and still you can find it all here.
That's funny, what you're describing as "hibachi grills" here in America is what I know as "teppan grills", at least here in California. Benihana being the most famous example. Where in America do they call them hibachi grills? Btw the "hibachi" grill that I know is what you mentioned--the little charcoal bar-b-que thing.
I've been to one (that was not Benihana) in Arizona before. It was called a hibachi grill there too
I'd guess it's because of the large JP population in Cali.
I grew up in a rural town in Ohio and a Japanese restaurant opened up in a city/town nearby that advertises itself as hibachi. When you go in they ask if you want a booth or to sit at the hibachi. It says hibachi on the menu too.
The restaurant is staffed by Chinese people. I speak some Chinese and my husband is Chinese. When we took him there we both heard the staff speaking Chinese.
I've seen 'Hibachi' grills 2 places where I've lived. Oklahoma and Kentucky.
Benihana is the original.
I'm confused about what you're referring to when you say sweet green tea. Do you mean actual green tea like a sweetened version of お〜いお茶 or sweetened maccha? 抹茶オレー [maccha ore-] is available all over Japan.
Thank you/ありがとうございます。
To clear up some confusion below: Raw fish, etc. (cooked egg, for example) on rice is sushi. Raw fish without the rice is sashimi.
Julian Smith The sweet green tea is more like a version of お〜いお茶 with tons of sugars in it...
Texan in Tokyo そうですか、ありがとう。見た事がない。
i would guess maybe not matcha that everyone not living in texas or pittsburg would know
hot27 The medication's not working, eh?
I think the more liquid type of green tea like O-cha or even Gen-matcha
When I lived in Boulder, Colorado, there were three sushi bars in town. Only one of them was traditional (to me). One day I was dining there at the counter. A white man sitting next to me ordered scallop sushi. When served, the man angrily asked the chef, "Why no Mayonnaise?" That was a shock to me. Later I learned that the other sushi bars served scallop with generous topping of mayo.
Yoshikazu Hayashi Huh. Interesting. I guess each restaurant is different :)
Are there any things Japanese people think are American that don't exist over here?
***** Omurice, hamburger steaks(not that we don't have them just usually in a hamburger:3)
Oh yeah, i forgot omurice is "american"
***** theres no japanese hamburger (it looks like a burger patty but made with some other more ingredients)also its quite hard to find some of the local miso. theres a bunch of good miso brand tho.
***** Most of the pizza places I go to in Japan have corn on them. I'm always on the lookout for pizza that doesn't have corn, and some places have an American style pizza with just meat and cheese and maybe some vegetables. But, apparently there are quite a few Japanese people who think putting corn on pizza is an American thing.
SMFortissimo Actually putting corn on pizza is pretty common in England.
Not sure if it is because you are so young or from Texas, but most of the green tea I see in the US is unsweetened still. You can now find sweetened options, but it's not as common as you guys are making it seem. Then you put you don't know where the hibachi idea came from. But up top you put a big clue where it came from (Okinawa)....duh? Also, I've had a rainbow roll in Japan. And it's kind of misleading to say Sushi doesn't exist in Japan. I think most people wouldn't be shocked to hear that a California Roll or Volcano Roll is not authentic Japanese. But your stories are pretty good.
the okinawa was added later as it says in the same text. duh?
*Didn't even know hibachi came from Okinawa and is Okinawan*
Also, the Rainbow Rolls in Japan only became common after Americans created it XD
that doesn't change the fact that it exist in japan does it?
Calvin Roberts unless you ask for hot green tea in Texas its alway bottle cold and sweet. In Texas unless someone ask for unsweetened or hot tea, you will offend them if the tea is not cold and sweet.
I watched the whole video but at 6:10 when she says "You're adorable, I love you" I just melted.
甘い緑茶！そうそう！ Sweet green tea! My daughter spit it out, same as Ryo chan.;-)
How did I only JUST NOW realize you are the same Grace from Gaijinpot?! I love those articles!
