A few days after you posted this video, I showed it to a class of fourth graders in the United States, and they loved it, especially seeing the differences between here and schools in Japan. Keep those videos coming! They are wonderfully informative and provide an easy way to learn interesting things about Japanese culture.
You are very welcome! I am a substitute teacher, and whenever I end up with extra time in classes, I often show one or two of your videos to the students. They consistently respond well and are fascinated by what they see in your videos. I have already heard on several occasions students saying, "I want to go to Japan and see that!"
96 years old and he still remembrr crisp details from before war memories. and a food memories like wow. thats a one prime healthy old man . i give that man a big respect.
Now ask him if he remembers what he did yesterday. Long-term memory is far better than short-term in older people. I am painfully aware of this as I get older.
Yes this has to be a mistake! Did John really get his age right? I don't think I've ever seen a 90 plus year old that looked as young as he does face wise!
@@m_.agicity1069 nah it's not, well for me, my throat won't allow most US school lunches down my throat, I always gag when I take a bite, so thats' why I had my mom make me food
I love how John always sounds so happy and curious. his wonder and curiosity feels genuine and it bleeds of the screen. it's what makes his videos so interesting
It was really interesting having that segment, but I think he felt a little uncomfortable. I saw him glancing at the camera a bit and it felt like he was stuttering/at a loss for words at time, but the speaking bit could just be due to old age and not nervousness.
God bless Mr. Seiichi. I wish I can hear every story he has to tell from his lifetime experiences. 96 too? Dude looks too good to be 96. Wow, I wish we all had that longevity in our different cultures.
Yo Dude you dont have to eat certain foods when it goes against your ideas or beliefs. ex. being a vegan, being a muslim etc. u can bring ur own lunch tho
@@crashpal miso soup is not typically vegetarian though. It's base is often dashi, dried fish and kelp stock. You can make it with water but it's not the norm.
I've added correct English subtitles :) I've gotten some requests to do it so other languages can be added much easier. (It also corrected the sad "bukakke" auto subtitle for "furikake") If you'd like to add a subtitle for this, click here: ua-cam.com/users/timedtext_video?v=Djj0segWsgQ&ref=share THANK YOU!!! -john
BigBrotherPinkie "bukkake" is cold udon noodles. It's westerners that laugh at it through adult movies. I didn't know about it until -- I made a video about udon and had hundreds of comments on it! lol I know you get it though :)
BigBrotherPinkie oh, right! I wrote it in the video actually. Allergies are exempt for eating. Actually they don't serve food with high rates of allergies like soba for example. Sobs (buckwheat noodles) is one not allowed in schools. Most foods for the basic "almost everyone" can eat stuff. That's what a Japanese friend who works at a school told me when I asked. -John
Japanese school lunches amaze me. The amount of respect that goes into it and then the students serving one another. Brilliant. Looks so good too. Quite a few posts on japanese school food. I absolutely love this channel. So much knowledge shared.
"Japanese school lunches are strictly calorie controlled." *chef chucks white sub loaf in oil and coats in sugar* (Pre-emptive defence: I'm joking - chill yo' beans)
キャット G Similar to what happened here in the UK during the war. They made do with any form of energy that they could, I guess. My grandmother said having a choice was a luxury - even if you hated the options available, you still felt happy having a choice. Obviously, the cancellation of rationing once the country was back in a better position also contributed to increased caloric intake in the form of fats and sugars. I guess people wanted to take advantage of their increased freedom. My parents grew up in the 60s and 70s and are perfectly healthy yet their diets sounded pretty atrocious back then. Lots of heavy sounding meals and desserts. Carby food and no major health concerns about how much sugar things had in them. They just ate what they were given. But then I guess a lot of their diet was still largely home-made or minimally processed so perhaps that's a factor in their good health.
god the school lunch here in the U.S is absolutely disgusting. everything is extra salty and is frozen to preserve it, the fruits all of chemicals in them as well
water quiche my fries at school have absolutely no salt at all, are very squishy, and always have some skin of the potato on it. My school also has these strawberry cups, but I bring in my own because I don't like how it's frozen. Lemme tell you, the juice of strawberry cups is worth dying for.
WOW!! The neighbor is 96 years old??!! He's still so youthful and healthy looking!! Compared to most elderly people (including my own grandparents), he looks like he can live another 10 years or more.
US: Bland unhealthy food, most students at my high school just get fast food instead Japan: Extremely healthy and delicious food, made from scratch That's it, I'm moving to Japan
The extremely healthy part is little bit unlikely, remember that fried whale and fried bread, i still question till this day if that was exactly dessert or some English recipe for fried bread sandwich. But overall its a healthy luncheon for everyone, because sometimes you need to be more simple to add the deliciousness
私は日本の中学生です！私の学校でもこの動画のようなお昼ご飯が出されます！とても美味しいですよ✨ I'm a Japanese junior high school student！My school the same lunch.Its very delicious😋 I'm not good at English sorry😢
Omg, Mr. Seiichi, looks damn good for being 96 years old. Actually, I take that back. He looks to be in his late 50s or early 60s. An still very handsome.
