00:02 John Daub: Greetings from Akihabara. I'm live and waiting for a friend. This is Jennifer, who was with me in the cat cafe episode. There she is. Jennifer. Bonjour. Bonjour. Long time. Merci. So I hope you're hungry. Do you know? I'm always hungry. Alright, good, because we're going to get something to eat.

00:30 John Daub: Let's do something. Ramen for breakfast? Catch some sweets and then we have ramen. What do you say? Alright, yeah, let's get something sweet. I can compromise.

00:50 John Daub: So this shop in Akihabara sells something really unique. It's ramen. Ramen? No, no, no. Why is it written Sweets Paradise? This is a cake shop. What? Those are cakes? This is ramen cake. No way. And this is taiyaki gyoza. But it doesn't stop there. It also has soba and udon and lots of other stuff. Yeah, everybody, this is cake. Eat the gyoza. Oh, you want the gyoza? That's cake. You sure these are cakes? Yeah, because it looks like a gyoza. According to this, it even says the ingredients: there's orange and apple. Apple in it. And look, if you're really excited, you can get one of the baby ones.

01:53 Jennifer: That would be nice. I can put Charlie in there.

01:53 John Daub: Yeah, I can put your little doggies in there. But hold on, so you have some ramen without the cover and some with the cover. I don't know, but that's what it comes with, it looks like. I'm really curious about this udon too. The ramen looks good, but the udon... The soba looks good too. That does not look like cake. So what shall we have? Alright. I'm gonna get the ramen and you want the gyoza?

02:23 Jennifer: Yes, please. But let's share.

02:23 John Daub: Oh yeah, of course we're gonna share. Let's do it the Japanese way and share. Of course we're gonna share. So once again, for everybody who doesn't know Jennifer, we used to work on NHK shows Tokyo Eye and we hang out sometimes and drink and eat. Mainly drinking and eating. Pan it this way. And today we're gonna be doing the eating. Wait a minute, hold on. This also looks like raw meat.

02:52 Jennifer: It is. And that's a cake? It's shimo furiniku.

02:59 John Daub: So that looks like raw meat, but that's also a cake. I'm really interested in that. I'm gonna have to come back for that. So that's funny because they have the ramen that looks like cake, but also real cake. All right, so hold this, Jennifer. I'm gonna get the cake. One ramen cake and one gyoza.

03:29 Jennifer: Yes, that's fine.

03:35 John Daub: We'll put it in a box. In a box? Can we eat the box too? You sure? If we can't eat it, then we don't want it. It's perfect for the Ekimae Shokudo series. It is a nippy-platy-pondy. Oh, it's good! So it comes in a box! Wow, it's huge. This is so fun! But we can't eat the box! You can't eat the box, but it's all about... Look, if you're going to have lunch, you're going to do it right, okay? I don't see you that often, Jennifer. This is a nice chance to...

04:14 Jennifer: Exactly, thanks for treating me so well.

04:18 John Daub: Nothing but the box. No way! If she wants us to remain friends, you know you have to make me eat good stuff.

04:32 Jennifer: How do you eat it? Do you eat it with chopsticks?

04:35 John Daub: Yes. Gyoza. Thank you. Someone is asking if it's your birthday. Is it?

04:44 Jennifer: Is it your birthday, John?

04:47 John Daub: It could be. You know, I knew what I was going to bring you here before we started this episode. I've been walking by this place for the last couple of weeks after I got back from the hitchhiking trip and I wanted to try this.

05:07 Jennifer: I'm lucky you asked me to come.

05:13 John Daub: Don't forget the chopsticks. Says your friend. No, they said fork and spoon. Okay. I'll give you a piece of fish. What is it? It looks good. Sweet Paradise. I gave Jenny the tool. Look at her.

05:43 Jennifer: I'm just practicing. Thank you.

05:47 John Daub: And we're in Akihabara. It's Akihabara. Alright. It's the first time I'm doing something like this. So it's interesting to see all the comments and questions. And you can reply live, right?

06:10 Jennifer: Right. That's great. I'm so hungry.

06:15 John Daub: No, it's not John's birthday. He's just hungry. I didn't eat anything today.

06:19 Jennifer: Me neither. I knew you would make me eat something.

