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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hi guys.
Love your setups.
Thank you.
Perfect.
Uh, underneath my microphone I have a box for the microphone.
Yeah.
And a tissue.
Yeah.
Tissue box holder.
Yeah.
It needs height.
Yeah.
And you gave up on the setting.
You just, yeah.
Just holding it.
I just hold it.
Comfortable?
Yeah.
It's good.
See that's a...
Sankyaku actually, but...
Yeah, like a really small sankyaku.
Just using it as a handle.
Yeah.
Okay.
Konnichiwa.
Konnichiwa.
Minami to moushimasu.
Konnichiwa.
Watashi wa genzai sekai ichi no tamizoku toshi to iwarete iru Toronto de seikatsu wo shite
imasu.
Toronto.
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Watashi wa daigaku de eiyougaku wo senkou shite ita koto mo ari sekai no shokubunka
ni totemo kyoumi ga aru no desu ga.
Toronto dewa ironna kuni no ryouri wo taberu koto ga deki atarashii tabemono ni takusan
deaete totemo omoshiroidesu.
Mm-hmm.
Mm.
Ima wa tokuni jaakuchikin na do no jamaika ryouri ni hamatte imasu.
Mm.
Kevin san, Yama chan wa saikin hajimete tabeta gaikoku no tabemono wa arimasu ka?
Ohanashi itadaketara ureshii desu.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Jaakuchikin?
Do you know what that is?
Yeah.
I saw on a food truck on a festival.
Fesu.
There's a jaakuchikin.
That was a little bit arranged into Japanese style, I guess.
It was jaakuchikin don.
Oh.
Yeah.
You know, by looking at the pictures, it looks like a normal...
Yeah.
Nani, toriniku?
Yeah.
Just grilled toriniku?
Yeah, but the sauce was special, I guess.
Oh, okay.
It was like a bit spicy, bit like a barbecue style.
Smoked a bit, I guess.
I see.
Well, it looks very tasty.
Yeah.
Here, jaakuchikin.
Nice.
Mm-hmm.
That's very nice.
True.
Do you have anything, any foods that you recently tried?
What did I try?
Oh.
I tried recently American things, two things.
Okay.
I'm sure you know that, but one is a chicken noodle soup.
Oh, yeah.
You know that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I tried that.
Damn.
How was it?
I mean...
Oh.
No?
I mean...
Where?
In a restaurant or a grocery store?
No, a friend's house.
Oh.
Like a...
That someone who was born, like you, was born and raised in the United States and then
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now living in Japan, but...
Homemade chicken noodle soup.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And no, no, no.
The one...
Oh, instant?
The instant one, like that.
You add water, like hot water and everything?
That tomato soup, Campbell's.
Oh, a Campbell's chicken noodle soup?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, right.
Classic.
Yeah, yeah, the classic one.
Well, then that must be good then.
That means it's perfect.
I mean...
Oh, come on.
I mean, that wasn't bad.
However?
It wasn't great.
At least to me.
But that friend was repeatedly saying, "Oh, this is so delicious!"
"This is divine!"
So delicious.
I mean...
Come on.
What was so bad about it?
I mean, well, first of all, it's not that, that bad.
But the taste was a little just salty.
Oh.
It was salty.
Right, yeah, right.
True.
Not like chicken...
See that like the kokus of chickens or like the dashiness of chickens?
Yeah, they don't have that.
No, it was just salty soup.
And also about the noodles.
Yeah.
That's very different from like the Japanese.
Yeah, it wasn't noodles, you know.
It was kind of...
See there's ABC soup, you know.
It's kind of like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's soft macaroni, whatever things.
No.
You didn't like it?
I mean...
Man.
I mean, I didn't hate that.
Of course, but...
You didn't crave for it?
Nah.
Oh.
Chicken noodles.
Yeah.
I didn't know they sold it in Japan.
No, they...
My friend bought in the United States and bring back, so...
Oh, man.
Yeah.
So you can't buy it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I miss...
Yeah, I really miss the chicken noodle soup.
Yeah.
She was also saying that have been searching in Japan...
Oh, really?
...and the first place where chicken noodle soup.
But no, so...
Oh, so you're saying...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was the one brand new thing that I tried, kai gai no mono.
Okay.
Chicken noodle soup.
And the second one was the Lays chips.
Lays, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The flavor of barbecue.
Barbecue.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's also great.
Yeah.
No.
You didn't like it?
I love that.
Yes.
Yes.
That was actually...
Good.
...really good.
Mm-hmm.
And I kind of amazed and I kind of questioning now that why it's not sold in Japan.
Uh-huh.
Because I guess every Japanese people would like that taste.
It's not strange at all.
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It's great.
Mm-hmm.
