00:00:04 John Daub: Greetings and welcome to Katakai in Niigata Prefecture. I'm at the Katakai Matsuri with history that goes back 400 years to the Edo period. I'm pretty excited to be here. The festival focuses on fireworks. There's Hana right there. She's holding my tripod and doing an amazing job as an assistant. And this is a main channel episode. So those of you who watch back on the channel, in about two weeks you're going to see an amazing main channel episode.

00:00:31 John Daub: Because over there is where people are going to be sitting for the fireworks in about two hours as soon as it gets dark. I just watched them load in a 450 kilogram firework, which is one of the biggest in the world. And as I said, this area, this town, this shrine worships the firework in a way. And inside of there is a cannon. Do you see that? That's a cannon used to fire one of the large fireworks. And this one in front of us is also a cannon, a cannon that they use for a very rare sight, daytime fireworks.

00:01:10 John Daub: But this live stream has to do with street food. And that's what we're going to do because Hana has not eaten all day. Hana is really, really hungry. Right, Hana? What is the name of this shrine, Hana?

00:01:26 Hana: Asahara Jinja.

00:01:27 John Daub: Asahara Jinja. I don't know if I left a link in the description, but A-S-A-H-A-R-A Jinja. You'll be able to find it on Google Maps. I'll put a link in the description later. Usually have some information. Are you hungry?

00:01:41 Hana: Yes.

00:01:42 John Daub: It's really... A typhoon just went through Tokyo last night. And this morning we had a lot of rain in the Niigata area. But we didn't get affected like Tokyo did because we're on the other side of the Japanese Alps. But it was still rainy this morning. And then about three hours ago, the sun came out. Now we have blue skies. It's really going to be a perfect night for hanabi taikai, or a fireworks festival.

00:02:11 John Daub: It's time to feed Hana. All right, let's go do it. She's got to hold on to the tripod, though. I've got a full bag on my shoulder as well. There's a ton of selections here from yakitori right across over there and down to the main street where there's just so many. Here's Gamer Pro writes in, Hana for Hana's smile. Hana, you got a smile for Gamer Pro.

00:02:35 Hana: Hi, of course.

00:02:37 John Daub: Boom. You got a smile out of that. Oh, and now I'm drooling. Look at that yakitori. This is awesome. You can smell it. The smells of festival are all over this area. And I hope you are as hungry as I am. Grab something from your refrigerator so you do not feel the pains because you should be eating with us.

00:03:02 John Daub: Oh, cotton candy. That's pretty cool. I don't know. I don't want to start with cotton candy. Looks like spider webs. I'd rather start off. Actually, it's pretty cool. Watch him make it. Yeah, cotton candy. Alter Man. Let's go down.

00:03:27 John Daub: We wanted to start this live stream about two and a half hours ago. But because of the typhoon, because of the rains, there was a delay. The thing is that this population is only about 4000 in the town of Katakai. The town of Katakai only has about 4000 people. Actually, just so you know, if every now and then there's a troll goes, how dare you photo people, you don't have permission. Since we have permission, we are part of the koka. So we are allowed to be here filming. That's why we get access. We called in advance.

00:04:21 John Daub: Let's go find some food here. That looks good. What's this? It's like a burger, meat wrapped onigiri. A meat wrapped onigiri. Oh, Hana can't eat that. She's vegetarian. But that doesn't stop her because we do have vegetarian options here. Right, Hana?

00:04:35 Hana: You do. Yes, we do.

00:04:37 John Daub: I saw a couple like corn. And like this one and this one. Yes. You can eat this. I want to eat this too. All right. Why don't you eat this? OK, use that cash I gave her. I gave her a little treasure trove. And I could film her buying stuff. See those sticks? That's those sticks in that soup is konnyaku (gelatinous yam). And oh, well, Hana gets to pick the one that she wants. That makes it more fun. You've picked wisely.

00:05:14 John Daub: So what do you got there? All right. Hold it there for a second. Wow. It smells really good. Look at that steam and balls. Nice. Do it. We know you know what to do. See, street food foul is when you don't show it before you eat it.

00:05:30 Hana: True. I'm pretty impatient. So that's my fault. OK, it's really hot. Konnyaku. It's really hot. It's pretty hot. This is called tama konnyaku. Tama means ball.

