When I lived in Japan I would go to Costco just to get a pizza, it was the only decent, reasonably priced pizza to be found there lol. No corn and mayo. Pizza Hut is way too expensive there. I’d buy a whole pie, bring it home on the subway (not an easy feat), wrap up the slices and put them in the freezer for later, when I had a pizza craving. 😂
@@gamemeister2905 almost no one has a big American-style oven in Japan. Most people, including myself, have a small unit with 2 burners and a tiny fish grill. Japanese kitchens are small. They don’t bake stuff all the time like westerners. You can get a counter top toaster oven maybe if you have the counter space, but you’re still not fitting a pizza in there. I did try to make my own in the frying pan. It just didn’t taste as good as Costco’s. Plus it was much smaller lol.
I enjoy every single video you post since I found your channel 😮 thank you for sharing your experience with food in Japan. Loved the croissant voice 😂 Cheers!
Bulgogi wrap would definitely work in the states, especially since it’s essentially a beef wrap. You didn’t try the burger, they don’t have that in my nearby Costco locations anymore.
It's more like a pasty/pastry, I've had it in Japan and I have to say it's not actually that good. It was kinda bland. I way preferred the chicken and bacon one they do back in the UK. I also miss baked potato and smoothie's they'd do too back home. Costco Japan was kinda weak, but maybe it was just the one I went too.
Just got a job at Costco and found out Japan is the country with the fourth most amount of Costcos in the world. Gonna climb that company ladder and finally achieve my dream of living in Japan. At least for a few years :].
@@twiceasbright2219 From what I remember, in Poland it's pretty much that the standard wiener/hot dog is made from pork, and then you also get chicken or turkey ones (and then vegan as well, I guess), and I think that's it
@@VDutATx we used to have onion machines stateside but barbarians walk among us and ruined it for everyone. I doubt it'll come back. They're doing cups of onions around here
Wait you DON'T have bulgogi bake in the States?? In the UK they scrapped the chicken burger and added the bulgogi wrap. It is LIT. I'd always have Costco envy when I watch the US review versions 😅 and wanted to try them so badly!
Yes, creamy clam chowder is New England style. It is made like a bisque (cream or milk based). The alternative is New York clam chowder which has a light tomato base, like minestrone.
Yeah he knows what clam chowder is, just not if the clam chowder at Costco is available regionally in the US because he’s never seen it before [on their menu]
I had friends in college who would fill up the drink cup with the diced onions and take it home so they wouldn't have to chop it themselves for cooking. Haven't seen an onion machine since then.
Whoa the most surprising thing in this video is the amount of workers working the food court! My local Costco had only 1 person manning the cashier and like 3-4 people in the back lol
Japans Costco is super super popular. When they first opened it was literally swarmed and emptied out, think people actually fought over shit as well. They literally need that many employees, or itd be hell. It was surprising to hear the mild mannered n shy japanese going absolutely wild because of some discounts lmao
@@Daedalus117 Dude so much stuff got stripped out during covid never to return. Maybe they decided it wasnt worth it but I actually really liked the onions and relish and even the sourkraut. My local costco doesnt even do the foil wrap anymore they just stuck my hotdog in paper envelope last time I was there. They dont have polish dogs anymore, no burgers, they dont have the incredible chiabata roll roasted sandwiches anymore, they dont even have pizza options like supreme or sausage anymore!!... It really sucks man! Just pizza, hot dogs, soda and berry sunday. Oh and I live near Seattle where the very 1st Costco was built and Costco HQ is. Management is really screwing things up.
@@sergeantbigmac I'm in the Seattle area as well. I really miss the polish dogs! And I completely forgot about the sauerkraut. It's sad, is what it is. Gimme my onions back at least
They definitely had clam chowdah at Costco back when I used to live in the Boston area 15 years ago, Costco food in general is such a nostalgia bomb and I love that they keep the American size portions ❤
I've been to Costcos in five countries and probably 15 states. My favorite hotdog is at the one in Iceland (they have this amazing mustard sauce) but I also love how Mexican ones have jalapeños. But yeah, nothing beats the childhood nostalgia of a big slice of pizza!
It's more common outside of the city centers, since people who live in the densly populated places don't really shop for lots of things at once. Houses aren't really designed with lots of storage for food, so you shop for only what you need and not much more. In mid-population areas (Chiba is a good example), some areas are much more car dependant and homes are mostly in suburbs like in North America so Costco makes a lot of sense out there.
