This here should be the devils tongue...
Konnyaku, the devils tongue. Omg no! This is awful.
What have I put on my mouth?
I don't have idea. What's going on?
-こんにちは、友達、別の冒険へようこそ
Kon'nichiwa, tomodachi,-betsu no bōken e yōkoso.
This was Japanese saying:
Hello friends, welcome to another adventure, another journey with your ever reliable source of morbidly obese food around the planet,
Chubby Luisillo.
This time traveling around the city of Tokyo.
With the mission of discovering
how the morbid street food is like in this part of the planet.
We start this video in the Harajuku area,
and then we'll go to the Shinjuku area to Omoide Yokochō, which means "The street of morbid, obese memories".
Don't say more.
You already know the dynamics.
Japanese fattening, morbid food is waiting for us. I would normally say "let's hit it",
but we're in Japan so I'll say:
あげましょう Agemashou (Music) We'll start by trying a traditional dish from the western part of country.
It is called Takoyaki, and it's a dumpling stuffed with octopus.
There are different variants.
You can add special sauces, you can put egg inside.
No matter what, Japanese people are crazy about it, they love it. (Asking for a Takoyaki) Yeah! That's the good one, bro! ありがとうArigatō
Thank you This is the Takoyaki, extremely generous. They pour soy sauce on top,
then they pour powder seaweed,
they add this dried fish. that's called Bonito (beautiful).
It is a beautiful fish.
And all this massive Japanese balls had a price of 580 yen.
About five dollars, it's reasonable price for me Let's hit it!
Takoyaki, I've never try it before.
Let's taste this delicacy... 美味しいOishī
In Japanese it's like yummy.
Hey how tasty, how suculent I'm not exaggerating, I love it.
First you feel the crunchy ball, like very fried, very obese.
And then comes the octopus, very soft,
tasty, delicacy of the gods. Quite tasty, but I have to admit that it has not surprised me.
To lower the taste, let's drink this, a soda of Yakult.
Did you guys know that this exists? I don't know if your countries sell this,
Yakult it's a lactobacillus drink.
I am from Mexico, and in Mexico we love it.
Here they love it, the sell sodas of this.
So to take away that octopus taste that is pretty stinky...
乾杯 Kanpai, cheers in Japanese. Lacto-fresh!
Well let's continue with this search.
I'm sure we can find other more delicious Japanese things,
more fattening.
Let's find something more サイコ(psycho). Hey this alley is quite mysterious.
It is super narrow.
This is Omoide Yokocho alley. Which literally translated is the Memories Alley.
All the locals here are super narrow, like tight.
They tell me that these type of locals are like work-class. Are places for late night.
You come here, you have a little drink,
a beer, a sake, a crab, your shrimp on a skewer and you keep going!
These are not necessarily cheap, some of these can be expensive. These ask for minimum consumption and so.
Let's get in to see what delicacy we find. Okay, we are crossing Indeed, it is super tight.
This is so weird, I asked for a porks heart skewer.
And to complement it, to swallow well, I asked a hot sake.
I didn't know it could be heated,
apparently it's something that is done.
I want you to see this, they serve you everything in a stick,
even if you want a few cloves of garlic, they put them in a skewer,
a few onions, some peppers.
This is the hot sake!
It is so hot! Let's look at the hot sake.
It is good for winter, I imagine.
Hot sake, カンパイKanpai, so sweet.
It is good. Before the main dish they gave us an appetizer.
This is called an Otoshi. These are cold noodles, like with seaweed and carrot.
It tastes like the old soup that your mom got into the refrigerator,
and then you were too lazy to microwave it.
So you ate it like that. That's how it tastes.
Now, my little porks heart, it smells good.
At the end they bath it into a sweet teriyaki sauce.
Enjoy. I thought it will be worse but not. It tastes like normal meat.
I thought it will be a strong taste,
with some skin.
Porks heart, I think I would never have eaten it but it's not bad at all.
It cost 600 yens, with the cold noodles included. About six dollars.
Pretty decent.
I help myself with a little bit of sake.
Let's see what other Japanese street delicacies we find. This is pretty interesting.
These brothers eat everything on a stick.
I ordered these skewers, that is with quail eggs I imagine,
they look small, young, juvenile. And this other bean skewer.
They were both put on the grill, they were cooked. They also gave us a little appetizer here.
This one looks to me like they're like little beans.
These are going to be good too.
Some clams, grilled clams, I think I've never eaten it in my life.
We'll see how it goes.
Appetizer, sticky beans, cold, weird.
Green canned beans "la Costeña" (Mexican brand).
Let's see how about the quail egg. It's pretty good.
Like you imagine, a miniature boiled egg.
Let's see how the beans are.
Let's poor some soy, a little bit of lemon, that comes in a little jar.
And some chili.
There it goes, tasty. Enjoy! Seasoned like this, turned out very very good.
And I like the idea that I'm eating in the street, and I don't feel like I'm eating
fat food.
I think we are failing to Chubby Luisillo principles.
These are pretty good, pretty healthy. It is tasty.
And let's see how about the grilled clam.
Let's spice it up.
Enjoy. Being truth, I've never like the clams flavor.
I've never loved it, but it's okay, I ate it.
These 3 have managed to surprise me.
It got me making fun faces.
Each one cost 150 yen, that's like a dollar 50. So cheap, very affordable.
Let's keep walking, finding more fattening things. Even though it's very tight, these places are ergonomic as well.
Look they have to leave your backpack.
This if you bring your winter jacket.
You hang it and can be eating. without being uncomfortable.
It's very interesting how people can smoke in these places.
You never see people smoking at the street, because they have to go to designated areas.
Just got my attention.
They receive us again with a small appetizer.