But regarding the video, I definitely couldn't keep up with trying to read the Japanese subtitles! It's hard enough not knowing much kanji, but I couldn't even get halfway through a line before it disappeared off-screen. No slight against you, just my own limited ability.
ShaneMaesenko That's meeeeeeeee~!
I try to stay involved in a lot of different things, so I don't get bored~
ShaneMaesenko You'll get better over time :) There are days where I feel like I know nothing, but there are days when I realize that I've actually come pretty far :)
Markus Andersen I have N5 certification so far, so I know I can learn. It's getting used to seeing Kanji that is the problem, since I don't currently find myself surrounded by them. I really need to get back over to Japan (it's been 4 years already!) and get back into it.
ShaneMaesenko
excuse me for not knowing, but what exactly is a "N5 certification" ? :)
I´m a self-study person, so I wouldn´t know.
Markus Andersen
The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) is a certification the Japanese government offers once (or twice, depending on country) per year. It's a pass/fail test at 5 levels (N5 is lowest, up to N1) which determines your proficiency, according to government standards. It can also help with getting a job in Japan.
N5 and N4 are elementary-intermediate ability, N3 is the point most non-native translators/interpreters begin. N2 is "fluent, non-native" and is considered to be the most you will need as a foreigner unless you work in medical, political, or highly specialized fields; that's where N1 comes in.
That's just a quick coverage, for more information, ask at your local Japanese Consulate or Embassy.
I always brew my own green tea here in America, (yeah me!) so I did not know there was such a thing as sweetened green tea. I thought hibachi grills were small charcoal grills for cooking outdoors, usually barbque. I did eat at one of those faux-Japanese 'performance' places once. it was fun. but more often i think of those big flat grills as Mongolian. Again, its all in the show. In the US I never have sushi when I am more than 2 hours from Santa Cruz, california, where the fish is fresh from the ocean.
I guess I am not so typical.
Walter Wilson Agreed regarding the "hibachi". The only kinds I have ever encountered are at "Mongolian grills" or "Chinese buffets".
Walter Wilson There isn't a such thing as "sweet green tea," this lady is just from Texas...
Believe or not, the are reasons Americans like cold sweet teas, The Midwest and South are for the most part landlocked and very HUMID in the summer and a hot drink will not suffice. So a cold drink is needed to cool off, and sugar is needed to boost energy sapped from the humidity.
That being said, I do tend to mix my tea to be half sweet half regular, because some placed really overdue the sweetness, and Canned or bottled tea never tastes right to me.
Currently binging on your channel. You guys are so awesome.
ugh i hate the desire of most americans to sweeten everything. sweetened green tea is disgusting?? D: the california roll was invented by a Japanese immigrant chef, I believe. And he wanted to make something that represented CA..i guess it got so popular so that's what sushi became in the U.S. I think in L.A./CA and NYC it's easier to find "authentic" sushi. Those are where all the ethnic enclaves are.
***** sorry can't read/speak Japanese. But google translate says you think NY sushi isn't good. Ok, that's just your opinion. I don't think there is anything wrong with something being not "authentic" -- it can still taste good. But I don't think most people actually believe sushi they eat in the U.S. is exactly like the sushi they'd get in Japan, anyway. So, it's fine as long as they're aware this is "American" sushi.
***** um ok whatever
SelphieFairy California Sushi was also like a "gateway" sushi..a modified version to suit for the American tastes I believe..and that way it'll eventually lead them to the real thing... has it worked? Yes, no, maybe so.. lol
Similar to the REAL Chinese food menu and the Americanized Chinese menu..
SelphieFairy Sweetened green tea shouldn't even exist. If someone wants to add sugar to it, they should just grab a sweet pastry (or wagashi-traditional Japanese sweets) or other sweet food instead of dropping a few sugar cubes into a Japanese tea. I think sugar just ruins the flavor, especially if it's made from high grade leaves/powder.
