Can you guys see this? Yes you can.
I'm wearing my onigiri earrings today.
Today's the day!
I am excited because I'm going directly to an onigiri shop, so...
We've wanted to go to this shop for months.
Yup, we're gonna see what it's all about.
I'm wearing my new hat. - I like it, girl, yeah
It's Build A Ladder
I think I have allergies.
Uh-oh, you're allergic to the summer heat
I hate this, it's October 5th!
Why is it still 30 degrees in Japan?
Global warming - Don't like that global warming, dude
One of our least favorite stations
Super busy all the time
Shinjuku Station has been under construction
for the whole 4 years that we've been living here
I hate the station and it's the worst station.
I'm always lost
I always get stuck in a mall whenever-
I sincerely hope that we get to do a video soon
where we're like please redeem -
I need to learn how to navigate this place.
I'm still lost. - Luckily, we're doing something pretty easy.
We're hitting the JR line, the Yamanote Line,
there's like a circle loop that kind of goes around.
That one's real easy.
It's a really inaccessible station.
I'm standing beside what looks like
the only elevator I've ever seen.
Somehow you always end up going up stairs constantly.
Yeah, it's the worst.
You guys don't know, it's easier to say things into your-
phone with Japanese Siri (to phone: "onigiri bongo")
That's right I said "onigiri bongo" into my phone
This is where we're going!
We're walking around this little curve-ma-bob,
and then we're just going straight ahead,
and just hanging a left in the main intersection.
[In American accent] When you come to America, you should go to Sizzler.
[In American accent] We've got 2 for $18 steak plates,
[In American accent] pssst, corn on the side, pssst, and beans.
I don't think they have beans, but you know what I'm doing?
There's a Sizzler commercial - That's all those commercials, they're just...
Yeah, they're always like "upgrade to sodas and stuff".
I don't remember them very well anymore, obviously, but...
That's pretty terrible
Yep
I'm about to wait in line for onigiri. It's a big-boy line for me to handle
But we have to commit, we have to commit to the line!
That's the rule of Japan: good places have lines,
and on the weekends, they are like tripled.
So we're gonna wait it out,
and you and I are gonna think about
what of 50 toppings we're gonna have,
so that when we get in there, we don't panic okay?
They have like so many different toppings like
It's very unusual the kind they have like they have curry,
and they have like buta kimchi, like they have cheese
so you can make and mix toppings,
but you can also go traditional so-
This is going to be so good. - Yup.
[Whispering] I should've had a snack!
Alright, I had a half pear for breakfast,
what did you have Simon? - I had nothing!
I had a gulp of water,
some black coffee. We can do this.
We're gonna smash some ramen after this!
Geez Louise! Hey, "We can do this".
I've had tons of things that we've handled it.
We can play a game,
or we could just turn off the camera, listen to music and
cry to ourselves for the next 25 minutes
What do you think, music?
[Singing] How could I live-
What do we do while we wait in line
instead of talking to each other?
We look at menus and pictures of the food
that we're about to eat online.
Yes, so I can see the menu in advance
Yeah Top 10. So it's salmon
and they've got egg. This is like a juicy egg.
Nama tarako (roe), and so they've got combos, right?
So this is niku soboro and this is ...
I mean you got to plan out y'all
Yeah, look at this lineup literally gotten worse.
You need to know what you're gonna-
You need to know what you want.
Okay, I have a confession to make.
I've been very scared to tell you how excited I am about
this, because onigiri is
like one of my all-time favorite Japanese foods
and I'm just scared that I'm gonna hype myself up
and then be like let down so I'm just
kind of being like "stay cool Martina"
like meeting celebrity food.
Look at all the happy faces around,
everyone who's eating one is grinning from ear to ear.
Alright, this is gonna be great, girl. This is your dream.
I know - This is your dream food.
I'm so excited - Okay!
Wow so many choices.
I definitely panicked because there's so many other things
that I would love to do here...
The kyarabuki looks so good
They have maguro kakuni (stewed tuna cubes)
The maguro kakuni looks really good and
you can get one with the sweetened ground meat.
Niku soboro. Oh, that looks so good.
I gotta just blow on this for 20 minutes
but I am so hungry. - Do it girl.
It's insanely hot
It's lava. It's magma.