00:05:55 John Daub: Oh, you're not going to do the takoyaki foul. I always do it whenever I have takoyaki. I bite into it and I lose all the skin on the top of my mouth. No. So be a little patient. Yeah, I don't think it's as hot, though, as a takoyaki.

00:06:00 Hana: I'm going to eat.

00:06:10 John Daub: It's a good smile. Did you burn your mouth? Was it good? All right. It has a soy sauce taste. Soy sauce taste? And the konnyaku, what kind of a consistency is it?

00:06:23 Hana: You bite into it and it falls apart, but not in like a mochi way. Rubbery.

00:06:30 John Daub: Yes, exactly. Yeah, it's rubbery. Konnyaku has like a rubbery consistency to it. So you'll find this in oden and right. And sometimes you'll find it in nabe, miso soup and stuff like this. But they've also made ramen noodles out of konnyaku. It's a vegetarian type of noodles. There's no egg. Sometimes the noodles have eggs in it. Yeah, konnyaku noodles is very healthy.

00:06:55 John Daub: So Hana, why don't in Japan people don't walk with the food? They have to eat it where they stand. Is that true?

00:07:02 Hana: I wouldn't say you follow that rule, but it is true that I think it's generally considered a little rude to eat and walk.

00:07:11 John Daub: It's just considered rude. But at a festival, I think you're forgiven. It's like for everyday life, walking with food is bad. But if you're at a festival where street food is, I don't have my wide angle lens, so I might be somewhat closer than usual in that case. It's polite not to walk with food typically, but at a festival you're forgiven.

00:07:35 John Daub: Kazumin has provided for the beer funds. Thank you so much because I'm so going to make use of this because I'm dying. It's been a long day. Kazumin, thank you so much. Oh, wow. We got cucumbers. That's very cool. This is Niigata cucumbers. Cucumber? Ah, so the kiwi is from Niigata. And all the different toppings. Wow. And they have different toppings for the cucumbers. That's really cool. Cucumber. Hana, you can eat cucumbers. This is your area. And there are edamame too. Oh, this cucumber? Tagami cucumber. Niigata. Really. Thank you. Thank you. So Hana, you can eat this. It's vegetarian.

00:08:22 Hana: Yeah. Thank you.

00:08:26 John Daub: Yes, I'll come again. Cucumber. Cucumber. I taught her how to say cucumber in Japanese. Cucumber in English. Kanae doesn't like cucumbers. She's scared of them. She's scared of them. Oh, this is so awesome. It's Anpanman and Thomas and Drymon inside of a bubble. Very cool. Awesome.

00:08:56 John Daub: I'm going to put that the beer money to good use because we have here Hakkaisan (famous Niigata sake), which is a very famous sake from Niigata. And I see the sign for it right there. And nothing makes me happier than this from Hakkaisan. And they have amazake (sweet fermented rice drink). You can drink that, Hana. All right. Let's. Oh, they got beer. No. Sake or beer. Sake or beer. I don't know what to do. I'm so lost. Sake or beer. Hana, what should I do?

00:09:23 Hana: But Niigata is super famous for their sake.

00:09:26 John Daub: Yeah, I know. But beer is good. At the same time, you had so much sake. Joshua says both. All right. All right. Let's go for the beer. Hana, can you. What are you gonna do with the stick? You can't just hold this. This is a Larry David thing. You put it in your pocket. Well, you don't have that problem, actually. You can't just put it in your pocket. I'll find a trash can. You find a trash can. I'll hold it for you. All right. Just hold it. Actually, that might come in useful. I don't know. All right. Do you need more cash here? I've given Hana all the cash. Do you need cash?

00:09:58 Hana: No.

00:10:01 John Daub: Use the cash to buy a beer. I will hold this. OK, beer. There's only one beer. Cold beer. Of course. There are trash cans. They're usually in areas where they will recycle the plastic, the paper, the raw trash. And you have to find those areas for recycling points. Right now, Hana is going to hold on to it. What's up? Oh, yeah. Experimental IPA. Wow. Raiden brewing. Is that Niigata brewing? Tochigi? Niigata? Niigata. Yes. Excuse me. Sorry to bother you. Thank you. Thank you. What was it? How much was this, Hana?

00:10:50 Hana: Six hundred yen. Six dollars.

