Hey there everyone ! Welcome back! Today I am in Harajuku with Dustin of Solo Travel
Blog. Today we’re gonna do a we're having some of the craziest wackiest sweets. What
do you think?
I can’t wait to eat some tasty treats and nice eats.
Hey that rhymes.
Okay let’s do it, let’s go.
Hey there everyone! I am back for round two of a food tour. I’m gonna hit Harajuku with
Dustin.
It seems Harajuku is known for its sweets. It’s almost as sweet factory here. My goal
is to not go into a diabetic seizure. There’s a lot of variety here.
Yeah here we got some crepes action here. Crepes are almost a must in hard you cool.
You’ll find there’s many of these crate stores around. So there’s one crepe place
here and one there.
And they offer a wide wide variety. There are some with like eggs and meats and stuff
like that. It’s not only sweets. There’s pizza tuna for example always a classic right?
It’s a hard decision there’s just so much of a selection here. Blueberry cheese what
is this? You’ve got the cheesecake blueberry cheesecake crêpe. I love cheesecake you know
what I mean? You got that green tea thing going on with my strawberries and some red
bean with my strawberries and cream. I almost feel like this is a really delicate crêpe.
If I squeeze it too hard it’ll come out like goop. I’m going in.
It’s like a green tea strawberry sundae. So when you open it up it kind a looks like
a mini multi layered bean burrito. But I Kinda almost do you prefer like if I had a cup then
I can leisurely scoop it and choose what I want in my mouth. It’s more like a marathon
not a sprint. OK, heading over to Dustins. Extreme cheesecake action. Not for the faint
of heart. Oh that’s yummy. Nice flavor combo. Yeah. It is. It’s very fluffy but the cheesecake
is very fluffy as well. It’s almost as soft as a cloud. Like a pillow. Wow. This is ice
cream. Wow. Look at that. Bad ass. Yeah. Let’s see if it actually looks like the plastic
model. It looks like the model. A little bit minty. This cookie action is quite crunchy
On the top here. Kind of like cookies and cream type. Maybe not as good as the last
one though. I’d give it a three out of five.
So mine is the almond berry. I just put into a berry. I think it’s gelato. Right now
it’s so hot I feel like I could just wait this over my face just to cool off. It’s
a good way to cool down from the heat.
OK so here we have a menu selection. These are all potato chips. Oh my God and you’ve
got potato chips with ice cream, chocolate and chocolate, double cheese. I kind of want
to get one of these weird ones like maple sera up cream cheese. It’s kind of tempting
also the ice cream with chocolate on it. Dustin was telling me about omiyage. Yeah the gifting
culture. So a lot of the stores they have these pre-packed boxes . With the snacks in
them. So then when Japanese people visit a new place if they’re from out of town they’re
visiting Tokyo from Osaka or something, they can get some famous snack and share it with
their friends or family or coworkers. So yeah it’s funny to find all these gift box of
potato chips here. Please feel free to try one of these., Hard crunch. Oh let’s try
one of these roasted seaweed with soy sauce. I think I need one more. This is got a nice
deep crunch to it. Very satisfying. Let’s open this pleasure box. So you can see the
process going on. There we go! They made it for that individual or two individual cups.
It’s not like a mass production here. No it’s not. Kind of makes a girl feel special.
Thank you. New pair You got some maple syrup and triple cream
cheese on there. Pretty nice. Here we go. The flavor is subtle. But it’s pretty good
yeah I was expecting more of a explosion of flavors. It’s actually pretty good in a
subtle way, I like it. Three out of five diabetic dogs?
It taste more like a cereal. OK, a lot more satisfying with the crunch, love the salt
that’s on my lips. And the cream cheese. The sugar offset The salt. Makes me feel conflicted
with the light. I want to give it to Fohr. Yeah wow. Yeah the cream cheese and a maple
syrup together with the salt?
It’s Calbee time baby. Basically this is the original one that’s made for a snack
for a convenience store. And then they’ll have in store in a hardship to hear that sells
like a fresh made version. So we’re gonna compare the fresh made calbee potato sticks
to the convenience store variety.
This is the most common one, the vegetable one you’ll see everywhere. But they have
a rare varieties, some taste like mint taco fish eggs, some taste like olive oil or some
taste like seaweed there’s a lot of varieties. Is the most common one, so let’s try the
real versus the convenient store one. Can you smell it? That size them up. This is the
real deal. All right everybody it’s time for the simultaneous bite ready?. Let’s
do this.
Got a hard punch on mine. It’s got a nice vegetable flavor to it and there’s a little
dehydrated carrot flavor. Simultaneous bite. Wow. Well?. It’s pretty incredible. It’s
got a hard crunch on the outside and when you bite into it it goes. This is more like
you’re biting onto a rock hard dehydrated potato. I think I actually like this better
maybe because I’m used to it normal where is this is like better than a normal french
fry but it still like a normal french fry. Where is this is like a unique snack. And
it’s got a nice tactile crunch. You know your eating something here, you know this
is like eating air more substantial for me. This is more substantial to me. That’s true.
Nice satisfying thing about this is you got the hard crunch. I think if I eat it to it
one time it’s going to give it a little more flavor somehow someway eating to it one
time actually does and has the flavor. It’s actually pretty good. That’s legitimate,
yeah because when I eat fries I always eat more than one.
