The reason the ice cream taste very different is becuase most milk will come from Hokkaido and we are very proud of the taste of milk from Hokkaido. This is because the weather allows for free range/stress-free milk cows. If have never been to Sapporo you should try to go one year and try soup curry it is a original dish from Sapporo, but I wouldnt go in the winter as Sapporo can can 5 meters of snow. (sorry if my english is bad)
Your English is very good. Much better than my Japanese.😂 Isn't the there the Ice Sculpture Festival during the winter? That's one of things I want to see in Japan. And I've heard about the curry soups and the butter ramen. Those sound like they would taste so good in the the winter.
I think the more one eats all the different kinds of food with their full attention, simple natural flavors start become king. It's like all the weird stuff help just make us appreciate them even more.
Guga! The next time you are in Japan I suggest that you try and collab with Abroad In Japan or Junk Food Japan. Chris from Abroad in Japan has a long history of trying some of the best Wagyu in Japan. Chris has also tried Fugu and may be able to convince you to do the same. Nick from Junk Food Japan on the other hand is a super big foodie who is into Martial Arts and I feel you guys would get along great! Thanks for the video guga!
I second this! Part of the problem, Guga, is that you went to the tourist traps. They make schlocky food specifically for tourists. Abroad in Japan would be great to collab with, because he's lived there for years and knows the better places to go. :)
I just love how Guga is mentioning the egg sandwiches from time to time. They are just amazing and some of the best things I had when I was in Japan. Those and the C.C. Lemon-Drinks really made my Japan-Vacation.
Yes! I always have the egg sandwich and C.C. Lemon. And at Family Mart...the Famichiki is a must. There's so much good tasting food, at a reasonable price, in any of the konbini's. Although I can get C.C. Lemon from the DQ where I live, as it's an import, they don't always have it and it's much more expensive here. So I do get quite often when I'm in Japan. 👍
@@BRO-HI808 been living here for 7 years and the egg sandwich is still my go to for breakfast whenever i pass by Family Mart here. for chicken wise, I prefer lawson. they have a wider variety and seasoning for the chicken than most others.
@@xyphxer which chicken at Lawson. I can't remember which one I tried fro Lawson, but it wasn't as good as some I tried from Family Mart or 7-Eleven. I would appreciate the suggestions and be sure to try them the next time in Japan.👍😁
@@BRO-HI808 they have the soy chicken, many people like the different flavours of karaage-kun. Their crispy chicken is also much better than family marts one imo 🤣
What a wonderful video! I loved following your adventure trying Japan's viral street food. It was super interesting to see the variety and deliciousness of each dish. Congratulations on the engaging presentation and detailed descriptions. I look forward to seeing more great content like this! ❤❤
one of my favorite games of all time is shenmue, growing up in the 90s i absolutely loved it. and every time i see people do videos walking around japenese markets it reminds me of how realistic and ahead of it's time shenmue was
I feel ya with the gold thing. It is LITERALLY conspicuous consumption. I love that you show the good and the bad. Really hoping my next deployment is to Misawa. Got my fingers crossed.
I am a old person, and growing up people always told me that asia has really bad food. For a long time I believed them, because I had no internet to check. Today I know that they have very good food. Thanks to videos like yours.
back in the old days, a lot of western restaurants spread false rumors about ingredients that are typically used in Asian foods because Asian immigrants would come over with new and exciting food that people wanted to try. So local food vendors would spread lies like MSG being bad, the meat being from cats, dogs, and rats and all sorts of other lies. A lot of older people who grew up hearing that still think it's true to this day. A lot of stuff people heard back in the 50's just isn't true. Like "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was a lie invented by the pork industry to sell more pork via bacon and sausages.
That sounds like xenophobia or maybe the conservativeness of older generations. Growing up in an asian country and currently studying in a western country, I learn that there are good things as well as bad things everywhere in the world. On the other hand, congrats, it's always nice to learn something new.
So glad you and your family were able to go there and have a wonderful time ❤. I hope to go one day. I'm not a sweet person. Iwanna try local non tourists foods. But I love takoyaki. I agree mabe different proteins inside .
My fav thing in Japan is the Tonkatsu chain restaurants in the train stations. The perfect deep fried pork culet you can even imagine. It will blow your mind away.
