I Tried EVERY Japanese Fried Chicken | Ft. @CDawgVA

eight years living in japan it's all been building up to this moment right here every single japanese convenience store fried chicken reviewed once and for all god help us all this is gonna be intense so we all know that i love fried chicken not just a little bit quite a lot especially family marked fried chicken but how does it compare to all the comedian store chicken in japan uh we're gonna find out we're gonna eat every single one today and i don't want to do it alone i don't want to die alone in a room surrounded by a pile of chicken so i wanted to invite good friends they were all busy so please welcome the second best person to come out of wales since tom jones is of course sea dog va connor dog how you doing connor fun waiting on your floor there are you hungry is there any particular reason why cholesterol might be high icon no idea doctor no idea i love the way joey the anime man gets to go on a six-part travel series around japan you get to eat chicken in a room um i definitely you know drew the short straw on the uh the friendship collaborations to be fair though i've actually tried like 70 percent of this stuff yeah most of us haven't tried this is a lot most of this i tend to look at oh god oh god oh no oh no but i did bring my own kind of food variation because i knew that chris i think we all need a bit of broccoli in our line so i brought some from my home where'd you get storage did you bring that up all the way from tokyo i actually did two hours on a billet tray it doesn't smell great it should have been refrigerated but here you go chris so this will be you imagine yeah i think we'll uh we'll put that in the special corner over here we're gonna rank them from s to e superior to e and uh where are we gonna start connor where do we begin we should start with your favorite though start with the control group the one you already know family might fly chicken it's interesting it's like the branding like lawson's is really colorful family mart down here pretty good and then 7-eleven no effort just shove it in the bag chuck it in you know family mart chicken is good on the front it just says i am chicken in english that's it you are you do have a like the ability to spot bad english or a well this is the greasiest objects known to man so you need to have a bit of flavor what so you just eat it freehand i would just pick it up you're a disgrace well look at that beautiful crispy golden chicken you've got the herbs there it's beautiful this is chris's weak supply of chicken here [Music] that is much better than i remember very oily but very fresh yeah normally i avoid the fried chicken at night because it's been sitting there since like 2 or 3 p.m you want to get it like around lunch yeah i i could eat all of this i know i probably shouldn't but we're going to eat oh we're going to eat it we cannot eat all of this don't like to i don't like to waste food that's why i brought you here i've seen you eat a whole load of ramen you can eat all the chicken now now there might be something that's stable better than this that i haven't yet tried but this for me is this is a superior product i'll give you the benefit of a doubt i'll give it ass i'm inspiring confidence chris all right so we started with uh with my favorite chicken time to uh get a slight variance on family mart spicy fried chicken oh my god you tore that apart yes jesus smells not much spicier though i'll say someone's about the same maybe even tobacco poured on it who knows it's tabasco it's it's a little bit redder in there it's kind of like a thicker batter it's not breadcrumbs it's just batter so let's give it a shot okay batter's not good i don't like that i think the spices are better probably better isn't it about as a real laptop this is really different it feels different as well it's weightier [Music] i think i would put c but i'll be nice i'll say d for the broader japan channel what's the worst that could happen i might get bullied by the comments section i hope so got a bit of a wild card option now something i've never had before this is family mart chicken wings but you're shaking one chicken i didn't even know this oh my god that is ghastly look at that that looks terrible that looks like satan's horns it does uh which which horn do you want i guess i'll take it i'll take a little one oh my god great i think i'll be taking this one does not smell good it smells a bit rough it smells like a tired oh god this smells awful it does smell like a tire yeah it does it actually does all right let's give it a shot [Music] this is uh it's very springy why yeah it shouldn't be the consistency of a rubber ball you know what i mean i think that's an e honestly that's that's pretty awful i imagine i think don't think there's any case where i'd ever eat this is it any aspect of this chicken you enjoy no no it's awful do you like this no okay get up get this out of my sight this is terrible at the same time i can't stop eating oh my god we started my life i hate it but i can't stop the level of grease on my hands now there's this is if you wipe that over your face you'll have acne in about twenty seconds acne speed run featuring chris when i used to work in mcdonald's is how my hands felt used to working with donald i did indeed what was that like awful it was terrible i'm glad i worked mcdonald's so i know that i never want to work at mcdonald's ever again what the perks of working with don's i did like the food you get a free free mcdonald's lunch for lunch and you can make your own so you customize it it sounds quite good all right lawson same price 180 yen about 270 calories don't tell me that chris look at that satisfying rip i even rip a bag on it no i will say lawson's is my go-to for all fried food they have been killing it with everything you're gonna laugh you've seen the swear but the cross section of this chicken is fantastic look at that across there isn't that fanta that's fantastic that's like engineering and work here let's give it a part all right that's so good um you're gonna hate me chris i