Midnight Gyoza Street Food | Kochi Dumpling Stands

this is a crunchy gyoza from kochi at the yatai not too far away from the center and the castle and i'm gonna have the last one together before we do a walk around around the city how you doing wow that was so good this is a unique um gyoza stand that is open until three or four in the morning and i wanted to have a midnight snack um they said i could film just for like a minute so i only have i can only have the last bite but um because of the protocol i shouldn't be talking uh with with people around there but it's a really interesting it's a really interesting um place and i i'm in kochi just for just for one more day let me see if i can get a good angle on here i have a a wide lens that kind of uh brings you a bigger angle in the front here it's kind of cool right it's a parking garage that has been turned into a gyoza stand oh man and you know what was really good about these gyoza they're crunchy they kind of grill it and make it crunchy on the outside look at the steam rising from these yatai it was so good yeah all right let's go walk about guys we're gonna i'm gonna show you i'm gonna show you kochi at night now this is a prefectural prefectural capital of kochi prefecture this is city let's get my mask on here um this is actually the entertainment district of okochi however even at night on a weekday during a pandemic there are still people around koji prefecture doesn't have as bad of a situation as tokyo in the other places but it is still really important to to take precautions and we were i was doing my best of social distance in there but i know it's really hard at places like yatai but they are running in business at least until tonight anyways because i know a lot of the travel restrictions have changed starting tomorrow typically on the weekends especially this street will be filled with yatai serving gyoza they also had ramen and other things there so let's go on a walkabout it's getting closer to midnight it's about 11 10 p.m in kochi not a lot of people here hey daniel penick i love these night vibes so do i look at it just in the middle here you have all these bicycles and rubbish and i'm i'm gonna try to avoid where all the hostess clubs are because i don't want to inadvertently film somebody um that i shouldn't be privacy laws are quite strict in japan so i do it with with uh with that in mind that we don't want to record anybody that is not trying to be in this because people have the right to do stuff that they shouldn't be doing that looks like a sushi shop over there that's an interesting shop let's get some distance look at this looks like a old building and i guess in the summer they'll open the windows up and you can sit out there on the steps and just have a sake or something oh check out this yatai look at this shack here you don't see these in tokyo really because it's winter they have they've covered it up so it can stay warm inside there but there's about four or five people in there you can see yamachan it's pretty cool we have some kata okay up ahead i don't think we're gonna hear anybody singing but you never know as we walk by the front door now this is this street is very very famous because it's part of the sunday market um it's like tuesday really it's kind of sun monday night tuesday so this market was here about 36 hours ago it's quite famous and this whole market is lined with mostly elderly people that have been selling uh goods for for decades some of them are new there's a younger generation that's coming well i see christmas lights i see christmas lights up ahead are we gonna have to go check that out there's a lawsons lawsons is big in shikoku hey this is my friend tasty chronicles hey sonny hey john stay safe here's some uh some money towards more face masks thank you staying safe now you can't see it i want you to close your eyes and use your imagination but above that tree you would see coach castle all right a uh 16 17th century castle above that tree but you you can't see because it's you know past near midnight and they turn the lights off check it out there's a yatai over there i love the vibe of kochi you may uh looks like you could probably eat some of that food right there on the outside james boardman's here did you you did the sauna to river now it's time to do the inside soup ice cream soup ice cream soup ice cream that's a good idea i have to be honest with you i didn't want to eat i ate the gyoza that was that i purchased because i was curious what they would taste like but i i want to be honest with you i'm going to post on instagram after this i had one kilogram of food for a dinner a one kilogram chicken namban at a at a famous restaurant in kochi and i can hardly move my stomach luckily my legs are the one that does all the moving not my stomach but my stomach is so full up right now oh okay this is a famous chain here this is a kushikatsu chain i believe yeah from osaka it's a lot of fried stuff it's pretty reasonably priced now what is akochi kochi is the name of a city in shikoku that is pretty awesome wow i got christmas what's the christmas spectacular over here well and they got frying food up there that's what that