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Hey guys.
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I've got a message.
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You don't have any other things about like another fruit?
I mean, I can probably think of one.
Like, give me a topic and we'll talk about it.
Give me a random topic and I'll probably have something to say.
Give me anything and I'll have an opinion.
Okay.
So I name some fruits or like vegetables.
I mean, it doesn't even have to be fruits or vegetables.
You know, I have an opinion.
What do you mean opinion?
Okay.
I'd say...
Katsu-o.
Katsu-o is something that I would eat when I go to...
Wait, katsu-o.
Yeah.
English for katsu-o is salmon?
Nah.
Wait, what's katsu-o in English?
I don't know.
Wait, wait, wait.
It's like...
Do you know katsu-o no tataki?
Yes, I love that.
Oh, you love that?
I love katsu-o no tataki.
Okay, okay.
Then that's katsu-o.
What other forms of katsu-o are there besides tataki?
Okay.
Well, simply like sushi, like sashimi.
Would you call that katsu-o?
Yeah, that's a fish name.
It's like beef, chicken.
Never seen that in any sushi restaurant.
Katsu-o?
No.
Oh, really?
Have you?
Yeah, you can find it in like...
Any store?
Like even like sushi restaurant shit?
Yeah.
Kaiten-sushi.
You can find it.
But I mean maybe seasonal.
Maybe.
Oh, really?
Maybe.
But it's not that rare.
It's like regular like fish.
Katsu-o no tataki, I see it every day in the grocery store.
Okay, okay.
But maybe not every day, but like, you know, it's out there, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You see it often.
Yeah.
But never seen it like in sushi shops.
Oh.
Yeah, never seen it.
Oh, I want to try though.
Yeah, we can miss it.
You can find like katsu-o with like some like yakumis on it and like just katsu-onigiri or
like...
Yeah.
You know, I actually want to try that now.
Yeah.
I do love the katsu-o no tataki.
Do you like...
What do you like about katsu-o no tataki?
Do you like the flavors?
I like the edges.
Ah.
Burned.
Aren't they...
Yeah, aren't they burnt?
Yeah, they're burnt.
Like a burner or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's amazing.
Ah.
I love that.
So maybe that doesn't...
Right, probably.
Like on sushi sashimi, it's like just usual like raw fish and cut it into like...
Right.
Slice and then...
But the inside is good too.
Okay.
It's still enjoyable.
Okay, okay, okay.
I like the inside.
Yeah.
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Yeah, you should try that.
Katsu-o.
Yeah.
Katsu-o sushi.
Right.
Yeah.
So my opinion on katsu-o is like I love the katsu-o no tataki.
Okay.
Yeah.
And you love the edges.
I love the edges.
Yeah.
Do you know the warayaki of katsu-o?
Warayaki?
Oh, no.
Why did you say oh?
Well, like you knew it.
Like oh...
Like for half a second, I had the image of that.
Okay, okay.
Oh, like you put...
Like you get a katsu-o and then you wrap it around with some tinfoil and then you have
like you surround that with some waras and then you lit fire to it.
Yeah.
And then trying to cook it.
Yeah.
That was the image that I have.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like I'm probably wrong.
Okay.
So I was like I just decided to go with no.
Yeah.
So that was your instant.
Right.
That was my half a second.
Yeah.
So yeah, warayaki is kind of basically this kind of tataki.
It got some, you know, edges too.
Okay.
I don't know how to make katsu-o tataki.
I think it's just they burn it.
Okay.
And then you slice it.
Uh huh.
I think.
Uh huh.
But warayaki is kind of just like you explained.
Burn it with like a wara fire.
Okay.
So it's like a really like strong like flavor.
Oh.
Like kind of kunse.
Right.
It's like a wara no, you know, smoke.
It's like a smoked...
Like a Japanese barbecue style.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
If the American style were to like use sumi to cook meat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Japanese would use the wara to cook the fishes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
And it's like a smoked.
Lovely.
Yeah.
Katsu-o.
Lovely.
And you got like really smoky taste.
I love the smoked stuff.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
You should try that.
