Hey guys! I have come to an udon shop for dinner
and I really wanted to make a video about it
because I feel like udon is a very underrated dish here in Japan
Everybody wants to eat ramen, and they ask me to make videos about ramen
But I prefer udon and soba
So today I'm gonna show you guys one of my favourite cheap yummy udon places!
So yay! Let's go!
Let me introduce some of the udon styles to you guys
This first one is called Bukkake Udon
It means that the sauce is poured over top of the noodles
Instead of them starting out in a soup broth
The one next to it is Tsukimi Udon
It means it comes with a raw egg
So if you don't like raw egg, I wouldn't go for this one
But if you would like to get an egg in your udon, and you would prefer a cooked one
Maybe go for this Ontama
It means that it has a soft boiled egg that comes with it
Next we have Zaru Udon
This one is only served cold, and the noodles don't come with a soup
Instead they come with a dipping sauce, you can dip the noodles in there
That one's great for the summer
This is Kitsune Udon
It comes with a piece of aburaage, or fried tofu
It's very flavourful and yummy, I like that one
They also have lots of curry udon
This Kake Udon here is the original basic one
It comes in a warm soup
Shouyu Udon, it's got some soy sauce in it
Lots to choose from
So when you come in you gotta get a tray and a dish if you wanna get some tempura
Here's the tempura! You can choose what toppings you wanna put on your udon
I usually get ebi (shrimp)
I always forget what the English name is
They don't have eggplant...
Eggplant would be my second choice...
I think I'll just get 2 ebi then
2 shrimps!
If you look up at the top here, they have the different types of udon
So you can choose which one you want
I'm gonna get this one, with the egg
And you can choose hot or cold
Hot ontama bukkake udon please
Large, medium or small?
Medium
You can choose the size too, so they'll ask you dai, chuu, shou
That comes to 680 yen
You can choose some toppings for your udon if you want
They have ground ginger
These are like tempura flakes?
Leftovers
I don't know what to call them
It's leftovers
Yeah, like leftover pieces
Soy sauce, sesame seeds, wasabi
If you are on a budget, you can get this bowl of udon and soup for 130 yen!
I lived off this when I came to Japan for the first time
That's awesome
You can go put some toppings on it like the tempura flakes, and ginger and stuff
So it's not that boring
What did you get?
Shine got the chuu size, so this is the medium size
Let's put some toppings on our $1 udon
$1 udon before and after
I do like sesame so I'm gonna put load of sesame
Yep, give the whole thing some flavour
Then, what is this again? Ginger
Lots of ginger!
That's gonna be spicy
It's good for you...
I don't like those leftovers because sometimes they have weird bits in them
So I'm just gonna go for the crispy ones
But they sometimes get really squishy so I don't want too many of those
They used to have the flaky fish that you put in
Oh the katsuobushi?
Yeah the katsuo was free but they took it away
because loads of people do what I do and just whack loads of stuff on
There we go!
And turn it into a delicious whole meal now!
So this is ontama
Basically just a soft boiled egg, it's not raw
It's all cooked
Itadakimasu!
So good
They're really long today!
Yeah they're really long
I feel like they're longer than usual
The ginger is nice, it adds a nice spice to it
What is it?
Seven Spice - Shichimi
More free toppings?
It's a little spicy, it mostly just adds some flavour to it
It's a mixture of 7 different spices
Gochisousama desu! All done~
So this is Hanamaru Udon
There's some other udon chains as well
I'll put some names of shops in the description box so check them out!
Thanks for watching guys, I'll seeya soon! Bye!
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