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These are my japanese convenience store tips and hacks
Now many of you know that i've already done a lot of videos on my favorite japanese convenience store foods
But what a lot of people don't know is that japanese convenience stores also have a lot of cool stuff outside of food
And since it's super hot these days here in japan. I wanted to show you
My tips and hacks on how to beat the summer heat here in japan
So all of the items that i'm showing today, I purchased from a japanese convenience store
well
except for one and i'm gonna save that until the end because
I thought it was pretty cool and it was worth showing all of you
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Number one body sheet towels. So in japan, I would say like stick deodorant isn't very popular
So they usually have spray or they have these body sheets
So they like help deodorize
They make you smell good what they've done is that they've actually put a cooling agent probably alcohol in them
You can see that it's minus two degrees
That's not like it feels kind of like this big when it's super hot you go like this
And then just like after a few seconds. It starts to like cool all around your neck and it feels super super cold
But recently they've actually upgraded these body sheets into these new ones
You have like this one exactly. It looks like it's actually from biore and it's advertised for women
They almost look like tampons, right? These are like tampon size. Mica
Oh, really
It says minus three degrees and one hour duration. Let's see. So look at this. Look how long this is
This is like wow, it's huge. Yeah, it goes across my body. Maybe if you actually just had like a workout
you're like
Oh that's freezing cold like you you guys don't know but this feels a super civil it almost feels like you're touching ice
It's that cold look feel it. Michael. It's pretty good quality of towel. Let's see if it rips
Oh it rips like we've been to the philippines or like thailand and stuff
We'd bring like these and like when you're waiting outside, they're just so nice to have this one is also the upgraded version
So this one is actually 60 centimeters long doesn't say that it lasts as long but it does a super cool towel
So if you're looking for something a bit
More manly this is a super cool towel
Look at this one, this is huge. This is huge. This is like a super sheet
How cool would you be like when you're trying to like best someone you're like, yeah, check out my town
If you do come to japan
This is like a nice thing to have especially like I guess if you have kids and you just want to wipe their face off
And it's clean
Oh really put this on wolfie it's gonna be like my face is burning good thing. Michael is around ice can smell menthol
Yeah, you can smell it. It's like you might throw
It's like it's on my face like this. I've so
It's really strong. Huh? It is super strong. My face is almost burning right now
I feel i'm getting kind of cold in here. But let's do the next one. Number two instant eye spray
Hey, michael, if I was a marvel character, which one would I be?
No
iceman
So
This one here. I think a newer product. It's called instant ice. So basically it's supposed to turn the mist into ice
Oh, you can see the steam coming from that
Whoa, that's so cold. It's ice. I can feel that
It's straight up eyes
Wow that's icy crazy, that is super cool that's actually colder than the towelettes. That's super cold
Yeah, but it doesn't last so long it hurts right
It's I accidentally yeah, so you don't want to put it directly on your skin. Thanks for testing that michael
number three hiron ice bag if you guys have ever been in
Japan, they have these pocket heaters where you kind of just open it up
Put it into the air and it gets really hot for
Eight hours 20 hours and like they're perfect for like keeping your pockets warm keeping your hands warm
I've used them so much in the winter. And then this one is a recent like new release
And it's kind of the same concept what it's supposed to do is turn into a bag of ice. This one is like
instantaneous you're supposed to just put your fingers here like so and once you squeeze
all the liquid in the top mixes into
Well, it's not even a liquid. I think it's just like a mixture and then there's like it feels like sand in here
Michael, you call it one two three and wolfie
There is liquid wow instant cold that's ice feel that
It's just right even says made in japan
No, it's pretty cold
like you can also use this if you
Hurt yourself, like if you injure yourself and you need to ice something. So these are like really nice to keep in your sports bag
Um, it even has instructions that if it gets too cold
You're supposed to wrap something around it not like directly applied to your skin because you can kind of burn your your skin
also interesting
you're not supposed to take it on the plane because I could see this kind of exploding but this probably wouldn't be
A good gift to take back home number four salt candies these little ones
There's like there's so many different versions, but these are perfect when you're really really hot and you're sweating all day
It's good to just take in a little bit of sodium
A little bit of salt just so that all the liquids and fluids you're drinking is retained
Basically, they're like little salt tablets that are flavored
This one has like a lemon flavor and kind of more like a vitamin style
And this one here is more of kind of like a energy style
It has calcium and oh, it has vitamin b and vitamin c as well, so have you ever like taken these?
