Adam Richman Gets a Crash Course in Japanese Fried Food | Gochi Gang

I'm gonna try to take this whole thing to the head right now it's like the size of a Fiat but we believe in you yeah yeah number four Oh deal [Applause] [Music] oil batter fire since the dawn of time almost every culture on earth has come to understand this one universal rule of cooking if you fry it they will come but in Japan the love affair with fried food borders on a national obsession to truly understand the heart of fried food and Japanese cooking it's best to begin with the delicate centuries-old art of tempura I'm heading to set to yokatta an eight-seat tempura counter on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where chef at sushi Okada is using fresh seasonal ingredients to build a fried food Oh Mikasa that bridges flavors from the east and the West [Music] kilowatt you dismiss my suspension Akuma restaurants it - you put IV 330 know what that so has made that cut if you know what I don't know - it wasn't thinking it's not the one on screen all right not that one no same one thing I did you know that so today Julia checked out the mess I'm a up buddy America they are gay monopoly to touch them all junk food on each guy a message down this video Sauron gravity New Hope tempura totemo dedicate to this never mind stone as equality yes Toluca anomaly Dustin ducky they contain no quality of our night oh you cut a channel team present in importance because I feel a deep breath nice night so hopefully not gotta gimme more they arrived at nine okay kudos then i okay i'm gonna like tonight they want a Tamil what the musical flowers name I know temple at the Nemo you know we don't contain any money go yep a pimple a garage mousepad a karate move yeah buddy swimming the starters didn't it bother other people cutters you go worry [Music] some of the parameters yes I am a little high as far as who study think that [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Imam Ossama Directorate happy that I am also as your companies that I think but I could actually was youthful this I would industrial audacity it just sounds a bit yeah I wish she doesn't it so it's there but they don't hide okay that's why you didn't put up lights upon mine yes hold on a loyalist I've never enjoyed a white asparagus more in my life it was so perfect and so soft inside rather than frying the concept of tempura is actually almost air frying within itself and almost like steaming wall from which gives it that really really specific batter and texture and I just don't know how he got rid of the stringiness of it I'm amazed [Music] huh mother Morsi oh god Emily what do we target mom eternal temple a sound but most physicians know things you know technique today so I'm gonna throw up today absolutely not like you know that Synod I know for school come to us today to meet economist Tim Brown who Tony hodge mitad yes do you see these Gospels so I just had a tempura-fried scallop for the first time in my life and all the scallop I've been eating previously have been alive it's so unbelievably fresh and the way chef prepared it where he incorporates cooking it very quickly and calmly in the oil to make sure that the inside is still partially raw that kind of tartar style I've never seen done in tempura before so I'm absolutely mesmerised right now and he told me it was straight from Hokkaido so very spoiled kill home Tony I'm sorry not even stuff REO favelas demo Boise tempura in Turkey awareness because what they destroy sauce otherwise I must allow us [Music] temper may represent the lighter more fine side of Japanese fried foods but there's also a time in a place for a Gracie bucket of fast food fried chicken though it might come as a surprise to customers in the u.s. Kentucky Fried Chicken is incredibly popular throughout Japan particularly around Christmastime millions of Japanese families choose to celebrate the holiday with the colonel often reserved in KFC's red and white buckets weeks in advance tradition of eating KFC on Christmas begins in 1970 with a man named Takeshi Okada the manager of Japan's very first Kentucky Fried Chicken though the details are murky legend has it that al-khawaja overheard a foreign couple at the restaurant complaining that they couldn't get a roast turkey on Christmas the conversation sparked something in Okada and one night a vision of a party barrel filled to the brim with fried chicken came to him in a dream welcomed on his location began offering fried chicken as a substitute for Turkey during the holidays and by Christmas 1974 KFC Japan had started offering the popular party Baro promotion across the country carissima Soneva Kentucky or Kentucky for Christmas was officially born today eating KFC at Christmas remains a beloved tradition according to the BBC more than 3 million people celebrate Christmas with KFC in Japan accounting for roughly one third of the company's yearly sales in the country what began as a clever marketing scheme is now a hugely important part of Japanese life come December Walton burn KFC both hold a special place in Japan's heart there is of course a happy medium tonkatsu is a crispy pork cutlet that's been covered in panko breadcrumbs dunked in a deep fryer and laid next to a mound of shredded cabbage Tom kasia's can be found in almost every neighborhood in Japan but in New York katsuyama on West 55th Street is one of the only restaurants that focuses specifically on the dish to help me connect the dots from tempura to tonkatsu I'm meeting friend and restaurateur Sakurai yagi for lunch joining us is TV