you probably think about some of the more iconic

pieces like tuna or even unagi

But in Japan they have lots of different kinds of sushi

some weirder pieces, more experimental pieces

and some that are actually really quite common here

So today we're gonna show you some of the pieces that

you might not have thought of

when you think about Japanese sushi

M: but they're super Oishī (jp. delicious)

I wanna ask you a question, though.

What's up with all these plates. Did the video just start?

S: Oh.. you see, before we do our videos.

We do a lot of research, alright, so this is our..

our research, our prep work, alright R&D.

This is our location scouting. We take our job seriously

Let's talk about a little bit of beef

I'm sure that's not the thing that you expected

somebody to be able to order at a sushi restaurant

And I'll be honest, I never would have touched this piece

If one of my friends living here doesn't eat fish.

It's freaking delicious

Don't miss out on beef with tasty sauce.

S: There it comes!

M: The sauce is gonna be tasty

Oh, we forgot that by two we meant like

two..

S: One for me one for you

S: I'm okay with that

M: and you know what it's not like great looking sushi so

S: how dare you this shit is gorgeous, don't listen to her

beef sauce

M: Which one do I want? I'm gonna take this one. Okay

So the reason why this is such a hit is because

vinegared rice works really well with like fatty fishes

It's kind of like having like a lemon to a fatty fish, right?

This beef is so oily because it's Japanese beef and in the

sauce from there soaks on down to the vinegared rice

and then you just have this little tasty.. nugget of magic

Come on...it's like the equivalent of Christmastime

when you have a good piece of bread

and you dip it in that gravy at the end

S: Uuuuuh M: so when you bite into it.. it's soft

and squishy.. S: Oh, man that's my favorite thing to do..

M: I know I know.. but it still kinda holds in together S: cleaning plates with bread.. ahh

M: yeah.. do you want your piece? S: I got my own plate girl. What are you talking about?

M: I'm gonna put it into your mouth S: Oh feed it to me

S: It's great M: It's yummy right?

To beef is sweet, the sauce is a little bit tart,

got some fattiness from the meat

Nice.. just have the rice absorbing all that

I know you wouldn't think about having beef

at a sushi restaurant in Japan

Just try it. You might not think it's authentic

but it's really good

Now you guys might call this conveyor belt sushi,

at least we did when we were in Toronto

but in Japan it's called 'Kaiten Sushi',

which literally just means like.. rotation and sushi

And the inventor of it was actually from Osaka

and he got the idea when he saw beer conveyor belts

inside of a warehouse.

So he saw this beer tour and he was like..

"Well, I'm a sushi chef.

Why don't I try building one of these?"

And he spent 5 years to try to build it with the

right speed. 1958 is the very first time one opened up

and they've been in Japan ever since and I think

it came to us in like.. 2000 (laughing)

S: right.. (laughing) M: The first time it opened up in our city we were like

this is amazing S: Oh my god I can't believe it

M: We couldn't get in

There's also lots of seasonal and limited edition items

that are only around

during the winter or the summer or the spring

So make sure you peruse the menu.

This one was super duper nice

'sea urchin and shiso leaf' in a little handroll

Oh my gosh, and 'Gunkans' I didn't

even know what these were when I first came to Japan

It's basically just rice that has roasted seaweed around

and it's just filled with magical little goodies

S: Alright, eel and egg

M: U.. Unagi and soft boiled eggs,

that seems like a win to me, don't you think?

S: Who knows?!

M: Here they come.. S: Yeah.. boy.. woooow

(foodporn voiceover) Oh my god what a saucy surprise you are

I certainly hope you're listening to this with headphones

on because.. Mhhmm

Look at that ooey gooey sweet 'tare'.. just coating those

super lush eggs and crispy unagi.. Mhhhmm

S: Now this is eel with soft boiled egg.

It's a piece that we've never had before

because one of the things we really love about these

sushi shops is that there's so many things

that are seasonal. What we're getting here now,

we might not be able to get next month.

And what's available next month won't be available

the month after that. So try a different piece

that you might not be expecting. Don't come into a sushi

place with preconceived notions of what you should eat

Just be open to whatever is available M: Go crazy!

Was it a good idea? S: Mhmmm

M: I think it was gonna be a real good idea. Right? And you love Unagi

S: fattiness and creaminess is always a good topping

on vinegar rice. You need that balance between

vinegary and creamy, vinegary and fat.

This is a great piece for it

The beef piece is a great piece for it,

fatty fish and this too. Would you like this piece love?

M: Yeah S: I'm gonna feed it to you lovingly

(wedding music)

M: Ehm.. Don't you 'ehm' at me girl you accept my romances

M: There's a reason why I need to 'ehm' it though S: Why?

