00:00:00 John Daub: Greetings and welcome to Munich, Germany—called München in Japanese. We're here at the Christmas markets which flicker with light because of the frequency. Hi everybody. We're live here in Marienplatz in Munich. This is Kanae. We've come here to eat. Last night we were here at the market pretty much with viewers from Only in Japan, pretty much drinking because the lines for food were so long at that time. So we decided to come back a little bit after lunch. It's now around 3 p.m. here in Germany to eat.

00:00:47 John Daub: We're going to try several different foods. So join us as we go from place to place. Check it out. I think that this is an amazing place, Germany. It's not just Munich, but there's markets all over the place. You just can feel the vibe. Christmas. It's that spirit. It's hard to tell from the images. You have to feel it by being here because it's cold. It's about minus one degrees Celsius right now. It is sunny. We have a beautiful view, beautiful skies. And up there, I believe city hall. On the hour, every hour at least, these figures up there will dance and move to music. It's really a beautiful sight to see. A lot of the tourists like us were watching from down here.

00:01:50 John Daub: All right. So what should we have first? We're not going for any spiced warm Glühwein (hot spiced wine). We're going strictly for food this time. How about some sausages first? The warm spiced wine, by the way, is called Glühwein. I know very well because it's written on like 12 different signs on that street, on that stand over there. And it's flickering just because of the frequency of the electricity. We've got a lot of people telling us what we should be trying. But that's the spirit because it's time to eat. All right. Let's try some sausages. I've given Kanae some money, 10 euros for this one. Kanae, dozo.

00:02:40 John Daub: Hello. Do you mind if I film a little bit while we order? So let's try some. Should we try the one? What's the difference between the white and the red? We'll try regular. Just one. With bread. Mustard. Do people normally eat with ketchup? The children. Wow. That looks good. That looks really good. Thank you. So this is the original Münchner. So it's like a burger made of sausage. This is awesome. Oh, it smells so good, guys. Here's some of the prices.

00:04:11 Kanae Daub: Are you going to take the first bite?

00:04:15 John Daub: Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without a sausage burger. That's a pretty big one. It's hot. Wow. I'm just really hungry. Not a burger, but a Nürnberger. Nürnberger. You got to get it right. Mark Wiens had one of these while there. This is so good. Can I? Thank you. Can I describe the taste after I devour most of this? You like it? I like the Kaiser roll. The roll is really good. The sausage is delicious. This is good. Very good.

00:05:29 John Daub: Next up we're going to be going to eat other stuff. If you have any suggestions, write in. Let us know what you like to eat. The more likes we get on this live stream, the more we're going to keep it going. So definitely hit that like button. I have 11 gigabytes of data from Vodafone here in Munich to live stream. After this live stream and after we finish this burger, Kanae and I are going to go up to the top of one of the cathedrals and get a view of the sunset from Munich. So you're going to want to stay tuned to the channel and watch another one of the videos as we go to the top. Here's the vibe of the market right now. I was surprised last night. We went to three different areas of the city and each market has its own personality. The last one was like a medieval market. They keep it dark because I guess it was the dark ages.

00:07:07 John Daub: Look, it's still steaming hot. This is awesome. Five euros. Mmm. This is so good. It's still hot. We ate all. Can you take a picture of us? That's a nice shot. Kanae's pretty good at pictures. Don't talk with your mouth full. Alright, Kanae. Don't talk with your mouth full. We're on the move. This time to eat something a little bit more festive than sausages because you can get sausages at any time in Germany. Again, we're walking past the Glühwein because we had enough alcohol yesterday. I'm feeling fine, by the way, for those of you who are asking. We drank a lot.

00:09:12 John Daub: One of the really beautiful things about the market, it's not just food. You can get toys, ornaments for Christmas trees, all sorts of decorations, dolls, hats. On the left side you can see there's a hat store. You might get a new hat from there. Yeah, these are cookie cutters. There's some ornaments here on this side. They're very German looking. Oh, it's so Christmassy. Good morning, everybody on the east and west coast in the United States. It is now getting to 3:15 here in Germany. As we're walking now towards, this is why the markets go way beyond the plaza here. It goes left, right, and then even right and center. All right, let's go center because there's a couple of things that you wanted to try over here. We tried this thing yesterday. It was just like bread with sauce on it and had some meat. We'll see if we can find it here. Oh, the desserts over there. Chocolate bomb?