sound is wow every time i come to kochi i am just i eat so much and i drink so much and i have so much fun this is the first time i've been wandering the streets um at midnight let's go check out this christmas display this is really nice because of the pandemic and and everything in tokyo is really closed uh down more than last year you really don't i really don't feel that vibe but even here you know there's this beautiful christmas display on a shoten guy this is a shoten guy at midnight i bet you in an hour or two this could be like i could see a yura or some sort of ghost down there just standing there staring at me and then in like one second just and then standing right there in front of me before it gouges my eyes out with its evil porcelain tongue basically i'm gonna try to get home real quick because i don't want that to happen especially at a beautiful spot like this christmas tree i'm dreaming of us champagne white and sort of slightly blue christmas tree copyright music okay you can name that tune in 12 notes right i guess this is about it let's see how deep christmas goes in coach i think i think this is about it this is as deep as christmas goes oh there's the police the koban it's the officers of the law i feel safe from nothing it's really no real threat to my well-being at this time of night in japan except for the cold any possible crows you digging this sunny it's nice it is about it's zero degrees right now um in tokyo i think it's a little bit colder we have a cold spell right now and it's uh extremely cold in the city uh and i'm heading back to tokyo tomorrow at 6pm after i do some couple of shoots for only in japan um i i've been filming one episode for for two months now and i'm gonna be finishing it up today tomorrow so i'm excited about that wow that's pretty extremely cold shane shane writes in in parentheses somebody from up there in north canada this is cold for us shane be aware that most people watching are from like southern california so this is extremely cold for them too um if you were to go down this way uh do you know do you remember that place i called that was called um there's nobody around there's a place called hiromi uh and this is a place where you could drink um and eat in this pit that was really fun i believe it's closed down because of the pandemic the yatai is open because it's mostly outside so it's kind of a good thing but um even then i i was trying to stay away from people but hiromi hiroba was almost all inside and i believe it's closed down but i don't know like in a couple of months when things normalize that is one of the best uh places to just drink and meet locals and talk to people in japan everybody's close to everybody it feels like the october festival in munich 20 years ago when locals actually went to the thing and then you would brush side by side with people and talk to talk to people that was it was a great experience that's what that is here in kochi that's what i love about hiromi market um it's really really cool and it's that way about uh about 200 meters i think down the jude avenue just freaking cold right now shane i don't know how you do it man because it's my fingers are broken all right let's go this way i hear music that can't be a yoda you avoid people except for one person you take ghosts pick one person they don't pick a group of people one person because they could gang up on them and gouge its eyes out with porcelain tongues it's nasty wait if if someone's just singing a cover song is that world is that copyright music i never really understood that how that works here hey we're getting rick hennig is here stay safe all these great videos love the storytelling and live have a merry christmas thank you merry christmas to you too really appreciate it from denmark magnificent you're amazing thank you so much tuck makimaki supporting from saitama beautiful saitama i was just there not too long ago hey look they're playing a song over there so we give them some money i'm trying to support my local artists maybe if i give them let's see if i got some cash here i can give them let's see here okay we'll give them a fiber i don't i don't think that they're i don't think that they're street performers though are they street performers i don't know what do you think all right i'm gonna let the people decide i don't know what to do here i don't know if they're street performers i think they're just drunk playing i feel like it's a christmas spirit we should we should spread it around a little bit all right felix says nope they're just chilling yes copyright music drunken men nobody says to to share the wealth over there oh wait wait mal mel blanc says do it give him a fiver [Music] let's go over there do it quickly all right i'm just gonna do it okay all right let's just let's go give him a fiver just get a beer this is the fiber it's a 500 yen coin okay all right let's go do it right now [Music] oh oh they're very good [Music] merry christmas [Music] i think they're just dudes hanging out uh you have to share the love a little bit oh they are not drunk that is true they're just they're just friends chilling out and that's i think they they know i'm not from around here look