in this video I'm gonna share with you
guys my favorite street food spots and
shin-okubo so Shino Kubo is known as
Koreatown and the food here is amazing
you won't believe how authentic it is
and today I'm going to try to take you
guys to my top ten spots but Korean food
may be a little hairy so I might be
struggling to make it all the way
through to the top ten so I'll just do
my best and hope you guys enjoy and
guess who's joining me today guys
Michael many tourists visiting Japan
don't know there's a small and bustling
Koreatown
aka k-town just one station away from
Shinjuku and walking distance from the
Kabukicho area it's filled with cosmetic
shops kpop shops
idols handing out flyers but most
importantly it has some of the most
unique street food options in tokyo and
today i'm gonna take you guys to some of
my favorite spots starting with one of
the trendiest street foods the korean
cheese dome number one cheese dog from
Jono hot dog you'll probably find this
shop first when you start walking on the
Main Street of k-town so no hot dogs are
made to order
they even wrap the cheese with dope
right before they fry it and the Korean
way to eat it is a coated with sugar
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corn dog and it has potatoes on it so
these like little chunks here are potato
this is so heavy it's amazing I rolled
it into some sugar to get that sweet
feel and then it has some ketchup and
mustard right there it does smell like a
corn dog and potato fries so let's just
have a bite
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oh yeah oh that's not a taste you find
in Japan ever it's so rich you know I
get the cheese in there and then this is
supposed to be kind of a savory salty
dish you're expecting but then you get
the sweet hints of the sugar mixes well
together but it's a bit shocking you can
see all the love and I see at home just
take another bite and I'm not sure
rollers delicious like I really thought
this thing was gonna be oily but it's
not that oily I think it helps that they
put it on that tray so all the oil can
leak off this like truly feels like
American festival food it's like a gut
bomb like if you really wanted to like
fill up your stomach then this is the
way to do it and they have a rainbow
mozzarella here too and this place
actually has sausages inside and the one
at Seoul each of us has a spicy option
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number two hot dhoka from Pope oh-ho
ticket it sounds like a hot dog but it's
a completely different treat
it's basically a fried pancake with
fillings this shop offers various
options from honey red beans to a
saltier side like kimchi and ham and
cheese at the honey and cheese pancake
oh you can really smell the honey oh my
hands are getting sticky - and it's like
fresh off the griddle just take the
first bite mm-hmm
Wow you know what it reminds me of like
if you ever had a churro kind of dislike
that like a really hot fresh off the
fryer churro the bread itself is chewy
well they definitely like I feel like
they put some cinnamon on here even
though I didn't ask for it which is
really nice
oh there you go so there you can see the
cheese right there it was like embedded
inside of that pastry a very very
delicious treat number three
fried chicken from Cano done chicken six
seven eight k-town is definitely not
short of fried chicken shops but this
shops chicken has some of the crispiest
in town so this is one of my favorite
fried chicken places and Chin'toka vu
this is like half a set as eight pieces
look so good lovely goodness Cap'n
Crunch and got nothing on this
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wow that is so crunchy meat is so tender
like I just took a bite of that you can
see the moisture still in the fried
chicken
this is this iciest fried chicken here
and it's a super spicy look at that it's
like glazed in the coating alright let's
take a bite Wow the sauce so thick you
can still get the crispy crunchy shell
of the skin and the sauce is like super
glad you so much like I've ever had like
a sweet and sour sauce it's like that
but a hundred times spicier the first
puppet this is super super spicy oh my
god it's my mother's Empire tastes good
it's sweet and so Japanese I say it's
Korean it's been five minutes since I
ate the spicy fried chicken and look at
this I was like I'm still sweating
reading so much for the day I can
usually do 10 because there's like light
meals like marry Japanese man all the
food we're eating and it is so heavy
look there's eight pieces here there's
eight pieces here
I'm not gonna be all finish on this
hmm so quick tip for you guys right
behind me is a public once in and it's
super cheap what's nice about this place
is that they're okay with tattoos you
guys are always asking me where's the
good onsen that accepts tattoos this
place is your spot it's super cheap and
if you're full from eating food come
here and take a bath all right let's
continue on to some food number four Sun
nook sheet from cage on day Sun machi
literally translates to live octopus in
Korean and it's one of the more unique
food experiences in k-town warning skip
this part if moving food makes you
squeamish
they just cut it up and it's all fresh
this is my first time I've ever had it I
wanted to try this place for a while now
and then this is the first time we're
showing you guys all right I'm gonna
have this one oh it's like sticking to
each other so yeah they're like the
suction cup oh it's on my skin I'm like
China fighting I'm trying to grab it but
they're fighting like them they're not
letting they're not letting go oh look
at that it's moving in there oh it's
like it's self saucing itself it doesn't
like this salt that's what we're just
moving in your mouth I don't know how I
feel about this anymore like when you
first put it in your mouth you taste the
sauce kind of like really slimy and I
kind of moving around in your mouth not
doing you bite it a few times it doesn't
move so much anymore it's not like
trying to grab you anything you can see
like after a while it just it stops to
move around so much but I think if you
shake it like this then it like moves
around have another bite hmm
Oh suction the side of my cheek good
look at this gonna eat it so this to me
is like the freshest sashimi you could
ever have
I don't know but it just doesn't feel
right for some reason I don't know why I
mean I've had like a lot of fresh fish
before but I don't know what do you guys
think would you guys try something like
this is it like too fresh anyways let me
know in the comment section number five
top okie from john o hadouken this is
the same company as a other journal but
i had to include this shop for its
various menu items
takobi fried chicken and hot okra but
today we're throwing down on one of
Michael's favorites topokki alright
check out this top okey
mmm-hmm the sauce itself is not too
spicy it is doable but maybe the people
that aren't like really used to spicy
sauce and maybe won't want to stay away
from this but it is good I like spicy
but at the same time it's like a mix of
between a savory and a sweet it's not
like super salty and it's not super
sweet it's like it's just like an in the
middle are you like a best way to
describe it is like mochi with a Korean
twist like a spicy twist to do way too
spicy for me than you did in Korea
oh this green onion right here also has
opened up right now the magenta sticky
but so far so good it is spicy like the
sauce itself is not that sticky as you
can see really like watery sauce and
number six the copy from Petco tip on
the cowboy shops littered the streets of
k-town these days Judith trendy
popularity
so this k-town future would not be
complete if I didn't recommend one of my
favorite hobby restaurants Pegu tip on
by the star chef Nick John one but I
love about this fun is it's decently
priced while also being delicious so
check this out this is duck Calvi look
at all of that cheese is dripping that's
amazing
feel like I'm gonna burn my tongue if I
have this right
that's amazing the chicken is tender and
it just wrapped around and all that
cheese and I had a piece of onion in
there that just covered it the flavors
think you've almost feel like it's like
really jumpy but I think it is pretty
junky it's building anything like a
thing of nachos and all the cheese is
just so good
what's nice about the cheese is that it
like balances out the flavors because it
could be too spicy with just a sauce
alone
but when you add the cheese that kind of
mellows out the cake I don't know where
we might have to tap out after this
because this is just like so much food
all right one thing before I let you
guys go the cheese is definitely a must
with this order it is so good this is
recommended to me by one of my Korean
friends and definitely this is one of my
favorite coffee places in shin-okubo all
right so that concludes my top 10 our
way guess we didn't hit top ten all
right so that concludes my top street
food spots in k-town sorry I didn't
finish all of it is just like the food
is so heavy here first time I failed I'm
sorry guys I'll do better next time
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