*MARTINA SOLO*

S: That's a totally different song M: What are you talking about? That's the tl;dr

S: at the end of that. It just goes

*SIMON SINGING*

M: I mean, I made the song. So I think I know how it goes

S: I think you're wrong M: I think you're wrong

*FIGHT*

S: So one of our favorite parts of traveling, whenever we go to another country is making a stop at a supermarket

S: I know this sounds super lame... M: Hop on the fun train! S: ...we just love every single country on to

S: We always want to see what the groceries are M: Yep

S: what do people eat in that country and it's definitely one of our top destinations in every country visit. M: We're going to Paris

M: Get our stuff from the grocery store! S: Gotta go to a supermarket!

We're going to Italy! M: Grocery Store! S: yeah that sounds very lame

but it's very important to who we are and I think it's so important because

We've lived in three different countries now, and that number is likely to increase in the future and we always try to imagine

What it's like living somewhere else

So today we want to help you out a little bit by telling you what the prices of groceries are in Japan

M: So there are a range of grocery stores available in Japan. They are like the super cheap discount ones like the Lawson 100

There are also cheap ones like Seyu which used to be Walmart's interesting. S: Mhm yeah M: then there are like average grocery stores like

S: LIFFFFE M: LIFFEE

M: The actual name of the grocery store

Then you have expensive ones that are kind of open 24 hours that are kind of pricey and.. S: Like Maruetsu

M: Yeah

and then there's the like luxury super expensive one S: Like Kinokuniya

and also in the subways you might see an (Atrye?) and those are really expensive. M: Yes

S: In this video we're going to a mid-range one. I don't even know the name of the grocery store we go to but it's the big one

That's close to City Hall. It's got the most stuff

It's an easy bike ride for us because we ride our bikes to grocery stores

*RAINS IN BACKGROUND* even during typhoons

*pans up to see Martina*

M: That's right. Even though there is Japan's 24th

Typhoon on the way...us and many other people in Japan are over the rain on their bicycles

I don't wanna hear

ANYBODY complain about having to get in their car and go five minutes on the street with a huge trunk

You can get like a limitless amount of supplies. We have TWO baskets and an extra basket

and that's all we can put so sometimes we buy toilet paper we go

*shrugs*

S: Well that's it M: Well that's it that's all~that's all we can fit

M: There are Costco's available in Japan BUT we don't have a car and we don't have a big enough fridge

S: We usually go grocery shopping every two days. So we like to buy a lot of fresh produce and we'll work with that

We don't go out to eat all the time, even though you see our videos we're going out to restaurants

M: Yeah S: Most of times we cook at home

S: So a while ago we did a video about breakfast in Japan and we showed you all those things

But we didn't actually discuss the prices

So we're gonna go over some of the things that we had in there and how much that cost

M: And don't worry for those of you that do not eat things like fish for breakfast

We also priced out a bunch of things that would be an average meal that you might have

We asked you guys on our YouTube community page what was like a go-to meal?

You guys might make so we kept in mind the answers that you guys gave us to try to give you an idea of what

It would cost to reproduce that in Japan

*Ka-ching!* M: So we're gonna be talking in terms of yen

S: Japanese yen M: That's the pricing in Japan

100 Japanese yen is around 90 cents American OR a dollar 15 Canadian

S: The easiest way for you to think of it is a 100 yen equals one dollar and then you could gauge it however you want

S: So let's talk about rice. Rice in Japan is actually a little bit expensive

Supposedly a lot of people are buying import rice instead of domestic rice M: FOR SHAME

S: because it's so expensive here in Japan

So a 5 kilogram bag is roughly 2,400 yen, give or take a hundred yen

Now for us whenever we have breakfast usually fill one of these Scoopies, which is 160 grams, that's enough for the two of us

So according to the math there are 62.5 servings of this per five kilogram bag

Which roughly turns out to be 38.4 yen per person

So roughly 40 cents and that you're gonna see how much it adds up into our breakfast altogether

M: Oh, you're gonna give them the full breakdown S: I'm gonna give you the full breakfast price

M: but just for the breakfast just~ S: Just for the breakfast! M: the rest of this stuff

gonna be like 3 bucks for pasta sauce! S: I can't do this much math. It's too much

M: So on our white rice, we usually do a chopped fatty tuna or more commonly we get these little tiny pieces of salmon

It's kinda like THE breakfast thing EVERYONE does in Japan S: Mhm

M: and for two pieces it cost 356 yen so it's about a 178 yen per serving.

