As soon as I saw the strawberry parfait and cakes in the menu at 3:39 I was like, "Martina, you had better order one of those or I will be sad." She did not disappoint!
So happy the channel is thriving and your King Kogi makes such a great bookend to life in Japan! It's like putting on rosy sunglasses that take you to a whole new world :O
This reminds me of the restaurants highschoolers go to in like literally every anime about highschoolers 🤣 finally know why they’re always ordering parfaits. They look DELISH!!
I'm eating spicy lentil soup while watching this and I feel like the taste is getting better and better. This is why I watch stuff like this when I eat ❤️
Royal Host. Oh the memories. The family restaurants over there are the best though LOL no matter what mood you're in they'll have it on the menu I love it
OMG looks so delicious... The covid fucked my honeymoon in Japan and now i cant go because im pregnant... And i also have Ehlers-Danlos and i cant walk too much.... Life sucks sometimes, but this kind of videos make me Happy and hungry. Thank you for bring to us Japan through your videos!
I hope that you can go to your honeymoon one day and that you can feel great. There's a tiny bean growing on you, feel proud of that! You are creating life. Send you lots of support because these type of chronical pain is the worst. Keep yourself safe and good!
This is great and I've never heard of Royal Host Japan, may be more central/southern Japan than what we have in Tohoku though all family restaurants are roughly the same. As a note, "koko de" means "this place here", not "I'll have this". You'll want to use "kore (w)o", which means "I'll have this", or "kore to", which means "I'll have this and..." Koko always refers to a physical place, kore refers to an object. Another mistake that people make is referring to people using kore/are/sore, which is technically quite rude, though most people will laugh it off ad treat it as a joke since they know you're making a mistake and not being intentionally rude by objectifying them. Also! Hamburg steak is not just meat in patty form. It typically also has onions, panko, and a little milk so that the texture is lighter, similarly to a salisbury steak as well.
You’re always such a joy to watch Martina! I agree with @doccerz, you’re like rosy sunglasses for the soul. The food looked so comforting and rich. I’d have a hard time choosing from that menu.
Martina, I know this is a silly bucket list request, and prob better suited for the King Kogi channel, but can we see some of the new starbucks food/dessert offerings sometime? I know you've done starbucks in the past, but I want to say it was Christmas and Sakura stuff? Or am I making that up? Oh no. Getting old. Time to hit the vitamins.
Yes I am! I'm almost finished the memberships for King Kogi, should be ready for June~ the channel badges are super cute, I hope you'll like them 💕👩🏻🦳
Omg that menu, the fonts! In china there is a Japanese "Italian" chain called Saiseriya that looks EXACTLY the same, just way cheeper with less options
I am so envious. I wish we had this sort of restaurant in Toronto. A Denny’s it ain’t which is at the lower end of perfection. Martina dahlink...you are a fantastic videographer which I’ve been noticing with all of your latest presentations. I hope you soon get public and corporate recognition because the talent that you have must not go unnoticed! Cheers from Colin.
There’s a halal option no way that’s pretty cool! One thing made me hesitant of visiting Japan is most things have pork and alcohol. I thought halal options would be impossible to find. Thanks for sharing Martina!!
Thanks for doing this video! This place is actually on my list when i go back to Japan ☺☺ Btw, business Martina looks like she is back in Canada (based on the background) lol i'm sooo confused
As a kid I despised onion soup but as an adult my tastes buds changed and now it’s my favorite. Enjoyed your video it would probably be the perfect place for those that are not exactly adventurous with food. Definitely more comfort food but still nice. Reminds me of a much nicer Denny’s, Shoney’s but with a ton of different options. ☺️
I went to my local Japanese grocery store I’m so grateful I have one. I’ve always been too chicken to check out Calpis. Until I did! Oh my goodness that is so delicious. Looks scary but it’s actually really good.
I recently found out why the portion size is so small in Japan. It's because in Japan you're expected to eat something and only be 80% full (I think its 80), and if you try to be 100% you're actually eating too much. The body takes a long time to realise it's full and by the time it tells you you're full you already ate too much. So eating at 80% is the safer option. It's also good because over eating isn't great for the digestive system having to overwork (and a lot of other things I'm sure).
