Now when you think about sushi
you probably think about some of the more iconic
pieces like tuna or even unagi
But in Japan they have lots of different kinds of sushi
some weirder pieces, more experimental pieces
and some that are actually really quite common here
So today we're gonna show you some of the pieces that
you might not have thought of
when you think about Japanese sushi
M: but they're super Oishī (jp. delicious)
I wanna ask you a question, though.
What's up with all these plates. Did the video just start?
S: Oh.. you see, before we do our videos.
We do a lot of research, alright, so this is our..
our research, our prep work, alright R&D.
This is our location scouting. We take our job seriously
Let's talk about a little bit of beef
I'm sure that's not the thing that you expected
somebody to be able to order at a sushi restaurant
And I'll be honest, I never would have touched this piece
If one of my friends living here doesn't eat fish.
It's freaking delicious
Don't miss out on beef with tasty sauce.
S: There it comes!
M: The sauce is gonna be tasty
Oh, we forgot that by two we meant like
two..
S: One for me one for you
S: I'm okay with that
M: and you know what it's not like great looking sushi so
S: how dare you this shit is gorgeous, don't listen to her
beef sauce
M: Which one do I want? I'm gonna take this one. Okay
So the reason why this is such a hit is because
vinegared rice works really well with like fatty fishes
It's kind of like having like a lemon to a fatty fish, right?
This beef is so oily because it's Japanese beef and in the
sauce from there soaks on down to the vinegared rice
and then you just have this little tasty.. nugget of magic
Come on...it's like the equivalent of Christmastime
when you have a good piece of bread
and you dip it in that gravy at the end
S: Uuuuuh M: so when you bite into it.. it's soft
and squishy.. S: Oh, man that's my favorite thing to do..
M: I know I know.. but it still kinda holds in together S: cleaning plates with bread.. ahh
M: yeah.. do you want your piece? S: I got my own plate girl. What are you talking about?
M: I'm gonna put it into your mouth S: Oh feed it to me
S: It's great M: It's yummy right?
To beef is sweet, the sauce is a little bit tart,
got some fattiness from the meat
Nice.. just have the rice absorbing all that
I know you wouldn't think about having beef
at a sushi restaurant in Japan
Just try it. You might not think it's authentic
but it's really good
Now you guys might call this conveyor belt sushi,
at least we did when we were in Toronto
but in Japan it's called 'Kaiten Sushi',
which literally just means like.. rotation and sushi
And the inventor of it was actually from Osaka
and he got the idea when he saw beer conveyor belts
inside of a warehouse.
So he saw this beer tour and he was like..
"Well, I'm a sushi chef.
Why don't I try building one of these?"
And he spent 5 years to try to build it with the
right speed. 1958 is the very first time one opened up
and they've been in Japan ever since and I think
it came to us in like.. 2000 (laughing)
S: right.. (laughing) M: The first time it opened up in our city we were like
this is amazing S: Oh my god I can't believe it
M: We couldn't get in
There's also lots of seasonal and limited edition items
that are only around
during the winter or the summer or the spring
So make sure you peruse the menu.
This one was super duper nice
'sea urchin and shiso leaf' in a little handroll
Oh my gosh, and 'Gunkans' I didn't
even know what these were when I first came to Japan
It's basically just rice that has roasted seaweed around
and it's just filled with magical little goodies
S: Alright, eel and egg
M: U.. Unagi and soft boiled eggs,
that seems like a win to me, don't you think?
S: Who knows?!
M: Here they come.. S: Yeah.. boy.. woooow
(foodporn voiceover) Oh my god what a saucy surprise you are
I certainly hope you're listening to this with headphones
on because.. Mhhmm
Look at that ooey gooey sweet 'tare'.. just coating those
super lush eggs and crispy unagi.. Mhhhmm
S: Now this is eel with soft boiled egg.
It's a piece that we've never had before
because one of the things we really love about these
sushi shops is that there's so many things
that are seasonal. What we're getting here now,
we might not be able to get next month.
And what's available next month won't be available
the month after that. So try a different piece
that you might not be expecting. Don't come into a sushi
place with preconceived notions of what you should eat
Just be open to whatever is available M: Go crazy!
Was it a good idea? S: Mhmmm
M: I think it was gonna be a real good idea. Right? And you love Unagi
S: fattiness and creaminess is always a good topping
on vinegar rice. You need that balance between
vinegary and creamy, vinegary and fat.
This is a great piece for it
The beef piece is a great piece for it,
fatty fish and this too. Would you like this piece love?
M: Yeah S: I'm gonna feed it to you lovingly
(wedding music)
M: Ehm.. Don't you 'ehm' at me girl you accept my romances
M: There's a reason why I need to 'ehm' it though S: Why?
M: Cause I'm wearing lipstick
and girls know how to eat food with lipstick
But you're just gonna take that piece
and mash it all over my face
S: I might
M: Ehm.. so thank you. I'll imagine in my
heart of hearts that you're feeding this to me lovingly
It becomes so sticky and luscious... it turns into like a
TKG (Tomago kake gohan) in your mouth.
S: Yes... Uhh
This is like an unusual piece.
That actually got better the more you chewed it.
