The Izakaya in Japan

[ricarleite]

I'll eb in Japan with my wife in July of this year, and we want to go to an Izakaya, mostly because I want to have some horse sashimi. My question is, how do they treat gaijin over there? Should I be fine to just walk into a regular chain Izakaya in Tokyo? Thanks!

[Pinkspiderable]

I have had all but not the raw horse, just goes against my taste. Great fun thank you for the video it was fun to watch you.

[nakatani0203]

izakaya watami・・おいしい・サービスも良い・安い！！から最高♪

昨日も行ったけど、料理出てくるのも早いし一人でも楽しく過ごせ­る！

（о ^ิз^ิо）

[gogomonta]

日本の居酒屋は種類が多いです。

慣れたら、ワタミ以外の小さな居酒屋が更に気に入るでしょう。

良い旅を。

[Midnightryder7]

is tipping your waiter or waitress allowed in japan?..or even a pizza deliver?...i think someone told me that tipping was not allowed?????

[toddatron]

@Midnightryder7 Its not that its not allowed just that that concept does not exist here. There just isn't any tipping. Table charge is a new one for me. Most places charge you a fee just to sit down and it includes a mini appetizer. Charges are around 400 to 600 yen these days where I haunt.

[KalterStien]

You are a cool dude. Az said before, Very Chill.

[akanechin802]

Hello.

What you come to Japan on a trip?

I also like cartilage.

That is also popular in Japan, so cheap and delicious.

Drink cheap pubs, Watami, Tsubo-hachi, I find other Lots.

There is a restaurant called Saizeriya is very cheap there, too.

Spaghetti and salad and drink (free refills) is 600 yen lunch set.

Please come to visit Japan again by all means.

※ I'm a Japanese, I wrote this article on Google by using machine translation.

I'm sorry were a strange English.

[toddatron]

@akanechin802  I live here. I really love Japan and will stay here. Its a great place to live!

[tothemax01]

@toddatron hi toddatron, how did you end up living in japan? yes it is a great place, and it must be awesome to live there

[etegg11]

@toddatron man you living the dream!

[DMF]

Very chill. :D

[GimmeKitty]

Question, Todd: Are the kids we see with your wife, sometimes HERS or the both of yours? Sorry if this is too personal a question.

[GimmeKitty]

WHy am I watching this?

I'll only end up STARVING ;)

[kunzon88]

You have some very insightful videos, thank you for uploading!

[Disfrigginguy]

well the price seems pretty good for the amount of food and drinks you had, and for a b busy place it looked very clean, and that the staff brought things out fairly quickly. It is also nice to see that the menu had a lot of pictures for the folks that may struggle with learning the japanese characters. A lot of the foods looked pretty good, even the horse meat though I am not sure if I could be brave enough to try it. Is it similar to any other kind of meat?

[toddatron]

@Disfrigginguy Yea for a chain place its a good bargain and an easy dinner or lunch. The horse meat was greasy but good and had a marble of meat and fat. If you really want to try it for the first time you must go to a horse meat restaurant. You can get it raw or cooked. Its a little gamy raw but it sings with the right sauce and spice. Yea a lot of places like that have an English menu or like you saw .... easy pictures. Point and order.

[etegg11]

@Disfrigginguy yeah they seem to be quite generous in japan with the portion sizes - is 5,541yen about £41

[fugazivicarious1]

I miss Izakaya...funny thing is the founder of Watami decided to start the business after he was impressed by bars, restaurants, and clubs in NYC. Now Japanese Izakaya is much better than American restaurants!

[Chtorr1988]

hey maybe if you cut down on the cancersticks you wouldnt have so much trouble walking

[purplecornflake]

This place looks kind of horrible compared to the one izakaya that I went to in Tokyo which was amazing. Why go to a chain?

