00:00 John Daub: Hey everybody, welcome to another Only in Japan Go livestream. This time we're going to be taste testing this. This is an apple pie Kit Kat. It's brand new. It just came out like 48 or 72 hours ago. That sounds better than three days ago. And we're going to try it. But wait, there's more. In order to really authenticate this, we have to break this down and try this and compare it against real Japanese apple pie.

00:30 John Daub: So we're going to go to a really famous shop that me and Kanae Daub, who's over there. Do you see her? There's Kanae Daub waiting for us. She's got the apple pie. I have the Kit Kats. I hope you're ready because this is going to be a lot of fun. I'm so excited. Now these Kit Kats, they cost about $3 for a bag. And how many are in here? 12 mini Kit Kats. Japan is famous for the Kit Kats because that word kitto katsu (surely win), to Japanese students, it sounds like success.

01:01 John Daub: So Japanese students will eat Kit Kats before they have an exam, hoping that eating something that sounds like success would help them with their grades. But it also helps Nestlé, who's the creator of Kit Kats, with their own success. So Nestlé has capitalized on this and made hundreds, if not thousands, of different kinds of Kit Kats. There's actually an apple Kit Kat already, but it's not like this. This looks good. So let's go meet Kanae Daub, who has the apple pie. We're sitting in a nice place in the center of Tokyo in Hibiya Park.

01:39 John Daub: Do you have the apple pie? How you doing?

01:48 Kanae Daub: This is called Ringo. Ringo (apple) means apple in Japanese. And we can tell it's a high quality product because, oh wow, that looks so good. This is what the Kit Kats are up against. Show us the inside.

02:04 John Daub: Whoa. Yeah, this is ichijiku (fig), but we have an apple pie. One apple pie costs $4, which is more than one entire bag. Nosh, we know that's a fig. We're just kind of, yeah. Don't open it yet, Kanae Daub, but it's still warm. So these are yakitate (freshly baked), just out of the oven, warm apple pies. There's two in there. So it costs us 800 yen or $8. So thank you. Thank you. We already got some super chats that cover that. Thank you so much. And we're going to be opening this and trying it out. But first, let's go see what's in here.

02:39 John Daub: First, this is all about the Kit Kat. I mean, can a bag of Kit Kat, which costs $3, less than just one of these, defeat in a taste test warm apple pie, Japanese style. So let's try it out here. All right, Kanae Daub, you are now going to film.

02:55 Kanae Daub: Okay. Okay.

03:05 John Daub: This is actually for Halloween. It's something that's really for Halloween. So you can see on the back, the Halloween. Halloween black. And right here, apple pie aji (flavor) being held by a ghost hand. You can pan down a little bit. There you go. Apple pie.

03:31 John Daub: Oh, wait, there's like a message on all of them. Oh yeah. They're all kind of different. It's Halloween characters? Yeah. They're like Halloween characters. So that's kind of neat. Happy. I like this. It's happy. Here. It's cute. It's cute. All right, let's open this up. Oh, and on the back, for students, there's a place where you can write a message, actually. A lot of people don't know that, but you can write love or your name on it.

04:17 Kanae Daub: Yeah, John.

04:17 John Daub: Nobody knows that, though. Do you do that, Kanae Daub?

04:20 Kanae Daub: No.

04:22 John Daub: It's purple. I can smell it.

04:27 Kanae Daub: You can smell it?

04:28 John Daub: Yeah. Whoa. There you go. Kit Kat. It's purple. It's so good smelling. All right, we got this here. That's what it looks like when we broke it apart. They're minis, okay? So they're not as big. I'm going to try it right now. Kanae Daub, you're going to hold up because we're going to do it on camera with you.

04:59 Kanae Daub: Okay.

05:00 John Daub: It's really good. What? I got to see this. I know the audio isn't the same from looking at this. Do you like it? They've put in, I don't know how they've done this, they've put in a little bit of tart, like as though you're eating a piece of the apple. There's a sweetness, but there's a little bitterness to apples, like somewhere in the back. And somehow, through their chemical magic, they've put in an apple taste and then some kind of, I don't know what it is. It tastes really like apple pie. This is really cool. All right, Kanae Daub, why don't you try this one here?

05:46 Kanae Daub: Okay. Just, we'll just try one because it's all about the Kit Kat. And she doesn't really like Kit Kats.

06:02 John Daub: Is that the best you can do? How good is it? So on a scale of one to ten, one to ten, is it like six, ten? Ten is very good, zero is awful.