CandleKern It worked for me. The CA roll was mild enough to get me interested it in, and now I've graduated onto eating legit sushi.
Though I do enjoy the fancy Americanized rolls on occasion. Rainbow roll is delish.
If a CA roll or a spicy tuna roll gets people to eat the food and to maybe dive deeper into it, I'm all for it.
In Washington State, I want to say 97% of locally owned sushi restaurants are owned by a Korean family. Not talking about the big chain sushi companies - don't know who owns those.
Its actually super easy to tell if a sushi place is a Japanese sushi place or a Korean sushi place: when you look at the menu and the great majority is fancy rolls like fried rolls, volcano rolls, mountains rolls yada yada, then the place is Korean.
They are freakin delicious most def. But it is very funny when I'm at a Korean sushi place and I overhear someone else exclaiming how authentically Japanese the place is. Even when you can hear people working in the back yelling to each other in Korean.
The truth is there are just now a lot of actual Japanese restaurants. I wish there were.
I'm still on the hunt though. I've found 4 so far...
One place I tried (three times) in Seattle, the sushi always came out warm because of the rice. I am so not used to warm sushi.
Is sushi from Japan warm as well?
Michelle Dietrich I think it depends on the place (warm rice).
I always assume if the name is something awkwardly "Japanese" (Wasabi, Nami, Sushi, etc) then it's not run by a Japanese person. But I haven't eaten at an Asian restaurant in America in like 4 years now, so it might have changed.
Michelle Dietrich Which I find odd, most Koreans hate those kind of fancy rolls. Maybe menus are adjusted to suit American tastes?
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They are most def. made for the American style but speaking as a person with Korean in them and being involved with many younger Korean Americans, the rolls are still popular.
I don't know about sushi places in Korea though. Didn't get the chance to go last time I was there.
I was just in Japan last month and I remember being shocked because one place we ate at had a California roll XD my dad kept trying to joke with the waitress about how we were from California but she probably just thought he was crazy :P
I subscribed cause you guys are really funny when you did "妻はアメリカ人 Japanese men talk about their American wives" with Jun and Rachel!
green tea is not exclusive in japan. in all asia even india, the origins of green tea, we DONT drink sweetened tea. particularly green tea, which have a medicinal purpose. we laugh at those sweetened green tea, and calls it "american's/white people's green tea" :v
We don't have any sort of sweeteners in Green Tea in the UK either. It's sort of weird to have sugar in it I think haha I've had bottled green tea which was imported from America... I didn't like it
Izzy Gordon well, at least UK have its tea the right way. Wonder how is in your neighbourhood. Say, are you in england, wales, scotland or ireland? Pretty confusing if you just says "UK"
Tea is the same across the whole of the uk, there is very little regional variation.
Black tea is also not sweet...
I don't have any tea sweetened. I think it takes away from the taste.
I like the "in America, green tea is almost always sweet". Well, in America almost everything that can be eaten is sweety. From iced tea to cheese. XD
ConnanConnan MURICA. Yeah Pretty much.
But the just fish on rice is the best kind. I thought that was why it was more expensive. Now you tell me it's expensive because it's more authentic? Hmm, but maybe it's cheaper there.
Michael Cox ummm I think it's more expensive because... huge chunk of raw fish? I don't know... :( sorry (Ryosuke)
Still, it's tasty with some pickled ginger and wasabi
you get more fish is why it's more expensive also in japan sushi is expensive.
You sure what you are eating is actually wasabi? Most of the time wasabi is just horseradish. Good thing I dislike "wasabi". xD
Sam L There is that possibility to be sure.
I actually do really like elaborate sushi rolls like the vegas roll lol But! I also love sashimi! Which is like straight up raw fish. I really want to go to Japan and try some authentic food. One day, it's definitely on my bucket list.
