There are 3 different legal classifications of Ice Cream in Japan. The classification needs to be clearly added onto the packaging. The frozen treat is required to have a minimum percentage of cream/milk depending on which of the 3 categories it falls under. The best is "アイスクリーム", literally ice cream. This is the quality ice cream that you were probably expecting. It tends to be the most expensive but highest quality. Next is "アイスミルク" literally ice milk. It has a higher content of milk in it than cream. "ラクトアイス", literally lacto ice. As you mentioned it is good for the summer heat, but it's more ice than it is dairy. You can easily check the katakana on the packaging to easily figure out the category/quality of the frozen treat.

A colab with every priestress of every temple in Tokyo in 24h

Ah yes, Coolish. Pete Donaldson's favourite thing to bring up in the Abroad in Japan podcast.

Fazer chocolate is GOATED

Jumankeuta, Suomi mainittu! ...anyway, love the videos, especially the editing and the weird blocking. The random Estonian always activates my neurons 'cause it sounds so much like Finnish.

Hell yeah, Fazer chocolate is the best, especially the classic blue (full Finnish bias) I've had Kalev as well, and its pretty good too!

Fazer mentioned. Torille!

How this man manage to stay thin and hot is beyond me

I salute you my fellow bread freezer o7

I am an American who knows the taste you are talking about, though I have only noticed it in the taste of M&M's in levels I considered noteworthy. I don't always taste it when eating american chocolates, but it blows my mind we add a chemical from spoiled things to a food for *reasons* but don't allow unpasteurized milk.

If the end was a warning I am worried for the person collabing with Mudan. Well, either way I'm excited to see the collab!

Mudan I didnt even realize your video yesterday was 40 minutes long until i got halfway through and was like hmm this is a suspicious amount of mudan im getting 😭anyways its really sweet that mudan is collabing with smaller creator groups like trash taste to give them the boost they need

0:25 greggs socks keeping those stinky grippers warm

fazer mainittu

Try out the local sauna culture, also known as bathing. There are at least couple of old school public sentō bath houses in Asakusa. Akebonoyu has an ok looking exterior façade for the vlog shot. Interiors look mostly the same in every old school sento. Obviously filming might be a bit tricky. You need to be there when no one else is, to even have a chance at filming some b-roll. If you go and film guerilla style, not asking permission (witch I recommend as asking for permission is a hassle and you will most likely be turned down. But it's kind of ok to film if there is no one in the bath or in the changing room. Right?) you can't really do vlog shots inside cause the cashier is close enough to hear you speaking... alone... to your self... in a bath. 🤐 But obviously filming in a bathhouse is still technically breaking the rules, even if there is no one in there. And sometimes viewers seem to be stickler for rules here on KZfaq.

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Man do I enjoy knowing there will be a video that I will enjoy watching every day. Thanks man!

Always nice to see mudan upload

Hey Mudan! Thanks for the content, I look forward for it everyday! Even though I miss on some days, I watch the ones I missed on the next day.

One Cup Sake + Famichiki Potato Chips = Godly Combination ❤😂

I was addicted to both the vanilla coolish & the mochi ice cream you showed. Both are so amazing

:D Can't wait to try some next month! Thanks for the info

Love to see this so i know what to get when visiting Japan

You should pick a random train station off the map (maybe select a line like chuo line) and go there! The areas directly surrounding most train stations are usually really fun/interesting. I do this when I’m bored 🤣

Day 16 of asking Mudan to start in a random area of tokyo and compete with babysitter and foxie to see who can find the most small hidden shrines in the backalleys and rooftops of tokyo in a day! :)

As a fellow lover of cheese, weird cheese combinations AND mint&choc.. my Latvian-self respects you even more now. o7 When I visited a few months back there was that DARS choco with a muscat flavour, was goooood. Also I really recommend this one ice cream bar, I had to google translate a pic of it and it said "Kikyo Shingen mochi" flavour, it has a pic of that said mochi on a plate and the packaging is red with small white flowers (I think I found it either in FamilyMart or Lawson). There's so many layers to it. The Lipton milky earl grey tea ice cream was surprisingly good too, if you love tea! : D

That sonic unleashed background soundtrack is bringing back childhood memories fr

Not enought ”Torille” comments damn shame on us finns! Where are my people!?

