日本食の魅力
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hello.
Is it cold in here?
Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
So how's your days after coming back to Japan?
How's your days?
So like always, I appreciate the goodness of Japan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought about going to the grocery store and saying thank you to every aisle.
Yeah, every aisle.
Every aisle that is available for me to walk around.
You know, the veggies are nice and tasty.
The fruits are sweet and juicy.
The food is great.
A lot of dashi.
The one dish that I really loved, really, you know, enjoyed was very simple and classic.
Miso soup.
Miso soup.
Yes, the miso and the hondashi that I put in there.
Yeah.
Oh, that was good.
That was really good.
Yeah.
Well, I think dashiness is something you, something we are, we weren't missing for whole days.
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
You know, we did have some Japanese food.
Yeah.
While we were there, but it just didn't quite hit the spot.
Right.
You know, it didn't.
Right.
Yeah, so I really did enjoy that cup of miso soup there.
Yeah, I get it.
It was lovely.
I get it.
Yeah.
Like they've got like seafoods.
They've got veggies for pretty much veggies.
They've got meats.
They've got spices, all those things.
Well, pretty much kind of everything, but dashiness.
Yeah.
That's the, you know, the core thing.
Right.
That you're always missing.
Yes.
機内食の経験
Yeah.
Yes.
I get it.
I know.
Yeah.
I know.
After returning to Japan, what was the first meal that you had?
Okay, the first meal I had was...
Ah, it was a Japanese teishoku.
Japanese teishoku.
Yeah, teishoku, yeah.
Okay.
That you can sort of order.
It was like half teishoku, half izakaya-ish kind of thing.
You could order like tampin.
I see.
It didn't...
So what I ordered was...
I did a little bit of tampin.
Okay.
Okay, like a makimono?
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
Torotaku, and dashi makitamago.
Ah, yeah.
Ah, what was it?
And then, crab cream croquette.
Yeah.
And, ah, what was it?
Ah, um, ebi chawan.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
That's what I had.
Yeah, it wasn't...
I feel like I could have done better.
Okay.
I feel like there was better food that I wanted to eat,
but I couldn't think of any.
Like, it was actually kind of hard.
It was actually kind of hard.
Dashi maki sounds nice, though.
Yeah, yeah, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What did you have?
I had ramen.
Oh!
At the airport.
Wasn't it too oily?
No?
No, that was good.
Well, the reason why, because I was missing the dashi-ness.
Yeah.
That's half.
Yeah.
But simply, I was really, really hungry.
Oh, really?
I was hungry.
Did you miss your meals at the aircraft?
No, I didn't.
I had it, like, fully.
Oh, okay.
But the thing is, I ordered...
The lactose intolerant shit?
Yeah.
Okay.
Version of the meals.
Okay.
And then it changed everything, you know?
While you are having, like, full, like, penne.
Yeah.
And, like, bread and salad and, like, little thing, thing.
And then, you know, ice cream you got.
Yes.
And then, you know, full meal.
You get, like, a full course, yeah.
Right?
I've got chicken.
Okay.
I've got one little orange, like, mandolin orange.
Okay.
And you got two chocolate bars.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it?
Yeah.
Shit.
Well, yeah, chicken with tomato sauce thing.
Okay.
But that's it.
They could have gave you, like, vegetables.
Yeah.
They didn't give you veggies?
I mean, I can eat more.
And you got, like, a little, like, fruit, cut fruit thing.
One little thing.
Yo, that's bad.
Oh, no.
I was, like, is it, was that everything for me?
Is this all you're going to give me?
Yeah.
You're done?
You're going to go to the next person?
I was so sad.
And that was not enough for me, obviously.
Yeah.
I was so hungry.
And, yeah, I wanted to change it for the return flight, but I forgot that.
I forgot that.
And, yeah, I asked that she is standing there in the airplane.
Yeah.
Is it possible that I can change it to, like, normal dish, please?
Yeah.
And then they were like, yeah, if we had any, like, extras, then we would think about that.
No?
Actually, no.
The second meal, I didn't eat.
You didn't eat?
So you should have gotten, there was an extra.
You know?
Yeah, I didn't, I didn't, I was sleeping the next one.
Yeah, we had two meals, right?
Yes.
The second one, I didn't eat it.
So I didn't even receive it.
So because I was sleeping.
They had extras.
But they didn't give it to you.
I mean, they were like, no, this is for you.
You ordered it?
Yeah.
You motherfucker.
You ordered the lactose intolerant meals?
You got it.
Yes.
They're like, yeah, we'll think about that.
Yeah.
Actually, no.
機内食と乳糖不耐症
No, never.
