00:00:00 John Daub: This is a tendon, tempura on a bowl of rice. I just got this at the food court here in Tokyo. This is Lalaport (shopping mall) along the seaside, Tokyo Bay. It came with miso soup on the side. Check this out. If you never get these open, just squeeze it a little bit and the air will come out. Then you'll be able to open it up. So instead of a drink, you have the option of a small Coca-Cola or miso soup. I kind of went with the miso soup. It is piping hot. Check this out. They do have takoyaki here, but this tempura was just too good to pass up.

00:00:30 John Daub: Put a little bit of pickles here on the side. There's a big shrimp there, just came out of the fryer. Came with chopsticks here. But before I eat this, tempura is pretty good. I thought I'd take you inside of the shopping mall. So you get to take a quick look at the food court. It's kind of interesting. Now, this is, hey, Paul S. Keep up the great work. You got it, my friends in Australia. I'm going to take you inside. This is a great time.

00:01:04 John Daub: So I'm going to be speaking in a low voice. I have a microphone right here, so you'll be able to hear me okay. But we got to be safe. By the way, for any Canadians, that truck over there, there's some food trucks, is a poutine truck with Canadian food. Maybe we'll be able to get something from that food truck a little bit later on. All right, let's go inside. Mask on. I'm just going to leave the food here. I think it's going to be okay. There's alcohol at the alcohol pumps everywhere.

00:01:53 John Daub: Now, I notice a lot of the people that are eating Kentucky Fried Chicken are doing so because they have an app that has coupons on there. But the menu looks pretty good. It's like a garlic bacon on there. So it's an option. But with so many other options, I don't know why you would get that. This is the tempura one that I got right here, the Edomai tendon, which looks so good. This one was about $14 for that with the soup. It's a good looking set. The chefs are hard at work there.

00:02:26 John Daub: I'm going to take you over here and show you the ramen and sukiyaki (hot pot) is also an option. Bowls of ramen. You see the hanjuku tamago (soft-boiled egg), the half ajitama. They got that on the menu. It's pretty cheap. It's about $10 for a bowl. Some of the cheaper ones are about $8. On the other side, there's some yakiniku (grilled beef), some beef, some more ramen. The noodles are really popular. The food court's changed a little bit over time. Look at the grilled beef here.

00:03:27 John Daub: That's a ninki (popular) number one. This one with that egg oozing on top of that beef bowl. Here's a little bit of sushi and maguro (tuna). This is kind of a kaisendon (seafood rice bowl). Look at that. This is the best food court looking food that you can find. Oh man, that's about $15. Then we have some more beef stuff. Kind of hot pot action going on here. It's interesting. Let's move on over.

00:04:03 John Daub: They actually have a table. They have a takeout menu. You can picnic outside, which is really convenient. This is my go-to place because it's quick, it's easy, and it's delicious. This is udon. They have tempura there. You can add the toppings that you like. It moves super fast, the line does. You can see the chefs are there making it. On the side here, you get a view. Hopefully the signal stays okay. On the side here, you can watch them making the noodles.

00:04:39 John Daub: They're not actually making it right now, but you can watch them making the noodles here, which is super cool. Everything is fresh. Udon has to be fresh noodles. Let's walk around the food court a little bit. There's a Freshness Burger, so if you want some Western food, that exists. They even go in the distance here. You can see the plastic models. There's takoyaki. There's some ramen. You got some burgers, Freshness Burgers right there. The plastic models make it really easy to decide what you want.

00:05:15 John Daub: You can just stand here and say that. This one, number two. Even Kentucky Fried Chicken has plastic models. Look at that. Oh, this is cool. Look at the way that the udon is suspended in midair by chopsticks. There's my tempura place. We're going to go and eat that. That's from Nihonbashi, a famous shop in the center of Tokyo. They have a satellite shop here. And of course, they have kids menus too for kids because the shopping mall is a kid-friendly place. A lot of kids come here to shop too.

00:05:51 John Daub: Everything is recycled. This is for the typical gomi (trash). It's burnable, non-burnable. We call them combustible, which is burnable. Incombustible, non-burnable, plastic and bottles and cans. But you would just return your tray and usually the shop will do it. Here's Gindako, which is a takoyaki place. They got a new flavor out and I'm dying to try, but the line is super long. It's moving slow. It's yuzu ponzu (yuzu citrus soy sauce).

