Today we're out for sushi
At Canal City
Which is a big mall in Fukuoka
Even if you're not into shopping
It's an interesting place to visit
The building alone is pretty unusual
I'm going to show you some cute things in the shops
The One Piece water & light show
And the Ramen Stadium
But first:
SUSHI!
I've got oshinko hand roll
That's pickled radish
And cucumber hand roll
With a big lot of ginger
Phil's got a set
With several fish nigiri
They're all tuna
They're all tuna?!
But different types of tuna
Interesting
You're supposed to eat the least fatty one first aren't you?
Or is it with sushi, you're supposed to go from the mildest to the strongest fish..?
There's definitely an order you're supposed to eat them in
I'll go left to right
Here's my vegetable tempura
And I've got avocado
I actually haven't seen much avocado sushi in Japan
It's not a traditional sushi ingredient
What's that one Phil?
Amberjack
Kanpachi, they call it in Japanese
Phil enjoyed his one so much
He's ordered another set
It didn't say what each of these are
So it's mystery sushi
On the table is this chopstick drawer
We saw one before in Kyoto
And really wanted to get one for home
But we can't find one anywhere
So I'm going to look for one in Kappabashi
When we get to Tokyo
That's an area that sells lots of cooking things
So the other day we had cheap, conveyor belt sushi
At Sushiro
Today we wanted to try somewhere a little bit better quality
To see what it's like
This was Sakura Sushi
In Canal City
What did you think Phil?
I really liked it
The fish was good
The rice was good
It was presented well
It was prepared really well for sushi
Good quality ingredients
I don't think it was the best you can get by a long way
But it was a step above conveyor belt sushi
It was a nice atmosphere as well
Just as we were leaving
They were playing a muzak version of
Norwegian Wood
By the Beatles
But in a Japanese style
An instrumental version
I'm sure I heard Green Day's Give Me Novocaine as well
Who knows?!
But it was good
It was nice to go somewhere a little bit nicer
It's kind of hard normally
Because they don't have many vegetarian options
No, I mean sushi places sometimes have things
Sometimes not that much
The avocado gunkan
Is an unusual option to find
You don't see that very often in Japan
And in that vegetable tempura set
There was one of the tempuras I wasn't sure -
(I know they're not really called tempuras!)
One of the tempuri
I wasn't really sure what it was
It looked like some sort of fern...
It didn't really taste of anything
It was like eating a non-salty crisp
With the veins
It looked a bit like it might have been lettuce or something
I'm sure it wasn't
But I don't know what it was!
Whatever it was, it'd been baked together
To form like a net
I'm sure you've had it before
But we've never figured out what it was
It's alright!
It was a good meal
Quite pricey
It was just over 5000 yen
So... £45ish pounds maybe...
But I think that's alright
For the quality of the food
And the ingredients
And the presentation, the staff
It was good
Pretty rainbow!
There's a Moomin Bakery Cafe
And a Moomin stand
It's really cute how it's got a little roof
Wow, it's the 30th anniversary of My Neighbour Totoro
Happy 30th birthday Totoro!
We're in LAOX
And they've just had a load of gachapon
Some Hello Kitty stuff
And now there's a big nappy display
And we've got Kumamon in a nappy
Demonstrating the merchandise!
There's a lot of clothes shops
And designer clothes shops and things
Here's Muji
We're going to see if it's got the chopstick holder we've been looking for
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There's a little arcade here
Taito Station
It's got all the UFO catchers & games
The things in the UFO catchers
Are a lot less otaku
Than the arcades in Akihabara
And in Tokyo
They're aimed at a more mainstream audience
So they've got general sorts of plushies
I did spot some Sumikko Gurashi
There's a couple of anime figures
There's some Disney figures as well
I saw a Rapunzel one
Which was quite unusual
And I saw a few of the little Q-Poskets
So I'm wondering if we're going to see more of them
If they're a popular thing at the moment
They look really cute with the big eyes
We're coming up to the Ramen Stadium
Phil's very excited about it
Look at all these ramens!
Here on the 5th floor
Is the Ramen Stadium
It's just a lot of ramen restaurants
All together
They serve different sorts of ramen
It's a lot of ramen!
This is a bit like the Ramen Museum
We went to in Yokohama
Just a collection of different sorts of ramen restaurants
But this is
A bit less themed than that
But it's still a lot of ramen in one place
This one's number one!
At this one you can order from a vending machine too
This is an unusual one
Tomato ramen - you don't see that very often!
Got a nice exhibit here
Of all the different ramen bowls
Silent Rooms?
Some sort of escape room?
Keep out!
Looking good Phil!
What's with all these TVs?
There's a Godzilla projection mapping show
At half seven
"Godzilla the destroy"
The show's starting!
There's a Shonen Jump shop
So after you've watched the One Piece show
You can go & buy all the merch
These are stairs coming up from the subway
And what this is, is for cyclists
It's a little ramp to put your bike on
As you walk up the steps
You put your bike on the ramp
And it's a little conveyor belt
That takes your bike up for you
The other day we couldn't find the yattai, the food stalls
But we've come back to Nakasu this evening
And they're here!
Yattai are really particular to Fukuoka
They're mobile food stalls
That people drive in, in the evening
Set up shop
Put a few stools round
And everyone has a lot of drinks
A lot of food
And has a good time
You don't find them in many other places
So they're really special just to Fukuoka
Now the reason we couldn't find them the other day
Was because it was Sunday evening
And that's a day that a lot of them are closed
But we've come back
On a...
What day is it even...?
Tuesday
Tuesday evening, and they're here
It's about 10 o'clock at the moment
I've heard they're around from about 6pm
To about 1am
So they're open quite late
Lots of people come in for drinks
And it looks like a really good time
People are having fun
It looks really relaxed
Because you're sitting so close together
Everyone's chatting with each other
And just having a good time
So this is on Nakasu
On the southernmost point
It's on the southwest side
Along by the river
Which is a really nice view
They do have them in other areas of Fukuoka as well
This is a surefire place to find them
Most of them have the same sorts of types of food
They serve oden
Ramen and yakitori
Unfortunately, none of them have vegetarian options
So we can't try them
Which is such a shame
I would if they had something I could eat
Because it looks like a lot of fun
We're just walking back to the hotel
Down a backstreet at night
Look how quiet it is!
This is so different from what it's like in Tokyo!