Sushi Blog

Bullet Train Sushi is basically a conveyor belt sushi with strength on made-to-order sushi instead of picking one out of the items going around on the conveyor. Walking in to the restaurant, the counter with display panels invites customers to sit in the designated seat.  The entire process of ordering is done digitally. No workers making sushi are seen.  Welcome to the digital age. Ordered items zip on an express lane and stops in front of you to pick up.

Ekiben is a bento you buy before you hop on a train.  Fist-time tourist will be overwhelmed when seeing the first time the huge selection of bento with just about any type of ingredients imaginable.  Paolo's first pick is Kaisendon or seafood bento. It has premier grade of toro, uni, ikura, and egg on top of rice.

Simon and Martina prove how small mom and pop coffee shops compete against the coffee shop giant Starbucks and winning the battle.  The first coffee shop they introduce offer their customers samples to taste and each one comes with a card telling the story of that particular coffee including the name, where it came from, and its unique features. Another coffee shop the couple visits serves all hand crafted coffee from roasting and grinding beans to steeping.

Martina demonstrates a painstaking process of making plum wine from scratch. The moment of truth comes when the host opens the jar full of plum she packed seven months ago.  Precaution for residents in Japan: Only plum is allowed for making alcoholic beverage for personal consumption in Japan.  Using other ingredients such as grapes, rice, wheat, corn, and starch is illegal even for personal consumption and do not even think about selling your personally crafted wine if you want to be in line with the law.

Egg is ubiquitous in the world, but this plain old breakfast item is perfected in Japan from how chickens are raised to how they are cooked the best possible way. The video hosts go to Tsukiji to try one dollar egg and they like it.  The egg is subtly flavored and cooked in layered.  The team then go to Chichibu to buy a set of raw $89 eggs. What's the difference?  The $89 eggs come from chicken specially bred and fed with premier blend of feed.  This particular egg brand is called Kagayaki.