My last day in Japan went for the BEST Japanese curry at Curry Bondy and one last 7-Eleven meal. Then flying back from Japan to New York on Eva airline's new and improved business class!
Good morning last full day here in Japan like on one hand. I'm glad I'm leaving because this whole
Situation is getting a little crazy not just in Asia, but everywhere, but also at the same time I guess so
Sad to leave here is so many things. I feel like I didn't get to do while I was here
Anyway, I'm on my way to Akihabara
The last time to meet up with my buddy John. This is pretty cool
Look at this you see the sushi the ramen
gyoza
instant noodles
These are all cakes
Crazy, huh? I love these ice creams. Oh, I want to get that in the middle. It looks so pretty
I'll wait. This is so pretty. I broke it. Look at this. I cracked it. Yeah, try it. You never had this
No, I didn't do it. This is like super famous here. And what's the flavor this just vanilla, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's Hokkaido milk
Hokkaido milk. Yeah
Good. It's so good, right? It's super creamy, right?
Have some more. It's amazing that milk just normal milk can have this kind of a flavor
The cows here are super charged. They're really happy cows in Japan
Must be all the beer. I think that's for just just for the Wagyu. Yeah, but dairy cows drinking beer. That'd be pretty funny
You know why cows drink beer? You know why they feed them beer? You want to tell us?
So I went to a Wagyu farm and they feed them beer not because it tenderizes the meat
It's because it gives them the munchies so they eat more. Maybe they should feed it something else
Yeah, I thought about asking that but I think that's a little more expensive. Oh the sushi. This is the sushi
I guess sushi's first
So excited. This is nigiri sushi nigiri sushi cake and of course, it's not rice, but it's a roll cake
Genius, let's give this a try
How's your shrimp? I love this. Really?
It's very pleasant. It's thick though. It's dense. It's very dense
It's more of like an American cake. The Japanese ones are very light
But I think like two pieces of that and you're you're gonna be kind of good. I mean, I'll take a little piece of this ginger
Okay, whatever this Oh came in and pick it up a little piece of ginger is to clean the palate. It's probably apple
Apple is that is it wasabi? It's got this exact. It's not wasabi
frosty
It's like pure butter. Yeah, no, it's sweet butter. This is like really heavy. Yeah, it's really heavy
I'll eat one more cuz I love cake. It's good. See ya, dude. Yeah, man. Oh
Next time under better circumstances. Yeah. Bye. Bye
So pretty
Next up I'm gonna drop this stuff back at home because I got a bunch of plushies
So you're in Japan just I don't know why I keep wanting to win plushies and I want a bunch
I'm really good at it drop off my bag and then let's go eat some curry after curry
I was thinking about doing some street food and then we're gonna go to Yokohama to
Meet up with some people for a collab video. That's gonna be all about that meat
Right now I'm in Jim boat show also known as also know as the book district with tons of bookstores and
My favorite curry shop in all of Japan Cory Bundy
Outside of this place. I waited about three hours. Wow. This time is only about 15 minute away
get the beef curry and
We're gonna go for very spicy
with cheese topping and potatoes
I'm so excited about this
This is my favorite
Curry in Japan and what I love about this is they give you potatoes with butter
You should always dip the potatoes into your curry and also get cheese on top of your curry
Melt some butter on your potatoes
Little bit of rice
Forgotten how good this place was. I mean, I remembered it being good. I just forgot how good
So amazing it hurts
Hands down best curry in Tokyo. If not all Japan. I
Don't care. I freaking love this place. The curry's got this like
unique
creaminess to it as well as
blistering heat
The flavor is not too acidic
It's not too tangy. It's not too anything. It's just
This is perfect curry. This is the type of curry
I'll take on a first date and I'm ready to pop the question. I'll take mostly that curry
Also that melty beef
This is one of those curries. I can honestly tell you like I don't even need the meat
But that beef is just an extra
Cherry on top of this already amazing curry cake
Fragrance, taste, texture, spice
Hints of sweetness