That's a no.
Yeah.
You know, we've got a little ice cream.
You remember?
Yeah.
Oh, no, not Häagen-Dazs.
But some, yeah, some vanilla ice cream.
Häagen-Dazs school going flight.
And yeah, return that was an ice cream.
Yeah.
They didn't give it to me.
Because milk, right?
Yeah.
No, I'm okay.
I can't eat it, but.
Nah.
I'm not gonna give it to you.
Wow, they didn't give it to you?
Yeah, because that's me who ordered.
And then it says lactose intolerant, isn't it?
But you're the one that's saying, I'm okay.
They're like, no.
They're treating you like a kid.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Your mommy said no lactose, so no lactose.
Wow.
So I was really, really hungry.
Because in the airplane, I just had, you know, chicken thing and a little fruit thing.
Twice.
Okay.
And we've got like one to three, three chocolate bars in total.
Okay.
Which was too sweet for me, so I didn't eat.
And I was so hungry when I arrived to Japan.
Okay, I see.
I have to eat something.
I want to eat something.
Did you know if you go back to the area where the cabin attendants prepare everything?
Yeah.
That little office-ish kind of hallway where all the trays are hidden.
If you go there, there's fruits available for you.
Oh, really?
Yeah, there was a memo saying,
There were bananas.
Oh.
You should have gotten the bananas, man.
True.
Like five, six bananas.
You should have gotten five, six.
So yeah, there were like eight bananas, I believe.
Oh, then I should have.
We're like, yeah, you should have had those.
Oh, I didn't know that.
They had crackers and nuts.
Oh.
And chocolates.
Not for you, maybe, then, if it's too sweet.
Yeah.
But bananas and nuts?
Chocolate?
That's my meals.
Basically your meal, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, you should have gone down there and got some, bro.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
That's a, yeah.
So I guess those lactose intolerant meals are for people who literally cannot take a single bite.
Right.
Of lactose.
So they're extra careful.
Serious ones.
Yeah.
I was just, you know, I didn't want to have those things while I was in a room.
Yeah.
And you have to, you know, many videos and like go out.
That's right.
And I didn't want that.
Yeah.
So I, like, it was too.
It was safe.
Yeah.
But it was too safe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is it chocolate lactose?
No?
The chocolate that they gave you?
Aren't, don't they have like milk in it now?
Oh, true.
Yeah.
I guess it was a lactose free chocolate.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
Oh, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
That's it.
航空会社のサービス比較
So, but in general, this time, you know, the airplane company was different, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I prefer, maybe that's because of the meal thing.
But in total, I prefer the different one.
The prior one?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I actually don't have a preference on that.
Yeah.
I don't really, I didn't really.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I felt.
Yeah.
Because they didn't give me the meal.
You think the other company would have given it to you?
Maybe.
Maybe at least they, maybe they would have at least tried to give it to you.
Maybe I think like they would be open for the conversation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This time they were like kind of, I felt like they were really busy, you know?
Like.
Yes.
Yeah.
They were really busy.
I really felt that.
Yeah.
There were several times I woke up.
I was in the aisle seat.
Yeah.
And I woke up because they were walking really fast.
And that's a problem.
They were walking really fast.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were like body slamming the doors.
Yeah.
They were like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Body slam.
Open the door.
Move forward.
What was up with that?
I don't know.
What was up with that?
They were like, looked really stressed.
Yeah.
Like they were like.
I know.
What the hell was up with them?
Yeah.
They were really busy.
Well, that's the difference.
But when I tried to conversation, like try to do a negotiation with them, they were like,
yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So I felt like that's the difference between, I'm not sure if it's the difference between
companies, but.
But at least on the flight that we were in.
Yeah.
They were very busy.
Yeah.
Whereas the different companies, they were like more chilling and like, they're like,
they're open for the conversations.
Right.
You know.
Right.
I know.
Yeah.
But I, for the next time, I would definitely not going for that, those meals.
Yeah.
I'd love to get a full meal.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
What's your favorite seat?
Seat?
座席の好み
Yeah.
So I think there's several options for.
The windows versus the aisle.
Okay.
I take window.
You take the windows?
Yes.
Window seat.
Okay.
Okay.
You?
I would take the aisles.
Okay.
Because I want to go to the bathroom.
Freely.
Yeah.
I get it.
Because you want to look at the window?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
There's pros and cons.
There's pros and cons.
Yeah.
The window.
So another pro about window seat, besides the view, there's the, you get to lean against
the wall.
You can do this.
Yeah.
That's a, that's good.
That's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I was a window seat for the going flight.
Returning flight, I was not even like, I was in the middle seats, you know?