at the phone just in the middle of nowhere you don't see this in tokyo anymore check it out payphone in the middle of the shopping street from the only in japan community to a bunch of bros just hanging out yeah for the last few weeks every time i see a street performer i give them a little bit something support your local artists there's irish cafe irish pub [Applause] well fortune teller i don't want to know my fortune it's been they're evil i never get good fortunes now they're yatai wow i can smell the oh this is udon that is not ramen it's udon i can smell the tsuyu the uh um salty broth for the udon just wafting through the cover there you don't really see these kind of yatai in tokyo anymore but it's good to see people trying to trying to still make a living you know in this in this um economy is really really hard wow i can smell that sue the alleys of kochi especially off of the shotengai have so much personality i am feeling just a little bit of christmas christmas is about giving i you know i felt really good about my little teeny gift to a bunch of bros that i give is going to be talking about it later that's a long song he's playing i can still hear him it's a long long song look at inside the shoting guy here check this out that's a restaurant they serve they serve dog meat what it's a bloodhound sushi [Music] i just i just totally made that up okay don't don't check this is live chat people live chat this is not a dog restaurant don't just joking it's just a statue it's not no elfie it's not it's not it's not don't worry i was just i made that up sorry midnight they serve fish tataki okay don't just relax here air to the ron yeah i know it's shocking it's it's not look it's seriously it's not look this sushi it's good fare okay that's shirako what is that yeah it's good it's good sashimi okay it's not no dog just statue okay relax no panicking be careful when you're alive things just never know what's gonna happen that dog could be actually alive and become alive and start to bark at me and chase me down oh i had i had tataki here last last year yeah i it was really really good and it was the only place i was serving it for lunch this is this restaurant here um they serve tataki which is a bonito fish uh katsuo which is um grilled with a grass and they they um smoke it and and char it with uh it's really really good but it's closed someone's doing karaoke [Music] let's go listen they're pretty good i think is that karaoke or copyright music i'm not sure like where cover music is the copyright musical music copyright music copyright music run run away run away run away copyright music all right actually this is kind of creepy you just kind of creepy here it's creepy silent this is where i'm isolated now and this is where you would see a yura or some kind of ghost standing there in the distance like right there this is the this is the kind of situation where like if you're in the bronx or something in new york there's some dude like escape from new york where snake pliskin is walking around and there's a bunch of dudes that come out it's the kind of situation i'm not ghost hunting but i have an imagination that the ghosts are hunting me i'm not hunting them who hunts ghosts i'm just saying this guy is dark scary it's dudes dude what no way flashing red light totally i could see a ghost underneath there this is this is kind of creepy who would walk down this street at night why don't they have lights so that's just creepy hey here to the ron is here thanks man manhole um cochi uh is is famous for the whales that are offshore whales will will um go by here especially in the winter time you could see them happy whales have cats so this bridge um actually after i was here last year or a year ago or two years ago i forget we have a discord on our discord server we have um somebody put this bridge in there as an emoji i was i'm not sure who did it maybe nosh did it but i'm back at this bridge and this bridge is uh the hairpin bridge it's a really famous story um i guess you can look it up it involves a hairpin and a romantic story and this is the a bridge or recon creek recreation of that bridge i'll see if i can find it in fact i have a light here i can turn on this light and draw attention to me so all of the ghosts know exactly where i am but ghosts i don't think i don't think ghosts i think ghosts run away from lights right they don't go towards the light those are that's moths i'm just gonna attract mothra um and this is the um kanzashi which is this amazing uh snack uh cake that you get from kochi prefecture like a gift cake so it's pretty cool here look at that i love this city it's got so much personality to it doesn't it ah bright light and over there it's not gonna play now but if you look at another live stream i did walk in through here during the day this clock um opens up and spreads itself out and plays some jolly music check it out there's some the empire is here look at that lightsaber [Music] i have to alter it for copyright purposes [Music] it's altered just enough where they can't i'm off their radar i know you're singing it too right and we have the emojis for the people who are backers [Music] it was so messed up look