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Welcome to Kevin's English Room podcast!
Yay!
So this time you did well.
Yep.
Buh buh buh.
I don't know.
It sounded nice, didn't it?
Uhhh...
Yeah.
Because we are friends, so I'd say yes.
Yeah, you didn't have to say that. That was not necessary.
We are friends.
You just had to say yes.
I have to think about your feelings.
You just had to say yes and that would have been...
I would say yes. Okay.
That would have been really good.
So I went to Fukuoka the other day.
Yeah!
How was that?
It was really fun.
I ate so many good things.
Good food.
Like, we got...
Number one was I think...
Motsunabe.
Oh, motsunabe.
And...
Thai.
Number one.
Number one Thai.
The fish?
Thai. No, no, no.
Thai.
Uh... Hikiwake?
Thai.
Thai.
Hikiwake?
You know...
Ichi...
Ah, sorry.
Doi.
Okay, okay.
Thai.
Thai.
English, right?
Yeah.
No, no, no. Sorry.
I thought that's the name of the food.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
All right.
Number one Thai.
Okay, okay.
We got two number ones, okay?
Yeah, all right, all right.
Yeah.
Is yakitori.
Yakitori?
Ah, yes.
Ah, no, no, no.
Torikawa.
Torikawa.
Torikawa.
You know that?
Crispy one, right?
Yeah, the crispy one.
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It does.
Do you drink?
Yeah.
I don't usually drink beer, but when I had this, I kind of wanted beer.
Wow.
Like somehow.
Like it's really rare for me to want beer, but with this, I really wanted it.
Nice.
I also ate Ichigo parfait.
What?
I think it's famous for Amao.
Oh, right.
Right.
Ichigo parfait.
Okay.
What is it?
It's like a warm manju.
A warm manju?
Yeah.
Like what do you call those?
What's that?
Fukuoka.
Fukuoka.
Ume.
Ume something.
Ume.
It's Ume manju.
Fukuoka.
Ume gayamochi.
Ume gayamochi.
Ume gayamochi.
Oh, ah.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
Oh, ah.
Sorry, I don't know about this.
Yeah, I think it's kind of famous.
Yeah, it looks like...
Nante yo na?
Ume gayamochi.
Ume gayamochi.
So you went to Dazaifu?
Yes, I went to Dazaifu.
I did.
I did go to Dazaifu.
Is it a sweet one?
Yeah, it's a Ume gayamochi.
It has nothing to do with Ume.
It doesn't have anything to do with Ume.
It doesn't have anything to do with Ume.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
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It's a little bit like a Ume gayamochi.
I also ate like three cakes.
Like three normal cakes.
It's nothing to do with Fukuoka but like three cakes.
I went to like a department store in Fukuoka and I was like...
Why did you do that?
I don't know.
I have this...
When I'm on a vacation, I have this...
My desire for sugar like really like...
Out of control.
But you already had Ume gayamochi and Ichigo parfait.
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And you did have three other cakes.
I did.
I did.
I did.
How long was that trip?
Two...
Three nights.
Four days.
Three nights.
Four days.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, ramen too.
I also ate Fukuoka ramen.
Yeah, Fukuoka ramen.
That was good.
Hitokuchi gyoza.
Hitokuchi gyoza.
Mizutaki.
Mizutaki.
Yeah.
Yes.
I ate Mizutaki.
I think that was about it.
I think that's about it.
Baniku?
No.
No baniku?
I did not eat baniku.
I was...
It was an option, but it did not lead to me actually going to it.
It was not appealing.
Well, you should try at least once.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Yeah, okay.
Maybe.
Okay.
Wow.
Where did you like visit it?
I went to like this little tower.
Tower?
Kyoto Tower.
No, no, no.
Sorry.
Fukuoka Tower.
Fukuoka Tower?
Yeah, I went to Fukuoka Tower.
Wow.
It was a very sexy building.
It was really cool.
The visuals are really cool.
That's one.
Yeah.
Look at that.
It's glass.
Is that sexy?
It's sexy.
Okay.
It's reflecting the other side.
It's glass.
It's like...
It's almost invisible.
Wow.
Wow.
Well, that's...
It's neat.
It's pretty neat, right?
It's something you are into, right?
Yeah.
It's really...
The tall buildings.
Modern buildings.
Yeah.
Okay.
I went to Marine City Fukuoka.
Marine City Fukuoka.
Marine City Fukuoka.
Okay.
There's a Uniqlo there.
Okay.
And I was...
I bought this bag.
I bought that bag over there.
The little shoulder bag.
Okay.
The one that I was using broke in Fukuoka.
Wow.
So I was in a rush to get a new bag.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And I was like, "This is a ladies bag."
Yeah.
It's a ladies shoulder bag.
It was like 500 yen.
So I was like, "Oh, let's get that."
I was like, "Get that."
And took it to the cash register.
I was like, "I want to use this now.
Can you cut the labels off?"
It was like 500 yen.
The labels...
He's asking me to put the labels off.
And I'm like, "Yeah, thank you, thank you."
And I put it on there.
And the next day, I got a DM from her saying that, "Were you in Fukuoka Uniqlo?"
Really?
Because I was the one...
I think I took care of you.
Wow.
And I was like, "Oh, shit.
Yeah, that's me, man."
I'm like...
I'm the one that asked her to cut the labels off.
Yeah.
I was like, "Oh, shit.
is a little difficult for people like you to travel alone.
Yeah.
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A little bit.
A little bit.
A little bit.
Like, you know, I don't...
I'm not always in the mood for Kevin.
