What was your favorite Saiku Sushi? Ever heard of this traditional style before? Let me know your thoughts below and I’ll PIN 📍 the best one to the top tonight! -John ٩(^‿^)۶ SUSHI SUSHI 🍣
While they're all so creative, the Bell Flower is just so visually satisfying with its symmetry that it wins my top pick. I've never heard of this style before. Thanks for sharing! 🍣
I usually bring up Google Maps to mark places I want to visit next time I come to Japan, but this is the first sushi restaurant that is added to my Want to visit list, making it the 300th for Japan. So now I am at 302 in total with the other two being Nordkapp, the nothernmost mainland point in Europe and Treriksröset where the borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet. Those two I can visit this summer as long as I get vaccinated, but the vaccination program in Sweden is going slowly right now for various reasons.
Chef is right. Serving the same tuna can be boring, but changing the looks of it is like entertainment for the eyes. Being the foodie that I am, I noticed that chef is extremely artistic without all the modernist cooking and the molecular gastronomy techniques i.e. foams, gels, sous vide, and liquid nitrogen. He's using his imagination, all natural ingredients, and his knife skills. That's it. Excellent story on the chef and great video.
That sushi was truly a work of art. Props to the chef for perfecting it over the years and creating such beautiful and elegant pieces of sushi. Thank you for showing it to us John!
That was a fun episode. The fact that the process to make decorative sushi is intensive and the chef is patient shows proof that the chef loves his job. Keep up this enthusiasm.👍👍👍
I once worked in a Japanese restaurant in my younger days and we were the only restaurant that served tataki sushi. We got criticized by other Japanese restaurants that said we don't know what we're doing since nobody served tataki sushi. I met John there one day on Maui. I'm sure John enjoyed it.
I'm continually amazed by how creative and inventive some people are. It blows my mind what passionate and talented people are able to create. This sushi looked way too good to eat.
Yuki and his team certainly make this culinary art experience a privilege to witness, requiring adept fine motor skills similar to a surgeon. Loved the akami chrysanthemum. And the micro sushi - kawaii ne! 🍣😋
Beautiful sushi! The Chef has amazing talent to be able to not only dream of these designs but to make them as well! I especially love the colors and details.
Now I remember why the restaurant feels so familiar! This was the same restaurant as the micro sushi from ur old video which i really enjoyed watching way back. 🍣 This is an upgraded version though: much more in-depth and informative yet still as fun as watch! I just realized, even though i was already impressed with ur old videos, the quality, story-telling of ur new videos has really been upgraded too (just an opinion from a non-mass communication, non-techie person but just an ordinary-salary/frontliner-person who-takes-a-break-by-watching-you-tube-videos person like me). It reminds me that I should always aspire to continue to improve myself even though i/we feel we am/are already doing awesome in our own crafts. As for the vid, thanks again! It was fun to watch!
It is totally showing the true essence of Japanese gourmet food. Excellent food is not just the smell, colour, taste and freshness, , just by looking at the video I can feel the chief's spirit injected into the food, this is a very very important element. Hope to see more of such videos, it really makes my day. Thank you very much John.
Everything you ate looked so good! I just love sushi in general and enjoy going to sushi restaurants where the sushi chef will make whatever he feels like making. It's like doing a sushi unboxing. Haha. Thank you for sharing this John! Loved every second of it!
The mastery of sushi food art by Chef Yuki-san is so impressive! Eating the sushi Yuki-san made is living his experience and watching this video is experiencing Japan through John's eyes! Awesome 🤩
Just enjoyed this video while eating some sushi! Wow Yuki-san is very talented. The intricate slices on the tiny cucumbers pieces blew me away...as did the beautiful display of sushi. It is 100% an art.
Wow this was such a fun video! My favorite was the micro sushi! I will 1000% go to that restaurant on my next visit! Watching the chef make that Hydrangea was mesmerizing! Awesome video John!
“I’m basically eating the chef’s experience.” On point! I’m a new subscriber and I got hooked by the way you express yourself so succinctly. Your passion for anything Japanese shines through.
🍣Sushi is ♥️‼️Simple fresh, amazing and elegant art of beauty of each creative sushi made by the Chef 👨🍳 Yuki. Thank you 😊 John, this episode is truly a delight to watch. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have watched this Video twice and enjoyed it both times . I love the attitude of the chef who absolutely loved making these special designs and how he loved your enjoyment of his craft ! Amazing story telling John makes me wish I could be there 👏👏👏👏👏
I must admit I am not an avid sushi eater, “BUT” I do appreciate beauty. The skill, the pride, the obvious amount of time and dedication invested in the presentation of each piece not only encouraged me to hit the “like button” but the subscribe one as well. Can’t wait to see what else you have in store for a non traveler to experience vicariously through your many adventures. I throughly enjoyed this!
And people ask me why I *LOVE* Japan, it's the cuisine and how artistic it can get! As someone who went to culinary school and have 13+ years of restaurant experience and I gotta say food is art, but I agree, they DO look like little pastries!
This video about sushi is really awesome! I love the 'Gold Fish' sushi crafting! Thumb up to Chef Yuki & his apprentice for doing their great work on preparing & presenting the sushi. LOVE your video, John! Keep up the good work too!
