We're out for dinner
At Uobei Sushi
Not quite sure how you say that!
Uobei
It's a sister restaurant of Genki Sushi
Which I've been to many times
I think it's pretty much the same
It's just in a different shop
It's also in Shibuya
It's pretty near the centre
With Hachiko Square
It's down a side road
Quite near Shibuya 109
In this one you order on a touchscreen
Just the same as Genki Sushi
I'm pretty sure the menu is exactly the same as well
So this is a really cheap sushi place
It's about 100 yen per plate
So it's not going to be as high quality
As if you go to a fancy restaurant
But it's a really fun place to go
And it's also really easy to order
If you're on holiday & don't speak Japanese
Because you can change the touchscreens to English
Over 80 sushi menus
For 100 yen per dish
And over 50 side menus
Have fun! Sushi smile!
It's a Monday evening
And it's pretty busy
There's lots of people waiting for a table
At this one, you go in
There's a sort of bench seat you can sit on
So you just sit there
And go round
Then they'll call you up when a space is free
You can switch the menu to English
Which makes it a lot easier to order
There's sushi for kids
Hamburger sushi!
That is not good!
Kappamaki
There's pickled eggplant
Tamago
Natto
Sweetcorn & mayo
That one's actually really good
Kanpyo roll
That's pretty good too
And inari
There's 3 types
Inari, 2 coloured inari & black sugar flavour inari
Fries with soy butter sauce?!
Interesting...
You place your order on the touchscreen
Then it tells you when it's going to come along
On the conveyor belt
And you have to press a button to send the train back
You can order up to 3 things in one go
That includes drinks
The drinks don't come on the conveyor belt
The waiters bring them over for you
My order's on the way!
Here it is!
Here's my kappamaki
Always a good choice
I think of this as the classic sushi roll
And here's my kanpyo roll
It's pickled gourd
On the table there's chopsticks
There's some spoons as well
There's ginger
We've got soy sauce
And sachets of wasabi
Shichimi
Chilli powder
And.. what's this one?
I'm not sure what that one is
What do you think that is Phil?
I don't know
I'd have said salt, but...
Looks a bit strange for salt
Maybe a flavoured salt
I'm having a green tea
They've got the cups up here
Above the table
Here's the green tea powder
The matcha on the table
Put a scoop in
Good kappamaki!
The rice is actually still quite warm
I think because they have such a high throughput of customers
They make it quite soon after the rice is cooked
There's this kids meal
That comes in a little school bus box
You get some sushi, some tamago
Looks like some juice
Is that a yoghurt maybe in there?
Oh man!
You ordered a lot Phil?!
That's a lot of stuff
What are these?
That is tuna
Fatty salmon
And yellowtail
You only get one of the fatty salmon
Yes
It's more expensive
Carly's gone for hamburger sushi!!
This tastes like festival burgers
Not bad - could be worse
Are you going to go for the shark tempura, Phil?
No because it takes about 10 minutes to make it
That's just too long
It is!
I'm hungry now!
I'm considering going for the chips with soy butter sauce
They look pretty nice
Once you tap on an item it goes into this right hand side here
And - order
Place order
What have you got there?
This is fatty tuna
Medium fatty tuna
That's just a tuna and salmon mix
You have lots of tuna!
I really like tuna
And it tastes so good here
Compared to what you can get in the UK
So - might be a bit boring, but it's delicious!
Here they are
Ah you've gone for them!
The dirty fries
Butter soy fries
Here's my fries with butter soy sauce
Yes - fried chips with extra butter on
These are ok - I'm not sure if fries need extra butter on them...!
But it's an interesting experience!
Each item has the number of calories next to it
Up here, if it doesn't tell you the price on the screen
It's 100 yen
Or 108 yen including tax
So it is really cheap
If you have a big stack of plates like this
It's not a problem
That's not a big stack of plates
Not even started!
What have you got Phil?
One tuna, one salmon again?
Albercore tuna
Tuna
All the tunas
A tuna parade coming to your plate, isn't it?!
And yellow tail because it's also delicious
And you can't really get it in the UK at the minute
I should be next to James
He's having more adventurous choices
What's that?
Salmon roe
With shredded radish
And that one's the same as this, isn't it?
Two types of tuna to compare
There's also desserts
There's cheesecake, mont blanc
Strawberry "moose"
The animal!
Chocolate cake
Ice cream
Chocolate parfait
Pineapple
Custard pudding
Eclair
Look the ice cream comes with cornflakes in the bottom
Phil's ordered a dessert
And if you order certain desserts
You get a roulette game
Ready? See if I win...
You did win!
Capsule toy? Yes please!
Discount or capsule toy
Capsule toy all the way!
Yes!
To counteract all the butter in those chips
I've ordered some pineapple
For a balanced diet
Phil's choosing his prize
There's fish bento boxes
Like you get in the supermarket
You can't use the coins for that
What can you use them for? This one...
That one...
You can get these little...
Creatures?
These little characters
Or these - I don't know what they are
Oh well, we'll go with this one
The blue one... this guy
The Genki Sushi face
I think they make a noise
Leg style things
I don't know if you wind them up...?
So that was actually really cheap
Phil ate loads
And it came to about 2000 yen
I didn't really have that much
Mine was only about 500 and something yen
I think the quality of the sushi here
Is better than the cheap sushi we had at Sushiro the other day
And it was very similar to Genki Sushi
Same menu
Same food, same prices
Just in a different building
What was everyone's favourite meal?
I always like the tuna
It's always good!
Carly & James?
I don't eat fish
So sushi's a bit difficult for me
The cucumber rolls were good
Best thing was the grilled sardine & pickled mackerel
You were quite adventurous with your choices today
And you tried the natto, how was that?
It was good
I was expecting bad things
But it was nice
It's well known
As a scary Japanese dish
Because the texture's all sticky
And i've heard it's an acquired taste
I acquired it
Taste acquired - bling!
So if you want to come here
It's just on a side road
Pretty near Shibuya 109
And it's really easy to find
Just look for the sign up there
And a big sushi in the window
We've found an affordable bar to go to
That doesn't have a cover charge
We've come to Tasuichi
In Shibuya
We made it just in time for Happy Hour
Before 8 o'clock
So my lemon sour was only 200 yen
And the beers were...
300 yen
Pretty good
It's a standing bar
So we don't have any chairs
But it has cheap drinks
Here's the menu
They've got beers
Sake
Fruit licquor
Whiskeys - Whiskey's popular in Japan
They've got sours
And highballs
Some cocktails
Shochu
Wine
And a few other things
And some soft drinks
They've also got some bar snacks
Like edamame
You can have fresh cabbage, onigiri...
Octopus with avocado
Beef stew
And they do have things like fries
And pizza as well
We're playing Sushi Go in the bar
Because we're cool!
I love these cards, they're really cute
Discard everything apart from your puddings
I have 2 puddings
Keep your puddings
*beatboxing*