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Hello, 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. We're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Dahlson. Pete, how the devil are you doing? What's going on? I'm very good, Christopher. I am feeling live. I am feeling fun and I'm feeling fruity. All of those things combined will make for an excellent and Broderyman podcast, I think. Absolutely, although I've run out of my coffee now. Oh, it's sort of downhill from here. Chris, Chris, Chris. What a week you've had, you've run out of a little bit of coffee. Oh, my God. As I mentioned, the last episode, I've just got back from Orsaka having filmed with Natzky. We're doing a food video and I was, we went to like three restaurants in one day. One of the restaurants was all the wagyu in the world, which is really good. And I could have, you know, that would have been enough for the next two days I don't think I needed to eat again this man like carved up the most beautifully buttery you know rich Wagyu in front of us and we ate it and he had little charcoal grill and he cooked in front of us and then we went and I had like taco yaki and I was like oh crikey but unfortunately it was a takoyaki restaurant where

you cook it yourself and in this case the chef the balls the balls he cooked the balls

yeah yeah yeah yeah you get like a grill and then you put in like the octopus the octopi

and a bit of bat and you put the batter in, cook it.

But takoyaki aren't as easy to prepare as you'd think.

No.

Or at least they weren't in this place.

You use this like sharp instrument, like a little knife.

And you have to sort of whip the batter around and keep rotating it to shape it into a bull.

A lot of cheap places, you sort of shut the lid and like a

George Foreman grill

tapoy-asci-style grill. Right, okay. Yeah. Like a bubble waffle. Yeah, yeah. Well, this one we just had to do it off. We had to sort of make the balls ourselves. And Natsky burnt them all. Yeah, Natsky burnt them all. Right. It was just like eating a bonfire, which wasn't so good.

A burnt ball of pancake club. burnt them all. And it was just like eating a bonfire.

A burnt ball of pancake, lovely.

Yeah. And then we went to fucking Kushi Yaki place. Sorry, Kushkatsu.

You know what Kuskatsu is? Do we have it? You do it?

It sounds like a curried weed. It sounds like

curried marijuana. sounds like curried

marijuana

it's not that good

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