icon and Japanese food obsessive Adam Richman who's always ready to dig into a plate of fried food no matter what country he finds himself in [Music] [Applause] [Music] Sakura Adam thank you so much for joining me today we are at kata Hama to enjoy some tonkatsu and since everyone has a different dish I thought maybe we could share you found that Kimo okay so cut to throwing traditional katsu and would you just you think close katsu parm or what well that's just what we started cold it's just tomato and cheese they probably don't serve this in Japan Japan loves cheese and tomato sauce but from my experience like katsu yeah like so tone cuts of shops in Japan generally serve it like this where you have your choice of what kind of pork that you know whether it's like a loin or a different part of me yeah exactly and then they have an option like chicken white meat dark meat I really I couldn't feel more American right now and that's like hey y'all got y'all got y'all got garlic nuts what's your opinion of it how's the flavor yeah how does the parmesan cuts you know what it's a fine tomato sauce but if I if I want tonkatsu like I want the cutlet I love the irregularity you know panko has much better surface area than finely ground Italian breadcrumbs so you get a much more profound crunch but it's lighter exactly that's what that is yeah just an automatic another how and crunchy and crisp something is all right that's how you would like absolutely describe this is so suck suck yeah suck suck yeah I'm trying my best here folks I've just tread water what would you say makes the perfect fried food not greasy not greasy okay which is interesting it's all greasy it's it's made in oil or grease but it doesn't mean it has to transfer on to the dish look at this subtlety in serving the fried food on the wire rack and having that air around is allowing it to actually be dry be crispy but it actually makes contact if I may be honest I mean I think that the Japanese do fried food in my opinion better than most and I think that it's because it's about that sucker socket it's about the mouthfeel and not about how thick the batter is I still want to taste what's underneath it and it's gotta be a type of food that's going to retain its crunch from first bite to last even when you dip it in the sauce and I think that's also the big thing too than in Japan sauces are on this side not drizzled on top not a squirt bottle it's like delicate I appreciate that very much [Music] can I try yours yes please said where's the important it's supposed to be cracked and just laid on top I'd say in Japan we use a lot of raw eggs but in the US like that's not really a thing right it's a little bit more like kind of scrambled and draped on more like a half raw omelet type of thing I'm gonna try to take this whole thing to the head right now it's like the size of a Fiat but we believe in you yeah yeah number four Oh deal so Japanese uses a lot of puns and we are very creative about our terminology and phrasing but tonkatsu is actually a lucky food that we eat sometimes before we go either into competition or before maybe we take a test some Hilliard's exams yeah so cuts it means to win so even though qotsa in this case it's cuts limited as in a shortened form of cutlet it also is a pun for wanting to win so you usually eat something like this uni katsu before you go into something that you must win it did you have any rituals of your own before going into food competitions hell yeah so the least macho of all about doing man vs. food was calling my mom but it's funny how she would downshift from my Jewish mom to like Nicki and rocky she was like I'm used to the same thing she goes be smart be safe be strong let him know you come from you show the liberal ins in the house I have a question for you guys do you guys have rituals before you eat certainly eat a lucky moss oh yeah you must before you receive a meal and then other than that I guess Oshie bode is kind of a part of it like where you clean your hands with a hot towel so that what is the actual definition with questions of somebody a stuff documents and gore so somehow go hand in hand but Italica mas can mean to the person who prepared it and I'm going to consume this but also it has this connotation of I'm going to thank the cabbage for existing existing yeah or I'm gonna take this pork eater vacuum us all over and then go to so sama the term Gorge saw is like a meal yeah and also some other styles like just like thank you for the meal it's poetry and that's the thing that's so so fascinating to me is that when you see people dedicating so much time energy and effort into just a breaded pork cutlet there's a gratitude for the opportunity to eat something so delicious and gratitude for of the animal that gave its life the chef that Gayle's his or her work it's one of the things that I will always love so much about Japanese culture as it relates to food is that there is a godliness there is a soulful next to it that I find so beautiful well that was delicious I had an incredible meal I hope you enjoyed yours as well I'd enjoyed soccer as me not so much for joining us both of you and also I was just so delighted to speak Japanese with you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you so much for watching Gocha gig I so appreciate it Sean should they like and subscribe like and subscribe else thank you

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Length: 16min 6sec (966 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 03 2019

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