I Tried Monster Size Foods In Japan

Whenever I get food from a restaurant in Japan, it always surprises me how delicious they are. However, the portion of the food tend to be a little small for me, because me, I like everything big. So in this video, I'll be going to three different restaurants that became extremely popular on the internet for selling huge food in Japan. Like this super-sized tonkatsu restaurant that's owned by a retired sumo wrestler, or this unagi don restaurant. And spoiler alert, they are amazing. So come join me and let's go try some big delicious food in Japan. But one second, guys. Before we start the video today, can I take one moment to be a little serious with you guys? So I get a lot of messages from my viewers asking me how I always seem so happy, because they're going through some hard time and they want to know how to feel better. The truth is, yes, I am quite happy at the moment, at least for the most part, but I spent the majority of my life in the past feeling desperately depressed. 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I'm thinking I'll get this eel egg omelette bowl that is extremely trendy on social media, but I kinda want that beef bowl too. So I got set on the bar seat. The space is not too tight. I'm alone, but there's like another seat right next to me. I was kind of surprised that there's a cover charge. 330 yen. That's like $2.50. And there's a mandatory drink order. So it's kind of like a nightclub. So as my mandatory drink order, I got this highball for unagi. It seems that what makes it specifically for unagi is this pepper that's on top. Thank you. Hey, I made her laugh. That was funny. She was acting like a super professional young lady. I made a breakout of her character. Anyway, if you guys don't know what a highball is, it's pretty much a whiskey that's mixed with some kind of a soda. I like how it doesn't taste too sweet and I don't smell too much alcohol. It's almost like drinking soda, really. And my food is also here now. My god, it's finally here. Usually, I'm a bit skeptical when things are popular on Instagram, but I can't deny that this looks like the most delicious thing I've seen in a while. Hope you guys can feel the volume of it. The omelet, it's cooked so perfectly. It jiggles when I move. I am so sorry that you guys are not here with me. Let me start working on this. Man, this is just so heavenly. Oh my god. Well, I gotta start with the most important part, their unagi. And wow, it was as fluffy as they described it to be and it had lots of meat on it. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty perfect. Let me taste some of that omelet by itself as well. It's not as sweet as other Japanese omelets that I've tried before. It's actually sweet and savory at the same time. Despite its color, their rice was surprisingly bland or mildly flavored. I guess I shouldn't have judged it by its color. I'm not a college admissions guy in America, you know. The beauty of this bowl is that you can scoop up everything at the same time and in a single bite, it sends me straight to heaven. And I didn't even go to church since I was nine. The unagi, when you chew it, it's like so gelatinous. It's like chewing a bunch of gummy bear that you microwave for like 10 seconds. It's kind of sticky in your mouth. It is just delicious. Or in Japanese, they say delicious. While I felt like there was a bit too much rice in proportion, I was super happy with the portion of the food and I thoroughly enjoyed every part of this bowl. If you ask them, you can get this with half amount of rice and I think that would be great for most people. In this restaurant, you can also use your smartphone to order more food and I just couldn't get the beef bowl that I saw on the menu out of my head. So I decided to get that as well. Now that's adding up to be quite a lot of money but you guys are listening to my songs on Spotify helping me make all that money, right? Please. I guess there was a lot of food for one person so the staff came to check if I did it by mistake. All right, it's finally here. Can we just say that this is very aesthetically pleasing? It's not every day I get to have food like this. Might as well have more while I can. So this one doesn't have the egg omelette. Instead, it has 300 grams of beef. So everything was the same as the first bowl of rice except instead of the egg omelette, this one had 300 grams of beef. I think the other one was more popular but I think I like this one more. In Japan, they say men eat eel before a very important night. Supposedly, eel gives you lots of lower body power. Man, I could always use more of that power. Your lower body strength is kind of like money. You may or may not need a lot anyway but it's like the more you have it, the better it is. Whatever you do with it, it's kind of up to you, you know? But you never want to not have it. Can you imagine? Oh my god, there was a lot of food. So overall, I thought the food was delicious but there are so many restaurants that sell delicious unagi don in Japan. So I would recommend this place only if you're specifically looking for something big. Okay, let's try something else that is huge. I found this popular restaurant called Pamir and you can get their food in extra large size that is three times the normal portion. Judging by what I can see on the menu, their food looked absolutely amazing. At the end, I decided to get this karaage don in large size. One of the viewers recommended this place to me through Instagram DM. I haven't replied to the DM but if you're watching this, just want to say thank you. And there's my huge karaage don. Fried chicken rice bowl. Do you guys feel the size of this? I would say it's about