Trying to be Vegetarian for a week - day 1

Got some bread, got some tofu,

got some spaghetti,

got some mushrooms. I got some

kimchi sauce for soup, got some

bananas. I got more

sauce for tofu soup.

Tofu soup Easy cooking.

I got these green leaves,

spicy green leaves. I got this garlic

and cream spaghetti sauce and

one tomato.

Bag number 2. Bag number 2,

I got some bean sprouts. I got

some Dorito. Oh, it's chicken flavor, but

I don't think there's actual chicken

inside of it. It's just, you know, fake

chicken flavor. Um, it doesn't count

because it's not actual meat. I got some

mushrooms, more mushrooms.

I got some pizza cheese and

I got 3 tubs of microwave rice.

Very nice. So the meals that I'm planning

to make are spaghetti with

garlic and cream sauce with some

mushrooms, and then when I finish the

cream sauce, I can mash this potato and

make a tomato sauce. For more spaghetti.

I've got tofu and bean

sprouts and more mushrooms,

and I can make a tofu stew using the tofu

sauce. And then for the bread,

I could microwave some banana and then

spread it on the bread, or I could melt

some cheese onto the bread and have a

toasted cheese thing, and I'm not

sure what to do with this or this. So this

could be 2 meals— tofu

soup with rice could be 2 meals here, and

then I might have to buy more vegetables

to use this one. And I think I can get 3

meals out of this spaghetti, and then

I can get quite a lot of cheese toasties

out of this loaf of bread, so it should

last me I think it should last me 4 to 5

days.

Okay, so now it's lunchtime. I just made

myself a spaghetti meal. I decided not to

use the cream garlic sauce for this

spaghetti dish because I wanted to use the

tomato before it started to go off. And

basically what I did was I just boiled the

tomato with the mushrooms, added a bit of

salt And now I'm going to turn it into a

bit of a tomato sauce just by mashing it.

It's amazing, isn't it? You see these

pasta sauces in jars, they cost so much

money, about $6 just for a jar of tomato

sauce, spaghetti sauce, and it only lasts

you about 2 meals when you can just

get a tomato, a whole tomato for less than

a dollar, and then just boil it and then

mash it up and basically you've got the

same thing. Add a bit of seasoning. It's

the same, it's just tomato sauce.

So I think that's a great way of saving

money. You can get 6 tomatoes for

the price of a jar of spaghetti sauce.

Whoa, sorry about that, this tripod is not

very good. Let me readjust

you. First I want to try the mushrooms.

These mushrooms are insanely cheap as

well. They're not even a dollar and you

get this massive bag. Pretty good as well.

Good source of protein. Tomato is a good

source of vitamins. Okay, let's give this

a try. I want a good mouthful of the

spaghetti and the tomato.

Let's get a close-up. Oh, look at

that shiny glistening tomato.

Okay, going in.

Hmm, that's not bad actually.

I know it doesn't look great, but It's

full of flavor. The tomato really packs a

punch.

Could do with a bit more salt, maybe.

Let me get my salt.

I think this vegan for a week challenge

might not be too hard. We've got tofu and

mushrooms for protein. And you save

so much money because meat is usually the

most expensive. Vegetables always dirt

cheap.

Maybe I'll stay with it if my— maybe my

skin will improve if I stop eating meat.

Maybe that's why my skin's so bad,

too much meat.

Hmm, I had such

a great day yesterday. So I don't know if

many of you remember who George is,

let me give you some history.

12 years ago, when I started to get

interested in Japan and I wanted to learn

Japanese, I googled learn Japanese.

First website popped up was a website

called yesjapan.com. It was really good.

I used all of the online courses they had.

They also had this show called the George

and Keiko Show, which was hosted by George

and this Japanese woman called Keiko. I

instantly got hooked on the show and I

ended up buying all of the episodes, and

it really helped me, really helped teach

me Japanese and helped me learn about the

country and the culture. And then in

2017, I made a video

explaining how I learned Japanese, and I

mentioned George and his website. And just

by chance, people who watch my channel

also watched his channel because he has a

YouTube channel as well where he teaches

Japanese. And they told him about

me, said that this guy Daniel was talking

about you and he used your website.

