Yokohama Chinatown Street Food Adventure
Yokohama Chinatown Street Food Adventure
Overview
In this live stream episode, John Daub takes viewers on a culinary tour of Yokohama Chinatown (Chukagai), the largest Chinatown in Japan. Accompanied by his wife Kanae Daub, John explores the vibrant streets filled with steam, bright signage, and an overwhelming variety of street food options. The episode serves as both a travel guide and a food adventure, highlighting why Yokohama Chinatown is a unique destination even for those who could travel to China itself.
The duo navigates through the East and West Gates, sampling iconic dishes like Peking duck crepes, ebi chili man (shrimp chili buns), and various nikuman (steamed pork buns). John provides context on Yokohama's history, its relationship to Tokyo, and the specific neighborhoods that make up the city. The video captures the lively atmosphere of the district, including the etiquette of eating while walking and the ethical considerations surrounding certain ingredients like shark fin.
Viewers join the live interaction, influencing food choices through comments and super chats, creating a dynamic experience where the audience helps "feed Kanae." The episode showcases the value for money in Yokohama compared to traveling abroad, the visual spectacle of the food displays, and the cultural blend of Japanese and Chinese influences found in Motomachi.
Highlights
- 00:00:05 John introduces Yokohama Chinatown and questions why visit here instead of China.
- 00:04:32 First taste test: Peking Duck crepe rolled with tare sauce.
- 00:08:19 Trying the massive Ebi Chili Man (shrimp chili bun) for 500 yen.
- 00:12:19 Observing handmade Shoronpo (soup dumplings) being made at high speed.
- 00:21:02 Sitting down to eat Yaki Nikuman (fried pork bun) in a side alley.
- 00:31:20 Discussion on Fukahire (shark fin) buns and ethical concerns.
- 00:43:00 Trying Tapioca Milk Tea amidst the tapioca boom in Japan.
- 00:51:21 Explanation of Chuka Ryori terms like Chuka Don and Chuka Soba.
Timeline / Chapters
- 00:00:00 Introduction to Yokohama Chinatown
- 00:01:00 Overview of Yokohama's five key areas
- 00:04:00 Peking Duck Crepe tasting
- 00:08:00 Ebi Chili Man purchase and review
- 00:12:00 Watching Shoronpo being made
- 00:20:00 Exploring side alleys and Yaki Nikuman
- 00:30:00 Yokohama Set (soup dumplings) and steam bath experience
- 00:40:00 Tapioca trend and Panda goods
- 00:50:00 Final food stops and terminology explanation
- 01:07:00 Closing at the East Gate
Japan Travel Tips
- Timing: Visit on weekdays if possible; weekends are extremely crowded with couples and families.
- Etiquette: Generally, walking while eating is discouraged in Japan, but it is more accepted in Chinatown street food areas. Stand to the side if possible.
- Transport: Yokohama is about 30 minutes from Shinagawa/Tokyo via the JR Tokaido or Negishi lines.
- Budget: Street food items range from 250 yen to 500 yen. Full sets are around 400-1000 yen.
- Cash: Many small street vendors prefer cash, though larger shops accept cards.
- Navigation: The Chinatown has East, West, South, and North Gates. Yamashita Park is a short walk from the West Gate.
Japanese Language & Culture Notes
- Chukagai (中華街): The Japanese term for Chinatown. Yokohama's is the largest in Japan.
- Chuka Ryori (中華料理): Chinese cuisine. Distinct from Chuka Don (rice bowl) or Chuka Soba (ramen).
- Nikuman (肉まん): Steamed pork bun. A staple convenience store and street food item.
- Tabehodai (食べ放題): All-you-can-eat. Common in restaurants, often priced around 1,680 yen.
- Baiking (バイキング): Buffet style. Derived from "Viking."
- Anzen (安全): Safety. John notes fire department announcements regarding safety in Chinese.
- Shark Fin Ethics: John declines Fukahire (shark fin) due to environmental concerns, highlighting a growing awareness in food choices.
Food & Drink Guide
- Peking Duck Crepe (00:04:32): 250 yen. Duck meat rolled in a crepe with tare sauce and cucumber. Sweet sauce.
- Ebi Chili Man (00:08:19): 500 yen. Steamed bun filled with shrimp in spicy sweet chili sauce. Large portion.
- Yaki Nikuman (00:21:02): Fried version of the pork bun. Crispy exterior, pork and nira (garlic chives) inside.
- Yokohama Set (00:31:20): ~410 yen. Sampler including crab dumpling, soup dumpling, steamed meat dumpling, and meat bun.
- Tapioca Milk Tea (00:43:00): Various flavors (green tea, black tea, strawberry, coconut). Trendy drink at the time.
- Fukahire Man (00:31:20): Shark fin bun. Declined by John due to ethical concerns.
- Kakuni-man (00:15:31): Braised pork belly bun. Similar to Nagasaki style.
People
- John Daub: Host. Enthusiastic about food and culture. Guides the tour and interacts with live viewers.
- Kanae Daub: John's wife. Joins the food tour. Known for having a big appetite ("Feed Kanae" trend).
