Wishing you guys an early Merry Christmas!! ❤️ How do you celebrate Christmas in your country? Let us know down below! 🎄🎅🔔❄

So the year I turned 25, my Japanese teacher said "Oh no! Unmarried at 25, you're like a Christmas cake after XMas eve! Nobody wants you!" I miss Oshida-sensei.

Just a word about the expensive fruit in Japan. This is the result of the Japanese farmers cooperative's marketing decisions post-WWII and their disproportionate power in the Diet. (I know, my mom worked at one!) They couldn't compete on quantity or price with other countries so they decided to up-market (along with import duties to force fruit from other countries to equate the price with domestically produced produce). 70 years later of competition to keep "plussing" the fruit in any way to raise or keep the prices up leaves us with these "perfect" fruit.... and high prices. Thanks for making this video and Happy Holidays to all of you!

MERIKURI GUYS

OH my gosh, hearing Emma describe the little animal toys purely through "ch-ch-ch DO DO DO" hit something deep in my memory that I'd completely forgotten about. I loved those!! 😭

As previously mentioned, the Japanese tradition of eating KFC on Christmas was due to a marketing campaign of somewhat nefarious origin initially by a single person. The manager of the first KFC restaurant in Japan confirmed in an NHK interview that eating fried chicken for Christmas was a common Western tradition- a total fabrication aimed at promoting the new business. Incredibly, the notion went viral (not easy back then), even becoming an official company marketing campaign. The manager has since admitted his lie, saying he regrets it even though it was hugely responsible for the success of the chain in Japan.

Girls dinner : Fancy backdrop, matching clothes, and delicious cake. Overall a great Christmas experience The boys dinner : Shitty camera, one huge mic, and beers.

The KFC I had in Osaka was waaay better then my American local KFC. I think they clean the oil better in japan.

A few years ago when I met my husband for the first time in Kentucky- we visited the very first KFC ever and got a magnet and a T-shirt, haha!

It took me some time to realise that the chimney is actually a TV lol Here in Brazil we just eat a lot. And as a Brazilian from a Japanese family, we just mix the Brazilian with Japanese food. As my family is not that religious, we actually don't celebrate, but we get together and eat a lot. New year's resolution: live in Japan!

"If you have an oven"? Emma, do you not remember the rice cooker strawberry shortcake you made? :)

Merry Christmas to you all! Usually I spend Christmas Day with family, and that's what I'm doing this year, but due to the pandemic it's going to be limited to an hour or so, long enough to exchange presents and a small bite to eat. Otherwise I'm stuck by myself at home as I'm off work all week, so I walk during the day and listen to music/watch KZfaq videos at night. The holidays are actually pretty rough for me as I had some really bad things happen in past years around this time (nothing directly related to Xmas, more friendship/relationship based) so I get a huge reminder of that when they roll around. Pushing through this as best I can and preparing myself for 2021. I hope the coming year is better for everyone there, and that I can eventually return to visit Japan!

Thanks to Aki for driving the conversation, she was very patient. Bit taken aback by the lack of warmth in this video. When someone asks you to share a memory or experience with them, it is always a nice and polite gesture to ask that person what their own memory/experience is.

Christmas in Australia is pretty varied, after all, we're very multicultural. But for many Aussies traditional Christmas is a spending splurge on decadent seafood - prawns, oysters, crab and /or lobster. Lots do an American style turkey dinner, with roast veggies, gravy, cranberry sauce etc. Or roast pork with crackling. Or a glazed ham. Or a combination of all of the above, depending on how many people are attending lunch /dinner. Some people like to include the traditional English things in their dinner - pigs in a blanket, brussel sprouts, roasted carrots, etc. If it's really hot where you live, due to practicality, you generally dispense with hot food - so it's just salads, cold meats, prawns, nuts, chips, lollies, dips, shortbread, cheese platters, Christmas (dried fruit)cake, mince pies, etc. Dessert is usually something like the traditional English hot plum (dried fruit) pudding with custard, or pavlova with plenty of cream and fresh fruit (regardless, a 'pav' will usually turn up at some point across the holiday period). Grog generally features pretty heavily for most people - wine, cocktails, champagne, beer, and someone always has the job of buying all the bags of ice needed to keep the bevvies cold on Christmas eve 😆 For more divided families where you have to get together multiple times with different groups, a lush breakfast is becoming popular - with all the fixings... pancakes, eggs, bacon, syrup, sausages, toast, hash browns, tomatoes, beans, mushies, etc. But generally, it's just about over-eating whatever you consider to be posh or feasting food, lots of visiting ppl (not this year of course), cricket, beach swims if you're near a beach, beach cricket, the sound of cicadas, pedestal fans running, windows and front doors open for the breeze, carols, the 'kids' table, Christmas crackers and paper hats with bad jokes told across the table, (usually) sunshine, cold drinks, walks in the summer evening to see the Christmas lights on neighbours houses, and all the kids dressed in their new clothes they got from Santa 😊... and then there is Boxing Day which is more food, usually leftovers plus BBQ snags, chops, salads, etc, more drinking, more visiting, and more done with friends and extended families (perhaps not so much this year, of course). As Australia has a number of days off at this time, and it's summer holidays, the season is usually Christmas eve through to new years day celebrations - a week of festive food, family, friends, get togethers and indulgence. Merry Christmas Tokyo Creative! 🎅🏼🎄🎁

