I'm your host, Emma.

And today I'm here with mr how you doing?

What's going on?

Nice to see you again and good to see you too.

And we're here in front of a massive pile of crackers.

Look at that beautiful.

We've come to Yokohama today to a factory called Montoya.

I'm pretty good at saying no, that keeps happening here.

No good song.

But yes.

And we're gonna be finding out how these go from start to finish from literally coming out the cooker fresh to being in this bag right before me, right here.

We're gonna give it a little tour of the factory, see how they're made.

And we have done a factory tour before we did a cookie tour last time we did, we ate all the cookies.

They were like, wait a minute, why do we let them in?

20% of our capacity is gone.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun actually.

It's really it's just really cool seeing how it's made when you eat snacks like this, you often don't think about the process that goes in to making them.

So it's gonna be a lot of fun.

I think yeah, we're gonna give a tour of the factory and today's video is sponsored by some cocoa and Tokyo treat and these crackers actually were in previous boxes for so that's why we're here.

You might have seen them before, but enough talk.

Let's go and eat all the crackers in?

Yokohama, let's do it.

Let's go crackers.

Instead of saying, right, okay, so this is where the whole process starts.

This is where they have the uncooked crackers and they're about to go through and get cooked and go into the next part.

This is where it all begins And I believe this is the last batch.

Oh, those sounds, I can't hear anything.

It's very intense in here though.

Yeah, everybody's doing their job.

There's a lot of sounds, a lot of stuff going on.

So hopefully you guys can hear us.

Okay.

I always feel a sense of guilt coming into a factory just getting in everyone's way.

Yeah.

Actually here we can see the final product and the start product, It's a lot bigger before it gets cooked and everything.

Yeah, it sort of shrinks down like it's slowly moving in.

Godspeed, beautiful.

Good luck crackers.

I believe in you.

Okay, so this is a super long oven.

It goes all the way through here and then we get to see the cooked product at the end and it's just stop for a moment.

I don't know what's going on.

So these are baked, right?

Yeah, these are baked.

Here we go.

Oh my God, Oh my God, they come through and then they felt it into these boxes down here and this guy, he's like visually looking at each individual one.

I've seen him grab them and that's like the trash pile.

I don't know what he's looking for.

Maybe broken the bad apples?

The bad ones.

Look, how can you see that many crackers at one time, like a superhero power.

Is it?

Some people can walk through wolves or fly.

Others can spot burnt crackers.

So this is before this season.

So after this, I believe the next step is right over here.

This is where the flavor gets added.

So we have a big, big fan of toys sauce right here.

Absolutely massive and they're adding soy sauce and a variety of flavors like Arashi, which is really spicy and we have here Wasabi, so more spicy and they look so amazing in the drums with all the sauce covering all the crackers.

These are so good with beer as well.

That's sort of crunchy, satisfying crunchiness for that sort of rich spiciness of the Wasabi.

I it is a lot more than I care to admit.

I stopped eating crisps and start eating this.

It's slightly healthier.

Yeah, I guess because they're baked as well.

Yeah, check that out.

I also just realized we're wearing like kind of the same outfit, not the genes, but yeah, very cool, cracker factory outfit.

Oh, actually the soy sauce is really warm.

Actually kind of dangerously warm, like really hot in that.

So I'm gonna be careful not to touch it, but it smells so good.

So sticky and sweet.

So good.

We're gonna go see inside the big oven and cooling system and he's gonna open the door for us.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

So it was that kind of thing.

So it makes it at the top.

I think that set the flavor and then gradually cools it as it goes down.

That's incredible.

It looks terrifying.

Imagine if something went wrong trying to get your hands in there.

It looks like a medieval torture device.

But I guess it keeps rolling down cooking slowly.

Right?

Yeah.

Racing it very slowly, wow, that's pretty damn cool.

It's so big.

And here we have the final product coming out of the end and I guess they're kind of stuck together so they're separating them.

Look at that beautiful.

So close to where we started from sort of a light brown to dark brown right during that process.

So they must be really hard coming out of there, gradually cooling them down so that they're ready to be boxed right over here and here's the final step of the boxing.

I mean they packaged them after this in a separate area, but here's the final step.

There's so many in a box.

I wonder how many there are.

There must be like a million tiny crackers in this room alone, easily.

A million easily.

Yeah.

Oh, this guy.

Oh my gosh!

They still walk so satisfyingly crunchy.

Such a good Oh yeah.

Oh something still stuck together.

I love that.

Very subtle spiciness to them as well.

I want to have it with a beer.

Yeah.

Is this typically a beer snacks stuff that you would have with beer.

So maybe we can grab a beer later, lunchtime.

So crunchy.

Welcome to the packing room.

This is simply put where things get packed, come on in.

