I would describe dashi to westerners as "broth." It's made with bonito and seaweed, usually. You can use it as a soup base, sauce base, or for sipping as-is. Technically, any vegetable and any meat can make dashi, but the bonito and seaweed is considered best, so that's what you'll find when Japanese use the word.
Kagoshima is one city you've taken us a couple times. It looks like a wonderful place to visit for 3-4 days. All the food looked amazing. Funny enough among all of it I couldn't help but notice how good those scrambled eggs looked.
I just had a large and delicious meal, but am somehow hungry again. I would love to see you come to America someday and try our food! And I continue to be impressed by the attention paid by Japanese chefs to making the food LOOK great, as well as being tasty.
The best way to explain dashi to Americans is an umami stock usually made from katsuobushi (dried smoked skipjack tuna also known as bonita) and kombu (a type of seaweed) both from Japan. It can also be made with dried sardines and/or shitaki mushrooms. I have made it and it is wonderful.
I watch a RUclipsr named Nami who cooks in every video and uses both dashi and kombu on occasion. Everyday homecooking introduces viewers to all sorts of unique and intriguing ingredients specific to a culture.
Thanks for the great content once again. All the food is drool worthy, and I want to try it all. I have had tonkatsu before, and I love it. Continued safe travels, STJ. Have a treat on me. 😁
That Shabu shabu is really unique and looks good. I was there in Kagoshima about two weeks ago for one night, had kurobuta Tonkatsu but missed shabu shabu. I will mark it for the next time.
I am really enjoyed your video. Thank you very much. I am from Kagoshima, but I can't return for ten years. So that I am so suprised there are a lot of change in Kagoshima. There are lot of tasty food in Kagoshima. I want to return in the near future.
I am a big fan of your home city Kagoshima and I hope that you will be able to return there soon ! I was there last year for just 2 nights, and enjoyed it a lot. It was after a longhaul flight from Europe via Narita to Kagoshima, and the night before, I was just trowing up. And when in Kagoshima, we had ramen, and I began to feel fine again. It was like a remedy for me :-). We also had delicious Shabu Shabu whilst there, enjoyed the beautiful city, and enjoyed the wonderful footbath on Sakurajima.
Fabulous video, I visited Japan many times from England between 2002 - 2011, then once in 2019 for the rugby World Cup, I miss it so much, if I was a young man I would make it home, especially for all the values you show in your great videos. Thank you for the memories. ❤ 🇯🇵
I'm sure these videos are the exception but it seems that many Japanese restaurants make the meal a real experience rather than 'Here's your food'. I like that. Wish we had it in America.
For some reason I did not know you had more than one channel. I absolutely love your sea travel and as Japanese food is one of most favourite cusines now I can enjoy both. You do an amazing job with excellent filming so from me to you Domo arigato gozaimashita Honto ni anata no video wa tottemo omoshiroi deshita More food videos please Sending best wishes from.Perth Western Australia
Just in time, a treat at the end of the day! And, I just finished dinner, so I might not get hungry 😂 But just to be on the safe side, let me fetch something to chew on.. Ok ready steady go! Itadakimas and domo arigato!
Fascinating, the look and colours of all the different foods, look amazing. And of course your witty subtitles make the food journey with you lots of fun too. I have to say nearly all the wonderful food you showed me, I have never actually seen before, but have to say it does make me curious. My heartiest best wishes from Wales.
So glad I was able to travel with you. All the food looked scrumptious . . . just don't know where you put it all. Sakurajima looked like it could erupt at any minute. Hadn't seen electric trams (we called them buses) since I was a kid more than 70 years ago. Great hotel room for the price. Will catch you in the next one. In the meantime, take care and stay safe.
Where I live in the US we call them cable cars. The exception is if it is a stand alone car…just one place for passengers and it’s open to the air at all, then that is called a Trolly. ✌🏻💕😃
@@melissadunton3534 As a child, I lived in Akron. Our transportation system was exactly what the videographer called electric trams. We did not use the term "tram" we simply called them buses. It's like going into a US supermarket and using a "shopping cart" to put your groceries in, but in Britain, the same thing is call a "trolley." There are different words for the same thing from one country to the next.
