hey everyone its mark Wiens in Tokyo
Japan I met on my yokocho market which
is one of the best open-air markets for
just about everything in Tokyo you'll
find fresh ingredients there are lots
and lots of clothes and all sorts of
things and this is one of the best
places to eat Japanese street food and
especially budget Japanese food in Tokyo
so I'm going to give you a tour of this
market and we're going to eat lots of
food this market is right at window
station which is a big one of the major
railroad stations in Tokyo but then
underneath the track which the tracks
are right up there you'll just find just
lots and lots of stalls there are
jewelry stalls there are you can buy
handbag gear you can buy clothes of
every sort imaginable and then touch
with in the stalls you'll even find
fresh market ingredients there are fresh
fish to buy and then there are plenty of
restaurants where you can get a budget
meal or some Street food Japanese food
snacks and it's just a great place to
people watch to walk around to eat and
just to enjoy the atmosphere one of the
things that this Street food market is
well-known for are their budget sashimi
and just raw fish bowls I think this is
a perfect way to start this Japanese
food tour in a yokocho market and they
have one of this this one yes the poll
the polling and then also
also this one yes please yeah you can
order by just pointing to the different
dishes stone booties that they have and
then you pay upfront here because oh oh
and then yeah and then you get a number
and then you can come in here and inside
the feet I was in Tokyo a couple years
ago and I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure
this is the place I ate as well
I think I think I remember this exact
same place and you can get a cup and
they have the dome buddies have arrived
and it is quite a quite a colorful
collection of different fish overwrite
ying and i ordered two different two
different ones but we're going to share
them both and i will begin they also
have let me grab a little dish of soy
sauce Rebecca and oh yeah okay I'll
start with one of the I'll start with
this one and one of the one of these
pieces of tuna we can get off Yujin
needy that is that that's a pretty big
sized piece on there's also some wasabi
here my handle Mesabi to this bite
oh that's a nose clearer oh yeah to
follow with some right
the fish is pretty good has a little bit
of a fishy taste to it maybe it's not
the ultimate freshest but it's still
still good and now moving on to the Oni
which is sea urchin and then these are
our salmon roe Oni is just one of those
one of those amazing things that you
just can't get enough of it it's creamy
it's a little bit bitter its fishy it's
very steep ooty about that custardy
texture is what's so attractive in it
you kind of know this going in but it's
not not going to be the best quality of
fish that you've ever had in Tokyo but
the price is right they do have they do
give you a pretty good portion size of
fish and I had this one which was a
thousand yen and that's probably
probably the price was was more because
of the Unni the sea urchin and they even
had one of them over there
but yeah the you do get quite a lot of
fish alright what's next
another place that I really wanted to
try here at the market is it's called a
Yama meet and on the sign there it says
meat dish and beer and it's a little
yellow kiosk on the corner here I'm
going to go order one it's the type of
place you come and you just kind of
stand around you order a snack on these
little they look like a little meat pies
all on here some cabinet full of deep
fried goodness shop for the Colombian
people known as the that's 200 poke them
to be pork and beef is me me okay yeah
yes that's all I'll try this one
okay it's right here let's move up here
stay
thank you very much this is a really
cool little corner shop and they
specialized in a bunch of different
fried little cutlets and they have a
have a bunch of them but I asked them
which one is the classic I got the
classic one it's a mixture of pork and
beef and the owner mentioned to me that
oh Yama is a mountain so this is a I'm a
meat pie and I can just feel how how
crunchy crispy that is from holding it
into this little paper bag all right
oh wow it is flaming hot on the inside
gets filled with minced meat are there
are there any vegetables in there maybe
just onions and garlic its pepper is it
extremely like crusty around the edges
and then inside it's just like that ooh
the meat that is the afternoon snack
that you want to be eating when you're
craving something salty and meaty
all right I suppose oh this one is
deeper okay
I like mustard haha okay so you can
either add these two sauces I think I
think I'll go mustard on this next like
oh shake that up a little bit oh yeah oh
yeah
I fall out
oh that's the horseradish wasabi mustard
or very good
boohoo
all that goes up your nasal passages and
just cleans them out
oh yeah let's go do nets like the
Japanese Worcestershire sauce okay final
bite here that went down so easily
so I just breezed in on that mustard I'm
feeling energetic after eating that
although it sounds good
this is an izakaya style restaurant
which is a place to hang out a lot of
people come here especially after work
and you can feel this whole area is just
getting busier by the minute as people
get off work people come to hang out
with friends to have a drink and some
snacks and after work after work snack
yeah they just have a whole variety of
different things on their menu from
relishes to session you need to come put
on two grilled dishes we're going to try
a few afternoon snack here it's such a
great thing about being in Japan the
late afternoon when when people start
getting off work and just hanging out
with friends eating small snacks
delicious small snacks and just just
hang it out first nak that scum is
edamame which are boiled or maybe
steamed soybeans and I could buy as a
tender
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and just get them all out they have to
be one of the healthiest most addictive
snacks you can possibly eat they're so
good they're I don't even know what it
is about eating soybeans like this but
they're so so addictively good thank you
I guess you when you order the template
on here really did come this one one
piece for birthing what a night what did
I even good I got a strip I got a tomato
and then I got I'm gonna remember what
that is
anyway I guess I could have ordered a
lot more that's got a small but anyway
one of the coolest things about this
place is that they serve you their
specialty is just an entire an entire
jug full of daikon radish that is really
fragrant I can smell that radish very
very strongly that looks like a it looks
like a giant ice cream all of the little
snack appetizer dishes have arrived and