06:15 Kanae Daub: Seven probably.

06:16 John Daub: Seven? And a regular Kit Kat?

06:21 Kanae Daub: Seven.

06:22 John Daub: Eight? What? So wait. I like green.

06:23 Kanae Daub: All right, so she likes the green tea flavored Kit Kat. It's very apple pie.

06:27 John Daub: Yeah. Yeah. It tastes like apple. And yeah, you told me it's pie, biscuit inside. There's a little bit of apple. There's some kind of like real apple taste to it, which is really good. Chicken on Biscuits writes in, Japanese always get 30 flavors of Kit Kats. World is jealous. Yes, I can agree with that, Chicken on Biscuits. The Kit Kat world in Japan is large. And actually, these ones that come in the bags are a lot more affordable than the collection.

07:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

07:01 John Daub: And you can even get them at the local dokobako (vending machines) that you'll find at the airports. Mostly tourists will buy those, and those will cost two to three times more. Now, I have a picture of, can I, we can start, we can start opening the apple pie. So this is the apple pie that we bought at the store. You can see at Ringo, this is inside of Hibiya Midtown, this Kanae Daub there, they make a lot of them and they sell a lot of them. And they're $4 for one. The big ones are in yellow and the apple ones are in white. And this is the other apple Kit Kat that's been around for a while. It's not quite as good. It has some apple essence in it but this is like 700 yen or about seven dollars for this box and there's only 12 in here as well but it's just not as good.

08:00 John Daub: But guess what you're gonna get a chance to try the real hot apple pie just it just literally came out of the oven. These they churn them out real fast. Let's get it out right now. Unboxing dan dan. Ringo. All right see here custard cream apple pie. Oh they put custard in there is that cheating automatically it's one cuz it got custard in there. All right it's still warm. I do it and if you want to get these pies you can get them at Hibiya Midtown which is right across from Hibiya Park where we are. You can hear the cicada chirping still coming out of the oven. So though I say here's the take off hot apple pie like I said it's all just hot and it's like a pretty cool kind of Japanese summer. Ah it smells so good you opened it up and just BAM a waft of apple pie came up that's nice. So these are two apple pies costing $8 total $4 for one. All right I get more exciting about food boxing then Kanae Daub it's still warm and let me touch it I washed my hands. Oh yeah it's warm.

09:01 Kanae Daub: Okay it's good.

09:09 John Daub: Quietly when there aren't 600 people watching this is real. All right let's just queue this up for everybody this is real Japanese apple pie it's the real deal. Can Kit Kat compare yeah the shop was opened one year ago oh this yeah the Ringo shop we bought this at it's in the basement of Hibiya Midtown and it opened up a little bit over a year ago yeah and the lines to get these are sometimes an hour long right yeah in the beginning everybody waiting for 30 minutes to one hour they were waiting for like about an hour and uh it's and people would but because you wait an hour you would buy like like 10 of them which is 40 of apple pie but we only had to wait 30 seconds because there's nobody there this early in the afternoon yeah so lucky so can this compete with that.

10:06 Kanae Daub: All right Kanae Daub give it a go okay hold on a second.

10:16 John Daub: Aloha George reactions are very subdued compared to my over-the-top American YouTuber reactions you're basically a normal eater it's good I chose the show us the guts wow show us the guts oh she's getting in a little bit more if it tastes so good don't share with others right I can get behind that oh look at the custard no Kanae Daub just hold it steady whoa you can the custard oozing out and there's pieces of apple on the top there and that buttery flaky pastry around it this is way too good oh man is it better than the Kit Kat be honest yeah so let me just make it easy you're saying that these are not as good as this this is not the same as this I can do this all day.

11:32 John Daub: iPhone XS can you take the blur test yes it can they both smell really good all right now here's John's turn all right you're gonna hold it just yeah just hold it like this Kanae Daub I can do all right Kanae Daub's holding it while it looks at me and we're gonna compare now the two this is where it comes down to does this beat this oh yes I can eat a lot all right I've now done the research I can give you a very definitive answer that Kit Kat is darn close that Kit Kat is really really close the apple pie of course wins one because it's hot too because it's buttery and it has custard so instant bonus points on the custard but I cannot tell how close the the actual the Kit Kat.

