Japan's White Strawberry: Luxury Fruit Unboxing & Adventure ★ ONLY in JAPAN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- I was in the basement supermarket in Shibuya and -- THERE IT WAS! THE WHITE STRAWBERRY!
I could smell it a few meters away. Was it real? (Yes, it was.)
One white strawberry cost 1080 Yen (US$10.00) so I decided to learn more about the Japanese white strawberry and unbox it for you in this video ... and that is what this episode is all about. It's the door into a new world full of strawberries in Japan.
About Japan's White Strawberry:
There are so many varieties / cultivars of strawberries in Japan.
The HATSUKOI NO KAORI or “SCENT OF FIRST LOVE” is Japan's first white strawberry, different than the pineberry because of its size, softer skin and juiciness and sugar content. It was created by Miyoshi Agritech Co. of Yamanashi in 2006.
In the episode, I ate the
SHIROU HOUSEKI 白い宝石 White Strawberry.
Cost: 1080 Yen ($10) for 1.
Weight: about 50 grams
It must be eaten within 24 hours according to the store manager at Tokyu's fruit section at Foodshow. They're grown on in Saga prefecture on Kyushu Island.
Other vareties of What Strawberries include:
★ Yuki Usagi "Snow Rabbit" 雪うさぎ
★ Sakura ichigo "Cherry Blossom Strawberry" さくらいちご
★ Tenshi no Mi "" Fruit of the Angels' 天使の味
Featured White Strawberries
★ Shiroi Houseki "White Jewel / White Gem" 白い宝石
★ Hatsukoi no Kaori "Scent of First Love" 初恋の香り
☆ Pineberry / Popular in the UK and Europe but not available in Japan
The strawberry season in Japan is from December to March, winter being the best season because the berry ripens more slowly, building up the sugar content and color over a greater period of time. Temperature control is essential. Almost all of Japan's strawberries are in greenhouses.
I also went to my neighbor's farm in Ichikawa to learn more about strawberries in general. There are about 25,000 strawberry farms in Japan but sometimes your neighbor sells the best ones and is a great source on information. Thank you, Ota-san!
If you ever ask yourself, what is the white strawberry? This is you answer. Try one if you find them while traveling in Japan.
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URL:
Tokyo Department Store
www.tokyu-dept.co.jp.e.fa.hc.t...
Tejima Farm, Saga Prefecture / 手島農園
www.shiroichigo.com/index.html
Okuda Farm, Bijin Hime, Gifu / 奥田農園
www.bijinhime.jp/
Ota Strawberry Farm, Ichikawa / 太田いちご園
www.otaichigoen.com/
JNTO ( Japan National Tourism Organization)
www.jnto.go.jp/eng/attractions...
No.1 dessert strawberry producer and consumer in the world
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This is what we procrastinators watch every day.
We just keep going and going deeper into youtube.
so true, I don't even know why I'm here
I'm supposed to be doing something productive,but I'm so deep in the "I'm supposed to be a grown up but hey,I just saw this cool video on ....." part of TH-cam. Please send food and a map home!
SO TRUE
why you gotta remind us of this!! BE GONE!!
I hate it actually....the feeling of guilt over myself for procrastinating all my school work. It feels awful but i dont know why im doing it. I wish i could fix iy lmao
My Japanese Luxury Fruit tour continued this week with Japan's SQUARE WATERMELON. Summer with an edge d(^_^o) th-cam.com/video/O4NsaILbsaI/w-d-xo.html -John
Do you live here
ONLY in JAPAN Im half japanese
Thank you for sharing
Margie&Kira I'm Half Japanese too!!
The King j
Awww... Japanese strawberries are amazing! It tasted like no other strawberries I've eaten my entire life. It's sweet, not sour at all! Didn't know what type of strawberry I ate, but I guess it's just the regular ones.
Here in The Netherlands we have Blueberry Strawberry's and Pineapple Strawberry's. Also not to shabby ^^...
