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  • Uh, yeah.

  • Good morning.

  • So today I am on a different camera, so it's a little heavier day I decided to go out and try something new.

  • I'm making oatmeal right now.

  • And then I'm gonna head out the door km bracing myself for the cold because it's so frickin windy outside no one will.

  • Yesterday was a bit of a flop.

  • I had it to an abandoned train station that was open only for a short time, and tickets ended up being sold out so into it.

  • So we're in Ueno Park right now, and we're headed Teoh, a abandoned train station that was opened in 1920.

  • I think they closed in 19 seventies, and then they reopened it for some odd reason so people could go and see it.

  • I think there's art inside, and that's what they open it for because I guess a famous artist drew on the walls.

  • I think Sorry way came all the way here to see if we can get into this old train station and we're too late.

  • So this sucks.

  • So we headed to cop a bushy dodi, which is a street full of shops that sell kitchenware.

  • But most of the shops were closed.

  • So today I wanted to refresh myself and connect with Japan on a different level to make the week a little bit more worthwhile.

  • Walking down Shinjuku streets, I was reminded of what I had seen yesterday, and it's the crazy amount of plastic foods on display.

  • Copper.

  • Boschee Street had a small museum of these plastic foods, and I could only say one thing.

  • What you see is what you get.

  • Look, there's like corn dogs, but it's not a real corn dog.

  • You guys, it's crazy.

  • Can is known for like they're fake food.

  • And you see this in shops like everywhere, and it is insane how real they look like real right.

  • USB drives Teoh.

  • You guys look at KFC.

  • So what does Japan do that keeps me wanting more?

  • It's a presentation of the food served that makes you drool before setting foot into a new restaurant or shop out of all the fancy food in Japan, it's seafood is what Japan specializes in when it comes to presentation and taste.

  • Japan is an island surrounded by water.

  • Therefore, the access to fresh fish is easy, and so when you come to an authentic Japanese restaurant.

  • Trying the fish is a must.

  • I was invited to a venue to try out some fish from several different prefectures of Japan.

  • Each fish is from a different region of Japan.

  • So get ready to be hungry while watching this.

  • Okay, so we got the first dish, so I got chi hoses gay from Iwate Prefecture.

  • So inside there's like fish eggs.

  • They said that all of the fish here are from different prefectures, and that's why they gave me this map is a lot of perfections that I visited before.

  • So this is very like, nostalgic for me.

  • I'm gonna take a bite, see what it tastes like.

  • Oh, it's sticky.

  • Here I go.

  • It's a little sticky when it comes out of the bull, but when you eat it like it doesn't it doesn't taste sticky.

  • A little bit slimy.

  • No, it's not bad.

  • I've never had a dish like this, but more so, But this dish has all the fish from like almost all of these prefecture Er's Oh my God!

  • Gun like legitimately like the freshest fish.

  • A member.

  • I'm not even kidding.

  • I'm like, so happy right now.

  • but it's very smooth.

  • It's not fishy at all.

  • Japan has the most beautiful display of food, like ever.

  • I've been told that fish in Japan taste so different compared to the U.

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  • It's much more affordable as well, and it's much better and so refreshing.

  • Okay, so the next dish that they gave us was Chema Goodie.

  • It's from Ibaraki Prefecture.

  • So this dish is actually eaten on Kina Mock City witches Girls Day in Japan.

  • So in Japan, you'll see all these dolls like everywhere.

  • And so you would eat this delicious soup on that specific day.

  • Doesn't have too much of a taste.

  • Very subtle taste.

  • Okay, so Sava is my favorite fish.

  • I'm so excited and it looks like it has some kind of me so soft on it.

  • And this is from let's check our maps from you want the prefecture and supplies my favorite fish.

  • So I'm so excited to meet this, and it looks like it has some kind of me so soft on it.

  • Look how tender this fish is.

  • Like I ordered this kind of fish whenever a sushi restaurant That is so good.

  • Guys, I'm so full right.

  • That's The next thing that I got is from its markup group, which is from Al Qaeda.

  • So this is look it.

  • And then this is so we have two different ones on the plate.

  • This is daikon radish.

  • So we have ginger here and die cone, and so you just take a little bit of this.

  • I love daikon that has a very butter, but early but early but early work.