@@gloriawatson yes, I’m aware of that. That’s exactly why I commented. So I could share with you the fact that in this part of the US we call them cable cars. But there are also other types of transportation that use the electric overhead…they are just a single car/seating area with open air sides and back, though they do have a windshield at the front….in my area they are called trolleys. Like the trolley on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. I wasn’t saying anything derogatory about your comment, just adding some more info to it. That way ppl would also know the terminology if they visit the east coast. Because different names, wording, etc… doesn’t just differ from Country to country. In the US it can differ from state to state and sometimes even between different counties in the same state. *the reason I specified that I’m in the US was so anyone who read my comment would know that what I’m saying is specific to where I live and since you didn’t mention where you lived as a child, I assumed it was either the US or Canada*
The food looked delicious!! You forgot to tell us the price of your dinner, so by guessing from what we saw on the menu, JPY 2600, so that makes it about $23.92 CDN at today's rate of exchange. Wish I could get a great healthy meal like that here in Canada for that price. Glad you got your bus and on to the next adventure. 🥰
Thanks for yet another great film I have just discovered a Chinese/Japanese store in my home city here in the UK that sell the finely sliced Beef, Pork and Lamb so I can do my own Shabu Shabu and also Nikujaga it also means I don’t have to drive an 80 mile round trip to buy my ingredients
😅 I now start to watch your food 🍱 channel n enjoy it very much! Great food intro, train bus 🚂 hotel 🏨 to take n stay, funny 😆 sharing of food drop n bear to peep 👀 at u.. 😊Shabu Shabu is amazing 👏 Thank u so much for sharing with us!
I hope you took a sip of the shabu shabu soup after all the food boiling. My family always does afterward and it always ends up being sweet and flavorful. "I was supposed to eat small" and then I saw what you got for breakfast and laughed out loud. Loved the shaved ice!!
Thank you for enriching my travels with you through your country. Of course I'll never be able to visit in person, but I feel I'm there along with you in your videos. All theses food dishes look yummers as well.
Your videos are perfect company while eating dinner. I've given up on ever traveling to Japan but i can live vicariously. Thank you for the great content.
Kurobuta is quite expensive (the low exchange rate somewhat masks that but it's still the case), however, it seems well worth it, too. If I'm ever in Kagoshima, I need to try the local pork. It looks delicious!
Here comes Kagoshiman. I hope many travelers come visit Kagoshima and experience a magnificent food culture and hot spring. anyone interested in history may come to like Kagoshima, former Satsuma domain, for its unique history. it's easy access from Fukuoka by shinkansen takes about 80min and each prefecture in Kyushu island worth to visit for its characteristic features.
I love eating at Ichi ni san. Their shabu shabu but also their kagoshima kuro wagyu are sooo good. I took a return shinkansen from Osaka just to go eat at the Amuplaza store a few years back.
I'm visiting Kagoshima next year and it's wonderful to come across your video on youtube. The food looks amazing! Hope I'll be able to try them next year! Thanks for the video!
A cookbook published in 1987 featured a Japanese meal of a pork cutlet, sesame rice, finely shredded cabbage, raw beets and tonkatsu sauce. It was exotic back then because the dipping sauce was near impossible to find, panko bread crumbs nobody had yet heard of, and raw beets just weren't eaten here in the US. The meal's photo was so beautifully and appetizingly styled and I vowed to one day make the meal. Nowadays I'd sub chicken for the pork.
That tonkatsu from the first restaurant looked AMAZING!! My favorite is Katsukura restaurant, but I don’t remember the dressing for the cabbage? Do you have to ask for dressing or is it usually on the table? Thanks for a delicious looking video!
this guy likes his pork. i haven't seen much vegan japanese foods, perhaps if you view from a strict spiritual temple discipline you will be graced by such meals.