[toddatron]

@purplecornflake Horrible yea nice wait staff, food was good as in just good not amazing, prices were good, place was clean ,location was good horrible horrible. Ummmmmm The purpose of the video was to show the chain izakaya . Perhaps I should have said that more plainly. I really wonder where you get horrible from the video. Please enlighten me.

[Sniper1968]

Nice video. So did you already know the lady or meet her there? Then get her to film you vlog. :) Sounds like a cool place except I'd be smoking my pipe. Japanese food is very interesting. Horsemeat, yep that is what they do with their thoroughbreds when their race days are over. Forgive me but unless the apocalypse hits I'll never eat horse, and I think it is wrong that they slaughter them. I do love sushi (smoked salmon my favorite).

[toddatron]

@Sniper1968 Yea I felt the same way and one day I just tried it and loved it. You may never eat horse but if you do ....go to a good place that specializes in horse for your first try. Just in case you change your mind:)

[kishaba1980]

thanks for the post :)

[popinjay3000]

great vid, nice point of view..

[unnawhim]

How do you spell that drink you keep drinking? It looks good.

[toddatron]

chuhai

[unnawhim]

Thanks!

[bangoramas]

enjoy the goodness of life and die early, this is exactly what you do :)

[toddatron]

Yes! The sun that burns twice as bright lasts only half a life. So be it.

[lppon]

i didn't know ron jeremy lived in japan!

[toddatron]

I'm a distant cousin:)

[astoria3011]

Smoking still allowed in restaurants in Japan? That's disgusting!

[toddatron]

Yes and it is gross but I still smoke and I like it.

[xymor182]

another good video again (^^,) thank you...

[109mytiger]

Acording to travel channel, japan has best bar food in the world.

[jjjsupport]

Hi, for some more suggestions for nice Izakaya check out my website, izakayasanpo

Tobias

[kos5966]

i love the fried chicken soft bone....it went well with the beer in izakaya for me in japan oohhhhh im goin to osaka this Dec can't wait to smoke indoor hahahahaha

[toddatron]

Yea... having a beer and a smoke and zero guilt. Priceless!

[allgoo19]

I like the way try things without a critical view upfront. Open mind is good.

[toddatron]

I can try almost anything.... Thank you for a kind comment!

[thomasgotschalk]

Nice video - and btw., the raw horsemeat with raw egg is delicious. (they have this dish at Toho and Hananomai too!) ^^

[hata55]

和民かい!!

でも和民は固いよね＾＾

[liwaste]

some day.. i will go to japan.. some day..

[TheTheAdgjl13579]

@liwaste lets go to Izakaya together when you come to japan.

[Sukii]

omg that looks SOO YUMMY

[RisBo21]

great video...i realy enjoj them....nice food video...is that your wife with you?

[takepon0714]

Great vid !!

I'm japanese living in Tokyo.

You are telling Japanese style correctly !!!

Thank you so much ♪ (^_^)

By the way,have you tried Imo-shouchuu ?

I love it !

[toddatron]

Thank you. I try very hard to be correct about Japanese things so thank you very much for the encouraging compliment:)

[toddatron]

I would love to go with you when schedule permits:) Warikan sounds good to me!

[shinkoyasu]

I am a Japanese living in Yokohama.

I love IZAKAYA.

I cannot speak English, but can go in IZAKAYA with you.

However, the calculation hopes for "WARIKAN".

[toddatron]

Well I have had it with a nice marble or fat and I have had it solid red and lean. The best way however it to go to a horse meat restaurant... it was pretty good at the izakaya but a horse place it the real way to have it raw, quickly seared or grilled with a dark steak sauce. Its a little gamy when it really fresh.

[novanine]

Raw horsemeat??? Oh my. I'd be very interested to try that. Is it like very lean beef?

Great vid. You certainly eat well over there!

[toddatron]

I will try the salad next time:)

[getoutofmyband]

I still have the menu from Watami on my fridge. I brought it back to Canada to show my familly... every now and then I look at it and sigh.

Miss the food.. :3 I loved their tako rice salad..