already hate it i think that's better than the family no it's not really the chicken is good but the bat is not as flavorful i'll agree but i want to die while seeing this why the grease is way less intense on this one than it is in the family male 1 like i feel like i could do two of these and not want to violently vomit but the family mart ones i think myself would fight back see this is a healthier option it's a family i'm not going to say that i held her alternative i enjoyed it but not as much as family mart i still think it belongs in the stor though it's just honest to you you're really gonna let me put it in here fine there's an atia but know in my heart that it's an s here this is fantastic right we're bringing out the big guns now lawson red chicken literally the spicy chicken and it smells delightful this is normally my go-to but this one does look particularly greasy so i don't know what they've done with it look at how much it's shining this i can see myself in the reflection the paper is pretty greasy they've got like titanium reinforced interior so the grease doesn't leak out a bit all right here we go oh wow oh my god that's a lot of grief oh my god that's too much grease holy just taking two years off your life without mouthful i can feel my doctor quivering it's not as good as i remember it it's not as spicy as i remember either no there's really no kick to it at all i'm sad to say i think this is beetier just one bite i'll take another one to confirm there's just too much grease i think that's the problem we want to rub it all over your face so what happens all right return to mcdonald's back to the days of round round mcdonald's that's the days of ronald mcdonald what's he called in japan right now though you don't know what ronald mcdonald is in japan no ronald mcdonald is done because ronald mcdonald was very hard for japanese people to say right now it'll be like [Music] what's this one this is a 7-eleven chicken cheese i've never had this before oh look at that smells awful i'll be honest in japan they don't really have a good track record of cheese in my mind normally if cheese is in cheap stuff yeah it's normally the bottom of the barrel cheese so let's find out here we go don't look at me i should watch me usually looking at me to see how i react [Music] oh my god that's dreadful don't be sick on my floor oh oh it's so bad eat the whole thing as well no way the whole thing what they've done is put burger cheese in a layer of chicken that's disgusting do we have a tear below e because i think this is this belongs in it this is you can't give to me otherwise this is terrible oh yeah i refuse to take any more bites out of there i think it can only go up from here if i'm completely honest so this is 7-elevens flagship chicken this is there like there's a chicken breast one yeah it's kind of like chicken with a bit of soy sauce marinated oh it looks alright yeah that looks quite nice let's give it a shot very chewy should should fried chicken be chewy i'm gonna be honest that's like a d maybe a c at best if there was no other fried chicken i think i'd get it but if i had literally any other option i think i'd go for it they had a such good chicken like it's a big piece and they just coated it that's just too thick in it yeah it smelled amazing it did smell good just feels like a car crash in your mouth i feel greasy i feel greasy as well you eat something greasy and like you feel it on your skin yeah it's not nice i feel like the inside of a kfc bar speaking of the bucket we're about to dive in is it wrong i'm washing this down with coffee yes i'm drinking some green teas fried chicken was meant to be enjoyed fried chicken and coffee in hindsight what happens if i just die halfway through this video face planting to the bucket of chicken chicken for me ordinary coffee yeah it's like a body bag what's in the box what what is in here what is it there we go that looks stressful oh god actually that smells pretty good actually all right take a chicken leg to be fair kfc gets their batter right they do they do you always get like a good layer of it god i hate that that's so good the the baton kfc and this one's really good way more spices and flavors yeah i think i thought that kfc was worse than this but i think this takes better than all the chicken we've had so far is it up there with the big dog you're not gonna let me put it there but if i had my way i think i would look when you bite into that you can just see like real chicken yeah and there's like no grease the only grease you get is in the batter but here's the thing that was 2 400 yen for that bucket of eight pieces what so it's about 300 yen three dollars per piece so it's pretty pricey compared to the 180 yen we played for the family mark fry chicken so no it's nearly double i would say that's probably double the quality there but double the quality you know if i'm going to ruin my body i may as well do it nicely you know do s but it is way too expensive right like it's just it is ridiculous at that point you might as well just go to a restaurant and have like an actual meal so you're thinking more of an eight yeah i think unfortunately i must say i thought this was going to be like a c or something so this is quite a surprise for me but i quite enjoyed it that was the highlight of the meal so far about saying something let's move on to the bit that's that's that's good a little bit that's good karaoke kind of like chicken nuggets almost a bit classier i think i think that i would say i'd say imagine quality chicken yeah i mean it's just it's small it's easy and it comes with a toothpick that you can just stamp with i love the way they'd create a brand though yeah it's literally mr carriage yeah everything has a mascot what flavor is this then ginger right it smells very good you can really smell the ginger as well good carriage is chicken with marinated with soy sauce and ginger so pretty faithful to the real thing i like that there's like no grease which i immediately appreciate now because the bat is quite thick that's really good i think i'd give that an