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favorite food spots at naritasan
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so i'm back with another japanese street
food video and we're doing an
old school style here at narita-san it's
only a 10-minute train ride from narita
airport so you can come here if you're
on a layover
have a hangover or you're going to be
staying there for a little bit you can
come here and have a street food
day just walking around you feel like
you've transported to the edo period
so i'm really excited to show you this
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let me show you this
wonderful place after you get off narita
station there's an
800 meter long omotesando shopping
street sando for short that leads
directly to naritasan
shinshoji temple which dates back more
than a thousand
years this area flourished during the
edo period and you can still see some of
the influence today
there are even japanese zodiac statues
throughout the street to help remind you
uh what year you were born number one
hayashira no osembe so if you've ever
wanted a senbei but on a stick
then this place has you covered let me
show you
this first spot is located just before
the hill starts to slope down to the
temple it's the oldest
rice cracker shop in all of narita and
is the only shop that makes rice
crackers from their own batteries
basically it is like a rice cracker on a
stick
they just dip this straight into the
miso they put some negi which is
onions and you eat it just like that let
me take a bite
oh the senbei itself has really
soaked in all of that miso flavor and
you get like a strong
miso punch because this is kind of like
a very concentrated miso feels like
because everything has been sucked into
the senbei our onions are
a nice touch as well and what's
interesting is that you expect this to
be
really savory and salty which it is but
like you also do get a lot of that
sweetness coming from the miso so it has
a really
interesting flavor very very unique and
very very japanese
usually senbei is like really dry
and crispy this is still crispy but you
do get a little bit
of the softness because it's been
recently dipped in miso
so it's softer than normal and if you
touch it it's
really really sticky i kind of also like
it on the stick because
your hands don't get so sticky you can
see that it has the
onions on here and it's not falling off
oh i guess some of it is falling off
so i love this place you really feel
like you're walking in the edo period
you can just see how historic a lot of
these buildings are
number two kintokino amataro so if
you're ready to get your anko funko on
then this is a spot let's go this shop
is a small
sand that specializes in that sweetie
sweet obanyaki a traditional japanese
style pancake with a bean paste filling
they make their bean paste fresh every
day just like
you know how someone's grandma made
anyway it's beloved by many visitors
it's been a naritasando
staple for seven years
the sun is just over my head now i'm
feeling the day
i'm really feeling this day so this spot
has only
two items on the menu it has azuki on
and shirohan which is a
white bean paste on meaning uncle look
at this they just
took this off of the stove or the
griddle
your little pancake bakey dig let me
just break it open the whole
shiro on
oh it has that like pancake smell right
you can see that it's like
still moist
initially it has a kind of like a mellow
sweetness and then after a few seconds
it just starts to get sweeter and
sweeter
if you look at the texture of this
ankles it's not really really
mashed up and fine and silky like you
can still see like little
pieces of bean it's called the subun
it's kind of like very much
like cream and the outer shell is very
much pancake like but it's a little bit
crispier on the outside it's like really
really firm almost like has a crispiness
to it but then on the
inside it's really doughy i mean i could
have gone with a red bean paste today
but
i don't know i was feeling like getting
the cheeto on which is you know means
white bean
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that said let me continue on with this
food tour
number three kawatoyo this next place
has been around since
1910 and they made some of the freshest
inagi and narita
i'm so excited to take you inside let's
go now
this spot is one of the most popular
unagi eel restaurants on the street
the highlight of this spot is that you
can watch the chefs prepare and grill
the heels right in front of the shop in
fact the eel is a local specialty of the
area as it's situated between
lake inaba numa and tonai river so no
surprise you'll find several unagi
restaurants along the way
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all right let's pop the lid off this
bad boy bam
look at that unagi unagi sitting on top
of a rice bed
wow the smells just coming from this
entire restaurant is so strong you just
have that grilled smell and it is
amazing in here
i cannot wait to take a bite oh there we
go
look at my first bite
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that is buttery soft there is
so much umami coming from this the eel
itself is soft
and moist and tender you can definitely
get that
grilled flavor and then just on top you
have kind of the sweet sauce and just a
little bit
kind of um grilled so you get kind of
