and we have a busy day today

First we are gonna go... I hope the first thing we are doing is the lunch!

Because I'm starving!

Oh my god I'm so hungry right now

I only ate those little oranges, that's it

We were editing our vlogs this morning so we didn't have time to get ready

So we rushed to get here, it's like 3pm now

So yeah we're going to have some Japanese kaiseki lunch

It's kind of a fancy Japanese lunch, so I'm excited for that. Never done that before!

And then we are going to do some sword fighting!

They're gonna teach us how to sword fight

and we're actually gonna cut some stuff, with real swords

It's gonna be quite a long vlog I think

So grab a cup of tea and some cookies, and I hope you guys enjoy this!

Yay! We found the person that we were here to meet!

We met her and we're gonna head to sword fighting

It looks like sword fighting is first

We're gonna get some food from the convenience store

Because I'm so hungry and I think if I try to do any form of exercise right now

I would just fall over and die

Onigiri~ onigiri~ onigiri~

Whoa they've got some weird onigiri

I really like the tuna one~ where is it?

Here we go

If you're ever looking for tuna onigiri

Oh this one has English on it, but they call it "sea chicken"

But it's not chicken, it's tuna

Oh those ones look good too

Have you ever seen this?

Yeah weird eh? It's like a lasagna onigiri

Okay, sushi and onigiri

I got some tea so I guess I don't need a drink

Ooo the strawberry milk tea is back!

They bring it back every winter, it's really really yummy

So we just got changed, this is what we're wearing

We're inside the dojo right now

It looks like there's lots of other people practicing here

It should be interesting to watch them

Check out this place!

There's samurai armor

This place is awesome!

This is so much cooler than my dojo in Canada

Look, they gave us a present!

It's some kind of calligraphy towel, so I'll take a look at that later

Rolling up these bamboo mats and we're going to cut them!

with the swords later! Hopefully! If we do it properly

Holding it like this is no good

It's better to hold it like a golf club

There should be about 1 or 2 fingers of

space between your hands

We're actually gonna cut this in a minute

First we need to imagine how we're going to cut it

First bring the sword to the point you will cut

Then breathe in and breathe out

In through your nose and out through your mouth

Looks good!

But the angle is wrong

The angle is a little wrong

But you cut it so YAY

The angle isn't the same as your kimono right?

You want it to match your kimono, so about there

That was very cool

Beautiful

They wear this when they're going to fight

They fight wearing this?

They wear this during preparations before battle

It's really detailed with gold and super pretty

It's the real version of what we wore when we did the samurai photoshoot

You did great cutting with the sword

So I'd like to present you with this certificate

You completed the Ryuohryu seminar

November 21, 2015 - Congratulations!

We are all finished the sword practice!

That was lots of fun!

I did kungfu in Canada for like 4 years

I haven't done martial arts in a while so it was really cool to get back into it

I'm really really happy that I actually cut the tatami

Because that would have been really sad if I couldn't have cut it for my video

I was able to do it! It was pretty difficult

The sword was really heavy and my arms started to get really tired

I was really scared I was gonna drop the sword so I held on really tight

But YAY I did it!

Now we're in the station buying tickets

We're gonna take the train to a close by station and go have some dinner!

Some fancy dinner~

You guys often ask me if there's English in the stations

For the most part (if not always) there's English directions

and the names of the stations

We just arrive at the restaurant and this is what the table setting looks like

It's super fancy and the chefs are right behind the counter here

So we get to watch them make everything

Just a little just a little

Cheers!

This is such a little restaurant

There are 4 seats at the counter here

And there's one more room in the back with two tables

That's it, it's really small and private, it's nice

We serve kaiseki cuisine, which is a Japanese traditional food

It was born out of the tea ceremony in the 16th century

As you can see, they speak English here! The chef also speaks English

And they give you an explanation here of everything that you're going to eat

So that's also very cool

At this restaurant you can choose to get the vegetarian course, which we did

So they won't use any fish or meat

All the soup stocks will be made with probably konbu, instead of the fish soup stock

So yay! That's good to know for lots of you guys who are vegetarian

Yum this looks good

So this is steamed mushrooms with carrots and other vegetables

and there's a little bit of wasabi

Itadakimasu!

