It's sake time.
it's a standing bar where you can drink sake
alright give it a taste
it tastes like sake
They use the water from Kyoto in the Tokyo well.
it's sharp and dry, its very sharp tasting for sure.
It has a gold award for specialty pure sake.
I like this one more it has a deep flavor with a calm fragrance
It's much better, it's not as like...
This is a top quality pure sake.
With rice grown in Kyoto
It's more fruity
They all kind of just taste like sake to me, but I Iike it.
Good afternoon folks. It is beer o'clock here in Kyoto.
We are doing a beer tasting here at 336 tea house and bar.
So pretty excited here. If you didn't know I'm a bit of beer enthusiast
and there's not a lot of craft breweries in Japan at all . So any time I see a
craft brewery any city in Japan I'm in (snaps fingers). So first on the list we got a Kolch beer
it's made using Kyoto's famous high quality water from the Ame-no-Mana-i well
So let's give that a go
It's got a small bit of hops. It's a very light beer if you like a more summer-like light beer
then the Kolch Beer is for you.
So next on the list is the Alto Beer.
Apparently it pairs well with meat dishes. I wont be doing that but I will trying one of these fun guys.
Let's give it a go
I don't know what it is
I'm surprised because it doesn't taste like fish or anything, it's just like a nice rice cracker.
Alright let's give the Alto Beer a try.
It's OK, not my cup of tea.
The beer I'm most excited to try is their IPA
apparently it's got strong bitter taste of hops they refer to it as being
an elegant IPA. Oh yeah that's good.
You can't really go wrong with an IPA.
Quinn is really enjoying waving to all the kiddos
this is like the 10th bus
Oh my god you're a freak (laughing)
These guys are amazing
All right we are leaving the sake bar and I don't know
where we're going next it think Meghan has a plan. Meghan do you have a plan?
No I forgot my plan, too much Sake
she left the plan in the sake bar so there is now no plan
so we're just wandering down the streets of Kyoto.
So I insisted that we go down this road which is now turned into a trail in the hills of
Kyoto it's probably a secret local trail that's pretty cute lots of little
Japanese gardens everywhere
Alright guys the new plan is to get lost in Kyoto we don't know where we're going
or what we're gonna see. It's crazy right now. Let's go here alright so we just
turned up a street we don't know if this streets gonna take us anywhere
interesting at all I know one thing Megan does not like
this strategy in fact she hates it she wants to make sure she knows where she's
going and she sees exactly what she thinks she's gonna see Megan how do you
feel about this plan right now? I'm pretty sure we're walking, thing is there's just so many things
to see we're gonna bump into something but also like how often you in Kyoto. I wanna
make sure I see all the good things. We have one week here guys and we've already
seen four things on the list the list is currently this small but it will expand as time goes on.
(Sneezes)
Ewwww
(Sneezes)
Oh my gosh I'm so sorry that you had to witness that.
That is disgusting.
Beautiful. Yeah there's a full Geisha! There's lots of people
in kimonos but she had full geisha makeup on. It's really cool
So we got lost and we found the most amazing pagoda check this thing out
behind me it's huge absolutely loving it this is a crazy busy street there's cars
passing by it's complete madness but in a good way
anyways we're gonna keep getting lost and keep finding more awesome places
like this but if you are wondering where this place is it is in Higashiyama
We'll put the name of the pagoda but yeah we're somewhere in the Higashiyama district and
we're gonna keep getting lost you see what we find next.
(Japanese speaking)
This shop is Loucele
my name is Kandi he is chef his name is Hasama Kocho
Alright this is a new-age machine. Please choose... oh thank you. Hmm what's the best
The most popular. Vegetable okay.
oh that's a lot of food we can share.
okay. There you go.
Good job.
Easy to use.
arigato gozaimasu
This is so cute. Yeah
So we were just walking by and we saw this cute vegetarian ramen place
So you come in and you order from the machine.
It's like one of the newer ones. And you get a four course meal
So we did all of the vegetarian ones
And you get this really nice tea
It's a berry tea. And then we both each got a Sake.
It's really cool it's this open concept and you can watch them cook
And it's really nice and bright spot, kind of off the busy street
Oh wow, what an amazing place.
I love it here. Cheers.
This place is very Oishi.
(Laughter)
This is mixed vegetable
Lotus roots and asparagus and radish
Nice!
(Music playing)
Fresh
This is organic vegetable ramen
Oh wow!
It's big. Yeah I don't know where to start
Look at my spoon it's so cute.
mmmm..
Very oishi
I'm not sharing this one.
Smells nice. You don't get any.
You're going to share!
Can I just eat some first.
(laughing) Yes you can eat some first.
(indiscernible) and soy milk cream
Oh dessert.
dessert.
arigato gozaimasu
If I can pick it up
It's good
Totamo Oishi. mmm..
Thank you
just finished having amazing vegetarian ramen here absolutely amazing the
service, the food. It was really cool we highly recommend you come here we are
in the Higashiyama district. I feel like we're going the right way cuz there's a
million people ahead of us.