It's ramen for brunch time and we're ordering it from a vending machine.
We're at Afuri a modern Japanese ramen chain and they serve a ramen which they've
added yuzu to which is a citrus fruit so it gives it a bit of a lighter
taste to the broth so excited to be trying it. Arigatou. Get a load of this
I've ordered the yuzu shoyu ramen so shoyu is Japanese soy sauce and that's
been used to flavor the broth and the broth is made out of chicken and dashi
which is I think it's a type of flavoring for the stock so there's noodles
the ramen are wheat noodles, a perfectly soft boiled egg, cha shu which is pork
some seaweed and some bamboo shoots and you can choose between tanrei or maroaji
so the heaviness of the broth, so I chose
maroaji which means that more chicken oil has been added to the broth to make it
a bit heavier they call it like a thicker mouthfeel. I'm going to get in. I'm going to try a
bit of the broth by itself. Oh my gosh it is so good
it's really light and the yuzu adds a really refreshing citrusy flavour.
Look at those noodles! They say with the ramen that you have five minutes before
the noodles start to deteriorate so you get the bowl in front of you and you gotta start slurping
Perfect texture- the noodles are really bouncy when
you're eating ramen you have to slurp them to show your appreciation this is a
piece of pork loin, it's got quite a bit of gorgeous fat and it's been perfectly grilled
still got a bit of bite, so flavoursome
the bamboo is really crunchy and that extra chicken oil just gives a really nice
coating to the broth. This is heavenly. That was so, so good. We came in and sat down and a
minute later the place was full it is packed in here. You eat super quick and you
get out. Definitely worth coming and trying this ramen from Afuri.
That was our first ramen in Tokyo and that was pretty dang good
it sure was and it was like a clean eating version of ramen I don't know
if it really was I mean there was that extra chicken fat option that was on the
menu but, which we did but, it just felt so light and clean, there's no cloyingness
in our mouths now like you do often get with a full-on bowl of ramen but my gosh
so tasty. It was so good. And Afuri have quite a number of shops around the
city- that bowl of ramen was 980 yen which is about$10USD. Perfect brunch!
Can't shake a stick at that. We're going to have a bit of a shop and then we're
going to meet a friend at a matcha ice cream extravaganza is that
what we could call it? We're going for a matcha extravaganza.
So we've arrived at
Nanaya with our friend Yuko and Nanaya is a gelato shop and they
apparently have the world's richest matcha ice cream crazy! I'm so excited
to try it
matcha is green tea that's been ground up into a powder
I ordered number seven which is the highest grade? The highest grade of matcha,
number four and roasted tea but this is a different type of tea it's not
green tea so I'm going to try the highest quality first. Oh my gosh it's so
intense and it's really savoury. It's quite bitter, the color is insane. Amazing! I'm
going to try number four it's a lot lighter in colour so like a light green hmm
it's sweeter this is so sointense in flavor it's delicious
that was also meeting up with our friend Yuko and now we're heading back to our
neighborhood which is Ikebukuro and we're going to meet up with some
fellow YouTubers for a drink.
We've met up with Nathan and Rebecca from Always a Friday, how good is that for
name? Check out their channel I'll link it up below. Up below? Up above I'll
link it up above these guys are awesome really good travel channel based in Asia
super fun I think we're going to wrap it up. Ummm, I've had one sip of a whiskey highball
and it's already gone to my head, thank you so much for watching we hope
we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler with this video, not a tourist
see you next time, sayonara !!