How Haggis Made It Big In Japan

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Japan's street market and fair culture just isn't as developed as their neighbors or Europe, maybe because they place a high emphasis on the orderliness and cleanliness of public infrastructure. You only see a handful of stalls in normal times.

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I will say the view on the ground is definitely more 50/50 when it comes to food Whenever I’ve asked JP acquaintances it’s like a 50% chance they either say it’s great or that it’s the worst

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There are street food stalls 屋台yatai、shopping streets 商店街shotengai、festival fairs 祭りmatsuri in Japan. I guess it is a slightly different vibe but still similar.

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@@checkdestroy You may wish to visit Fukuoka which is famous for their street food.

[@tommoa7xx]

Japan has always done right by Scottish Whisky, and truly captured the essence of how to distil our national drink, its great to see that care being given now, to Haggis. I hope everyone is able to enjoy and taste some of the dishes Scotland has to offer, wherever they are.

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Japan has a bit of a thing for authenticity and origin. When I go to the supermarket, there will often be announcements that they have pork from the U.S and beef from Australia for sale. It stands to reason that if a Japanese distiller is making whisky, they'll want it to be as true-to-the-original as it can be.

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well.... welcome back I guess? 😂

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Her wiggling her fingers to show her glasses aren't real and there just apart of her absolutely fabulous outfit was so adorable

[@indigoxalis]

This is such a cute story! It's cool to see what can happen when cultures mix.

[@beatboxx0eternal]

I don't know why I loved that story so much, just the respect for the original, a tale of 2 worlds... the friendliness between 2 different cultures, and haggis toasties of all things.

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KZbin needs to create a ‘love’ button for stories like this one. ❤❤❤

[@ArtemusBlue]

I'm positive I've seen haggis tempura on the menu in a Japanese restaurant here in Scotland, but I've yet to try it, haha 😆 I love it when two cultures collaborate!

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More like three, since tempura is Portuguese in origin I’ve heard? I think Great Big Story even has a video on tempura’s origins!

[@DavidEsotica]

I'm in Melbourne, Australia. There's a wonderful food wagon at my local farmer's market. A bloke from Scotland sells rolls with your choice of Irish sausage, black pudding and haggis, among others. I have it every other week when I go there.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

It must be expensive sausage since it's been shipped from Ireland all the way to Australia

[@baxtardboy]

See if you can get him to do you a haggis and runny fried egg double decker on a roll. I eat them all the time in Scotland whenever I pass a food truck. It's God-tier.

[@carissapeacock]

yo what suburbs market i wanna try

[@jasongao7889]

what is the name?

[@XxThatGuyOverTherex1]

​​@@SurprisinglyDeepWhy don't you think he makes it in Australia? If this guy gets it from a farmer's market I'm assuming the seller has a livestock farm around Melbourne.

[@AM-mv6ro]

I’m from India and the first time I visited Scotland, I fell in love with Haggis and Black/White Pudding! Every time I travel to the UK (3x a year), I always buy enough to last a few months!

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Maybe you could open up a branch of the Denney's restaurant in India.

[@lontongstroong]

*Veg or Non-veg Haggis*

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

@@lontongstroong As I understand it ost Indians are not complete vegetarians, they just folloe certain dietary restrictions like not eating cow meat even though they do drink cow milk.

[@dustsky]

I'm confident that most people would enjoy the taste, as long as we don't delve into the specifics of its ingredients and how it's made. After all, even the British couple realized that delving into those topics can be quite tricky. LOL

[@benjaminthefox]

Well, people eat sausages all the time, and the way those are made is pretty grotesque (to the point that "seeing how the sausage is made" is a figure of speech) so I don't think Haggis is too far of a walk from there.

[@zitronentee]

Most Asians are familiar with intestines. Not much of a problem. It's Americans who aren't familiar.

