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  • George: From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Burger King in Japan and the US.

  • This is "Food Wars."

  • Here's everything you can find on the menu

  • at the Burger King in Japan but not in the US.

  • Here's everything you can find at a US Burger King

  • you cannot get in Japan.

  • All right, so let's start with exclusive burgers.

  • So, here we have teriyaki lettuce burger

  • and teriyaki Whopper.

  • Ooh!

  • Huge.

  • Next we have avocado salad burger

  • and avocado Whopper.

  • Aah, a little cute baby.

  • Look at this.

  • And Whopper.

  • It's totally different.

  • This one is so huge.

  • And avocados, tomato,

  • no tomatoes.

  • I don't know why.

  • Next we have quattro cheese Whopper.

  • Oh, big boy.

  • We've got smoky barbecue Whopper

  • and smoky barbecue Whopper junior.

  • And here is spicy Whopper.

  • Ooh!

  • It's hot sauce.

  • Next, we have tartar chicken burger.

  • Ooh, it's got

  • a lot of tartar sauce,

  • chicken, crispy.

  • Burger King in Japan just released a brand-new burger

  • called Guilty Burger.

  • It's basically butter burger.

  • Why?

  • What have you done?

  • Let's check out this Guilty butter beef burger first.

  • The bun is different.

  • Itadakimasu!

  • Just a little bit of butter flavor,

  • but I don't feel as guilty as it claims.

  • This one is Guilty butter croquette sandwich.

  • Ooh.

  • Guilty!

  • And here is Guilty butter chicken burger.

  • First one is something that BK has exclu --

  • oh, my God.

  • This is called the Texas Whopper.

  • Look at the size of this f---ing thing.

  • Two patties, cheese, bacon, bunch of veggies.

  • Wait for it!

  • The triple Whopper.

  • Look at the size of this thing.

  • The weight of it has completely flattened the bottom bun.

  • And there's nothing between the patties of meat!

  • What the hell are you guys doing over there?

  • Next.

  • Oh, the Bacon King.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Looks to be pretty bacon centric.

  • Looks like a double Whopper with cheese,

  • bacon, mayo, ketchup, mustard.

  • They didn't mess with the veggies. Thank you.

  • You're not fooling anyone

  • getting lettuce and onion on that one.

  • The rodeo burger is a little guy with onion rings.

  • The rodeo burger. Yeehaw.

  • On to the chicken.

  • I'll just put this over here.

  • Japan does not have

  • what we call the original chicken sandwich.

  • And I don't know why Burger King,

  • maybe just to set itself apart,

  • the chicken sandwich is this, like, sub shape.

  • It's like I'm holding the phone.

  • This is great.

  • Chicken junior, spicy chicken junior.

  • Let's go spicy.

  • Barely registers in the spice meter.

  • Wait!

  • Yeah.

  • BKs in the US have something called the Ch'King sandwich.

  • You can get the sandwich regular or deluxe.

  • You can also get the sandwich flavor regular or spicy.

  • So here is the regular regular.

  • And as you can see,

  • just comes with sauce and pickles and the chicken.

  • You can get it deluxe and spicy,

  • so we went with deluxe, comes with all these veggies

  • that you brush off right when you start eating it,

  • and it has got a spicy kind of hue to the chicken there.

  • Here's our side menu.

  • Let's start with this one.

  • We've got hot dog.

  • It's got such a big sausage.

  • This one is chili beans hot dog.

  • And next we have this little guy,

  • snack chicken.

  • And last we have this one,

  • chili cheese fries.

  • And if you want some veggies, you can order Caesar salad.

  • But my bad, I forgot to order.

  • Also exclusives to the US are these, chicken fries.

  • As you can tell, they look like fries,

  • but they're pieces of chicken.

  • Not bad.

  • You can get Mott's applesauce.

  • Jalapeño cheddar bites.

  • I've never heard of these.

  • And now I know why.

  • Burger King in the US has two iced-coffee flavors,

  • mocha and vanilla.

  • Assuming that's the mocha.