This has been our motto at home for a few years now! When we take seconds (or thirds lol) someone will ask 'what percent are you at?'. Just so we'll eat out of hunger and not just because we want more :p I'd actually recommend it, just don't take it too srsly, you don't want to shame anyone because they take seconds
I think there’s a few factors! There’s also a more intense culture of compulsory weight expectations, Asian people tend to be shorter/smaller than the average North American, there’s less of a “super size” more is more culture, and also interestingly Asian people tend to have a higher likelihood of heart issues at a lower weight threshold than other races, so being thinner can be more important (not that heart issues aren’t big in North America as well!)
Also begin japanology has an episode on yoshoku cuisine. Its the Japanese take on Japanese American fusion food evidently. If you aren't familiar, you should look up that episode its really informative.
I have a lot of memories at Royal Host. There was one really close to where we lived the first time I came to Japan. We had several gatherings there too. Very natsukashii~
Martina you always cheer me up! Thankyou. Feeling poopy, my endometriosis has traveled to the nerves on my pelvis giving me awful leg pains and making it hard to walk sometimes. Yet the disease is still seen as just something that makes women's periods a little tougher meaning no researching... 😡 Ugh sorry for the speal. It feels a safe place to vent 😂
You've never had a hamburger steak in Japan!!!!??????!!! What!!!!??? When we lived in Korea (near Busan), and it was easy to get to Fukuoka by boat (though we only went once) I actually search out a hamburger steak place, and the one we found in Hakata was amazing, run by an older couple, the husband was the cook and the wife worked the front, and it was really only the semi circle seating, but it was amazing
Ha! You are funny Martina. I love how you make your marketing efforts humorous. Also the plant class you recommend is great. I am about to buy a bunch of plants for a new space and it was exactly what I needed.
That's great feedback, thank you 👩🏻🦳💕 I put a ton of planning into these skits to make them funny and to share the classes that I'm enjoying, so I'm really honestly glad for this comment. And Plant Kween is awesome!
@@eatyourkimchi 😁 I really surprised myself just now when I started fan girling over you responding to my comment. Lol. I didn't know I had that in me. But really you are one of the most creative and inspiring people I've seen in action. It's really great to have you around ❤️
I used to think japan people were saying "cow piss" (instead of calpis) & I genuinely thought that was what they called milk over there. And now I've had the habit of calling milk cow piss 😂
The drink bar is crazy cheap at lunch! You're right it would be a great way to try lots of drinks. Think it would be a great place to recover after a late night.
I guess a hambagu is similar to a rissole. Which is a very bastardised version of its French counterpart. But basically, yeah, they're made from minced meat similar to a meatball, sometimes contains breadcrumbs but not everyone. But they have onion in it.
This is exactly what I thought! Watching it, I was like, this is deeply familiar. The huge soda machines where you can choose the flavors, the self-serve beverage area. Classic American diner.
This all looked quite affordable in my eyes, but my country (the netherlands) is one of the most expensive places to eat at a restaurant in all of europe because most of the cheapest restaurant meals start at 30~35eu without drinks. I was also pleasantly surprised not all meals on the menu automatically come with a starchy component and that it was possible to just have a steak and salad without rice/bread/fries/whatever.
My school took me to Royal Host when I first arrived in Fukuoka to start the JET Proramme 13 years ago. I had the butakimchi teishoku (Pork and kimchi set). So natsukashii!
Reminds me of the place that the green haired twins in Higurashi: When They Cry work at! But obviously less sinister setting lol. Wish we had diner style placces where I lived
Onion soup is super easy to make too, just be sure to add a ton of butter and caramelize your onions (this is not your healthy soup) . Do they make the bread soak in it before serving it? now that"s new to me
It was written Chinese on the drinks machine. Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects depending on regions. Mandarin is spoken as written Chinese. Cantonese is more colloquial. You can write colloquial words but it gets complicated. :) hope it makes sense.
Thanks for the info! I'm absolutely ignorant to these things, which is why I said Mandarin and Cantonese because I'm not sure if "Chinese" is the right thing to say? Also, there were two different Chinese characters, do you know what those two buttons mean? 🤔
Giiiiiiiirl, you haven't tried a hamburg steak yet?! Never been to Japan *yet*, but luckily I live in an area in southern California with a bunch of Japanese mom and pops and chain restaurants, and hamburg steak is my crack...especially served with either demiglace sauce or curry. Coco Curry's menchi katsu is pure crack too. 🤤 Great video!