@@missymoonwillow6545 there’s a vegan Japanese community because there are many Buddhists in Japan. There’s vegan Japanese cooking channels on RUclips (VegaNice Japan is my favorite)
I am continually amazed at how much you eat... I could only eat a fraction of that, and yet I'm fat. (maybe it's the cheese? americans eat a lot of dairy, and I do love my cheese!)
I can't remember seing fish cake with cheese inside like that one before. Looks and sounds intriguing... I'm starting to know you better: I knew that wasn't going to be enough rice 😂 The view of Sakurajima from the hotel was very good (I have been to the Yunohira Observation Deck near the crater). I would have spent most of the night up there hoping to catch one of the mighty volcano's spectacular "yawns". Thanks STJ 🙏
That was a lovely video... Thanks for all the wonderful recommendations!!! Will definitely try your recommendations in my itinerary, if not on my first trip, then on my second trip! Kagoshima looks like my kind of place. 😍😍😍
Hi my fav oooo my goodness the food looked so amazing. You know what im wondering how does the katsu taste with the curry and rice you saw on that one menu lol looks amazing. I love the food videos also. Hope your day was awesome. What is the reason for foot bath?
I would describe dashi to westerners as "broth." It's made with bonito and seaweed, usually. You can use it as a soup base, sauce base, or for sipping as-is. Technically, any vegetable and any meat can make dashi, but the bonito and seaweed is considered best, so that's what you'll find when Japanese use the word.
Solo-san’s rice always goes missing 😂😂
Curry rice
自分の故郷が紹介されてて、嬉しいです
Kagoshima is one city you've taken us a couple times. It looks like a wonderful place to visit for 3-4 days. All the food looked amazing. Funny enough among all of it I couldn't help but notice how good those scrambled eggs looked.
Pork Tonkatsu was my favorite lunch at least once a week when I spent two years in Japan.
I just had a large and delicious meal, but am somehow hungry again. I would love to see you come to America someday and try our food!
And I continue to be impressed by the attention paid by Japanese chefs to making the food LOOK great, as well as being tasty.
The best way to explain dashi to Americans is an umami stock usually made from katsuobushi (dried smoked skipjack tuna also known as bonita) and kombu (a type of seaweed) both from Japan. It can also be made with dried sardines and/or shitaki mushrooms. I have made it and it is wonderful.
I watch a RUclipsr named Nami who cooks in every video and uses both dashi and kombu on occasion. Everyday homecooking introduces viewers to all sorts of unique and intriguing ingredients specific to a culture.
Thanks for the great content once again. All the food is drool worthy, and I want to try it all. I have had tonkatsu before, and I love it. Continued safe travels, STJ. Have a treat on me. 😁
Thanks for your kind words and super thanks!
That Shabu shabu is really unique and looks good. I was there in Kagoshima about two weeks ago for one night, had kurobuta Tonkatsu but missed shabu shabu. I will mark it for the next time.
I am really enjoyed your video. Thank you very much. I am from Kagoshima, but I can't return for ten years. So that I am so suprised there are a lot of change in Kagoshima. There are lot of tasty food in Kagoshima. I want to return in the near future.
I am a big fan of your home city Kagoshima and I hope that you will be able to return there soon ! I was there last year for just 2 nights, and enjoyed it a lot. It was after a longhaul flight from Europe via Narita to Kagoshima, and the night before, I was just trowing up. And when in Kagoshima, we had ramen, and I began to feel fine again. It was like a remedy for me :-). We also had delicious Shabu Shabu whilst there, enjoyed the beautiful city, and enjoyed the wonderful footbath on Sakurajima.
Nice video! Tonkatsu and syabusyabuめちゃくちゃ美味しそう！
Kagoshima行った事ないので羨ましいです。
Fabulous video, I visited Japan many times from England between 2002 - 2011, then once in 2019 for the rugby World Cup, I miss it so much, if I was a young man I would make it home, especially for all the values you show in your great videos. Thank you for the memories. ❤ 🇯🇵
Eats to 120% satisfaction.
