Shot a gun, pounded panda express multiple times, ate a switch worth of cake and admired the energy drink rainbow at the gas station. She might be more American than me
It is kind of sad though, as even over here Burger King is basically "nobody's favourite burger place". How low is the bar for a burger in japan that people would go to a worse tasting Burger King?
@@StephenrHamilton the bar is NOT low, Japan does burgers well by having quality ingredients (the downside is sometimes they make truly baffling mixtures of toppings). I just wonder if the usual stresses of travelling abroad would've clouded Mio's judgment. by contrast, Suisei was pretty upfront about being let down by McDonald's burgers compared to Japan's when she went to NY.
I'm a bit surprised. At the convenience store I work at, we have a whole cooler door devoted to tea. But it's a larger store in the Midwest. We do have 3 or 4 doors devotees to energy drinks 😅
@@RobertLutece909 That makes sense. unsweetened teas are a rare sight at convenience store. I can think of one or two brands that you might find and they aren't carried everywhere.
I can only imagine the sound of a very excited duck upon realizing there is an entire shelf section dedicated just to flavors of pop tarts and her furiously throwing everything off the shelf into a shopping cart
I loved that bit, watched the stream and have an animation of it in a playlist, thought it was funny she tried it with both pop tarts in a bite, truly an american method, always enjoyable to hear the JP members talk about their overseas experiences
@MrCh0o Sul & Beans China Town, Creeamberry, those two places sell oversized desserts. Creamberry sells a cotton candy burrito de size of an adult cat and its actually rather good. Theres one place I love that sells bucket sized sundaes but its in the bad part of Charleston Heights and I wouldnt recommend going there, especially if you are a tourist.
@@Paradox-es3blit is but even as a Chinese it's pretty good for what it is. It's similar and comforting fast food in a way. I honestly take it over a lot of random mom and pop places where I have no idea wtf the quality of the food would be.
Aww, someone's gotta teach them about the little lever on the side of one of the push tabs on the fountain machine so they can get water. Really funny how tourists function in wanting to consume fast food of other countries and how often they find it better.
I wonder if the gas stations in Las Vegas cater towards their clientele hence the wall of energy drinks. I know some HoloJP girls who visited America really liked the Arizona Teas and I was surprised they didn't try them.
Asians and europeans don't understand the concept of states and the differences between them. So what they experience in 1 place automatically applies to all of America.
One factoid about energy drinks, particularly caffeine content, is that America's median (150mg) is Japan's high end. American 12 oz cans have gone as high as 300, very rarely going a little higher. Feels like arcs of plasma running along your skin. Scary stuff.
The best part for you, I think, is that Burger King is not considered one of the better fast food burger chains in America. In fact, in my personal opinion, I consider Burger King pretty bad.
@@Skgatonmy personal recommendation would be a nation wide chain of burger restaurants called “Five Guys” it’s pretty good. the only places to get better are small family owned restaurants, but those are always hard to find and can be either the best or the worst.
Coffee machines can also boil water. Many hotels have coffee machines in their rooms. All you need is an insulated mug or thermos and you got hot water on the go.
When you recognize the interior wallpaper of the Energy Drink section. They were in a Maverick. It probably baffled them about how large the selection of energy drinks where in there, but those are usually pandering to the traveling customer and Trucker.
I was reading this going "pfft, no way you could tell just by a bit of wallpaper" and then the picture came up and I went "what the hell, I know that's a Mavericks." Human pattern recognition capability is crazy.
Traveling is always an opportunity for growth, so glad to hear that they had a lot of interesting experiences in America. And as an American, she is absolutely right about everything being blasted with sugar. That and salt are major health concerns in America.
"It's the perfect size for 3 people." Looking at a picture of a single serving of cake by my American standards. Also them going to panda express so often reminds me of how I went to familymart or lawson at least once a day for the entire month I was in japan lol
Definitely. They've leveled up now. Hope they going to try many variations of brands that not well-known overseas or a good local restaurants even next time.
Middle of the pack? Who would you put below BK? I'd say McDonald's only beats them by a bit but every other fast food burger chain I can think of is pretty far out ahead of them in quality. The only places you can get worse burgers than BK are like, school cafeterias. Maybe prison.
@@xeroprotagonist It's subjective. I like BK's balance of flavors and textures best out of the fast food joints (when they make it right, which is an issue with them). I can appreciate that something like Five Guys definitely looks like a higher quality product, but it's too much of a commitment for me to eat it. I'll feel greasy the rest of the day. With McDonald's I'll taste onions the rest of the day. Wendy's is still a little greasy and I have to play the damn guessing game over whether the burger has mayonnaise on it (unacceptable). But if you want a juicy burger, I totally understand, BK ain't that.
