Name: 6 Must Try Japanese Dishes in Tokyo | Tsukiji Street Food
Uploaded: 2020-02-24T02:28:04.000Z
Duration: 14 min 53 s
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Last year in 2018, Tsukiji Fish Market, the biggest fish market in the world, came to an end.

It actually moved two or three kilometers down the coastline to Toyosu Fish Market.

However, what a lot of people don't know is the outer market - the good bit, where all the food is an all the tasting is -

that is still here and very much alive and kicking.

With the freshest food and an atmosphere unrivaled throughout Tokyo,

today we're gonna wander through Tsukiji market and uncover the best dishes we can find.

And joining us on our morning binge is Japan's coolest man.

And look, here he is now! Walking down the street, desperately trying to conceal the smug expression on his face.

Preparation. 'Cause I knew we're gonna be eating so much today. --Ohhh!

How many times have you actually come to Tsukiji fish market?

Second time ever? -- Second time ever. Seriously. -- In a hundred years..

Let's go and get stuck into it ladies and gentlemen. --Let's go!

Tsukiji's outer market is home to over 300 shops and restaurants, so knowing where to start can be a little bit overwhelming.

And given we've got just three hours before the market dies down around midday, we wanna pack in as much as we can.

So today, we've enlisted the help of an experienced tour guide from Japan Wonder Travel to help us with our itinerary

and also help us get behind-the-scenes access to the market.

If you're pressed for time, I recommend grabbing a guide.

I've put a link to our one in the description box below.

Our first stop though is to try the dish that helped put Tsukiji on the map in the first place.

Look at that. Cutting through it like butter. Bloody hell.

Did you see the knife? At how sharp it was.

Like, he just kinda put a little power into his hand and the tuna was like...

[Ryotaro's 'tuna being cut' sound effects]

I don't know what it is, I don't know what is is.

Tuna is a great first step if you're new to sashimi.

Firm and meaty without being too chewy, with a mild, almost buttery, taste that's not too fishy.

It's the most accessible raw fish, and my personal favorite.

And we're grabbing some freshly cut slices of akami tuna to-go,

almost as iconic as the tuna itself for the huge knives used to slice and prepare the fish known as 'maguro bocho'

Although given it's up to a meter in length, to be fair, it looks more like a sword.

Just be careful if you let your friend near it,

as wielding the powerful razor-sharp knife can conjure up an almost obsessive effect

basically turning your friend into Gollum.

On a scale of 1 to terrifying sight, Ryotaro with a sword...

I want to show the world that you don't mix shoyu - soy sauce - with wasabi from the beginning.

What you do is you take off- you take some wasabi

put it on the top of the fish- the slice of fish, in this case tuna, and

It's always a lot of fun seeing tuna being prepared and then eating it.

And actually, it shows you how sharp it was by just looking at the surface of the tuna. It's very clean.

Yeah, there's no imperfections. The blades are so smoothly sort of cut through it.

This is supposed to be a light-hearted enjoyable morning of food and you turn it into some sort of violent...

You could just say you're not gonna see any imperfection of my body. That's the...

Having received awkward death threats over breakfast,

we next head down one of Tsukiji's many lively alleyways to watch our next dish being prepared.

Beautifully fluffy tamagoyaki rolled omelet.

One of my favorite things about Tsukiji is the little alleyways down the back where all the food is produced.

Here, you see this production line of tamagoyaki omelet being cooked.

I never knew it but the tamagoyaki, the omelet itself, it's pretty big.

Usually you only get kind of a thin slice, but here you can see how big they are.

Omelets are one of the few things I can cook, so I feel a special affinity with this place.

Ah, no, there's only two things I can cook. That's awkward...

What's so different about Japanese omelet is, um, quite often it's a bit sweet.

This omelet is made out of um, egg, salt and a dashi - the broth - and sugar.

Mm, it's beautiful - it's a little bit sweet, and because of the dashi it's kind of got a subtle fishy flavor to it.

It's very fluffy and can break apart nicely.

Whenever I get an assortment of sushi, my first favorite thing is the tuna, second tamagoyaki.

You're not kidding? --Third thing salmon.

... Like sea urchin? Stuff that... stuff that like...

I think my favorite thing about Tsukiji market is the whole thing feels like one big film set.  --True.