My wife is from the Osaka area so we go about every other year. One day on Jan 1 we were walking down a street in a suburb and there was a group making mochi by hand (doing the pound with mallet etc). We stopped and watched and they invited us to help but we were on the way to an appointment and couldn’t stop for more than a couple minutes to watch. It was fun to watch mochi made by hand. (Mochi making is a new year’s tradition). Did you get horse sushi? I had that once at a small conveyor belt sushi place my MIL took us to. It was raw and very interesting. I’d try it again. They also had roast beef sushi (lightly cooked). It was ok. The horse is better.
namba is like my backstreet, been watching your videos for many years and feels kinda weird when i see places i know in your videos.. wish I had been there at the same time
Guga, very important. I worked at an icecream shop for a few years that served chocolate shoppe icecream (highly recommend it, its award winning) and let me tell you I learned a lot about icecream at that job. Most “icecream” in America literally isn’t legally icecream as per our dairy association standards, which is why icecream in america usually sucks. We do have some of the best icecream in the world, sadly you just aren’t likely to find it many places as us americans are happy with an inferior product if its cheap and convenient. Thats the difference for japanese icecream. Their culture doesn’t revolve around convenience (laziness) like us americans.
Guga should seriously find a local to give him tips. The place with golden ice cream and the rainbow one are clearly tourist traps made for people who only care about what the food will look like on social media.
I loved my trip to Japan, it was so incredible. The people were so polite (for the most part, except when I was scammed at a tourist trap), and the food was amazing. Guga, the ONLY complaint I have is that at one point, you ate something after IMMEDIATELY altering how the chef cooked it. The only way to eat food is to eat it however the chef intends to serve it. After that, alter it to your own tastes. You should understand this better than anyone.
Love your vids Guga, love your transformation, had fun watching the entire video (because of the zero bloat and how you kept everything at a 100). BTW, Fugu is actually poisonous, but who cares. Take care, bless you and your family and hoping for more fun family vids such as this.
You know what Japanese food is never talked about but it's literally in my top 10... Pumpkin Katsu! I would literally want Pumpkin Katsu as the last thing eat before I die!
The Japanese have a saying, "I'd like to eat fugu, but I'd like to live." It's like us saying, "It's not worth the risk." I'm a retired sushi chef, and I've never had fugu. The older I get the less the risk of death discourages me from eating it.
Guga ...you want to make the wagyu ice cream, i want you to make the wagyu ice cream the whole world wants you to make the wagyu ice cream...dont ask just do...for humanity!
The world needs to preserve Japanese culture at all costs. Top of my bucket list and hopefully a chance to legally immigrate. Beautiful people, beautiful country
Yes! Japan has great cream puffs, cakes and breads. You should definitely visit a cake shop and bakery🍰🍓🍞 If you want to eat really good wagyu beef or Japanese food, ask a Japanese person and go to an izakaya. You can find a variety of really good Japanese food!👍 Also, if you go to Osaka, you have to try the pork buns and kushikatsu (skewered cutlets), otherwise it's not worth the trip!🍙 Don't eat rainbow cheese sandwiches or strawberry candies because they are Korean food for tourists and not good!🤣
4:30 you go to Nara for the deer park and massive temple; theres an amazing fatty tuna rice bowl place and a "3 way" eel place (eat eel in 3 ways in one meal)
⚠️Attention⚠️ Everything from 12:42.The rainbow-colored waffles are from a Korean shop.Foods with these colors are different from the Japanese people's sensibilities. It's not common even in Japan.
Hey Guga, the tornado potato gave me an idea for a future video for you. That potato is fairly common at local and state fairs. Maybe you should do a video about fair food around you
Puffer is safe in Japan. The chefs who prepare and serve it have to go through an insane amount of training and certification. As long as you’re at a well known establishment you’ll be fine.
@@noseboop4354 There are years with no deaths and by Googling it appears that almost all deaths are from unlicensed chefs/cooks who DIY. If you're at an established place with a trained and licensed chef you probably have little to fear. Just don't DIY
Little correction: Fugu, also known as pufferfish, is poisonous, not venomous. "Venomous" refers to organisms that produce toxins and deliver them to another organism through a bite, sting, or other specialized mechanism. "Poisonous" refers to organisms that contain toxins which can cause harm or death if ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin. And some organisms are both.
