Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Good, good, good.
How's your week?
Um, my week?
Uh, let's see.
Uh, I, um, yeah.
Nice and chill.
Yeah, nice and chill.
I, uh, met my high school drama club friends.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, uh, that's about it though.
Yeah.
Good.
Yeah.
Was it the ramen you, you said?
Ramen?
No, that one?
I, you know, we did a little recording at the,around Yokohama and you said, um,
after this I have to go to the...
Oh, okay.
That's a, no, that's a different one.
Yeah, okay, okay.
Right.
I, I did eat that ramen though.
Uh, okay, okay.
Oh, after that?
After that I did.
Yeah, we, we had a job where we had to eat a lot.
Yeah.
Not satse, but, and then I had plans to eat ramenwith a friend after that.
I was like, shit, I don't know if I could fit theramen.
But magically, I got hungry.
And I was able to eat the ramen, like,deliciously.
Oh, good.
That was good.
I mean, great to hear that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's good, man.
It's good.
Nice.
Yeah.
Is that like big ramen?
No, no, yeah.
Thankfully it wasn't one of those, like, big ass,gigantic, like, ramens.
It was, it was more like a, you know, like afashion ramen.
Where it's like, it's stylish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
Yeah, yeah.
So thankfully I was able to eat it.
Good, good, good.
Very nice.
Great tip.
I was worrying about that because after that, Iwas, first I was full.
Second, I was too, like, you know, like a heavy.
Yeah.
My stomach was very heavy.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Too much flour?
Yeah.
Right?
Oil and everything.
Oil, flour.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I was okay.
I was okay.
Good, good, good.
You were strong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess I'm, yeah, right.
I also went to a Yakiniku King.
Huh?
You know Yakiniku King?
Is that like, tabehoudai or something?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Alone.
Okay, good, good, good.
Just like you went to the, uh, Akamon, uh,gyukaku.
Gyukaku.
Yeah, I, it's, that was good.
Nice.
Good.
Yeah, I was.
Not on the same day.
No, not on the same day.
Okay, okay, okay.
Not on the same day.
Okay, different day.
Right?
Yeah, different day.
I was, I was watching anime, you know, and theneating yakiniku.
It was so good, man.
Nice.
Yeah, it was really fun.
Really fun.
Yeah.
What do you eat at Yakiniku?
I eat, I don't know, karubi.
Oh, you still eat karubi?
Yes.
That's the best at Yakiniku King, I would say.
Oh, okay.
Gyutan and karubi to top, I would say.
I see.
Yeah.
No, like to me, karubi is like too heavy to mystomach.
Okay, it's, it's not that bad though.
Like the karubi is in this place, it's, it'spretty like, it's, I would say it's moredigestible.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Actually, okay.
Not like very...
Not too, like, it's not too much.
Oh, no, no, it's not too much.
Okay.
Yeah.
Nice.
So that's, that's, that's what I did.
Yeah, of course, the hikkoshi.
Yes, yes, yes.
Thank you.
Right.
Got a bit.
Good.
Yeah.
What was the ramen shop was like?
It was...
Why did you go to that shop?
Was it like famous or...?
Yeah, I mean, I was looking for a good, like,ramen shop in this area.
I see.
And the search just came up with, with this, withthis place.
Let me show it to you.
It is right here.
Do you know this place?
No.
This.
I had this.
Nice.
Pretty good.
Yeah.
Oh, uh-huh.
It was like milky.
Pork.
I don't know what dashi it is, but...
Tori dashi.
Milky tori dashi.
Nice.
Nice size.
It's really good.
Very nice.
I don't like tori paitan, but a very milkyversion.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
Nice.
I also ate, um, I know, I don't know what you callthat again.
The Chinese dish.
Okay.
It's recently trending like crazy.
You know, you get your ingredients, you know, youchoose the sauce and they bring it to you.
Spicy.
Maratang.
Ah, okay.
I also ate maratang.
That too.
Yesterday.
Oh, yesterday?
Yeah.
Have you had maratang before?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you get it?
What do you mean?
Do you like it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
Did you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I, uh, I liked it.
Yeah.
Okay.
I liked it.
But not that much.
Yeah.
I don't know why it's such a big trend though.
Ah, I see.
Yeah.
It's good though.
It's good though.
Yeah.
You like it?
Yeah.
Right.
It's good, but and the trickier thing is likefinally it costs pretty much if you put many
things in it.
Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.
Like after, we're like, oh, what's that?
Okay.
Yeah.
Did you go to one of those famous shops or?
I went several times.
Okay.
Yeah.
I went to one of the, um, you know, the famousones.
Yes.
Like the, uh, what do they call it?
The, uh, this one.
Did you go to this one?
Oh, maybe not this one.
This is probably like the most famous.
I don't think I remember this.
Okay.