00:06:24 John Daub: Which is yuzu, a citrus fruit. Whoa, that looks so good. And of course, for dessert, they've got Krispy Kreme here. You can picture, I don't know what's different from Krispy Kreme here and Krispy Kreme in the United States. Maybe they're smaller. Oh, wow, they have a melon cream. Looks like a melon, like melon pan (melon bread). That's interesting. All right, I like what they've done here. So everything, there's partitions to keep people safe.

00:07:19 John Daub: As safe as possible. Everyone's wearing a mask except when they eat. When you do decide to eat, they ask you to not talk, to be quiet. And this stops the spreading of anything that might be bad in the air. There's a center in the middle for you to wash your hands. It's been used a lot and trash is constantly being moved away. But you would return your tray to the restaurant that you purchased your stuff. All right, let's get to that tempura. Hope this is interesting for you. This is connected to the shopping mall Lalaport.

00:08:33 John Daub: This is actually in Toyosu. And there's my lunch. This is what I decided to eat here. So I put the tripod here and then I can eat and take some of your questions. This is called Lalaport. This is a shopping mall in Toyosu, which is not that far away from, actually it's just four stops away from Yurakucho or Ginza. So it's not that far to get to the center, to Toyosu from the center of Tokyo. Oh, that looks so good. All right, so you can hear me. And I don't have to be too loud.

00:09:19 John Daub: So this is the tempura lunch. I'm going to remove my mask now. Wow, that's a lot of deep fried stuff. This is not going to be good for my diet. Starting tomorrow. Let's try it with some of these shrimp here. This is called Edomai. Hey, Michael Sassano is here. This live stream is making me so hungry for tempura. If you're still hungry after this meal, here's some okane (money) for a sweet treat afterwards. You got it. I might go check out that poutine over there.

00:10:08 John Daub: Japanese version of Canadian food. I think we've got some Canadians here. I'll put that towards some more food. Thanks, Michael. All right, here's some shrimp. It's not on the barbie. Oh, man. Now I know why this place is popular. Oh, that's so flavorful. So they've added in here goma oil (sesame oil) to give it some extra flavoring, which is interesting. I noticed in Osaka, they will usually add in some sesame oil. But it's rare in Tokyo, but they did it here, and it's so much more flavorful.

00:11:06 John Daub: All right, so what is this here? Some kind of seafood. Oh, it's diced up scallops. That is nice. That is very nice. All right, instead of a drink, I got miso soup. You want to see the miso soup? So this is what a bowl of miso soup looks like here at the food court. It's nice and hot. It's got some vegetables in there, some leeks, negi. Mm, well, that's good. Oh, that's real good.

00:12:16 John Daub: Angel Forever 59, thank you. No, thank you. All right, here we go. WXR Turbo in the house. All right, this one is I'm the most curious about. I can't even lift it up. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my. This is massive. Check this out. It deserves its own shot. It's like a UFO. This is a shrimp. How do they get them so big? No, it's not shrimp. This is anago (saltwater eel).

00:13:11 John Daub: Oh, my gosh, this is so good. Mm, this is so good. Wow. Usually when it's something long inside there, you just assume it to be eel. This is assumed for it to be shrimp, right? Like a tiger shrimp or something. They have a way to make it longer with the batter. That's anago. That's good. It's so soft, so tender with the crunch of the tempura batter on there. Deep fried. Oh, I'm spoiled rotten.

00:14:03 John Daub: This is interesting. This is deep fried. This is seaweed. Part of the tendon. Mm. Anago is saltwater eel and unagi (freshwater eel) is freshwater eel. So that's the difference between the two. I tend to like unagi more, but it's harder to find good unagi. The ones that are farmed are not as good. Oh, you have to see this. I just punctured it. Oh, my gosh. Oh, click the like button for some egg. Look at it oozing. Oh, I didn't expect that.

00:14:45 John Daub: Okay, here we go. Oh, my word. Oh, how do they do that? Oh, wow. The tempura. I'm going back to this place. They deep fried it, but how do they keep it so soft? I need a straw for this. Oh, I'm dipping in some of the scallops. Oh, that's so good. Dip in some of this little pepper here. Extra egg on there. Oh, wow. Oh, that's not spicy. It's more like a green pepper.

