we are in the food capital of Japan Osaka and we're going to be trying some of the wildest
viral foods that can be seen all over Instagram Facebook and tick tock [Music] absolutely
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so this is a 10 Yen coin it didn't cost 10 Yen it cost 500 yen so it's a little bit more
expensive than what it is but it's essentially just loads of cheese inside what's supposed to
be a little bit sweeter like pancake batter it smells like a waffle [Music] mm-hmm yeah
that's so cheesy the batter is totally sweet like a pancake like an American pancake and
the inside is just the mildest mozzarella I think this one is a little bit more for
photos than it is for Taste but I do like cheese so I can't go wrong with that [Music]
I need something
a little bit dry the first try wasn't great let's try another Tick Tock classic
I'm 20 and a half cheesecake tall that's what I'm gonna reference it by from now on [Music]
I'm just gonna cut it
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she works here that was not just a crazy stranger I thought she was gonna come up
and cut it into six nice slices for us she just pulled it this is a lot wobblier and a
lot lighter than any cheesecake I've ever seen Japanese cheesecake is known for being super
squishy super light so not at all the same as a New York cheesecake for example it almost looks
like just a fluffy sponge cake this is good give you the same treatment that I got given
well where did it go it disappears in your mouth it's so spongy it's like a just nearly tastes
uncooked but it's very warm and very fluffy it's like eating a cheesecake cloud with your hands on
the string a little bit underwhelming the thing is With viral things these days one video can
go viral and then a thousand ten thousand other people do a video about the same things the whole
world is ruled by these algorithms and whatever gets to the top gets to be the most successful so
if you want to help us in the algorithm make sure you like And subscribe that was smooth
[Music] thank you [Applause] can have one Tango
[Music] wow so this thing here is Tango it's a Japanese dumpling made from rice flour mixed with
uruchi rice flour and glutinous rice flour I think it's quite similar to Mochi in the way it's made
but I'm not 100 sure this is going to be sweet smells kind of savory like he's put some form of
soy sauce glaze in there
well that one is really nice perfect consistency not too sweet a little bit Savory these are not
um just a hive really delicious [Music]
what we have here is a taiyaki don't confuse that with a takoyaki because
that's a completely different thing it's a fish shaped sort of waffle-like pastry that's
usually sort of street food the OG flavor has red beans inside but there's also custard and
some other different things it's nice and hot I think this one is like fresh fresh
oh now this one has like the perfect balance of kind of salty kind of sweet red beans
inside of any sort of pastry is just oh it's so like toned down but delicious
I love the crispiness on the outside yeah I hadn't had red bean for like ever and then
nadriana introduced me to it and I can't go back now we can't go back it's in every dessert we
have the food is good because where we are right now there's a lot of red bean around
that was a good one then oh really good now I've got some kobe beef here now I don't think this
is really a viral thing I think it's just a very popular thing in Japan anyway because of
the quality of the beef kope beef is wagyubi but not all wagyu beef is Kobe beef and the
reason that this is a Kobe beef is because it's from the Tajima strain of Japanese black cattle
I'm very excited to try this nice delicious not 100 sure why it costs so much more than
normal beef it is delicious but is it worth five times more than normal sirloin steak or
rump steak I'm not sure about that one but I'm glad I tried it maybe they're not all
just High let's try one of the most popular dishes okay thank you okay okay okay [Music]
wow that smells so good hello we were the first people to come in here to konomiyaki we've
just had our food delivered it is okonomiyaki which is a Japanese Teppanyaki Savory pancake
dish consisting of wheat flour butter and other ingredients we got a cheese potato and egg flavor
he's cooking it downstairs on the huge griddle and I'm putting a sort of cover on it to make sure
it was cooked and then at the end it was putting loads of this kind of brown sauce and also cutting
its final touches of mayo on top the flaky looking things on top are just thinly sliced dried fish
look at that for your slicer voila this hot plate that we have in front of us
is keeping the rest of the okonomyaki heart whilst we eat this so it is super super hot
that's really yummy it's like a wholesome potatoey pancakey let's
put cheese in there and then all the sauces on top
so this place specifically and this dish is one of the ones I've seen all over the
Internet like every video on Tick Tock so I'm looking forward to trying this
oh I like the potato in there wow cheese crispy salad the sauce wow this is really good this
one is one of those viral dishes that's actually probably viral for a good reason
very delicious we're starting to think that most of the food here is pretty good yes
this is melon pan which is basically it's like a sweet bun but there's a layer of cookie
dough at the top which makes it a little bit crispy but they have a few different
ice creams that you can have inside you can have it just without ice cream as well but
this is with vanilla ice cream which feels like pretty original but it's probably not
anything with ice cream is better the bun is so squishy but at the top it's really
crispy the bun is warm the ice cream is not the ice cream I think this is another tick
for a viral food that's actually super delicious it's even got its own uh thing
so too this street is seeming more and more like a real Street Food Heaven let's see
if there's absolute Japanese classic will convince us oh he's putting them
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there's so many different takoyaki places here but we chose this one because it has such a cute black
look at it come on now this is a very popular dish in Japan and you may have heard of it
already and this and one in particular has the cutest little flag ever now these are little
sort of doughy similar to the okonomiyaki that we had except that they usually have a slice of
or a dice of octopus inside the sauce on top for these ones which is probably the same sauce for
the okonomics I think so I think so it's similar to wash to Worcestershire sauce Worcestershire
Worcestershire Worcestershire Worcestershire worcest Worcestershire Worcestershire and
mayonnaise they come out like so the balls the guy is going football it looks so easy
but that's just because it makes it look easy I don't think it's easy at all Cheers Cheers
oh no [Music]
oh why did we do that to ourselves fiery ball of lava in the middle of that wow that was so
hot it's like really soft on the inside it is and then a little bit of a crispy layer
on the outside like a well-cooked pancake ball let's wait for them to cool down unless yeah
I feel like I actually burned my teeth I don't even think that's possible I know
that's not possible but I I burned my teeth that hurt this place really comes
alive and alight at night there's so many lights it's so cool these
figurines on the walls there's a guy here holding a sushi roll
he looks sakoyaki over there as well it's very amusement park Vibes there's a lot of
lights a lot of sounds a lot of things happen people a lot of food last but
not least sweets we love our sweet treats so this is the ultimate test
I think and please correct me if I'm wrong but this is called Tang Hulu and
it's from northern China but it's very very popular here in Japan it's basically harder
not hard earned hardened sugar syrup on strawberries oh that looks so good okay
oh
whoa the sugar is really hard but that was such a juicy strawberry that's actually so
much better than it seems I hate to say it because I thought this
was going to be really basic well I love strawberries and I love sugar so it wasn't
going to be that basic but I thought it was going to be just not that much to it
this is actually really sort of like juicy crunchy sweet delicious it's another winner
a good finale it is a lot do I have cheesecake on my face by the way no you're okay yeah you
just shove something wait can you fix my face I think I got sugar on it can you put
your phone away though so you can actually use it yeah no just let me just read the rest of
it it's basically hardened sugars I have not drink bread not through the screen no I use
chopsticks pretty well I know we're getting so much better at this it's on okay I think