Yaaay! *clap clap clap clap clap* XDDDD I paid an antiques dealer extra to include that in a recent purchase. He was very confused but willing to oblige. I really considered sending a recording of train sounds with it just for nostalgia. Oh, good times. -Ayn

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Japanese antiques dealers are the only ones who'll throw in a bag of dried squid with your purchase. What a mysterious country.

@evanswillcd

9 жыл бұрын

You guys are adorable. More Bitter Bits & Franz please? The Demon Souls playthrough with Nic and Ayn has been wonderful. Also, the uploads on this channel with Nic and Franz have just been catastrophically delightful. Cheers!

"So I figured I'd share in the excitement in opening it on came-" *BOOM* "Whoops! Wrong box!"

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

That's what happened when I opened the Christmas package from my aunt :(

Other people would have used a pen or their finger for scale but our Spy uses a damn cartridge. Was almost more surprising than the squid, too!

Pretty sure this is the first time we get to see Franz' nekked forearms. The puzzle pieces start coming together... as of right now, I am fairly sure that Franz is indeed a human.

@pious83

9 жыл бұрын

For the longest time I assumed he was in fact Dr. Claw... Time will tell

@pious83

9 жыл бұрын

***** I had my doubts, given the lack of tuxedo sleeves on camera.

@cursweb

9 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that no one pitched idea that Franz is a Yeti due to his unusual huge amount of arm hairs.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

azy azynek Chalk that up to my half-Slavic ancestry. Thanks, Ukraine.

@PartOfTheGame

9 жыл бұрын

I couldn't smell the cologne through my headphones, so I'm pretty sure it was a stunt double...

Before I became a vegetarian, I used to eat dried squid and cuttlefish relatively often as a kid. If you like dried, salty snacks, you'll probably enjoy it. Depending on brand and freshness, it can be overly chewy, but it has a pleasant and distinct flavor, IMO. If anyone is looking for it in the US, try visiting your local Asian market, if you have one nearby. It seems to be a pretty common snack for east Asian countries, so it shouldn't be that hard to find if you have a Chinatown or something nearby.

Aw yeah more Fine Dining. I think someone's wishing you a good pregnancy, Franz. I didn't know you were expecting! Oh god the Groose theme. Perfect.

For those who are interested, the description that Franz is holding into the camera at 5:15 roughly translates to something like this: "When eaten, the amber-colored flesh of fruit filled white white bean paste will gently spread an exquisite sweetness in your mouth. The natural sweetness of the Ichida kaki grown in the Nagano prefecture and the additional sweetness of the white bean paste harmonize excellently in your mouth."

@XRay777

9 жыл бұрын

And the ones Franz didn't finish explaining are yuzu-flavoured (yuzu = kind of citrus fruit) mochi inside of macha-flavoured bean paste. Apparently they are supposed to depict something from the zodiac cycle, not sure what exactly though =)

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Oh, it was persimmon! Okay, that explains the color, haha. Thanks for providing a better translation than I could, lol.

@XRay777

9 жыл бұрын

you're welcome =)

Hahahahaha 😂 When you pulled out that 357 for a size comparison. Gg Franz

I feel your financial pain, man. I was snacking on a cup of ramen as I watched this, and that ramen was a splurge over the PBJ sandwich that usually makes up my lunch. :/ Oh how I wish I could fit into the budget all the things I use to make authentic bowls of ramen! Oh well. Hang in there! Hope things turn around for you soon!

I love when effort is put into the packaging like that. I know it doesn't affect the quality of the product, but it is something I appreciate. Thanks again for this series. I usually get to see some things that I have never heard of!

I love the music shift at the end. Great video as usual.

This series and Tea Time make me feel so cosy, I love them. Almost all of that music transports me to my gaming youth and coupled with your soothing tones of appreciation, the video almost becomes a kind of de-stress therapy :) Also, hooray for the beautiful and understated Japanese graphic design of that packaging! At least through watching your Persona vids I'm reassured that there's a healthy culture of recycling in Japan because good God there was a lot of it!

That Groose music man.. lol. Gets me every time. I love these videos, looking forward to more!

Thanks for the scale, Franz. I've never tried kumquats but I have a ton of magnum rounds lying around... :p these videos are great. I love the passion behind every single one of your videos. Keep up the good work, man.

Love these videos, always nice to see a change from your gameplays. Not that I don't also love those. Thanks, Franz.

Franz, I believe the characters on the packaging is a chinese poem from the Tang dynasty - not that I am any expert on the matter. The characters read 白日依山盡 黃河入海流 欲窮千里目 更上一層樓 which, with my very rudimentary classical chinese literacy, translates as a white sun sinks next to the hill side the yellow river flows into the sea if one wants to see further one should climb up a storey

These fine dining videos are increasing my need to visit Japan! :-D Thanks Franz these and the Tea Talk videos are excellent and it's always a pleasure to hear your insights. Cheers man!

