Today I'll be cooking for Yama, the heaviest Japanese sumo wrestler. He is a 2 time sumo world champion weighing in at 600 pounds and he's also the heaviest Japanese human being in recorded history. Guinness wears his plaque. To get a sense of his strength, check out this buzzfeed video of him fighting regular people. Yama eats a lot of food and that's where I come in, but he doesn't speak much English nor do I speak any Japanese. So we've got Andrew to help us out. While I begin prepping for lunch, Yama's gonna finish up his training for the morning. Our first course for Yama is a huge plate of sashimi.

We'll be feeding him a 5 course lunch meal with more food than some of us eat in an entire week. This plate of sashimi has salmon, tuna, yellowtail and yellowtail belly, halibut, and to finish some mackerel. And we have something very special as well. This here is real wasabi. And when you feed someone like oh, no. Oh, god. And And when you feed someone like Yama who's used to high quality Japanese cuisine, we've gotta use all real ingredients and the best of the best. Most wasabi is just horseradish.

Yama, before your first course begins, please choose any sake that you like. Which one do you want? All, please. All of them. Perfect. Yama, your first course is this sashimi? Woah. You hungry? Hungry. So hungry. Hungry.

Yeah. I'm gonna be Yama's waiter for the entire day. So whatever he needs, I'll get it for him. What is your favorite type of fish?

Magrodtuna.

So you got lots of tuna. You have sea salmon. Yep. Yellowtail. Yeah. Say when? All

the way. Okay.

All the way up. Good boy. So good. Dig in. Todakimasu. So I'll go make that and you finish up. And our first step here is to season the rice. I'm gonna gently pour over this mixture of rice wine vinegar, sugar, and sea salt because we need this rice to be flavorful for Yama.

At this point, we need to spread the vinegar and also cool the rice. My eyes are burning from the vinegar. I'll use a wet towel to wipe off all this dead rice from the edges because once again, all of this has to be perfect for yammer. Once we've done the rice, we're gonna make yammer a few different types of rolls and I'm actually looking to get a little bit of color and char on these. You gotta always keep it moving. Make sure you're not staying in one place for too long while still getting that really nice crust on top of the salmon. To me, this is one of the most satisfying things in all of cooking, and just the smells that come off of this when you're doing it are incredible. On top of that, I'm gonna go on with just a little bit of this smoked salt here because we always gotta season as we go.

And then something that pairs perfectly with salmon, a nice squeeze of lemon all across the top of the salmon roll. I'll finish it off with some bonito fish flakes. And I have to say, I'm so jealous of Yamu right now. I know this might look like a lot of food, but keep in mind, Yamu means mountain in Japanese. So we gotta go big with the quantities. Yamu, how was your first course? Yeah. So good. The sun's getting kinda hot, You wanna go inside? Okay.

Yep. Yamu? Yep. Your second course is quite large. We've got sushi roll.

Oh, so nice.

Can you eat this?

Yeah. Of course.

This is like 70 something sushi rolls. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. That's it?

You need more sake? Oh, yep. You almost finished the whole bottle already. Oh. It's only the second course. Yeah. Manny, you'd be on the floor by now if you drank this much sake. Yama, while you have your second course, what are your favorite foods? What do you like the most? I like sushi. And I know you like sake.

In the US, you had more salmon than in Japan.

Mhmm. I

think it's because they have so many varieties, much more than we have here.

Yama, one time, I went to all you can eat sushi with my friends, but I think I ate 45 pieces of very small sushi like this. How much sushi can you eat? So like 3 or 4 of these in each piece? Yeah. And he ate I'm about to 50 So this is nothing. This is easy for you, Yamamoto.

Yeah. Too easy. These are the one one more piece of this. Oh, my.

I'll go make some. Alright, Yamamoto. I'm gonna do this for you.

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