 That's good. I can see why it's like $9 a box. Did it really live up to the hype? Dude, this was good, it's really good. We know everyone is stuck inside right now, so we went to the Japanese market, bought over 50 snacks, and we're gonna tell you which are the best instant ramen, potato snacks, cookies, corn snacks, and seaweed. This is your 2020 Japanese snack guide. Okay, starting off with round one, we got the hot instant ramen. I called dibs on Sichuan-spired spicy sesame. Wow, I knew you were gonna pick that one. I kinda gotta go with the seafood tonkotsu. Okay, so we have 10 different flavors of ramen here. These are advanced flavors. These are advanced flavors that I've actually never tried. We got these from the Japanese market, and let's get into it. Here, I'm gonna start with the shoyu ramen because recently I've been eating a lot of shoyu ramen, and that's what I've been ordering. Instant ramen, round one. You do have that really fatty flavor from the tonkotsu, but the seafood really does come out in it. The noodles are, I mean, there is the noodles. I like mine, but I kinda wanted the tansan flavor to be a little bit more kicking. Okay. And a lot of things in Japan actually are built for a Japanese market are gonna feel like a little light to an American market. My shoyu, pretty simple flavor, I would say I could pass on the shoyu ramen. Instant ramen, section two. I got miso. Guys, I have the spicy miso tonkotsu. I have the chicken paitan. Man, your chopstick is mad long, bro. It's like in my face. Miso flavor one? Good, I give it a four out of five. Got a little piece of cabbage in there too. Wow. That was dehydrated. My spicy miso tonkotsu is actually pretty delicious. Really? I'm kind of disappointed in the chicken paitan for spending more money on the menoraku. I had expected it to be better than the cup noodle, and they're about the same. All right, Ryan, you're giving the duty to judge the tonkotsus next to each other. Can I get a water refill? I think that's replicating realistic conditions because sometimes it's just you're off with the water. Yeah. Dude, that looks fire. That looks hella good. Yo, I got curry potatoes. What you got here, man? You got an octopus? Oh! Is that an octopus leg? Whoa! Instant ramen, section three. Wow, I got octopus. This is a premium cup noodle right here. Look at this curry flavor. Yo, this seafood one really has a lot of authentic deep seafood flavor, everything down to the pieces of octopus that are in it. I understand what you mean. You guys should try that. Oh, I understand. I'm reaching for my turn. All right, Benson, what you going with? The taste is just a little off. It's a little too salty for me. And you could also tell in the quality of the noodles, like these noodles are a lot better than these. Okay. So I give it to the menoraku. Man, I gotta say, all right, so between the two ramen that I had, I actually might have to say the seafood one did the best job of capturing true seafood flavor. I gotta say, does your say no added MSG? Wow! You know what? That's what it was missing in me. MSG, MSG. What'd you guys like? For me, I like the miso menoraku. I think it's tough because you want to try these premium instant ramen, but actually I think the regular ramen flavors can do pretty well. Out of all the ramen that I tried, I actually like the tonkotsu the best, just the regular plain flavor. I think when you're adding too much, especially when it comes to an instant noodle, it kind of gets lost in everything. And I think miso not being a protein, it really worked well. That was our instant ramen round. Look into non-protein based flavors. And definitely any spicy flavor of instant ramen, I think is a go. If you're getting instant noodles, go simple. There's the, that's the way to go. Tonkotsu. All right, so moving on to round two, we have the chip section. We're gonna break it up into two sections. The first section is gonna be potatoes, and then the second section will be things made out of corn. Japanese Pringles, jalapeno onion. They're good. Way crunchier. The flavor of the jalapeno is way more forward than any type of American Pringles. Three cheese Pringles. I'm going with the jalapeno onion. Might be better than any American Pringles place. Moving on to the potato section. I got a Calbee, which is a classic Japanese brand. You got Calbee's too? No, I got the Caramucho, Hot Chili, and Siwi. A four cheese fancy mix right here. I believe mine is powdered soybean flavor. Yo! I got cheese on my chip! Ooh, it's really good though. Some of the nori coming in. I'm not gonna lie guys, this four cheese blend chip, a little disappointing. Yeah? I got to go with the Caramucho, it's my one. No, we don't. We have the Chip Star S Butter Show You, and then we have these white chocolate dipped jagachoco. Butter Show You chips. I'm not getting enough show you flavor for this to really like work for me. Wasn't really feeling that guys. Try the white chocolate, the jagachoco. That's definitely an interesting texture though. I have another one. To have the white chocolate kind of melt in your mouth as you're chewing. I'm actually surprised that the chip stayed so crispy. Yeah. While being coated in white chocolate. Guys, we have four different french fry snacks. Let's start with the most famous, the Jagabee by Calvi. Jagabee. Before you bite into it, you think it's gonna eat like a fry, and then it's just super crunchy. Very natural potato organic, soy butter jagabees. Oh, that's good. That's good. That's how soy butter is supposed to taste. Whoa! Sweet potato fries. Oh, wow. That's really good flavor though. Kind of addictive. It's addictive. This is up there, man. Yeah, yeah, in terms of like, I can't believe that just came out of a bag, shipped from where? What part is it in? Just Los Angeles. No, Japan. Product of Japan. Overall guys, potato chip sections. Those are so good. I would continue to eat each and every one of these. Put your hand over the one on three. Ichi, ni. Moving on to section number two, under the chip umbrella round. Wow. We've got savory corn chips, cheese rings. Yo, this is going up against Cheetos, guys. It's better than a Cheeto. The texture's better. There's