Let's head right here.

Alright, so now that we're in, I kinda want to get wider and smoother shot, so we're going to switch over the GoPro.

Alright, so we're sacrificing a little audio quality but we'll get a wider view and I can really introduce the shop to you guys this way.

Alright, so starting with the vegetable second section and with sherry as our guide?

Any major differences between north american supermarkets?

I think the size of potatoes?

Yeah, I've noticed japanese potatoes tend to be a little bit, you don't really get like full sized potatoes like you do in north America.

What else?

Eggplants, eggplants in japan.

Yeah, yeah.

How big our eggplants in north America.

Well I don't know if they're that big but they're pretty big.

Yeah, this is something that always surprises non japanese people.

This tiny little watermelon for like $10.

You've never seen them.

You can actually buy these at festivals sometimes.

Yeah, does this designate the color that the inside is going to be?

Oh now you mention it?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, so if you come to japan and you're trying to figure out whether the melon is orange inside or green inside, that's how you know something that I wish we had back in.

Canada was like an entire section just for kimchi, are you a kimchi fan?

Pickled foods?

This entire section here is basically just pickled foods.

So they got like a pickle that daikon, pickled carrot, pickled cucumber, I literally couldn't remember the word for cucumber for a second.

Like as I said that I was panicking, this is something that you never see north America.

What is this, you, my bolshy, what in the world is full.

She pickled plums and they're pickled with, she saw there's one very controversial food in Japan that like people are very divided on.

Some people love it and other people just hate it NATO.

She hates it.

All of this right here is natto and for those of you who don't know what NATO is, not only is basically fermented soybeans, they kind of stink, they're gooey, they're definitely gooey is the worst.

Thank you buddy, We always get this type of NATO at school lunch and I hated it more than anything, I did not know that.

So this is the school lunch style of NATO.

There we go in these types of packages, wow, I, I never knew that.

One of the rare things that actually like I can't forgive about Japan and it's the tiniest, most petty thing ever.

But it's this, what is this supposed to be sherry?

Except it's pre cooked, it's pretty, you can eat it just like that.

So when you cook it, it just kind of turns into like ham on a frying pan rather than bacon.

Now on that note, you can get bacon in japan.

It's just, you've got to go to places like Costco or international supermarkets.

Don't trust this stuff that says bacon, you'll probably end up with heartbreak and disappointment.

Shall we head into one of the aisles?

Just see what it looks like an entire section here, just for no tea or seaweed if you will.

All of this over here is like miso.

And then all around here we have soups and over here we have a foodie cake, which if you haven't figured out by the picture, you can just kind of shake this onto white rice and add some flavor to your rice.

Um here we have Dashi Dashi, I guess the easiest way to explain, it would be super bass.

Yeah, it's like a fish filets, broth.

It's basically broth so funny story about, does she one of the very first times I ever tried to make miso soup.

I literally just mixed miso and water and I was like something's missing Dashi, you need the dash.

So if you're trying to make miso soup, if you have miso dashi and water, you're pretty much good to go.

You can also add things like tofu and all that.

But among the many reasons that I love this particular supermarket assigned from prices and everything like that is the fact This one is open 24 hours.

So if you're staying in a Saxon and you're looking for like a late night snack or drink or you just need to grab some stuff.

This place is not sponsored by the way, I just like this supermarket.

This entire section here is just like snacks and candies.

All these are gummies, Japan does a lot of this like these interconnect herbal gummies, have you seen this?

You've never seen this?

These are like gummy of the year right here.

One of the other things that makes say you're really good is they have a fairly large selection of chocolates.

They have Twix bars.

They got Milky Way.

Okay, if you had to choose one.

Japanese chocolate to be your favorite out of what you see here, what would you choose, wow, she went right for?

Yes, Black Thunder.

Oh this is like a very close second for me.

I would probably go with either the almond or the macadamia nuts.

I really like these.

This is a really popular section right here, The curry section.

A lot of these.

So some of them are like blocks of curry which you've actually got to melt down and cook.

But a lot of them are just like packets of curry which kind of looks like this inside And you just heat them up, you tend to just put them in a pot of water just like this and then chop up some veggies and pour it over rice.

I'm just gonna go around the corner here for almost 10 years.

This was my local supermarket which is why I've chosen to show it now that I've moved out of the area.

Have you ever done online shopping like supermarket?

No, I wanted to but then my area is out of service really countryside living.

I guess that's another point for Tokyo in our constant competition between which one is better.

This entire section here is japanese chips and snacks.

Do you have a favorite chip?

Okay, so like a brand of chips.

So do you like this like salt flavor?

Do you like the console flavor?

Are you like a fan of like the flavor?

Yeah, I don't, this is the Umebayashi that we showed earlier on in the video but over here is my personal favorite section.

The coffee section And it's because I love these little like one cup pour over coffees right here.

I don't think I ever saw those in Canada the US when you were in the States.

Did you see this?

No, actually now you mention it, yeah.

Mind you, I wasn't the biggest coffee fan when I lived back in Canada, so I might have just missed it.

But you can literally just, just like that, just pour over one cup of coffee, like the single serving drip coffees.

