🍜 Asakusa Food Tour | Best Street Food in Tokyo’s Historic District 🇯🇵

🍜 Asakusa Food Tour | Best Street Food in Tokyo’s Historic District 🇯🇵

This is Fat Jang coming to you from Tokyo, Japan. And today I’m going on a Oops, sorry, I just hit the mic. Today I’m going on a food tour in Asakus U area. This is actually the area I’m staying in, but I kind of just booked it because it was the cheapest thing I could find last minute because this Tokyo trip was very last minute. Um, but it turns out I’m staying in a very great place. And today we have our tour guide Ian with us who’s going to show us around and take us to the best food places. Um, it’s a really, really busy area. Um, because we’re here on a Sunday, so it will be very fun to see what people are up to. Also, beautiful weather. Yay, finally. So many souvenir shops, food shops, lineups. Yay! The first place is a sushi place. I’ve been here for like four, three days already and I haven’t had sushi yet. What? And I love sushi. Thank you. So like in a lot of Asian I mean most Asian countries use chopsticks but there’s some like small different mannerisms like in China and Korea for example you’re supposed to play with chopsticks like this but in Japan like pointing chopsticks at someone is like considered very disrespectful. Well people don’t know that anymore but my grandparents were very conservative. So it always bothered me about it. But in Japan you guys are doing great. But yes sideways like this. Okay. Sideways. Okay. Like if the soy sauce just touches the rice. Yeah. It ends up in the soy sauce. So you get this really salty juice like soup. Next we can move on to scallop. Oh. So the wasabi is like under under the fish. I’ve never I don’t think I’ve ever seen it like that. That’s like Well, pretty much that’s how people are supposed to do it. Oh, different like countries sushi restaurants might like put it outside mix. Japan mixing sauce. Big no no in terms of like sushi etiquette. I guess the wasabi just went straight to my nose. Oh no. But I love it. That was really fun. It was so cool to learn new things about the my one of my favorite foods, sushi. I had no idea that you’re supposed to put the wasabi in the sushi itself. Um, I really like learning that the chopsticks in Japan, it’s offensive to put it like in a pointy way. In Korea, that’s what we were doing. Like on the table, you would put it like this, but here it’s always sideways. So, that was really interesting, too. Um, yeah, we’re off to a good start. I’m excited. The reason why is because what a cool vibe here. Kimos, we have carriages. So, the next place we’re going to is an isakaya, but it’s a it’s a guoza isakaya. Um, and something I’ve learned in Korea is that the dumplings or the guozas are um Chinese and then the Koreans put like a little uh spin on them. And apparently in Japan, same thing happens. So, I’m excited to see what is the difference. [Music] [Music] Let’s see if we’ll get in. So many people inside. So this is like cheers. I think I’ve heard and I don’t know if this is like real or just like saying there’s like a lot of shouting culturally in a Yeah. How does that work? So it’s this like this mentality of like doing your best and everything. It’s also wrong with restaurants because like the people work cuz well the atmosphere is usually like masculine, right? So like when you order something like thank you one beer coming up and they just kind of want to cheer you up I guess with that like you know energetic vibe. Yeah it’s really common in like ramen restaurants and sakayas cuz like even at like some ramen restaurants people take apprenticeships to making ramen like their entire career and they’re still do with great passion. Yeah. So yeah, this is quite common thing for like people chatting. It’s just one and Shibuya and oh my I can’t even hear my friends. He’s like 11 staff, one shouts and it’s a chain reaction. Everyone’s like one’s like everyone’s like, you know, there’s this funny and this funny thing you could do because usually they don’t know who’s shouting the staff. So one random person on the table was be like, “Yeah, sure.” And everyone else starts. [Music] And so these are three sauces. You can mix them together. So this is soy sauce, this is vinegar, and this is chili sauce. Okay. I like the more spicy one, but you mix these three together to kind of just create your like favorite taste. I like to do little bit of soy sauce. A butt ton of vinegar and a little more chili. Don’t I don’t think you should me but yeah like how you want it and then a splash tequila. I’ll take that. That was really cool. And I’ve learned something that apparently horse meat, raw horse meat is a thing here. We did not try it. I don’t think I will be trying that. Not I don’t think. I know I will not be trying that, but uh apparently it’s a thing and I did see it on the menu. So, learning new things. It’s getting a little bit chilly. What’s a lot of people? Yeah. There we go. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] So, we’re going to be trying some dessert snacks now. So, I picked this one. It’s supposed to be the sweet one. Um, the guide said it’s the best one. So, we’ll see. So, this is tea leaf mix and bean jam. Tea leaf mix and bean. It’s chewy. [Music] M. It reminds me of like kind of. So, a little fun fact about Japanese calendar, they have like the regular calendar that we use and also there’s the calendar that they use um when emperors come in power and then they would say like how many years the emperor has been in power. So, the restaurants here would say like it’s open since the emperor’s name and the year, you know. So, they’re using that calendar. Interesting. So, apparently this uh street used to be the red light district, which kind of explains why it’s all red. And the cages that you’ll see at the top would be where the sex workers would be sitting. Uh interesting. And uh for the Olympic ceremonies and everything, apparently they tried to kind of like Yeah. change the area. This line pretty fast. Look at this lineup. Oh my god. Apparently, it moves fast. So, let’s see. It’s so true. The line went very very quickly and we were chatting in the line and the guide was telling us more facts about um Japan and Japanese culture. So yeah, this was really nice. Smells so good. I wish you guys could smell it. So this is what we’re going to be trying right now. This bread was pretty quick. Yeah, I was about to say By the way, it’s Japan’s oldest amusement park. Opened in 192 pirate ship ships going around. Used to be a roller coaster, but fall down. But I got to ride. I bet it was really fun. Yeah. No, it was really scary. So floppy. It’s not that sweet. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like a sugar bread. Yeah. It’s basically just sugar coated bread. Oh, this is the best one you’ll ever try in your life, to be honest. I love it so much. Yeah, there’s no mental typing or anything. It’s a pillow. I can sleep on this. So, the last stop for today will be some matcha ice cream. Um, so this is going to be just matcha, so it’s supposed to be a little bit bitter. I’m excited to try it and see how it tastes. And I’m standing in front of the statue of two Buddhas. It’s green. Of course it’s matcha made with real matcha leaves like the bitterness like it hits you a little bit after but it’s not like oh it’s so bitter like it’s I actually like matcha so I really enjoyed this if you’re a matcha sweet it’s sweet it’s vague it’s vague yeah really like it this was honestly one of the best tours I’ve done. I know I say that a lot, but actually not a lot. I’ve been giving very honest reviews about the tours I’m doing, but this was a very, very cool one. I think I’ve learned a lot. And knowing that I was coming for a food tour, I didn’t even expect to learn more like cultural things, but I did, which I really appreciate. And I got very lucky with the people who were on the tour with me, um, I had Canadians. Woohoo. Shout out to the Canadians. Um, they were really, really cool. We became friends and I really enjoyed it. So, with that being said, from in front of the Buddha statues and that matcha ice cream was really refreshing and really good and hit the right spot, but I would say thank you so much for watching. I love you guys so much. I will see you guys soon. Bye. Bye. Sugar rush.

Join me on a spontaneous tokyo travel adventure as I explore the asakusa japan area! On this tokyo vlog, you’ll see me sampling a variety of Japanese food and tokyo food from different vendors and restaurants. Prepare to be hungry as I delve into the delicious world of **asakusa street food** and more japan food!

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