12 April 2018 @ 07:44 pm
[Magazine Translation] Monthly The Television May 2018 Issue: Ohno & Sho  

The India brothers, Ohno & Sakurai, have a moving reunion at Indonesia.
Ohno: This tastes SO GOOD!!
Sakurai: What is this!! Whoa. Additionally, it’s so good with the sambal!
Ohno & Sakurai: (instinctively looks at each other and breaks into an applause)
Ohno: This nasi goreng is extraordinary.
Sakurai: Agreed. This sambal sauce is good with the nasi goreng. It’s spicy, but the spice is just right. It adds flavour to it.
Ohno: I’ve never eaten anything like this. What is this!!
Sakurai: In other words, it’s completely different from regular fried rice, isn’t it?
Ohno: This is amazing. It makes me want to go to Bali.
Sakurai: Let’s eat the satay as well. …Ahhh, this tastes great as well~ Was it coriander and turmeric? The turmeric’s especially fragrant!
Ohno: Ahh… This is so good.
Sakurai: I’m starting to want to go to Bali as well. I’ve never been there before, you see. Maybe I should start considering it for real… I mean, I’m seriously blown away right now, by the tastiness of Indonesian food.
Ohno: Me too. I’m so impressed.
Sakurai: I mean, we ate with an extraordinary amount of spirit compared to all the other times, didn’t we? (laughs)
Ohno: …We didn’t stop at all.
Sakurai: Goodness~ Today’s corner was seriously great. The India brothers, who was formed during the curry instalment, have a moving reunion at Indonesia!
Ohno: Blown away by Indonesian cuisine!
Sakurai: The staff normally always give us a number of theme suggestions decided by shiritori, but this time, they gave us the list backstage during our concert tour.
Ohno: Yeah.
Sakurai: The two of us were the decided pair and we chose to point together at what we wanted to try in the list of suggested words starting with “I” that was handed to us.
Ohno & Sakurai: Indonesia!
Ohno: We were on the same wavelength.
Sakurai: It’s a good thing we decided on Indonesia in the end, isn't it?
Ohno: Yep. Indonesian cuisine is the best!
Sakurai: The India brothers were brought together for a reason through Indonesia.
Ohno: The curry I ate with Sho-kun was delicious as well, but nasi goreng is my favourite.
Sakurai: Oh!
Ohno: I like this the best!
Sakurai: I get you. The curry we made ourselves is also delicious, but foods like curry are of a familiar taste. On the other hand, nasi goreng’s tastiness was an encounter with the unknown.
Ohno: Exactly! I didn’t know nasi goreng tasted this delicious. In the first place, I tend to like ethnic foods like these. I want to remember the steps to making today’s nasi goreng and sambal. I can drink beer with just sambal.
Sakurai: The sambal is great, isn’t it! Through the tastiness, my interest in Bali has suddenly increased a lot!
Ohno: Deep frying the prawn crackers was also a lot of fun. I could watch that all day (laughs). The moment it floats up and expands makes it look like it’s alive.
Sakurai: (takes out his phone and starts searching things up) It looks so nice. I think I’ll go to Bali (laughs).

The Ohno-Sakurai pair appears for the first time in a while.
Sakurai: It’s because I’ve been involved in movies and dramas last year. I’ve kept you waiting (laughs).
Ohno: Now that I think about it, it has been a while since the last time I’ve been with Sho-kun, the two of us together. It doesn’t really feel like it’s been that long.
Sakurai: We baked pizza together, didn’t we? What I remember is that although we had plans to eat sushi together, the freshly baked pizza was so good so we ended up eating quite a large portion of it.
Ohno: We’re always thinking through everything thoroughly.
Sakurai: Exactly. I didn’t eat breakfast this morning either, with the intention to eat as much as I can today!
Ohno: Me too! India, Italy, Indonesia… The two of us have been making and eating various cuisines from around the world together.
Sakurai: Shall we visit…Indonesia once more? (laughs)
Ohno: Let’s! (laughs)
Sakurai: It might be a bit excessive to make Indonesian cuisine again, so perhaps we could do Balinese cuisine next time or something.
Ohno: That sounds good!
Sakurai: After we visit that same area once more together, where shall we head to next?
Ohno: I like Thai cuisine, but it was surpassed today (laughs). People who like Thai food would definitely be crazy about Indonesian food as well.
Sakurai: All the two of us do is eat (laughs). During our concert tour, even when we have a meal backstage after the end of our live performance, we somehow end up being the two members who stay behind until the end.
Ohno: Yeah.
Sakurai: It was like that for Fukuoka, wasn’t it? There were those who chose to go back to the hotel right after the performance ended and those who ate the local food that was prepared for us. It was up to the person to choose for themselves.
Ohno: Then, before we realised it, only the two of us stayed behind (laughs). The older two members.
Sakurai: Babbling drunkenly.
Ohno & Sakurai: Ahahahahaha! (laughs)
Sakurai: The tsukune (1) in the mizutaki (2) was delicious.
Ohno: It was, wasn’t it? The kawahagi (3) sashimi and blue mackerel also tasted great.
Sakurai: It’s the best way to spend time after a concert. After that we just return to the hotel and sleep.
Ohno: The best! I had a great time.
Sakurai: Ohno-san, you ate ramen often in Fukuoka, didn’t you?
Ohno: Yep. Once I reached the venue, I ate a bowl of ramen and slept.
Sakurai: It’s pretty amazing. Ohno-san doesn’t eat it within the span of 30 minutes or 1 hour or so, you know? He eats his ramen 30 seconds after he arrives at the venue.
Ohno: I’m starving when I reach the venue, okay? I eat ramen, rehearse, sleep. Then I wake up, eat sweets, prepare myself for the concert and then we perform.
Sakurai: You really do eat a lot and sleep often.
Ohno: That goes for you too, okay (laughs).
Sakurai: It does (laughs).
Ohno & Sakurai: Ahahahahaha! (laughs)
Sakurai: We sort of take turns sleeping, don’t we?
Ohno: That’s true (laughs). As I wake up, Sho-chan starts to sleep.
Sakurai: Not sure whether we’re on the same wavelength or not (laughs).