I know my school in America isn't the only one but, I hate when they say 'we are providing healthy food' and then they give you chips, hamburgers, fries, chicken wings, and ect.and it's not even that tasty. Japan, stay healthy
"Itadakimasu" actually means "I partake with gratitude"--which covers a lot of territory. Gratitude to the people who cooked and served it, gratitude to the farmer who grew it and the people who transported it, gratitude to the earth and the rain, gratitude to God.
"stinking rich"? so they didn't care about your needs? good healthy diet= good functioning brain= good studying(if you try)= good grades= good college= good financial status= great life and yet ppl still wonder why people try to get good grades
I like Johns sincerity, honesty and enthusiasm He makes me feel safe and cozy and might actually go to Japan and experience the lost in translation 5 star dream...
+Gucci Versace Japanese moms have to do a lot of "free" school related stuff, which may include: - attending "School Parents Committee" 3-4 times a week - helping out with School Vegetable Garden - helping out with School kitchen - buying, picking up & dropping off school lunch ingredients - crunching numbers for school lunch budget - filing paperwork with local governments - negotiating with suppliers for better price - ...and paying 50% cost of school lunch program after doing all those works for free! source: actual account from a Swedish neighbor who's lived in Japan for 20+ years, and she resorted to "not understanding Japanese too well" to escape some of these "duties". (Her written/spoken Japanese is just as good as a native Japanese's)
Gucci Versace Okay, I'll dumb it down nice and simple: How much more $$$ will Japanese parents pay for school lunch program without all those "free works", huh? I did not waste my time typing all those info out, but my message is lost to you.
Look at their school food, America doesn't have to serve us luxury, but come on America, no wonder most of our people have obesity. Have you seen the food they sell and serve at school.
Harry Haryadi Saddly, most families just make their kids get school lunch. Making lunch is kind of time consuming considering most American school pile up homework and some kids also have chores to do. Later you just forget and go ahead with school food. (In my opinion, it isn't worth it.)
+angela572 A lot of modern American households have parents that both work full time, or only have single parent. They do not have the time to prepare lunch for their kids. So they give them lunch money to buy garbage food at the school cafeteria, unfortunately.
I always crave for "New York Fries" And I love the hotdogs and fries there but... I only eat fast food once a month because we can't go out to them since my mom doesn't want to drive or the road is to slippery
ACID I hadn't been sleeping a lot when I shot this. I shot the Gachapon 360 video in the morning and came here when the customers weren't there at 2pm. I probably just needed a few more hours of sleep :p thanks you noticing. -John
In Australia we don't have 'School lunches' you bring your own food or you can visit the tack shop and grab basically anything. Australia is so diverse so we have many foods from different cultures. Such as curries and Samosa, meat pies and mash, homus and chicken wraps, spring rolls, noodles, sushi, burgers, stakes, ribs, wedges, fish and chips, popcorn stands anything really, even whole pizzas. I always order the school special though. It's a crispy bread roll stuffed with honey soy battered chicken, honey soy chicken chips and topped with honey soy chicken sauce. It sounds weird, but it tastes amazing!!
i lived in japan on a navy base where we had culture class. we went on a field trip to a japanese school. potato digging, playground activities, etc. the lunch however really stood out to me. it was so good. none of us could communicate except for the basics. best day ever though.
I’m in California my school food is pretty bad and they know it too. They try to make it up by giving us domino pizza on Thursday, but that just resulted in kid only eat on Thursday only.
I too can't just drink milk straight from a bottle. I'm not lactose intolerant since I eat cereal and milk almost every day. Just something about milk as a beverage is disgusting to me. Give me water instead!
I live in Indonesia, when i was in elementary i always ate meat ball in my school, but after several months, meat ball owner got arrested because he had sold rat meat ball :/
OH NO IT'S PERMANENTLY CLOSED!!!! Ahhhhh I need to find another place to try a Japanese school lunch at a restaurant, any other ideas/places/recommendations? This was something I was looking forward to when i go to Japan for the first time, I hope there's alternatives! This was such a great video btw, thanks for making it!
I think this kind of restaurant will be always around somewhere. "Gakkoizakaya 6 Nen 4 Kumi" is very similar one (maybe run by the same owner?). But be aware, these are "themed pub" for adults. You might look at "cafeOgu1" if you live near. It's a small cafe but the owner was serving school lunch for 10 years.
my kids choices can be different daily but a few of them are , 4 chicken nuggets one cup vegetable one cup fruit and milk,or cheeseburger ,one cup vegetable one cup fruit and milk. my kids come home from school daily hungry. In America they dont feed them enough. 4 chicken nuggets for a 17 year old boy is not enough.
they charge alot for giving the kids nothing . all the little portions are doing is causing kids to be tired at school all after noon then go home and eat a meal before dinner which cause the kids to gain weight.
Alex Lee There is a guy in my school with the last name of, "uniga" but the teacher says "U-Nigga" If you came back to the comment section, you're in luck. Someone at my school has the last name of "Gnatzy"
in my school no one ever fucking eats at lunch bc all the "good food" is sold at first break. and by good food I mean food with an actual flavour other than grease.
