00:00:10 John Daub: Alright, so what we got here today? Oh, this is the chicken and egg. What else should we get here? Oh, look at this. Roast beef pastrami, shrimp cutlet, kiwi, strawberry, pineapple, egg salad. This one's toasted. Now, typically in Japan, you have bentos and other sorts of foods, but today we're going to be focusing on sandwiches. Wow, they actually have eggs as well. Look at that. Half-boiled eggs, onsen eggs (hot spring eggs). Maybe for next time.

00:01:25 John Daub: Alright, let's try these sandwiches here. The total for all those sandwiches was about $16, which is kind of a lot for lunch. Or is it? Everything that I don't eat, I'm going to be taking back to Kanae, who is working back at home. 7-Eleven has some of the best sandwiches, they say, in Japan. Again, can you compare the sandwiches here in Japan with the sandwiches at American convenience stores? I'm not really sure because we have some pretty good sandwiches in the United States. There's some differences here. So in this episode, I thought I would try some of these sandwiches, show you the typical sandwiches at a Japanese convenience store, at least at 7-Eleven. And then talk about my own experiences being American and having worked in a restaurant. I know that the sandwiches are pretty good there. But what is the difference and what makes Japanese sandwiches so incredible? Because they kind of are. So let's go find a seat over here.

00:02:32 John Daub: So I rode my bicycle over to a neighborhood called Tsukishima, which is one of my favorite places to go. Hanging out here is kind of fun, but there's some benches over here where we can have lunch. And this is actually quite heavy. This is what we would call a haul from 7-Eleven. And I don't know, some of these sandwiches are seasonal. All right, there's a bench over there. Let's go have a seat.

00:03:06 John Daub: Probably the most famous Japanese sandwich of them all is either the kiwi fruit sandwich or the egg salad sandwich. But when it comes to sandwiches in Japan, there's so many amazing traits, famous traits that you would only get in Japan. I'm pretty excited about this. Hey, Craig Kawaguchi, thank you. Somebody's hungry. Let's set up the tripod stand here. This is actually my lunch, too. Hey, Susan. Yes, this is a L.L. Bean keep warm shirt. All right, just getting the tripod on here. Oh, I don't know why it doesn't stick in there. All right, here we are. Boom. Welcome to lunch in Tokyo. How are you doing? I get a pole that actually extends up so we're more at eye level, but it's not working today.

00:04:42 John Daub: For our drink, I got a typical ocha (green tea). This is Itoen, which is a Shizuoka prefecture tea. And I guess it's a Guinness Book of World Record holder and maybe the best tea in the world. Not sure. You know, Guinness will give you anybody a world record as long as you just pay them, I think. It seems like everybody has them.

00:05:04 John Daub: Now, this is a really interesting thing. When I got the sandwiches, the lady at the register, one of them said, "Would you like me to heat up your sandwich?" And it was this one. So I think we should eat this one first. This is very, very interesting. Check this out here. This is the omelet, ham and tomato sandwich. I don't know what makes this only in Japan, except for the fact that it's in Japan here. Check it out. Let's open this up. It says, "It's more delicious if it's warm." And says a little chicken egg on there in the front. This is about $3.50 for this thing here. Made by 7-Eleven, Seven & i, which is the name of the group that owns 7-Eleven here in Japan and the United States. Because 7-Eleven Japan owns the 7-Eleven in the United States now. Which, oh my gosh, that's a lot of calories. So it tells you here for one minute at 500 watts or 20 seconds at 1500 watts. So it heats up pretty quick. That's kind of not... I'm gonna have... This is like a 5,000 calorie lunch. Yeah, yutty. That's some hardcore calorie action going on there.

00:06:24 John Daub: Ooh. That is special. Look at that. It's a double decker. And you see there's a sauce in there. There's vegetables and ham. And then there's some egg omelet, which is... I guess it would be tamagoyaki (rolled omelet). Which is very famous in Japan. In between there. And let's see how this tastes here. The other one is the same, so... I can save that one for Kanae. Save that one for Kanae. Here we go. They've toasted the bread and I think they've added in some butter or something on there to give it a little bit more flavor. There's a good combination. And trust me. 7-Eleven is thinking about this. Finding combinations that feel good in the mouth. There's a soft egg. With the slight tension of the ham in there. With the vegetables. And then the sauce. And then there's some tomato sauce. Maybe like ketchup. Just a light, light ketchup. Underneath the egg there. It's not overpowering. Mmm. I like this, but... The bread is a little bit too bready. And... The thing with Japanese sandwiches is... The front, where they sell it, is so thick. The back is usually all bread. You see that? So it's a fail.

