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Good... uh... lunch?
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Okay, so we got some messages from listeners.
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So I'm gonna read this.
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This is from I Am Kyeong-chan.
I Am Kyeong-chan.
Thank you.
I always enjoy listening to your talk.
Thank you.
Now, let me share with you the incident that happened to me the other day.
No.
I know what you're gonna ask me.
No.
Okay, thank you.
Are you willing to explain this?
Yeah, please do.
This is completely...
Actually, this means "seiten no hekireki" means like thunder in a sunny day.
Like sunny sky.
So it's something that happened by chance?
Yeah, like suddenly, like completely unexpected and shocking.
Okay.
Unfortunate experience?
Sad experience?
Devastating experience?
No.
It can be like happy thing.
Okay.
A super sudden...
But still shocking.
Okay, super sudden shocking experience.
Strong, surprising thing.
Got it.
Okay, I understand.
Okay.
先日、妹から突然連絡があり、実は結婚したい人がいると報告を受けました。
驚いたのはここからで、相手はアメリカ人で、しかも一回り以上年下というではありませんか。
彼氏がいることすら知らなかった私の顎が外れかけたことは言うまでもありません。
英語なんて興味すらなかった妹でしたが、愛は年齢も言葉の壁をも超えるのだと思った日常の午後でした。
ということで、私この度、アメリカ人の弟ができることになりました。
このKevin's English Roomのポッドキャストに出会い、毎日少しずつ積み重ねた英語力が役に立つ日が来るとは夢にも思えませんでした。
まだまだ聞き取れない単語やフレーズもありますが、これからもこの番組を聞き続け精進したいと思います。
Congrats!
Wow!
青天の壁記、A bolt from the blue.
Oh, that's what it is in English?
So she also knew that I didn't know what that means.
Yes!
Well, thank you.
Well, thank you. I'm Kyung Chan.
Wow, congratulations!
You know?
Yeah, she's got an American brother.
Brother, brother-in-law.
Yeah.
That's a big change.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you have your sister, right?
You have sister.
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Yeah.
What's surprising when you heard that she's going to be married or?
Um...
Not that much?
Not that much.
Oh.
Yeah.
Because you knew...
Yeah, my sister was like, "Oh, I want to get married. I want to get married."
Oh, everyday?
She's been saying that.
Okay.
I didn't really...
"Oh, you found a partner. Good for you."
That was kind of my vibe.
Okay, okay.
It didn't really...
It wasn't like a shocking experience.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I have my brother, younger brother.
And if I heard from him, like he's going to say that I'm going to be married,
I would be like shocked.
Really shocked?
Surprised.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Me.
Okay.
So thank you. I'm Kyung Chan.
I am Kyung Chan.
Thank you.
So hope this podcast will be...
Would help you.
Yeah.
Communicate with your brother-in-law.
Right?
Wow.
All right.
So this is from Seven-san.
Seven-san.
Hello, Kevin-san, Yama-san.
Hello.
Hello.
It's sudden, but you two like hard bread like French bread and German bread,
and soft bread like breaded bread and rolled bread.
Which do you like?
Hmm.
I heard on the internet the other day that Yamazaki's Double Soft bread is popular overseas.
I thought that soft bread like breaded bread is not familiar overseas.
Oh.
By the way, I'm a hard bread lover, but I lost my jaw because I ate too much.
Please be careful not to eat too much.
I will continue to support you.
In the US, we have a very soft bread.
Soft, like breaded bread.
Yeah, we've got really soft ones.
In France, you guys have?
Two, yeah.
Like, it's called "Pandoumi".
Just simple, usual kind of soft bread.
But the hard one is major, actually.
Oh, okay.
Like, France bread.
Right, right, right.
In France, of course.
Is it actually, what's it called in France?
Baguette.
Baguette.
Yeah, we don't call those things French.
Right.
French.
Yeah.
It doesn't sound cool.
Yeah.
So, do you like?
My personal favorite would be the hard ones.
Hard ones.
Yeah, the France bread one.
Oh, really?
I've never tried a "Deutz-Bann".
That's the first time I've actually even heard of a "Deutz-Bann".
Really?
What's a "Deutz-Bann"?
It's really hard like this.
Okay, it's small.
Yeah, like a little smaller.
And basically, like this rounded shape.
It's like "Shtoren".
It looks like "Shtoren".
Yeah, I think so.
Okay.
Like, rounded and really hard.
And not like dried berries inside those.
Okay, okay.
Never had them, but I can kind of imagine what they are.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like the harder ones more.
What about you, man?
Me too.
The harder ones.
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Hard ones?
Yeah.
I like to put it in like an oven toaster.
Like the "France-Bann".
Yeah.
And put butter on it.
That's good.
Okay.
I can't really eat...
Like, do you eat those "France-Bann" without heating them on like room temperature?
Do you do that?
Yeah.
Isn't that too hard?
Like the crust is like really too hard, you think?
Because if you often toast it, it's crunchy, right?
It's easier to eat, I think.
Yeah.
What do you think about that?
Like, I agree with you that's going to be better if you toast it.
Yeah.
But I can still eat.
I can enjoy it.
Without?
Without any heating up.
Without cooking.
Yeah.
Wow.
Because I agree that it could break your jaw.
It's way too like hard and chewy and like...
Not chewy, but like you have to like really like put force into it to like bite it through the crust of the "France-Bann".
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Like for me, when you toast it, you will be like more, you know, harder, you know?
Like it's soft inside, actually.
Okay, I think, okay, so without being cooked, it's softer on the outside, but it's actually like, it's like rubber, you know?
It's like, it's harder.
The core is harder to bite it through.
But like, as if you toast it, it may look harder on the outside, but like if you actually put force into it, it easily cracks.
