Local Girl Shows Me Japan’s Oldest Onsen Town 🇯🇵
Good afternoon from rural Japan where your man has just arrived here at Arma Onson, one of the oldest and most famous onen towns in this country. Guys, you all know about the onsons in Japan. The hot spring water and all that. It’s where the Japanese go to ah get rained on. Apparently, it’s raining. It’s uh Yeah, Japanese love a good onen. It’s like the hot spring water, the minerals and all that. So, this onen town is one of the oldest, the most famous because for over a thousand years, emperors and samuris and all that have been coming here to relax. And now the tourists, mostly Japanese tourists, come for their weekends and such like. Today’s a public holiday. I’m filming this on a Monday public holiday. So, it’s uh yeah, it’s all local Japanese coming to chill in this town. And I have a local Japanese friend who’s meeting me somewhere down here. Yes, finally, guys. Finally, I have a Japanese friend, Nina. Nina la Japanesea. Yeah. Ha. Yeah. Oh, ha. Yeah. She is a vlogger and she does vlogs in Spanish language. So, she’s hapa. Ha. But I actually Japanese English channel, too. Okay. Two channels now. Yeah. Okay. Wow, this is beautiful. Is this the hot spring water? Oh, no. This is cold. You’re going to see a real hot spring water over there. Ah, so this is just like a river. Yeah. Yeah, that’s a river. Oh, wow. It’s so cool how they’ve done it there. Yeah. But this is not where you dip your feet. No, no, but you can dip your feet over there. Okay. Yeah. So, they have like hot spring water running through this town and uh there’s two types, right? There’s the kinsen and ginsen. Yes. Yeah. So there’s like a gold one that has iron in it and then there’s like a silver one. They’re called kinen and ginsson. I’ve done my research. I’ve also done my research on the local snacks. There’s two local snacks that I’m eager to try. There’s the mangju, which is some steamed bun, right? Yeah. And the senbe, which is some kind of rice cracker, but they make it with the carbonated hotring water. So yeah, I’m eager to try those. And some kind of local cider as well, right? Yeah. You’re in your home. Yeah. So they call it cider, but it’s not alcoholic. Cider just means like carbonated spring water. So there’s some local drink as well. But this town is beautiful. This is uh this is like a getaway town for people from like Osaka and Kobe, right? Yeah. So I can give you a good tour cuz I come here every year. Okay. Okay. From since I was a baby. All right. Uhhuh. It’s not too far from where your family home is, right? No, it’s only one direct bus, 1 hour. Okay. People come here for little day trip or one night trip. Ah, right. To relax. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And everyone around, are they Japanese or are some people like you can tell they’re Korean or Chinese or what? Mostly Japanese. This is not very well known among foreigners. More towards Japanese people. Over there is bathtop. We’re going to go over there. And this is the mango they want to eat straight away. We get straight into the street food. Okay, let’s get the Let’s just get one and share it. Yeah. Yeah, that’s good, guys. Maybe I can eat twice as much food because I have someone to to eat half my food. So, I can try twice as much uh different things. Oh, well. So, these are the mangju here. They’re steamed steamed buns. Uh one place [Music] Okay, we have I even have a camera woman. Oh my god, that’s so hot. Yeah. Uh, how can we share this? You can just bite it. Uh, I want to do it hygienically. Hygienically? It’s okay. You can just bite it. Okay, I’ll get another one for you. Oh, wow. Yeah, it’s it’s steaming hot and it’s like red bean. I think it’s red bean, right? It’s the ankle jazuki. Yeah. Yeah, the ankle. So when you mix isuki red beans with sugar, you get ankle. This kind of paste. You like it? Huh? So hot. Not only here, every hot spring places usually sell this. Okay. Because they cook in a low temperature like the almost same temperature as your hot spring. All right. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not too sweet either. It’s like hot, sticky, and just a little bit sweet. I like that. Most Japanese sweets are like that where it’s like you’re not getting a sugar bomb, so you can eat a bunch of them. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. So much for sharing. Right. I just I just ate the full thing. That’s fine. Actually, before I’m going to get another one for eat. Really? Yeah. But you were waiting for me. Oh, yeah. Or another time. No, I was waiting for you and I thought maybe it’s going to be another 2 hours. So maybe I need 2 hours. Wow. Your expectations are so low because I understand that in Japan public transportation is very complicated. Didn’t you take like three trains or something? So uh I originally was going to come here by bus and then uh I couldn’t find where the bus was leaving from and then after 10 minutes I had already departed. So I had to take like three different trains to get here which seems complicated but it was only like 22 minutes. It was like honor train and then change and honor train and then change. But I found you very puncture because like 1220 you arrived. It’s not even that bad. We were going to meet at 12. We were going to meet at 12:00 and I got here 12:22. So by Japanese standards it’s pretty bad. But Nina’s used to traveling in Latin America and she says that’s in Latin America that’s not too bad. That’s kind of normal. I think you want to try that one. That is one of the most important important mangu Japanese traditional sweets that has a moi and also anko. Oh, so it’s like um they’re going to give you like Oh, they have maybe giving out samples before. Oh, this one. This is a very important Japanese sweet. Ah, so it’s like a mochi. It is like this sticky rice flour. Yeah, exactly. And it is so sticky sticky. That’s why this is so popular. And all those hotels around here, they usually serve this as a dessert after dinner. Oh, really? Oh, okay. Cuz it’s like nice. Okay. Oh, samples. Okay. Okay. Oh, it’s all spongy, huh? Okay, let’s go then. I like it. Yeah, I prefer the mangju. Oh, okay. I think this one is not sweet. And yeah, it has a weird taste. What is the taste? Some sticky iron. I don’t know. I think this is cinnamon. I don’t know. Yeah, there’s some kind of herb or something in there. I think you want to try that one over there because then this place and this place basically has the same thing but uh that is not popular and this is new. This is Sunday. We’re breaking the law, right? Because there’s nowhere to go here. There’s no sign. Okay, it’s okay here. Yeah, but not in Osaka and the big cities and stuff. You have to you have to wait at the Oh, never mind. taking break right now. Ah, okay. At the two you can have a fresh sundae. All right. So, they’re constantly making them All right. In five in 5 seconds you have to eat or it’s going to ah so as soon as they finish cooking it you have to eat within 5 seconds. This is the only place you can eat fresh and soft. Okay. Rare tans senbe. Okay. So we will come back later for this one. Okay. Oh well. Yeah. What is this one here? It’s called dango. That is moi. And over it there is um bean paste. Huh? Bean paste. Maron based. This is a mix of sugar and soy sauce. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I tried that in the Kagoshima. Uh yeah, I didn’t like the No, it was like miso. It was like It was like this with miso. Yeah. Kind of like sweet. Yeah. But yeah, they had sugar and miso. It was kind of like a weird contrast of taste. So I didn’t really And was it my favorite paste there? Cheese is cheese. No, chestnut. Ah, chestnut paste. What do you call it in Japanese? It’s a kuran. Kuran. Kuri. Okay. Ah, it says baked after the order is placed. So you always get the fresh one when you order. Yeah. Okay. I see. Yeah. You make them They make them fresh. Okay. Yeah. Let’s Let’s get this one then. The chestnut. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, we order two sticks. Two. Yeah. One for you and one for me. This time cuz I think these types of foods are difficult to share. We can share. Look, it’s separated hygiene way. We can Okay. Okay. One. Okay. So, it’s only 200. That’s like 140 for one portion. And that’s it there. So she’s got them ready and then she’s grilling them up. So it gets grilled up and then the topping gets added. Be that right. The yellow paste. Yeah. Korean. Chestnut. Chestnut paste. I just asked her the most one is which one? This one. Masi. The one you don’t like. The one I don’t like is the most selling one. Yeah. Okay. I think cuz it’s interesting, right? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. Okay. You want to take the first bite there? You can have it clean. Yeah. Before my before my dirty Scottish mouth is all over it. Okay. Yeah. Is before you eat. Okay. Oh, it’s hot, right? So delicious. Is it sweet? Sweet or not sweet? Not so sweet. It’s so soft. Okay. Okay. It’s hot, huh? I don’t think you like it. No, I like it. I’m just I’m just thinking about how to describe it. It’s all like creamy sweet. Oh, the this pury is like so soft. Yeah. Yeah. And the mochi is all chewy but a little bit crispy from where it’s been grilled. Like it might be. Yeah. On the outside there. M. Yeah, the mochi itself doesn’t there’s I think there’s no sugar in it. It’s like um just plain and all the sweetnesses come from the topping chestnut. This might be my favorite dango that I’ve ever eat. Really? It’s so good. I like it a bit crispy outside. Oh, yum. So, we’ve tried already three. We just The station is like right there and we’ve already tried like three different roads. Okay, maybe we should walk a bit first. Yeah. And explore the town. It’s probably going to rain heavy at any moment. You can see the rain clouds are all around us. And just as I said that we are getting soaked. Yeah, I seen it coming. Oh my god. So this is probably why despite it being a public holiday, it’s not that busy is uh Yeah. It’s actually busy for this place. It’s usually like the half the people here. So even on a rainy day, all these people are coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So this is the bar and that is the Kino. That is um Kingston that you looked for. Okay. For the dip your feet in the spring water, right? The golden one. Golden one. You can dip your you can dip yourself all the body there inside. Ah