06:27 John Daub: Thank you. I'll eat it right away. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go. Do you want to hold the cake? The treasure. We're in Akihabara. And you can tell you just saw some gachapon (capsule toy machines) there. And Jennifer and I are going to find a nice place to eat.

06:48 Jennifer: Yes, please.

06:49 John Daub: Yeah, we sort of... Let's go this way. So we can do... We could have coffee, right? I want to find a place to sit down. There's benches and stuff like this here, but they don't have tables. So we want to find a place to... Let's have a date today.

07:06 Jennifer: Please. It's been a long time we haven't had a date. A real date. Cake date.

07:11 John Daub: So I've known Jennifer for what? 10 years now? A long time. But we haven't done this much recently.

07:25 Jennifer: No. You should call me more often when you're eating. You're in France all the time.

07:32 John Daub: She's French. So we get some coffee and try the ramen. But we're not going to eat it here. We're going to take it to a cafe a little bit around. While we're doing that, I can take you on a little tour around this area. This is behind the Yodobashi Camera. Yodobashi Camera is... I think this is the biggest electronics store in the world.

07:59 Jennifer: I think so, yeah.

08:00 John Daub: The one behind us. You see this? Yodobashi Camera. It's one of the biggest, if not the biggest in the world. It's huge here in Akihabara. I think... isn't it 8 or 9 stories? It's like 9 stories of electronics. The top floor has food in there. And there's gachapon as well. So it is a convenient place. A one-stop shop for everything you need. And I got a point card.

08:23 Jennifer: Me too.

08:25 John Daub: Everybody has a point card from Yodobashi Camera. Is it heavy?

08:30 Jennifer: No, it's not.

08:34 John Daub: It's funny because it looks like, you know, when they deliver ramen, they put it on the bicycle. It has the same shape of the boxes on the bicycles. I love the packaging. And I mean, look, if you're gonna pay $20 for cake, you might as well put another $3 in and get a box for it, right? You know, I'm not gonna be eating ramen cake every day. So next time you can eat, you'll bring it back home.

09:03 Jennifer: And next time you can bring me a big, nice present, okay?

09:09 John Daub: Alright. I'll bring a ramen... More food. I'll bring some raw cake meat to the next party. More food. Alright, so up ahead, you can see Chiyoda-dori, which is the main artery of Akihabara. That's where all the anime and manga billboards are on the signs. And you get all the bright lights. Over on the left side here, you can see Akihabara Station. That's the new exit. And there's the Gundam Cafe. And the AKB48 Cafe Shop. And those two shops, the AKB48 Cafe and the Gundam Cafe, are underneath the Yamanote Line. So everybody above there is waiting for the trains. So that's how close we are to Akihabara Station. Boom. We're in the Devil's Den. To start, we do the Gundam Cafe. Alright, this cafe looks like it's really good. Hello, uh, hello Heat321, thanks for the super chat. And Noah abroad, really appreciate it. Jennifer and I had the biggest laugh when Chris Pepler made his sound like he was some sort of alcoholic and took your eye. Chris Pepler, man. I couldn't get the picture at last, so I had to do with the big jug. It was nice. I think we can eat, yeah, look. I think we can eat upstairs.

10:41 John Daub: Alright, there's some tables up here we can eat. Why don't you go, give me the ramen.

10:46 Jennifer: Right. Go get two coffees.

10:48 John Daub: Yeah, save the receipt. Would you like black or red?

10:52 Jennifer: Surprise me.