Fazer supremacy les gooooooooooo! Torille! 🎉

Aaa thank you for the shoutout 😳 I love watching ur videos bcs they r so relaxing and chill to watch after school

Dude is wearing a jouhikko shirt? cool!

That food content hits hard

Quite an enjoyable video, keep up the good work!

That's the perfect way to chill like the one milk snack you showed in the video. The cool part about this series is: In like 2-3 months you can make a big update video with all the stuff like how your training goes or the vessis. Also I am kinda curious how you survive the Tokyo summer 💀

Fazer chocolate, hmm, peaked my interest, and Dars looks badass

Day 19 of recommending Mudan to go to Eigakan, a Jazz / Japanese Film bar run by a former 60s Japanese film director. Seeing it included in your bar speedrun would be a piece of history. The current owner is going to retire within the year. Though the new owner(s) are cool as well, they kickstarted the take-over for the bar to preserve it.

Thanks for the daily upload. Quality is great for the quantity we're getting. As someone staying in the US, I didn't know that they added that artificial putrid smell to chocolate. To me, they smell the same as European imported chocolates (maybe my nose got used to it)

Nice videos, I have been watching everyday :) I actually really like the Ghana and Meiji chocolate because it is not too sweet, and the cocoa taste is more strong.

Royce is the brand you should look for if you want good chocolate in Japan. Japanese chocolate follows the American (USA) school of chocolate craftsmanship more closely and is therefore quite mediocre. Good chocolate in Japan can be found in two types: "European chocolate" and Hokkaido chocolate.

There's other variants of mochi ice cream with fruit, I used to get same brand you showed but with a strawberry in the middle, it's was pretty nice. There's also ice cream with different wafers, but the one you should really try is the frozen ice cream from glico called "ice no mi" they are small frozen balls with fruit flavours, cost like 140 yen or something like that. They are awesome, even more so on hot days.

The Japanese fruit & whipped cream sandwich uses a soft & sweet bread, so it's more like a cheap unfrosted cake in convenient sandwich form than a regular sandwich.

I've been curious for a while now.. What do you do when you run of ideas on what to vlog for the day?

Mudan, video ideas: 1. Make a video but the order of events is done in reverse--like Memento 2. Make a vlog but have no cuts in it--it's all one long shot. 3. Make a vlog but have no dialogue in it. The purpose of the vlog is done entirely through cinematography.

When i was there last year i went nuts on the snacks. I had the tuna-mayo onigiri for breakfast everyday and a Coolish every evening, along with a different flavour of crisps every day. I absolutely loved their melon, grape and peach flavoured softdrinks (C.C Lemon Peach Mix being the best one) 😄

I visibily pogfaced when he mentioned Karl Fazer. Banger chocolate

Since you like snacks so much, you should try going to Ameyoko (candy store alley) in Ueno. They have more than just candy, but I remember seeing a store dedicated to importing (expired) foreign snacks

Whenever I visit Japan, I always get the Super Cup ice cream. You can't go wrong with the basic vanilla flavor but my favorite by far was the banana cookie flavor. Think oreo cookies with banana flavored icecream.👌However, I don't know if it's still available because they seem to have seasonal specials too and I couldn't find it anymore last time I visited.😢 (They also had choco mint at some point which I found pretty good.) I really like the mochi ice too! I absolutely adore the Haichuu/Hi-Chew candies! We have maoam over here but they're so shit in comparison. lmao Best Hi-Chew (imo) are the sour suppaichuu, green apple and grape ones. They must be soft tho! If they're kinda hard, they're old or maybe were badly stored. One of my favorite chocolate snacks are the coffee chocolate tubes that you can see in upper right corner at 3:02, the small choco caramel balls with the bird on the package and the chocolate covered macadamia (one can be seen on the left side at 3:07 but I think there was another version in a dark brown packaging that I liked more - it's been a while). Obviously, they're not as great as fazer chocolate, but I feel it's pretty difficult to even get close to that.😆I'm also from Europe so I might have similar tastebuds. lol