okay. It’s like one of those ones. Yeah. Hot spring. But only feed over there in the public. Ah okay. Uhhuh. So the public can’t just go there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they don’t charge money or anything for that. It’s free over there inside. Huh. Yeah. So if you just want to dip your feet, it’s for free. It’s free. It’s like a free sample. You put your feet in. Then you like it. Maybe then you want to do the full thing. Okay. Uh, okay. We can sit here. Okay. So, yeah, this water, it looks kind of muddy and all that, but that’s the iron, right? This is iron. And you can smell it, too. Have a beautiful skin after. Yeah, I don’t smell it. You can smell when you eat your Oh, yeah. And normally this kind of hot spring water has like a strong like a sulfur taste like rotten eggs, but I don’t in this town I don’t smell it at all. So that’s good cuz uh yeah, otherwise you you dip your feet and your feet smell like rotten eggs for the rest of the day. Uh so usually I like to wash off after like when I’m right inside I put I will wash after itchy if I don’t. Ah okay. And how hard is it? M I don’t know. I don’t know. Yeah, we’ll find out soon. It’s like a good temperature. Let’s see. Ah, yeah. Oh, it’s like a very very hot bath. That’s what it’s like. It’s so nice. I told you this is a free sample. Okay. Yeah, that’s nice. Yeah. Yeah. So, people can come here for one day or like stay over. If you stay If you come here one day, they usually go here. If you stay over, you stay in a hotel room that has breakfast and dinner and onsense hotspring as well. You don’t go outside. Oh, so the hotel have their own onen. Yeah. Yeah. You can do everything in the hotel. Yeah. So people do that. They they come they just stay the hotel they enjoy the onen in the hotel. So there are two types. So you can do this one like that or you can stay in hotel for forever. Ah okay. How many hotels are here? There are so many. So we are doing like day tour but if you go over there a lot of hotels all right they usually offer orange like the past. Okay. My favorite thing to do is like when I come here I can dip my feet in here and over there um behind the sweet shop there’s um free place to sit down and get AC. All right. Yeah. Yeah. So, we’ve done this. It’s like 15 minutes or 20 minutes or what? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The rain has stopped, so we’re going to take the chance to explore more while the rain is off, right? Well, that was nice, right? Yeah, it was so nice. People usually bring like towel you don’t have. Yeah, I knew this. I should have been prepared. Okay, so where are we going? Okay. So, we’re going to go to my secret spot. Secret. Secret spot. Yeah. It looks like secret cuz nobody else is coming this way. Yeah. But we are going. Yeah. This way. In the rain again. In the rain, but it’s almost nothing. In Japan, they are saying when it’s raining but still sunny. We say that the fox are making a wedding. The fox fox are doing the wedding because they want to do a wedding in a sunny weather, but they don’t want people to come. They want to do a secret wedding. So right now fox is doing wedding. Oh okay. Let’s find the fox. Let’s gate crash the wedding. Wedding crashers for the fox. Oh okay. So that’s like a popular saying in Japan. Yeah. By everybody knows. Oh okay. I was in Yeah. Caca pulp. Sorry. I’m ignoring chocolate. Chocolate shop. Yeah. I seen that the cocoa. And whenever we go there, we can see this because it’s like you can feel the hot steaming. Wow. What the heck? Whoa. So, where’s that coming from? It’s just coming from You’re going to see you’re going to see that really? Okay. Tada. Ah. Go singing. Go singing is a kinen spring containing red water enriched with salt and iron. This hot spring is famous for its high salt concentration and the water temperature 63.9° C. So, this collects all the hot spring water from the ground and then it’s distributing it to like where we were down there where we were soaking our feet in that. So, yeah, this is the source of it. It’ll be all coming from under there. That’s cool. That’s for the gold one, the the kinsen. Yeah. Yeah. And there’s another one for the ginsen somewhere. No, the only kinsen. The mostly people come here for kinsen. All right. Ginsen is just kind of like Pikachu is most famous, right? There’s another Pokemon for Pikachu. All right. Okay. Oh, before going to a normal tourist spot, we want to go to a secret another secret spot. Okay. Sure. The secret tour of Aria onen. Yeah. My family usually stay like up on the mountain and it’s only 12 minutes walking distance from here, right? And on the way there is something very interesting. Okay. Oh, what is this? It’s a temple or something. This is a Buddhist temple called onen onsen means hotring. G means temple. So it’s a hot spring temple. Okay. For Buddhists. Yeah. Mhm. But most most Japanese people live Shinto, right? Actually, Japan is one of the countries we are defined as non-religion. There’s only six countries in the world that doesn’t have religion, which means more than 50% of the population when they say you don’t have a religion, then no religion. Even though we practice some religion things, but in the end it’s like no religion country. All right. I see. But some people like the Buddhists like they they really believe. So they come to like temples like this. There’s like a no no photograph. Most people come here for just to get a good luck. They pray to get good luck. Oh, they believe in luck. They don’t maybe believe in the religion but they believe in the concept of luck. It’s more like a culture things and also like have a good karma. So they believe in they believe in luck and karma and yeahism this kind of thing even if they’re not otherwise serious about religion depends on the people obviously but yes yeah some people are very much into their religion right but yes but not so many overall most people non-religious but still believe in like karma luck and karma yeah yeah okay yeah it’s so many signs saying do not take a photograph so yeah but I can kind of see inside there’s gold statues and stuff. Yeah. Okay. But they but not only here they you they don’t usually let you take a take inside. Oh, okay. Just outside. Yeah. Because it’s kind of like it’s where the goat stays. Okay. Yeah. No worries. 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So, some people they will do not just one hot spring, they will do this one, this one, this one like that. Okay. So, they just spend the whole day doing hot springs. Yeah. And this is a hotel. Hotel Morgan Rot. Yeah. Sounds German. But usually hotels are bigger. We point out hotels because they’re kind of Japanese style hotels are standard like guest guest house type more like luxury ones. All right. Yeah, that is more expression. Mhm. Look at this random place. How exciting. Yeah. Where are you taking me to? Tan Zaka. Tanzaka. Tansan means um sparkling water. Yeah. And you know in Philippines tans it means the metal cap on top of the bottle. Oh really? You know why? Why? Because in Japan there was a very popular carbonated drink imported from Japan. Oh really? Called Wilkinson Tansen. We are already in our Yeah. So the the bottle have like a metal cap. Yeah. And then Philippines people they just call the the metal cap like tansan. Ah and the reason I know this is cuz I did visit a street magician in Manila. Yeah. And he was like he was like watch the tansan. Watch the tan tansan and here inside automatically load the tans. And I was like what the heck is a tansan? And then later I googled it. What is a tansan in the Philippines? And they said it’s the top of the bottle. And the reason is because from Wilkinson Pansan was like the very popular carbonated water drink imported from Japan to the Philippines. So it became like pansan. Random fact. Yeah. Oh, this is a tan in they they sell the crackers. Oh, right. Tan crackers. Okay. So they sell the tan crackers. So they make the senve, right? Senve. Yeah. So they make sense rice crackers, but they make them using the tans. pants and water. Yeah. But that is the same as the what you ate already. Oh, you haven’t eaten though. Yeah, but I haven’t eaten this cake. Yeah, they told us to come back at 2:00. That one, right? Oh, yeah. That one. Let’s let’s not as fresh than the one you couldn’t have. Let’s try this one first and then the Yeah. Yeah. We’ll go we’ll go to the OG one after and see the difference. Ah, so these are like the pre-made ones. Yeah. This one, right? normal one. Ah, and this is where you were going to throw away. They instead decided to package. Oh, it’s like crumbs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, okay. So, people can snack on that. Exactly. Or feed to the birds. I’ve eaten this one before. It tastes exactly same. So, Oh, well, those are big packs. Yeah. They have another version. This is a um standard version. They have some cream versions and that is how they make it. All right. That’s them making the send bait in there. All right. Look, they’re going to give you Okay. Nice. Oh, so they’re still warm and everything. M. Yeah, it’s sweet. I wasn’t expecting it to be sweet. Maybe that’s why you feel it’s sweeter cuz I wasn’t expecting. Yeah, it’s just a little bit sweet. Yeah, it’s so so thin and so crispy and it’s like kind of like caramelized. You want to try? It’s good. I love it. You think it’s sweet or no? No. No, not sweet. Yeah, it’s about expert potato. It’s salted. This is We are making handbaked carbonated rice crackers. So satisfying to watch. Yeah. My favorite one is that one with cream. These are all the different bars with cream inside. Ah, so these ones have cream inside. Ah, so it’s like a sandwich. Yeah. Ah, like that. That’s pretty cool. And this is a herier version. A what person? Her hairier. What is herier? Her healthier. Oh, healthier. Oh, healthier. Okay. So, they have less sugar probably. That’s what I thought. But when I read it, it’s just herier. healthier, huh? Which is they have flavor for ginger and seaweed. Ah, so they’re adding like healthy things like ginger to it. That’s what they’re doing. Ah, okay. I think it’s about making them feel like they’re doing something for her. Ah, yeah. Okay. So, that’s nice. Eat the free samples and then leave without buying anything. I was going to buy something, but they’re selling them in like packs of 20 and stuff. I don’t need I don’t need 20 of them. Plus, we’re