- Viewers (Kiki, Thor, Eric, Leni): Live stream participants who interact via comments and super chats, influencing food choices and funding some items.
Key Takeaways
- Yokohama Chinatown offers authentic Chinese food experiences often cheaper than traveling to China.
- The area is highly visual with steam, bright lights, and plastic food displays attracting customers.
- Street food etiquette is more relaxed here than in typical Japanese business districts.
- Environmental ethics (shark fin) are becoming part of the food conversation even in traditional settings.
- Weekday visits offer a more manageable crowd experience compared to weekends.
Notable Quotes
- 00:00:30 "Joining me on the street is Kanae Daub, a master of eating. I would know. She's very hungry most of the time."
- 00:09:21 "Chinatown in Yokohama is the king of street food in Japan. This is crazy."
- 00:11:37 "Are we really in Japan anymore? Is this really Japan? I don't even think this is Japan. This is kind of like a buffer zone."
- 00:31:20 "I'm against that. I can't eat shark fin. That's not good. I'll pass on the shark fin."
- 00:43:00 "This tapioca turns you into a human pachinko machine. It's like a little pachinko."
Related Topics
- Yokohama Travel Guide
- Japanese Street Food Culture
- Chinatown History in Japan
- Tapioca Boom in Japan
- Live Streaming Travel Vlogs
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Full Transcript
00:00:05 John Daub: Greetings everyone. We are live in Yokohama at Chinatown. This is an amazing place for those that love Chinese food. And you might be wondering, why would it be worth coming to Chinatown in Japan when you can just go to China, which is just a couple of hundred miles over to the west. And the answer is going to be in this episode. How you doing everybody?
00:00:30 John Daub: Joining me on the street is Kanae Daub, a master of eating. I would know. She's very hungry most of the time. Yes. So this time we came to Yokohama, which is the neighbor of Tokyo. It's not that far away from Shinagawa, which is on the Yamanote line. You can take a train here and it's about 30 minutes away from Yokohama Station.
00:00:53 John Daub: Yokohama Station is not really the center of Yokohama. I always think you have to go to Minato Mirai or Sakuragicho. There's also the Nagarakicho, which is kind of like the inner harbor of Yokohama. But there's five areas of Yokohama that I think are quite interesting. The first area is Yokohama Station in itself. There's a lot of shops there. It's also the hub for the Tokaido line and from all the local trains going towards Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka.
00:01:21 John Daub: There's Shin-Yokohama, which is the Shinkansen stop. There's not that much there. But it's the end of the Yokohama subway. Then there's Minato Mirai and Sakuragicho. Those places are kind of like the inner harbor, the fun zone of Yokohama. It's a pretty significant area. If you come here, between Sakuragicho and Minato Mirai is an amusement park. There's shopping malls. There's loads of restaurants. And on the weekends, it's filled with couples that are on dates.
00:01:52 John Daub: And then there's Motomachi, which is where we are right now. This is the Chinatown. It's very colorful. Check it out. We were just at the East Gate. And now we're going to walk towards the West Gate. And that there is Yamashita Park. This is the gate where we came into. Just about a two minute walk straight ahead, those lights will end and you'll be at Yamashita Koen, which is where the water is. And there's a boat there. What's that ship called? Hikawa Maru. You can see the Hikawa Maru in Yamashita Park. It's really nice. If you're in Yokohama, you can see the Hikawa Maru. It's a really nice place.
00:02:37 Kanae Daub: Kanae Daub's partner, I hope you do enjoy this.
00:02:42 John Daub: We're going to try to find some street food. Are you hungry?
00:02:42 Kanae Daub: Yes, I'm hungry.
00:02:45 John Daub: Yes, she's starving. So join us, won't you, as we walk through Chinatown. There's a lot of history here. Yokohama is filled with history. Oh, you can see already the influence of China right there. The dude's holding up two big Peking ducks. Check it out. And they ride it real big. Do they have to use yellow, though? That's part of the Chinese flag. Red and yellow. Do you see? China's flag is red and the star is yellow. So they kind of take those colors. And you'll see that theme pretty much everywhere. That yellow could be gold.
00:03:26 John Daub: I love this sign. Actually, there's Peking duck there. Can you get Peking duck as street food? Let's go take a look. It says Peking duck 250 yen. Wait a second. Kanae hates duck, though.
00:03:47 Kanae Daub: You don't like the duck.
00:03:48 John Daub: I like the duck. Let's go try to find the duck. Alright, Kanae, you just duck, okay? Alright, let's go try this Peking duck for 250 yen. Can I order from the window? Please. Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Can I just get one? Yeah, just get one. Look at that duck hanging in the window. That looks so good. I know Kanae's horrified because I'm holding the gimbal. She's gonna order for... She's gonna get this. This is gonna be awesome.
00:04:32 John Daub: It is a Peking duck rolled in with tare. Crepe maki. Wow, it's like a Peking duck crepe. Kanae, you like crepes. This is a Peking duck crepe, right?
00:04:47 Kanae Daub: I just ordered.