Your explanations about Japanese school lunch is very correct and fair. Thank you for that. A few things I want to point out - the school lunch is served in most of the public primary schools and some middle schools. The unique fork/spoon is used not because some students can't use the chopsticks but it functions as one piece utensil. The aluminium lunch boxes were very popular before plastics. The whale meat dish was called Noway style and very popular. Since this restaurant seemed like to be focused on the old menus, like milk in glass bottle with the strawberry powder and the whale meat, you should not think that all of those are the Japanese school lunches nowadays. Some of the menus here are still served, but some are not anymore. (And the aluminum containers are definitely of old style. It's pure nostalgia.)
School lunches are weird to me. Live in the Netherlands are kinds here have to bring their own lunch. of course made by the parents. Many children get to much sweets for lunch. Wish we had schoollunches.
Fank Daggot Dat ook, maar de meerderheid krijgt veels te ongezond eten mee. Denk aan alle broodjes met zoetigheid erop en dan ook nog snoep erbij. (85% van de schoolkinderen) Ook ontstaan er ruzies tussen de kinderen door deze ongelijkheid. Kinderen van tegenwoordig krijgen steeds meer hun zin en worden sneller te dik door dit soort dingen. (Ik lijkt wel een oud wijf dat overal over zeurt) xD
ninjaspirit7 Het is deels wel waar. Ik zit zelf ook nog op een middelbare school, en vrijwel al het eten dat je kan kopen in de kantine zijn goedkope ongezonde broodjes uit de oven of magnetron. Voor de rest is het alleen maar frisdrank en snoep of chips. Je kan wel gezonde dingen kopen maar die worden nauwelijks verkocht omdat de meeste mensen niet eens weten dat je het kan kopen!
It seems to offer a slightly older menu here to add nostalgia. Usually, plain bread and rice are served, so sweet fried bread that is served occasionally was popular. I have never eaten whale meat.
Kha Pham wait what the fuck, all he said was Japanese school lunch is better than American school lunch and he’s a fucking weeaboo and cancerous?? Well then I guess since I fucking like Vietnamese food better than American food I’m a fucking weeaboo, how is a simple fucking comment like Japanese school lunch is better than American school lunch more fucking cancerous than a guy filming a dead body for money. I don’t understand your logic one fucking bit and I don’t see a future for you, as you seem to insult strangers based on simple opinions.
Evangeline Padilla Exacly!, most of the lunch options that they served at out school tasted awful. But fortunately there were a few things that tasted good.
In middle school in Japan, the food was great. Every lunch was very health and colorful. Also the menu was different every day. I loved it so much but after moving to the US, the food was totally different, it's all junk food and even the salad bar didn't look fresh. I wish they had more variety so we can stay healthy and not eating nachos or pizza all the time😂
A few days after you posted this video, I showed it to a class of fourth graders in the United States, and they loved it, especially seeing the differences between here and schools in Japan.
Keep those videos coming! They are wonderfully informative and provide an easy way to learn interesting things about Japanese culture.
Thank you so much for sharing that! Made me happy to hear a whole class watched this :) and liked it. -john
You are very welcome! I am a substitute teacher, and whenever I end up with extra time in classes, I often show one or two of your videos to the students. They consistently respond well and are fascinated by what they see in your videos. I have already heard on several occasions students saying, "I want to go to Japan and see that!"
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96 years old and he still remembrr crisp details from before war memories. and a food memories like wow. thats a one prime healthy old man . i give that man a big respect.
And he is still heavy and like 70 years old imo
Only in Japan
小飄 bruh i said the same thing he does look like he 70
The old man has the same name as me at 8:04. Now that is how you all pronounce my name for Non Japanese :)
Now ask him if he remembers what he did yesterday. Long-term memory is far better than short-term in older people. I am painfully aware of this as I get older.
96 years old?!!! He looks and sounds like a 60 something American. That's Japanese Longevity at its finest and also a better diet and life style.
That's just amazing
thats what my grandpa looks like
I wouldn't quite say 60ish, but he does look remarkably well for his age!
kane kure lmao!
Yes this has to be a mistake! Did John really get his age right? I don't think I've ever seen a 90 plus year old that looked as young as he does face wise!
John: Are you’re schools the same way?
All of America: Literally dies of laughter
America lunch is so awfully unhealthy. There's a food at my school it's a spicy sandwich it's so unhealthy and gross.
@@m_.agicity1069 nah it's not, well for me, my throat won't allow most US school lunches down my throat, I always gag when I take a bite, so thats' why I had my mom make me food
Your*
@@keegyweegy7803 Finally, somebody gets grammar.
@@m_.agicity1069 That's why I always make my lunch😂🤣
I love how John always sounds so happy and curious. his wonder and curiosity feels genuine and it bleeds of the screen. it's what makes his videos so interesting
Atiqah Diyana I agree!
I agree
Atiqah Diyana This is definitely the reason he's so fun to watch. It's like we're learning WITH him!
I love John.
so true
This show definitely needs more "Ask my Japanese Neighbor".
It was really interesting having that segment, but I think he felt a little uncomfortable. I saw him glancing at the camera a bit and it felt like he was stuttering/at a loss for words at time, but the speaking bit could just be due to old age and not nervousness.
