We're in Tokyo, Japan. Konnichiwa! Konnichiwa! We are so excited to be here it's a gorgeous
day and it's time for breakfast we are pretty obsessed with Asian
convenience stores so today we're going to go to the 7-eleven and see what we
can pick up to break our fast
7-elevens and Family Marts in Japan are awesome because there is such a
range of food there's hot food, there's onigiri which are rice balls which we just bought
there's just honestly baked goods completely different to what we're used to at
home. So we got a number of things we got two teas each and also some onigiri which
are rice balls. There's instructions on how to open these so let's see. One- so you pull
that down and then two- slip that out and then slip out that sleeve- genius so we've
basically got a sheet of nori or seaweed wrapped around a triangle piece of rice
that's got a load of filling in it I've no idea what flavor mine is but I'm going to
give it a go and find out
hmm inside there appears to be like a shrimp and mayonnaise type mixture and
it's really tasty the rice is really soft and the mixture
is really creamy. I'm starting with this little one I don't know if called onigiri
but it's just rice actually with some sort of brown sauce and it's been
like blow-torched. Blow torched rice! For breakfast in Japan I've dreamed about this 7-eleven
Japanese breakfast for so long.I think it's a miso. It's a really good
denseness, great weight
it's like a sweet miso soaked rice, it's the perfect stickiness- what a way to start
the Japanese eating there's three weeks of this in our future and I'm so excited and
it's so fun in Japan because everything is in Japanese everything, everywhere you
look so you never know what you're buying or what you're doing so it's a
real adventure eating here everything is a bit of a surprise. So I have got for my
second roll, some sort of sushi roll I think it says chicken like fried
chicken so let's find out. I just love the way- wait can you read Japanese? I did learn
Japanese in school but I've completely forgotten it but I can still read a
little bit of the hirigana so that's helpful ... what's the hiragana? Hirigana
is like the type of script so that says tori karaage which is fried chicken so
we'll see if I'm right. We'll keep you on! Okay number two- look this is just ingenious
and then where's number three? Oooo I might have stuffed it up here. Oh no there
we go and then you wrap that back up some sort of mayonnaise-y protein filling
Mmmmm that's so good and I was right, it's fried chicken covered in a mayonnaise sauce
that is oh good I'm so happy to be in Japan. Each rice ball or rice roll was
about $1USD so really really affordable and so tasty. Fueled up ready
to roll. We're now going to go check out one of
the famous places in Tokyo which you may know- Harajuku! Tokyo subway has
this awesome app so you type in the station where you're at, where you want
to go and then it tells you which line to catch and how much it costs. Perfect!
it works off line. Perfect!
Filming with a brand new camera set up today so if things look a little bit
different that's why and I'm still learning to use it because I have not
read a single line of the manual so hopefully it looks okay let us know
in the comments below.
We're exploring Harajuku's lanes- Harajuku is really well-known for
people dressed up in crazy fashion as anime characters we haven't really seen
too many of those types of people but I'm on the lookout
I love their costumes.
Super touristy on the main strip of Harajuku but it's also really fun, there's loads of
people, all these different shops, crazy people dressed up in crazy outfits
it's really really stimulating for senses but if you branch off into some
of the little lanes that veer off the main strip there's some great little cafes
and little boutiques to explore.
so we had a walk around Harajuku and we started to get hungry so we figure it's Japan so it's time for
conveyor belt sushi. We're just in line at Katsu MIdori
shouldn't be too long. This is so exciting we've sat down at our table we've got an iPad
which is in English to choose what we want off the menu and there's also stuff
going past on the conveyor belt so we can whip off any plates that we like the look of from there too
This so cool so you can just help yourself to matcha or green tea. So there's some matcha powder
here and then there's your own little hot water tap!
Our eel sushi just arrived on a little train! I have been dreaming about
eating uni or sea urchin since- for months, for months so I am going to
try the uni nigiri first. I'm just going to go naked not even put soy sauce
or wasabi and just see what it tastes like. The sea urchin is really creamy and really almost sweet, it's
so rich and works perfectly with the rice- it is so so good
this is young sardine I'm going to pop a little bit of wasabi on the top there
and just a little bit of soy sauce on top there's about 10 little young, oh no
this is not the young sardines, this is whitebait sorry, this is whitebait
I'm going to go for it, they look quite squishy
Mmm, quite a strong fishy flavor, almost a little bit crunchy the spring onion is
really good with it because it's really fresh and cuts through the fishiness. Nice but not my favourite. One of my
favorite things in Japanese cuisine is how they use eel all the time I love
eel I think it's such a tasty protein this one's like a seared
eel it's just slightly cooked and it looks like it's got a little bit of a glaze on top. I'm not
going to add any wasabi or anything like that
it's so light, so fresh, so soft, a tiny bit of sweetness from the glaze, it's just heaven
it's so healthy feeling you feel good eating it
you feel happy eating it ohhhhh yum
This is the scallop and it should be pretty sweet
the flavour is really delicate, it's not a really strong flavour
quite creamy, really good texture, just nice and light. That's really good.
so Katsu Midori is like a budget sushi conveyer belt restaurant
they're known for having really good quality fish despite the really cheap
price, so plates range from about $1USD, that's the cheapest plate up
to about $5 and there's just so much variety there's even things going
past like fruit salad and rice cakes and what else have we seen, wedges even but the fish is
definitely stand out. In the past I've totally being guilty of grabbing wasabi
and mixing it in with the soy sauce and then dipping my sushi in that way but
apparently the correct way to do it is to put wasabi on the fish and then
you dip the fish side into the soy if you're wanting it rather than dipping the
rice into the soy and swirling it about and it's also perfectly acceptable to eat
nigiri with your hands so I'm going to do that. Salmon looks amazing
and tastes incredible. It had a bit of spring onion and a little bit of umm pickled ginger?
fresh ginger on the top. It's really clean and really simple, that fish though, so good.
final plates, raw my favorite and pretty much like half a glazed eel
It's massive and it looks really really delicious
That was Shibuya crossing the world's biggest crossing it's so insane so many people
Katsu Midori for lunch was really great
really worth a visit, we had 8 plates of sushi and it worked out to be about $12USD
so super affordable. Bargain! They have a few shops around the city so we'll pop
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