00:06 John Daub: Good morning from Bifuka in Hokkaido. I just got this 5L sized soft cream. It looked a lot better about 3 minutes ago. It's starting to lean over. I don't have much time to eat it. But I was hitchhiking here. I got a ride from Nayoro just to Bifuka, the town here. I asked, what's famous in this town? She said, oh you gotta try this soft cream. There's a place and they make really good ice cream.

00:56 John Daub: I walked into the shop. They just opened at 10 o'clock in the morning. I get this 5L sized ice cream. Normally it's like this big and this one is just ridiculous. But it reminds me of the Only in Japan ice cream challenge video that I made about two and a half years ago in the summer. Oh my gosh, this is melting fast. There's just something about really large food challenges that's so much fun. He makes it in the back. I've been filming this for the DVD. When you find a place like this, you just have to go live, don't you? It's really ridiculous.

01:49 John Daub: That's what it looked like five minutes ago. This is Inoue Shokudō (Inoue Dining Hall) in Bifuka.

02:30 Staff: Eh, sugoi yo! (Eh, it's amazing!)

02:42 John Daub: Oh my! That's what mine looked like about five minutes ago. Oh, a photo. Let me take a photo. Hurry, hurry. Big, big. I think I can fall. You're bigger than your face, right? Do you want to take a photo with the three of us? Three, two, one. Thank you.

03:36 John Daub: It's fun to meet new people coming in. It's fun, isn't it?

03:44 Staff: It's fun.

03:45 John Daub: I can go alone. Yeah, alone. I'll be so full. Where are you from?

03:59 Staff: I'm from Hokkaido.

04:03 John Daub: Hokkaido? I've been there for a little while. Oh, I see. I'm hitchhiking now.

04:09 Staff: What? I'm not yet from Kagoshima. I'm going. I'm going to Bifuka. I'm not yet from there.

04:15 John Daub: Oh, two hours. A little more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's close. It's so close. I'm going to Bifuka. Oh, good, good.

04:39 John Daub: I came from Kagoshima. Ha, ha, ha. This trip started about five weeks ago.

04:45 Staff: Did you come by truck?

04:47 John Daub: Yeah, it's so good. Hitchhiking. This time the truck didn't stop much. My family, my grandma, my grandpa. They put a lot of stuff on the truck. But this place is hard because there is a bypass. I have 45,000 people who stop, but I can't go to the next town, the next town, the next town. I can't go to Wakkanai. I'm going to eat this and then go down the bypass. I'm going to hitchhike again. The bypass is about 2km away. Where in the country are you from?

05:29 Staff: America?

05:32 John Daub: I've been living in Japan for 19 years. Really? I'm in Tokyo now. This is so good. I can't explain to you how good this soft cream is. I've been outside in the heat all morning. It's getting warm with this orange jacket on. But I keep going. I'm going to make it to Wakkanai because I have had soft cream.

06:24 John Daub: It was about to fall down 5 minutes ago. It melted right away. Like this. It was so good. So right now I'm at a place called Bifuka. There's a famous place called Inoue Shokudō. They have really big ice cream. You can't see it now because if you're joining the live stream late, it'll look like this. I mean, it's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Nakano ice cream challenge in Tokyo that I made two and a half years ago. But I'm taking this thing down. I have sensitive teeth, so it's hard to eat cold things. But I'm already getting the sugar high. Oh man, it's so good.

07:31 John Daub: Inoue-san, it looks like he's been running this shop for a long time. So it's an old shop. I've been filming. Very quickly, you can see here that he has a super small size. The sizes keep getting bigger and bigger until you get to 6L. But he doesn't sell 6L anymore. He goes just to 5L. And that's what I had. I'm tempted to get a beer too. Beer doesn't go good with ice cream. There's a pretty extensive menu of stuff. Chicken and pork soup. They even have ramen. Zaru ramen. Lots of ramen right up there. So it's a shop. It's one of the shops that can do it all.

08:55 John Daub: But if those that are joining late, you didn't see it. It looked like this. I think it looked bigger. Oh, you know what? I have the video footage. I guess I can show it to you. So I want to thank MindFull11, Jake, and Christopher. There's no better way to start the day than with ice cream. So let me show you the video that I took about five minutes ago to give you a better idea of what this ice cream looked like.

09:45 John Daub: All right. You still there? Okay. Ah, sorry. People on the live stream, people on the chat will tell you to wipe your mouth. All right. That's what it looked like. And it was so heavy. It comes on like this kickstand. It instantly started to lean over. It's massive. Literally, it feels like two kilograms. And it's thick at the base, too. There's not a lot in Bifuka. This is just a small outpost town. Hold on. I got to film with the GoPro for the DVD now.