@@maninredhelmwhen I was much younger, I liked McDonalds for doing the onions in such a way that I didn't taste them for the rest of the day. but I guess it varies depending on your digestion
Jesus Christ, Panda Express and Burger King? And she loved them both? I think if Mio had eaten any American food that was actually any good she would passed out from the euphoria
Yeah, imagine if she found a proper southern BBQ place or something. Nashville pulled pork I think is something I've heard of? Lol Idk, tbh I'm so freaking picky that I don't even eat anything good, anyway.
i hope mio was able to do a sugar detox after getting back home XD though i feel like she should have been able to at least get water or unsweetened iced tea as far as non sweet drinks go.
I wish I could sign up for a "phone a fat American" hotline for the hologirls when they are visiting. You can find less sweet options for drinks at a lot of places, I mean it was like 10 years ago when I last went to a fast food place, but I seem to remember them having tea bags/hot water as an option. The "drinks" section is not really a thing, as most cooled beverages will be soda/energy drinks as she found, also convenience stores in the US are 10,000% different from Japan, so going there for anything other than filling up your gas tank, or getting a Slurpee is pretty much pointless. Just get a few people from every state that can be contacted in case of "i don't want sugar" occasions, because pretty much every American state is the same, if you only go to chain restaurants.
It seemed about the same to me. Smaller portions and the burger was drier though. But I only tried it once so the dryness could just be the one I went to
Tip for foreign visitors: if you are at an American fast food place, you can ask for "unsweet iced tea" and most will have that. Make sure taste it first if it's not self-serve or drive thru. It'll be a basic black tea, but still. You can also ask for tap water, or bottled water. And during breakfast they can give you actual hot tea, maybe. Bottled water somehow costs more than regular fountain drinks though.
You can get water at fast food places. On the soda fountain, there is usually a small white lever sticking out between the other choices (Usually poorly labelled). Press that for water 😅
I always find it funny to hear about how different food-wise things are here. If there's one thing America doesn't slack on, it's food, and you get a lot of it lol. Honestly the fact desserts are so delicious... or most junk food... is what makes America so scary, they're tastier because they're less healthy. But I think for experiences like this it really makes things better. Eating food you're not used to and having it be delicious is always one of the best parts about traveling so I'm happy they got to experience that alongside stuff like shooting a gun
In my experience asian tourists love Panda Express man. Panda Express is not chinese food to them, it's american food with all the glorious salt and sugar and focus groups and lab testing to blow your mind that entails. But it's american food that isn't too unfamiliar or scary and guarantees they can get rice. Instant hit. I think people can be a bit pretentious on this stuff, 'oh, it's not proper chinese food so it's not good' with Panda Express, or if they're asian-american see it as asian food for white people and want to get the proper stuff. Asian tourists don't have anything to prove to anyone, and they can get the proper stuff at home, they just want to eat good shit.
@@FightMadder Yup. Being Asian myself, I know it’s not authentic, but if put in a pinch, it’s a lot more than edible and doesn’t taste absolutely horrid.
honestly it's not even being snobby. In the US Chinese restaurants are almost as common as fast-food. Even small rural towns have their own. When you have so many better options, there's rarely a reason to eat at some place like panda when you could get the same food but probably better and cheaper? Honestly I'll know I'm truly off-the-grid when there is no Chinese restaurant around lol.
As much as it would warm my Southern heart to see Hololive members chowing down on some good food like biscuits and gravy, or a whole hog slow cooked to perfection over 16-18 hours, I honestly don’t think any of the JP members could survive the spread they would have before them. Hell, Coco was FROM Georgia, and I don’t think she could survive it now. Maybe Haachama, because I honestly don’t think she can be killed.
I will have to say. Desserts in most Asian countries are fairly mild in terms of sweetness. For them, the sweetness level in US is pretty overwhelming.
I had japanese style Cake, the sweetest thing on the cake was the strawberrys. Japanese in a lot there sweet food use very little sugar or no sugar at all :)
Everytime I've been to Japan and someone warns me about a food or drink being really sweet, I just laugh to myself. I have yet to eat a dessert or drink anything there that I would call overly sweet. It's honestly a little depressing how tolerant to sugar an average American is.
I'm not even sure if it's an American only thing lol Like, an acquaintance of mine, from France, who is currently living in Japan pretty much scoffs at their definition of "sweet". While I don't doubt that some parts of the American cuisine trends to the sweeter side of things, it does feel like Japan in general doesn't really do sugary stuff that much, even for their sweets.
Panda Express? Haiyaa~ Bringing your own misosoup is definitely so Japanese. Sasuga Mio-mama xD Glad to see they're all having fun despite language barrier
Well, I guess I'm glad they enjoyed Panda Express and Burger King instead of having a bad experience. They'd normally be what I consider bottom of the barrel recs, but maybe that just speaks to differing tastes.
