10 Japanese Emergency Food

Trying 10 Emergency Food bought in Japan

Most of these food can be eaten out of the bag and can be a life saver during natural disasters when one doesn’t have access to electricity

1. Kanpan & Candy
2. Curry Flavored Rice Crackers
3. Hamburg Steak
4. Instant Onigiri
5. Beef Stew
6. Canned Bread
7. Self Heating Beef Bowl
8. Napolitan Spaghetti
9. Vegetable Curry Rice
10. Canned Cheese Cake

[Sandi-kemi]

We were in the Northridge earthquake in ‘94. We didn’t have electricity for 4 days. Most people shut off their gas, we didn’t so we could still heat things and neighbors were coming by and asking us to heat things and make coffee. We had friends from Thailand staying with us when it happened. We made rice soup with everything left over in the fridge so it wouldn’t go bad. We called it. Earthquake soup.

[neinei]

Japanese people know that when disaster strikes, safe drinking water is lost and food cannot be heated. If you eat only dry bread, your mouth will become dry. The water in your mouth is lost to the kanpan.Licking the candy produces saliva in the mouth, which helps to replenish the moisture in the mouth.

In Japan there are many disasters such as typhoons and earthquakes, so we have prepared emergency food and an emergency kit. Good food can help restore your energy when you are feeling down or when fire and water are inadequate. That is why the Japanese have increased the variety of emergency food and made it tasty.

[marvinc.banihit]

0:10 *"Wow, they have it! Canned Bread!"*

[y-mefarm]

We keep emergency food rations here in the Northern USA because you can be snowed in for weeks. I always keep the Japanese freeze dried soup cubes in my emergency rations. Amazing how much flavor and goodies are packed in those cubes. They taste like fresh made soup.

[lilyetal]

It's good to see emergency meals that are actual familiar meals. For everyone- especially the elderly and children- this would bring a lot of comfort if there is limited power and difficulty getting fresh food.

[WildArtistsl]

Woah I didn't know you need to do that for earthquakes. I'm privileged to never have experienced one but having this emergency food when the world around you is shaking seems amazing to me
I love it when you show us unique stuff like this

[DirtyRobot]

Can't ever have enough candies, gum or mints. While having some food and water is good, nothing beats a few sweet or minty treats to get you through hard times.
They allow you to pace your next meal farther apart and give you a moral boost when stuff is looking bad.
If you are making a emergency bag, remember to include straight unflavored sugar candy as it doubles as a sweetener for beverages.

[ArtzyZero]

I've never been in an emergency situation (and I'm very grateful for that!) but I feel the self heating one would be the most practical to stock up on, it provides you with everything, including the water and is small enough to fit in a bag/backpack. The other meal options were interesting but still required water to heat up/cook the food. I guess a lesson to take away from this is to make sure you've got plenty of bottled water for emergencies too!

[blufluffya_]

I can't exactly explain why but these videos of yours always take me to my happy place, I think it's the way they are edited, they're so peaceful and calming

[jackiejenkins]

The self heating ones fascinate me, but I would love to try any of the cool emergency foods you showed! 😃👍😋

[djackmanson]

These are all good, but my favourite is the beef bowl - every single thing you need for a hot meal even if you have no power or water supply. So good for keeping your spirits high. The other "pull string" self heating meals you've shown us on this channel would be great for that too.

[mightyfilm]

That bread reminded me of those little Panettone cakes, right down to the paper wrapper and the consistency. Wonder if it tastes similar as well, just without raisins.

[tigerbladedn]

7:35
WOW THEY HAVE IT
CANNED BREAD!!

[ZetsueiTV]

That one self heating kit got so hot which was really surprising. I've seen a lot of videos with them but never seen any get that hot. A lot of the meals here looked really good and tasty!

[HayTatsuko]

12:37 That's called a gusset bag. Having a bag that can stand up by itself might be a small quality-of-emergency-life thing, but it's still a nice little perk. I think I wouldn't have too much trouble adjusting to sweet Japanese ketchup pasta if I had to eat enough of it. Also, the ~650 kcal -- albeit mostly carbs -- gives it a pretty good food value for the serving size. I'd probably pair it with that Hamburg steak (~200 kcal) for a more complete meal.

[JaniceMcKay]

I love the way you present the food on a bit of AstroTurf.

[dianac]

I have been storing emergency foods most of my life. You eventually have to eat them and replace them with newer ones. I really liked the ziplock self-heating meal.

[FretMan]

Man. I wish I could find a lot of these foods online. Like that Instant Hamburg Steak, or Onigiri. Looks so good!

[DerfLlennod]

I have tried many different MRE/emergency food and I have to say that whatever you guys do to the rice is the superior method as it comes out pretty much exactly like fresh rice.

[Miera]

feeling a little weird watching this while earthquakes are happening over and over here in turkey but still a very educational video :')

coming back to this comment feels even weirder because its much worse to witness people die from the cold than earthquakes. what i learned again from this video is that such buildings should be built so that people could live in safety. so that they wouldnt try to escape from their own houses. Turkey witnessed two 7.8 and 7.4 magnitude earthquakes in one day, three cities are literally wiped off from the map. luckily am not from that area but it hurts so much when all you can do is donate food and other needs to the people in need. it just hurts too much.