13:05 Kanae Daub: Can I try them together yeah yeah you're sure they have it there look at the Halloween on it and by the way if you're a dime you supporter I still have two more boxes available on patreon I'm sending this out oh yeah I'm sending this out to the how am I gonna look I'm sending this out to the dime your supporters on patreon so it's gonna be in your box this month guess what no you can't eat that one is that three seconds ah no.

13:47 Kanae Daub: No, it's gone.

13:49 John Daub: Ugh. Alright, well. Alright, yes. I gave a question. The answer is yes. It's funny how they do this. Okay. We only have two hands. Hold on. I have an idea. This is the angle. The angle that nobody really likes. Yeah. Alright, you have it? Boom. Try them together.

14:31 Kanae Daub: Try them together. Shotgun it. Do it. Together? Do it. Yeah. Eat it. Eat it together.

14:39 John Daub: Now take another bite of the Kit Kat. Kit Kat. Kit Kat. We're just having fun. Which one's better?

14:56 Kanae Daub: Same. It's same.

15:01 John Daub: That's what I'm saying. In my mouth. When you put the two together, it just, it's, alright. Alright, I'm going to get into the really complicated details now. The Kit Kat has a sugary sweetness to it. And the apple pie has more of a natural sugar sweetness to it. That's the only difference. The Kit Kat's a little bit sweeter. But the Kit Kat has an apple bite on one of your taste buds areas. And the real apple pie just melts in your mouth and your hands. So, I'm just going to let her enjoy the rest of the apple pie. And, yeah, I'm not eating that Kit Kat. Oh, the ants got it already. The ants of Hibiya Park are eating it, enjoying the Kit Kats now.

15:45 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I think it's just chocolate. Chocolate. Yeah. The flavor is really apple pie. Yeah. They covered purple chocolate. Okay, so the wafers, I think they put the real apple taste inside, in between the wafers. So, when you bite it, that's when the kick comes in. And the chocolate around it has a really good combination of apples. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very interesting. Very interesting. You really love that apple pie.

16:11 John Daub: Yeah. Chicken on Biscuits writes in, far from apple pie, this is a donut or pastry. It could be a pastry, actually. But in Japan, apple pie is a full apple pie. Nobody will ever eat because it's too sweet and too much. So, they try to make it bite-sized for each person. So, they bake each pie in an individual pie and it might be a pastry. But that's why I say Japanese apple pie. It's not the same as an American apple pie. I love me some American and French apple pie. French apple pie is real good. That might be the American version of French apple pie, actually. It's got raisins in it. Oh, it's really good. Chicken on Biscuits writes, let me ship you my grandmother's apple pie from her tree. Whoa, do not even offer. You have to come. I'll come through on that one. Apple pie, that's so good. And Mr. Das is in the house. Not gonna lie, apple pie goes really well with Asahi.

17:06 John Daub: Alright, you know what? I'm gonna show you something, Mr. Das. And one of our big supporters here. You see this event over here? This is one of these beer drinking events. And it's not open yet. So, can you give me a rain check and I'll come back here like tomorrow, maybe. And we're just gonna... It's like $10 a beer, though. So, you're gonna come here and do it right. How's that? Yeah? Alright. I'm gonna pay it forward because I'm in debt already to Mr. Das. He's been very, very Asahi. He's an Asahi lover. An Asahi lover. Alright, awesome. We also have here, Jimbo writes in, is it a seasonal flavor? Yeah, this one is probably gonna be just around till Halloween. And I'm gonna be honest with you, Kit Kats that are seasonal flavored do not last. I bought like five or six extra bags of Japanese sake Kit Kats with sakura (cherry blossom) flavor. Because I know that they're not gonna be available. And now you can't find them in stores. You'll find them on Amazon for double the price, maybe. Or you'll find them in clearance stores right now. But these, I'm pretty sure that these Apple Pie Kit Kats will be gone by October 15th, 15 days before Halloween. It's like September 4th and Halloween stuff is already out. Actually, Christmas stuff is starting to come out. Costco had Christmas lights out. It's kinda weird. But that's Costco. So, it's usually September 1st, Halloween comes out. And then as soon as Halloween finishes, Christmas just goes, poof, just is everywhere. So, the seasons start earlier than the seasons start in Japan. If that makes sense. And these Kit Kats will be gone probably in three weeks. So, I would stock up in the next three weeks. Right? The seasonal Kit Kats do not last. But there's a season. There's four seasons in Japan and Kit Kat tries to make something special for each season. One of my favorites was a shizuku (droplet) orange citrus fruit that was really good that I sent out also to Daimyo supporters.

