in this video i'm going to show you guys
my top 10 food at a japanese department
store
as you guys requested i'm doing a video
on my top 10 food at a department store
from the last video what a lot of people
don't realize is that basement
department stores
also called the pachikas have really
high quality foods
today we're going to go to the tokyo
food show because it's one of my go-to
spots here in shibuya for bentos sweets
and all sorts of different kinds of
foods but if you guys are really looking
for some premium sweets just down the
street there's a hikari ikari has a wide
selection of premium treats
and some of them are pretty trendy as
well oh and if you like my tokyo shirt
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super hot out here so let's go down to
the basement and check out the food
tokyo food show is directly connected to
shibuya station
my home station and it's just underneath
of hachiko they even have an eaten space
for anyone to have a quick bite and if
you're not hungry
it's pretty dope just to check out the
cooking demonstrations
alright let's get our food on number 10
curry from niku yama nikuyama
it actually means meat mountain
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isn't that what they say for like when
they yodel nikuyama is an uber popular
meat restaurant in kichijochi which
sometimes takes
months to make a reservation but at the
tokyo food show
you can get their same delicious beef
curry without the weight
it smells so good so you can just get
the regular curry which is about 5 600
yen
but if you want you can also get a
hamburger on top of it or you can get
the katsu which i got what i really
liked about it you get the curry
on top and they separate the rice and
the meat so that it doesn't get all
soggy
which is really really nice it's like i
really appreciate like you can smell the
spices that's what i love about this
place
i love it the one thing i love is like
how thick the curry is it's really
savory you can definitely taste the
spices but it's not like a really really
spicy curry oh and then the meat
the meat is so tender in this well the
katsu curry
and since the package that cuts it
separately when you take a bite into the
cuts
it's still crunchy and crispy which is
really nice
there's a lot of big chunks of meat
that's so good
well it's so good you can taste all the
veggies in here it's all melted i didn't
eat the katsu
but i ate the meat in the curry it
literally melted
oh my god did you ever see the meat yeah
it's really nice
it's good i mean it's a regular meaning
number nine so man noodles with egg from
nadaman nadamon is a staple in most
department stores and
actually has a long history as a
japanese restaurant it even appears in
old literature by japanese novelist
soseki
natsume you can find delicate and
refined japanese dishes here
so this shop has all sorts of japanese
like bentos and like
really like japanese stuff so one of my
favorites is this something it's really
cool because it has an
onsen tamago and i love onsen tamago it
has some shrimp it has some spinach
it's really perfect for the summer
because it's served cold and the soup
itself
it's not like a very liquidy soup it's
more like a gelatin soup
like that
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that would go if you guys have never had
some salmon noodles
basically the soup itself is quite
salty but not like too salty what i love
is this like onsen tomato look at that
that's the best part onsen tamago the
yolk is still
runny and when you like slurp in the
noodles you can definitely taste the egg
this is like one of those things i don't
eat a lot but like sometimes you just
like feel like you want to have some
noodles you want something refreshing
then this is something that i would
definitely get so like some is like a
summer food in japan like my mom used to
make it for like
lunch it's kind of like a lazy food at
the same time but it's super easy to
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make
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when you eat so many you either dip in a
dashi sauce
or you eat it in like a soup never be
like this kind of jelly but
since it's jelly soup it sticks to the
noodle you can taste the soup marts
it's good
number eight eggplant salad from ibisu
daikoku you'll find japanese homemade
salad dishes at a premium quality at
ibisu daikoku once you try it you'll
taste a difference straight away
vegetables are cut
right before being cooked maximizing its
umami flavor
and if you can't decide what to get you
can go for one of their bento options
keeping to a healthy and summer theme
we have an eggplant and erin which is a
mushroom
it's really refreshing and then they
also have like this daikon which then
they put kind of like a ponzu sauce like
a citrus sauce on it
it's really delicious and i like it if i
just like want to keep a little bit
healthy but i also want a lot of flavor
because this is really flavorful because
the daikon soaks up all the flavor as
well as the eggplant and
erin the eggplant is cooked so well it's
like when you eat it it's like kind of
