Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Oblea de arroz

What's in the mystery snack box this week? I think he has been quite lucky recently and only had nice snacks, maybe we need to mix things up a bit and sneak something revolting in the - the revolting ones always make for funnier viewing (in my opinion!)

Find out what this weeks treat was here...

Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Broccoli florets

This one was recorded a while ago but he forgot to share it with the blog! Better late than never. Iluska who sent this recommended what I though was a very off was to eat it...

Watch the video to find out more...

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats 1 Year anniversay!

Can you believe it has been a year since he started this little venture?

Me neither, he has certainly tried some weird things over the year, some good, some bad and some just blah! I think the pickled squid episode is still my favourite, I nearly peed myself when we filmed that one! Although there might be another contender, we recorded and interesting new candy the other day...

So here is the one year anniversary show, bit longer than normal as he was trying chocolate from all over Europe, which is the best?

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Lovely nuts

I realised we had missed some of the Ebi-kun eats episodes! so slightly out of order but just as much fun, we present to you....

Lovely Nuts!

This was one of the food swaps from France, are his nuts as lovely as they claim to be?

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Baby star ramen

I imagine that one drunken night, someone was looking through their cupboard to see what to eat in their drunken stupor and decided to try ramen noodles without cooking them first. And they discovered, that actually, they taste quite good and so the ramen snack was born (this is all speculation but in my head this is how it happened!)

Ebi-kun is trying Baby Star Ramen snack for the first time in this episode of Ebi-kun eats and no, he didn't get drunk beforehand...

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Melon kit-kat

I love melon, I quite like kit-kat but for me melon kit-kat is a big fat no thank you. But what does out intrepid tastebud explorer think?

Watch to find out!

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Violettes cristallisees

Today, Ebi-kun's taste buds are back in France.
I have to say, I rather liked these myself, they reminded me of a childhood sweetie.
But if you grow up eating pickled squid and dried octopus as a snack, what will you make of these...

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - The USA!

This week Ebi-kun's palette travels to the USA!
I wonder what delights he will have to try...

Ebi-kun Eats will have it's first anniversary at the end of August and... shhhh.... Ebi-kun's goal was to have 100 subscribers by then. So if you are not subscribed, click HERE and sign up, let's help him reach his goal ;) 

Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - curry balls

Nom, nom, nom Curry Balls - what the?

I am not a fan or curry, in balls or otherwise. But is Ebi-kun a fan, you will have to watch today's episode to find out. 

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Taste Tests: Ebi-kun Eats special #foodrevolution

Ebi-kun Eats speacial today!

This was for the Jamie Oliver's #foodrevolution. Ebi-kun wanted to cook a nice healthy meal and he did it live streaming to Facebook. The original was (painfully) long so we edited it down!

Enjoy... And if you want the recipes, click through to his YouTube channel, he posted them over there.

Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Basil seed drink

This week he's not eating but drinking, admittedly, it's a lumpy drink. 

This just looks like a bottle of frogs spawn to me, lemon flavoured frog spawn anyone?

Check it out to see if the lemon basil drink is as revolting as it looks...

Have you tried this drink or similar? What did you think? leave Ebi-kun a message in the comments on YouTube - he answers every one that he gets!

Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Health bombs

Although we do eat cake and snacks *gasp* we try to keep the majority of our food healthy. At Easter, Ebi-kun requested some healthy snacks to try for his show so I managed to find a few treats...

Unfortunately these types of snacks haven't made their way to our local supermarket yet, it will be good when they do. That's if he likes them, what do you think...

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - something revolting...

And he made his special guest try it too!

Sometimes I'm happy to be the camera operator and well away from the action, todays special...

Well I'll let you see for yourself!

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And why not leave a suggestion or two for things for him to try! (I will attempt to source them!)

Taste Tests Ebi-Kun Eats and taste tests: NA fruit and chocolate

This was one of the goodies from a swap pack from France. I really liked these, sooo good! But did Ebi-kun like them?

Making the decision to do the smaller, one thing each time set up for the shows has taken the pressure off and he is back to enjoying doing it. I think this has been a great lesson one looking at a problem and thinking of ways to resolve it and understanding that this is his gig, he can do it how the heck he likes!

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Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests - Spain

Ebi-kun has been getting some swap backs for his Ebi-kun Eats show, this has been great and a lot of fun but caused a bit of a hoo-haa too!

So when he started Ebi-kun Eats, he sampled one thing per show, which was quick and easy to shoot, edit and upload. But with the swap packs he wanted to keep all the items in one episode, which meant trying a few different foods in one go.

This in itself caused a problem because he doesn't eat much in the way of sweet snacks so it made him feel sick! 

So, we tried breaking it up so he tried just a couple of things and filmed in segments.