Brianna S I love both kinds as well :)
Most bottled green tea is unsweetened? One more reason for me to visit Japan! I hate that sweet crap.
Or you can just make your own tea. It's better than purchasing pre made tea.
Oh, for sure. And that way you can make it exactly the way you like, perhaps mixing different types/blends. I'm a huge tea lover and I collect them. But sometimes when you're out, you just want a fresh and cold bottle of green tea. That's hard to find where I'm from; some Asian markets might sell 'em, or maybe Lidl. though it was even worse when I visited America, because the sweet tea was even SWEETER.
As you mentioned Lidl, I guess you are from Germany? We have unsweetened tea here in Germany for quiete some time now, you just need to look. I liked the green tea most, but blad tea is also great (I spent my early childhood in Russia, which is a black tea nation). And we have amazing tea shops everywhere (here in Freiburg I know at least 3) who sell the tea in boxes so you can mix it however you want. Even the average tea in those little bags is good, when you choose well, I have one green tea sort that is with macha and I love it.
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Carry it in a thermos. There are a couple of cafes and such that give you the option. Next time just say you prefer it unsweetened/no extra sugar, and a cold brew. There are Japanese markets and stores who sell it naturally as well. (:
Olga Hein Actually, I'm from Finland. We have Lidl markets here as well. Thanks for the tips, tho. :)
Elise M Yeah, you're right, cafe's are the best bet. There was one small brand I once found at my local store that sold two interesting tasting blends of unsweetened ice tea in bottles. I bought one (very expensive!) before they disappeared.
Wow... the "Texan" speaks Japanese well (at least, it sounds well; I don't know any Japanese lol). That's really impressive. Sweet!
I was a bit confused at first when I moved to the US hubby said he was taking me for sushi but what I was served is what I grew knowing as norimaki (海苔巻き)
Akemi Collins Haha! That must have been confusing!
very much so lol
Where I live (midwest US), pretty much all the sushi restaurants will have three headings under "sushi": maki, nigiri, and sashimi. Of course, most of the menu is in the maki category, but nigiri and sashimi is just whatever type of seafood you would want (with or without rice), so i guess that makes some sense...
You know what is even weirder is that all the chefs at the Hibachi grill in the Japanese Pavilion in Epcot at Disney World are Japanese nationals. They speak little English.
Are you sure they're Japanese? They could be Korean or Chinese. A lot of those places do that.
Yeah, it part of Disney's cultural representation program. I know Japanese and talked with them.
+TheBaldr they should have secretly laugh at your guys there
I had that experience on Ferry ship in Europe that did UK to Holland. For some reason one of the ships had Japanese catering crew that spoke little english. They would give me free drinks as i was chinese and i guess i looked close enough to Japanese.
In Hawaii you can find authentic Japanese food because of the high population of Japanese Americans and then all the tourists that come. So you can get pretty authentic yakiniku, ramen, sushi, etc. However once you go back in the mainland good luck trying to find "real" Japanese food!
I like the subtitles and hearing both languages back and forth! thanks you guys!
It is so much fun watching and listening to you two. I like the colors in the subtitles and just everything about this video! Yay! Hello from another Texan!
Hey grace I was just wondering if you ever noticed the difference between how your husband's (sorry I don't know how to spell your name ) voice sounds when he speaks Japanese and when he speaks English. I find the same thing with my husband and he's Turkish. It's like in their native language they speak more in a lower register but in English most everything is said he says in a higher register what do you think?
Merelf I think my husband is the same way! I also speak higher when I'm talking in Japanese. Perhaps it's something to do with speaking your non-native tongue?
Texan in Tokyo He's certainly much more talkative in Japanese! Thanks for the subtitles.
Merelf scientists recently found that when you spreak in another language, you kinda switch into another personality. ^^ no joke, but funnny anyways
Aren't there like temaki (hand rolls) for street food?
Yes.