10:41 John Daub: I'm filming two at the same time. One is right now with this camera and then the camera that I showed you. So the thing with the live stream is I try to do both today. Because it was just too ridiculous not to share with you right now. And that's where I am right now. Thank you. People have been coming in all morning. This place is crowded. Lots of tourists from all over Japan coming in here to get ice cream. This place is in Japanese guidebooks. No foreigners know about it. I mean, who's coming to Bifuka? You've probably never even heard of the town of Bifuka before this live stream, have you?

11:24 John Daub: Bifuka, B-I-F-U-K-A, it's an Ainu name. All of the towns in this area have Ainu names. They have Japanese kanji, but they basically just said, ah, the Ainu say it this way. We're just going to put kanji to it. So it really makes no meaning when you read the kanji. Sometimes it's like really weird. But Bifuka, ice cream. It's also famous just like the other towns for lamb meat. Lots of meat, not fish. This part of Hokkaido is inland and they have really good meat, lamb, beef, pork. Ice cream. Oh, hey, Jogi. Shout out to Jogi watching.

12:25 John Daub: So I was in a bad, bad spot to hitchhike this morning because I can't get onto the bypass. 14 years ago, there was no highway in this area. When I got here, there was. So I was thrown off by that. So all the people going to Wakkanai direct, they're not stopping where I am. I'm on like in the little towns, not on the bypass. So now the highway and the bypass all end. They haven't finished the highway to Wakkanai. So I'm going to go just one more kilometer walk with the big backpack, which is actually outside on the street. Ah, it's still there. Okay. My bags are still there. I don't think anyone's going to take it. It's so heavy. If you're going to walk off with my bag, you better be strong enough to pick it up. It's like 40 kilograms.

14:10 John Daub: Brain freeze. Hold on a second. This is why I lost to a girl in the food challenge before, because I have sensitive teeth. I can't like down it. And ice cream is meant to be enjoyed. It was so big. I'm lucky I got here now because apparently it does get pretty crowded and he sells a lot of ice cream. But again, this place, Inoue Shokudō in Bifuka is not famous to any foreigners. There's not any guidebooks, but it is in the Japanese guidebooks. If you're in Bifuka, stop and get an ice cream.

15:20 John Daub: After I get out of here, I'm going to walk about one to two kilometers to the train station. See, the thing is, though, as soon as I got to get to Wakkanai fast, because as soon as Saturday comes, it's supposed to rain all day. It's basically Saturday is ruined and I have to go back to Sapporo on Sunday. I like how they have the square base because it's just so heavy. These extra corners are like engineered to support a kilogram of cream. Not anymore. I'm not a fan of these because I like to bite the end and suck through. Who does that? Who sucks the ice cream to the face? Because I always do that when I was a kid. Did you do that, Christopher? Yeah, I do that, too. Again, this is what it looked like before. And this is what it looks like now.

17:15 John Daub: So if you're seeing the thumbnail for this, you probably know what the ice cream looks like, right? So good ice cream. I'm so full. And the hotel I stayed in has a fantastic breakfast. I wasn't hungry to start off with, but it's so good. Start your day with ice cream. Not going to burn it off. The lady who picked me up, super nice lady. She picked me up out of pity. She pitied me, I think, because no one was going to take me to the restaurant I was at.

18:21 John Daub: Konnichiwa (Hello). Kawaii (Cute). Thank you. Do you want to eat the most delicious mushroom? No. No? I ate it. A little more. You can see this place is so popular. This is like most of the population. I'm going to have to like wash my face off because there's cream all over it still. But once again, Bifuka. It's a small town between Nayoro and Wakkanai. And I'm still 150 kilometers away from my goal. So I gotta get there today because tomorrow it's gonna rain. That means I gotta do the jump. So all this extra cream is gonna keep me warm in the ocean, right? And there's still icebergs in there, I heard.

19:55 John Daub: I got nothing more to say. I'm just kind of milking this. This was the ice cream. And now we're done. So if you want to see a grown man devour a tower of cream, go back and replay this in about 5 minutes and have some fun. Thanks for watching. Soft cream. Inoue Shokudō. 5L size. 810 yen. Complete. See you out on the road. I'm gonna go now hitchhike after I wash my face and hands. And mouth. Brush my teeth and be fresh. Thanks for watching.