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Rice To Meet You

47: Prickly on the Outside, Delicious on the Inside - ft. Erin Niimi Longhurst (Japonisme)

Rice To Meet You

Nigel Ng, Evelyn Mok

Comedy, Stand-up, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 β€’ 836 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Erin Niimi Longhurst is a British/Japanese author of hugely popular lifestyle book Japonisme. We talk about forest bathing, making broken things whole (kintsugi), and why Nigel's like a sea urchin (uni).

Buy Japonisme or pre-order her new book, Omoiyari (comes out July 9th). Follow Erin on instagram and twitter!

🍚 Since we lost all of our income for the rest of 2020, we would really appreciate it if you could support us financially via our Patreon!

πŸ‘• We have merch now at ricetomeetyoupod.com/merch

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Hope you guys are keeping safe in this really weird time. I just want to let you know that this

0:05.7

episode was recorded way before we went into lockdown. Nigel and I haven't asked our guests to brave the

0:11.5

coronavirus to come and record our podcast. In fact, we're both currently in lockdown by ourselves.

0:18.0

I'm in Sweden. He's in London. So I think it'll be a while before we see other people

0:22.4

again. As you guys know, both Nigel and I are comedians, and all of our live work has been canceled

0:28.2

for the foreseeable future, so we have no source of income. That's why we're putting all of our

0:32.5

focus into the podcast, bringing you at least two episodes a week, and we're currently thinking

0:36.9

of more things we

0:37.8

could do. So if you want to support us, you can become a Patreon. Just head on over to patreon.com

0:42.9

slash Rice to Meet You pod, and sign up to be a patron. We have different tiers with different

0:47.3

rewards, so choose the one that most suits you. Or you can just make a one-time donation.

0:52.4

We would really appreciate your support.

0:54.6

Thank you again, guys, and keep safe.

0:57.2

And now, on with the show.

0:59.7

So if Nigel's uni, what are you?

1:02.3

What am I?

1:03.0

I don't know.

1:04.1

I think I'm just like, um, kumtai mean.

1:06.8

Like just some store-bought ramen.

1:10.4

No, don't say that.

1:12.1

You're going to have some confidence.

1:13.5

What am I?

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