Sword Slash his teeth were falling out. Really. But we had fun!
ONLY in JAPAN lol
Are you sure he's 96? He looks way younger than that.
Bryan Kou that's why Japan has the longest life span. they eat right, exercise, use their brain. overall healthy mindset. you really are what you eat.
Some studies show that prison food is healthier than school food
I’m not surprised
Who cares
Deadpool231 118 people do.
That's why fat Yakuza member go to prison so they can rub faster
Irony of the nowadays society in Europe and the West 🙄🙄🙄🤬
Your neighbor is a national treasure. Bless that man.
The thumbnail the girl little girl looked mad that he stole her noodles 😂😂😂😂😂
Nah look he had the sauce
@@darius8445 that sounds so wrong
Ha
That fact she never made appearance in the video
this makes American school lunches look like dog food.
Gregor Deininger you're telling me they weren't from the start?
AlphaChaser lol basically
ikr my lunch was gross, only like one of the dishes was passable as a meal. Fuck Michelle Obama /s
But Americans are taller than Japanese and get bigger muscles.We are envious of it. I will also eat dog food.
+NeoT
meat & milk do wonders to one's height
God bless Mr. Seiichi. I wish I can hear every story he has to tell from his lifetime experiences. 96 too? Dude looks too good to be 96. Wow, I wish we all had that longevity in our different cultures.
He looks 60 !
kid: sorry, im vegan
teacher: *yOU wILL eAT*
and they have vegetarian meals like Miso soup which some some students are supposed to eat so it's not like vegans don't have options
They accomodate to allergies and special requests :)
I’m pretty sure you can bring your own lunch
Yo Dude you dont have to eat certain foods when it goes against your ideas or beliefs. ex. being a vegan, being a muslim etc.
u can bring ur own lunch tho
@@crashpal miso soup is not typically vegetarian though. It's base is often dashi, dried fish and kelp stock. You can make it with water but it's not the norm.
Your neighbour seems like such a kind person, John ☺️
I've added correct English subtitles :) I've gotten some requests to do it so other languages can be added much easier. (It also corrected the sad "bukakke" auto subtitle for "furikake")
If you'd like to add a subtitle for this, click here: ua-cam.com/users/timedtext_video?v=Djj0segWsgQ&ref=share THANK YOU!!! -john
ONLY in JA
BigBrotherPinkie bukakke are food kinda i think so... hentai isn't what it is known as outside japan either
BigBrotherPinkie "bukkake" is cold udon noodles. It's westerners that laugh at it through adult movies. I didn't know about it until -- I made a video about udon and had hundreds of comments on it! lol I know you get it though :)
BigBrotherPinkie oh, right! I wrote it in the video actually. Allergies are exempt for eating. Actually they don't serve food with high rates of allergies like soba for example. Sobs (buckwheat noodles) is one not allowed in schools. Most foods for the basic "almost everyone" can eat stuff. That's what a Japanese friend who works at a school told me when I asked. -John
ONLY in JAPAN I love your videos
Japanese school lunches amaze me. The amount of respect that goes into it and then the students serving one another. Brilliant. Looks so good too. Quite a few posts on japanese school food. I absolutely love this channel. So much knowledge shared.
"Japanese school lunches are strictly calorie controlled."
*chef chucks white sub loaf in oil and coats in sugar*
(Pre-emptive defence: I'm joking - chill yo' beans)
Lucas Williams I'm so fucking triggered, fite meh 1v1 m8y!
キャット G Similar to what happened here in the UK during the war. They made do with any form of energy that they could, I guess. My grandmother said having a choice was a luxury - even if you hated the options available, you still felt happy having a choice.
Obviously, the cancellation of rationing once the country was back in a better position also contributed to increased caloric intake in the form of fats and sugars. I guess people wanted to take advantage of their increased freedom. My parents grew up in the 60s and 70s and are perfectly healthy yet their diets sounded pretty atrocious back then. Lots of heavy sounding meals and desserts. Carby food and no major health concerns about how much sugar things had in them. They just ate what they were given. But then I guess a lot of their diet was still largely home-made or minimally processed so perhaps that's a factor in their good health.
Godspeed CATCH ME OUTSIDE HOW BOW DAH
Godspeed I promise I will never quote that again
Lucas Williams sa
god the school lunch here in the U.S is absolutely disgusting. everything is extra salty and is frozen to preserve it, the fruits all of chemicals in them as well
Odd Nature Boy at least the give you someting here in latino america they dont give us nothing 😧
oh yeah let's be thankful about dog food.
water quiche my fries at school have absolutely no salt at all, are very squishy, and always have some skin of the potato on it. My school also has these strawberry cups, but I bring in my own because I don't like how it's frozen. Lemme tell you, the juice of strawberry cups is worth dying for.
A.D Tha GOAT "my school"
Mr. Krabs it's not even a private school. We dont even get field trips it's not a rich school but we still have good food
I could eat Japanese food all day everyday yum! From Canada 🇨🇦
Me too. I could eat it all the time
katie c vote consetvative!
Isn't canada schools better than American schools
96? Seriously? He looks 60.