00:08:05 John Daub: But what makes Japanese sandwiches better... Is the size, too. If you get an American sandwich... Or on the East Coast, we would call them hoagies. Just depends on the sandwich. They're usually too big and you get one sandwich. That's pretty much it. Just based on volume. What you get is what you get. In Japan, the sandwiches are so much smaller. You can get one as a snack. Or you can buy three or four of them and really make a meal out of it. And then you get a kind of a variety of different types of sandwiches. Toppings in there. That's what makes it kind of fun. It's almost like a sandwich party. Because you can get more than one. Mmm. They call them subs up in Jersey. And New Jersey calls them hoagies. When Subway came in, they started calling them sub sandwiches a little bit. But growing up, they were hoagies. And, in Ohio, they were subs. Different regions of the US call it a different thing. Pretty cool. And hero sandwiches. Right in Japan they have hoagies and they have Subway but sub sandwiches are not too popular here. These sandwiches are mmm.

00:09:37 John Daub: Next up here... Go on time a video like there's kids here. They're looking at me. This is an egg salad sandwich and everybody knows that. Everybody knows that the egg here you can see them there. Hello, they're like staring me down, these kids that just got off of school here. They were playing, stopped and looked at me and just froze like a deer in headlights. So this is a funwari compote. Funwari (fluffy) being the type of bread I guess it's a French word, a soft tamago sando (egg salad sandwich) and Japanese. Japanese egg salad is unique. It's so fluffy light, you know? Whoa. This is a Japanese sandwich. I don't know. I wish they toasted the bread or it was whole wheat or something. But this is funwari, which means just kind of like a really airy bread. And then you see the egg salad. It's just kind of fluffy whipped egg salad stuff. It is pretty good here. Let's crack this open. Oh, look at that. Yeah, there you go. This is the egg salad that I know. Pieces of the egg white in there mixed in. I guess there's some mayonnaise, a little bit of butter in there. Everybody who comes to Japan falls in love with 7-Eleven's egg salad sandwiches. They're that good. And Tony P's writing in there the best. I mean, I can agree with that. They're right up there. They're going to be the top five in anybody's sandwich rankings for sure. Mmm. Japanese mayonnaise in there. But the thing is the bread. American sandwiches are probably better with the bread. You got Kaiser rolls. You got, you know, like torpedo rolls. You got rolls with sesame on there. It's just the bread has a lot of tension in the U.S. There's some heaviness to it. But the outside of it typically is a little bit crunchy. But it's not that good. And I think the Japanese like soft breads, white breads. They're like a blank canvas. And I'm not a big fan of that, but I guess it sort of goes with the lightness of the sandwich. Mmm, really good.

00:12:29 John Daub: Spike 021, daily breakfast at Japan 7-Eleven tamago sando and pancake sandwich with butter syrup inside. I think a lot of people, when you come into Japan, restaurants aren't open in the morning. Convenience stores are pretty much the only place where you can go and get food if you're staying at a hotel like in Shinjuku. You can either eat at your hotel which is usually quite pricey or just go to a convenience store and load up on sandwiches and other goodies. You are always satisfied with Japanese egg salad.

