Could you add the places you went on Happy Cow? I looked at the app and non of the places are listed! Honestly, the only vegan place in the intire prefecture that I can see is in the capital. Someone need to recorrect this. I want to make a video about the prefecture but I don't know where to go.
Chris and Connor complain about cycling across Japan only to stuff themselves with McDonalds, meanwhile Ryotaro runs everywhere with no problem while eating tasty local produce.
**NOTIFICATION SQUAD** I recently visited Hachinohe in Aomori, where Chris and I filmed a video called "Japanese nightlife" and saw people who appeared in the video and they all thanked us for many viewers actually went and visited them and it is now my turn to thank you!
1:49 translating Arigatō gozaimasu as “Cheers mate” totally caught me off guard 😂 you’ve been hanging around that troublesome Chris fellow too much I see! Edit: 1:57 omg “That’s well sweet bruv” SENT ME 🤣
Come for the fishless sushi and tomatoes, stay for the Ryotaro fitness grindset! Ah yes, putting chili crisp on your spaghetti...famous last words. I've been putting chili oil on everything ever since I started watching Mikey Chen. Sure it gives you a kick and not for the faint of heart, but it adds nice flavor to anything! The reason Kochi's tomatoes are extra sweet is because of a typhoon in the 1970s broke a dam near the city of Kochi and flooded a tomato farm with seawater (so that sound effect edit with the wave splash at 1:56 is fitting). The salty water reduced the tomatoes' ability to absorb water, making them smaller, denser, and much sweeter.
"Mohei, Gohei. Get It? Me neither, I just wanted free food" relatable 😂So the story of how gohei mochi became a thing is an interesting one. There are different theories for why (like created by someone named Gohei), but the most likely reason has to do with geography and Shintoism. It was invented in the Edo period and specifically comes from the area of Gifu and Nagano, and those places are quite mountainous and forested, where walnuts can be found and even hornet larvae for richer taste. Other ingredients like sugar and refined sake were added thanks to being on an important trade route connecting Kyoto and Edo via this region. But the ingredients of the Gohei mochi like refined sake were expensive or hard or cumbersome to come by for ordinary peasants, and so it wasn't eaten often and was more of an offering. Gohei mochi was shaped to resemble the Gohei or onbe, staffs with plaited paper streamers used in the Shinto religion. There is also a strong connection to the mountains, because the gods were believed to live there, and some of these sacrificial ceremonies were indeed held in the mountains.
That sushi looks amazing! I feel like if I ever make it to Japan, I’ll need several months to go everywhere to try all the amazing food. Thanks for another great video, Ryotaro!
I wonder what Ryotaro-san would think about europeanized-sushi in the EU. Sushi has become really popular in country i am from (Poland) during the last 15 years, and in good restaurants one can find really creative things... but would a native Japanese like it? 🤔
I actually went to Izumi Sushi Biały Kamień in Warsaw and I quite liked the Polished styled Sushi not only how it tasted but also how you decorate the dish. I would love to visit there again.
me: It's fokin shite mate although i feel it's more to do with the freshness/availability of the ingredients. the chef can only do so much to 'recreate' sushi outside of Japan no matter how skilled they are.
The Broad burn was good, but the subtitles were amazing!!! Great job, as usual, and you got plenty of speed running in it too, watch and learn cyclist Chris
So glad you have a youtube channel since Chris’s content has started to go downhill recently…hes basically a fitness channel now thanks to the bad influence of Connor and Joey 🤦🏽♂️😓
This was a really pleasing video to watch. I've always loved traveling and since becoming vegan ~2 years ago I've always tried aiming for places that more naturally tended towards plant based foods and this seems almost exactly like one of those kinds of places, which says a lot considering it's Japan.
Thank you so much Ryotaro for featuring this village! I know you love showcasing meat dishes on this show, but I appreciate that you went out of your way to do vegetables justice. I appreciate the effort! It is so hard to find vegan places in Japan and you featured so many options. Thank you again!
Damn, I just randomly saw your video pop up and now I'm all hungry for the food you ate! You make it look really tasty (maybe because it is really tasty :D) Thanks for sharing your fun
07:07 I was just thinking about Sate that I was eating a week ago down here in my hometown in Indonesia when I first saw that Mohei Mochi. Ryotaro seems to have visited Indonesia too :> :>
I hate watching Japanese shows where people eat food…. Not EVERYTHING is THAT delicious…. You are basically lying. It’s just food man. I do think there is a moral issue here where people are openly lying to people on TV, even over something so mundane. This obviously has a consequence socially and culturally on people’s judgments toward things. When everything is good then nothing can be bad. And if nothing can be bad, then the bad is always good. This is actually a serious social problem and is harmful toward critical thinking and consequently problem solving. Uma!!! Everything Uma!!! Uma!! UMAAAAAAAAAAA~! *face palm*
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Reminds me of my favorite chirashizushiya in front of Hakuraku eki in Yokohama, back in the 90s. It’s probably gone now, but I used to order their mountain vegetable chirashi at least once every two weeks or so.
I am Japanese living in the US. I have been vegan for these 10 years. Recently I went back to Japan for work, and found it hard to be vegan, especially when I visit there for work.
I like your video, but I missed when you threaten Chris Broad! Too bad Chris was not there cause he does not like eating Vegan! It would have been fun you teasing Chris!
Pretty sure Ninjas were vegan because in those time periods, meat is a rarity and cherished for special occasion. Ninjas were originally farmers too, and it's a region with little fish and possibly less livestocks, so all they have are veggies. In the dark ages, pork is the most common livestock, beef is very very scarce and chickens have a fairly high skill level to handle and raise for their egg and meat. But all in all, meat were for the aristocrats mainly.
hm, I know someone who is allergic to pretty much all forms of seafood. They can never have sushi normaly just due to cross contamination in the kitchen.