00:04:48 John Daub: Yeah, Peking duck crepe. You can't get more awesome than this. Alright, as we wait for this, this is kind of like our date night. I've been in Kyoto for a while. I've been on the road. So I got a hotel in Yokohama. We're gonna be spending the night here. And we walked over to Motomachi. It's really nice. Spent some time in the city. Outside of the city, I should say, because Yokohama is like our backyard, I guess, if you're living in Tokyo. We're starting off the right way with Peking duck. There it is! Oh, wow! Here, show it up. Show it, show it, show it, show it. It's hot. Oh, man. Oh, it is hot. That looks really small, actually. You have small hands, so this appears bigger than normal. Because Kanae has small hands.
00:05:50 Kanae Daub: Smaller.
00:05:54 John Daub: Yeah. Okay. Kanae, you can hold this. Are you going to try? I would give her a bite. The microphone is here. You just hold it out here. I'm going to try Peking duck plate. This is basically what it is here. It looks like a little burrito. It's wrapped. It's not a tortilla for those who are wondering. It's inside cucumber and some vegetables. This is all the stuff that Kanae hates. You hate cucumbers. You hate duck. How do you live with me? Let's give this a try. These are really good. Do you like it? It's 250 yen. It's sweet? Yeah. The sauce is really sweet. The problem is I don't have any of the skin of the duck. The Peking duck's skin should be crunchy. I don't have it. Your sauce is coming out here. It's fast. It's delicious. It's good.
00:07:16 John Daub: So to get a full duck would be pretty... Everybody says, John, don't talk with your mouth when your mouth is full. But I have to say something. If I don't say anything at all, that's kind of rude. To keep people waiting. It's a big debacle. Do you keep talking? Oh, oh, oh! We just started. The street food is insane. Check it out. Just across. I just want to kind of look at here. Wow! This is a creamy black sesame. Do you want to try one of these?
00:08:13 Kanae Daub: Yeah, should we try it from here?
00:08:19 John Daub: Ebi chili man. Which one do you want? Shoronpo, thank you very much. We're going to be putting out the good use. I guarantee it. Okay, ebi chili man. It's that big it does look really big you can see the models you see the models in the front there. It's it looks really hot. Whoa. We have we just got to the entrance and we've already gotten two things. Chinatown in Yokohama is the king of street food in Japan. This is crazy. How did I not do a main channel episode here? Oh my gosh. I totally gotta do it.
00:09:16 Kanae Daub: Yeah, you have to eat a lot.
00:09:21 John Daub: All right, that means wait. Hold on. Can I you get the first bite? Okay. All right, let's jump in front of the lights. Just right here. Here we go. All right show us. Oh my word. That's like five times bigger than the Peking duck that I ate. That's not fair. All right, give it a go. Is it did you get there yet? No. Oh, we're starting to get into the chili. You didn't get any chili chili. Oh, wow, the question is though for 500 yen, how many shrimp do you get? Nanko tabeta ebi. Okay, you've eaten two shrimps so far. It's still pretty hot. John good morning. John. Long time no see. Thank you. We're gonna be eating a lot. Counting the shrimp three shrimp really are they big shrimp? Okay, oh, yeah, okay. Oh, hold on so the shrimp have various sizes. Let's just take a look at the quality here. Oh, wow, just hold it steady here. All right. Oh my that looks delicious. That looks almost sweet. It's got all the flavors in one, you know. You're gonna give me the shrimp. Yeah. All right, i'll take it. That's okay. This is really good. Usually this you're gonna eat it let's just now it's not. It's not etiquette to walk and eat. You don't eat while walking, right?
00:11:28 Kanae Daub: That's right. Why? If you break it, it'll get dirty.
00:11:37 John Daub: It's not typical to walk and eat but you know what like with street food it's sort of okay in this area. You wouldn't do it walking around like a central business district, but in Chinatown, come on. Are we really in Japan anymore? Is this really Japan? I don't even think this is Japan. This is kind of like a buffer zone. Maybe the border this is a completely different. This is it. Whoa. Check it out. There's all these people they're eating on the side. Are they lined up or they're just eating? Is that like ramen or something? I don't know what that is. We gotta finish this before we get something else.
00:12:16 Kanae Daub: I know. Shoronpo.
00:12:19 John Daub: Okay, let's go take a look. This is crazy. Oh yeah. It's like dim sum. That's crazy. I'm saying that because I'm just so hungry. You can try later. Oh wow. So these are about ten dollars for five or six of these but they're authentic. And it's cheaper to eat it here than go all the way to China. And then you get six. So it's cheaper to eat it here than go to China. Small shrimp little straws. You can get six of them but that's fifteen dollars. 4 is 1000 yen. That's kind of pricey. But again, it's cheaper than going to China. They really do make it handmade. And I love the window in there. So there's full transparency on what they're making. Let's go take a look. Check it out. It is totally fresh. It's amazing. Wow, which one is this that they're making? Looks like a lot of meat. There's a lot of meat there. She's fast. And then you can see that they're making it really fast with the green. I guess the green is not green tea. It could be something else. Usually green is not green tea in Japan for many things. It's yomogi, which is a weed. It's like mugwort, they call it. Wow, they're working so fast. Can you make gyoza that fast?