00:13:06 John Daub: All right next up on the list here is this one. Wow this is the chicken and egg with teriyaki sauce and I think a lot of you're gonna like this one here now. It has the same type of egg salad as before but it's a little bit different when it's mixed in with chicken and the sauce it's a totally different experience. Air to the Ron writes in here victory for the sandwiches yes thank you. After the Ron we have a new member Adam. Adam welcome new traveler. She are valet really appreciate that. All right let's open this up here. We're gonna try this chicken and egg from 7-Eleven now. All these sandwiches they have almost pretty much the same way to open it just peel it and then the plastic opens up and you can pull it from the back here. Make sure you alcohol your hands like I did when I enter the convenience store but once again you can see pretty weak in the back. W-X turbo thank you you're in the house. This one's got some meat in the end that's interesting I never see it in the back but 7-Eleven sandwich is usually not much there. Let's pull this one out. Oh very beautiful looking. Again you see that egg salad that's so popular a little bit of the congealed soft-boiled egg in there. Japanese eggs they have that I don't know they don't boil the eggs all the way you leave a little bit of the jellyness to it which is a better texture than a boiled egg you know it's too hard when it's soft like this it's very creamy and they put it in there with this chicken soft chicken with a sauce on there. Let's take a look at the sauce just for science purposes here. Yeah it's kind of a sauce I'll describe it as I taste it there. Wow and I like the fact they put in one piece of lettuce just I guess to keep the bread from soaking it all up. This is a good one you know. This one is um what's the price say on here two dollars and fifty cents for this sandwich here. Um that teriyaki sauce I mean with the other one this sandwich here um this one is just full-on egg salad with a very soft bread it does go well together but this one with the teriyaki sauce and the egg salad is just a completely different complexity and that little teeny piece of lettuce does a huge amount of crunch it just adds that tension between it so when you bite into it it's just a sandwich. Teriyaki sauce is so good.

00:16:32 John Daub: Let's if we get to 500 likes this one here is shrimp cutlet with sauce sandwich. Shrimp. Ebi katsu (shrimp cutlet) and katsu is when it's been deep fried battered and deep fried turns it into a cutlet and cutlets are so popular here in Japan. Tonkatsu (pork cutlet) which is full of pork. You can get chicken katsu you can get beef katsu gyu katsu every anything can be battered breaded and deep fried but this one here is so good the shrimp has such a soft very tender springy um feeling in your mouth and when you put it into a katsu compared to uh pork cutlets and beef cutlets the shrimp cutlet is easily going to be one of your favorites i think. Yeah hey dark zaku's here i love 7-eleven when i was there wish we had the same type of convenience stores in the states. You do 7-Eleven 7-Eleven is in america are you telling me they don't have these kinds of sandwiches in america i mean granted i have not been in the u.s very much since 7-eleven japan took over but i would think that 7-eleven japan's foods would start to i don't know compete a little bit better no they don't. Jennifer French writes in here no they don't interesting. Well until then you can enjoy one of these sandwiches here. Here it is wow this one has some volume to it you can really feel um the weight difference between this and the egg salad sandwich they whip it up the egg salad so well it's so light but that's what japanese like they don't like the heaviness in the stomach. Now katsu being um boiled in oil and all that it does add a heaviness to it but usually it's not as much meaning it's the sandwich feels it um the shape of it is a little bit smaller than the other sandwiches i don't know why it just looks smaller than the one before oh that was because it was a double decker um but you can see the shrimp has been uh um when you cut it it looks really really pretty doesn't it and the looks the physical looks of the sandwich is very important. All right on this side there's a little bit of a tangy sauce so there's a tangy sauce that they use um with katsu it's kind of a sweet and salty uh tang to it and when i say sweet not like a candy sweet there's just a slight sweetness to it but i don't know this is the worcestershire sauce that kind of gives it a little bit of a tinge that goes so well it's such a compliment because it hits a different area of your tongue in your mouth but the tension the way you when you take a bite of a shrimp katsu sandwich there's just a really pleasant tension in each bite it's almost fun it's almost fun i mean it's kind of gross to look at a happy sandwich but just to give you you know an idea it's fun to eat shrimp katsu shrimp cutlet sandwiches like this that's why i always get these um it's hit and miss there's some places that are not as good 7-eleven does a pretty good job of it um but in general you want to get these sandwiches made when it's been deep fried right away and there's restaurants that will serve these and it comes right out of the fryer do you know why because if you get a uh tonkatsu out of the fryer quick it's crunchy and still warm there's a juiciness to it that is indescribable that you cannot get out of the sandwich as is you really needed to come right out of the fryer and get that crunchiness and after it's been sitting for a while it just gets a little bit too moist but i'm not complaining it's just a difference.

