Somiya Shrine Yamagata Prefecture Touring 🚙　Tempura soba enjoyed by three chefs　總宮神社　バイク神社　ぐうじののほほん

Somiya Shrine Yamagata Prefecture Touring 🚙　Tempura soba enjoyed by three chefs　總宮神社　バイク神社　ぐうじののほほん

[Music] Long time no see you know my biker friend from area. Yeah, of course. So, we didn’t get each other about three, four years. Yeah. But I’m so glad. Yeah. Yeah. Which one? Red one. [Laughter] Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Okay. I’m show you like like this and then and you you already know that. Then wash you know left hand and right hand and uh wash. Okay. And then like like this and like that and like that. Yeah, that’s right. Yes. One. Oh, yeah. Yeah. One. One. Okay. Go there. Okay. So, Michelle is just going to pay her respects and have a little Yeah. Freshen. Mhm. Did you say about a ceda tree? Oh, yeah. That one. That one. Yeah. Where did you ride from today? Uh, it’s almost same area, but he’s of city. Yeah, it’s beautiful today. We have to play. Okay. Okay. First and to to the north center. [Music] It’s good. Okay. Donate money and Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Donate money and Okay. Two bowl, two cups hand. Okay. and make wish one ball. Okay. Okay. Like two ball two crap hand make wish something then one ball. Thank you. Thank you. Take the Yeah, I’m going to take it. Okay, no problem. What was the name of this again? Uh, it’s a Somia ginger. Soia Oh, sorry. Yeah, you better stick together. Not like this. It’s a real front of God, you know. Okay. Motor bike train. So, good luck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m just introduced to him. Yeah. It’s a stamp over there. Yeah. It’s beautiful. Wow. You can go expensive motorbike. Oh yeah. About uh I think uh yeah BMW. Yeah. Bike of the year. Yeah. Bike over there. He had a many bike. Is this his bike? Yeah. And another one is a famous bike. Yeah. [Music] This is my original sticker. Yeah. This one. This one original. Yeah. He’s a little bit crap. Yeah. Many famous person visiting here. Put in the sea. We drove on this. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It’s a It’s a katana samurai sword. Yeah. It’s a I think this one is fake. Yeah. No, it’s safe. Yeah. Safe. Safe, too. It’s a fake. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. Don’t try that. Shaving. Shaving your fat. I have I have a katana in my hand. Don’t Don’t shame me. Shame me. Okay. Okay. Oh, this like this one. Okay. Okay. They say when you take the sword out, you have to draw blood. Yes. Mhm. And Yeah. Okay. So, okay. I have to say hello to here. Yeah. Come on in. Come on in. Hello. He’s a chief priest. Uh we call Guji. Uh Steve and uh Nice to meet you Michelle. You make YouTube also, right? Nice to meet you. Yeah. Have a seat. Have a seat. Yeah. I’ve been sat for a long time. Yeah. And Oh. Oh, yeah. Just doing together. Oh, yeah. It’s nice. Oh, you bet. I’m okay. Is that okay? You are, you know, screen. Oh, okay. So, this you speak English? Oh, little bit. So you these are your motorbikes over there. He’s a very famous person. Yeah. All you know biker visit here. Yeah. They have a photograph together. So it was very good. [Music] I’m learning a lot since is my teacher for gya. Yeah, I’m just talking about the tax. He’s a Canadian. Uh he’s planned to visit my David. David. Yeah. Yeah. So, how many years have you been here? 35 years. Yeah. 35 years. Yeah. I I think uh kind of like a family business. His father doing good Guji also in the shop. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So everybody the the motorbike guys come here for for good luck. Yeah. Yeah. That’s right. Because of famous guy. Yeah. Very expensive bike over there. He had four four of five. Yeah. Nice. He’s TV after. Yeah. Yeah. already I am I’m teach him. Yeah, he’s actor. Yeah. Okay. What tele what shows on uh uh like a what what TV? What sort of show? It’s a commercial kind of commercial like a short good looking guy, right? Yeah. Good looking guy. Good hair. Mhm. Good physique. looking young, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is he like 50? So, how how old he 50 maybe? No, 60. 60. Same. Oh, yeah. He’s his looks like your son. Katana, you need katana. Try to kill me. 60. Oh, it’s nice. Nice. Yeah. Okay. 1969. What uh what month? Uh February. February. March. Junior. Uh December. December. Wow. Wow. Same age. So in our culture Pisces [Music] so we’re driving around uh for 60 days around before we we were I’m thinking of doing the whole of Japan. Maybe Hokkaido. I like Fukuoka also. But I I think it’s maybe too big. So maybe just Honu, I think. Yeah, maybe Fukuoka. Yeah, I like the tonatsu ramen. Try to just for the ramen. Yeah, I know. foreign. Yes. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay. Come on. Just the boys. Oh, that’s voice. Okay. Okay. One more and I’m going to take selfie with me. With you? Oh, okay. Okay. Ah, it’s nice. It’s nice. Okay. One more. Okay. I’m not sure. Okay. We just talking about last night uh we had a festival in the Shibata castle fireworks, right? Very beautiful. Very beautiful. So are you just visiting also or coming for on a motorbike? [Music] you. Usually he’s wearing like a kimono costume and now it’s like you know summer summer local regular guy short short pants and ling. Yeah. Australian gear. Thongs, shorts, we say wife beater. Uhhuh. Okay. Yeah. So, also he’s a sar. Yeah. Yeah. And then we have maybe one month left. M and then afterwards I told you we’re going to J [Music] two months. We met each other on YouTube channel. because all another you know pray people visit in the like a proof of visiting the so they like a sign and stamp and we calling we were going to do this but it’s too many oh I know that yeah that’s Yeah. [Music] Yeah. It’s beautiful, right? It’s a beautiful. Yeah. Take picture. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. A white picture also. No, I mean with the meaning love this one. We We should take this. Okay. He’s busy guy. We should go take a sober sober lunch. Okay. Yeah. No problem. No problem. Mhm. So, where are we going? Oh, now take picture then go uh my another friend uh doing a soba shop. Okay. Do you like soba? I think. Yeah. Yeah. With tempura. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Oh. Okay. Selfie again. Okay. Okay. Face and smile. More. More cross. Okay. Ask your friend. Take one. Take one. Okay. Take Ask your friend to take one. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Welcome back. Okay. Silver noodles. [Music] So, this is a little dipping sauce, right? Yeah. Like here. And this is you like uh leak. Okay. And wasabi, I think. Wasabi. and the ginger. Yeah. And shredded daon radish and ginger on top. This is a daon. It’s we call takuan. Tuan. Takuan. It’s that one. Yeah. So exciting. This one is like seven different like a spicy seasoning. We call yours is coming. Yeah. Yeah. Hi. It’s very beautiful. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. No, I want move more to the window side. So, I want this hand to be in this hand to be in. That’s it. That’s it. Otherwise, it looks odd if you’ve just got a shoulder of somebody, but no. No. Uh, yeah, I know. Don’t zoom. Yes. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Okay. One more. One more. Okay. Nice. Just clean all this away. Okay. This is a dipping sauce. You just Yeah. Like Yeah. And green onion and white wine like shredded daon. And on top is a shredded ginger. Okay. So you just uh you know taste the first time is not including in the topping just a simple one then after change you know uh flavor they mixed up. So and this is this is seven different hot pepper we call steamy steamy steamy steamy steamy and this one is like a pickled yes I like this one. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Okay. So the soba is cold or or hot? Um I recommend cold one. Okay. Yeah, because uh uh uh so I love hot one in the winter time. Let me try this so good because I want to um So usually uh Japanese people make noise. Yeah, it’s it is a not bad manner in Japanese culture. No, in our culture it is bad manner. So, it’s very hard for people to, you know, in It’s funny, isn’t it? Because But it’s good. So, you dip the soba in the sauce. Yeah, just just plain also. and tempura. We had a shiake and um shrimp. And this one is a like a wild mountain leaf. Yeah. And pumpkin. And this one is mushroom. That’s delicious. Yeah. It’s a I I I don’t know what one kind of like asparagus or something. Yeah. Even just this soba is so delicious and nice and Yeah. Good matching of the summer time. Yeah. Yeah. Your style is nice. Nice. Very good. Also, you can dip in the tempura. So this is a temporary soup shrimp here. How beautiful is that batter? Look at the mushrooms. We call she black [Music] in as well. Max, do you eat the tail? up to you. I don’t tend to so uh tempura has a like my technique. Uh this one is like crunchy outside skin, but I’m just making more soft one. Okay. Yeah. It’s a mushroom. Mushroom. Black mushroom. We we call mushroom. Yeah. Black mushroom. Black mushroom. Black mushroom. So this making like a crunchy texture out of a template. Is your friend’s place better or this one? What do you think? Not fair. Not fair with noodle. It’s little bit. So my friend place is a h cutting and more more buckweed flavor and the dipping sauce is a little bit different. Each soap has a character. Good. Yeah, I love this character also. No problem because my first time visit here. I think this shop has a little bit long history and doing business because always I’m go through in the main street. This shop it’s very famous. Very good. So, what do you do with the spices? Does it go on the on tempor on the noodles? You should try them. Yeah. Oh, I like it. Yeah. Try it. Yeah. Seven. Seven different like seasoning include everything. So where would you put that? See sesame, black sesame and chili and some I’ll put it on the on the noodles. Uh not too much. Not too much. Why? Yeah. Depends on situation. If you like spicy one, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. It’s going to be gone in a minute because it will go in the a lot will go inside the sauce. So, so with spice, seven spices. Yeah. [Music] I’m in heaven. Right. So, this line we called soba. Do I like ramen or or soba? Both. I like Yeah, I think this shop had a high quality soba to traditional one and good combination with Yeah, it’s a it’s a pumpkin. Pumpkin, you know. So, this video