Not too shabby at all! -J
Okay who let Marceline The Vampire Queen in the Strawberry farm!?
hahahah 💉🍓
She promised me a solo concert
I came back to this video to comment that
LOL
That is genius 😂😂
God damn this is better than some of what the travel channel does. Love your videos.
+MrDirtBaggins Yeah, this channel have that quality of national tv documentary
👍
You've done it again, Johnny! Another viral videoooo!
-Alan
For sure
tho strawberries are expensive just for ONE strawberry piece it's 50,000 I would not buy it
Last February I went to osaka & tried both the white jewel strawberries, awayuki strawberries & the red strawberries. They tasted divine. The white jewels are sweetest & the most fragrant
Your channel is officially my new guilty pleasure, and the best part is that I don't feel guilty because I'm learning about a new culture. Thank you for that!
My thoughts throughout this entire video, "That's the maximum sweet strawberry that Erza got from the mountain vulcans."
You are noice
Fairy tail ;-;
too bad asca ate it whole...
+ghoul cameraman it was hilarious tho
That's what I thought! I think Ezra made her own strawberry farm and created the white strawberry
Yay new episode! Perfect way to relax after exams.
Sammmme
I should be studying for mines right now 😅
this was the first episode I saw John, and now I'm hooked. Great production value and i love your personality. much love!
It's like a vampire sucked the red out of the strawberry
xXRebekahlolzXx B. Right! Great way to put it :p bwahaha! Just give me the red stuff!
Becky WzW yea u are right
Marcaline from adventuretime probly di it
MARCELINE
ONLY in JAPAN o
I've been waiting for this!!! You seriously need your own show!
+Jimin still got no jams yes!
I SEE ARMYS EVERYWHERE
I LOVE IT
+Jimin still got no jams He has his own show already! White Strawberries are absolutely amazing!!!! Great show John!!! ^^
Thomas
i love your profile pic
ARMYS ARE EVERYWHERE
LETS RULE TH-cam
I love watching your videos partially because you have such a nice voice. I'm sure that probably sounded a little weird but it's true.
:) -John
I agree!!!!
+ONLY in JAPAN I wish you uploaded more often!!!:(
same
Hahah same here xD
his voice is very kind and nice
Great episode! I have also enjoyed your production value improvement. I don't think people realize how much extra work goes into your episodes from editing, music, animation, timing, etc... let alone all of the various filming efforts. Well done! My daughter and I can't get enough of... Only In Japan!
7:59 i thought you gonna say "A small price to pay for a salvation"
Whoa! This video is just packed with great info. Fantastic effort putting this together. I'm off to go watch more of your stuff.
Thanks Eric! Following you as well. Love the food episodes! Looking forward to the next one! -John
yay a new episode
4:53 Larger, softer and Jucier. You mean EXTRA THICC?
Again.... Awesome video, John!!
I hit 'LIKE.' Then I watch.
back to work :P i'm waiting
Aymane DINOUNE Haha. It seems the cool partnerships and sponsorships magically happen after 5K subs. We're almost there! :) After that, the goal is produce two episodes a month.
Same here!
Me tooooo😋
we need some conten from you too!
I wish these came out daily. I love learning about Japan and everything it has to offer
+Cait Knight Same here. I love these videos.
Begin Japanology is also another great resource to learn about Japan on TH-cam
+Kenny Tee thanks for the suggestion :) I'll head over and sub to that one!!
me too 😍😍😍
+Cait Knight There is a Channel called TheJapanChannelDCom . He uploads daily videos about Japan. I would suggest you look it up if you are looking for Daily Uploads. Just a suggestion.
I found this by googling white strawberries. I have gone the opposite direction, into the realm of teeny tiny strawberries. Where I live, I found native American wild strawberries, fragaria virginiana, and I started growing them in my garden, and I love them. But I accidentally collected from a patch that turned out to be white strawberries, because I had misidentified them - they were fragaria vesca, the woodland strawberry. It turns out that there might POSSIBLY be a native variant of the woodland strawberry, but I haven't identified it well enough to know for sure. This is a natural variant, and it doesn't require any special treatment. They grew out in the sunlight all day long, and they still grew white strawberries, which were sweet, with a mild flavor, very different from the strongly flavored red ones. I have decided that I love both of them, and I'm going to keep on collecting more of both varieties and growing them in my garden, which is what I'm doing today. It makes me so happy to go around picking them every spring.
