Tasting Japan’s Best Bites: Dotonbori & Kuromon Highlights
All right, welcome everybody. So today we are in Kuraman Market and this is the food market here in Osaka. It’s very famous for the 150 food stalls it has here. They have all sorts of food here, but Kurama Market, it’s been here for 190 years. This is also known as basically Osaka’s kitchen here. And um we’re going to just walk through here and see what kind of food we can find here. So great to have you with us here. All right, so here we go. Walking under the giant tuna here. See what kind of food we can find. That much tasty all this seafood here. Yeah, certainly. Yes. Very delicious. Okay. What is tempura? Uh uh octopus maybe. Octopus. Yeah. Tempura. Yeah. Tempura. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. About to get some tempura. octopus here. All right. So, now we got some octopus tempura here. Looks quite tasty here on a stick, no less. Sticks always makes food taste better here. And here we go. Mos. This is really good. Octopus. Yeah. Has a fish like taste to it. Obviously comes from the sea. Bit like shrimp. Tastes like shrimp. It’s really good. All right, let’s see what else we can get here. I think takoyaki sounds good, right? It’s takoyaki here. Takyaki. Um, takayyaki. Going to get some takoyaki here. [Applause] That looks tasty. This is Osaka’s most famous food here. One of its most famous, takiyaki. More octopus put in in balls of batter here. Minced octopus. It looks really good. Got some sauce on it. Look at that. Looks like mayonnaise. He’s putting all the sauce on it. [Applause] Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, look at that. That looks really good. Takiyaki. All right. We’re going to give it a try here. Here we go. Takayyakiaki mos. Also very good. Great takiyaki. It’s got a creamy taste to it. Batter really is amazing here. Takiyaki. Yeah, I forgot how good it tastes. I have tried this before, but it’s been a while. Takiyaki. All right, let’s go down here and see what we can find here. That’s the very fresh seafood place here. Giant crab legs. Look at the crab legs there. Big crab legs. Big shrimp. Look at that. Oh, that looks nice. Or tempura. Eel. Tempuro. There’s eel. Eel is very, very popular here in Japan. Why not get a taste of eel? Perhaps some eel. Eel. Eel. Yeah, we’re going to get some eel here. This thing I haven’t had yet actually in my video is here. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we got some unagi here or eel as it’s known in English here. Not very commonly eaten in America, I don’t think. But here’s some eel. All right, some eel. It’s on a stick, too. Eel on a stick. I mean, always makes food taste better, but it’s on a stick here. That’s good. Yeah, really good. Good eel. Of course, has a seafood fish taste to it, but it’s from the sea. Lots of sauce on it. Makes taste even better. All the sauce. Look at the sauce there. Lot of sauce. All right, ladies and gentlemen. I think we’re going to switch locations. We’re going to head off to Doenbury. I couldn’t find any cushy katsu here. So, um I’ll see you pretty soon here in Doenbore. All right, we’re right in the middle of Doenburi here. And this seems like a great place for Kushi Katsu, the room of Kushi Katsu here. So, um it’s an interesting taste there, but we’ll give it a try here. There’s a bit of a line, but not too long. So, we’ll go in. All right, so I made it inside. Here I am in Durham Kushi Katsu. Been making it right there. You can see right in front of you. It seems to be a common thing here in Japan. And there’s the back. And we’re about to order. We’re going to order here. Got to do it by phone though with QR code. So I’ll get my food here in a second. All right. This is Kushi Katu Namame here. So Kushi Katsu, it’s a bit of fried of everything. We got fried beef, fried uh fried quail eggs, also fried chicken, fried seafood. It’s really good. It’s often called Calo Saka soul food here. So, can’t wait to eat this. All right, so first up, I think this is the quail eggs, right? Quail eggs. Very good. Nice and hot. It’s just like a egg yolk basically. There’s no um there there’s no uh liquid around the yolk though. But yeah, it’s pretty good. Bit dry, but really good. Quile eggs. And I’m not sure what this is, but I’ll find out soon. I think this is pork. Maybe. Could be. Tastes like pork. It doesn’t matter, dude. It’s really good. Whatever it is, does taste good. All right, I think we’re going to make one last stop here for some okonomiyaki. Basically, Japanese style pancake. Okay. We go inside. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we’re getting in the restaurant here. Thank you. All right, there it is. A kunamiyaki here. I’m about to cut into it here. Japanese pancake with pork and varieties of seafood here. But this is how you do it right here. Cut into it right there. That looks really good, doesn’t it? Very good. Get my plate there. A few more off. See, it’s sizzling. I’m going to try it here. It looks really good. Here we go. There it is. Good. Really good. Not heavy at all, but it’s really good. I like it. Shrimp inside. There’s shrimp. It’s really good. Really good. Green onions and scallops as well. Very good. [Music] Really good. All right, everybody. That’s going to do it for today. I’ve been eating half the day here. I’m pretty tired by now, but it’s all been really good. Surprisingly, it’s not that rough on my stomach. Food here in Japan tends to be very light, unlike in America where it tends to be heavy. But, um, it was all really good. I didn’t have I didn’t run into any food I didn’t like. It was all great here. But um yeah, if you like these videos, don’t forget to subscribe and just let me know in the comments what’s your favorite food here in Osaka. I’d love to know here. But I’m going to go.
Osaka is often called the food capital of Japan, and in this video, I spent the day finding out why. I visited two of its most famous neighborhoods, Kuromon Ichiba Market and Dotonbori, and tried a mix of street food and restaurant dishes that define the city’s flavor. From crispy octopus tempura and melty takoyaki to grilled eel skewers, kushikatsu, and sizzling okonomiyaki, each stop had something different to offer.
The day unfolded dish by dish, with new smells, sounds, and tastes around every corner. If you’re curious about what eating in Osaka is really like, or just want a glimpse of the city through its food, this vlog is a good place to start!
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