00:00:02 John Daub: How you doing everybody? Hello! Welcome to New Chitose Airport in Sapporo. I'm going to take you around some of the shopping that they have here. It's interesting, Hokkaido is one of the most famous places for confections, for shopping, cookies, sweets, all sorts of weird things. They have potatoes. It's the Idaho of Japan, so they have lots of potato things, strawberries, produce. They make a very wide array of things. So I'm going to take you around for the next 25 minutes or so before my flight to show you the shopping options. They also have eating options. Oh, those are the pizza potato chips. Everybody loves those. Look at that. They found a way to put pizza on the potato chips. Yes, please. I actually sent some of these to some Patreon supporters earlier.

00:01:02 John Daub: Turtle writes in, is Japan dangerous? Like, what do you mean? Like with ninjas and stuff? Probably not. But we still have the pandemic going on here, so there's that. Alright, let me see, hey Joy, how you doing? Let me see what we can find in this shop here, Snow Shop. Let's walk around and see what they got here. Now the Shiroi Koibito (White Lover cookies) is very famous here, but they make more than just the cookies. They make, like, chocolate crunch here. Here's one of these bomb kuheen (bomb kuchin?). And then some Koro Koro, made from potatoes. This one's curry flavor, I believe. These are really good. Like croutons, but it's not for salad. It's for snacking on. Corn flavored. Ooh.

00:02:00 John Daub: Now these, I don't think you could take these with you internationally, but for 615 yen, you have baked cheese tarts. Quite good and quite fresh. The expiration date's pretty quick on this one. These are Satsuma-imo (sweet potatoes). Oh, these look good too. Potato snacks. Again, they found a way to make cakes out of just about everything. Oh! Everybody knows Black Black, but this is Shiroi Black. Black Black is like a candy bar with cookies and cream crunch. But in Hokkaido, they make a white one because of the winter snow. They also have a lot of curry, boiler bag curry. If you're a fan of Japanese curry, you can have that here. This is why they got kani (crab), hotate (scallops), and squid in there. So that's a really good seafood curry from Hokkaido. And some other ones, some beef, some pork.

00:03:22 John Daub: Usually in the front, there's some ramen here too. So you can get your Hokkaido has some of the best ramen in Japan. But they found a way to make it that you could carry this home. A lot of it you have to check because you can't buy it. You can't bring pork or beef products into the U.S. So you have to check that with immigrations. But this one's from the Asahikawa Zoo, I think. They got zoo ramen. These are so good. I was thinking of sending this to our Daimyo supporters. Blueberries are quite famous in Hokkaido. And they make a blueberry jam in this one region up in the north. And this is like a blueberry jam roll cake, which is so good. Of course, they've got Hokkaido-style Pringles. Hokkaido Pringles are scallops. Oh, this might be my favorite.

00:04:23 John Daub: This is for 777 yen. They have the Royce chocolate potato chips. They put some premium chocolate on each chip. And it's so well-coated. These are addictive. Don't even start. You can get these in New York City, but it's like three times the price. Don't start. The other flavors are good, but stick with the milk chocolate. Because that's their bread and butter. These are also really nice. You can get these in Yurakucho in Tokyo, too. This is the Yubari melon corn crunch. And they found a way to put melon taste in it, but it's quite good. I sent these a while ago as well. About three years ago, I think. And here's some maple-flavored ones. So Canadians might like this. Hokkaido corn. This one might be my favorite of them all. I think I like them all.

00:05:26 John Daub: This one is the Marusei butter sand cookie. It's raisin and Hokkaido butter on these delicious cookies. They don't keep very long. I think it's about a week. So you're going to want to eat these right away. And this is the Marusei butter cake, which is so good. But there's a little bit of alcohol in these. So if you're allergic to alcohol, maybe pass on that. And then, of course, you always have in every shop is going to have these Shiroi Koibito stand. Where these white Hokkaido cookies are the staple of Japanese confections to give to people. If you get the big box, it comes in a metal tin, which you'll have forever. Which I really like. I'm going to take off one of the two masks. All right. I usually have two masks on for the airplanes. Don't ask me why.

00:06:22 John Daub: This is the center hall of the Hokkaido New Chitose shopping area. Check it out here. You can learn about Sapporo beer in multiple languages here. It's quite large. So if you ever get lost, you can come to this direction. We're going to go over here. This is a Hokkaido love sign. I don't know if this is famous, but it was here two years ago. Kind of welcomes you to the New Chitose Airport. I don't even know where the old Chitose Airport is. Let's go upstairs. Take a look at some of the restaurants. I was here two years ago, I believe. And it has changed quite a bit. But I also want to see up here if any of these businesses have gone out of business. So you can compare it with the video from two years ago if you want. Boom. I also don't know what time the shops close. Some of them look shut down.