Oddly enough, there's a small number of actual Panda Express branches in Japan. At least two of which are on US military bases (which make sense), with a handful scattered around the Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka areas.
panda is good as cheap fast chinese, but ive had japanese style chinese food. i prefer japanese chinese food anytime. cant beat fried rice and mapo tofu w/ gyoza.
"It's good but it feels like you're being punched with sugar" "'Less sugar', 'Moderately Sweet' or 'Health Conscious' -- those words don't exist there" Darn tootin'. Also, why did they not ask a local for a good asian food place? Panda Express is not that good. "And since there's no kettle there; I knew there wouldn't be one... So I brought a kettle, too." "How did I bring it?? Eh, I put it in my carry case. It's a travel kettle." I actually have a friend that does the same exact thing. She'll pack an electric kettle when she's traveling somewhere. Except she doesn't have a travel kettle. It's a full sized plastic kettle that she has to make room for in her luggage.
Weirdly tourists seem to gravitate towards their image of what the country is rather than what it actually is, so you never get tourists asking for local hot spots because they're all going to Burger King or McDonalds because that's the big famous chain they heard about overseas. Strange isn't it?
0:17 is this just the equivalent of american people going to mc onalds when in japan Im also amazed that anyone can say burger king was good, the ones near me at least are always absolutely awful even when compared to other fast food places
Them eating Panda Express in America reminds me of when I went to China with my girlfriend's family and we ate KFC for lunch and TGI Fridays for dinner most days.
If you know any tasty low-sugar drinks and foods in the US, you can successfully show them to your Japanese friends ~ they don't like watered-down drinks either and if you can find natural tasting foods and drinks for them, that's the best.
Tea isn't very popular here, but there's almost always some Lipton, I think? And Arizona iced tea. The Lipton usually has Lemon, Raspberry, and I think Herbal? It was probably right there near the soda and energy drinks. If I can find it in even small gas station convenience stores up here in Maine, I'm sure it's there in Vegas. Also, there ARE some healthier options with "less sugar" at many places, but usually not for dessert. Kinda defeats the purpose lol
Ah how I sympathize with the sentiment of, "If we have it in Maine, then it must be everywhere." It's always fun to hear about all these different products, promotions, restaurants, stores, events, and just think, "Yep... We don't have any of those. ~Maybe~ there's like, ONE. Way down in Portland." (Which happens to be exactly the case for Panda Express!)
Yeah I was wondering about that, I saw Arizona tea everywhere from east coast to west although that was many years ago. Maybe the store they went to was just weird, or maybe they looked at the cans of tea and thought "nah this has gotta be soda". Well... considering the amount of sugar in that stuff, that isn't exactly wrong.
So just a hint if anyone is out and about... at a restaurant in the US, commercial coffee machines usually have a hot water dispenser. Customers can just ask for some Hot water from the coffee machine.
I was definitely expecting that Mio would say the dessert is too sweet and lo-and-behold she did, but in a much nicer way. That just made me feel like they need to experience more, like the chocolate cake milkshake Fluffy talked about before, and Banana Split from Braum's that I had for the first time recently on a road trip. It was the most extra and American version of a Banana Split I have ever seen. Really was not expecting them to eat a lot of Panda Express. I feel like there's so much more to experience, albeit not healthy, but that's just 'MURICA experience. Sneaking familiar food felt like peak Asian behavior (speaking as an Asian myself), but pretty reasonable thing to do as a tourist.
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Mio is an honorary American for measuring her pie in Nintendo Switches instead of centimeters.
as an american, we will absolutely measure in anything except metric (except for weapons)
@@delphy2478don’t forget 2 liter bottles of soda
Nothing more American than a Nintendo Switch...?
@Frigidblood Toyota is more American than Ford
sasuga gamer.
Shot a gun, pounded panda express multiple times, ate a switch worth of cake and admired the energy drink rainbow at the gas station. She might be more American than me
Her shot group was insane for a beginner
We go over there to eat konbini and they come over here to eat Panda Express.
Sasuga everyone involved
It be like that.
Lmao so true
Thats almost exactly describes how i feel about getting food at konbini lol though i think at this point i prefer panda, and its cheaper
It's so funny because Panda Express is kind of a meme here, especially among the East Asian American community.
"The burgers there tasted better than the Burger King in Japan"
This is probably the nicest thing anyone has said about Burger King in like, 20 years.
with all those chemicals it better taste amazing. Otherwise it's not worth shortening your life.
@@szysi3k Let only the strong survive the Whooper
It is kind of sad though, as even over here Burger King is basically "nobody's favourite burger place". How low is the bar for a burger in japan that people would go to a worse tasting Burger King?