It's really light and fluffy

That was a lot of wasabi!

So here's a list of all the things we're going to eat today

The one we just had now was steamed mushroom with grated turnip and other vegetables

Next is sushi! Yay!

Sashimi

Some more mushrooms it looks like

Wild rice with yuzu miso, that sounds good!

Some kind of sorbet

Fried potatoes... Ooo fried tofu! Yes!

Looking forward to that one!

Sushi of myoga

Sweet potato dumpling

Gingko nuts

Wow it's so pretty

Ground cherry

Egg yolk pickled in miso

Wow it really looks like sashimi!

That's so cool!

So traditionally the third dish would be sashimi

But because this is the vegetarian version, they made some vegetable sashimi for us

It really looks like fish actually

This is really similar to fish

That tasted so much like sashimi

Not so much the flavour, but just the texture

And it was chilled... so it really really felt like we were eating fish!

If you're vegan or vegetarian and you wanna try something Japanese style

and you wanna try sashimi, I really recommend trying that!

I'm not sure if there's any other restaurants you can get something like that

It seems like something super fancy that maybe only a place like this would have

But it was so cool and yummy!!

And all made of vegetables!

This is dobinmushi, simmered food in a teapot

Mushrooms, gingko nuts and honewort

I wonder what that is... I don't know

Mmm it smells so nice

Next, please drink the soup

Pour the soup into here

Baked stem of wild rice (makomo) with yuzu miso paste

Aww that's cute

The stem? And then the rice is like up here somewhere?

Wow, I've never eaten that before!

But it's a different kind of rice

Ahh a special kind

It's really nice! I've never had that before

Mmm it's really sweet!

It's kind of similar to corn

So next is a citrus sorbet

Sour! It's really sour!

The purpose of this... one sec I can't talk

So the purpose of that one was to clear your palate

So the tastes from the food that we were eating before that don't interfere with the next ones

It worked! It tastes very citrusy, and clean

The producers of the ingredients

He met them and took photos

That's so nice

This is tempura! It has crispy rice on the outside

and tempura mushroom as well

Yessss I love fried tofu!

This is fried tofu of corn

I don't know what that means, maybe the outside is corn flour possibly?

And then it's got a thick starchy sauce made from arrowroot

So the tofu itself has corn mixed inside of it it looks like, it's yellow

If you've ever had the Japanese corn soup, it tastes just like that

Really sweet and yummy! This is really good!

Makomo (rice stem) and mushrooms

This is my favourite part of the meal

The miso soup and rice

It looks so good

Mmmm yum!!

This is vegetarian miso soup so it's not made with fish broth

Wow this looks yummy!

Can you see it? It's like matcha

Yes~ my favourite part of the meal

Pumpkin dumpling

Oooh pumpkin~

Anko (red bean paste) inside

Yum~ these are my favourite kind of sweets

Hey do you guys remember what this utensil is called?

I talked about it in my wagashi video

Bonus points if you remember!!

Avoid the front. Sometimes the front has a beautiful design

So please avoid it to keep this place clean

So like this, turn it twice and then you can drink it

When you drink the last drop, please drink it with a slurping sound

It means "I drink it deliciously - even the last drop"

Yay matcha! I haven't had matcha in a long time so I'm excited for this

Elevator of doom~ literally can only fit two people in here

And it goes so slowly! I'm surprised we made it to the first floor alive

Alright guys, we are finished and super full!

The food was really really delicious!

And all super healthy!

So I don't feel bad about eating so much

Because it was mostly vegetables

The dessert at the end was so good!

So we're gonna catch a taxi home now

Time to go home and edit this vlog I guess

See you guys later!

Hey guys, I'm back home now

I'm just gonna edit the vlog from today right now

and get it ready, and then I'll put subtitles on it

So it'll probably take me a while to get it up

These are all other videos that I'm working on right now that haven't been completed yet

This pokemon centre tour video will probably be up before this vlog

So I'm gonna do that and then go to sleep

Hope you enjoyed this vlog, please give me a thumbs up if you did!

and I will see you soon! Bye!

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