00:21:18 John Daub: Next up wow i have tried this before but they've taken the i thought it was roast beef and it is but it's roast angus beef because wagyu would be just too oily so angus beef it does pretty good when it's roasted wasabi and soy sauce i've never seen this before i just picked it up they've added in wasabi and soy sauce so this is gonna be pretty interesting you can see through the package they really did stack it up with a lot of meat but we're gonna find it in a second if the meat is in the front only and in the back is pretty weak do they i'm sure they weigh the meat it's gotta be. Oh michael sasano's here get a winter beer slightly early but i will tomorrow i'm getting onto the shinkansen and going up north to hokkaido so in case of numa not hokkaido that's up in tohoku yeah spike zero two one i hear you ma'am this could be breakfast and i would be happy with this breakfast lunch or dinner. This is um angus beef angus is uh well they have it in the us as well it's it doesn't have the same marbling or fat content as uh japanese wagyu but oh yeah see look all right they put whoever makes it puts one little piece and sneaks it up there and the back so at least you have some meat in that bite you used to be where they didn't have that piece of meat there so you just get it's like an air ball right it would be like just a bite of white bread but i'm glad that they've kind of added to it. King wong likes the prawn katsu oh that sounds really good yeah that one in um kimura pan in ginza is really really good. All right let's try this out here look at that it's a tower everyone's watching me all the kids go by a lot of kids if you ask kids these days what do you want to be when you grow up they say youtuber i'm proud i'm proud that i have a job that kids want to do you know all right let's give this a try they say wasabi soy sauce taste we'll see you can see that there's some sort of sauce in there and the mayonnaise does have some wasabi in there but just a little bit excellent beef it's not it's not dry my first thought was that beef is going to be a little bit dry but it's not it's moist that's good the white bread is white bread so that that doesn't change i guess the reason why white bread is seems to be preferred is because it doesn't take away from the flavors of the ingredients inside and i'm guessing this is what when um the researchers who came up with all of these answers and why they do make the bread the way they do this is basically a tasteless bread that just doesn't take away from the ingredients inside good thing bad thing i don't know but when judging a sandwich the last bite is important and i'm glad that they snuck in a piece of beef on the back end of it that's uh i'm sure that they listened to complaints from customers and came up with an answer like a soy sauce gel sauce with wasabi it's like the taste of the beef in that but it's not a bad thing to have a touch of wasabi that was pleasant.

00:26:01 John Daub: All right i got one more i got one more oh man really really and this is just destiny i didn't plan this out um brandania writes in here i haven't been to 7-eleven in a long time i'm now inspired and curious to see what kinds of foods that they have introduced tomorrow is scope out 7-eleven day should be i think when 7-eleven japan of the seven & i group in Japan started to buy out the American counterparts I did see a little bit last time I was in the U.S the 7-elevens in the U.S kind of like raised their games a little bit I think because they started to use different Technologies and to change the menu and integrate and it's important that um that in order for the convenience stores that were in the past in the 1970s and 80s and even in the 90s to continue to thrive because even supermarkets and others uh fast food restaurants are competing with convenience stores we have to think differently about convenience stores in order for them to survive they have to offer more services in Japan a convenience store offers I pay my bills gas bill electric bill I used to pay my telephone bill uh when I had a landline at the convenience store they send you a form they scan it and then you pay them the convenience store takes a small cut and it was very convenient to pay my bills instead of sending in a check or something I'd be able to do it just at the convenience store and I was done with it convenience stores offered services in Japan and changed daily life the way we live our lives we depend on convenience stores more than in any other country I think here in Japan I get my tickets for Airlines can pick them up at the convenience stores you know so I think that 7-Eleven Japan is going to change that in the U.S because they want to make money.