Kevin.
Yeah.
You know, I do want to be quiet sometimes.
Yeah.
Like that's always...
In times like that, that's a little bit difficult.
Yeah, definitely.
But, you know, I'm thankful for people who talk to me like that.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
I really want to have that torikawa and hitokutsu gyoza.
Have you been to Fukuoka?
Yeah.
Have you had any gourmets?
Motunabe and Mizutaki.
It was kind of...
You know, I was in a travel company.
Yes.
It was my company who told me to go there, visit there, and see that site to know about
the city.
So I went to really, really expensive Mizutaki restaurant and went to stay at a really expensive
hotel, you know, and touring with huge coach like that.
And so it wasn't like the trip that I, you know...
You naturally enjoy.
Like when I go to that dirty little...
Yeah, local places.
Yeah, I can go to local restaurants, but, you know, it wasn't like that.
So, but, you know, I went there and I know the place.
Like...
How was the very expensive Mizutaki?
Because the one that I ate, it was like a lunch price for 1500 yen.
Okay.
It wasn't that good to me.
Like I was...
Yeah, the flavor was a little bit too thin.
Yeah, for you.
Yeah, you're right.
I was like, okay, so what's the merit of eating Mizutaki?
Kind of like very thin, kind of watery, you know, like, add some salt to this.
What?
How was the very expensive one?
Like the taste was thin.
Yeah.
It is.
So Mizutaki is that one.
Mizutaki is a thin...
Thin one.
Yeah, thin one, like little salty taste.
But I really loved that.
Like people like me, I prefer that kind of taste food compared to so many sauces and
little chili tomato and all things.
But one big difference should be like, it was...
I was sitting in my seat and did nothing.
Oh.
Okami-san and other staff people like did everything.
I did nothing and, you know, chickens came up to my plate and, you know, that was, you
know, expensive one.
So that was like...
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Do you know how much that was?
Yeah.
It was kind of like 8,000.
8,000?
9,000 for one people.
Cool.
Yeah.
Pretty expensive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But with paniku and little some osashimi, little course.
Ok, ok.
That was nice.
Do you like the Mizutaki more or the Motunabe more?
I prefer Mizutaki actually.
Why?
Why?
Why?
You do prefer Motunabe.
Definitely the Motunabe.
Like for me, I don't actually like Motsu that much.
Oh, you don't like the Motsu itself.
You know, it's...
What is that?
You know, it's just inside of your stomach.
Like for me, I prefer the meat itself, like chicken itself.
Like that.
Yeah, I like the taste too.
Very ginyo-gyo.
Yeah, Motsu is little like having no... yeah.
Right, right.
Right.
Kind of hard to grasp, to get the grip of it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Do you prefer Motunabe because it's more...
It has a stronger taste.
Thin taste?
Yeah.
Thicker taste?
Yeah.
The thicker taste, that's why.
Yeah.
But the ramen?
I thought the ramen wasn't as good as I expected.
Oh.
I would prefer like the Yokohama Iekei ramen more.
Oh, really?
I thought, you know, like it... yeah.
It was the Fukuoka Hakata ramen?
Yeah, it was the Hakata tonkotsu kind of ramen.
Like thin noodle?
Yes.
The tarikata noodle.
Tarikata noodle.
Yes, yes, yes.
But I felt that Yokohama was better.
Oh, really?
Yes.
What was the difference?
Like why do you prefer Yokohama?
Because Yokohama has like a stronger taste.
Okay.
You were asking for it.
You were kind of asking for that answer, weren't you?
But like for real, like that's really honestly my answer.
Like it has a stronger saltiness.
It has a stronger...
Like, isn't that Hakata ramen has strong taste?
Like really thick tonkotsu and soy sauce taste?
Okay, so like Tenka Ippin.
When I compare Tenka Ippin with Yokohama Iekei ramen,
I think Tenka Ippin has a thicker taste.
Okay.
But the one that I ate at Fukuoka,
I thought it was gonna be like the Tenka Ippin.
But it wasn't.
It was more like the...
What do you call that?
What was the name of the restaurant?
It has a shikiri and...
Ichiran.
Ichiran, right.
It was really close to Ichiran.
But a little bit more lighter than Ichiran.
So I was like, okay, I thought it was gonna be thicker.
So I was like, yeah, I was expecting a little bit more of a thicker ramen.
Okay.
Yep, that's why.
But Tenka Ippin is from Kyoto.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
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The expectation of the very beginning,
that was a mistake.
Okay.
Okay, so I was thinking Kyoto ramen.
Yeah.
That's bad.
That's not good.
That is not good.
Yeah, but you really love Yokohama Iekei ramen.
Yeah, I do.
I do.
I love Iekei ramen.
Do you have any typical restaurant that you like?
Goldman.
Okay.
Goldman.
Goldman.
Why do you prefer Goldman?
Well, because it has like this little, I don't know, this tingling-ness when I eat it.
It's got this little tingling-ness when you eat it.
Okay.
Like that you don't get on other stores.
Like that I understand.
I feel like it has a peanut kind of flavor added to it.
But I'm not sure.
Because the second time I ate it, I didn't feel the peanuts.
But it was still good.
But I did have the tingling-ness.
So, yeah, Goldman is really good.
Well, thanks.
Have you had one before?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It wasn't good?
Oh, yeah, it was good.
Yeah.
It was good.
It was good.
Better than the other ones, right?
Like...
Average?
Yeah.
It was good, though.
Ah, okay.
Disappointing.
All right.
Okay.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Yes, yes, yes.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
guys bye bye.