And he checks out my channel, and at the

time he was in London, and he just

messaged me, asked me if I wanted to meet

up. I said yes. It was really weird.

I used to watch him all these years ago,

and then he started watching my videos,

and then we met up. It was such a strange

experience. The last time we met was 3

years ago, and he's in Korea now.

Same time that I'm in Korea, and we met up

It's just funny to think last time we met,

I had about 500 or 600 subscribers. I was

working at a petrol station. My dad was

still alive. Didn't know what I was doing

with my life. I wasn't even married yet.

So much has happened since then, and we

met up yesterday. We talked about so many

things— YouTube, Japan, Korea,

relationship stuff as well.

It was nice, and we

did so many things. We— you know, there's

these electric scooters all over the place

in Korea. I didn't think foreigners could

just use them so easily, but you just scan

the code and download an app, and then you

pay on PayPal. It's like $6, and we

rented 2 of the electric scooters, and

we're just riding around Seoul in Gangnam.

Riding around the streets on these

electric scooters. It was so much fun. My

wrists are in pain right now and my

fingers because I was gripping onto the

handlebars so tightly because they go

really fast.

It's amazing how fast they go. They've got

so much power. You press the accelerator

and it just whizzes off. You feel like

you're being pulled forwards. And I was a

bit nervous and scared, so I was gripping

onto the handlebars tightly, as tightly as

I could, and went up and down the back

streets of Seoul. And went up these hills

and down the hills, and they just go up

the hills effortlessly. It was funny

because I went up the hills faster than

George could, probably because he weighs

more than I do.

And we tried going to this meetup place,

but there were no people there. And we

went to the Samsung store and played with

the, you know, the new foldable phones,

the Samsung Fold and the Flip Z

phone. They were so cool. I really like

the Fold phone that opens up into a little

tablet. It was so cool. Feels really nice

and premium. The software works

flawlessly. You can open 3 apps at the

same time,

and you could close the phone and there's

a screen on the outside, on the outer part

of the phone, so you can close the phone

and then still use it.

You can even use the camera using that

little screen on the outside.

And you can also kind of use it like a

tiny laptop, so it's folded like an

L-shape, and then you can use the bottom

half as a keyboard.

And it felt so comfortable to use in 2

hands just like this. I really want one.

I'm so tempted to get one.

And we chatted to the, the staff. George

speaks to everyone. We go into a shop and

he'll just start chatting to everyone.

It's so strange for me because I never

talk to anyone and I avoid people as

much as I can. I started chatting to this

Korean guy who works there. It was nice.

And then when I was trying to use the zoom

feature on Samsung S20 Plus,

this Korean woman who works there helped

me and she kept touching my hand. It's

funny because it's like Korean people

don't have any problems touching

strangers. But she had her hand— I

was holding the phone like this, and then

she had her hand like grasped, gripped,

clamped on my hand while she was, you

know, trying to show me how to use it. It

was kind of weird, but I enjoyed— I

enjoyed it.

She was cute and young.

And then George showed me his Airbnb. We

tried to livestream from his place, but

for some reason we couldn't get the Wi-Fi

to work. I took lots of video with him

riding the scooters and stuff. I'm not

sure if I'll upload it as a video on its

own or just add it to the end of another

I guess I could make it its own video

because when I met Eugene, the American

guy, that video got good views, got 22K.

Not bad. I can do it.

I can title it as Exploring Gangnam with

George.

Pretty sure most people don't know who he

is. Because last time I met him, I barely

had any subscribers.