00:14:02 Kanae Daub: No.
00:14:03 John Daub: Look at that. That's why I would pay more. Just based on speed. Oh, wow. Inside those sacks is just deliciousness.
00:14:15 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I want to learn. I want to learn too.
00:14:20 John Daub: All right, Kanae's taken down that chili ebi man. Pretty good. How you doing, everybody? We are walking through Chinatown for those of you joining us. I'll eat it because you're going to get full. All right, this is the end. Whoa. Everyone. Everybody has their own chili man or their own kind of nikuman or pork bun, steamed pork bun, but there's more than just pork in here. These are fortune tellers here. If you want something that's non-meat, you can get that here. Although, after the last episode I uploaded, I think there are very, very few vegetarians watching the series. There are some. Oh, these look so good. Shoronpo in spoons.
00:15:25 Kanae Daub: I like it. I always eat it when it's too hot in Burma. What is that?
00:15:31 John Daub: Wow, there's just like chunks of pork in the pork bun. It's kakuni-man. Wow, that looks way too good to pass up. You want to try this one? Or do you want like a spoon? Oh, these come in spoons of four. Is this street food? Can you eat this on the street? I don't know, but they deep fry them too, apparently. All right, I don't want the same thing. It's not like we're in Japan anymore. Oh, the egg tarts. You got to get this when you're in Macau. Egg tarts in Macau. We're on the prowl. That was two quick ones. In 16 minutes, we got two down. Oh, man, I haven't been here in ages. I used to live in 2004 and 2005. I lived in a city called Futako-Tamagawa, which is on the edge of between Kanagawa and Tokyo.
00:16:33 Kanae Daub: Yeah, Nikotama.
00:16:35 John Daub: Right, Futako-Tamagawa is called Nikotama, the nickname to it. And it's not that far from here. So, yeah. So I would take the train on the weekends and come here often. But there's a little alley there. It's kind of nice. The alleys are pretty. Just does not look like Shinjuku. Absolutely not. But from Futako-Tamagawa, it's like 20 minutes or less to get here. And I would come here quite often. But it's changed a lot since 2004. Or maybe I just forget. That could be it. Whoa. Look at these like panda baby outfits. It's pretty cool. Chinese clothes. Get that if we get a doggy. Oh, here's a restaurant. They got, I like this. They got like the plastic displays so you can see exactly what you're eating. This is one of the beautiful things with Japan. They have these plastic displays that look almost as good as real food, if not better. Oh, wow. Look at that one with cream on it. No, stop it. It's cream. It's raw cream shrimp. It's shrimp with mayonnaise. Japanese mayonnaise. Is that good? Let's see what else we got down here. This looks really good. And then there's more of your favorite food. Duck. Kanae likes good duck. She's laughing. That means it's the opposite of what I just said. Hey, Kiki. Hey, Kiki Miyazaki's in the house. She said, feed Kanae is trending on Twitter. Feed Kanae is not trending on Twitter.
00:18:37 John Daub: It seems like a lot of the prices, the magical price here is 1680 yen. Yeah, these are all you can eat for 1680 yen. That looks like, and that's a lot of stuff on the menu, Kanae. Wow. Oishii. Shoronpo tabehodai. I always wonder if, I think you get what you pay for, and that seems like it's too cheap for what you pay for. It seems like you get a lot for that, but I don't know. Do you want to eat there? That would be your date dinner.
00:19:15 Kanae Daub: You don't need a tabehodai.
00:19:16 John Daub: Okay. She doesn't want the tabehodai. She's smart. She knows if you pass up the, we call them baiking, buffets are called baiking here, which means Viking, and it's all you can eat places, but she's smart. She passes it up. This is interesting. I don't remember these alleyways being, number one, this clean, and number two, having street food. Let's just take a look off of the main street and go down this alley here. All right. Check it out. So this alley also has shoronpo, and the prices seem pretty much the same, but they also have different things on the menu. Oh, Kanae, that's that Nagasaki pork bun. You know these? I've seen these in Nagasaki. It looks like it's very similar to the Nagasaki pork bun sandwich. Whoa, look at that. These are like fried gyoza. Do you see that? With nikuman. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. There's a, there's a, is that Taiwan? Chimaki. Taiwan chimaki. Anything you want to get here? It looks reputable. Yeah, it looks clean. I mean, it looks clean. Yeah, you can eat at the table. What do you think? Where do you get the street food? I guess you order it in the store. There's only one way to find out. You want in on this?
00:21:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:21:02 John Daub: All right. All right, do it. Do it. Whoa, it's like we're in China. Okay. I think that they have copyright music in China, right?
00:21:10 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I think so.
