It's lunch time in Tokyo, we feel like ramen so we've come to Tokyo
Station where there is a whole street full called Tokyo Ramen Street and there's eight of
the best ramen shops in Japan to choose from
let's go
so in order to order your ramen you have to pay first so you go up to the vending
machine put in your money select your choice and you grab two tickets and then
get in line
My favorite favorite type of ramen is tonkotsu ramen. Tonkotsu ramen is a
broth made out of the pork bones which has been simmered for hours and hours so
here at Oreshiki Jun they specialise in that type of ramen
It certainly looks good so I ordered their most popular menu item
which is the tonkotsu ramen it comes with a soft boiled egg, two pieces of
chashu which is the pork belly which has been grilled and slow cooked
spring onions, some wood ear fungus, nori (the seaweed), the noodles
which you can actually order as either soft, medium or hard. I ordered hard noodles because I find
they cook whilst they're in the broth anyway and you can see that
milky, creamy broth, it is so thick
It looks real tasty. Wow, it is so thick and it's so full of flavour, it's creamy, it's milky you can
really taste those pork bones which have been simmering for hours and hours
it's real, real good. There's a range of condiments to add so I'm going to add some
roast sesame seeds I love these grinders they just grind as you go
so it releases the aroma of the seeds although that didn't really grind.
I'll just tighten it up ahhh there we go - you can really smell that flavor and I'm also going to
add some of their homemade chilli sauce which I hear has something like 18 ingredients. This looks
so fiery. It'll give the broth a bit of a kick I hope. I'm just going to mix it up.
Give that a go.
Mmmmm it really adds a little bit of a kick it's actually not that spicy heat-wise but it
really adds to the flavor of the broth. I'm going to try some of the noodles. And remember it's not rude to
slurp ramen, if you slurp ramen you're showing your appreciation so get in there.
Hard noodles are really the way to go, they're already quite cooked they still have bit
which is great. And this chashu looks so delicious, it's got a great rim of fat, it's quite caramelised
It's really soft but still has a bit of bite and that fat just melts in your mouth
it is so so tasty. I think this pink stuff on the top is actually fish roe so that's a nice addition. I'm going to try a little bit of it. Mmm quite salty.
It'll just add to the whole mixture- this is tasty. I was starving so I actually
jumped in before I could eat on camera sorry it's really good but not that
great before you add the chilli I've added maybe like six pretty big spoons of
the chilli you into it and that's made this a really good ramen but before it
was actually one of the most flavourless ramen's I've ever had in Japan which is pretty
weird like it looked like it was just going to be beaming with flavour but it
really wasn't once you add all this oil or chilli with
oil and it's got eighteen ingredients I believe so there's a lot going on in
there and it really does help so now you can just slurp it up with absolute
happiness
Mmmm that is so good, it's just heartwarming, belly filling goodness no one ever said
it was healthy but it doesn't need to be when it tastes that good.
That was great
once we added in all the condiments so we added in a pickled ginger, chilli,
garlic, roasted sesame seeds it just made the broth perfect, so the broth was really
rich, really creamy and even though it looked small when it arrived and I sorta thought ohhhh I don't think that's going to fill us up
it actually, like I'm stuffed, it's really filling, really rich. So Tokyo Ramen
Street at Tokyo Station is where we ate there's a range of ramen shops available and they
all do different types of ramen so if you don't feel like tonkotsu ramen the
really heavy rich bowl you can opt for something else
It's great! Now we're going to head to Kappabashi which is an area in Japan
and it's known as 'Kitchen Town' to do some exploring
These metro passes have been a really handy purchase for us we got 72 hour
tourist ones which you can buy from a few different places but we first found
them at the airport you can buy them in the city as well and at stations, Bic
Camera stores. 1500? Yes 1500.1500 yen for a three-day pass. That's about $4
dollars a day which is perfect any metro
If anyone saw our last video we went to the fish market and we got up at 11 p.m.
and we didn't go back to bed until 9 a.m. so today we're feeling a
little bit almost jet lag I love how there are vending machines everywhere in Japan so
you can just quickly and easily get a coffee! That's going to get me through the
afternoon. So if you're into food and if you're into cooking Kappabashi
Street is lined with kitchenware shops so we're going to have a look
around we've heard that there is a sake shop I want to look into that
and there's also the original shop who created plastic food or it was wax food
back then so a lot of the restaurants in Japan, their front windows have plastic or
wax like replicas of the food that they serve and so you know what you're
going to get and how much it costs it's so cool so it's going to find that shop
look at this stack of pancakes, they look so real! Let's check out this shop.
That was awesome- I loved the chicken wing keyring that was me in a keyring, you
can actually go upstairs and book yourself a class to learn how to make
fake food so you're if in town, you have time, want to do something quirky, it's perfect!
If you've watched any of our Mexican vlogs you'll know that we love ice cream
so we've popped into a 7-eleven to find an ice cream for afternoon tea let's see
what they've got
check out this watermelon ice block. It looks epic, I think the seeds are either
chocolate or red bean I think they are
mmm tasty. Kappabasi Street or 'Kitchen Town' is really worth a visit
especially if you have luggage space and you can buy all sorts of bits and bobs
to take home to stock up the kitchen with there's all sorts of crazy things
that you didn't know that you'd need but- wild, Thank you so much for watching we
hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist!
See you next time, sayonara!