This worked except the problem then was it was taking longer to upload and edit everything!

Ebi-kun started this channel as a bit of fun but suddenly it had lost it's appeal because he was sat editing when he would rather be outside playing football. We needed a re-think.

After much discussion he decided to go back to tasting just one item each show and making swapped items into a mini series.

This means that he will have more content, more episodes, it will be quicker for him to record and produce each one and he will be able to take advantage of batching the work and the shows are shorter. we can see for the anyalytics that the shorter shows usually get watched to the end but longer ones people tend to drop off before the whole show has been aired.

Lots of things to learn and think about!

And so, this is his Spain show, samples sent from my Aunt and Uncle who live out there he has a couple of the longer shows set up but her on in the short shows will be back!

Taste tests: Ebi-kun Eats and taste tests bollos fritos anis

My brother Daniel sent Ebi-kun some snacks from the Canary Islands, these were aniseed doughnuts, sounds good right... Not sure Ebi-kun would agree with you there!

Please click through to You Tube and leave him a comment - he does answer all his comments (and it's a great way for me to sneak in some English writing/typing practice!!)

Tastes Tests: Ebi-kun Eats Bean Boozled

This is a bit longer than his usual show but well worth it! Bean Boozled is a Jelly Bean dare game, it comes with a spinner and a pile of beans, half of which are perfectly great flavours like buttered pop-corn, lime and chocolate pudding and the other half are disgusting, vomit, lawn clippings and rotten eggs are in there!

And yes, the vomit flavoured jelly beans REALLY do taste like vomit - ask me how I know! Enjoy the show and click through to YouTube to leave him a comment...

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Taste Tests: Ebi-kun Eats and tastes tests...BEAR claws

In this episode, Ebi-kun tries out Bear Claws. He is a big fan of Yo-Yo's which is fruit leather made by the same company but these are a little bit different.

As a mom, this company gets a thumbs up from me, great healthy snack for the kids!

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The BEST Halloween game ever....

And no, I'm not exaggerating! 

This game was a massive hit, so much fun to put together and to play. 

We have a Halloween party at a friends house, it is potluck for food and each family organizes a game or activity and the host organizes a the trick and treating (Halloween is taking off in Japan but still very much an organized thing, you can't just rock up to someone's door and ask for candy!)

Ebi-kun wanted to do a game inspired by his Taste Tests: Ebi-kun Eats show. So it was pretty much all his idea, I just helped him work out the kinks as it were.

What you need:

• A box big enough to hold all your ingredients
• small spoons
• 2 dice
• 6 'sauces'
• 6 'toppings' *
• Active imagination

*Ebi-kun decided if a 6 was rolled the player would have to eat bugs instead!

The first roll of the dice would be the sauce and the second a topping, then we brainstormed (and poked around in the cupboard) to find suitable foods. Some sweet and some savory - we wanted some things that would be great together and some that.... blugh... not.

Once we had the food list we gave them more suitable names so the players had NO idea what they were going to get.

Dracula's Dangerous Delicacy

Top row sauces...

1. ketchup
2. mayo
3. peanut butter
4. chopped jelly (jello)
5. match cream (green tea cream)
6. bugs (jelly shaped bugs)

Bottom row toppings...

1. konbu seaweed
2. choco baby drops
3. puffed rice
4. raisins
5. all bran cereal
6. bugs (jelly shaped bugs)

How to play:

All the ingredients were in the box along with small spoons, Ebi-kun was in charge and he would get the player to roll the dice, one at a time. Then I would put the ingredient on the spoon and then repeat for the topping. Some of the combo's worked well, some not so much and some were surprising! Ketchup and raisins are actually not that bad...

The rule was, if they didn't spit it out, they could get a sweet/candy from the bag, talk about incentive!

And yes, we made the parents do it too...

Almost all the kids came back for a 2nd or 3rd go!

Not even vampires could get out of it...

Spiderman kept coming back for more, he had 5 goes, then I ran out of spoons!

No child was forced to play but they all wanted a turn, even the fussier eaters gave it a go. We didn't have anyone attending with allergies, that would obviously be something to pay attention to if you decide to do the game. 

Make sure you have a good supply of spoons! I used the little ice-cream spoons from the ¥100 store.

Let us know if you play!

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Ebi-kun Eats...Moray Eel

We have been playing around with periscope and decided to use that to record some of the Ebi-kun Eats episodes. If you want to catch it live then follow me over on periscope (click the link) and I post on my Facebook page and in the Moms That Rock group before I scope so you can catch it as the action goes down!

This video was a Wakayama delicacy, dried utsubo or moray eel. Let's just say, I am happy this didn't take place in my house, what a stink!

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