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So, Yama-chan.
Okay.
So, uh, oh hi guys, I'm Kevin.
Hi.
Yama-chan.
Mm-hmm.
So, uh, I wanted to ask you if you, okay, so a typical day.
Mm-hmm.
Just normal every day.
You're living your life and it's lunchtime.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
12 o'clock.
Yeah.
Lunchtime. You need to get your lunch and you have no, uh, nothing in your refrigerator.
Oh, in my house?
Like, right.
Yeah.
Um.
Okay.
I'm talking hypothetically here.
Okay.
So stay with me.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh, you have to go to, uh, go outside and get food.
Okay.
All right?
Uh, supermarket or convenience store.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway.
Yeah.
What do you usually buy?
What are your usual options?
Like, typical day.
Not like a special day where you want to get something, you know, a little bit higher price.
Mm-hmm.
But like a typical day.
Like, what do you usually do?
Well, actually, to be honest.
Mm-hmm.
Mm, like, I always have something in my refrigerator.
Oh, okay.
Like, I buy things like food and keep it in mind.
Okay.
So is it like, uh, like frozen food or is it like vegetables and meat?
No, vegetables and meat.
That's very healthy.
It's very good.
Yeah.
And so, so there's never a time where, where, where the refrigerator is empty and there's nothing to cook.
Right.
And you have to go to the supermarket and buy something.
Right.
Uh, okay.
So what do you usually have in your fridge then?
Like, okay, tomatoes.
Okay.
I always have tomatoes in my fridge.
You love the tomatoes.
Yeah.
Wow.
I always have them.
Okay.
And, uh, usually, uh, meat, some kind of meat.
Okay.
Or hikiniku or like bacon things.
Ah, okay, okay.
I don't have chickens so many times.
Why?
I don't know, but I think-
You just don't like it.
Aren't they cheap? Aren't they a little bit cheaper?
Yeah, I think so, but, you know, it's hard for me to cook it up.
Oh, really?
Like, hikiniku things and sliced meat, you know, they are easy for me to cook.
Okay.
So, meat and some kind of vegetables.
Uh, the leafy, leafy vegetables things.
Yeah, the green ones.
Like, komatsuna, yeah, green ones and things.
And niniku things.
Okay.
Chubu?
No.
The, uh, the real niniku things.
The actual garlic?
Yeah, garlic.
You like garlic?
The, uh, the physical.
The physical, the physical, actual garlic.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Not the chub?
Not the chub.
Why are you trying to-
I always have the chub.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But you can't cook with that chub.
Yes, you can.
How do you not?
But how do you cook with that chub?
Okay, okay, for example, you're making a chahan, right?
Yeah.
And you want to add garlic, you add the chub.
What are you talking about?
What?
It's that easy.
What are you talking about?
Not-
No.
I can't cook with the chub.
Okay, think about it.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You put oils into your frying pan.
Okay.
Do you say "frying pan"?
Uh, your, um-
Pan?
The, uh, frying pan?
No, you don't say "frying pan."
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What?
You definitely don't say that.
What's that?
Pan?
Um, so it's frying pan or just pan?
Okay, okay.
Okay, so when you cook your chahan-
Okay.
Okay.
You put oil into your pan.
Okay, yes, yes, yes.
And make it hot.
Yes.
And after that you put your tubed-
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What?
That's way too early.
Oh, really?
Because it's watery, right?
The tube is watery so what happens is it's gonna like spark up and-
That's what I'm talking about.
Exactly.
I understand that.
I understand that's gonna spark up.
Okay, that I understand.
Okay.
So if it's real garlic-
Yeah.
That's when you go, right?
Yeah, right.
That's the timing.
I have to put that.
Yeah, you have to change the timing.
Okay.
I have to change the timing.
Right, so if I'm making it with a tube, like you heat up the oil, you put eggs, right?
You scramble the eggs, you put onions and meat, other ingredients, and then you put the
tube.
Okay.
Or after the rice.
Okay.
You put the tube.
Oh.
Yes, so you do have to change up the little, the order of your ingredients to not make
it mess up, messy, like right?
Right, right, right.
In the pan.
Okay.
So what were we talking about?
The-
What do you have in your fridge?
Right.
Right.
Well, that's it.
You've got a garlic oil.
I don't have garlic.
I have garlic.
You've got the garlic.
You've got the actual garlic.
What do you can use that garlic for?
Okay, cook.
