hey everyone guess where I am I am in Osaka Japan for the first time ever of course with none other
than Hana from one world kitchen welcome to Osaka everyone we are tell us what where we are okay
so we are at the intersection of Shinsaibashi suji which is a really famous shopping arcade
and dokdo mony which is a really famous eating Street so what I love it also cuz it's called
the food city and there is a phrase here that's called Kuidaore which means literally to fall
over from eating because all seconds just love to eat and so do we and that's why we are here
so Hana is gonna take us all over the city and try the best food hopefully I've ever had in my
life so let's go check it out Shinsaibashi is a bustling shopping arcade where you can get
all sorts of cute kawaii souvenirs like a tail wagging cat or these but warming undies we also
unexpectedly caught this neat parade although we're not exactly sure what it was all about
and as we approach dotombori or the eating Street right away we were attracted by the sound
so our first heating stock on dotonbori is takoyaki which is I guess I'm gonna
call it spiritual octopus pancake right it's soft on the inside there's a crust
on the outside and it's super cool how they make it it's piping hot this one Kanna said
is particularly soft oh my god and in order to not burn your mouth bite it
open a little bit and then let it cool off don't stick the whole thing in your mouth
it's super like soft and molten on the inside
just the right amount of sweet and oh mommy and creaminess Julie
octopus takoyaki is all about the whole experience from watching it being made
we'll be on top but the best part of our cookie is that you get to watch it being made yeah and
in case you ever wonder where this place is just look for the giant octopus on the wall
that's where this place is right behind us is the mascot of Osaka so what do we know so coolly
though it means to fall over from eating or to go broke from eating and that's not all seconds they
love to do and they also love to pose in front of me though I could get some pictures all right
so we stopped to come in for some yakisoba so yucky so about the meat is actually one
of the very first Japanese food I've had ever in politics yeah so it's like a little nuts
Belgic and it comes with tons of Katsuobushi on top which dances like they're alive on the
side as well as voiceover so that's this really really bright pink pickled ginger so we usually
mix it in and it adds like a bright tangy kick yeah I'm gonna put mine back so it can get tough
and when you're in Japan you actually should serve other people before you to here good to know the
well Hana is polite and serving other people I'm going to that says nothing like the yakisoba
I grew up eating in Thailand the texture of the noodles is nice and chewy the perfect salty sweet
combination mmm oh my god a piece of pork belly and of course we got a half sushi when in Japan
we went into this place and sat right at the bar so we can watch our sushi being made this right
here is my brother's plate I'll let him tell you a little more about it just four pieces of sushi
today but some very very special sushi we have draw tiger prawn but by raw you mean like they
just made like mine just left in that cabinet and it is now here and its head is now here fry
I'm very surprised by how sweet that was genuinely it Pat it has a sweetness to it
and it doesn't taste raw it's very mild very pleasant with a bouncy kind of a chewy texture
that kind of plays with you as you eat how much was that piece ten and a half dollars
so as for me I had salmon ikura and yellowtail I just had a piece of salmon and it was the
freshest the texture is unlike anything I've ever had and I'm looking forward to really
trying these ah they're like little jewels jewels of this and like the cucumber too
that was a single best piece of Equinox Russia I've ever had the texture just like in your
mouth and it's fresh salty briny ocean flavor coming out that's the meat he has more flavor
than seaweed that I've had in Canada I mean just and there's a little touch of wasabi in
there they've already put in just the right amount to balance everything that was like
puzzling that was so good it's kind of like boggles my mind it really was as we walked
around to make room for even more food we saw some pretty cool stuff like this insanely cute
puppy this terrifying fish and this full-body version of Dance Dance Revolution yeah she's
very good at that and it's time for dessert so this is taiyaki hi is sea bream or snapper
and obviously this is a fish a delicious sweet batter but inside is Azuki bean so they are sweet
red beans so this one of the most staple of the traditional Japanese desserts is red sweet beans
in Japan week on that's sketchy which is a nostalgic because it's a very traditional
old-fashioned desert so this is something that my grandmother would have had oh and it's something
that I've grown up having especially at summer festivals so when the guy handed this to us he
said careful it's hot and sure enough you bite the first one open and it's like a
volcano of steam running out so you kind of gotta like have a little patience and when
I eat it I want to make sure I take a little bit of the doughy part and the red beet part
it's such comforting dessert none of the sweets that I've had in Japan so far is overly sweet
which is surprising and good at the same time okay so we just saw white strawberries and they're
incredibly expensive so this whole thing is a thousand yen for 10 u.s. dollars and and because
they're small I think this is like the cheaper of the of the options right hon I've never tried I've
never tried but they're grown and not out there oh they smell so good they smell like strawberry
candy they smell like theirs with artificial strawberry flavoring inject it into them
and it's reversed yeah the seats are white the red it's really soft really soft and it's mild
the sweetness is not that strong but it's also not sour like it might in Canada at all it's not
sour darling in Canada if you have a strawberry if it's not sweet its sour I think this time it's
all about this mouth yes but it's smelly in its mouth absolutely it smells incredibly sweet and
nope we are not done eating I've been really looking forward to this one okonomiyaki this
is one of Osaka most famous food right okonomiyaki or Japanese pizza as we call it and here we are it
is huge and it comes with little peanut cutter that you can then get make slices oh there's
like a big piece of something there Oh shrimp oh is that the shrimp one yes the shrimp one it's
really soft and tender it's almost custardy on the inside a little crunchy from the cabbage has
tons of cabbage in here sweet savory creamy from the Japanese male Hanna left us for the day but
we met up with another local friend shun who took us to this cutest little restaurant that felt like
somebody's house and we set right up there and we came here because I had a special request so
one of the things I really really really wanted to try when in Japan is omurice which is this omelet
so soft cooked on ledges over fried rice with a sauce on it and our good friend has delivered
my request so here it is right here this omelet that's like super soft on the inside and if you
see how they make it it actually gets cut open and then it splits open to cover this fried rice
at the bottom mhm and this restaurant by the way has been around since 1952 so I'm super excited
about that it's perfectly perfectly soft I smell ketchup looks like the rice was fried with ketchup
mmm that is so delicious it reminds me of remotely of Thai food because we like to put ketchup honor
on the title I like to put ketchup on my Thai omelette but it also has that beefiness because
that sauce is like a dummy class that is so good it's not excited my dream is timing and that is
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thanks to hana for being our food guide this trip and I will see you next time bye