Temaki and all types of rolls are served many places in Japan. This video isn't accurate
You two are the cutest. I'm new to your channel
Wow, Ryosuke. Your English has REALLY improved. I've been watching your more recent vids. Congrats, learning another language, especially when there is no common root whatsoever, is REALLY hard.
In Canada (or the part of Canada where I live) hibachi is a type of small portable barbecue on which you use charcoal briquettes. The type of restaurant you described might be referred to as teppanyaki, but they are unusual. Most Japanese places are fairly authentic here in Vancouver, though the sushi is often "signature rolls" which the restaurants make up, so trendy . Some even have cream cheese and beef and things. Most people know that these are not what you would see in Japan though. I was always shocked at how small the pieces are in Japan. When I was teaching in Japan I always thought it was funny that my students who came to North America went to Japanese restaurants all the time. They told me they liked to because our sushi is so strange.
Here in Hawaii, we have an abundance of all three things. We have a place called "kobe steakhouse" (bad birthday memories) that's the choppy choppy flippy flippy place, a lot of green tea (don't know how sweet, don't like tea) and conveyor belt sushi places *EVERYWHERE*.
The closest thing to sushi that I eat is spam musubis (tasty af).
Something that you almost never find here is real Wasabi. It's all horseradish. Wow, this comment had no structure.
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We have Kobe's in Florida as well. It's identical to the restaurant she was talking about. Same exact tricks, food, and everything. There's also one called Hokkaido but it tasted slightly different than Kobes. I prefer Kobes.
PokemonDiamondUS What part of Hawaii are you from? We have real green tea here (tbh I didn't even know Mainland Americans sweetened green tea), we have real yakiniku places (I can find these everywhere, but can only think of one Kobe Steakhouse), and we have real sushi here. I'm actually super curious as to where you get your green tea and sushi from. Also, kaitenzushi are a Japanese thing. They meant the super elaborate "sushi" like california rolls. Also, what places are you going that you don't have real wasabi? Every Japanese restaurant I've been to serves real wasabi
***** Maui. We do have yakiniku places, but they're small and a tad ghetto (IMO); I can't think of any dedicated sushi places here that aren't Genki. I don't drink tea or sushi so I couldn't tell you where to get them. We don't have kaitenzushi on Maui (as far as I know).
A lot of packaged "wasabi" that I look at the ingredients, it has wasabi at the end or not there because Wasabi is expensive and has a short shelf life.
That would explain it then. On Oahu these things are abundant. Possibly because more of the Japanese tend to stay here?
I googled okonomiyaki. A savory pancake with veggies, meat and whatever? I must have this in my life! :)
They are not hard to make at home either. It might not be the most traditional but google bisquick okonomiyaki. My friend who lived in a Japan for a few years tried and said it was pretty close the real thing. I was making batches for myself and freezing them and then I would pop them in the toaster oven in the morning.
brandchan Thanks for the advice. I'm not sure if Bisquick exists in my country, but there's probably some equivalent. Good idea about the freezing.
You can find recipes online. No need to buy anything special. Making it yourself from scratch is part of the experience with traditional okonomiyaki. You are supposed to put in what you want and make it your way so you can't really go wrong even if it gets somewhat less than authentic.
***** Thanks. Weird channel name =P
When I looked up recipes the hardest thing to find was Yamaimo, but that was a long time ago. Back then I only found it at some really large and very Asian marts (H-Mart in GA, while I was living in FL) but recently even corner Asian stores here in SWFL have it. Okonomiyaki is great, but I haven't made it recently. I'm kinda craving it.
Ew. I've never been to Japan OR the U.S., but sweetened green tea sounds absolutely horrible... green tea is supposed to be bitter and warm!
Cold green tea is nice too
I'm American, and I like green tea hot and unsweetened! I like regular tea iced and sweetened. (that's the southern thing)
i like mine sweet and cold
Better sweetened than sweated!
America doesn't understand tea whether it is black or green. Especially Texas.
