00:04:00 John Daub: When it comes to American food, Costco might have one of the best choices or selections. They're basically the good old American classics: hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. But it made me think, is American food any better here in Japan than in America? And to help me out with this report is going to be Kanae Daub, who's over there kind of staring down a nice selection of American food. I've been in Japan so long, I keep on forgetting that it's American food, not Japanese food. But here, Costco does have a really good selection. I'm here on a beautiful sunny day on Friday. I haven't had a break in a long time, so Kanae and I rented a car and came out to Costco to try some of this.

00:58:00 John Daub: Now, the place that we're going to be eating at is over here, kind of on the side, just out of the way. It's still really interesting for me to see how people in Japan react to warehouse shopping like Costco. It's such an American thing. Kanae's over here in the corner. There she is. She's watching the livestream, so she knows what we're doing. Alright, we picked an area where there's like nobody here, so we can talk unfettered.

01:37:00 John Daub: How you doing?

01:40:00 Kanae Daub: Good. How are you? Long time no see.

01:43:00 John Daub: People were kind of worried about you. Everything good?

01:47:00 Kanae Daub: I had a tough month, last month. This month. So I had a performance for our students. So I was kind of busy, but done.

02:01:00 John Daub: Done. Which means that we also get a chance to... We rented a car and came out here to Costco. So I don't have to worry about something like tires and things like this. But the question is, is American food in Japan better than in America? Because look, in Japan, the chefs, the cuisine here is so detailed. They really look into the ingredients, maybe a little bit more than they do in the United States. Depends on the level of cuisine. But I don't know. I mean, this is something that I've been thinking about for the last 23 years since I came here. And over this livestream, we're going to talk about it.

02:38:00 John Daub: So what are the offerings that we have here? Let's take a look here. Combo pizza. The good old combo pizza from Costco. You know, the onion sausage. I love those sausages. They put some anise seed in there. Pepperoni. Very American. It's big. It's a big piece. The one thing with American food in Japan is that the portion sizes might be smaller. But here in Costco, I think all of you who are watching, if you're in the US, chime in and let me know. Is this anything different than the ones that you'd get at the US Costco?

03:17:00 Kanae Daub: I'm not sure.

03:18:00 John Daub: What else do we got here? We also got here for our taste test, which is basically our lunch. This is a Costco burger. Whoa. So this is... It looks pretty good. The meat's not... I mean, that's not like a same burger that you're going to get at a... Cheese inside. Oh, there's cheese inside there? Don't move it so much. Oh, that's good. Great. There's a piece of tomato in there. So I guess the vegetables in there make it a little bit more premium than something you get at McDonald's, but the price was about $6.50 for this.

04:03:00 Kanae Daub: I haven't really tried it. It's a burger, of course. It better be good.

04:07:00 John Daub: We also got the good old... It's a classic. You know by the shape. It's a hot dog. Hey, Ai-chan is a new traveler. Thanks, Ai-chan. Welcome. This is just a good old American hot dog with no condiments. What do you like, Kanae? When you get a hot dog, what toppings do you put on your hot dog?

04:31:00 Kanae Daub: I like onion and ketchup and a little bit of mustard.

04:36:00 John Daub: I should have put that on there. All right, because of the pandemic, Costco is very controlling with the condiments here, which is not a bad thing. You do like sauerkraut?

04:48:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, a little bit.

04:50:00 John Daub: Yeah? It's really good stuff.

04:53:00 Kanae Daub: I don't like relish.

04:57:00 John Daub: She doesn't like relish. Why?

05:00:00 Kanae Daub: Because it's too sour.

05:03:00 John Daub: But you like Japanese, right?

05:04:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, my sister likes it. What about dill pickles? Do you know dill pickles?

05:11:00 John Daub: Like the American pickles. The ones next to the sandwich.

05:15:00 Kanae Daub: I don't like them that much. Japanese? Dill pickles? I think so.

05:23:00 John Daub: She, in general, just doesn't like cucumbers. So that's her. So when she says it's just my problem. That's her problem. So when she points out that she doesn't like cucumbers, it's not a Japanese thing. So we got the good old hot dog for the taste test. And in here is something that is a fusion here.

05:39:00 John Daub: You want to open this one up?

05:40:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Oh, no, no. Start with this one.