10:54 John Daub: She's French, she knows coffee better than me. It's just a given, right? So I'm gonna put the selfie stick away, cause there's a security guard here. You know, I'm gonna go through the cafe. This is so cool. Look at it, on Fox Ramen Cake. And I've been wanting to do this for a couple of weeks when I saw this cake. So this is exciting. Okay, I'm gonna take you to the cafe, just hold on a second, okay? She's getting the coffee! It's a beautiful day. Um, it actually really is. So we're going up to the second floor of this office building, and they have some seats for people who are customers. And it's quiet in here. And there you can see Yodobashi Camera, the Yodobashi Akiba electronics store. That's just how big it is. That's all electronics in there. Alright, I'm picking the table in the back. Hey, there's ASIMO! I'm a big Honda ASIMO fan. So we have our ramen cake and I'm going to unbox it. We have to wait for Jennifer to get the coffee. There's a view downtown. It's actually this way you can go to the secret, um, Akihabara's deepest secret, the Hanabusa Inari Jinja (shrine), is down this road, and you can take a left. Um, right now it's closed. Uh, from June 5th to July 15th. But Warui JB, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Akihabara is with you on this channel. What's going on with my hair? Flying all over the place. This is nice. So in order to unbox this, I need two hands. So I have a stand for the, um, for this Ronin. This is the DJI Ronin. And I got this extension stick, which is about $75. Pretty expensive. But I noticed that it really does come in useful. Alright. Okay. So I'm gonna unbox this. I think I should wait for Jennifer. How do I... I don't know if I can wait for Jennifer because I totally wanna rip this thing open right now. That's so cool. This box is so cool. This looks like the old ramen boxes when they would deliver it on motorbikes or bicycles. They would hold it like this and put it inside here. Oh, look, it opens up. Okay, this is so cool. Alright, here we go. Ah, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. So we're gonna unbox. I just have to wait for Jennifer. So uh, I hope she didn't order one of those coffees that takes like 20 minutes to prepare. So while we're waiting for Jennifer to come, this is the time where, um, Trekaris, thank you so much. The DVD is coming pretty good. But I'm out here making this video, so obviously I'm not editing that video. Uh, that's the Only in Japan Go channel. We just have a lot of fun on this channel. This video is live. So if you wanna get the notifications for this, you have to go in and subscribe to the Only in Japan Go channel. Yesterday, Peter von Gomm, my friend Peter von Gomm and I went to this mysterious vending machine that was down the street. And I heard that it was also an actual art exhibit.

15:45 Jennifer: Oh, what are you doing? Oh, no, no, no, we're still live. What did you get?

15:51 John Daub: So here is... Look at that. That's mine.

15:57 Jennifer: That's a café au lait because I'm French, as you said. And you get the almond caramel café. But because you're American.

16:06 John Daub: What does that have anything to do with it? Right? I know. Okay, hold on. I want to open the box. Alright, so we're gonna unbox this thing. That's okay. Did you see this though? Did you see this? Can I take a picture? Watch this. Are you watching? Okay, hold on. Watch this. I'm gonna show her what I just showed you. Ready? See? It's like the real ones. That's what I paid extra for. This is amazing. We have to keep the box. That's so nice. This is really nice. Okay, we're gonna unbox this and eat it now. It smells good, huh?

16:59 Jennifer: It does smell really good.

17:03 John Daub: It smells good. That's a good sign.

17:07 Jennifer: It is a very good sign.

17:08 John Daub: Eh, is this okay? What? Oh, it's okay. Yeah, but I'm gonna move this camera in a second. I just want to take a picture for the record of this cake unboxing. This is so cool. Unboxing the cake.

17:24 Jennifer: I know, right? It's so sweet.

17:33 John Daub: Do you need some help? I just want to get a picture. Okay. Alright. Come on back here. You're too far away. Alright, you're too far away. So let's unbox this thing. So Jennifer? Did she give us some spoon and fork? Something? Oh yeah, the spoon and fork. They're in there. This is ramen. I brought chopsticks. Neat idea. Yeah, if you're gonna eat ramen cake, any kind of ramen, I don't care if it's cake, you gotta have chopsticks. Super nice. Yeah, you need to have chopsticks. So we're gonna unbox this puppy. Look at that. She put ice in there because it is cake. You don't want it to spoil. It's hot in Japan. Alright, let's go with the side dish. So the side dish is gyoza.

18:40 Jennifer: That's mine. But I can share.

18:44 John Daub: Nice. That is really nice. They did a great job with this. I love the presentation, the way that they put it in a... It looks grilled like real gyoza. It says here it recommends that you toast it in the oven toaster for 5 to 7 minutes and it gets more delicious. But you can eat it as it is. We can eat one and then bring one back home and taste it.

19:09 Jennifer: Are you kidding me? I'm so hungry. These are all... What about the ramen? I'll start with the gyoza. Don't open my cake.

19:19 John Daub: Oh geez. You get a little scary there, Jenna.