That ending... hilarious Nic and Ayn are going to be the death of you, Spy (maybe they're partially to blame for your hollowing)

These are some of my favourite vids from you Mr Spy. One of your earlier ones of these made me go out and play the persona games (you were running the soundtrack in the background). So thank you for that.

ammunition for scale, classic spy

@Ghostly-00

5 жыл бұрын

Right? Lol

They're fairly small. Here's a fuckin' .357 Magnum Hollow Point for scale. DID YOU JUST HAVE THAT FUCKIN THING LYING NEXT TO YOU LIKE "Man, I wonder when I'm going to need to use .357 Magnum Hollow Points to fucking scale a kumquat that a co-worker gave me. OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. JUST SUCH AN OCCASION."

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

DroiteSorel My ammunition stash is about five feet from my tea table, so... >_>;

@FaiDro

9 жыл бұрын

***** I'm just giving you shit Franz. I was marathoning the entire series at a rather late time.

Still one of the best channels ever, with some pretty amazing content. Keep up the good work and the epic content *****

seemingly, this is more-like a gift originally intended for your flame? someone got humour or is busy supressing dreams. epicly.

I don't think twinkie filling has come any where near cream.

The other Japanese sweet looked like manju. Usually those have red bean paste in them, but white beans should work. You are lucky to have a friend that brings you such nice gifts. Thank him for us also, enjoyed watching you open your package.

Just had to watch this before *possibly* going food shopping today. The bag of dried squid sounds interesting, would probably be hard to find in NYC.

Hallo Franz, Those word printed on the cover paper is actually chinese poem well known in china. The writer of that poem is Wang Zhihuan(王之渙), and the poem is "On the Stork Tower" (登鸛雀樓) one of his best well know poem of all time. P.S. I'm from Hong Kong, watching your video for a long time since early 2012

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing this to light!

Dried squid is DELICIOUS!!! Like seafood jerky! Yum

love the ff 9 music, enjoy your presents spy, look really tasty :)

Not gonna lie when you started talking about bitter bits I thought "Here comes Megaman Legends" lol.

"here is a 357 mag. holo point bullet for comparison" German spy 2015

Hi, Spy, The first big box you opened with the ornate characters said ことほぎの春 (Kotohogi no Haru) on the front. "Kotohogi" being a form of the verb "Kotohogu" which means to celebrate. Haru meaning "spring" or even "new year" in certain cases, as I imagine you already know. It appears to be a Wagashi maker. For the Shiroan snack. The explanation says its wrapped in "fruit pulp" (果肉), but doesn't specify which fruit. For the second one, it's actually 栗 (kuri) or "chestnuts". The outside is apparently some kind of crushed up chestnuts and the inside is a whole chestnut (the edible part). The cookie-like snack are called "Fukuwatari Senbei." Keep up the great videos!

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for the additional clarification! I thought at first that they might be chestnut, but I was looking for the katakana マロン rather than the kanji 栗。

Franz's sick spying :D

This all looks so delicious you lucky spy

Ooww, that's so nice of BB) Maybe you should send them something too) Like a pillow for Ayn and a huge Data poster for Nic

@BitterBits

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah but one of those neck pillows people buy in airports. I'm sure even that is more graceful than my usual head back, mouth wide open pass out. *sigh* Ayn

Dammit Franz, you're making me hungry. :D

Woo hoo, I understood a very small number of the Hiragana symbols! No idea what words they formed or meant but not bad for a few days learning. Also, the food looked delicious, I'm going to have to check out the Asian markets near me for some more interesting snacks.

Holy shit, Franz has arms!

Dude, your arms and hands look exactly the same as mine. What is this magic.

u worry to much about being rude manytimes its the only way of being personal and open

welp, the letters on the green wrapping paper is actually a poem in Chinese. i learnt it when i was young. and i found a chinese to english translate for you Franz. Take a look if u feel interesting :) Chinese to english translate link: eastasiastudent.net/china/classical/wang-zhihuan-stork-tower

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Thanks so much for shedding light on it :)

threw one back of this dried squid muscle i imported from japan away today. *OH GOD THE SMELL! CONTAIN IT. NOW!*

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

HYEOL Lol, yeah, that's the one downside if you don't like the smell of those kinds of foods.

Japanese culture is so interesting. I can't put my finger on it but it's so...precise i want to say. Thank you for the upload.

7:20 That Dark Cloud music ^_^

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Wild Arms 3, actually. I guess I should probably provide a track list in the description.

@jonesj99

9 жыл бұрын

They sounded so much alike, I think a part of me wanted it to be dark cloud and hidden 'let's look' easter egg for the future :)

Groose's Theme!