05:42:00 John Daub: This is my favorite one. Don't tell everybody it's your favorite yet. We just started. Got to build into it. This is clam chowder. Now, a couple months ago, they'd started with the Manhattan clam chowder, which is a tomato base, and they've gone back to the Boston clam chowder, which is creamy, right? This one is massive. Kanae likes this a little bit better than the Manhattan clam chowder. Nothing against the New Yorkers, but I think maybe a lot of New Yorkers might like the New England clam chowder. It's classic. And it came with these crackers. Very nice.

06:36:00 John Daub: And the one thing about Japan which is really unique is that they have here oolong tea instead of cola. Even though it says Pepsi. This is oolong tea. So actually, it's a little bit healthier, maybe. They got orange juice too here. So just the Japanese prefer to have... They don't prefer the cola. They prefer the tea, actually. And the last one, Kanae. This is the one that might be only in Japan and Asia. Bulgogi bake, which is Korean barbecued beef with sausage. And it's got some beef in there. So we'll try this. And they put all the Korean barbecued beef inside there and made it into like a roll. It's heavy. It is pretty heavy. Yeah, we are carbo-loading for the drive back home. We're supposed to stop off at IKEA after this too.

07:57:00 John Daub: All right, we're going to try. We're going to go with the combo. Which one do you want to eat first?

08:02:00 Kanae Daub: Hamburger.

08:04:00 John Daub: All right, go for it. Try the hamburger first. Yeah, we are going to need a doggie bag. Actually, I'm pretty hungry. I probably could take this all down. Is it bulgogi beef?

08:18:00 Kanae Daub: No, I think it's 100% American beef.

08:22:00 John Daub: Yeah, you enjoy that. It's the pride of America right there. Is Costco the best place to really use as the litmus test for American food in Japan? Now, I'm going to talk about my 23 years of experience living here in Japan to give you kind of more of an inside look besides what they have at Costco. But it is interesting because what Costco has to offer is very, very standard American food. This is what I would eat in the US. It's pretty much the same here.

09:08:00 John Daub: Wow, so they put on like thousand island. What is that? That's interesting. Look at, check this out. I think we can put ketchup or... Oh yeah, they put in some kind of thousand island dressing. I don't see that very often in Japan.

09:23:00 Kanae Daub: Really? I couldn't see it. Oh, it's good.

09:50:00 John Daub: It's a surprisingly good burger. Two points. One, the bun is a little bit too bready. So there's a lot of bread, but it is a good quality bun. It's a little bit too bready and the meat is not juicy enough. It's kind of dry, right? The meat's a little bit dry. But I think that, you know, they produce this on a mass scale. So I think safe is better. It's definitely cooked well done. Probably for the best, right? No French fries. How much is the hamburger? 680 yen or about $6.50. We're going to Ikea or as we say in Japan, Ikea next. And we're going to get some fries. We're going to get some French fries there. So that's next on the menu.

11:21:00 John Daub: Next up on our hit list for American food is the pizza here. And they do a pretty good job with it here. I mean, it's just different than Domino's. They have three kinds of pizza. Combo pizza. And vegetarian. Cheese. I think this time they have margarita combo pizza and pepperoni. And the margarita uses real mozzarella cheese. That's the difference. I saw pineapple pizza before. Sometimes Costco Japan has a special pizza. Welcome to America, Kanae. This is what we eat every day.

12:19:00 Kanae Daub: Good. Yeah, I like it.

12:24:00 John Daub: What kind of toppings does Japanese like on pizza?

12:28:00 Kanae Daub: Japanese? Sausage? Like mayonnaise, corn, seafood? But I don't like mayonnaise sauce so much.

12:45:00 John Daub: Japanese in general. She always talks about herself. What kind of toppings do you like in general?

12:53:00 Kanae Daub: I think tomato sauce. Tomato sauce with cheese and sausage. They're like basic pizzas. Yeah, salami.

13:03:00 John Daub: How come Japanese pizzas are so weird? We got like teriyaki chicken sauce. It's like all these really wacky... I think kids like it. I'm not sure if Kanae is the best litmus test for what Japanese like. I don't think kids like... I think kids like all pizza stuff. Alright, we'll see how this pizza lives up. Costco does a really well balanced American pizza. Which one do you like? Domino's or Costco pizza?

14:04:00 Kanae Daub: That's a tough one. I think they're just different. I think maybe Costco pizza might be better for me. I don't know why.

14:14:00 John Daub: Really? I don't know why. I like the texture of the crust. And they do a good job. But Domino's sometimes doesn't put enough sauce in Japan on the pizza. So they always ask for extra comments and I said, put more sauce on it. Every time. And then you get a little bit more sauce in there. I don't know if they're trying to economize or save money because of the too much sauce or something.

