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Favorite Japanese foods

bowl. They're kind of my favorite. And then obviously sushi's good. But yeah, anything rice, protein, and veg just it's pretty great. So yeah, Poké Balls and Pokémon. Exactly. Y...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: British views on JapanSubtitles: en

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or like poke

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bowl. They're kind of my favorite. And

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then obviously sushi's good.

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But yeah, anything rice, protein, and

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veg just it's pretty great.

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So yeah,

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Poké Balls and Pokémon.

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Exactly. Yeah, it works. It works. So

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then what does their diet consist of

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then without an oven?

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Without being obvious and saying fish.

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Yeah, it's a lot of vegetables. There's

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more vegetable going on there than fish.

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And beef is so expensive. It's more than

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prime. One steak, for example, could be

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easily £100.

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Really?

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Beef is extremely expensive.

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Can we touch on this? The first thing

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you said, the tea ceremony. What is this

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and how do you know about tea ceremony?

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Well, I probably know about it from uh

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what I've read in books and seen in

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films, but I'm aware that um in Japan a

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lot of things are given a lot of sacred

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um importance. So, making tea doesn't

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just become for us like bunging a kettle

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on and sticking a tea bag in a mug.

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There's I love the fact that there's a

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lot of deliberation about the whole

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thing. So, you know, you dress in a

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certain way, you position yourself in a

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certain way, and then there's a sort of

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a whole um ceremony to how the tea is

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made and served and in what order things

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are done. Yeah, there's a lot of um

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deliberateness, if

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