Simon: In our videos we are trying to guide you
into the magical world of Ramen.
We've already showed you Tonkatsu Ramen- (yes sir)
we've also shown you Chuka Soba (yes we have)
Today we are going to show you probably one of MY favorite ramens out there-
Tsuke Soba, also known as: Tsukemen.
Martina: So today we're at Tsuke Soba: Katsumto Kanda-
Simon: youre gonna love it !
Oh man- Let me tell you, it is Complicated to film At A Ramen Shop!
This is a very small amount of space,
look at-
Gigantic Martina Out Front,
and Tiny Simon ! [unintelligible] I've lost a lot of weight
Yeah- this is what I'm-
Let me Just tell you, I've lost a lot of weight-
supposed to-
Martinaaah-
Ma-a-an! Are you trying to make me look like in The Lord of The Rings,
when you have like, Gandalf and the...
There's literally other way for us to film this-
No, sorry guys.
We both went for the 'Tokusei'
which is a supreme-
-wouldn't even just say Tokusei, I think that's really weird-
So we went for the Tokusei Chuka Soba- not Chuka,
we went for the Tokusei Tsuke- (Both: laughing) I'm so hungry!
It's just so-
we went for the Tokusei Shoyu Tsukesoba!
it comes with an egg, it comes with char siu, it comes with nori,
it comes with All the little toppings, bits and bobs-
and we even get
TWO different kinds of noodles.
so this is gonna be very unique for a tsukemen shop
because you usually just get One Kind of noodle
but here they're giving you two,
they're giving you the 'hoso-men'
which is a skinny noodle,
and the 'hira-men' which is a flat noodle
so you could-
try two different kinds of noodles
and appreciate both!
it's finally here !
I'll let you have it first because I love you the most-
-I accidentally pressed record this is... recording into my crotch... *chicken noise*
Tha-a-ank Go-o-od
See, for you only 20 seconds have passed,
but for us,
we've been shooting B-cam shots for the past hour and a half-
like this one:
["sexy" voiceover]: Ooh~, pour that broth all over my BODY~
I KNOW IT WOULD BURN, but it'd be worth it~
and this one:
["sexy" voice]: OOOH that [???] -perfect, tender MEAT
AUUUGH
-and this one:
["sexy" voice]: look at the precision!
LOOK at that Citrus Brush!
LOOK AT BOWL OF DELICIOUSNE- oh...
Simon: well that's a terrible angle of you,
why did I even do that one-
But now it's finally time...
for us to eat
Itadakima-a-asu
Oh mercy,
hoh,
all this patience,
OHH-
my god, that was...
mmm
Worth the wait!
MMM!
this bowl is far too hot for me to hold-
wait-
I'll be honest, I dumped a bit of that in my lap.
the broth has like a,
a fattiness, yet a citrus-
yea-a-ah! The yuzu's really cutting through nicely-
most tsukemen that I've had
has been [???]-based
which is a really really thick,
almost like a gravy?
Right!
really really rich,
but this one's more of like uh, shoyu-based?
so it feels a lot lighter, but it still has a bit of like a
buttery, oiliness to it
I really like
being able to go back and forth between the noodles,
because the thin noodles are VERY al dente,
they have a very nice bite to them,
they have, they what? They're:
the thicker noodles
have such a great bounce to it,
kind of like my favorite udon shops
when you bite into the udon-
it really bounces back.
I originally thought the fat noodles
were going to be really dense and kind of like,
much heavier?
but they're not,
they're REALLY light,
they have a nice, kind of like,
bounce to them
and they really pick up, you can FEEL the broth
all over your lips when you're slurping up the noodles
the big ones are a LOT denser
now you might notice-
AAAUGH-
notice- A-U-U-U-GH!
(laughing) -nothing happened!
nothing ha- nothing happened!
I was like,
'O-oh, my god! My food is so good...'
LOOK at this, sexy egg~
that you have going on there,
I LOVE Japanese eggs.