I've been stydying japanese for 2 years now, and I feel so glad I can understand most of what Ryosuke says. I feel so comfortable watching you two mixing english and japanese. (I'm brazilian, so none of these is my mother language, lol)
And I can even read the subtitles in japanese when you guys talk in english, so it's a win-win situation for me =D
The subtitles and language switching are actually a really nice tool for me- I'm learning Japanese
I guess NY is different, because both types of sushi are common and popular here... You can also find both at convenience stores...
Rivers Hoag NY is a country to me! It's got everything!! Sushi at a convenience stores? AWESOME (Ryosuke)
Here in rural Indiana, we have both types of sushi too AND in supermarkets! I don't know what these two are talking about.
As someone who's lived in both countries, have parents from both countries, speak both languages, and dated women from both cultures, i find this video sliiiiiiiightly exaggerated and really misleading. Not inaccurate! But really misleading...
How so? I'm just curious. I've never been to Japan myself so I love learning these types of things. : )
Yeah.
I've been to a Hibatchi Grill in Okinawa and I eat roll sushi all the time here.
It's inaccurate for sure - maybe they shouldn't have used the term "doesn't exist"
Yeah I went to Okinawa too and they had Hibachi grills, it's definitely not the same in America but still
How was it misleading?
YangSunWoo "Don't exist" is wrong. There are plenty of places to buy roll sushi here for example.
The thing that surprised me the most is from my knowledge there is not a single open until late bank in Japan and 24hr access to atms are difficult to find if not impossible. For a 24hr city like Tokyo I find that super annoying and only use the bank to transfer money. And the fact their paperwork is so slow. I used to think Japan was a high tech efficient fast nation when really... its not.
I remember seeing a lot of ATMs when I'm in Kyoto and Osaka
There are ATMs but you cant withdraw from them 24/7 like after a certain time or on weekends or holidays
Oh yeah and not all of them let you withdraw from a foreign bank - even though they have the mastercard or visa symbol on them...doesn't mean you can use them!
Tokyo is a 24hr city? It didn't seem like that to me. Just some nightclubs and foreigner hangouts near Shibuya open late. (actually agreeing with you... the ATMs are another example)
Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Roppongi, Akasaka, Azabujuban, etc etc
Depends on which side you are on. The Tokyo/Ueno side is pretty dead at night but the Shinjuku side is alive at all times a day. Though I think Kanda and akihabara may have some things open all night.
But no, not just nightclubs, karaoke, bars, izakaya, ramen, sushi, hostess/host clubs, boys/girls bars, etc open until morning or late at night then from morning til afternoon.
Green Tea in a Japanese or Chinese restaurant isn't sweetened. It's only the mass-market bottled stuff that has high-fructose corn syrup in it.
I loved this video, I'm Canadian and we are fortunate to have a lot of Japanese people live here (mostly in British Columbia because the weather is not too cold) so if you go out for sushi, you get sushi and sashimi. (they have the rolls too but they're called makizushi ) Green tea is always hot and unsweetened unless you ask for sugar, you can buy it in a can but again might not be sweetened unless it's made by Nestea or says that it's iced (all iced tea in Canada, canned, bottled or in a juice box is already sweetend). We do have Hibatchi grill resteraunts here but not many (Brand name) they are mostly called Mongolian grills. Hibatchi's in Canada are small charcoal grills you usually take with you to cook at the beach, park, picnic ECT..so that could be why the restaurants are not even considered to be Japanese. We also get a lot of Japanese food stuff imported from Japan, and is sold at most Asian supermarkets, (mostly found in the larger cities) you can almost get what ever you want food wise.
5:30 What? Fish? Tasting like the ocean? Mind = Blown
Just kidding, this was a great video!
Maybe the sushi issue is just in Texas? Cause in Oregon Nigiri is everywhere. My husband and I actually prefer sashimi. Just a bunch of raw fish, and then little bowls of rice. Yes, conveyor belt sushi tends to be rolls, but actual good sushi is more nigiri than rolls.
