Rudasaki Do Japan 2016
July 13, 2017
Day 11: Today we slept in, we were exhausted. We also needed to do laundry. Fortunately, a lot of recommended things to do in Osaka was eating and nightlife. We ate curry for breakfast in the train station, not the greatest tasting curry, but I will say, the tonkatsu was pretty delicious
Next door was a Belgian Waffle shop, we got lemon (which we already ate before I took this picture), plain, chocolate, almond, matcha, and cookies and cream flavored waffles. They were pretty good, not too sweet and pretty cheap.
We went back to finish our laundry then went out for a night of dining fun!
We went to the Dotonbori, where the famous running man sign, Glico was found.
We first went to get Okonomiyaki at one of the top places in Osaka, Mizuno.
We ate off the hot grill with cute metal spatulas:
This was a negiyaki with kimchi, shrimp, pork, green onions and thin batter coating. Despite the shrimp, it was yummy!
The next one we had noodles, with egg and cabbage and seafood and pork. That was also really tasty, despite the seafood part… I probably would order it again if I could get it without all the seafood
We next found a fun Fiji Bar on Trip Advisor so we decided to stop in, and we were the only people in the bar, but we spent a lot of time chatting with the owner, Yogi, about American politics, Fiji politics, Japan, scuba diving, and had a good time having Fiji Rum and Fiji Whiskey.
We made our way to find Takoyaki. Osaka is known for their street food as well as Neon lights… the streets were impressive!
We finally chose a street takoyaki stand among the hundreds that we passed (I’m not a tako fan but I did eat it and it wasn’t bad, but another thing I probably wouldn’t order on my own). It was crazy how many food stands there were in Osaka! It’s hard to imagine how all these places get and keep business with all the competition! We got into the line that had a ton of of people waiting… if there’s a line, it has to be good, right??
After takoyaki, we searched for a dessert place, and found this French inspired (there are many French cuisine inspired dessert places across Japan) tea shop that was tucked away in an alley:
The bottom level had teas and desserts, and upstairs was the dining area
We picked random teas, my tea had rosemary and some unknown fruit (cranberry? Rhubarb?) and Rafal had something fruity possibly with peach?
Our desserts included a jello-like strawberry thing, a large vanilla-bean macaroon, and a strawberry mousse.
I was in love with the little sugar cubes though!!
After we had our tea, we made our way home for the night.
Oyasumi!
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