00:01 John Daub: Hello and welcome to Asakusa. This is one of the weirdest starts I've ever had for a live stream. Just like this photo opportunity over here. But I'm doing this live stream because it's just too hot inside. It's a fun place to take a picture. Even with the air conditioning on, it's time to get out and take a trip around the city a little bit. Cool off with a below zero vending machine.

00:32 John Daub: Now this is really unique. This vending machine is on my radar. My friend Roger told me about it a couple of weeks ago. And on their website, there are only like eight locations nationwide. So I've come here to Asakusa to one of these locations to share with you the below zero vending machine. Which is going to be pretty cool, I think. I love this area of Tokyo. It's just so authentic. You really feel Japan, or at least you feel Tokyo's cultural aspects here in Asakusa. It is really hot today. Now this is not frozen food. This is a frozen drink.

01:24 John Daub: And now it's supposedly when you open up the bottle, it starts to freeze because it reacts with the oxygen inside. When the oxygen hits it, the bottle freezes on contact. That's essentially what the website said. So I'm here to try it out. And you can see it right here in front of this store. It's the Asakusa Don Quixote, which is just massive. This is a really big place. And the vending machine is not inside of it, so I believe it's okay to film. It's right there, just on the left of the entrance.

02:07 John Daub: Whoa. That's weird. Check out the cart. It's a Cold Stone ice cream like ancient Edo period trolley. Why? I don't know. There's just so many weird things in Japan these days. Alright, here we are. I hope you guys are thirsty because I am dying for a drink. I have in my hands 1000 yen, slightly wet from sweat. But I'm going to put it in here.

02:42 John Daub: So this drink costs 120 yen. So it's pretty reasonable. You can see right there. It says 5 below 0. So let's give this a try. Alright. It's all wet from sweat. Let me choose here. Now I'm going to pick this drink. But before I do that, I want to get out a glass, a champagne glass. So we're going to put it in here so you can see how this thing works. It says it's 5 below 0. I don't believe it. Alright. Here it comes out. I'm going to get my change. That's a lot of change from 1000 yen. I'm going to do this fast, I think.

04:06 John Daub: Here it is. It says 5 below 0. I don't quite believe it. So I'm going to take it over here and do this quickly. Are we going to do this quickly everybody? There you go. Hi there. Alright. Here we are. Ready? Oh. It's starting to freeze. There's ice in there. Whoa. Okay. Here we go. Check it. Oh my word. There's chunks of ice in this. You see that? I don't know if it's hard to see. There's chunks of ice still in it. Oh man. This is so cool. Ah. That's so cold. I don't know if you can see the chunks of ice.

05:06 John Daub: Did you guys see the chunks of ice? It's kind of melted really fast. But upon opening, it just turned into ice for like a brief second because it's so hot outside. It doesn't stay cold for very long. Have you ever had a vending machine where it just was not cold enough or the drinks were not cold enough? This will not be a problem for anybody. Wow. Now you can see the difference now. There's no ice at all. You have to open it up real quick to see the effect. Like, get it out of the vending machine. Forget your change. Get it out and open it up. It just turns into ice. This is just too cool.

05:55 John Daub: Also, the glass is not chilled. You're absolutely right about that. Now it's completely normal. But apparently the vending machine and this is just with the Mitsuya Cider cools this off to minus five degrees but it doesn't freeze inside. It's just hot enough so it doesn't freeze and then when you open it up, boom! It turns into ice. It is really cold. I don't think that there's an alcohol option. If there was, this vending machine would probably be sold out. Most of the people in this area at this time of day are foreign tourists and a lot of them are already walking around with a beer.

06:42 John Daub: I'm going to go in front of the machine. This is pretty cool. Normally, these are sold out in a lot of places but there's only eight machines in Japan that do this and this is one of them. There you go. I'll show you the ice coming out. I don't know how they do it but it's called the cold experience and there's 24 bottles left. So it tells you how many bottles are actually left inside. There were 24 and if I get another one, it'll be 23. As soon as you open the cap, it turns into ice. Look at that. And then it comes out chunky because that's how we like our cider.

07:31 John Daub: So if you come to Asakusa, try to find this vending machine. I know you're going to like it. Brain freeze. Totally. Cheers, everybody. I like that. When vending machines come up with some sort of uniqueness that makes it different than all the other vending machines, that's ingenuity. It's no longer ice. In fact, it's getting warm real fast. Just like this iPhone 7 Plus, which sometimes shuts down due to overheating. I think the iPhone 7 Plus needs a cold drink. Refreshing.