Eight minute train ride.
Ready for another snack.
I'm sure these videos are the exception but it seems that many Japanese restaurants make the meal a real experience rather than 'Here's your food'. I like that. Wish we had it in America.
I love tonkatsu. But everything looks good. Thank you for sharing.
As always solo love your videos
!! All yummy Solo-san 🤤 Excellent video, love your sense of humor. I am 120% satisfied. Arigato gozaimashita 🙏
I have to stop watching your videos just before I go to bed - you always make me hungry 😂🤣 thnx for these wonderful food adventures 🤗🇨🇦
Aaaaaaa I'm too hungry for this!!!
All the food looks so good! 😍Thanks for sharing them 🙏🏻👍🏻
Found your channels a few days ago, great pleasure and giggles. Thanks!
Thanks for watching and the super!
I love your videos for many reasons. Number one today is your adorable personality! 😁💜
Saw this new food video and had to click on it without a second thought. Love love love your videos Solo!❤️❤️❤️
As always I enjoyed the video. Thank you and keep traveling.
Thank you for a very nice video of eating Japanese local food alone in Kagoshima👍
I wonder if the airlines make you check your stomach in as checked luggage..... 🤣
I'm stealing this one 😂
For some reason I did not know you had more than one channel.
I absolutely love your sea travel and as Japanese food is one of most favourite cusines now I can enjoy both.
You do an amazing job with excellent filming so from me to you Domo arigato gozaimashita
Honto ni anata no video wa tottemo omoshiroi deshita
More food videos please
Sending best wishes from.Perth Western Australia
Kagoshima and its food were excellent!😀 Your video was very well filmed and edited.🤩
Cool little room for the price inside the city, can see why the bathroom is popular, huge compared to others at that price.
Just in time, a treat at the end of the day!
And, I just finished dinner, so I might not get hungry 😂
But just to be on the safe side, let me fetch something to chew on..
Ok ready steady go!
Itadakimas and domo arigato!
Everything looks good!😋
Eat delicious food on your next trip😊🍴✨
Thanks for the super! I apricate it. I'll eat curry!
Fascinating, the look and colours of all the different foods, look amazing. And of course your witty subtitles make the food journey with you lots of fun too.
I have to say nearly all the wonderful food you showed me, I have never actually seen before, but have to say it does make me curious.
My heartiest best wishes from Wales.
EVERY time you get me. I think breakfast is finished, and then *bam* dessert happens!
Let's go, more one day with Solo Travel Food Tour. Thank u for the video as always, hi from Brazil 👏
What are the restaurants you went to?
Another wonderful video,the tonkatsu was my favourite not just for the food but the tableware and the nice origami for ohashi,thanks and best wishes.
So glad I was able to travel with you. All the food looked scrumptious . . . just don't know where you put it all. Sakurajima looked like it could erupt at any minute. Hadn't seen electric trams (we called them buses) since I was a kid more than 70 years ago. Great hotel room for the price. Will catch you in the next one. In the meantime, take care and stay safe.
Where I live in the US we call them cable cars. The exception is if it is a stand alone car…just one place for passengers and it’s open to the air at all, then that is called a Trolly. ✌🏻💕😃
@@melissadunton3534 As a child, I lived in Akron. Our transportation system was exactly what the videographer called electric trams. We did not use the term "tram" we simply called them buses. It's like going into a US supermarket and using a "shopping cart" to put your groceries in, but in Britain, the same thing is call a "trolley." There are different words for the same thing from one country to the next.
@@gloriawatson yes, I’m aware of that. That’s exactly why I commented. So I could share with you the fact that in this part of the US we call them cable cars. But there are also other types of transportation that use the electric overhead…they are just a single car/seating area with open air sides and back, though they do have a windshield at the front….in my area they are called trolleys. Like the trolley on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.
