Clever Japanese Food Packaging Ideas 〜日本の包装〜 Japan Vlog | easy Japanese home cooking recipe

Welcome to Taiji's Kitchen. Today I'm going to show you Japanese packaging. So as you can see I'm still back in Japan and today I wanted to show you different Japanese packaging ideas. This is of course by no means to brag about how things are better in Japan but rather the opposite. I just want people in other countries to let them know that these things exist and pretty much all of them are nothing very technical. These are just really small things. I just hope these ideas get incorporated or even stolen in different countries so that people's lives get easier. These may raise a little bit in the cost but I think these really small difference makes the life of the customer much easier. And so if you know anybody in the packaging business I urge you to let them know about these ideas and hopefully it gets incorporated in other countries as well. Then without further ado let's get started. So the first thing is this soy sauce package. From the outside look it just looks like a regular package so when you just open it up when you pour it then you'll see the difference. You hear that? The secret is actually in the inside. When you take the wrapping out you can kind of see the inside. So at the moment it's very difficult to see but you have to kind of squeeze in like this and then when it's finished it makes that sound because on the top there are two holes right here that takes in the air and the outside layer. So I don't know if you can see it too well but this is double layered. Inside the inner layer there's the soy sauce and outside is the air. This prevents the soy sauce getting in contact with the outside air because the soy sauce starts oxidizing and becomes sour as soon as it gets in contact with oxygen and this package just prevents that and so that the soy sauce stays always fresh so it's a great idea if you don't use the soy sauce very often. Second is this edamame package that has a built-in tray. So when you open this like this it opens like this and then it just becomes a tray of its own. So you can use this just as a tray like this on the table so you don't have to clean another plate. So you can just enjoy it like this. Very good. I think this is just nothing technically anything difficult very small thing but this just makes the life of the customer a bit easier. And the third are these konbini onigiri and sushi rolls. You open right here it says pull down you pull this down like this it opens like this and you have to put all the way around like this so and then what you do is you pull one end right here it says pull two you pull one end and also you pull the other side like this and then you just kind of fold it like this and then you have this onigiri. What it does is that this inner layer prevents the contact of the nori seaweed with the rice and it prevents the nori seaweed to getting soggy and it really makes it stay fresh and when you eat them you hear the difference. So I have a good to hear the difference the nori seaweed stays dry and crunchy this is just really great especially for those you like the crunchy nori seaweed. I'm going to show you how this works I'm gonna take away this sheet in the back side so I'm gonna put it like this this is not the normal way to open it by the way of course as you can see this in a layer like this and then what you would do by pulling this down you separate the left and the right side and here's a seam so that it breaks out in a certain way and then you try to come around peel off so as you can see this is separated in this clear sheet here's the onigiri part and the nori seaweed is kind of covered like this and then when you pull from both sides this middle layer is gone and then you just wrap it like this and then you have the and then we also have sushi roll version of that as well how it works is that this is also labeled one two and three is an inside I think so you pull one right here it peels open like this and then there's two it says to peel off so you peel off like this and here's three meaning you pull the film and take it out like this and then next you're going to peel off this film as well right here and then you roll the nori sheet like this so and then you keep rolling outside then take away the sheet and then just roll the nori seaweed further and as I was doing this my hand didn't get in contact with the rice so my finger stays also clean and this is just ready to be eaten this is a way that the nori seaweed stays fresh and crunchy so the fourth is with us these cup noodle so there are actually two things one on the bottom there's a little sticker that you can use to hold the tab later once you open them these have two tabs one and two and when you open them open like this and then what happens is that you can use two hold it down and then you can even use this a sticker to put it down like this so it stays closed when you put in the hot water so I'll show you how it gets done so as I put in hot water and often these two tabs are enough but sometimes it's not and I use this sticker to hold it down like this and so this stays closed like this then let's measure three minutes now this is ready let's eat so you can take out the sticker and this is finished oh looks so delicious I love these cup noodles so please excuse me for slurping sound oh this is so delicious I love these Nissin's cup noodle fifth are these microwavable package so this is soup this happens to be a minestrone and usually when it's a package then you can't really put it in the microwave you