It just stopped, but it's kind of an on-and-off which is really rare for Tokyo

It's actually snowed quite a few times this year guess who I'm here to meet?

Norm: Hey guys!

Sharla: I'm here to see norm and it's actually our last vlog together

For a while for a while until I come back to Japan or you come to Korea a visit me

And I left the day up to Norm

Norm is really good at finding really cool spots around Tokyo

So, I'm counting on you Norm!

Norm: I got some exciting stuff today

Sharla: Do we?

Norm: Yeah oh man, today's stuff, this is my like

best-kept secrets.

Sharla: He saved it. He saved it right for the end.

Norm: I, I did. We were actually supposed to be doing totally different today,

we had a helicopter tour.

Sharla: Yeah, we were trying to fly in a helicopter to get a tour around Tokyo,

but they ended up not wanting us to film it

and that doesn't really work for vlogs so

Norm: They're like oh, you can film out the window, but nothing else and I was like no. No, thank you.

Sharla: That's no fun

Norm: No thank you

so

Sharla: That's okay I'm sure you have something very cool.

Norm: What we're doing today is something

the place that I'm going to be taking Sharla to today

Is a place that I have been going to for 10 years.

Sharla: And he hasn't told me about it til now!

Norm: I haven't told anyone about it, this is my secret.

Sharla: I'm excited!

Norm: You know, I might not even take you.

Sharla: No!

Sharla: Come back!

Sharla: Welcome to the 39th floor of Ebisu Garden place tower it's so high up,

I feel like I, this must be higher than Tokyo Tower or like the same?

Norm: I don't know, I, I feel like we're higher up.

You know what the real heartbreak of the view is though?

This whole white view that we have here

there should be

Mount Fuji right there.

Clear as day.

Sharla: Still kinda ruined that but,

Norm: Don't worry, I'll tell you what, I'll send you some clips that you can place them here.

~Imagine~

Sharla: Haha, look like we were there!

Sharla: So we're just walking around trying to choose where to go for lunch

everywhere looks really fancy,

but the prices are actually quite low just over 10 or 15 dollars for lunch

which is pretty normal in Japan.

Sharla: We just checked one of the like,

probably the fanciest places

and they have a

Veggie Soymilk Sautee as one of the options.

So that's choice number one

that's one option on our list.

There's also a salad bar

which Norm said was good.

So that's another choice.

Norm: Really, it's really your choice when it comes down to it,

like, it's one of your last meals in Tokyo.

I can eat here anytime I want. Sharla: Don't say that!

Sharla: This is the view from our seat;

how epic is that? What park is that?

It's at Yoyogi Park?

possibly Yoyogi Park don't quote me on that.

Okay, so this is what I was so excited about guys, Sautee of varied vegetables and soybean milk.

Sharla: Lunch is finished!

How was your lunch?

Norm: Lunch was delicious!

Sharla: It was really really good.

Norm: Very good choice.

I wouldn't have chosen this place, but you did

Sharla: yayy

Norm: and I'm glad you did.

Sharla: I liked it, it was so good!

It tasted really expensive,

but it's only like 15 dollars so

We're gonna go chill and do some editing for a bit before we head off to our next location.

Norm: Because I'm making some cheesy Instagram stories for Sharla.

Sharla: He is, go check out Norm's Instagram.

He's really great with the story.

If you go over to my Instagram,

I'll have the one pin that he made for me.

Sharla: So I don't know where we're going. Is this the right way?

Norm: Okay, you see this temple over here?

You wanna go torwards this temple.

Norm: I'm so excited about this one!

Sharla: I'm excited because you're so excited.

Norm: Ah! So I was just telling, I was just telling the people on my video

like the backstory to this

Sharla: Yeah

Norm: and like how I found it

and it was just a slightly inebriated night, where I'm stumbling through these back streets

and I found this rustic old building

that you would never consider going into

then I peeked through the window and saw something,

something that caught my interest

and it's this way.

Sharla: This way? This way?

Norm: Imagine right here

Sharla: I was gonna say this one.

Sharla: Wow

This is it

This looks pretty epic

So dagashi (did I spell that right?) are a Japanese traditional snacks and candies

and I love them so - I'm very intrigued now.

This looks really cool.

Alright guys Kanji practice time.

Can you read this?

(Sorry I don't know how to spell these)

All you can eat!

dagashi

Sharla: I love how they have like all the old Showa era.

Posters

Beer advertisments

So, they way this bar works is you pay a 5 dollar cover charge

and you can eat all the snacks you want

and they have an amazing selection.

You pick up a basket

and you can choose whatever you'd like

and bring it back to your table.

This is so fun

How have I never been here before?

They have my favorite

Yeah, they do they have my favorite!

I love these!

I showed these in a video before.

They're amazing

Norm: And I will say Sharla, we got really lucky today.