14:38:00 John Daub: Next up on the hit list is because I know Kanae was eyeballing this. Is the New England clam chowder. And you can see here, real chunks of clam and potato. Can you get American food? Where is the best American restaurant in Tokyo? I know it's not easy, is it? TGI Friday's is pretty good. And they have some interesting Japanese based menus. But the one place that surprises me with American food in Japan... Denny's. You would think that Denny's would have more Western food on the menu. It doesn't. It's very, very Japanese. You won't find a Grand Slam breakfast at Denny's in Tokyo. You just find more Japanese type of foods, right? We have a Japanese teishoku (set meal) at Denny's. Oh yeah, you have Japanese teishoku, which is set menus with miso soup and rice at Denny's. Katsudon at Denny's. I gotta do an episode there.

15:52:00 Kanae Daub: Alright, go ahead. You try it first. He's first.

16:20:00 John Daub: You like it. What do you like about it? Just as a Japanese perspective on New England clam chowder.

16:27:00 Kanae Daub: I like soup. I like soup and it's not oily. Pizza is sometimes too much oil. Oily. I feel oily. But I like pizza. I like soup.

16:48:00 John Daub: She's a big fan of the New England clam chowder. In fact, probably that's all she would eat. And then I would have one bite of it. Alright, next up. New England clam chowder. I don't know. I think the potatoes could be done a little bit more. It's weird. It's good. I like that they changed the crackers. These don't get so soggy in there. That's an improvement. New England clam chowder is one of the American foods that you might find a little bit more. As well as French onion soup with cheese on top of it. I see that in a lot of American restaurants. Although it has French in the name.

17:45:00 John Daub: American hot dog, can I... We don't put sauce? We can, but the lady was looking at me. So I couldn't livestream that. We'll go back after the stream and add some more on that. I'll add some onions or something. It's an all-American pork hot dog. Is it different than Japanese hot dogs?

18:12:00 Kanae Daub: Let her digest that a little bit there. I think the bread is different. The bread is different? Yeah. Japanese hot dogs tend to be a little bit smaller. They're smaller, right? I like the bread is more hard. Harder. Like a French baguette type of? Yeah, like... A little bit harder? Yeah. Like a French baguette. This is very soft.

18:40:00 John Daub: Yeah, Japanese in general, they like the softer breads I found in the Japanese bakery. You can see. It's a good hot dog. It tastes like I'm at Yankee Stadium watching the Bronx Bombers. It's a good hot dog. Freshness Burger hot dog. Real good, yeah. They have morning set. Morning set hot dog set. It's good. It's pretty good.

19:30:00 John Daub: All right, last but not least before I get into a little bit of my own personal experience on Japanese American food in Japan is this. And then we're going to eat this off stream because no one wants to see the way I eat. I eat like I'm a slob. You probably already know. All right, can I... I want you to take this and just break it open like you're attacking it like medieval style.

19:58:00 Kanae Daub: I do. Yeah. Good.

20:00:00 John Daub: You can see that's the Korean yakiniku (grilled meat), the Korean barbecue inside of the bread. It is really, really good. This one costs about $4.50. And if you want to end it all, this will fill you up like crazy, right? After one of these, you're done. Even the biggest... Some food challenge dude should come in here or lady, try to challenge themselves. How many of these can they eat because they're so heavy? I wonder if they can... Food challenges, how many Costco pizzas could they eat? I'll get in touch with Randy Santel and ask him. How is it? This is really good. Although this doesn't constitute American food. This would be Korean American fusion, maybe.

21:01:00 Kanae Daub: I like it. I like it, but I like hamburger more than this.

21:06:00 John Daub: So your favorite American food out of all of these here, Kanae, is which one?

21:12:00 Kanae Daub: My favorite? Of all of these here, which one is your best? That's so... I like the clam chowder. And number two? Hamburger. Number three? Egg. And number four? Pizza. Number four? Hotdog. Number five? Bulgogi bake.

21:31:00 John Daub: Wow. Really? I didn't think that. These bulgogi bakes are really good. It's a perfect balance of big dough and meat. The little bit of gravy in there. No, Costco is America.

22:20:00 Kanae Daub: Okay. No? But my American food image is lasagna and gratin, oven. Casserole?

22:36:00 John Daub: Really? So, not hamburgers?

