Today we're going out for a day of food, and not just any food, but hopefully something a little more authentic.

The area in right now is called Mino.

It's a small stomach area near Asakusa.

The hamachi or back street areas of Tokyo have always been my favorite.

In fact, I've lived out on this side of Tokyo for the better part of 10 years, if not longer.

But now I live on the other side of Tokyo.

So today I've stayed at a friend's neo con called the Ondo Yoga three.

Owner, Mrs E.

She is like the most pleasant person you'll ever meet.

She runs this place with her family.

Her goal is to show like real mawr authentic Tokyo figure I'll keep.

That is a theme today as we're doing our food.

One of the things that I love is instead of having a buffet for breakfast, they'll actually just make you breakfast right here.

We're doing so much food today that I had to skip breakfast.

Sorry.

Next time.

Next time.

All right, let's get going.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for letting me stay.

Bye bye Now.

I have to find the gentleman who's gonna be taking me around for food today.

You see, I know the area, but I never eat where I live.

Does that make sense?

I always go other places to eat.

So I have someone showing me around for the day because he knows all the food.

Okay, good.

So we're gonna meet the guy?

Yes, I tripped.

We're gonna meet the guide over at anybody Station in just a bit.

So my friends run a tour company here in Tokyo, and they've assured me that they have a guide who knows all the food.

Uh, it'll be linked down below, by the way.

Heaven husband.

Oh, yeah.

I'll see.

You think I'm doing good?

I'm good.

Well, this is Eric.

He knows all the food around here.

That's up, Eric.

All the pressure is on.

I'm very hungry.

Sorry.

Have you meet me in such a weird space?

The You're not gonna cemeteries over there, but this little road here, because of the view of the train lines and whatnot, has always been one of my favorite spots.

So what's our first food for the day?

Japanese style is something.

So we're doing Japanese style doughnut.

Yeah.

All right, let's do it.

I have not been out to Yonica Ginza in so long to me.

This is like the rial side of Tokyo.

Traditional neighborhood.

Yeah, it's really it's It's traditional neighborhood in Japan.

You get that like you get a feel of what Tokyo used to be like.

E.

It's also a really good place to grab straight food.

And you've already done it.

You brought me to a place I've never been.

Yeah, this'll is called Spy on.

This is a cat tao doughnut can stale donuts.

Okay, a lot of different options here.

These ones have little cat feet on them.

Look at that.

That's neat.

Okay.

Wow.

These look really good.

They actually, they all look really good.

I don't know how I'm gonna choose, Man, I think is the most popular.

Okay, I trust you.

All right.

I've never had anything like this.

Salt is to be interesting.

How things really soft.

Yeah.

What?

It's more like a soft brownie inside than it is a donut.

I typically don't like dry sweets like I don't like cakes and donuts and stuff like brownies air.

Okay, because they're really moist, But This is really good.

The suite was good, but now I want something savory.

So we owe it means the chicken steak, chicken on a stick stick chicken.

All right.

Where did you get chicken skin?

Yeah, Tony.

Chicken skin.

Yeah, Tony E.

I went with men.

She cuts that is it right there.

All right, let's Let's try now.

Yeah, this is really good.

Manche cuts is always good in Japan.

Tadayuki, like eating and walking, isn't really popular.

But when you come out to areas like Yaka, Ginza or Asakusa, there are certain places where you can eat and walk on this'd.

This is one of them.

This is an eat and walk food, if you will, but not everywhere.

You can't do that.

Yeah, Not everywhere.

Definitely.

Don't do it on the train.

Who?

That was heavy.

So what's next?

So you wanna grab a drink?

I want to grab a drink.

So do you know about Koji?

Oh, yeah.

Those are like those liquor shops where you can actually drink in the shop, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm game.

I'm game e o paint a clearer picture inside.

Just like this is just a normal Japanese liquor shop.

But outside there's a space like this where you could just sit and drink moderately popular with the people in the area.

You get beer or they also have a selection of Japanese sake or neon shoe right here to choose from.

I think I'm gonna go with beer.

How about you, e already, miss Summer.

Me too.

All right.

I need to walk some of that off before we eat again.

E haven't even eaten that much.

It was the beer that did it by far.

One of my favorite things about Tokyo in the back streets of these little narrow, like tunnel esque roads.

Like this one right here.

Oh, so look a hidden car.

We're gonna make a brief stop.

One of my favorite little shrines here, this is Shrine.

It's an E 90 shrine.

Kind of like Fushimi Inari in Kyoto with tunnel this'll Spot is definitely one of Tokyo's hidden gems.

It's a really spacious shrine to kind of get away from the crowds.

I don't remember all the gates being this short, though.

E hit my head on the first one going in.

All right, so a little bit off a fun fact about these Tony Gates.

In case you already didn't know what you might, each one of these is actually donated by somebody.

A lot of them have beautiful kanji written on them like this.

And actually, this is really rare.

I've never seen that.

But no matter what is written on them, they are universally fun.

Toe walk through.

I'm gonna smack my head.

Almost guaranteed this'll Entire shop specializes in unity or rice balls.

And although there's a huge variety of stuff, I always end up getting the same thing.

You have a favorite?

Yeah, I'm entitled knowing it's actually my favorite too.

All right, We're gonna get a bunch of men Tyco Moneghetti.

It's a quiet little shop e For all my time in Japan, I have never been to a known e g only restaurant.

It seems they have set.

Yeah, Thank you.

Okay, now I'm almost full.

What's up to this?

Over here is actually pretty cute little cafe as well.

I love the open concept of it and we're back.

Any thoughts for food?

Way having tryingto Takayuki Tako Yaki, A Japanese classic.

I don't know about you, but I'm really partial to the idea of this.

Mayonnaise and cheese.

Don't try this one, alright?

With mild cheese is still on the ice cream off.

Yeah, e needed.

So it's time for me.

So you're really gonna make me eat pretty much all of this on my own e Really quiet.

Just a Okay?

Yeah.

Thing to watch out for with Tako Yaki is it will definitely burn your mouth.

So I'm in full expectation of pain right now.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's hot.

It's good.

It's good.

Yeah, it's just very high.

Good luck.

Good luck.

See, I told you.

Oh, Eric's like, Yeah, you're just putting it on.

There is no way it's that hot.

That's what we call karma karma to.