Sharla: Why?

Norm: Because it's so quiet in here.

Sharla: It's usually busier?

And it's a Friday night isn't it?

Norm: Yeah, this place is usually pretty packed.

Sharla: Super lucky.

Sharla: I got a Soju base with ramune

oh god dammit

So that it blocks it

Life hacks with norm

Norm: Alright, so you'll notice, there's this little pinch in here, that is meant to hold the ball providing you're not drinking it too quick

I was at a festival once and watched a mother tell her little daughter

That if you drink it so fast that the ball falls past that you're drinking it too quickly

So parents use this to teach their kids to enjoy their drinks a little more slowly

Sharla: What did you get? Is that one of those Vitamin C drinks?

like an energy drink with whiskey

Sharla and Norm: Cheers!

Time for the haul.

Let me show you guys what I got I actually got some things that I've never tried before which is

surprising because I love (sorry don't know how to spell it) and I buy them all the time.

Number one we have don don yaki

I love the originals, but this is kimchi flavor so that's fun. These are another one of my favorite. I usually get the cherry version.

Hey

Get out of the. I usually eat the cherry version of these, but they had a soda flavor, which looks really good.

These are hard Mochi candies

it's kind of hard to explain. I've always thought of them as mochi.

This is Mochi Taro

I've showed you guys this in a video before it's really similar to don don yaki.

Some orange cigarettes like the ones you can find in canada actually, but I've never had orange flavored ones. This is (spelling idk)

(can't spell) stick soybean powder stick it looks like mochi so that one should be good

These are mini yogurts. They're called yogurts, but they're not yogurt. There's nothing dairy in these

So I'm very interested

to see how they taste; like what are they? I probably shouldn't ask.

And they come with a little wooden spoon to eat it with it's super cute .

And last but not least I got some strawberry flavored ramune candies.

Alright starting off with the don don yaki ~kimchi flavor~

Here's what they look like they're made from rice, they're like a deep-fried mochi

Norm: While she was telling you about that

I ate 10.

Sharla: They're so good.

They're kinda

There kind of sour they've got like a vinegary taste of them like salt and vinegar chips

I could easily just down the entire pack right now.

Norm: My bags almost empty.

Sharla: So here's the

original of those.

It's sauce flavored.

Sauce in Japanese is like an okonomiyaki sauce.

Kind of like barbecue?

It's really all I can explain it as for those of you that haven't had it before

Also really good, but I actually think I prefer the kimchi one.

How about the (can't spell)

The ingredients are kinako, sugar

and sugar.

Wait what

Norm: Nice.

Best ingredients ever.

It's only made out of Kinako, I figured it would be mochi, but it's literally

just a stick of Kinako.

Interesting, all right

Norm: These are really good, but they're very chewy

Sharla: Interesting okay, you have to like mochi, but with no rice involved and just soy bean powder

It's got a very Japanese taste to it. I feel like this would be really good with like some green tea or something

I'm gonna try this creepy yogurt thing that contains no yogurt whatsoever. It's made from

plant oils, sugar

cornstarch and

stevia

Basically just sugar and oil

It smells like that really

Cheap icing that you get on cakes at Walmart

Kind of looks like it too. Not expecting too much flavor-wise out of this

We will see

It really tastes like icing, the icing on a cheap cake.

This is like one of my least favorite things

It's got a slight lemon flavor to it which is nice

that's the best part about it, but

I hate that kind of icing, so this one gets a no for me if I go out and then come back and pay another $5

Norm: I wonder

Sharla: Probably right.

Their not gonna complain.

Norm: I don't think like (?)

Sharla: Alright, our night is planned.

Gonna be here til midnight.

Norm: This is so much better than the helicopter.

Sharla: So cool

This is definitely a must of you're in Tokyo on vacation

it's like an opportunity for you to try all the traditional Japanese snacks for five bucks.

Norm: Yeah

Sharla: How cool is that?

Norm: So especially if you're traveling in a group and you come to a place like this,

you find something, try it if you like it. great if you don't like it, you've got other people to pawn it off on

Sharla: I've got a present for you, Norm.

Norm: Oh was it bad?

What?

It's confusing

Sharla: What is it remind you of?

Norm: Okay, you know like lemon meringue pie?

Sharla: Okay

Norm: It's like the meringue from lemon meringue pie has been left out too long

and it's like gotten this like thickness

or, or

The best I can think is like, a melted marshmallow

Sharla: No, your giving it too much credit.

That sounds kind of good

I said that it tasted exactly like the cheap icing on a Walmart birthday cake.

Norm: Oh my god, that's it!

Sharla: Yeah, that's exactly what I said.

Norm: What kind of cakes did you have as a kid that that's what came from your mind?

Sharla: No, those are the ones when you go to someone elses birthday party and they always have that cake, and you just scrape off all the icing.