The best Christmas present I have received is you four young ladies enjoying yourselves this Christmas. Thank you and I hope you and your friends and family have a Merry Christmas

Greetings from Chicago, Illinois, US! So I found this channel by means of Abroad In Japan, and your videos are just an absolute joy to see. Thanks for brightening up a very strange year! I used to work for Denso so I’ve only been to Kariya and Toyoda in Aichi... but loved being in Japan... I miss it dearly. For 2021... due to where I worked, I picked up Nagoya-ben from my boss, which had some unique phrases... are local dialects in Japanese common? Nagoya-ben almost seemed as tho it was more of an older person thing... bit many young people seemed to know it iirc. I also heard there is a ramen museum... worth a visit? Peace be with all of you and please send my best to Chris and Natsuki-sama! ;) 🙏 OMG - and my daughter’s friends had told her that in Japan they have KFC for Christmas because the “FC” in “KFC” stands for “For Christmas” lol. That was a very easy rumor to dispel! 😂 Also just to share, it’s 16ºF (-9ºC) here tomorrow... no snow yet tho! A good day to stay indoors...

amazing love this

Ahhhhhh New Years is like Japan's Christmas! That makes a lot of sense! I'm learning all the Italian traditions now as my KZfaq channel is doing what you guys do but for a Brit in Italy. Sadly this year we can't leave our Comune, which is like saying our city or village to go to the next town. We are all locked in our regions and can't travel Inter-regionally too. So watching you guys enjoying a meal together is making me happy and killing me. I hope in a year I will have a bunch of friends here that I can do this with at Christmas. It's very comforting to watch this with you guys. Merry Christmas lovely ladies. All the best for new year too.

Great video, awesome seeing everyone together again.

Great job on the videos guys!

This is so chill. I wish I was able to do this with my friends.

Love the videos with everyone! Hope to see more in 2021!

Merry Christmas, Tokyo Creative! You've been one of my absolute favorite channels of this year. Wishing you all a wonderful 2021!

This year I discovered you all and I've loved every show you have posted

I love it when you have your "girl trips!" So much fun watching you explore new places and things.

I always feel that Aki and Sharla aren’t feeling well in these rounds ❤️ . Love their characters so much on their channels and watch them since 5 years. The vibe is weird 🥺

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 to you all !!

Merry Christmas TC! Great video!

Merry Christmas Tokyo Creative!

Merry Christmas 🎄

NOW THIS IS A FANCY DINNER!

This little series really warmed my heart. I hope you all do it again next year! Also, LOVE the PJs and reindeer antlers!

Omg I had the exact same robot cat that Emma is talking about! I still have it even if it doesn't work anymore, hilarious (and I live in Italy)!

Just loved all your Christmas videos! MERRY CHRISTMAS to you, and everyone else! Looking forward to more TC videos next year.

this was really nice you guys it actually felt like I was in the room having dinner just being part of a nice conversation, in a year that has sucked tremendously tokyo creative has been one of the few things that has been consistently good so thank you for making this year even remotely bearable I'm looking forward to another, hopefully better, year with you guys

B is my vote for best ginger house. Snowman for best representation of everyone on Earth this year.

Happy holidays from the Netherlands! I love following your video's, so I'll keep stalking you in 2021 :)

Merry Christmas 🎄 girls and a happy new year 🥳

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Hope you all don't feel to lonely on christmas. At least you are not alone, because many people can't see their families, like me. Let us make the best out of this (at least all the christmas treats are mine!)....

I celebrate X-mas alone with watching Netflix and eating tapas.

Have a safe and warm Christmas ladies! I know this can be a lonely time too, so from my house to yours, Merry Christmas! I am glad you all have eachother.

🎄🎄🎄 Yohohoho Merry Christmas 🙌🙌🙌

Merry Christmas

I totally relate to Aki’s reaction to 30degree Christmas weather. Us Americans are like, “that’s still pretty cold? ... Oh, Celsius!” 😅

I really enjoyed all of the Christmas videos! I hope you guys have a great Holiday and a Happy New Year!! Cya later 2020!

In 1974 KFC used the Christmas bucket as a marketing ploy And it just grew from there And they started adding different types of buckets you could get with a roast or the cake or a turkey And now it's so popular people order their Christmas bucket almost a year in advance

Yessssss Sharla is doing Swedish meatballs right dipping them in ketchup thats the best

I hope you guys are spending Christmas together, most countries are back in lockdown tomorrow, I'm n Ireland.