19:16 Kanae Daub: So, this Apple Pie looks really good, huh? The final part. That's like all butter. You can finish it. Wait, is that, wait, hold up. Stop. Hold it there for a second. Is that an apple, piece of apple? That's a real apple. Yeah. Hold it. Don't move it. Yeah. Alright. Okay, I'll take that. You sure? Yeah, because I can't bite quickly because I just, because I just pulled out my wisdom tooth.

19:43 John Daub: Oh, that's right. She had her, she had her wisdom tooth pulled. Yesterday. That was, you know, Kanae Daub, Kanae Daub can't watch Walking Dead. That, she gets creeped out by Walking Dead, the TV show. But yesterday when she got her wisdom tooth pulled out, she asked the dentist if she could keep it. And then when I was editing a video, she showed it to me and I was freaked out by that. It's interesting how we're freaked out by different things, you know. Blood and guts in a video, not freaked out. In real life, freaked out. Kanae Daub's not freaked out by her tooth. That was weird.

20:20 Kanae Daub: You're going to pull the rest of your teeth? Yeah. No, I already, already pulled out everything. So you have all, I still got three in me. Yeah, it's my last, it was my last wisdom tooth. Oh, your last one? Yep. Better do it now. Better do it now. It was scary. Yeah. She said. I heard a sound. Gigi. Gigi? Yeah. That's not, usually it's like a, that's okay. We'll take Gigi. That's a Japanese onomatopoeia.

20:53 John Daub: Chicken on Biscuits writes in, this winter, a new flavor called frostbite is coming. Super chilly, like antifreeze. I bet antifreeze flavored Kit Kats. There'd be some people who would, I would actually try it. Cause you figure if it's Kit Kat, it's just flavored like it, which means I would never drink it, but this would be a chance to taste it. So who, who at Kit Kat or Nestlé actually drank the antifreeze to know what it tastes like? That's my return question to you, Mr. Chicken. Chicken on Biscuits. So some really good questions. Can I stay here for just one minute? I'm going to show people a little bit of Hibiya Park. Enjoy this and peace.

21:31 Kanae Daub: Don't eat the other one. Do not eat the other one. All right. Do not eat the other one.

21:40 John Daub: If the video is buffering a little bit, push the refresh button on the live streams. It usually does. It usually fixes it. So I'm going to take you right now and show you what the event looks like. And I want you to join me in the next live stream when we come back here tomorrow. And I'm just going to try a lot of different foods. This is a beer festival. Autumn is here in Japan. Once September 1st hits, it's still hot. It doesn't matter. It's autumn. That's Japan. And this is, I'm going to just show a little bit of what's to come for tomorrow. I would say it's going to be an awful time for the United States and a pretty good time for the rest of the world. Because if I come here at like 7 p.m., that's like 6 a.m. in New York. And I don't even want to say it. I'm going to say it with the time in California. All right. Here it is, guys. You can already see behind me. They've decked it out. So, Mr. Das, you will get your wish. And it will be more than Asahi. And this year they have an American barbecue company called Urban Barbecue. You see that? So it looks like they got a really good barbecue action going on. It's just like Oktoberfest.

23:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

23:05 John Daub: And there's the Hibiya Park water fountain. And they put tables all around it. It's going to be completely filled. So if I come here a little bit early, I'm going to be able to stake out a good spot. And if I bring a friend or two, maybe I'll give PVG a call. We're going to have a really good time. Here's one from Belgium. And a Corona. Well, this is just like potpourri here. It's a weird mix. But the food looks pretty good. But it's expensive. That's about $28 for this and $8 for those two sausages. So, I'll be back. From tomorrow, right?

23:42 Passerby: From today. From 4pm. From 4pm? Yes.

23:48 John Daub: I'll be back. He told me it starts today at 4pm. Wow. Straight ahead in front of me is a very... It's a building that's always here. And this is Hibiya Park. And right there is... It's a famous curry rice restaurant. I believe it's all you can eat. I don't remember. But I came here once before. But the line was 40 minutes to get in. So, I decided not to... I decided not to wait there. I went somewhere else for lunch. But it's pretty neat that this place exists in the middle of Hibiya Park. They have the generators for the event. They also have live music that's starting. So, it should be a lot of fun. I will take a couple of questions. And if you like these seasonal Kit Kat comparisons with the real thing, please click the like button. I'm going to ask Kanae Daub one more time. We're going to eat it and then just kind of...

