I went to this restaurant after living in Mexico for a while. Good food from other cultures can be hard to find, but this usually isn't a problem because Mexican regional styles vary a lot and can keep you entertained. However, after months of watching eater vids featuring sushi chefs, I was hankering for japanese flavors. I was blown away eating at Rokai and their ramen restaurant next door. If youre heading over to the national anthropology museum, Rokai isn't far out of your way.
I love the fact that this sushi chef embraces the seafood of the region to present Japanese cuisine in Mexico City, rather than being pretentious and getting all his fish shipped from Japan. It shows that he is an ambassador of Japan’ cuisine and his craft. Love it!
Is it just me or not? I think this omasake video is not as that-typical-cinematic as other omasake videos, usually the video feel so intense, the shot, editing, of course the music... but maybe i'm wrong. Good vid as always btw
It's the framing of the shots and pacing. Alot of food/craft hype/documentary videos are using macro/close up along with slowed down footage alot. This one doesn't have as much. And the music also reflects that
Nice video, having had a home in Ensenada, Baja California growing up, glad to see the world wide recognition it's receiving these days, the seafood was always unmatched, home of the Fish Taco. Great surfing, and people also.
This feels like it ends so randomly. Like it was good, but it didn't pay off on its own story threads. It teases the music connection, but doesn't really make it full circle. We don't even see the full menu named and served at the end? Just weird..
Watching it again, the connection between Mexico and Japan is brought up randomly at the end. Not paid off at all. More food is shown, but never discussed - it just accidentally bleeds into the end, rather than feeling like an actual ending.
It is always good to see that some farseeing Japanese chefs who are not stubborn and fusty on using fish caught from Japan. I believe that good chefs can always combine the tradition well with the local flavor that reflects the terroir, as good winemakers to the grapes.
My brother has curly hair - at one point, he had an afro! It runs on our mother's side, during puberty our hair curls and eventually it subsides around 18-19ish. We can still retain some traits (our uncle has wavy hair and my hair still forms kinks in some sections of it) but for the most part it disappears after a while. My dad has very wavy hair lol, so we're a little nervous my brother will be stuck like this lmao
I love food and music, it's those kind of things that makes you feel alive. Love this chef. I'm in Okinawa at the moment and yesterday I ate at a mexican restaurant. Best Mexican food I've had. Pretty sure that if I go to his restaurant, it'll be one of the best Japanese meal I'll ever have.
(READ THIS IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING COMING HERE) Came here today hoping for a unique and delicious experience as I’m some what of a sushi fanatic I’ve been to nearly ever sushi spot in little Tokyo and several across California, even tried a place in the Galapagos (it was delicious btw rice was lacking a bit of vinegar though.) back to the topic of rokai though to start off the place is very pricey especially for it being México and that’s taking into consideration that it’s Mexico City where things are a bit more expensive generally compared to the rest of Mexico; you pay the price for one piece of nigiri that you would normally pay for two which makes no sense to me as most of the fish is (in terms of importing) a short trip away only from Baja California. There is nothing necessarily special about the place pretty much the typical sushi spot. The part that disturbed me the most is that you do not get soy sauce to pour at your own discretion you must ask for it and only then they come and serve you soy sauce and you must ask for more whenever you want to refill your sauce tray. The wasabi doesn’t come with the sushi either you must pay for it. At one point when we asked for soy sauce for the sushi we had ordered which was our second set of sushi we received the reply “the sushi comes with enough soy sauce” not sure if the waiter had some sort of grudge against us or if the order came from a higher up not to distribute more soy sauce to our table (we had only had 3 trays filled and none were ever refilled) The sushi itself was good but nothing out of this world. I think that at the very least for the price you pay to not receive soy sauce at your discretion or even a dab of wasabi for each piece of sushi is very disappointing. If you are in Mexico City and you are considering coming here I’d recommend you sit this one out and go eat at a different sushi spot here or simply enjoy some of the local food here. Note: the money isn’t the issue here. It’s what you receive for what you pay that is extremely lackluster
This is the one video you should put your headphones on for. The cinematography of this one isn't as intense and connected as the others, but the music is very on-point with the story!
i glad im not the only one who feel weird watching this video compared to other video that this channel provide. he relate food and music is kinda lame. i expect more from him. but yeah. it ends odd too.
I'm just going to say that totoaba a fish that is serve in his restaurant, is completely illegal to catch. It's a federal crime and people go to jail all the time. 👀
I'm from Baja California and honestly I have never heard about any legal farm. Totoaba is a deep water fish. Even though I'm not 100 % sure I'm almost certain that we don't farm totoaba. You don't see it at the local markets.
@eater, what percentage of your subs do you think can understand Japanese? Put an English audio track over the top in the video, or at least post a second one with an English track.