19:23 Jennifer: Scary, yeah. I can bite when it comes to food.

19:25 John Daub: Careful, I don't want to spill it. Wow. This is the ramen cake. Super nice. This is crazy. This looks so real. This looks crazy. And it's in one of the bowls for instant ramen. So you get kind of that authentic feel with this. But the meat... Do you think we can eat the bowl too?

19:55 Jennifer: No, we can't eat the bowl.

19:56 John Daub: You sure? It's plastic. Why don't you take a bite of it then?

20:02 Jennifer: I'll take a bite if you take one.

20:04 John Daub: Well, don't eat it yet. No, I just want to take a picture. Alright. Okay, hold on. Put the lid back on. Hey, everybody, if you want to take a screenshot and send it to me on Instagram, that would be really cool. Can you put this back in? That's cool. Just like that. Alright. Here's a screenshot. Jennifer and the ramen. This French girl is on the prowl. She's going to be attacking some Chinese food.

20:34 Jennifer: I'm not starting. I just want to look... See? Better.

20:41 John Daub: Right, so your job is actually in food and wine, right?

20:46 Jennifer: Exactly. So you know. Uh-oh, lipstick on the hot pot.

20:50 John Daub: Oh, sorry. I like when it looks nice. Alright, so I've seen the gyoza up close. Let's take a closer look at this ramen. Now we have here, this is the chashu (braised pork). I don't know what that's made of. We're going to figure that out. And this is the fish cake. That's easy to do. It could be like a marshmallow or something. This is the nori (seaweed). This looks like chocolate, but I'm not sure. However, it's got the color and the texture pretty close. And again, you can see it's underneath this coat of gel that looks like soup broth is noodles, but they're not noodles. It could be membran? Maybe the... Membran? You think? Yeah. They maybe go on like this to make it look like noodles underneath it. I'm not sure. I'm really curious to see how they... What's inside? I mean, is it... I'm hungry.

21:40 Jennifer: Just hold on a second, Jenny. Look at your horses!

21:45 John Daub: This really is unique. This is work. This is unique, right? And this looks like... I guess it would be like daikon or what would this be? It wouldn't be menma (fermented bamboo shoots). This is some kind of... No, not daikon. I'd say some fruit, maybe?

22:05 Jennifer: No, I know it is fruit, but what's it supposed to be? Like this is nori. Ah, that's right. This would be negi (green onions). This would be the... Right. The pistachio would be negi.

22:14 John Daub: Yeah. Alright, so she told me that I should eat it with cake, but I'm going to take this down with chopsticks.

22:20 Jennifer: Yes, I agree. Can we put the box... Oh yeah. Here? To eat with this? Voilà.

22:32 John Daub: Alright. Get the chopsticks out. Go ahead and try the gyoza first. Is it hot? I always... Chotto mate (wait a sec). So there is some maple jelly, but I'd like to try it like this first. Oh, right. Chotto mate. I don't want to spoil it.

22:51 Jennifer: That's... Jennifer Julian is now taken down. Itadakimasu. Bon appétit. Gyoza cake. What's inside? Must be some apple. Okay. Mmm, no. Chotto mate. Looks like a croissant. Mmm. Try it.

23:14 John Daub: Try it? This is the first time that you've been like out of words.

23:22 Jennifer: I know. I know. Is it that good or that bad? No, it's good, but it's... I can't define what it is. Some maybe almonds. Almonds, you know, um... Put some... Can you put some tare (dipping sauce)?

23:34 John Daub: You want some tare on it? No, you should try it without the... No, I want tare.

23:38 Jennifer: Ah, bon. I think it's some kind of almond um... powder. Okay. In there, yeah. It's good. It is good.

23:48 John Daub: Oh, that's good to hear. Yeah. I mean, mentally, in my mind, I'm... Oh, tare. Okay, hold on, hold on. Never mind my mind. What's in my mind is this now? Tare. You will tell us later. Sugoi ja nai? Oh, that looks good. Looks good. So mentally, I'm thinking that this is gonna be salty. Should I hold this? Oh, if you want to, yeah. Mentally, yeah, I get the feeling that it's gonna be salty. You can put it over here. How? Ah! Ah! Abunai (dangerous)! Good? Okay. Careful, here we go. Where is the beer? We need a beer, not coffee, huh? We've got coffee. Isn't it good? I think it's good. It's so sweet! I think it's some almond paste, something like that. Hold on a second, I can show inside. With the pastry around. Yeah, it's... oh there's the camera. It's pretty good. I mean, it looks like a baked apple pie.

