KIDS EAT JAPANESE VEGETABLES!

♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're going to have you try
a few different Japanese veggies. - Ooh!
I hope I like them.
- Ew, vegetables!
- I love vegetables.
They're crunchy and they make you healthy.
- Ooh, I've never tried these vegetables.
- (FBE) All these veggies may not have originated in Japan,
but they're all commonly used in Japanese cuisine.
- I like Japanese culture, so I'll like Japanese vegetables.
- I think it's really good to try different things from different places.
- I'm not the biggest fan in the world about vegetables,
and then it's from another country?
I am a tiny bit scared.
- (FBE) Here is your first vegetable. - Yummy!
I love edamame.
- Edamame!
I always have them when I go the Japanese restaurant.
They are SO good.
- Edamames? I already eat these.
- You're supposed to squeeze these open.
Squeeze!
- Let me just open it.
It tastes smooth... a little crunchy.
(crunching) - Am I doing it right?
Yeah, these are good.
It's something that's quick. You could eat them fast.
It's fun to eat.
- Very squishy and soft.
A little bit like avocados.
- They just taste bland.
It doesn't really taste bad, nor does it taste good.
- (FBE) This is edamame.
It's a soybean that's usually eaten as a snack.
- Oh, I've had this before at the restaurant
really close to my house.
It's really good.
I'm like, "Eat it!"
- It's kind of fun opening it.
- I liked how it pops out.
It pops out so beautifully.
- (FBE) Here is your next vegetable. - Ummmm...
What the--?
It looks like a branch for a tree.
- (FBE) The one on your left is the raw version,
and the one on your right is cooked.
- It kind of looks like bone.
- It kind of looks like a potato.
- Why does this taste like a pumpkin seed?
- (exhaling) I'm going to hold my breath.
(gagging) Blah.
Nah, nah.
It's like sweet, but then chewy and vegetabley.
- They kind of taste like carrots.
- It tastes like the smell of a rotten sock.
- It was really salty and a little sweet,
but the type of sweet that it was, ooh, it was pretty bad.
- (FBE) That was daikon, a Japanese radish.
It is commonly added into dishes where it can absorb flavor.
This recipe was cooked with sweet pickles.
- I HATE pickles.
- Ew! No, why can't it be with strawberries/blueberries.
I don't want it to absorb pickles!
EW!
- (FBE) Here is your next one. - Is that a mushroom plant?
That smells disgusting!
- It looks like a pinecone and a mushroom had a baby.
- Ooh, it feels like rubber bands.
(munching)
- Okay, this is good.
(gulping) Never mind.
It tastes like rubber. Ew! No!
- Ugh! It doesn't have any flavor.
This tastes like nothing.
- Very cold and slimy.
- It doesn't have any taste. It's just slimy.
- It feels weird and I just don't like mushroom.
- (FBE) That was the maitake mushroom.
Maitake mushrooms are known to not have the squeaky texture
we are more used to, but rather a delicate and feathery texture.
- This is really weird.
It's better than you expect it to be,
but then it's not the best food you've ever tried.
- Out of ten, regular mushrooms would be a six,
and this would be -1,000,000.
- (FBE) Here is another veggie.
- It smells just like lettuce.
- It looks like a pickle!
- Mmm!
(exclaims in shock)
Ew!
- Ugh! Ugh!
The second you put it in your mouth, you just want to spit it out!
It's gross! (giggling)
- It's so bitter!
- So disgusting. It's so bitter.
- I like it.
It's basically a cucumber, except it's a little sour.
- This has a weird vegetabley, slimy, dull, kind of 1% sweet flavor.
- That was just so strong.
It's like strong celery.
- (FBE) This is called Goya, which translates to "bitter melon."
This vegetable is commonly used in a dish called Goya champuru,
which is a combination of fried tofu, egg, and Goya.
- Tofu? I like tofu.
- (in distress) Help me!
It's so BAD.
If you dunk that in soy sauce, and dunk it in Teriyaki sauce,
and then hide it with five pounds of tofu, probably it would taste good.
- (FBE) Last one.
We've got a picture of the raw version for you this time.
- It looks like a tree.
- It looks like these are like legs and then this is just like a body
with a decapitated head.
- (FBE) Now you get to try it.
(fork scraping plate)
- (groaning) I'm just going to take this part.
AAH! It's so hot!
(slurring) Do you not want me to have a tongue anymore?
It's so hot!
- Why would you eat that?
- (shrilly) AAH! AAH!
Oh my god! Eee!
(muffled shrieking)
That was so spicy!
That's wasabi.
- (hoarsely) It's spicy.
I'm never eating that again.
- Call the fire department. My mouth's on fire.
- That was like hot peppers
that are actually burping out fire!
- (FBE) That was wasabi, a Japanese root made into a paste,
eaten commonly with sushi.
The reason why we have a picture of the actual root
is because it's very hard to come by. - Oh my gosh.
It's just like a bunch of needles poking at your taste buds
one after another and, like, bang!
- The fish is good, but the wasabi is not good at all.
- I'm going to have to have my sushi five feet away from the wasabi
when I get it.
- (FBE) So which of these veggies do you recommend people try?
- I liked the edamame.
- Edamabe. - (FBE) "Edamame."
- Edamabe one.
- Edamame-- edama-- edamame was my favorite.
- Edamame.
- Edamame.
- Edamame is my favorite!
- I liked the edamame the best.
- The "edaname."
It's cool to just see what else is out there,
than just what you have on a regular basis.
Still, some stuff, it's just gross and just painful.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Kids Vs. Food on the React channel.
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- Bye, everybody!
(threateningly) Eat your veggies, kids!
- Hey, guys, Alyssa here, a producer here at the React channel.
Thanks so much for watching us try Japanese veggies today.
If you have some ideas, go ahead and leave them in the comments.

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