22:42:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, this is American food, but this is like fast food. American fast food.

22:48:00 John Daub: So, what is normal American food?

22:50:00 Kanae Daub: I don't know because I'm Japanese, but I feel like the American traditional food is like lasagna or oven food. Oven food. Like cinnamon roll.

23:07:00 John Daub: I got to take her to Ohio and down south. We have something in Ohio called biscuits and gravy. You'd like that. Anyone from the Midwest is going, yeah, that's us. Biscuits and gravy, man. I remember we don't have that in the East Coast. I remember going to a Bob Evans in Ohio. I went down there and I saw this, biscuits and gravy. Who doesn't like biscuits? Who doesn't like gravy? Who doesn't like sausages? They just put that on top of there. It's not a combination that I would have thought of, but very American as well as like the food down in the south, down in Georgia and Mississippi and Alabama. That's like really, really different than I think than you've ever had in American food. Although you do like pecan pie.

23:54:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I love pecan pie. In your top five foods, pecan pie, what number? Number one? Number one pie? Yeah. Number one American food is what? I can't decide. Really? I can't. Pizza, done. Burrito too, done. I like pecan pie. I like pumpkin pie. And I like cornbread. Cornbread, yeah. Yeah, cornbread. What else? It's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. Chili pie.

24:26:00 John Daub: When I came to Japan 23 years ago, there weren't a lot of options for American food here. Where I used to go when I came here for American food was Hard Rock Cafe in Nagoya, where I was living in Okazaki at the time. The only American restaurant, there was McDonald's and there was Hard Rock Cafe. That's it. And Hard Rock Cafe had nachos, sold. Burgers. Sold. They had like these pizzas, but the crust was Japanese style. But the American food in Japan, it's not better or it's not worse, it's just different. Because it's been altered some way to American taste and Costco doesn't alter the food. So I would say if it came down to authentic kind of fast food for like this style, Costco would be one of the best places in Japan to get just American food.

25:36:00 John Daub: They opened up a restaurant in Tokyo Station, and there's maybe four or five called Bubby's, which is in New York. I guess New York City, right? They have pecan pie. They got pecan pie. They had a Thanksgiving dinner. This is another place where you can get pretty decent American food, like home cooking type of stuff. Peter von Gomm and I might try to hit up Bubby's soon. Check that out. So there's some places where you can get pretty good American style food. But for the most part, when it comes to pizza, when it comes to hot dogs, you can buy those things. Hamburgers, they're Japanified, meaning they are smaller in portion. The toppings are different. The ingredients are different. The type of bread that they like here in Japan is different than what they like in America. The size, the juiciness of it, everything is just kind of sculpted to the Japanese point of view. The same with the coffee. We have blend coffee. We have Americano. It's just a different kind of coffee here.

26:32:00 John Daub: Another thing with American food is that in the US, we kind of add in high fructose corn syrup in everything. It's in everything. And in Japan, its sweetness is in almost nothing because there are other flavors that people kind of like better. So when it comes to American food, sweetness is something that we think a lot about here in Japan. But that's not really the case. We have a lot of savory foods as well, and salty. But whenever you go to the supermarket in America, you see everything has high fructose corn syrup. There's some things in Japan that do too, but not so much. That's one of the things why some foods cannot be imported into Japan because of the ingredients that are in them from America. That's another thing why you don't find them here. I think Reese's peanut butter cups had something in the chocolate that made it prohibited in some places around the world. There's something in there. Some interesting things in the ingredients that they use some of it chemicals and preservatives that make it prohibitive in countries like Japan. Japan has pretty high standards for the ingredients that they have in but at the same time they put a lot of preservatives in there too. Don't think that Japanese food is better just because it's in Japan that's not the case at all.

28:02:00 John Daub: Mary Valentine only in Japan has to do a video on Super Nintendo World. I graduate from the film degree in April and that's where I went that's where I want to go time to start saving. Absolutely I saw that that's the Super Nintendo World's going to be at Universal Studios Japan. It's going to open I think next year 2022 I don't remember that's going to be pretty cool. Um I don't have too much interest in amusement parks too much but I know like Disney has opened up some new parks and beauty and the beast is a new attraction so we might try to go there with the help of Spencer who is uh Tokyo Disneyland uh uh right. Oh the Harry Potter in Universal Studios it's universal oh right so they opened up a new uh um Harry Potter in Toshima which is just outside of Tokyo right it's outside of the city center it's closer so Harry Potter is not exclusive to um Universal Studios that's a good point.