00:15:42 John Daub: Now that the bowl is reduced in size a little bit, you can pick it up and then you can eat it like this and bring it to your mouth a little bit. I would love to send this through the camera to you. We're live right now. Oh, man. You know, Shane, I know you don't like seafood, but when it's been battered and deep fried, might be okay, no? Mmm. I'm going to try this.

00:17:10 John Daub: This is for those joining us now. I'll take you back inside. Just take one more look around. See if there's anything for dessert. I don't know if I'm into the Krispy Kreme. I'm not sure. There was some other stuff in there, but that poutine over there, the Canadian poutine is looking at me. I'll take you over to Tokyo Bay a little bit. Beautiful day. Shane writes, maybe not. Shane does not like anything fishy fishy, you know?

00:17:44 John Daub: So I'm a little bit nervous about going out into the food court, but I don't know, what do you guys think? Do you think you would feel safe knowing that vaccines are still rolling out here? How would you feel being here? And I'm eating outside because it's just a little bit safer in the open air and I want to be able to talk. If you're inside, you probably shouldn't be talking, at least not according to the rules there. But did you see after taking a look inside, do you think it's safe enough? Would you feel okay eating at a food court with your family here?

00:18:37 John Daub: As long as you're vaccinated, you're safe according to science, right? It's an average Joe. I'm not, so I'm not safe. Again, we're living in a pandemic time. You could see they've taken the precautions inside there and it's kind of interesting to see that it was actually very crowded. About an hour ago, which is why I'm on this live stream. A little bit later, I wanted to wait until some of the crowds went away and they did. That's the anago. Here's a shrimp. It's a good looking shrimp. And then there's just a little bit more egg there.

00:19:17 John Daub: This anago is so, so good. See if I can put this on the other side. It's coming right through. Look at the way the rice sticks to it. That's so good. I'll say that 100 times because it's true. Archon 89 craving tendon. I don't know. I don't think it was from Hanosuke. This is a famous shop in Nihonbashi, but I didn't see the sign. It said Edo-Mai Tendon and it looks so good.

00:20:07 John Daub: The miso soup was an extra dollar. So you save 30 yen by getting it as a set. I would have gotten a drink, but you know, they didn't have green tea on the soda fountain. It was Coca-Cola, Fanta, you know, the regular usual suspects here. Nothing healthy. So I just went with the miso soup. I can get a bottle of water or something later. There's a green tea from the vending machine. Now see the tail on this shrimp. You can actually eat it when it's been deep fried. It's got a lot of good calcium in there. The oil makes it crunchy and makes it able to break down.

00:21:11 John Daub: Junk Kimura is very hungry. Nice to see you, dog. I'm bringing back some stuff for Kanae as well, so I appreciate that. Yeah, that's the one. We have a branch in Mitsui in Edgewater. They're so good. I don't think that's the one here, but good to hear they have good tendon in New Jersey and California. All right. Last piece of anago. So worth it. I would have paid double for this. I was so hungry. This meal was $14.

00:22:10 John Daub: I'm actually not going to eat all of the rice. You can find it at the store. Eat it but we've got more to eat. Gochisousama deshita (thanks for the meal). Alright, so I gotta go take this tray inside. Can you guys stay here for a little bit? You know what, maybe I can take you with me and drop off the tray. Hold on, I'll show you how to do that. Try to keep the mic safe.

00:23:11 John Daub: Here's a little ticket, the ticket that I got here. I was number 13, right there. And I can tell you one more thing. So when you order the food, they give you a buzzer. I think they do this in the US too, don't they? Excuse me. They give you this thing and it starts to vibrate and that means to go pick up your food. So it took about 15 minutes. I ordered it at 1:30 and I was finished at 1:46 about. It took a good 15 minutes. So it's certainly not fast food. It's made to order. Actually not a bad thing.

00:23:55 John Daub: Alright, let's go and let's take this inside now. I'm gonna drop this off and then I'll take you on a trip around the town. I did not finish it all, I know. Whoa, that tempura place is real popular. Thank you, sir. Thanks. Oh, the tray returns on the other side. Okay, there you go. You return the trays here. You can get them as to-go. Which, maybe I should have gotten that. You can eat it in the park. I'll show you there too.