00:07:36 John Daub: Usually here you can get your last fix of Hokkaido goodies like ramen, zangi (fried chicken). Hey, Katayama, check it out. Katayama wanted a Japanese character Coca-Cola bottle. Wow. You can get your final kaisendon (seafood rice bowl), for example. Check this out. It's about $20 for the one in the middle. And then it just goes up in price. About $30 for the one on the left. But that's a very generous helping of seafood. Look, you know, good seafood is going to cost you money. It's never cheap. The crabs from up where I was, this is two kinds of crabs. One is king snow crabs. And the hairy crabs are more from where I was just in Nemuro. Which are quite famous. Getting both sides of Hokkaido there. And you can get your beer frozen in time. The Hokkaido Sapporo beer, they say you can only buy it here. But I've seen it all over the place now. The classic, they call it. It's a little bit more bitter than the other Sapporo, I believe. I only have it when I'm here. Because you want to think that it's like special.

00:09:10 John Daub: Chan is in the house. Thanks for the streams over the last couple of days. You're making my trunk stay much better. Nice to see you, Chan. Sort of see you. Make sure you get out and get some vitamin D. Thank you, David Jackson. Welcome to the travelers group. And I see Brandani is in the house. Whoa. What do you think that the Baskin Robbins here has any Japanese in it? Let's check it out. Peter. Peter said they had like 32 flavors or something. I don't know how many. Let's take a look here. I don't see any Japanese. They didn't match rum raisin. Sakura down here. Poppy popping shower. Burgundy cherry. I guess to use Yubari melon, they have to pay Yubari maybe. All right. Nothing really appetizing there.

00:10:23 John Daub: All right, let's wrap around here. Oh, this is the Hokkaido Ramen Alley, Ramen Street so you really can get your last fix of ramen here. Check it out you can smell it oh man I'm afraid that the signal is not gonna be good how's the signal let me do a walk through if the signal is good maybe I'll get a bowl the only reason that I wouldn't is because you're not allowed to talk when you eat it's gonna be like 15 minutes of silence how's this how's the signal is the signal okay it all looks good oh man Joy writes in it's good yeah they looked at a Chicago is near Lake Akan which is where I was about an hour ago prices are pretty good I'm just afraid because I won't be able to talk anymore you guys are gonna sit with me for 10 minutes as they make it it's not very exciting it's slurping live it's not attractive you make a mistake it's all over the camera game over no take two with a slurp.

00:13:06 John Daub: All right we're gonna come around I want to go back down to the center they do have brick oven pizza too let's see how much this is here it's pretty good it's about 10 11 dollars for one pizza pie all right what I'm noticing is that just a few of the shops are closed but many of them are still open here's a map of gourmet world and down the street you can see the store is open and you can see after the ramen pass if you come down and go down you can see like the restaurant booth is open and then just downstairs a shopping world but if you shop and you're gonna get hungry I think everyone's gonna want to go down this ramen alley though. Tashiroge ramen is one of my favorites here but the Baiko again I actually featured Baiko ramen in a ramen episode I made see here yeah these are a lot of really famous shops but they're from all over Hokkaido so there's not just Sapporo ramen you have Obihiro ramen which is um I had to drive through between Kushiro and Sapporo there's Obihiro another city but I'm kind of partial to the Tashiroge ramen because I like Lake Akan up there they have good water some good meat.

00:14:28 John Daub: There's a back entrance to the ramen alley right here so man I kind of want to get a bowl of ramen but it's going to be the boring live stream what I do is I usually start the live stream with the bowl of ramen in front of me so I just eat it and go I thought this is Shizuoka what's up with that you don't see green tea in Hokkaido all right signal's getting bad let's get out of here this is the kaisendon shop this one here in the corner they have kaisendon which is seafood on top of a bowl of rice all different kinds and if you don't know what to get you can just come outside and point. Hey look Doraemon is here nice I do have to get at least one thing for Kanae Daub but listen um hold on I'll tell you I'll tell you when I get downstairs I have something to tell you I like the elevator for drama hey Rainer thanks for being an insider for 14 months I appreciate that it's Rainer here oh I guess I could just pick a side.

00:16:56 John Daub: All right so what did I want to tell you um so I found that the OM-1 is better than the OM-5 with stability the OM-5 it was a little bit more shaky so I preferred the OM-1 I think I made a mistake let's go I guess this is floor one so you want floor two starts the shopping it's more complicated than see they don't show you this map up there it's more complicated all right what did I want to tell you um so Peach Airlines is the one that I came up here by the way the international departures almost nobody there there's not a lot of international flights wrong floor this is important floor two and three are shopping and floor three is restaurant floor two is shopping floor one is apparently trains and taxis and stuff.

