it's seven o'clock in the morning and
we're at yuriage morning market just
outside of sendai we're about to have
one hell of a breakfast
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ah the smell of barbecues grilling the
fresh sea air breeze and the bustle of
the morning crowds keeping you on your
toes
you just can't beat a good old japanese
morning market particularly the ones in
the coastline such as this
yuriyaki morning market 30 minutes
outside of sendai and today we've come
here to grab some breakfast as we wander
through the market stalls
and see what we can buy on a budget of 2
000 yen
about 20 but how far will it go well
joining us to find out and destroy my
breakfast is a veteran of the market and
without a doubt
the world's worst chef it is of course
ryotaro
and here he is with my 2 000 yen
good morning everyone yeah here's your 2
000 it is my 2000 and let's see
what we can get with this 2000. 2000 yen
about 20
what can you get in a japanese morning
market quite a lot i guess
when it comes to morning market in japan
you can buy pretty much anything
this market we're right on the pacific
coastline right now and it was destroyed
by the tsunami right in 2011. yes
it was once but it got renewed and
reopened a few years after and
since then actually it's becoming more
and more more popular oh it's certainly
pretty damn busy this morning and so for
ryotaro this is your kind of local
market i guess right
it is the closest morning market to
sendai city yep yeah i've never actually
been here though
somehow i couldn't believe that you just
said that i guess it's because it's like
a
train ride away and i'm just too lazy
now we have a car
i do have a car yeah and i've got 2000
yen so let's go and see what we can do
with it
what you can get and what i can get and
he's gonna get some
come on get some good come on
our first stop of the morning is the
most popular stand in the entire market
and
ryotaro's favorite sri gyoza boiled
gyoza filled with juicy pork and shrimp
and topped
with kimchi so now i've got two thousand
yen
in front of me and this is my first dish
i'm going to
buy and this costs 500 yen i have 2
000. out of 2 000 quite a lot of money
this is really the worst
that's why people are killing because
it's worth it are you worth it i'm
totally worth it
one of the greatest challenges is
covering the juicy gyoza
in as much of the free kimchi as you can
carry
look at that technique
so with a kimchi like a jenga so
the plain jenga you need to be very
tactful
to be able to pick
the dumpling loving the sound effects
oh wow the juice coming out of the
dumpling just the pork shrimp i feel
everything
you feel everything i feel everything
that's what i'm saying well ryotaro has
kicked off his breakfast with a savory
dish for my first dish
something sweet and covered with
sprinkles has caught my eye
there's only one thing i've come to this
market for what is it for
choco banana gosh
i knew that choco banana we came
all the way to the morning market and
this is the first thing that he spent
out of those 2000 yen
healthy though kick off your day with a
banana you get all your vitamin
b 12 your zinc your copper nylon
it is good what they've done is they get
a banana they put it in chocolate
cover it in sprinkles it's pretty
complex but the flavors are just so rich
nine out of ten
best 250 yen you could possibly spend
the perfect start to your day
choco banana i don't think so
so right next to the choco banana stand
is the second best stand in the market
fried chicken chicken carriage what do
you reckon
you started off fruits like choco banana
right and now we are creating for the
fried chicken right
yeah and i think we are here for
grilling fish
and shrimps and all the good stuff
shrimp or fried chicken
what's better i think we all know the
answer to that they've got all sorts of
flavors this fried chicken they've got
like
fried chicken with burdock uh they've
got like korean style spicy
uh fried chicken they've got like a salt
flavor
and they've got miso flavor and garlic
seaweed flavor and that's what i'm going
to order
oh it smells so good so much garlic
garlic oil chicken perfect
first chocolate banana second karaoke
chicken
you're the bag it's been sprinkled with
seaweed and garlic and garlic
go on them you can have the first taste
because i'm nice is it good very good
it's got a nice garlic taste to it right
it does good parang fried chicken
is nice and juicy in the middle with
this one
it's juicy it's got a nice garlic
undertone to it
do you feel the seaweed though i do feel
the seaweed
do i feel the seaweed exactly so out of
the scale of one to ten
what would you give this one for i'll
give it an h
because it's very flavourful it's very
juicy but the batter is not that crispy
because they've marinated it in lots of
garlic i think
um i like how i'll get the kind of
breaks apart it's crispy explodes
so i'll give it a nice you get lower
score than banana
or a sick banana chocolate what have i
become
so you can see all these people here
doing barbecues fresh seafood they've
just bought
a lot of these japanese morning markets
you can actually get your own grill for
free
you go and buy everything you want to
eat bring it back to your grill and
barbecue away
only downside for us today of course is
that ryotaro is our chef so if you come
to somewhere like this make sure
you bring somebody who's good
so we are now looking for fish
that we should be able to grill this is
what we're going to get
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it's i don't know what it is but it
doesn't look overly good
tuna gill gill scenic gill
so this is the first thing i'm going to
grill over the stove