00:27:43 John Daub: This is dessert I'm surprised a little bit that they didn't have just a full-on strawberry and cream sandwich but this is a pineapple strawberry and kiwi sandwich. Hey Jennifer French you know what I'm gonna extend the live stream a little bit and see if we can get a coffee at a vending machine how about that although that 7-eleven has really good coffee um all the convenience stores are making really good coffee. The kiwi fruits here you can see in the front kiwi is sort of expensive in Japan uh one kiwi fruit is like a little bit more expensive than the other ones like a dollar but we will see how much kiwi fruit is in this thing as we open her up it's pleasing you know I think when the can makers for Coca-Cola started to make that tab they put in that they thought they put some thought into the sound that it makes and every time you hear it you get a kind of a pleasant happiness from that and I'm sure that they put the same thought into making these sandwiches here all right in the butt end as we open her up from behind here no fruit that was to be expected it's all up here in the first third of the sandwich does look good it's one strawberry and a quarter of a kiwi and looks like two pieces of pineapple one here and one here with some cream in there let's see if I was right I can't see it yeah it looks like it again white bread means blank canvas so you can eat sweet foods with it as well as like salty and meaty and savory foods with it so you can only do this with white bread so is a business decision 7-Eleven can just make a lot of the same bread and use that as the base just like rice would be for a rice bowl white rice could go good with uh a lot of different things it's very versatile this one is only 233 calories so it's really good.

00:30:22 John Daub: Japanese sandwiches are seasonal which means um which means I think you know what seasonal means basically four seasons in Japan um in India we have two seasons rainy and dry so uh it's different down there when I say seasonal but here in Japan maybe there's three seasons in India actually but um we have four seasons winter spring summer and fall and fruit sandwiches I pretty much only see in the winter but I started to notice more mango sandwiches and summer fruits popping into the sandwiches here um banana sandwiches to give you some potassium and some energy in the summer as well I've seen those starting to pop up banana cream but the fruit sandwiches I don't know how popular they are I think that the ladies like them and the men usually don't go for the fruit sandwiches so much they go for the meaty stuff New York pastrami was a meat sandwich that was seasonal that was here in the fall only and um they've kind of phased it out now it's back to this uh beef with wasabi wasabi in there um yeah dark Zaku writes in here I went on a study abroad in college in 2014 in Taiwan the family mart uh there changed my life so differently from the U.S you could buy and do anything from that location as compared to the U.S basically life in Japan you kind of are very reliant I don't not rely on the convenience store to get just about anything done again um copy machines uh sometimes I still gotta do faxes you can do faxes there pick up tickets um pay my bills there they have fresh vegetables they've changed the way they do it when I first came to Japan coffee was only available in the vending machines or at like McDonald's or at a kissaten (coffee shop) which is uh what was that like old coffee shops it was just hard to get a good cup of coffee in Japan canned coffee was probably all that you had to do all you had Starbucks just came in and when I first came to Japan Starbucks had one shop all right there wasn't a lot of coffee shops or chains I think Doutor might have been starting to grow but since 2007 or eight about 10 years and a little bit over 10 years now coffee from Japan has become no I about seven eight years actually you've been able to get pretty good coffee at convenience stores meaning they have uh grinders and you come out and you can get a fresh drip coffee but before that you could only get canned coffee or a can that's been sitting in a heater for like days like a roller hot dog coffee because it's in a can it's not bad but there's chemicals in it and you can taste that it doesn't taste as good as a fresh drip coffee but the taste of Japan has changed where more younger people are starting to drink coffee instead of green tea which is I'd think not a bad not a good thing because I'm sure it's going to have health consequences uh later on in life whereas Japanese the older generation drinks a lot of green tea they live a little bit longer I don't know about the next generation uh again like I've said this before you have so many other foods that they didn't have back in the 1950s 60s 70s and 80s that are not as healthy for you more beef less fish stuff like this the Japanese diet has changed as we reflected in the sandwiches right there's no fish in these sandwiches it's all chicken beef pork you know oh there's shrimp deep fried shrimp you know what I mean so it's interesting.