Sorry, it's not this.
Oh, I think this one, this.
Yeah.
I think that one.
Jibao.
Yeah.
Isn't that like famous one?
No.
Oh, I don't know.
I've never heard of that one, but probably famous.
Could be famous.
Yeah.
I went to this one.
Was it pretty expensive?
Um, yeah, like, well, not expensive, but Iexpected more.
A little bit cheaper.
Cheaper.
It's, I thought it's cheap, good, healthy andquick.
You know, those, those, you know.
Right.
But like, finally it wasn't that cheap.
Okay.
And oh, okay.
It's my impression.
I went to here.
Yang, Yang, Yang.
Okay.
Yang, Yang.
Yeah, this one.
It was, for me, it was pretty cheap.
Oh really?
It was like a thousand yen.
Oh really?
Yeah.
That's good.
Is that the same style that you pick some likeveggies and like meats and everything into thebowl?
Yeah.
And then.
They, they weighed it.
Yeah.
Oh really?
Oh, nice.
And then if it's like over a thousand yen, theygive you free noodles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, nice.
But like, I, I think the, the style of their, oftheir.
You know, of how it works, you tend to get more.
Yeah.
Right?
Like you, you over.
Right.
You overtake it and then what your appetite canhandle.
So I thought that was like a, you know, a trap.
I see, I see.
So yeah, so because I knew that yesterday I wentthere.
I was like, all right, let's really imagine howmuch I can handle.
And then I, I handled my, the amount.
So I guess that's why it wasn't that much.
Maybe.
Or just the, the temple.
Yeah, maybe it's a good, good store.
Maybe.
Yeah.
But this, this, I think this place that I searchedonline and in China, this place,
it has like a, like 6,000 locations in China.
Wow.
It must be a pretty big one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See young gopher.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
I went to one day.
I went to several of these stores.
Not only that.
Yeah.
One was in Shin-Okubo.
Shin-Okubo?
Yeah.
I thought that people say that's a famous store.
So we went to that place.
How do you, what do you?
I don't, I don't know.
Oh, this one?
Yeah.
Oh, it's spicy as fuck.
I think that was a tomato one.
Oh, this is a tomato soup.
Yeah.
They have like several soups.
Okay.
Yeah.
Was it good?
I mean, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a no.
Yeah.
What was, what was, what was the, what was, whatwas it good about it?
I mean, it's a bit expensive than I expect.
How much was it?
Um, I forget, but close to 2,000 yen.
Okay.
And if it's 10 yen, I would go.
Okay.
Like if it's like, yeah, and he's saying that'slike, it's good.
It's not bad as a taste.
It's not bad.
But I mean, I don't know.
I mean, maybe you're, after you, was it, were youfull?
Was it like a, like a, like a understandableamount?
I mean, it's not at least crazy amount.
So you were able to handle everything?
Yeah, of course.
It's one lunch portion size.
Okay.
It's not like, you know, Jiro size or like thoseones.
It's just, uh, so.
For me, it was like, it was just as good.
Like it was just the right amount for lunch.
So maybe the tanka is different.
Okay.
Yeah.
But taste was, well, yeah, decent.
Decent?
Yeah.
Okay.
So maybe, maybe good place to visit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Please, please try.
Oh, what, uh, so you, you went for the tomatosoup?
I, yes.
I remember I went to tomato soup.
Okay.
Yeah.
But I think you should go some of those likeauthentic, um, ones.
I think it's better.
Okay.
Yeah.
Tomato soup is like just a tomato, tomato.
It's not.
You don't feel that much Chinese spice.
Exactly.
If you go to this, by these kinds of places, youshould taste the Chineseness.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like spiciness and.
True.
Yeah.
That's true, true.
So next time, if I go there, I would definitelychoose one of those authentic.
I don't know the name, but.
The Maratasu?
Yeah.
I think that, yeah, the original one.
The original?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But be careful though.
The, the one that I went to, I went for like thefutsu.
It was like.
The spicy level?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think there was like five level, like zero, one,two, three, four or five or something.
That's six, but okay.
But it was something like that.
I went for second to least.
Okay.
Okay.
That was like futsu.
Okay.
It says futsu, right?
It's like the ninki.
And I went there and I was like, God, this isspicy.
So.
It is the second?
The second to least spicy.
So yeah, I gotta be careful.
I mean, I have to be careful then.
You gotta, yeah.
Yeah, really?
I don't know how much zero is.
Probably not even like, I don't, I don't thinkthey put zero spicy spiciness.
It's just, I think it's just a level.
Yeah.
So it must be a little bit spicy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have to be careful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
But every time I go to one of those places, it'spacked.
It is packed because of those, because it'strendy, right?
Yeah, it's trendy.
Yeah.
Right.
It's packed with people.
Um, yeah.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.