in this video i'm taking you guys on
another
tokyo hidden food tour
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so we're in shibuya right now but when
you think of shibuya you usually think
of dogenzaka you think of sentaga
you think of all like the busy busy
areas but today
i'm gonna take you into the back alleys
and the back streets of shibuya called
okushibu but the fact is i live here and
i've been going to this area for so long
that i finally decided to share with you
guys
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let me take you to the back streets of
shibuya alright let's do this
and back by popular demand or
i don't know maybe not so popular man
michael
you ready for this oh yeah ready to eat
sounded very very japanese
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number one the latte tokyo hidden away
in a three-floor concept store complex
called the inn
tucked away on the first floor is a
latte shop in addition to offering
various latte flavors
this tiny space hosts seasonal
collaboration goods with various
tokyo jerry garnita something it's
supposed to be kind of like a kakikori
iced cafe latte
it has some ice cream on top it has some
crunchy bits here which is like like
hakikori like ice
i wasn't actually planning on getting
coffee because i'm not much of a latte
fan but this is just one of those cheat
days i guess
you can see the bottom here is where all
the coffee jelly is watch this
push it down like that and mix it around
that's great frappuccino style
very much has the sweetness of the ice
cream at the top
has the bitterness of the coffee i like
the texture of the jelly itself too look
at that
it's falling
the difference between kakigori and this
is they have really
thick pieces of ice here so you get more
of a like a chunky
crunchy texture it is sweet but it's
not super super like strong and sweet it
has kind of like a
light summery vibe it's more like
whipped cream like
okay so i got the regular latte which i
usually get
if your first time and they're always
going to ask you to like drink the milk
first we just bought a week but the milk
is supposed to taste really good
silky smooth light type of milk like
it's called tokyo
new it's like
sadasara light milk it's nice roasted
coffee
i like how they sell like fashion goes
in there my friend
collects all the goods from here be
honest with you though
i don't really go to this spot like
michael goes here all the time whereas
i'm
more of just like a straight coffee fan
like i just
like black cold coffee in the morning
canned coffee i'm not that much of a
how do you say a coffee head but it
always is nice to get something a little
bit sweet
a little bit creamy and and this is it
let me show you the next spot
number two cheese stand if you happen to
see a random cow in okushibu then you
know you've arrived at cheese stand
every morning this shop has fresh milk
delivered from a farm in tokyo
and they make four types of cheese
mozzarella barata
ricotta and caccio cavallo oh and they
also
offer wine to pair with the cheese if
you're into that sort of thing
this is kind of like their appetizer
this is a verota cheese
fresh tomatoes and some oregano here and
some oil yeah it is like
so fresh can you see that try it
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this is so good that is nice
and creamy it's like very watery it
almost just like kind of like
melts in your mouth almost like the
outer shell it has like the texture
of cheese but on the inside it is
just so creamy and almost kind of like
fluid like
and it pairs us so well with these
little tomatoes these little like
cherry tomatoes you can see like the
outer shell is like a little bit
hard it gives you that consistency and
then inside it has the
creamy goodness of the cheese the center
is almost
not even like a cheese it's almost like
a very very heavy cream
or just a really really light cheese
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oh wow i just looked down and like the
entire plate is almost gone
i can see why michael's just killing
this right now
they also serve pizza and sandwiches
using their freshly made cheese pizza
uses a mozzarella cheese while the
sandwich uses a melting ricotta i love
how they paired it with a grainy bread
to add texture
number three sebastian i featured this
shaved ice spot about a year ago in my
shibuya street food video but this
okushiba backstreet guide wouldn't be
complete without mentioning it sebastian
features a cake-like kakigori
dolce ice the owner borrows from his
experience as a french chef to create
this delectable treat
the creme brulee shaved ice is their
signature dish the top is brilliantly
layered with merengue so when it's
bruleed the shaved ice beneath
doesn't melt so in fact i've already
been here before in my other shibuya
street food video
but i actually didn't go inside and now
today i get to show you what it's like
inside so if you want to see that video
with the kakigori
then definitely check out the shibuya
street food video but today
we have the piste resistance the
kakikoti
cream brulee also known as a flame
broiled kakikori look
at that lovelies let's just take the
first bite because i cannot wait any
longer
wow that is such a rare taste
you don't have like this nice creamy
refreshing
ice filled cherry blade
top you can taste the sweetness in the
top
but also there's like a condensed kind
of like milk in here as well
also adds to the sweetness but it's not
like too too sweet
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and look at that surprise if you can see
that right now
and it has a nice strawberry filling
i'm like almost halfway done with this
and it's just
so light definitely one person can
finish this
i don't even know if i want to share
this if it might go
the bastion also has a unique cake
shaped shaved ice like this one that
mica ordered
but one thing you guys need to remember
you need to come here a little bit early