I gotta get myself to Japan.
I mean 60 is exaggeration but I would've never guessed older than late 70s
HarryIsTheGamingGeek Asian don't raisin
HarryIsTheGamingGeek. me too it's on my bucket of places to visit
The Japanese are very fit and healthy people.
HarryIsTheGamingGeek
he got no wrinkles..
This channel is very addicting :)
dang, japan kids are livin' it.
Dude this is way better than eating burnt peunut butter sandwiches
How do you burn pb sandwiches
Sea Pancakes I was gonna say the same thing😂
Sea Pancakes that's what I say, and what the he'll is sunbutter and jelly sandwiches?
anderson loo burnt you mean cold soggy frozen 2 week old sandwiches
Burnt sandwiches? We usually have soggy frozen sandwiches in a bag lol
Super cute and sweet reaction when she sees the restaurant’s “classroom”
Love how they went into detail about the history of Japanese school lunch
WOW!! The neighbor is 96 years old??!! He's still so youthful and healthy looking!! Compared to most elderly people (including my own grandparents), he looks like he can live another 10 years or more.
Yeah, my grandma is in her 70s and she looks far older than him. The Japanese age very well thanks to genetics and a good diet :)
Akuma Tenshi maybe he eats many healthy food and some routine exercise
Akuma Tenshi and his teeth are still there
Akuma Tenshi He looks like he could live forever.
Akuma Tenshi lmao my grandpa is in his late 60s and he can barely walk and wears a man diaper.
96 years old but he look like 65 max ..
zim zim right
He had less wrinkles than Bill Gates.
People in my country look like zombies at that age. If they were still walking.
zim zim
Damn, Japanese really do have very nice skin.
My mother is nearly 65 and she look 50 or 49, i Will Say u don't look that old at 65, i Say this sir looks like 70 at least
When I was 12 I moved to japan and had to go to school there. It was a really cool experience. This video brought back memories of the lunches for me.
US: Bland unhealthy food, most students at my high school just get fast food instead
Japan: Extremely healthy and delicious food, made from scratch
That's it, I'm moving to Japan
I think even the crap from chipotle is better than the dog food america calls lunch 💀 not exactly healthy but it still looks presentable.
It does the government give zero crap about it
Because they don’t serve it randomly, you can see the calories and the calories are from 600~800 cal so it’s really healthy
The extremely healthy part is little bit unlikely, remember that fried whale and fried bread, i still question till this day if that was exactly dessert or some English recipe for fried bread sandwich.
But overall its a healthy luncheon for everyone, because sometimes you need to be more simple to add the deliciousness
He's 96 and still have more clear skin than mine
Same. 🗣🗣🗣
Eat noriben
My saddest school lunch was when I was in 5th grade and I got 4 cold chicken nuggets and milk
I can feel you man :(
Jada Morrison this is sad :(
That's a sad story, I feel you, I remember in 8th grade my home EC teacher told me that school lunches don't use real meat
Sad
My mom always packed my lunch. Even my worse lunches my mom packed was still looked better than all school best lunches.
Man this episode made me hungry 😂😍
私は日本の中学生です！私の学校でもこの動画のようなお昼ご飯が出されます！とても美味しいですよ✨
I'm a Japanese junior high school student！My school the same lunch.Its very delicious😋
I'm not good at English sorry😢
Sky Blue
You're English is good for a Japanese student
ForwardProductions Thank you‼
+Sky Blue I think your English is better than a third of American student's quite frankly. Keep at it!
IOozeAwesomeness Thank you. Certainly！
Sky Blue use google translate
I love how Japan has fruits for dessert.
60$ per months for that amount of good foods? Well damn that's a great deal.
UltraDaveZ true but I wonder how much a day salary is as well. either way it is still worth it
they have good salary
My school has signs that say keep your nutrition here at the cafeteria and their food is just reheated leftovers and frozen food
Matthew The Cashew Do you live here in the United States? Because that's how school lunch is like here
Same 😂
Omg, Mr. Seiichi, looks damn good for being 96 years old. Actually, I take that back. He looks to be in his late 50s or early 60s. An still very handsome.
ARMY?
@@lilbroke8294 lol Yep
I love only in Japan . I really want to go to Japan !!
Here in America you are served plastic vegetables
thats a very beautiful owl
Emil 3429 wahah 😂
In America the food is crappy but join the military and that plastic vegetables and burnt sandwiches wouldn't be considered shit
Maikeru Sutora nah, military food would look like a 5 star menu to them
Emil 3429 I had the transition from Japanese school lunch to American. This is so true, plastic vegetables and slop from a pigsty
I love the fact that they cant choose their food or waste it. Absolutely love it. Japan does this so right.
I know my school in America isn't the only one but, I hate when they say 'we are providing healthy food' and then they give you chips, hamburgers, fries, chicken wings, and ect.and it's not even that tasty. Japan, stay healthy
True
Otaku Cat true
Savage food
Japaan india.. We have healthier food
What a cool neighbor! I would love to sit down with him and listen to his life stories! I live in America I wish kids here had such amazing lunch! Yum
Japan: **healthy, fresh, delicious, and restaurant-quality food**
America: *_We don't do that here_*
"Itadakimasu" actually means "I partake with gratitude"--which covers a lot of territory. Gratitude to the people who cooked and served it, gratitude to the farmer who grew it and the people who transported it, gratitude to the earth and the rain, gratitude to God.