00:21:12 John Daub: I'm going to talk over this until they copyright music. All right, what do you want to get, Kanae? You can get whatever you want to get. I don't know what this like, this music is like banned. Uh, anything is fine. Yeah, I'm fine. Because this, this road is wide. All right, they have like a Yokohama Coca-Cola, by the way. Check it out. That's kind of neat. All right. I've done, I've done my, my part. Um, yeah, I've subscribed. I've done my part. Down with T-Series. That was, that was fast. That's right. I ordered yaki nikuman. Okay, let's go to the table. Yaki nikuman. Let's get our yaki nikuman action on. I forgot the tripod, so I'm still going to have to hold it. I like this. We get our own, our own area. Check it out. This is our view. I'm going to show this nikuman. That's our view. All right, check it out. Check it out, number two. It's hot. It's hot. Watch out. That looks good. It's golden. Is that deep fried or? Steamed and then fried. I think it's deep fried. Okay. Try it. Do it. Hot? Hot. Yes. Hot level three. That's takoyaki hot. Let's see the guts here. Oh my. Is there meat in there? Yeah. They put meat in everything. Yeah. I thought nira. What is nira? Nira is like grass.
00:23:10 Kanae Daub: It's like, um. Yeah, but...
00:23:13 John Daub: Oh, they put pork and nira, which is kind of like... I can't even describe it. What is nira in English? Nira is scary. It's not green onion. It's not green onion. I don't know. But it doesn't have much of a taste. It's like a weed. But it's really good. It's like long and very green and has lots of vitamins. It's starting to rain now. All right, let's try this. Is it good? Try it. It's good. Don't drop it. Steam. That's a lot of pork. Oh, I got it. It's basically just a pork meatball surrounded by the dough. The really springy dough. And they put the nira or the green vegetable inside of it. So the meatball has the nira green grass inside of it. I don't know how you say nira in English. I just know it's like 100 yen for a big bunch of them in there. Kiki, I guess, found a way to... It's a super chat. More than $1.99. She said, hashtag feed Kanae more is now trending on Twitter. I think there's a lot of places to feed Kanae. You can do it this way. Check it out. There's some deep signage. That is a lot of signs. All right, I'm just going to walk. I'm going to walk through here. That's a lot of bright signs. This reminds me of Osaka. The signs come out into the street. And they're all trying to attract you so much. You can't even pass. It's like... All right, let's just take a look here. Everything is 1,680 yen. Everything is 1,600 yen on the street. Except for that. It's 850 yen per dish. Wow, you do get a lot for your money. This is about volume, everybody. This is about volume. And this is Taiwan. You get Taiwan tea. And the meal for 1,680 yen. Hong Kong tea. Yahoo is still popular here, by the way. Wow, and there's tons of side out. This is like off-Broadway Chinatown here. Oh my. What did you find? Oh, this all looks so good. Oh, mapo tofu. I wonder if we can find a mapo tofu steamed bun. This is too good. I love these bright lit up menus outside the building. It makes it so easy to just stand there with your friends and decide what you want to get. This looks good. This looks so good too. What's this, Kanae? This is like pork sauteed. Butabara. Butabara kampoongi? Yeah, I love that. These cuts of fatty pork. It looks good. Yeah, this is like a ramen, isn't it? Yeah, it's ramen. Yeah, someone's writing in Hong Kong style. Yeah, it's Hong Kong style. Alright, we have to follow through on Kiki's wishes. It's time to feed Kanae. But this is a street food episode. So we must go down the street. So back we go. Unless she wants a Chinese massage. She wants that too. Let's do this. Let's follow them. Nice. Everybody who's joining us right now, we are live from Chinatown, Yokohama. It's a place filled with street food. Thus, we've already had three street foods. One was a nikuman, which is basically pork with a green vegetable, like a grass inside of it, we had an ebi chili man, which is shrimp within a spicy sweet sauce in a steamed bun. And we had Peking duck in a roll. And next up, it's anybody's guess because this place is so vibrant and so full of street foods. Oh, we gotta get that tapioca. Yeah, we gotta get the tapioca drink. That's really popular here. Look at the beautiful decorations on the top. I guess that gives it more of a feel. I'm so excited to be in China because I don't see this other place in Japan. And then, my eyes are attracted to just steam on the street where there's more steamed buns. Steamed buns seem to be the main attraction. The steam being the eye catcher. Wow. I just want to put my face in there and just get it all moist and hot. I don't know what's wrong with me tonight. It's a little sauna. I'm gonna bathe inside that steamed dumpling barrel. Sorry. Okay, let's keep looking. We want to find something different. Although, that does look good. There's like steamed dumpling billboards there. Yeah, look. See? Steam is like, it's advertising, hey, come over here and look at our steam. If we stay in there, do you think I can get a steam bath? Oh, it's coming right at us. Check it out. Steam in your face. Oh, they have different ones, can I? They have a soup dumpling. Yeah. Do you want to try something else? They have a soup. Oh, they got crab soup dumpling. Yeah, and they have a Yokohama set. Check it out. Oh, that's about $4. Yeah, you can eat it on the street and they have tapioca here too. And you get free unlimited steam. Yeah, let's try Yokohama set. And all the steam that you can take. Oh my word. Sign me up. I want to sit on one of those squishy bean buns. Oh, Kanae's paying. I gave Kanae a bundle of cash before we started. And then Kiki reimbursed me. Thanks, Kiki. Can I just give me five minutes? I just can't take my eyes off of. She said it takes three minutes. Okay, that's fine. I'll stay here for three minutes and steam my wrinkles back to beauty. So this here is goma... What is it? Goma dango. It's like a donut with sesame and anko inside, right?