[@johnpauljonesisabadass8134]

@@zitronentee literally lmao, we grill those intestines (chicken) and eat them as street food

[@rzt430]

most asian countries are fine with it. offal is a pretty common streetfood/bar food offering, sometimes mixed into stews, noodle dishes, and such too, not even disguised in minced form, you will see the organs in their original shape sometimes, like with intestines lol. i suppose americans would be wary though.

[@seri-ously8591]

Asian palettes and cuisines involves offals/organs. Japan is one of those that are huge fans (mainly yakitori/grilled based dishes). Offal and organ dishes only have a bad reputation because there’s just too much focus on cuts of meats. That’s ngs such as haggis are viewed poorly when it’s pretty good imo.

[@asicdathens]

In Greece we have plenty foods with the same ingredients. My favorite is kokoretsi (provided I make it my self for total cleanliness) . It is made from cut pieces of the same stuff (lungs ,heart, liver) staked on a metal rod (square profile) and everything wrapped with the small intestine ( provided it is meticulously cleaned) and grilled over charcoal

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*Melas Zomos*

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the bit at the end, just lovely

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The part of both of the sides mentioning how they are teaching each other about their respective cultures is like Beryl's cooking show, Pan Pals. So wholeskme ❤❤

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Thank you for proving once again that food brings people together!

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The fingers through the glasses frames gave me the smile I needed to start the day :)

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Two lovely couples, thousands of miles apart, connected by a beautiful recipe. Fine work GBS. ❤

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That music in the background is fireee

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"Contained something like meat" That sounds about right ! LoL 😂

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this is beautiful. this is what life is all about. such a beautiful exchange of culture and love.

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01:22 When she pokes her fingers through the glasses had me giggle.

[@Opandort]

Japan never makes us disappointed👍🏻🥺

[@deanmilos4909]

I've never tried haggis but I bet it tastes delicious, my family on my mother's side always raised pigs and butchered then, we made the classics: ham , steaks , various sausages and cured cuts yet as a child I noticed what I would then consider verry unappetizing pieces such as : the brain , tounge , head meat , stomach (tripes) would be the ones to be the most wanted by my family and family friedns , people called dibs days ahead , some bartered pieces during the butchering process but those were always the pieces that were settled first and had the most debate around them , and I never tried any of it , until one day when we were butchering a pig years ago I was hungry and I had seen some sort of scrambled eggs with "minced meat" mix being passed around , I didn't ask any questions because I was oblivious but as soon as I ate a little of it , I knew two things , I wanted to know what meat was it , and I wanted more , and I got promptly told that meat was finely chopped up pig brain , this left me kind off perplexed and confused but from that day I swore that I would always atleast try any food that was considered unappetizing because of it it's ingredients , haggis itself is probably at the top of my list of such foods I have to try but I know if I were too try it , I'd just want more

[@athena1491]

id personally avoid brain because of prion worries, but haggis sounds delicious, and using every part of the animal just makes sense to me

[@katieb3059]

Can i ask, where are you from?

[@deanmilos4909]

@@katieb3059 Croatia, more specifically the region of Istra

[@deanmilos4909]

@@athena1491 yeah , prions are no joke but we always send one sample from each pig for lab analysis so we know if something's up

[@athena1491]

@@deanmilos4909 i suppose that makes sense, is it costly to do that for each pig?

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In Kenya our similar dish is ndondero and mutura.. Fantastic 😊

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[@seri-ously8591]

One thing I think that sets asian palette from western palettes is that asian cuisines often incorporate animal offals in it. Japan is huge when it comes to offal cuisines so I’m not surprised haggis is an adopted favorite. Haggis and many offal dishes are often viewed as unappetizing but many asians don’t see it the same.

[@mik2d2]

As someone from SEA, wish I could go to Japan and try this!