00:10:58 John Daub: All right, yeah, here's the warm milk. Did you want to try that? Go ahead and get some warm milk. I want to try honey milk. Honey milk? It's good. Latte macchiato with milk. You want to try it as well? Hey, Meister, treat yourself with some almonds. If we find the almonds, we're going to try some. Go ahead, get some warm milk. It's a very small queue because we're quite early. Usually, the festivities start at around 8 p.m. And when you get closer to 10, it gets crowded the later it gets. But it's 3 o'clock and there's just enough festivity where there are people out drinking and warming up. So, we're going to try some warm milk right now. Oh, she's got the warm milk. I didn't know this was a thing.

00:12:37 John Daub: Kanae has gotten her cup of milk. If we look to the left, there are stands to drink your milk. The cool thing about this is that the milk comes not in a cup. In Germany, they're very green. You pay a little deposit for the mug. This way, you don't waste paper. Look at that. It's so cute. Actually, I do like that mug. Oh, look at the reindeer. Warm milk. Nice. Everybody speaks English. Pony it up. Johnny boy needs some milk. Cheers. Whoa. That's not just milk. It has been sweetened a little bit. I ordered honey milk. Oh, and it's so cold out here. You can see the steam.

00:14:01 John Daub: Oh, it's so good. As it gets darker outside, the lights are starting to come on in some of the stands. Oh, that European ambulance. I remember as a kid watching movies from Europe and saying, why do the police cars and the ambulances have a different sound than in the United States? This is Munich for everyone who's watching. Kanae and I are going home back to the United States to visit my family the long way. We went via Sri Lanka, India, Dubai just to change planes, and then now we're in Munich. Tomorrow we fly to Paris and then Iceland and then New York. And then we fly back to Japan. So it's kind of neat to go the other way once. I always go across the Pacific. Why not cross the Atlantic? Good? It's good. Let's finish this up. I have to return this mug. But I want to keep it. It's cute. It's three euro for the deposit. It's really good.

00:16:09 John Daub: I stopped drinking Coca-Cola and soda pop and 7-Eleven stuff because I noticed that I didn't really care about the sugar. I just wanted the bubbles. So I started drinking tansan sui (carbonated water), we say in Japanese. And that's fine. I didn't really want the sugar. We're going to look for some almonds. We're going to go look for some almonds for Meister Kiete. Oh, this is the original Münchner, which is Munich. Oh, this is a bratwurst. This is another sausage. Oh, that looks so good. Shout out to Lenny. Lenny, we found an ornament and we're going to go buy it right now. Lenny threw us a super chat to get Kanae an ornament, so we're going to go do that. So Lenny, if you're watching, we're going to do this for you, buddy. Thank you so much for always for the support and being a part of the series here.

00:17:09 John Daub: Oh, this is the almonds. Hello. Are these almonds? Oh, everyone said, eat almonds. Wonderful. These are cashews. Let's try 100 grams of almonds. 4 euros. Thank you very much. See everyone speaks English. This is what I wanted to go and see. Alright, we got the almonds. I'm going to try this next. Oh, good timing. Look at this. It's in the most beautiful little wooden shack. Can we call it a hut? And it's just like donuts and just covered in chocolate. This is the absolute most amazing best thing in the entire wide world. And smells so sweet. I want to jump inside that glass and just start eating.

00:19:10 John Daub: Alright, we're going to eat these almonds here. Please try it. They're still warm. Alright, check it out. Look at it. They've been glazed here. Oh, it's so good. It's hot. One of the things that you must eat. These are magical almonds. Thank you so much. The Super Chat bought this one. Thank you, everybody. I'm eating this one for all of you. And we're going to go buy an ornament for Lenny, which will go to Kanae. And that was so nice of you. Oh, this also looks really good. I mean, just the booths here are so beautiful. They're so clean. Look at the reindeer in it. Beautiful. They are addictive. Everything is addictive here. The almonds, the milk. And then you look back to Marienplatz, where we started from. It's just so beautiful to be here. I cannot describe in words the feeling of walking the streets here in Munich during Christmas time. Which is why I'm doing a live stream.

00:22:15 John Daub: Oh, what is this? XXL Pommes Frites (French fries). Pommes Frites is French fries, but it's from Germany. Alright, we're going in for a closer look. Just because we're looking at it doesn't mean we have to eat it. Wow. Is that beer? This is incredible. We're live in Munich watching this. It's just put in oil. Look at it. Is it potato? I don't know what that is. Yesterday in Mumbai, it was 33 degrees Celsius and here in Munich, it's minus one. Oh, and then check it out to the other side. They have these beautiful copper tanks in there with beer inside of it. Here's the menu just to give you an idea. It's 0.2 liters for five euros. Weissbier (white beer), that's five euros. It seems a little pricey, but totally worth it. Munich is very open. It's very much like Japan in the way that you can walk the streets drinking alcohol and it's fine.