at it did they have lightsaber versus stuff dude take your lightsaber and just smash the guy next to you next to you and then he disappears but his clothes are still there i remember that scene with obi-wan kenobi where obi-wan saw luke watching and just let darth vader smash him and then he was gone remember that scene i think he knows i'm talking about him i just gotta do it to that guy look he see how the empire people with the red light sticks he's probably telling him what to do stay standing over him using the force and they have the same helmets too the white helmets they're like clones seriously it's odd so many parallels with japan and star wars if i was you know what if i was working at this job i would have the the blue or green light stick i want to be part of the rebel force which i guess in construction terms would mean go instead of stop so i'm not sure how powerful the blue or the green light stick would be or lightsaber i should say all right let's make our ways this way it's a total insanity sorry it's just because i just survived this okay look at this street the shelting guy why would they do this this is the empire this is where if if you walk underneath that light you disappear crazy yeah definitely check out our discord server we just passed 10 000 members on it and it's 24 7 only in japan talking and if you're planning on coming to japan you can you can see people sharing their photos and talking about places that they're going to where where they've stayed hotels and restaurants and foods and dishes and all sorts of neat stuff sheridan's had that only in japan discord server and it's free and i put notifications go there too so you know that there's a live stream coming boom oh that's pretty close do you think we could we should go to the station hey kenneth is here ken is a new traveler welcome and nathan simpson five bucks for the doggo hey it they i'm telling you they don't eat dog there that i know of what i mean [Music] i can't do it stop there's a taxi queue this guy's this guy's chilling underneath the showtime guy actually it's a um red light so this is a street crossing interesting so when this turn turns red he's gonna go so i guess i guess the um hey francis young jr thank you from singapore awesome so i guess when the light turns green he's going to go but it's just weird because during the night people can drive on the show 10 guy but during the day this is a pedestrian this is a pedestrian shopping street with santa up there are you doing i love that vending machine oh hey this is we're pretty much getting back to where we just were so coach castle is just a kilometer the other way that would be pretty cool to go that way but you can't see anything it's all dark they turn the lights off after a certain time because it's a you know midnight and just nobody nobody there nobody would go up to coach castle at midnight except for me maybe you because you're here with me that's why oh hey check it out does anybody know what that is raise your hand if you know what that is click the like button if you know what that is that's that's one of that's somebody's favorite restaurant cairo got it right it's coco ichiban curry rice and it's closed hey what's that [Music] oh no that's not oh i thought that was darth vader i thought that was darth vader i think that's an ampa man character darth vader with mushroom head oh this is crazy i think at the dark side i'm getting into the dark side because it's dark mal right didn't who else thought that was darth vader it's weird i don't think disney's gonna dig me for that i totally altered their little empire march strike thing can't copyright ding me for that i'm helping not hurting in my mind i'm helping it's teamwork john and disney equals fun yeah i don't think they see it that way oh a shoe cream would be great sydney that sounds good that sounds really good nice to see i like these little these restaurants here what do you think if we can get to a thousand likes i'll stop in and get get something uh something to eat at that 7-eleven we get a thousand likes we're 500 short i don't think we'll we'll never get there i said because i ate a kilogram of chicken for dinner it's a thousand likes i will stop in that 7-eleven just do it it's up to the people um is that harime hadimaya street or han maya street harimaya so if you're reading the english somebody scratched it off so it looks like harimaya but it is harimaya wait was that an end that they scratched off i thought that that could have been connected yeah somebody once wrote john don't don't don't ask for likes it's not nice to ask for likes and i said it's a live stream and you know people it's a way to connect with the community and get people what they want whoa look how big the windows are you can see inside there they got onigiri sandwiches this i would this would all be yours for a thousand likes see what i mean if you do not ask you do not receive it's as easy as that you know all right i gotta go around the block so we're gonna go down to the we're gonna go around this block so i'm gonna be back right it's a wave it's a way to uh communicate i'm gonna be back i'm walking around the block and then i'm heading back