a yeah i would too actually i also i mean taking the branding into consideration i'd stop the way they they show you which part of japan it's inspired by yeah quite cool that's cute oh and you can put the toothpick back in with your it's amazing what about this flavor then lemon flavor oh i do like lemon-flavored chicken so i'm hoping that this one's good it looks like the chicken's being sick that's the only thing that quite about it it's a little bit alarming what's because i keep feeding him lemons so he's just gonna you know can you smell the lemon i can't smell lemon at all can you smell the lemon um no no no no i can't smell lemon at all this is also uh japan chicken chicken from japan that's pretty rough you know how lemon cleaning products oh no it's like they put the cleaning smell product into the chicken i think that's like c or d yeah good to be daring sometimes you take things too far and uh that did i could again this time red flaming hot red look at that this is my go-to this is my answer you like this one i go for this one all the time because i just think that normally the normal one is just a bit boring boring i will i will admit the one thing about this this red version is it's often too red looking it's yeah it's a little bit artificial yeah yeah it doesn't taste spicy just tastes like red spicy food's hard to cut my hair no doubt what are you doing to my beautiful buffet table they normally say stuff is spicy in japan and it'll just be like paprika sprinkled on and they'll be like spiced don't look at the calories chris i saw you looking at the calories don't look don't look there's 46 calories per ball we don't don't look we just get like five you get five pieces of chicken in this right so that's spicy then water is spicy that's good that's got nothing that's a b for me i think a b yeah i'd say b what about cheese flavor no we all know cheese cheese tastes great are you serious no no we all know you love cheese in japan i avoid cheese products in japan like like the play because they just they don't do it right this could change everything japan is such high quality for like standards of foods but then for some reason when it comes to cheese they just like let us just drop the ball completely lactose intolerant everyone is like lactose intolerant japan then why is it so much cheese garbage she's gone oh my good smells like hand sanitizer what i've noticed with this is the cheese one it's got like a weird texture when you poke the stick in poke it in and you'll feel like the the squishiness of the cheese i rarely ever want to not eat something fine just do it oh my god that vial oh it's very artificial cheese flavor oh no do it off camera bloody hell that's so gross i can't eat that that's actually i think i'll throw up like that chicken and cheese is a combo that can easily work and it's disappointing how easily they ruined it both times we've had to say that can you make a new tear for cheese items just the cheese tier i feel really rough i've made 200 videos on lebron japan this is by far the worst i've made documentaries about important things not just me sitting in a room eating some chicken there's a guy from what from wales chris from wales this is this is not what i thought my japan experience would look like go on colin take one for the team yeah go on we'll have some broccoli i need to cleanse my mouth don't i chris i should probably just uh oh god save oh flip it's not even washed it's just it's just it looks horrible you know what it looks it looks moldy it's a good change of flavor questions have a bite i'm not having a bite i've got broccoli no i'm not having a bite of your broccoli you can take the rest of it home on the train back to tokyo but first things first we're going to try pocket chicken this is pocket chicken so booker chicky is family mart's equivalent of karaoke you know comes a little box it's kind of wider but not as nicely branded i was going to say i don't want to don't want to give lawson's like points but this one looks like a food item this one looks like mints go in it or something you know yeah i mean i mean it does though doesn't it well these are like these actually look like chicken nuggets with bones chicken nuggets do they actually takes you back to it takes me back home god i miss it you know fixing them with flurry machine oh they're rock solid oh they're awful oh they're actually like look at that i can't pull the toothpick out of it that's pretty goddamn awful what have they done obviously these have been sitting here a few minutes but so are these and these are actually quite good the bat is very doughy what's that flavor to the chicken as well it's like sour i think that's an egg honestly the fact i'm still chewing it like chewing gum yes it's not going away [Music] i can't swallow and you've still got the uh the other one this is pocket chicky hot the spicy version of the one we just had and they've got a little a little character there look it's not quite gary again it looks like a beheaded pack of that's horrifying what is i don't know what that is it's a christmas present gone wrong that's real lazy that they just put literally made the box into a character not as bad mommy's really hot i don't like it no it's so bad it's not as bad as the other one though actually yeah good idea yeah no because it's got a little bit of a spicy flavor to it it's like they've seasoned the bouncy ball there's one more here as well god what is this one still got all these bloody skewers just text this is a visual novel on here grand prix karaoke grand prix this looks pretty good yeah i don't know if i can show you this one it actually looks i'll put one on the sticks and show you come on look at the size of this thing as well that's a that's pretty good you could beat someone to death with those yeah grand prix bon appetit it tastes like chronology you'd get at a restaurant it's quite big me it's quite doughy what's that texture it's like disappointment there's a sort of mild ginger undertang i like that it's not about the grand prix of chicken you look like you're going to be sick