00:30:51 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:30:52 John Daub: I love those. Those are a dollar. It feels so good here. You guys are right in the steam. I'm giving our 500 viewers a steam bath. Oh, this is nice. Atatakai.
00:31:14 Kanae Daub: Atatakai.
00:31:20 John Daub: This here is a big pork bun. But they put a lot of good stuff in there. This is maybe even healthy. Kanae, what's this one? It's a nikuman. Fukahire man. Fukahire man. What's the difference between fukahire and nikuman? Nikuman is only nikuman. Fukahire is nikuman and they put fukahire. What's fukahire? Fukahire is shark fin. Oh, like shark. Shark fin. Fin? Oh, I'm against that. I can't eat shark fin. That's not good. I'll pass on the shark fin. I'll eat the other parts though. I won't eat the fins. Against the fins. We got Russia's representing here. And the tapioca is also quite famous here. This is the tapioca milk tea. I guess it's a green tea. Yeah. Green tea. Tapioca green tea. Tapioca black tea. Tapioca strawberry milk. And tapioca coffee. I like a good tapioca. It's starting to rain a little bit now in the streets here. We gotta wait about one more minute for our steamed dumplings to come. And while we're waiting, we're getting a steam bath because the steam seems to be coming towards us. Just like the incense do at Asakusa Sensoji when you go there to the temple. You'll get the steam coming this way. Oh, Leni's here. Uh oh. Leni's in the house. Thanks, Leni. We're eating this. We're getting the steamed. This is a Yokohama set shared with Kiki and Leni. Thanks, guys. I like this Yokohama set. It seems like you get one of everything. So the yellow one is crab dumpling. Just so we go over this. The brown one is a soup dumpling. This one here, which looks more squarish, is steamed meat dumpling. And then up there is a steamed meat bun. And the Yokohama set has two soup dumplings and the other three. That's kind of a neat set. And this whole thing costs $4. Like 410 yen with tax. I think that's a pretty good deal. That's a pretty good deal. On the weekends, this place is kind of crazy. I have to give you a warning. It's crowded. So that's why we came on the weekday. I just got back from Kyoto last night. I filmed two main channel episodes in three days. It was kind of crazy. But they're really good episodes, including the ramen episode there. It's really going to be good. So tonight is just our street food night. It's going to be a lot of fun. It has been a lot of fun. What am I talking about? Oh, it's here. There's a place to eat on the side. Follow her. Feed Kanae. Feed Kanae. Oh, there is. There's a place to eat on the side. So there's a place for us to eat here. Did somebody forget their bun? Is it? Okay. I thought it was like some dude forgot his food. He should eat it. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. I never. I just try a little bit. So this was $4 for five of these. It's a sampler. You want to go for the soup first? Yeah. But I have to be careful. Yeah. Be careful. Do it. Do it. We're both recovering from colds. Do it. Oh, I saw the soup. You lost some of the soup. Oh, you got takoyaki mouth. That's how I burn my mouth. I always burn my mouth with the. No. It's hot. Hot. We need some dramatic music here. Oh, it's good though. You eat it from the top according to Eric. Eric 48 writes you eat it from the top. Yeah. And then you would drink the juice out of it. Okay. Oh, desserts on Thor. Thanks. Thanks, Thor. All right. I'm going to try this here. Hold on. Hold on. You can put it down. Oh, it's got some volume to it. I think it's just. No, no, no. It's not coming. It's not coming out. It's not broken. All right. I'm going to do it. Do it. Do it the right way. I'm going to eat the top. All right. I heard the top. But the soup. The soup broke out. Oh, man. This happens sometimes. You can't control it. Good. Yeah, really good. Eric, we tried. All right. Next up, Kanae. I'm getting slightly full. We had in Kyoto, by the way, I had like five bowls of ramen in two days. So my cholesterol and salt count is like way up there. I should. Yeah. This is all for you. Feed Kanae. Right, Kiki? Feed Kanae. Good? Oh, that's the Yokohama Fire Department is giving warnings about fire safety in Chinese. That's pretty cool. Did you speak Chinese? Yeah, the Yokohama Fire Department was speaking Chinese, making announcements in Chinese in Japan. That's weird. I don't know. I don't know why that's freaking me out. Which one is not the shark? I'll eat this one. Crab or crab? Yeah, I'll have the crab. Crab soup. Is there a shark one? I don't want to eat the shark. No, it's nikuman. Okay, I'll eat the nikuman. Which one do you want? You want the crab? Crab. Oh, all right. You can have the crab. But it's nikuman, Joe. All right. This is a pork bun. Mmm, it's edible. You can see the pork in there. Kind of like a meatball. It's like a meatball. It's like a meatball. Is it cooked? I hope it's cooked through. Daijobu? Really? I don't know. Well, you only live once. Apparently, this might be it. I think it takes two months before the worms start growing in you and they eat you from the inside out. Yeah, eat it from the top, Eric said. Now drink the juice. Soup it. Did it work? No. No, it fell out. Eric, we failed both times. Sorry. We gave it a try. I don't know. I think you're supposed to have a spoon, though. You have it in the spoon. Mmm. Good? Yeah? Crab. Mmm. Crabby. I'm not eating the shark. You want the same? Yeah, oishii yo. Ano fukahire. Yeah, I know it's oishii, but that's not... They kill the sharks for the fins. You know what? I would eat it because PETA's already on me all over for doing a wagyu episode. I don't know. I'm trying to be a good guy. And just get all over you. PETA's not too popular right now, attacking Steve Irwin on his... After Google gave him a tribute. It's coming straight from PewDiePie. Tabihodai. This one's more expensive. The quality might be better. I just love it. It looks like a lineup for a baseball team, except this lineup is all food. How does a chef know how to make all these dishes? That's insane. You can eat all of this for one thing? 