@@StephenrHamilton the bar is NOT low, Japan does burgers well by having quality ingredients (the downside is sometimes they make truly baffling mixtures of toppings). I just wonder if the usual stresses of travelling abroad would've clouded Mio's judgment. by contrast, Suisei was pretty upfront about being let down by McDonald's burgers compared to Japan's when she went to NY.
@@BronzeAgePepperMost McDonald's are franchises, so quality varies wildly.
They got the true american culinary experience... "it feels like you're being punched with pure sugar". That's because you are Miosha... you are.....
She is what? Speak to me! Dammit, we're losing him!
@@heardofrvb She's being punched with pure sugar.....
"They have no teas" NO ONE TOLD MIO OF THE ARIZONA ICED TEA
I'm a bit surprised. At the convenience store I work at, we have a whole cooler door devoted to tea. But it's a larger store in the Midwest. We do have 3 or 4 doors devotees to energy drinks 😅
The assumption is that she's talking about green tea and the like rather than the sweet teas like Arizona.
She didn't say they had no teas. She said they had no _unsweetened_ teas. I'm pretty sure the Arizona teas are sweetened.
Arizona tea is barely tea it's sweeter than some sodas @@RobertLutece909
@@RobertLutece909 That makes sense. unsweetened teas are a rare sight at convenience store. I can think of one or two brands that you might find and they aren't carried everywhere.
The fact that Mio brings her own kit and ingredients to make miso soup overseas resonates with me 😂
Nothing beats the taste of one's homeland
@@doubleoz1 💯
EN members travelling to Japan have also been known to bring familiar foodstuffs with them
Can't guarantee all foreign flavors will be a hit, or even won't make your stomach turn. Completely understandable
Mio: Brings miso and wakame because she wants something familiar and healthy
HoloID: Bring Boncabe and Sambal because foreign food isn't spicy enough
I wonder if subaru stocked up on pop tarts while she was there
"THIS IS AMERICAN TASTE!"
TSA going through a full suitcase of poptarts on the return lol
Eep! Sugar!!!
I can only imagine the sound of a very excited duck upon realizing there is an entire shelf section dedicated just to flavors of pop tarts and her furiously throwing everything off the shelf into a shopping cart
I loved that bit, watched the stream and have an animation of it in a playlist, thought it was funny she tried it with both pop tarts in a bite, truly an american method, always enjoyable to hear the JP members talk about their overseas experiences
Miko said she ate In-N-Out
"Alright, we're going to America, so make sure to smuggle in some healthy food, so we don't die from sugar overdose."
Foolish one...the air is sweet with diabetes-inducing freedom.
Its ok Miosha, in some joints, desserts are the size of a 31 gallon heavy duty container.
@@Hemestal what?
How many Switches (without the controllers) is that?
@@kekoraaaa at least 5 Nintendo switches
Where would one find such joints? Asking for a large group of friends
@MrCh0o Sul & Beans China Town, Creeamberry, those two places sell oversized desserts. Creamberry sells a cotton candy burrito de size of an adult cat and its actually rather good.
Theres one place I love that sells bucket sized sundaes but its in the bad part of Charleston Heights and I wouldnt recommend going there, especially if you are a tourist.
Panda Express. So... really getting the true American experience!
To be fair, it's mostly American takes on Chinese food, right? But I think it's more Chinese than Taco Bell is Mexican lol
@@Paradox-es3blit is but even as a Chinese it's pretty good for what it is. It's similar and comforting fast food in a way. I honestly take it over a lot of random mom and pop places where I have no idea wtf the quality of the food would be.
wtf is a panda express? I've lived in america for ~6 years
@@jaydunna2645 it's a American Chinese fast food chain.
@@jaydunna2645To be fair I've lived 10 mins from one for like 8 years and didn't know what it was until this year lol.
Finding any vegetable that isn't lettuce, tomato, or mushrooms is very hard in Las Vegas, so I sympathize with Mio here. Great clip!
Well, then, I have some bad news about those last two options 😂
@@williamwiltrose1054 Lettuce rejoice, then
@@williamwiltrose1054 why no tomatoes or shrooms?
@pablodanieljiang961 Tomatoes are actually a fruit, and mushrooms are a fungus. Marketing has just conditioned people to think they're veggies.
@@williamwiltrose1054 Oh you meant that, yeah, I know store employees places all in vegetable section, I thought you mean other .
Mio was putting in work at the range, that’s what’s up.
Mio, Subaru, and Mikochi survived their trip to America? No no, America survived Mikochi's trip into its borders.
"It's good but it feels like you're being punched with pure sugar."
Yup!
Aww, someone's gotta teach them about the little lever on the side of one of the push tabs on the fountain machine so they can get water.
