How to Shop at a Japanese Supermarket (A Tour of Uwajimaya in Seattle) | Kenji’s Cooking Show
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Uwajimaya has been open in the Seattle area for 95 years. There are currently four locations (Bellevue, Renton, and Seattle in …
Foods and timestamps
0:39 Kombucha squash
0:59 Matsutake mushrooms
1:19 Pomelo fruit
1:44 Japanese eggplant
2:25 Ginger, onion, scallions
3:00 Thinly shaved beef
3:26 Arabiki pork sausages
3:40 Kurobuta (black pig)
4:05 Tarako (salted pollock roe)
5:25 Shokupan (milk bread)
7:03 Onigiri (seaweed/nori wrapped rice ball)
8:00 Beni shoga (red pickled ginger, not the light pink one for sushi)
8:35 Golden curry
9:05 Calpis/calpico yogurt drink
9:35 Furikake rice topping
10:15 Seaweed types (nori, wakame, kelp, hijiki) and katsuobushi (bonito flakes)
12:45 Gohan (Rice) Tomaki gold koshihikari (short grain)
13:29 Suyu concentrated soup base
14:05 Ramen and instant noodles
14:57 Shoyu/soy sauce types, tamari (wheat-free)
16:15 Mirin (watch out for the ingredients)
16:50 Snacks: Senbei and arare (rice crackers), pocky
18:26 make your own snacks and candy, popincookin, yoshoku (foreign-influenced cooking)
19:18 Making gyudon
Golden Curry is classic.
Dear Kenji love your content. Can you please a detailed video on the sauces? Today I was in HMart near by and no idea what to pick. Thanks
Oh how I miss my Wedgimaya (I used to live in Seattleville). 😭
Now I'm hungry…*sigh*
Great grocery store. Used to go about once a month too, but sadly I don’t live as close these days, so we normally only go on the way home from work if traffic permits.
The meat department is great; the thin sliced stuff makes a great homemade hotpot, which is usually what we make when we get home from there.
What a fantastic video. This will help me next time I go shopping at my local Asian supermarket. Also Gyudon is top 5 favourite meals to make at home of all time!
What do you do with the Kombu after making the dashi? It's very expensive (and hard to find) in Toronto. Would you say that Kombu is a natural MSG?
I think one of those popin cookin videos would be a pretty cool addition. Something I would really enjoy watching!
That milk bread is excellent for lump crab salad and sprouts sandwiches.
I love living in the same city as Kenji. Definitely going to have to check out Uwajimaya.
Most of these products have preservatives.
Oops I just realized I put enough wakame for 4 people in my one bowl of soup haha
Dang, I wish I lived near this large of a Japanese supermarket! Liked the new video format too
Kenji, why not do a whole series of videos spacifically on Japanese home cooking? I know you have Jsapanes dishes here and there, maybe just organize
a playlist?
Great video. What is the cooking station in this store typically used for?
Sparkling Calpis ROCKS!!!
As someone who lived 25 years in Japan, this and Okonomiyaki are my two favorite Japanese foods…
Is shoplifting a problem in Japan?
Uyijimaya 101 basic info. Level 1.
Kenji goes only once a month?!
Is there a level 2 vid?
Very informative video. If this is your Alt account, which one is your main? I'd like to subscribe
This was really great. I had no intention to watch a full 30min video but I couldn't turn it off. The pace and amount of info is kind of mesmerizing.
This is great timing–my adopted sister and her husband (who are not Japanese) could really use some extra healthy food resources, as we're all middle age and up now, and I (who am Japanese, and the Japanese side of my family was great! Just small family and stopped being alive 😢) do not know how to explain stuff like this. I don't think it ever occurred to me, honestly… actually, an explainer tour of a US market when I came here would've been really helpful.
"I promise I am gonna pay for this before I leave" 😂
www Your wife eats the way I do. No one else gets it around me.
Uwajimaya has always been one of my favorite places to shop in Seattle, really fun seeing you give us a tour Kenji!
Kenji can Riff so impressive how passionate and thoughtful..
I miss shopping at Uwajimaya! None here in MT. 😢
That is one of the nicest grocery stores I've ever seen, Japanese or otherwise
That’s a really nice Uwijamaya….Our Beaverton location needs a remodel 😂
You can cook in a grocery store? 😱
Love kenji but this feels like an advertisement……
Can Americans just stop photographing strangers in public for one second? Saw a dude at the end of an isle just taking a creep shot of Kenji, shit is super disrespectful and weird. Also, those prices are insane, do Americans actually?
Thank you. This video was very informative and the recipe I can't wait to try.
I am jealous of this market! We have a decent Asian market about 25 minutes from me, but their seafood department is NOTHING like that. I could spend an entire paycheck in that store trying everything. It's 7 am and I can't think about anything but Japanese food for my next meal.