Saludos guga me gustan mucho estos videos si puedes hacerlos diferente aprovecha ejemplo este video tiene muchas comidas puedes hacer muchos videos solo con este en ves de ir directo al proximo plato mostrar los paisajes de Japón con musica
The roasted soy bean powder is called kinako and most known for wrapping it on a grilled, then tossed in sweet soy syrup dango skewer; kinako latte, perfect as a coating with sugar on fried sweet food, ice-cream, pastries etc
The Fugu chefs at the reputable restaurants train for many years, they even take an inventory of the fish's organs to ensure there is no danger when served. That's a bummer that you passed it up. Paulo in Tokyo did a great video about a Fugu restaurant, check it out
We have that tornado potato in Malaysia too, thought I believe its origin is from Korea, but each country seasons it differently i believe. best eaten when cooked fresh so that it preserves its hot crunchiness. Highly recommend.
I've had a similar Japanese sweet potato treat here in Malaysia at Don Don donki where they add sugar and brulee it into a caramel crust, and add vanilla ice cream on the side. One of the simple but best desserts I've had
The reason the ice cream taste very different is becuase most milk will come from Hokkaido and we are very proud of the taste of milk from Hokkaido. This is because the weather allows for free range/stress-free milk cows. If have never been to Sapporo you should try to go one year and try soup curry it is a original dish from Sapporo, but I wouldnt go in the winter as Sapporo can can 5 meters of snow. (sorry if my english is bad)
Hokkaido is at the top of my list of places to see in Japan. Thanks for the advice! Your English is very good 👍
A few grammar mistakes, but your English seems up to point. Don't worry about it. Easily better than many native English people I've seen write.
Your English is very good. Much better than my Japanese.😂 Isn't the there the Ice Sculpture Festival during the winter? That's one of things I want to see in Japan. And I've heard about the curry soups and the butter ramen. Those sound like they would taste so good in the the winter.
When I lived in Japan I preferred the Nagano (I think it was) milk over the Hokkaido milk.
agree with the soup curry. it is kinda similar to thai curry but different
suage is a good chain and can be found in tokyo and in most places in japan
I love that you keep it 100 even when something is trash! Keep it up Guga.
I am so glad you checked out that first place. He is a character!
I like guga's vlogs because he doesn't say everything is amazing. He actually tells the truth.
I think the more one eats all the different kinds of food with their full attention, simple natural flavors start become king. It's like all the weird stuff help just make us appreciate them even more.
Yeah guga recreating his japanese trip at home would be an awesome new Series!
Guga! The next time you are in Japan I suggest that you try and collab with Abroad In Japan or Junk Food Japan. Chris from Abroad in Japan has a long history of trying some of the best Wagyu in Japan. Chris has also tried Fugu and may be able to convince you to do the same. Nick from Junk Food Japan on the other hand is a super big foodie who is into Martial Arts and I feel you guys would get along great! Thanks for the video guga!
My thoughts exactly, hearing Guga yell "ITADAKIMASU!" with Nick would be a treat.
Nah, chris beat up my dad and stole my girlfriend. Don't recommend that dude
I second this! Part of the problem, Guga, is that you went to the tourist traps. They make schlocky food specifically for tourists. Abroad in Japan would be great to collab with, because he's lived there for years and knows the better places to go. :)
@@CaptainBuggyTheClown can confirm
am the girlfriend
don't forget about *Japaneats!*
I'm glad you had a great time! Please visit my hometown Arashiyama, Kyoto next time!😊
bamboo forest!
Really enjoying this Japan series!
Hi Guga!! The tornado potato in Mexico its pretty common and popular as well. It is called "Espiropapa" haha. Big fan of your content.
I was surprise he never see that.. it is everywhere in asian
It's everywhere in Europe.
Most state/county fairs in the USA have them too they are not new.
I seen a lot during fiestas in Philippines.
love this type of video Guga! you are honest and funny. I also like the some of the background mini stories you add in with your family and what not.
So many unfortunate trials on your trip. Thanks for sharing the experience. Hope the trip was a net positive.
Glad to see you're enjoying yourself Guga :) Enjoy your summer!
I really wanna see Guga make some of these recipes from Japan. There were SOO MANY!!!