00:10:51 John Daub: This is an experimental local craft beer from called Raiden. I thought Raiden. I thought it was another one. There's another brewery nearby with the same kind of. All right. Let's try this here. Hana, can you hold this for a second?

00:11:11 Hana: Yes, of course.

00:11:13 John Daub: Cheers, everybody.

00:11:13 Hana: Cheers.

00:11:22 John Daub: I've never been so happy in my life. You have no idea. I've been at this job all day today and yesterday. This is the first beer in a long time. I'm going to cry. I'm so emotional right now. Kanpai, everybody. Kanpai, everybody out there. This is a really good experimental IPA from Raiden. Highly recommend it. It's very, very easy to drink. I like that. It's bitter, but not overly bitter. So the IBU might not be astronomical, which is for some people a bad thing. But for me, it's perfect. It's just a bitterness. Like you don't need to drink food. Usually if it's too bitter, you need to eat some food with it. I'm pretty good with this. This is a relaxed IPA. Nice. Oh, mama, this is so good. Kanpai.

00:12:13 John Daub: Hana, do you want an amazake?

00:12:15 Hana: Yeah, go ahead.

00:12:19 John Daub: You want me to hold something? You're good? All right, do it. You know what to do. Oh, that's over here. The sake area. Guys, stay tuned because we're going to be going to get some food and even more food in the next five, ten minutes, because take a look straight ahead. Let me zoom a little bit. Boom. There are hundreds of yatai (food stalls) or stands filled with street food. So we are just getting warmed up. Click the like button if you want to see more. Hana's got to get her amazake. Amazake is what? What? It came in a little milk bottle. Gaba. All right.

00:13:07 John Daub: So this comes from usually the sake shops. Is it what is the company on that? Hakkaisan. Whoa. So the sake brewery makes this amazake. That's going to be pretty cool. I bet you it's going to be good because Hakkaisan. I did a TV show, which you could see at Narita Airport. People were sending me images of it at Narita Airport for Japanese sake, where I went. I went for an association. I didn't know what it was for exactly. It was just a job. And you could see me reporting on sake. They took us to Niigata, to Hakkaisan, which is an actual mountain. And we drank the water from the stream where this is from. And it's 100 percent neutral, like zero has no taste at all. And that's the perfect kind of water. The best water has zero taste and it was neutral. It was just completely pH balance zero. And that makes the best sake. So try it.

00:14:07 Hana: Yeah, come by. Come by.

00:14:10 John Daub: Yeah, because Hana doesn't drink alcohol. Cosmein, if we can get a thousand likes, I would be so thrilled. We've never done that in a live stream. Like a little sour tinge of sourness. But it's really easy to drink, too. And yeah, I like that. Amazake is sort of dense. It's like, yeah, it's like juice a little bit. Wow. So how much was that? What was the damage on that?

00:14:39 Hana: Two hundred fifty. Oh, that's reasonable.

00:14:41 John Daub: Yeah, for good amazake. It's usually. It's cheaper than sake, but it's not good. Amazake is not cheap. I got this cat. You see the cat on his shoulder? That's so cute. Do you see that? Whoa. Cowboy cat. Even the hats match. We're just getting warmed up, folks. We're just getting warmed up. All right, let's go into it. Into the lion's den. There's lots of people. I think the signal is going to be fine. Here's the entrance to Asahara Jinja. Here's the entrance. We're going into where there's a bunch of people. I think the signal is going to be fine. But if not, it might go out. We'll find a new spot. Just push refresh on your browser if you're watching live and the stream should come back to 720p, which is HD.

00:16:03 John Daub: I'm still working on it. Just slightly working on it. Not all of the street vendors are cool with filming. So we're going to be very sensitive with that. Despite us having permission to film, we have passes. Not everybody wants to respect people's privacy, which is important in Japan. Now, this is the reason why we're here. Japan has the this area is very famous for fireworks and what you see in front of you. That ball is the world's biggest firework. Now, there's a rocket in Dubai that's supposed to be bigger. But for me, this is the biggest because look, it's 450 kilograms of gunpowder. But this is a model. All right. This isn't the actual real thing, but I just watched them put this into a cannon. And if the crane had dropped it, we could have been. You know, yeah, history. But said people are posing in front of it. This is called Yonshakudama. It's 40 times the normal size of a firework. Forty times. Actually, it's 64 times bigger than what you will see at the Sumida River fireworks. Sixty four times bigger. So I'm going to be watching this at 10 p.m. tonight. They're going to blow it up in the sky. That's why we're here. And here's the koka, the hanabi kingdom inside of here where they have gifts. You can buy postage stamps with hanabi on it. You can have a lot of omiyage (souvenirs) gifts and things like that. So let's move on because we're here to eat. We're here to eat, not play with the fireworks. We'll do that tonight. Hana's filming in one location. I'm filming in another. So we're going to be separated. But this is going to be a pretty cool main channel episode.

