I Tested and Ranked Sushi From $1 to $100! Which was Best?
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2024
- Hey TOMODACHI today I am going from $1 Famimart Sushi to $100 AMAMI Sushi plate ! Let's gooooo!
You can check out more on my sushi journey here:
www.funliday.com/junkfoodjapa...
Filmed by: Paul Ballard
Edited by: Nicholas Pettas - Розваги
You know it's good when Nic not only stops being loud, but goes silent.
UMAI TOMODACHI
Very respectful for the editor to not show Nic wiping the single tear away from his eye after he ate the omakase
You know I edited this video right?
@@JunkFoodJapan thats awesome, I could never do that
We will always support this channel. They're one of the best
Thank you so much TOMODACHI
I'm sure he's happy to get support from The Borg.
Star Treck? I love that show
Nic was joyfully floating on clouds of puffy rice while he danced from Chuutaro to Chuutaro, his heart a glow with happiness.
How did I just now find this channel? I follow almost every food channel in Japan and I love this guy! Greetings from Arizona.
Welcome over here TOMODACHI! At least you found the channel
I had the best and freshest sushi in the outer market of Tsukiji when the whole market was still active and the Tuna auction was still open to the public...
A year a half later, I was in Japan again, this time studying Japanese and for my birthday, a local friend treated me to the best Tuna sashimi ever. That was heavenly.
I miss Japan...
Now I know the two correct ways to eat sushi. Thank you!
As Sushi was considered fast food. Lobster was considered food for peasants during the American colonial era. But now considered a high class gormet meal.
Great video!
It's always so depressing to see what the level of sushi is in Japan versus in Denmark, but it just makes me want to visit Japan even more
Outside japan the reality is, you better learn where to get the freshest fish, japanese ingredients (rice and vinegar) and learn to cook it yourself, it's not that difficult to master, you only need to keep trying, and made at home is really cheap and trust me your friends and family would love it even if it's not up there yet.
At least you live on a country where fresh fish seems easy to get :D that makes that very easy for you already!
There's actually a pretty decent omakase sushi restaurant in Copenhagen. Unfortunately you also have to pay omakase prices just to get decent sushi 😂We have the same issue here in Sweden.
Viking TOMODACHI! You had me at Denmark ! 🇩🇰
were the shirt mics malfucntioning? it seemed they worked occasionally but other times it sounded like the camera was picking up Nic and the sushi chef more than the shirt mic. Either way great video! Wish we could have the good but cheap sushi here in the US.
Honestly if we could just get our 7/11s to be like the Japanese 7/11s that would be amazing
My favorites are:
For sushi belt restaurant: Sushi no Musashi - Kyoto Station Hachijo Entrance
For high priced sushi: Sushisho Masa in Tokyo
It's great to see how sushi is practically free in Japan, while here it costs 7 times as much and makes you sick because the ingredients are practically poison. Life is grand - in Japan.
Ah sushi! 🍣 😋 Your videos just make us hungry and want to fly to Japan immediately ✈️ Of Course No Way any other will compete with $100 authentic fresh quality sushi. Similarly I'd guess a mid-range family restaurant would beat both convenient store and fast food sushi. In life you often get what you pay for.
Conveyor belt sushi have some wild looking specials and collaborations just like fast food chain.
Come to Big Island Hawai'i for awesome sushi at Sakura in Kailua-Kona. The sushi chefs there are amazing and the fish is that day caught! Aloha Nick and Angela!
I’m actually working on my Hawaii trip video. If I finish it I’ll upload it
You always seem to have the most fun, sir.
I try to have fun for sure 👍
I knew that you could eat sushi with chopsticks or hand, but always eat with my hand because it's easier. Also, I'm not a big fan of natto, but I love natto-maki. The combination of the nori, rice and natto are delish!
Great video as always! I can appreciate why you dub over yourself, but I prefer when we can hear you speak Japanese and it is subtitled like you do with others. Just my two cents worth. Keep up the excellent work! A fan from Michigan.
Thank you and noted! I wanted to see the reaction and I wanted to try it out for fun. 🤩
The best maguro sushi I've had was in Kesennuma. I was up there just to say hello to James Watley of Black Tide Brewing. I'd recommend both. Also, the breakfast I had in a converted shipping container was spectacular cod cheeks simmered in sweet soy sauce.
Yeah that place has some great sushi. I made a Kessenuma bonito video on my other channel The Tokyo Show with Angela and Paul Ballard. It’s really good. Check it out TOMODACHI
It's always fun to see what kind of places you show us. This made me actually want to try Sushi.
Thank you for introducing us the arts of sushi.
Nat Geo moments on fish for the comedic effects. Then Nic asks Abroad in Japan about his sushi worst and best moments when he was rating sushi places in Japan.
I never liked tuna until I tried it fresh 🤤
As someone who has absolutely zero ability to use chopsticks, I can't tell you how much it made me smile to hear a chef say not to use them. lol
I paid the equivalent of ¥1400 per piece for ootoro nigiri sushi at a restaurant near where I used to live and I'll never regret it. One of the best things I've ever eaten.
