This video is brought to you by Square space. In this video, I'm gonna explore with you some popular restaurants in Japan
So yes, yes I said that we're going to be exploring some popular restaurants in Japan
But like many of you I'm still here at home
What a lot of people don't know is that Japan has this Otoriyose gourmet food culture
Basically, it's a service where people can contact
Popular restaurants all throughout Japan and have those specialty foods delivered directly to their house
so in this video
I wanted to start exploring different places all throughout Japan of some very very
Popular places and bring them here and try it with you for the first time
But before I do that
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Let's explore these new food places
Number 1: Nama Toro Roast Beef from Kanekichi
So, I couldn't start this video without going to one of the things I love the most
MEAT! and I looked at far and wide and I came across this place that has been serving beef since
1921. Located in Shiga right below Biwa lake.
Kanekichi specializes in a Wagyu beef called Omi beef so what we actually ordered is Omi ushi toksun wafu
Toro naba roast beef the 'toro' part of it means that it's melting so hopefully it
Melts in our mouth and that nama part means that it's raw
So it says there's some roasted beef but the outside is roasted. But in fact the inside should still be raw
So basically this box comes with two different
Types of meat it comes with this red meat was actually thigh meat and it comes with Ichibo
Which is a really rare part of the cow.
In fact, there's only about 2 kilos worth of meat you can get from each cow. It's so rare
So when you get this, it arrives with a packet of ponzu, but they also recommend that you get some ginger soy sauce
Which they come through some ginger, also you can mix it with wasabi
Soy sauce and also some salt, so this is the Ichibo. It looks so good!
So let's try the ginger and the soy sauce first
Dippy dippy, who loves staying home during this time? I do!
Mmmmmmm!
So you can get a slight taste of that roast beef outer shell but what's more surprising is how
tender that meat is and because of that like marvelous you can taste all of the meat oils coming from them and just
melting in your mouth
I can see why this is so special and that you can only get in two kilograms worth of meat from each cow
Let's try this Akami. You can see here that it's less
so
Marble, but you can still see a little bit of the the marbling right there.*sings: baby I like it raw baby i like it raw~*
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That's amazing I can eat this all day
So the main difference between the Ichibo and the thigh meat is that with the Ichibo you really get a sense of
That marbled meat you get the kind of like the fat oils it just kind of like melts inside of your mouth
Whereas the Akami, the thigh meat, get kind of like a the more like a meat texture
They're so delicious and the same right?
But you just get a little bit like more of a meaty texture all together
And eating this is very similar to eating sashimi just with a different taste
And you can actually make Niku sushi out of this too
Wow, this is just the rice that we have at our home and you put the roast beef on top of it
Alright, let's dip it in
Well, the rice is breaking apart
Wow
That is beautiful with the rice as well
For some reason when you have the meat with a rice, it just brings out all of the flavors
All right. Let's move on to the next one decorate all of this right now
Number two: Zeitako cheesecake from Yamada Boroso.
So we just did something savory
And now I wanted to do something a little bit more sweet. Just so you know
We can round things out of it and I got a Japanese
cheesecake !
This is also from Shiga prefecture coming straight from a farm called 'Yamada Bokujo' this award-winning angelic cheesecake is limited lesson
less than 100 are made per day for nationwide distribution
It's made with 46% cream cheese
and the cream
Itself comes from a raw milk produced from the cows there
And let's take a first bite because I can't wait to eat it!
Wow, it just is so crumbly off the bat
You can definitely taste the cream cheese in it. Although it has this really thick texture
It's not as thick as I've had and some other cheesecakes
In fact, it's quite rich and light so you get a lot of this like cream cheese
Flavor to it and when you take a slice of it, you can see that it crumbles quite a bit
I thought I was gonna not be able to finish all of it
but I'm almost like a halfway through and it's pretty good
With some cheesecakes that are really really thick you can only have a few bites
But this is almost light enough where you can eat almost the whole thing, or at least I can eat the whole thing
It's that good
And at the bottom you have kind of like this cookie kind of crumble, but you can't really taste it so much
It's like the cream cheese and the milk taste is kind of like the main attraction here
Definitely worth ordering again. In fact, I might actually give this as a gift to someone
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Let's try the next food spot!