Good amount of creaminess. There's really nothing better. Bunny curry
I went to a lot of curry shops in Japan
Not even close to this. This is so good. I wish I got two bowls. I
Really wish I got two bowls. I gotta eat this one more time before I leave Japan
If you miss this when you're in Japan
It's time to book your return ticket. I'll say without a doubt
top three in Japan
Anytime I'm here. That place
Unbelievably good. I mean there's good curry and then there's that
It kind of makes me sad because I kind of forgot about it
Even I was saving it for like when I was just about to leave so I didn't really come and eat this
The first 10 days I was here I was busy planning shoots and all that stuff
Now that I had it reminded me how mind-blowing it was now
I only have like half a day today and maybe tomorrow morning to come here and eat it again, and that's it
All right, I gotta go to Yokohama
For a shoot for a collab. Let's see if I have time to do something before that
Heading towards Yanaka Ginza, which is
Basically the old parts of Tokyo this market in this old part of Tokyo. That's the stuff
I really dig, you know tradition and
The old-fashioned stuff. I don't know. I like it and
Just getting there from from the subway station. You're gonna walk through
little back alleys
It's kind of experiences I enjoy
It really kind of transports you
to like a whole different
Side of Tokyo, right? I mean, this is almost Kyoto esque. So all along the streets
It's lined with gift shops
grocery stores clothing shops
little street food vendors
This is a some sort of fried pastry and this is Sakura
Blossom flavor
It's like a halfway between a cake and a cookie and it's kind of dry
I thought it'd be more cream inside and just dish. This is definitely best eaten with like a tea or coffee
very good, it's kind of like a
Cigar looking
Madeline cookie
Yeah ice cream or tea or something a little bit better
It's like an onigiri
grilled rice ball soy sauce bonito flake
miso soup with a fried tofu bonito flakes
seaweed
the onigiri
with bonito flakes as well
This is not bad
It's actually a pretty satisfying combo
nice and toasty rice
good seafood flavor from the bonito flakes
Actually pretty enjoyable
Mmm, this is awesome
Wow
toasted tofu
with a really nice clean grilled aroma
I quite enjoy this combo
The bonito flakes is really delicious addition. Just got that extra oomph, you know
Flakes make it interesting
Just like in life may not be good interesting
But they make it interesting
And it's something you got to get here is some of the croquettes
Arigato gozaimasu
Oh that smells so good fresh out of the fryer
It's like sniffing a drug
Not that I would know but I don't think this is what it smells like it the feeling it gives you
You think I like crunch?
Oh my god
heck
Yes, baby, this is something you got to get here
Oh
My god, this thing has just the lightest
crunchiest batter
inside meat onions
Wow
Little hot oil vinegar even better, but on its own so nice
150 year old temples just
And apparently in the front gate
These are bullet holes
Because there was a battle in like 18 in the 1830s and the Imperial Army was fighting that the Shogun's troops
And they cornered them into this temple. And this is the actual bullet holes
from
150 over from over 150 years ago. I
Wish I had more time here. But if you ever get sick of
The hustle and bustle of Tokyo you want to go to a tourist spot. That's actually kind of calming and nice
Come here
Just filmed here for strictly dumpling yesterday, so I'm going back for
Another collab video. Hey, that's Gar from a chico district filming a meat platter today. How many pounds?
This is what happens before a food gets eaten a lot of prep work I just wrapped up
We did pretty well
Really debating whether I should go back for more curry. So last night didn't really go as planned just had a huge headache. So
I just went to gym and went to bed
Had to get up early today. Got to go to the airport in about an hour
One last meal. I really couldn't find many places around here. I wanted to eat as so
The default is always a favorite. Let's go to 7-eleven for our final final Japanese meal
last
7-eleven meal look at this thing though. This is insane
It's got a soft-boiled egg
Right in the middle. Oh my gosh
Tofu cabbage onions and thin slices of beef all soaked in this awesome sauce
Okay, so let's pop the egg right now. Have you ever seen a more perfectly cooked?