going to go back to the OG shop that makes them anyway. So, where are you taking me? Are you ready for hiking? Yeah. Well, I guess I better be. Everything’s uphill, right? But we’re going to go to a very secret place. Yeah, I think it is a secret cuz Yeah. Yeah. Down there. Down there we’re so busy and up here so quiet. Yeah. I usually because my family usually stay over there to like desert apartment. Ah. And then they will walk down to the town. So that’s why I I know this place. Okay. So your family must have strong legs up and down, up and down every day. Let’s go here like that. Do you feel this natural? Yeah, it’s nice. Yeah. This is the place I already take you. What is it? No, it’s it’s forbidden to use now. Oh, it’s forbidden. It’s now. So, you can drink you could have American. You can drink sparkling water which is tansome straight from the natural. So, it’s naturally sparkling. Naturally sparkly but very sparkly and also it has a lot of taste for idol. Right. Okay. Okay. But they’re saying don’t should be. What? What does it say? It say do not use coincially says don’t use. But I wonder do they still have it or don’t have it? You can try. Yeah, exactly. Oh no. They’ve they’ve tied the elastic around the thread. They have it. H I don’t know. There’s probably a reason why. Yeah. Like maybe there’s somebody got sick or something. Yeah. So before you could have drink it. Ah, and it comes from that well and it’s pumped up to this. Yeah. Huh. Okay. The waters of Tansen contain carbon dioxide. So, people used to mix with sugar to make soda. This is where Tan Senai wafers get their name from. Okay. So, we’re right beside where the sparkling spring water comes up and then that’s where people are making the crackers. So, we’re walking back down to the town. Then, what is this weird creature right here? Yeah, this is something to put around temple and stuff so that you can get rid of a bad spiritual things and people place money so that to pray you always have to have a offering. Ah, you can’t pray for free. You must you must pay you must give an offering. It’s very good to have five yen. I’m going to borrow this. And five yen is always best to give it. Okay. So, it’s almost nothing anyway, right? Yeah. Five is like three cents because five yen is going in Japanese is a good connection. Ah, okay. Okay. So, five is the one you want. Yeah. It’s a good connection. Not going back. Yeah. Onenacho kawaii. Uhhuh. So it says so there’s a person called if you’re a Japanese history geek you know. Ah samurai right samurai. Yeah it’s like old samurai guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very important summary. Uh came to Arien here from Osaka where he lives and he got some tea. You and the tea was with water and water and then he drink and it’s so delicious. When he go back to Osaka, he asked everybody to make the tea with the water here. Oh, right. It’s probably that water you couldn’t drink. So, how do they get the water back to Asaka? They come with like a barrel or something. He said he get somebody to Oh, bring it to keep bringing it to Asaka for his tea. Yeah. For the boss samurai. Okay. Also, another famous person made a song. I can read it. Mhm. There’s a specific Indonesian to read this Japanese um songs. Oh, okay. Poem. Kawaii. Kawawaii. Kawawaii. Kawawaii. Kawaii song. Kawawaii song. I think Kawawaii is another Kawi. It’s another Kawawaii. It’s another Kawaii. Really? There’s two kawawaii. Kaiwa. It’s a kaiw. Ah, it’s not kawaii. It’s Kaiw. Oh, yeah. It’s me. It’s me who’s dyslexic. It’s not Kawaii. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Let’s go back. Yeah. So, Oh, yeah. We’re heading back into the town. So, we’re going to try the other senbe tans. The other tans senbe. The OG one, right? It’s like the original shop. I don’t think one of them original shop. I think the thing is like they’re going to give you the send right after. So you can one you ate just now was hard, right? Yeah, but I think it was also warm. So I think it was Well, that one down there, it says you must eat within 5 seconds, right? 5 seconds. So it’s literally you get it and you have no time to like talk to camera at all. Okay, you can eat immediately. All right, so that’s the one we’re going to try. And even in ancient towns in Japan, there’s vending machines. Even everywhere, there’s vending machines. That’s good, too. I like that I can walk around and never be thirsty. So, this is the main road through the town. And it’s I like this when there’s like places we can walk without traffic like this. It’s nice. So many cities have like this in Japan. like a pedestrian like walking street. Not like the walking street in Thailand, but a walking a walking street where you can just walk and do uh nice things. But good and bad, we don’t have bicycle street either. Bicycles has to go to the pedestrians, not to the Yeah, I’ve seen that in Fukoka so many times. I’m walking on the street and someone comes straight to me with a bicycle. Yeah, cuz another country they have bicycles. That is a seaweed shop. Seaweed shop. Yeah. This is all the different kind of seaweed and mushroom combined. But this specific type of mushroom called matake is a most expensive mushroom you can find in this country. Really? How much does it say it is? So it’s it’s $20 for this one because this is a small small matake mushroom. If it’s bigger and if it’s seasonal and fresh, it’s very expensive. What does that say? 2,000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. 3,000. 3,000. 3,000. Okay. Just for some mushrooms and some seafood. 15 years ago, like the amount of shop was like less than half. Every year there’s more shop. Ah, right. So, it’s becoming more popular then. More popular like Well, all Japanese people, right? I don’t see another gajun. Yeah, almost only Japanese. Only gajjun around. Cuz I feel like a lot of go to Tokyo only. Or if they going to go to come around here only Kyoto. Not everybody come to Coobe. Yeah. Come back. Oh yeah. That’s where we dipped our feet in there. Wait, wait, wait. I think I know a perfect place for you. What is it? You know, Japanese cider even. Oh, yeah. Kobe steak cider. Yes. This place was picked up by Japanese very popular TV show and they say that they make more money with this specific vending machine rather than what they make in there. Really? Yeah. Because this is new. This vending machine. Oh, well. All are interesting. I never see any of these before. Exactly. These are different kinds of beer and alcoholic drinks. And that is not alcoholic but juice. Dr. Pepper um is very interesting in Japan because not like you can have it everywhere. Yeah. I’ve never seen it in Japan before. Yeah. And this is golden the golden cola. Inca-acola. That is very popular in Peru. This as much as Coca-Cola. So it’s imported from Peru. M. It’s so delicious. And it’s sold out, I think. Oh, no. It’s not. Yeah, they’re preparing. I think it’s not cold yet. Oh, Antarctica. Ah, lucky cider. So, this is a Japanese one, right? Yeah. Lucky cider. Oh, it says you never know what. Oh, it’s like um random. Yeah. Yeah, it’s a random one. Okay. But this this is the local one in here. Tasty carbonated drink. Mhm. And they have carbonate cosmetics and AMA souvenirs. Okay, let’s see what we find in here. Aria ninja dojo. You want to become ninja? Yeah, we can become an They actually have lessons for becoming a ninja. You have to be trained. Yeah. Oh, okay. So, you can Oh, they got balls and everything. Yeah. Interesting. Oh, they have It’s called in Japanese. Yeah. They were killing people. Interesting. And then this interesting drink that you can find. This is Coca-Cola with matcha. Oh wow. Coca-Cola with matcha. Yeah. And this is another Coca-Cola with matcha. Oh, water. And that is a sparkling water with sugar with the flavor of beef tongue. Huh. So weird. Delicious. I don’t know. Cattle tongue cider. Yeah. Oh, you have English. Yeah. And all of these are using the tansen. I don’t know, but I can ask them. Yeah. And this is the most popular one that you mentioned arma cider tapo water. Okay. This is sold in everywhere in this ara on. All right. Okay. It looks very typical. Very old style. Yeah. Yeah. So this is sweet. Yeah. All right. So they were taking the carbonated water. Yeah. And making it sweet. Mhm. And that is a candy version. And I love this so much. It’s so delicious, by the way. I know right. And this is another caramel version. Mhm. This shop is famous because the TV show is it’s called very Japanese famous TV show. So they came and they did some they did an interview. Oh, right. Yeah. The Wilkinson tans. That’s the one I was telling you about in Philippines. Oh yeah. This one. Yeah. That’s the one that’s popular in the Philippines. Wilkinson Tansson. [Music] Uh, shoes off. No need. Okay. So many different kinds of weapon you can. Okay. Yeah. I want to try this. But I This is for children. It’s for children only. That’s what he said. Oh, the metal one. Ah, for adults. Let’s see. Oh, okay. Oh wow. They’re very sharp. This is the most difficult he says. Wow. Yeah. I want to try. This is the easiest called and second to the easiest is this most difficult. I want to try the max difficulty. Sure. Yeah. I want to try. Okay. You’re trying to discourage me from doing it. No. No. I’m not good. giving you show me how to tell this. Okay. Okay. So, I hold this under my thumb. Red circle. Red circle. Red circle. Uh give you prize. Oh, I get a prize if I had the red circle. Okay. The yellow circle. over the head like that. I don’t know how to say this. You have to use a lot of like wrinkle. I have to try to make it spin. Spin. Yeah. Spin in this way. This way. That way. This spin. Okay. So, this way or this way? This way. Okay. I feel like I’m going to slice my thumb off when I release it. He said, “Do that with a lot of enthusiastic to anime over there.” Yeah. because you’re going to hurt yourself because it’s going to come back to you. He said it’s on your responsibility if you get hurt. Use your waist strings to So I have to Oh my god. I feel like when I release cuz it’s like sharp on all four sides. I feel like when I release it, it’s going to cut my hand. So just just like this. Okay. Oh, like this. Yeah. Oh my god. I I been like like this and like that. Okay. That’s not too bad. Okay. Ah, he says I’m doing it like this and I should be doing it like Yeah. Yeah. That Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, this one has so many different ones. Okay. Oh, okay. This one’s three. Okay, I need to get it higher. Too low. Three and two low. I need to I just worried about this. Last one. Last one. Okay, let’s see. [Laughter] We’re finished. Okay. He said you’re still going to get the prize. I don’t get the prize. You will get the prize. I will get a prize. Really? For that for that pathetic attempt. I didn’t have the board once. Just be participating. Oh my god. You want to play? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You You play the same one. No, I want to do something. No, do the stars. What about this? Like the easiest. You want to do the easiest one? I actually want to do become a hunger game. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. He he recommend me this one. Ah, this is very easy and it’s fun. I want to do really. Okay, let’s see. Oh, you blow it right. It’s like darts. It’s like uh these. Yeah. Yeah, you blow it. I think I like this. Easy. I just asked which one the most popular. He said almost same. Okay, good. Oh wow. But you know the people kill people with this. Okay, I will. It’s supposed to be easy, huh? Wow. Where on the body do they try to aim? like in the neck or in the head or in the heart wherever. Oh, really? Okay. This itself doesn’t have the possibility of killing somebody. It would you have to put poison. somewhere in the Yeah. And he gets the poison into them. Yeah. I haven’t got any. But you’re getting closer. Yeah. You almost aiming for the It was 10 out of 10, right? Six out of 10. Number four. Oh, good. How was it? Yeah, you got in the 10 out of 10. No, it’s in like You hit the board. That’s good. It’s better. Better than what I did. No, yours yours. Let’s get the uh Let’s get these. There’s um colder version. Oh, okay. Yeah, cold one. And let’s get the candy as well. Candy. This is the drops. This one. Okay. Oh, this a price. Okay. We get like a sherbet. Oh, this I grew up with this. It’s going to be popping popping. Yeah, I know. Popping candy. Are we going to drink here or over there? Uh, yeah. Let’s drink here. Then we don’t have to walk around. Yeah. This is um It’s got like a fruity taste to it. Don’t you think this has stronger bubbles? Yeah. increase more than normal and they have a real sugar in inside like cane sugar. Yeah. Normally they don’t have normal cers. They don’t have real sugar. Yeah. But this has. Okay. Yeah. It’s nice. Yeah. It’s very nice. I wonder what’s happens when you drink this and this together in your mouth. Oh, I think it will like pop out. No, it will fizz up. Okay. That’s what it’s like. Ah, different things. Okay. So, first this or fast this together? Like this? Yeah. So, I can hear it crackling. But not that bad though. Yeah. I was expecting something like the Coca-Cola Mentos. Yeah. Like that. Yeah. Yeah. No, it’s delicious. Not bad. Okay. I want to try the grape flavor, I think. Mhm. What do you think? Grape grape flavor. So, yeah, it tastes like um Oh, it’s all popping. I hear it. I can hear. M. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s popping all over. Oh, man. That’s nice. Yeah. Okay. This is the silence. Let’s bring it back. Yeah. bring I had this a few times when I was a kid. It’s like uh bringing back the memories. I didn’t have it regularly, but there’s a whole packet of good or not. I don’t know. I feel like it’s like a basket lo popping shower. Yum. Yum. Yeah, it’s good. M. This is also my favorite. I always try these ones since I was here from when I was kid. It’s always same package. Everything same. M. Oh, wow. Yeah. Very old style packaging, right? Yeah. This is traditional Japanese one. Ah, so that’s what they are. Like a boiled candy type. M. Yeah, it tastes like this. Yeah, tastes like this. Yeah, it’s nice. Yeah. Thank you. M this is actually my favorite thing to eat here in Alima really more than the same bay and everything. Yeah it’s just me you know and you can only get from here. Yeah you can’t buy or anything? No only here. There’s like so many things only here. Beef tango cider. You have oi. I always keep they always give me and I always keep cuz there are times that I need them. You’re getting spoiled in Japan that have it. Yeah. Another another country they don’t have like that, right? Yeah. They don’t give you. Yeah. This one they got a kimchi flavor. Garlic and peppers. Yeah. But it says kimchi, right? It says even Korean people will surprise. Ah, okay. How kimchi it is. Wow. Curiosity cola. They got all sorts of random stuff. Somebody just bought like a curry flavored one. This is a crab flavor. Crab flavored candy cola. This is very delicious. This is salt flavor. And that is a curry pan. Curry bread flavor and there was a miso flavor Coca-Cola honey. Yeah. And this is a cent coriander flavor. That is corn cider. Wow. So weird. Yeah. This is cabbage. Cabbage cider. Cabbage cider. Takoyaki. Takyaki. What is it? Did you see Dorian? What? This? Yeah. Oh, it’s giant water bug cider. Ew. Yeah. Wow. It looks like cockroach. I know, right? You’re stepping back. It’s alive. It’s uh It’s dead. It can’t catch you. That’s the water bug one in there. Yeah. Yeah. And giant water box it says. So they have to keep that one cold. I got swims. And this one is centipede vodka. Ah, there’s an actual centipede in I wonder if they’re going to eat it. Wow. Interesting. And are we coming back out into the rain or Let’s see how lucky we are. Yeah, not too bad. Okay. Oh, what is this? This is a tea with pirano and seafood. Seaweed. Seaweed. Seaweed with some rice cracker. Yeah, it’s so hot. I’m going to have to let this cool down. I can. You can. Oh, well. Yeah. Oh, it’s so good. You think it’s good? Yeah, it’s so good. This is basically same as this one. All right. So that’s for making it. Yeah. Hot water and this you get this. All right. Okay. So it’s seaweed and corn. Yeah. Seaweed and rice cracker and pam powder. Ah okay. So it’s so this is seaweed and they put on plum powder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is just those senbbe. It’s a senbe right. hard. It’s called aran, which is like a rice cracker, but smaller version. Ah, so they make like little crumbs or balls cuz it has a texture. All right. Cheers. Cheers. It’s not like a It’s not like a tea. It’s like a soup. Yeah. Oh, that’s the seaweed. And tell me how you going to pick this up with Yeah. I don’t know. I need I need three hands. Or maybe I can hold it. Thank you. Yeah, this is the seaweed. M. That’s seaweed. Really? Oh, that’s nice. Yeah. The texture is lovely. Yeah. Almost almost sweet. Yeah. A little bit probably from the plum powder. So delicious. Yeah. They have another stuff to put on rice. And all of them are toppings that you can put on the rice. Toppings. Yeah. Vegetables and gingers. Yeah. I’ll buy a pack of this. You like it? Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I can make it. So easy to make. Just boiling water, right? I’m going to make sure on that, but I’m pretty sure that it’s just boiling water. Yeah. Yeah, that’s just add boiling water to this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like a spoonful or something in a in a mug. Okay. Yeah, I will get some of this for sure. 40 more. Oh, why? Tax. Yeah, for tax. Yeah, it’s a thing in Japan. They always show the price before the tax. But actually they have must show tax included since years ago. Really? Oh, but they this one said 600 on the sign for Oh, like that is in smaller. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s how they get you. Okay. And now send them. Yeah. Oh, they have ice cream. Matcha ice cream. So much food. Okay. Yeah. They got takoyaki. They sell takoyaki and ice cream. That’s a No, it’s a good combination. I don’t think they have ice cream on it. Yeah, but two different. Like you eat this and then you get the dessert like that. It’s a good combo. And they’ve got all sorts of steamed stuff. This is um fish here. Ah, it’s like a fish cake. Yeah, fish cake. Interesting. And that’s a si shop. While there’s a big queue. Yeah, everyone is trying to get some of the fresh senbei. Oh, this is the senbe with the cream. It’s like a matcha cream. That’s for samples, right? Tastes a bit. Yeah, it’s like a biscuit. It’s like um Have you ever had like um biscuit with some kind of like cream inside? Like some sweet cream that strawberry flavor chocolate flavor. Oh, wow. Yeah, I like the matcha. That was nice. You’re a YouTuber, right? Yes. Hi. Hello. How are you? Nice to see you. You Indonesia. Indonesia. Yes. Indonesia. You’re Indonesian. Ah, okay. Orang, Indonesia. Okay. Nice to see you. Um, where where in Indonesia? [Music] the rats and everything. Yeah, I know. Oh, wow. Noi. Okay. Nice to see you. We will try the sbe. Okay. There’s a big queue for it. Oh, wow. This all this is a queue. Wow. Oh, the queue’s not taking too long cuz it’s literally they’re making it. You get it. You You have to eat it right away. Yeah. [Music] Two, please. Two piece. 200. Just 300. One is 100. Oh, really? Okay. I thought I seen a sign that said 200. Okay. Thank you. That’s not bad. Okay, that’s one. Wow. Oh, so hot. First bite. 5 seconds. [Music] I know. Good. They give me quick quick quick. 5 seconds. What’s that? Yeah. You have to eat it fast. Oh man. It’s so hot. Ow. Ow. Ow. It’s soft. Yeah, it’s all soft. It’s soft. Yeah. So, it goes crispy. It goes crispy within like 5 seconds. So, that’s what they say. Oh, yeah. It’s It’s already crispy. No. Yeah, it’s already Did you get to eat the soft part? Yeah, I got it. I got the first bite soft and the second bite crispy. Yeah. The whole thing is crispy already, isn’t it? They give you these. Why? I give you some crumbs. Because maybe that was your phone. Oh, okay. So, they don’t waste it, I think. Yeah. Cuz otherwise it just gets wasted. Yeah. So good. I like it. Yeah. Good. Yum. Yum. This will be good on top of ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure. Yeah. On the bottom of ice cream like a corn. No, I think be good like in and you can skip up the ice cream and eat. Yeah. Dream can become a dream. Yeah. You have an ice cream shop up there. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, they got some cool pinball tables in there. Wow, they’re like ancient. You want to go chill in there for a bit? The rain is starting again. So, we’re looking for somewhere to just chill indoors. I want to play the pinball. I want to play pinball. It looks cool. Oh, it’s not automatic. I’m I’m too old. Okay. Why don’t we just chill here? The old style. Oh, are they I think they’re actually old. I thought they were just old style. Yeah. 25 cents. So, these are like from America in like the 1960s or something. They’re actually imported. [Music] Isn’t that cool? I’m going to play That’s so interesting. In some I find Japanese amusement in Japan I find American. Yeah. Cuz they’re trying to be cool. How how does this work? We just came to play the pinball. Yeah. But he asked if we going to order. Yeah. Yes. But first we play the pinball. The main reason I want to come. Okay. Oh wow. So we start from zero. So this is cross town and this is like a subway or something like that. Yeah, I think this is like an old Yeah, it’s a subway like probably like New York or something. Oh yeah, I like it. You can really feel all the Oh, that went straight down the middle. I had no chance. Oh, yeah. It went straight down the middle. I think you get three balls. Come on. [Music] Oh, my reaction. I should have got that one. That’s just me. That was me being bad. Yeah. So, yeah. I think it’s three. You get I’ve only got 51 points. It’s not a lot. You go next and see if you can beat my score. It’s going straight down the middle. Oh no. Oh, there’s nothing you can do. It goes straight down. You got 96. Yeah, you get three balls. Okay, now Nina’s going to try. So, what is you have to beat 96? Okay. I was very confused. How is that the numbers? Yeah. So, like you hit this and you get 10. Okay. Like that. And then there’s like this special one. that you can build up. So, so the buttons on either side here. Yeah. So, first to get the ball, you push. Then you got a ball. Then, no, you pull it and let it ping. I was going to push it. Pull it and let it ping. Yeah, like that. How do I move this? No, this this will come. [Music] Oh, are you doing good? You’ve almost been my score already. You’re on 56. Hey. [Applause] Oh my god. This is getting so much faster. Oh man. Oh, she’s already beating me on the first ball. 109. Yeah. You get Yeah, you get three. So, push this one. Okay. Okay. And pull that one. I’m going to go so hard cuz it’s not my first time I’ve done it 10 years ago or something. All right. I’ve never done American version. So, you just you did the Japanese one in America. Yeah. Now you’re doing the American one in Japan. Okay. First At this point, I’m just going to be like, [Music] “Not too easy for you. All those points you’re getting.” Oh, thank God. My day. Oh, okay. Oh, you 259. You so good. Yeah. Compared to me, you’re good. Okay. [Music] Okay. We got floats. Ice cream floats. We were going to get tea and we ended up getting these. Yeah. Because this is very traditional Japanese sweets, especially back in the days. All right. Cream soda. Yeah. And this this is original. And this is another flavor version. Blue. This is original one. H this is melon that I got. Yeah. Authentic Japanese. Well, my first time trying this. I’ve had floats before, but with Coca-Cola. Is it fizzy like Coke? It says fizzy soda, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s taste the soda first. Oh, wow. Super sweet. M. Looks good. I really like to drink from bottom. Then after I like to eat this and I will mix in the middle. M. Yeah. [Laughter] [Music] Do you want to drink like here? Cuz it’s good. Ah, okay. Yeah. The middle part. Yeah. So, you just get the straw about here. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It’s good. Yeah. It’s so creamy. Yeah. I like it. I feel like the original way is like this is the whipped cream and ice cream only ice cream is more like original way but this is special one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh lovely. Yum. Yum. That was fast. What about you drink like half of it now? Yeah. Yeah. What is it? Blue raspberry, right? Blue Hawaiian. No, it’s okay. You can describe it. Yeah. Same. It’s like for the viewers, they can’t try it. They have to just listen to the description and get a feel for Yeah. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like guru. How are you? Yeah. I think it’s like the typical blue. It’s like blueberry than blueberry. But like when you put this, I feel it’s more like creamy. I don’t take it like a drink. I consider this is like a little sweet. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. And it’s cute. Very important. Instagrammable. All right. Yeah. Presentation. Yeah. I see that. But everything even like some simple cut fruit like pineapple or melon or something. It’s always even in the supermarket always so Yeah. Everything’s always so beautifully presented. Yeah. Until I come and mess it up like this. And now it’s like 4:30 p.m. So, we’re going to go to the most incredible restaurant in Yeah, there’s a really popular restaurant. And there’s not many restaurants in this town because most people who come here, they by now they’ve left. You can see it’s quiet already. But the people that stay here, they stay in the hotels and they eat in the hotels. Yeah. So, for dinner time, there’s not too many options, but there is one really popular restaurant that we’re going to try. And it gets so popular that we might have to queue. And it’s raining. Yeah. But it opens at 5:00 p.m. It’s now like 4:30, right now. It’s 4:30. So, we’re going to see if we need to queue first. Oh my god. This is it. Uh, this is like half an hour before it opens. There’s already what’s it like two dozen people. How many tables do they have? It’s maybe like 15 to 20. This wasn’t normal house, but they renovated to the restaurant since like I was little. I’ve been keep coming here and they haven’t changed the menu. All right. Has been very authentic and it’s been like Yeah. very popular and every year it’s more popular. You think from this point in the queue we will get a table or so if we don’t get the table? Yeah. We have to wait for people to eat a full meal. Yeah. It will take a long time. Yeah. So it can be up to maybe in 30 minutes. In 20 minutes maybe we can otherwise Oh, it’s 4:40 already. Okay. So, we got 20 minutes till it opens. And now it’s raining. Oh, they’re taking our order. Well, just asking how many like we can eat. We can eat. Okay. So, from us, we can eat. Ah, so we we just came at the perfect time. Okay, we are very lucky. Yeah. Yeah. So upstairs there are private rooms and downstairs there are like normal normal dining where you can see other people next to you. All right. Like that. When I come with my family, I often go upstairs because we have five people. Ah, so you need like four or five people to get the private room. I don’t even know. Yeah. They’re not going to give it for two people, right? Yeah, but I think it’s more interesting for you to see downstairs because then you can see how how is it look like. It’s cute. Okay, cool. So, this is called norm. When you see this, it means the shop is open. So, when we come here, when we came here before, yeah, we passed here before and it didn’t have here. Now, it’s open. So, now we can enter. It’s a sign of opening. Nice. I didn’t know that. It’s open and they’re ready to eat. Wow, that’s so complicated. I know. I told you. So, you have to like How do you even do that? You have to just like I have to take my like forever to Yeah. This is Brazilian shoes. [Music] Okay. menu. They would give you the menu first because they’re going to make rice from scratch, right? Yeah. So, they need the time. We order now and when we are going up, taking tea and they’re ready, right? So, we order everything now and then it will be ready when we get our table. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Smoke the coffee beef and the vegetable. When I was younger, I always chose this one because I didn’t eat fish before. So, they give you it raw or what? It’s steamed. It’s steamed. They’re going to give you raw and they’re going to cook in front of you. Ah, okay. Like that. Like a self cook. Ah, okay. That’s cool. So, what’s the choices? Mix. This mix kame come with rice, flavorful rice. And on top of it, you going to have um fish. Fish and maybe octopus. This is normal rice. I don’t recommend. Why doesn’t you want to do this one? You think this one’s best? This is This one’s best because just a white rice is very boring. Yeah. But does it go together? It has like fish and stuff on top. Does it go together with the beef? Very good. Very good. They always I think look they have fish and octopus on top of the flavorful rice. This portion for one people or two people or what? I think this all of it. This price is for all of it. For one person. For one person. Okay. Just it’s a lot of food. It’s a lot of food, right? Let’s see what else. Okay. So, so these are these are like other sets. Yeah. This is a set that is a completed set. Yeah. You’re going to have this kamamei rice and fish and octopus. Ah, so it’s like a bento. Yeah. Also little bit of like sashimi and eggs and soup and everything combined. And this is like cheaper version and less stuff come with it. For example, you get the moi here, but here you don’t get the moi. Here you get the sashimi, but you don’t get sashimi here. All right. Okay. Okay. And this is just drink. All right. So, I reckon we get this. Yeah. We get two portions of this with a mixed chem. I think I’m not going to be able to finish it. Really? Yeah. Cuz like it’s a lot of fun. Well, I will help you. So, I will eat one and a half portions. No problem. Okay. Okay. Okay. That Yeah. I got to eat I got to eat Kobe beef while I’m in Kobe. So, yeah. Yeah. We are technically in Kobe city. Yeah. So, I’m staying in I’m actually staying in Kobe City, but I haven’t tried the Kobe Beach yet. So, this is uh this would be a good opportunity for that. Drinks. Um, orange juice. Sake. We’re getting sake. Okay. Uh, it has been always this functional by the way. Right. So that you can see a bit of a private room over there if you want to take a glass over there. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, so the the the private room it’s like you’re sitting on the floor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this was normal house before. Oh, yeah. Oh, so this is concrete. I don’t know. Okay. In a private room. Oh wow. We get a private room. Oh wow. So nice is random. He she says ah this is a tatami. And in Japan we use to scale to describe the scale of the room. For example, this doom has one tatami, two tatami, three, four and a half. So we would say that this is 4 and a half tatami four and a half jaw. Ah, so you want to say square meters or square feet. You will say how many tatam by how many of these you can fit in. And it’s a standard size. are always the same size. It’s always the same. Okay. This is four and a half jaw size of the room is how we describe it. All right. And this is called Kik. And this has like Japanese characters calligraphy usually. Yeah. And this is just a little like space to like observe and feel them. Cool. You like it? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Nice style. And this is a paper. And this is paper. And we This is paper. Yeah. Oh. Doesn’t it get damaged easily? It’s get damaged easily like in a thunderstorm or something. Oh, this is Oh, this is glass. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Behind we have this. So, for example, if you put something hard, it will easily break. Yeah. So back in the days, people would have to like regularly have new papers, right? Mhm. Yeah. Japanese house. And then this is called zabaton. And we just sit down here. Oh, you kneel down like that. Ah, so you don’t do cross legs. You just kneel. The cross legs. I don’t know. Like when I’m thinking about when I was a kid. When I was a kid in school in primary school, they make us sit on the floor and we have to sit like this. Cross legs. Oh, cross leg. Never. No, you don’t sit cross legs. No. How we do cross leg in Japan? It would be very more precisely. Okay. Yeah. I’m I’m very uncomfortable. Yeah, it’s uncomfortable for me. Cross legs was comfortable, but this is like it feels kind of uncomfortable. So, you literally just like kneel down. Yeah, I feel like um Yeah, I need to do more stretching. I need to stretching. Yeah, it’s like the what you call it the like along the shins. It’s like stretching the muscle. I feel comfortable. I’m just not used to you feel comfortable like this. Very comfortable doing that. But when I was a kid, they also taught me how to sit properly be like, “Oh, like that.” Okay. And I have to listen to the president of talking blah blah blah for one hour like that. Oh, you sit like that. Okay. Yeah. For me, if I was sitting on the floor, I’ I would sit like this. Yeah. Like or or I would cross my legs. Oh, you don’t want to do like that because in Japanese this way to sit down is called female sitting. Oh. Oh, like that. Oh, so if I sit like that, I’m going to look I’m going to look like a Yeah, this is a female sitting. Oh my god. Yeah. So like that. Okay. Well, I can’t sit like that now. No. No. I can’t sit like that. Or uh if I do, I’ll just make sure the camera doesn’t pick it up. Oh, in fact, I can just I can just put my legs under here like this. Yeah, like so nice to Is that Is that Is that allowed or not? Well, it’s bad. It smells bad. Yeah, my sweaty socks. Now she she has to eat her food with my smelly socks right beside her plate of food. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, that’s not the way either. Yeah. Oh, so I got this orange juice again. I’ve had this one before. Yeah. Yeah. I have my sake back there. Oh, so that’s sake. Yeah, hot sake. There’s there’s not all sake can be hot sake. It’s not just a temperature. This is specific sake good or hot. And what percentage alcohol is it? I don’t know. It’s usually maybe like 14. What do you I don’t I’m not even sure. No. Cheers. Campai. It’s kind of bad luck to toast. Okay. It’s bad luck. But whatever. Okay. You can have I don’t believe in the luck. So you can have the bad luck if you want if you believe in it. Well, we are pretty lucky today. So yeah, we have been pretty lucky today. Even if we lose lucky. So this is tofu. It’s tofu and seaweed. Oh, this is cool. What do you call this again? That is called a hashi where you chopsticks. And it’s really cute. Yeah, it’s a hashoki. Hashi where you place the chopsticks. I I got a eggplant one. Yeah, I got me one. Okay. Uh yeah, tofu in something. Looks like it’s in tea or something. It’s probably fish. Oh, wow. M. Huh. Oh, that’s delicious. Yeah. M. I like your reaction. Yeah. Try it. Try it. Okay. It’s like um there’s some miso, right? [Music] Tastes like miso, right? No, it doesn’t. What does it What does it taste like? Um seaweed. Maybe you had a different one to me. This tasted like some kind of like miso thing. And this this is seaweed. This is literally seaweed. M. It’s sweet. Sesame. Oh, it’s sesame. Yeah, that’s what I’m tasting. So, this is where they’re going to cook. They’re going to cook for us or we cook it like in the So, we kind of just wait. So, they’re going to bring you raw raw meat and they put it here and it’s just steam. And we just take it when we need it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Onto a plate like that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And that is sesame sesame dressing and that is called ponzo. Kind of lemonish. Oh yeah. Are you ready to eat it? Yeah. I’m looking forward to it. Kobe beef. I wonder how many. It didn’t tell us how many grams of beef we get. Right. But it looks like a lot. It’s a lot. It’s like you’ve had before. You’ve had before. You can’t finish it, right? Yeah. That’s weird. I like it. I like it when I’m meeting with someone who can’t finish their stuff like that. Yeah. If I’m eating like a a load of sushi or something with someone and like they can’t eat half of it, it’s good cuz it means I can eat like three quarters of it. Great. Let’s see how you’re going to feel after I’ve seen this a lot of food, you know, like why people come here and why this place is so um popular. Not only that, the auto atmosphere and the food is good, but also the amount of food that they give me. Surprising. Usually these like very popular places or very fancy places, the portions are tiny. Then I have to go for McDonald’s after I spend like $100, $200 on a meal and then I have to go and get a Big Mac to satisfy myself. It’s normal, right? Yeah. Especially like the the French restaurants. Yeah. They have you like a big plate like this with like a tiny little thing and all fancy kind of nonsense and then you eat it and you’re like h okay that’s good but I could eat like about 30 more of those before feeling full. Yeah. This place not only the atmosphere they have a amount of food. Good. Okay. And you’ve eaten here before so you know for sure. I’ve eaten like 10 times more than two decades. Okay. Oh, wow. Beautiful. Nice. Hi. Thank you. She said it’s going to take six minutes for this to be cooked, right? And I said, should I should I do something? And they going to come back to stop. Oh, they will stop it at the time. 6 minutes. Yeah, in 6 minutes. Let’s say if it’s actually 6 minutes exactly. Ah, so it’s steaming. It’s steaming now, right? Mhm. I think here they have water and they just steaming. It’s um Japanese traditional steaming machine. I have it at home. We make dumplings usually. All right. And do you put in the anko? Anko. Azuki. Azuki. You make sweet ones or you make like with pork or something? pork ones. Ah, okay. If I have it, I will make the adsuki or Yeah, I guess so. I will make the sweet ones. Yeah, people usually don’t do that, but I guess why not? Yeah, why not? Yeah, that was my first thought. It looks beautiful. My first thought is for the the sweet variety. Yeah, it looks and it is a big portion as well, right? I can see not only this you’re going to see you’re going to experience it. Or they bring other stuff, right? Or it’s just literally the meat. Oh, we get like extra side dishes and stuff. A lot of side dishes. Really? Huh? H. Okay. This place is not for boring as well. All right. Good. This is rice. Rice. Okay. Oh, wow. No, it’s a soup. Oh, it’s rice. Oh, you said with the fish on top and stuff. What do you call that again? Kamamei. Kami. Yes, it’s a chamomi rice with octopus and salmon and all that. Oh, wow. It’s so quick to cook. Wow. So much. No, it’s not just more. Really? Oh, wow. No, no, no. It’s not end yet. By the way, this is very deep. This rice kamameshi is inside there’s a steamed octopus and another fish and salmon and vegetables in there they have two cup of rice two cup and the flavor is fish and soy sauce wow and they gave us this as well yeah moi there’s two for us or they give us two each I see oh they give you two there as well yeah two Little is the mangju, right? Yeah. Remember you already ate it? Yeah, I remember that one. It’s called mangju is radishled. Pickled. Yeah. Is it miso soup? Probably what you can do is with two hands, a bit of air air inside. This is called o machine. They have um taste of fish and seaweed. Yeah. It’s very clear, simple thing. Yeah, I often eat this for New Year as well. And you eat after the meal, right? No, no, no. Now, really? Okay. Whenever I get something like this, I usually it’s usually the last thing I eat. No, I feel like like for example, French will be like a co meal, you know. Japanese is kind of vibe of the bento box. Everything together. Ah, you can eat in any order. No, any order. Okay. M. Yeah, it tastes like fish and seaweed. Very simple. Feels like it’s like maybe like four calories or something for the full for the full dough. It’s like one of those. Ah, good. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Good one. What about this? You going to finish this one? Of course. Right on it. Okay. They’re bringing more food or or we should just start eating. I think we should stop eating. I think they’re going to bring this fish, but maybe I’m confused. Yeah, I think that’s all on the menu. You just said about the the rice and the beef. It didn’t say about anything else, right? I’m not remembering, but because like when I come with my family, each person order different thing. My grand usually order this and I would order something smaller. My father medium, my mother kind of smaller. So, we kind of share each other between what you don’t like. For example, I like this, I don’t like that. Then like I kind of switch with my brothers. So in the end, we kind of share everything. Yeah. Yeah. So probably this is I think this is what they’re giving us. Okay, let’s start munching. Yeah. I want the straight into the beef right here. Oh wow. Oh wow. It’s so soft. Yeah. The tenderness of that is incredible. Yeah, you don’t even have to chew that. I think I think somebody with no teeth could eat this. Oh, wow. It’s like the softest the softest meat I’ve ever had. M. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Co. That’s super nice. Yeah. Mhm. What’s all the other stuff? Is it noodles or what? Oh, that is vegetables. It’s called moyashi. And they basically have zero calories. Ah, there’s a whole bunch of stuff in here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, in Japan, you usually cut this type of mushroom cut like this because of the presentation. M. This one here. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, interesting. What is this called? It’s called shiake. Shiakei. M. It’s a nice flavor. Yeah. In Japan, we put something like very detailed with colors. This is for colors, not for the taste. Because more color you have, more delicious. So, we care about like presentation. So, so big on presentation. Octopus, right? Octopice. M. Good. Mhm. Well, this very healthy what we’re eating, right? Yeah. Just sliced vegetables, some rice, and some uh steamed fish as well. Yeah, I think steamed. Maybe this is steamed. Yeah, salmon as well. Yum. Yum. That didn’t happen. Know that now that you’re for dinner and using chapstick. Yeah, I’m kidding. He’s doing good. It didn’t happen though, so it’s okay. But I think the the way to do it is like you mix it into the rice, right? Like that. No, I don’t think so. I don’t I really don’t think so. Wait, maybe maybe I show you. I show you. I show you. Hey. Okay. You want to show? Okay. Okay. Okay. So, this is a sauce called ponzoo. Ah. And this is Oh, you dip you dip the coffee into the ponzoo. Yeah. So, what we usually do would be this is sesame. And this is called shamoji especially to sweep the rice from here. So you would scrape the amount only. Wait, it used to be more like deeper. Yeah, like 10 years ago. It is just one bowl. No, I think they noticed it was too much food. Shrinkflation. Inflation. Shrinkflation. Shrinkflation. Shrink. I think I don’t instead of making it more expensive, they just give you less portion. Yeah. At least like I don’t have any problems. But yeah, you have that because it’s used to be two bowls. Really? Huh. And we’re going to put a bit of this and a bit of this. This, this, and then. And I personally like this. And then I eat. In Japan since I was little, they make me eat triangle order eating. So I would usually eat protein and rice and soup in one bite. One bite. One bite. Ah, like that. This is how Oh, so you keep going around the triangle. So you go beef and then rice, then soup, and then beef, rice, soup. It was so good. But you’ve already finished the soup. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, now you’re doing It’s so soft and delicious as well. Yeah, it’s so good. I want to try it with the ponzo and the sesame. Oh god, it’s so soft. Yeah. Right. Even like an old person with no teeth, they could easily eat this, right? Yeah. It’s so good. M. So, now I know how to do it. Mhm. I’m not going to mess it up cuz No, I know. With the sesame. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. And then the rice. Yeah. Yeah. And the rice is freshly cooked. They cooked in this 20 minutes that we came up here. You know, remember that’s why they took the order very fast. Yeah. They get the order then they start cooking. Some white fish as well. Mhm. Super good. Yeah. I should be eating out of this, right? I should be doing the same as you and using this, right? Yeah. So that’s this is bad. What I’m doing is bad. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. It’s bad. Yeah. That’s why I have this. I just realized like you didn’t say anything like um I think I Is it Would it be rude if I was like here with your family and everything and I was just eating from this? Would you think that it’s a bit rude, but All right. So I get like a pass because I’m a foreigner. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But just in case I taught you how to Yeah. I mean this is practically a bowl. So like that’s why I I was eating straight from here and it’s nice and warm. It keeps the the rice nice and warm. Yeah. Maybe that’s why they put this. Ah, see you can eat little by little. Yeah, like that. Okay, I’ll try and do it properly at least still now that I know. I’ll try and do it properly. Okay, I’ve finished my beef and I’m on to the tofu. You don’t want to die yet the vegetables? I’ve been eating some of it, but it just tastes like I’m eating air. Yeah, I’ve had the other vegetables, the mushrooms and all that. But you could please help me with this. Really? Yeah. There’s not that much. Really snacking all day today. Okay, I’ll eat this. All of it. All the meat. No. Uh, you eat these bits and I’ll eat this one. Don’t get me wrong. It’s so delicious. It’s just like we’ve been eating all the You can eat the simple things like the shiitakei. Okay. You have this one. Get your protein. Be strong. Okay, Dad. I’d be so bad. How about this seating position? It’s okay. Or C++. I got a C plus I don’t know. I just keep the only way I can stay comfortable is if I keep changing position. I didn’t notice it’s like so hard for foreigner. Yeah, because you’re you’re tall. Yeah. And I think I don’t know. It’s just shorter. Mhm. Yeah. Maybe the taller you are, the more difficult it is. I think so. I really think so. Cuz like whenever I arrived to Japan from another country, so I arrived to my house and I noticed everything so small because ah after being overseas, you know, it’s like the ceiling and the doorway and stuff. Yeah. where I wash my hand be like here but in abroad it’s like here ah like that okay I used to this in Japan perfect for my size okay serious like in this one over you change the position like 10 times ah now I’m doing the real position I’m trying to do the real position can’t be right I feel like I feel like I’m too high up I’m way way higher up I’m on my I’m literally on my like knees like this is how you do it um two for But my legs are too big. I’m literally doing it correctly. Right. Like this. Right. Let me have that. That’s right. Yeah. Why do you look so tall? My legs are big so it’s pushing me up. I guess so. It’s just like Yeah, I’m like that much taller than I asked for chair for for going to go to table also. You’re joking, right? Yeah. Imagine asking him for that. Okay. You’re not going to eat the cold KBY beef. Well, it’s so thin as well. So easy to eat. It’s so delicious. Yum. Yum. In Japan, you cannot take back the leftover. Do you know why? Why? Because in Japan it’s all about maybe I shouldn’t say that online but people do not want to take responsibility. So the restaurant is afraid they said we take this back. Yeah. And we get sick. Yeah. And then later we call um I got sick because of bad food and then they’re going to get but then it’s the same things that take out. So in Japan you have to choose eat in or take out. All right. Yeah. You can’t eat in and then take half of it out. Can’t do that. Huh? Okay. But my family, we like to secretly take this back cuz we never finish. Ah, like that. We secretly take back but we are not supposed to. Okay. So children do not do that then. I’m going to eat everything off your See how easy it is. See how easy it is to finish your food. M I like how you eat. Yeah. Easy. Oh, you got enough room for dessert. Yeah. Always. Right. In the we have we say that there’s a different stomach. Yeah. Okay. So, this is for your dessert stomach. The mochi. Moi. You already tried. Yeah. It was bigger before. So, this is one they call onen mangju, right? It’s called K something. Oh, that’s good. But a little bit weird. It has like a Yeah, this one. It’s like something some ingredient is like a bit weird, but it’s nice. I think it some kind of like savory almost herby kind of taste that’s in there. You want me to Google? Okay. Yeah, I think it’s some kind of like pepper or something. I can see something that’s sprinkled on top. It’s whatever is sprinkled on top of it. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever it is that’s sprinkled on top is the giving it kind of weird taste. Some kind of like peppery. I know what that What is it? It’s a soy sauce. Is it Is that about making the taste? I don’t know. I didn’t I I Googled it. It’s called Kinsen means Kinson is the hot spring water. Yeah. The iron one. Yeah. Yaki means um baked iron water baked m. Yeah. Yeah. It says it’s it’s probably soy sauce. All right. You know, we’ve been here already 1 hour and 20 minutes. So, the people waiting outside, they probably had the ones behind us probably had to wait at least one hour. Yeah. So, we did well. Like if we had came like 1 minute later then we would have to wait one and a half hours later. Yeah. Wow. So we did so good and the food was so good as well. I didn’t finish the rice. I should finish the rice. You’re actually going to finish. Yeah. Yeah. Because then I then I can’t say to you that you’re bad for not finishing it. If I don’t finish myself. It’s actually Japanese etiquette to finish what it was given. Yeah. Yeah. And the rice is so good as well. It is so good. Yum. Yum. In Japan there are we say that each each rice has a goat. So my So I’m thinking about the gods. Yeah. I’ve been think like I think I lost a lot of goats now. Yeah. My chopstick skills are getting better, right? I can I can literally take single grains of rice. That was like so good. I can take like one grain of rice. Explain how much time you spend in Asia. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. One one grain of rice. Yeah. Expert. Expert. You’re man. Like I’m used to like talking to my foreigner friends and I would always teach them how to use chapsticks. I don’t think I have to. Do you? But I’m I’m I I hold it too low, right? It should be holding it from up here. No, I don’t think I feel doing great. I’m like I find it more difficult holding it from the top. I think you can get more accurate from the top, but I find it more difficult. I think I think you’re doing good. Well, I’m used to I’m used to using it from the middle, so that’s that’s what I do. You know, you are saving a lot of gods in the rice. I’m saving them by eating them. Yeah. Yeah. Is that how it works? Oh, so if I eat it the you know nowadays I feel like maybe it was another trick that my father told me so I will finish my food. But I am not sure. Maybe it’s culture thing or maybe my my parents think. Oh, so every grain of rice you leave is like a god that’s being destroyed or something like that. My father said that each each rice has six or seven gods. So like there’s like 100 gods inside. And what the gods are inside the rice or the gods like are responsible for the rice and then go inside. So like you don’t want to leave the goat is what my father told me. But I wonder was it a little white parents do to the daughter or actually anyway you’re saving them. Yeah. but taking so long and my legs are getting so sore. Oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, you’re sacrificing at the hotel. Yeah, I think I feel like But don’t tell me it’s your first time. First time what? To sit on the floor? No, I’ve done it before like in Korea and something, but it’s something like I’ve maybe done like once every two or three years or something like that. So, my legs have never gotten used to sitting on the floor. Uh, I feel like I would need to train train my legs. But it’s like if you’re doing this every day, then your legs are going to be like trained for it, you know? Especially if you’ve been doing it since you’re a kid. But some people say that because Japanese people grow up with this and you do this all the time. That’s why they got to shorten that height. Ah, like that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what they think. Yeah. We never know. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. This is this is better. So you this is also acceptable. But how are you going to eat like this? But it’s acceptable for like watch TV or something in your house or Yeah. Acceptable. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I could sit like this. But because my habit that you would always ended up just doing like this. Oh okay. Cuz it’s my habit. It’s never uncomfortable even for like two hours or two hours maybe uncomfortable. I also practiced my practiced the tea ceremony and the Japanese call choreography where you have to do a lot of this sitting. So it’s also like how much the person practiced. Okay. Yeah. And for me that is almost zero. Ta. Here’s me eating still. And I have his camera. [Music] [Music] Something about Japanese food is that they would always give you in little plates. [Music] I’m going to eat. It’s always comes with a little plate. Let’s say it’s bento box. It’s always never in a big plate. Best timing to come to Japan would be in October and November and March where are you can see autumn leaves or cherry blossom trees and that would be amazing. So weird doing vlogs in English because I usually do in Spanish but I started English channel. This is called muga. There are so many Japanese teas in Japan. And the people here drink more tea than um water. Yeah. And the teas are usually never sweet because when I go to America um states, I find like Arizona green tea. Yeah. But we never drink green tea with sugar. I only find it in state. He never come back. So it’s going to be Hey. Okay. Is this room too big for you? You’re vlogging. Are you really? Okay. Welcome to Nina. Oh, okay. She’s hijacked my vlog. It’s your channel now. Is it? Yeah. This is going to start vlogging in Spanish now. I don’t think any of my viewers can speak Spanish. Okay. Does it always happen to you like doors always? Yeah. I’m always conscious before before I go out a door. Usually I’m looking at it. I don’t In Europe, I will not even think about it. But in Japan, usually if I’m like approaching a door, I will like eye it up and then be like Yeah. I think it’s made for me because like I never do that again. So funny. Do that again. Just like Okay. Okay. We’re going to let one of the people who have been queuing for 90 minutes have our room. Yeah. Like that could have been five people. Instead it was just us two. Yeah, I know. They’re very generous with space. It’s all good. Right. We were going to come out and get dessert, but everything’s closed. Like these, it’s like the Zyo. The Zyo was like this after like 5:30 p.m. Everything was dead. So, it’s like that in these like smaller towns, right? Yeah. And I think like people come here for day trip, they got to go back now or they’re here for one night, then they stay inside of the hotel for dinner. Yeah. So they kind of like finish and the onins inside the hotel they can do all night as well, right? All night. Yeah, they usually all night. Yeah. Yeah. They have to clean. They have a cleaning time but except for that. Huh. Yeah. There’s like eating food in hotel right now. Yeah. There are a few things still open. Well, we can tell if they’re open or not by the nor end. So this thing, this is like the how you know they have this thing. I just learned that today. If this thing is on the outside, it means open. Yeah, but it’s all packaged stuff. I was looking maybe we can get like a a matcha ice cream or something. No, your matcha ice cream. You can save it for next time. Look, still have n over there. No over there. Yeah. Okay. So that’s how you know like it looks like maybe that could be closed but you know because it has the norin. Yeah. Yeah. But it’s still open. Yeah. I’m about to close that. Yeah. Yeah. Everything’s closing. All right. So that’s us from Aria onen Aria onen the ancient old onen town in Japan. Yeah. Guys, I recommend coming here to check it out. Dip your feet. Maybe go for a full bath in the spring water. And make sure when you’re walking down the road that you walk on the pave. You you walk on the pavement rather than along with the cars. And also make sure that you subscribe and hit the like button if you haven’t already. And another thing, make sure you check out Nina’s channel. I’ll put the link in the description. I did an interesting interview to him about his personal life. Oh yeah, you did. When we were in the cafe, she asked me some questions for like some kind of interview. So I mean you can check that out if you want guys on the Nina Laapa. Nina. My English is Nina Japan. Ah okay. Yeah because I started English one. I didn’t even know you had that channel. I only know about your Spanish one. Oh, the Spanish one. One Spanish one I sold it like half year ago. I made a new one. Yeah. And then now I have the new Spanish channel and English channel. Okay. So, Nino Japan. Nino Japan. Nino Japan. Check it out, guys. Thank you.
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My friend Nina invited me to Arima Onsen, one of the oldest hot spring towns in Japan.
Japan is famous for their Onsens, resorts and resort towns that are developed around the natural mineral-rich hot springs.
Arima Onsen is a town that’s popular for their Kinsen hot springs. This is golden-coloured water (or reddish-brown) that is full of iron. There’s areas in the town where you can dip your feet in the Kinsen water, and many bath houses where you can soak your whole body.
For me though, the local snacks were more interesting than the local water, and I wasn’t long in Arima town before stuffing my face.
First up was a Manju (steamed bun) that are common in all hot spring towns in Japan. It was stuffed with the adzuki sweet red bean paste and was super tasty.
We followed that up with some Dango (sweet rice dumplings) with a chestnut paste topping, as that flavour is Nina’s favourite.
And some Tansan Senbei, which are rice crackers made with the naturally-carbonated local water from a well in the town.
Arima Onsen was such a nice town to stroll around in. It’s popular with domestic Japanese tourists but they’re not all rowdy like foreign tourists, so it was still peaceful there.
Like other popular small towns that the locals like to visit on a day trip, everything starts to close by around 5 pm. I remember it was like that in Dazaifu, when it turned into a ghost town all of a sudden as we approached dusk.
One place that was still open though was an old family house that’s been turned into a restaurant. Nina and her family have eaten there many times on their trips to Arima Onsen over the years, so she knew the food was superb.
We ordered Kobe Beef sets where they brought us raw, highly-marbled slices of kobe beef in a basket that was steamed at our table. In just 6 minutes we were munching on some of the best meat this country has to offer. What a delicious way to end an awesome day. 😊✌🏻
0:00 Arima Onsen
3:36 Manju Steamed Buns
8:56 Dango Sweet Rice Dumplings
14:14 Hot Spring Foot Bath
19:39 Buddhist Hot Spring Temple
27:48 Tansan Senbei Rice Crackers
38:53 Quirky Drinks Shop
55:49 Plum Seaweed Tea
59:23 5 Second Tansan Senbei
1:03:03 Vintage Pinball Machines
1:11:22 Traditional House Restaurant
1:26:40 Kobe Beef
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Don't you miss india?😂😂
It's known as a Fox's wedding or two foxes dancing in the UK as well but isn't widely used. In fact across europe there's different but very similar names for a sunshower.
She really likes you Dale….
Yum yum
We miss u bro from Nepal 🇳🇵
She so yearned for you to feed her the last bit of meat. Don't ever allow your belly to disalusion your brain.
Such a lovely young woman 😊
Kawaii Nina
Who wouldve thought we would see dale in a date and not with an indian guy 😂
1:02:59 Did he say Super Boy?
There should be more Nina's like her in this world Dale……. perfect !
That's cool, man. After finishing her drink, she still carried her cup. The Japanese are well-raised
are you 58 years old?? your wiki says that you were born in 1967
1:52:23 nica car
Mmm… interesting
puyeng dengernya
Marry a Japanese girl and live there forever and just keep uploading!
1:03:44 The Bally pinball machine in the middle (odds and evens) is from
1973.
If it's in a good condition and the owner wants to sell it,he/she could easily get $3,000 to $4,000 for it.
17:36 We say same thing in Nepal too🇳🇵. Sunny Raining Fox Wedding
Best Scotsman around, fingers crossed I am Phuket bound. Wish me luck mate!
Nina hablaste español muy buena ❤❤❤
Dale should definitely move to Japan! He fits in perfectly. 🇯🇵🏴
did you hit or no
Classic down to earth entertaining informative video. Thank you both 🙂
Great Video. Nina was a great guide!
32:40 😅
It works so well an makes the videos,even more entertaining..
Valuable crown jewels😂😂 22:47
Thanks Dale. Enjoyed that
Nina is so amazing! Great, outgoing personality with such a cute accent😊 Good choice, Dale!
Beautiful place and a beautiful lady to show you around, another fantastic video Dale, respect all the way from Crewe Cheshire UK 🇬🇧
Dale great video mate, its was like watching one of the scene's from the Karate Kid part 2. Glory of Love to you both. ❤
She is so gorgeous. 😌
🎉nice
To be honest didn't liked this episode 🫠
Your haponesa guide is so friendly and nice, i hope to see her in more vlogs
Is this dude irish