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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast. Hello. Hello. So, so, this one for today.
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日本食とアメリカの食生活の比較
Apple-san, こんにちは。私はいつもリスニングを高めるためにこのポッドキャストを聞いています。いつもありがとうございます。
私は一度一年弱アメリカに行っていたのですが、帰ってきたらお寿司がとても美味しく感じました。
Kevin-san, Yama-san, 何か海外に数日間、数年いて日本に帰ってきて美味しいと思った食べ物はありますか?
まだまだ寒いのでお体ご自愛くださいね。
Okay. Oh, yeah. So many. I mean, countless. I mean, almost everything. Countless. Yeah.
The air, probably. The Japanese air. I miss the most. Yeah. Yeah. I can taste it. Right. I can taste it.
Well, it's true. For example, we went to LA. We went to New York. American pizza is there.
Or hamburgers there. Mexicans there. It was good. It was good. That was good.
It was different from the one you can, for example, order through the delivery pizza.
Yeah. Well, you know, that was different.
But, you know, you can find great pizza place in Japan too.
See, that's the thing. Yeah. That's the thing.
And you can find great hamburger shop in Japan too.
That's right. I can't find anything that you can't really, really get in America.
Yeah. Wait, what?
I can't find anything that you can't get in Japan.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
That you can't in America. Yeah.
Good pizza. Okay. Maybe some, for example, like Chicago pizza. I've never seen like a
true size Chicago pizza or true size nachos.
Oh, yeah.
That I've never seen. That I don't see. So, there's some. There are some burritos.
But if you're talking about just simple, plain old good pizzas or good hamburgers,
I mean, the places you have in Japan, they are just amazingly good.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Like I saw an interview of asking all the chefs if you have to live in a country
for the rest of their life. A lot of them chose Japan.
Wow. Because of the food?
Because of the food. Yeah.
Well, I mean, I can understand that. I can understand that. Well, I mean, if you go to,
for example, the U.S., you can still find sushi restaurants or Japanese food restaurants.
Yeah. But the quality is different.
It's different. Yeah.
From the one we can casually find in Japan.
Yeah. It did get better though, right? It's gotten better. Like, remember,
when we went to California, the client took us to a sushi place.
Yeah. The sushi bowl.
Yeah. That was pretty good.
True. That was pretty like...
It was decent. True. True.
So, it's good. But like, yeah, I mean, it's gotten really good, but like...
日本の食品と観光客の体験
Yeah. You know, it's not as casual.
Yeah. I mean, overall, everything is delicious in Japan.
Everything is delicious in Japan.
What about... Well, true. Maybe pizzas in the U.S. are cheaper.
Hamburgers in the U.S. are cheaper.
Sure. That's true.
Yeah. In Japan, you have to pay a little bit more.
Maybe that one. Maybe that's one element though.
Yeah. But it's not something you cannot find in Japan.
Yeah. Yeah.
What about like barbecues that you do at your house?
Sure. You don't find that so much. You don't find brisket places.
Yeah. You don't find pulled porks.
Sure. There are a lot of... Sure. Yeah.
Like a lot of the things that we've done on the YouTube channel,
like grilled cheese or mac and cheese, briskets, turkeys, right?
Yeah. Or those... Yeah.
Sure. You don't find that much in Japan. Sure.
So, I do kind of miss that.
Mm-hmm.
But I don't think that gets me thinking about moving to America.
That does not... It doesn't even move... It doesn't move me at all.
Yeah. At all.
Japan's just too great.
Yeah. Right.
Yeah.
I feel like, yeah, we have great Italian places.
We have great American food places. We have great Chinese food place.
We have, you know...
We have a lot of stuff to be grateful for.
Yeah. Absolutely.
Obviously, we have great Japanese food places.
Yeah.
You know, we have Saizeriya.
It's a great Italian place.
We have Yayoi-ken.
Yeah.
You know, we have...
Sushi-ro.
Yeah. We have Goemon.
Goemon. Oh, great Italian place, right?
Yes.
Representing Italy.
Yeah. Right?
That you eat with two chopsticks.
Yeah. Right.
We have...
That's good, too.
Well, I mean...
Yeah. That's good, too.
That's...
Representing pizza.
Italian, right?
Yeah. Italian.
Or American.
Or American, maybe.
Yeah.
It's great. It's all great.
Yeah. Everything you can find in Japan is...
That's why people come to Japan, right?
For like...
To experience all the foods.
Yeah.
I wanna...
If there's somehow a way to sort of interview the people that come here,
I would love to do that.
Yeah.
Like, on this show.
On the street or somewhere.
Yeah. Like, if there's a way.
If there was a way to, like, continuously do this.
Like, I would love to sort of utilize that we're in Japan,
and there's a lot of people, English-speaking people, coming into Japan.
Yeah.
観光客のネガティブ体験の探求
Right.
I wanna find a way to sort of, like, talk with them.
Yeah.
You know?
Maybe you can go on the street.
Well, I mean, not even without me.
You can just go on the street and just hand the camera and just...
You can do that.
Or you go to the airport and...
Well, yeah.
I don't have that much of a social skill to do that.
Oh.
So that I cannot do?
Okay. Okay.
Maybe...
Yeah.
I have to think about that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what about a show where we bring people that thought that...
We bring people that did not like Japan.
Oh, that's interesting.
And then we ask them why.
And then we try to solve their problem.
Like, we try to get to the bottom of why that happened.
Oh, that's interesting.
Why that incident happened.
Yeah.
Why you thought that was a terrible experience.
For example, like a lot of...
So when you look at a lot of contents on Japan that foreigners are...
Most of them are very positive.
But some are like, if you don't speak Japanese, they're very cold to you.
They don't even accept you in the store or something like that.
I really want to get to the bottom of that.
Like, what store...
Or like, what's your attitude when you go into the store?
Or like, what actually led to that situation?
Because I don't want them to think that Japan is a terrible country.
I want to, you know, just really solve that problem.
I do.
I think it's an interesting kind of content, don't you think?
Yes.
Yeah.
You're loving Japan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
And that would be really interesting because it's really rare as a content, you know.
Maybe it would be really difficult to find those people.
Maybe, you know?
Yeah.
Because everybody loves Japan.
Yeah, absolutely.
But let's do a shout out here.
Yeah.
If you are that person or if you know anyone who didn't like Japan,
or something happened, got into trouble in Japan,
just got into an incident in Japan, or like had a bad time in Japan,
and is willing to talk to us about it,
give us a...
Yeah, if you know somebody.
Yeah.
Where should we send that person to?
The section?
Yeah, the message maybe?
Message section?
Yeah, let's do that.
Let's go to that message section.
And when you send the message, you can choose normal, plus, or sono hoka.
観光客の経験
Oh, nice.
Just do a sono hoka.
That's what it's meant to be.
Exactly.
And then we'll try to work out something and that'll be fun.
Yeah, it'll be fun.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I hope it won't be some kind of battle between...
It will be interesting though.
I think we're the people that would not get into a huge burning anger fire.
We can talk it out, right?
We can talk it out.
It'll be fun, right?
Yeah.
Neutralize, yeah?
I'll be fine.
All right, so there you go.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
