Tokyo Street Food Tour in Harajuku / Japan Travel Vlog

Eating around the popular food at Harajuku my seven recommendations Samurai Junjiro channel Hi, I'm Akane Maru born and raised in Japan Today, we'll go and eat around Harajuku Japan's leading source of fashion I'm gonna take you to seven stores such as the newly launched one There will be fancy foods that you would want to take pictures of so stay tuned Now let's get started I took a train to Harajuku station When you exit Takeshita exit at Harajuku station You'll see Takeshita Dori right in front of you Wow, so many people There's the most famous crepe shop in Harajuku Marian crepe We'll have a crepe here at last Before that, let's go and eat the popular store's meals The first shop I'll introduce is Shinfutan a baba shop They have stores in more than 10 countries around Asia and are very popular Here it comes Let's drink outside This is boba milk tea with brown sugar syrup The freshly made tapioca is springy and chewy The tapioca is boiled in brown sugar syrup and has a nice mild sweetness The brown sugar syrup makes the milk tea so delicious It has so much tapioca so this drink can make your stomach satisfied Now let's move on to the next store The next is Sweden born IKEA Here at IKEA in Harajuku, they have meals you can only eat at this store We'll have Swedish traditional food Here it comes This is Swedish traditional food Tombrad It's a meal in which foods are wrapped with thin flatbread like tortillas I chose one with Norwegian salmon Lots of vegetables too. So it's good for your diet The crispy texture is great And the tartar sauce makes it creamy Kind of tastes refreshing like sour cream too Okay, let's go to the next store The next store I'll introduce is at Takeshita Dori Here long longer longest Let's go inside I ordered the popular fried potato They put potatoes into this special machine to cut them And stick skewers into the cut potatoes And fry with this After five minutes, it's done Look huge sized fried potato When I hold it, you'll see how huge it is One long potato all the way from the top to the bottom The flavor is butter soy sauce It's crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside yummy This is such a photogenic fried potato It was huge, but Junjiro and I ate it in a blink of an eye Let's go to the next store The next store I'll show you is at Cat Street known as a fashionable street Luke's Lobster Harajuku branch It's a famous lobster roll shop from the USA I ordered the one which they only serve here at Harajuku branch Lobster roll seasoned with wasabi soy sauce Look at the lobster. It's so much that it's almost overflowing The refreshing scent of wasabi increases appetite The bun is baked well and is savory Crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside The lobster is moist and sweet And the salty flavor of soy sauce with spicy flavor of wasabi makes the lobster even more delicious They should serve this at the stores in the USA, too Okay, moving on to the next store Our fifth store today is at Takeshita Dori Croquant Choux Zakuzaku It was born in Hokkaido and now has more than 20 locations around Asia The croquant choux is crunchy cream puff and is very delicious But today let's eat their soft serve ice cream Wow beautiful They use Hokkaido's milk and butter lavishly to make this rich flavored ice cream It costs about three dollars and nine cents, but it's so big so it's worth more than the price It's not too sweet and the flavor of milk is very rich It's almost like you're drinking heavy cream What makes the ice cream so delicious is this cone with crunchy crumble bits You can also taste the butter flavor. So delicious Such a luxurious soft serve ice cream Let's go to the next store The sixth store I'll introduce is Yurin-An It's a specialty shop of Ichigo Daifuku, the popular Japanese sweet It's a new store that was launched in 2021 I ordered the most popular Ichigo Daifuku Let's open it Outside is black mochi with bamboo charcoal in it Although it has charcoal in it It's not bitter and has a savory elegant smell Let's break it in half Inside there's one whole juicy strawberry They use strawberries that have rich sweetness and less sourness It really matches with the sweet anko I've never eaten such delicious Ichigo Daifuku before This fancy sweet is perfect for this fashionable Harajuku Now to the next store At last we came to Marion Crepe It's a very popular crepe specialty store and there's always a waiting line They have more than 60 kinds of crepes at all times So you can always come and taste different kinds Out of those 60 kinds The most popular one is this one This crepe has chocolate Whipped cream, banana and chocolate ice cream Marion Crepe's ice cream and whipped cream are less sweeter than other shops It is so sweet and makes me happy The banana and chocolate match well, too This definitely is the best Harajuku sweet I had so much fun eating around Harajuku There are so many fancy stores being built so I can never get bored coming here If you have any requests on restaurants you want to see let us know in the comments, okay? Well, that's all for today See you in another video Bye-bye