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Welcome to Gavin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Hello guys!
You put some color.
Did I?
Yeah.
I don't think I did.
Really?
Podcast!
Is that color?
Kind of.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah.
Okay, thank you.
What a positive thinker you are.
Okay.
So, this is from Asahi-san.
Asahi-san?
You know that?
The rapper?
The rapper, yeah.
I'm sorry for the silly voice messages.
Have you ever had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture?
I've never had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture.
I've never had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture.
I've never had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture.
I've never had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture.
I've never had breakfast in Aichi Prefecture.
I've never gotten close to getting his vibe.
So, I can't, very unexpected.
Yeah.
Untouchable.
Yeah.
Love it.
You know what?
I actually went to Nagoya.
Oh, you went to Nagoya?
Two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago?
Yeah.
It was a very spontaneous vacation.
I was like, "Oh, I have two days on me."
"I'm going to go to Nagoya."
That's great.
Yeah.
Because I've never been to Nagoya before.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, it was like a first time trip to Nagoya?
First time trip to Nagoya.
I went there.
Okay.
What did you do there?
Yes.
I went there to...
You were waiting for that.
Yeah.
I ate.
So, I went there to Sagao.
Oh.
Yeah.
I can Sagao anywhere, right?
Of course.
So, you changed the place.
It's kind of a work, vacation thing.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Workation.
Oh, that's a really good word.
Does that exist?
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Did that exist for a very long time?
Sadly, yes.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's not me.
It's not new.
No.
I made that.
Yeah.
Workation.
Yeah, I like workation.
I like work.
Yeah.
I just wanted to switch up the cafes.
I usually work in not only my house, but cafes as well.
And why not take that to Nagoya, right?
So, Nagoya, I arrived at like 5 PM.
5 PM, okay.
Yeah, 5 PM.
I looked around the, you know, there's like a tower.
Yeah.
Like a miniature Tokyo tower kind of thing.
Oh, I don't know.
None of that.
Something something oasis thing.
Like a round dome-ish kind of.
Yeah, I've seen that.
Like a round...
Yes, yes.
Building thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Looks like some sort of dome or something.
Yeah.
It's not a dome, but yeah.
What's that?
It's just a...
Like a fancy exterior decoration.
Okay.
Right.
I first looked around, walked around there, and then I had ate the miso-nikomi udon.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
It was very nigai.
Yeah.
Very...
The men was very katai.
Very katai.
Yeah.
It was good.
And after that I went to Sekainu Yamachan.
Yeah.
Tebasaki.
Yes.
Yeah.
Good.
After that, I went back to my hotel.
Worked a little bit.
Yeah.
And then after that, I went to...
So, Nagoya Joe.
Next day?
Next day.
Yeah.
Yes.
Next day I went to Nagoya Joe.
I...
Then I ate...
Yeah.
Miso...
Miso...
Miso katsu?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Miso katsu?
Yeah.
Yabaton?
Yabaton, yes.
Yes.
Really good.
Yeah.
Loved it.
Then I went to Shotengai.
Shotengai.
There's a Shotengai south.
South side.
Yeah.
South side.
Yeah.
South side.
Hmm.
It's a really big Shotengai.
Oh.
It's close to the Kannon-sama.
Ah.
Osu area?
I think...
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Walked around there.
I entered a cafe.
And then sakyod.
Oh, grew.
Yeah.
And then I went to the Nagoya station.
Looked around a little bit.
I bought this.
Yeah.
I bought this at Nagoya.
I mean...
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Uniclo?
Yeah, you can buy it everywhere, but...
Yeah, you found a new color, right?
It's a new color.
Yeah.
I bought a uniclo.
Right.
I should have said that before, but yeah.
Mofumofu jacket.
I saw it this morning and...
Right.
Oh, he's got new color.
Black version.
Of the same...
Same uniclo, mofumofu jacket.
Yeah.
Yeah, I bought it at Nagoya.
And then I sakyod there again.
Hmm.
Datoru.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I bought a ekiben.
Ekiben.
Yeah.
To Shinkansen?
Yeah, Shinkansen.
Oh, great.
Yeah, heading for Tokyo.
I bought hitumabushi.
Oh, hitumabushi bento.
Ekiben.
Wow.
Does that exist?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, great.
It was good.
I had a really good time.
Okay.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yes.
What a...
Great trip.
You did everything, no?
I think I did.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
Miso nikomi udon.
