00:00:07 John Daub: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Kagoshima. This is Tenmonkan, and I'm about to go to one of my favorite vending machines that I always visit when I'm here in this city. That's right, the crepe vending machine is just straight ahead. That's the airport shuttle bus taking everybody to Kagoshima Airport. Some of them will be stopping off for a crepe, and then some people not going to the airport will be too. That's me and you. It's right there on the left side. Oh my gosh, I saw this last night when we hit the sweet potato vending machine. You're not going to want to miss that one. But now we're going to get a crepe.

00:00:46 John Daub: Check it out right here. Whoa. So this vending machine, it has these glass jars the size of Coca-Cola cans, soda cans. They fit perfectly in there, but inside the glass jar are crepes of different flavors. That's rare cheesecake, I think. This is nama (raw) caramel. This is chocolate cream. This is pistachio cream. This is Italian something—not sure what that is. And then this is chocolate banana. I can get down with that. The prices are about 250 to 270 yen, which is about $2 to $2.50 depending on the exchange rate. And I timed this perfectly with the airport shuttle bus. How you doing, everybody? I'm better.

00:01:39 John Daub: Vending machines in Japan are one of the coolest things, and they're super convenient. And over the years, they've gotten innovative, meaning they don't just hold drinks. They hold crepes. And the one down the street holds sweet potatoes that are hot. Weird. I've seen vending machines that give out eggs from the supermarket, raw eggs, rice. I've seen vending machines that gave out bottles of dashi (broth), ramen, and gyoza now. So basically, it's taken away people's jobs for humans, given them to machines. Vending machines. So I've got some money here. Let's try it. Because John's got to get to the Wagyu Olympics. And it's an hour drive.

00:02:22 John Daub: Alright, it's up to you guys. Which one should I get here? Because I could eat any of these. That pistachio cream looks interesting. That was in here last time. Again, the jars go here. Aloha, everybody. What do you think here? Weird cheesecake. Pistachio. Chocolate banana. Custard with banana. Chocolate cream. Caramel. Three, two, one. Alright, pistachio. Alright, let's do it. See what I'm saying? It comes in these chilled jars. And there's an expiration date on it as well. Look at this. October 15th. So, whoa, it's got a few days to go. It's the 10th today. So five days. I guess the color is to make sure that it's the right thing here. And there it is. There's a crepe in there. Alright, let's take the crepe out and then the bottle can get recycled here. Boom.

00:03:45 John Daub: So I can take you away from the airport shuttle a little bit. I can put this camera down. I'm actually gonna go film the sweet potato vending machine as well for a main channel episode on vending machines. Whenever you find a good one, you want to record it because you never know. Kagoshima is a cool city. Check out the streetcars going by. It's got like Hiroshima vibes because Hiroshima is very famous for the streetcars. A lot of the regional cities in Japan are. But we're here for this, so let's try it right now. This is pistachio cream crepe. Wow. Pistachio is like the flavor of the day here in Japan. Every couple of years or every year, there's like a flavor of the season maybe. It seems like the makers just had too much of something and they decided, well, we got a lot of pistachio. Let's put pistachio in every product. And then it becomes a trend where pistachio or what was another one? Tapioca was pretty big.

00:05:03 John Daub: Check it out here. Let's open her up. Need two hands. It's a two-hand job. Okay, so this color tab. Oh my gosh, the pigeons are here. Dude, no, I'm not sharing. No. Hey. Mush, mush, mush. Whoa. Check that out. It's like a Twinkie. I'm going to share with Toby (crow). All right, just a little bit. So tell us, how does it taste, sir? It's awful wet. Seems okay. All right. Itadakimasu. That's pistachio. Check it out here. I know, ungrateful pigeon. Hey, at least you could say something. Give me a little cooing. There's the nastiness of my bite. It's got this. Hey! Oh! It's nasty. Your pigeon feathers all over the place. Dude, really? Get off. Step off. You ever see a Seinfeld episode? George, step off. I'm naming that pigeon George. Step off, George. Flying rats.