Er...dead fish. Is that safe? To eat dead fish raw? I thought all sushi fish was flash frozen or fresh caught? As in, alive until the chef chops off the head?
You do know that totoaba, from which you brag about making sashimi, is endangered, right? And that-because of its fishing-marine cows are on the verge of extinction?
Actually immigration from Mexico has been down for a decade now. You have to stop listening to political scare ads, they only exist to manipulate you. Well actually immigration from all over the world to the US has been down. However, the image you have of the rest of the world isn't quite right either. Mexico has a number of multibillionaires, which means they have millionaires and an upper middle class. Or you might understand that the continued existence of this restaurant means their economy is better than you thought.
Every country has rich people. I think the richest man in Mexico Carlos slim is like the 3rd or 4th richest person in the world. I suspect his restaurant is an upscale place and he makes good margin. Also if you get paid in pesos just charge higher prices and then you can exchange it for usd if you want at market rates.
The ones that leave are mostly from the southern states of Mexico. Those states are the most neglected which receive less help from our government. As a developing nation there are many opportunities here and much easier to make big bucks, hence why so many foreigners come to take advantage of the opportunities many Mexicans do not. One of the problems I have noticed is that a lot of Mexicans do not look towards the future rather just live in the present and so lack ambition to make it big, or rather have ambition but don't act on it then complain that foreigners are making a lot of money in Mexico and Mexicans are not. I for one welcome those who come and help the economy and glad that they are able to find their dreams here.
I went to this restaurant after living in Mexico for a while. Good food from other cultures can be hard to find, but this usually isn't a problem because Mexican regional styles vary a lot and can keep you entertained. However, after months of watching eater vids featuring sushi chefs, I was hankering for japanese flavors. I was blown away eating at Rokai and their ramen restaurant next door. If youre heading over to the national anthropology museum, Rokai isn't far out of your way.
So refreshing to see Japanese guy with a Mexican haircut lol
Well.. this haircut is quite ugly 🤢
Why is it refreshing?
RJ its call success perm for Asian
he cute 😂
🤣🤣🤣
I love the fact that this sushi chef embraces the seafood of the region to present Japanese cuisine in Mexico City, rather than being pretentious and getting all his fish shipped from Japan. It shows that he is an ambassador of Japan’ cuisine and his craft. Love it!
Is it just me or not? I think this omasake video is not as that-typical-cinematic as other omasake videos, usually the video feel so intense, the shot, editing, of course the music... but maybe i'm wrong.
Good vid as always btw
Bagus Akhlaq maybe because they wanted that “Mexican flair”?
It's the framing of the shots and pacing. Alot of food/craft hype/documentary videos are using macro/close up along with slowed down footage alot. This one doesn't have as much. And the music also reflects that
feels "lighter"..got that hospitable and relaxing mexican vibe.
omakase mas bro
@@darununya7048 masama mas bro
So hungry looking at this
Nice video, having had a home in Ensenada, Baja California growing up, glad to see the world wide recognition it's receiving these days, the seafood was always unmatched, home of the Fish Taco. Great surfing, and people also.
This feels like it ends so randomly. Like it was good, but it didn't pay off on its own story threads. It teases the music connection, but doesn't really make it full circle. We don't even see the full menu named and served at the end? Just weird..
Watching it again, the connection between Mexico and Japan is brought up randomly at the end. Not paid off at all. More food is shown, but never discussed - it just accidentally bleeds into the end, rather than feeling like an actual ending.
+Cyrribrae Yes. Very odd ending especially compared to all the other episodes in this series.
It is always good to see that some farseeing Japanese chefs who are not stubborn and fusty on using fish caught from Japan. I believe that good chefs can always combine the tradition well with the local flavor that reflects the terroir, as good winemakers to the grapes.
A bit off topic, but this is the first time i‘ve seen an asian guy with curly hair.
He probably got his hair permed.
It's quite an usual thing for men to get a perm here in Japan.
Probably permed but curly haired asian people definately exist. A few of my friends who are chinese have curly hair.
He means east asian
vengexx 92 I guess you don’t know too many Asians because they come in all shapes, colors, and sizes.
My brother has curly hair - at one point, he had an afro! It runs on our mother's side, during puberty our hair curls and eventually it subsides around 18-19ish. We can still retain some traits (our uncle has wavy hair and my hair still forms kinks in some sections of it) but for the most part it disappears after a while. My dad has very wavy hair lol, so we're a little nervous my brother will be stuck like this lmao
Love the funky rockin music in this video!
Musician, Chef, and Bilingual
I guess you can say that he's an artist
I love food and music, it's those kind of things that makes you feel alive. Love this chef.