A single onion touched my lip and began to sear
like salted caramel burns.
Are these ours? I think these are ours.
See there's your egg
Yes, thank you - Thank you so much!
This is the bacon cheese curry one, I think it might be
Coco Curry in a bite. Let's see.
This looks amazing.
Ducky, you've never had onigiri like this before
Can I have some? - Mhm!
Wow, it looks amazing!
It's chopped up perfectly
so that you can chew it easily with each bite
I was worried the bacon might be like a big strip
that would kind of fall out
but they've been thoughtful about it
Mine tastes like a TKG. - I wanna try yours
It's unbelievable. - Yours look so good. - I just need one more bire
Before I give it to you, because it's so good.
It's- it's like I wish I could have this every day.
I eat TKGs almost every day let's see how this tastes!
Right, I know. So good right?
That egg yolk, the saltiness of it.
It's like a butter almost. - This is amazing.
I can't believe somebody took something so casual
and has elevated it so much
Yeah, it's like having gourmet sandwiches
Mhm! - or going for gourmet onigiri
I have a lot of excitement for this one right here because
this is negitoro with shiso miso
which is pretty much, in the morning,
what I usually have is tuna with some green onions
and I put shiso miso in there.
We should mention that this is raw tuna
So it's like breakfast in a roll -
How does this taste compared to my breakfast?
Let's see.
Here we go! - Much, much better~
Where did they get their shiso miso?
This shiso miso's so much better than ours. Holy shit!
We shouldn't have rossed the road. Now, you're gonna be -
I have to ask them. This is great, great miso.
I don't think you can ask them...
Oh my god!
This is - guys, you have to come here
This is a really good mentaiko mayonnaise
So mentaiko are really really tiny fish eggs
They mix them with their own mayonnaise and
a little bit of like spicy hot pepper
like a seafood risotto. It's creamy...
It's got that fish taste but it's not like in-your-face fishy?
A shrimpy kind of light taste with mayo.
It's so, it's so good
Look at all the little dots of mentaiko in there. See all that?
Ah, this looks, all this rice is just glistening
Oh my god... - Was that delicious?
Right? Kimchi jjigae is my feeling.
When we put a little squirt of mayonnaise in our kimchi jiggae back in Korea?
Do you remember? It's like kimchi jjigae onigiri.
That's exactly it. Mayo inside your kim- that's brilliant - I know. I know.
Okay, guys, we're gonna get to eating more of these
and we'll have more comments later
but like we're so hungry and we love you and thank you
for watching this far, but I am so hungry
so I just got to stop vlogging.
Wow, that was fantastic.
That was so much better than I expected it to be
I know that a lot of people are gonna be saying,
you know, okay, so let me get this straight
It's just white rice with something in the center
and then more rice and then seaweed and I know, yeah,
That's what it sounds like, at its basis. - But it's more than that.
Imagine just a really good sandwich shop
That just does things with very good bread. Very good cheeses.
Very good insides. - Like a sandwich shop, yeah, exactly!
Like a good sub store or something.
And this was the best quality onigiri I've ever had in my life.
Yeah. - I'm broken now
I don't think I can go back to 7-eleven
The rice was so fluffy
and like separate none of it was dense
You just gotta try to make one at home
Which we've done a lot of, and they're always dense.
Yeah, and it was perfectly cooked rice
so it was super soft but not overcooked
and then he salted the side of the seaweed
The seaweed had just the right crunch.
It wasn't like sometimes you bite into an onigiri
and the seaweed fights
and you got a little tug of war going on
It just gave away and
I think the way I can describe it is
there are so many types of seaweed
so many types, you can think...
That gentleman went by with the poodle
with pink and blue body dye on him.
The poodle has cotton candy pink
That's very true, I- blue hair... - Please tell me was this wide enough,
That everybody see him?
Do you remember your onigiri bongo song?
[Singing] Onigiri bongo! Nihongo! The line is very long-o!
That's my impersonation of MIA,
thank you for listening to my budding rap career
If you want to check this place out
we left a link to it in the info box below and we've
also got some bloopers from this video or
If you want to learn a whole lot more about onigiri
Martina really really loves it and made
a whole video in stop-motion dedicated to it
She wasn't joking, onigiri is a really big deal for her