28:52:00 John Daub: They're freelancers there's so many things in the mushroom video that I just released by the way check that out I was i just uploaded it to my youtube channel it's called Japanese mushrooms farm to table and i went to that farm because i wanted to see uh how they made organic mushrooms which is really interesting what do they do that's different uh and it was just it was a fascinating place inside look. The mushroom farm there only grew white and brown mushrooms which is what we have in the united states predominantly those two mushrooms you can eat raw and um i asked him why and i'll tell you in the director's cut but what was interesting was they served those mushrooms with western food in his restaurant which is interesting as well as the fact that like japanese mushrooms are all over the place and um that's sort of like the white mushrooms we kind of associate with western food right. Yeah yeah lost my train of thought there but i did upload a new video you can definitely have to check that out. Oh no that's what i forgot we're talking about theme parks not food um the scenes in there look like the smurf colony and for a couple of minutes i felt like gargamel like there would be smurfs it looked this is i think the smurfs could have been filmed um in not in on this the smurfs not the not the anime the pixar movie like type one but the cartoon i think they might have done the opening in in the forest but i think that most of that show is probably filmed in a mushroom farm because you can control the conditions a little bit more some pretty cool mushrooms looking i was looking for smurfs i was looking for smurfs uh speaking of pie the pie hole is in tokyo oh we gotta go check that out there's a lot of places all right i'll go.

31:03:00 John Daub: And the united lemons is here thank you united lemons pervy sage new traveler mike roy lance has just bought us lunch thank you mike jeff ang happy holidays john and kanae thank you jeff taro quick uh quirks love you john just wanted to say keep up the good work love what you do thank you taro i need that need that power up all the encouragement helps a lot anything else on american food in japan can i well.

31:29:00 Kanae Daub: Like i know i don't know i eat pizza a lot because john likes pizza a lot that's true and he make he makes his own pizza too that's true and he hide it the pizza it's it's mine don't tell them this stuff i i don't hide it yeah i like pizza where do i hide the pizza did you just make that up you're doing what i do well yeah.

32:11:00 John Daub: Which which one is your favorite american food in japan you know for me i you know when i first came to japan 23 years ago um i didn't know how to cook japanese cuisine at home and eating out is always going to be kind of expensive i had like no money back then in fact the first month i had i think two hundred dollars for the entire month or something because the payday took i didn't know that you didn't get a paid every week in Japan, you get paid every month. So it was a problem. So I was living on free samples at Daiei. But I think, you know, like I had instant pasta and like 100 yen pasta sauce, 100 yen boil a bag curry. I didn't know how to use my rice maker for the first couple of months. So I stayed away from rice, a lot more bread, toast. But if it came down to my favorite American food, probably I ordered Domino's just because I feel American when the guy comes and delivers the pizza. I open it up and go, oh, but just the toppings are a little bit different. They have mayonnaise, corn pizza, for example, or seafood pizza or teriyaki chicken with mayonnaise or mayonnaise sauce instead of tomato sauce. That kind of, you know, makes it a little interesting. But yeah, Domino's is one that I probably eat because it's actually not that bad. You know, it's pretty good. Pizza is everywhere in Japan. Just they make it. The crust thinner here, I noticed, and that's kind of a disappointment. There's not a balance. The bread and crust to me is quite important because I like bread. But you find a good balance to that.

33:49:00 Kanae Daub: I like crispy one.

33:50:00 John Daub: And crispy is good, too. Yeah, we don't. It's hard to find Chicago style pizza. But Peter von Gomm and I have a place called Devil's Craft that we go to that also makes craft beer. But I don't know. There's there's it's OK. Chicago pizza. It's not the best. Chicago pizza is delicious. I like it. It's very good. She's gone there many times. Yeah, probably burgers, though in Japan are quite good. There's a lot of places and the burger culture in Japan might be better than America in many respects. Again, like you can't really compare. But Japanese burgers are pretty darn good. The reason why is they they use different ingredients and have a different thought and approach to them. But the history of burgers in Japan goes back to when the occupation was taking place. And it's very impressive. Place in Roppongi where a lot of the GIs would go at the time. This is what I heard. There was a very famous burger place in Roppongi. I did research on it. I tried to go there and find it, the first burger place in Japan. And it went out of business in the 1970s, I believe, or 80s, which is a shame. And the website that they had was a dirty site. I went to that and checked it out. I was a little bit shocked. I said, that's not a burger. But there are some really old burger places like Homework in Ebisu. There's a really famous burger place that has been serving burgers since the 1980s. Things like this. So yeah, Japan does a good burger, Umami Burger. I think that's a California chain that came here. There's a mix between Japanese and American, where Americans will take some of the things found in Japan and introduce that into the American burger places like Umami Burger in California and vice versa, where we take things like the barbecue burger. But Wagyu is not a good meat for burgers because it's too oily. So you need like not A5, but you need a lower grade of Wagyu, like B or something, which has more akami (red meat) or red meat. Less fat.

