Ultimate Japanese Street Food in Tokyo | Shotengai Shopping Streets

Japan’s Shotengai’s are traditional shopping streets full of local charm. This is where you can also try some good local street food.

Minowa Shopping Street
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Sunamachi Ginza Shopping Street
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Togoshi Ginza Shopping Street
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Nakano Sunmall
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Here is osar station from here to minoa there is a tra the last tra of Tokyo to it’s called Tokyo Sakura tra the terminal it’s isik Ste tuna steak bow look so thick thick Muro steak tuna steak about 1 cm tuna steak and it’s seasoned with some

Kind of sauce looks like so sauce B base [Applause] sauce The Taste is like tuna flake it’s soy sauce based sauce season nicely and very tender and outside soft B and crispy lettuce and the steak it’s just grilled and seasoned with soy sauce I love this one so next shop

Is shop Sak shim and we bought the Gill GZA 330 Yen per eight pieces I’m very very looking forward to try this one the smells so nice M they’re using garlic ginger a ches cabbage one more one more piece can I this one has so much flavor the

Humility the garlic the chives the Cabbage for sure that’s where the sweetness comes from the skin of the G yza is you know it it has very nice texture very nice texture look at all those vegetables inside look at that these are the kind of shops you want to go to that

Specialize in just one thing and this place specializes in yoza by the way we found a little Park here off to the side of the arcade and that’s where we’re going to uh eat the food tempura is one of my favorite foods of all time yes yes I love tempura

Actually my whole family does and uh there’s this place called Kiku uh in this shorten guy and they are famous for their tempura and I got one of their most popular ones and it’s unusual in Tokyo it’s the Ben sha tempura which is the pickled red ginger um usually you

See this pickled red ginger at like gudon shops but this one they’ve made it into tempura they deep fried it with tempura batter this is 110 Yen so it’s quite reasonable W I lived in Osaka for one year a long time ago and ulaka this is actually quite common although they use the whole Ginger instead of like the chopped up Ginger like this one but it tastes exactly like that you get that pickled uh sour taste uh from The Pickled uh

Ginger you got a little bit of the the kick from the ginger as well super good flavor I love it it’s so crispy I can’t believe it m we found very nice red shop named omura the atmosphere is has little bit of nostalgic nostalgic atmosphere I love

That atmosphere we bought two breads one is very popular one huk look deep fried ham inside this C blend soft bread M the H about 5 mm thickness the flavor it’s already seasoned good sauce taste red is soft ham has the good texture I love this sauce flavor very

Nice this one is caramel caramel flavor one we talked with shop lady and this one is her favorite M M it’s like a cream bread with the caramel flavor yes texture is like cream and the caramel good the sweetness is good I want I need coffee I want to call me

Now okay so the next place is called T huji and it’s a little bit strange because we actually have a shop called T Fuji in our neighborhood and looking at their little package that our barbecue came in yes it’s the same shop they are

A chain we had no idea so this is one of their onii or onii sandwiches and this has imitation crab I think I see luncheon meat or ham there’s scrambled eggs I think that’s cheese and lettuce so I was expecting it to have like a Japanese taste but no it’s like the

Feelings of a sandwich yeah there’s like Mayo I guess the ham and cheese makes it taste like a ham and cheese sandwich but it’s sandwiched in between rice and naughty seaweed and and unlike an onigiri the rice is not salted so it’s not that salty all the flavor comes

From the feelings on the inside so desert time we bought these these sweets from Kaya this one is daki and one is their favorite uh their popular snack edoo so first I want to try this daki regularly daki use red auki bean paste but this one is white bean p taste and

Chestnuts chunk of chestnuts the inside is not purple it’s white oh it’s start raining T can you see the chunk of chestnuts Inside regularly they use red as bean paste but this one using white bean based the chestnuts flavor it’s distinctive really good okay the last place is this coffee shop we had to talk about this place it’s called Papa Noel they’ve been doing business since 1984 they specialize in coffee beans but

They also have a little sitdown place inside as well as outside the last time we were here s she said this place had one of the best coffees and I agree I had one of the best decaps here yeah we also got their um apple pie

Uh this is not made here uh this is made by a bakery nearby so I was waiting for this moment this is toen brand they original their original coffee when I see this coffee for the first time I’m amazed Wow oh yeah oh yeah M the bitterness richness the tanginess the combination is perfect it’s really perfect and it go through to my whole body immediately can you understand can you understand when you drink Gatorade the Gatorade goes through into your body very smoothly it’s same but taste is of course it’s

Not gatored like a drink this one is very nice coffee but it goes through to your my body it’s like a pea Berry coffee uh which I drank in Hawaii it’s same for me this is Unforgettable coffee for me apple pie apple pie look so much apples inside

This is Japanese apple pie so they don’t use cinnamon which I don’t like so this one is like cake it’s very comfortable for me good apple taste I can eat this apple pie we found very nice Yak shop it is called takwa this one is green onion or leaks and chicken meat