Yeah.. in California there are plenty of places to get traditional sushi. I thought most people knew the difference.
The grocery store in upstate NY sells nigiri and sashimi along with a variety of rolls. It's made in store.
I am with you on this one, Ryosuke. Sweet Green Tea sounds horrible. At most, I would like Green Tea with a spoonful of honey but, Green Tea with nothing is the best.
Hi :)
I found your channel through Donna (wanted adventure living abroad) and got really into your channel.
First of all; THANK YOU! For putting subtitles under every video! I wouldn't be able to understand a lot of your videos without it.
And then... I really thought hibachi was Japanese. Haha. Lesson learned.
But I'm kind of weirded out by the American sushi as well. Because.. Over here in germany I guess sushi isn't very traditional either, but when I first read that Americans often eat sushi with mayonnaise or hot sauce I was really confused. I didn't really know that, from my 'sushi experience' so far. 😅
So I'm glad that it's not the 'real deal' ^^
I really like kappa maki (?) - the ones with cucumber inside. :)
What I know as a hibachi is a small metal grill that you put coals in with a grate on top. I never see these in stores much anymore. I remember they were so popular in the 80s. I did know they called these hibachi grills in the restaurants.
I'm from Germany/Austria and I was like "eww, how could you ever put sugar in green tea?" But when I thought about it, recently, the sweetened green tea (but only as iced tea) seems to get more popular here as well. I never bought it, because I don't like it and I don't think there's much real green tea in that stuff, just green tea flavor. Starbucks has "matcha latte" now, something like cafe latte, just with matcha instead of coffee, you can order it sweetened, but also unsweetened.
I have never heard of "hibachi", here there's so-called teppanyaki restaurants, however, the cooks don't performance. You just choose raw meat/fish/veggies and bring it to the grill station and when it's ready, it will be served to your table.
We also have both types of sushi. The "American" one (but also nigiri and maki) you often get in Asian restaurants, where they offer food from various Asian countries. In Japanese restaurants here in Germany, you get only nigiri and maki AND chirashi sushi, I like this one in particular.
Im happy to live in Spain lol is more like Japan. Here we have teppanyaki restaurants (at least were i live) and the restaurant have sushi, onigiri, nigiri,etc and you pay for person 1300¥ (13€) for all you can eat!(drink included). Sooo happy and soooo good hehe
Just Me GOOD DEAL!!! We have to live there!!!!!!! (Rrrrrrrryosuke)
Oh my God, you two are adorable! :)
I lived in Tokyo for 25 years, and I used to buy cheap takeout sushi all the time from small shops found on shopping streets all over the city. These places all sell large makizushi with tuna, mayo, and egg, as do almost all supermarkets. People make makizushi at home, too, and sometimes put different things on them. My Japanese wife used to use avocado with raw tuna. These so-called "rolls" in America aren't Japanese, but you don't seem to get out much if you think the only makizushi available in Japan contains only one small piece of raw fish.
Yeah, I visited an arbitrary convenience store in Akasaka and bought egg makizushi, so I don't really know what this part of the video is on about. I haven't looked in sushi conveyor restaurants though.
Thanks for posting! My Texas daughter lives in Japan so it's fun for me to watch.
"sweet green tea"
drinking green tea sweetened is blasphemy!
I recently moved to an area where there are a lot of Asian grocery stores and restaurants. The first thing I noticed was the sushi looked very different then what I was use to but I still tried it anyways I was nervous about trying eel and all the weird looking ones {I don:t mean to call them weird but they were just so different then what I was use to lol { but I am glad I tried it because I love sushi a lot more now and I am spoiled and will only eat sushi from Japanese grocery storesl I can:t wait to try sushi in Japan.
I love unagi with a burning passion.