I've noticed the upgrade in editing of the videos, wow! Keep up the great work!
I grow alpine white strawberries in my garden. They are french and very tasty.
The plants are prolific, giving fruit all year long, and the birds are more likely to eat my traditional red strawberries and leave the white ones alone.
They are small and very sweet- and taste a little like pineapple. Unlike traditional strawberries, you grow these from seed- they take forever to germinate, but it is well worth it.
You can grow traditional strawberries from seed too. You just don't, because it takes much longer. Same goes for plenty of plants.
This alpine variety do not send out runners, which is usually the easiest way to propagate strawberries.
I never met a strawberry I didn't like :)
***** That was kind of my point, but yeah.
+Sandra Noneofyourbusiness I'm not gonna lie, I imagined the alpine white strawberries looking french because of the "They are french" wording..
LuckyisSara How does something look french?
Good videos, been a fan for the past 2 months...
Me: "pick strawberry "
Farmer: don't eat that strawberry, it doesn't ripe yet
Me: so which are ripe?
Farmer: the white one
Me:-_-
Misguided Ghost bad English
@@pokapig3425 and? Not everyone is a native speaker
I enjoy your videos so much man, keep them coming bro!
yumeiro patisserie feelings
Lol i luv that anime😍
Omg exactly! xD
Same here
+goodgalbadgal YAAAA :D
+goodgalbadgal Yassss lol
Another amazing video.
Great video!! Kept them coming! I'll stay tuned!
Loving the videos wishing there were more ,keep up the good work.
May I say, if aliens invade, they better be damn impressed at our strawberries.
"Hairy dimples aren't my thing but I can look past it with a glass of champagne"- John Daub
quote of the year
Zooms into the white strawberry "Its not completely white,it has a blush.Its very seductive"😂Marry the strawberry then.
+Rainbow Cupcakes excuse me, but I said "it's BERRY seductive." -J
ONLY in JAPAN ??? Sorry wrong one
the cherry blossom strawberry was looking awesome
Love your channel! It's awesome!
i swear if i ever go to japan im gonna be the first one to come back with much more weight, and completly broke
um.... out of all 10 times Ive been to japan... i have not seen a single white strawberry.... yeah....
june k its not like im gonna go there to just eat fruit, much less gain weight on it, so it really doesnt matter
pereiramariana35 i know, i wasnt exactly talking to you. but its normal to gain weight there. i ate and gained 8 pounds. XP hehe.
i won't fit on the plane to come back haha
$10 for a single strawberry?
ikr **whispers** expensive 😐😬
Ikr!!!!!
Well it is food :3
***** yeah 😂
No thanks, but I'd take pleasure watching someone consume it.
awesome video, great production, this is better than most TV shows out there
😱Wow 😱💕💕
Look so yummy and delicious 😋
Huge thanks John!
That's 10 US dollars for a freaking strawberry
Thank you I was looking threw the comments how much it was because I didn’t wanna google it 😂😑
Take the seeds and plant that shit.
😂 itll grow out red I suppose
They have a highly regulated growth environment.Even if you could get the seeds to grow after refrigeration, you probably wouldn't get the results you're after.
***** Right, I forgot about their growth season. Thanks for correcting that. The rest of what I said still holds though.
They are a hybrid variety. The next generation (seeds) won't resemble the parents. Still worth a try though as you never know what you're going to get. I grew hybrid sunflowers this summer and harvested the seeds. I can't wait to plant them next summer to see what they look like.
That...that..thats not how any of this works
Omg I never heard of these, this is so going on my bucket list!