[@HFC786]

Apparently surprisingly doner kebab is big in Japan

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Doner is popular everywhere! It's something that unites the world :D

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

​@@sevensixtwo5001It seems nowadays every big regional city will have at least 1 doner restaurant or stall

[@lontongstroong]

Yeah thanks to influx of Turkish immigrants too in Japan these days

[@realtalk6195]

Noodles and curry only became popular in Japan in the 20th century. Japan's take on curry took off because the Japanese military wanted to emulate the British military who already consumed curry because the Indian subcontinent was a British colony. Ramen is just the localized pronunciation of Lomien, which was invented by Hui Muslims in China centuries ago.

[@nubreed1980]

Haggis isn’t bad at all. It’s all in the head.

[@MrMoonside]

You mean it's all in the sheep's stomach

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

Still, i don’t think i could eat it on a bet.

[@deanmilos4909]

I've never tried haggis but I bet it tastes delicious, my family on my mother's side always raised pigs and butchered then, we made the classics: ham , steaks , various sausages and cured cuts yet as a child I noticed what I would then consider verry unappetizing pieces such as : the brain , tounge , head meat , stomach (tripes) would be the ones to be the most wanted by my family and family friedns , people called dibs days ahead , some bartered pieces during the butchering process but those were always the pieces that were settled first and had the most debate around them , and I never tried any of it , until one day when we were butchering a pig years ago I was hungry and I had seen some sort of scrambled eggs with "minced meat" mix being passed around , I didn't ask any questions because I was oblivious but as soon as I ate a little of it , I knew two things , I wanted to know what meat was it , and I wanted more , and I got promptly told that meat was finely chopped up pig brain , this left me kind off perplexed and confused but from that day I swore that I would always atleast try any food that was considered unappetizing because of it it's ingredients , haggis itself is probably at the top of my list of such foods I have to try but I know if I were too try it , I'd just want more

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Oh no, all in le head.

[@Jordomac]

It's like meat loaf pudding.

[@claughlin]

Kind of funny to have a background of Irish traditional music played on the Irish bagpipes.... :)

[@larawalker]

The eyeglasses bit was too fun! Loved it.

[@EricGranata]

Wholesome.

[@lontongstroong]

Not really surprising since Japanese is already very well-acquainted with offals consumption. Japanese offal dishes like motsu nabe and horumon yakiniku are quite literally their national foods outsiders know very little about.

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Ngl I am really craving a grilled toasty right about now

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So are we! 😅😍

[@Laurzure]

As a person who has Scottish and Japanese in me, I am very happy about this 😊

[@tree_eats]

This is such an American sounding thing to say.

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This is absolutely beautiful. I love people sometimes

[@cablevamp3163]

Awww She hit this couple up describing how she loved their dish and asked to replicate it in her hometown They gave her an entire recipe to work off of awwww

[@mrurquhart9138]

So is that sandwich called The Macbeth because it's the 'Scottish play' on a cheese toastie?

[@creatrotera]

As an asian studying in scotland, I'm so happy to hear haggis is making an appareance in Asia! I'll miss haggis when I return back home...

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This KZbin channel makes me so happy but it's sad to see it's no longer getting picked up by the algorithm

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Pls give us more food content. It's the best content in your channel

[@cat_pb]

This was such a heartwarming video!

[@AliasHSW]

The Japanese never cease to impress me in how they would humbly and passionately recreate and share other cultures from around the world. Take low-riding for example

[@anthonypelaez9316]

Now I want a haggis toastie. Looked delicious!!!

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Are you guys back?????? I loved this series!

[@TKnightcrawler]

Didn't see that coming. I am wishing them success.

[@R.Merkhet]

I love how she said " something like meat"😂

[@spectre8_fulcrum]

people constantly talk crap about british food. its honestly better than italian and american food. luv me a haggis

[@JerreMuesli]

Beautiful story!! I have to eat haggis myself one day so I wouldn't know how it tastes lol

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Wow you are back!

[@kirameki7331]

One thing I think about British cooking.... Jellied Eels 😅

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This is the news i wanna hear!!!!