Cool place, like a New York diner. Wish they had more meatless items, but...Japan. Looked like there was some camera movement. Someone filming you, or is that a post effect?
If you enjoyed this video, come on over to my King Kogi channel and see what's been going on! 💕👩🏻🦳 Captain Martina
The power of editing and magic.. Martina food and the customers were gone lol
I don't get your rank system, Kogi is king and then Martina is waaaay down at "captain". Like not even a general!
The King Kogi channel is great! Magical Videos from Japan
:D Martina!!!
01:57 You're better looking than Marilyn, though Martina....and you know it 😍
it feels like you're getting more and more comfortable being your silly self again😊it's good to see
As soon as I saw the strawberry parfait and cakes in the menu at 3:39 I was like, "Martina, you had better order one of those or I will be sad." She did not disappoint!
I don't think I could have resisted...plus two women beside me came in and ordered two huge parfaits so I saw how epic they were.
Captain Martina💕 It's so nice to see you enjoy the life in Japan 🤗
So happy the channel is thriving and your King Kogi makes such a great bookend to life in Japan! It's like putting on rosy sunglasses that take you to a whole new world :O
Martina's attention to font connects with my soul 😁 loved this video, hope you're well Martina 💕
that was some stressful font blending...but I got through it lol 😂
Haha! Tough times. Like reading Comic Sans *shudder* 😬
This reminds me of the restaurants highschoolers go to in like literally every anime about highschoolers 🤣 finally know why they’re always ordering parfaits. They look DELISH!!
YUP! Exactly what I was thinking too! The parfaits in the booth seats.
That is a mega menu! It looked delicious and crabulous indeed! The diner setting is very cozy. So nostalgic!
I'm eating spicy lentil soup while watching this and I feel like the taste is getting better and better. This is why I watch stuff like this when I eat ❤️
Ugh, you made me miss Japanese restaurants. I forgot how the menus were all pictures like that. 😆 All the love, Martina!
Royal Host. Oh the memories. The family restaurants over there are the best though LOL no matter what mood you're in they'll have it on the menu I love it
The plant classes sound super helpful! I've actually been lamenting my inability to keep plants alive. I feel so bad for killing the poor plants 🪴 😢
OMG looks so delicious... The covid fucked my honeymoon in Japan and now i cant go because im pregnant... And i also have Ehlers-Danlos and i cant walk too much.... Life sucks sometimes, but this kind of videos make me Happy and hungry.
Thank you for bring to us Japan through your videos!
I hope that you can go to your honeymoon one day and that you can feel great. There's a tiny bean growing on you, feel proud of that! You are creating life. Send you lots of support because these type of chronical pain is the worst. Keep yourself safe and good!
I have Eds too !
Rare I meet another lol
Keep strong ! There is still plenty of “good days “ to be had !
OMG!!!! I MISSED THIS CHANNEL!!!! love you guys! More power!
Hi Martina here~ 🙋🏼♀️Please check out my other channel, King Kogi for lots of Japan adventures!
It was crabulous, Martina😂😂😂. I love watching you eat out in Japan.
Crabtacular! 🦀
This is great and I've never heard of Royal Host Japan, may be more central/southern Japan than what we have in Tohoku though all family restaurants are roughly the same.
As a note, "koko de" means "this place here", not "I'll have this". You'll want to use "kore (w)o", which means "I'll have this", or "kore to", which means "I'll have this and..."
Koko always refers to a physical place, kore refers to an object. Another mistake that people make is referring to people using kore/are/sore, which is technically quite rude, though most people will laugh it off ad treat it as a joke since they know you're making a mistake and not being intentionally rude by objectifying them.
Also! Hamburg steak is not just meat in patty form. It typically also has onions, panko, and a little milk so that the texture is lighter, similarly to a salisbury steak as well.
Everything on that menu looks so good 🤤
You’re always such a joy to watch Martina! I agree with @doccerz, you’re like rosy sunglasses for the soul. The food looked so comforting and rich. I’d have a hard time choosing from that menu.