episode is a a day trip with Max. Thank you. Thank you. And we find a place, you know. So you find a good place. We are lucky. We So after I go home, I’m just uh get contact to my uh friend of sober shop over there. We cannot enter. So I guess he’s miss to us. He said I’m so sorry that time is you know not matching the timing usually that place is another you know type of a soba serving never mind maybe he will um he’ll say oh no my arched rival yeah u because u he used uh doing uh sober shop up close over there it’s just a moving I think that place is a his like a main home. Okay. Yeah. Home and shop in the together like me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he must be uh must be very good to be so good. Maybe there was an event on a Monday. But maybe some some group party. Yeah, I think so. No, but that time is at 12:30. Real early to close. Yeah, I’m I was think about why. So, I’m just checking inside. Many people sitting there and u my uh friend shop. So, uh they just doing a couple uh my friend and his wife. Yeah. Yeah. Just a two people walking busy restaurant. Yeah. Yeah. You better drink like a simple one. Yeah. Empty, right? Oh, okay. And try to mix. Okay. Like this. So, this is just Yeah. Because you are a chef. You have to run. Yeah, it’s almost coa. Yeah, cornote. So that’s a buckwheat. M. So each soa shop had a like a different color. So one of this one is a kind of like a white side but using like a kind of like a shell of a uh bucket uh seed. Mhm. Yeah. Including you know making flour and then making soba getting black one. Yeah. This one is a white one like kind like using ka of like a buckwheat seed. It reminds me a little. No, at that moment have my shrimp. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. So after drink so you you mix up and you know adjust and type to make a kind like soup after soup. So first time like a beans you know like like and tea and this one is kind of like combination combination tempura with soba. Yes. Yes. That’s very nice. Thank you Max. No problem. Always come. Yeah, I’m very glad to spend same time about you know visiting my friends train. I’m always say thank you to you from driving and it’s nice to to try Zobo and have it explained how to eat it because we probably would eat, you know. Mhm. We always make mistakes. Me too. If I visit somewhere out of Japan, so I’m a chef, so I’m really, you know, need some explain to uh food each kind. But uh I’m always living uh visiting alone you know sometime just make friend and then uh for example if I go somewhere in the Asia so uh I had a one of a good close friend in the Thailand friend. So he knows a many you know like local food. Mhm. So we just got Did you go to Thailand? Not yet. Okay. I’m the only one. But you like Thai food. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. You’ll get fat like me. Like you I can take you to Thai food. So many good Thai restaurants. Yeah. I have a whole series I made. This is a like a very traditional Japanese sweet shop. Wow. Yeah. You can take picture. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, you can take picture. I haven’t got my Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Bring camera. Kim Kim. Yeah. How do you know this this person? I’m always, you know, go through the motorbikes. Get the ice cream. Come on. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. I am. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. Okay. I’m sorry. I’m folded. Hold it. Okay. Thank you. Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. For you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Coming. Coming. Hi. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You You pay that. Ichim YouTuber. there. Yeah, you should ask tell them the YouTube channel your name. Steve’s Kitchen. Steve’s Kitchen. Steve’s Kitchen. Steve’s Kitchen. Kitchen. Right. Good. Good. Right. We met each other on YouTube channel. One of the guy he’s a he’s a Canada. foreign. Oh. Yeah, we we we should should sit down here. Yeah. Sit down here. Yeah, he’s chef. Long experience. A lot of this good, right? So he’s making like a Yeah. Oshi umari same. Delicious. Not too heavy. Yeah. Good balance. Yeah. He’s always, you know, like making adjust. How do you know this guy? H I’m always go through and and uh you know uh I’m just a stop by and eat and I’m just introduce my myself and also uh Mr. Guji then uh he’s used to living in this area that’s like some good connection to him. Thank you. [Music]

Steve, Michelle, and I—three chefs—drived 105km (approximately 2HR) from Niigata Prefecture to Yamagata Prefecture to visit Somiya Shrine, a famous shrine with a 1,300-year history. The chief priest of Sogu Shrine is a close friend of mine, and he’s a well-known biker in Japan. Sogu Shrine is also known as the Motorcycle Shrine. On weekends, as many as 250 bikers from all over Japan visit the shrine, and it’s a beloved shrine with many ordinary worshippers as well.

After the visit, we had lunch at a soba restaurant.
Tasting soba with fellow world-class chefs while I explained about soba was exceptional!

At Betsubara, we went to a friend’s pastry shop.
Memories of a fun day

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