1,980 yen or like less than $20. That's crazy. That's crazy. All right, we got to go we got to go find Thor some dessert. Technically Thor bought us the dessert, but we're eating it for Thor. Thor is in our hearts and our stomachs. Sorry Thor. Kanae has found the pandas I found the I found a panda UFO catcher and I think. Yeah, I think that would use the that would be the Niagara method where you go from the top and they all topple down. Right go start from there and shoot. But I think it would take me at least five tries to get it which is five hundred yen. And I'd rather spend that money on food. Oh. Oh. Let's give it a little look a little look see cuz we're almost at the end of the street. I'm digging the t-shirts and I'm digging the dessert. These look like desserts. Oh, no way. Check it out. Can I do you want a panda hat? Why you laughing that's that I wasn't joking did I have a joke tone? Yeah, it was a serious tone. Yeah, are these sweet am I. Yeah, they have an anko and sweet one. Okay, go ahead and try a panda man, or do you want the tapioca? What's this one here? Hold on a second. This is like a mango lassi a coconut milk. What can I they have? Tapioca coconut milk. Do you want to get a panda man and a coconut milk? Or do you want okay, let's get that. All right, let's get that. Pandaman, I don't know. I don't know. Do you want are you don't I die? Juba? Okay, that's what I thought. Let's go for the she's gonna go for the tapioca coconut milk. That means trust me. We're not at the end. We're gonna eat something else. Because if we can get to 300 likes I will eat something else and just keep this livestream going. It's up to you. I've thrown it now into the audience's court. You know that I've hit the ball has a tennis reference. I can't throw a tennis ball. I've hit the ball into your court now audience. It's up to you now. Gently push that like button don't break your phone and get to 300 likes and I'm I'll need some more. It's up to you. Alright. Oh, look at that. They got little teeny balls of happy goodness inside happy yoga tapioca or happy yoga. Happy yoga. I call it. Happy yoga cuz it makes you happy. I thought the straw would be bigger. Usually they give you the fat straws like this so that the mega tapioca comes out. This one is small. Tapioca, ah. We're still 45 shorts. Alright, I can get behind this drink I. I did not say I would eat shark. That would require a thousand likes. We don't have the numbers. Oh. This tapioca turns you into a human pachinko machine. It's like a little pachinko. Yeah. I need to go to a pachinko parlor and start drinking this. It means all the balls are coming into your mouth. And you feel like you're a rich man. You strike it rich with each sip. That's a happy drink. Happy oka. It's pong. H-A-P-P-Y oka. Alright. We're on the prowl. This is how we walk. Watch out for the metal pillars on the street. Signed light posts. Wow. This looks like a shop in Beijing. How big and grand the opening is. They don't even have doors. How do they close this at night? Maybe they never close. Do they have doors on this? I don't see how they close it. Oh, okay. There's a gate here. Right there. Happy Panda. She's still taking down the tapioca. Alright, we got more. We have more ebi chili. And, um... Oh, look, it's happy hour, Kanae. What? Happy hour. Happy hour? There's beer. But Kanae doesn't drink beer. Are you a beer drinker? Whoa. No? Oh, that looks fun. I guess you play a game there. That looks like fun. Alright, we're getting close to the exit. This is the west side. You see right there? So we've pretty much walked the entire street. Our goal was to do this in an hour. What? Alright, lead the way. She tapped me on the shoulder and goes, over here. What is it? What is it? Looks like mozzarella cheese balls. This is the number one. It says, this kanji means popular. It's the number one most popular one. I don't know. What is it? This is pork and shrimp. Kansei? Sleeper? Seafood. Yeah. Kai-sei. Seafood. So pork. Pork and seafood. Good to remember for menus. So you get two of each. Do you want that? Or do you want to keep looking? This might be the last one. We didn't get to the 300 required. We need 300 likes in order to eat the next food. Alright, we failed so far. We must get five more, six more likes. And don't try to unlike and then like again. That doesn't work like that. Alright, see, look, I bring it up and we pass it. 300. Like it was, that was easy, huh? This is the entire, we've, guys, we've just walked the entire Chinatown together. Let me cross the street here and check this shop out. Every shop has its own, like