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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host, Chris Broad, but join us as always by England's Top Japan Thieves.

Yes, Mr. Pete Donson. Pete, how you doing? What's going on? Tully's coffee. I'm good. I'm recovering after the weekend in Latvia last weekend and then also just having a, I had a bottomless brunch over the weekend, and I've never had a bottomless brunch before. Bottomless brunch is one of those things that people have in America, and I've never had a bottomless brunch before and I had a bottomless brunch before. Bottomless brunch is one of those things that people have in America. And I've never had a bottomless brunch before. And I had a bottomless brunch. And I drank a lot of prosceco. And then I had to go home. Because I think I'm good at drinking. But turns out bottomless brunches are not something I can do. Because it turns out people who bottomless brunch are hardcore. So there's a little

tip there. So the bottomless brunch boys of London really know how to stick it to a drinking man.

So yeah, don't bottomless brunch in London. Here I am with my rice, crispsies and brown cheese.

You look at your bottomless brunch of bacon, pancakes, eggs. It sounds quite good. I do miss a good breakfast. Are you on a bit of a health kick with your rice crispy brown cheese? Is that, how would that count? Brown cheese isn't healthy, but it's probably worse for you than normal cheese. It's like all the fat of cheese, but with sugar because it's like caramelised. So it's probably the worst cheese in the world for your health, but there's some bacteria that's good for your gut. I don't know. I just eat it because I can.

The story of my career. And you can't stop me. I just eat it because I can. There's a food channel spin-off. I just, I eat because I can. Dot com with Chris fraud.

I mean, yeah. What's been, what's been happening in your life, Chris, apart from your rice, crisps and your cheese? What have been the big sort of things that are taking place? You're obviously in the middle of the biggest job of your life, writing a second book, a follow-up to your very successful one. You just put out of a video not that long ago about your day in Japan. It was nice to say a bit of Shaboo you love in that video, by the way. Go out and check it out if you can. You're very much... I think you were quite close to Bar-Rockaholic at one point. Literally walked past it, yeah. There was that Bangkok restaurant, and I was like, that Bangkok restaurant, restaurant I'm getting I'm getting a feeling in my stomach

It's quite close to I think I might be quite close to bar alcoholic Yeah I did I did walk through or past bar alcoholic and I thought of you

I was going to take a shot just for you for the video but I was there's some people all draped over the front sign and I was like that yeah

But yeah it's cool I mean I will say I do prefer doing night photography in Shinjuku over Shibu. Shihoku, it's got a bit more depth to it. There's more things going on. It's a bigger area. You've got more diversity. You've got the neon lights. You've got the skyscrapers. And I feel Shabua is very dense. It's a very dense place. We've got basketball street and then it's just like the Love Hotel District and then just everything's really packed in and you can't really see up, can you, I suppose? You can't see up, no, unless you look up. You know, you're right, though, it's very dense, it's very dense in a way that even Shiducu isn't. But I had a whale of a time filming there.

And I'm going to sneeze.

Chew, bless you!

I've been teaching our daughter how to say bless you.

She's very much enjoying it because when you become a dad, you have a very loud sneeze.

Something happens, you know,

it's not biological, because I'm not biologic to relate to my daughter,

but it just something happens to your body

where it goes you have to do the loudest dad sneeze possible.

It's just something we've got to do.

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