Really funny how tourists function in wanting to consume fast food of other countries and how often they find it better.
Asian-Americans: _mock Panda express_
Asians: "We really loved Panda Express so we went there all the time!"
3:48 - Poor Mio. She didn't realize that the Arizona Tea was probably in there with the Energy Drinks.
Weird, most gas stations and fast food places have unsweetened tea, but I suppose that could vary across the US, and not that it's usually any good.
I wonder if the gas stations in Las Vegas cater towards their clientele hence the wall of energy drinks. I know some HoloJP girls who visited America really liked the Arizona Teas and I was surprised they didn't try them.
I think she just didn’t go to the correct aisle. Usually the teas and other drinks are separate from soda
Asians and europeans don't understand the concept of states and the differences between them. So what they experience in 1 place automatically applies to all of America.
Might have had to ask for it in the BK. Since it's not super common to order everywhere, most places have it but behind the counter and not avertised.
By the photo that might've been a QT. Depending on the store layout you have to go to the other end of the wall to find juices and teas
One factoid about energy drinks, particularly caffeine content, is that America's median (150mg) is Japan's high end. American 12 oz cans have gone as high as 300, very rarely going a little higher. Feels like arcs of plasma running along your skin. Scary stuff.
I've always wondered what it feels like. Caffeine barely affects me at all except for reducing my sleep quality
@@Hwyadylawit especially happens with pre workouts, it is not a fun feeling. Like all the nerves on your arms are freaking out.
I don't touch canned energy drinks at all. I want to live past 55
@@ABSwiftkillaz my brother cannot drink coffee anymore.
His doctor said that his EKG looks really scary on coffee.
Mio carrying around miso soup is like how i used to carry frank's hot sauce with me.
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The best part for you, I think, is that Burger King is not considered one of the better fast food burger chains in America.
In fact, in my personal opinion, I consider Burger King pretty bad.
@ wow…
さすがアメリカ…やっぱりハンバーガー最高の国のようですね
@@Skgatonlocal restaurants are always the best for burgers or pizza in the US and every town of a reasonable size has a good one
@@Skgatonmy personal recommendation would be a nation wide chain of burger restaurants called “Five Guys” it’s pretty good.
the only places to get better are small family owned restaurants, but those are always hard to find and can be either the best or the worst.
7:38 elite baby has finally acquired the ability to buy food for herself
Too bad waif--friend is too scared to fly. I'd love to see FBK rave about all the new things she'd see in America.
She too? Didn’t know that, thought only Botan was
@@TheLastCrankersShe is. There's a recent clip of her saying that
Edit : oh right it's a clip from this channel
@TheLastCrankers This channel has a clip of Fubuki's thoughts on Mio's trip, and what she thinks about flying.
@@shadowknight9345 Found it, thanks!
But Fubuki is very keen on real American hamburgers though. And Watame might still feel curious about Whataburger.
Can't go wrong with Chinese cafeteria food.
nobody tell her that this was actually the restaurants smallest portion 💀
The best and most memorable trips are those with troubles and challenges, incidents and surprises, but that you come back from alive.
In that case, they had a hugely successful trip.
Coffee machines can also boil water. Many hotels have coffee machines in their rooms. All you need is an insulated mug or thermos and you got hot water on the go.
As an American, I'm like half proud and half embarrassed
Thank you for the translation. I'm glad they had a lot of fun. Panda express eh lol
miomama is so wife-coded
When you recognize the interior wallpaper of the Energy Drink section. They were in a Maverick. It probably baffled them about how large the selection of energy drinks where in there, but those are usually pandering to the traveling customer and Trucker.
I was reading this going "pfft, no way you could tell just by a bit of wallpaper" and then the picture came up and I went "what the hell, I know that's a Mavericks."
Human pattern recognition capability is crazy.
Nobody turns into a slobbering tub of flab and lard by accident.
brought her own kettle, lol sasuga mio-mama
Reminds me of that bit in King of the Hill when they go to Japan and pack their own forks for the trip lol
2:27 business opportunity unlocked
As a Panda Express enjoyer, I'm very pleased to hear they like it. Best American-Chinese food.
Good to hear that Burger King being bad is a worldwide experience
Traveling is always an opportunity for growth, so glad to hear that they had a lot of interesting experiences in America.
And as an American, she is absolutely right about everything being blasted with sugar. That and salt are major health concerns in America.
"It's the perfect size for 3 people." Looking at a picture of a single serving of cake by my American standards.
Also them going to panda express so often reminds me of how I went to familymart or lawson at least once a day for the entire month I was in japan lol
I think the photo was after it was cut up to share.
BK is fine... middle of the pack for a burger place. I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't get to try the nice burgers in America.