Yes indeed Franz had a 357 Hollow point casing just lying around his apartment... I hope that was only chance otherwise Franz don't slip and become a Paralyzed German office spy...

Where is Franz's classic pimp bathrobe?!

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

I recorded this after work, so I was still wearing normal clothes at the time.

omg nick and ayne op :D

Joking about "kumquats" That's lewd Franz :^)

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

It was an observation, not a joke. I'm German - we don't have senses of humor. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my very serious and not at all fun work.

@emc150

9 жыл бұрын

***** That's illogically funny

@PartOfTheGame

9 жыл бұрын

I swear to god Franz, the day you make a joke about Hetalia I will fly to Germany, find you, and flip you the bird myself.

I bet he measures cars he's about to buy alongside his collection of German WW2 tanks!

I feel so bad that I missed the initial upload date of this. I love this series. Franz, I have a question. What type of collages are around Germany? Because me and my fiancée are looking to move to Germany to finish our education. She wants to go into game design, and I'm looking to become a collage professor. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

You used a magnum round to show a size comparison with a fruit. Franz, Franz, how awesome are you?

Arigatou for this video, my anime based japanese is so bad xd gomera sai

Put all the squid in your mouth at once and pretend you're Cthulhu!

Can I have a list of all the music played in this video?

Okame is Gwynevere confirmed

***** Those cookies with tea!

Sweets! Food! Gourmandise! May I ask why did the Japanese people look horrified as you knawed on your dried squid in the train? I could think of a few reasons, but I would like to have the exact reasons if possible ^^

Using beans to make sweets sounds really weird to me, but it looks delicious when you see the finished product.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

It does sound strange until you consider that when mashed into paste, beans more or less take on the flavor of whatever you mix them with, so they make a perfect versatile filling for all sorts of sweets. In the West, we don't typically think of beans as dessert ingredients, but that's one of the great things about Japan - it makes us take a second look at our own conventions and norms, and hopefully realize that there's more than one way to do things.

@BitterBits

9 жыл бұрын

***** for those stateside you can actually make red bean paste here. At least where we live, Anko beans are sold by the can in whole foods and a few other large chain grocery stores. Clean them, boil them, take a food processor to it, strain it through a fine sieve and then mix in sugar. It's pretty awesome in ice cream too.

I thought that stuff at the end that looks like dog snacks was a joke?! So you actually ate that stuff? I'm not judging here, it's just... wow. It looks out of this world for a snack meant for humans. Like... yeah... a dried squid. What the fuck. Lol I'm so sorry, I mean no offense, but this is so foreign and new to me. I would've never imagined that something like that was a thing. Franz, how about going to a restaurant and buying a big Schnitzel? Or do German restaurants not serve Schnitzel? Because in Austria, you can get it in pretty much any common restaurant. If you should ever come to Vienna or just Austria in general, PLEASE make an episode of Franz's Fine Dining and Travels with Spy! That would be an absolute highlight for me - I used to live there (Vienna) but moved to a different location in Austria.

Spy just got TROLLED hard by Ayn and Nick :D

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

It doesn't count as getting trolled if you eat the whole package and enjoy it.

@KwaarNawald

9 жыл бұрын

But You was surprised by it, right?

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Jerzy Korzuchowski Yes and no, haha. We had already discussed it, so when I opened the package my first reaction was, "Oh, they actually sent some? Silly Bitter Bits."

Hello ***** will you be doing a dark souls 2 run for the new gen ( ps4 ) and will you be doing a bloodbourne run and if so, will you be doing an in depth run of bloodbourne when you get to experience it and know quite a bit about the lore and such?

Is there anything You could liken the taste and texture of the dried squid to? I suspect it's pretty far from beef jerky.

Nxt time Japanese tetsubin maintenance and how to prepare. .....plzzz

Dat FF9 music.

I believe the hiragana on the cookie wrap says Senbe. :/

What Wild Arms is this song for? I always forget.

@Silvergun_Raven

9 жыл бұрын

The first Wild ARMs.

Is dried squid good? It sounds good, at least to me any way. Then again I'm willing to try any kind of food whatsoever.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

It's great, actually. Adds a lot of savory flavor to soups and stocks, and it's good on its own once you reconstitute it.

@WorldUndertheRaven

9 жыл бұрын

Oh man, that sounds delicious. That is one more thing added to my list of things to get whenever I go to Japan.

where would you recommend getting some dried squid? i'm not on a rush hour train in japan, but just sitting around with my friends and watching their disgusted faces while gnawing on one would be worth it.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Rakuten probably has it. Failing that, you might be able to get it on Amazon.

@knechtor5648

9 жыл бұрын

***** thank you very much Franz :)

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Knechtor Hope it helps.

It has been a while since I lived in Germany and was that a live round because I remember very strict firearm laws so I assume you don't have a 357 rifle or revolver lying around.