36:04:00 Kanae Daub: I just heard recently the best Japanese hamburger is in Japan. Kobe. What? I saw on Japanese TV, TV, John. Well, yeah, it looks so delicious. I want to try. How do they rank it? I mean, how do they know that this is the best burger? I don't know, but it's good. Is it a go? Yeah, we better go. Is it the quality of the meat? Is it? Maybe meat and bread? Maybe. Yeah.

36:41:00 John Daub: We'll add. We'll stop here and ask, answer any of your questions. Um, In-N-Out Burger is when we want to go to. We were just talking about when this pandemic ends, where do we want to go? Southern California is one of those places where we were kind of itching to go to. Yeah, that's very true. No, I think as the channel grows, everything gets bigger. TB Adventures Tsunami is a small chain in Japan and their Trump Burger is the best burger. I've had in my life. The burger looks good. Forget politics. The burger looks pretty good. I haven't tried it yet, but definitely something that's on my radar. I like Kuwaina. The chain. Hawaiian burgers are very popular here in Japan, right? Hawaiian burgers are very popular, like the Kuwaina chain. I think people, Japanese people, like if they put Hawaii on their restaurant name. Because we like Hawaii. Right. Yeah, I like Hawaii. Yeah, Hawaii is like you put Hawaii on pancakes, Hawaii on burger. It sells here in Japan. Eggs and things. Eggs and things from Hawaii. You can have an hour, a line out the door for an hour. It's just Hawaii is so big in Japan. You want to have that. That's more popular than New York, Hawaii. Yeah. Just the spirit of it, the Aloha spirit. So when you think of American food, that's another direction. Japan does really good Hawaiian food because there's Hawaiian chains. They probably bring their A game when they come to Japan because Japanese consumers are a lot pickier. But the portions, loco moco, I guess that would be like Hawaiian food, which is America. Right?

38:33:00 John Daub: One chilled dude. Here's something if there's room for dessert. We're going to go and get some pie and stuff. So actually, I'm thinking about doing some more live streams at home in the house. I was doing indoor camping before because we're having something of a surge with COVID here. We've come on a weekday. Try to limit our exposure. We're eating outside away from people. There's nobody around. You can see we're kind of emptied. So Japanese really love Hawaiian food. They just love Hawaii. So when you eat it, you feel like you're there. And that's a big attraction. Corn is good. We don't see a lot of corn products in Japan as well.

39:15:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I like cornbread. So when I visit the US, I buy cornbread. Flour, cornbread, and then the powder mix, complete mix.

39:28:00 John Daub: Now cornbread is real good. There's lots of stuff. I'll probably follow up with this when we go back to the United States to talk about foods in America that we really love and miss when we are in Japan. There's a lot of foods that I miss from back home, but I think that's better to save it for when we go back to the US. Maybe next year, hopefully, travel will open up. Thanks so much for watching this live stream. It was a lot of fun. I got a chance to hang out with some food. And Kanae is back. She's got a busy schedule in December as well. So I'll be jetting around too when I can. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. I really appreciate the support, everybody. I'm going to be promoting the new channel, the Only in Japan by John Daub channel, a lot more in these live streams because a lot of people still don't know about the fact that I have another channel. A lot of people don't know that there's no live streams on the other channel, but there are live streams only here. And the videos here are live streams, and they're not live streams over there. There's like 5% of the people who are just creating a lot of confusion. So I still have to pitch it. We're getting close to 100,000 subscribers over there. So I really appreciate the support, guys. All right. We're going to finish this up and take the rest home as a doggy bag, so to speak. And I will see you in the next live stream probably tomorrow. It's a weekend almost. TGIF here on Friday. See you. It's been the last five seconds looking at a half-eaten piece of pizza. Yum, yum. And burger. I like that sauce on the burger. What is that? It's like some kind of rodeo ranch sauce or something.