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to accompany his somewhat grizzly tuna
gill
ryotaro decides to snap up a barbecue
set for a thousand yen
a ready-made selection of fish and meat
of scallops sausages
shrimp basically just anything that
starts with a letter eggs
that's it i've spent two thousand a year
and this is what i've got can you
it's quite a lot for 20 dollars i guess
with the dumpling
uh and all that and what have you got
fried chicken
chicken and banana
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what a show this is good valley for
money
though how much was this the fish uh
well this fish is a big one
500 yen and all of this one thousand
five hundred yeah one thousand five
hundred yen for a good
decent barbecue just make sure if you do
spend that money
on this nice decadent platter of fish
they'd have the world's worst chef
cooking it
that is blacker than the chocolate
banana that i saw earlier look at that
how hard can it be to cook with sausage
again it's called a well done that's
what it is
with eleven hundred yen left of my
budget while wandering around the market
we spot
an absolute bargain a delicious
assortment of dishes inspired by the
cuisine
of kyushu and okinawa good god it's over
a thousand yen you get three bowls
different types of dishes it's always
too much though
i've already eaten ryotaro's dodgy
barbecue i'm feeling rather full
but you want to get all three
you gonna help you're gonna help me eat
it yeah all right how much have you got
right now
a thousand yen stands on 100 yen but
will i have enough money left over for
another chocolate banana
i don't think so 250 and you've got 100
yen left
how are we going to carry all this back
through three different bowls
the real challenge walking through this
bustling market with a tray of
three bowls but a video game
so what do we got really so uh well done
for
carrying the tray through the market
that was a spectacular one to itself
it's like a mario
like a mario like a mario okay here we
go okay so we've got like
okinawa okinawa soup noodle uh with um
the sperry pork
the okinawa noodle is a the broth is
based on the bonito
and it's a clear soup bonito fish bonito
fish yeah yeah it's a clear soup that's
what's the
the the difference between the others
and this one i think that looks the best
although this beef here looks pretty
spectacular yeah and this is a beet bowl
beef bowl yeah mounted it with like
onions in the
soy sauce and kind of kind of be sweet
and the last one last one is um this
might be
something that you might not find
intestine interesting intestine of
beef well that's for you that one how
long are the other two
very umami flavor how would you describe
umami i
you know what i think of all the videos
we've made we've never described what
umami
is and it's another scent they've like
another taste isn't it all the taste
buds
yeah japanese what is it
it's um amino acid they call it
amino acid yeah explain it in a way
that's good realtor
it's got that kind of moorish savory
salty
flavour we have a bite of something and
you feel like you want more
addiction i think we're both too
tired it's too early to describe what
umami flavor is so i've put a
description here below somewhere
and that will uh vindicate me with my
crap description
finishing my soup i'm gonna dig into the
beef bowl
give it here you've already you've
already burnt off my breakfast
i'm going to eat the dish that's good
what'd you give the dishes then one to
ten
i would give this uh a nine actually
this is one of the best i've had
in a long time same score as
banana chocolate i'm gonna have to
revise my chocolate banana score i'm
gonna give that a six
because i feel like it's it's it's
misshapen it's distorted all the other
reviews today
and ryotaro is gonna hold it against me
so i'm revising my score
to a six for the chocolate okay so this
is annoying okay now and that i'll give
it an a
okay it's really good but this is just
more addictive
umami flavor when you're using mommy
forever you think that you're just you
know giving the right
like judge what does that mean
what does that mean
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i'm gonna get absolutely torn apart in
the comments from people going you went
to a japanese morning market and had a
chocolate banana
it is as much as part of japanese
cuisine
as sushi chocolate bananas traditional
japanese cuisine so you're you're having
like a sushi here
and chocolate banana here is that what
you're doing it's japanese
no now this strawberry milk is
very much not for peasants because it's
extremely expensive how much was it
700 yen 700 yen for this strawberry milk
but it's made from strawberries that
cost about 20 dollars
per strawberry from the nearby ichigo
strawberry world which is a couple of
kilometers that way which we actually
featured in an episode on
japan back in february uh about japan's
200 billion
disaster but in that video we met people
who had recovered from the tsunami and
heard their stories and
ichigo world's fascinating place the
farms in that region just south of here
were completely destroyed
but they started a strawberry farm that
went on to produce uh the most luxurious
strawberries in all of japan which i now
export throughout the country
outside the country really popular yeah
um so it might be 700 yen but
it's money well spent yeah it really is
amazing but for now guys many thanks for
joining us in our luxurious breakfast
this morning
with chocolate banana with chocolate
banana for me not you
and we hope to see you right back here
on the abroad japan channel do it all
over again next time for now take care
see you around i need to finish it off i
need to get some more chocolate bananas
yeah
chocolate banana presents