The talk of Bali and Nasi Goreng that won’t stop.
Sakurai: No matter how delicious it was, I didn’t think Ohno-san would finish eating it all completely. I mean, it was quite a large serving, you know?
Ohno: I’d normally leave a bit behind with that serving size. …But I couldn’t stop. I ate it all. I’ll go to Bali (laughs). The power of nasi goreng is amazing. Moreover, I like places that are near the sea.
Sakurai: It’d be nice to go, wouldn’t it! Our stomachs have been completely captured by Bali, haven’t they? (laughs)
Ohno: I’ll go to Bali (laughs). I want to relax without doing anything, with nasi goreng as my meal.
Sakurai: To relax and do nothing might be the greatest way to indulge yourself, huh? We may have opened the door to my path towards the adult’s way of travelling (laughs).
Ohno: Exactly~ Sho-kun seems like he could manage for around one day.
Sakurai: Eh?
Ohno: If you go to Bali, you seem like you could manage to not go anywhere for around one day (laughs).
Sakurai: The hotels at resorts usually have a number of restaurants near them, right? I wouldn’t be satisfied if I don't at least complete my conquest of them (laughs).
Ohno: Ahh~ (laughs)
Sakurai: I don’t want to fail by missing out on even one meal!


T/N:
(1) Tsukune (つくね) is a Japanese chicken meatball, usually grilled.
(2) Mizutaki (水炊き) is a kind of hot pot dish famous from Fukuoka in which fish or other kinds of meat and vegetables are cooked in unseasoned fish broth and dipped in tangy Ponzu sauce.
(3) Kawahagi (カワハギ) is a Japanese fish, commonly known as thread-tail filefish.
 
 
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[identity profile] thecutegirl1630.livejournal.com on April 12th, 2018 03:25 pm (UTC)
Woahhh thanks for uploading this. I'm arashi's fan from Indonesia and i wish they would come to Indonesia soon. I'd love to see them both eating fried rice and give a comment about it, it is too cute 💙❤
Coffee[personal profile] ninonosaur on April 13th, 2018 12:50 pm (UTC)
Thanks for reading! This interview actually hit quite close to home for me too, as my family is originally from Indonesia as well haha. Hearing how much they enjoyed nasi goreng and everything else makes me happier than I ever imagined LOL. Hopefully they do get to visit Bali like they hope to someday!
[identity profile] orsa2012.livejournal.com on April 12th, 2018 03:30 pm (UTC)
Lol.. this was so much fun to read.. thank you for translating & sharing..
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[identity profile] niyuzuku.livejournal.com on April 13th, 2018 01:37 am (UTC)
I really happy when they talk about Indonesia and Nasi Goreng.
I hope they really go to Indonesia, so they can taste many other Indonesian foods. <3
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[identity profile] asdfgenta.livejournal.com on April 13th, 2018 07:46 am (UTC)
this is so cute!!! Yama is cute!!! ugh, thank you for translating this!!! <3
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gracebkk[personal profile] gracebkk on July 3rd, 2018 10:35 am (UTC)
hahahaha :D they're seriously too cute! who would have known that they'd go crazy for nasi goreng & sambal! XD thanks for translating & sharing this! :)
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