S: it's true yeah M: it whipped up the egg, mixed it up in your mouth..
and then you have a little crunchy bits of the..
toasted Unagi
Ok I'm gonna nerd out for a bit and talk about salmon
when I was in Toronto, I always
equated salmon pieces with Japanese sushi
and I always imagined coming here
and having some great salmon.
However, salmon isn't really..
authentic when it comes to Japanese sushi
it's only really been around since the 80s because
Japan doesn't fish its own salmon when it comes
for raw fish. They get it from Norway
so all of these salmon pieces that you're gonna get here
in Japan are actually... Norwegian salmon
That doesn't mean that it's not really popular here. I think
salmon is like the most popular topping that you get
on rice in Japan all together. So raw salmon isn't just a
Japanese thing. This is a nice little fusion food
of Norwegian salmon and Japanese rice.
M: Oh, no soy sauce or wasabi.. you're just going in dry?
(Martina laughing)
M: Do you need a glass of water
M: Oh my god ducky.. (laughing) S: It's not my favorite piece
M: no.. (laughing) S: I'm never really happy eating salmon pieces
here in Japan I think of it kind of like the California roll, right?
California rolls are delicious!
I've never actually seen California rolls in Japan
Salmon? Not my number one thing to get
M: But.. S: But..
M: salmon in Norway is amazing. S: Yes, Norwegian salmon itself is really yummy.
M: it's amazing S: we love it.. it's really yummy
M: There's just something about.. S: Just..
M: don't know what it is S: there are better things to put on your rice and a piece of raw salmon
M: Absolutely too much wasabi S: Absolutely! Absolutely too much wasabi!
M: Oh no.. it came back for more
This is like
in one of those.. TV shows
and we.. I've eaten so many wasabi ball hidden in things S: girl.. you gonked that on
it was like a line of toothpaste you put on there girl. M: It was.. oh my god
There's a lingering burn of wasabi happening and ehm..
just like the old folks tales your parents will tell you
Everyone always tells you something different
on how to get rid of wasabi burn
They're like 'you gotta open up your mouth and
breathe in through your nose'
I don't think anyone knows what they're talking about.
I think it's just.. like brain freeze
You just got to get through the brain freeze you know
S: You just gotta suffer
M: Yeah.. in a completely unrelated note to salmon.
I would say don't order the salmon, but instead
order the scallop. It's called Hokkaido scallop
in this case and other times it might be like
Hoe-tah-tay in Japanese
I don't really think I was that into eating raw scallops
when I was growing up in Canada
S: Of course.. no M: Like I I just don't think I would ever even
order a scallop or think about ordering a scallop
and that was like rich people food
if they had scallops on their things
Shit mine's so heavy it fell over
It's super sweet. It's super smooth. There's no tendon.
There's no scaliness. There's no crunchy bits
It's like the ocean's marshmallow
I've definitely had like bad salmon that I didn't like,
but I've never never had a bad scallop
Sushi shop sushi shop
sushi shop has got a really angry baby.
Unhappy baby.
It's so cold, but it's always a really
refreshing and cold piece and when you bite into it
There's no resistance
It's exactly like when you eat really good tuna
and it's super soft, just melts in your mouth like butter
I would say this is the shell version of that.
What do you call those?
It's not rocks No, so what are these called shellfish? Thank you.
Can I eat yours and get another?
It's great I'm always happy whenever I have scallops
I'm sometimes happy when I have salmon
scallops if you haven't tried them yet
You must have them with your sushi.
Skip the salmon go right to the hotates, lovely snot rock
well they're not the most visually appealing when you
look at them from the outside. All seafood is ugly,
let's be honest, ain't no good looking fish.
All seafood is is monstrous.
They all look like demons floating in liquid
Chucky I know that we all think this
but you're not supposed to say that out loud. Sorry
We don't judge the ocean that way
don't judge the ocean
We all know that mermaid are literally a creation of fairy
tales in order to get people to come visit the ocean
They're like dang how we going to get people to the ocean?
all animals are beautiful
Have you seen those really scary ones?
The lanterns and the death teeth? The monkfish.
They're like little demon lanterns
We are at the end of our video.
We obviously ate more than we showed
you guys on camera.
I think we showed you like 4/5 and we have
like 15 plates here
They're onto us surely
One of these plates is going to get us a capsule toy
But the whole point of this video was just to inspire you
guys that when you come to Japan
The idea of what you think you have to have?
Maybe let it expand a little bit more into what the
Japanese people are actually showing you that they have
Heaps of tasty sauce is amazing. So, you know just be
a little bit open-minded, try it out. I'm ordering my mango
which is totally normal and
I'm ordering an iced coffee as well.
It's like a full-service place. It's like an old
Drive-in that you think about in the 50s. Yeah.
I like the bellhop serve where you get everything
Oh, yeah, by the way, oh my gosh.
We have all these plates here.
So if you guys want to see if we win something
Check out our bonus video
Let's get started on this. Yeah, let's do it girl. You feel it?
We're gonna win it - well, I'm sure you guys have had many crazy types of sushi in your lives
Please share on the comments section below
What's the strangest?
Sushi that you felt like you've had before I mean we've had ones with cheese and corn so I mean top that guys