nice and gooey but it still retains
all of the flavor of the juices that
it's been marinated with eddinghi the
mushroom
mmm that's nice it has a bitter mushroom
taste yeah and i just love the ponzu
it's like a very refreshing that citrus
vinegary taste
i know this dish was oroshi salads it's
supposed to be a salad but it seems like
kind of they cook it or grill it or deep
fry it and
you put it in the sauce for like i don't
know like 20 30 minutes or something so
he soaks up the goodies from the sauce
and it it's super soft
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so refreshing and i love how the juice
comes out from the nutsu nasu
number seven japanese pickles from ginza
wakana
this japanese pickle shop always has
interesting pickles and that's why i
love it when we went this time they had
corn
eggplant and even edamame now i know
it may not be that exciting but i got
pickles
so one of like the most popular
snacks in japan during the summer time
are
pickles right right michael do you like
pickles
yeah see michael loves pickles if you'll
go to like a festival
or a fair they have like buckets of
pickles on ice
no remember we went to onsen and they
had like these like pickles
on a stick like they're just cute these
ones are like actually more like
lightly pickled but they are so
delicious so usually when you eat these
you like cut them up into little pieces
eat it with rice or you like you have it
like in a little bowl
share it amongst friends while you're
just like talking around maybe drinking
all right
it's a little sweet and the way like
this place has done it like it almost
like tastes like there's like a rice
wine that is in brixton
or like some alcohol but not not too
strong it's so refreshing
and crunchy like hear this crunch
it's like it's still crunchy number six
menchikatsu from azuma azuma is a fried
food specialty shop
and you guys know i love fried food
uh how many today let's do one
look at that bam open ow it's hot for
future reference
please use some chopsticks look at that
fried
crispy piece of love in my chopsticks
let's take a bite
wow i've heard this before but i forgot
how good it is that's some nice crunch
let me like show you guys
it's really delicious the meat is
intoxicating
it's still like very packed with oil
so like it just melts all those juices
in your mouth
it's not like the healthiest thing which
but that's why we love fried food right
guys so there's actually like two or
three kinds of venchikatsu at the shop
the one that i got
is mixed with pork and beef but the one
that's actually more popular than that
is just like strictly pork but i kind of
like the mix of pork and beef in my
menchikatsu i think that's why like you
get like an interesting
mashup taste that you don't usually get
when you just eat pork or you just eat
beef maybe if you guys go there
definitely try just a pork and just let
me know what you guys think
it's like a thick bread all around thank
mask
oh my meat is so sweet it's not
heavy at all i don't know how they do
that it's so
good number five tamagoyaki from taro
if you're looking for a fluffy
tamagoyaki to add to your meal can't go
wrong at tarot
so what i love about this shop is that
it has all these different types of
tamagoyaki
so if you've never been to the shop
before i recommend getting this triple
set because there's so many different
kinds i think there's like six or seven
different kinds
let's try them out now all right so
we'll start off with the regular
tamaleki you can actually see the layers
there which is like your standard
tabagayaki
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definitely this is like the sugary
version it's like a really really sweet
scrambled egg but it's still good
nice and soft and then this here so this
is a saboro
it has a chicken inside let's taste it
it's not as sweet as a sweet tamagoyaki
but it's still a little bit sweet
i really wish i had some rice for this
ah definitely good
and so this here is kyo food which is
like the kyoto version
and so this one is actually my favorite
out of all of them it's not that sweet
and it's a little more savory so i kind
of like saltier foods so
that's my preference but again it really
depends on what you guys like
but definitely worth a try if you've
never had tamagoyeki this is the spot at
the tokyo food chain
i like the clam pickles too it's nice
number four
seaweed and jacko salad from rf1 sozai
rf1 sozai stands out for its beautiful
section of salad
this is definitely my go-to when i'm
craving fresh greens
so what's nice about this shop is that
it has a bunch of different
like healthy salad options but it also
has some fried food options it also has
some bento options
so it has just like all these different
options but the salad here
is really really good now there's just
so many different ones this one is one
of my favorites
the reason why it's one of my favorites
is because it still has like a lot of
like the japanese ingredients it has
like seaweed
daikon and it has a little fish called
jaco it also has a
ponzu ginger sauce which is you know
vinegar citrus
and ginger and it just makes like a very
a very refreshing dish to eat on a