If i ever leave Japan
I'm gonna miss the eggs-
Martina: I'm gonna bring the eggs with me
Simon: I need to bring Japanese chickens with me! [*chicken sound*]
you know what's a really important part
that we haven't explained yet to people?
what?
how to EAT tsukemen.
you might be tempted to take this bowl of broth,
and to dump it all over your noodles
DO NOT!
that would be the wrong thing to do
that's the WRONG way to do-
you're actually just taking it
and you are
putting it into the broth
you're not letting it sit there to get all bloated
pushing it around a bit,
letting it coat on top of it,
and then you're scooping it back up again
and you're slurping it in a totally,
unladylike fashion-
this is what it's all about
mmm
mmm!
the difference between this
and the regular ramen
is that a regular ramen
you should finish within six or seven minutes,
because, the broth is gonna bloat the noodles
so you have to eat that really quickly
here,
the broth and the noodles are separate
so you can take your time a little bit more
this is meant to be,
a summer dish. Kind of rereshing and cool
but I'll be honest,
I only learned that fact half an hour before coming here
and we've been eating tsukemen
All year round!
regardless of the season
it's perfect all times of year
we just need a little slogan underneath Simon when he says that
LOOK
at my beautiful meat.
I don't even need to use my teeth to eat it
Simon: you might notice how the broth on its own is very salty,
it's not meant to be a soup that you drink by itself,
think of it more as just like, a dipping sauce or kind of a gravy
you don't drink gravy on your own, or at least,
you shouldn't be drinking gravy on its own.
the noodles themselves, are really gonna balance out the flavor
of the saltiness of the broth.
you wanna think about the fatty side, the sweet side, the fishy side
it has so many different flavors in it
Before coming to japan, I liked noodle soups
but I never really focused on the noodles themself-
because usually the broth takes over, especially with like
a Pho for example,
but if you have tsukemen-
-but if you have tsukemen, you CANNOT
get the noodles wrong.
I'll tell you that I really noticed how much I like wrapping my noodles in nori
yeah!
normally I'm not a fan of seaweed in my ramen, because
I find it really overpowering. But if you wrap it in the noodles
and then you eat it as a little package, it almost tastes like a little maki roll
I think it's fantastic
are you gonna finish all your noodles?
Umm, I AM gonna finish all my noodles, so-
cause I'm almost done my noodles, and I still have many things I want to say
why didn't you order the bigger noodles then? (laughs)
why- why are you ordering the same amount as me I'm smaller than you
*SIGH* fine
you can have some of my noodles
if you wanna give me all of them I'm totally okay with that-
that's too much.
sumimasen- soup wari[?], Kudasai.
at the end of your meal you can ask for extra soup
it's not gonna be the same as before because it's not salty
they're just kind of like, taking the soup itself
without all the soy sauce in it.
true love is when you share your, end broth... stuff
name that I cant remember, with the person sitting beside you-
I just taught everyone, did you learn as well?
no. I didn't listen to you, I zone you out a lot. (laughs)
this is what 11 years of marriage does,
I listen to everything she says
that's a filthy lie-
I listen to you all the time girl
no, you don't !
what was I telling you this morning?
no. doesn't recall-
you were telling me abou-u-ut, your dream.
which was about?
I don't want this soup to get cold!
o-o-oh, I see.
- you can have some, love.
I remember Simon's dream! He told me his dream but he doesn't remember my dream!
I had a dream that, I was Mexican (laughing) and Donald Trump had erected a wall
-and, Martina was on the other side of the wall in a prison
and I tried to jump the fence, and I couldn't jump the fence!
and like, how am I gonna get to my wife? This is a terrible dream!
and then I woke up pretty upset about it.
"Martina, Martina we were mexican!" and I'm like, "what is happening right now?"
mmm! oh it is refreshing!
thank you so much to Katsumoto for sponsoring this video- If you
recall we did a video about chuka soba a while ago that was
also Katsumoto- they make INCREDIBLE
ramen (yup), we've enjoyed both of them, I hope you open up a
third shop and try something else because they (yes) know what they're doing.
and I feel like this is just, a dream scenario for us (yeah-)
because we ate here before we actually filmed this video (mhm)
and we absolutely loved the tsuke soba, and so for them to be like
"hey could you film here for a sponsored video?" we were both like:
YUP!
If you wanna try this out, and I highly recommend you do-
make sure you click on the info box below, we're gonna have directions,
we're gonna have a blog post-
and I'm gonna give you a heads up! Umm,
we are not the only people that know about how awesome this shop is-
they normally have a queue- give yourself a 20-minute buffer
if you're starving because you're gonna be waiting outside with everybody else
and you're just gonna smell it, and it's gonna TORTURE YOUR SOUL
well I believe we're just about out of steam ! (laughing) so-
I'm gonna go fall asleep on the train ride home.
ok this is it,
I'm going !
goodbye everyone!
thanks for watching!