Heading to Tokyo Japan on Japan Airlines Business Class where I had one of the best bowl of Japanese ramen and starting my first day in Tokyo with a 6 AM breakfast at 7-Eleven.
Restaurants I went to: Ichinoya Address: 4 Chome-1-6 Nishiazabu, Minato City, Tokyo 106-0031, Japan Kani Ramen Hinata Address: Japan, 〒106-0031 Tokyo, Minato City, Nishiazabu, 1 Chome−14, 西麻布伊東ビル
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morning these Costco noodles incredible
so today grabbed some breakfast and then
heading to the airport heading off to
Japan for a couple weeks and while I'm
there I'm going to be joining a food
tour that's curated by the city of Tokyo
and they put together a list of these
really traditional restaurants some of
which been operating for over 200 years
and these are places I never been to
before so I am really excited about that
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on the
787 wo
oh that's useful toothbrush tissues ear
plugs oh this is
neat a little fun rest also they give
you a cardigan that can only be used in
the flight and for a welcome drink I
thought this was matcha it's not it's a
green
smoothie very gingery a little peek at
the menu wo the alak carum looks amazing
barbecue sliced beef Rice Bowl special
Tatu flavor miso
wamen food looks pretty good it's a sear
tuna salad a bunch of veg quill IGS
cheese tomatoes olives and then honey
mustard for the
salad so there's sear tuna and a little
tuna salad not about try be
tender that is really really tender
there's a blue cheese sauce on the
bottom which is fantastic blue cheese
and steak the most ultimate
combo it's very
good finally desserve strawberry
pinotta it's probably the densest
heaviest panacotta I've ever had what I
love about this fight is their expansive
alart order anything you want at any
time in so I got some Len barbecue beef
over rice seared miso Cog miso soup some
Japanese pickles this looks better than
a lunch I just
had that Ramen is just piping hot we
thought the mles would be a little soggy
it's actually got a really nice Che CH
it with some of the
pickles those actually pretty Dar good
usually airplane Ramen it just instant
pack and it also just tastes like much
higher
quality especially that broth very rich
and creamy
this so
coton a little sweet not that this is a
peaking portion of a barbecue beef
ball there's one leaves a little tougher
best in
care 100% thisam this is the final meal
before landing this is an international
menu item it's chicken with gravy
potatoes broccoli Rob carrots mushrooms
and also a little blo cream cheese bagel
actually the cream Feast is
good chicken's okay a little on the dry
end overall food on this flight I love
it I love you can order as much as you
want the anytime menu is so extensive I
don't think this was the case last time
I flew J open this Ramen is so good had
to get a second bow before we
land
I love the amenities at Asian hotels com
razor blade toothpaste
toothbrush hair band skin care set so
I'm in Japan for about a week for a
guide at food tour going to spend a few
days in Tokyo then going to the
surrounding cities and all that starts
tomorrow night I just want to talk about
the J business class for minute here
this particular flly on the 787 the
seats were pretty tight I think it was
the tiest J business class ever been on
but the food I don't know when they
started doing this concept where you can
order whatever you want as much as you
want whenever you want it it's amazing
the set lunch was delicious but the
anytime Foods especially the ramen and
this is a meatless Ramen I'm talking
about amazing the fish was good the
steak was good I loved how friendly the
flight attendants were at one point I
ordered three items didn't even blink
also when I ordered the bagel they were
like you sure you want that it's a
little small it's not even that much
food this is one of the few flies I've
been on where they actively encouraged
you to order more food which I very much
appreciate it also the goody bag is
great phone stand USB cord always
welcome to me that's much better than
getting a lip balm so right now it's
about 7:00 p.m. it's about 2: a.m. back
home I'm going to unpack and either
crash or go find something to eat or
maybe crash and then go find something
to eat see you in a
bit good morning it's about 6:30 in the
morning I wanted to go out and grab
something to eat and look at this
there's a 7-Eleven there and then right
there another 7-Eleven I'm going to go
ahead and call that a
sign every time I enter a 7-Eleven in
Japan it's like it's like I'm home
there's so many new food items I hav't
tried egg and tuna
sandwich oh look at this pork ache onion
mushroom and oyster sauce and chili oil
W this instant needle looks intense
never tried any one of these before
these are all 7-Eleven premium dunun
noodles well there was no place to sit
in either 7vs luckily there's like a
little office part with seating and some
standing tables all right this looks
really good slices of what looks like
pork
belly gooey eggs and onion oh I should
have got some rice with this I thought
there was rice in here there's not this
actually looks like something I would go
really good with
rice I love this so much I don't eat
this all the time this is some feel good
comfort food right here onions eggs
woodier melting your mouth pork belly
that's just covered in chili oil this
dish is so so good get it with my
sandwich usually um you only find half
tuna half egg sandwiches as lawon but
now 711 has it
too oh I missed this so much and yeah it
goes very well with the egg and wood ear
in
pork all right let's check out this
Ramen I noticed there's a lot of
different selection of 7eleven Select
Ramen now and tundaman seems to be a
very popular flavor although this thing
didn't have a marker on where where to
fill up the water so I just kind of
guessed the smells really good this