24:58 Jennifer: It tastes like a baked apple pie. Apple with almond powder.

25:07 John Daub: Apple with almond powder. That's good. Apple with almond powder. It's a good idea to do this, yeah.

25:14 Jennifer: It's actually, in France, it's like a chausson aux pommes (apple turnover). In France, we have this. Chausson aux pommes is apple chausson. It means, like, it's pastry like this filled with apple.

25:30 John Daub: Chausson aux pommes. Say that again.

25:32 Jennifer: No, it's... my mouth is still full.

25:36 John Daub: Gosh, that French is awesome. Yeah. All I can say is bonjour. It's a Japanese chausson aux pommes. Did you get it?

25:45 Jennifer: I don't know.

25:45 John Daub: Okay, now let's put this aside because it would take forever to eat this on camera. I'm hungry.

25:52 Jennifer: Yeah, we're gonna go for the ramen cake and... How do you cut this?

25:56 John Daub: Like, mentally... you don't cut ramen. You use chopsticks and you eat ramen.

26:01 Jennifer: Yeah, but you have to... look. Like, I don't know.

26:04 John Daub: Okay, go ahead. I'm kind of a ramen purist. I do things...

26:07 Jennifer: Yes, but we have to... it's a cake. It's not the real stuff.

26:11 John Daub: I know it looks like the real stuff. I mean, we don't have a spoon for the soup. Let me.

26:15 Jennifer: Let me do it.

26:17 John Daub: Okay. All right. Okay. You're cutting it. I'm telling you. Look. It is cake. That looks so good. That looks nice. It's a sponge cake. It's cake. It is cake. Wow. Come on. Eat. Quick. So we've totally exposed this for what it is. It's cake. Because underneath the noodles, and I think it's menma. I think it is the... There you go. It's some cream with... it's a sponge cake.

26:51 Jennifer: It is. It's like, you know, what they call a shortcake in Japan. But we don't get the... no strawberries.

26:59 John Daub: All right. Hold this. Now we're going to... taste test.

27:03 Jennifer: Yeah, but I think I have to...

27:06 John Daub: Okay. Good. Go ahead.

27:08 Jennifer: Okay. Itadakimasu. Bon appétit. I'm just going... I'm going to give you some too. It looks like it's ramen. Hold on. Yeah.

27:22 John Daub: All right. Here we go. Are you supposed to slurp this too? Sugoi ne. Huge. Does it? Bon appétit. Dozo. How do I slurp the noodles? Try hard. Okay. Here we go. Itadakimasu. It's so good.

27:42 Jennifer: You're not a gentleman. It should have been ladies first.

27:45 John Daub: I let you eat the noodles. I let you eat the noodles at first.

27:47 Jennifer: Oh yeah, right. I assume you forgot.

27:50 John Daub: Let's go with the nori and seaweed. What taste?

27:55 Jennifer: It's a soft cookie. Mishke. Something between...

28:00 John Daub: Show us the inside, please. It's something between a brownie...

28:04 Jennifer: Oh yeah. We can see it's kind of soft, yeah.

28:06 John Daub: Okay. It's between a brownie and a nori, seaweed. Can you show us the inside of the ramen now that you've cut it?

28:14 Jennifer: Oh, okay. It's a sponge cake. Looks like a sponge cake. It looks good.

28:21 John Daub: So what taste is the noodle? Can you define it?

28:24 Jennifer: It's menma. It's the... Oh, okay. The... The marron (chestnut). Marron. Or chestnut. The chestnut stuff that... Voilà. C'est ça. It's always...

28:34 John Daub: Okay, the chashu. This one looks like someone chewed it already. Actually, right now, it looks a little bit like unagi (grilled eel).

28:42 Jennifer: Oh yeah, a little bit like unagi.

28:44 John Daub: All right, bottoms up. Here we go. It tastes like the crust. Crust of cake. I don't...