though that's a bit worried big think i'm just so done with chicken this is so pretty this is horrible it tastes like the you know like the the last sip of the beer the bottom right it feels like it's all caught like come together like it feels like i don't want to say it i thought it tastes like the last supper what does that imply well probably is my last supper honestly this this is the japan last supper portrait like this is what it looks like i'm gonna need a lot of milk after this i'm gonna need a lot of milk that's for sure you've had a lot of broccoli as well i'm getting more broccoli later on i'm gonna need it to bounce out of the scales no don't give it to me now no no no no i'll do it i absolutely look at these skewers honestly these look like the worst this is going to be the final blow this is the final boss of this chicken challenge we're doing this so you don't have to don't eat these i avoid these as much as possible if if the store was empty and i was starving i would not get these this is all from 7-eleven and their track record so far has been not particularly great that does not smell appetizing what we got we got chicken breast yeah uh we've got karaoke ball literally carry our game on a stick and this one is chicken cartilage now one thing i've noticed that this looks immaculate but it looks like a fake yakitori you know the ones outside the window yes oh no no if you are if you're doing that look it's pretty good you're looking for your shoes [Music] jesus christ it's yakitori you can't stop spitting food no come here you've got to chew it you're going to finish it oh we don't waste food on the aboriginal patch oh my god delicious i give that a nine out of ten that's vile that's you that's not edible look how shiny it is on top what is that sauce they've coated in it's like oil it's it's the thing is with yakitori right you grill it very slowly over a nice sort of charcoal grill with this sort of yakitori from the convenience store they don't have that luxury i don't know how they cook it i think it's literally just in the microwave and then put it in the heater do we have a category less than e because that belongs in it that's pretty awful this is just a for atrocity for war crimes this is carrying your chicken on a stick board means stick so karate ball i used to eat this a lot oh god that's all right that's more batter than chicken i feel more better than man bloody dinner this is terrible that is not that's all right no 7-eleven must be breaking some geneva conventions with this right sure yeah a c major that's an e another a that's a d we've got bloody chicken cartilage coming out okay d d let's do that oh this is going to be oh finish this off i'm not a religious person but i'm praying right now i'll say that as you should be oh it's like a meatball what is that that's not it tastes like fake chicken yeah it does this is like like lego chicken i don't know how to feel about that it's not terrible but it also i just don't think it's right i think i think we've just seen a lot of chicken man i think we're done i'll give that a d thank god oh god but chris we're done we're finally done oh my god i've cycled across japan 2000 kilometers i've scaled mount fuji but this is probably the hardest thing this one's so rough now this is this is the alcohol video okay so connor and i just before we did this we did something equally as stupid we got every single alcohol in japan and we drank it what they had this last week my body must have taken a massive diet in terms of like nutritional health like i dare i say i think this one was worse than the alcohol i mean alcohol was soft but it was actually fun yeah there's nothing fun about this it's kind of it's eloquently warcraft what what can we teach the viewer here there's got to be some educational benefit there is don't do this find the educational benefit family mart chicken is pretty damn good candy mart chicken the original good yeah lawson fried chicken is pretty good 7-eleven best avoided i think yeah i think what i've realized is i really really dislike 7-eleven and kfc really surprised me the best convenience store which one would it be then now the three in terms of all the food we've had here lawson's consistency is something that i admire i go into lawsons every time i know i'm getting a good chicken and family ma and i know i'm getting a good chat he's picturing you walking out there and chipping on me god what have you got chicken in it i wouldn't put him past that's something i would do too fast yeah i do feel like i never want to eat a fried chicken again well no doubt within a month thank god we've got broccoli mate thank god we've got the broccoli just about chicken and broccoli i think it's time to wrap it up guys thank you for watching guys go and check out connor and i drinking a staggering amount of socket all the suck in japan over on sea dog va and connor's now going to get a hoover and tidy up the sea of broccoli that is surrounding my desk that was an accident bring back jerry the enemy man joe wouldn't demolish your office joey wouldn't get broccoli everywhere but for now guys thanks for watching uh as always all behind the scenes stuff check out the royal japan patreon but go and check out cwa and our suckier drinking extravaganza it was more fun than this was it i had great fun here it was this was

Channel: Abroad in Japan

Views: 1,150,631

Rating: 4.9668617 out of 5

Keywords: japanese food, fried chicken japan, japanese convenience store, family mart, seven eleven japan, abroad in japan, cdawgva, trash taste

Id: M400lV0GNV4

Length: 25min 18sec (1518 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/rynnikelddi]

Good god, I think my cholesterol levels just shot up the ceiling just by watching them down all those fried chicken. lol

And this is on top of getting virtual liver cirrhosis after watching that alcohol video over in Connor's channel just a few hours ago.

[u/Tasty-Usual-5073]

Help! I'm looking for the video form of the abroad in Japan podcast, I can't find it anywhere. I've definitely heard him mention it more than once