to the hotel but depending on you you can make an impact you have a voice you can enjoy this manhole cover check it out that's really nice oh does anybody know what yosakoi is yosakoi is a dance that they do in kochi it's kind of a free free-forming dance and these are some of the blocks i'm touching with my feet i apologize because the man will cover but those are some of the blocks and you see fish which is probably bonito fish or katsuwa right and that's part part of the culture too and the smoke could be the tataki and the water so that's a pretty cool manhole cover i like that it's a fish dance yeah it's fish dance so we're only 350 likes from from from getting a dessert so i'm gonna walk around the corner here and do a little this is the direction to the station by the way this direction to the station um in japan i'm always looking down because you never first of all you don't want to step in anything and second of all this man the manhole covers are amazing in japan and in in in these metal metal plates on the ground you can see the culture of the city which is to me pretty amazing the station is closed see straight ahead is the station and that is closed because the last train has gone in fact there is in the middle of the street coach ken still has uh trolleys or streetcars that go back you can see the tracks in the street there do you see that and these streetcars start to close down around 10 pm which is a little early but it's dark look at the gas station is shut down well that can't be good the number of likes we have triple six it's kind of creepy anything can happen in the central coach at midnight we started with some gyoza that was really good and now we're finishing maybe with a dessert but i'll take you in there and we can uh check out to see what we can get for we're just 300 likes short of a of a full house the hamamatsu building oh these are mostly like hostess clubs like snack bars anybody's practice japanese most of this is katakana that's creepiest was that a human was creepy he's got a hoodie on something wrong with it but in japan just weird oh that's i hate those pepper i'm not not a big fan of those pepper where's his legs right it's not a humanoid robot it's just a it's just something that looks like a child it's it's demented not a big fan of these pepper robots they're kind of going out of business the peppers i'm seeing them less and less they've been out for like six years you think they would change the design don't the streets of japanese alleys and streets have so much character the way that they put tomate on the street there the bicycles this the do not enter signs and the beautiful pictures of food in fact if you want to see a ridiculous episode just uh look at the episode i i uploaded and this is a 4k upload on this channel which is very rare about three hours ago no i think it's more like four hours ago now go check that out i actually went into a truck sauna only in coach this dude he took a k truck which is a really small truck and put a sauna on the back of it and he backed it up to the river and he said john go in there for like like 15 minutes and jump in the river and i did it and then he wouldn't do it with me he would he just like was introducing it he goes i'll do it later he said no do it now man so here's a street corner um this is i guess people like to hang out at the corner here but these palm trees represent the sunday market which i did an episode on before it's really cool if you're ever in kochi or in chicoku on a sunday make sure you get your saturday night sunday morning early come here it's amazing it's a 300-year market that they put on right on the street just avoiding that drunk dude all right we're 280 likes away from dessert what's it gonna be folks it's up to you it's up to the people people decide that's how i've always felt should i get something sweet or not just do it just click it you just you know you want it just click it right now just do it teamwork effort love of community i'm getting the cash out now i'm priming right now i'm priming up for something but the end result is up to you i could be here getting something sweet or not all you have to do is click like button i'm fishing out coins we got 20 seconds counting 15 seconds i just counted five in my head did silently couldn't hear it not messing around now francis young writes strong zero please oh my god no way that would knock me on my i'm on my bottom strong zero at this time of night i will not stop at 999 because that would be bad luck if you go in you're going all the way people and right in front of you stands one of the great convenience tours of the world and you would be able to go in there but it just depends we're 800 short we're eventually getting there all right i don't know what to get i think i might get a shoe cream because somebody said they spelt it wrong it's not s-h-o-e cream it's s-s-h-u cream okay all right let's let's just go and do this here all right let's do it [Music] oh that looks good i'm not hungry for sandwiches [Music] oh wow cheese mousse an apple cheese mousse and apple sounds great mont blanc oh bread pudding that sounds so english my child what am i pudding [Music] where all