Right.
So I'm always making spaghetti things.
Oh, okay.
Like I think it's westerns.
Right, yeah, western things.
Yeah, so if you want to make something, I put oils, like olive oils, and put up the
garlic.
You cut the garlic and put it in.
Get the flavor in there.
Yeah, so that's what I do always.
So I never think about the tube garlic thing.
So like I too eat a lot of pastas.
Like when I'm in the same situation, like but like the retort food.
Oh.
Retort version.
That's so much more convenient for me.
Oh yeah?
Like they're 100 yen, right?
And I just, the time of me cooking versus spending 100 yen on that is so much more valuable
for me.
Yeah, I can understand that.
But I like cooking so.
You like the-
I like the act of cooking itself.
Cooking itself.
Yeah, making something like, and also I can make that thing completely as I like.
Right, right, right, right.
So the taste, what is inside.
So Monday to Sunday, how, on average, how often do you cook?
Well if I-
Let's talk about both lunch and dinner.
Well if I was in my house, like it's every time.
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As much as possible.
Yeah.
That, you're gonna be a good father.
Really?
Yeah.
But you know, I'm not talking that if it's delicious or not.
That is probably delicious.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's good for me, but I don't know if somebody, like my girlfriend or wife in the future will
like that.
It's just for me.
Have you ever served your food to somebody?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh yeah, they said that it's good.
Why are you so skeptical, man?
I'm not confident.
Are you not confident?
No, no, no, no.
I just, I like making food, like cook.
I like cooking, but that's all.
You're probably good.
You use Cookpad and stuff, right?
To-
What?
Cookpad.
Oh.
Cookpad.
I don't use recent ones.
Why?
Because I always do the same thing.
Ah.
Okay, so what is your favorite dish then?
Well, tomato spaghetti things.
Okay, how do you make that?
Well, it depends on what is inside the refrigerator, but basically I put oil on my frying pan and
put it, make it hot and put garlic in it.
And, well, usually onion.
Onions, yes.
Onions inside.
And me, some kind of me and vegetables and tomato.
Oh by the way, do you want my onions?
Oh really?
My grandfather sent me like a whole bunch of them.
Oh yeah.
Iba-あの...
Iba-あの...
No, no, no, no, no.
Awajishima.
It's really funny when you speak English or Japanese, but you're kind of mixed up.
You know how there's two grandfathers, right?
Your mother's side and father's.
Yeah, one's in Ibaraki, one's in Awajishima.
Awajishima, they sent me like a whole box of-
I really want to-
-tomatoes.
I love tamagoyaki.
I have tamagoyaki and tomato always in my refrigerator.
Good, good.
I will give you some.
Oh, I'll be- thank you.
Thank you.
And they're the sweet ones, like from the beginning.
They're sweeter than usual.
Really?
The shintamagoyaki?
Yes, the shintamagoyaki.
Yeah, I love shintamagoyaki.
Good, good, good, good.
Yes.
Thank you.
No problem.
Thank you.
So anything else rather than pasta?
Meat, meat things.
So how about rice?
You don't do rice?
Do you cook rice?
Not that much.
I do natto gohan some days.
I just cook rice and eat with natto, kimchi things.
Ah, right, right, right.
Sometimes I do that, of course.
You're healthy, man.
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You're so much healthier than I am.
Oh, really?
What do you eat?
I eat junk food a lot.
I've taken so much sugar.
Yeah, I know that.
You know that, right?
You know that I take so much sugar.
I agree with you.
You're taking too much sugar.
Right, and we've argued this so many times.
Like, you with your caffeine problems, me with the sugar problem.
Yeah, but you are taking literally too much sugar.
Yes, that's exactly right.
I am definitely taking in so much more sugar than I should be taking in.
Right, right.
Other day, I went to the supermarket, right?
Just for no reason, just no reason.
I finished my work, right?
I finished my work, and on my way back...
Why do you go to the supermarket with no reason?
See, that's the problem.
I'm like, oh, let's see.
What are you going to see?
Like, I can go home, but I can also go to the supermarket and look around and see what food they have available for me.
So I go there.
I go to the supermarket and go to the second floor.
That's where they sell all the sugar and stuff, sugar and sweet stuff, right?
And the already made stuff, not like the ingredient stuff, right?
I go there and I walk around the floor.
I look around the shelves for like 15 to 20 minutes.
I walk around just like not buying anything.
