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try dinner onee, im pretty curious about it or u could do the lunch one too! so the whole day thoo

or u could do "what a typical japanese family eats for dinner" you could use ur family or shoko's family would be great haha

How about how much English is in Japan. The SmilE cup caught me by surprise. I've seen on this channel and others a lot of signs in English as well as train announcements in English a time or two. Is this because of a closer relationship between and Japan following world War 2? Or just tourism? I'm also impressed at the amount of people who drink coffee, Ethiopia must be proud. As I'm sure are the Scots with the prevalence of golf. Ps if you run across a place that makes a good gumbo let me know!

Boring....☹️😴💤

Lol 🤣

I definitely laughed

Hahahaha

Identity theft is not a joke, Feier! Millions of families suffer every year!

Chuckled a bit seing that too. Very sweet of them to protect the cats identity too. 🐱

Total life hack ❤️🤟🏻

Same here, I eat instant noodle right from the pan

I often eat noodles with sauce right out of the cooking pot :D

Same here

Totally relatablee

Yes, I'm thankful they ended up showing me. But it was really hard to get some people to show their meals. That's why you didn't see a lot of faces. I understand though, as I think most people feel like they should be doing something better, but they're rushed and just need something that works. Even if you have time to make a nutritious meal, there can very well be people in your family who won't eat the food.

I really appreciate all these ppl showing their true breakfasts. I can feel their apprehension and the feeling that what they r doing is not enough. BUT.... Thank you SO much for showing it. We all like to show our best selves, but when you show stuff like this... It makes me feel like I'm one of you all. Rushing to work, no te to cook in the mornings.... We understand. ❤️

I don't know when it happened but I don't have anything but coffee for breakfast. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

@@LifeWhereImFrom Even a year later, please thank everyone for allowing us into their homes! This really helps us understand Japanese culture and life, and how things are similar or different elsewhere. I grew up in Texas eating basically the same Canadian meal you showed - eggs, sausage of some sort, juice or milk, toast. As I got older and my parents started their own business, breakfast moved more often to cereal or something similar. As a bachelor it was all over the place, from nothing in the morning to full eggs, bacon, etc. Now my wife and I live in France and go the French method - often just coffee or yogurt and cereal mix like you, but also many times we like French omelets, fruit and cheese (MANY different cheese types here), or fruit and thin sliced meat Italian style.

Do you like the frying pan itself too? If you want a pan like that it is a tamagoyaki pan, intended for Japanese style omlettes.

If anything, I'd be scared to damage (scratch) the pan by eating directly from it.

@@Martinit0 True, but from the old pans I sometimes also eat from them, specially rice and soup. Everyone in my family does it actually.

I agree! She was fun!

Same!

She is quite funny and friendly!

I loved her laugh.

Yes! I’ll like to hear her jokes again. Hahaha…

Omg yes!

I am 😂

good old days 😔

this is how i found out i'm an android.

I remember the first breakfast video with Aiko, especially the adorable way that she says mommy at the beginning of the video!

Yeah, you could tell they ate better. Something that just popped up in my mind is if it is solely because they have extra time, or if it was the food style they were raised with. I'm assuming it's a combination of both.

@@LifeWhereImFrom I think it's a combination of both as well. =)

When I was young I was raised with both tasty and healthy food. Now that I’m an adult, I’ll make variations depending on how much time I have to cook. Even if I have cereal (grapenuts) and oatmilk, I’ll still put both shaved nuts and champagne grapes. It’s definitely a combination of the two for me.

Thank you for keeping it real :D

That what happens if you're single or don't know how to cook 😂

@@aryaikal7414 most people are single these days. Most people can cook here, but don’t have time. We get home from work at like 10pm and just wanna sleep

Two salmon onigiri and a vitamin jelly for me lol. If I'm feeling extra hungry then I get a spicy chicken from Lawson's

@@Crimsontears83 get the bread bun with tar tar in it to use with the chicken. It’s like a set option

When Uncle cooked the whole tomato & egg, why did I not think of this? I'm going to give it a try.