Every place does that.
I think this one is like a potato salad.
Let's see how is it.
Indeed, a potato salad with some carrots, it's okay.
Hey by the way I forgot to put
my band on, I don't know at what point, excuse me guys! Sorry my friends, I got distracted with so many obese delicacies.
It's placed.
Ready to taste more morbidity.
Well, in this place we'll try an intestine skewer.
Didn't knew how to explain us wich animal are these intestines.
But look at them, soaked in a tasty bittersweet sauce.
And let's also try this other stew,
that has vegetables in it.
I can see it has carrots in it, has onion, has some meat.
And has something called Konnyaku,
and also called, also translated as the Devils tongue.
I don't know what it is, it's some type of
vegetable, apparently gelatinous,.
Like very taffy Let's see how it is.
The brother next to me, ate a whole one and he loved it, really. Still biting and biting.
So I trust him, it looks like he knows what's good. Enjoy!...
More or less, the flavor is not so bad.
But it is so taffy and difficult to chew, that it's tiring.
I've been chewing it like 24 seconds and keep counting.
And I'm still not ready to swallow it.
How did the man here behind made to eat it up so fast. He was chewing and chewing, tell me the tip bro!
To help my self to eat it I'm going to drink some sake. Much better.
And we also ordered this little Asian beer.
Premium Yebisu.
Just ordered ir because I saw that my brother here, was also was drinking it.
The truth he looks knowledgeable about
the subject.
Oh look how black is this.
So tasty.
Sake and beer, it's like a crossover of Chubby Luisillo with Drunk Luisillo.
Come to attack Japan.
One gets drunk, make ugly things, the other one fattening without ceasing.
Hey, no no no! What a delight of beer.
It is strong but does take off your thirst, it refreshes you.
Very good.
They didn't give me no kind of spoon,
so I imagine it would be just with chopsticks.
Let's see how is it.
This one may be like a pickle.
Oh, what I've just put on my mouth. I have no idea.
This one here must be the Devils Tongue,
goes with onion and so. You know I don't like it at all.
Anyways we eat them.
Konnyaku, The devils tongue Omg! Oh no, it is awful.
What have I put on my mouth, I have no idea what it is.
But it's been tasted, it's been passed, we got fat.
The basic principles of Chubby Luisillo.
The knowledge academy of Chubby Luisillo.
And the principle of Drunk Luisillo: all disgusting stuff gets forgotten with a good drink.
Kanpai.
We are going to leave this alley bouncing, living in another reality.
Let's look for more delicious things. We will try now some Goddesses.
That are like Japanese pie.
Usually come filled with pork meat, but hey! They might surprise us,
and filled them with Pokemon meat or a similar thing. Something amazing.
We are going to accompany it of course, with a good sake, that look. Now it is pour different.
It comes in this transparent glass and in a very abundant way.
The man really went on, and on, and on
serving it until it was watering down.
Our guide friend tells us, that this is to symbolize the abundance, like "brother, there is plenty sake here, drink whatever you want Luisillo".
In fact, it is in the plate, little tasty Sake. This is quite strong huh!
I'm kind of start to like it.
I have not explained what sake is.
A lot of you should know, it is rice wine, very typical of this worlds area. The truth is that I love it.
Sometimes it is very sweet,
other times it is very tongue-tied, but always enjoyable.
Let's accompany our Goddesses with a little vinegar here.
We must pour it on some soy.
They say that the Goddess is actually Chinese, but Japanese eat it too, or maybe more, like they managed to say "the goddess is mine bro".
We put some sauce, tasty, suculent. Smells good!
It's stuffed with just cabbage, I didn't feel any meat.
It's good, very tasty.
I think it's like mixed, meat with cabbage, onion or whatever.
It is more greasy, than the other things that we've tried.
But still don't feel like you're eating super obese things, like in many places that to eat on the street it's like hey I'm having a heart attack latter.
Hey guys and I haven't mentioned that I find it very interesting, how in street stands you can be drinking beer, like here my partners,
who are drinking and drinking beer.
What is this, like a horse, a dragon in fire... Normally we sit here, and behind are people living their daily life. They also tell me that this street full of little markets, is used a lot like pre-party, Before drinking... I don't know how the countries call it.
Before you go out with your friends, you go to a place to have a few drinks, you feel like happy and let's go...
Rice wine has me like flipping out.
I think is one of my favorite things in all this gastronomic journey.
What's happening? Drunk Luisillo takes advantage
of Chubby Luisillos soul.
Bring me more grease please before this gets violent.
The goddesses cost 400 yen, about 4 dollars, the sake here quite prosperous,
quite abundant cost 300 yen, 3 dollars.
Curiously cheaper
cheaper.
Quite average the prices, as we have learned, according to what we've learned. Well my friends, that's how this gastronomic tour concludes.
This adventure of Chubby Luisillo, fusion with Drunk Luisillo.
Very interesting, very good, very succulent.
I loved to see how the people of this part of the world eat in a street way.
My favorite ones in this occasion were, curiously the porks heart.
I didn't imagine it at all. I imagined it was going to be something quite grotesque.
Hard to chew, hard to swallow.
But not at all, very tender, very tasty.
Curiously it turned out to be my favorite dish in this occasion.
And of course the sake.
Delicious and exquisite rice wine.
Bring me some more and more, 'cause this night is just beginning.
What do you think my friends, what was your favorite?
Which one would you like them to sell in your countries?
Which one made your mouth salivate? Which one made your belly grow?
Write it down here in the comments.
Thank you very much my friends, for joining me, in another obese, morbid adventure around the planet. I really hope you liked it, enjoyed it and learned something new.
And as always, see you in a few days,
with a video sweety!
