we're in Tokyo, Japan the food culture here is incredible and we can't wait to
film a tonne of food videos let's get food hunting
Tokyo, if you love to eat that word alone is enough to get you excited
we're taking you to some popular
local spots for some mouth-watering food golden fried pork cutlets, thick spicy
Japanese curry and delicious conveyor belt sushi, you don't want to miss this
video get ready for some amazing food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate, we hope you're hungry, let's eat!
our first stop is for a meal that we both love to eat we we're in Japan and
that's tonkatsu, tonkatsu are crumbed and deep-fried pork cutlets and this
restaurant behind me that we're going to eat at
has been awarded Michelin Bib Gourmand awards two years in a row so we can't
wait to try their version
"thank you very much"
we've got our tonkatsu in front of us and holy moly these meals
just look insane, so I ordered rosu katsu set so this is the pork loin
cutlet, there's a pile of shredded cabbage on top and my set comes with a
bowl of rice and also miso soup, Thomas has got the kare katsu so a pork
loin cutlet and then rice, some pickles a soft boiled egg or half a soft boiled egg and then
this huge pile of curry sauce and his comes with miso soup as well
look at this
curry so it's full of minced pork, has a beautiful very thin skin forming on it
and this beautiful Japanese style rice kind of a little bit sticky holds
together really well, I want to try the rice and the curry first
oh wow, oh my god the curry's got a beautiful thickness to it
oh man that is good but we've gotta go into this pork as well I mean look at that crumb on
there it is ridiculously crispy I'll grab this middle bit, look at that, dunk
it in the curry
wow wow wow that is so good the pork itself is super soft and easy to eat, a little bit
juicy, it's perfectly cooked and the crumb is super dry and the lightest crumb I've ever tasted
it sort of just dissolves as it crunches, oh gosh that is good
I want to just grab some cabbage from
under there it's beautifully fresh, very thinly cut cabbage and I'm just gonna swipe
that through the curry as well
that adds a true crunch to the dish and obviously a real freshness
this is unreal
let's get a piece of this pork with the crumb, we'll get some of these pickles put
them on the top, obviously some rice put that all together and I'll break this
egg in half, let's just get half that egg in there at the same time
mmmmm
oh my god
wow, wow
the pickle just added a tiny, tiny little twang, I couldn't really taste it in that
that might be better as sort of between mouthful bites
mmm that's really mildly
pickled so it's just really crunchy, it's quite good to freshen up the mouth this
is absolutely unreal
it was torture filming Thomas and having
the tonkatsu's smell like wafting up into my nostrils I've got to get in
so my tonkatsu comes with a slice of lemon so I'm just gonna drizzle that all over
the pork cutlet and then I've also got a splodge of mustard here let's just try
this middle piece of tonkatsu oh my gosh check out that meat it's just still
slightly pale pink and there's all this juice oozing out of it, I just want to try it naked with nothing on it
mmmmmm, oh my god that is insane
the meat is really juicy and the crumb like Thomas said is so light it almost
just dissolves in your mouth as you crunch through, you get the first bite
of crispiness of that crumb and then that meat is insane it's so juicy
it's got a ton of flavour and this restaurant uses pork which comes from Okinawa so
that's what they're famous for whoa, I'm gonna get actually some of this sauce
which is on the table this tonkatsu sauce and drizzle it over this piece alright let's
see what that tastes like
mmmmmm, mmmm! Mmm!
that adds another dimension it's quite sweet, quite savoury it tastes like a mix of
ketchup and barbecue sauce and Worcester sauce, that adds a real tanginess to
the meat
I love the presentation of Japanese food so the tonkatsu is sitting
on this tiny little wire rack and then this pile of fresh shredded cabbage
just it just looks so simple and beautiful
so appealing to eat, I'm gonna get another piece of this pork, give it a dab
in that mustard
mmmm follow it up with some cabbage
mmmm and then some rice hahaha
mmmm, mmm
oh man that's just so good, the hot, slightly starchy rice
that really fresh cabbage, that really just is the perfect accompaniment because
it just takes away any greasiness there might be or oiliness from that crumb on that tonkatsu
and then that meat is so
juicy, that mustard is quite spicy actually and it added a really great sort of kick of spice, that is so good
I spotted everyone pouring some white sauce onto their cabbage so I asked the
waiter for some and I'm gonna do exactly the same and then give that taste
ohhhh hahahah this
meal is just so exciting to eat
mmmmm
it's like a creamy ranch dressing, oh this is heaven on a plate
mmm, mmm, mmmm! Wow! That was spectacular!