S: We also do eggs with ours we each have one fried egg on top, which is

288 yen for a dozen or 24.8 yen per egg.

M: Wow, you're really going for it. S: I am and you'll see the whole math at the end

M: We'll each get half an avocado, which is 138 yen per avocado. YES~You heard that right

It's about 69 yen per serving S: when it comes to miso soup. We get a bag

That's usually a 188 yen for 21 grams

Which turns out to be 8.95 yen per serving

M: you can make it a lot cheaper. I have a recipe in the info box if you'd like to know how to make it

But we've been L A Z Y lately and we have not been making my homemade miso soup

Which I probably should get back to doing because it's so much cheaper

S: SO much cheaper

M: We buy a package of roasted nori

Which is seaweed and there are these little tiny individual slices that are perfect for scooping and it's around 500 yen per container

S: There are 80 pieces in the container which turns out to be

6.22 yen per piece and we roughly have something like eight pieces a meal or so

So we're gonna say 49.8 yen per meal. Yes. I am THAT specific

S: For our side dishes we usually get some cucumbers. M: Yep S: and some eggplant

Lately we've been making our own eggplant, but I didn't calculate the cost of that.

For the cucumbers are 198 yen, for the eggplant it's roughly 298 yen

every package has around like four servings in it

so that turns out to be 49.5 yen for the q-keys and 74.5 yen for the eggplant

FOR A GRAND TOTAL of each of us 492.95 yen PER person for our breakfast.

M: You want to make miso soup every morning from scratch?

S: Nah I'm want you to make me the cucumbers gurl M: Ohhhhhh, it's all about these

M: CU CU MBERS! S: MAKE THEM CUCUMBERS!!!

M: So cheap supermarket whole bean coffee is around

500 yen for 200 grams and I have no idea how long it's been sitting there for

Or you can get a more expensive one 180 grams costs around

548 yen. We don't actually buy our beans from the grocery store. S: No

Voiceover M: (you might be saying to yourself right now? Ah~well these two are coffee snobs...and to that I respond...

You know what, shame on you. Shame on you for thinking that

just because we look like typical hipsters

You would somehow also think that we are coffee snobs when the reality is

We are 100% Absolutely

We are coffee snobs. Yep, you're profiling was absolutely correct

*pause* And I make my own cocktails >.

M: if I'm gonna be spending like 6 bucks on 180 grams

I'm gonna be going to a local shop and buy their coffee from there. They usually start around like

348 yen up to much higher prices depending on the kind you're getting

*Martina talking about coffee* Voiceover M: (Ugh I mean she is going on AND on and on.

is that a shoveling motion?? At this point are we still talking about coffee???

Because I don't know what that's supposed to mean!?)

S: On average it costs us 500 yen for a 100 grams of beans

In the morning we wind up making a French press out of that and that gives us two big cups of coffee

For 50 grams of beans like which ya see something M: like this bigboy cups S: Something like this

S: So that turns out to be roughly 125 yen per cup

M: That's pretty good. S: That's not bad I think

M: that's actually way cheaper than what you would get in Tokyo.

M: The cheapest cup of coffee that I've had from a like bean roasted place was just recently when we went to

M: HANANAMEIYAMA???? (Oh boi I don't even know where to start Dx)

M: Hanaaaaaaai.... S: HANAINAIDAMA?? M: Hamaynai? S: Hamadayama?

M: Hamadayama? Is that it?

S: Yeah Hamadayama M: Hamadayama? S: it's Yama is mountain and ham is ham.

S & M: So it's the Ham in the mountian?

M: Hamadayama S: Yes M: I got a couple- S: HAM of the MOUNTAIN

M: Ham of the mountain S: HAM a DEI YAMA

M: Hamadayama! (Oh gosh that's probably all wrong Dx)

S & M: We went to Hamadayama and we bought some beans

M: and I got a $2 cup of coffee S: OH!

