Mr. Beefgnaw's Wild Ride

Nino's Home: Easy recipes, lots of no-oven-needed stuff, no talking but (often hilariously) subtitled in English, by a guy in a papercraft bear mask and his cats.

Solo Travel Japan / Food Tour: Second channel of Solo Travel Japan, with Solo's usual humor. Restaurants and street food all over Japan mostly, sometimes elsewhere. No talking, English subs. You know something is good if Solo takes a bite and goes "!!" in the subs about it.

You Suck at Cooking: Quick recipes delivered with just enough humor.

The Udonsoba Network: for lack of an official umbrella term. Click the "about" tab for the rest of the channel links, and there are a LOT of them. Videos range from about 20-30 minutes to over 2 hours and cover average days in the life of all kinds of little hole in the wall restaurants all over Japan. Very little talking outside of normal restaurant-operation chatter aside from the occasional question to the restaurant staff.

おもしろ雑貨コレクター (Interesting Goods Collector, I think?): Okay, this one's a little different--there's food being made and eaten here, by a pair of hands that are always wearing the same shirt, but the focus is more on the weird little unitaskers and quirky kitchenware and other fun goodies Iseebitarou finds. No talking, no subtitles, funny sound effects and music.

Sooooo I started this post a couple nights ago and in my hubris I did not save a draft and, well... you know how that goes.

In alphabetical order per my subscription list, five or so channels at a time until I go through my whole subscription list...

ALPHA TEC: I've mentioned this one before but he's in my top five, easy. An older Japanese gentleman who makes the most gorgeous Ghibli-ass food in the great outdoors, mostly over an open campfire. Rarely talks, aside from the occasional chuckle and "umai!". Most videos run around 20someodd minutes.

DancingBacons: Mostly restaurants and street food in Japan/Thailand/Singapore and thereabouts, sometimes instant/vending machine food. English subtitles baked into the videos. Very little talking, cute reactions to delicious food from Mrs. Bacons (I think).

Japanese Cooking Channel: Easy and tasty Japanese food recipes, narrated and subtitled in English.

Joshua Weissman: Okay. Look. I know. He can be... a lot. But he knows his shit and he has a lot of recipes that are good, cheap, and easy.

Men with the Pot: Another camp food channel by a couple of Polish guys living in Ireland (I think?). Subtitled in English and Polish. No talking. Lots of meat. Lots of big food. Sometimes there's a dog.

Hanabira dropped a new banger.

If you haven't heard of him, he does the most amazing Ghibli-ass dioramas you have ever seen and he does a lot of this with supplies and materials from Daiso. I do some tiny rooms myself and I think mine are pretty okay but I am not anywhere near the same league as this. Every time this guy puts out a new video I think "he cannot possibly outdo himself yet again" and every single time he fucking DOES.

My favorite parts are always the ones where you're watching him glue little bits of plastic or wood or whatever together and you're thinking "okay where is he going with this" and all of a sudden he adds one tiny piece or paints it and you holler "IT'S A FUCKING VHS TAPE" ...oh, and The Moss. If you're already a Hanabira fan you know exactly what I'm talking about.

anyway watch Hanabira if you love small things.