  • Tastes exactly like chocolate milk.

  • Blech! No.

  • Oh, the aftertaste is horrible.

  • What the hell?

  • That's ridiculous how bad that is.

  • And the vanilla.

  • That is so sweet.

  • I'm gonna keep this one.

  • So, here is our dessert menus.

  • Here we have coffee float.

  • A little bit melting, sorry.

  • And we have melon soda float.

  • Coke float and Coke Zero float.

  • And here we've got premium sundae chocolate and coffee.

  • And here is our chocolate sundae

  • and strawberry sundae.

  • And my favorite is this apple pie.

  • Desserts.

  • Here in the US you can get yourself a Hershey's sundae pie.

  • Ugh.

  • This one might have got a little roughed up in transit.

  • And in the US Burger King, you can also get various shakes.

  • Here we have Oreo shake, a chocolate Oreo shake,

  • a chocolate shake, and a vanilla shake.

  • All right.

  • God, that's so good.

  • The straight-up chocolate.

  • Oh, man, this is trouble.

  • Mm!

  • Wow, Burger King's shakes are really good.

  • I'm assuming this is just the straight Oreo one.

  • Oh, my God, this is fantastic.

  • Are we all curious what a chocolate Oreo shake tastes like?

  • Wonder no more.

  • Good. This one's the best.

  • Also at a US Burger King, you can get a soft-serve cone.

  • I didn't get it,

  • only because we have no refrigeration unit here

  • and it would just be a cone with a puddle of ice cream. So.

  • Victoria, please turn me into a giant soft-serve cone.

  • So, here are our drinks.

  • Let's start with this one.

  • This one is ginger ale;

  • and Fanta melon;

  • oolong tea,

  • which is Chinese tea;

  • and orange juice.

  • And this one is Earl Grey iced tea.

  • Next we have Darjeeling tea.

  • And here is Calpis,

  • which, you guys call it Calpico in your country.

  • But in Japan we say "ka-ru pi-su."

  • I know it sounds like "cow piss" in English,

  • but if you say Calpico to Japanese people,

  • they will never understand what you're talking about.

  • So in Japan, once again, we say "ka-ru pi-su."

  • Repeat after me. "Ka-ru pi-su."

  • Very good!

  • First things you can get,

  • you can get a little orange juice guy,

  • and you can also get Capri Sun apple juice.

  • Shout-out to the pouch.

  • Burger King in the US has Coke products as well,

  • but we have something called a Coke Freestyle machine.

  • If you haven't seen it, it's this big machine

  • that has a bunch of Coca-Cola-related beverages.

  • You can mix and match them.

  • Anyway, we can get Hi-C fruit punch,

  • Hi-C pink lemonade, Fanta orange, Mello Yello,

  • Powerade Zero, Dr Pepper, Barq's, diet Barq's.

  • You can also get yourself a fat-free milk.

  • There it is.

  • Sweetened or unsweetened tea.

  • I think I got the sweetened.

  • I don't want any tea. Tea sucks.

  • We also have something called frozen Cokes.

  • That is this right here.

  • As you can see, it's been sitting for a while,

  • it's starting to separate.

  • But we have frozen Coke,

  • we also have a frozen Fanta wild cherry,

  • a frozen Fanta blue raspberry,

  • and a frozen strawberry lemonade.

  • Mm.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Japan has a few exclusives that are similar

  • but different to that in the US.

  • So, for example, this is our plant-based Whopper.

  • This burger is made from 100% soybeans.

  • Itadakimasu!

  • It's actually delicious.

  • I like it.

  • Mm.

  • When it comes to vegetarianism and veganism,

  • they are not that popular in Japan.

  • But gradually, especially the restaurants in Tokyo

  • are offering more vegan or vegetarian meals

  • because there is more Japanese people

  • and non-Japanese people who are vegan or vegetarian

  • compared to other places in Japan.

  • But overall, the vegan or vegetarian option

  • is still limited in Japan.

  • And in the US, we have the Impossible Whopper.

  • What's the difference?