Like chips.
Yeah.
Crisp.
Yeah.
Ah, okay, okay.
So, okay.
Got you.
Overall, I think, you know, if you toast it, it's easier to eat.
Okay, okay.
Right?
It only takes one bite for the toasted one to bite through.
I see.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
But French people doesn't toast it, actually.
They don't toast it?
Yeah.
They just eat.
What do they put on it?
Pate.
Like butter?
Of course, butters, of course.
But basically, they eat like rice for Japanese people.
That's same thing for them.
That's baguette.
So, like pate is something like pasted pork or pasted beef with little condiments in it.
Like, like corned beef, you know?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a little like those things.
Pasted pork or foie gras, you know?
Those things.
Is it like a full on meal?
Is that a full on meal?
Yeah.
Like, it's just...
Not like a snack or anything?
It's more like a meal?
No, it's full meal.
It's just like rice for Japanese people.
We have main dishes like salad and baguette with it.
Okay.
Like two baguettes on the table and everyone cut it and eat.
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Two baguettes mean like two sticks?
Yeah, two sticks or three sticks if you're a big family.
And then you cut it?
Yeah, you cut it.
How thick do you cut it?
Like this thick.
So, like an inch?
Like this?
Like an inch?
Three centimeters or...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it will be depending on the family, of course.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And you don't heat them?
No.
Because it's actually a little different from baguette in France and baguette in Japan.
Like France, Spain and Japanese.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
So, I guess you'd have to chew more in Japan.
Whereas in France, it's more easier to consume and easier to bite through.
Because it's actually fresh in France because they buy every morning and they consume in a day.
And buy next morning a new baguette.
So, they go out every day to buy a baguette?
Every day.
Not like in Japan where you buy a fuckload of uncooked rice and then you cook them every once in a while or every day.
You have to go out and buy them.
So, what are they doing during COVID?
I don't know.
Yeah, that's a good question.
Because my dad in the Haas family, he went to the bakery shop like every morning to buy baguettes for the day.
And bring it back.
That was his routine.
That was his job.
One of the...
You're trying to remember the word.
Yeah, one of the...
You're trying to remember.
One of the chores.
Yes!
Oh yeah.
Yes!
One of his chores.
Yes, yes, yes.
So, maybe there's a delivery version maybe?
Maybe, right now.
How much is, in yen, how much is one baguette?
Ah...
About 150 yen or 200 yen.
If you buy in a supermarket, it will be like 90 yen.
How much is it in Japan?
I don't know the price in Japan.
Oh.
It's about 200 to 300 yen.
Or if you find a fine baguette, it will be like 500 yen or 600 yen.
It's cheap and everyone eat it.
Okay, got it.
The most popular topping would be?
Pate.
Pate.
Like the beef.
Yeah.
Was it good?
Oh, it was good.
Or like just not without any topping.
You just eat with the main dishes.
Itself is good.
Yeah, it's just rice, you know.
Is there like a sweeter version with it?
Ah...
Like Nutella or something?
Nutella or like jam.
Jams.
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Butters, chocolates.
Wow.
Okay.
How about croissants?
Ah.
Is that good?
That good.
It good?
It is.
How do you think it's different?
Like it's really crispy and big.
They're big, okay.
And like more like creamy, like butter.
It uses more butter.
I think so.
Or butter is different maybe.
It's like more like milky a little bit.
Like your face.
I didn't think milky would be...
Yeah.
Like...
I know you like milky.
Yeah, I do.
Yeah, you should try.
You should go over there and try one.
No, more than milky.
I think my father should try.
My father loves croissants.
Every time he comes back to Japan,
he would schedule a visit to like several bakery shops.
He would try all these like croissants.
He's a croissant hunter.
He's always looking for this perfect croissant.
I think he has this perfect croissant in his mind,
and he can't find the one that matches.
Every time he comes, he eats, he bites into the croissant.
He's like, "No, it's not."
He does that every time.
Every time.
And he like...
He said that he found this perfect one in Ibaraki.
Ibaraki, right?
And then he...
Like recently he visited that store,
and he was like, he ate it, but like...
The recipe changed.
The butter is not used as much.
And he's like, "No, this is not it."
And I'm like, "Right."
So he's like, "Yeah, he should go to France."
Of course.
Try the croissants.
Yeah.
But the thing is...
So we were on a family vacation.
He was in Japan.
My sister and I and my father went to this like...
Some random hotel, right?
And they gave us breakfast.
So it's not a bakery.
It's just like a really economy class business hotel, right?
Like a cliche breakfast, right?
Morning breakfast.
Right, we sat down, and there was croissants.
And it was like, "Dekitate."
He took a bit.
He was like, "Oh shit, this is it."
Really?
No.
And he was like, "What the fuck? This is it."
He was like, "Maybe it's because it's freshly baked."
"Maybe all I wanted was a freshly baked croissant."
That was pretty funny.
Yeah, he's a funny guy.
Yeah, he's funny, yeah.
So many years he's been traveling for the perfect croissant.
Right, right, right.
Finally.
All he wanted was a perfectly freshly baked croissant.
But I'm sure...
I think he's still looking for a croissant that would satisfy him,
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even if it's not freshly baked.
But yeah.
The fresh one is really nice, actually.
Yeah, it's true.
So Dad, he's listening to this.
Oh, okay, okay.
So Dad, do you need a...
We should go to France and try croissant.
Is there any place in France?
Oh, Paris.
Paris would do.
Good.
There's so many bakery shops.
That's like high class.
Oh, high class, or like just everyday.
Everyday bakery would be a good place.
The breads are nice in there.
All right, all right.
We gotta go there.
Get my sister and my dad.
Yeah, it'll be nice.
yeah alright thanks for watching guys
thank you bye
