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How to Shop at a Japanese Supermarket (A Tour of Uwajimaya in Seattle) | Kenji's Cooking Show

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J. Kenji López-Alt

Uwajimaya has been open in the Seattle area for 95 years. There are currently four locations (Bellevue, Renton, and Seattle in WA and Beaverton in OR). I visited the Seattle location which is located in the International District at 600 5th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104

Thank you to the folks at Uwajimaya for letting me film and cook in their store, as well as to Alfredo, their social media manager who operated the handheld camera for this video shoot.

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Thank you to user @gingermintlime4884 who took the time to timestamp a bunch of moments in the video!

0:00 Introduction
0:39 Kabocha squash
0:59 Matsutake mushrooms
1:19 Pomelo fruit
1:44 Japanese eggplant
2:25 Ginger, onion, scallions
3:00 Thinly shaved beef and other meats
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 Tsuyu concentrated soup base
14:05 Ramen and other instant noodles (Myojochukazanmai is my favorite brand)
14:57 Koikuchi (dark) shoyu, usukuchi (light) shoyu, and tamari (wheatfree)
16:15 Artificially flavored and true Mirin (watch out for the ingredients)
16:50 My favorite Japanese snacks: Senbei and arare (rice crackers), and Pocky
18:26 Poppin' Cook edible chemistry kits for kids, and some discussion of yoshoku cuisine
19:18 Making gyudon

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