00:17:52 John Daub: So what I want to tell you is I'm taking Peach airline which is a budget carrier and I want to tell you about some of the rules that they have don't bring any bags on Peach alright okay but listen I'm very cunning with this and are you allowed to call yourself cunning I don't know I never heard anyone say I'm cunning so I'm very creative that's a better word oh Hello Kitty I'm very creative and um see they're calling it quote-unquote a carry-on which is a bag right so I have pouches wearable pouches so I'm wearing it so it's a wearable they don't pockets right so you can put anything you want in your pocket right as long as a carry-on is a bag okay but if i'm wearing it what what if i have it all in my pockets right but the lady in Nemuro they didn't care but this lady here was like so what do you got in your pocket i was like i don't know i got my keys and what's that big thing i don't know it's a lot of keys but is she gonna body search me but the bag was exactly seven kilograms and that's the weight limit seven kilograms so i probably have nine kilograms of stuff but i have to be creative like are they gonna weigh my clothing i just had dinner they're gonna weigh me.

00:19:25 John Daub: I just don't like these quotas on carry-on weight but if you don't have it people go a little bit crazy just i think i'd be happy to pay another 500 yen but they said very strictly you can't go over seven kilograms or you have to throw thing you have to put in your check-in and i said well how do you put batteries in your check-in because i'm a youtuber drone batteries themselves are like a kilogram each this is also really good what is the expiration date on this oh it's about a month i'm always looking for stuff to send to the um daimyo supporters oh look at this Royce donut this looks so good why don't i just get one i'm getting kind of hungry let's get something to try and eat here oh this cheesecake is good i've gotten it for Kanae Daub before these cheesecakes Fromage Double it's so soft it just starts melting after you buy it but i can't buy it because i can't i have to weigh it it will fail in weighing i'm exactly seven kilograms so i can't buy anything i have to eat it and regurgitate it for Kanae Daub she's not gonna like that.

00:20:50 John Daub: What is this a harumaki double cheese cake uh Black Black harumaki Black Thunder that's weird so they made like a sushi roll with candy so that's all i had to tell you i'm just i'm never gonna fly peach again you can as a youtuber you have a lot of batteries i'm not gonna check my camera in a lot of stuff here in hokkaido is dairy based that's a good well that's because there's a lot of milk here is there something i can just snag and eat right now because i can't carry it on by the way these Royce chocolate are so darn good get the one with the almonds in it or the rum raisin is good yeah they had one with raisins in it too oh these Tokibi are good oh my gosh these are so good it's corn flavored but the corn taste is so robust and they put pieces of corn in it oh my gosh.

00:22:27 John Daub: All right i guess the only thing i can get is that rum raisin so i'm just gonna have to get my own one the uh Royce donut let's go try that gotta put the cash to work here here's a okay i think i have exact change oh that's heavy all right i can't carry it on so i gotta eat it see i don't know i can't understand the carrying on quotas like okay plus it should be seven kilograms plus or minus a reasonable amount but what is a reasonable amount i don't know all right let's give this a try i don't even need to sit down really but i will hokkaido Royce donuts come on where's the easy open access what look i tried to open it there it's not an easy open access do you see that usually there's a place that tells you open access here i don't see that i'm not gonna put my teeth on it okay whoa that's really thick plastic diet starts tomorrow there you go that's a look at how they put in a little plastic plate this looks like one of the containers you put on a drink without the drink hole in it right cola cola lid whoa.

00:25:57 John Daub: All right let's try it gotta eat you gotta eat something at Chitose Airport question is that oil or is that sugar i don't know it's all coming together that's really good but i can tell you something it's not healthy if you're looking for healthy this isn't the place for you hokkaido is like a healthy place but they find a way to corrupt it a monster i'm gonna be jumping off the walls of the plane and we'll see what we can find that was good it's heavy so i can't carry that on but i'm now 100 grams heavier than i was before i'm waiting for them to weigh passengers i said this before i'm not complaining i'm being serious if someone weighs like 85 pounds i don't know like 50 kilograms why shouldn't they be allowed just a little bit more carry-on right there should be i don't know it's just not fair life's not fair what are you gonna do can't complain so eat it.

00:27:31 John Daub: The lady was telling me she says all right you're gonna have to put that in your check-in then and i said i can't it's batteries i'm not gonna put a 7 000 camera in my check-in bag crazy woman she's looking for a confrontation so i was trying to give her an excuse to ignore me these aren't the droids you're looking for that mind tricks don't work all the time oh wait sometimes people just need an excuse to say okay i tried to give her one so i'm not i don't know what she's saying she's got a black bag she's got a black bag she's got a black belt you know that black bag i always have is it's a so it turns into a belt so unless you're looking at my bum i can't really tell we'll see if that works it's a jedi mind trick bag i have no bag there's no bag here pass i may sometimes it works and if not i'll just uh have to eat my camera battery.

