i want you to imagine this you're in japan you're having an excellent time but you're a little
bit peckish and it's like you know 3 30 p.m but everywhere you look everything seems to be closed
well that's because things in japan tend to close for lunch and then reopen again for dinner
some places will say they close at 2. but last order is at 1 30. so if you don't arrive before
then you're not going to be eating some places close at 3 last year orders at 2 30. some places
close to 2 30. last year it is a 2. it can be pretty confusing because it is not consistent
every shop has their own thing there is one place you can go to seek refuge for your hungry belly
and that is at the mall japanese department stores and malls tend to have a food court
in them and it's not like the kind of like fast food junkie food court that you might be thinking
of depending on where you're from these are actually really nice places with very good little
meal sets that you can enjoy so today we are heading into a department store we're going to
be heading all the way up and we're going to be enjoying some we're going to be enjoying some
fish you know what i'm not gonna talk let's just go let's just go do it the easier way to do it
we've got the grocery store here, and now we're going to go up
we're going here now we've got to take the elevator up to the seventh floor and while
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let's eat some food
isn't that thoughtful a lot of restaurants and cafes in japan are now having these little
really thoughtful mass cases for you to take off your mask and to put it inside and i know a lot of
people are still shocked they're like oh my god you guys are still wearing masks yes it doesn't
bother me at all it's uh excellent for blocking simple things like allergies and viruses but you
know what everyone can do you do you this mass case is delightful all right let's see if this is
going to be a massively overwhelming menu because i have a feeling it's going to be this is Kaisen
Mart's basically it is a fish-based restaurant but they do have options for people who don't like
fish yeah massive menu choices oh my gosh okay let me just do a quick scan down here otashoku
minidon okay so basically what's interesting about this place is the combination between like
an izakaya style food and like a normal kind of cafe type restaurant teishoku is kind of
interesting i don't know if it's anywhere else in the world but in japan it's like
a dish a plate a tray and then there's tiny little dishes on it with different types of items so it's
almost like if you ordered like a mini appetizer and a mini salad and it all comes on the plate at
once some of them will even have like a little dessert so it's like all your meals i know what
it's like it's like a luxury airplane meal you know when you're on an airplane and they give you
a meal it has like everything on it once it's like that but like a very nice version yes probably not
the best comparison because all of us have bad memories with airplane meals and stale bread
but it's not like that all right so main page we're looking at a lot of maguro tuna based things
and they have these kind of bowls with rice and they put thinly sliced sashimi on top not super
popular outside of japan but once you come to japan lots of places give you these options this
one does a lot of um salmon as well which salmon is not usually served raw in japan from Japanese
salmon it's usually import salmon so they usually cook their salmon if it's from japan otherwise
you're looking at import salmon i didn't know that i only learned that in the past couple years
oh my gosh you guys okay so we're entering the yaki like fried section here so you can get things
like fried shrimp like tempura shrimp you can get croquets they have just a tempura set and they
also have lots of different types of fish you can choose from so they've got saba which is mackerel
a little bit oily but you can add like ginger to it which they'll serve for you and it kind of cuts
through it very healthy for you salmon of course oh they've got karage so you can get chicken
and they have a soba section with mini-don okay so don is "donburi" it's like that
rice bowl with stuff on top mini don would be like a tiny version of that so you can get soba which
is that nutty buckwheat noodle and then on the side you can get like a small little bowl which
is so excellent when you can't make up your mind like this one has soba
and it has a little mini maguro-don so i could have like sashimi on my rice with my soba
this one has a tiny tendon like tempura-don oh chopped fatty tuna
i did that thing again when i didn't eat enough food before filming
ah and there's more oh otsumami this is kind of that izakaya vibe that i was talking about when
you have to wait for food to be prepared but like you also want to drink and maybe you're really
hungry you want to get some little meals out first you want to order from this menu so you've got