@SynthLove

9 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of spies not haveing guns XD

@tybuxton3836

9 жыл бұрын

:') I am more concerned that it is a hollow point round than Franz actually owning a gun :)

If you don't mind me asking, how long have you been studying Japanese?

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

I don't think it really deserves to be called "studying..." it's more just the incomplete fragments of the language that I've picked up through years of exposure to the country, its culture and probably most of all, its media. Believe me, if there had been formal Japanese language programs available where I grew up, I would have been the first one banging on the door to enroll in a proper educational curriculum :/

Was this a New Years gift ?

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah. My friend returned considerably after New Year's Day, but it's the thought that counts.

Where can i buy these gift boxes??

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

A department store called Iwataya, in Fukuoka.

bullet for size ftw murica

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Germany TYVM :(

@virginiasupersand2917

9 жыл бұрын

***** MURICA :D

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Virginia Super Sand :(

@felixlemieux6560

9 жыл бұрын

am not american am canadian who is living in austria. I just find that funny so........germanic contry ftw!!

@virginiasupersand2917

9 жыл бұрын

***** I love you Franz.

Franz if paying your rent etc. is really so hard for you did you considered moving?

@Northwite

9 жыл бұрын

Could be likely that he doesn't have much of an option due to work, or that the housing economy just sucks and everywhere is relatively the same price.

@MonoToonGames

9 жыл бұрын

LordSaber I know that finding a home in Berlin can be/ is REALLY tough so yeah I can definitly see why that can turn out to be a problem

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Due to real estate prices in Berlin, moving would place me at an impractically long distance from work. In all honesty, I'm better off where I currently am - I'm personally acquainted with the landlord and he's cutting me a very generous deal on rent. Even still, general costs of living continue increasing (especially during the winter months) and even in my current place of residence, the margin by which I'm breaking even is gradually narrowing.

@GmanMoose

9 жыл бұрын

***** That's very surprising. Do Government jobs not pay well in Germany? In North America, I can't imagine having a job with a federal agency and not being able to pay rent (in a reasonably priced apartment of course), or is rent just really insanely high? If you are struggling, I can imagine lots of others in your country must be too. What happens to the guy who works at the grocery store bagging groceries or stocking shelves? Where does he live if you can barely afford an apartment? Seems like an expensive place to live.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

GmanMoose That's the thing... Germany's economy is actually fairly strong right now. The problem is that as in many other lines of work, government jobs pay according to rank, and unless you're ranked fairly high you tend to end up living on a very modest salary. It's true that high-profile positions like congressmen in the United States receive obscene salaries, especially considering that the bulk of what those guys do is sit in cushy chairs all day bickering and not getting anything done (which could be said for many other countries as well, I guess); but I have a feeling that if you ask the men and women doing real civil service like firefighters, police officers and low-ranking FBI agents, they'll have a pretty different story to tell. Another problem is that rent in cities is almost always astronomical unless it's a crime-ridden or poorly-maintained area, and Berlin is no exception. I'm incredibly lucky not to be paying more than I am for rent, utilities and some semblance of daily meals, but even still, things are increasingly tight :/

Hey Spy, for someone wanting to learn Japanese, where is a good starting point if you wanted to teach yourself?

@opskilledsloth7245

9 жыл бұрын

I'm not Franz, but I think I can help. If you want to learn to read Japanese I would recommend the genki textbooks, they're cheap and beginner friendly with plenty of exercises included. The only hurdle is learning hiragana and katakana for the first time. There are semi-interesting programs available on pc or even the DS, or even just pen and paper practice for that and just practice for an hour or two everyday. I taught myself a whole semesters worth of the language before entering college starting with no experience in the language other than anime

@lotusauer4785

9 жыл бұрын

OpSkilledSloth Thanks for the reply, I'll look into those textbooks and see how it turns out.

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Dark Moons I did it the hard way, and more or less unintentionally - simply by playing video games, consuming various forms of Japanese media and conversing with native speakers. There were no proper Japanese language programs offered anywhere near where I grew up, unfortunately.

Lol 357. Nice man not really something i see everyday...

lol.. The things you show for scaling..

I'm too poor for .357 mags....I load .38 +Ps into my .357 =P

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

DarkSouls R Us Nothing wrong with that if all you wanna do is bust some vegetables.

Spy, is your friend hot?

@AGermanSpy

9 жыл бұрын

Lord Blade tinyurl.com/byl9kbu

@Jaymeson1985

9 жыл бұрын

Lucky! Wish Lautrec sent me better gifts than the random firekeeper corpses he keeps leaving for me to clean up.

Man I wish I had alot of expendable income to buy these. Oh well we all cant be winners

@Ghostly-00

4 жыл бұрын

That's the spirit!