I just watch and then like consume the things that are in front of me.
So what's going on in my mind during the stay in the supermarket is should I buy this or not?
Like, I know I want to save money.
I know that taking in sugar is bad for your body.
I know I'm going to have dinner in three hours.
And I know I'm hungry, so I want to eat something, but there's this, you know, the devil and the angel thing, right?
So, but I also want so much.
Where's the angel?
So I'm saying to myself, like, I want to consume the sugar.
Like that, that aspect is so strong.
Oh, my God.
So like, I'm basically I'm probably addicted to the sugar.
Yeah, probably.
Maybe you have to go to the doctor.
Yeah, probably, man.
So like, there's times I buy nothing and there's times I buy something.
Oh, so last time I went there, I bought something and I bought.
Basque cheesecake.
A two piece Basque cheesecake, right?
I bought it, I went home, I ate one, I had dinner and I ate the other one after dinner.
That's too much.
That is very bad for your body.
The amount of sugar in there.
Unbelievable, very bad for your body.
But it was 500 yen.
So like, you know, cost wise, it wasn't that bad.
No, I'm not talking about cost matter.
It's just sugar matters.
It is.
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You're absolutely right.
I admit it.
I have a problem.
I have a problem with sugar, but I fucking love it.
I fucking love it.
Look at my breakfast here.
This is my breakfast here.
Yeah, what's that?
Hershey's ChocoBits.
I had this for breakfast, dude.
No way.
What is that?
So I think some of the younger audience should know that it's Hershey's ChocoBits.
You know, the corn flakes.
The chocolate in the Hershey's chocolate.
This cereal.
Well, this is way too sugary.
But look at the package.
It said...
It says "for breakfast, too."
Yeah.
But it's definitely just sugar.
Yeah, it's only sugar.
Chunks of sugar.
Right.
See?
See this?
Genzai Ryomen.
Yeah, yeah.
The first one on the list.
Sugar.
And flour.
You know, powder things.
And oil.
And powder.
Sugar.
Powder.
Powder.
Powder milk.
Yep.
Basically, really, all of them are bad for your body.
It's sugar.
Yeah, it's basically sugar.
You're taking the sugar.
Exactly.
Oh my god.
See that?
You have to eat like this.
With something else.
Like this.
So he's looking at the picture of a pancake with whipped cream with the cereal on it.
Oh, whipped cream is too much, but...
Oh my god.
Okay.
Okay.
Yes.
If you...
Oh, I have to stop that?
Oh.
If you have nothing in your refrigerator, where do you go?
What are you gonna...
I would go to like...
So supermarket would be my best option.
So convenience store is a little bit higher price, right?
Yeah.
So I want to save a little bit of money, so I go to supermarket.
And no fresh vegetables and meat at convenience store.
Right, right.
Exactly.
So what I would do is I...
The first option is pasta.
Oh yeah.
I have the pasta here, so I just buy the little pack.
Okay.
I buy bolognese or carbonara, something like that.
Yeah.
I buy that.
Or I cook rice.
I make rice with my rice cooker and buy a little bit of curry.
Oh.
You eat curry?
Yeah, I do.
I have a cathode-treated curry.
I'm gonna eat that today.
And...
And if not, I would buy frozen food.
Oh.
Frozen food pasta.
A frozen pasta?
Right.
Not frozen vegetable?
No.
No?
No.
Just frozen, like, ready-made...
Right.
Just microwave-only food.
Yeah.
So basically you don't cook at all.
You know, actually I enjoy cooking.
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What do you mean?
It's hard to believe, but it's...
When I have the energy for it, I love to cook.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Like, I...
I guess like 10 out of 7 times I don't feel like cooking.
And sometimes that 3, when I enter that 3, I really want to cook.
Oh.
I buy vegetables, I buy meat.
Maybe cook a hamburger.
Maybe go to like Kurashiru and...
Recipe?
Recipe, right.
Go with some recipe.
That's what I basically do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you like cooking?
I do.
I do enjoy cooking.
Right.
I dream of getting a huge kitchen.
Oh.
Right.
Like Chef Ramsay.
Right, right.
Orn Ramsay.
Right.
That's great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So do I.
Yeah.
I used to work in a kitchen, restaurant kitchen.
Oh.
And I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the chaos of cooking.
Right?
Like, oh, it's almost done.
I gotta go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I, yeah, I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, and that wraps up this episode.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
