and I really wanted to make a video about it

because I feel like udon is a very underrated dish here in Japan

Everybody wants to eat ramen, and they ask me to make videos about ramen

But I prefer udon and soba

So today I'm gonna show you guys one of my favourite cheap yummy udon places!

So yay! Let's go!

Let me introduce some of the udon styles to you guys

This first one is called Bukkake Udon

It means that the sauce is poured over top of the noodles

Instead of them starting out in a soup broth

The one next to it is Tsukimi Udon

It means it comes with a raw egg

So if you don't like raw egg, I wouldn't go for this one

But if you would like to get an egg in your udon, and you would prefer a cooked one

Maybe go for this Ontama

It means that it has a soft boiled egg that comes with it

Next we have Zaru Udon

This one is only served cold, and the noodles don't come with a soup

Instead they come with a dipping sauce, you can dip the noodles in there

That one's great for the summer

This is Kitsune Udon

It comes with a piece of aburaage, or fried tofu

It's very flavourful and yummy, I like that one

They also have lots of curry udon

This Kake Udon here is the original basic one

It comes in a warm soup

Shouyu Udon, it's got some soy sauce in it

Lots to choose from

So when you come in you gotta get a tray and a dish if you wanna get some tempura

Here's the tempura! You can choose what toppings you wanna put on your udon

I usually get ebi (shrimp)

I always forget what the English name is

They don't have eggplant...

Eggplant would be my second choice...

I think I'll just get 2 ebi then

2 shrimps!

If you look up at the top here, they have the different types of udon

So you can choose which one you want

I'm gonna get this one, with the egg

And you can choose hot or cold

Hot ontama bukkake udon please

Large, medium or small?

Medium

You can choose the size too, so they'll ask you dai, chuu, shou

That comes to 680 yen

You can choose some toppings for your udon if you want

They have ground ginger

These are like tempura flakes?

Leftovers

I don't know what to call them

It's leftovers

Yeah, like leftover pieces

Soy sauce, sesame seeds, wasabi

If you are on a budget, you can get this bowl of udon and soup for 130 yen!

I lived off this when I came to Japan for the first time

That's awesome

You can go put some toppings on it like the tempura flakes, and ginger and stuff

So it's not that boring

What did you get?

Shine got the chuu size, so this is the medium size

Let's put some toppings on our $1 udon

$1 udon before and after

I do like sesame so I'm gonna put load of sesame

Yep, give the whole thing some flavour

Then, what is this again? Ginger

Lots of ginger!

That's gonna be spicy

It's good for you...

I don't like those leftovers because sometimes they have weird bits in them

So I'm just gonna go for the crispy ones

But they sometimes get really squishy so I don't want too many of those

They used to have the flaky fish that you put in

Oh the katsuobushi?

Yeah the katsuo was free but they took it away

because loads of people do what I do and just whack loads of stuff on

There we go!

And turn it into a delicious whole meal now!

So this is ontama

Basically just a soft boiled egg, it's not raw

It's all cooked

Itadakimasu!

So good

They're really long today!

Yeah they're really long

I feel like they're longer than usual

The ginger is nice, it adds a nice spice to it

What is it?

Seven Spice - Shichimi

More free toppings?

It's a little spicy, it mostly just adds some flavour to it

It's a mixture of 7 different spices

Gochisousama desu! All done~

So this is Hanamaru Udon

There's some other udon chains as well

I'll put some names of shops in the description box so check them out!

Thanks for watching guys, I'll seeya soon! Bye!

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