my coins go let's see what's that [Music] there's nobody here maybe it's free wow that's weird sour cream ramen all right samia said [Music] whoa i've never seen that before with wasabi beef potato chips there's some cool stuff in here [Music] those are some cool looking masks too thinking about it i might need something for the airplane back well [Music] they have all these like gifts whoa that's a wicked looking mascot his head looks like a fish he's wearing a fendoshi [Music] that's i've never seen this mascot before what [Music] [Laughter] i love this i'm gonna have to get that for kanai [Music] that was awesome oh look at that look at that was crazy what am i doing what am i doing with the rest of my life all right what did i i got this because it just seemed christmassy bread pudding in japan what my grandma used to make bread pudding i think she did didn't she my grandma was from england as canai says england well let me get some alcohol spray my grandma made all sorts of delicious english food including giblet giblet gravy which was amazing can i give me this miniature alcohol spray bottle okay okay good sanitized oh look at this so this looked really good i've never had bread pudding in japan it was about three dollars for that it must be good it's a pudding good yeah that's good did you see that mascot with the fish head i've never seen that mascot before and it wasn't it was a fish head like already been cut severed from the body and then it was put on a human body that's what made it weird it's a fish head severed from its body and and displaced and put on a fish body a human body that's messed up that's just utterly messed up what's not messed up is this and we didn't get close to a thousand likes but it doesn't really matter we're ending the night um with something sweet because that's what you do on monday nights it's actually technically tuesday now so from england it doesn't mean i didn't say i'm gonna eat the whole thing uh soy soy seller rush jave joe vlogger i don't i didn't say i was gonna eat the whole thing i might save it for tomorrow which is today this looks pretty good not really good check it out there's custard good cake good some kind of cookie like pudding bread wood whipped cream good what's not to like about this oh the 2000 calories oh good that was good so i'm saving half i'm saving half for kanai my wife i'm gonna put this in my bag and take it for her and it'll be back in here tomorrow and she's gonna not gonna want it she said just buy me a new one i'll tell her it's a thought that counts 2 000 calories it's not too it's not really 2 000 calories hold on now how many hold on you people it's 298 calories okay so i ate 150 calories right now all right right before bed too now i feel bad so people are saying to me get a beer you know how many calories is in a beer all right people weird try to do something good someone spoils it with concerns for your health i appreciate it though thank you you did the right thing you did the right thing you did the right thing all right so there you go those lenses this lens has a lot of players i don't know it's a new lens so there you go um i hope you enjoyed this cochi at midnight live stream uh these midnight snack runs are kind of a staple on this channel this is only in japan go i do have a new channel only in japan it's a new main channel if you've been watching my uh my videos before and you you're interested whoa baby um it's uh youtube.com j-o-h-n-d-a-u-b my name and that'll take you to the new only in japan um should i say new and improved new and improved and way way better with an animated opening from makers of animation for netflix the the i'm so proud of the d art studio uh dior stagio's uh animated opening of the new channel i don't know if you check that out it took them over a year a long time to make it but they've also been making one piece and a bunch of other animation for uh netflix and other other uh including some big music videos um so so proud to have have them as friends um yeah take care everybody it was a fun stream i think we had some fun didn't we started with some gyoza we walked around i love this city cochi i will be back i will ride this street car again i will go in this restaurant next time i'm gonna walk down the street in the daytime next time and i'm gonna go all the way to the station next time and yes there will be a next time sleep well everybody have a good day stay safe i'll see you back in in tokyo or if you're lucky i'll find something tomorrow to live streaming cochi one more time because this is the last big trip of the year and we still got two weeks left so i gotta think of something else to do bye everybody have a good day yes i thank you bill colgates thank you new traveler d-mob thank you so much i appreciate it strewmento from singapore thank you guys are great

Channel: ONLY in JAPAN * GO

Views: 39,953

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, John Daub, Japanese, Tokyo, street food, view, Gyoza, Ramen, 🥟, Kochi, Yatai, restaurant, Street, Street view, entertainment, area, Night life, Shotengai, walk

Id: HyK7PtgVAS4

Length: 54min 36sec (3276 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 15 2020