These are my favorite Japan home delivery foods
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So because of this darn pandemic, I don't know about you,
but I've been ordering a lot of home delivery these days
and one of the most popular ones in Tokyo is Uber Eats
So popular that I even subscribed to their monthly pass
where I get free delivery each and every time
Which means I've tried a lot of food over the months
So in this video I wanted to share with you my recent favorites
Interestingly because of the pandemic,
there's just so many more food options
because a lot of restaurants these days
have opened up their door to home delivery
And if you're a meat lover,
then you're going to want to attention to this one
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#1: Meibutsu Otokomori from Oreryu Ramen
Oreryu Ramen is a Shibuya-born shio ramen shop
They also have a simple clear shio soup,
but I always go for their creamy matured shio soup
Yes, we are back with one of my favorites
This I've actually featured already in one of my videos,
but the fact that they deliver straight to my door makes it even better
This is really like a man's meal, like this is what it's really called,
Meibutsu Otokomori, it's their famous man's meal
I guess would be the direct translation
You can see right there it has some luscious pieces of char siu
It has a half cooked egg right there
And it has a little bit of other ingredients like the spinach
Most of all, it comes with these
freshly fried pieces of karage fried chicken
And you know my heart sings when this happens
I've been waiting for this all day
The noodles itself still a little bit on
kind of like the harder side, which I prefer,
And then the soup, it has that spicy kick that I love
with a lot of the shio, like the salt-based soups,
they're really kind of light where this one is thick
It's almost similar to a python soup
which is kind of like a creamy white chicken soup,
but this one I do think it has some pork mixed in there as well
Overall man, I just love the thickness of this soup
My favorite part, the fried chicken
Oh that is perfectly cooked fried chicken
Juicy, tender middle, crispy outside
When that chicken soaks up all of that soup
it's just so flavorful with that bite
It's almost worth just letting it sit in the soup
for a little bit so that it picks up even more flavor
Let me take a bite of the egg right there
Now that is a perfectly cooked egg
You can see how it's not fully cooked,
it's still kind of soft and gooey in the middle
And then this is the center piece of the char siu
It just melted off
It is so tender that it just doesn't hold up very well together
It just wants to melt off your chopsticks
That is brilliant
Basically they pretty much reproduced
what they had in the shop and they brought it straight to your front door
What I love is when it's delivered
they separate all of the ingredients so that it doesn't get all soggy from
the time it's made at the store to your house
And then you put it together yourself
This is an exceptional meal
Who would have thought
you could have this level of ramen delivered to your house?
#2: the Double Cheeseburger from Henry's Burger
Crispy patties coming straight off an iron plate;
only haters gonna hate on this one
I already have a smile on my face for this one
So this is Henry's Burger
It is a double cheeseburger
So what you have is two burgers in here,
you have cheese, I actually ordered an extra slice,
some lettuce, it has some tomatoes in here, some special sauce
I just gotta take a bite, I gotta take a bite!
Wow you can definitely taste the umami in that burger
So this is premium Kuroge Wagyu beef
that you get at a specialty yakiniku place
What they've done is, they've taken the parts that
you can't really sell for yakiniku and they chop it all up
and they make these delicious umami packed burgers
And I just love it
Meat itself is not really finely cut, it's very coarse
You can see that it's really really chunky
I just gotta take another bite
My soul is filled
The bread is kind of like a soft and chewy
You can taste the butter that's been infused in that
See right there they have kind of like
their special sauce it's almost kind of reminiscent to thousand island
Like literally, this is one of my favorite burger spots in Tokyo
because the meat is so flavorful
It's so packed with umami
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Maiko: What? Why?
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#3: Ultimate Chicken & Egg Rice Bowl from Miyazaki Jidorisumibiyaki Kuruma
So are we doing this? Are we doing this?
Yes, we are
We're doing that chicken on chicken
or chicken on egg
So we have a charcoaled grilled chicken on a bed of melty fluffy egg and then
some rice at the bottom just to fill it out
You can see right there
that chicken thigh is blackened by the charcoal
All of that smoked chicken
Miyazaki, which is known for their "sumibiyaki",
which is like smoked grilled chicken
I'm gonna have to use a spoon for this
so I can get all of the flavors in one
Making a bite of that now
The first thing that hits you is just all of that smoke flavor
Then you combine it with a melty egg,
it's just kind of like gooey and adds
just a little bit more flavor to the chicken
and it's just a perfect perfect meal
And then the rice just balances it out right
I feel like they've added kind of like a dashi to the egg as well,
giving it like an additional flavor, kinda like a deeper umami
Look at these pieces of chicken
You look and almost think it's an oyster
Yeah, it looks like it almost looks like an oyster
What's nice about the egg and the rice itself
it's so good you don't even need the chicken to have it
because of all that dashi in there
it's so flavorful you can just take
the rice and make her put it in like a little fajita and just crisp--
Maiko: Why do you always have to make a fajita?
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Say "Hello" to everyone
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#4: Wagyu Beef Sinew Black Curry from Takiniku Meijin Wagyumaru
This one I go to when
I want a little bit of fire in my belly
It's not the spiciest ever, but it's ultra delicious
What's special about this curry
first of all is that it uses prime wagyu beef
You can see there are beef chunks
Oh look at that
There's a lot of just curry beef chunks
and then just mix it in with some rice
Ultra simple, but ultra delicious at the same rate
The beef is wagyu and it's quite tender
I believe that it's been kind of just like sitting in this curry
making it just ultra tender
And the curry picks up a lot of umami coming from the wagyu beef
It also has a dashi taste to it
Just one little bite and there's so much flavor in there
Overall you have this tender wagyu beef in this black thick potent curry
over some rice
Another meal that you just can't get wrong
#5: Yakiniku Bento from Kintan Ropangi Yakiniku
YAKINIKU!
I know this one is a little bit more expensive than, you know,
what people might think as an acceptable meal for delivery,
but look at this beauty
Premium Japanese Wagyu beef delivered to your door
This meat bento box is only available at the end of the month
and only 10 of them are available per day
and I got one of the 10
Let me just... Yeah, it's a lot
If you just dig deep in here you can see
that it's not just this one layer,
but there's several layers that go pretty deep into this bed of rice
If you look right here,
you have the akami which is like a red meat
You have the juicy kalbi right here in the middle
And then you have like a dry aged gyutan, which is beef tongue
I've been talking way too much
I just need to take a bite
Oh that is juicy
You can definitely taste the sweet sauce
It's a little bit sweet, it has a little bit of savoriness,
but it's just the meat itself it's so tender
And now let's try the red meat itself
You can see that the akami has less fat
There's a lot of sauce on there as well
Wow, so the akami doesn't have a lot of fat,
but it makes up with all this flavor; it's quite a different experience
Like the kalbi you can taste a lot of like the juices coming from the fat
It's nice being able to taste all of that meat in the akami
Wanna to taste some of my meat Maiko? Maiko: I don't think I understand
Don't yo-- Maiko: Is it a secret message?
No secret message Maiko: Why did you have to buy me?
Here, have a bite of their meat (laughter)
Maybe the people watching want to try
Would you guys like a bite of this instead of Maiko?
It's so good, right?
Only at the end of the month it's available--
Maiko: Because it's after payday
People want to go home and eat
some good meat this is the place to go
The final piece you have a gyutan
There's a lot of flavor in this one too, right?
It's more of a standard
not a lemon sauce, but onion or like a garlic sauce
You really get a sense of the barbecue of the charcoal
Maiko: Yeah
Can you guys get premium wagyu beef like this delivered to your door?
I don't know
Let me know in the comments
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