00:07:02 John Daub: All right, there's the pistachio crepe, I guess. And then the cream. It's a good mix. It'll go better with some coffee. I'm guessing that you all are going to make me get more than one of these. So then I'll get a second one. Well, for comparison. I guess your smiling face is on YouTube as well. There's some sort of like. Is that blood? No, hold on. It's like strawberry. It's funny that my first reaction would be that it's blood. All right, strawberry jam. So yeah, that's right. It's not blood. All right, let's try one more. I'm going to save this for later.

00:08:17 John Daub: All right, I got to go to the notes here. 1000 yen. Let's get another one. So which one should I get? What does the internet say? Should I get the pistachio again? No. Nama cream. Chocolate. King Boba TV says chocolate. Brandani says custard. Oh, the battle's on. The battle is on. Oh my gosh, this is going to be fun. Man, I'm still waking up right now. Since Brandani is paying for it. Thanks, Brandani. I'm going to have to get custard. Oh, the chocolate would be good contrast. Nightshade Giggle says custard. Oh, chocolate. Ranjit says chocolate though. Oh my gosh, there's chocolate banana. I'm not sure if banana is going to be fresh. And then there's an Italian one. Mascarpone [?]. I don't. It's got cheese in it. I think I ate that last time. It was pretty nasty. All right, I'm going to go with custard and banana. This is going to go wrong here. All right, custard and banana. Chocolate cream. Yeah, you know, JK Adventures says something. I got to consider it. Chocolate cream or custard? No, banana. Actually, okay, Brandani, you know what? Custard and banana is in this. So I'm going to get that one because chocolate's get both. Jason, have you seen my waistline? I've actually done it. And I have. She makes jokes. All right. It's not nice. Jokes about me. I think it's less about my waistline, more about me. Here we go. Here's another crepe. This is a custard banana. Let's see if it's real banana. Leave the jar here. Boom. King Boba TV, you lost. Brandani is the ultimate winner here. Thank you, Brandani. Boom.

00:11:02 John Daub: All right, let's try this because Johnny's got a date with the Wagyu cattle. Actually, yesterday I went to the auction and they showed the prices of the Wagyu. Can you believe that some Wagyu went for as high as $100,000 or more for one carcass? It was over $100,000 of A5 Wagyu beef from Miyazaki. That was insane. So, if you ever wondered if the price of the steak that you bought was worth it, yeah, it's going to be pretty pricey. $100,000 for 530-kilogram Wagyu carcass. Oh, my gosh. You know what? Beating stinking pigeons. Look, you know what? You flew all over, got pigeon feathers on me. Probably ate some of them. There's no way I'm going to eat that. Alright, let's go!

00:12:49 John Daub: I'm driving. It is refrigerated. George, what did I tell you? Step off, George. Tony says step off. I'm gonna put this to the side. I know it's gonna get mushed up in my pocket. So there you have it. And Tim. Hey, if you're smiling, that makes my day. So this is Tenmonkan, and that is the crepe vending machine. And if you're in the area, I think you can. I don't think there's too many places where you can find this. The maker of it is based here in Kagoshima [?]. I've seen them in Miyazaki. I guess when you have a vending machine that's notorious like this one, you put it in different areas to try to hit markets. Tenmonkan is a super busy area. This is one of the main hubs of Kagoshima, so it probably gets a lot of traffic. As you can see, two crates of jars have been filled by eaters. But this is Kagoshima's Tenmonkan. And one last time here, the vending machine corner is famous. Because it has the crepe vending machine, and you recycle that glass jar to the right side there. It's a pretty sweet machine. And every vending machine lover has to make a stop here because it's on the Hall of Fame vending machine.

00:14:28 John Daub: There's the phone number. He's got a PHS number. Probably a second phone, like a dealer. So if you have problems, there's a phone number to call. I like that. But just call between 11pm and 9am. Oh, and there's another phone number down there. That's the company. That ice cream machine's also calling me. Tenmonkan's a pretty cool area. I'm gonna go. I don't even think I had time. I was gonna go get one of those sweet potatoes to kind of get rid of the taste of the crepes in my mouth. But I don't have enough time to go to another area. Hey! George and friends, I'm surprised you have any. I have my coffee in my pocket. It's not. These are gonna get all mushed up. Oh, it's nasty.