00:24:36 John Daub: But, as you can see, like, there weren't any really good drink options. So, no tea, which is odd. So I just went with the miso soup. You can see there's the set there. That's the one I ordered. Pretty good. Next time, I think I'm gonna go for that yakiniku, that beef bowl with the hanjuku tamago on top of there. But I don't see any dessert. I think I'm gonna go for the yakiniku. This is a really good dessert that's really tempting me. There's a Krispy Kreme over there. Let's go take a quick look on that side.

00:25:44 John Daub: Oh, the line's too long for the Krispy Kreme. Shane, we're just gonna have to go get some poutine. Poutine. I never know how to pronounce it, because it's not a usual food. The melon donuts look really good, but it looks like the line is just too long. All right, let's go get some poutine. Oh, there's that melon donut! Taste of summer. Even Kentucky Fried Chicken looks pretty good here, right? Alright, off we go. Thanks so much everyone for joining me here in Tokyo, on Tokyo Bay in Toyosu. This is the Lalaport.

00:26:36 John Daub: Let's go take a look at Tokyo Bay. We're going to wrap around and check out those food trucks over there. But every food court, every shopping mall in Japan has a food court now. And even the AEON Malls, which are just about everywhere, they're pretty ubiquitous in Japan. But I like these Lalaports. There's one in Toyosu, one in we're near the Ikea in Chiba. Odaiba has some pretty good food courts as well. Odaiba's not too far away. Here's Tokyo Bay.

00:27:33 John Daub: Ryan K., thank you. Did I miss Nagoya John? I did. It's pronounced poutine. Got it. Let's go grab some poutine. I was going to pan around here on Tokyo Bay from the Toyosu side, from the Lalaport side. So if you do make the trip out here, it's four stops away from Yurakucho on the Yurakucho line. It's pretty close. Yurakucho is the JR station closest to Ginza. It's just four stops. Rainbow Bridge is just over those two bridges there. You can see the top of the Rainbow Bridge.

00:28:17 John Daub: And on the weekends, there's a lot of kids playing. It's a little bit harder to social distance, but everyone is wearing masks. So you just have to do your best. Make sure you wash your hands, wash your clothes when you get home. Better take as many precautions as you can. Japan. Still very much in the pandemic. Spaceboat will make a trip in here. See the drawbridge raised here? Spaceboat comes in here twice a day. I'll take you to Odaiba.

00:28:48 John Daub: So you could come from Asakusa and come to Toyosu. This is what you would find. Shopping mall, movie theaters. There's a bubblegum shrimp if you're into like theme restaurants and lots of parks for kids to play in because this is a lot of apartment complexes here. All right, let's go get some poutine. How about a local business? From Canada. A lot of new skyscrapers here.

00:29:23 John Daub: Now, I didn't want to live here at first because we don't live here. But one of the reasons a lot of people are kind of suspect is because this land is made for you and me out of trash. So all this land right here is made from trash underneath us that has become an island. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't have any problem living on top of trash. It's probably my trash. As the Yurikamome line leaves going towards Big Sight and Odaiba.

00:29:48 John Daub: Just get the cheese curds. Really? Alright, let's go investigate. No pigeons or crows. All the kids have chased them away. Alright, so we have Hawaiian food. We have Hawaiian food here. Poke. Poke tomo kochi chicken. It's good. I've never seen that before. I just have a cup of mochi kochi chicken. Ah, kochi chicken is good. I like karaage (fried chicken).

00:30:26 John Daub: Poke. The Hawaiians are trying to mean my pronunciation is awful, but I'm getting off of katakana, okay? I love it. They take like mashed potatoes and make super long french fries here. Which, I don't know if they're french fries if they do it like that. But they put like mochi in it. It has like a mochi mochi (chewy) kind of a stretchy taste to it. So you'll see this at a lot of festivals. Sometimes you just put like cheese on it. And sometimes you just make it like okonomiyaki (savory pancake) and start putting all the toppings on that on top of the fries. That is pretty hardcore.