The restaurant at the end looked amazing.
Nic, always a great video.
Your videos always make me miss Japan. I'm working on my return soon 🙏. Thanks 友達
You are welcome TOMODACHI
Good stuff.
It would have been good to have seen a mid-level sushi bar somewhere between the conveyor belt and the restaurant.
There's a little place I used to go to in Akasaka at the bottom of Hotel Hillarys on Akasakamisuji St. If you are ever in the area, it's worth a visit IMO.
Thank you for the recommendations 🙏🏽🍣
No problem TOMODACHI thank you for watching.
A little party popper hahaha
The $100 omakase still came out to about 185 yen per piece for 54 pieces of sushi, which is honestly pretty good for value and quality. For a little bit more, you jump up significantly in the quality of the shari and that's the most important part of the sushi experience.
You counted it and calculated it TOMODACHI?
I've gone off visiting kaitenzushi places (such as Uobei and Sushiro) due to the shrinkflation of the sushi at these places.
For just a bit more money than what I'd pay at a Kaitenzushi place, I prefer lower mid range places such as Ginzo Sushi.
Well done Nick, the best video in a while. Would love to have seen more of the sushi with better descriptions of the food as you ate. It would have been good to have eaten one of everything.
Next time TOMODACHI
Ironically , i watching this in middle of the night despite the hunger inducing factor
Speaking about the Michelin starred sushi establishment , the three that so tough to make the reservation (( if i not mistaken )) , is Sushi saito , sukiyabashi Jiro and Sugita
When in the restaurant, do as the Master Sushi Chef says? I've definitely seen other places with signs that say the opposite, i.e. Use chopsticks??
Some days cheap sushi just hits the spot
this is true
That last plate of sushi in Sydney Australia, in a good level Japanese restaurant here would cost twice that amount. That looked delicious.
Had an amazing Japanese meal as a business lunch last week in Sydney and was amazed at the quality. had a few beers (drinks always a bit expensive in a Sydney restaurant but that how it rolls). apart from that, for 3 people including 5 beers, and a heap of great food worked out about $60 AUD each.....for really good Japanese food. Will be back for sure.
Sounds like a plan
Our first conveyor belt sushi experience was in Hiroshima in a big train station. Everything just melted in your mouth we'd never had anything of that quality. We were on vacation so we stuffed ourselves and ended paying around $50 each, my dad and I. The mountain of plates was hilarious.
That sounds like a good memory TOMODACHI
Take your jacket off inside my man 😊. Great video ❤
😂
That's how they get you, one plate tasty and cheap and you end up with a big stack of those.
Love me some sushi! a huge side order of Nic on the side? yes please!
LoL 😂
man now I am craving Sushi.
I used to work as a sushi chef in my college days in America. Now, that may sound a little odd, but it was America and I worked in a low end place for a Chinese gangster (I know, but it's true all the same). I didn't have any control over the quality of the fish/supply chain, but that's really what it comes down to. The quality of the fish. Our fish was... not that great. But with maki, I was able to come up with a few creative things. And in America, 'spicy' is a thing, so I liked to do things with that.
My favorite thing to do was to mince maguro with sriracha chili sauce, wrap it in a shiso leaf, and tempura fry it. Deep fried/tempura hamachi maki with spicy sauce and mayo was also a nice - we called it a Godzilla roll. But here, in Iwate, I don't think we get the best maguro, so the fatty white tuna seems to be the best. Or the sakura trout (which is actually a salmon, but that's what they call it).
Here in Japan, I enjoy the kaiten sushi, but I know it's not top quality. It's pretty good, and pretty cheap. The grocery store stuff, and konbini stuff, in Ichinoseki, is more expensive and not as good. I don't know if that's just because it's Ichinoseki/Iwate/Tohoku. I'm moving to Kyushu at the end of this month, so it'll be interesting to see if it's similar or very different (as I suspect). Actual sushi restaurants here are weird, clandestine, little places, and I never know if they're open or if I need a reservation.
It's like, you see these little places with no windows and a curtain covering the door, two or three tables maybe, and 鮨. Yeah, I know it says sushi - I can read better than I can speak, but like, no posted hours, no parking... that's kind of how it is in Iwate. In my experience. My Japanese is not good enough yet for me to ask, and I don't have anyone to help me, so I haven't tried a real sushi place here. But my Japanese is improving, and I feel like next year in Kyushu I will.
I've been disappointed with the fish quality in Iwate based on reputation, and I went to the Sanriku coast specifically for that: Kesennuma, Ofunato, Miyako, and Kamaishi. I was NOT disappointed by the hairy crab I had in Hakkodate, Hokkaido, but it was a little pricey (they are significantly cheaper at the grocery stores in Miyako... but then you have to go to Miyako). Anyway, yeah. Catch you in the next one!