00:15:35 John Daub: I think of all the convenience store coffee, Lawson's is the worst. The best coffee, probably 7-Eleven and then FamilyMart. Yeah, you know what? And Seicomart was not good either. They gotta improve on their coffee. But morning coffee, for many people, it's a routine. 7-Eleven has added like premium coffee now. Normal coffee, which is very good. And then they have the Colombian Supremo. It comes in a navy blue cup, which looks really premium looking. So maybe you're paying for the cup. But I've only noticed just a slight increase in bitterness in that Colombian. To me, I just. Both of them are good and I just like the morning bitter rush to balance out that sweet. I probably should have gotten a coffee before I jumped into the vending machine episode.

00:16:45 John Daub: This area is really neat. It's at night, loaded with a lot of restaurants. I ate at a ramen place behind there on this side. They had Kagoshima ramen. It was more of a white pork thing and they put in these deep-fried chicken bits or something. I don't know what it was, but it was extremely delicious. I was tasting it all night. I brushed my teeth three times to try to stop tasting it because you wanted to put a little bit of stuff on that. I'm taking it over to the sweet potato vending machine. If you want to see me eat that, check out last night's livestream as I went through this street in the evening. It's kind of interesting. Look at how these regional cities in Japan. They're pretty cool at night. A lot of drinking. Often drunk people. Mostly harmless.

00:17:50 John Daub: Alright, and then I have a 1 hour and 15 minutes. I'm going to go in here. Wow! It's not that awesome. I guess it's doing its job. Where did it go? Anybody remember where that machine was? Maybe it was just something that I dreamt about. It wasn't real. Where's the sweet potato vending machine? Oh, there it is. Or is it? Is that it? Is it all a dream? That's happened to me a lot. It was all a dream. Nope, it's here. My god. So this is the sweet potato vending machine in all its glory. I like the cat. And the sweet potato guy. How you doing? Can you hear the beats? How you doing? And yeah. They have them in hot and cold. Of course you get the hot. I just love, again, to read the paper that it was. It's part of the plastic wrapping. I guess it's just microwaved inside there. But I like the fact that you can eat it right away. So there you go. You gotta try this one too. The cans that it comes in are pretty cool. Conducive to the heat. Alright. The smell is, you know, I was hoping it would smell more appetizing, but it's hard when the trash truck is. Morning. Little Randy. What are you gonna do? Bernie is over there. Alright.

00:20:18 John Daub: Alright everybody. I gotta get going. I don't even think I have time to film the sweet potato. I might get one for the road. We're gonna end this livestream with a shot at Bernie. Don't forget to hit the like button. And if you want to, in the last 30 seconds here, you can write in where you're from. Looking at the live chat is always a lot of fun. What part of the world. If you're shy on chatting, get on your keyboard and write where you're from. That's a pretty easy one. Oh, the Shirokuma is closed. Santa Monica. Texas. Puerto Rico. BC, Canada. Toronto. Guam. Florida, man. Illinois. Norway. Seattle. Hawaii. And that's Bert and Ernie in one. This is what Ernie looks like after he's had a couple of these. Only in Kagoshima. It's worth it just for this. You can touch it here. If you come here, touch his nose. That's what I did here. Right in the center. You can rub it. Just touch it right there. Boom. Touch it. You've touched lives. It'll wash your finger. Vermont. Philippines. Georgia. Where the potato. Really, thank you. Mahalo.

00:21:51 John Daub: Alright, there you go. I'm gonna get back into the car and start to drive because there's some VIPs coming to the Wagyu Olympics and they have security checks. So to get in by 8:30 is highly encouraged. So there you have it. The morning is just starting here in Kagoshima and we're one of the first ones. With the garbage man. And that guy. Have a good day everybody. See you on the other side. I'm going to Miyazaki tonight so I'm sure to do another live stream on the other side. But who knows what adventures await. I could just go live and bring you from a different area of this amazing part of Japan. Kyushu. See ya. Did you get the trash cart? Thank you sir. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Bye Bernie. Bye George. Bye Gingeromas.