I've actually never had the Lays version of barbecue.
I've had several barbecue potato chips.
Okay, okay.
But not the Lays one.
Is it in Japan?
Can you buy it in Japan?
No.
Oh.
You have to buy in the United States and bring back.
Got it.
Got it.
But see, you can find some barbecue chips in Japan, right?
Mm-hmm.
But if you compare to those, the Lays barbecues were much more delicious.
How do you think was different?
It kind of smoked taste was really nice.
See, America's barbecue sauce got a taste of smokiness, right?
Yeah, right, right, right.
That was really...
I felt the authenticity from the chips scent.
Oh, it's good.
It's kind of a complex flavor.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow, I want to try it now.
Yeah, yeah.
You should ask for your dad.
Yeah, that's true.
That was good.
Many times you can buy it on Merukari.
Ah, Merukari.
That's an easy trick here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, great, great.
Find it from Merukari.
Because many times if you go to Amazon or Rakuten, you have to buy in bulk, right?
Yeah, like the pack of like...
Yeah, 10, 20 pack.
Yeah.
But they have it in Merukari.
They have it in Merukari.
Try it.
Try it.
Right.
Oh.
That's, you know, these two things I recently tried.
Foreign food.
You're not going to go for the chicken noodle soup anymore?
Have you given up on the chicken noodle soup?
No more?
No.
But if you serve me, I would, of course, have them, but...
You're not looking forward for it?
Nah.
Alright.
Okay.
But that wasn't bad.
But I prefer like the cup noodle in Japan to me.
Okay.
Yeah.
Alright.
Um, any recent...
For me...
Yeah.
You said food that I ate was... um...
Nothing special recently?
Um...
Hmm.
Yeah, how are you thinking about that?
This morning, I ate a Honkakuteki na Ochazuke.
What do you mean Honkakuteki na Ochazuke?
I attended a wedding, my friend's wedding, and he gave it to me, like as a...
You know how you get a lot of gifts, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One of it was like a really Honkakuteki na Ochazuke.
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What I had to do was...
So there's three packs.
Okay.
Usually there's one, right?
Yeah, like the one pack.
You put everything in it.
There's three.
Okay.
One of them was the same as the normal Ito no Ochazuke.
Okay.
It's kayak, like the green...
Nagatani-ian, by the way.
Nagatani-ian.
Yeah.
Nagatani-ian.
Green little...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The salty tea powder.
Yeah.
And then the other one was, um, like a shake, like an actual shake.
A dried actual shake?
Yeah.
And the third one was dashi.
Oh.
Dashi pakku.
Oh, great.
So what I had to do is boil the dashi for like 10 minutes.
Yeah.
And then the dashi soup.
Yeah, yeah.
Dashi soup, right?
Yeah.
I pour that instead of normal hot water.
Oh, great.
So rice.
Powder.
Powder.
And then shake.
And then the dashi.
Ah.
I had it.
I ate that.
How's that?
It didn't really taste different from like the normal Nagatani-ian.
How sad is that?
Sad, right?
How sad?
How sad, right?
I spent 20 minutes making it.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
That must be delicious, right?
Of course.
Yeah.
It must.
It's probably me.
It's probably me.
I was the one that wasn't able to catch the colors.
Yeah.
Because that's a hikidemono.
Of course.
Of your best friend's wedding.
Of course.
I mean, it was the morning, you know.
It was the morning.
Yeah.
I was in a rush.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
I was ready for a very quick.
True.
Very quick breakfast of like.
Yeah.
Oh, renchin the rice.
Yeah.
Right?
Boiled water.
The water.
I mean, yeah.
And then pour it.
Boom.
Yeah.
But you know, I look at the package.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was, I was.
Of course.
I had to leave in 20 minutes, right?
But you know, I opened the package.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Must be so delicious.
Yeah.
Must be so different.
Right.
The value of that 10 minutes is different from at night when you don't have a limit, right?
True.
That 10 minutes was like very valuable.
Yeah.
Like same as two hours in the evening, I guess.
Exactly.
It's a matter of late or not, it's very valuable.
So I, it had to taste good.
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Yeah.
It had to.
Yeah.
And the mental value was very high.
Yeah.
That's sad.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
No, I can't.
Thank you.
For giving me the gift.
Yeah.
That must be a good one.
Yeah.
It probably is.
It must be, you know, carefully.
Of course.
With a gift.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
So what I'll do is I'll eat it when I'm not in a rush.
Yeah.
Then I'll probably be able to understand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There you go.
You're in a rush.
That's the reason.
That's the reason.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
There you go.
I'm going to try it this evening.
Yes, I will.
I will.
I will do that.
Yeah.
Do it tomorrow.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
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