Definitely. They've leveled up now. Hope they going to try many variations of brands that not well-known overseas or a good local restaurants even next time.
Middle of the pack? Who would you put below BK? I'd say McDonald's only beats them by a bit but every other fast food burger chain I can think of is pretty far out ahead of them in quality. The only places you can get worse burgers than BK are like, school cafeterias. Maybe prison.
@@xeroprotagonist It's subjective. I like BK's balance of flavors and textures best out of the fast food joints (when they make it right, which is an issue with them). I can appreciate that something like Five Guys definitely looks like a higher quality product, but it's too much of a commitment for me to eat it. I'll feel greasy the rest of the day. With McDonald's I'll taste onions the rest of the day. Wendy's is still a little greasy and I have to play the damn guessing game over whether the burger has mayonnaise on it (unacceptable). But if you want a juicy burger, I totally understand, BK ain't that.
They had In n' Out
@@maninredhelmwhen I was much younger, I liked McDonalds for doing the onions in such a way that I didn't taste them for the rest of the day. but I guess it varies depending on your digestion
Jesus Christ, Panda Express and Burger King? And she loved them both? I think if Mio had eaten any American food that was actually any good she would passed out from the euphoria
Yeah, imagine if she found a proper southern BBQ place or something. Nashville pulled pork I think is something I've heard of? Lol
Idk, tbh I'm so freaking picky that I don't even eat anything good, anyway.
That's what I was thinking. Panda? Bleh. Do you want some food with your oil?
Or like a decent amerasian takeout place and not the fast food version.
When the Saplings raided Taco Bell for BD our Japanese guest was amazed by Mexican food.
I mean Panda’s okay, but Burger King sucks.
Actually depends where you go. Supermarkets actually have tea and some convivence stores too depending on state and city.
If you go to the southeast you'll also find iced tea everywhere, and usually that includes at least one unsweetened variety.
The best way to describe Americans
"Overwhelming in all outlets"
Travel kettle is genius.
Luckily there weren't any Strawberries bc Miko is a self admitted Strawberry Thief and would've stolen them before anyone got them. 😂
As Subaru is well aware!
i hope mio was able to do a sugar detox after getting back home XD though i feel like she should have been able to at least get water or unsweetened iced tea as far as non sweet drinks go.
I wish I could sign up for a "phone a fat American" hotline for the hologirls when they are visiting. You can find less sweet options for drinks at a lot of places, I mean it was like 10 years ago when I last went to a fast food place, but I seem to remember them having tea bags/hot water as an option. The "drinks" section is not really a thing, as most cooled beverages will be soda/energy drinks as she found, also convenience stores in the US are 10,000% different from Japan, so going there for anything other than filling up your gas tank, or getting a Slurpee is pretty much pointless.
Just get a few people from every state that can be contacted in case of "i don't want sugar" occasions, because pretty much every American state is the same, if you only go to chain restaurants.
Burger king in Japan probably healthier
It seemed about the same to me. Smaller portions and the burger was drier though. But I only tried it once so the dryness could just be the one I went to
Tip for foreign visitors: if you are at an American fast food place, you can ask for "unsweet iced tea" and most will have that. Make sure taste it first if it's not self-serve or drive thru. It'll be a basic black tea, but still. You can also ask for tap water, or bottled water. And during breakfast they can give you actual hot tea, maybe. Bottled water somehow costs more than regular fountain drinks though.
You can get water at fast food places. On the soda fountain, there is usually a small white lever sticking out between the other choices (Usually poorly labelled). Press that for water 😅
Her shot groupings are fantastic for a first-timer. She might be a natural shooter.
She found the wall of Go-Go juice that keeps America running.
I always find it funny to hear about how different food-wise things are here. If there's one thing America doesn't slack on, it's food, and you get a lot of it lol. Honestly the fact desserts are so delicious... or most junk food... is what makes America so scary, they're tastier because they're less healthy. But I think for experiences like this it really makes things better. Eating food you're not used to and having it be delicious is always one of the best parts about traveling so I'm happy they got to experience that alongside stuff like shooting a gun
pretentious Americans: "our chinese restaurants are so inauthentic and gross"
Mio: "so we kept going to Panda Express because it was so good"
She didn't neccesarily say she was in it for "authenticity" tbf
Mio Mama got a taste of the average American diet. Hopefully, if she gets to visit again, she can experience true American cuisine~
Bro not the Panda Express 💀
I found it funny that she loves Panda Express.
Feel sad to me though haha.
In my experience asian tourists love Panda Express man. Panda Express is not chinese food to them, it's american food with all the glorious salt and sugar and focus groups and lab testing to blow your mind that entails. But it's american food that isn't too unfamiliar or scary and guarantees they can get rice. Instant hit.
