Atami

Atami Street Food, Honestly Judged: Skip the Abalone Skewers and the Negitoro Cone — Locals Back the Pudding and the 150-Yen Manju

Under an honest walk-through of Atami's shopping streets — 5.1 million views, 1,130 comments — Japanese commenters sort the seaside resort's famous snack strip into clear winners and losers. The losers are, awkwardly, the seafood: the Instagram-famous negitoro tuna soft-serve cone gets dissected as "hell" once the tuna runs out and you're left eating plain rice from a cone (5,427 likes), and three separate commenters agree the abalone skewers are an overhyped letdown. One deadpan reply nails the whole thread: "It's supposed to be a seafood town, and not one seafood item got praised." The winners are the humble ones — Atami Pudding ("locals actually eat it too"), the fishcake sticks at Maruten, a fresh-baked 150-yen onsen manju — plus a queue-skipping branch trick for the pudding that only a regular would know.