00:34:12 John Daub: We do have moderators in the chat we do see here we should we do any questions you did make it to a live stream what are the effects of coffee in the long term I don't know I'm not a scientist I can't give you that data but I can tell you one thing I am addicted to coffee in a way where if I stop it I will get a headache after two three days and that can't be good so I'm trying to limit my coffee but it's hard I've got a lot of sandwiches uh leftover which is a snack for a little bit later on we're gonna go over I think the mods might be busy with this if we can get up to 600 likes I'm going to take you over uh thanks to Jennifer French uh get a coffee from a vending machine now to kind of put a ribbon on this episode but if you have some questions I would be really appreciative because it's kind of interesting to hear your feedback on Japanese sandwiches. Japan has top varieties of sandwiches of the whole world that's hard that's a hard statement New York sandwiches are pretty darn good pastrami sandwich in New York I think I don't know just different countries have different sandwiches you know sandwiches in the UK were kind of boring but they weren't bad I don't know just different different cultures have different ways that they want to prepare it U.S likes to put of stuff in there more jalapenos i've seen recently different kinds of sauces honey mustard ranch things like this yeah uh the breads that they used just recently these are good good feedback here recently it's not whole wheat bread just be careful they've been putting um like brown sugar into the bread or different things that change the color of the bread which makes it look healthier but it's actually not whole wheat bread so in order to make sure you check on the back and the label to make sure it's not just like a brown sugar bread where they just change the color because it does make you think it's healthier if it's brown bread but that's not always the case okay um they are using different kinds of breads and i think it was about four or five years ago they started to use tortillas but if you compare them to like wawa which is my favorite convenience store in the u.s there's so much stuff in there i'm not gonna lie there's so much smaller and three times the price of one of these sandwiches that i ate wrap sandwiches are very very niche and usually they're either sold out or they're not maybe the selection is one or two of them they do have hot pocket type sandwiches as well that you can microwave but um i've been seeing them less and less um it's these sandwiches that you see here seem to be the staple of convenience store food yeah i also miss wawa there's meatball subs and the way you can order from a touch screen and customize your sandwich is probably the best convenience store in the world for sandwiches wawa versus 7-eleven i think wawa would beat 7-eleven hands down 7-eleven japan might be a little bit closer um if you're a decaf drinker you're gonna find it hard to find decaf in japan um people drink the coffee for the caffeine i'll be honest with you a little bit for the taste probably for the caffeine yeah spam uh glenn do you mean like in the comments or actual spam uh spam is still pretty popular in japan especially in okinawa cuisine so anything else.

00:37:47 John Daub: All right let's go over to the vending machine here i didn't even try this green tea so i'm gonna have a the sandwiches weren't dry so i didn't have any problems with it at all let me get my bag here by the way i'm putting these in the mailbox here so i got three postcards this month's postcard is uh going out to brenda in illinois richard in idaho and john in brisbane these are going out to you guys today thanks for supporting and uh we have here the end of the year stamps you see that next year is the year of the cow and wagyu beef is going to be on the menu a lot more this year but that's the year of the cow this year so you're getting a year of the cow stamp with rewa uh three on the stamp you can see up there i like to pick the stamps are important to me so that i make sure you get good ones shane's waiting for his stamp the stamp for the postcard hope you're waiting for the postcard there all right we'll drop these in hey there we got a guest some weeks peter's on the show other weeks you know pigeons all right let's go find a vending machine here get my mask on oh it's inside the sandwich bag oh i got egg salad on my mask oh it's nasty it smells like egg salad that's not a bad thing that's not a bad thing all right where's our vending machine around here okay there's one around the corner seems like our moderators are quite busy with the a different kind of a sandwich spam sandwich hey shawn writes in here your videos have made quarantine much more bearable oh they took away my they built a new house here like i don't live around here things change but this used to be a uh old coffee an old um like little convenience store for like from the 1950s and it's gone and they built this a new apartment building what that was a vending machine all right we got to go a little bit further i do like this area if you take a look over there you see some old houses from the uh 1950s some nagaya (row houses) maybe even before then but most of tokyo has been uh again like here's a building with the old copper plating this one's from the 1930s after the great kanto earthquake uh in the 1920s new houses that went up because of the fires started to copper plate them and you can see that the copper plating uh turns a little bit green i think there's some alloy in there but we're starting to see these buildings disappear as well as the older ones all right jennifer french i'm always so appreciative of the help i know that there's a vending machine right around the corner here let's see if we can get a hot coffee there's a vending machine like every 100 meters you know except when there isn't i think there's one in the front oh look at that high coffee machine oh look at that high coffee machine oh look at that class doggy he's got a sweater on oh look at this this is the emerald mountain that looks interesting but it's cold these are heated this this one has been in the georgia coca-cola machines forever the emerald mountain blend it's the classic that color all right around the side i saw another one yes this is the one that's full on sweetened and then there's the royal milk tea which is so good too yes do it i haven't had this in 20 years maybe these were never sold in the max coffee um historically these weren't sold in tokyo these were only up in the tohoku area because they had a max shinkansen right this double decker shinkansen so max coffee was i found these up in ibaraki uh when i was living up in mito and used to drink these up in utsunomiya and tochigi too these in tokyo um they're super sweet and they're bigger than normal cans they're nice and warm so on cold days i put these in my pocket to keep me warm it is hot this is a hot one and behind me there's a old mom and pop uh beer shop i don't know how much longer it'll still be in business because the one just down the street is gone businesses are dropping like crazy here in tokyo and it's kind of heartbreaking for me to see that here we go all right let's go to the next one that's so sweet this is why i haven't had this in some 20 years wow if you like sweetened coffee like dessert coffee this is what this is it's um how many calories is this do i want to know that's about 480 calories so it's 480 calories it's cream sugar and i think a little bit of coffee but it's all hot it's all hot 480 calories what i'm gonna put that to the side there thank you jennifer that was sweet of you it's bad joke.