And then I came home and ended

up staying up until about 2 AM messaging

my ex-wife. I guess I have to call her my

ex-wife now because I guess some

of you might know She did a stream with

the Hong Kong guy, and I was pretty pissed

off about that. Apparently, they're also

planning to release another video

explaining why she got— why she wanted to

get divorced with me. And I'm kind of

upset about it because she was saying

stuff like I don't pay taxes, which isn't

true. I do pay taxes.

And I really don't like the Hong Kong guy,

and I get irritated that she's helping him

get views. I really don't want to help him

get views. I think it's none of his

business, the whole marriage thing. It

concerns me and my ex-wife. It has nothing

to do with him. Why is he poking his nose

in?

But apparently my wife asked him to do it

because she wanted to explain her side of

the story. Why didn't you just ask me? So

I would have been happy to upload the

video onto my channel. It's not like I

ever stopped her from telling her side of

the story, so I don't understand why all

of a sudden she's so desperate to tell her

side. I'm pretty sure I explained it

fairly well in my video. I just said we

got divorced because we don't really love

each other and we've got nothing in common

and we didn't see

us having a good future together. I mean,

what else is she gonna say?

She's gonna say the same stuff, but

probably in more detail,

make me seem like a terrible person, I

Anyway, I apologized to her about telling

everyone about her brother and the

abortion stuff. I went a bit too far, I

guess. And we had a long chat.

She said she won't be making any more

videos with Casey. She said that's going

to be the final one. And she said she's

not going to make any videos on her

channel. She's not interested in being a

YouTuber. So all those people saying,

Chihiro, you should make your own channel

so we can watch you instead of Daniel.

Yeah, well, all those people can go and

get effed. She's not making a channel.

These people wouldn't even know about her

if it wasn't for me.

They always say that. They say, why don't

you make a channel so we can stop watching

Daniel? You're so much nicer. Look at

Tomoko's channel and the Turkish girl's

channel. They didn't even stick around.

They say all that stuff, but then they

stop watching because they're not

interesting.

I just get irritated when bloody Hong Kong

guy keeps putting my name in his video

titles. How do you get my room? Blah blah

blah. I just want to forget about him.

I regret meeting him so much.

If he wants to make videos, fine, but I

just wish he would stop talking about me.

I just want to put it all behind me, move

on. It was just one big horrible,

terrible nightmare that I want to forget.

I said to my ex-wife, I promise I won't

say anything bad about you anymore. I just

don't want to— I don't want to hear about

her because if she starts making videos my

viewers are gonna go and watch it, and

then they're gonna come back to my channel

and start telling me about it, and I don't

want to have to block everyone.

I just don't really want to hear about

what she's up to because we were together

for a long time, and I still feel kind of

sad that we broke up.

You can't be together with someone for

such a long time and not feel sad when you

break up. Because yeah, we've had a lot of

fights, argued a lot of times, but there

were good times between us.

And in general, I did enjoy being with

her. It was nice having a wife,

having someone to share your meals with,

go to bed with, and watch TV with, go

shopping with.

And it just kind of bums me out, I guess,

when I, when I hear

her or see her again on YouTube.

It makes it hard to move on when they keep

popping back up.

And yeah, it's easy to, to not click on

their videos and to not read the comments,

but it's hard when my own viewers keep

telling me about it, especially when I do

a livestream. I'll get a bunch of people

going, hey Daniel, did you see Casey made

another video with your wife? They said

this and that. And it just pisses me off

when they say stuff about me that's not

true.

I just don't want to hear about it. Not

interested.

Anyway, hopefully this will be the final

video they made together. My wife said it

will be the final video. I'm going to try

my best to keep my mouth shut to not upset

her anymore, because then she'll just make

more videos to get revenge, I guess. I'm

starting to learn very slowly that

sometimes it's best to keep your mouth

shut and not say anything.

Ah, what a nightmare. I just wanted to end

things with her civilly, maturely,

without fighting.

And hopefully we'll be able to do that

now. I just need to try my best not

to get angry again when the new video pops

up. I think she's gonna explain

why she wanted to divorce me. I don't

really think she would say anything that I

haven't already said.

Oh well.