Tsuki market street food tour. Just about everyone who goes to Tokyo visits the world-famous Tsukiji fish market in the morning. Prepared yourself for a variety and sumptuousness Japanese cuisine.

Tsukiji Fish Market is one of the major destinations in Tokyo. If you love Japanese street food! It is probably one of the few places in Tokyo where you can find plenty of various street food kinds. The amount of street food here is just out of this world. The fish market is a pleasant way to spend an extra afternoon in Tokyo, strolling in the pedestrian narrow streets and looking at tons of different sea creatures (some of them I did not even know existed). In this Japanese Tsuki market street food vlog, I will share with you my experience in these different foods and where you can eat them too. Itadakimasu!

KAISEN-DON

At the Tsukiji market, you can find many restaurant crowded during lunch hour. On my first day, I decided to try the famous, raw fresh seafood rice bowl Kaien-Don which I never tried before. As I was walking through the Tsukiji market I have spotted a restaurant named Itadori, the restaurant looked very authentic, they had a deboned Tuna fish at the entrance, quite busy with people and look interesting.

So, The waiter seated me with a warm welcome and gave me the menu. They had a quite variety of seafood items on the menu. I decided to go for the Kiwami-don a steamed rice bowl with fatty tuna, sea urchin, salmon, salmon roe, chopped fatty tuna, scallop, and others served with a glass of cold matcha tea. Kiwami-don had a great presentation with a decent amount of food. The sashimis were out of the ocean, fresh, deep vibrant color served with fragrant well cooked steamed rice. In conclusion, I believe the dish was great but was too much raw seafood for my taste.
However, the only things I didn’t really enjoy was the raw shrimp, I just felt it wasn’t fresh enough.

STRAWBERRY DAIFUKU

Daifuku is a popular traditional Japanese dessert and it comes with various fillings. Stuffed mochi with red Anko bean paste topped with fresh strawberry or other fruits or fillings. Eating this soft mochi together with the fresh strawberry is simply mouth-watering. Tsukiji Soratsuki serves this gorgeous treat all year round. They were simply enormous, very soft and tasted super refreshing.

TAMAGOYAKI

Tamagoyaki is a type of Japanese omelet, made by rolling together several layers of cooked egg. These are prepared in a rectangular pan named Tamagoyakinabe. There are many types of tamagoyaki. They are made from a combination of eggs and dashi.

Many tamagoyaki rolled omelet shops are in Tsukiji market. This Tamagoyaki shop named Yamachou Matsue is busier although the staff was very friendly. The shop is specialized in selling rolled fried eggs. They serve a variety of rolled tamagoyaki with different fillings. The texture of the Tamagoyaki was fluffy and bouncy with a sweet flavor. However, this dish didn’t really meet my personal taste buds, I would rather have my omelet salty but was quite a new and great experience.

TSUKI MARKET IS CLOSED

The Tsukiji market was opened in 1935 and the surrounding area existed since the early 1600s. Toyosu replaces Tokyo’s famous Tsukiji market, one of the best food lovers and tourist destination in Japan.