00:24:44 John Daub: Is this it? Oh, this is the cookies that they told us to get. They're like cookies, but you're not supposed to eat them. That's Rudolph. You're not supposed to eat these, but we were told that we should get some of these. That was Kanae's Christmas present last year. An Olympus camera. She's taking it with a 20 millimeter Panasonic lens because it's a lot better than the kit lens that came with it. For anyone who's wondering, the camera body is not as important as the lens. The lens is always the most important part of the camera. Kit lenses are not quite as good.

00:25:41 Kanae Daub: Oh, is this the... This is it, right?

00:25:43 John Daub: Yeah. Sometimes they don't let filming in here, but can I go ahead and get the ornament? Lenny, this is the one that she wants to get. It's really pretty. They're dancers. Like ballet dancers. And since Kanae's a dancer, we're going to get that too. It's 20 euro. Pick one that's really pretty. Oh, you're getting two? How much is it? These are pretty. Was she playing the flute? Yeah, it's Elsa from Frozen. Oh, my. Kanai, I think if you tell her, she'll... Oh, that's pretty. I like it. You have to get two of them. That's beautiful. I've never seen this before. So as Kanae goes and shops, let's take a look around this beautiful shop. Is there anything you guys would like? So many beautiful ornaments. It's just glass. I don't know how I'm going to put this into the checked-in baggage. This shop is really nice. Firecracker. A snowflake. Look at the shape of these. These are beautiful. You can see me in the reflection.

00:29:20 John Daub: Mr. Seichi, who passed away, really loved snow globes. And he would have totally loved this one. Check it out. There's like a battery in there that blows the snow around. It's just beautiful. Yeah, it is sad. But we like to celebrate, remember him in a good way. Oh, these are beautiful. These are dancers here. Look at these dancers. She's got purple stockings on. And there's the nativity scenes. I like that, too. Very peaceful. I don't know if you guys have ever seen the Mr. Bean nativity scene from the original Mr. Bean series from the BBC. It's hilarious. Oh, this snowman's trapped in a wine glass upside down. It's really cool.

00:30:37 John Daub: All right, we're going to get back to the street food. Kanae has purchased her ornaments and will be joining us shortly as we go in for the kill. More food. It has been demanded by the public that we shall eat until we cannot eat anymore. Ah, the mead. Mett in German. But we had that last night and it's very dangerous because it's so strong. I'm staying away from alcohol today. Until tonight. When we go to the Hofbräuhaus. Yay. Lenny, thank you. Oh, you got three of them. Yeah, one for my friend. Lenny, we totally put that to good use, man. Thank you for the super chat.

00:31:33 John Daub: All right, we're looking for some more food. Oh, I think that's a chocolate place down there. We went past the chocolate doughnut. Almonds there's some more almonds beautiful. Alright canopy over here just some more sausages. Sausages so it seems to be repetitive a little bit. You get one place if you pass it up if you keep going you're going to find another one that's just like it. Now we're working I believe this is Karlsplatz which is the halfway between Marienplatz and the Munich station. Oh this is more Glühwein. I like the fact that they have the logs in it. It looks natural like you're out in the countryside and they just chopped down a tree and made a little Glühwein hut. Oh can I let's show them the Lederhosen store where the traditional German dress store. Yeah is that here that's under here or is it it's further down. We'll walk a little bit if we cannot find a chocolate stand then we're going to go back to it. Oh look there's Saint somebody. That's Santa Claus. Wow it's Santa. Merry Christmas. Do you feel the cheer oh this is so wonderful.

00:34:04 John Daub: Thank you once again everybody thanks for joining us we're in Munich Germany Kanae and I are here just specifically for the Christmas markets because this is a dream of mine to always come out here to Germany and just experience this and I'm really happy that we can do this together. Oh look at this cute little stand they put a lot of thought in the details there's this which oh that's made by honey these look like candles made by honey it's very beautiful. I know some of the stands don't like photography or want to be filmed so we're good with that. I think we had to go it was underneath the thing. There's more Christmas ornaments if you look over here FC Bayern is the football team you can see this is like the store for their soccer stuff. We're just about in Karlsplatz. Fussball.

00:36:12 John Daub: Literally there's some really long sausages here oh this is the one. This is the bread check it out just really I'm gonna stop in the middle here just to show you this is the bread and I don't know what it's called here but it comes hot out of the oven and they put lots of toppings on it it's so good. Alright so this is a big big sausage right here. Open area because on the right side we have a very beautiful Cathedral I believe it's a cathedral with doors five times higher than the average man beautiful Munich is just stunning. I think you know if I lived here I would be so spoiled it's such a beautiful beautiful place. So I'm gonna pan down here now and we'll be turning around to go back to the Marienplatz it's starting to get a lot colder the temperature has dropped maybe about three or four degrees since we started this live stream at around 2:55 p.m. Munich time. We're gonna try some more food I'm looking for the chocolate stand if we find something else we will try them there's more sausages here so I've been searching for some of the other things that German foods that people have been asking for but I kind of just seen this find the same things over and over and over again. They have crepes do you want a crepe?

