Tokyo Takoyaki & Okonomiyaki Izakaya restaurant / Japan Travel Food Guide

Make your own takoyaki at izakaya. Tekunobo Samurai Junjiro Channel Hi, I'm Samurai Junjiro Born and raised in Japan Today's video covers izakaya where you can make your own takoyaki and monjayaki English menus are available, so you don't worry about the language barriers We'll share tips on how you make takoyaki and monjayaki, so stay with us to find out more Now let's get started The izakaya we'd like to share today is located in Tokyo Kanda station Kanda sits between Tokyo and Akihabara stations, so you get quite a good access there Let's head over to the store. The nearest exit to the store is the north exit Before we move to introduce the izakaya, let me briefly touch on Kanda station Kanda station is a business town for many companies That is why there's so many izakaya and restaurants to have a drinking after work Let me quickly cover seven recommended places to go in Kanda station Right here in the eyes from the station is Fujisoba Popularly known for stand-up soba slurping place Just in the neighborhood is seafood izakaya called Isomaru Suisan Highly recommended to those who crave fresh seafood There is also Ikemesakaba where you can drink in very friendly price The price is actually a surprise to Japanese, too Osusumeya Located on the fourth floor of this building is a greater surprise You can eat and drink for two hours in the price as shown It feels unreal to be true For those who favor yakitori make sure to check out Torikizoku, too All of their menus are fixed and easy Kushikatsu Tanaka Famously known for kushikatsu are also in Kanda area, too Crispy fried skewers and alcohol are undoubtedly the best partners Unatoto is a must for those eel lovers You can try charcoal grilled eel at a reasonable price There are so many great places to satisfy cravings in Kanda area that many overseas visitors May not know of Now heading over to the izakaya of today's goal It's only three minutes walk from the north exit of Kanda station Once we turn this corner, the store is just in the eyes And here we are it. This is today's izakaya Dekunobo The izakaya has quite a history and it's been 40 years since it first began By 7 p.m. The store will be crowded. So 5 p.m. Is probably the best time to hop in The store opens from 1 p.m. On Saturdays The izakaya has two floors and the space hold up to 50 people To order you use a tablet located on each table You can switch the language to English. So rest assured about that If you click right here, the menu description will also pop up First to arrive are our glasses of beer We ordered Sapporo Black Label for its moderate bitterness and richness Cheers! Our first food menu has arrived Let's begin with grilling scallops The izakaya has abundant menus of meat and seafood other than takoyaki and okonomiyaki Great place for those teppanyaki lovers Let's first pour oil on the iron plate Then spread the oil evenly with this spatula Let's start teppanyaki Loving how it comes with vegetables like bean sprouts green onions and green peppers The veggies are not previously seasoned. So let's add salt and pepper We'll stir fry for a few minutes Once they are softened is your timing to eat The flavor is simple, but the vegetables are very crunchy You can enjoy the taste of seafood when you prepare it with scallop The scallops are looking great. So let's flip to prepare both sides It's looking beautiful We'll drop the butter on iron to melt it Then carefully marinate the butter and scallop Scallop is served when you coat each drops of butter The scallops are thick and very plump I can taste strong sweetness, too The butter really elevates the flavor of the scallop You can also try with ponzu which is a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar It will be a refreshing mouth feel Speeding up to emptying my drink For any charred remnants You scrape it off with the spatula and drop them to the holes on both sides of the iron plate Our drinks have arrived We are trying shochu spirit mixed with oronamin c Oronamin c is a popular energy drink in japan It's sweet but aftertaste is refreshing making it an ideal partner to alcohol Next up we'll prepare monjayaki From 10 kinds we chose the one with fried noodle snack This is classic monjayaki We first begin with pouring oil to an iron plate We'll leave the soup and stir fry the ingredients on iron first Let's cook for one to two minutes once all the ingredients are on iron Then to add okonomiyaki sauce in the remaining soup As for the stir fried ingredients make a donut shape with a spatula The hole in the middle is where we pour our soup in The donut shape helps to block the soup from running down to the holes where we drop our scorched bits in Finish it off with mixing the soup and the ingredients and there you have it The okonomiyaki sauce is smelling fantastic Making monjayaki is not difficult so everyone can easily make one To eat you use this tiny spatula The textures from the vegetables and fried noodles are great Its sticky mouth feel is quite addictive The soup turns to starchy batter when you place it on iron for long, but you can also eat that too Its crispy texture has like a nostalgic snack feel to it We have another round of drinks We'll be having sweet ramune and shochu spirit mixture of ramune sour next Ramune is a popular soda pop that japanese people grown up drinking in their childhood Its refreshing aftertaste is a perfect combination to salty monjayaki Let's now prepare okonomiyaki This is a classic okonomiyaki with pork First we start by preparing okonomiyaki batter and you mix so that it becomes airy It's a little tip that you mix just above the iron plate because the ingredients from the batter may fall Once all the batter is evenly mixed. Let's start spreading on the iron You'd want to put it in pancake shape and rest for five minutes Let's leave the batter alone while the batter is being prepared This will help the batter become fluffy We'll then flip the batter to the other side You'd want to flip it without any hesitation When flipped let's leave for another five minutes The batter is looking great We'll cut okonomiyaki with a spatula before pouring the sauce so that it finishes beautifully When divided into four pieces pour sauce over okonomiyaki Don't be stingy with the amount of sauce you pour And at last you finish with bonito flakes and dried seaweed laver Okonomiyaki is served The sweet smell of the sauce really increases craving Okonomiyaki is normally served prepared. So if you'd like to make your own okonomiyaki Let the server know when you order The oil from the pork is in great harmony with the batter and tastes amazing Tastes slightly spicy from the sauce which contains curry powder The flippy part is a challenge but do give it a try because it's quite an experience Let's now order takoyaki We start off with pouring the soup batter into the iron plate You'd want to fill up the whole sphere so that it finishes strong adding your octopus Also some cabbage and pickled red ginger evenly Then let the batter cook for five minutes The advice here is to leave it alone and not to touch the batter And here comes the important part You use the skewers to collect the batter which spread the outside of sphere into the center By doing this it makes the size bigger and shape better Once you've collected all the batter into the center you slowly turn the batter to form one circle It's looking great Again, you collect the batter inside the sphere and let it set Slowly becoming a beautiful ball shape It's ready when all the surface of the ball is cooked Let's pour sauce over the balls once they are placed on plate Takoyaki is served by finishing with bonito flakes and dried seaweed laver What a beautiful takoyaki It's round and one big takoyaki Outside is crispy with creamy inside The appearance is just perfection The octopus are big and chewy It tastes better since this is self-made Sauce is a great accompany but recommend to try eating with salt You can really enjoy the crispy texture when eating with salt Hope you'd give it a try And finally let's finish with something quite unique This is sauce flavored yakisoba It's served ready to eat The sweet aroma of the sauce is really tempting The noodles are thick with chewy textures It's cooked perfectly with some partial savory and crispy textures It comes with bonito flake broth soup with raw egg You'd want to mix the egg and the soup together And dip your yakisoba into just prepared soup The hearty soup has come in harmony with rich yakisoba and this is delicious It's so creamy from the egg too This is quite an addiction Eating self-made plate are secret recipe for better taste Ordering is easy too. So please take a visit to this izakaya If there's a restaurant you'd like me to introduce let me know in the comments Please like and subscribe to my channel too Well, that's it for today. See you in the next video