a person's head size. Okay, it's not like my head size but it's like a Japanese girl's head size. You know what I mean? This is karaage don, which is rice served with egg omelette on top and fried chicken, Japanese-style fried chicken. They call it karaage. These are beautiful people next to me. They want to know my channel. Whoa, this is huge. I don't even know where to begin. Should I start with some of this egg that's on top? Oh my god, even just the egg is good. I just had a tiny bite. This is already a certified good restaurant. Get a little bit of that karaage. Oh my god. You see, there's a lot of things that I liked about America when I was living there. One of them was big food portion because American food, they're kind of huge. In Korea, I usually end up getting like two to three servings just to feel satisfied. Well, the portion is definitely not an issue here. I would say it's even bigger than the first place that I went earlier. Rice, fried chicken, egg omelette, and the sauce on top is just perfect, my friends. They have some miso soup right here too. Allow me to show you guys. I guess miso soup is just miso soup. The miso soup tasted good, although I wouldn't say it's anything special. Oh my god, that's a huge curry too. All right, these very kind people next to me, they ordered this massive, massive, massive curry tonkatsu rice. Tonkatsu curry rice. Wow, wow. Enjoy, enjoy. That looks really good. Man, I'm jealous now. I love how the fried surface is actually pretty thin. Like when you get horrible fried chicken, you know how the batter is like half of the fried chicken and there's barely any meat and it's kind of disgusting. Respect. I don't know why I said that, but anyway, the chicken was pretty high quality. The chicken sauce is very savory, so just by itself, it gets a little salty. White rice is like a good reset button. When something's like too salty, too spicy, you just scoop up a bunch of white rice and swallow it, then you feel a little better. I wonder if there's white rice equivalent for my broken heart. What I also like about this place, in a lot of restaurants in Asia, when you order something large, they just kind of double the portion of the rice and other cheap ingredients, but they don't give you like proportional amount of meat. But this restaurant, they gave me lots of meat. You guys know I can eat a lot of food, but this karagae-dong was so huge that even I struggled for a long time to finish it. The food was quite good, no doubt. Now to be 100% honest with you guys, it isn't a restaurant that I would remember for how amazing it tasted. It was really good, but it wasn't like a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But the food is huge, and yeah, it is really good food. I'm sweating from eating all that food. Oh, God. But wait, guys. I have something better to show you guys. For the next restaurant, I went to Dotonbori in Osaka. Why am I here? Well, I came to try the massive tonkatsu that went viral on YouTube. Supposedly, the restaurant is owned by a retired sumo wrestler, and he makes these two-inch thick tonkatsu. And it seems clear that this place is popular. Is anything worth waiting for this long? Well, after a long time, I was finally able to get inside the restaurant. And sure enough, the sumo wrestler chef was there. He was an enormous man, which is probably why they serve these insanely thick pieces of tonkatsu. So they slow-cooked these massive cuts of pork, and then deep-fried them to make their iconic tonkatsu. That's like the biggest piece of pork that I've seen. Oh, my God. That is so ridiculous. Wow. It was the biggest tonkatsu that I've seen in my life, and I think it'll stay that way for a long time. So the one that I got was slow-cooked for 24 hours, and my friend got another one that was slow-cooked for 12 hours. I mean, this is just unbelievable. Wow, that is so thick. They have a bunch of different dipping sauces that I can try, too. And I'm gonna dip it in this sauce. Wow. Crispy as hell, boy. Wow. First off, the batter, the panko that's on it, it's unbelievable. It's like probably one of the very best tonkatsu that I've ever tasted. The meat itself is quite lean. It's not, like, super oily. And in my opinion, that makes it even better because it's so thick. If it was, like, oily, then it would have been pretty hard to consume in large portions, you know? That's 50% rice and 50% meat, pretty much. The rice-to-meat ratio is insane. Even the skin of this tonkatsu is, like, really pleasant. Love it. You know what it tastes like? It tastes like deep-fried garlic bread. The one that's been slow-cooked for 12 hours, it looks like the fat's not completely rendered. So it's more fatty, whereas mine... Mine feels a lot more lean. Now, I think it's a little hard to say which one's better. They're just very different. That being said, I'm gonna steal a piece from my friend. I might be imagining this, but it was more fatty, but not as tender as mine. So I think I like mine more. This could very well be one of my favorite meals that I had in Japan. Let's try the rice. I can't quite express how satisfied I am. That gentleman really knows how to cook. The food was unique, delicious, and honestly quite fairly priced, considering the portion and how much work goes into making it. Oh, God. Oh, God, I feel sorry for those people. The food is very good, by the way. It's worth waiting for. Continue to wait. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. If you guys want to support more journeys like this, go ahead and watch my other videos, and do listen to my songs on Spotify, because that can help, too. Thanks again, Better Health, for sponsoring this video. Take care of your mental health, guys. Goodbye.