thing definitely passes the smell
test this is delicious noodles are chew
is pretty rich nice peanuty flavor good
amount of heat and numbness this thing
will warm you right up I love how it
says big it's not exaggerating there's a
lot of noodles in here usually instant
noodles probably takes me like four or
five slurps I've taken some pretty big
slurps so far I still have at least half
left oh this is so good and this is all
the rage nowadays the aloe yogurt
drink yeah I agree this is great wow I
love Japanese yogurt I love aloe now you
can get
both I mean it's very thick this is not
a refreshing drink but this what make
you very very
happy
you know my Cuisine I didn't know this
it's just Cuisine that's based on the
tradition of the surrounding area here
in Tokyo and this tradition passed
around for hundreds of years if you
don't know all the best ingredients in
Japan to this day all comes through
Tokyo first so all the ingredients and
EO my cooking e my Cuisine it's all
using the freshest and best ingredients
in all Japan and today I am at a 230
yearold unagi restaurant y restaurant
this family has been doing y need my
style for 230 Years first dish eel
spine fish crackers one of my favorite
things and this thing is just fried to a
perfect crunchy crisp with the delicious
mommy fish
flavor first hot dishes here this is
unagi tamago so unagi stuff inside the
tamago this looks like a very fluffy
fluffy
tomago that's like biting into an eggy
Cloud this thing is so soft and fluffy
and inside it just melts in your
mouth
Umami this is one of the craziest Tomos
I've ever had I mean just the insane
amount of umami that's inside incredible
this is something I've never had before
unagi liver this is a lot of liver on
the skew I mean I assume each unagi
liver is probably this big this seems
like there's like 50 wagi worth of liers
on the
skewer wa this is freaking incredible
sweet really Smokey actually it doesn't
really have any organic flavor very
clean but has that nice brainish wow
little bit of the organy aftertaste
which I actually
like texture is very soft some parts of
it a little chewy he tastes so much of
the seafood Mani in deliver this is
absolutely incredible love
this
all right got my eel box this looks
first of all so beautiful it's just
glistening this golden Sheen as you're
picking it apart you're already smelling
that beautiful fire that they cooked
this over and the sweet kabayaki sauce
that's on top of the
Y this is absolutely incredible eating
this just kind of puts you like almost
like a culinary trans the flavors that
you're tasting it's so rich and deep
hint of sweetness a ton of smokey flavor
eels is so soft there's still little
bones inside that you can just go ahead
and eat because those are very delicate
as well the texture is just it's almost
like the cotton candy of fish when the
yel touches your tongue it just
dissolves the rice soaks up some of that
delicious sauce and it's a perfect
compliment because the Y is just
fantastically
flavorful I mean it's just pure flavor
Essence that's how it is y is such a
delicate fish it's easy to overcook it
or undercook it and the way they do it
is just absolutely masterful just a
perfect texture you pick it up put it on
your tongue and just let it
dissolve barely need to chew this so I
never actually added any pepper corn on
my uh eel before but they said this is a
really common
way little numbness on the T oh that
goes really really good with that sweet
fatty e and that's the other thing this
thing is so fatty and nice after the E
Goes Down the Hatch you get this really
nice silky layer fat that's left on your
tongue over 200 years of tradition this
thing is pure
perfection this is super so good too
such a wonderful KP
flavor
so I'm here for the crab Ramen they also
have a crab fried rice think I'm going
to try that too actually he just
recommended to get a katsu yeah let's do
that so this one is like part Isiah a
part Robin shop and they only open from
900 p.m. to 6: a.m. and I got here as
soon as they opened and I got two of
their most popular dishes the first is
Connie Ramen which is a crab Ramen
sitting in a thick eggy broth with a
couple of snowcrab shells on
top first things first eimas this is
such a fun touch with the crab shells on
top inside this is Japanese snow crowd
so wavy medium thick noodles and the
broth is very rich and eggy as
well my first taste of ramen whenever
I'm in Japan always gets me so excited
oh smells so
good m awesome the broth is a mix of
chicken and crab little sweet very very
rich extremely deep flavors and the Egg
adds to the richness and the creaminess
of this
broth the thick broth clings to the
needles very very well it's thick it's
flavorful a little sweetness from the
crab and this thing is just pack full
Umami flavor that tastes a little
alcohol in the bro and I asked him he
puts sake in the broth which gives it
that nice X
Factor it's definitely one of the most
unique bow Ramen I had in
Tokyo that's very
nice
their second most popular dish katsu
over gooey eggs oh the KATU is nice and
crispy wo this consum is absolutely out
of this
world egg is so fluffy the sauce is a
little sweet but the story here is the
concert I might like this more than a
Ramen the lightful pork
hotu so crunchy on the outside the pork
is Juicy the Ty sauce is sweet it's
Smokey it goes perfect with the
rice oh this is absolutely phenomenal
it's such a little on a swimming place
it doesn't see that many people there's
only one person running it so you walk
in you go to the vending machine the
owner is so nice he let you order from
the table because obviously I can't read
the words on the vending machine and the
flu is just ridiculous a great option if
you're having a lay night out or jetl
and can't sleep at 3:00 in the morning
9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. come here and get
some Ramen definitely get a Kazu
though