I love that.

There's an entire section for T over here cookies and chocolate pie.

Did you ever have moon pies while you were in the States?

What?

Okay, I'm moving on.

This is the cereal section, which is nothing shy of disappointing.

Do you miss the serial sections smooth?

Um get frosted flakes and you get like the honey bunches of oats style stuff.

This is actually my first time to see this Hershey choco bits, is it good?

I think I might be buying this and bringing it home today.

We're still kind of in the snack area.

This is one of the more popular like snack.

You're laughing.

Yeah, this is, this is the really okay, that's this for us.

Where there's original was like the snack that your grandma or grandpa would give you, you'd go over to their house, there would be a bunch of a bowl.

So you're saying that the Morinaga caramels are like, this entire area right here is basically like nuts and fish snacks.

You get some beef jerky which in Japan is fairly heavily priced for a larger bag of beef jerky like this, you're looking at like 760 yen.

And yeah, if you just, if you were like, you know what I'm in the mood for, I'm just in the mood for three whole squids.

Well then this is clearly the product for you and these are actually really good.

Have you had the curry since these are curry flavored CNB and they're just spectacular.

The entire section here is really good.

Really popular.

They didn't even let me finish the sentence, didn't even give me the chance.

These here, capitan are insanely popular amongst japanese people.

They do alright now onto this section over here which is the alcohol section and while I think alcohol sections are vary from country to country, there's one major thing that I want to show that is mind blowing.

Okay, so a little bit of a story.

When I first came to Japan, I came into a supermarket around here and I found a big old bottle of vodka for like, like I think seven or $8 and I bought two of them and went back home and my roommate was like, wow, do you like vodka?

And I was like, not really, but it was on sale, he's like, how much was it?

I was like, it was like 800 yen and he's like, dude, that, that's not a sale, that's just Japan price, example, this $8 bottle of blended whisky in Canada, You're probably looking at at least $30.

That's like a starting price for alcohol.

Yeah, the beer in Canada is cheap, But liquor especially is expensive.

This is four L of whiskey For $33.

It's got a handle to.

And recently they're kind of getting into making these like craft style beers like this kidding.

Grand I.

P.

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This only is really good.

If you're into like an I.

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Or craft beer type of stuff.

I really recommend that one.

Have you ever tried the red I.

No, no, no, it's basically tomato juice and beer mixed together.

Which sounds terrible.

Which is why I originally bought it.

It was spectacular.

I am all about this kahan right here like chinese fried rice.

All you do is microwave it and you're good to go.

But do be forewarned that when you microwave this, it goes down to about one third the size it originally was.

Yeah.

So that like that entire bag is like one serving.

It looks like, oh, there's a couple of no, no.

I would be remiss if I didn't point out like one or two of my favorite ice creams.

Kulish.

That's just, it's like, it's just a bag of ice cream right there last year though, Japan went through this huge chocolate mint obsession.

You remember that every shop everywhere, everything with chocolate mint.

So if you're looking and trying to figure out if the cheese you've picked is cheaper, expensive.

Look at the grams versus yen.

If it's fairly close to 100 g per 100 yen, then you've got a really good deal.

Okay, you know, we're going to switch cameras for a second.

This entire section here is for prepackaged japanese bentos which are all fairly reasonably priced.

Like this one here is a fairly hefty bento.

It is, it's like four bucks.

There's an entire thing over here with just tempura.

One of the things that I like that.

I don't think a lot of people know about these areas is that usually around seven p.m. To nine p.m. All these foods get discounted sometimes by like a dollar, sometimes half off.

But if you're coming to a japanese supermarket later at night, like 789 P.

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Head right over to like the pre cooked foods aisles because they've got to get rid of it back on the other camera for a second because now we are at the sushi section and I just, I love the sushi section, especially when it all gets discounted.

I'm not even really a soy milk drinker, but they have all these different flavors.

Like they have a coffee flavored soy milk, cocoa flavored soy milk, banana flavored ones.

There's almond flavored ones there's ice cream flavored ones.

These flavor the ones are good.

But like someone if you compare like north american soy milk and then like japanese soy milk american ones is sweet, this green one here is sweet, but if you get like the straight up plain one, it is unsweetened and it's almost painful to drink it, I would say.

Yeah, it really does.

In this aisle here, there's something that I know that sherry is going to be super excited about.

Yeah, skippy peanut butter extra chunky.

But since we're on the topic of peanut butter, there's something I think they need to know about sherry and the japanese, peanuts butter, which doesn't look anything like peanut butter or what japanese called peanut cream.

What in the world is peanut cream?

It looks like jello inside though.

Yeah.

Yeah, I made a mistake of buying this long time ago.

If you want an interesting culinary experience in japan, maybe try this out if you want peanut butter's stay away from it.

Yeah, it's cheap.

It's Only 98 yen.

While most Japanese supermarkets do not have a self checkout option, say you actually does in case you're wondering, these actually do have the option to switch them over into English.

And as soon as you do that, not only does this all turn into english, but it just sounds like you're in walmart in north America.

Welcome.

Please scan your first item and just because it's kind of part of the cultural experience.