I love the Japanese dried seafood stuff they drink with beer. Please do a tier list of traditional Japanese dried food snacks you know like dried anchovies, cuttlefish, vinegared talk etc

Thanks for the Fibe Mini tip! We're going again next summer, but last time my wife and daughter were clogged up so bad from all the bread and rice. Me, not so much.. dont know why, maybe because I really like the red bean filling..those contain fibers right? Anyway, great vid! :)

thanks for the amazing Videos. My friends and I are planing to come to japan in October to Japan and your Videos help really a bunch. Question: What is the best way to get internet in Japan? Again thanks a bunch and keep it up

please dont stop uploading, you going to make big as content creator yourself

If you like sweets with cheese, there is a shop in the mall underneath tokyo skytree that has an array of cheesecakes made with real cheese

Meiji white chocolate has been the one I actually came to like eating while I was visiting japan.

Hell heah Fazer!! I feel the same about those standard tier Japanese chocolates for the most part...but Coffee Beat by Meiji absolutely slaps though!

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Mint would be blue because green ice cream etc in Japan means matcha. Will definitely be trying that mint ice cream when next in Japan. Most Australians agree regarding American chocolate tasting crud as we are used to Cadbury (and Nestlé) milk chocolate as being the "normal" chocolate taste.

Emerald Mountain is the GOAT. Literally got addicted to caffeine during my last visit to Japan purely off of it

Just wanted to add: Japanese chocolate is kind of meh but I recommend going to お菓子のまちおか, its a chain store that sells snacks often with heavy discounts. You can find pretty good deals there. Donki also you can often find foreign brands like milka which is an European brand. Pretty decent and not so expensive as well.

For favorite snack candy in the USA, Riesen by Storck (chocolate-covered chocolate caramel bites) are good and ginger chews by Prince of Peace that has a big kick of ginger and chewy sweetness that can also soothe an upset stomach. Buy these individually wrapped candies by the pound, but it takes a long time to eat if you limit yourself to a few a day (requires more discipline for the Riesens).

Great video. It would be really great if, for a future video, you maybe speedran temples in Tokyo for a day. Just a suggestion.

the mushroom/cone chocolate things by meiji have been one of my favourites i could eat those all day

Early night for Mudan

As for sweets, I don't know if they have Meiji Coffee Beat in convenience stores there but that's my go to candy of meiji's from where i am. They're small coffee bean shaped choco-coffee sweets in this yellow cylinder packaging. It looks cute and is nice when you want something caffeinated.

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Thank you for showing the TAINAI 玄米食パンに gluten free bread! Finally I know where to buy in Japan.

Keke animation !

11:30 Lotte is a Korean company, but I've never seen that ice cream here, so I'm assuming it's a Japanese exclusive. Lotte is a fuzzy ground, but basically the company is tailored in seperate markets between Korean and Japan, so I'm not quite sure if it is truly a "Japanese snack" but I don't really know. Thought it was relevant though.

The strawberry and cream bread has been my favorite to eat during my stay in Japan

if i'm not mistaken butyric acid is one of the main chemicals that make vomit smell the way it does so comparing hersheys to it is very accurate lol

LMAO "Japan is filled with so many different snacks" but mainly shows Pocky with a clip that may have been reversed or looped :P Thanks for the entertainment and I hope the future ideas keep on flowing :D

hmmm 3 am... better than 4

Sounds like a lot of snacking. At this point it kinda begs the question: when is breakfast, lunch, dinner? No intermittent fasting?