I just love how Guga is mentioning the egg sandwiches from time to time. They are just amazing and some of the best things I had when I was in Japan. Those and the C.C. Lemon-Drinks really made my Japan-Vacation.
Yes! I always have the egg sandwich and C.C. Lemon. And at Family Mart...the Famichiki is a must. There's so much good tasting food, at a reasonable price, in any of the konbini's. Although I can get C.C. Lemon from the DQ where I live, as it's an import, they don't always have it and it's much more expensive here. So I do get quite often when I'm in Japan. 👍
I'll get scorched for admitting this but i got hooked on the strawberry cream desert sandwich and honeydew melon drink/slushy
@@BRO-HI808 been living here for 7 years and the egg sandwich is still my go to for breakfast whenever i pass by Family Mart here. for chicken wise, I prefer lawson. they have a wider variety and seasoning for the chicken than most others.
@@xyphxer which chicken at Lawson. I can't remember which one I tried fro Lawson, but it wasn't as good as some I tried from Family Mart or 7-Eleven. I would appreciate the suggestions and be sure to try them the next time in Japan.👍😁
@@BRO-HI808 they have the soy chicken, many people like the different flavours of karaage-kun. Their crispy chicken is also much better than family marts one imo 🤣
What a wonderful video! I loved following your adventure trying Japan's viral street food. It was super interesting to see the variety and deliciousness of each dish. Congratulations on the engaging presentation and detailed descriptions. I look forward to seeing more great content like this! ❤❤
Guga, your an awesome man, thank you for making these videos.
i love your obsession with the egg sandwiches its like a subplot to your whole japan trip
one of my favorite games of all time is shenmue, growing up in the 90s i absolutely loved it. and every time i see people do videos walking around japenese markets it reminds me of how realistic and ahead of it's time shenmue was
I feel ya with the gold thing. It is LITERALLY conspicuous consumption.
I love that you show the good and the bad.
Really hoping my next deployment is to Misawa. Got my fingers crossed.
I am a old person, and growing up people always told me that asia has really bad food. For a long time I believed them, because I had no internet to check. Today I know that they have very good food. Thanks to videos like yours.
back then, asia probably doesnt have the best ingredients especially when it comes to protein
Xenophobia. Just like the negativity around msg.
back in the old days, a lot of western restaurants spread false rumors about ingredients that are typically used in Asian foods because Asian immigrants would come over with new and exciting food that people wanted to try. So local food vendors would spread lies like MSG being bad, the meat being from cats, dogs, and rats and all sorts of other lies. A lot of older people who grew up hearing that still think it's true to this day.
A lot of stuff people heard back in the 50's just isn't true. Like "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was a lie invented by the pork industry to sell more pork via bacon and sausages.
These are the people who didn't even travel that much outside their home turf, and always think of themselves as the center of the universe lol
That sounds like xenophobia or maybe the conservativeness of older generations. Growing up in an asian country and currently studying in a western country, I learn that there are good things as well as bad things everywhere in the world. On the other hand, congrats, it's always nice to learn something new.
thanks for this amazing video
Love your videos keep it up
I havent watched guga videos in a while but has his trip to japan made him fit? He looks slim. Good on you guga.
I'd love to see you recreate some of these dishes. Or even just make some new dishes from your inspiration
❤looking healthy my brother keep it up💪🏻
Yes!!! Please make your own version of a wagyu ice-cream! 🥩🍦
Guga, looking good with the weight loss! You're awesome either way!
Why is guga such a good UA-camr? like top 3
The tornado potato is a really really common thing in my country, like it’s everywhere, also I really love your videos you’re great❤
i love the guy with the torch i watched him he cool asf
Man you bring me nostalgia, been to that exact same area with my wife last year. We ate so many chicken heart skewers that the restaurant ran out.
your videos are crazy, the quality is increasing every time👄👄👄
So glad you and your family were able to go there and have a wonderful time ❤. I hope to go one day. I'm not a sweet person. Iwanna try local non tourists foods. But I love takoyaki. I agree mabe different proteins inside .
Glad to see your transformation and how well you're doing! Keep up the good work! Glad you're out enjoying yourself :)
My fav thing in Japan is the Tonkatsu chain restaurants in the train stations. The perfect deep fried pork culet you can even imagine. It will blow your mind away.