I wasn’t saying anything derogatory about your comment, just adding some more info to it. That way ppl would also know the terminology if they visit the east coast. Because different names, wording, etc… doesn’t just differ from Country to country. In the US it can differ from state to state and sometimes even between different counties in the same state.
*the reason I specified that I’m in the US was so anyone who read my comment would know that what I’m saying is specific to where I live and since you didn’t mention where you lived as a child, I assumed it was either the US or Canada*
I just ate dinner, but you've made me hungry again! 🤣
I stayed in Kagoshima at the Daiwa hotel....lovely city and food was awesome. Had my first Ramen there last year Thank you for posting...!!
so much talk about wagu beer and it's such a nice change of scenery and focus on pork!
The food looked delicious!! You forgot to tell us the price of your dinner, so by guessing from what we saw on the menu, JPY 2600, so that makes it about $23.92 CDN at today's rate of exchange. Wish I could get a great healthy meal like that here in Canada for that price. Glad you got your bus and on to the next adventure. 🥰
Thanks for yet another great film I have just discovered a Chinese/Japanese store in my home city here in the UK that sell the finely sliced Beef, Pork and Lamb so I can do my own Shabu Shabu and also Nikujaga it also means I don’t have to drive an 80 mile round trip to buy my ingredients
well cam to kagosima^^
I've been watching your videos for a while. You sure can put it away! Good appetite! 😁
😅 I now start to watch your food 🍱 channel n enjoy it very much! Great food intro, train bus 🚂 hotel 🏨 to take n stay, funny 😆 sharing of food drop n bear to peep 👀 at u.. 😊Shabu Shabu is amazing 👏 Thank u so much for sharing with us!
This made me want to to here. Thanks for sharing - I've added Kagoshima to my list of locations to visit. :)
I hope you took a sip of the shabu shabu soup after all the food boiling. My family always does afterward and it always ends up being sweet and flavorful. "I was supposed to eat small" and then I saw what you got for breakfast and laughed out loud. Loved the shaved ice!!
Thanks
Thank you!
Thank you for enriching my travels with you through your country. Of course I'll never be able to visit in person, but I feel I'm there along with you in your videos. All theses food dishes look yummers as well.
Your videos are perfect company while eating dinner. I've given up on ever traveling to Japan but i can live vicariously. Thank you for the great content.
Wow!
This is where I worked part-time when I was in college!
Thanks for enjoying Kagoshima!
I love your sense of humor!
Kurobuta is quite expensive (the low exchange rate somewhat masks that but it's still the case), however, it seems well worth it, too. If I'm ever in Kagoshima, I need to try the local pork. It looks delicious!
Here comes Kagoshiman.
I hope many travelers come visit Kagoshima and experience a magnificent food culture and hot spring.
anyone interested in history may come to like Kagoshima, former Satsuma domain, for its unique history.
it's easy access from Fukuoka by shinkansen takes about 80min and each prefecture in Kyushu island worth to visit for its characteristic features.
I love eating at Ichi ni san. Their shabu shabu but also their kagoshima kuro wagyu are sooo good. I took a return shinkansen from Osaka just to go eat at the Amuplaza store a few years back.
Well, that looked very very delicious! I sure would want to try the shabu-shabu in that restaurant!
But also the curry with that special pork
I'm visiting Kagoshima next year and it's wonderful to come across your video on youtube. The food looks amazing! Hope I'll be able to try them next year! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the food! 🙏🏽Shabu Shabu, I'm coming to eat you! 😉👍🏽 Excellent video, as always. Peace, from Pacific West Coast USA.
Thank you for the delicious videos STJ-San! I’m coming to Japan in November and I wish I had time to go on ferries like you do!
A cookbook published in 1987 featured a Japanese meal of a pork cutlet, sesame rice, finely shredded cabbage, raw beets and tonkatsu sauce. It was exotic back then because the dipping sauce was near impossible to find, panko bread crumbs nobody had yet heard of, and raw beets just weren't eaten here in the US. The meal's photo was so beautifully and appetizingly styled and I vowed to one day make the meal. Nowadays I'd sub chicken for the pork.