have to put it in a different container and then put in the microwave but these you can put in directly in the microwave even without opening the package so secret is this small hole right here so what happens when you put a package like this in a microwave of course it gets heated and then it can expand and it could even explode but here's there's an opening that just lets out the vapor let's see how it looks so I'm gonna put in a microwave right here I'm gonna put this start this is very hot as you can see this has been heated even in a sealed package then you can even eat it out of this package right here you could even eat it directly from the package like this so it's not very elegant to eat it from a package like this but but perhaps this is a bit more eco-friendly because you don't have to wash another dish this is incorporated in different kinds of soup but also sometimes in pasta sauce the sixth idea are these so-called poutine poutine or opening tabs in english perhaps open it so of course pudding you can eat it like this but sometimes you want to put it on a plate and you want to have a nice shape and then what you can do is you can just flip it like this but it doesn't come out so what you do is you have a tab right here and you push it on one side like this and then just comes out because this opening will give air from the top and also then you can just open it like this and then you have a perfect japanese style pudding and this is just ready to be eaten like my ass oh this is just japanese pudding very different from western type of pudding but very delicious every now and then i want to eat this poutine pudding so the seventh are these snack packages with ziplocs so these are just like gummy bears or like candies and these are dry edamame so you have some very similar things and also different places in the world but the difference is that when you open them and you eat them and oftentimes you don't finish the whole thing in that day and then you have to find a rubber band and wrap it around or like one of those cotton things but a lot of japanese these snack packages have a ziploc so here in the inside is a ziploc and you just have to push it down and then this and then you can just put it in your backpack like this and then nothing comes out you don't even need an extra rubber band or anything like that and also this is candy package and you open it and take one out eat it and here is the same idea here you have a built-in ziploc and then you just seal it like this and this is finished then you can just throw it in your backpack like this so this is just a very small thing yeah it may raise a little bit of cost of production but it's just really thought out i think and very customer friendly and you have these and then you open and you eat the inside when you're done seal and then finished just makes our lives as a customer much easier and the next are these auto locking package so we have these chocolate box let's see what looks on inside you can open it from here just like this and then open it just as you would normally take one out very delicious and when you're finished you can close it like this and if you can hear it hear that little click it will lock this automatically and when you flipped upside down it doesn't open and the key is these small tabs right here they will lock this small part right here gets locked right here if you can see it this gets locked right here and prevent it from opening hear that little click and this prevents from opening like this or if you flip upside down like this it doesn't open unless you really force it to open so you can just throw it in your backpack like this and it doesn't open and you don't have to worry about getting it open and getting everywhere so these are just really small detail but still but it just really helps so hope this idea gets also incorporated in packaging of our countries as well so the last thing is this saran wrap so this is not really a package thing although there's a part of it incorporating the packaging so this is just a regular saran wrap and then so when you open them you have a little tab right here that holds this outside layer that doesn't get rolled in so i think there's a little something right here so that gets stuck right here so it doesn't get rolled and so when you use them you take it out like this and close and then just somehow the japanese saran wraps are so much easier to rip a lot of western saran wrap that i've used is just really difficult to cut clearly like this and then when you have a plate somehow the japanese saran wrap sticks so much better so you take it out like this and then you close like this and cut up like this and then this just sticks so much easier somehow i also have struggled with the western saran wrap that just doesn't stick at all and this is sealed if i show you an example if you just regular water put in here and seal like this it's very good like this and if i turn around of course nothing comes out like as you see nothing gets spilled so i don't know if the saran wrap in your country does the same thing but somehow the japanese saran wrap is stickier and that's so much easier for us as a customer to use so this is the end of this video which one did you like the best or which one thought that was the coolest please let me know what you think of these packaging in the comments below or if you have any feedbacks or any requests or questions please also write in the comments below i always read all your comments and really enjoy reading them otherwise i look forward to see you in the next video bye