I don't think I've eaten pork that juicy before, it was amazing
it blew my mind, so delicate such a simple meal but flavour explosion and mine, the curry in my one
I think it had Szechuan pepper in it because as I went on and particularly
right at the end I started getting a quite a numb tongue oh
everything about that was spectacular mm-hmm I would eat that again in a
heartbeat
next up for this video we are going to eat sushi at a sushi train restaurant
now there are thousands of conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Tokyo but we chose
this one Hanamaru because it's affordable, it's supposed to be really
excellent fresh fish because we have heard that
the Hanamaru buyers are so well-respected in the sushi industry
that they get special access to really good fish in Tsukiji fish market so we are
so excited to get our fill of sushi
this place is great it's on the tenth floor of the Tokyu Tower so there's this
amazing view of the city or of Ginza which is the suburb that we're in and there is so much
delicious looking sushi going past on the train or on the conveyor belt and
what's really cool at sushi restaurants is, we're sitting at the, at a table or a
booth as opposed to at the sushi bar but there's a hot water tap here and they've
also got mugs going past so I'm just gonna grab a mug and then there's matcha
powder or green tea powder on the table so you just fix yourself a mug of
green tea to start off with and then you can just start loading up your
table with sushi that's going past as well as putting in an order from the
sushi chefs if it's not on the conveyor belt
"excuse me, thank you"
we have got our first round of sushi and oh my gosh this stuff looks fresh so
let me talk you through what we've got we're starting with the minced fatty
tuna, with a bit of spring onion, some inari so that's rice with bean curd
sheets wrapped around it, at the front here is minced fatty salmon with a raw quail
egg, that looks incredible, some salmon which has been seared so
aburi salmon, tuna, this amazing looking grilled eel with that beautiful sauce based
on the top, this is raw squid and it's served with a spicy cod roe and then fresh
salmon and then finally some rolls with wasabi leaf I believe
this is super exciting
I'm gonna start with this quail egg one so the minced tuna and that raw quail
egg yolk in there so I'm just gonna dab a very small bit of soy sauce on there
and of course one mouthful
mmmm
Wow, mmm, oh that is so good
the salmon on one side of my mouth and
the egg yolk on the other so they're completely different textures and then
they popped and moulded together and it made the salmon that minced up salmon super
creamy as the egg yolk all mixed in with it and there's some spring onions on there so
had a little bit of crunch from the fresh spring onions and the rice is very, very
delicate that is a good first mouthful here
grab a bit of ginger
so that just cleanses the palate
mmmm ooooo really nice and sharp so it's pickled ginger so
crunchy really tangy and a nice gingery spice going on
now I gotta have my favourite
that's eel I love anything eel and this is a
roasted eel with the beautiful sticky sauce on top
let's get that so I'm not gonna add any soy or anything to this one, straight
on in
mmmmm
Ohhhh that fills me with joy that is so
good the sauce on top is a little bit sticky
a little bit sweet, the eel itself perfectly cooked still a little bit warmth
from being roasted but just a fraction, very soft meat, I love the texture of eel
and that is perfectly cooked there's no sliminess in the fats that are in
there it's all just perfect, another awesome plate, so with these
plates it's all colour-coded so you can see some are green, some are blue and
they all have different values so at the end of the meal they just charge you
based on what amount and what colour plate you've got, it's super simple
ingenious
this here is the fresh squid with the spicy marinated cod roe so I'm gonna
get one of these oh I might just pop a little bit of soy sauce on there
so I'm just gonna dab it lightly on the top
all right, one bite
mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm
whoa that was so good the raw squid is really tender and super creamy
the marinated cod roe you can't really taste very strong it's just like the
faintest hint of flavour there but that oh that squid it is delicious it is
so tender and creamy all right next up the minced
fatty tuna with the spring onion oh oh it's gonna topple over
alright, get a bit of that soy on there ohhh the spring onions are sliced
really really fine and that minced fatty tuna looks so good
mmm, mmmm
mmm, mmmm, mmmmm
whoa, ohhhh
the tuna is so flavoursome, it's really creamy, really rich, it almost just melts in your
mouth and it's so fresh and then the spring onion it gives it a fresh burst
it's got that slight sort of spiciness oh that's delicious and the rice is really beautiful it's
not all clumpy and sticky, it's just the perfect consistency
I'm really intrigued by these wasabi leaf rolls so it looks like a pickled
wasabi leave in there, I have eaten raw wasabi leaf like fresh wasabi leaf straight
off the plant before and it was beautiful and tangy, I'm really interested to try these
just gonna give it a quick little dunk in the soy sauce just a small coating
mmmm, mmmm
that is beautiful so the leaf is much more mild than the
root so wasabi is the root of this plant the very hot wasabi that we're used to
and this is just a very mild version of wasabi, it's beautiful got just enough tang to
really feel it on your tongue and on the sides of your mouth but it doesn't go up
your nose like a big splodge of wasabi root does that's really nice too
I can't not get
into this piece of salmon so it's just a raw piece of salmon but it's been
blow-torched on top so just slightly cooked on top a
cheeky little dip in that soy it's got a sauce on top like a sweet soy, a thick
sauce has been brushed over the top so it doesn't need much soy
oh man
seriously wow another incredible mouthful everything I've had has been unreal, this is
amazing, amazing I'm loving it, there's so much cruising past on the conveyor belt we can order
more sushi straight from the chefs we're definitely gonna be we're gonna
easily wolf down these plates and then we're gonna get another of plates, this is a
very good meal
our stack of plates is growing and we've ordered a second round
so we have got sweet prawn, this is grilled
vinegared mackerel, we've got some raw squid here,
raw salmon again, the eel we just had
to order another plate because it is insanely delicious and then this is a
boiled conger eel roll with cucumber we're just gonna get into it because
there's only so many "oh my gosh this is amazing's"we can say about this
meal the fish is so fresh, the flavours are just so on point and this is such a
memorable experience especially being this high up over the
city
two incredible meals here in Tokyo I would eat both of those right now
again they were amazing, highly, highly recommended, remember to hit that
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