24:55 John Daub: Somebody's talking to Kanae Daub. What happened? Ah, there he is. Uh-oh. I better go up there. We need some more likes. We need some more likes. So, we'll try some of these Kit Kats if you support the channel and tell me that you like this stuff. Hello.

25:10 Passerby: Oh. Oh, you're watching? No, no, no, no, no. Oh, you're just hanging out? Oh, okay. Where are you from?

25:33 Passerby: Texas.

25:33 John Daub: All right. Very good. Do you want a Kit Kat? It's a brand new flavor, apple pie. It's an apple pie flavored Kit Kat. Oh, that's pretty cool. Thank you. It just came out two days ago. Thank you, thank you. You're welcome. Are you out here streaming for... Yeah, I'm a YouTuber. That's what I do. You're a YouTuber? Yeah, go around the country introducing stuff. How long have you been doing that?

26:03 Passerby: Six years now. Six years? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Where have you been?

26:09 John Daub: Everywhere. In Japan? Everywhere. Does it taste like apple pie?

26:17 Passerby: Fifty-fif- Oh! What? That's crazy. A little bit. Like a cold apple pie. Yeah. Yeah. They added something in it that makes it touch it like another part of your taste buds or something. Nestle. It's so good. Awesome.

26:37 John Daub: So that's all we got for you. If you have any questions, you can leave a comment below. If you do like these Kit Kats or these food unboxings, click the like button. That's how we know if you like it. And Kanae Daub.

26:49 Kanae Daub: Hi. Final, final question. Final question? Yeah. Apple pie or Kit Kat? Definitive. Which one is better?

27:00 Kanae Daub: Apple pie. Or apple pie Kit Kat? Apple pie. Apple pie. The real thing. Yeah.

27:07 John Daub: I'm going to go it's 50-50 on this one. You know why? Because that apple pie that we have here is the real thing. The price of this one here is $4 for one. Yeah. And cost performance. I can eat one of these Kit Kats. I bet if I microwaved it for five seconds, it would taste like a hot apple pie. That'd be something to try out. And if we do that, then maybe it'll be on equal footing. But I don't know. It's like it's slightly artificial tasting, but this is one of the closest coming to the natural taste of apple pie that I've ever had Kit Kat do. And that's pretty impressive that they could do this in a laboratory. I like hot apple pie. I like hot apple pie with vanilla ice cream. So I should stick these, I should get an apple pie and just stick a bunch of Kit Kats around the app with the, sorry, the ice cream. Stick a bunch of Kit Kats around like French vanilla ice cream. Like you can get pretty creative. I bet you someone's going to do that. I bet you someone's going to do that. That could be for another YouTuber. You hear that out there? YouTubers, time to go wild with hot apple pie Kit Kats. This one probably is going to melt, get all gooey. That's the beauty of it though. It's the beauty of it though. Yeah. All right. Thanks so much. We got 300 likes. We'll be back here tomorrow for this event right here. I don't know. Kanae Daub doesn't drink alcohol.

28:22 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I don't drink alcohol.

28:24 John Daub: So I'll try to come with somebody who does and then we'll experiment a little bit here at the event because I love these Hibiya Park events and the weather holds out. It is pretty cloudy today in Tokyo and the weather, the humidity has gone down a little bit. The weather can hold out. We'll be back and it should be a fun live stream. We're going to Osaka.com. We're going to Kobe and Awaji Island on this 16th, 17th, 18th. I'm going to Niigata on the 9th and the 10th, 8th, 9th and 10th. And then we're going to Fukui Prefecture, Kanae Daub and I, because since she's joined the show, she gets opportunities to travel with me. And that's a shout out to our Patreon supporters because you also make that possible for us to travel around and do the show together. We're going to be in Fukui on August 29th. I think it's August 29th. 28th and 29th, 26th and 27th. And then we'll do probably a live streaming Kyoto as well since we have to go through Kyoto to get back to Tokyo. So it's going to be pretty exciting month. I still got another episode on the main channel to release, which is waiting. It's been a little while. That'll be released probably if I can tonight or tomorrow. And that's it. Yeah, I would love to invite PVG. We'll see if he's up to it. Last 20 seconds enjoying a beautiful view of... Oh, man. A lovely Hibiya Park, the green and the cicada. No, thank with half of a thank you for watching. Hope you enjoyed it. See you next time.

29:57 Kanae Daub: Bye.

29:57 John Daub: Bye.