00:18:02 John Daub: What are you going to have? I don't know. It's time for me. I'm starving. I drank this beer on an empty stomach. No, no. Am I going to be OK? No, I think I'll be all right. Can really smell it. Smells so good. This is called mayo taco. It looks like takoyaki. It smells like takoyaki. Probably tastes like takoyaki. It's mayo taco. And there's some steaming up of some yakisoba right here. Let's take a look here. Well, that looks really good. Smells really good. I think. Can you eat yakisoba? Is that eatable for you? The katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes) is fish. Yeah, it's hot in there. There's some yakitori. Can you get just one stick? Yakitori! You got to get six sticks. One is not enough. One is enough. One is enough. No, I can't get just one. I have to buy six. You have to buy family size. I guess that makes sense. Hold on, come back here. Come back here. That makes sense, I guess, because you got to buy six of them. So we're going to go back. I want to try something more manageable for the first one. So let's take a little walk and then we're going to work our way back because we've got to come back this way anyways. We got a little bit of time. But it's nice to see everybody here. We got 500 people in the live stream. Oh, baby, this beer tastes so good. What's this here? Oh, yeah. Kansai-fu okonomiyaki. This is Osaka-yaki. What's different about this one? Eh? What is this? It's okonomiyaki. Oh, not from Hiroshima? Not from Hiroshima. Oh. Let's eat. I'm going to take this. I have 3 of them. Oh, I have one. One, please. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Oh, that looks good, too. That's like shogayaki (ginger pork). All right, let's try this now. Let's eat. But where? Did you get chopsticks? Yeah, we got chopsticks. Where do we eat this? So you buy the food, Hana, and what do you do? Can you hold this for a sec? Yeah. What do we do? All right. I know there's a spot up here. All right. Let's buy some more stuff. And then we're going to eat. And there's a little eating space up here. I get a little bit more. This is for Kazmin and all of our friends out there who's been supporting my drinking, which is... I can't drink that much. I'm on the job here. That was so good. You can put that in there. Oh, yeah. Put it all in there. And I believe there's a trash zone up here. OK. Thanks, guys. Are we going to find a couple more stuff and then we're going to instead of eating it one by one right now, we're just going to go on a buying spree. Hana, how much how much do you have from the treasure I gave you?

00:22:16 Hana: 500 yen.

00:22:19 John Daub: All right. Let's buy some more stuff. Let's buy some more stuff. Actually, what is this? This mochi? Butaharami. Buta is not actually mochi. It's not. It's not mochi. But I can buy one. Does this qualify as yakitori for our yakitori friends? I guess so. All right. Let's get one stick. Do we have enough? Yeah. All right. I want the good stuff. I'll recommend everything. Here's some refuel if it's not enough. I gave her a fiver. Ah, tambour, tambour. It's OK. That was a big. That's a big. That is the biggest dragonfly I've ever seen. Can I eat the dragonfly? No. Which one do you want? Black pig.

00:23:35 Hana: Black pig.

00:23:36 John Daub: Black pig, please. Tomato sauce. Ah, salt sauce. Ah, salt. Please. Japanese salt. Ah. Which one would you like? Japanese. Japanese, please. Japanese salt. Japanese salt. Japanese salt. Japanese salt. Excuse me, can I take a picture? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. OK. Excuse me. Thank you. So we're going to be using salt instead of tare (soy glaze). I like a little bit of salt. It brings out the flavor of the black pig. This looks really nice. This is so hot underneath the tent here. Smells really good. We're going to take this and eat it in our little secret eating zone along with the Osaka okonomiyaki, which we have. It's really nice. The smell that's coming out of here is worth the heat and the sweat that we're now pouring out of us. Are you going to eat it right away? Where are you going to eat it?

00:25:03 Hana: While walking.