Oh, out of the four?
Yeah.
Four in middles, in the middles.
Oh, that's the worst.
That's the worst seat.
That's the worst seat.
Yeah.
And so I had like two people.
Two people beside you.
Yeah.
Nothing to rely on.
Yeah.
And having no freedom to go out and without any view.
Okay.
Oh, that's the worst.
It was terrible.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was a terrible seat.
So I prefer window having the, you know, I can do this, you know?
Yeah.
So that I kind of have my own space, kind of.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I can see the view like this.
Yeah.
Okay.
Next question.
Do you want to have like the front row seat or the back row seat?
I prefer the front row seat.
Reason being?
Because I can stretch my legs.
So yeah, the going seat was the front row window side.
So I guess the perfect one.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah.
I can freely like stretch my legs and yeah, I had everything.
One thing I didn't, so my return flight was the front row seat.
Oh, okay.
And one thing I didn't like was that you didn't, I didn't know
you can't, I didn't know that you don't have any space for your bag.
Ah, true.
You have to put your bag under.
Yes.
The seat.
Yeah.
Of the front person, right?
So there's no front person.
So like you get, you have to stow it above.
I didn't know that.
And I, I really want to have access to.
Oh, yeah.
And it's, I just want to keep an eye on my bag.
Yeah.
It's comforts me.
Right.
To have that in my sight.
So that was, yeah.
True, true.
Ongoing flight.
隣の乗客のエピソード
I was sitting in the window side and aisle seat was a lady who loves eating, I guess.
And she put everything in the, you know, in the box, the cabinet.
And then soon after the seat belt sign's gone.
Yeah.
She goes up.
Yeah.
And then took out everything.
Like the bag and everything.
The bag and snacks and drinks and everything.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And she started putting those things in front of her.
Oh, okay.
Including like.
Like the tables up and then.
No, it was like on the floor.
On the floor?
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, you've got a space.
You got a little space, right.
On the front row seat, you have some leg room.
Yes.
And she opens the snacks, like chips, eating like that.
She ate like that.
She pushed it in her face.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then put it in, in the, in on the floor.
Like the empty chip bag.
It's still like.
It's still half empty.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then like drink something like that.
And then put it on the floor.
She went very hungry.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh.
Okay.
And then opens the new like popcorn thing.
Wow.
And then put it on the floor.
Okay.
And did her own like a party things going on.
Wow.
And I was like, oh.
Wow.
Was she eating the whole flight?
Yeah.
Damn.
Yeah.
I think she was really hungry.
Did she have her meal that would get provided by the airline?
Yes.
But she, she had, she said like, oh, that, this one I didn't, I don't like.
So I don't want to eat.
I don't know.
What was that?
A little vegetable things.
I don't know.
But she like.
She's very picky.
Yeah.
I think about her food.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was, but you, you can use the space in front of you after.
True.
You know.
That's true.
Yeah.
That's true.
You can, you can put your snacks.
And then lay it all over the floor.
Yeah.
Have a little party.
Yeah.
Wow.
That was surprising.
Wow.
A lot of people, a lot of different kinds of people on the airplane.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
That's interesting.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
And the one more interesting guy that was like a returning flight.
Okay.
The guy sitting next to me.
I was like, I guess somebody did a, did a journey with some kind of VIP or something.
Oh, okay.
I guess.
Sure.
At the landing time, the CA came to that guy.
Okay.
And said to this guy.
VIPの隣の席
Okay.
Oh, okay.
I guess in the really.
And the Darudaru-san was the VIP.
Yeah.
Okay.
Really like first stop.
Ah.
Somewhere.
I see.
And he's like,
And then he prepares everything and just go stand up and go to like somewhere far, far away.
Oh, okay.
And then like, yeah.
So there was a VIP on the airplane, I guess then.
Yeah.
Like a bodyguard or like some.
Was he like buff?
Not, not buff, buff, but like wearing suit and ties.
Oh, like really.
Okay.
Yeah.
Or like clean.
Yeah.
I see.
And reading books.
Oh, okay.
Wearing glasses.
Well, that's normal, but okay.
Sure.
But he had like a, he had like a, like a, like an aura.
Yeah.
He must be some, some, some guy like agency guy or something.
Oh, I see, I see.
Maybe CIA or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Somewhere around there.
Okay.
Interesting.
Interesting guy.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
I love that.
I didn't, luckily or unluckily, I don't know, but I didn't have anyone interesting on the flight
with me.
普通の乗客
Oh, oh, that's.
The person next to me was the very like.
Usual.
Average.
Oh.
Yeah.
Average human being.
Yeah.
You're lucky.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening guys.