00:28:33 John Daub: This is a nice fun booth i like a strawberry in a tube whoa but I can't take it in because I got too much weight. Look at that tiramisu. Look at cheesecake. My gosh, look at the cheese oozing out of it. How much is that? 1,400 yen. Sometimes after you check in, right by, they have a place that you can, after you check in, there's a place that you can buy stuff and then you can kind of sneak it on that way. That's what I did this time, but we will see. World Wine Bar. All right, guys. I think that's about it. There's a craft studio here. Hey, Joy, what's the time? I've got to make sure I'm not late. Why are you trying to make me late? Joy, what time is it? 7.25. Okay, my flight's at 8.15, so I probably have about five minutes to go. Thank you. All right, I'm good. I usually have a sixth sense, but...

00:30:37 John Daub: Oh, Peach Airline, you can't check in earlier than 90 minutes. So I was there at 100 minutes, so I had to... They made me wait. I had to wait 10 minutes before I could check in. That's when the lady was examining my baggage, I think, because I was just standing there. That means she's probably checking me out. Because the only way you would tell that I have another bag is if you're looking at my booty. It's interesting. I'm going to see... I guess she didn't like what she saw, and that's why she... shook me down. All right, that's the way to the International Terminal. You can see it's a very long walk to get over there. I don't have time for ramen, and I didn't think I did. Just the waiting, and then the slurping, and then the running. There's no way. I would have had to have started earlier, but I couldn't have because I was... I came here two hours in advance, but I couldn't check in until 90 minutes before, which is a damn shame.

00:31:45 John Daub: There's a Pokemon store that's closed because of the coronavirus. Or it's just closed right now. Uh, yeah. Closed at 5. Today, your captain will be Pikachu. He'll be flying at warp speed. All right. I really like the shopping. Here's the Tokyu department store has a shop, and Tokyu usually has some luxury items, some things that are just a little bit different than the other places, so it is worth checking out. Some of the shops have things that other shops don't have, so despite a lot of the things looking the same, it is worth taking a look around and checking it out. Why would Puma make a ramen shirt? That's weird. Sponsored by Puma. And that is weird. What is the sports brand? You think it's real or counterfeit? No, it's like, that's gotta be real. Puma and ramen. Sports and ramen. I don't know. That's training food. I think, I guess it is.

00:33:40 John Daub: There is a post office here. And a Uniqlo. I guess they're working together, maybe. I don't know. Post office closes at 4. Mental note. Does Koibito have some kind of white chocolate omelette? What? I should have bought one of those. Can't carry it on though. This looks cute. Check it out. There's a little bear. It's funny. I like that you could just get a ear of corn. Can you carry that back home? Is this okay for international? It's weird. So it's kind of, I love to just shop, I love to walk around the airports and look at the options for shopping to see what they got all the prices are the same everywhere so if you see something in one shop it's going to be the same in another shop it's all about finding the one thing that you really want that's different and then buying all the other stuff together and getting on one receipt because i don't like having a bunch of receipts post box right there good to know.

00:35:41 John Daub: All right so there you go there's the Royce potato chip shop so they always you can get fresh made potato chips in the front there it's kind of a neat idea and there's even a Muji rushi and then you if you keep walking straight you're out of shopping world and you enter check-in world where you have to check in for your flight there's the ANA check-in booth right there and the ANA lounge which i think i could have gone in with my Amex Gold card didn't give me protection on my iphone theft but it gives me lounge access i think could you go in and just tell say if you don't have access say i'm with him get access now is that how it works and here's the ANA check-in it's pretty quiet here um yeah there's not a lot of people flying my flights only has about 15 people on it.

00:36:43 John Daub: So my advice if you can't fly ANA or JAL it's just more convenient but if you have to you know just do it that's what i say i'm in the first seat as well because i upgraded for a couple hundred yen or something all right they do have charging booths here all right everybody um it's a pretty short flight i'll be back into Narita and then i get to take a long bus ride back home i much preferred Haneda but again peach airlines only flies out of Narita i'm not complaining it's just a challenge look you can't come you can't smile and complain if you complain and you're smiling it's not complaining it's just talking reasoning right do you ever see anybody complain and smile i don't know think about that that's a philosophical question answer it in the comments below right how can you complain and smile at the same time changes the meaning have a good night have a good day everybody i'll see you back in tokyo and then maybe canada we're gonna rent a car and go somewhere else she got a little jealous with me being away gotta make up for it see you later.