Right.
And then miso katsu.
Uh-huh.
Hitumabushi.
Yeah, kind of.
Saki.
Yeah, tebasaki.
This time I did research beforehand, right?
Yeah, yeah.
You know how I'm always hesitant of like, "Where am I going to go?"
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
On the spot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I decided where to go beforehand.
Oh, that's great.
That's great.
Yeah.
About the hitumabushi bento.
Okay.
So hitumabushi is something...
It's like ochazuke thing, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you use boiling water, no?
I see.
So I guess it was like a nan-chatte hitumabushi kind of thing.
It just had unagi.
It was...
I think it was...
I think it was just unagi juudon.
Ah, okay.
But like I think they just named it hitumabushi because it's Nagoya.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ah, okay.
There was no ochazuke or anything like that.
Ah, okay.
It was just rice and unagi.
Okay, okay.
Well, but at least it was delicious.
Yeah.
It was delicious.
Yeah.
So, okay, yeah.
Well, you know Naruchan lives...
I mean not lives, but...
Jika?
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's from Nagoya, so...
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you go there with Naruchan?
Yeah.
I went...
It was like five years ago.
Oh.
Me too.
We went to Osu.
Okay.
That's short for Osu.
Okay.
That's Shoten-ga and Kannon-san.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
And yeah, we hiked there and see the places that he went.
Like he was, you know, like for example like Yobiko that he was in.
Okay.
Like the street that he always, you know, walked through.
Yeah.
That was fun.
Nice.
Yeah.
Nice, nice.
And we tried to go to Yabaton.
Okay.
Because he said that's a really good restaurant.
Yeah.
But it was so crowded.
Oh, was it?
And we couldn't...
Making a huge line?
Yeah, so we decided not to.
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Yeah.
Yeah, I still actually haven't tried the miso katsu actually.
Oh, okay.
The real miso katsu.
Okay.
Yeah, so...
Yeah, it's really good.
Yeah.
When I went there, it was like 15 minute wait.
Oh, that's...
Well...
Yeah, not bad.
Yeah, not bad.
Yeah.
When we tried to get there, it was like almost like close to one hour, like 40...
That's long.
Yeah, so we decided to go to like Yoshinoya.
Oh.
Nah, it's okay.
Just have a conversation, that's better.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah.
Yeah, Yabaton.
I want to visit there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's good, it's good.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that was my trip to Nagoya.
Oh, that's great.
Great to enjoy Nagoya.
Yeah.
I felt like, you know, I can...
I don't mind living here.
Like they have all the places that I need.
It's pretty tokae, I thought.
Yeah.
You know?
Everything's here.
It's like...
You know how we've always like fantasized, "Okay, why don't we just go to Fukuoka, right?"
Everything's like...
Yeah.
Gyoushiku shiteru?
Yeah.
I thought the same with Nagoya.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nagoya's all there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
True.
I thought.
And it's not that far.
It's like an hour or two from Tokyo.
Yeah, it's actually not that far.
Not that bad, right?
So I was like, "Why not?"
True.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
But you didn't try the morning in a cafe.
Yeah, the morning, I was like, "Nah."
But you researched it?
I didn't even search it.
Oh, yeah.
Because like...
Well, yeah, I did a little research, but like coffee, toast, azuki?
Yeah.
Nah.
Why?
Why?
Nah.
It's probably some good marketing, that's all.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
It's not that special, I thought.
Yeah.
And I'm not that much of a breakfast kind of guy.
Yeah.
I don't eat that much breakfast.
Okay.
So like...
Nah.
Nah.
I'll just skip that one.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And actually, this morning exists in Tokyo.
Like Komeda Coffee.
Right, right, right.
Like everywhere, actually.
Yeah.
If you...
So, Asa-san, don't worry about that.
You can come to Tokyo or wherever and you go to a random coffee shop and...
Right.
They have morning set or like morning thing.
Right, like Kissa-ten.
Yeah.
Like...
Like my image is like when it's a little bit like old.
When it's like...
Oh, true.
The old style Kissa-ten, that's when they have mornings.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
True.
Like those new fancy, you know, those cafes maybe.
Yeah, like Starbucks, Dottor, they probably don't have morning, but like...
Right.
Right.
So, like...
Kosingi-gyo no Kissa-ten.
Yeah.
I think they have mornings, right?
Yeah.
Many do.
True.
So, don't worry.
Yeah, don't worry.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
(sniffing)