every shop has a little bit different, a little bit different to it. This one has the anman. Nikuman. Yeah. Yeah. Is it pachinko over there? Shop? Shop. Shop? All right. Check it out. I got room for one more. Thanks to our audience hitting. If we get to 1000 likes, I will eat the shark. But I'm saying that because we're never going to do that. We'll never get to shark level. So I can, I can make that promise. Shark fin soup. I've had it before, but it's okay. Can I showing me the shark fins here? There's shark fin and this is the shark fin soup. It's good. We're at the entrance. This looks like fast food. Oh, that's, that's the nut. That's popular in Nagasaki. That one right there. It's yeah, it's a piece of like very, very slowly cooked pork in sauce surrounded by a steamed dumpling bun. That's three. It's $3.50 about and it's incredible. It's, it's famous in Nagasaki, which is actually closer to China. You want that? No, you didn't know that. No, you didn't know that. Well, I know stuff that you don't know and check it out. There's a little pink one, which looks like, looks like something else. Anything else? I'm going to get demonetized. You still working on that? Ah, you got to pachinko it, down it, open it up and let it all out. I could, but I choose nacho. All right, let's go. We're going to eat. We're going to eat the last one right now, but I want to take you to the exit. And because we're going to walk back. This is the East exit. Oh, this looks so good too. This looks so good as well. Check it out up there. What's that? There's some weird looking dim sum. Oh, coconut. Whoa. Yeah. Coconut dango. I'm up for that. Too bad they don't sell it on the street. Do they? Can you get it out here? No. They just have like roasted chestnuts or something. All right. Now I'm looking up at the East gate. I'm going to get a drink. Oh, I'm going to go to the East. Then we're gonna go get some food. We're not done. Got our audience is increasing. This is everyone goes to me John. Do a where can I go? Everyone says Joe, why are you live stream so long? What so everybody can catch it. You're supposed to watch these live. It's a little bit more fun when you catch it live, right? All right. I don't know the Christmas lights are pretty cool. This is not Christmas lights, I guess, you know, just because they're in front of the police. It's in front of the police station. They love zero to safe. Oh safety. Yeah on Zen. Yes on their safety on sheen on Zen. Yeah, so that's in front of the police station and they're very festive. Just because it's Christmas lights doesn't mean it's Christmas. They're just lights LED lights. Remember that I love Christmas. So I'm panning around here. This is the east side of Yokohama. You can also see in the reflection in this in this absolutely beautifully waxed car. Because up there up there is the gate and this says? Chuka. Chukagai, yeah. Chukagai and chuka is we say chuka ryori means Chinese food, right?
00:51:21 Kanae Daub: Yeah chuka ryori and chuka don is just simple ramen, right? Chuka chuka don chuka soba. Chuka soba is the Chinese ramen Chinese noodles and chuka don is a Chinese stir fry on rice. I love that. So good. On the weekends, I don't think cars can come here. They closed down Motomachi to traffic, but the traffic is coming through on the weekdays. Fantasy ecstasy. Thank you very much. We're gonna be eating in for eating one more for all of our wonderful viewers because we got to almost 400 likes that's crazy. All right, can I what's it gonna be? There was the? Nani tabetai there was the the over here the Nagasaki? Steamed pork open-faced bun and over here down there on the street. There was a green ebi and butaman like the dango size. The soup inside the bun, but you just ate that. You just ate that. Where do you have a no? Coco. Oh that one that one. Yaki show. Okay, hold on we're out of money. Give her two Gs. I only gave her okay. All right get one of each then. Should we get a goma dango? Let's get the whole menu. Alright. What do you guys think out there? Should we get the whole menu? All right, just get all three of them. Let's just do it. I'm feeling crazy. Keep all right. He's making this easy. Get goma dango hitotsu. The the puta one pork bun and one grilled small shrimp. All of them? Yeah. Just get one of everything. Kiki made it easy for us. There's no debate now. We're ending this because you guys got us to 400 likes, so we gotta eat everything. It's only fair, right? Wow, Kanae went deep in there. Where'd she go? Kanae's ordering. Alright, I'm gonna go look at this very suspicious looking nikuman. I don't know. Very interesting ones here. Very interesting. Very very interesting. Whenever they're on TV, they'll play it on the big screens to try to attract people. We were on TV! But whenever they play it only in japan, you don't see it on the TV often enough. They should be putting this livestream on their TV. If you like this stream, if you agree, I'd like to see our livestream right here. I want to see a livestream of the TV being livestreamed. On their TV. Then you can see me. That's how it works. Hey Koala Garage submissions, thank you very much. We'll eat one of these soup dumplings for you. That's a lot. Should we eat inside? But if you eat it inside, it's not street food anymore. Alright, we can eat it off the street. Alright, eat it right here. Oh no, give me