I think people can be a bit pretentious on this stuff, 'oh, it's not proper chinese food so it's not good' with Panda Express, or if they're asian-american see it as asian food for white people and want to get the proper stuff. Asian tourists don't have anything to prove to anyone, and they can get the proper stuff at home, they just want to eat good shit.
@FightMadder I ate my fair share of it in my uni days when there weren't real Asian food hahaha
@@FightMadder Yup. Being Asian myself, I know it’s not authentic, but if put in a pinch, it’s a lot more than edible and doesn’t taste absolutely horrid.
Food snobs are so cringe. Why would anyone possibly care what food other people enjoy? It has literally zero effect on your life. lol
honestly it's not even being snobby. In the US Chinese restaurants are almost as common as fast-food. Even small rural towns have their own.
When you have so many better options, there's rarely a reason to eat at some place like panda when you could get the same food but probably better and cheaper?
Honestly I'll know I'm truly off-the-grid when there is no Chinese restaurant around lol.
They really pulled the Japanese version of going to Japan and eating at McDonalds with all that panda express
Here in the south it is actually standard to have tea available in convenience stores and most restaurants even fast food style.
They either got lucky with a really good American Burger King, or Japanese Burger King is worse than I thought...
I really want to see some of the girls try some good ol Southern bbq or anything Louisiana pulls out of the water.
As much as it would warm my Southern heart to see Hololive members chowing down on some good food like biscuits and gravy, or a whole hog slow cooked to perfection over 16-18 hours, I honestly don’t think any of the JP members could survive the spread they would have before them.
Hell, Coco was FROM Georgia, and I don’t think she could survive it now. Maybe Haachama, because I honestly don’t think she can be killed.
@@nocteexmortis979 I love that the Eldritch Horror is the only one who can handle that much food.
> ordered dessert at a restaurant
> thinks it was too sweet
> completely misses the point
Lol
I will have to say.
Desserts in most Asian countries are fairly mild in terms of sweetness.
For them, the sweetness level in US is pretty overwhelming.
I had japanese style Cake, the sweetest thing on the cake was the strawberrys. Japanese in a lot there sweet food use very little sugar or no sugar at all :)
Eating Panda Express is what I imagine its like to be a racoon when you find that GOOD garbage.
In the free land, you have dessert for breakfast
One day my travel companion on a biking journey will be my rice cooker 👍
Why not just a pot with a lid? Haiyaa! Cannot cook rice! 😂
@@Bloodstar-o7 i can do better a green bamboo is enough :D
@@japhahimura4212 alright... you win.
Everytime I've been to Japan and someone warns me about a food or drink being really sweet, I just laugh to myself. I have yet to eat a dessert or drink anything there that I would call overly sweet. It's honestly a little depressing how tolerant to sugar an average American is.
*Laughs in supercritical saturation sweet tea*
I also had a retrospective moment when Mio said she was worried she wouldn't get enough vegetables. You aren't getting veggies with fast food.
I'm not even sure if it's an American only thing lol
Like, an acquaintance of mine, from France, who is currently living in Japan pretty much scoffs at their definition of "sweet".
While I don't doubt that some parts of the American cuisine trends to the sweeter side of things, it does feel like Japan in general doesn't really do sugary stuff that much, even for their sweets.
Well, it’s tolerant of sweetness. Most of our garbage is corn syrup so it’s ten times worse than real sugar, even using equivalently insane amounts
@@alecwoodard9464 true, I should have said sweetness, not sugar.
Panda Express? Haiyaa~
Bringing your own misosoup is definitely so Japanese. Sasuga Mio-mama xD
Glad to see they're all having fun despite language barrier
I want mio mama to serve me tea in a Panda Express
Maybe there'll be a Panda Express x Hololive collab in the future... :P
If only they found out where the Heart Attack Burger is at.
True gamers measure in Nintendo switch and switch accessories.
2:04 Yeah, that's pretty true
Well, I guess I'm glad they enjoyed Panda Express and Burger King instead of having a bad experience. They'd normally be what I consider bottom of the barrel recs, but maybe that just speaks to differing tastes.
Insane First eating panda express everyday and saying burger was delicious
They should have I informed the girls that dessert g I especially to a separate stomach
Huh. Wonder if Americanized Chinese food like Panda Express exists in Japan.
Oddly enough, there's a small number of actual Panda Express branches in Japan. At least two of which are on US military bases (which make sense), with a handful scattered around the Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka areas.
panda is good as cheap fast chinese, but ive had japanese style chinese food. i prefer japanese chinese food anytime. cant beat fried rice and mapo tofu w/ gyoza.
@@jefusensei you mean ramen?
What’s weird is they have outbacks in Australia
It does, but apparently in the vicinity of Tokyo, the Panda Express is bad, per Emirichu + Daidus.