In Australia we don't get free food we have to bring our own or we have a canteen that sells like MEAT PIE mac and cheese lasagna and foods like that
"stinking rich"? so they didn't care about your needs? good healthy diet= good functioning brain= good studying(if you try)= good grades= good college= good financial status= great life
and yet ppl still wonder why people try to get good grades
JackWinterBlade808 America doesn't care either.. they give you junk food for lunch, unless you go to a rich private school.
Kyle Craig no my school lunch is decent not great not bad either
Uhh it’s not free... It said their parents pay $40-$60 per month!
The canteens suck lmao, nothing there is healthy
"Are your schools the same way?"
Me: *laughs in American*
I like Johns sincerity, honesty and enthusiasm He makes me feel safe and cozy and might actually go to Japan and experience the lost in translation 5 star dream...
every day
me:AGHH HAM SANDWICHES AGAIN
body:FEED ME PIZZA 🍕🍕🍕
dogsrule 1222 I'll love ham sandwiches. Give them to me and we'll trade for my homemade pizza.
Arjan's Golf Channel Yo. You have cheese sandwiches? Love those.
GregoryMom Yeah, I am a cheese lover
I love your channel so much. I wish have great program as you do.
Cold oranges for desserts? OMG 😍this lunch seems more like a dinner for me over here in America 😂👋
Right? I work for Japanese schools and love those semi-frozen oranges during summer noon times.
It's not a orange its a tangerine
Tornado Siren Fan TSF 5:09
$40-$60 a month! I spend that in a week at college.
Gucci Versace ikr
+Gucci Versace
Japanese moms have to do a lot of "free" school related stuff, which may include:
- attending "School Parents Committee" 3-4 times a week
- helping out with School Vegetable Garden
- helping out with School kitchen
- buying, picking up & dropping off school lunch ingredients
- crunching numbers for school lunch budget
- filing paperwork with local governments
- negotiating with suppliers for better price
- ...and paying 50% cost of school lunch program after doing all those works for free!
source: actual account from a Swedish neighbor who's lived in Japan for 20+ years, and she resorted to "not understanding Japanese too well" to escape some of these "duties". (Her written/spoken Japanese is just as good as a native Japanese's)
Alex W. I don't care what Japanese moms have to do. We all have our own problems and you wasted your time posting that information.
Gucci Versace
Okay, I'll dumb it down nice and simple:
How much more $$$ will Japanese parents pay for school lunch program without all those "free works", huh?
I did not waste my time typing all those info out, but my message is lost to you.
Gucci Versace well that's for only 21 meals... and they are for babies
Woah kids in Japan are so lucky I eat cardboard at school!
Last time I had well down air.
Look at their school food, America doesn't have to serve us luxury, but come on America, no wonder most of our people have obesity. Have you seen the food they sell and serve at school.
Alexie 10 school food here in America sucks ass
Same in indonesia
Harry Haryadi Saddly, most families just make their kids get school lunch. Making lunch is kind of time consuming considering most American school pile up homework and some kids also have chores to do. Later you just forget and go ahead with school food. (In my opinion, it isn't worth it.)
alexie 10 this is why I bring my own lunch
+angela572 A lot of modern American households have parents that both work full time, or only have single parent. They do not have the time to prepare lunch for their kids. So they give them lunch money to buy garbage food at the school cafeteria, unfortunately.
I think grandpa can live for 120 years more. He is so healthy at that age and still remember the things when he is a kid!!!
sure, look at his teeth, i think his teeth is much healthier than mine, sigh....
Dad kids pack your bags we moving to Japan
Kid why?
Dad They have the best school lunches
Kid *PACKS BAGS AS FAST AS THE FLASH*
american school lunch sucks
@@juno5578 it sucks
@@Calvin-pc6os my life sucks
@@Azrielfiend my life too
@@Calvin-pc6os everything sucks
I live in America and the freaking food that they call food is crap
LeoTheLion 234 same
I always crave for "New York Fries" And I love the hotdogs and fries there but... I only eat fast food once a month because we can't go out to them since my mom doesn't want to drive or the road is to slippery
For real all i got was stale pizza -_- and mac n cheese with lunch lady hair😷. I wish i went to school in japan.
LeoTheLion 234 XD SAME
LeoTheLion 234 SAME
Hey John you look a bit sick,you ok? Hope all is fine,I'm coming to Japan next year to study masters and your videos keep me wanting it even more!
ACID I hadn't been sleeping a lot when I shot this. I shot the Gachapon 360 video in the morning and came here when the customers weren't there at 2pm. I probably just needed a few more hours of sleep :p thanks you noticing. -John
ACID He probably ate you.