[Gyrobikes]

I wonder if you are interested in having A Bloody Mary Tortoise with (Tabasco) plus roasted sparrow (3 whole snack birds} per person . This menu dish will guaranty long life. Tortoise decapitated in front of customer then placed & balanced headless down into a glass and allowed to drip.. Looking forward to the Vid /

[toddatron]

I am not afraid

[Gyrobikes]

Great to follow these vid article's Todd but not surprised at the help you are getting ,Horse meat in Japan is imported from China and are all knackered animals who have no other use other than to eat them , same as the hens which they call chicken , Once the chicken/hen gives up laying eggs, they end up in the izakiya/Japanese-pub. The little crispy snacks you had "You" called them "cartilage" are the bits cut from the top of a chicken's head (The Cockscomb) They are nice after many Hi-Chu .

[toddatron]

Sweet info dude thanks for filling in the gaijin blanks :)

[ccr1965]

Some Japanese engineers talked me into trying horsemeat sashimi in Takayama. I tried it, but had nightmares about Mr. Ed having me arrested for hate crimes

[ccr1965]

These places are loads of fun. I love the roof top beer gardens as well. We used to go to a cool place called "Beer Station" It used to be an old train station they converted into a micro brewery / Izakaya. Haven't been there in a few years, so I don't even know if it's still there

[toddatron]

I actually have never been to a beer garden yet but its the season so look out for a vlog on that thanks for the idea:)

[toddatron]

You got it!!! love the comments...thanks

[ensortion]

great detail as always, thanks so much for this vid ^_^

[MicknFumi]

Just favourited this vid, so the missus can take me to one of those restraunts when we get over next Jan. That menu looked awesome. I always chew off the chicken cartlidge, coz like brocolli, its meant to help ward off cancer. But never heard of it actually served alone as a meal or horsemeat lol wow, gotta try that. Gotta love Chu-hi, just not the next moring, I went hard on it last time in Hakone, tying all the flavours hehe...cool vid man...cheers : )

[toddatron]

Wow really? soft bone helps fight cancer.... cool! Yea mixing the brew hurts the next day I hear yea.

[MicknFumi]

Honto...Honto...Hi...Hi...wow I was able to reply in Japanese lol...well till this last bit lol ; )

[spitecaster]

Nice video. I love watching people eat in japan.

[toddatron]

Thanks I was thinking maybe people are tired of seeing me stuff my face and talk with my mouth full but apparently not..... so thanks again and stay tuned:)

[bulletproofKevlar]

yay Man i love having my own lemon in it better then the can i find

[toddatron]

I want a keg of shochu in the fridge with a tap... a case of soda water and a bag of lemons... I figure that would hold me for a week:) Then again I may be hospitalized from it..... ahh watever

[bulletproofKevlar]

yeah the chicken bone stuff was one of my favs too...though wierd at first i felt like I needed to spit it out at first

[toddatron]

She is my wife..... and helper for certain blogs.

[APOKALYPSE34]

I would love to have a call button for a refill of beer. Oh to dream of that.

Mr Ed has been defeated By Todnator!!

[toddatron]

I want to switch them all around when the waiter is not looking and watch the fun when the place fills up.... he he he

[ID2Japan]

i like fresh alcohol drink i gotta try the chuhai(?) sometime ;)

[toddatron]

shochu... soda water .....fresh lemon.....and poof you have one!!!

[BusanKevin]

Awesome stuff man! Great izakaya vid....you captured a lot :)

Can't say I've tried horse meat yet!

[toddatron]

Thanks... yea horse is awesome and even better at a real horse restaurant. I have had it raw and cooked... when its fresh it has a little gamy taste but its balance with sauce. Yet another Japanese gem.

[Snelis]

Great video! God I'm jealous, I really should get my ass to Japan.

[ughat]

Yeah! Another FOOD series! I love nankotsu too!

