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- Welcome to Ginza!
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After 20 years of living in Japan,
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I've learned to have an amazing appreciation
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for the food. It's incredible!
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There is "sushi" —Japan's most well-known dish.
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"Kaisendon" mixes it all up,
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fresh seafood on a bed of rice.
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"Okonomiyaki" —Japanese pancake with a savory sauce.
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"Ramen" —taking a bowl of noodles to another level!
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Some foods are made really fast, like this mochi.
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Or in large batches, like takoyaki.
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...just let them cool down a bit first...
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"Kaiseki-ryōri" at a ryokan is Japanese cuisine at its finest.
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It's as much art as it is food.
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Some dishes are just plain weird!
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Like these "tako tamago".
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...egghead octopi.
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But Japan being Japan,
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they found a way to make
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international foods their own.
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And that includes the sandwich.
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Japanized to local tastes.
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Sandwiches in Japan are some of the most colorful
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and random foods in the country.
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There are no rules other than food between two pieces of bread.
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An infinite number to choose from.
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And the place to go if you want to see
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all of the sandwiches Japan has to offer...
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is a train station.
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Before boarding a train, travellers often grab a bento or boxed lunch.
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But, sandwiches also have a place on the shelf in bento shops.
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Gourmet sandwiches and designer boxes come with higher price tags
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And, sometimes, a higher level of taste.
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Cheaper sandwiches come in cellophane wrap,
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but that doesn't make them inferior.
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Often, it means that the ingredients and combinations
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get crazier since you could see the contents inside.
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The visual is just as important as the taste.
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Lunch packs are some of the cheapest sandwiches around.
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The variety will amaze you, and it's fun to try.
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- Japanese food is perfection, and the sandwiches are exquisite.
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Crust cut off, sliced finger-sized
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Melted cheese? Yes, please.
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For sophisticated tastes, fruits with cream, shall we?
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Here, a mixed sandwich box.
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"Hirekatsu" and "ebikatsu" — with napkin wet, of course.
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Breaded shrimp fried cutlet with a delicious sauce.
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The sandwich just melts together with the bread
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Such decadence.
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The "hire" pork cutlet has left the plate
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and made its way to the most inviting bed of bread.
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The golden outer layer brushed with a tangy sauce.
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This cheese "katsu sando" — is unique
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Inside this luxury box — is a sandwich cut in half.
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The layers of pork surrounding cheese
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The colors, simply divine.
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The flavors — dancing a tangle in your mouth
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with every bite.
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Ahh yes, the "fruit sando"
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Red, orange and green, on white bread.
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Triangular in shape, opened with a red ribbon cutting.
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Inside is a delicate sandwich
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Sweet aromas of country fruit stands on a sunny day.
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The fruit is surrounded by fresh cream,
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great as either a light meal,
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or a dessert.
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An egg in dashi soup grilled sandwich
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is moist, and voluminous.
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Between the egg and bread, is a shiso leaf.
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Adding yet another dimension.
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This egg sandwich is wrapped like a present.
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In many ways, it is, for the palette.
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Break the seal.
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Inside, a six of your new found friends.
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Six finger-sized egg sandwiches, you can either share...
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or keep for your selfish self.
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Your devilish hunger will appreciate the soft bread
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and that oh-so-slight-resistance of the egg between.
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Yet another "hirekatsu sando", from a well-known maker.
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It's packaged like the luxury food it is.
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Unwrapped, it reveals a well-balanced "katsu sando".
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Presented to us by the same maker,
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is this hamburg sandwich.
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Wrapped in a similar fashion to its cousin,
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this burger has been breaded and fried.
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Served cold, it is not your typical hamburger.
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But indeed, a sandwich.
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Bite-sized pieces, just enough meat for full flavor
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with the square bread.
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An outcast we can hardly call a sandwich.
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It resembles an "onigiri", but it may even be called a sandwich.
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A having a delicious tomato sauce, egg and hamburg
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between the rice and seaweed layers
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Normal bread may even be as jealous as the taste is memorable.
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A lovely vegetable croquette,
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meets two layers of white bread to make the croquette sandwich.
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Chunks of vegetables with potatoes
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breaded and deep-fried with sauce.
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Inside is a layer of shredded cabbage and more sauce!
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Bring it to your lips for an enchanting bite.
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The amazing Japanese sandwich
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deserves the VIP treatment.
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Premium, platinum, diamond level taste in every bite.
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Itadakimasu.
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- 8pm on a weeknight in Central Tokyo
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Ginza, it's a classy neighbourhood.
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And that means it has classy sandwiches.
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My favourite sandwich is served in a fancy restaurant,
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Madame Shrimp Grace.
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Among their gourmet shrimp menu entrées,
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is the ebikatsu sandwich.
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The shrimp fried cutlet is soft and tender on the inside
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Crispy and rich on the outside.
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A delicate mustard sauce bridging it
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with the freshly baked bread.
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It's still slightly warm,
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the perfect restaurant-made sandwich temperature from the kitchen.
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I was going to eat it at the bar,
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with the view of the city below,
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but this is a sandwich best shared with a friend.
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Jennifer was waiting at the vending machine corner in Yūrakuchō
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and I had a surprise for her.
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The chef had wrapped the sandwich to go
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The perfect sandwich will always travel well,
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gourmet or otherwise.
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It lies perfectly in a plastic homemade specifically for its transit.
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Also fits perfectly in the hand.
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Let's hear what Jennifer has to say.
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- Food is all about balance,
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and this sandwich, why is it so good?
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It's because so well-balanced
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like, the ingredients also are so refined
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so this shrimp is cooked perfectly
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so it's so soft and delicate in the mouth
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And the balance with bread and, you know?
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The fried part around, it's just perfect.
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I think this is why it feels so good and so tasty
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Tasty, but very elegant taste.
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- What makes this sandwich my favourite
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of all of the other Japanese sandwiches
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that it's just so delicate, the way that the shrimp
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is- is kind of all cut up
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and minced together and then deep-fried
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All those- all those textures sort of combined
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The outside is crunchy, the inside is so soft
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And then there's the bread, if the bread is good
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it kind of brings it all together
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And, sandwiches isn't something that I think of being a premium food
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It can't compete with the steak but,
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it tastes as good as this!
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It might!
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- A sandwich in Japan can be anything you want it to be
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Not limited to lunch or a fast snack, it's a meal!
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Like all others where creativity has no limits
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The only rule being that you have to hold it in your hands to eat it.
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In Kyoto, there's the Kuro wagyu millefeuille "katsu sando".
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It's got layers of wagyu beef.
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Sauce and cabbage on baked bread.
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And at Shin-Ōsaka station, I found this.
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The wagyu cutlet sandwich made from Matsusaka beef.
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Real premium stuff.
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The crispy fried edges of the sandwich and the softness of the bread
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is an ideal texture in the mouth.
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The last taste is the main ingredient, that wagyu in the middle.
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Delicious.
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We're back where we first started this Japanese sandwich adventure.
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Kimuraya is where bread broke in the Japanese diets
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in the mid-1800s, and still makes amazing baked goods today
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in the richest part of town.
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They also make a mean "ebikatsu" shrimp fried sandwich.
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When you feel it's time to put the sushi and ramen away,
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pull out a sandwich and enjoy your food that you know well...
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...with a Japanese twist.
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Next time, we'll head to an izakaya that uses a blowtorch,
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or should I say a flamethrower, to cook the food.
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The place is really fun, and the food?
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Tune in next time to find out.
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またね… (mata-ne)