@@japaneat I wonder if that’s why we had that on the Costco menu here in Hawaii a few years ago. They had the Bulgogi bake here for a little while then they discontinued it and I didn’t really think much of it
Mike Chen of Strictly Dumpling covers some of the Costco Food Courts overseas. In some areas, you can get the bulgogi on pizza as well. It's apparently fantastic.
Where I am in the States, our Costcos got rid of the onion machines during the pandemic. I've had to resort to the indignity of bringing my own minced onions
Having lived in Sweden all my life, its still so bizarre to me that a hot dog in the United States is by default generally considered to be made out of beef. It wasn't until recently I learned pork wasn't the standard.
Lived in the US all my life, I've never heard of beef being default for hot dogs. Every grocery store I can recall has plain "hot dogs" or "franks" that are a mix of meats including pork and *also* offers "all beef" varieties. I'll admit that "all beef" hot dogs are commonly available, but they're all specifically labeled because they're *not* the default.
Costco pizza is honestly one of my favorite pizzas ever lmao. Growing up in Alaska, ot was as good as pizza got for a long time. I live in the states now and still love the Supreme pizza from Costco.
New Yorker here; clam chowder is not only a Northeast dish, but we got two kinds. "New England" is the white creamy version you had, and the one most associated with the term "clam chowder", eaten more commonly during colder seasons in the whole of the Northeast (though most popular in the 'New England' area), and I love it. "Manhattan" has a red tomato base, is pretty much relegated to NY, and imo not that great. Hope that helps.
Yeah, mega resent. Combo pizza is gone from every US Costco I've seen, and I want it back. I don't care if it's a tiny bit more expensive, it's still cheap.
Costco employee here , idk why we stopped making them but they never brought em back after Covid hit. That was my favorite food court item too :(. The pepperoni pizza is just way too greasy for me
Onion Machine! I've had a deep respect for them ever since one of my engineering profs gave the class the project of "design an onion dispenser". My team's design was pretty decent considering nobody on the team had any food service experience. Also, it's comforting to see that Costco has standardized food, or at least the pizza. Never seen the chowdah in the states before tho.
I was raised on those kosher glizzys. Best deal, $1.50 for one of them with a drink. I have been sorely missing every since I moved out. I’m 32 now and often contemplate obtaining Costco membership just for glizzys, gas, and tires. Prioritized I’m that order.
I wish there were copies of Black Thunder in the states so we don't have to suffer with the usual American snacks that aren't too great even with the amount of sugar they put in each bite.
You should do one in Canada, crappiest food court ever with only chicken fingers and poutine besides the usual hot dog, pizza, and fries, fountain drink is 80% Pepsi...
Dude. Bulgogi bake looks dope. I love bulgogi. I was just thinking the other day, sitting at costco for the monthly grocery run and having my chicken bake for lunch, that they could make bank with some kind of other bake.
My little sister who went to Japan to be a teacher told us there was a costco 45 minutes away from her. They apparently had a $30 sushi set among the products. It’s interesting to see clam chowder on the menu, as well as the chicken bake being filled with korean bbq.
I went to costco in taiwan and they have the bulgogi wrap. That thing was so good I spilled beef oil onto my favorite pajamas because the pure pleasure I got from eating the thing made me unaware of anything else happening. The pajamas still has the oil stain to this day, and that was 2 years ago. Never regretted it tho.
Is the Costco in Tokyo? If not which is the closest to Tokyo? I lived in Tokyo in the 80s and early 90s before there were Costcos. Seeing a Costco in Japan would definitely blow my mind. The other thing I wonder about is with homes and apartments being so much smaller in Japan, where are they storing things from Costco? Are people standing around in your way when trying the free food like they do in the U.S.? Surprised the pizza didn’t have corn on it 😂.
I lived in Korea for a while and that bulgogi wrap is hella good. But damn, Koreans went nuts on the onion machine though, they would have plates full of just minced onion mixed with mustard, ketchup and relish. Idk if they did that in Japan.
You’ve never seen clam chowder in Costco? Our Costco is SnR /landers and I always thought the clam chowder was an American adaptation. Also yes. Onion machine is life. I usually take the machine itself on slow days but I dump out the onions to make sure the other customers don’t go hungry ❤
I don't think anything would make me more ticked off than going through a whole Costco shopping experience only for my hot dog to not be the classic Kirkland dog
interesting that the most common/expected meat for sausage to him is beef. where i live, it's chicken sausage because many people either don't eat pork or beef for religious reasons.
The Costco here in Brooklyn has only got the hotdog and pizza are $1.50 which include a fountains drink. And the most bang for the bucks are 20 croissants for $6 and rostisseri chicken for $5 and I get them when I’m in Costco
