Ebi-Kun Eats Birthday Bugs Special

I thought Ebi-kun needed to up the anti a bit with his show so I ordered his so dried bugs from Amazon. This turned out to be a longer episode than usual because he tried 5 varieties, this was hysterical and the sniggering in the background was my aunt who decided she wasn't hungry!

You can buy the packs on Amazon, they are not expensive and good fun, a few of the guests tried it at the party! The chocolate covered ones are probably easier to eat because they won't look as grim. the company is called Crunchy Critters, theses are the packs we tried but there are loads of others too!

Mixed Bug Pack UK or Mixed Bug Pack USA

Leaf Cutter Ants UK or Leaf Cutter Ants USA

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

This was recorded when wee were in Vienna but the 'treat' was actually a gift from Christie who we met up with in Brussels, so this is Ebi-kun trying a Belgium treat in Vienna, as you do! I actually quite liked these but then I had lost my voice for a few days and had ben sucking on throat tablets almost continually so maybe it was because my taste buds had died!

Over on my work website, jojoebi.com I have done a couple of posts about what we learned from a year of FB posts and I think it is safe to say we have both learned quite a lot, it has been an interesting experience and some things popped up that I hadn't expected, all in all it has been a great experience, read more about it HERE

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. 

If you enjoy his show, pop over to his Youtube channel and leave him a comment, he says that his favourite bit of the show is answering your comments and questions! Click HERE

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 - 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!

If you enjoyed this please click through to YouTube and leave him a comment, he answers them all himself.

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!

If you have a couple of minutes, please click through to YouTube and leave him a comment, he gets super excited when he gets them - cheers!

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!