As a Kentuckian, Japan's obsession with KFC is fascinating. And I just hope, for the record, that people know KFC is a far cry from the best fried chicken in Kentucky and KFC is actually struggling here lol. It's wonderful how much people enjoy it overseas though! btw, did you hear about the KFC Hallmark Christmas movie? It's called Recipe For Seduction 😂

I totally heard “Santers” instead of Saunders hahahaha

I was told the reason fruit was so expensive in japan was because of how small japan is and so they dont have a enough space to mass produce , so i assume might be why they take so much care of the fruit they have like wrapping them i.e and so because it cost so much to grow and take care of and if they do get "messed up" or damaged produce. its just not necessary cost effective and that raises the price, i was just told that, ive never asked a Japanese farmer

This video makes me crave fast food 😄

Still coming out of sleep and thought that was a real fireplace. 🍗 What y'all ordered would run about $22 in southern US. With three extra sides, 8 chicken tenders added it's $34

Awesome! Kurisumasu ni wa Kentucky! Happy Holidays :3

nice fireplace✓

Lol, no sunshine in Victoria this year. Christmas is gonna be cold and wet...

Your video feels so so homely guys , ♥️♥️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

WOW JAPANESE KFC FOR DINNER!

Hogmanay in Scotland is very similar to New Year’s celebration in Japan.

I really want for this group to become a podcast just like Trash Taste Pod.

the best gift i ever received was my brother coming home for Christmas because he is in the military and he hadn't been home for the past 6 Christmases before that. I was obsessed with snake on the old Nokia 3310.

Love the matching pyjamas! New regular uniform???

Hi I'm from Australia and this year Christmas was 43°C and barley anyone went outside. Wish we had snow here too ahah but Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year!

I had one of those little robot toys too!! Omg I forgot that little melody!

Omg I loved the Micropets lol

First to be here!! I love you guys content 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

So much nostalgia!! I had one of the little animals with the red eyes!! It was a white rabbit with red eyes that meow’d 😂😂

I'm from Chile and it's summer in december, so I've never had a white christmas either, but next year I'll be in Japan by december, so that'll be my first winter christmas, that'll be a cool experience :)

It's 35-40 degrees here in Perth this Christmas. Can't wait to go to the parents house for their air conditioning :D

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Sharla and Aki doubling up on the KFC videos, naughty. I like it

I took my gf to teppanyaki in Dotonbori... we have pancakes with white strawberries for breakfast :P

Next year, the girls make Osechi!

I know exactly which toy Emma is referring to! They're Takara Tomy's "Micropets" line. I've had it for almost 20 years, mine is a small grey cat and if you knock on a few times on the table its on it'll meow a song.

That looked so comfy. I want to join

Oh my gosh Emma micropets! Those sounds are embedded in my brain 😭

I've been trying to do that for years after I discovered this

More mukbangs!

and my father last time we wanted to buy a frozen cake in the supermarket and the most expensive one was like 12 euro and he was like man that is expensive and it wasn´t even a small cake if he would see the prices for cake in japan he would probably get a heartattack !!!!!

Did anyone else come here immediately from Sharla's livestream on Xmas Day to ask: A): *Aki can you please share the link for the Amazon PJs?* B): Is Sarah going to respond to the fact that Sharla's good friend Mark isn't even bothering to hide anymore the fact he wants to date her. Happy holidays everyone!! 🌟🎄🤶🎅

YUMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

KFC Canada now has plant based chicken sandwich... and it is sooo good!

Everytime Sarah looks at the camera, it feels as if she was looking directly at me (:

Emma! I know exactly what toys your taking about! I still had mine up until a couple of years ago. They are extremely hard to find anything about almost like they never existed lol

As someone who works at kfc “ USA” this looks good just to let you know in the USA after tax 8 pice meal is 30.00

I feel like $40 for a fancy cake is kind of standard. But baking strawberry shortcake sounds like a fun Christmas tradition too :)

I like how they all looked at Sarah when she said she’s got Wii when she was 13 lol They looked at her like damn girl how old is you!?!? Lol

Our Christmas traditions include the Airing of Grievances and I also have to pin my father to the floor in a wrestling match. Ah, the holidays.....

Come to Alberta and you will get your white Christmas ! The meal looked tasty.

めりくりすます！

I don't know if it's the influence of covid 19, but I didn't see much Christmas illuminations this year. Shinjuku, Harajuku and Shibuya. But Hakodate's illuminations was so beautiful!!

Oh i LOVE ikea’s meat balls but honestly who doesnt?? I desperately wanted to visit japan for Christmas but COVID happened 😭

Oh dear, Aki bombs in the first two seconds, well done Aki lol

I really didn't need to think about Colonel Sanders coming down my chimney, especially after the recent marketing in the US with him...

In Brazil is same in Australian, every go to the beach, same to New Year, it is fun because I live very close to the beach but some people in Brazil don’t live very close and is very hot I think it is bad to them

Watching this at 11 in the night..i am suddenly craving kfc..damn it..hahaha..but nice video guys

Throwback to the time of Micro Pets!

Next year take a trip to Okinawa.

Just finished my last day in "office" for this year and your video opened my christmas holiday. Thanks for that, happy holidays and stay healthy!