28:55 Jennifer: Okay. I don't know. I'm actually curious to get your opinion on it because you're a food critic.

28:59 John Daub: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Jennifer's a food critic, so she's going to know. She's going to know how to do this.

29:05 Jennifer: Yeah, but I'm not a sweet person, so...

29:09 John Daub: I know you're not sweet. You're not sweet at all. It smells... You have real pain in the neck. You're a really bitter woman. It smells like apple juice.

29:15 Jennifer: She didn't get what I said. I just ignored it.

29:20 John Daub: Okay. Ah, that looks so good. I want more.

29:24 Jennifer: You know what? The soup is... The soup tastes like apple.

29:26 John Daub: Soup is made out of apple jelly, I think.

29:31 Jennifer: Oh, okay. That's good. It's pretty good. Show me the...

29:35 John Daub: Oh yeah. I guess I can't show you.

29:40 Jennifer: We got a super chat from Noah abroad. My girlfriend and I went to Juju Akabane.

29:45 John Daub: Oh, so Noah went to Juju Akabane, Jennifer. He saw your Tokyo Eye.

29:50 Jennifer: Oh, okay. Thank you. Did you like it?

29:53 John Daub: Yeah, I think he liked it. He got some clothing for 300 yen.

29:58 Jennifer: Ah, no. That was Juju, right?

30:00 John Daub: Yeah. That place is amazing. I hope he had the meatball for only 10 yen. Yeah, he did. He wrote that he did. I'm trying the... I don't think we want to close the video. Wow. You took that down so fast.

30:15 Jennifer: Sorry. That's all right.

30:17 John Daub: Try the chashu. I'm kind of curious about... I guess I can eat this. I'm kind of curious about your opinion on the other stuff.

30:27 Jennifer: This is not very tasty, this thing. Oh, this one, the fish cake? But yeah, under it seems to be the Mont Blanc (chestnut cream cake) thing.

30:40 John Daub: Okay. Chashu. It's supposed to be pork, but...

30:54 Jennifer: Come on, come on. What you got? It's not very tasty. It's like I don't really like the... It's okay, but I mean, all the rest of it is tasty.

31:11 John Daub: It really tastes good. Tastes like a cake so this tastes more like I don't know like bread. You know what? He's making me talk because he's stuffing himself with gyoza. Sorry, sorry, it's what I'm eating while I'm filming. It's just plain, this. I'm not sure what it is. Yeah, it's like the crust of a cake. I think they've done something to it but in general I just want to give final impressions because we got to eat and I get it, I have a job today to do. Yeah, so as I said the soup is apple and then you have the Mont Blanc underneath. Yeah, so the noodles is Mont Blanc, it's a chestnut, it's really just chestnut cream and you can see some chestnut bits on the bottom and then you have the gyoza and then you have the bites here. Yeah, that's genius though the way that they did that and put that underneath the apple gel. The apple is that gel, right? Yeah, I think so. That's really genius and they made it look like noodles underneath the gel. It's very convincing and I confirm you cannot eat the bowl. I can't eat the bowl. Alright, any final thoughts on this? How many stars do you give this out of five? Out of ten?

32:37 Jennifer: Five is not enough. Eight out of ten.

32:40 John Daub: That's really high for you. I remember you took down a French restaurant really hard for the bad food and service we went to. You were so top dog. I mean it's a cake. The taste of the cake is really good I think and I'm not really into sweets because as all of you know I'm a drinker so I prefer like salty things but I think it's pretty good. This thing is not so tasty, but the rest of it is really good and it's fun. So yeah, I mean, it's a must try if you come to Akihabara.

33:24 Jennifer: Yeah. It's interesting.

33:25 John Daub: Yeah, I kind of will share your sentiments. I think if you come to Akihabara and they're still selling this cake next to the station, definitely get one. And come here early because they sell out fast. I noticed that the good stuff is gone. The gyoza goes really fast. Gyoza is good. Yeah, the gyoza is really good and it goes really fast. So you want to get the gyoza. If you can't eat the whole cake and you're by yourself, they have mini; the mini ramens look good. Hey, don't eat it all. I want some of this before we finish. I just want to wrap this up. Work, please. I'm working, yeah. So I think everything about this ramen cake is just unique and it's so Japan. And you know, the display foods at the restaurants are quite famous and they've gone to great detail to make it look authentic, haven't they?

