We're Chasing a Plate and today we're in Kobe Japan. That can only mean one thing
Kobe beef! Let's go and check it out
the meat has arrived and it is the most beautifully marbled meat I have
ever seen it's just almost white there's so much fat it looks beautiful and we
have to cook it ourselves we've heard that you cook it medium-rare and then that's it
you whip it off as soon as it's medium rare. Not sure how we're gonna gauge that
but we'll give it a go! It's going on. Look at that sizzle! All I've done is dipped
the beef in salt and pepper I'm just going to go for it like that
oh wow it just melts in your mouth the fat is the most delicious thing I've
ever tasted and the flavor of the beef is smoky. There's just so much going on. It's amazing!
I'm going to try my first bit just like Sheena did with nothing but salt and a
little bit of pepper let's see ah
No way! Oh my god, the fat bursts out of the meat but not in a thick gluggy way
it's like having the finest quality butter melting it and just drinking a
little bit. If you're wanting to spend a bit of money in Japan on a meal then
the best thing to do is to eat at lunchtime because they have amazing lunch sets
even in the most fanciest restaurant so this is what we've come to do today
we're having a lunch set at Nishimuraya in Kobe and we've ordered a yakiniku
premium set which has both got short rib and premium Kobe beef it also
comes with salad, rice, miso soup, a little side dish which today is daikon and
some stewed beef as well as some tsukemono or pickles it's a really affordable way
to eat really well. I am going to dive in and try this premium Kobe beef
just with salt and pepper again
oh my gosh
that short rib the first piece I ate was like a tough steak compared to this
this is the softest meat I have ever eaten and it that fat just slowly seeps from within
it is a flavour sensation
Kobe beef has incredible marbling through the meat and I think that's why
we're so stressed about overcooking it because if you leave it on the grill
it will literally just dissolve because the melting point of the fat is
a lot lot lower than normal being beef, there's all these urban legends to do with how the
Kobe beef gets so incredibly fatty I suppose. There's all these stories of farmers
massaging the cows with sake or feeding them beer or playing classical
music while they're eating so that it enhances their appetite I just love
hearing all those stories but unfortunately I found out they're really
are just urban legends so it's really more the exception than the rule and a lot of
farmers say they wouldn't dream of feeding their cows beer but they make
for good stories right
I'm trying the premium one this time -it just looks so luscious I've got salt and pepper. Simple.
oh my god this is just phenomenal oh my god
I remember watching another YouTuber that we really like David from the
First World Traveller and his reaction to eating Kobe beef when he was in Kobe
was really big. And I was thinking wow it's pretty over-the-top it must be must be
pretty good I totally get his reaction now because this is just phenomenal and
you have to come here here if you're in Japan you have to. Sadly that's all over
what a treat I'll put a little overlay now of the menu so just pause it if you
want to see like the lunch special prices so it's all graded so the more you
pay the more premium your meat's going to be so we went second to top-tier
Incredible. And it was about nine slices of Kobe beef and you get it and you sort
of think oh that's really not much but it is so rich- it was enough hahah. It was enough
I could have done more being a greedy guts but I feel very full, it is so rich like
Sheena said and as Sheena said earlier lunch time is the time to come and do this
because dinner was more than double? Yeah. More than double the price or about
double but you didn't get the rice, you didn't get the miso you didn't get
the daikon, none of those side dishes so definitely lunch time, it's still
expensive but it's not that bad for what you're getting yeah and we chose
Nishimuraya for our lunch because they're actually a butcher so they're a
butcher and then they opened a couple of restaurants and I think that's
great like they're handling the beef they're going to pick the beef for their
butcher shop it just gives it a more authentic feel and my god their beef was
incredible. We'll pop details below of the restaurant so you can find it in fact we
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videos a week coming at ya. We are in need of a bit of a wander I think, so we're going to have a
wander around Kobe, explore the town and see what we
can find
so we did a little bit of googling and we discovered that the Nada district
in Kobe is like a primary sake producing region in Japan so we've come
to Nada and we are going to do a bit of a brewery hop we're at the Hakutsuru
brewery and museum and there are people over there cutting the grass with
scissors- the garden is impeccable let's go and find some sake
really cool museum- it's free for starters which is brilliant
so much detail a lot of it's in Japanese but there's plenty in English
and a English leaflet. This is the unpasteurized sake which we now get to
try so normally sake- the whole process is done and then it gets
heated to pasteurize it to kill all the bugs and off it goes to stores. Here at
the brewery you can try unpasteurized because it comes
straight from brewery you drink it and it would go off really quickly otherwise
so. So smooth wow that is good it just slips down your throat with no burn no
tingle
Very interesting, great-tasting and now there's another brewery to find
that was Fukuju brewery we got to try lots and lots of different sake and
my favorites were actually the yuzu sake which was really strong in
citrus taste and smell and also the sparkling sake which was only 6% but it was so refreshing
That was a fascinating experience there's many more breweries
around this part of town. What's the area called? Nada. Nada, totally worth
exploring we only went to two both were free
both were brilliant, tasting was free as well but there are breweries all around
this area so definitely make this part of your itinerary if you're in Kobe. We
haven't mentioned but we're actually on a day trip to Kobe
we're staying in Osaka and the train only takes about half an hour if you get
an express train so we thought- we were going to stay here- but we thought let's
just go for a day and it has been so easy and so perfect but we don't want to
do more breweries because we'll waste the whole day and Kobe has Japan's
second largest Chinatown which to us sounds pretty interesting because
Chinatown normally means food so we're going to jump back on a train head back
into the centre and check out Chinatown
Chinatown wasn't very exciting, there's a lot of Chinese food obviously
so Peking duck, dumpling all sorts but it looks like it's been sitting out
for a while so we're not going to go there. We're going to try and find an ice
cream instead. 7-eleven run we got ice creams- a really good tip here is ice
creams from convenience stores and particularly supermarkets are much cheaper
than say buying an ice cream on the street which is generally soft-serve and
a soft-serve ice cream will be anywhere from 350 to 500 yen yet these are about a
hundred yen each more easy to palate and this one is called Black Chocolate
and it is the most amazing ice cream I've ever eaten in my life what do you
get? Mine's like a creaming soda and I got two for the price of one! Lucky
girl! Kobe is really worth a visit the beef is a must eat. If you come just
for the beef alone that is enough reason more than enough reason and do what we
did go have a set lunch like that it was such a great experience and we won't be
forgetting that in a hurry because that flavor blew us away and I'm sure one
day we'll be travelling back here just to have that beef again. Absolutely!
thank you so much for watching we'll see you next time
we we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveller, not a tourist!
Sayonara!