00:38:09 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:38:10 John Daub: Apple strudel check it out. Why do you put on an Indian accent when you say Merry Christmas I don't think that's an Indian accent my friend. Indian accent is hard because there's like a hundred different dialects a hundred different languages within India maybe even more so my mother speaks four of them Marathi Kannada Hindi and I forget what the other one is. Look at this crepe. So she's gonna go in for crepe what crepe are you getting they have Nutella. These look like nikuman (steamed buns). They don't display the crepes like in Harajuku it's hard to know. There's a vanilla one. Alright here's let me show you the German clothes store that we're not going to take a lot of pictures that we're going to go back to the chocolate. I think they said no cameras but if we go fast we might be able to get away with it.

00:40:03 John Daub: I got a 4G LTE SIM card from Vodafone yesterday. 10 gigabytes, which was a little bit more than 10 gigabytes, actually. It was €60. €5 for installation. And I said, do I need installation? He goes, yeah. And when he installed it, it took about one minute. I was like, what? I guess I didn't need installation. Look at these. These are so cute. I told Kanae she's got to get one. But she goes, what for? When am I going to wear it? And I said, I'll think of some ways. What do you guys think? Should I get Kanae one of these dresses? Kanai totally has to get one of these. This pink one. Which one do you vote I get for Kanai? This pink and green? Or this one black and blue? Big boss is saying black. Hopping fox is blue. This one is actually very good. Who's that woman from Breakfast at Tiffany? Audrey Hepburn. Very Audrey Hepburnish. Especially with the hat. Like a German Audrey. What I like about the German outfits here. I love that the vests have more than three buttons. There's like 12 or 13 buttons on there. This place is called the Original Steindl. Which is very cool. And there's some more over there. We'll get something tomorrow. This blue and this blue and red one looks like Cinderella to me. Or Snow White. Wear it to Oktoberfest. And I like the Christmas Christmasy one right here. I think I'm going to get a vest as well. Just for the heck of it. Brown leather pants for John.

00:42:35 John Daub: Can I let's go back. We're going to go back to that place with all of the chocolate stuff just to finish this up and put a nice little ribbon on it. I hope you're enjoying this. This is live from Munich. I hope the playback is just as smooth and beautiful as it is live. It's really nice to be able to share this experience with you. We are here once again to go around the world, taking the long way home from Japan back to New York and then back to Japan after Christmas. Christmas in Japan. It's not quite the same. And a lot of people are YouTubers in Japan are making videos about the holidays in Japan, but it's just not the same. You don't have the same kind of feeling as you do here. There's not enough Glühwein. But here in Germany, I'm getting that vibe. I'm getting the vibe that I don't get in Japan just because it's so everywhere. It's really cold. You can see the moon up there, too. According to Vodafone, I'm allowed to live stream all over Europe, so I might be doing a live stream in Paris if I have any bandwidth left just to say hi. Munich is absolutely beautiful at this time of year. We went to the grounds where the Oktoberfest is held a few hours ago and they have a Christmas market there. But that doesn't open until 2 p.m. on weekdays. Up there is the famous cathedral in Munich. And we're going to go up there and see the sunset in about 30 minutes to an hour. So after we finish this food live stream, come back on and watch us as we just take a short live stream and show you what the sunset in Munich looks like.

00:45:02 John Daub: We're going in for chocolate now. We've already had sausages, hot milk. We eat almonds. Everything looks good. It smells good. It's a smell of spices, cinnamon, wine, sausages, roasting meat, cranberries. I'm getting it's like smelling the bouquet of wine. What do you get on the street? I can smell right now nothing pretzels. Then there's the sounds of the streets. Just everyone speaking in German. It also gives it kind of that vibe. You can see straight ahead is about 250 meters to Marienplatz, which is where we started the live stream. We're walking back in that direction. I think we're about 50 meters away from the chocolate deep fried doughnut dessert booth. We could take a quick look at the sausages here. Wow. That's a long one. Check it out. It's like around minus one or minus two degrees right now. We started with a sausage, a Nürnberger and now we're going in for something because that booth is insane. I've been thinking about that chocolate one for a long time. Are you hungry? I can eat my way through that entire booth.