Soft-boiled egg in a convenience store bought
meal that eggs slowly
Drip down. This might be my new favorite meal. So the classic
thinly sliced fatty pieces of beef that 7-eleven is known for now
with a splash of creaminess from the egg and
some onions and
noodles
Tofu
This is actually off the hook
Mmm, I think this and the mapo tofu new things you gotta try
at 7-eleven
Mmm beef is so tender
noodles cabbage
All provides a nice crunch
Mmm
Tofu is amazing as well. I'm so happy with this
now
Thing I always get from Lawson because 7-eleven doesn't have it until now
So it's a new item. Hopefully that they're gonna keep this forever egg sandwich with tuna
Oh
That is just a lot
I feel like this is way more tuna than the Lawson uses way more tuna way more egg than what's in the Lawson
Equivalent of the sandwich and it goes to almost the egg. Oh, this is way more ingredients. All this might be better
I think 7-eleven has studied its competition and at this point like what I'm seeing
They're ready to take them down
Mmm
Way more tuna
It is great
Mmm, creamy egg classic what they're known for but oh my god kudos on how much
Filling they give you in both of these sandwiches
Hmm so much filling no more going Lawson for this. This is all 7-eleven territory now
And I wanted something with potato salad
So I got a ham and potato salad sandwich
So pretty right? Delicate sheets of pink ham
Just weaving over a mounds of potato salad
It's good. Not extraordinary. It's good. The wow factor just is not here with the sandwich
This Mr. Mark just a tiny bit for me
but the other two items very
Very happy about all right. I got about 20 minutes to eat. I'm gonna head to the airport. All right, see you over there
you know once you stay somewhere for like
Over two weeks you kind of kind of start feeling like home, you know, so
Goodbye home. Hopefully and I say this sincerely I get to come back to Japan soon, but we'll see of course a
Couple of tips for you guys who are flying
in and out of Japan
so there's two airports in Japan two main airports Haneda and Narita and
Narita is really far. Luckily. I always budget extra time
But I think I got on the local train it took me two hours to get here from Tokyo if you have a choice
Definitely flying to Haneda
They at least have the option of getting a cab because a taxi ride from Tokyo to this Airport be about
$250-$300 I'm flying with Eva airline business class layover in Taipei and then back to New York. See you on the flight
Wow, these are the new business class seats for Eva
This is so much better
Let me show you around
Gotta disinfect
everything
Sorry Eva girl
See what he got to eat. I love this. Oh my gosh a sky-high tea salon
cup of
Whoa, these are amazing
Taiwan teas. Oh my gosh ripe Pu'er like an aged Pu'er is one of my favorite thing
It's so smoky and great. Although like I usually warn against having hot teas on a flight because the water is kind of questionable
I'm not to deal with a cup of tea
They have Chinese cuisine which they're they have a partnership with the Tai Fung and this changes every time
I'm here loofah stuffed shrimp mousse chicken soup juicy pork dumpling or it can do a Japanese
Yeah, we're doing the ding Tai Fung. I love the seat
I feel like it's so much better than their previous business class like so much better
Also gotta say this massage option you can actually feel it it's like little elves massaging your back
That's good tea
There's some fancy tea
Let me taste the smokiness of that tea
This is the ding Tai Fung hot oil wonton and a little bit of noodles underneath
soaked in chili oil and
scallions
Wow, this actually looks
Really really appetizing for appetizers a little chunk
Of marinated beef. It's got nice chunks of tendon in here as well. Sweet potato
This looks like braised chicken and then the soup
Already chunks of beef in this soup, huh? Beef, scallions, ginger
This actually looks quite amazing. I gotta say
Wow, that's delicious
Just like a good bowl of beef soup should taste like. You taste the ginger, the scallions
All that great beefy flavor is stewed
Magnificently into the broth
It's got some chew to it, which I like. Really nice beef flavor. Dumpling
That's actually a really good dumpling. Good job ding Tai Fung. This is a really fun delicious collab
delicious noodles
perfect amount of chili oil vinegar soy sauce
Great al dente texture. The chicken is amazing too. Best meal I've ever had on Yiba Airline
by far
100% my type of meal
The noodles are so flavorful
And just a great balance. They made it work for the airplane too
It doesn't even taste like I'm eating this on an airplane
Absolutely fantastic
I don't know how they did it. And this soup is so mini
We can also do, take some of that chili sauce
Dump it into the soup a little bit, mix it up a little bit
Salute to Yiba Airline. Outdo yourself with this. This whole thing, this business class, this meal
Two hour layover in the lounge. The food actually looks really really good
Nice melty pork belly
Little stir-fried chives
Really been loving
all the Yiba Airline food
On this whole trip
Good job Yiba Airline