00:25:06 John Daub: Ah, extra salt. Yes, please. So that's a Japan salt. Thank you. She was very nice. I like that. She was very nice. Some of the people don't want any filming. That's why I have to show them my pass. I have a permission. But that doesn't mean that I'm almighty person. If they say no, I still won't film them. Guys, I want to just show you how impressive they are. How important hanabi is. Their manhole covers. You see the man up there? There's a firework above him. The manhole covers here are fireworks. So manhole. Hold on. It's a John thing. All right, let's go to our spot. Do you have enough? Actually, there was something over there that was vegetarian, wasn't there? So, yeah. Man, hold on. John Bauer writes in. Enjoy the food or another beer. John, you're killing me. All right. We like maybe I'll go for another beer. Why not? It's been a long day. I got to be working till midnight, though. I'm not even close to finished. It's such a pleasure to be doing this job. There's nothing better, nothing more I'd like to do than this job. And I don't mind the hours I've been working from 8 a.m. The moment I woke up, I've been filming, just thinking of coming up with the shots, talking with people, interviews, getting a position, fighting other media to get the best positions. You got to do that. I was fighting with TBS and Fuji TV, right? I was like, no, this is my Fuji TV. Screw you. I got more subscribers. I don't know. Oh, the yakisoba looks good with egg on there. Oh, man. Can you do vegetarian? He says ween. Everything is with weiners. He says weena. That's OK, Hana. If you can't do this, there's going to be a karaage. No, mama. Oh, mama. Fresh yakitate karaage. Look at that. Whenever I see boiling oil like that, I stop and wish I could eat. You know what? Oh, look at that. Look, they put that inside of the boiling oil. This is so we got to come back. All right. We're coming back. Let's see what we got. Eat what we got behind here was a secret sitting area. Remember? Yes. Candy apple. I got a story about the candy apples. Do you guys know the story? When I was doing a live stream to over two years ago in Hirosaki hitchhiking. And I was eating a candy apple from a stand and I bit into it was so hard. It scooted off of stick into the sewer. I know I was so freaked out. I was like, ah, the live stream stopped and I panned down. And you can see that poor little piece of candy apple just sitting there. And I'm like thinking if I was twelve years old or less, I would have picked it up and just put it in the mouth anyways. So it's a little crunchy, just a little crunchy. A little bit of dirt. Don't worry about it. Did you get a bite? You managed to get a bite or not? Not even. I don't remember. You guys can go back. I don't remember. That was one of the best live streams because I had a group of old ladies following me. I can move it. It's a little bit bright. I had a group of old ladies following me and one of them just disappeared in the middle of the live stream like a ghost. Like she was there and then she was gone. This is the Hirosaki in 2017. Those are the best live streams. All right, let's take a seat here. All right. Welcome to our beautiful seat. I got a tripod here. That was scary. We have some people that were watching it. That was pretty creepy. All right, we're going to now take off our bag. We're going to use this as our home base. Hana and I are sitting right here, which is a curb. But it's better than eating in the middle of all of the people. There aren't that many people here. There aren't that many people because YouTube. But I don't know many people because of the typhoon. And the buses are a little bit late, which means that the signal is going to be stronger, which means we should eat some more. Let's do it. Let's do this.

00:29:43 John Daub: Hana, what do you got? Pork. Pork stick. Oh, look at this. Look at this. It is still kind of steaming. There's fat in between it. Are you sure you still want to be vegetarian? Are you sure? Those vegan days are over. Let it go. Let it go. All right. Hold the stick. All right. I'm going to try this here. It's so bright. It is. Try this pork stick. She did not hold back on the salt. She did not hold back on the salt at all. In a good way or a little bit strong, strong salt. It's really good pork. I can give you a shadow. Yeah, it's really good pork. But when she put the salt on, she went heavy. There's nothing wrong with that. It's a little bit. It's just kind of salty. It's kind of salty. That's a lot of pork. I don't eat it all. All right. We're going to try to open this, Hana, if you don't mind.

00:31:16 Hana: Yeah, I don't mind.