a little bit of sweetness that comes with the cheese too. Very similar to the Cheeto Puffs, if you guys have had though. Yeah. Wow, look at this. Mentai. I was not expecting that flavor after smelling it. The smell's like super, super fishy. No, I enjoyed that actually. Salad rings. This is my favorite. Very subtle. I've had these before. These are one of my favorite snacks. Sweet corn stick. Kind of like a corn puff. I think for the sake of the corn flavor, I think this one is the one with the most unique to. Moving on to section three, we are on to candies and chocolates. The chip section had me fading for a second. I think going through the panda biscuits would be a great energizer. OK, panda biscuits. Clearly a biscuit because I tasted the butter. The matcha one's OK. The strawberry one's good. You guys did strawberry flavor without being it like two artificial. Three, two, one. Strawberry! Strawberry! I think the strawberry though, definitely, it had like a burst of like tartness too that was kind of like brightened your palate. One is chocolate chip vanilla and one is chocolate cocoa. Country man. Chocolate chip one first. Yeah, I caught chocolate chip first. Chocolate chip, a step up from chip so far. Double chocolate. The milk chocolate, regular one was better. Japanese fruit belts. Here's my thing about Japanese fruit snacks is that they generally do a better job of infusing real fruit flavors into their fruit snacks. Yo, this smells insane. Wow, you're splitting it up like string cheese. That's what my instructor told me too. That might have been the most fascinating texture we've had in comparison to a sour belt. Honestly, the fruit flavor is better, but I'm not sure if I'm used to the texture. I feel like if it was longer, it'd be more fun to play with. You got Heidi now doing the noodle dance. The playability, mint chocolate chip candy. Wow. Oh. It tastes like mint chocolate chip without it being too sweet. And for a candy, that's pretty hard to do. Naruto rock candy. If you read the ingredients, sugar, coloring. That's it. I think this is a really old school snack, man. Guys, here we have these chocolate pastries by Lott. Whoa. Lott chocolate pies. It's kind of like puff pastry. I did not expect that first bite. And then you get a nice burst of chocolate. All right, we have three flavors of melty blends, guys. We have the strawberry one. We have the premium chocolate one. And then we have the mango one. Mango chocolate. That was good. Better than the matcha. Guys, this is the strawberry melty blend. That tastes like one of those fancy chocolates that you get out of the box for Valentine's Day. Three, two, one. Going with the mango. Damn, you guys have literally voted together a couple times and I've always been the... It's almost as if we live together and work together and eat together and eat together. All right, guys, we have the uhas, the haichu competitor. I feel like the competition really breaks down. It goes haichu versus puxiao versus uha. Yeah, all right, muscat flavor. Of haichu, puxiao, and uha. Uha is easily the juiciest, but probably with the least enjoyable texture. Cola uha. Got some fizzy soda in the middle. Try the cola one, but not for taste, just like for the experience, man. Fantastic, Spangier Horizons. Oh man. Guys, we probably just went from the least traditional section and we are immediately gonna transport to the most traditional section, the dried nori, the dry seaweed section. You guys know they treat seaweed like such an art form in Japan. Wasabi seaweed, I'm actually excited. Wow. You could tell the drying method and stuff like that wasn't as advanced. It kinda had a little like a burnt flavor to it. Teriyaki seaweed. This one has a kick almost right off the bat. I forgot to mention, hot and spicy. Ah, person. The seaweed quality is sort of the way, I'm sure it was dried or grilled. I like it a little bit better. Yeah. Can you just hear it slide out? Whoa. Expensive seaweed for the win. I see why this is expensive seaweed. Whoa. 10 portions. Everything about it. The texture, the presentation, the taste. This is the best seaweed snack I've ever had in my entire life. We are at the end of our Japanese supermarket journey. Guess what? You cannot find these anywhere in the Western market and you cannot find this in any market. These were sold out. The first time we went to the market we went back and here we have brown sugar, boba, ice cream bars. People are going ham on these. Y'all, so a Taiwanese brand made it but they serve it at the Japanese market. All right, so we're gonna eat this at the end guys. That's for sports and essentially right now we've been through a snack marathon. So you need that. Jelly packs. It's not bad. This is good. Oh, this is just like one of the leechy jellies except in a pouch form. You don't want to notice about the gel packs and maybe because they are designed for energy but they're definitely got more of that sports vitamin water feel where all the flavors are muted. Guys, ending off for dessert, of course, we have to bust out the brown sugar, boba, ice cream bars. Hold on guys, for the clout, I just know there's a few girls who are gonna want to see me. So let's try the brown sugar, boba, ice cream bars. Not good. I can see why it's like $9 a box. Did it really live up to the hype? Dude, this was good, it's really good. I actually like this better than brown sugar, boba itself. Yeah, the sugar's like caramelized, got some nice vanilla notes in it. The boba's are really soft. It's really soft. I think we just gotta give it up to these, man. These really lived up to the hype, I gotta say. All right you guys, thank you so much for watching that. That was part two of a crazy Japanese supermarket journey. Guys, we ate over 50 Japanese snacks. We told you our recommendations, which ones we thought were the most interesting, the ones that we thought were the best. In the comments section below, please let us know what is another Japanese snack that we did not try that we have to check out. If there's an American counterpart to it, let us know what the comparison is. Guys, thank you so much for watching that video. 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