Ikr looks amazing. I've been known to eat steamed frozen veggies for breakfast lol. I will have to try the tomato egg lettuce/cabbage.

Not much different than the salad I eat for breakfast sometimes. It's made of lettuce, tomato, boiled egg, salt, pepper, vinegar, oil and Japanese mayo (kewpie). Sometimes I have it with tuna and green/spring onions too. To drink with that I usually have tea or coffee.

and probably the secret to a long, healthy life!

And THAT is why we love breakfast food for dinner, in America. I love eggs and toast any time ❤️🤟🏻

Honestly, those full breakfast sets are just too much for my morning-stomach... Probably just something you have to get used to, but things like Miso and Fish do not agree with me in the early morning.

I remember being quite surprised at first when seeing that they have such a traditional breakfast of fish, miso soup, natto and rice. So it’s nice to see this video showing a more casual eating style, for me I prefer having lunch as my main meal and snacking for breakfast and dinner, showing that everyone really is different

I love the working mom. Yeah they get bread and yogurt milk. Now that’s my kind of woman

It really is very intrigued

Same! We usually eat our leftovers for lunch. However, I will say, enchiladas for breakfast is a really bad idea. Way too heavy. 😅

If I have leftover food at dinner it becomes breakfast and most likely lunch also

I’ve started eating soup for breakfast in the winter. I can make a big pot of it on the weekend and just heat it up in the morning. So it’s not exactly leftovers but not normal breakfast food either. And I can get more vegetables in me. Since I’ve been working from home for a year it eventually occurred to me I could eat heartier meals with the kitchen right there too.

I’ll crack an egg over just about anything and eat it for breakfast. 😂 The other day I fried and an egg and ate it with a left over pasteles (Caribbean version of a tamale) and it was great! I also love fried egg on leftover over yellow rice or rice and beans. 🤤

@@PerfectPride fried egg over anything really. Even on top of leftover spaghetti when I'm too lazy to make anything else.

Glad you found it!

Just like in America or Canada, a working mom or single working lady isn’t going to be up an hour earlier to cook and clean though. The bread and yogurt drink mom is accurate. ❤️🤟🏻

Yes!!! I am always looking for different foods and being on the west coast I can find these ingredients easily

That is so wholesome, also a great way to bond!

What is tsukemono?

I've always been meaning to cover New Years, which is more similar to Christmas in North America. Christmas is more like valentines day. There aren't big celebrations for birthdays, so that could prove interesting (or sad for some that really like big birthday parties).

I love your suggestions! Would be so fun to see :)

@@LifeWhereImFrom if Christmas is like Valentine's day, what is Valentine's day supposed to be like lol?

Yeah, I think hobbies would be a good one.

Hiya! Don't want to come off as rude or nosy but I am definitely interested in Ainu culture (even though on the internet I never find enough information about it). Remaining on the topic of this video, what is a so-called traditional Ainu breakfast made of? Does it differ a lot from your experience? Thank you so much in advance if you'll decide to answer this, have a great day!

I agree with you! I now have Miso Soup in the mornings with vegetables in it. I should prepare side veg too. I often use tinned fish or egg in the soup though as sides alongside it would taste better - eventually! Wonderful comment as the nutrients, taste and effect on digestion (fermented) is so positive !! Thank you. :-)

Same here! That video is what introduced me to natto all those years ago! :D

I still can't eat natto! Tried over 20 years ago, and still just don't like the smell, texture, or flavour.

@@LifeWhereImFrom 😲 Blackbean natto is great~ As a vegan I love having such a high protein breakfast with rice 🍚 😋 Thanks for replying! I am a big fan.

I second that. I want to know more about that drip coffee method.

You can prepare coffee exactly the same way with a hario V60 !

The disposable drip packs? They the exact same in the US, look up Lee's Coffee Pourover at Amazon and Trader Joe's. They are pretty good.

Yep, I think grocery store and grocery shopping are both good ideas.

If anything, supermarkets in Italy and Japan are probably the most similar. Great quality of veg and fruit, meat and fish in both. Way more plastic in Japan...