I didn't think it was possible to cry over food.....I see now that it is. I haven't had a single strawberry in so long and to the glory of these strawberries....I MUST pay an extreme amount of money just to try one 😍
"so who buys a 500 dollar strawberry?"
people who'd buy a 500 dollar strawberry
Hahaha! Indeed! -John
Completely brainwashed people who feel having the most unique thing makes them feel special=Super rich😴
+holistic79 you can buy with your money whatever you want. Blame Nike, UA, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, GAP, AD agencies, the consumer ... but a small content producer who ate a $10 strawberry? Get real. -John
I think holistic79 was critiquing wholesalers (for lack of a better term) and the multi-vocal, yet corrupted public images of value. Especially in North America, when you associate a fruit (that is fairly affordable) to such a large sum of money, you start questioning comfort, profanity, hedonism etc.
I mean that would be a dick move to blame a small content producer (you) encouraging education, for brainwashing.
You can buy a pack of huge strawberries bigger than this for around 14$
The white strawberry looks like it was naturally infused with white chocolate. I wanna taste it! :,^0
The season is starting again! I just saw some in the supermarket in Shibuya :) -john
ONLY in JAPAN. were can a get seeds heroi housaki
Gigabyte Ghostie
I already tasted it it's good we have so much white strawberries in our country but the white strawberry is taste not good at all it doesn't have any taste
I really watch your all episodes because more knowledge and good quality love it
Very informative. Thank you!
"It's BERRY seductive."
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😆😂🤣
I want a Kobe/Wagyu Beef Episode!
they all have such cute names i love it
"Was it worth it? ----No." LOL you just made my day! Thanks for sharing!
Hehehe! Glad that made you smile :) made my day to hear it. Thanks for watching! -John
This video was broadcasted on TRUE Japanese TV program
おはさくらチャンネル yes! 日本テレビ ZIPS! news this morning!
Well that's awesome
Honestly, there's not many people that could make something like strawberries seem this interesting (even if it were outside of Japan).
The format and pacing just flows so naturally each time, and it's both a shame that it seems to be really difficult to find channels like these that can really deliver genuinely interesting videos, but at the same time the ones that do manage to nail it makes TH-cam even worth visiting in the first place.
Now I really want to test one of those white strawberries, but considering that I would have to possibly travel all the way to Japan... Would rather just go wild and hope it finds it's way along the path.
There's just too much out there that's worth checking out, but I'm just glad to discover what's out there in the first place.
Something tells me that the noodles over there are way better than here, though~ x3
Thanks so much for that really nice compliment :) this is a topic with so many levels, I could probably have gone on for another 10 minutes of I traveled looking for more unique berries. Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. -J
I really love this channel! I learn a lot ❤❤
I'm going to Japan in September 2016 and your videos have been extremely helpful to my planning! Thank you and keep it up! :D
Video: "if you didn't see the sun I say you be pale to
Me: so that's why I'm so pale
I... need... some...sweet...sweet...strawberries...now! :-O
I had no idea there had this kind of shop below Shibuya train station and that Japanese are so strawberry crazy. :)
I need a white strawberry. Now. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY JAPAN
I love this show! I would love to visit JP, not possible now, but until then I'll be a watching this awesome show! Thank you John and Co!
love the videos you do , keep it up🎌
1080 yen is equal to about $10
+Selena Yuan thank you! I was hoping would tell us the American currency of the price!
+Pigs and Jam you sit on a computer, with access to the internet...
They mentioned comparisons in price at multiple points throughout the video. You should have had no trouble figuring it out based only on the information presented within.
So an extra ¥80 every dollar
Purple Neko "1080 Japanese Yen equals
9.7977 US Dollar"
It changes all the time, so ballpark numbers are the best you can do without being too specific to have meaning.
I can get a case of huge strawberries for 4 dollars from the Latinos that sell them on the corner.
Huh?
😂🍓🍓. But seriously $12 bucks for one strawberry?
