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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Doing our driving talk?
Driving talk.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh.
For a second, I thought you were going to yell at the police officer right there.
Casually opening the window.
Hey!
I thought you were going to yell.
What did I yell at?
You're great at driving, no?
Well, thank you. I love driving.
You love driving?
I love driving.
Yeah.
Like, not only the driving itself, but like choosing the right ways.
Oh, the lanes and everything?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trust me, my brain is full speed right now.
It's spinning.
Yeah, and also you need to talk at the same time, right?
Oh, that's brilliant. The circus way.
Watch me crash, you know?
Watch me crash.
Yeah, that's great.
So we are on our way to Asakusa?
Yes.
Love Asakusa.
You love Asakusa?
Love Asakusa.
Do you have like any favorite place in Asakusa?
You know, I just love the, well, I love the bridge.
Bridge?
That, you know, that's over the Sumidagawa.
That you can see the Skytree?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
The Asahibiru building.
Yes, yes, yes.
Right in front of the Skytree Tower.
Yeah.
The bridge.
Yeah.
I like that view.
Not the Kaminarimon?
Sensoji?
Yeah, the Kaminarimon, yeah, yeah, I like that too.
I mean, it's got a happy vibe.
The tourists there.
Yeah.
I like that.
Yeah.
What do you do when you go to Asakusa?
So, I just, I usually just walk around.
Uh-huh.
Pass through the...
Yeah, pass through the main...
Nakamise?
Nakamise Dori.
Uh-huh.
That's it.
And I go to the temple.
Yeah.
I look at the temple.
Uh-huh.
That's about it though.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's not much to do, right?
It's just...
Yeah, you don't buy anything.
I don't, yeah, I don't buy anything.
You don't eat anything.
I don't eat anything.
I just enjoy the atmosphere.
Uh-huh.
That's what I do.
Yeah.
Oh.
So, I guess we are...
Going back?
No?
Sort of.
Sort of?
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Yeah, sort of going back.
Yeah.
But like in a V shape, I think.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, like we're right here.
Oh, okay.
Boom, boom.
Okay.
Oh, so embassy that I mentioned was that British embassy.
British embassy.
Let's see.
Wow, what a good location.
Just behind the Kogyo.
Yeah.
It's...
True.
It's true.
Yeah.
If they do kind of invasion, that's very scary, you know?
Just behind you.
That's true.
Yeah.
But aren't there many embassies around here?
I think...
Well, I thought so, but that's the only embassy on the map.
True.
Oh, maybe it's like Roppongi area?
Yeah.
Where they have a lot of those...
Yeah, those.
Those.
True.
So, we have lunch planned today.
Yes.
I'm excited for that too, actually.
Yeah.
So, we reserved a place of dojo.
Thank you.
Thank you for the reservation.
No, no, nothing.
It's also my first time trying those dojo nabe.
Uh-huh.
So, I'm sorry, but I can't say anything about it beforehand because it's also my tractor.
Yeah.
So, a bit scary though.
But we know that it's a popular dish.
Yes.
Right?
It's a traditional dish.
Yes.
Right?
That's been going on for ages.
Yes.
And...
I mean, it's...
I'm sure it's good.
I'm sure it's good.
Yeah, I'm sure it's good.
It's not like...
But it's still like it's dojo, right?
I don't even know what a dojo is, remember?
I didn't...
Right.
Okay, I'm not at that level.
Okay, okay, okay.
You'll be surprised.
Got it.
I guess.
Got it.
Yeah.
Is that better for me to be surprised on the spot?
Yeah, that'll be funny.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Let's do that.
Yeah.
Yeah, so dojo is one of the very, very common ingredients.
Okay.
For like especially like Tokyo people.
Okay.
For like more than I guess like 300 years.
Wow.
Like back in like Edo jidais.
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Uh-huh.
It's very...
It was, I guess, cheap.
Uh-huh.
But contains many, you know, eiyoso.
Okay.
So that's very common amongst the, you know, usual like chonin, machi no people, town people.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
Cool.
It's a cool-looking embassy.
Yeah.
Oh.
Uh-oh.
Caught.
Might have been an accident.
Probably.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we know what is dojo nabe.
Mm-hmm.
We can kind of imagine what it is.
And we've heard so many times.
But I guess so many people haven't tried it.
Only just, ah, I know, I know.
But haven't tried it.
Oh.
Including me.
Got it.
So the name itself is very known.
Yeah.
It's a very famous fish.
Okay.
It's...
Is it the same dojo as a dojosukui dojo?
Dojosukui dojo?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The same dojo.
Same dojo.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you know what is dojosukui?
Yeah.
I mean, I have an image of the guy doing a dojosukui where like he, you know, he's wearing
He's wearing pants but he's pulling it up towards his knee.
Okay.
And he has this bamboo-ish kind of like a scooper.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he would get in the water, like the dirty water, the muddy water, and then he would scoop the mud.
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Great dish.
Yeah.
Of course.
I mean, I mean eels are very expensive ones, like known as an expensive ingredients, known as expensive fish, right?
Yes.
But the dojo is, for me, like for most of Japanese people, it's like a very, like a, it's just
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the fish living in those muddy water.
I see, I see.
Like everywhere, kind of.
So it's nothing special.
Yeah, it's just like, even it's, oh, do you eat them?
Kind of.
Shit.
Yeah.
Got it.
Wow.
So, that's why I kind of, shit, a bit scary.
So it's like similar to a getemono kind of thing?
Not that far, but it's like a, it's like a, I mean, at least I can't imagine that's very
delicious.
I see.
It's like, really?
I see.
I have never tried, but I can imagine that's very dirty, like a muddy, like many bones.
Oh, I see.
Is it good?
Kind of.
Okay.
Is what I'm having as an image towards the dojos.
Yasukuni Jinja?
Oh, yes.
Yasukuni Jinja.
Yeah.
What is Yasukuni Jinja?
That's a huge shrine that prays the, you know, you hear the name so many times in the news,
right?
No, you don't.
Yasukuni?
Yeah.
You don't?
Jinja?
No.
And so they, in this shrine, they prayed, praised, praises those who died in the World
War II.
Okay.
And especially like the higher levels of like some politicians in there, like, you know.
So that's why this shrine could be some, you know, sensitive place sometimes.
Oh, like a political place?
Yeah, could be.
So if the prime minister goes to this place and visit to this shrine, that means they
express their respect to those who, you know.
Who fought in World War II.
Yeah.
Leads the World War II.
So that's kind of, especially for like, for example, like Korea, China, at the moment
they were like in a fight.
So they're not happy about that.
I see.
Could be some political message.
It's a controversial topic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's just a...
Makes sense.
Yeah.
Big shrine and beautiful, known as a sakura trees and it's just famous.
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The architecture is really, you know, gorgeous.
Yeah.
And it's all sakura, I guess.
So it's...
Yeah.
When it blooms, it's very beautiful.
Have you had dinner or have you had lunch in Kudanshita?
No.
Never had it?
No.
Why?
Oh, once I went to like a curry shop around.
I mean, they got a lot of curry shops.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
It's famous.
Yeah, it's famous for curry.
Once I visited there.
Yeah.
But do you?
It's on my bucket list.
Oh.
But no, I've never had it.
Okay, okay.
But I've always wanted to go here and try out some lunch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
That's 10 minutes.
Okay, great.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
Can you get the camera for me?
Sure, of course.
Thank you.
Where are we now?
We're in Kudanshita.
Okay.
Now on to Jimbocho.
All right.