the first thing I got to do though is
make that nikon for the stop routine do
this like vanilla ice cream
well that's that is some juicy daikon
there well I hope I don't spill it Oh
the cream juice is pouring out of it at
the bottom there that's a unique style
of serving the daikon that I've never
ever seen before and that's really
fragrant it smells like a cross between
onion and playa smoke smells oniony and
then over here they have a whole picture
so it's almost like a water a water
boiler full of the sauce oh yeah okay
that should be good and I may as well
start with the tempo Dobson I got the
sauce ready I don't think I've ever had
tomato tempo top so that's like a good
quarter or a third of a third of a
tomato and then just deep-fried I think
it's pretty clear that they they
specialize in their stock here so I
don't want to I don't want to get myself
on that first bite I want to own a
really get that daikon on there and
really really dip it in that sauce
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that tomato just dripped all over my
pants uh-huh that's like up just to the
ordinarily juicy tomato but all that
juice was held in with that net fried
wrapper around that's right batter
wrapper next up I'll try some of these
little fish and these are drilled I
think you can just eat the whole thing
and they're circles oval blob of
mayonnaise on the side
I think we can just eat the whole thing
oh yes you can it's just loaded full of
eggs that's like a smoky little little
fish started oh that's delicious
oh that's fantastic Netta that is a
quality salty snack there
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next up for the squid which has been
drilled that's another another beauty
and then they've disliked it into
bite-sized pieces
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you'll squid is a favorite of Union - we
always love real good slightly chewy
rubbery texture and then it's done what
a wonderful thing grilled that's
delicious
Mike that has joined me now to eat the
what what on the menu it's called the
grilled turban turban shell the thing is
see it's pretty huge chop up a little
bit of some kind of parsley or cilantro
on top here and then I'm excited to see
what's inside the shell it should be a
little too big I'm going to pull the
hold it down
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wow that is a sort of a sizeable nugget
and then if you can check out inside of
the shell there's some juice as well I
don't know if I should drink at games I
forget that looks like it's definitely
going to be pretty chewy that's pretty
that's kind of rubbery it's really salty
it's good it's almost like the squid but
more more rubbery yeah you could
definitely throw that on the ground and
we'll just definitely bounce up that
turban shell took quite a while to chew
but now moving on to the shrimp
and it really it really is amazing with
all that nikon that Nikon is what makes
this template are unique and really good
I can just pile on the daikon with that
daikon so it's so refreshing and so so
like mild but flavorful at the same time
like Korean Alex l'anima three remaining
okay next up we got ice cream I got eat
it fast so it it's drooping
in the
oh yeah well let's you can really take
the the milk penis of that doesn't even
have a vanilla flavor but it's really
like that milk strong milk flavor this
place has all sorts a few different
baked goods including the famous
Japanese taiyaki the fish
I think that's taiyaki the fish makes it
with red bean paste in the middle but it
seems like most people that come here
get the ice cream but I do have a one of
the fish snacks coming up - oh hi
analemma so this is right out of the
griddle the fish shaped griddle it it's
really really hot scoot this out and oh
you can feel how soft and supple that is
within the fish and I think it's filled
with the red bean paste and then it's
kind of like feels like a cracker around
the outside edges you got to take a
pretty significant byte in order to
reach the bean paste on your first bite
it's like a sweet kind of starchy bean
paste in the middle and then that's
almost like on like a waffle tasting
batter crust around the outside
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buona doner kebab mix it's like spicy
please thank you Alex it's cool they
have the different sizes sure I'll go
for super high army so more votes but
I'm using a swivel but I love sure I'll
go superb it was just super hot please
all this until this one is called jumbo
doner kebab I have mild hot very hot I'm
going super hot
I know kebabs are not very Japanese okay
they're not Japanese at all but it is
one of the most popular things to eat
when you come to this market and it's
very popular with Japanese people Jeff a
lot you see a lot of Japanese people
ordering the kebabs here and there's
there's at least a handful of kebab
restaurants we chose to come to one
called jumbo who ain't no jumbo kebab
and this is just loaded with meat look
at that I got the mix of beef and
chicken it's just packed out with me
there's some cabbage in the bottom there
I think and then yeah I got that I got
the super hot spicy sauce all over it
that is that is beautiful what a what a
handheld treat this is
for they often plot amazing oh and
that's off is good just a little bit
slightly it is it's really fragrant
daughter it's salty and that meat that
just has that wonderful slow roasted
slightly crispy slightly oily is meeting
us going oh man
I love how the meat just like overflows
out of the the wrapper out of that pita
bread that is awesomely delicious I
wanna ask for more sauce
I'll just finish that kebab and even
though that's not Japanese that was
incredibly delicious the sauce the super
hot sauce was fantastic I loved that
that was a perfect way to end this I'm a
yo-yo coach Oh market tour this is a
this is a really cool market to visit
when you come to Tokyo there's not
actually a lot of street food you don't
you don't see through food everywhere
but tucked within the alleys and the
lanes there are a lot of a lot of
restaurants so you'll find a lot of
sushi restaurants yakitori small little
izakayas where people come after work to
hang out and have a drink and eat those
little snack and also you'll find quite
a few kebab restaurants around here as
well but then also you can
there's just seems to be an overload of
shoes if you're if you're in the market
for some shoes you will have like
there's the full assortment of shoes you
can possibly think up here you can buy
some fresh seafood you can buy cosmetic
it's all available at this market this
is a great place to come when you're in
Tokyo especially if you enjoy the
open-air market style I think this is a
great place to visit thank you very much
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