@15:00 Guga we have that here in the States! Tornado potato is very common county fair food, you get 'em near the funnel cake stand
I ❤that elderly man with the torch. Great soul
Yes, I would love to see you do the Your version of the ice cream wahoo. I have been watching your videos for the past four years.
Guga, get this: that egg sandwich with waygu beef.
Please make it happen!
Looking forward to Guga's rainbow grilled cheese waffle sandwiches
7:30 Yeah, that okonomiyaki looked pretty sad... :(
what a good food --- love u gugaa
with okonomiyaki imo you should be going to a shop where you make it on the gridle infront of you. so good
that bold chef was the best! made my day
2:56 look at that smile
They've had those corscrew fries on the Wildwood Boardwalk in NJ for decades now.
Thumbs up if you want Guga to do his own meat icecream.
My wife is from the Osaka area so we go about every other year. One day on Jan 1 we were walking down a street in a suburb and there was a group making mochi by hand (doing the pound with mallet etc). We stopped and watched and they invited us to help but we were on the way to an appointment and couldn’t stop for more than a couple minutes to watch. It was fun to watch mochi made by hand. (Mochi making is a new year’s tradition).
Did you get horse sushi? I had that once at a small conveyor belt sushi place my MIL took us to. It was raw and very interesting. I’d try it again. They also had roast beef sushi (lightly cooked). It was ok. The horse is better.
@Guga Thank your for bringing Japan's 711 menu stateside!!!!
Thanks for featuring my cheese coin video! I actually got mine in Sydney, Australia but yours really looks sad 😂
namba is like my backstreet, been watching your videos for many years and feels kinda weird when i see places i know in your videos.. wish I had been there at the same time
I really want to go to Japan so badly to try those foods 😍😍 wow everything looked amazing
15:04
In Poland this „spiral potatoes” are very popular on beaches, promenades and tourist places.
Guga, very important.
I worked at an icecream shop for a few years that served chocolate shoppe icecream (highly recommend it, its award winning) and let me tell you I learned a lot about icecream at that job.
Most “icecream” in America literally isn’t legally icecream as per our dairy association standards, which is why icecream in america usually sucks.
We do have some of the best icecream in the world, sadly you just aren’t likely to find it many places as us americans are happy with an inferior product if its cheap and convenient.
Thats the difference for japanese icecream. Their culture doesn’t revolve around convenience (laziness) like us americans.
Guga should seriously find a local to give him tips. The place with golden ice cream and the rainbow one are clearly tourist traps made for people who only care about what the food will look like on social media.
Very cool video. Pretty sure I heard a wild Angel in the background.
I loved my trip to Japan, it was so incredible. The people were so polite (for the most part, except when I was scammed at a tourist trap), and the food was amazing. Guga, the ONLY complaint I have is that at one point, you ate something after IMMEDIATELY altering how the chef cooked it. The only way to eat food is to eat it however the chef intends to serve it. After that, alter it to your own tastes. You should understand this better than anyone.
Love your vids Guga, love your transformation, had fun watching the entire video (because of the zero bloat and how you kept everything at a 100).
BTW, Fugu is actually poisonous, but who cares.
Take care, bless you and your family and hoping for more fun family vids such as this.
looking slim Guga, keep it up brother
Wow! It's like a Japan is a whole different country!
I would love to see you on one of these trips so a video with Sunny from the best ever food review show...
Smart man 😊
You do not want to get sick in another country 😉
Love ya Guga ❤
6:51 Editor went all out, amazing
Been enjoying the Japan videos. Wondering what camera you are using?
You know what Japanese food is never talked about but it's literally in my top 10... Pumpkin Katsu! I would literally want Pumpkin Katsu as the last thing eat before I die!
8:33 its just bread and ice cream...whats so good about that?
*next few minutes*
YUMMM THIS IS MY FAVORITE
Give Unagi Don a try, it's really underrated dish.
Fantastic video thanks 🙏🏻
The Japanese have a saying, "I'd like to eat fugu, but I'd like to live." It's like us saying, "It's not worth the risk." I'm a retired sushi chef, and I've never had fugu. The older I get the less the risk of death discourages me from eating it.
Guga ...you want to make the wagyu ice cream, i want you to make the wagyu ice cream the whole world wants you to make the wagyu ice cream...dont ask just do...for humanity!