M: Cause I'm wearing lipstick

and girls know how to eat food with lipstick

But you're just gonna take that piece

and mash it all over my face

S: I might

M: Ehm.. so thank you. I'll imagine in my

heart of hearts that you're feeding this to me lovingly

It becomes so sticky and luscious... it turns into like a

TKG (Tomago kake gohan) in your mouth.

S: Yes... Uhh

This is like an unusual piece.

That actually got better the more you chewed it.

S: it's true yeah M: it whipped up the egg, mixed it up in your mouth..

and then you have a little crunchy bits of the..

toasted Unagi

Ok I'm gonna nerd out for a bit and talk about salmon

when I was in Toronto, I always

equated salmon pieces with Japanese sushi

and I always imagined coming here

and having some great salmon.

However, salmon isn't really..

authentic when it comes to Japanese sushi

it's only really been around since the 80s because

Japan doesn't fish its own salmon when it comes

for raw fish. They get it from Norway

so all of these salmon pieces that you're gonna get here

in Japan are actually... Norwegian salmon

That doesn't mean that it's not really popular here. I think

salmon is like the most popular topping that you get

on rice in Japan all together. So raw salmon isn't just a

Japanese thing. This is a nice little fusion food

of Norwegian salmon and Japanese rice.

M: Oh, no soy sauce or wasabi.. you're just going in dry?

(Martina laughing)

M: Do you need a glass of water

M: Oh my god ducky.. (laughing) S: It's not my favorite piece

M: no.. (laughing) S: I'm never really happy eating salmon pieces

here in Japan I think of it kind of like the California roll, right?

California rolls are delicious!

I've never actually seen California rolls in Japan

Salmon? Not my number one thing to get

M: But.. S: But..

M: salmon in Norway is amazing. S: Yes, Norwegian salmon itself is really yummy.

M: it's amazing S: we love it.. it's really yummy

M: There's just something about.. S: Just..

M: don't know what it is S: there are better things to put on your rice and a piece of raw salmon

M: Absolutely too much wasabi S: Absolutely! Absolutely too much wasabi!

M: Oh no.. it came back for more

This is like

in one of those.. TV shows

and we.. I've eaten so many wasabi ball hidden in things S: girl.. you gonked that on

it was like a line of toothpaste you put on there girl. M: It was.. oh my god

There's a lingering burn of wasabi happening and ehm..

just like the old folks tales your parents will tell you

Everyone always tells you something different

on how to get rid of wasabi burn

They're like 'you gotta open up your mouth and

breathe in through your nose'

I don't think anyone knows what they're talking about.

I think it's just.. like brain freeze

You just got to get through the brain freeze you know

S: You just gotta suffer

M: Yeah.. in a completely unrelated note to salmon.

I would say don't order the salmon, but instead

order the scallop. It's called Hokkaido scallop

in this case and other times it might be like

Hoe-tah-tay in Japanese

I don't really think I was that into eating raw scallops

when I was growing up in Canada

S: Of course.. no M: Like I I just don't think I would ever even

order a scallop or think about ordering a scallop

and that was like rich people food

if they had scallops on their things

Shit mine's so heavy it fell over

It's super sweet. It's super smooth. There's no tendon.

There's no scaliness. There's no crunchy bits

It's like the ocean's marshmallow

I've definitely had like bad salmon that I didn't like,

but I've never never had a bad scallop

Sushi shop sushi shop

sushi shop has got a really angry baby.

Unhappy baby.

It's so cold, but it's always a really

refreshing and cold piece and when you bite into it

There's no resistance

It's exactly like when you eat really good tuna

and it's super soft, just melts in your mouth like butter

I would say this is the shell version of that.

What do you call those?

It's not rocks No, so what are these called shellfish? Thank you.

Can I eat yours and get another?

It's great I'm always happy whenever I have scallops

I'm sometimes happy when I have salmon

scallops if you haven't tried them yet

You must have them with your sushi.

Skip the salmon go right to the hotates, lovely snot rock

well they're not the most visually appealing when you

look at them from the outside. All seafood is ugly,

let's be honest, ain't no good looking fish.

All seafood is is monstrous.

They all look like demons floating in liquid

Chucky I know that we all think this

but you're not supposed to say that out loud. Sorry

We don't judge the ocean that way

don't judge the ocean

We all know that mermaid are literally a creation of fairy

tales in order to get people to come visit the ocean

They're like dang how we going to get people to the ocean?

all animals are beautiful

Have you seen those really scary ones?

The lanterns and the death teeth? The monkfish.

They're like little demon lanterns

We are at the end of our video.

We obviously ate more than we showed

you guys on camera.

I think we showed you like 4/5 and we have

like 15 plates here

They're onto us surely

One of these plates is going to get us a capsule toy

But the whole point of this video was just to inspire you

guys that when you come to Japan

The idea of what you think you have to have?

Maybe let it expand a little bit more into what the

Japanese people are actually showing you that they have