I made a sushi video from Kessenuma on my other channel The Tokyo Show with my wife and that was some of the best Bonito I have ever had, the video is really good edited by Mr. Ballard. go check it out of you feel like it TOMODACHI and I hope you find a great new home in Kyushu
@@JunkFoodJapanThanks! Yeah, bonito has never been one of my favorites, but I'll check it out, if I can find it. I actually do like bonito seared with black pepper quite a bit. Sorry if I go on and on about food, but I mean, this is a food channel, right?
Oh, I like you voice over the question now. I asked before but nice to know.
It’s got mixed opinions but I thought it was worth trying
Ive been to Genki in Japan and Hong Kong, its better than expensive Canadian sushi 😂
Maybe someone have asked this question before but Nic can you tell us when you are allowed to ITADAKIMASU and when not 🤣do you only do it when there are no other customers nearby?
I do it in most places when filming. No one ever gets offended, it’s classic Japanese variety style so no problem at all. And it’s fun! 🤩
Tbh, as I'll never be able to get to go to Japan for their delicious food (I'm on meds for quite likely the rest of my life to maintain quality of life that Japan forbids from entering into the country), but I do like "sushi" albeit not necessarily authentic- my go to option is preferably brown rice but will take white rice with cucumber, imitation crab and cream cheese. I do like putting a touch of "Wasabi" (because here in American grocery stores, that isn't going to be authentic) and a slice of pickled ginger on it.
I skip the soy sauce though 😅😅.
Sounds like you have found a hack for enjoying sushi though. I hope at least somehow my content is good to watch and enjoy. All the best TOMODACHI
How, how did you manage to eat that last lot of sushi?? That tray of all the sushi was too beautiful to mess up by eating it, another great video, Tomodachi. 3....2....1 (muted) Itadakimasu.
We polished it off together
@JunkFoodJapan I'm glad you did, but when I seen it tomodachi, I thought it was too beautiful to eat, it really was a work of art.
It was like eating art!
WOAH, what kind of microphone is he using that literally silences or blocks out the background of cars and noise 100%???😅😅😅
I just tried unagi sushi for the first time. I think they torched the top a bit. Add a litlle wasabi. Oh man it just dissolved while eating. So delicious.
It’s so good. I’m editing a video right now where I have some. It’s hard editing without wanting to eat it again and again
Ohhhh, so this is what the loan was for🤑
LoL 😂 no and still working on it…
Just wondering, how does paying at the conveyor belt sushi place work? I noticed him bring some stuff to the counter.
You take your little board with your seat number up to the counter and pay. It knows what you ordered.
Rice, rice, baby! 😂😀
Vanilla Nic is back
I've never been to Genki Sushi, but I know that (for some reason or another) many tourists eat there. I think it's probably a UA-camr on their first trip to Japan went there for their first sushi meal. Probably any sushi restaurant in Japan is better than at home, but c'mon! Just by looking at it on this video, the sushi sucks. The fish was cut as thin as possible and the fish was only lying on the rice instead of molded together.
Yummmmm
Mmmmm mmmm 😋
LOL like 4 nigiri is almost a cup of rice. It's calorie dense. Not junk food. Take some fiber pills afterwards
Bicycle trips 2:22? Secret hint that you're on the next charity cycleathon or similar with Chris and/or his friends? :P
Hmmm 🤔 could be fun?
I suffer watching this food video.
When I reach the age your at, I wish I can look good as you.
Thank you 🙏 TOMODACHI that’s really nice thing to say. I’m sure the wife will be happy to read this
Chopping sound effects ✅
😍👍
So tasty the mic lost
another good video nick
It's really sad that even convenience store sushi blows a lot of the available local options out of the water. Plus there's mostly only salmon with the odd low-quality tuna or boiled shrimp available. You have to be grateful to even get supermarket sushi, though - my hack is taking a brulée burner to the boring sake nigiri and making slightly less boring aburi sake nigiri out of them.
The Japanese word for salmon is *sha ke
@@Old.School.Ronin.01 Nah, not really. Even Wiki has it as さけ. しゃけ is more of a variant in pronunciation.
@@seebastian5834 Wiki, 🙄
It’s both actually, they use them freely and saying either way will not leave anyone confused.
Osu!
Osu
You're supposed to put the fish side down on your tongue, not rice on tongue.
Really?
Yup it's so you taste the fish better.
interesting, I must investigate this...
ようこそ日本へ❤
ありがとうございます、寿司は最高です
Sake is missing…
I was driving that day… but made up for it when I got home
the audio quality of this video is lower than usual. Not sure what happened there.
Growing pains of the channel
Is it rly junk food japan if there is no yelling for Itadakimasu? Don't listen to the haters and be loud when you are eating good stuff, plus the chefs need to know ur thankful right? :D
UMAI
why go through the trouble of dubbing yourself? just speaking Japanese with captions is fine i think.
I thought it was hilarious 😂 and I’m going through a learning curve. Since I am editing the videos I get to play around and learn new things.