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Today we are taking you on an epic adventure for vegan ramen. That's right,
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I said it. Could such a thing exist, will it be delicious?
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I'm not sure, We're taking you to a tiny, tiny place that is in fact so far away from civilization,
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that we had to record the introduction in this area because it has lighting.
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We actually have a really cool menu to choose from now.
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I got which online I've read is the best one: Rich taste brown rice yeast ramen
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And it's apparently V - vegan, but not OV. And Simon went for the Miso one, which is OV
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And then he add the extra soy char siu made on top, and we ordered some gyozas as well as some sweet and hot
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soy meat chicken bits.
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Now there's one thing that's very mandatory
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when you come to this place; and that is: Bring your own little sweat cloth. Because there's no air-conditioning here
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And you're just gonna be pouring with sweat like I am. It's really hot.
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Or you could be like Martina and have your little fan attached to your phone.. Your phone's gonna die really soon though.
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Oh well, I don't need a phone, I'm with my ducky. Yeah quality time! How will I get back on the subway? Never mind.
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So these are gyozas here made with soy meat instead. Never had anything like this before
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Mmmm. This is really well-seasoned. These are - these are vegetarian? Really?
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It doesn't have like the hard texture of a meat. Tastes like a lot softer meat.
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But it's still really flavorful and nicely done. I'm impressed.
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So for those of you that want to know what it's like being tall in Japan,
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here's something that you have to get used to: If it's gonna be floor seating, most of the time my legs
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cannot fit underneath here because I wind up lifting over the table, so you just kinda sit awkwardly in corners like I am.
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I'm going in for the first taste of the Dragon ramen. This is made with brown rice yeast. There's no animal anything inside of this.
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That is great. Oh wow, you can't even pinpoint all the flavors that you're tasting
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That's a great broth,the noodles are not made with any eggs as well.
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Every ramen shop has its own unique noodle that they work with.
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It tastes like a totally normal noodle, and the broth is just really surprising. It's got that creaminess of like a rice
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cabbage-y... it's got a nice like oily taste to it, but it's obviously a healthy oil you can tell by the color
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It's still salty, but it's also sweet at the same time. It's just a delicious
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ramen. This has the oiliness that I'm expecting out of like ramen - my kind of ramen that is - it's got a good
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savoriness to it as well. It's not just overly sweet because a lot of bean stuff could just be sweet, but now this has a
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nice bite to it.
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So good. Let me just say: I was very skeptical before I came here
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I was actually worried that this would be a video that we'd shoot and not be able to publish because I didn't like it but I
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actually really like this, and I really want to publish and share this, because this is - this is really nice ramen
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We've shot at some restaurants before that we didn't like, and so we just deleted the footage
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and this right here was like 50-50 chance
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I'm actually, thoroughly, enjoying this
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So one thing that's really cool
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is he has a very specific and very clear menu on the board marking if it's vegetarian or if it's vegan
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or if it's OV or even if it's halal. Didn't actually know, I'm like: What's OV? Turns out
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he has a Buddhist code of not using five of the major pungent roots
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Which is kind of like garlic or leeks or onions?
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We saw some onions in our dipping sauce for our gyoza, and so that was clearly marked as just V
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so
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There's all these different things that you can read it's also written in Japanese, English and Korean and Mandarin
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So it's like you have all these options to figure out. What is best for sitting?
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Let my try this charshu here
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They actually seasoned this meat as well, it's not half bad.
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Not my favorite ramen in the world, but this is really surprisingly great.
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That is a very gentle miso soup. Some people like it, and some people just hate it, because a lot of places make their miso
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really strong. So when you eat it, it just tastes like miso, salty or sweet,
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whatever they've chosen. This one is very very gentle. It has like a very light leftover miso taste.
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It doesn't have like an overwhelming flavor to it, and the charshu soy meat has kind of like a lemongrass flavor to it
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Mmm. I've came prepared with pigtail hair. That way I don't have to tie my hair back
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Girl we gotta talk about it, you can't finish them all girl we got two left?
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Hmm wow this is great. You didn't want this, right Simon? I mean, I'll just eat all of it.
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I gotta have some more too. Sweet and hot bleak salted chicken bits. And wow, it's on the snack menu,
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but accompanying it with a ramen is quite nice, because the miso is quite sweet and light, and when you have this really salty
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a little bit spicy, like it's not big spicy. It's like a tiny bit
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I absolutely would have thought this was meat.
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I know that not all vegans and vegetarians are into that like some people don't want their stuff to taste or like look like meat.
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But I mean this is really good. If you're coming here with your friends who are meat-eaters,
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you can easily order this for them,
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and they can have a completely enjoyable time even if they're like
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not into noodles and carbs and stuff like that. Wow this is great. You didn't want this right Simon?
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I mean, I'll just eat all of it
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I gotta have some more too.
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I'll just take this little tiny wedge.
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Girl, you left me two pieces.
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I'm about to leave you one piece.
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What you're gonna do about it?
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People usually get mad at me the videos for eating all this stuff, but I want people to see... Martina's like: "Take Back the Night!"
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I'm tired of having Simon. Once in a while, is all I'm saying.
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Hey, I have a question for you. Yes?
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Whose sweat cloth is that? This is yours because I lost mine. So you rubbed your sweat cloth on your face.
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And then you lost it somewhere.
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And now you're using mine. I'm gonna leave you one piece
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What you're gonna do about it?
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Do you want to back? Eww, No!
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I should've got you.
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I should've got you.
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This entire restaurant fits about seven people
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That's it. You can just
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jam all of us in. And you have the chef who's just passionate about making the food that he wants to make and he's doing a great
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Job, i think that we should have ordered
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at least ten more of those soy meat sate.
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So I'm really thrilled because I actually found my sweat rug
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Right because Martina's is kind of soaked and in need of maintenance so I have a nice little dry yeah
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Thanks a lot for that mine's disgusting
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Hey
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This place was actually
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surprisingly really good. If you're looking for the ramen that you're used to this isn't going to taste like it, but this is still
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really good ramen.
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And if you're coming here with like vegetarian friends or even if you're vegetarian you want to bring your meat eating friends with you
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I'm sure everybody here will find something that they're satisfied with. If you want to find directions to this place
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We've listed them in a blog post so make sure you click on the link below, and you can come here as well
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It's a little bit off the beaten path, but it's definitely worth the journey.
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Chabuzen~ Well, I think I might need to get a third sweat rag; it is
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disgustingly hot today. Oh duckie... I'm just gonna rub my face on your body!
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No. Please don't...please don't do that.