This s enhance the chicken flavor chicken umam flavor so nicely it’s juicy chicken it’s tender little bit Chagu flavor so good we found taaki shop called the tang and we found very inter interesting one this one is ice taaki it’s cold one it’s frozen it’s solid

Fro and there are three flavors and we bought Anan and Ki cream one I love coffee I’m very very looking forward to try this one coffee flavored ice cream but a little bit like s this one white part is whe cream but taste like ice cream Vana ice cream hotaki it’s good

But too hot so ice one is also very nice so next place we are here at this place called sunamachi Kebab I love Kebab so glad I found this place and we found something really really interesting we found this thing called the Kebab dog which is like kebab and hot dog

Buns yeah okay the owner just told me the owner just told me this is the only place in the entire country that has this Kebab dog and you know it’s so reasonable it’s only 200 yen guys I can’t believe it check it out check it

Out the owner uh cut it in half for us so we don’t fight over it but there’s um um pieces of meat inside I believe this is maybe a kebab chicken and there’s some shredded cabbage and there’s the Kebab sauce on top this looks so good I

Had like a massive craving for a kebab for like the longest time m m good delicious M has so much flavor that chicken meat is tender perfectly cooked M that sauce has a little bit kick to it creamy lots of flavor look at that a lot of chicken meat on the top I

Really been craving kebab and this really hits the spot I do want to point out how friendly everyone here is including the owner of this Kebab shop his name is Bobby and uh they do specialize in a Bangladesh Curry which I’m really curious to try on my

Next visit but anyway you guys got to try that kebab do very very delicious we found Japanese dad okazu shop it’s readymade food shop called midino okazu and we found interesting one potato Mochi this looks like Dango but it’s flat round shape H mm it’s fluffy can you little bit Fluffy

From the word potato and mochi can you imagine it is Fluffy the texture is interesting the flavor is good little bit potato e little bit Moi e before we came here I checked on the internet and I googled a little bit about this particular place called sakay

They’ve been making two things only suai and GZA and this is the typical Japanese style shumai this is what it looks like I believe this is pork I’m going to eat it with a little bit of mustard here we go So Soft So Soft immediately I taste the

Pork and the onions that Fusion of pork and onion is so beautiful so soft so much flavor and I actually don’t think I I I need anything I’m going to eat one without the mustard this is good suar guys M it kind of reminds me of the shumai

That my mother used to make me when I was a kid this just the oldfashioned type but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing it’s actually a good thing that it’s an oldfashioned type because it’s actually kind of difficult to find these um oldfashioned uh type of shumai so much flavor oh my

Gosh so Good okay we’re stopping for a little bit of Chinese food we’re here at this place called Shanghai nikuman nikuman means pork bun in Japanese basically a bow and these are very popular here in Japan this is one of their signature buns this is a Shanghai nikuma he let’s break this

Apart and see what it looks like on the inside wow look at all that meat on the inside that’s pork and I think there were some veggies in there and the button is really fluffy and it smells amazing that’s so good that combination of onions and pork just like that

Shumont that we had I love that combo pork and onions I taste a little bit of Ginger and the bun is Fluffy not dry at all piping hot delicious whenever our friends visit Tokyo we always recommend visiting at least one of these traditional Japanese Shen guys you get a

Taste of what the local life is like and um we want everyone we want everyone to experience the hospitality and the friendliness of these small neighborhoods in Tokyo this is a place that is a must visit on any of our trips here I think I’ve said this on almost every store

That we’ve been to the people are so nice every time we come here they treat us so nicely they have freshly fried tempura here on sale all day long they also sell rice balls they have like chashi isi all my favorites so we bought four different tempura today and as you

Can see the nice lady uh divided everything into half for us this is the kakagi tempura this is my mushroom that’s the pumpkin and this is shung which is a type of green vegetable all right shungiku has such a distinct flavor which I love usually find this in

Sukiyaki but I love it made in tempura and if you ask them they’ll put like some of the tempura sauce on top and you can enjoy it right here at the store and then another one of my favorite remember now this is only half so it’s a pretty

Big piece of tempura this is pumpkin Kucha pumpkin guys the Kucha pumpkin is naturally sweet cooked perfectly it’s soft but not mushy which is very important and it’s crispy on the outside and the sauce just compliments the pumpkin so delicious finally desert time we found

Miso shop yes we found miso ice cream T this is that it’s miking named miking from Sano miso this one is misile not only regular misile it’s miso caramel yes it’s missile and yes it’s caramel oh interesting very interesting combination little bit s because of the

Mis next thing we’re going to eat is the KAG this place is famous for these Japanese style fried chicken and this is I think they won an award right that’s right like gold medal gold medal gold medal so I’m really expecting a lot from this here chop I know freshly

Fried it just got out of from the oil goodness it looks so crunchy it’s hot it’s very crispy and it’s also fluffy on the inside like it’s not it’s very tender and juicy you can still see the Steam and the great thing is that there a lot of varieties here right you

Can have them with different sauces it’s just amazing it’s so perfectly cooked you going to even choose Hawaiian spicy Hawaiian spicy what the hell is Hawaiian spicy and they also have these this is the KAG on a stick and um this is lookast like a barbecue it does and I