No it was like $12 00
mya lee Same thing
I sold you those strawberries
White strawberries is sooooo interesting to learn about. Always wanted to know how white strawberries are created - totally makes sense
i literally moaned when he had the white strawberry cut open.. it looks so delicious.
Ohhhhh myyyy gooooohhhhhddddd oh my god oh my goooddd!!! They're all look so mouth watering!!! I kinda regret watching this... Because i can't eat them!!!! I'm going to japan in november...not a strawberry season....:(
Thank you for sharing this! Very informative! I thought white strawberry is only appear in harvestmoon, but it's real!!! So cool, i hope i can eat it one day...
Well, actually ... That is the start, more at the end of the month but look around ;) -John
+ONLY in JAPAN oh really? Hmm I will, thanks!
don't worry. white strawberries aren't sweet. it's just grown in the dark. and since the size, I guess a lot of chemicals.
I had accidentally grown some white strawberries. underground, some of my strawberries grew a little underground.
and the white are completely genetically modified. crossbreeding is just a different word for modification. so people don't get scared.
actually cross breeding is when the pollen of one plant type is crossed into the receiving plant of another type. genetic modification is exactly what it sounds like; they take a plant type and change the actual genetics of that plant in order to create a new sub-strain of the same plant. Please do not spread fear around based on falsifications.
i kinda feel like the white strawberry looks like it has whiteheads
you read my mind.
+King Dave ahahahha
+Anika Gonzales hi if you love food and love cooking come take a look at my page im sure you will find something to enjoy
pink heads..
Thank you for honesty 👏🏼
Never thought I would have a strawberry craving.
strawberries are my favorite fruit, so this video is just a big tease for me :P I'm assuming these strawberries taste amazing
Strawberrys are the only fruit/vegetable I like 😂😂😂
Xavier Vargas well my favorite food is fruit so it's ditto x2 for me XD Strawberries are delicious ^-^
If it's the ONLY fruit/vegetable you like, I think you haven't tried enough.
I was talking to Xavier, not you.
Umatsu Obossa i realized, thats why i deleted my responses. So your response isn't necessary now XD but ya you really need to press the reply button otherwise its assumed that you are writing to the original post.
Don't think I failed to notice the Cowboy Bebop music at 1:43 ;)
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And the hairy potter music @6:22
I love watching your videos!! hopefully I can also go to Japan in the future 😊😊😊
I just had it in March this year at Odakyu dept store basement supermarket! I have to agree with you. It's outrageously pricy. But for the experiment, one gotta try it. And it was delectably sweet and tender. A rare enjoyment and unforgettable experience (once in a very very long time!) LOL! Thanks much for doing the research on red, pink and white strawberries for all of us. John!!! 👍👍👍
Not only in japan ;)
On ebay. Or some other website like it.
import the white strawberries to America.
but it would mess up thouse color things i guess
+Adam “A.T. Smithson” Smithson You can't, almost all are eaten by japanese.
+Luthien American needs to grow their own white strawberries.
Adam Smithson Somethings are better in their place of origin. Better save up to go! :D
+Luthien the strawberry festival is coming to garden grove, again
Even though I'm Japanese I've never seen a white strawberry! :) Love your videos!
My new favorite channel 😍
So what they'll do to those expensive unsold fruit ?
Where it goes? To the trash ? If no one buys it, Cause it's too expensive.
Well not in Japan, before it spoils they reduce the price same as the ready to eat meals or packed lunch freshly cooked the same day they will sell it for like 50% of the price when its night or hours before the store close, and pretty much theyll sell it all but not all the time.
why need to mock ? it not like this thing for everyone ... it Japanese way and let their do their own way
maria flavel arellano well i prefer brand juice fruit for budget in japan 😭
you should try those sushi restaurant that deliver your food through a mini train running on the conveyor belt...
+Jazmi Gianni how does a train run on a conveyor belt? Kind of defeats the purpose of a train if it needs a conveyor belt...
