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what's up and welcome guys with Luke and
Sabrina with chopstick travel calm today
we are taking you on an epic Japanese
food and travel adventure Japan is an
amazing country and its capital Tokyo is
an incredible city if you're planning on
visiting Japan a few things might come
to mind
for example sushi a rich history and
culture bustling mega cities and of
course Suman
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in my hand here I have two tickets to
the 2017 sumo grand tournament event
that only happens three times a year
here in Tokyo
today we are going to be showing you
real sumo wrestlers in action but first
we need to eat a sumo sized lunch so
let's eat we are now sitting down for a
traditional sumo wrestler meal called
chunko number there's no real recipe for
chunko number it's just a hot pot filled
with protein rich ingredients so we are
sitting down at a restaurant called homo
vodka and they specialize in chanko nabe
so today we have ordered the sumo Chung
Cosette and they have a different daily
chunko for each day of the week so this
looks really good and we're gonna dig in
so as I said we have ordered the sumo
Chung Cosette and there is a ton of
ingredients in here we've got some tofu
some chicken tofu skin fresh greens some
cabbage underneath here and some
mushrooms hiding in there as well and it
is all just smothered in this gorgeous
looking beautiful smelling broth so I
can't wait to try this let's stay in
so it's served with quite a few
different side dishes we're gonna try
those of it here try some of these
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nice little cold salad and it looks like
we've got a macaroni salad over here as
well hmm blue is sweet also some
cucumbers and some daikon and then a
piece of tempura here so let's try that
Oh
that's a deep-fried potato super creamy
on enzyme covered in some ponzu sauce
and then often chocolate Nathan Ave will
be eaten with some rice just to increase
the caloric intake for the sumo
wrestlers this is certainly a hearty
meal seeing as there's no weight
divisions in sumo wrestling sumo
wrestlers want to be as big as possible
to use that to their advantage so
they're gonna want to eat a lot of chunk
onabi
okay let's try this broth out first and
this just smells amazing take a sit
Wow it has actually very rich in flavor
it's definitely chicken based and
vegetable but also I can definitely
taste that it's seasoned with some soy
sauce at probably a sake or mirin and
also let's just grab some of the
ingredients in here I'm just gonna kind
of mix everything up and try that
and then fresh Hardy idiot oh man that's
awesome it's gonna be feeling bold up
so we're super full that meal was
definitely fit for a sumo wrestler now
we're ready to go to the tournament so
our tummies are full of some delicious
sumo chanko nabe and we have come to the
legendary Kikuchi kon which is the
center of sumo culture here in the rio
koku area of Tokyo we're gonna go inside
find our seats and show you guys some
fights
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so we've been inside the stadium for a
while now enjoying some of the sumo
wrestling matches and I have to say it's
absolutely exhilarating the crowd is
into it and these are so technical and
experienced fighters it's really fun to
watch and besides that a lot of
parentage and cultures and traditions
are displayed so I definitely recommend
if you get the chance definitely try to
check in a sumo wrestling match in Japan
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papa
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- see
through
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okay guys that's it for today's video I
hope you enjoyed the real sumo wrestler
experience at chunko nabe we ate was
delicious and then seeing those fighters
take the ring was awesome so if you did
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you next time bye
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