We're at Sushiro for dinner
It's a conveyor belt sushi chain
It's a little bit like Genki Sushi
Because you can order what you want on a touchscreen
But it's got the conveyor belt as well
So we're not quite sure what the deal is
Here's the conveyor belt
See some items are in a red tray
The katakana says "order"
So I think they're the items someone's ordered
So we're waiting for ours to come along
*chimes*
Ah it tells you on the screen when yours is coming along
"Your order is coming"
You can switch the touchscreen between Japanese & English
Is that what you ordered?
Look that one's got a poppadom!
It seems wrong!
I've got a shochu lemon
Phil's got a beer
"Your order is coming"
What's that one?
Tuna
Conveyor belt sushi places are places to get cheap sushi
Not necessarily the highest quality
But we thought we'd give this one a try
It's really popular
There were loads of people waiting for a table
I had to go in and go to a touchscreen
It was all in Japanese so I had ot work out which button to press
And it gave me a receipt
She called out the number
Which I just about managed to catch
When the table was ready
There's a tamago
Sushi places usually have some vegetarian options
As well as fish
These little mascots are cute!
Look there's a sausage roll!
That just seems wrong!
Oh no, don't do it!
Here's my wasabi aubergine nigiri
But boo! They've put bonito fish flakes on it
It's underneath the aubergine as well
Here's my other one, it's sweetcorn and potato gunkan
These are crunchy, it's got crisps on the top
Got to say, I wasn't a massive fan of the aubergine
It's like pickled aubergine
It was a bit chewy
Here's the nigiri
It is actually
It's very cheap
100 yen's about 70p
Shrimp with basil & cheese
There are some weird menu items
There's tamago
Eggplant wasabi
That's the one I got
Gunkan
Tuna, shrimp, crab, shellfish
Salad & others
Where was that?
Forgot about that one!
Here it comes
*chimes*
All my orders are arriving!
I ordered something else as well
Here's my cucumber roll
It's hard to keep track of all this
They've also got ramen & udon noodles
And desserts
Quite a lot of desserts
And they do look good
I want to try these Japanese sweet potatoes
Some pumpkin tempura?
I ordered that too!
Here's my pumpkin tempura
You get more than I thought I would
You get green tea on the table
And I think it's free anyway!
They've got hot water on tap
So you've got ginger, soy sauce
I'm not sure what the other one is
Google Translate that later
Something "dare"
These kappamaki are giving me a problem
Because they're more than one mouthful
Here's my inari sushi
It's got ume, that's pickled plum
Here's the inside of the inari sushi
It doesn't taste very strongly of pickled plum actually
I do want to try an onigiri with pickled plum inside
Because I had some seasoning for rice
That has plum flavour and I really like it
So I want to look out for one of them
A gourmet piece of tuna something
Why's it gourmet?
I don't know!
It was more expensive
I've ordered some Japanese sweet potatoes
I've heard of them before - *chimes*
Here they are!
They're sweet potatoes that people have when they're at college
And that's why they're called college potatoes
Or daigaku potatoes
They were on the dessert menu
Which I wasn't expecting
I didn't expect them to be cold
Or crunchy
But I quite like that flavour
They were actually colder than the sushi
I think the sushi's been quite freshly made
So the rice is still a bit warm
It's nice though
They're really sweet on the outside
It's like actual candy
Sugar sweetness
I thought
They weren't that sweet
I thought they were really sweet
They taste of sweet potato, sure
And the sweet potato's quite dry
Actually
Phil just had another one
That wasn't as sweet
See I was right!
I mean that was more sweet! :-P
Look at this place on the corner
They're putting out smoke from the barbecue
You can really smell it
I bet that makes a lot of people hungry!
We just ate at Sushiro
It's a conveyor belt sushi place
It's actually a chain
There's quite a few of them around Japan
And they've got a couple in Tokyo
But they're not in the centre of Tokyo
They're a little bit outside
More in suburban-ish areas
So that's why we haven't been to it before
With these cheap sushi places
Like the conveyor belt ones
Sushi's only about 100 yen per plate
So you don't expect it to be the best quality
But it's cheap & you can have a lot of it
Which is the complete opposite of sushi in the UK
Which is so expensive
Even at places that aren't very good!
It was significantly better than what you find at most sushi places in the UK
So you'll be paying about £3 or £4 at a lot of places
Whereas it's about 70p here
So that quality is fantastic for that
For the price
It's really good
And you can have a lot
So I had about 10 plates
I had 2 beers
What did you have? About 6 plates
Yeah, I had 6 plates
1 drink 6 plates
I had 10 plates & 2 drinks
So 3 drinks, 16 plates
Came to...
3700 yen
What's that?
Erm...
£24.... £25?