XxStonedKillerxX Kaiten Sushi - Sushi Train - 回転寿司 . search it on youtube
+Jazmi Gianni I think what he's trying to say is that the mini train does not run on the conveyor belt. yes we know there's the conveyor belt type and the train type, there is a difference :)
Amazing video, so yummy strawberry from Japan
White strawberry! wow. Plz do more such videos on rare Japanese produce.
It's like the Indominus Rex of strawberries 😂
In fact japaneses give luxuary fruits as gift to get out from ordinary.
Only in Japan channel is awesome.
wow nice strawberry harvest
the guys sexualizimg a strawberry
LMAO my thoughts exactly
Why not? They were strawberry sexy
Get it? Because "strawberry" and "so very" and... bad pun
........I think its time for you go to :P
hahaha alright alright we get it XDD
Japan gives strawberry varieties SEXY and ROMANTIC names. I just went with it. -J
"It's berry seductive"... Hahaha, I love a good punny joke.
hehehe -J
watching this makes me remember yumeiro patissiere! haha no wonder the theme was first love in the episode, as the name suggests!
Very insightful 😊 by the way, I subscribed.
I want to dip it in chocolate...
And then eat it. 🍓
Take a potato chip while you're at it.
stripedhyenuh lol, potato chip and chocolate? I have to try it!
Me 2 😢
You did a red strawberry o_o
I'm imitating John -John
John -John
+ONLY in JAPAN I knew I will get a comment.
This guys awesome, what a calming narration voice. Sub'd
this is when fruit becomes art
John, will the white ones eventually ripen and turn red or at least pink over time if left to sit or exposed to sunlight? And would it make them even sweeter? Sort of like how tomatoes off the vine will do the same. Or does the lack of anthocyanin keep this from happening?
Great question! According the Tejima-san, 10% of the white strawberries he produces (Shiroi Houseki) will stay white the whole time. That's what I bought. Most will start to turn red. There's a photo from Tejima-san's farm with the harvested berries. Some are already turning, some turning pink! -John
+ONLY in JAPAN I could only imagine how those would taste after they turned, after the way you described the white ones' flavor profile. I would love to get my hands on some and see.
Why not black strawberry
Wow that would be cool. I like all colours 😜
Wow nice vedio ever. Thanks for sharing. Watching from Korea
They are so creative farmer over there!
Super cool comparaison!
Cross breed Sakura and Ichigo...u get Sakura Ichigo strawberries
We have strawberries as big of the big white one in Washington.
I've seen them in numerous parts around America too. I wonder why he thinks that tiny strawberry is "normal" size? Maybe just claiming as such for this video?
+L Khokhlakov that berry is the size of the majority of strawberries I ate as a kid in New Jersey. To me, that's normal. Anything bigger would be large and then XL.
These days, bigger doesn't always mean better. To get natural sugar content high, it needs to mature slowly which is why it's in a green house in the winter not in the summer. They ripen too fast in summer and taste more acidic and sour. Japanese consumers won't normally buy a sour berry so it's the only way to sell them, in the winter. Maintain a sweet and large berry, you can charge double the price per kg.
Would love to try to Washington strawberry! Cool weather must make them delicious too. Now, Japan is loaded with American cherries from Washington! Super red and super sweet!! -John
ONLY in JAPAN I don't know how long ago that was, but the white strawberry is closer to the normal size for strawberries these days (still a little larger maybe). I agree that bigger is not necessarily better. I think it was the 90s when I remember seeing a bunch of giant fruits and vegetables - only they had the same amount of flavor, just spread out over a larger area.
I will say that the larger strawberries I've had in the states are still generally good and flavorful. Definitely tart, but I think that's good. Sweetness is actually a very bland flavor that contemporary societies are now conditioned to crave.
I know this was posted 2 years ago but I'm just now seeing this video lol
Anyway, I'm from Washington as well and have to agree, our strawberries can be huge, sweet, and juicy. YUM!! Most places here still sell California strawberries (must be cheaper) so you have to search for WA ones 👎
+1 item added to bucket list
Wow 😲 great 👍 fruit good job 👏 Japan 🇯🇵