summer's day
and it's healthy
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i really enjoy the texture because it
has the seaweed which kind of gives it
like kind of like a slimy crunchy
texture
you have the daikon radish which then
gives it kind of like crunchy
pear and just overall it has just a
bunch of like different textures but i
just
love the crunchiness of the japanese
ingredients so
definitely if you're gonna get a salad
get this one
number three sushi rolls and onigiri
from koichi on
koichian is a sushi and onigiri shop
that you can find in many depachikas and
it's been one of my favorites for a long
time now so
this place you've actually probably seen
it in tokyo skytree but i'm showing you
different ones that i had last time this
is the negitoro which is
also really good look at that like
luscious
piece of negitoro right there you go to
the konbini and it's just like
they give you like a small dollop of
nagitoro and you're like oh
dude where's that negitora but look how
thick that is like this is like more
fish than rice
usually
that is simply heaven this is like the
perfect food for
on the go you just like grab a couple of
onigiri throw it in the bag they come in
these plastic trays
they do get squished sometimes i've done
that before but you know it's still
pretty good like on the go food this is
the onsen tamago
i've actually like never seen this
anywhere else where they give you a full
onsen tamago and they wrap it in this
like triangle onigiri pretty freaking
awesome i'm going to eat his head first
and then i'm going to eat his leg
the egg is nice because it's been like
slightly marinated so i think it's maybe
like in
your miso base sauce and then it like
soaks up the miso and you can definitely
taste it in the egg
and michael is mentioning that i got
stuff in my teeth
i always have food in my mouth and dude
look
it's right there back from that teeth
cleaning break so if you guys are
looking for some good onigiri
this is a shop to go to number two
premium egg
sandwich from recipe and market just
check out how soft and light this egg
sandwich is
i just love this shop's premium egg
sandwich i've already featured this
fluffy creation in my shibuya street
food video
so i'm gonna skip the full review here
but if you want to see it
check out the link in the video
description definitely i must try if you
love egg sandwiches
and number 1 beef bento from kakiyasu
kakiyasu is a well-known matsuzakaya and
kakiyasu wagyu beef producer they grow
and process their own meat cutting out
the middleman
this allows their customers like me to
eat premium wagyu beef at reasonable
prices
so this is the koroge wagyu which is a
type of beef it's supposed to be one of
the more premium beefs here in japan
what's nice about these like bento boxes
is if you're actually gonna get on the
train or you're gonna get on the
shinkansen then you know there's stuff
at tokyo station but
you can actually pick up a bento box
here and then you can bring it on
to the train with you this one has wagyu
it has rice
spinach egg and then it has some pickled
daikon and so this one that i got
is a tsukiyaki flavor so it looks so
good look at that i can smell the onions
look at that beautiful meat that'll make
your mama cry
why does your mom have to cry i don't
know because
it's so good because it's like you're
crying like you know when you're
going
that's good the meat itself is really
well seasoned it is
sweet and it is savory both at the same
time and i think
the meat is like just really really
strong in taste so like it mellows out
the taste with the rice
there's actually gobo in it too so gobo
is a root so it gives it kind of like an
awesome like crunchy texture to it and
you feel a little bit more healthy
because you have some gobo well the one
thing one interesting note gobo they
actually make
fries out of this so they take like
grobo sticks and actually fry it it's
pretty good so if you're ever in japan
and you get a chance try to get some
fried gobo the thing is that tokyo food
show there's just
so many different places where you can
get bentos but if you're looking for
like a wagyu dish
then definitely this is the place to go
my
um so there are a lot of different types
of bento box in this shop
but if you're hungry and if you're meat
eater
definitely choose this one you mishi
because this one has the most meat
the one says yakiniku bento i don't know
if you can read the kanji but like that
one
has like a little hoo in it to like make
it
look more like volume-y so like it has
less meat it's cheaper but like
it's only like 300 yen difference so
definitely get this one
when you eat good meat you know it's
good meat because it tastes good
even fat tastes good and surprisingly
the rice is also good you never really
pay attention to the rice especially
like when it comes
in this form like all covered in meat
but this
rice is like so sweet it just goes well
with meat
if you like rice and if you have had
like different types of fries you know
the difference in this is good
all right so that concludes my top ten
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