00:31:18 John Daub: Where was the food? Where was the food that you could eat? Was it the omurice? Can you eat that? Over there. Where? Over there. The one in the middle of the screen is an omurice and it looks really famous. That big guy was going to prepare one earlier. Hana is not my mistress. Who wrote this? What? Hana is helping me for the summer. She's a friend of the show. And thanks to our Patreon supporters. She has a job with Only in Japan. So thank you, Hana. She's here helping me with this Only in Japan main channel shoot. It was kind of hard working to make this episode happen, but we've gotten permission to film the fireworks from a position that is very good. So it's a pretty good main channel episode. What is a mistress? Jim Jones is laughing. He's laughing. So funny. The Internet. I put the pork here. I put it in a safe spot. Whoa. Okay. I'll just keep it here. The pork. It's safe here. Yeah. A little doggy sheet down there. Ta-da. Nice. Oh, that looks so good. They did a good job with that. It's like egg inside. You can see the egg spilling out. Yeah, it's beautiful. And the mayonnaise. Oh, can you eat any of this? I'm not entirely sure. I know that this is katsuobushi, which is fish. Do you want to try it? You don't have to. If it's dangerous, we'll switch.

00:33:00 Hana: Yeah, you can do that. Okay. Yeah.

00:33:07 John Daub: Oh, oh, oh. It is. Nice. All right. Hold this here. You're another camera woman. I got you. Oh, you can get positions. Yeah, I should move. Okay. Street food. It's all about street food is all about the fun. All right. It's not fun. It's not really street food. So you got anything on a stick is going to be a lot of fun, right? Yeah, I got stick food. And then we got food in a plastic container. Now, the difference between Osaka okonomiyaki and Hiroshima okonomiyaki, I actually laid out. I'm using a stick. I actually laid out in another live stream. Oh. Closer. Okay. Closer. Oh, wow. Wow. Beauty shot. Super beauty shot. There's no noodles in this. Whoa. Actually, it's all like pancakes. Here we go. It's really good. Whoa. It's good. I don't know, though. Like, is it done or is that batter? I don't know if they finished it. Oh, oh. Oh. A little bit. You can zoom in on it. Rip it apart. Yeah. Zoom in. Okay. Oh, nice. Wow. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Good. You can see the egg in there. Mayonnaise. But I don't know if there's any batter. If it's completely cooked. I'm like 50/50 on that. Uh huh. I don't know if I'm going to finish this. Okay. Well, it's not finished. I don't get sick by eating raw batter. Really good. Yeah, I don't think it's finished. This is finished. This is finished. Oh. Salty but good. So good. All right. Let's put this in the bag. Okay. She's done. She's done. It's time for Hana to get her street food on. Hana ate some konnyaku balls.

00:36:02 Hana: Yes, I did.

00:36:03 John Daub: And did you want to get that cucumber? That's one of many. I think they had different miso that you could put on there. I would love that. I would love that. Did you see anything on the way that was? I got to watch where I point to stay. Did you see anything on the way that looked really delicious? I did want to try that taiyaki (fish-shaped waffle). There's a taiyaki over there. Oh, taiyaki. Yes. No way. You vegans think you got taiyaki locked up. No way. Us carnivores, omnivores will eat the taiyaki. I love taiyaki. Yeah, there's no actual fish in it. It just looks like a fish. Right. Yeah. So it's clear. It's good. Yeah. And then what else? The cucumber. Yeah. Omurice? Should we check the omurice if they have any in it? Yes, we should check it. We should check it now. I ate it all. Look, it's all gone. Put this in here. You can break it in half. Oh, good idea. And we got to find the trash. I got so much protein now. I could rip this metal pole from the ground. Just swing it around and make some money from the freak show of strength from protein. Karina Palma writes in John and Hana dinner on me. Yay. Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm Australia. Australia. Have you been to Australia?

00:37:45 Hana: No, I want to. I heard there are huge spiders.