It seem kind of like that. Whuuut? Sold out. Wow this must be very popular. We start to
distribute tickets before one hour. So yeah they’re known for having this jiggly fluffy
pancakes. I didn’t know was that popular. I didn’t know that either. But now I kind
of feel like now I feel obsessed with going here. My life cold. Supposedly those pancakes
are so fluffy they’re supposed to literally melt in your mouth. Walking in the back alley
of Harajuku is cool a lot more mellow you’ll find a lot more salons here. It’s kind of
nice to get away from the crowds for a change. That’s Harajuku there. Yeah it says it’s
Harajuku street but I consider it Omoetaesando.
We’re going in for the cocky glory. Oh my God look they have cheese, Kakako I’m kind
of glad that Dustin ordered the Kinako I got the Matcha green tea which has some a little
bit of Kinako mochi, some Azuki bean. Now you’ll find shave ice in a lot of different
countries anyway it’s called shaved ice in Hawaii it’s called patbingsu in Japan
they call it Kakigori.. Look at that Matcha. He’s already dug in to his. It’s actually
really good I’m surprised but it’s really creamy actually. The added cream to the ice.
It looks creamy oh, I feel like if I just sneeze it’ll just blow away, look at all
that Matcha green tea powder. I got a mouthful of Matcha and it’s creamy creamy shaved
ice what I like is that it’s not melting very quickly. The Matcha powder has a little
bit of sugar to it. But the Azuki bean helps the flavor also it’s got sweet powdery sugary
chewy fine ice cream. Well it’s like An avalanche of Matcha.
Whoa whoa. Pretty good it’s good right yeah. You got some dust flying around there your
mouth so you got wet and dry a Textra combo. Compared to yours which one do you like better
I think they’re really similar it’s just different powders. I like mine better. I would
say this is a five and easy five. Yes five and five. So this is a little pricey for me
because it’s around $10. For this. But I would say this is an experience. I’m glad
they forced us to get to now. What we found Dustin and I is that if you have two people,
you can’t share a dish. It’s your own places we’ve been going to where we’ve
asked for one dish to share they’ve told us that we each have to individually order
a session for a dish. Right there is give Gindaco and it’s known for its takoyaki.
I’m very excited about this I dreamed about this we got to try it. This is the right regular
takoyaki there’s takoyaki with teriyaki sauce, with egg and teriyaki sauce, and then
with cheese and mentaiko which is fish eggs. I kind of feel like just a regular takoyaki.
Look at that squid it’s huge chunks of squid.. He’s putting more stuff on it. I’ll look
at that. Is that much a partner? No it’s nobody’s seaweed. And this is my takoyaki.
OK I can hardly wait. It’s all so soft. Look at me. It’s so fresh. It’s good kind
of has a seafood flavor. It’s partially cooked it was still soft inside it melts in
your mouth I guess the sauce. And another one.My taste buds swirled around. The squid.
It’s like the universe in itself.
So in this area you have rainbow sweet cotton candy and I think another place out in front
and if you seen some Instagram photos out there you’ll notice the rainbow colors cotton
candy here. The cotton candy here ranges anywhere from ¥600 to 1500 p.m.. That’s roughly
around six to $15. For one of those nice large corn like Instagram and all cotton candy‘s.
Man he went for the big one too. You can go for the little cotton candy with three flavors
or you can go for the monster one with the rainbow colors.
Another rage is this sucker sucker soft serve ice cream that comes in this sandwich. That’s
over funny the bird is stocking people below he’s trying to see where the food is going
to come from or where it’s going to drop. That’s a pretty good lineup of long longer
and longest things. Right here right next to this area.
So all of its times. Medium spicy. Let’s try some of the garlic right there. Original.
I love fries first of all and second of all they are illegal links. Look at this it’s
the length of my forearm. I’ve got a little bit of the original right here. With a mild
spicy. And then garlic. Let’s try the mild spicy. Mildly spicy it’s like thousand Island
dressing. With a little cake. Is the little manes to the sauce. Like a garlic mayonnaise
sauce the fries taste like normal fries but it’s just interesting that it’s so long.
And that you can squirt on your sauce. I’m gonna have to run around Harajuku after this.
After all the sweets I’ve been eating the entire day eating something salty and simple
is really nice. Very stable as a promise to me in a town where there’s a lot of novelty
foods the concept of long price it’s pretty brilliant. The price of street food and suites
in the hard cheeky don’t run cheap they can run anywhere from roughly 400 yen to 1200
¥. So you roughly paying for maybe around 5 to 8 dollars, sometimes even $10 per treat.
The only thing is that these streets are fairly sizable and large. If you have a sweet tooth
or a fondness for novelty things he never tried before, it can quickly add up.
So what do you think about today? I thought the things that we tried? It was actually
really good. Some of my things were surprisingly good. I thought Harajuku is having some modern
sweets. But because in Japan it’s sometimes traditional versus modern stuff. But I didn’t
think it would be that good. It’s actually really good. I was surprised. Any quick tips
for traveling through hardship like getting food or just travel. It seems like going early
and it was a good thing. We did it gets very crowded around 12 or 1 o’clock. It’s actually
better to go at around 10 o’clock like we did. I think. Yeah I agree. Yeah I’ve been
here later and it’s like a madhouse. Again please check out Dustin‘s channel and check
out the video he did on the scary tour. We have two separate two separate styles. Interpretations.
So yeah check it out. Till then travel safe smart and fun I will see you here in Tokyo.
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