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This is food for five dollars that you can get at a japanese food court.
So often times in my videos, i take all of you to expensive and sometimes pricey places to eat.
In this video, I kind of wanna do the opposite and take you to some places here in Japan
where you can get really really cheap but good food
And what better place to start than here at a japanese food court
What a lot of people don't know is that you can get some items here for about five dollars
that are really really good, at the same time you can also get the more expensive items
things that are around 10 or 15 dollars
But for this video i'm gonna try to keep it
all around five dollars so, just let me know in the comments
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All right Let's get our food on!
So here, i am in Tokyo Daiba at Diver City's Japanese style food court
One of the many in the city with your typical chain style Japanese fast food hitters
like ramen, udon, takoyaki, and many different types of donburi shops
that get your stomach going 'Oh, yeah!'
small Bukkake Udon from Hanamaru Udon
Hanamaru is a staple for many food courts throughout japan
They've got it down with their quick sanuki style udon that uses an irokodashi
perfect for that food court lover.
So probably one of the best values at a japanese food court is a udon.
This one that i have in my hand
is only 320 yen which is less than three dollars.
It's a Bukkake udon
and it is such a good value
You can see how just luscious these noodles are
and even have a lemon right there give it that acidic punch
and although this is a small version
it's A LOT of noodles
Have a little bite of this..
That's how you do it !
gotta slurp the noodles in japan
The noodles just soak up all of that dashi
and it just has that amazing flavor and then
adding all the extra toppings to give it a nice texture to it
One of the cool things about this place is also they have
the free toppings so they have the tenkasu
which is tempura flakes it also has
green onion toppings and they also have
sesame and ginger if you want to swing that way !
It just gives a whole bowl of Udon
so much more flavor
We get the nice clumpy noodles soaking up
all of that dashi and then you get
the nice texture with the green onions
and the tenkatsu
I just love with udon, how clumpy and bouncy the noodles are
Each noodle is a mouthful
We just have a little spoonful of all this dashi
Ohhh, that's beautiful! You can't beat that!
Fried chicken from TORIKAE EXPRESS
This shop is a food court brand by Torikae Sohonke
which is a popular Japanese chicken specialty restaurant chain
born in aichi which uses Nagoya kochin chicken
Oh yeah, we're doing this!
So you may have heard of the polar express or panda express
or maybe even the pineapple express
But they don't serve fried chicken like
the Torikae express, check it out!
But i couldn't do a video
without adding some fried chicken
That is chicken fried to perfection!
First of all, when you take that bite
you can definitely taste that nanban sauce
and this nanban sauce also has
the caramelized sweetness like a teriyaki sauce
the tanginess of the tartar sauce
There's some relish in here with some onions
just coating all of this fried crispiness
with the tender insides
It's just a pleasure in my mouth, they do have other types of sauces
But you know, i wanted to do this nanban
cause i don't really remember if i have featured in nanban sauce
I probably have usually from doing like the plain with like other sauces
So definitely want to share this one
one with all of you. This chicken is
hands down one of the best i've had at a
food court and there you go all for 420
yen less than four bucks that's another
thing with going to these food courts is
that you don't have to have just like
one big plate you can come here and try
a bunch of different japanese food and
still feel pretty satisfied and not
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right bring on the next food item toto
tama mentai takoyaki from gindako gin
dako is one of the biggest takoyaki
chains in japan their takoyaki balls
have that crispy outside and melting
inside just like the earth don't quote me
on that and better than plain old takagi
they always have unique and limited
edition toppings so this is takoyaki
from gendako takoyaki is pancake ball
with octopus filling inside they kind of
like pan fry it in like this special
ball cast iron thing on top of the
takoyaki they have all sorts of
different toppings you can choose from i
decided to go a little bit different
this is part of the gente or limited
menu it's basically like kind of like an
egg salad so there's like mayonnaise and
eggs it also has some green onions and
mint taiko which is like spicy cod row
comes with six a different balls of
takoyaki there's some toppings on there
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this is a little octopus ball let's take
a bite
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is such a japanese flavor that is so
good having that mentaiko in there with
the egg and onions just having like this
pancake ball with octopus it just feels
like such a japanese dish
even had some katsuobushi in there to
give it a little bit more kind of that
fish flavor i like that dashi flavor let
me just show you the inside i just took
the whole thing in my mouth so i didn't
actually show you the inside if you're
not familiar with takoyaki there's the
inside right there you can see kind of
like the pancake dough and then you have
also the octopus right there the grilled
octopus you have like the outer shell
that's like super hard and crispy and
you have kind of like a pancake kind of
doughy inside having six of them is
quite filling so for about five dollars
you can get pretty filled up tamagotoji
single katsu from katsu emon so this one
is a full meal deal check out this
katsudon pretty awesome about this
katsudon is that it comes in a separate
pan and then when you're ready plop it
onto the bed of rice when you get this
lovely sensation you can see you have
the egg it's pretty cooked but then you
also have some of the runniness really
depends on how you like to eat it but in
japan it's common to have kind of like
the runniness in the eggs because like
eggs are super super safe here in japan
you can see right there the panko and
the katsu the crispiness take a bite
wow there's a tender piece of katsu you
have the fried outer layer you have that
nice juicy pork inside that is really
good
and look how thick this piece of katsu
is wow that is super thick you can see
that the top is still a little bit
crispy but the bottom has kind of soaked
up a lot of that soup and when you pour
it onto the rice that rice and all of
this katsu soaks up all of that sauce
and the sauce itself is a bit sweet i
think dashi mixed in with some meaty
maybe some soy sauce and the runny eggs
are also quite flavorful picked up
flavor from the sauce salty and
sweetness all in one
i love getting a big bite of katsu and
i'm throwing a huge helping of rice in
my mouth all at the same time
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tempura from kaneko hanosuke this is an
edo style tempura bowl shop using a
secret tempura sauce recipe by japanese
food legend kaneko hanosuke their giant
tempura is fried in a high temperature
sesame oil and goes perfectly with their
special sauce so in this next one i had
to get a little bit creative because
this shop has pretty much all of the
dishes at around a thousand or like ten
dollars but what they do have is an
itemized menu so you can order
individual items so what i did
was got all of this different tempura
all for about five dollars basically i
got the shrimp i got eggplant i got a
kaki agai it's kind of like a seafood
fried mix and also got a maitake
mushroom let me just take the first bite
throw that in there dip it like so
that is that fried tempura goodness this
is so super crispy the tempura batter
and just the way they fried it you can
see how all like the different little
tempura flakes are just kind of fried
all crispy it's just it's so so crispy
but definitely if you want like a full
bowl of rice just to fill you up then
you can get the bowl of rice and the
tempura on top of it and then look at
that for i guess the vegetarians it just
kind of flowers like this in the tempura
let me dip it into some sauce again the
sauce itself is a bit sweet
wow that is phenomenal it is just ultra
crispy
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and let me just try kake again kind of
like a seafood mix it's starting to
break up a little bit you can see the
already breaking apart if we can get
this into our mouth without it falling
all over the place
success yeah it's definitely squid in
there that is beautiful get that drip
dip right there
boom boom boom
and a tasty treat that doesn't break the
bank so there you go five dollar items
that you can get at a japanese food
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