things like pickle salted cucumber ohyashi tomato tomato served with mayo sounds silly so good i
recommend it edamame beans gyoza well we're not looking to eat this right now we're going to keep
pumping through they have a sashimi section very reasonably priced what i add like sen go-hakkuyen
is like basically 15 for a lot of sashimi wow and this is also really nice because like
let's say you don't want to go to a fantasy sushi restaurant or like you don't want to go to capsule
capsule toy sushi restaurant that's not right is it it's a conveyor belt sushi restaurant then you
can come here and have like just as nice okay yaki nimono so we're looking at fried things yaki means
anything that's been like grilled rather than deep fried i should say all different types of fish and
squid and now we're into the tempura agemono so this is stuff that's been covered in a little
bit of batter so we've got a little tempura plate we've got more chicken and ginormous giant shrimp
i've reached the end of the menu and the drink menu
wow lots of different sours that you can get and they have a gigantic sake menu so like this place
is kind of like a little bit unique i don't usually see a combination of
lots of different types of alcohol like in izakaya and also some really delicious food
very generous pour if you see an overflowing pour it's kind of the way of the shop saying you know
thank you for coming here's a little bit extra most izakayas will always kind of give you your
sake and overflow it a bit but not all of them do doesn't mean that they're cheap or
they don't like you or anything it's just not their particular style but when they kind of
overflow it it's just like a nice generous way of saying this is what you paid for and
like here's a little more i might have to sip this or else it's going to just go everywhere
i would like to apologize in advance for the extra cleavage shot which is about to occur i normally
i'm not a cleavage showing person but there's no other way to do this
avert your eyes maybe i'll just blur it out with a picture of kogi
now i can pick it up make sure you give it a little bit of a weight
because it's going to drip a bit and you have a choice you can pick this up and
you can drink it right away or i like to drink mine down a bit and then i kind of pour it in
so nice this is a "karukachi" actually cho-karakuchi which means very very dry i really
like a dry sake not as sweet so i find that i can drink more of it because the sweet stuff can be
a little bit more like desserty and cloying for me personally and i gotta tell you i did not
expect to be discussing sake with you guys at this place i really truly thought this was just going
to be like kind of cafe food but um happy days excellent surprise the video will only get better
nailed it did not pour it all over the table on camera which would have been
very embarrassing you guys noticed that it was nearly i would say like almost two fingers worth
of sake that was added to it so it doesn't look like it's a lot but it's actually like quite a
generous extra for i must say my specialty shoku has arrived first of all they told me that we have
refills on the rice and the miso soup which is very exciting over here we have the yaki fish so
it's been grilled it has a bit of a sauce on it and this particular part of the fish is kind of
like the cheek area so it's super super soft we have the salmon and the maguro tuna sashimi here
the wasabi with a little bit of ginger on the side we have a broccoli and crab salad with a
little bit of mayonnaise and some tofu with a little bit of pork it kind of looks like
very very thin gut salt it's a type of Japanese cut but some daft cell's an easy way to kind of
like think of it a little bit fatty a little bit porky and it's going to be probably a bit sweet
then we have the miso soup and the rice over here so it's a pretty well balanced meal
well i think i'm going to dig on in because this smells amazing and let's discuss later itadakimasu
see
hi
uh i destroyed that not only did i destroy that i am on to my second bowl of miso soup
because this place does free rice and miso soup refills the word of the day to refill something
i definitely have it on the screen right now don't i it's somewhere
here i just don't know where wait i'm probably calling is it here
is it here where is it you'll also notice that there are no spoons available on the table
that's because it's completely fine and acceptable to lift up your soup and just drink it like this
no problem and when it comes to rice you can lift it and eat from the bowl while i
was in korea however it was considered to be a little bit low class and rude to lift your rice
bowl different cultures different rules plus korea has scalding hot metal bowls and so when
you pick them up you're like immediately drop them so best to keep it low but in japan they
use a different kind of dish different kind of chopsticks you can lift it up and eat it like that
now the sashimi you probably already know you put a little bit of shoyu or soy sauce into the tiny