High five, high five
Can't believe I'm on my way back to New York already. I actually had like speaking engagements all this stuff coming up
Next week. So I had to push all that back because I want to do the two weeks self
Isolation. I don't want to take even the 0.01% chance of getting anybody sick, but I know the situation is kind of escalating out of control
Everywhere in the world, so I wish you guys the best. Hope you keep safe
Really this is a really heartbreaking situation. So be safe. Be good to each other. Take care of each other
This is the older Yiba business class
Little tighter. As you can see a whole lot less privacy
This is just open aisle right here
Whereas the other one was just pretty secluded like you really do feel like that's your own personal space
And the whole overall feel of that seat is just way more spacious than
This one
That's burning hot
Tastes like a typical Chinese meatball
This is actually a pretty typical meatball soup that we always eat
Chinese meatballs are actually really really tender and pretty loosely squeezed together
So they fall apart really easily in your mouth
We're really liking Yiba Airlines dishes today. Main course sticky rice and braised chicken
This is a massive piece of chicken. Chicken is good. It's tender. It's juicy. The flavor is kind of one-dimensional
Besides being a little salty and a bit of umami from the soy sauce not much to it
That is definitely a very tender piece of chicken. I think for this one the texture
Presentation is right on point flavor. It's okay. I
Also, love the fact that this is piping hot
Wow Yiba Airlines doesn't back down when it comes to massive chunks of meat, but that big chicken earlier
massive pieces of ribs
Not good at all
So dry. I don't understand. How is something soaked in soup this dry?
It's one of those rare occurrences where
The veggie is much better than the meat. The noodles good though. The airport's about nine o'clock
I'm going straight home and when I get home and typically what I do
All the food trips is I detox and I've been on the road for about half a year almost straight
It's for the next couple weeks. Oh, we are gonna detox that hank out of my body
Back in New York as soon as I get out of the airport as soon as I get out of the airport
These scammer taxi guys start coming up
Telling me where you going. I'm like, I'm going to the air train. Oh air trains broken. You can't take the air train
Really it's not broken. Don't fall for that. I don't have a car here
So every time I come to New York if I want to go home
I have to rent a car and I have to rent a car for like two weeks. I never drove a Mini Cooper before
This could be fun
So cold in New York
Home sweet home
Be honest, how many of you guys can drive up to a house like this in the middle of the woods at midnight?
Who thinks this is like the start of a horror movie you want behind me?
And I wasn't planning to come back here I was supposed to go back to Seattle
I figured this will probably make the most sense if I want to do a two-week
Self-quarantine this will be the best place to do it. I guess that starts
right now
Go to bed
tomorrow
Good morning from the Chen residence. It's been two days since I since I've been back
I basically I've been laid out for like two days. I've spent in bed
There's some meditation
Really haven't done much I chose this place for
Isolation because it's actually really fun. I love being here. I love laying in the hammock. That's really fun building fires
I just built one yesterday. I just put it out now
workout
lay on this couch
play VR
favorite
Game has been Arizona sunshine is great
I like sitting in my rug in front of my fireplace reading a book lighting a candle
Or I could go out
Into my deck start at my creepy barn. We're on the run if anybody's inside you could literally have someone live there
I wouldn't even know but I can come out here and get some fresh air. I get some workout on my big deck
It's nice. You know now the mess is gonna be really apparent my workstation
My youtube stuff little fun souvenirs from all around the world also, by the way strictly dumpling just hit 3 million today
So, thank you guys so much for supporting that channel for all these years and I think my vlog channel may hit a million soon
Too so thank you guys so much. You guys been so awesome. So supportive. Love you very much
This is my living room again mess. I sleep there because I just don't want to sleep anywhere else
reclining chair
I have a roll machine there that I work out a lot
TV now, this is really scary. So how I've been getting food is that I get my groceries delivered
And then my friends also drop off stuff, I don't I'm not gonna show you my kitchen it is so
Messy right now a favorite brand of soup
Campbell's steak and potatoes I got as you can see I got tons of these I love rice with spam
So I got a bunch of spam. Some of my favorite noodles are seeing ramen
treadmill massage chair
Weight bench right there free weights in this room. Basically. I have a lot of things stocked up here
So if the fit does ever hit the Shan this is a good place to be for me