00:47:57 John Daub: Oh, hello. Yeah, we have about 600 people watching. From around the world. What should we try to eat here? Oh, I think I want to drink some Glühwein. We had that yesterday. It's nice. You live here in Munich? You have a beautiful city. I'm jealous. We live in Tokyo. How long do you live here? I'm Munich for two nights. It's not enough time. People are friendly. There's the ornament store. That means it's right there. Sometimes you can hear music. There actually are live bands, people playing music, and it's just such an amazing... Oh, is this it? No, no, we're close. It's like two or three stands from here. Guys, just hang on there. If you want to see me eat a lot of chocolate, deep fried stuff, just click the like button right now. See if we can get to 250 likes in the next one and a half minutes. They do have French fries in the back. We're at 217 now. We're almost there. T minus 15 meters. Come on, guys. We can get there. 246. We have arrived. 249. How do we miss it by one? All right, 255.

00:50:25 John Daub: Just pan through here. We're totally going to get like three or four of these. I don't care. What's inside? Is there anything inside of it? Good, marshmallow cream. Do you have a recommendation? We're gonna get more than one. If not, Irish cream. Amaretto, caramel, chocolate, mocha, mint. Wow. Mocha coffee. Strawberry, champagne. Macchiato. Raspberry, almond, and cinnamon. What's the most popular one? Caramel. All right, we'll try one caramel, and then we're coming back. Why not? Three. So three? Three euro. Thank you. Ah, look what we did. This looks good. You cook live, huh? YouTube. Yeah, YouTube live. Oh, wow.

00:52:08 Kanae Daub: You want to take the first bite?

00:52:11 John Daub: Oh, it's like a cream puff is what it is. It's like a choux cream. It's not actually bread. Oh, heavy. It's not heavy at all. I thought it would be so heavy, but it's so light, it could fly away. That smile says it all. Oh, that's a caramel cream. You like it? Approve? You can't turn around when you're eating. That's so non-YouTube. You have to talk with your mouth full like and get the moderators upset. It's very nice. Tis the season to share with John. Here we go. We have caramel cream. Oh, my. It's like a dome of chocolate, and it's a very light wafer on the bottom, and this cream, this cream is so, it's not even heavy. I'm going to do something I shouldn't be doing. It's a marshmallow cream. It's when I was in Denmark, it was something they put on the ice cream in Copenhagen called gufskam. And you put the gufskam on top of the ice cream, and it was this is the same thing as like gufskam, which is so good. It brings back memories of Denmark. Oh, my gosh. Germany, German pastries and desserts are so good. No, you don't want me to film you eating it? You can't disappear. Oh, that's so non-YouTube. It's so good that she wants to enjoy it by herself.

00:55:01 John Daub: Alright, there's other stuff here as well. Over here, these look like wafers. Check it out. This one is vanilla. Oh, what are these here? Gonna try one of these here. And then this one is, these look like cookies. Alright, we're gonna try two of these things here. Hold this one, baby. Just gonna try some of these here. I got a tenner. Euros. I usually do this with yen, but it's euros this time. I'm gonna get something for Trecherous. Which one should I get here? This one with the vanilla inside looks good. Oh man, it's a choco-coco stick. And then this cookie looks really good too. Look at the white one with the snowman. Or the black and white cookie where people come together in one. We got that black and white cookie in New York. Is it the chocolate and vanilla? Thank you. I wanna jump in there and just eat them all. Did you get some Glühwein? We did yesterday. Some people are asking about Glühwein. It's like Willy Wonka. I have a massive sweet tooth. It is really, it's a lot, it's heavier than the cream puff that we had before. Should I try to suck the cream out? Oh, Kana, you can't have this. There's alcohol in it. Just try a little bit maybe. Yeah, a little bit. Mmm, but tastes good. That was three euro fifty for this stick. We've got some booze in there.

00:58:01 John Daub: So we're gonna go to the observation deck now and see if we can go see the sunset. Munich is awesome for the Christmas markets. There were a couple other places that I wanted to go. I'm glad that I came here because I came here 21 years ago. And it's nice to visit here again. A lot of people are laughing at me for doing live streaming, I guess. Not something that people do in Munich, I guess. Walk around with a stick like we do in Tokyo. But this was such a great idea to come here for Christmas on our way to Paris tomorrow. We'll do a live stream in about 15 minutes. Hope you enjoyed it. Welcome back to Marienplatz. And there are tons and tons and tons of foods filled with places to eat and drink and shop. And that, my friends, is part of the Christmas spirit here in Munich. One of the best places in the world to be jolly. And a place where you can use that word and not have people make fun of you. Because it's Christmas. The season of giving. See you guys again soon.