You haven't taken these before. Which one do you want to try the energy one lemon? Oh, yeah, they're both lemon actually
You can see here's like the tablets here's the two different tablets number five shirt cool
Strong so this next one is called shirt. Cool
Raycon strong meaning rikon like you feel like this strong cooling sensation
So it's a little bit different than the other products because you're supposed to spray it on your shirt before you go
Out and then when you go out and you start to sweat, then you start feeling the cooling sensation
So I got a brand new shirt. Let's see what we got. There you go
Another japan shirt, let's just turn this inside out
Spray spray spray spray spray spray sprays, I can feel it just like hitting my skin and it's feeling cool already
I feel so naked right now
Wow, I already feel the cooling sensation
You have to sweat though i'm sweating already I swear so easily. Have you seen the videos i'm always sweating
Oh my god my eyes hurt
Yeah, it's pretty strong michael, can you try this
Can we spray you?
No. All right. You're not cool
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And if you think that's cool check out this next item number six in yeti scarf
And this next one is for all of those professionals out there
That have to wear a nice suit to work, but you still want to stay cool
This one says
Which looks like a tie so basically what you do is you put water on this you just you know
Get put some cold water on here. See that this thing really soaks up the water you can see
the mesh right there
And there you go looking pretty good and i'm feeling pretty cool
No, I am a professional salaryman look i'm wearing my tie can I get you like a beige shirt?
Maybe then I can you know start a fire for you. Do you even want more comfy?
They teach you to be prepared
Yeah, that probably is right. I look prepared to go to work. I look prepared to be cool. You look prepared to be fired
number seven frozen drinks
So this one is kind of like a tip or advice if you're looking to get some drinks
At the convenience store, then you can just go to the refrigerator section as normal
But if you want to stay extra cool and have really really cold drinks then
This is my suggestion
If you look in the freezer section
What they do is they actually take
normal drinks
like this calpis and they freeze it which is pretty amazing because one of the problems I generally have is when I buy a drink
After like less than 30 minutes it gets super super warm and you don't really want to drink it anymore
This one will stay cool, you know for like half a day now
This one is a little bit different because it's actually made to be eaten a little frozen
You can see how you're supposed to like
Open it up and eat it and it's supposed to be kind of like mekan like an orange jelly
And then they actually have some frozen pouches. So for example, they have this
Coca-cola frozen pouch lemon flavor and then they have pocari sweat. Oh, man. My hands are freezing. Yeah
I'm, basically holding ice you can see that's condensation. This one is pocari sweat, which is kind of like a sports drink
They actually call it an ice slurry
It almost sounds like you know, it has like alcohol in it
Probably will get like an ice cream headache though
And then you'll be speaking with that ice. Slurry
So there's that and then if you need some energy
They even have energy drinks like this one and it's made for being frozen and this one is actually lychee flavor
Let me just show you this energy drink. I am feeling a little bit tired
Oh my goodness
This double yeah, I see double
It's nice cold and jelly number eight salty lychee
This next one is kind of like a little hack for those summer party days
It's a salty lychee drink
It's from okinawa and it looks like just like a regular drink and it's like it's good to drink obviously
In the summer because it helps you retain fluids in the summer
but a little trick that I found out many many summers ago hanging out with some friends on the beach is that
This works out as to be the best chaser for tequila
Ever have you ever had tequila and you like have that nasty?
You usually like take a lime or lemon if you drink this after a tequila shot, it will completely
wipe away the tequila aftertaste and it is
It's kind of dangerous
It makes it it works though. It's amazing. Yeah, so i've actually had michael tried before and it works
So well, I mean I swear by this kind of sad we don't really do it this we didn't really do it this summer, right?
Not this summer. Not this summer
But when you guys do go out and you're taking a good shot
Pack one of these with you and it will be a lifesaver number nine cup of rock ice
now it comes in like different names depending on the convenience store you go to basically it's just
A plastic cup with ice inside it goes for about 100 yen. So less than a dollar
It's such a simple item, but it's such a lifesaver
You know
If you're sometimes like drinking outside in the park or whatever you bring this you put your drink inside and boom you have a cold
Drink, they're kind of hidden in the back sometimes so you don't really see them
In fact, I don't think you knew about it, right? I thought that was for the slushie like the frappuccino machines, right?
Yeah, this is like you can just go buy cups of ice and they actually have little like bigger ones that they call it like
A party block. Oh
I almost forgot the last one. I wanted to show
Everyone and number 10 cool babu. Bubba. So like I said earlier
This one is not from the convenience store. I actually got it from tokyo hands is a cooling gel
It's called cool babu babu ready for this. What's that that hair? That's the longest hair ever
That's so weird. Like I have no hair on my entire arm, except I have
one hair like this long
No, I didn't know. Okay, let me just try this with my hair and everything
We thought wow look at that it is so cold
Yeah, it's kind of like a gel
This thing is just super super cold, and it's still bubbling
You can see that just like little bubbles are popping and like the ice
is kind of
Popping itself. Oh, it feels good
Feels so nice and cooling
This is like a lot of uses for this put it around your neck if you wanted to just like so little neck scarf
Put it on your forehead
What a strange little invention right so that wraps it up
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