because it does get booked
actually get in line then you can choose
the time of day to come back and then
you can come back
we came here early in the morning like
just before 10 and we had to wait about
one hour before we can come back but if
you come too late in the day then it
might just be all booked up so
definitely if you're wanting to come
here
then come here early let me show you
guys the next
backstreet spot
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one of the things i love about this
place is that it's just so quiet
compared to like if you come from
shibuya and it's just like busy on
dogenzaka or you're on center
there's just so many people but just on
the outskirts it's just
so quiet here and it's nice because you
feel like you're in like a japanese
neighborhood
but we're still in shibuya what do you
think about this quiet neighborhood
i like this area it's my favorite of
shibuya
there you go good thing we live around
here
number four uoriki from the outside it
looks like an
old school fish store that you would see
at any fish market
but it's actually a popular taishoku
spot meaning set meals to local
salarymen
in fact this hidden gem has more than
100 years of history
instead of ordering from a standard menu
i had to grab a card with a dish's name
on it and take it upstairs to the second
floor
interestingly the card has a lottery
number on the back so if it matches
you get an extra side dish
this is their most popular set saba no
misoni mackerel cooked with miso
i was able to choose between the head or
the tail and of course
i went with the head this is the saba
miso
the sabra looks so tender and it's in
this like
miso soup
wow there's a lot of flavor in there
that's like filled with mummy it's a
little bit sweet
it has some savoriness but more sweet
than savory
look at that sour right there
i'm not a fan of like stewed saba
usually because it's very like fishy but
this is cooked so well that you don't
get any
like that fishy taste and it's just kind
of like a sweet
nice and like moist fish it was a very
very tender
saba that's great and it goes really
really well with rice because there's
just
so much flavor here that the rice itself
kind of picks all of that flavor and
then just kind of spreads it out take
some rice
dip it into the miso itself just like
this
see that all dipped in dripping
wow that's good they even have like a
miso soup
you can see it has like these little
clam shells
it has a like shellfish and bitterness
to it but it's
nice
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so this is the sashimi plate you have
like
two big pieces of maguro
which is like scallops that katsu is
just
so thick look how thick it is compared
to my chopsticks
here's the scallops right there
oh that's good i love it fresh fish for
lunch so
if you're looking for kind of like an
old school like where a lot of salary
workers go to
and it's like a good taste meal this is
the spot
it's only a thousand yen and it's quite
satisfying
you can see there's just a lot of
cellular workers just filling in right
now
so michael wants some more coffee yep
so let me take you to another coffee
spot
number five rostrolo
is an ultra unique coffee shop without
an ordering menu it asked me how i
preferred the taste of the coffee
and then selected the best bean blend
and customize the brew method
to create my perfect cup of coffee
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that's my coffee what's cool about this
place is that you can
really really specify what kind of
coffee
you make they make everything fresh like
every little step from grounding the
coffee beans
to icing it everything is done by hand
which is amazing
and so this coffee that i got is iced
coffee but then i could choose whether
or not
i wanted to make it like bitter if i
wanted to make it fruity
i actually made it like kind of like a
little fruity a little bit lighter
because we had coffee earlier this
morning i didn't want to have too much
coffee but you can go like very strong
and bitter
let's take the first drink
you can definitely taste the fruitiness
of the coffee it's a very mild
like really really easy to drink this
one is nice because it's not watered
down because you can see like when they
actually cooled it down
they just put the ice on the outside and
then they just they just rotated the
shaker so that
it made the actual coffee itself cold
wow
that's good if you want like a homemade
japanese
brew coffee and this is the spot let's
see how maiko did
so i got latte cause i can drink strip
coffee
or black coffee they give me choice
between nutty flavor
and the berry flavor and it chose nutty
to go with the milk
she asked me like every little details
and it's awesome
how is it good it's really good it's
exactly the way i like it
and number six
it's camelbak warm to the touch
check out this egg omelette leave it to
japan for this omelette to be almost
like
perfectly square rectangular the bread
itself it's like nice and toasted but
the actual
omelette egg is cool so it's been like
refrigerated
and in fact what's really cool is that
it's made by a sushi chef
oh
the bread has a nice crunchy crunch and
the thing that's amazing
is that the omelet itself a slight
sweetness to it
it almost has kind of like this wasabi
taste inside
like it's been seasoned like nothing
i've ever had before
i've never ever thought of actually
putting freaking wasabi
in your egg omelette but what a
fantastic idea
oh that's so good michael try this
out
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it really goes well tamago is not that
sweet like the regular
like a home cooking tamagoyaki it's
usually pretty sweet
oh it's good
it's so nice that you want to just keep
on having another bite
but unfortunately i have to share with
michael so this video is a little bit
different than the regular videos this
is not a top
10 but it's more of a hidden food tour
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