00:45:53 John Daub: Oh this is a very famous um when you ever ride the oedo line they make there's a commercial for this um takasago is a very famous um meat restaurant like a butcher shop so they probably have some pretty good sandwiches here if they had it let's just take a quick look see whoa look at those eggs they've been sitting in meat juices pretty cool they do have bentos but no sandwiches there oh no they do have a sandwich oh they do have a sandwich it's a beef katsu sandwich let's take a quick look wait hold on a second there's a cluster they sell here yama got the beef i can smell the meat here oh that's a menchi katsu (minced meat cutlet) sandwich it's like a hamburger deep-fried hamburger wow that's got to be that would have to be one of the best sandwiches this is a very famous meat shop in Tokyo actually in this area Tsukishima station would be the closest I parked my bike near the 7-Eleven so I got to go back over there.

00:47:51 John Daub: But I hope that this sandwich episode gives you a little bit of insight that the my conclusions are Japanese sandwiches better. I don't know I think every culture has a different way to do sandwiches Japan has their own way which is to use white bread just a basic white bread because they put more emphasis on the toppings inside well I think in the United States that bread pretty much is an important element to the sandwich in itself so there might be more thought going into the bread of a sandwich in the United States not a lot of thought is put into the bread here it's more about the fillings the vegetables and the texture and the way when you bite into the sandwich what kind of flavors are coming together and how does the tension of those ingredients they're thinking about that on every single bite so all of these sandwiches that I tried had a different feeling in my mouth and hit a different part of my tongue or my senses and that is was totally planned by 7-Eleven there's no doubt that they had researchers going in how do we make each bite pleasant and different and unique so people want to keep coming in and try different sandwiches I know that they're thinking about that. That's why they have so many different kinds of sandwiches that's why Japanese sandwiches are so good. They really really take it to another level especially that egg salad sandwich, which is so so delicious. Thanks so much for watching everybody. Hey. Hey. Hello. Hello. Hi is here hope you guys are doing well I'm gonna be tomorrow on the shinkansen going up to Tohoku taking you to Kesennuma and interviewing somebody who survived the tsunami and earthquake up there and hear his account so you're not gonna want to miss that hit the subscribe button and make sure you get ready. I'll put a time in patreon and Instagram and a schedule so you can you won't miss that but get ready tomorrow I got two live streams from kesennuma which is a place that definitely needs us to shine a light on it Chicago African I will totally get a bento for I was live-streaming, but I don't know if I might be able to do it on the shinkansen because it's a Japan rail sponsored not sponsored, but they're helping me out with this my video thanks, everybody Nagoya. John's here. Kameida and Eichi is better than Starbucks. I believe that kumitas everywhere now in Tokyo, too they're starting to take over Marty dinner Thank You Marty. I'm gonna be taking home these half-eaten Marty I'll find some maybe I'll take home this menchi katsu sandwich. Okay, I won't I won't take it home these half-eaten sandwiches back okay i'll find something better i'll find something better thank you marty and thank you everybody else see you in the next live stream tomorrow bye from tokyo.