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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Alright.
Are you okay?
Chocolate.
Chocolate in my mouth.
Ah, okay, okay.
So, um, um, we got a message.
Eh, so I guess she's like, uh, traveling in the United States.
Mm-hmm.
And she went to Atlanta.
Oh, shit!
Mm.
And then, so that's the message.
Atlantaの知人とドライブガテラローム市に行き、ロームの空気をいっぱい吸ってきました。
Oh, shit!
Wow.
トマトにも立ち寄り。
Nice.
Yeah.
なんと、店員さんはケビンさんの日本での活動をご存知でしたよ。
What?
Really?
アトランタで話題になっているようでした。
Damn.
Wow.
ウォルマートの銃売り場の写真はロームのウォルマートで撮影しました。
そこででかいあのタンブラーを爆買いして、パパ・ジョーンズのペパロニピザはロームからアトランタに帰る途中のシャンブリーという町のお店で買いました。
呼んでいただきありがとうございました。
Is there a picture?
Yeah.
She sent us a picture of the guns.
Oh, not the gun?
Mm-hmm.
Oh.
But, yeah.
Wow.
Damn.
So, Tomato is like a Japanese food store?
Yeah.
Tomato is a Japanese food store.
Yeah.
You can get all kinds of like condiments, snacks, rice.
Yeah, all that stuff.
Yeah.
Wow.
And I went there every weekend.
Oh.
Our family would go there every weekend.
Mm-hmm.
Because Atlanta is a, we had a Japanese language school.
Mm-hmm.
Every Saturday, me and my sister would go to a Japanese language school there and learn Japanese.
Yeah.
And all the way back from school, we would go to stop by Tomato.
Mm-hmm.
When, right next to Tomato, there's all these restaurants, the Japanese restaurants, like
sushi place and all that stuff.
Yeah.
And we'd buy stuff at Tomato.
Mm-hmm.
We'd eat at that sushi place.
Japanese restaurant.
Mm-hmm.
And then, yeah.
And then back to there.
Back to, yeah, back to Rome.
Wow.
We'd always buy a matcha ice cream.
Okay.
There.
Matcha ice cream.
Yakult.
Yakult.
Yakult.
Yeah.
I remember buying Yakult.
Wow.
Yeah.
I remember buying, what did I buy?
Painomi.
Yeah, like a little snack.
Yeah, like chocolate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, painomi, like Takenoko no Sato Kinoko no Yama.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, those things.
Those like chocolate snacks.
Chocolates.
Wow.
Something like that, yeah.
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It's like a usual in Japan, right?
Right, right.
So it's like a very, like a authentically local shopping place.
Mm-hmm.
Just like what's in Japan.
Right.
Yeah.
They say Yakult.
Yeah, they sell Yakult.
Yeah.
But it was, like Yakult was frozen.
Oh.
Yeah, it was a late Yakult.
Wow.
They need to bring it, you know, they need to freeze it and then bring it to, yeah.
I see.
Right.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
I can't believe they know about us.
Yeah.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they now know you.
So once you get back to the...
Oh, by the way, does your dad still go to the tomato?
Yeah, my dad still goes there.
So I wonder if they're connected.
Yeah.
They know that he's my dad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I don't know if my dad knows that the employees knows about us.
Right.
So I wonder if they're connected.
I don't know.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Does it speak Japanese?
Who?
In stores?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's all Japanese.
Oh, it's Japanese.
Oh.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Right.
If one day you will go back to the Georgia, like I talked about, or Rome.
Yeah.
Then you visit tomato again.
Right.
And people would be like, oh, you're back.
That would be fun.
Yeah.
Fun.
But I heard that tomato, it changed a little bit.
Oh, really?
They used to sell all these like DVDs of the Japanese TV shows and dramas and everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But my dad said that they're not doing it anymore.
So I think they changed a lot.
But I am curious.
Yeah.
They had like a DVD section?
Yeah, they have like a huge DVD rental section.
Oh, I see.
I see.
It's like Tsutaya, you know.
Oh, I see.
Right.
They closed that section.
Yeah, probably selling something else.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Is that a big store?
No, it's not that big.
It's like, it's like, it's like, imagine a big 7-Eleven in Japan.
That's about it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like those standalone big stores.
Right.
Okay.
That's how big it is, I think.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Damn.
Yeah.
But actually, my dad said that the one that I used to go to back then closed.
Okay.
And there's a different tomato.
Oh.
He said he's going to that one now.
So.
Oh, it's not the same exact same building.
It's a different location.
Yeah, it's a different location.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So they changed the place.
Yes.
Still.
Yeah.
I really want to go there.
Yeah, you should.
Like, I can't wait.
Yeah, you should visit there.
Yeah.
It'll be so fun.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Right.
Other things that I went to when I was in Atlanta was H Mart.
H Mart.
Yeah.
H Mart is like, I think it's like a Korean based, Korean, mainly Korean, but like Asian
based.
Okay.
Kind of shop.
And we would go there too.
We would go to, yeah.
We'd buy all these, I don't know what.
I wasn't really involved in the shopping.
I was only interested in like the snacks that I would get from Tomato.
I don't know what my parents are buying.
Yeah.
I remember going there.
Also BrandsMart USA.
That's another shop that I use.
Yeah.
BrandsMart USA.
It's not an Asian thing.
Okay.
That's the first time I hear that name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
BrandsMart USA is like, it's like a discounted brand shop.
Like you'd find all these electronics.
Okay.
It's a huge electronics shop.
I think it's discounted.
I think.
Yeah.
Like cameras, video games, TVs, audio, all that shit.
Is that also in Atlanta?
Yes.
Or somewhere near Atlanta.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
One day you should visit like a whole tour.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
From your place.
Yeah.
I know.
Yeah.
I should do that.
You should do that.
I want to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.