We're Chasing a Plate we travel full-time eating food and today we're on
Dotonbori Street in Osaka, the famous food street let's go and eat.
First stop is kushikatsu at Drama, kushikatsu are breaded, deep-fried skewers and we've gotten a whole array here to try.
I'm going to try the classic kushikatsu first, it's beef, what you do is you take the
skewer and you dip it in the kushikatsu sauce. Whoah, that looks gooooood!
Mmmm that is some deep fried goodness right there. The crumb is oily but in a very beautiful golden, crispy way, the beef still has a bit of bite
But still very tender, the sauce is tangy, it's a little bit sweet it's similar to a Worcestershire
sauce but a lot thinner. That is pretty damn good. I'm gonna start with the eggs whoa look at that sauce
Look how it coats them. That is brilliant. Something really interesting they don't
let you dip twice so if you want more sauce you grab a piece of cabbage and you scoop it
out with your hands and you use that to paint it onto your skewer now this is egg, I
don't know what sort of egg, maybe quail or something because it's tiny
Oh yea, the yolk is really runny, the white is just so soft and easygoing. Exactly the same batter on all of
these so there's no difference in the batter, the deep fried, it's the same crunch as the beef,
the same thickness, that is really, really good, it's not massively flavorsome but it's a great
snack, preferably- sorry it's so noisy in here I hope you
can hear us, preferably you'd want a few beers with this food, we're not doing that just yet
because we've got a long night ahead of us but that would be the perfect combo
we've ordered a combo kushikatsu platter so we've got beef, prawn, tonkatsu which is pork,
asparagus, rice cake, chicken balls, quails egg, sausage and fish cake
with cheese
Delicious! Really good. That sauce! That sauce, I learnt that if you dip for longer
so just dip, keep dipping and get that in. So the sauce soaked right in. So the sauce was
what made it for me. The deep fried stuff was nice but not special but the
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When in Osaka you must eat takoyaki. Takoyaki is a ball
which is filled with octopus it's made out of a batter, they cover it in takoyaki sauce
which is sweet, tangy a little bit like the kushiage or kushikatsu sauce,
mayonnaise, green laver which is a type of seaweed and then bonito flakes. Bonito
flakes are fish flakes and I just love how they dance on top of the balls.
Mmmmm, that is so delicious- it's creamy, it's gooey, the texture of the batter is almost like a
bechamel sauce, the octopus has a little bit of bite
but it's really tender and there's a lot of octopus in there and those sauces on the top
that mayo, the sweet sticky sauce- takoyaki sauce and the fermented and smoked bonito it
is just adds to it. You have to eat these if you're in Osaka. They're so good.
Okay let's give it a go, this is going to be super hot I reckon
It is really hot. Oooh- the batter is so runny still
totally like a bechamel like Sheena said just runny, almost sauce like inside
they're quite hard to handle as if you're not too delicate that thing's going to break and
run everywhere. These are really tasty though I've definitely had better ones
with a bit more punchiness in them, more punchiness in the sauce and more
bonito flakes and this octopus is a little bit chewy I've actually still got
octopus in my mouth, they're very good but they're definitely
not the best we've had but I do love that the restaurant has a giant octopus on the
top- how Japanese is that? Really good to try like Sheena said, you have to have these
from somewhere when you're in Osaka
we are now going to look for our third treat- Dotonbori Street is so vibrant
it's so energetic, there's so much electricity like physically as well
there's neon signs everywhere, there's lots of little shops, restaurants, street food
it's amazing to explore.
we're standing in line waiting for our next snack okonomiyake. So when you're
in Osaka you have to try okonomiyaki it's like a savory pancake that's done on
the grill in front of you. It directly translates as "as you like it" "grilled" and
it's made up of a bunch of different ingredients, soba noodles, cabbage all sorts
We're at Mizuno which is just off Dotonbori Street, ready to eat
These are a thing of beauty. I'm going to get right in with my spatula.
You carve it up yourself when it's in front of you on the grill. It
looks epic. So it's a mix of shrimp, octopus, pork, there's egg on there,
cabbage and then they've drizzled a ton of delicious okonomiyaki sauce on the top
which is sort of like a sweetened Worcestershire sauce, then there's green laver which
is the type of seaweed, mayonnaise, mustard. I've got to get into this because it looks amazing.
Mmmm, super creamy, the batter is really light and all those sauces just combined make this
flavour sensation. It is ace.
They give you this great spatula to hack
it up so you hold it in your hand and you put your thumb on the top and then
you just whack into it you just create squares basically that are bite-sized chunks
because you are meant to eat it with the spatula. So this one is all of everything pretty
much- shrimps, squid, mince, pork, what else is in there? Noodles. So soba noodles in
this one so all the same toppings as Sheena had. So you just grab it like this.
You've packed it up, you grab it up, bring it up this is
going to be super hot and try and get it
That really sweet sauce- the noodles where
they're on the outside and have been near the grill have almost a little bit of crunch
going on, the batter's almost like perfect scrambled eggs, it's
light and fluffy, I can taste little bits of meat and stuff in there I didn't
get any like big bits I didn't get any shrimp or prawns um squid in that one
definitely more to come and I love the seaweed on top that fine
sprinkle of seaweed adds a beautiful flavor. Ohh and mustard I
really like the tang of the mustard this is really cool and totally worth the wait in that
line outside for about half an hour well worth it. If you can try and get a seat in front of
the chef at an okonomiyaki restaurant, it's really entertaining watching them cook.
I really love the one with the noodles it's a little bit heavier and
the texture of the noodles really adds to the dish, the one without the noodles
is a lot lighter obviously, fresher I suppose, even though it's got all that sticky
delicious sauce. It's so good.
That was a really good meal and
we got our own little okonomiyaki spatulas gifted to us from the
restaurant. Mizuno is actually a family-owned restaurant and they've been
running for 65 years so check them out if you're on Dotonbori
street. What's next? Sweet something? Yea something sweet. Let's go.
We're keeping it simple for
dessert- rice dumplings coated in a sticky sugar and soy sauce. Mmm the dumpling is
really gluggy, it's been on the charcoal grill. It's just really soft and that sauce is the perfect combination of
salty and sweet, it's almost like a salty thick maple syrup. Damn good. Now that has been a
great night of eating so much good stuff that rice ball to finish was one of
the more interesting things I've ever eaten it was so strange in its flavor and
so worth trying. We've actually seen them around Japan a few times but never
quite knew what they were and we're so glad we tried them tonight so make sure
you give them a go that soy sauce and sugar thing wildly good. If you're in Osaka
you must come to Dotonbori Street. It is fantastic.
Thank you so much for watching we hope we've inspired you to eat and explore like a traveler, not a tourist
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