WOW! Thanks for the videos, i am going to Japan for the third time in March and April for Sakura season, I will definitely check out Royal Host.
Martina, I know this is a silly bucket list request, and prob better suited for the King Kogi channel, but can we see some of the new starbucks food/dessert offerings sometime? I know you've done starbucks in the past, but I want to say it was Christmas and Sakura stuff? Or am I making that up? Oh no. Getting old. Time to hit the vitamins.
Interesting! Haven't seen a restaurant like this featured. I love the giant tea selection!
So happy to see you again! 💓 That meal made me envious! Will you be opening up membership on King Kogi?
Yes I am! I'm almost finished the memberships for King Kogi, should be ready for June~ the channel badges are super cute, I hope you'll like them 💕👩🏻🦳
@Mindy Lee I am honestly unsure. I was offline for many months while undergoing medical treatments. I am playing a lot of catch up.
It’s so nice seeing you doing videos like this again. It makes my heart happy ❤️
Omg that menu, the fonts! In china there is a Japanese "Italian" chain called Saiseriya that looks EXACTLY the same, just way cheeper with less options
I am so envious. I wish we had this sort of restaurant in Toronto. A Denny’s it ain’t which is at the lower end of perfection. Martina dahlink...you are a fantastic videographer which I’ve been noticing with all of your latest presentations. I hope you soon get public and corporate recognition because the talent that you have must not go unnoticed! Cheers from Colin.
Initially didn't realize am watching this on Eatyourkimchi channel instead of King Kogi 🤭, glad I didn't unsubscribe this channel ✌️
Loved the video! I can already see our family visiting that place if we ever travel to Japan
There’s a halal option no way that’s pretty cool! One thing made me hesitant of visiting Japan is most things have pork and alcohol. I thought halal options would be impossible to find. Thanks for sharing Martina!!
Oh, wow! This definitely looks like a great place to stop at. I wouldn't have known that it was a family-style diner just from the signage.
Watching this on an empty stomach is such delicious torture 🤤
This meal goes on and on.. you'll be hungrier by the end!
@@eatyourkimchi 😭🤤😭🤤
I been with EYK long enough to know to NEVER do that HAHAHAHA
@@williamchen6105 Same tbh lol
Rookie mistake, never watch a food video on an empty stomach. :D
Thanks for doing this video! This place is actually on my list when i go back to Japan ☺☺
Btw, business Martina looks like she is back in Canada (based on the background) lol i'm sooo confused
I LOVED this video 😂 the style is familiar to the old formats but fresh
i love family restaurants in japan!! thanks for sharing
All i can hear is donkey from shrek talking about parfaits lol who doesn’t love parfait!!! Lovely video beautiful one!!
I like that there are pictures for everything. definitely makes it tourist friendly
As a kid I despised onion soup but as an adult my tastes buds changed and now it’s my favorite. Enjoyed your video it would probably be the perfect place for those that are not exactly adventurous with food. Definitely more comfort food but still nice. Reminds me of a much nicer Denny’s, Shoney’s but with a ton of different options. ☺️
Ohman that parfait looks amazing!! I've been trying to find a parfait on that level in Toronto but I might have to wait until I visit Japan haha
One more interesting place to add to the list! Thanks @King Kogi
Must go when I visit . Magical Japan ✨. Thank you for sharing Martina. Love your channel filled with adventure and cuteness . Greetings from Mexico .
LOL what a great video, i feel like it should have been titled Cream. lol.
Martina's smiling face in the background admiring the dessert @15:30
Good to see you again!
I went to my local Japanese grocery store I’m so grateful I have one. I’ve always been too chicken to check out Calpis. Until I did! Oh my goodness that is so delicious. Looks scary but it’s actually really good.
I recently found out why the portion size is so small in Japan. It's because in Japan you're expected to eat something and only be 80% full (I think its 80), and if you try to be 100% you're actually eating too much. The body takes a long time to realise it's full and by the time it tells you you're full you already ate too much. So eating at 80% is the safer option. It's also good because over eating isn't great for the digestive system having to overwork (and a lot of other things I'm sure).