The Agepan amuses me, the food is so healthy that Japan had to figure out a way to INCREASE calories in their school meals
In Australia we don't have 'School lunches' you bring your own food or you can visit the tack shop and grab basically anything. Australia is so diverse so we have many foods from different cultures. Such as curries and Samosa, meat pies and mash, homus and chicken wraps, spring rolls, noodles, sushi, burgers, stakes, ribs, wedges, fish and chips, popcorn stands anything really, even whole pizzas. I always order the school special though. It's a crispy bread roll stuffed with honey soy battered chicken, honey soy chicken chips and topped with honey soy chicken sauce. It sounds weird, but it tastes amazing!!
in new zealand its the same but at my school there isnt that many options sadly
George Hatem where do u go? I dont even have a canteen at my school lol
George Hatem us too Hawaii
The special does not sound weird, it sounds delicious!
10:00 haha so cute
Merlot M No matter which country you go to kids will always be super cute😊. It's their innocence.
SANAFABICH someone call the police
You mean 9:56 , you are off a couple seconds.
The Scarecrow I think he/she is talking about the kid not the teacher lol
My school food is plastic if u flip the bowl of Mac n cheese it doesn’t fall out
GavinDoesPokémon 252 lol
you get mac and cheese?
Mine too
Lol
Hi i love Your channel i get to learn more about Japan
i lived in japan on a navy base where we had culture class. we went on a field trip to a japanese school. potato digging, playground activities, etc. the lunch however really stood out to me. it was so good. none of us could communicate except for the basics. best day ever though.
I’m in California my school food is pretty bad and they know it too. They try to make it up by giving us domino pizza on Thursday, but that just resulted in kid only eat on Thursday only.
My school serves dog food for lunch, actually that's an insult to dog food
G I’m Chinese and I find this offensive
G I was joking. A bad one obviously
pls dont insult food
true tho
G How old are you?
7:23, yuck, I hate milk as a straight beverage! I realize it's for school kids, but just personally saying.
kobzster06 want to know something?
even if you don't drink milk
we all still knows about it
(but no offence,i personally like to drink milk)
Yea, I know many people like milk, but I personally don't so was just commenting from a personal taste. Also it gives me lactose interolance
I remember when I was at my friend's house for dinner, the kids all had milk poured into Barney cups as drinks.
I too can't just drink milk straight from a bottle. I'm not lactose intolerant since I eat cereal and milk almost every day. Just something about milk as a beverage is disgusting to me. Give me water instead!
Same.. I can only drink that in cereal or ice cream or milkshakes and coffee but its hazelnut flavored.
60%= omggg Seiichi is 96 years old but he looks soooo young🤯😮
39%= i wish my school could be like that😔
1%=im hungry
he doesn't look like 96 years old! he looks younger ⌚
that little girl is adorable, I want to take her home
I live in Indonesia, when i was in elementary i always ate meat ball in my school, but after several months, meat ball owner got arrested because he had sold rat meat ball :/
Dark Fantasy oof
wkwkw, korban sebut saja Mawar
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@@hikikomoritraveler5529 wkwkwk
Can't wait till I can visit Japan :)
"Is your school the same?"
Hell no! I'd die of shock if my school actually made nice food
Sophia Maranto the greatest food my school has (that's not a snack) is everyday pizza
OH NO IT'S PERMANENTLY CLOSED!!!! Ahhhhh I need to find another place to try a Japanese school lunch at a restaurant, any other ideas/places/recommendations? This was something I was looking forward to when i go to Japan for the first time, I hope there's alternatives! This was such a great video btw, thanks for making it!
I think this kind of restaurant will be always around somewhere. "Gakkoizakaya 6 Nen 4 Kumi" is very similar one (maybe run by the same owner?). But be aware, these are "themed pub" for adults.
You might look at "cafeOgu1" if you live near. It's a small cafe but the owner was serving school lunch for 10 years.
my kids choices can be different daily but a few of them are , 4 chicken nuggets one cup vegetable one cup fruit and milk,or cheeseburger ,one cup vegetable one cup fruit and milk. my kids come home from school daily hungry. In America they dont feed them enough. 4 chicken nuggets for a 17 year old boy is not enough.
they charge alot for giving the kids nothing . all the little portions are doing is causing kids to be tired at school all after noon then go home and eat a meal before dinner which cause the kids to gain weight.
5:57 "I love soft men"
Lol yeah and they're covered with sauce after she pokes them
Love your video ❤️
I don't actually eat the food in my school. I just wait it out...
I live in indonesia but i can feel the sufering from the school lunch in USA
Can't you make something for yourself the night before? Even if it's simple like pasta, salad, sandwich...
Yeah, gotta wait around 8 hours to eat something solid, and good. Homecooking FTW
0:27 I love how his shirt phonetically spells out BONER
Alex Lee There is a guy in my school with the last name of, "uniga" but the teacher says "U-Nigga"
If you came back to the comment section, you're in luck.
Someone at my school has the last name of "Gnatzy"
Alex Lee i
Bonheur means happiness in French.
That's what it _gives_ Kevin, not what it means.
thanks for showing new and interesting things about japan, not the same old boring topics.
My school serves cancer 😒
Did the school lunch put the Agony in your name?
My reply looks like trash now that you fixed your name
I mean wasn't your reply already trash?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHH! GET WWWWRRRRRRREEEEEEEECCCCCCCKKKKKKEEEDDD!!!