M: Yeah, it was really cheap, but it was a tiny tiny cup and if I make like this much

M: Hey, how about for those tea drinkers out there? S: ughhhhhhhh

M: WAHTS WRONG WITH THAT I have a *shows teabag*

S: Tea is just like diet...flavored stuff

M: It's delicious. S: It's not it's just if I want to have an apple

I'm gonna have the actual taste of an Apple by eating it rather than diluted water apple crap.

S: Sorry M: That was really...I mean here's went off on it didn't he. S: I mean tea is just like the flavored water

episode that we did M: No it's not it's delicious! S: Yes it is except like this is hotter

M: This is decaf chai tea and it has cinnamon and nutmeg and like

star ansie and like all these other magical.

M: Anyhow~ S: How much does tea cost? M: 25 bags of normal tea costs around 258 yen

which is like 10 yen per serving S: Right M: and an import tea's gonna be 20 bags at 398 yen

S: Tea's disgusting M: Okay well one day

you learn not to be barbarian. S: *GASP* That's right, I said it

M: Also, big shout out thank you to you guys

for sending us so many coffee beans from around the world, because. S: Yes!

S: Remember that huge box that we did that had like 30 or 40 different boxes of beans

We just finished it M: We JUST finished and we had them for over a year

M: So thank you to Take Flight coffee

This is not a sponsored video. But this is the final remaining bag and it's decaf

*Simon and Martina laughs* S: I don't even know what to do with it M: We're like I don't know what to do. You hold it! You hold it!

S: THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!!!

S: So for other breakfasts stuff for example milk you can get a carton for

238 yen, and that's for 900 milliliters. Interestingly though soy milk is a lot cheaper.

It's 198 yen for a 1000 milliliters THERE YOU GO soy milk is cheaper than regular milk

M: But once delicious you see and one is made from taking beans and squeezing them in a nut sack

S: So for me, I usually wind up using the soy milk after a workout. I workout three or four times a week

I know you could tell, can't you

M: Ooh, how did you get so firm. S: Stop it. Okay. So I usually have bananas usually around 158 yen for four or

39.5 yen per banana a little bit of soy milk in there. I have some protein powder

I don't buy in the grocery stores out here

I actually get it imported because I've researched a good one that I like and that is usually

$71 US *sigh* but it'll last me a while at least yoghurt and that runs at 208 yen for a 400 gram container

I usually do a couple tablespoons of that frozen blueberries are

275 yen for 200 grams. (M: So expensive) I only put in like 10 blueberries

So I'm not gonna do the math for how much a whole protein shake costs. I've already done enough math for this video , we're good

M (voiceover): and let's take a break from this video and go for a tour of a Japanese grocery store

Take it away ~

*funky music*

S: Almond milk is really expensive M: pricy. You can get other almond milks in different places like specialty marts, but at our grocery store

There was no almond milk until recently. An almond milk is 428 yen per a thousand milliliter

Which I think is pretty expensive S: Now when it comes to like other vegan options

I remember when we were in LA. We actually saw like just a supermarket we went into. They had like tofu burgers and like vegan burritos

We don't have those here in Tokyo. They might be somewhere, I haven't seen them in any of the supermarkets that we go to

Now with your three different milks you can have cereal which is roughly 275 yen for 240 grams

They are very small little bags of cereal M: They are about this big yeah

S: and the selection is very very slim

M: We went back to Toronto, we were in the grocery store

And so the way that we walk through like the ramen aisle or the rice aisle in Japan which is huge with like the cereal aisle and some of these boxes were like just like

M: Thick S: Family size so you have regular size, which is a monster and then you have family size

But the point of cereal is not that common here and we barely ever eat it. M: Yeah S: sometimes though

we do have granola with our yogurt and this is only when we feel like splurging because

This is our little thing of granola right here

M: Fruits and seeds S: Just fruits and seeds M: and theres no like cereal bits in it

S: It's 480 grams and we pay 1600 yen for this M: That's 16 bucks