34:11 Jennifer: Yeah. It looks almost like the display.

34:12 John Daub: Yeah, the display food when you go and before you go into the restaurant, which helps you decide what you want to eat. They've done an excellent job with this. And I think that the taste of the cake underneath it and the cream and all the ingredients together, it just really works. Although mentally, I'm thinking I'm eating ramen.

34:28 Jennifer: No, don't think that. If you think you're eating a cake, it's a good cake.

34:32 John Daub: It's a good cake. And really, I really like the apple hint top of it.

34:38 Jennifer: Yeah, the apple hint. I ate actually the two apples that I thought were daikon.

34:41 John Daub: Sorry. I could regurgitate it for you, but I won't. I'm a polite man.

34:46 Jennifer: No, it's okay. No worries. Sorry.

34:48 John Daub: Also, the coolest thing about this is the experience. Like the fact that they have the box, okay? The fact that they put it in a box like this. You know what? Actually, I think it would be a pretty good idea when you go to a party to make a present to friends.

35:06 Jennifer: Yeah. Because you go there without showing this.

35:09 John Daub: Yeah. First you go like this, and then you show this. Like you brought ramen, and you're like, yeah, sure. And then they open it, and it's a cake, you know?

35:22 Jennifer: So you would deceive your friends with that? Oh yes, I would. I think I'm going to keep... If you don't keep the box, I will.

35:26 John Daub: I'll give you the box. Okay, thank you. I think I'm going to come back and eat it again, because I'm going to trick my friends with this ramen cake gag. I would also like to try the small ones. And like they have this size. Oh, it's a small one. That's a big one. They have the small ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had soba and udon too.

35:44 Jennifer: Yeah, I want to try the katsu don.

35:46 John Daub: I mean that's what I like about this shop. I don't know if it... This is a chain, right?

35:52 Jennifer: They have these shops at other places.

35:53 John Daub: Oh really? I think I've seen this shop before. But the one in Akihabara, I guess because this is such an outrageous place, you see outrageous things like this. And what makes this cake really special is that it's in Akihabara. I'm going to be honest with you. Because we're here in Akihabara, it seems like it's part of that experience. All the bright lights, all the maids on the street. All the manga and anime. And then ramen cake. It fits the atmosphere. Right. And because there's also a ramen vending machine just down the street that I showed in the Japanese Vending Machines Exposed episode. That's just down the street here. So in a weird way, Akihabara is sort of a ramen town. It's just not a good ramen town. The ramen here is average. But ramen cake is to die for.

36:37 Jennifer: Yeah, it's really good.

36:39 John Daub: Yeah. And so what everybody could do is get the... Real ramen from the vending machine. And then the cake come here. Eat the ramen and then the cake. And do that thing again. Look like a gangster rapper. Eat the ramen. Eat the ramen. Yeah. It's like this, right? Eat the ramen. You eat the ramen. You can't slurp this ramen. But I'll tell you something. It's really, really good. And I highly recommend it. It's 1080 yen, which is the same price as many bowls of ramen in the city of Tokyo. All right. So there you go. That's our ramen episode. The cake unboxing. So thanks.

37:17 Jennifer: It was really good.

37:19 John Daub: It was really good. So thanks for watching this live stream. Support the channel by subscribing. Jennifer, you have anything you want to plug?

37:26 Jennifer: Yes. I hope... Tell John he has to call me again each time he does some food thing.

37:32 John Daub: Okay, I'll call you. I'll call you again. And Jennifer is a food blogger, so I'm going to put the link to her... So you still have a website, right?

37:41 Jennifer: A blog. It's in Japanese. It's on Facebook. No, I just have Facebook.

37:44 John Daub: Okay, I'll share her Facebook in the description below. And if you have any questions, write it in the comments. Like this video, share it, and definitely subscribe because this channel needs a little bit more love, just like this ramen and her. All right. See you, everybody. I'll leave you the last 20 seconds. I'm going to leave you with a beautiful cut of this ramen. See you, everybody. Have a good day or night, wherever you are in the world. I want to eat this right now.

38:17 Jennifer: Bon appétit.