With a side of a diabetes too
Our school lunch sucks they serve wet,soggy,cold,rotten,raw items,thank god we have the option to bring our own lunch in the USA
I love your show it's very important to know what the world eats and I watch it as an appetizer
Why can't American lunch be like this?
in my school no one ever fucking eats at lunch bc all the "good food" is sold at first break. and by good food I mean food with an actual flavour other than grease.
do you go to Hammond at Columbia S.C.?
I would love to see more perspective on "back in the day". I find it really interesting to see what your neighbour has to tell about his good old days
Japan:kids get nutritous and tasty food
Me:"Mom what will i get for luch tommorow?"
My mom:"we still have leftovers"
Me:"😣😣😣"
STEP UP YOUR GAME AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
But the game console is over there :T
cosmic_egg _ never will
@@7lawaneeena unless it's xbox
PERIODTT
Your explanations about Japanese school lunch is very correct and fair. Thank you for that. A few things I want to point out - the school lunch is served in most of the public primary schools and some middle schools. The unique fork/spoon is used not because some students can't use the chopsticks but it functions as one piece utensil. The aluminium lunch boxes were very popular before plastics. The whale meat dish was called Noway style and very popular.
Since this restaurant seemed like to be focused on the old menus, like milk in glass bottle with the strawberry powder and the whale meat, you should not think that all of those are the Japanese school lunches nowadays. Some of the menus here are still served, but some are not anymore. (And the aluminum containers are definitely of old style. It's pure nostalgia.)
School lunches are weird to me.
Live in the Netherlands are kinds here have to bring their own lunch.
of course made by the parents. Many children get to much sweets for lunch.
Wish we had schoollunches.
haha, toevallig. :D
Wel balen dat schoollunches niet bestaan in Nederland. Kan me wel voorstellen dat de meerderheid niks of nauwelijks wat eet tussen de middag.
Fank Daggot Dat ook, maar de meerderheid krijgt veels te ongezond eten mee.
Denk aan alle broodjes met zoetigheid erop en dan ook nog snoep erbij. (85% van de schoolkinderen)
Ook ontstaan er ruzies tussen de kinderen door deze ongelijkheid.
Kinderen van tegenwoordig krijgen steeds meer hun zin en worden sneller te dik door dit soort dingen.
(Ik lijkt wel een oud wijf dat overal over zeurt) xD
ninjaspirit7 Het is deels wel waar. Ik zit zelf ook nog op een middelbare school, en vrijwel al het eten dat je kan kopen in de kantine zijn goedkope ongezonde broodjes uit de oven of magnetron. Voor de rest is het alleen maar frisdrank en snoep of chips. Je kan wel gezonde dingen kopen maar die worden nauwelijks verkocht omdat de meeste mensen niet eens weten dat je het kan kopen!
Ja klopt,
It seems to offer a slightly older menu here to add nostalgia. Usually, plain bread and rice are served, so sweet fried bread that is served occasionally was popular. I have never eaten whale meat.
Our Italian school lunch were delicious! 😍😍 I miss them so much!
MR.SEIICHI IS 96?!?! HE LOOKS 60-70
NOW THATS A SPORK
Before I went to Japan I binge watched your videos to see where to go and I went here, DELICIOUS.
The school lunch in Japan is better than the united states school lunch
Evangeline Padilla weeabo alert run for your life AAAHHHHH this comment is more cancerous than logan paul dead body video
Kha Pham wait what the fuck, all he said was Japanese school lunch is better than American school lunch and he’s a fucking weeaboo and cancerous?? Well then I guess since I fucking like Vietnamese food better than American food I’m a fucking weeaboo, how is a simple fucking comment like Japanese school lunch is better than American school lunch more fucking cancerous than a guy filming a dead body for money. I don’t understand your logic one fucking bit and I don’t see a future for you, as you seem to insult strangers based on simple opinions.
No shit sherlock!
Evangeline Padilla Exacly!, most of the lunch options that they served at out school tasted awful. But fortunately there were a few things that tasted good.
$40-60 a month is amazingly cheap!
Robert H my school charges that much in the whole month, around 3.25 per lunch and the food is so sad....
In my country 20-30 dollars monthly (1 dollar for a day) very cheap foods. 🇵🇭
What I love about Japan is that they have everything, even for the most obscure and specific things to scratch those strange itches.
0:26 Heh. The back of the kid's sweater says "Happiness" in French.
Please! Make a video on the Tamagotchi Store! I read it's about to close and it's the only one! Hugs from Venezuela!
yekarreal really? What's the address? I'll see if I can swing by there. I really don't know much about it. Thanks! -John
yekarreal wow! I walked by there 2 days ago. I stop in a film a little next time I'm in the area. -John
Misato is sooooo cute! Maybe include her more in your videos?
In middle school in Japan, the food was great. Every lunch was very health and colorful. Also the menu was different every day. I loved it so much but after moving to the US, the food was totally different, it's all junk food and even the salad bar didn't look fresh. I wish they had more variety so we can stay healthy and not eating nachos or pizza all the time😂