Believe this is Yuzu flavor M great flavor that’s so unbelievable I mean you just have to come and try this God yeah we get easily distracted especially when there is like food we just have to stop and see what we did what they have okay let’s go look

For the next street food oh what did you buy I bought the ramen you bought Ramen it’s Thai Noodle Tha noodle I see how much was it 68 69 Yen 69 Yen wow that’s amazing 50p like 50p oh yeah I know that’s amazing anyway guys it’s time to

Eat street food let’s go back we are completely forgetting about our street food so we’re here at Ebu and they’re famous for their yakit or their grilled chicken and we got a selection this is the regular chicken this is called hinadori H and this is I think their

Specialty Chen Wing right this is like uh they also have some vegetables on it and this is for Ian she got the liver m oh yeah M oh yeah the sauce is so good and the chicken is very tender I cannot think of anything else to say except that it’s really

Delicious juy so tender is it good it good I think chicken FL I mean chicken liver is um slightly better than U the pork really is that slightly smells I mean people like it I like it too but this is a light smell as soon as you exit the north exit of Jr

Nagano station right in front of you you will see a long shopping street called a Shen Guy this is the sun Mall shorten guy they have shops selling everything restaurants and of course a lot of good food first you want to pick up is dessert yeah we’re going backwards

Because it’s the first thing that caught my attention uh we are at this place called umya and they’ve been in business for a very long time and uh they specialize in Japanese simple snacks such as inar Zushi makizushi and also some sweets like AMU and mochi so we got

A couple of things we’ll show you guys later so right next to umya is this bakery shop and this is where they sell what I consider the best melon pun in the entire country so we’re walking along the shenai the shopi street some mall and I got to say it’s quite packed

Uh today is Green Day mid which is a public holiday and although we are going through a state of emergency it’s pretty packed yeah so I have to be outside of the Shen guy in order to talk because I’m just in the way of everyone all

Right we’re buying the items one by one we have a couple of more things that we need to buy so in addition to this shorten G shopping street you have to check out the side streets this is where all the the pubs and the isak kayas and

The small little mom and pop shops are located uh no shopping though mostly eies uh which is why it’s hard to recommend it at this moment in time but when you guys um are able to travel and come to Japan again please you have to check this place out we’re going to walk

Across we’re going to actually walk under the train tracks to get to the other side the south gate of the station because we’re going to go to our favorite takoyaki shop so this is just outside nakano Station South exit it’s where all the buses are and you just

Kind of walk across to this street to get to the takoyaki place that we’re taking you guys to right now they do have a takoyaki place called gindo inside the shenai and yes they do have good takoyaki but they are a big chain and I like to support these smaller

Businesses and you know the takoyaki place that we’re going to right now their Takaki in my opinion is superior to gako yeah and that’s saying a lot because gako does make pretty good takoyaki yeah so just one block down down from the station once again South

Exit on the corner you will find this takoyaki place called I’m not sure OK maybe I have to ask Satoshi about that at this takoyaki shop you can sort of customize your takoyaki you can choose the sauce uh my favorite is the salt simple plain but so good uh soshi’s

Favorite is the sauce so we’re getting half and half so we have everything y yeah okay so let’s go to the park okay so the park is really easy to find it’s only like a couple of blocks away from the station you do have to come back to

The north exit like just a minute away you know I’m so happy that it didn’t rain today it’s actually kind of a hot day warm day I should say it’s not really hot but I am kind of sweating W there’s a lot of people here there’s so

Much people well I don’t blame them it’s a beautiful day today but I’m I I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many people at this park I just I’m just glad everyone’s having a good time variety of foods we got the first thing is takoyaki this is from Marco season beautiful we

Love this Takaki beautiful Takaki on top uh this is optional this one is K the green onions and the flavor uh half is salt half is sauce half and half beautiful I love this green onion the inside is still to it’s like a runny soft and the chewi of octopus is

So good there’s octopus in this pie it’s smaller I ate more bigger size but it’s the che is really good this one is a melon bread from bom the very famous shop and this one forever is a maple syrup I love map syrup it must be very Delicious I already said the Tex sh must be very nice yes outside is sakuto my favorite is a little bit crispy and inside is Fluffy and the maple syrup almost oozing out it doesn’t oozing out but almost oozing out the texture wise I can say like that the

Flavor is so good fluffy but the maple so nicely soaked into this Dough M it’s very enjoy we got dessert from this place called umya and they’ve been doing business for decades this place has been around ever since I can remember uh we got the AMU AMU is agar blocks and you have to pour this kuromu on top which is like a black

Sugar syrup and there’s some Mochi a Marisha Cherry there’s some beans there’s Unle m m m that atar is so tender it’s soft softer than I expected I’m just going to try the uncle which is sweeten auki bean paste by Itself oh so smooth here’s the content with that piece of Mochi yeah it reminds me of the AMU from the past I don’t know why it reminds me of a childhood taste Delicious