The world needs to preserve Japanese culture at all costs. Top of my bucket list and hopefully a chance to legally immigrate. Beautiful people, beautiful country
Make the ice cream but with a better cone! You should do a video remaking all of the dishes you ate there.
Yes! Japan has great cream puffs, cakes and breads. You should definitely visit a cake shop and bakery🍰🍓🍞
If you want to eat really good wagyu beef or Japanese food, ask a Japanese person and go to an izakaya. You can find a variety of really good Japanese food!👍
Also, if you go to Osaka, you have to try the pork buns and kushikatsu (skewered cutlets), otherwise it's not worth the trip!🍙
Don't eat rainbow cheese sandwiches or strawberry candies because they are Korean food for tourists and not good!🤣
4:30 you go to Nara for the deer park and massive temple; theres an amazing fatty tuna rice bowl place and a "3 way" eel place (eat eel in 3 ways in one meal)
⚠️Attention⚠️
Everything from 12:42.The rainbow-colored waffles are from a Korean shop.Foods with these colors are different from the Japanese people's sensibilities. It's not common even in Japan.
I agree completely: kinako powder tastes exactly like peanut butter to me too!
4:31 "That's what she said" 😂🤣😂
Hey Guga, the tornado potato gave me an idea for a future video for you. That potato is fairly common at local and state fairs. Maybe you should do a video about fair food around you
The matcha mocha with kinako is my favorite 😍
Puffer is safe in Japan. The chefs who prepare and serve it have to go through an insane amount of training and certification. As long as you’re at a well known establishment you’ll be fine.
The chefs are great but not 100% fool proof. Every year there are people who die from incorrectly prepared fugu.
@@noseboop4354 Every year? lmfao. Where'd you read about that? 30 years I've lived in Japan, only heard it happen 1 time a long time ago.
@@noseboop4354 There are years with no deaths and by Googling it appears that almost all deaths are from unlicensed chefs/cooks who DIY. If you're at an established place with a trained and licensed chef you probably have little to fear. Just don't DIY
Hope you also tried Tokyo X pork. It's like the Kobe beef of pork.
Thank you to Guga's wife for preventing him from embarrassing himself!
Little correction: Fugu, also known as pufferfish, is poisonous, not venomous.
"Venomous" refers to organisms that produce toxins and deliver them to another organism through a bite, sting, or other specialized mechanism.
"Poisonous" refers to organisms that contain toxins which can cause harm or death if ingested, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin.
And some organisms are both.
Wish was there with you experiencing all the cool things.
Next time you got to try the egg sandwich and fried chicken combo. Get the fried chicken from the counter. Life changing combo
8:55... well here is a side dish, croissants with vanilla icecream
3:34 Gugas Doppelganger
Saludos guga me gustan mucho estos videos si puedes hacerlos diferente aprovecha ejemplo este video tiene muchas comidas puedes hacer muchos videos solo con este en ves de ir directo al proximo plato mostrar los paisajes de Japón con musica
Wagyu Ice-cream! (Thanks Mr. Guga!)
The roasted soy bean powder is called kinako and most known for wrapping it on a grilled, then tossed in sweet soy syrup dango skewer; kinako latte, perfect as a coating with sugar on fried sweet food, ice-cream, pastries etc
The Fugu chefs at the reputable restaurants train for many years, they even take an inventory of the fish's organs to ensure there is no danger when served. That's a bummer that you passed it up.
Paulo in Tokyo did a great video about a Fugu restaurant, check it out
Great video brother
"Bonito flakes, not too much" and then he adds a mountain of bonito flakes
Guga, you should come to Peru!
Yessss Peru Guga
Yeah 👍 Peru Guga
I too just got back from Japan and the egg sandwich was almost a daily treat , 711
Guga do the meat ice cream on your channel. That ice cream looked amazing.
This just reminds me how much I need to go back.
We have that tornado potato in Malaysia too, thought I believe its origin is from Korea, but each country seasons it differently i believe. best eaten when cooked fresh so that it preserves its hot crunchiness. Highly recommend.
I've had a similar Japanese sweet potato treat here in Malaysia at Don Don donki where they add sugar and brulee it into a caramel crust, and add vanilla ice cream on the side. One of the simple but best desserts I've had