This is where they package the crackers.

We've just missed it.

Say that's good.

Probably they're gonna do it again in a minute.

So in Japan, they go mad for these preservative packets, literally every food item you get in.

Japan has one of these packets in to keep the food fresh.

I find obviously we have them in the UK but we use it a lot more sparingly in Japan obsessed with and that's why the sacks tend to be generally fresher.

I think when I'm cooking, I'll accidentally put that packet in the meal as well.

So just be careful.

I'm glad I haven't gone to your house for dinner.

Okay, Apparently through this doorway they're making just sized ones.

So teeny tiny little packets for presents for people.

It's so cute.

It's individually wrapped, individual cracker.

So tiny.

So these are a different kind of cracker, Look at them, pop out the way they sort of fly out.

Very satisfying, organizing dominoes or something.

There's something very mesmerizing about watching this kind of repetitive action.

There's got to be like youtube compilations of this kind of thing.

The future of talky doggy travelers just Emma breaking into factories and watching people, I'll never get permission, packaged crackers.

So this is probably the most important machine in this factory area.

This takes the crackers, puts them in the packets, jiggles them about to get the right quantity and then seals it off from start to finish.

I just love this thing.

I never thought of a machine doing what's known as the jiggle jiggle process.

I get it.

It makes room for the air and everything.

It's great, it's great.

I need one of those.

No, I don't, Let's go around this side, have a look around here and here they come fully feel individually.

They're beautiful.

I don't know.

Usually I usually see these with like peanuts and stuff in them, but this one just the trackers which I like because I don't like peanuts.

So this is good for me.

That's it, that's your packet of crackers from start to finish.

A cracker packets.

Oh yeah.

Right, so this factory ships out crackers, not just around Japan but around the world.

We've got Guam, we've got Canada, we've got France, no England unfortunately, yet it's incredible.

The factory is a decent size.

It's not like a mega factory like we went to last time, right?

It's more traditional family run business.

But still with this factory, you can pump out an awful lot of crackers instead of an awful lot of countries.

I love coming to factories and seeing from start to finish because when you eat all these snacks.

You don't really think how the hell is is made.

Yeah, I really appreciate the process.

You do.

It takes like an hour to go from start to finish back down there in the other factory.

Right?

And it's really quite cool.

I want to start my own factory.

What do you want to make cookies?

Lots and lots of cookies.

So the other day at this factory gets shipped all over the world but it could also be shipped to you.

Yes and that's right.

And this month we've got our sponsor with a box of delicious snacks from the autumn season.

The colors of coil coil means like autumn colors.

Right?

It's my favorite time of year.

It's a very popular time of year lasting from september to november.

Right?

And yeah everything in this box is about that.

Shall we crack it?

Yes.

Yes, beautiful.

So of course there's gonna be a lot of orange and a lot of yellows because one of the most popular things to do in this season of autumn here is to go out and look at the leaves and as an Australian.

I love it because growing up in Australia it was mostly brown.

Don't have leaves in Australia, no leaves there no leaves on the trees.

But I mean I'm very lucky to live in Tohoku and this is the sort of scenery we have up there in autumn and north Japan but what do we got we have some here as well?

We have some tacos and so octopus crackers.

Maple leaf biscuits.

Mommy ji as we say in japan.

and it's like a crunchy sweet crunchy sweetie tasty thing.

It's the best way to describe that.

And of course as usual, all the snacks in here are made by local artisanal snack makers from.

So you get a little bit of taste of, you know, like a place like this, like a family owned factory.

Absolutely.

And if you want to try more stuff that you can get in any sort of convenience store in Japan.

There's also Tokyo, you want some more mainstream sweets but I'm a big fan of soccer coach.

I like trying these sort of local, authentic sweets from different parts of Japan gets my vote.

Also every month you do get a piece of table wet and this month is really cute, crack it open.

It is cute.

Oh, isn't that nice?

So nice.

The colors of autumn?

Wonderful.

Wonderful.

So let's try something.

What would you like to try?

I would like to try with my little eye.

Something beginning with this.

What is that magic with cheese, cheese cheese, interesting filling.

I'm going to go for.

I love persimmons on the sermon girl.

Yeah, I'm a persimmon kind of girl.

So I'm gonna go for a persimmon jelly.

The wrapping is so cute.

Does it taste cheesy.

I'm intrigued by the, it's very much very thick, creamy cheese.

It's so sweet.

Nice.

This is really good.

I love the flavor.

It's like not too sweet and just, I don't know, it's really good.

What I love about these authentic sweets, all the effort that goes into the branding.

It looks so cool.

Right?

It's nice.

Also with these kinds of sweets, you can enjoy it with some gin, my chat, which is brown rice roasted green tea.