08:13 John Daub: And this cider, I don't think there's anything like it in the US. It's sweet. But it's like Sprite without the lemon-lime and more candy. Does that make any sense? It's like candied Sprite without the lemon and lime. That's the only way I can kind of give you the answer. I'm going to go back to the Super Chats. Bloody Bricks is in the house. Thank you. That looks chill, pun intended. Totally chill.

08:46 John Daub: And now there's some people going over there. They're checking it out. Photo. Look Hawaii. Aloha. Thank you. Hey, Austin. So we'll say that this is on you guys. Thank you. Hey, Cecil's in the house. Remember doing this in school with Coke? And you pour it out and it turns into a Coke slushie. Woo. But I've never had it where it turned into this from the vending machine. Like usually you have to put it in your freezer or you have to monitor it. The vending machine keeps it at exactly minus five degrees. So it doesn't actually freeze-freeze inside the bottle. But as soon as you open it and the oxygen hits it, poof.

09:26 John Daub: I'm kind of tempted to do it again. Don Quixote has air sprayers. So they have a bunch of water spraying into the air outside of the entrance to keep it cool. Which is pretty cool. Pun intended. Thank you, Bloody Bricks. Mr. Bricks. That's what we call Mr. Bricks here. Why try beating me on Super Chats? Hey, if you guys are going to have a chat competition, I'll put my face in there just as a reward. Okay? Why not?

10:06 John Daub: All right, here we go. I like to do these things. Look, I'm a geisha. Not really. That's for you, Bloody Bricks. Let the battles begin. That's a battle that I could get used to, which I shouldn't. So let it go with that. This Don Quixote is pretty cool. They do have gachapon (capsule toys). Wait a second. Let's go bonus time. Let's see what they got gachapon-wise for everybody. I'm kind of a sucker. Oh, there's a gachapon. Oh, they got two of them. Check it out.

10:59 John Daub: Not only do they have an aquarium outside, they also have a second Mitsuya Cider that has 21 bottles remaining. I didn't know they had more than one. And these are... There's only three of these in all of Tokyo. I'm telling you right now. This is definitely a neat little thing to go searching around if you're searching around the city. Mike, do it again. All right. I'll do it again. But first, I want to show you guys some gachapon. I will do it again. I'm going to end the stream with doing it again.

11:40 John Daub: Check this out. Man, this is human yaki [?]. What is this? Kushikatsu (deep-fried skewer). There's a dude in the kushikatsu. There's a kushikatsu cat. Oh my gosh. This is so freaky. I'm going to have to get one of these. Check this out. What? Look at this. This gachapon has like desserts on there. This is crazy. All right. I'm going to get some gacha. Where's the Pokemon Zero drink? Ellis, David. If we had that, the thing's going to be sold out, but I will show you this. Here you go. Pokemon capsule act. There you go. This one looks pretty cool.

12:25 John Daub: In fact, you know what? Ellis, I'm going to get one of these. Tell me which one you want, and I'm going to put it into your die meal package for Patreon. You tell me which one you want, Ellis. I'm going to put one in there just for you. Mr. Bricks, you don't have to give a... Don't compete too much, Mr. Bricks. I think I got another Pokemon. The movie. So there's a bunch of them. Ellis says Kirby. Let me see here. Do they even have that? This one has Zeraora. Ibuki [?]. Pikachu, Lugia, just those four, I believe.

13:12 John Daub: Oh, this one? Kabi? Is that the one? Kirby. Kabi. This one. All right, Ellis. We're going to do it then. And let me show you everything that we got. I'm coming back for Kirby. There's two of them. Oh, there's more. Which one do you want? Upper, lower. Upper right, lower left. Okay. So let's see. I've got one. There's two and one. Oh, you're gonna get two of these. Okay. Yeah. All right, I'm gonna get something for Ellis then. Kirby? Oh, this is so cool.

14:01 John Daub: Mr. Bricks, I think you've done every single color imaginable in the Super Chat world. Thank you. All right, here we go. We're gonna do this here. Kirby? Ellis, I'm not sure which one, but I'm gonna go for one of them. There's this one. There's this one, there's this one, and then there's these two. He says upper right. Kirby is David. I'm a Doraemon fan. Alright, I'm gonna see if I can find a Doraemon, but we're gonna go for the upper right. This one here. This one looks happier. Oh! No, these are the Kirbys that hang off of your glass. Like um, what do you call her? Fuchiko-san (hanging figurine). Maybe I should go for this. Okay. Okay.