9:06 uuuuu the effect, nice touch

Just a man who loves his jar

Tough gummy is amazing! The flavor is goated

Video suggestion as you will be in Japan for a year how about visiting the Tokyo Earthquake Simulator it's called The Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park.

OMG BABE WAKE UP NEW MUDAN VIDEO

cadbury had a collab with vegemite in australia some time ago. that was literally THE unholy union

I'm going to miss your series on JP when you're done.

I think the best japanese mid chocolate would be the chocolate almonds or chocolate macadamias from meiji. Cheeza is god tier, but you have to try the camambert flavor as well. Also try to toast them, especially the smoked cheese flavor one. Also on cheese: natori fluffy cheese is excellent and the Oyatsu Home Bar camembert and bacon flavor

Cheeza are amazing. I found a wasabi version here in Australia 👌🏼 and coolish 🤤🤤

meiji’s coffee beat is really good. i’ve seen pewdiepie liked it too when he was trying japanese snacks/candies.

Have you tried the chocolate mushrooms? I also found that a lot of generic chocolate in Japan tasted kinda greasy.

Chocolates in japan were mostly influenced from America, so if you’re fellow European it’s harder to fulfill the chocolate satisfaction here🤷🏻‍♀️ Unless, you really pay for the quality. Like Lindt or Godiva tier. My recommendation to seek quality chocolates would be "Depa-chika" aka department store basement food market.

アポロ is quite good. キノコのやま is alright. Not supermarket but I love Royce, they sometimes have popups at shopping malls. Always available at airports like Haneda and Narita as well.

Hell yeah yukimi daifuku gang. You should also try different flavored ones (I live by the countryside so not much variety, I liked the mitarashi dango one but I don't see it anymore).

I think you should try Poifull. I'm American and always thought Jelly Belly was okay at best, but Poifull made me enjoy jelly beans again. I eat them regularly here in San Francisco.

Truly I don't understand why people are in love with the chocobabies. They're not good chocolate, and I enjoy those bad chocolate coins. Also American here: most self respecting people don't like Hershey's. It's just the cheapest option.

One Cup Ozeki is fine. I had a lot of sake at similar price points and some were much better, others were worse. There was one I got from an ekiben store for about Y700 that was better than some expensive ones, but it's worth giving some of the two litre cartons a chance. Out of everything I tried though, the best was about Y1000 for 350mL from a liquor store in Kyushu. Could be worth commenting on liquor stores btw, as it's something most tourists probably never end up seeing, as alcohol is so readily available elsewhere.

Wow, can only agree with everything Mudan said. About bread and chocolate. And normally taste is very subjective.

Hershey's chocolate went completely down-hill in the late naughts (around '07) when they moved most of their production facilities to Mexico. The quality of water, dairy, and other ingredients went from A-tier to F-tier, and Hershey's is now just generally regarded as 'bargain-bin chocolate'. Thanks, fella~! What sorts of wacky things will Mudan get up to tomorrow?

Yukimi Daifuku is not just "vanilla icecream" I WISH it was! All vanilla icecream I find here just tastes like sugar, if it tasted like the one in those mochis I'd probably weight twice as much as I do now!

Japanese bread has a light "sponge" like texture to it. I feel like it leans more towards cake than bread

My aunt is from Talinn and she brought some some Estonian chocolate once, it was heavenly!

Slightly outdated since my last trip but chocolate wise I would say look for the brands( ) flavour: (Seiki) Prime Chocolate, (Bourbon) Alfort, Bitte (I believe from Glico), (Horn)Cream/Dark chocolate or (Morinaga) Muscat

Wow what an interesting video So when you gonna do the temple though?

Black thunder is kinda hard to find here in LA, but I love it so much

Bro ending so funny so I wake up my family while laughing at the video

Used to eat that mochi ice cream every day when i was in japan, theres also 9 packs of them but each individual mochi is a little smaller

Gaba chocolate is pretty good imo. I've only ever ate the sleep chocolate , not sure how the non sleep chocolate tastes. Also, you gotta try MOW vanilla ice cream as it is quality.