I'm in Okinawa at the moment and yesterday I ate at a mexican restaurant. Best Mexican food I've had. Pretty sure that if I go to his restaurant, it'll be one of the best Japanese meal I'll ever have.
Omg!! Looks amazing. Who would think in Mexico City
The sushi looks so good
So cute the faces he makes and his curly hair!
Gotta love the dedication the Japanese put into their work, surely an example to follow.
I admire those who work for the Supreme Leader too
truly wonderful persons
What type of music is playing 0:22
Good god, that looks delicious!
Wow Master susi chef wow so famous restaurant so strap knife type of fish wow..thank u chef share ur eyepieces big like
I didn't know this existed! Ima go there next time I visit my family, currently living in Okinawa 日本hが大好きです
This is art~
From art to our ears and now art to our stomachs
Lovely!!!
I miss eating fish, so it's nice to see a video about it. XD
Omakase video drops
C9 makes it to semis
What an amazing Sunday
Eu Vs Na HYPE
NA will always choke
How did league of legends follow me here..
@@supreme5998 you cant escape it
NA LUL
Drinking game, drink everytime he says “...ehhh...”
Alcohol poisoning
Dead. From laughing and from alcohol poisoning.
What others places you visit on Mexico city?? As a resident here I am curious
Im amazed by this Japanese guys curly hair
Nice, great episode but ended roughly
wow this is cool
マグロ美味しそう。一冊刺し身にして炊きたてのご飯で食べたい。
Take a shot for every time he says “ehhh”
Alguien tiene la dirección de ése restaurante?
Río Ebro 87, Cuauhtemoc
He looks like a former students from suzuran
I feel like he's talking as if it was me. 😁❤️
5:37 ...totoaba is an endangered species in Baja and is illegal to sell
They might be farm-raised. The government of Baja California has authorized commercial raising of totoaba in fish farms.
off topic but i like his perm
(READ THIS IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING COMING HERE) Came here today hoping for a unique and delicious experience as I’m some what of a sushi fanatic I’ve been to nearly ever sushi spot in little Tokyo and several across California, even tried a place in the Galapagos (it was delicious btw rice was lacking a bit of vinegar though.) back to the topic of rokai though to start off the place is very pricey especially for it being México and that’s taking into consideration that it’s Mexico City where things are a bit more expensive generally compared to the rest of Mexico; you pay the price for one piece of nigiri that you would normally pay for two which makes no sense to me as most of the fish is (in terms of importing) a short trip away only from Baja California. There is nothing necessarily special about the place pretty much the typical sushi spot. The part that disturbed me the most is that you do not get soy sauce to pour at your own discretion you must ask for it and only then they come and serve you soy sauce and you must ask for more whenever you want to refill your sauce tray. The wasabi doesn’t come with the sushi either you must pay for it. At one point when we asked for soy sauce for the sushi we had ordered which was our second set of sushi we received the reply “the sushi comes with enough soy sauce” not sure if the waiter had some sort of grudge against us or if the order came from a higher up not to distribute more soy sauce to our table (we had only had 3 trays filled and none were ever refilled) The sushi itself was good but nothing out of this world. I think that at the very least for the price you pay to not receive soy sauce at your discretion or even a dab of wasabi for each piece of sushi is very disappointing. If you are in Mexico City and you are considering coming here I’d recommend you sit this one out and go eat at a different sushi spot here or simply enjoy some of the local food here.
Note: the money isn’t the issue here. It’s what you receive for what you pay that is extremely lackluster
1:10 that cutting face ❤👀👅
超。。。えええ。。。うまそう！
I'm Mexican-Japanese and also Sushi. Anything I say about this video is true.
Since when did Sushi became a country?
season 2 in making?
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totoaba is an endangered fish, right?
yes
This is farmed totoaba. You can't eat wild caught totoaba tho. (Prohibited, federal offense)
@@Rekochuiz. ok. Thx for the info
This is the one video you should put your headphones on for. The cinematography of this one isn't as intense and connected as the others, but the music is very on-point with the story!
finally
looks good
Is it because of the lighting? The fish doesn’t look that fresh as other videos
Learning how to make proper sushi and to dine at an omakase restaurant is a dream I wish to achieve as a chef in aus
Must. Know. What kind of whetstone is he using?!?!?!
if you like sushi you have to do a recherch about fukusima !!
Eh eh eh eh eh!!!
Los canales mexicanos deberían promocionar este tipo de lugares y no puro cochinero como las tortas de gorditas alv.
The video is great but the chef "ehh" a lot haha.
Ehh Japanese ehh Japanese ehh
Daisuke Martinez
Did anyone realise how often he use “eh”
As much as I enjoy eating sushi, with Fukushima being a problem since 2012 I don’t won’t to eat rare fish any more.
i glad im not the only one who feel weird watching this video compared to other video that this channel provide. he relate food and music is kinda lame. i expect more from him. but yeah. it ends odd too.