This has been our motto at home for a few years now! When we take seconds (or thirds lol) someone will ask 'what percent are you at?'. Just so we'll eat out of hunger and not just because we want more :p
I'd actually recommend it, just don't take it too srsly, you don't want to shame anyone because they take seconds
It's not because Japanese people are generally a bit smaller?
@@bubblegumplastic What a bizarre comment
I don’t think they are “so small”. It’s just American restaurants give you giant servings of everything.
I think there’s a few factors! There’s also a more intense culture of compulsory weight expectations, Asian people tend to be shorter/smaller than the average North American, there’s less of a “super size” more is more culture, and also interestingly Asian people tend to have a higher likelihood of heart issues at a lower weight threshold than other races, so being thinner can be more important (not that heart issues aren’t big in North America as well!)
Oohh Melon flavor Coco Cola sounds interesting
Also begin japanology has an episode on yoshoku cuisine. Its the Japanese take on Japanese American fusion food evidently. If you aren't familiar, you should look up that episode its really informative.
I have a lot of memories at Royal Host. There was one really close to where we lived the first time I came to Japan. We had several gatherings there too. Very natsukashii~
Martina....I just woke up and my tummy is already gurgling ARGHH
Martina you always cheer me up! Thankyou. Feeling poopy, my endometriosis has traveled to the nerves on my pelvis giving me awful leg pains and making it hard to walk sometimes. Yet the disease is still seen as just something that makes women's periods a little tougher meaning no researching... 😡
Ugh sorry for the speal. It feels a safe place to vent 😂
私もロイヤルホスト大好きです💚❤️
料理もデザート🍰も充実してるから😋
You've never had a hamburger steak in Japan!!!!??????!!! What!!!!??? When we lived in Korea (near Busan), and it was easy to get to Fukuoka by boat (though we only went once) I actually search out a hamburger steak place, and the one we found in Hakata was amazing, run by an older couple, the husband was the cook and the wife worked the front, and it was really only the semi circle seating, but it was amazing
I never have! I guess I always thought it was just a hamburger, but when I tried a bit of it today I was like, "THIS SHIT IS REALLY GOOD!" 😂😂😂
LMAO the answering the phone bit!
Ha! You are funny Martina. I love how you make your marketing efforts humorous. Also the plant class you recommend is great. I am about to buy a bunch of plants for a new space and it was exactly what I needed.
That's great feedback, thank you 👩🏻🦳💕 I put a ton of planning into these skits to make them funny and to share the classes that I'm enjoying, so I'm really honestly glad for this comment. And Plant Kween is awesome!
@@eatyourkimchi 😁 I really surprised myself just now when I started fan girling over you responding to my comment. Lol. I didn't know I had that in me. But really you are one of the most creative and inspiring people I've seen in action. It's really great to have you around ❤️
awesome video. Never knew there’s an Asian version of Denny’s, but so much better
Its like a Japanese Dennys. Cool stuff Martina! Fukuoka seems to have bred a ton of Japan's favored chains over the years!
I used to think japan people were saying "cow piss" (instead of calpis) & I genuinely thought that was what they called milk over there. And now I've had the habit of calling milk cow piss 😂
That soda machine was the Coca-Cola freestyle. It has many flavors of coca-cola you never had before.
Was that skit Martina back in Canada ? If so, great planning ahead 🤣
あれ？👀カナダに帰っちゃった事は知ってるいるけど、その後が分からない。また、日本に帰って来てくれたのかな🤔
もし、そうなら「おかえりなさい」🤩
the VARIETYYYYYYY the NUTRIENTSSSSS
missed seeing you guys glad to see you all again
The drink bar is crazy cheap at lunch! You're right it would be a great way to try lots of drinks. Think it would be a great place to recover after a late night.
I guess a hambagu is similar to a rissole. Which is a very bastardised version of its French counterpart. But basically, yeah, they're made from minced meat similar to a meatball, sometimes contains breadcrumbs but not everyone. But they have onion in it.
Melon soda was my fav soda in Japan, always drank it when in restaurants, I miss it so much
it's like japanese perkins, a fav for me and my dad to eat out at
Watching this in an American diner xD
This is exactly what I thought! Watching it, I was like, this is deeply familiar. The huge soda machines where you can choose the flavors, the self-serve beverage area. Classic American diner.