@@eaglenoimoto I don't know, I want to visit Japan in the future but I never been there :( so all my information comes from film and books. I work in a European chain of grocery stores so the topic is interesting to me for this reason too other than just curiousity! They are described as very convenient for ready to eat products, they have microwave station and hot water to use and this is not very common in Italy. I mean some places made panini long time ago but due to new laws this is not possible unless you follow very specific rules!

@@eaglenoimoto It's a shame that so much plastic is used in Japan (though the UK is also terrible for such waste). I think people have a tendency to over-romanticise Japan and act like it's practically perfect but it has its flaws like everywhere else.

I agree this would be a great idea! I love going to grocery stores when I visit new places, so it would be really interesting to see as one of the videos in this series :)

@@missplainjane3905 1) It's a G8 country and therefore very economically advanced. It has the 3rd highest GDP on the planet. 2) I won't rate Japan on that scale. Japan's culture suits me. It does not suit other people. The biggest problem people who come to Japan have is that the culture does not suit them. They expect Japanese culture to change to accommodate them. It does not. For me, personally, Japan is my home and I enjoy living here more than the other places I've lived in my life (Canada, US, UK). It is not better or worse, though. Just different. It will suit some people and it will not suit others. 3) Japanese people are people. All people in the world are the same. You may not understand that, but it is true. As a group, all people are the same. What differs is culture. If you enjoy the culture here, you will enjoy the people here. If you do not enjoy the culture, you will not enjoy the people and the people will not enjoy you. But the people are the same. 4) "Japan is a country". This is the biggest thing that people misunderstand. It is a country. There are many other countries in the world. There are people in those countries and they each have their own culture. It's easy to get hung up on details. It's easy to look at other places and other people and say "That's different. That's good. The other is bad." That's nonsense. People are people. Places are places. When you travel, you take your own baggage with you. You look at things through the lens of your own experience. You colour everything with your bias. But nothing is fundamentally different. If the culture suits you, you will be happy by and large. If it doesn't, you won't be. So to answer a slightly different question than you asked, Japan's culture is one in which people tend to care a lot about what other people think. They worry about it. They act in accordance. It is nice because no matter who you are, people care about you. It's not nice because no matter who you are, they care that you might not fit in. People from other cultures often have problems because they want to do or think or act in certain ways and they think other people shouldn't care. This will never happen in Japan. Somebody always cares.

@@missplainjane3905 I speak Japanese fluently in that when I'm speaking Japanese I don't really think about it. What I want to say basically comes out of my mouth. When other people speak, if I understand what they are saying, I understand without effort. I am not proficient in the way an adult is. In fact, I'm not proficient in he way most children are. There is plenty of grammar I don't use properly, or at all. I have difficulty understanding everything on the news. Some things I just can't do. For example, I have my own IT contracting company, but my wife is the business manager because I can't do all of the taxes, or dealing with the government, etc, etc. Even native Japanese people take 20 years to get to adult level proficiency in the language, though ;-) However, my Japanese is good enough that it rarely causes me any issues. I can go to the doctor without problems (and even had to have emergency surgery when my wife was out of town once!) I can talk with my neighbours and go to neighbourhood meetings. I can go to the izakaya and chat with the locals. Probably 80-90% of my day I can do in Japanese without thinking about it. But I've lived here for nearly 15 years now, and speak Japanese every day, so I suppose that's to be expected.