00:37:56 John Daub: It doesn't talk about the weather, the beaches. They're really friendly people. The kangaroos. She goes right to the huge spiders. Just like a vegan. Somebody wrote it just like a vegan. No, it's just fresh in my mind because my auntie went there recently and she was talking about that. She was driving and there was a huge spider inside of the car. Like a red back. No, there's like a wolf spider. Those are pretty big. They got like you can see their eyes bulging out. Why are you talking about spiders? I don't know. That was the first thing that came to my mind. All right. You're getting so you need food. I think you're suffering from lack of you need some glucose. Yes, chuck that. Chuck that. We're going to go do this once again for those watching. This is a live stream and we go crazy with food any time. Whoa, baby, that beer is coming up any time that we do one of these. Food episodes. They go insane. We literally will eat way too much and drink too much. But that's part of the fun of it. All right. Let's go do this. All right. Boom. Part two. It's Hana's turn. All right. Do you need some more treasure? I gave you the ghost and right. All right. She's got a fifty thousand yen note. So not to worry. Yeah, that's right. We got to find one of the recyclables. Does that can you put that in here? I don't think I'm going to eat anymore. Really? It seemed like it was half batter. I don't think they finished it. Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah, it's you know, we're good. A huntsman, right? Guitar guy writes in. It must have been a huntsman spider. Yes, I used to. I lived in Sydney for about three months during the millennium. Nineteen ninety-nine and two thousand. And we encountered several huntsman spiders outside of the. That's a little bit outside in the morning. You'll see them on cars. You know, it's kind of creepy and they're big. I guess if you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you. Just don't get in the way. They're just minding their own. They're minding their own business. The huntsman's never mind. That hunt is in their name. They're hunting you. Yeah. Huntsman's. You don't want to be hunted by the huntsman. Can you eat that? Give me the trap. Yeah, Hana's going to ask to see if that's edible. All right. What? What was inside a chicken's inside? That sounds good, though. You well, there was a time where you were not vegan, but I will not try to change you. Do not change who Hana is. Yes. When you became a vegetarian, did your personality change? What changed?

00:40:54 Hana: Definitely just like general awareness toward what I'm eating. I feel like I would eat anything back then when I was a meat eater. Not really think about it as much. But now when I have food in front of me, I need to think of what's in it. And so it really gives me a huge twist on my perspective.

00:41:13 John Daub: I understand. I respect that. You know, I think if you can't face your food and I can face my food because I have been to the place where they, you know, and I faced my food. I've given my food massages before. I'm cool with it, but I just want my food to be treated well. If my food is treated well, I will eat it. I mean, is that. Does that make me a bad guy? I don't think so. But these look really good. This is the long potato. The long potato is it says American. Hana, these American. I've never seen this before. Can you eat that? All right, do it. Can we share it? Yeah, let's share one. Different toppings we can choose. Should we ask them if we can film a little bit? OK, see if we ask them if he's OK. I'm going to show you how to make it. Oh, really? Oh, cool. He's going to show us how to make it. Oh, really? Oh, cool. Mashed potato. Mashed potato. Oh, wow. Wow. That's awesome. Wow. It's like udon. Yeah, it's like udon. The real thing is mashed potato. Mashed. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. That was really satisfying. I want to work here. Whoa. This is ketchup, mayonnaise, salt, Japanese style cheese, barbecue, garlic. He's got a lot of different sauces that go along with this, including barbecue. This is about five, five dollars. I guarantee you he sells a lot of these. He sells a lot of these. But I'll show you. Butter soy sauce. Yes. Whatever you want. Whatever you want, Hana. It's all about Hana. I'm just here to share. It's a little bit about that. I love that these are made out of mashed potatoes. But is butter not is butter vegan? Eat what you can eat. OK, don't. It's OK. Oh, dairy is OK. All right, you hypocrite. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. She's not a vegan. She's a vegetarian. I'm just kidding with her. Oh, whoa. That looks really good. How dare. How dare we. This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Can I touch it? I could eat it. I'll eat it. Oh, really? No, it's OK. It's going to give it to us for service. Thank you. Thank you. You're so kind. You're so kind. It's so nice. He gave that to us for free. Sometimes if you just ask and you're really nice about it. Like, can we film? Are you OK? If we film and they say yes, people treat you really nice. If you just ask. I've learned this in Japan. Like, we're always afraid that they might say no. So people are always afraid that they might say no. So you never ask. But actually, if you ask, some good things might happen. And like, he gave us one for free. Yeah, he did. Double trouble. That was awesome, though. He made it out of. Out of mashed potatoes. Yeah, like this is so easy that you could do this. Put mashed potatoes in one of these little strainer things and put it in oil. It's like, oh, don't what? We didn't ask what kind of oil it was. I could have wondered. But you're double fisting. I guess I can eat. I can eat. You can't eat. Oh, let's try this right now. Very nice. Do it. Do it till the end. Good. This is really good. All right.