As always, love your food videos! And you always make me laugh with your funny content 😂❤️❤️❤️
I'm once again hungry after watching this and craving something with noodles in it...
I love tonkatsu, and that looks amazing!
I really love your videos! They always leave me restored, somehow...it's that Solo-San magic✌🤟...oh, and 🥢🍛
I don't know why but the polar bear mouth falling away got me good lol
😊 loved it.
Amazing food!
Amazing ..!! how the Kurobuta Tonkatsu - your second of the day 🧐.. Snuck onto the ShabuShabu basic menu 👀😇…Solo I salut you …🫡 🤣😂
That tonkatsu from the first restaurant looked AMAZING!! My favorite is Katsukura restaurant, but I don’t remember the dressing for the cabbage? Do you have to ask for dressing or is it usually on the table? Thanks for a delicious looking video!
It’s usually on the table. Thanks!
Im very happy to see you enjoying my hometown, Kagoshima!!
Yum! Everything looks so good but I think I'm most curious about the fishcake rice burger. And I want to pet that polar bear :D
Enjoying this so much by-proxy 😋 Would love to see some vegan specialities, in one of your videos 🙏🍀
this guy likes his pork. i haven't seen much vegan japanese foods, perhaps if you view from a strict spiritual temple discipline you will be graced by such meals.
@@missymoonwillow6545 there’s a vegan Japanese community because there are many Buddhists in Japan. There’s vegan Japanese cooking channels on RUclips (VegaNice Japan is my favorite)
So glad I made my lunch before sitting down to watch this
Wow there's an ad about Napoli on the tram! Hi from Napoli👋
Loved it
Where is the curry rice?
The food looks so good!!
I am continually amazed at how much you eat... I could only eat a fraction of that, and yet I'm fat. (maybe it's the cheese? americans eat a lot of dairy, and I do love my cheese!)
What yummy food! Thank you!
I tried sweet milk on fruit, was very good. Not Everly sweet. Good for a treat.
Wow. Amazing.
With this video I'm 120% satisfied
I can't remember seing fish cake with cheese inside like that one before. Looks and sounds intriguing... I'm starting to know you better: I knew that wasn't going to be enough rice 😂
The view of Sakurajima from the hotel was very good (I have been to the Yunohira Observation Deck near the crater). I would have spent most of the night up there hoping to catch one of the mighty volcano's spectacular "yawns". Thanks STJ 🙏
Awesome
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That was a lovely video... Thanks for all the wonderful recommendations!!! Will definitely try your recommendations in my itinerary, if not on my first trip, then on my second trip! Kagoshima looks like my kind of place. 😍😍😍
Hi my fav oooo my goodness the food looked so amazing. You know what im wondering how does the katsu taste with the curry and rice you saw on that one menu lol looks amazing. I love the food videos also. Hope your day was awesome. What is the reason for foot bath?
What is the reason for the footbath? ＞
Warming the calves improves blood circulation, warms the body, promotes waste products, and alleviates fatigue.
@@socks_cat356 thank you for explaining we dont have that Ive never seen it in my life. In South Africa we don't have that in streets.
Sarap naman niyan…😮
dessert for breakfast= yes!
Ohhh damn this looks so delicious....!! My belly is talking loud right now 😂😑
I'm hungry again... 😄
Curry rice!
Poor polar bear may prefer hot chocolate to shaved ice!!?
I would assume one would put the noodle in the last, as the broth would be "enhanced" after cooking all the pork.
Amazing as usual! By the way, what camera are you using?
I wanna eaaaaaaat
would say dashi is a kind of broth or consomme, btw love the video
Dashi would be classified as a broth. Consomme is distinguished by being clarified using egg whites.
おじゃったもんせ！
Maybe dashi is like broth?
That’s what I thought too.
When i go out on a dinner date with you, i am bringing a knife and fork, chopstick makes it more difficult. The pork looks A1!