Nice to see you're back in Japan, it's a good fit!.... Now on to Shinjuku station it's time to hit the bars 🥃🍶🍹🍸🍷😁
Good video, nice information. Can you also describe the other family restaurant, such as Gusto, Jonathan's Bamiyan joyfull. Someting like that
Family restaurants in Japan have dupe parfaits with enough layers. Now I remember that is where I ate them when I was there 20 years ago.
I loved this format! It is like going to the restaurant with you!
Awesome! That was the plan 👩🏻🦳💕
Lol you got me at the Google translated reviews!!!! I’m dead!
I just realized I've never had legit onion soup - that looked amaaaazing and caused me to do the Homer drool gif irl....
This all looked quite affordable in my eyes, but my country (the netherlands) is one of the most expensive places to eat at a restaurant in all of europe because most of the cheapest restaurant meals start at 30~35eu without drinks.
I was also pleasantly surprised not all meals on the menu automatically come with a starchy component and that it was possible to just have a steak and salad without rice/bread/fries/whatever.
Martina! You're looking good in this video!
Thanks Jonathan! 👩🏻🦳
My school took me to Royal Host when I first arrived in Fukuoka to start the JET Proramme 13 years ago. I had the butakimchi teishoku (Pork and kimchi set). So natsukashii!
Martina.. your hair is so beautiful!!
love you martina, you will always be one of my favorite people, dont ever change.
That dessert looked amazing.
Thank you for the video ❤️
I LOVE THIS VIDEO I CANT WAIT TO TRY ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Every time I drive by Royal Host, I think of royalty who passed away and is now a ghost 😅 I really don't know why
Reminds me of the place that the green haired twins in Higurashi: When They Cry work at! But obviously less sinister setting lol. Wish we had diner style placces where I lived
Royal Host has perfect pancakes. They don’t even look real and they’re delicious!
Onion soup is super easy to make too, just be sure to add a ton of butter and caramelize your onions (this is not your healthy soup) .
Do they make the bread soak in it before serving it? now that"s new to me
It was written Chinese on the drinks machine. Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects depending on regions. Mandarin is spoken as written Chinese. Cantonese is more colloquial. You can write colloquial words but it gets complicated. :) hope it makes sense.
Thanks for the info! I'm absolutely ignorant to these things, which is why I said Mandarin and Cantonese because I'm not sure if "Chinese" is the right thing to say? Also, there were two different Chinese characters, do you know what those two buttons mean? 🤔
@@eatyourkimchi traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese
The Grande Menu! All the family restaurants have the Grande Menu! 🤣
いつも楽しく拝見してます🇯🇵
Giiiiiiiirl, you haven't tried a hamburg steak yet?! Never been to Japan *yet*, but luckily I live in an area in southern California with a bunch of Japanese mom and pops and chain restaurants, and hamburg steak is my crack...especially served with either demiglace sauce or curry. Coco Curry's menchi katsu is pure crack too. 🤤 Great video!
I literally had my drink fly out my nose when you said "perfectly translated Google reviews". I just knew it was going to be hilariously bad.
i really enjoyed this! love these kinds of videos 💖💖
I'm confused why the review said it was expensive, on the menu it said the set Martina ordered was $25, that's cheap for that amount of food!
This kinda reminds me of a Dennys.
久しぶりに君をyoutubeで見たｗまだ日本に滞在してるのがうれしい。どこかで会えたらいいなｗ
PAUSE. Can I be in love with dessert. Apparantly I can. That parfait look amazing, does it really good tho... I haven't finish the video yet
Have you ever been to Host Club? If not, do it for research purpose!
If you’re interested in going to a real host club, let me know 🙃 I could take you to one in Tokyo and organize/arrange filming with them.
Martina I don’t think even skillshare will help me not murder my plants but I will take a look at it :>
I love your Japan adventure videos 🥹💅🏻
Your gonna think im lying but i swear a few weeks ago i actually said i hope Martina goes to a family restaurant.
Cool place, like a New York diner. Wish they had more meatless items, but...Japan.
Looked like there was some camera movement. Someone filming you, or is that a post effect?