Did she call waffles a dessert? I never thought about it that way but I can’t really argue against it
Um..*raises pointer finger*
\*Lowers pointer finger*
We don't think of them as desserts, but they're not wrong to categorize them as desserts. 😅
"It's good but it feels like you're being punched with sugar" "'Less sugar', 'Moderately Sweet' or 'Health Conscious' -- those words don't exist there"
Darn tootin'.
Also, why did they not ask a local for a good asian food place? Panda Express is not that good.
"And since there's no kettle there; I knew there wouldn't be one... So I brought a kettle, too." "How did I bring it?? Eh, I put it in my carry case. It's a travel kettle."
I actually have a friend that does the same exact thing. She'll pack an electric kettle when she's traveling somewhere. Except she doesn't have a travel kettle. It's a full sized plastic kettle that she has to make room for in her luggage.
Weirdly tourists seem to gravitate towards their image of what the country is rather than what it actually is, so you never get tourists asking for local hot spots because they're all going to Burger King or McDonalds because that's the big famous chain they heard about overseas. Strange isn't it?
Hi youtube please show me more clips like this again i havent had enough holilive lately
0:17 is this just the equivalent of american people going to mc onalds when in japan
Im also amazed that anyone can say burger king was good, the ones near me at least are always absolutely awful even when compared to other fast food places
It took me 2 minutes to realize this called the American Dessert Situation and not American Desert Situation lol
When i went to Japan the first thing i ate was a shrimp burger from Burger King since i was so tired and yeah large to them is like medium for us lmao
Them eating Panda Express in America reminds me of when I went to China with my girlfriend's family and we ate KFC for lunch and TGI Fridays for dinner most days.
Great clip!
Someone should have told them about salad bars
We do make some good desserts here in America
If you know any tasty low-sugar drinks and foods in the US, you can successfully show them to your Japanese friends ~ they don't like watered-down drinks either and if you can find natural tasting foods and drinks for them, that's the best.
American Burger King has Cider? Like, non-alcoholic cider? And no sugar? Hungry Jacks at least has coffee and ice coffee.
Apparently "cider", in the JP non-alcoholic context, refers to lemon/lime sodas like Sprite.
The title made me laugh lol
Tea isn't very popular here, but there's almost always some Lipton, I think? And Arizona iced tea. The Lipton usually has Lemon, Raspberry, and I think Herbal? It was probably right there near the soda and energy drinks. If I can find it in even small gas station convenience stores up here in Maine, I'm sure it's there in Vegas.
Also, there ARE some healthier options with "less sugar" at many places, but usually not for dessert. Kinda defeats the purpose lol
Ah how I sympathize with the sentiment of, "If we have it in Maine, then it must be everywhere." It's always fun to hear about all these different products, promotions, restaurants, stores, events, and just think, "Yep... We don't have any of those. ~Maybe~ there's like, ONE. Way down in Portland." (Which happens to be exactly the case for Panda Express!)
Yeah I was wondering about that, I saw Arizona tea everywhere from east coast to west although that was many years ago. Maybe the store they went to was just weird, or maybe they looked at the cans of tea and thought "nah this has gotta be soda".
Well... considering the amount of sugar in that stuff, that isn't exactly wrong.
I agree but where i live they got raspberry, peach, and other flavors. I guess it just depends on location.
So just a hint if anyone is out and about... at a restaurant in the US, commercial coffee machines usually have a hot water dispenser.
Customers can just ask for some Hot water from the coffee machine.
I'm thankful the situation in Canada is better for tea
I can even get loose ones!
I was definitely expecting that Mio would say the dessert is too sweet and lo-and-behold she did, but in a much nicer way. That just made me feel like they need to experience more, like the chocolate cake milkshake Fluffy talked about before, and Banana Split from Braum's that I had for the first time recently on a road trip. It was the most extra and American version of a Banana Split I have ever seen.
Really was not expecting them to eat a lot of Panda Express. I feel like there's so much more to experience, albeit not healthy, but that's just 'MURICA experience.
Sneaking familiar food felt like peak Asian behavior (speaking as an Asian myself), but pretty reasonable thing to do as a tourist.
I fucking love Panda Express ❤
アメリカには太くなる易い 😆
so they discovered why a lot of us Americans are overweight i see 😅
I'm not overweight but all that soda really stains the teeth so I need to go in for cleanings more often...
That and massive cites that are unwalkable
Some of us can't even reach that point. It's definitely a good thing, though.
4:04 ???¿¿¿Burger King?? Delicious???
Panda express is the worst place they could have gone, its absolute slop.
Imagine mio going to claim jumper
or Cheesecake Factory
Health is for eating at home!!!