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When I think about Tokyo, I think about amazing food.
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This is the city that has the most Michelin stars on earth.
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I adore Japanese food, but it's one thing to eat it abroad.
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It's another thing to eat it in its actual home.
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They're gonna be exploring the city's amazing food culture, looking at the ancient and the modern.
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So I'm starting my food quest here with basically the most iconic and classic of Tokyo cyber news.
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Sober is like the classic fast food in this city and has been for centuries.
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This is the fuel that powers this 24 hour city, so the magic formula to make our soba noodles is 20% wheat flour on 80% flower e.
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Feel like we're making a baby here, Look looks great.
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Our little does gone through all these stages, and now it looks like a rolling cap.
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Its magic cap it.
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What role does sober play in Tokyo?
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Everything.
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Thio impatient.
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It's the perfect noodle for a big metropolis like Tokyo because it's fast food, very fast city.
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It's the O.
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I want to eat it like a proper Japanese person.
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What do we do halfway then slap it.
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Slurping is a big part off the experience.
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Yes, it's a big respect to master.
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Well, then I owe you a very big slope because these are delicious.
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I've been trying all these amazing classic Tokyo food.
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Now I'm going to a place called Yoshinoya Rio Con.
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They're taking Japanese influence and merging that with international flavors in this case, French.
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I'm very intrigued to see how these two very different worlds will combine as one eating at the Rio can was such a multi century experience.
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You have the feel of the kimono, the feel of the tatami floors under your fate, this beautiful rock sculptures of silence.
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And then to top it all off was just the sense and the smell, the taste of the food itself.
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It's like a culinary hug.
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It was just really beautiful and comforting that flavor.
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Wow.
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So this here is a pike Conger.
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It's actually being smoked in front of my very eyes.
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It's funny how the foods actually making me want to explore the country more.
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Even though I haven't traveled much through Japan, I can imagine these beautiful landscapes through the flavors of each little morsel here and It's their way of presenting their culture and their history for a visitor like myself, and I find that quite touching, so good food in Tokyo is delicious regardless of what you're eating, whether it's classic Tokyo or a kind of fusion Tokyo dish, there's this deep, deep sense of pride.
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It's actually easier than you might think to dig into the Japanese soul.
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All you need is a pair of chopsticks and a solid appetite.