  • Well, the Impossible burger has all these ingredients.

  • So as you can see, a lot more.

  • I am curious.

  • That looks like meat, right?

  • Tastes exactly like a Whopper.

  • I don't think I would notice the difference.

  • They're covering the lack of meat with, like,

  • with that char flavor that they have on there.

  • Oh, it's good.

  • In Japan, we call this burger

  • crispy chicken burger.

  • And in the US, we have the before-mentioned

  • Ch'King sandwich,

  • which comes in varieties of spicy and/or deluxe.

  • For breakfast, our hash brown comes in one big piece.

  • Whereas in the US,

  • our hash browns come in little bites.

  • And in Japan, we have this cheese bites.

  • Look at this.

  • And in the US, we have eight-piece cheesy tots.

  • And on to the US breakfast exclusives.

  • As you can see, we have a lot more going on

  • in our breakfast menu here in the US than Japan has.

  • Here in the US, you can get your breakfast sandwich

  • in biscuit or Croissan'wich options.

  • Croissan'wich is, of course, a croissant sandwich.

  • Took those two words, put them together. Croissan'wich.

  • So we have bacon, egg, and cheese;

  • ham, egg, and cheese;

  • and sausage, egg, and cheese.

  • We have two breakfast burritos.

  • The Egg-Normous breakfast burrito,

  • which I'm assuming is this one,

  • 'cause it is enormous.

  • The breakfast burrito junior.

  • Look at this little guy!

  • French toast sticks.

  • Who doesn't like French toast?

  • Finally, pancake platter with just three pancakes

  • or a pancake platter with three pancakes

  • and a side of sausage.

  • The fries at Burger King in Japan come in three sizes,

  • small,

  • medium,

  • and large.

  • Fries in the US at Burger King come in four sizes,

  • value, small, medium, or large.

  • Or maybe it's value, small, medium, large.

  • Does this look right?

  • Any of you "Food Wars" heads

  • would've seen the Burger King US vs UK episode

  • where we uncovered Frygate.

  • Two sizes had pretty much the exact same unit of fries.

  • Now, as you can see from these,

  • I can't tell which is the value and the small.

  • I'm assuming this is the medium.

  • Well, unfortunately, we cannot do that amazingly accurate

  • scientific test that we did in the last episode

  • because the fries have been compromised.

  • They all came in the same bag, and ...

  • I think they knew what we were up to

  • and they purposely dumped all the fries in the same bag

  • to contaminate the experiment.

  • You've outsmarted us this time.

  • George: Let's weigh the large fries

  • to see how much you actually get.

  • 151 grams.

  • What if we did a thing where, like,

  • whatever lands and stays on counts as it?

  • Does that seem like a fair thing to say?

  • That's really smart, what I just did there, I think.

  • It's 195 grams.

  • Let's weigh Japan's Whopper.

  • 250 grams.

  • Joe: And let us weigh our Whopper in the US.

  • Yo!

  • 270?

  • Yeah, 270 grams.

  • So pretty close. Surprisingly close.

  • If you're not feeling like having beef,

  • Burger King also has some chicken options.

  • You can order your chicken nuggets

  • in five pieces and eight pieces.

  • Here in the US, you can get your nuggets in sizes

  • of four pieces, eight pieces, or 16 pieces.

  • And it's worth noting that you can only get the 16-piece

  • online or through their app, and even if you do,

  • they still just give you two eight-pieces.

  • I don't know why either.

  • So, let's weigh eight-piece nuggets.

  • 130 grams.

  • Divide by eight equals

  • 16.25 grams per nugget.

  • I don't know if we can get as accurate of a measurement

  • for something so small.

  • So we will use this guy instead.

  • So I'll just do this and put this scale here.

  • Ah!

  • This is a bad idea.

  • Eight pieces is 104 grams,

  • divided by eight is 13 grams.

  • In Japan, we have three drink sizes,

  • small

  • and medium

  • and large.

  • In the US, we have four drink sizes.

  • Value, which only comes with a value meal;

  • small; medium; and large.

