Today we're Chasing a Plate in Kyoto Japan. We're at Nishiki market and we're going to
see what fresh produce they have and find some great street food.
I've got a piping hot
bag of fresh soy milk donuts, they're golden, they're soft and puffy hmm they're so
light, slightly sweet that's the perfect first snack to get us started today.
For someone who's so into food I'm a bit weird I don't particularly like donuts
hmm but that's really good the reason I don't think I really love donuts is
because they're often too sweet, way too sugared for me but these aren't sugared, they came out of
the oil, fell off and he put them in the bag and sold them to us so it's more
like a cake oh I just spat some donut, I hope it didn't hit you Sheena, I'm sorry
viewers. Really light, really cakey we've got ten but I don't think we're
going to feel totally bloated and like knocked out after that a really good
start to exploring this market let's go find some more stuff
Second snack, monsters from the deep, we've got a baby octopus look at that bulbous
head and it's little tentacles, it's quite cute and a squid and this one's got roe
in it. Mmm really well-cooked, not at all
chewy like I imagined it would be. The roe if you can see it in there is just
like a sack of little tiny caviar quite crunchy quite a plain flavor but definitely
really strong squid flavour, it's very very pleasant, it's good, try that Thomas.
Hmm that is perfectly cooked. So tender. They cooked it on a little grill, simple
flavors I didn't even see any sauce or anything, it's really nice.
the roe is just little crunchy balls, it doesn't blow your socks off but pretty tasty now
we'll have Sheena's cute little octopus . That's one hell of a head he's got
on him hmmm it's quite hard to eat
whoa an egg? I think there's an egg in here not octopus eggs, it tastes like a
birds egg. I think it might be a quails egg, how the hell did that get in there,
Sheena you gotta try this and confirm my suspicions, it's really tasty, really
tender. Okay it definitely looks like a quails egg
I'm going to have to put it all in my mouth! Go for it! Slightly sweet, almost tastes like a miso glaze on there, that is
definitely a quail's egg in there, it's really creamy, works well with the tender octopus
that is really really good, it's really tasty. How do think they got the egg inside
I don't know, just stuffed it up in its head or something. Cute and very delicious.
there are tsukemono or pickled vegetable stalls all through Nishiki market so we
thought it was perfect for a palate cleanser a cucumber
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we've got a pike conger eel sushi first thing that's really interesting
about this, is the sushi is square. In Kyoto that's how they do the sushi it's
not round like you would normally see like a sushi roll still made in a roll but they
square it or rectangle it generally. It's pretty interesting
Now we think we've purchased eel but looking closely this looks like
some sort of paste some I'm a little bit confused we couldn't read what we were
actually buying so let's see. Wow it's really hefty. Mmm it's eel, oh my god, eel is
the softest, most beautiful meat, it's very fatty so it just falls apart. Oh yeah!
I love eel. This is great it's got a sweet glaze on top
really sticky rice like really sticky. Look at my fingers I don't know if you can see
that but they're just attached to it pretty much this is super
yum it's really subtle I love that about eel
it has a subtle flavor, beautiful little fishiness, that super soft meat
and then that little drizzle of sweet glaze just enough that it doesn't mask
everything else that is a great piece of sushi.
If you have a sweet tooth then
Nishiki market is perfect for you because there are a ton of stores
selling traditional Japanese sweets. We got this one I think it's a mochi
dumpling so a rice- glutinous rice dumpling it's sweet and it's got red
bean inside and a strawberry which is a special treat because fruit in Japan is
crazy expensive we're talking like six dollars for an orange and the other day
we saw a bunch of grapes for a hundred dollars one bunch of grapes! Nuts! So I'm going
to savour every bite of this strawb
hmm
Wow the mochi is so soft, it's sort of sticky, a little bit gluggy in the mouth
the red bean paste is really smooth, red bean is hard to describe, it's just a
sweetened like kidney bean almost, and that strawberry is so lush
so sweet. Damn good.
Hiyashi Ame, a ginger drink, drunk here in Kyoto in the summer time. It's nice
and cool. Mmmm so refreshing very subtle hint of ginger mainly just really sweet. Cheers!
Final snack warabimochi so this jelly like dessert is actually made out
of bracken. Yea bracken, so bracken is a fern and there's
matcha powder on top it's a similar texture to I think mochi which is the
glutinous rice dumpling. Oh my god, the matcha flavour is brilliant, it's not too strong.
I don't think it's 100% matcha because it's not that strong. Warabimochi
sometimes has toasted soybean flour so maybe it's a mix yeah I think
it is. Oh that jelly. The jelly is insane. It's so soft it just breaks apart
What I love about Japanese desserts is that they're not too sweet and they're the perfect
size so like one or two is just enough and you've satisfied your sweet tooth so
good. I love that and I've loved this market it's been really fun it's more of
a- there's lots to eat but it's more of a look around market there's some
beautiful things there's more like actual products to buy so sake shops
and beautiful vibrant tsukemono or pickles mmm clothing shops, beautiful
knife shops, it's just a wonderful atmospheric place to walk around there's
gorgeous music playing, everyone's just quite chilled, it's covered so if you're
here in summer like we are and it's about thirty degrees centigrade but it's
all covered so it's shady, it's so pleasant. Come to Nishiki
Market in Kyoto. Thank you so much for watching we'll see you next time
we hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist. Sayonara!