Number 3: Nikuman from Heichinrou
This steamed bun also known as Nikuman is coming straight from Yokohama
The shop's name is Heichinrou and it's one of the most popular and famous dim sum places in China Town
In fact, it has more than 130 years worth of history
so it actually came in a chilled bag in a package of three and
This is one of the lovely pieces that I was able to steam up just now
Let me just open this up
Look at that steam and you can already feel how soft and playful the outer bun is
Let's take a bite
Wow that's amazing. There's just so many textures without one bite
So the first thing you notice is how fluffy and moist
the outer bun is like it is like I'm telling you like it's just like super playful
It's a really really nice texture almost kind of like a sponge cake
It's not like super super sweet, but it's like it has like a sweetness to it
And the texture of the filling is quite unique like sometimes you get any Nikuman where it's just all me you get like the Meat juices and all of that
Whereas this one it kind of has like all the different ingredients of the onions, the bamboo, the shiitake mushrooms
And also the pork, it brings out all of the different textures and flavors in just one Nikuman
We literally just eat this bread alone. It's that good
And what's great about this is that the quality seems to be really
Preserved in the Otoriyose, a lot of the times when you go to take out, you know, you order stuff online
It doesn't travel so well, but the ones that we've like picked so far. They're really good
I think it really depends on the restaurant but a lot of Japanese restaurants that are highly ranked will have almost
dynein quality food that they serve or that they deliver to you
Number 4: White paris roll from Kiyokawaya
This roll cake is coming straight out of Yamagateken
From a place called Kiyokawaya
So this, is the white Paris roll
They have this white cream in the middle and you can see how white the cake is
They don't actually use egg yolk or butter to make the outer cake. Let's just take a bite of this man
I can already feel the moisture from the cake itself like coming off my hands
whoa
Wow, that cream is so milky
Hmm apparently they use a fresh milk in here
You taste the milk you definitely like the first thing is like this strong milk taste, which is really nice
hmm
It's not like a really smooth textured cream. You have a lot of texture to it
it almost kind of looks like we got the cheese or something where you get like kind of the fragments
And the cake itself is denser than I would have expected
Um, I was thinking to be like super super fluffy and light there's like a nice density to it
To be honest with you, it's good. It's like a nice cake
But it's almost like too light for me. I'd prefer like maybe a hamburger or something
Anyways, let's move on to the next one
Number 5: Tai chazuke ureshino from Wakaeya
This shop is in Oita Prefecture with history dating back more than
300 years and today we're throwing down on the same dish that they served is Shogun back in the day
So we're not only traveling to new locations in Japan in this video, but we're traveling through time as well
So this next dish is Ochazuke specifically Tai chazuke
It comes in this really luxury style box and you open it, everything is packed and sealed
and there's actually three different portions that you get
Unlike the previous two dishes. We actually need to prepare it
all you have to do is take the typhus or sea bream and then put the sauce on top of it also called Tare in Japanese
It's kinda like a sweetSesame sauce and then you just make sure that you get all parts of the fish covered in the sesame sauce
Once you've done that you take the fish and you put it on a bed of rice
Then it comes to these little strips of seaweed. Which you sprinkle on top
And then finally you pour the tea into the bowl. Look at that. Wow
It's all kind of mixed there with a rice. Mmm. You can smell the sesame sauce in there. That looks so good
First thing, you taste the sesame sauce, but it's actually quite light
I was expecting it to be a little bit stronger based on like how thick that sauce was
But I think since it's mixed in with a tea, it's kind of soften that taste a little bit but the green tea itself
It's not really strong. It's like not that bitter. It's a very very light green tea
So it kind of combines really really well with the sesame sauce
But just to give yourself is usually just kind of like a rice soup dish made from tea generally very very light
Refreshing kind of like easy on the stomach, which is why a lot of Japanese people love it, but I don't know
I don't know if it's as good as the meat that we just had earlier but at the end of the day it's a pretty good meal
I think the price tag is based on the fact that it has like 300 years of history
This would be considered one of those like really
Really extravagant meals back in the day and the fact that you can still get this and like get it brought to your home
Is still pretty awesome
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