We're out for ramen
Now vegetarian ramen
Is quite hard to find
Unless you go to a vegetarian restaurant
Any ramen you see
In a normal restaurant
Is not going to be vegetarian
It's really disheartening
When I see so many restaurants
That look really good
Or really fun places to go
But I know their ramen's going to have pork stock in it
Or meat stock
Or fish stock
So this is really special
The rest of the menu
Is normal meat ramen
And tonkotsu ramen
Which is made of pork bones
But they do have one that's completely vegetarian
And it's really easy to tell which one it is
Now this shop is called Chabuton
Which is the same restaurant I went to before
And showed you the vegetarian ramen in Tokyo
The thing is, after I made that video
That shop shut down!
Which was so annoying
Because I kept getting comments from people
Saying "I really want to go there"
And I had to say "Sorry!"
It's not open any more!
Or people who tried to go to it
But it wasn't there any more
And then after that
I went to Kyoto and tried to go to the Chabuton there
And they didn't have vegetarian ramen any more
But the good news is
They've brought it back
So I'm going to try the new version today
This one is in Osaka
It's in Yodobashi Camera
Which is a huge, crazy shop
If you come to this one
You should definitely look round the rest of the shop
It's huge
And it sells pretty much everything
It's worth looking round, definitely
But they do have branches elsewhere in Japan as well
If you go on the Chabuton website
Right-click and translate the Shop List
It'll tell you where they all are
The one in Tokyo
Is in Shimokitazawa
Which is slightly outside the central Tokyo area
But it's not far away
It's a really cool area
With lots of independent shops
And vintage clothes shops
It's got a lot of live bar venues as well
Look that up if you're in Tokyo
This one is the one in Osaka
They've given us an English menu
There's night-time ramen!
There's my ticket come out the bottom
Which one was veggie gyoza...
This one
Oh?
We need more cash!
Chabuton ramen...
That says Chabuton
And is that egg? Tamago?
"Topping"
That also says Topping
That's Chashyu
On the table there's water
Here's the chopsticks
What is this?
Onions
Fried onion bits
Some toothpicks
That looks like chilli powder
Or maybe shichimi
I think that kanji means vinegar
I'm not sure...
It doesn't look a lot like vinegar
This says...
"Arigatou gozaimasu" (thank you)
Here's Phil's beer
This says something-tare
We've got pepper
Sesame seeds, yum yum yum!
And in here
We've got a lot of ginger
Pickled ginger
Here's Phil's ramen
It's the Chabuton ramen
Is it tonkotsu?
With your extra egg topping
And here's mine
It looks really colourful
It's got some renkon on the top
Some tomato
It looks like lettuce
But I'm sure it's not!
And some radish in there
Here's the veggie gyoza
They're kind of green so you know they're the veggie ones
They've given me this sieve spoon as well
For dredging the toppings out
I just found some avocado in there
And there's some okra
And bits of grated up citrus
It's got lots of really good flavour
Here's the one Phil had
It was 750 yen
It's really easy to see which is the vegetarian one
It's also the most colourful one
And they've got "Only vegetable ramen" in English there
It's 750 yen
And these are the vegetable gyoza
The katana says "begi gyoza"
They're 320 yen
If you can't read Japanese
They're the gyoza that look a bit greenish in colour
When you order from the vending machine
There's one button for both the gyoza
So when you give them the ticket
You say "begi gyoza"
Or they'll ask you which one you want
They've got lots of other meat ramens too
I really enjoyed that
The soup was a sort of vegetable stock
That was really full of flavour
And it was really tasty
It had lots of different vegetables in
Some were quite unexpected
I've never seen avocado in ramen before
So it's definitely not your traditional ramen
It had some okra
Lots of different sorts of vegetables
Some crispy fried renkon
It was really good that it had some black pepper on the top
That really brought out the flavour
And I really liked the bits of - I'm not sure if they were lemon
Or another type of citrus
There's lots of Japanese citruses
That I don't know, like daidai
And all those sorts of things
But it was lemon or - similar to lemon
Gave it a really good flavour
So this branch is in Osaka
In Yodobashi Camera
But there's several other branches
Throughout Japan
And there are some in Tokyo as well
It's a chain but it's not a very big chain
And the chef behind it
Has a Michelin star
So maybe that's why it's so good