Those micro sushis looks great , and the skill that the chef made those is absolutely amazing 👍!!! He is truly artist and the shape of those , some of them look like an animal , that’s nice 👍!!! Arigato for this fun video !!!
this was awesome, i had no idea something like this existed, i mean i know i should have, the japanese are extremely artistic and freespirited when it comes to designing food, i had just never seen it done with sushi! thank you so much for sharing this!
Such an interesting episode. Transforming such a simple dish with his own twist on it to further enhance the presentation of an otherwise same food. As a fellow crafts hobbyist, this was a joy to watch. I know it's still food but plating and presentation is very much part of the delivery. Awesome episode, John.
So artistic creations, beautiful craftsmanship. For future topics would love to see: I) Tokyo mega maintenance tunnel beneath the city (saw it on NatGeo once) II) Home recycling system + visit to recycling facility (automation level?) III) Unique characteristics of japanese driving culture/rules (maybe combining with the rental car process)
So awesome. You always hear about and see, especially in Japan, the absolute mastery of sushi-making, but this just goes to show there’s a skill much beyond that. It really is a form of art. On another note, the videography and production value of this documentary is great! Loved the framing of each plate with each individual piece, and the profile of you trying each one with the backdrop of the master and apprentice working and/or enjoying seeing you try the results of their work.
Thanks John for uploading this documentary. I enjoyed and I found it very interesting this episode. The chef is very creative and it looks delicious. yummy. I will visit this restaurant when I visit Tokyo and will enjoy the sushi. Stay safe. 🙏
Sushi dining in a high-end restaurant costs an arm and a leg, so I ate sushi from department store food floors and convenience store outlets. However, one can marvel at the ingenuity of this sushi chef and his creations. Another great episode of ONLY IN JAPAN. Thank you John.
Amazing! He is a true food artist! Thank you for the little history lesson about various sushi styles through the changing eras. Maguro (Akami) is my ultimate favourite but I liked the Hydrangea and Koi ones. Also loved the editing style of this video John with seeing you and the chefs from different rather than static angles. 🍣🐠👏
I wish you were able t hire a crew sufficient to upload more frequently than you currently do; it's a shame that such a high-quality channel about Japan is only able to upload about one month or so. At any rate, I love the content. Keep up the good work!
It’ll increase once places open up more to access for filming. I don’t want to do videos about the situation now in this channel but count of 2-4 times a month soon!!
Excellent video again. They are really passionate and they really love what they do. For them food is more than food. It all about having a good time and an experience. In Japan they have a special relationship with food. Despite being very busy, they can stand in line for over an hour for a meal when they could go to a restaurant next door.
I love this chef!. his passion and sweet demeanor makes me want to visit. Not sushi related but ..I was once taught how to make pretty flowers, swans, etc out of apples and persimmons, by a Japanese lady, which was fun. What skill, patience and artistry this man has!
This sushi is stunning! They have so much patience and talent. I loved the chef’s story about his father being angry about the California Rolls. 😆 They are beautiful works of art. You looked like you had so much fun eating those. Thanks for sharing!
I love how you put that John, "I'm eating the Chef's experience." Yuki's deft touch and creativity is something to behold! Interesting how he likes to think outside the box and buck conventions. The chef at a restaurant I used to frequent made a micro tobiko sushi for me as a joke lol! Another story we'll never forget. 👍🍣
There is something truly praise worthy about the fact he accepts the wide variety of tastes and appeal for sushi in Japan. I'd imagine he probably gets some negative remarks from the more purist types of sushi chefs but, just like traditional sushi, what he does is literally art. Respect and master/hone the traditional forms, but that doesn't mean you can't expand out from there and find more ways to perfect your art. Even the traditional forms have a history of adding new things to it.
I like how the effort of making tradition sushi is just as important as chefs being creative with the craft. Reminds me of origami and any work of art where there are so many levels to the craft. Thanks for sharing John.
Cherry blossom and Bell Flower are my top pick. But they are all unique in their own way. And true I echo the same sentiment, they are too pretty to eat. Such surgical precision to come up with all those exquisite creations.
Hey, John. Wonderful video. Under lockdown here in Toronto so this was a welcome distraction to pop up in my subs. Hopefully you'll have a video which roadmaps how you were able to bring this video together. Congrats on the baby and the 100K subs. Thanks for keeping that wonderful OIJ vibe light and entertaining.
Uni sushi will always be a personal favorite! Nothing like that flavor of salt-water that envelops the mouth when you devour high-quality uni sushi whole. 😋 Great episode as always John! Keep it up! RU-vid algorithm be damned. 😊
I think this will go down as one of my favourite OIJ videos. I love how relaxed and happy they appeared to be with John, there was some good onscreen chemistry on display. Interesting how they cut the salmon, sometimes it’s hard to keep the salmon positioned with the rice in your mouth and it appears that the cuts allows the salmon to distribute more evenly with the rice. Such is the attention to detail of a good sushi chef. I don’t know if Hana was the camera operator but I hope she had a chance to sample the fare. Itadakimasu!
