Name: 日本のヴィーガンフードは本当に美味しいのか？ (Is Japanese Vegan Food Actually Good?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:56:18.000Z
Duration: 11 min 6 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

様態の副詞

So after five years and a hundred videos we're finally gonna feature some

food in a video that doesn't contain meat in it.

I know there are many vegans and vegetarians that watch this channel

given how nearly every video features either Wagyu beef pork or fried chicken

but today we're visiting the ancient northern capital of Hiraizumi, a town

which once even rivaled Kyoto in size and scale and on our trip we plan to do

some meditation, explore one of Japan's most picturesque temples, and of course

I say way because my good friend Ryotaro is going to be

coming along as well and who knows amidst the meditation and the vegan

cuisine I might come back a better person.

So we're at a UNESCO world heritage site; Motsu-ji temple.

And we're gonna do something called zazen which is

a Buddhist practice; the best way to summarise up is it's that thing where

they hit you with a stick while you meditate.

It's a bit of a simplification, but what's the actual purpose of this Zazen kind of Buddhist practice.

So it's almost like a meditation but this is

And enable you to concentrate even more than you can.

So by the end of this I'll be like in touch with myself.

In touch with yourself; yeah that sounds very romantic.

Alright well let's go and stimulate our five senses.

Zazen literally means seated meditation with the posture requiring the

practitioner to sit with folded legs and arms on a small cushion.

For one hour we sat in silence with the impending presence of the stick.

The awakening stick is used to gently slap the meditator to reset their concentration

or to reinvigorate those who are struggling to meditate under tiredness or stress.

It's not a form of punishment, you actually ask for it by bowing and

putting your palms together and unsurprisingly it was difficult for me

to hide my delight at Ryotaro getting whacked.

It's more difficult than you think to concentrate especially when you

are incredibly aware of your feet being frozen solid by the cold temperatures

The stick didn't hurt thankfully; you kind of find yourself lost in the smell

of the incense, the cool crisp morning air, the sound of the bell being rung,

You feel you're in a heightened state of awareness with your senses and it's

quite nice it's a nice way of starting the day I guess, but given its the morning

It's still 9 o'clock I was trying a little bit to not fall asleep

guide about the kind of benefits you'd get from doing zazen regularly.

If you could summarize the experience in three words, what would those words be?

Refreshing, concentrating, crispy whacked.

See you can think up new products for biscuits when you meditate.

Having meditated for an hour and being whacked with a stick we went for an

early lunch at a nearby restaurant serving vegan cuisine inspired by Zen Buddhism

So today is the day I finally give something back to vegan viewers recently

we've been having a lot of meat in the videos in fact I think it's always

just been meat in the videos; this is the first time we've actually had some sort

It's called Shojin Ryouri; Shojin literally means Buddhist cuisine and ryouri means cooking.

And it's an array of wonderful multicolored dishes, each and every one is Vegan.

Actually at first glance it doesn't look like a vegan dish,

when look at everything you think these mushrooms must contain some sort of

This tempure must have some shrimp or fish in.

So this is sesame tofu with wasabi on the top.

and they put some hot ginger sauce on the top with the mushrooms.

and they actually slice it so that it looks like a sashimi.

It's actually sticky rice wrapped with seaweed.

Tempura is an absolute miracle you take a

nice freshly picked vegetable and then dip it in batter

and it just makes it so much better; you know tempura was actually the first

Japanese food I ever had back when I was about nine and that was what I decided

Japanese food must be good, it'll start there.

haven't made a video on vegan or vegetarian cuisine is it's quite

difficult to come by if you're eating out many people that who I know who live

in Japan that are vegans cook at home and that's the way they get around it.

If you eat something like soba noodles or udon noodles yes they

are vegan but the dipping sauce broth they come in usually often contains

Yeah but the dipping sauce actually contains fish bones so what want you to be

careful is that we have two kinds of broth when it comes to Japanese

food normally it's a tuna base broth or Konbu based broth which is seaweed based

So if you ask the restaurant for eating soba or udon, ask them to bring the konbu

which is the seaweed broth and with that you can get by.