[Iloveyakitori]

Makes me want to come back now. I do plan to be back this Sept, and perhaps and late June early July too. Hope we can hook up again for a few cold ones and a trip to an Izakaya/Yakitoriya.

[toddatron]

I may be in the states for a short break in Aug. but otherwise.... shit yea lets party!!

[stefmax]

Looked so delicious!

Thanks for the awesome video!

[toddatron]

Thanks for watching bro!!

[enbejey]

Seems like you had a good Friday night!

Thanks for sharing.

[toddatron]

You got it.... always glad to share:)

[Iloveyakitori]

If you have not already, try Tengu chain Izakaya. I have been to many chain Izakaya and I find Tengu the best. Looking forward to seeing you on my next trip to Japan.

[psmtheman]

How much was the table charge?

[toddatron]

At that place it was defiantly 300 to 400 yen each person not exactly sure but not more than 400.

[konggg]

Keep those mouth watering videos coming!!

[toddatron]

Will do! thanks for the patronage :)

[Tnakamura11]

I like imo jyouchu better than chuhi.

[toddatron]

Yea my wife likes that but I have to be careful with it.... it makes me hung over... its good stuff though!

[saiyouken]

Thanks for sharing your izakaya experience. I use to frequent there. ahhh, life before kids....

[toddatron]

Hey bring them there when they are older...... cheers

[Theoneandonly4PY]

hey great vid once again! te food looked amazing i bet it tasted even better!, oh it makes me want to move to japan even more lol

[toddatron]

Yes... I doubt I will ever tire of the food here... there are way to many styles and places to discover

[sugawara893]

good stuff, now i'm hungry! i'd love to try horse, it looked good. too bad i'm stuck in kentucky for now! i'd get crucified for saying that out loud here! haha!

[toddatron]

Yea the sacred American horse... well I was a bit hesitant years ago when I tried my first horse meat but they are raised here and cared for as livestock. Now I love it!!!

[toddatron]

That was actually the most expensive thing on the menu: 600 yen about a dollar for each little slice.... there are also horse restaurants hope I get to blog one someday.

[Tnakamura11]

I don't know the quality of basashi at Watami. But I'm sure that that of horse restaurants is really good.

[toddatron]

Yes I agree the Horse places are a divine taste but it was pretty good at Watami.. as a gaijin its such a treat to eat raw meat and not fear getting sick.

[Bureikeisan]

Always a great video,, Watami been to the Hiroshima an Nagoya one's,, Todd have you been to Osaka yet, If not you gotta go "Shinsaibashi" the whole Quetarae deal it's great, foods awsome,, Hiroshima for Okanomiyaki! hit some Ramen places,, man your'e killing me with these vids,, lol

[toddatron]

Yea its been a wile since I let loose on the food docs. I really love that part of You Tube... thanks always for the good words!

[toddatron]

Cool man... thank you for that.

[hardyboys0]

Great Vid.

Im in japan too, and I really think your vids show people the real experiences. Now Lame Schtick, just informative entertaining videos.

keep it up

[synterlu]

How is your japanese level?

Keep rockin'.

[toddatron]

Its lame but I really just got here.... see where I am in year.... cheers

[jamitone]

Cool video. In the info section you mentioned that you come here after work. Are you a teacher there? Also, who were the women you were sitting with. Just curious. Thanks. Keep the videos coming.

[toddatron]

Its my wife... who graciously tolerates my blogging at dinner.

[jamitone]

Ha ha, that's pretty cool. Most wife's just wouldn't have that. lol

[ChemistInJapan]

Damnit! Now I'm hungry and there isn't anything like an 居酒屋 anywhere near me.

[toddatron]

better whip up some syntho food!!! Where abouts are you no need to be specific if you mind:) Japan right?

[ChemistInJapan]

I wish I was in Japan. No, I'm in Texas for the time being.

[toddatron]

Damn time for a space portal... I need some huge transformers and coils so I can teleport you here....cheers