It's not crazy cheap
But for the amount of food
Especially like for like in the UK
It's really good
It's fun to order on the screens
And it's really easy if you're a foreigner
Because they've got pictures of everything
And it's in English as well
The ticket machine wasn't though
No they didn't have an english setting on that
So we had to guess what it was
Luckily I know the kanji for adult
You had to choose adults or children
And say how many
So we managed to get through that
The only difficult bit was when they called out the numbers
I wouldn't have a hope of understanding
Our number was 238
I was thinking that's "ni-hyaku-san-ju-hachi"
Which I do know
But I can't recognise them quick enough
And she talked really fast
When she was calling out the number
So I heard the "san-ju"
So I went up with the ticket
And she said yeah, that's you
Mine was ok
It wasn't the best
I ordered a few things I didn't really like that much
But the kappamaki was alright
You can't really go wrong with that
And the pumpkin tempura
I think I was spoilt by the tempura we had yesterday
At Hakata Tempura Takao
Because that was really good
And not greasy at all
And this one today was a little bit greasy
Mine was good
No arguments
The fish was good
I ordered a few gourmet ones
And a few specials
They tasted a bit better
You got less food for more money
But it still wasn't that bad
I think 280 yen was the most I paid
Which is £2.50 maybe, £2
So if you want to go to Sushiro
There are lots of branches
Throughout Japan
You can look it up on Google Maps really easily
It's busy
Yes, very busy
So you might have to wait for a little bit
If you get the counter rather than the table it seemed to go faster
It's more fun at the counter as well
Look at this very non-Japanese looking building
That would look completely at home in England
My nose looks really red!
Have I caught the sun today?
My neck's not sunburnt
Ooh! Christmas!
We're just on the bridge going over to Nakasu
Which is the nightlife district of Fukuoka
This is the picture postcard view of Fukuoka
That you see in a lot of pictures
On Nakasu there's a lot of yatai
Which are the temporary food stalls
That come out in the evening in Fukuoka
It's really typical of this city
People just pull them up
Open up and it's like a mini restaurant
Very cosy
I think they've only got seats for 8 or 10 people
They serve ramen
A lot of them have oden
And lots of other things that mainly aren't vegetarian
So I'm not sure if I'll be able to go to one
But we'll have a look
It'd be a good experience, definitely
Over there is Canal City
Where we were yesterday
It's a big mall in Fukuoka
And over there is where we were earlier
At Hakata Port
There's Hakata Port Tower all lit up
We just had a walk through Nakasu
We didn't see any yatai like I was expecting
I don't know if we've got the wrong day
Or if we were too early or too late
But we didn't see any
The feel of Nakasu
Was a lot more like a city centre
Like I was expecting, with karaoke
bars and bright lights
And lots of bars & things
It's actually quite a bit like Kabukicho
In Tokyo
But a lot quieter
A LOT less people!
We're back at the hotel now
I really enjoyed today, having a walk around
Seeing the seaside
Was really good, going up Fukuoka Tower
We had a bit of a waste of time going over to the other side
But it was good to go on a boat
It was still quite pretty when you're over there
We just didn't do a lot
If we got there early enough to have bikes
It would have been good
I'm still not sure I feel like I know Fukuoka
I don't really feel like I've seen the centre
Even though we walked through Tenjin
Which I think is the main centre area
I don't really feel like we've seen it
Or got to know it
In that way
But it has been interesting to see what the city's like
It's a lot quieter than being in Tokyo
It's a lot different to that!
It feels like a seaside town
Not like Eastbourne!
It's more similar to when we went to Yokohama
Yes, very much so
We've only been here a day
Well, a day & a bit
You can't know somewhere after a day
We've been all over the place today
We've walked a lot
And I'm also really proud that we've eaten all Japanese food so far
Because with me being vegetarian
It can be difficult
And sometimes it's easier to say we'll get burger or pizza
Or whatever's the easiest option
But we've had some good food
And I was really happy
I managed to tell that guy
Who made the yakisoba for me
At lunchtime
That I was vegetarian
And we had a talk about what was in the yakisoba
Successfully in Japanese!
And he did everything he could for me
Even though it turned out to have fish flakes on in the end
But we were saying
They probably don't think of that as fish
It's more like putting salt & pepper
Or something on there
Than thinking this is actually fish
And one last find of the day
I'm going to show you
We've just been to the convenience store
To get some drinks & snacks
For our hotel room party
Our night in, in the hotel
I found this!
It's...
Kinoko no Yama
And the flavour is
Maple vanilla
I haven't seen these ones before
They have the standard ones
Which are chocolate and biscuit
And then they have seasonal varieties
There was one I really liked last time...
White chocolate & caramel
Which I think has gone away now
But I've got these to try now
That's good!
You also bought these yesterday
Oh yeah!
I'd seen these on Twitter
They're soy meat nuggets
Which is really surprising
Seeing as how vegetarian things are so hard to find in Japan
I can't believe they have these just in the convenience store
At 7-Eleven
They're in the crisps aisle
And apparently when they first came out
They were trending on Twitter
Because they're really disgusting!
And everyone was tweeting about how much they hated them
I don't really feel like them at the moment
But I'll give them a try at some point
I'll let you know what they're like
We walked apparently...
12 miles today
Wow!
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