In late January of 2019, I flew to Japan to shoot a video with a travel company. My trip was supposed to be only five days, but I extended it to twelve so I would have time to do some sightseeing and food tours on my own time! I’m so glad I did! This country blew my mind from the moment I landed at Narita Airport and my love for it, its beautiful culture, and its sensational food only grew with each passing day. Come along with me on my Japanese adventures!
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On my third day in Japan, I headed out on an amazing Kawaii Japanese food tour of the Harajuku area with my friend Asami from Tokyo by Food and Arigato Japan. This is a really unique area of Tokyo that’s known for its imaginative food and bright, vibrant fashions, and Kawaii is basically Japan’s “cute culture,” so all of the foods here are considered cute! I couldn’t wait to start my tour!
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We started with a stop at Nespace Omotesando Niigatakan, which is a shopping mall in Tokyo. There, we visited a shop selling snacks from the Niigata Prefecture, including over 100 types of rice crackers. We started with sasadango, which is a mochi that’s wrapped in a bamboo leaf. It tasted like matcha and had red bean paste inside. It was nice and sweet, gooey, and cold. I loved it!
Next, I moved on to rice snacks with a chocolate coating. They were like chocolate-covered rice crackers! Then I had some crunchy, edamame-flavored rice snacks, which had lots of edamame flavor and didn’t have much salt on them.
On our way to our next stop, we passed by the first building in Tokyo that was built using concrete in 1927, after an earthquake that occurred in 1923. It looked really modern, like it was just built recently!
Our next stop was a boutique bakery that’s famous for their cronuts, which is a cross between a donut and a croissant. There, I had vanilla ice cream coated in torched honey marshmallow. There was some gooey chocolate on the inside and was the biggest marshmallow I’ve ever had. Even though it was torched, the inside was still really cold! It was like a vanilla s’more, but without the cracker.
Next was the cronut, which had a filling of Marscarpone cheese and ganache. It was very sweet, and the filling felt a lot like a custard. It was phenomenal!
The hot chocolate I had next was very sweet and perfect for such a cold day!
We continued along Urahara Street, which is a pedestrian street with lots of designer clothing shops. It was beautiful. Asami told me that a lot of the buildings had been renovated to look more modern. Our next stop was a restaurant that was hidden in a backstreet that had been painted with lots of artwork.
There, we were given oshibori, which is a wet hand towel given to customers to clean their hands. Asami walked us through the process of using the towel and calling a waiter, and then I learned about Japanese drink-pouring etiquette! We poured each other some beer, which was very nice.
Next, a mixture of flour, cabbage, mochi, scallions, more, was grilled right at our table to make a dish called monjayaki, which had the consistency of scrambled eggs and had a fishy taste from the cat roe. It’s so different from everything else here in Japan!
Then it was up to me to flip the okonomiyaki, which is a savory Japanese pancake containing cabbage, scallions, egg, noodles, cheese, and shrimp. I loved it. Then Asami brushed it with a sauce made from soy sauce, carrots, apple, and onion and topped it with Japanese mayo. There were so many flavors and I loved the texture. It was fatty and delicious, and the shrimp were cooked perfectly! I highly recommend it!
Our last stop was an area known for its Kawaii culture, including clothing for kids and young adults. There, we got some massive, rainbow cotton candy that contains six different flavors! It was way too big for me, so everyone on my tour shared it. It costs roughly 1,000 Yen, or around $10 U.S., so it’s not too bad if you’re sharing it with friends.
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KAWAII Japanese FOOD TOUR of Harajuku – Okonomiyaki + Cotton Candy | Tokyo, Japan
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