plates and then you can choose to add wasabi for a little bit of an extra kick you just
kind of dip it in it you can put it on your rice and eat it with rice you can have it on its own
the grilled fish that is something that i would like to make a correction on i said that it was
yaki that it was grilled but that's actually not correct once i put my chopsticks in and kind of
pushed through it and saw how super soft it was i realized it was a simmered or boiled inside of a
sauce the sauce is like a little bit sticky and it's sweet it's probably a combination of like
soy sauce and mirin maybe some brown sugar and it has like a lovely i dare say teriyaki flavor so in
north america we say like teriyaki and it's kind of like that sweet salty sauce it's just like this
beautiful clean piece of fish i used to stab like a fork but now i do this movement like i'm holding
chopsticks because you you hold the chopstick you put it into the fish you spread it so now i'm like
so it can be intimidating because it's just so gosh darn bony like let's take a look at
what remains shall we so this here it just has so much bone and when i was growing up
i don't know how many of you are like this i was told that eating a fish with a bone
could freaking kill you it's the end man you just need to have Final Destination
Part 3 they serve them a piece of bone fish and the person's like "ahh die" well that's
silly there are many parts of the world that eat fish with bone in and i'd like to
thank Korea for teaching me this one thing i asked my co-workers like what am i doing
and they said i don't know i just like shovel more rice in my mouth and swallow it really hard and it
just kind of pushes the bone down and i was kind of like gong yeah why didn't i think of that so
don't be intimidated by it when it comes to the way that it looks it might seem a bit unappealing
but there are different parts of the fish that have a very tender piece of meat so when it's
simmered nice and slow and you break the meat apart it's just like this melt-in-your-mouth
marshmallow level fish it is so nice put that with the rice and you're just like
this is the teriyaki experience that i have in my food court except way freaking better
well i really enjoyed that but you know what don't take my word for it
why don't we check out some of the google reviews
the fish was delicious the rice was refilled and it was delicious it was a satisfying lunch
there is also a fried set meal on the menu so it's okay to go with people who are not good at fish
i used it with my family bluefin tuna sashimi it's greasy it was delicious you are free to
replace rice and miso soup i will come back if i go nearby i had a tuna and salmon sashimi set
meal the tuna was delicious with a melting feeling but i was surprised that the salmon was delicious
it was quite delicious whether it was the same no matter where i ate the salmon the price is gentle
for rise there's a set meal so you can use it for dinner today's set meal for lunch was deep fried
red fish seasonal salmon and yellowtail i ordered a spear but the yellowstone sashimi was the right
temperature i think that the point that it is not too cold sashimi which is common at lunch is high
the soy sauce is masala soy sauce the clerk is also excited and responds well a shop that can
be expected in the future if the quality of both dishes is the first day of the opening i went
to lunch fish restaurant the building of the shop and the departure of the clerk are like a cafe but
the food offered is casual japanese food and it feels very good today i ate a set of sea bream and
auctioned chira sushi and soba noodles it was very light and delicious gem well there you have it
cosplay was good everybody if you're starving and it's 3 30
and you're really looking for something delicious to eat don't discredit going to a shopping mall
sometimes they have chain shops inside of it sometimes they have places that are a bit more
unique and let me tell you when it's the ball's hot sweaty humid summer of japan
and you have pouring sweat like a dolphin sleek every office of your body you're going to want
to come inside and enjoy that sweet sweet air conditioning head to a mall check out the food
court and enjoy a freaking delicious meal well balanced yummy everything is clean has an izakaya
vibe and i've been listening to a combination of Japanese rock music and strange 80s 90s music
throwbacks like seriously they had TLC "Waterfall" and i was like "yeah, don't go chasing waterfalls
Martina" if you guys haven't already please head on over to my King Kogi youtube channel i have
another Tokyo Tours up i think you will really enjoy those they're more about the back streets
and the smaller gems and jewels of japan so check out King Kogi that is my youtube channel and all
the links are in the info box and thank you so much again to Skillshare for sponsoring this video
all right time for me to go slowly walk this off and maybe find myself a coffee
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