eating guts japanese restaurant - 外国人のホルモン焼き初体験

Hey guys, and welcome to this new video.

So a few days ago, some Japanese people

invited me to a yakiniku restaurant. Now,

a yakiniku restaurant is a kind of

restaurant where you can order raw pieces

of meat and then you have to grill them

yourself at your own table. Now, usually I

love yakiniku. It's delicious. I mean,

who doesn't love barbecued meat? Um,

maybe vegetarians don't? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, whatever. The yakiniku I went to

this time was slightly different. The

restaurant I went to specialized in

horumonyaki, which is basically the same

Same as yakiniku, but instead of

barbecuing meat, you get a load of guts.

Yep, that's right, all kinds of guts. Pig

guts, cow guts, even fish guts. Okay, now

before I get into the meat of this video,

I just want to say that not all of the

food was terrible. There was actually a

lot of nice food that I really enjoyed.

But it's like my mum never said, if you

don't have anything bad to say, then

what's the point in saying anything at

all? So let's get right into the video.

Okay, so I want to show you this picture.

This is a picture I took myself. Now, as

you can see, there's nothing weird about

this picture. We had some sausages and

some nice pieces of chicken. But then

things started to get weird. Here's a

picture of what came next. Take a guess at

what it is. Yep, you guessed right.

Actually, I don't know if you guessed

right or not, or if you even guessed at

all, but yep, it's intestines. Large

intestines. Okay, so let me describe to

you what it tastes like. I put it into my

mouth and I started to chew. I chewed and

I chewed and I chewed and I chewed and I

chewed. Seriously, it was like chewing on

a rubber band. If you had gotten a rubber

band, sprinkled some salt and pepper on

it, it would have tasted exactly the same.

Okay, on to the next dish. If you're a bit

squeamish, then you might want to look

away. I want to show you this picture.

It's a freaking tongue. It looks

disgusting. I mean, who the hell cut out

this cow's tongue and thought to himself,

hmm, I wonder what this tastes like? Yep,

the next item that came was a cow's

tongue. No, they didn't just give us a

huge tongue like that picture. They cut it

up and seasoned it so it just looked like

a normal piece of meat. So I took a piece

of cow's tongue and I put it into my

mouth. It was so weird. It felt like I was

licking a tongue. No, seriously, it felt

like I was kissing someone and then I

accidentally bit off their tongue and then

I was chewing it inside of my mouth. I

tried to chew the tongue, but it was just

so weird. If you want to know what this

felt like, then just chew your own tongue.

That's pretty much what it felt like. I

couldn't actually eat it or swallow it.

It was just too gross, so I ended up

spitting it out. Luckily, no one got angry

or offended that I didn't eat the food.

Actually, everyone was laughing and they

found it quite funny. Okay, so the next

dish was something called sunagimo. Now,

suna means sand and gimo means liver

or stomach. I guess in this case it's

stomach because I looked it up and in

English it's gizzards. Yep, the next dish

was freaking chicken gizzards. Now, I

didn't really understand what gizzards

were exactly, so I went on to good old

Wikipedia and this is what I found out.

Basically, it's a special stomach that

some animals like birds, crocodiles, some

insects— even the dinosaurs had this— and

it helps them digest food by Using tiny

stones and bits of sand to help grind up

food. It's probably because birds don't

have teeth and they don't really chew

their food. They just kind of swallow it.

So they need this special stomach that

grinds up food with sand and stones.

Sounds pretty disgusting, right? So I put

the chicken gizzards in my mouth and I

chewed. Now usually when you chew a normal

piece of meat, it gets softer and softer

until it turns into some kind of mush,

right? But not the gizzards. No, no, no.

No matter how much you chew, it always had

this rubbery, springy texture. You know

those rubber bouncy balls that kids like

to play with? Well, take one of those

balls and then boil it in water for a few

hours to soften it up, then sprinkle some

salt and pepper, then it would probably

taste the same as chicken gizzards. There

were a few other dishes on the table, but

I didn't have the guts to try them. These

included pig boobies and fish guts.

The pig boobies were actual pig breasts

from a female pig. They were sliced into

nice small bite-sized boob chunks, and the

fish guts were actual fish guts in some

kind of chili and garlic garnish. Mmm,

delicious. Anyway, we're now at the end of

the video, and thanks for watching. If you

made it until the end of the video, then

you win a special prize. A special prize

of a whole week's worth of fish guts.

Hope you enjoy them.