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  • Foods I miss living in Japan

  • Hey guys!

  • So my friend Jackie, or NerdECrafter here on YouTube

  • I'll link her channel here and down below, go check her out

  • She's in Tokyo right now!

  • She brought me the biggest haul of things I miss from Canada

  • I thought it would be a good oppurtunity to talk to you guys

  • about all the foods I miss from Canada

  • and kind of show off all the things that I got

  • I'm so excited to eat them, you have no idea!

  • So the number one thing that I miss from Canada...

  • If you watch lots of my videos I'm sure you've heard me talk about this

  • because I complain about it all the time

  • Breakfast cereal

  • All of the breakfast cereals~ I want them all

  • She brought me 5 different kinds!

  • There's actually a couple cereals here that I haven't tried before

  • So I'm excited for those! Like, Captain Crunch

  • This will be a new one for me

  • So for my Japanese viewers...

  • In Canada we have a gigantic selection of breakfast cereals

  • All different flavours, shapes, ingredients

  • Made out of corn or wheat or rice

  • There's just such a huge selection!

  • I'll try to find a picture of a Canadian cereal aisle

  • So you can see the amazingness that is Canadian cereals

  • I personally like the really simple ones like Honey Nut Cheerios

  • or Special K... But!

  • This is one of my all time favourites

  • And she went through a lot of trouble to find this for me

  • So thank you Jackie, I really appreciate it!!

  • Reese Puffs - these are chocolate and peanut butter cereal

  • Reese's in general are not really available in Japan

  • Even just the regular chocolates themselves

  • A few stores started selling them, but they're kinda hard to find

  • So YAY so excited!

  • Breakfast cereals are definitely my #1 missed food while living in Japan

  • #2 would have to be pie

  • Well she couldn't bring me a pie, but she did the next best thing

  • and she brought me cans of pumpkin pie filling

  • and this isn't just pumpkin

  • It's spiced with all the pumpkin pie spices, and there's sugar and everything in here

  • So even if I can't bake a pie

  • Because I don't have an oven here in Japan

  • That's another common thing, is to not have an oven in your apartment

  • I could just eat this straight out of the can

  • So this is perfect

  • One big thing that I miss from Canada

  • Japan you need more pies please

  • Somebody open up a pie restaurant here

  • There's one in Shinagawa! And they have pumpkin pie

  • But it's really expensive and the pieces are way too small

  • But if you're really craving pie you can go to that place

  • I'll put the address down below

  • #3 would be peanut butter

  • Now peanut butter exists in Japan

  • You can often find this Skippy type at just a regular grocery store

  • But it's very expensive and they often only have just one kind

  • So this was probably about $5 in Canadian/American

  • So that's pretty pricey for a little container of it

  • And they don't have the natural peanut butter

  • That's the stuff that I miss the most

  • The stuff that's made just out of peanuts, with a little bit of salt or something

  • These ones have sugar and oils in them

  • It's good when you're desperate, but not my favourite

  • And look what Jackie brought me

  • It's peanut butter and chocolate spread

  • Even better than Nutella, if that evens sounds possible

  • I'm pretty sure this is going to be amazing

  • I cannot wait to try this

  • Actually I think I'm going to open it right now and just eat some

  • Because I can't wait

  • Apparently this is a new thing in Canada

  • I had never heard of it

  • Holy crap that smells so good

  • Look at it~

  • Oh it's really thick

  • Holy shit

  • Yep just tastes like the filling of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup

  • Heaven in a can!

  • This is a new thing for me but this will be a new thing I miss from Canada

  • It's probably gonna be #1 on the list

  • This is amazing

  • One other thing that I miss, which is weird

  • because it's not really something that I eat a lot in Canada

  • But I just have a craving for it, it's because I can't get it here

  • Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese)

  • So horrible and so unhealthy

  • I actually prefer the Annie's - it's like the natural healthy Kraft Dinner

  • But just any kind of instant Macaroni and Cheese product

  • I really miss that sometimes and get really bad cravings for it

  • You can find it at specialty foreign foods stores

  • If you're desperate you can go into Tokyo

  • and I'm sure you'd be able to find it in one of those, I've seen it before

  • As for normal grocery stores they definitely don't sell anything like that

  • The last thing I miss from Canada is the huge selection of non-meat meat products

  • So like, chicken nuggets that are made out of tofu

  • Or tofurky, or the tofu ham slices

  • My family is vegetarian, so we eat lots of those

  • And I really miss them, they're so delicious

  • Japan has, of course, a really big tofu selection

  • So it's not hard to find really yummy tofu here

  • But I really miss all the tofu nuggets and stuff

  • I was just so addicted to those

  • Every time I go back to Canada I'm always asking my Mom to stock up on those

  • so that I can eat them every night

  • There aren't many vegetarians here

  • So there is not really a market for those kind of products

  • So you probably won't be seeing many of those here in the future as well

  • Which is sad

  • Japan has lots of other amazing foods

  • I've been trying to show more vegetarian, and special diet related places

  • that you guys can eat at here

  • I visited a gluten-free cafe in a recent video, over on my second channel

  • So if you can eat gluten and you're looking for a place to eat in Tokyo

  • Go check out that video - it's the day one of my Vlogmas vlogs

  • I've been trying to visit more vegetarian and vegan cafes as well

  • Hopefully show you guys some more options of stuff you can eat here

  • It definitely exists, so if you look hard enough you can find them

  • So I hope that gave you guys some ideas of things

  • that you should bring over to Japan with you if you're gonna move here

  • Fill your suitcase up with cereals, you will thank me

  • If any of you guys live overseas

  • Let me know in the comments stuff that you miss from your country

  • I'm always curious to see what people start craving when they're in another country

  • Thanks for watching guys, and I'll see you soon! Bye!

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  • I will put the link down in the description box

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Foods I miss living in Japan

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