My guy got the Vato fade haircut
Baaaannnkaaiii
The only raw fish I eat is not a fish.
ehh...ehh....ehhh
🍳 this video's ending need some tightening up agree?
These japanese need to slow down so we can catch up to them
He serves Suzuki...
Derp
Ehh, eeh... ehh...eeeeeh..eh. why do some Japanese people speak like that?
Plus, I like his hair
Same reason why a lot of Americans and British people say 'like' and 'um'
waduh..... pesonya.... diasah pakai apa itu?
Well his is hair is hella Mexican ✌
Eh eh eh eh ehhh Eh eh eh ehhh eh Eh eh eh eh ehhh eh eh ehhh eh eh
Random comment... but the number one thing searched on pornhub in mexico is hentai
ehhhh
ehhhhh
ehhhhh
I'm just going to say that totoaba a fish that is serve in his restaurant, is completely illegal to catch. It's a federal crime and people go to jail all the time. 👀
Brandon Probably from legal farms.
I'm from Baja California and honestly I have never heard about any legal farm. Totoaba is a deep water fish. Even though I'm not 100 % sure I'm almost certain that we don't farm totoaba. You don't see it at the local markets.
In Mexico City eheheheh his sushi days will soon come to an end
Eh.....eh.......eh......eh.......eh......eh.......eh.......eh.....
1,11 minuta xd
eee
EEEE tatoeba EEEEEE nihonto EEEEE
@eater, what percentage of your subs do you think can understand Japanese? Put an English audio track over the top in the video, or at least post a second one with an English track.
Pause at 5:53 and ehh look ehh at ehh that dirty fingernail ehh.
Er...dead fish. Is that safe? To eat dead fish raw? I thought all sushi fish was flash frozen or fresh caught? As in, alive until the chef chops off the head?
Flash frozen fish are also dead.
Ehhh ehhhh ehhh eh ehehe ehh eh
Why should I pay money to ear raw fish..
finally not nyc
Why do they play Spanish classic guitar as background music? Wouldn't it fit better a Mexican mariachi rythm?
Sushi was okay here. Go to sushi kyo for best sushi in the Western Hemisphere.
Ehhhhh....ehhhhh.....ehhh
:)
You do know that totoaba, from which you brag about making sashimi, is endangered, right? And that-because of its fishing-marine cows are on the verge of extinction?
Farm raised totoaba bro.
@@Rekochuiz. That's awesome! I didn't know totoabas could be farm grown. I stand corrected and applaud the chef now. 🙂
So Mexicans are running away from Mexico and this Japanese dude is running to Mexico?? How does he make $ when all he's getting is Pesos?
Actually immigration from Mexico has been down for a decade now. You have to stop listening to political scare ads, they only exist to manipulate you.
Well actually immigration from all over the world to the US has been down.
However, the image you have of the rest of the world isn't quite right either. Mexico has a number of multibillionaires, which means they have millionaires and an upper middle class.
Or you might understand that the continued existence of this restaurant means their economy is better than you thought.
Every country has rich people. I think the richest man in Mexico Carlos slim is like the 3rd or 4th richest person in the world. I suspect his restaurant is an upscale place and he makes good margin. Also if you get paid in pesos just charge higher prices and then you can exchange it for usd if you want at market rates.
recoil53
According to John Oliver's segment on Mexican politics a couple of months ago, Mexico isn't doing great.
The ones that leave are mostly from the southern states of Mexico. Those states are the most neglected which receive less help from our government. As a developing nation there are many opportunities here and much easier to make big bucks, hence why so many foreigners come to take advantage of the opportunities many Mexicans do not. One of the problems I have noticed is that a lot of Mexicans do not look towards the future rather just live in the present and so lack ambition to make it big, or rather have ambition but don't act on it then complain that foreigners are making a lot of money in Mexico and Mexicans are not. I for one welcome those who come and help the economy and glad that they are able to find their dreams here.
めっちゃ噛むね笑笑
緊張してるのかな
Uhm yeah i'll pass.. enjoy the tapeworm guys xD
eeeee
eh eh eh eh eh eh eh. I stopped watching coz of eh!
Totoaba is ilegal, my friend. You aren´t supposed to even look at Totoaba much less serve it.
Bethzabe Hurtado there is farm raised totoaba in baja that is legal to sell and serve
Totoaba fish is endangered in México so this restaurant should not be serving this kind of fish.
Boaring
えー…が多過ぎて…えー…少し、えー…イラッときますね。えー…
Man, no class when compared to Nick Solares
Nope! Not eating any raw fish that hasn't been frozen solid
What a shame.
That doesn't actually protect you.