like a crispiness to the top
layer oh there is just so
much flavor packed into this oh and let
me just throw some sancho pepper on
there just to give it that little
zing you know i do like to feel that
bite
this is definitely worth every penny
and it's no surprise that this place has
been around since
1910 to be around that long you know you
have to be making something good the
thing about unagi is that it's one of
nurita's
specialties in fact there's actually
quite a lot of different stores here
alright so i'm going to finish this and
i'm going to take you to the next spot
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number four cher's kitchen so this next
spot has a lot of chiba specialties
let's see what they have in store
today we are at cher's kitchen look at
this
and all the contrast is really bad right
now but nothing
you can do maybe i'm gonna sit over here
i think that's a lot better
it's already melting it was like super
fluffy duffy when it came out
it's starting to melt because it is so
warm i just gotta take the first bite
here
wow when you press it in it's a really
really
soft texture like you're pushing into a
bunch of like bubble wrap
wow that is a fluffy this is
matcha it's a little bit on the bitter
side it has some like sweet probably
like condensed
milk on there gives it like a really
really nice sweetness so you have the
bitterness plus you have the sweetness
so it's just the perfect treat on a hot
day like this
it was so cool when it was coming out
you can see like the little like
thinly sliced pieces of shaved ice it's
like leafing
back and forth but it is so thin that it
melts
so quickly in this heat you get kind of
like this clumpiness but still you can
see the little
frosty sections i'm so glad i can share
these little moments with all of you i
know you guys watch this on my saturday
morning sometimes your friday night i
just get to be able to spend this time
with all of you which i really love
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number five narita yume bokojo so if
you're looking for that local farm fresh
it doesn't get more local or more fresh
than this place
let me show you narita yume bokujo is a
famous farm in narita where you can
bring your family to play with the farm
cows and goats
and they even have shops where you can
enjoy their farm fresh dairy products so
if you want to get a taste of that cow's
fresh drip drip then look no further
they even have four surface shops at
naritasando and at this one
they have gelato
oh right
so if you're going to narita you have to
have
some narita soft cream they have their
own farmland here and
they have the freshest soft cream
straight from their farm this thing is
already dripping it is warming up out
here
wow that is amazingly creamy like a very
very
milky milky taste that is a so fresh
i am digging this so they have so many
different flavors
they have pumpkin raspberry like they
have all sorts of different flavors but
i decided to go
with the milk flavor just because you
know that's where the cows come from
that's where the cows come from no
the cows don't come from wow
what an amazing treat what a beautiful
day we had let's move on to the next one
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so this next place is my secret garden
let me show you why and number six
miyoshiya
this hidden traditional japanese sweets
cafe is tucked away through a small
alleyway
just next to kawatoyo if you're looking
to surprise that special someone
then this may be just a spot
wow just look around you can't get more
authentic
japanese than this right there you can
eat inside if you want but i've decided
to eat outdoors which is a pretty
awesome and like there like there's a
stream
so you can see it just all behind me
it's perfect so i got their gente
like seasonal menu this is called their
sakura sweets i thought we might go with
something a little more standard to show
you all but look how
cute this little dessert is well it's
not so little look at how many different
ingredients it has
so you have the chiffon cake you have a
strawberry you have the cream sakura on
you have vanilla ice cream then you have
like a sakura wadabee mochi this has
everything it comes with a special pork
knife
fork ba-boom there you go
this is amazing look what we're eating
today
um the water bee mochi does have that
like sakura flavor to it but it's really
really light so this is the jikasey
sakura hon i thought it was gonna be
like a sherbet but in fact it's sakura
itself so that is a pretty dope mmm got
some hojicha right here
nice warm hoijicha some more cream and
chiffon cake
oh that's kind of like a light chiffon
cake there's the chiffon cake right
there it's nice and spongy
the best part is you get to like mix and
match all the different flavor
combinations you can make the sakura on
with the water
mochi dip it in some whipped cream and
then you got this kind of
messy little pocket of joy right here
this is one of one of those places that
michael loves to go to
you can come here with your friends and
just have some tea
and a little like light snack and just
talk about what's going on in the world
what's going on in your lives how your
baby is growing and that kind of stuff
this is perfect so what'd you think of
my top spots at night
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