+IsabelleSandbank me too. I was afraid it would be gross but it's better than chicken ^^ I wish I could eat it every week
Bruh when I first tried sushi I tried eel cuz I wanted to try it it was dope😃
Eel is the best!!!
All the things mentioned were Japanese American inventions. There is rarely any cuisine in America that is entirely from true to any other country's cuisine.
EklekTek I love to say we are mixed and our food is a mixed.
about the habatchi grill thing, i got to say i didn't see many of these, but i did see okonomiyaki places in Hiroshima that where basically like that.
thats funny... here in Canada a hibachi is a charcoal type of oven that you can use to cook over. The one like you showed in dominican is called a teppenyaki grill up here.
I have a hibachi on my patio, but the one I took my mom to in Kitakyushu, was a large version where strangers sat next to each other in a circle. The hot grill shown was on two sides, the main Hibachi was in the center.
C0R3ON3 Teppan (iron) yaki (grilled) so it is an iron grill much like what her husband was saying is more authentic.
Err ... very interesting. I've never heard of "Hibachi Grill" before. Not sure if it exists in Europe at all. I've never seen it in Germany. Looks like fun, though.
I hate the sweet green tea sh***!! T___T .....
Totally agree on the sushi. I've even once seen sushi with feta cheese inside. Eww. It was so dry! T_T
zoomingjapan It does exist in Europe. But I don't know the names of places (In North/South American and the Caribbean, we have Benihana, which is what most people think of in the US when you mention hibachi resturants). I think in Germany it's more properly referred to as Teppanyaki. If you search for Teppanyaki resturants in Germany, you should be able to find some.
Ceryk Thank you. I haven't been in Germany very often recently, although I am German. I've been living in Japan for the past 7 years, so I'm not sure if anything has changed in Europe.
I just never heard of this Hibachi thingie before. Like Grace said it doesn't exist in Japan and I've never seen it in Europe.
Teppanyaki is popular in Japan, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it in bigger cities in Europe. :D
***** Probably. I suppose you'd only find one in a big city, most likely Düsseldorf, though. ^^;
zoomingjapan Does not exist in France as well. =)
zoomingjapan I am from Düsseldorf and I've never seen that.
green tea in a can ?? so no green tea bags?? I mean I know I come from the Uk but I thought they'd do green tea bags in america
+Anrei Kitsune You can buy them at grocery stores, depending on the location and type of store. They're just talking about something that's already made.
+Anrei Kitsune We have both! Either way, they're both going to be loaded with sugar lol
+TipTheScales27 oh god
i'm glad we don't have that in europe
+Irrelephant You can find green tea without sugar. I like my tea strong without sweeteners and you just have to know where to look. Usually the organic food stores have better brands.
+InfiniteToasters well, but that seems quite complicated. even mcdonalds doesn't sweeten green tea here.
I see California rolls all the time in Japan, and it makes me laugh. It's clearly done for tourists and as a parody of sushi.
well it still is sushi just not traditional and part of what's beautiful in food is how you're able to take ideas and make something new with it.
I consider California roll as beginner sushi.
Matthew V Alcudia Sushi with training wheels?
California rolls... They make me lmao, but then again my family is Japanese American.
Not just at tourist places, but true, roll sushi is everywhere here
Also, a lot of people think bubble tea is japanese, but it's Taiwanese and much more popular there. That said, there were bubble tea shops in Tokyo, especially Harajuku or with crepe shops.
On the subject of tea, milk tea I was surprised to find was usually made with earl grey or something similar. I expected it to be more like the plain black tea of the south with milk in it, but it's done more english. Even in the summer, when all the vending machines are set to cold!
what I like about the sushi rolls is that people and cheffs take something, experiment, being creative with it. and make something new or different. thats how food and anything evolves.
many of those rolls really taste great and have a bigger variety of flavors than the clasic sushi.
You could at least say something positive obout these 3 things. just because its not from japan or integrated doesnt mean its a bad thing :p
They sell some crazy rolls here in Japan. This video is misleading