00:31:14 John Daub: Alright, we gotta try this poutine. We gotta support our, we got a lot of Canadians watching. We gotta support any company that's making American food or Canadian food. Or any kind of weird food. Stuff that you wouldn't normally find here. Alright, I got a fiver. How much is the poutine? $6.50? Better buy it. It's gonna be good. Last time I ate poutine was with Kanae. We were in Montreal. And a friend of ours, Danny, a couple of other people also suggested to get the poutine at a place. We waited about an hour and a half to get into this restaurant.

00:31:54 John Daub: Alright, let's see. I have $6.50. This is the Canada poutine. Alright, we're next in line here. I'm not that hungry. I'm doing this for you. I'm just curious. I'm gonna have to shove some of these through the microphone into all you guys on the other side. Can I have this Canada poutine, please? $6.50. Is that the mascot? If it was maple flavored. Thank you. So that's what you get for poutine in Japan.

00:32:29 John Daub: Okay. Let's go take you to this table here. I'm a little bit curious. Join the round table. So this doesn't look like the poutine that I've ever tried before. This looks pretty weak. There's no gravy. No. Maybe it's on the bottom. We're gonna dig in and see. Looks a little suspect here. Check it out. It does look very suspect. Where are the cheese curds? That poutine is lacking big time. For $6.50? That's pretty sad, man.

00:34:04 John Daub: JH is even scared. JH writes in, I'm scared. Are they wet? I got ripped off. Should I complain? Is that the way to go? You don't complain in Japan. I do feel ripped off. All right. You know what? We don't have to eat the whole thing. It's just for experimentation. So I think poutine is... Maybe it's on the bottom. All right. Let's... There is stuff here. It's not good. And it's not even hot.

00:35:04 John Daub: There's a little piece of cheese there. What is that? The cheese hasn't melted at all. You know what? It looks like the mascot. That's sad. Look at the mascot for this Canadian poutine. Look at my face. It's not... It tells a story. Look at the mascot. Just nasty. Looks like a pulled tooth. Some dude didn't brush his teeth and then pulled his tooth and showed the world. Is that Canadian? Nasty.

00:35:53 John Daub: I don't think they even want one. I don't think it's legal to... All right. Hold on. I'm just going to make a quick test. Okay. I'm not supposed to do that. Let's see. Does he walk away? No. He eats it. Sort of. Help our friends out here. I don't want to waste it. I would have eaten the rice if I knew that this was... It was going to be this... I should call the Canadian embassy and report this. Does anyone have the number? Canadian embassy needs to investigate this.

00:36:45 John Daub: You know what? I'm going to really go deep. Really? All right. You know what? Here. You Canadians can make the call here. I don't know. 1-800-CANADA. This is the best it'll get. That's pretty nasty. Looks like a scab. Like a wound. I don't know. Glenn's grossed out now. It's not real poutine. Well, what are you going to do? We're like thousands of kilometers away. We're across the world's biggest ocean. Maple syrup would help this.

00:37:35 John Daub: Oh, I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry. I quit. Oh, man. Even the cheese doesn't taste like curd. It's a massive disappointment. I should have gotten a sandwich here. All right. Somebody call 1-800-CANADA. Report this. I can't eat this anymore. Should I just return it and say, dude, really? Look, Canadians are non-confrontational. So we would just throw it away and throw it away right in front of him. That was awful.

00:38:16 John Daub: All right. I can't do this. This is not poutine. I've had poutine. Poutine is a friend of mine. That was not poutine. Okay? Shame on you. Shame. We're just having fun, okay? All right. I'm going to show you a little bit around the shopping mall now.

00:39:03 John Daub: More poutine. What is that? Come on. Give it real. It's a very deep reference. Those... Many of you were born in 1992 or... Oh, check out that dog. He's like, I thought that was an old woman. I thought that was like an old lady, like an old baa-chan (granny). Didn't I look like a woman? I did have to do a triple take. Even the double take didn't confirm it.

00:39:55 John Daub: All right. You're not supposed to park your bicycles here, people. But if one person does it, everybody starts doing it. If you're ever in Japan, there's a red light, okay? And there's no cars coming. It's in the middle of the countryside. It's a hideous red light. And there's a dozen people waiting. One person crosses, everybody looks at each other, and then they start to cross. If one person crosses, then everybody follows. So if one person parks their bike here, everybody starts parking their bike here. I mean, check it out. Look. You're not supposed to park your bike here. They do it anyways.