  • That's a very buttery texture.

  • I've never tasted a fish quite like that.

  • What's coming so far, Really, really enjoying this.

  • And I ate the whole plate of sushi, so I'm getting kind of bored, But I have a second stomach for, like, Japanese food, like I can eat a lot sake.

  • We tried.

  • It's from Yamaguchi, Japan, and with smoothest we've ever tasted.

  • Sake is not like any other alcoholic drink you've ever had, so be sure to give it a tribal.

  • You're here.

  • You guys have never tried suck a you have to.

  • That's like a must when you come to Tokyo.

  • If you drink, there's so many different types of suck it.

  • There's like almost lucky, which is like a sweetheart gay come by.

  • It's really good.

  • It has a very smooth taste.

  • So excited inside.

  • Very good.

  • Just can't love sake.

  • Next on the course menu was crab and since I suck it trying to open the crab shell, I needed to ask the restaurant staff for help.

  • Oh my God.

  • This crab comes all the way from Kilgo Prefecture.

  • I've never been killed three picture, but I think I have to go now.

  • I was so full of amazing seafood goodness at this point.

  • But our next dish comes all the way from all Mori and Hokkaido.

  • So it's a mix on this plate, and the theme is temporal.

  • Yes, yes, but you guys have ever had calamari like it's kind of similar to that just fried squid.

  • That's really fresh squid.

  • How many of you like trying new foods?

  • This plate also came with this fish cake I never tried before.

  • It's kind of like a garlic bread roll.

  • Views with like fish is really good.

  • I didn't obviously all of this as much as I wanted Teoh, But since it's the New Year, they gave us a home Maki sushi, which is for wishing for the years good fortune.

  • You eat this role in a specific direction, silently wishing for the thing you want to happen the most this year until you finish it.

  • Tamati sushi.

  • So it's like made with hands, and they make it into a little round bowls.

  • So this one is whole monkey.

  • Look how big this is like the biggest rolled up sushi that I've ever seen.

  • Little do you know you can eat sushi with your hands?

  • Look it.

  • This is really heavy.

  • It was really good.

  • Click on the other side way.

  • Also have a suit that came with it.

  • There is salmon in it.

  • I think a lot of Japanese taste during natural like this.

  • Fish just came from the ocean straight from the ocean.

  • The vegetables escape came straight from the earth like that's what it tastes like to me.

  • And I love that about Japan.

  • I swear I'm not drawn.

  • Kanzaki were finishing off this meal with some ice cream.

  • So this is Katsuo normal bashing the dodgy that you put into like soup base in Japan.

  • It's very, very Japanese street.

  • I'm really excited to try this.

  • I'm not a big fan of possible, and this is from she's old smells like fish.

  • This is an experience to be had that you've ever had.

  • Okonomiyaki you've ever seen it.

  • They have these fish flakes that go on top of it, kind of like what this tastes like is fish flakes that you would put on Yaki Soba where a tako yaki or something like that I haven't had a proper Japanese meal in a very long time.

  • I'm usually going to a lot of American type restaurants and things like that as I missed that kind of stuff.

  • But I've started to crave a lot of Japanese style meals, and today we're having a lot of fish and a lot of very beautifully presented food.

  • It's I feel like a lot of people don't understand how much work this goes into.

  • Japan is surrounded by water, so there's a lot of fresh, delicious fish to try.

  • So if you haven't tried any of it and you're coming to Japan, this is a must try.

  • Just try it, give it a chance.

  • Yeah, I'm gonna finish the ice cream and I'll see you guys in a way spent like, two hours in that place.

  • Eating so much food was absolutely delicious.

  • I loved everything.

  • And they asked me what my favorite dish was.

  • And I was like, I cannot decide and I love the sashimi played.

  • I eat that whole thing and the soup was so good.

  • So we're gonna walk down, avoid a your job because it's a really cool place to walk down.

  • I can barely breathe.

  • Right So full.

  • Which one would you try?

  • And which one did you do?

  • Think that you would like the most if you were to taste test it.

  • If you would like me to try more foods or you're curious about a certain type of food, let me know in the comments below on, like this video for more food videos.

  • Don't forget to subscribe, and I'll see you in the next video.

Uh, yeah.

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