Name: Can you eat this?? Tokyo Monja
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Hi, I'm Bob, your host for this episode, and today I'm here in Tsukishima, Tokyo.

Tsukishima is a downtown area located downstream of the Sumida River, and it's very popular for its monja.

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In fact, if you ask anybody about Tsukishima, probably their first initial reaction is going to be about monja.

Down there was kind of an accumulation of the sand and the earth in the lower reaches of the Sumida River, which at that time was the main artery for water transportation.

And so basically, this area was built on reclaimed land.

Now, this town has an over 100-year history, and if you walk around the streets long enough, you're bound to find a retro police box, and there's little alleyways that are so small that only one person can fit through.

And you might even find that kind of old-fashioned public bathhouse.

It's just all these things remind you of the good old days.

So today, I would like to walk around the Tsukishima Nishi Kyoekai Shopping Street, which has a really retro vibe to it.

Okay, so we've made it inside the monjiyaki shop.

We've got our hot plate steaming up for us.

And the only thing left to do is order a whole bunch of monja.

So this is, of course, a good thing, is that they actually have an English menu.

Before, I was looking at the old Japanese menu.

If you have a problem with that, they do have English menus, and the menu is in English.

If you have a problem with that, they do have English menus, and it makes it much, much easier to figure out exactly what you're ordering.

And one thing you'll notice is when you order it when you're hungry, you tend to get a lot of food.

And you eat it with not quite a fork, not quite a spoon, but this is what you eat it with, and it's really good for when you're drinking with your friends and just to be able to eat together.

And you can see, you just eat it like this.

I mean, it's mostly just cabbage and some little small little shrimp.

But where are they going to make that opening?

I think it needs to be a little bit spammed out.

The egg is already cooked into the whole mix, and I'm going to give it a try.

It still has a little bit of that kind of the fish flavoring in the back of the mouth, but then you have the Spam and the egg on top of it.

It gives it a kind of a Western feel to it.

If the monjayaki is a little bit too much for you.

All right, so we've reached our final monjayaki.

One of the most popular ones, mentaiko, which is cod roe.

Got a little bit of spillage, but that is all right.

Some people like it that way. Some people don't.

We've cooked up the mentaiko or the cod roe monjayaki with the cheese and the mochi, I guess we can say.

This is one of the favorite monjayakis here.

This is mentaiko monjayaki and cheese, and I know why.

Mentaiko has a little bit of a kick to it.

Not that it's spiced, but almost feels like it.

What's your first impression here in the city, in Tokyo?

It's clean, it's busy from what we've seen, and we've had some great food.

What have you had that you've liked so far?

So we just got back from monjayaki, of course.

That's what we're kind of presenting here today.

It's nothing like you'd ever see in the States.

You can't get it anywhere else except here.

Once you get past that, the taste is amazing.

I think it's a good comfort food with your friends if you're having a beer.

Everything with beer here is so much better.

They told me I need to have something sweet.

And you can see there's pictures of all kinds of different celebrities and TV shows.

When they've come to try this melon bread.

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