[@trba_biko]

I love offal! Like igado and dinuguan 🥺 My only experience of eating lamb was over rice, so I'm curious to try haggis

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It's these wonderful cross-cultural stories that show how despite some differences we can also have shared passions and commonalities.

[@ScaryPaladin58]

This is super cool.

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Its great seeing them back

[@armandosanchez4830]

This looks so good

[@Germania9]

Really wish I can try a haggis. It's hard to find here in Malaysia 🥺🥺🥺

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Maybe you could open up Malaysia's first haggis stall or restaurant, or make and sell haggis at street markets sometimes.

[@alexandreutiyama547]

The description of haggis is not disgusting to me, it sound positively delicious. But I come from a culture that is not "picky" with meat, we eat hearts, livers and lungs, we also have a stew made from intestines, it really depends on the culture i guess.

[@ExplorerGinge]

I'm luck enough to live pretty close to Deeney's amazing cafe in High Road Leyton, London E10. Totally delish toasties!

[@BubblesTheBard]

this reminds me of something Andrew Zimmern said, Im paraphrasing, but it was something along the lines of "the best way to learn about another culture is to try their food" and this is the best result of that.

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

This is why German food seems to mostly just be various types of bread and sausages, albeit very well made bread and sausages.

[@battleempoleon3714]

People love to talk about how Japan is a land of perfection and precision, but the beauty of our connected world is that even the “best” cultures can learn from the rest, and that even long-derided British cuisine can transcend its stereotypes and teach a thing or two to the world. Here’s to cultures connecting, and with it a better, happier world!

[@geegurl25]

“the land of perfection and precision” that is definitely NOT what comes to mind when I think of Japan!

[@fireaza]

@@geegurl25 What? You've never heard of the reputation of Japanese-made cars being practically indestructible and liable to outlive their owner?

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

​@@geegurl25Internationally Japan has a reputation as a country full of perfectionist craftsmen and artisans due to all the very well built cars and electronics built there as well as how intense the schooling for any craft or trade is in Japan. Like becoming a sushi chef in Japan apparently involves spending 5 years apprenticing under a master, with the student not even being allowed to touch any pieces of fish until the beginning of year 2. Becoming an actor apparently used to always involve apprenticing with a theatre company, during which time the 1st year students were expected to practice acting like 10 hours 6 days a week and not even look at other actors as they walked past them in the hallway during the first year. Every anime or manga set in Japan that's not a shonen or seinen abour fighting seems to be about a young person practicing their craft intensely and striving to become the beat swordsman/chef/painter/singer/boxer/manga artist/musician/board game player/etc in the world. Even the shonen and seinen mangas and animes about fighting are about people striving to be the best at fighting that they can possibly be. This mangas and animes are all written by Japanese people which makes people abroad naturally think that the Japanese highly value excellency and high standards in all they do. Every youtube vidoe about a Japanese person doing something or other seems to feature the Japanese person saying they spent decades learning their craft and that they use esoteric time consuming techniques and methods which were either refined over a person's entire lifetime or which are centuries old.

[@tcpma]

This era is full of bad things. Then, it's also full of wonderful things: a story like this wouldn't be possible in the same way even only 50 years ago

[@MsRickyawesome]

SCOTTLAND FOREVER

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Her fingers wiggling through her glasses 😂😂

[@AshitakaYakul]

That was a good video. I wish channels like this would get more likes on their videos. 60k views and only 3.1k likes after 7 days. We, as an audience can do better for these wonderful creators.

[@antifugazi]

Haggis is absolutely delicious, most people won't even try it because of what it contains, but I eat it all the time, also British food is delicious it's all a myth, obviously there are some foods that suck but so much good food here.

[@porcorosso9898]

Great vid. Ty for sharing

[@spectre8_fulcrum]

in london we also have unagi. we call it jellied eels its we dont cover up the flavour and change the texture of the eel by barbequing it.