00:40:44 John Daub: There's a crow. Toby (crow). He knows not to come in this area. All right. This is the Lalaport Shopping Mall. I've done live streams here before. This one was special because I thought... Just wanted to check out the food court and get out a little bit on the way. Yeah? It's a nice, warm day, but it's not hot in June during the rainy season. And it's not raining, too. June, in the rainy season, the temperatures are a lot cooler. Last night, I think it was down to 16 degrees Celsius, which is like 60s.

00:41:26 John Daub: Whoa, check it out. It's like one of those training things that the astronauts do. Look at that. They should sling shot him up, really sling him. That's what I would do. That's why I'm not working there. I thought I'd get slung if I truly wanted to. Did it all right yeah it's a pretty nice shopping mall there's a Uniqlo in there like there's a Kaleido there's a food court there's a Bubba Gump Shrimp it's like I don't know if you need any of these in your life but you know if you're a fan of Forrest Gump get some of that Bubba Gump shrimp it's a thing.

00:41:58 John Daub: A spaceboat will park here and this is space boat's cousin so I don't know if the I said that the picture looks a little blurry I apologize could be a dead zone this is a mini spaceboat looking speedboat okay I'm gonna show you the front and you be the judge and then we're gonna end the live stream right here cuz I got to go and see hang out with Peter a little bit it's got kind of a spaceboat feel to it doesn't it that one on this on the right side it looks like it's made with the same same stuff and it looks kind of spacey it's hard to see from here it looks like it could be the bat boat that's right yeah.

00:42:40 John Daub: I mean no games no clarity how do I look probably an improvement thanks so much for watching as I burp up this poutine oh man I feel sick it's really starting to boil down there but I appreciate the support guys if you haven't already go check out that the new episode I put on the main channel you haven't subscribed to it please do because 50% of the people watch video are not subscribed apparently to analytics they probably don't even know it's a new channel I appreciate that and I'll be back with another live stream soon bye bye.

00:43:34 John Daub: I'm planning to go if you can hear me maybe the quality is bad I'm planning to go to Akihabara tomorrow Akihabara to check out some of the I heard that we lost some more businesses there that's a big deal so tomorrow morning I'm planning to go to Akihabara planning to depends on the weather and on Sunday on the next day I'll do a travel update there's so many things that have been changing here in Japan mainly because of the vaccinations and I have my ear to the ground and been listening to people in the travel industry about when travel is going to start up there's a huge demand for this to happen sooner than later so some some things are happening and I'll report to you probably on Sunday US time with this so travel update is inbound it's pretty cool and Akihabara tomorrow if I can get there in the morning curious to see how everything's doing if you have any questions leave them in the comments below appreciate it so much everybody and I will see you tomorrow tomorrow no more poutine no more poutine outside of Canada that's the last one I'm ever gonna have see what they've done they've ruined five meters above sea level I don't think that's enough you're right this in case tsunami does come so you know how high it is see everybody by the way that's the Olympic Village there's the Olympic Village and there's Toyosu fish market right there so there are things around here.

00:44:11 John Daub: I'm planning to go if you can hear me maybe the quality is bad I'm planning to go to Akihabara tomorrow Akihabara to check out some of the I heard that we lost some more businesses there that's a big deal so tomorrow morning I'm planning to go to Akihabara planning to depends on the weather and on Sunday on the next day I'll do a travel update there's so many things that have been changing here in Japan mainly because of the vaccinations and I have my ear to the ground and been listening to people in the travel industry about when travel is going to start up there's a huge demand for this to happen sooner than later so some some things are happening and I'll report to you probably on Sunday US time with this so travel update is inbound it's pretty cool and Akihabara tomorrow if I can get there in the morning curious to see how everything's doing if you have any questions leave them in the comments below appreciate it so much everybody and I will see you tomorrow tomorrow no more poutine no more poutine outside of Canada that's the last one I'm ever gonna have see what they've done they've ruined five meters above sea level I don't think that's enough you're right this in case tsunami does come so you know how high it is see everybody by the way that's the Olympic Village there's the Olympic Village and there's Toyosu fish market right there so there are things around here.