  • Now, I want to note that the US's largest drink size

  • is 112% larger than Japan's largest drink.

  • Now, what's the biggest meal

  • you can get in Japan's Burger King?

  • Over here, it's the King Meal.

  • [singing "Circle of Life"]

  • The King Meal ranges anywhere

  • from 790 to 990 yen

  • depending on the burger you choose.

  • It has your choice of an avocado Whopper,

  • double cheeseburger, or Whopper.

  • We chose the double cheeseburger,

  • which comes with small fries,

  • five-piece nuggets,

  • medium Coke, and apple pie.

  • And in the US, currently our single biggest menu item

  • at a Burger King is the $30 Ultimate Party Bundle.

  • Now, you could only order this party bundle

  • through the BK app, and it includes two Whoppers,

  • two double cheeseburgers,

  • two original chicken sandwiches,

  • two eight-piece chicken nuggets,

  • four small fries, and four small drinks.

  • And it costs:

  • $30.

  • In Japan, a Whopper cheese set,

  • it costs around 890 yen, or $7.80 US.

  • Whereas in the US, the same meal

  • with a small fry and drink is $9.29,

  • or 1,059.65 Japanese yen.

  • What about the medium?

  • You get that with the medium fry and medium drink,

  • it's $10.29,

  • or 1,173.71 Japanese yen.

  • What about the large?

  • Poof! Hey, there it is, right in front of me.

  • Large fries and drink, $11.29,

  • or 1,287.78 Japanese yen.

  • Let's look at calories.

  • In Japan, a Whopper is 676 calories.

  • The calories aren't too bad,

  • but watch out for the sodium levels.

  • One Japan Whopper is 113%

  • of your daily recommended amount of sodium.

  • Too much!

  • In the US, our Whopper is 667 calories.

  • Both Whoppers are pretty comparable

  • in most of the categories,

  • but there's one statistic that really stands out,

  • the salt content.

  • The sodium level in Japan's Whopper is 122% higher

  • than that in the US.

  • Let's make that a meal.

  • A Whopper with large fries and a large Coke

  • is 1,323 calories.

  • And the same meal in the US is 1,680 calories,

  • so a lot more.

  • Now, a big portion of the calories

  • actually come from the large Coke.

  • The US's is roughly 182% more calories

  • than that of Japan's.

  • Let's look at the highest-calorie sandwich

  • at Japan's Burger King.

  • The double Whopper cheese is here.

  • Eating one of these is already half of your daily calories

  • and a little over your daily recommended protein.

  • The main thing to watch out for here is the sodium,

  • which is 152% of your daily recommended value.

  • Whereas in the US, our highest-calorie sandwich

  • is the spicy chicken deluxe sandwich, seen here.

  • If you're worried about your health,

  • steer clear of this one.

  • The fat content is 190% your daily allowance,

  • and the sodium is over 200% of your daily allowance.

  • Yikes.

  • As I mentioned earlier,

  • the biggest menu item is the King Meal.

  • If you get it with a double bacon cheeseburger,

  • the total calories are 1,329.

  • That's 66% of your daily calories.

  • And, of course, the $30 Ultimate Party Bundle,

  • which is 8,903 calories,

  • or 445% your daily

  • caloric allowance.

  • Burger King in Japan doesn't disclose

  • the exact ingredients,

  • but it does disclose where the ingredients come from

  • and where they're finished processing.

  • For example, the Whopper beef patties

  • are sourced from Australia, New Zealand, and Europe,

  • but they are processed in Australia,

  • Japan, and Austria.

  • Burger King in the US is pretty vague

  • when it comes to its ingredients.

  • They don't disclose a comprehensive list anywhere.

  • At the end of 2020,

  • Burger King permanently banned 120 artificial flavors

  • from their menu, including aluminum,

  • yellows 1 through 5, BHA, and BHT.

  • Here's the complete list.

  • It was actually a lot of stuff.

  • Good for you guys.

  • Ow!

  • Naotomo: Simba!

  • Simba!

George: From calorie count to portion sizes,

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