@@missplainjane3905 That's really difficult to say because it depends on the person. I'll give you my general advice, though. Most people fly in to Narita airport. They don't realise, though, that Narita (the town) is a very nice place to visit. They bomb down to Tokyo and miss it :-) If you fly into Narita, I recommend staying a night or two in the town of Narita. Try to get a hotel near the old town, but most hotels have shuttle buses anyway. Narita has a very famous temple, which is why they built the airport there -- there was already a train line. It also has a very nice (though small) old town with traditional restaurants. It's very nice. Also, most people in Narita speak English pretty well, which is different than the rest of Japan. I live in the countryside of Japan. I don't like big cities much. If you watch the videos here, you'll see that he lives in Tokyo. It's quite different. I recommend spending *some* time in Tokyo, but I also recommend going to smaller places. The most important Shrines in Japan are Meiji (Tokyo), Ise (Mie prefecture) and Nikko (Tochigi prefecture). Almost no foreigners visit Ise or Nikko even though they are *amazing* places. While there are many famous temples in Kyoto, there are amazing temples all around the country. The island of Shikoku has 66 famous temples. If you rent a car, you can easily visit them. Many people go to the castles in Osaka or Nagoya, but one of the most amazing castles is Matsumoto castle in Nagano. Many of the castles in Japan were bombed during WWII. When the Americans occupied Japan, they spent a lot of time and money rebuilding the castles. However, because they knew the castles were important for tourism, they rebuilt them so that tourists could easily visit them. This means that the *outside* of the castle is the same as it was when it was first built, but most of the *inside* of the castle is concrete walls, stairs and floors. They are museums more than castles. They are still amazing and interesting, but it's worth going to smaller, less important castles around the country. Many of these are closer to the original. In Kakegawa in Shizuoka prefecture, there is even a very small castle that was built from scratch using the original plans. Everything is exactly the way it was done originally, but everything is only about 20 years old. It is very interesting if you want to see the carpentry. If you are lucky, often some of the carpenters who worked on it are around and you can ask them questions (although you will need someone who speaks Japanese to help you). Japan has some *amazing* nature. Most people want to climb Mt. Fuji. I live near Mt. Fuji and I have climbed it. It's a volcano. That means it is a pile of volcanic rocks. There are no trees. There is nothing to see. It's cold at the top. If you climb at night to see the sunrise, you will have to wait in line for 2-3 hours to get to the top, freezing your butt off. It's *terrible*. In the rest of the country there are great hiking trails. Don't climb Mt. Fuji. There are nice towns *around* Mt. Fuji. It's has one of the best cycling routes in Japan (which you may have seen in the Olympics). If you go *near* Mt. Fuji without climbing it, you get the advantage of *seeing* Mt. Fuji too (BTW, in the summer it has no snow). I think my last piece of advice is to try to save money on hotels. Business hotels are *very* reasonably priced and are totally fine. With the money you save, try to hire a personal guide service to take you to real local sites, restaurants, etc. This is the best way to experience real Japanese culture. Even though you can save money in a business hotel most nights, spend at least 1 night in a real Japanese ryokan. Make sure to book it with dinner and breakfast. It's important because it is part of the experience. It will be fairly expensive, but absolutely worth it. Also even though it is embarrassing you should try to go to an onsen. If you stay at an onsen ryokan, they *might* have private baths that you can pay extra for. But you should try it. It is the best thing in Japan in my opinion. My wife and I haven't gone to a restaurant in 2 years because of Covid, but we go to the onsen every 2 weeks. We would never give that up! However, if you have tatoos, then try to find an onsen with private baths as most places don't allow tattoos in the public baths. If you have tattoos, this is a good thing to get a guide to help you to do. And really, that's it. Just remember that in Japan, there is Japanese culture everywhere. There are famous shrines and temples everywhere -- literally everywhere. I can literally ride my bike to a famous temple that was established 400 years ago and I live in the middle of nowhere. No matter where you go, there will be something to see. I recommend going to some super famous tourist things if you are interested in them, but mostly you can stick a pin in the map and there will be something interesting there.

@@missplainjane3905 There is lots of very good Japanese food. There is not very much else. If you don't like Japanese food, then you won't be happy :-)

I'm similar, but it's a cup of green tea. When I visit my Mom, she insists on breakfast, so I usually just have a bowl of cereal. I love bacon and eggs, I just can't eat it at 6-7 AM!

The cat too :)

That should apply to every child, I really appreciate the privacy of their identities until they openly show interest in being public

Then what do u usually have for breakfast?

I agree. She has a similar accent to Yvonne (from Linus tech tips)

She both lived and studied in the U.S., so that would be the reason why!