[@jonsotbh1565]

whaaattt when did this channel come back it's all i watched back in 2017-18 THANK YOU

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

They only came back a few months ago

[@Davnot384]

Most sausages in most parts of the world are traditionally made with the animal intestines, or stomach, or similar. If it doesn't sound appetizing, I invite you to consider this fact

[@larry8lo]

On this side of the pond we got haggis in corn dogs. Tastes pretty damn good!

[@zillabeast]

Beautiful video!

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Whoa!

[@MMARLZ]

Great story

[@nolsp7240]

Haggis gyoza is a no-brainer.

[@stefanie5205]

I just love the amount of respect and understanding most Japanese have for other cultures (having lived there for a year, they were always so curious and understanding about things from my country). I wish we'd all be a little bit like that. Here most people would just say "eww" to Haggis

[@fireaza]

You can see some of that reflected in the language, as they will typically call a country by the same name the people from that country use (i.e "Italia" and "Deutsch") instead of giving them new names like English does. Except for England, which gets the new name of "Igirisu". A result of Japan using the Portuguese word for the country? Or is it revenge for English not calling Japan "Nihon"?

[@JKMeZmA]

Oh wow, I thought you had stopped posting again, but I’ve just not been getting them in my sub box?

[@poodlescone9700]

Now I want to see a waygu haggis.

[@lontongstroong]

Just head to Matsuzaka area (not far from Nagoya, famous for their wagyu). Not particularly haggis, but they consume a lot of wagyu offals aside from the meat (which tend to be sold in more upscale restaurants).

[@dh5363]

You should do a story on the 4th of July events in Eastport, Maine (the Eastern most city of the Continental US) which feature the Cod Fish Relay Race where teams of 4 race each other while carrying a slippery cod fish.

[@ZeacorZeppelin]

I wanna try haggis.

[@GreatBigStory]

You should! ☺

[@AllenHanPR]

The Japanese love adapting Scottish culture. They both love Whiskey, beards, Robes and fish.

[@pikiwiki]

The Japanese know how to do quality

[@raymondvincentsiyluy4462]

watch as they make a manga titled "Opening a Restaurant Franchise in Another World"

[@kelzuya]

So cool

[@thezeronelite]

"When the dawn breaks, how shall ye break your fast?"

[@joeroberts2156]

In a way "pancita de barbacoa" is kind of like Mexican haggis, but with chilli not oats.

[@WolfWest-e8u]

Sounds pretty tasty!

[@chuckiesteez]

Clickbait titles don't do good stories justice :/

[@root-beer]

luv u gbs

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I've always wanted to try haggis, but it's hard to find here in America!

[@RalphFDM]

Haggis is appetizing to Filipinos if it were make and produce in the Philippines

[@JMPT]

GBS Nice 🇯🇵

[@peacechan4500]

I must say Scotland, thank you for making haggish. That thing is delicious and using parts of animals that you didnt use.

[@EggBoi235]

Haggis grilled cheese is like an idea a stoner in Glasgow would come up with.

[@fugitiveunknown7806]

Haggis really isn't all that different from most sausage. If you've had hotdogs (or most other sausage), you've eaten offal. I've had it a couple times and it's not bad. I'll always have a little as respect to my heritage. I find Black Pudding pretty vile and inedible though. I have tried it, my mouth/stomach just revolts when I tried eating it. Maybe a smoked kipper toasty would be nice?

[@carlvincent12]

Japanese cuisine does utilize horūmon or offal, so kinda makes sense.

[@Piemasteratron]

I've had haggis a few times and always found it to be too 'offal-y'. Then I had vegetarian haggis and I like it a lot more. It's spicy, but without the offal aftertaste

[@evar.9992]

와아아 맛있는 것 같아요..

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

Maybe you could open up the first Deeney's haggis restaurant in Korea. I assume you live in Korea because you write using the Hangul writing system.