And still they got edges too.
Wow.
The edges and the smoked flavor.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
I think that's special specialty in like Kansai areas.
Oh, okay.
So yeah, when I was in Kyoto, I often met those, you know, played in every like izakayas.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It's like a common thing.
Yeah, it's common thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe it's rare to find those things in...
In Kanto.
In Kanto maybe, but still.
I mean, it seems doable.
Yeah.
Like just get a wadai, right?
Yeah.
That's all you need, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seems doable.
Yeah.
What does the menu usually say?
Does it say katsu-o no kunseiyaki?
No, katsu-o no warayaki.
Oh, katsu-o no warayaki.
Is that what it says on the menu?
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah.
Oh, like sometimes it's different fishes like, like, you know...
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Katsuo-no-kunseiyaki?
Yeah, could be.
Like some different...
Some different shit?
Yeah.
Okay.
I should try that when I see that on the menu next time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Wow, you talked about katsu-o.
I know, I did.
Yeah.
Now I can kind of talk about anything.
We can talk about anything.
Yeah.
Right.
Oh, that's funny.
What's your story with katsu-o?
What's your katsu-o story?
What kind of life did you go through with katsu-o?
Yeah.
What is katsu-o for you?
Katsu-o to me?
Yeah.
What's your...
Wait.
Who sent?
Beside that story I told you, that katsu-o no warayaki that I often ate when I was in
Kyoto.
Well, when I hear katsu-o, like that reminds me of Sazae-san.
Oh, the character.
Yeah.
The kid.
The kid.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I haven't seen Sazae-san for like...
That's true.
Like how many years?
Like five or six years I think.
Wow.
That's been a very long time.
Yeah.
Do you sometimes watch them?
I don't go and like turn on the television just for Sazae-san.
Okay.
Like I like to put my TVs on randomly.
Even when I'm sagyoing, I like to put the TV on.
There's times when the Sazae-san is on there.
Oh, Sazae-san.
Like that's...
Is it a shi?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and I sometimes enjoy like five minutes of it.
Wow.
Something like that.
So yeah, I mean, I feel like the last time I seen Sazae-san was like a week or two ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
I mean, you don't even have TV in your room, right?
No.
Right.
So like that's...
You're gonna have to go and actually...
Yeah.
Try to take actions to watch it.
Yeah, yeah.
Like purchase it.
Yeah, like...
Right.
Yeah.
You know, it's like it's broadcasted on like Sunday evening, right?
So it's like before Monday, it's before working day.
Oh, the Sazae-san Shokoku.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I have actually never had that feeling toward like Sazae-san's bangumi.
Right.
Because five years ago, you weren't even a shakaijin, right?
Yeah.
Or just about to be a shakaijin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So to me, it's just like fun TV show.
Right, right, right.
Did you enjoy Sazae-san when you were actually watching it?
I do, I do.
Uh huh.
I mean, no one hates Sazae-san like a TV Sazae-san, no?
I know one friend.
It was my friend or my sister.
Okay.
Oh.
I forgot which one.
I forgot who it was.
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Okay.
But that person hated Sazae-san.
Oh, why?
I remember one person saying that the Sazae-san, the problems that occur in Sazae-san is so
stupid.
Like that person said.
Like it's so fixable with a 10 minute fixing time is enough.
Like they spent the whole episode trying to fix this one problem.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But in reality, when you just give it like a five minute.
That's true.
Five minute adjustment.
It's all gone.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, everything is like that.
Almost all the stories are like that.
Doraemon like that.
Doraemon.
Shinten's like that.
Even like Avengers.
It's like, you know, it's.
You can't solve the Avengers problem.
Begins with quite tiny things.
You just slap me and then I'm going to destroy the whole Earth.
Kind of.
It only took us this one sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm sorry about that.
Are you okay?
I hope I didn't like hit you.
Are you okay?
That's true.
That's true.
I'll never forget that slap and then get like super poor someday and destroy whole universe.
That's true.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, that's my sorry.
That's your story.
Great story.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening guys!
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