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| where my homeys at? found this sign at ame-mura |
yeah, baby! that's how i'm feeling right now. not really. we're sitting in a drafty 200+ year old japanese style farmhouse where we'll be spending the night, but, interestingly enough, it has wi-fi.
so it seems that in japan finding things by happenstance is much better than planning ahead of time. for instance, our hotel in osaka is right across the street from ippudo ramen (so good) and two doors down from my favorite niku-man shop. niku-man is steamed bread with meat stuffing, similar to char siu bao but with ground pork.
i would almost call osaka our old stomping ground, except that we'd only visited once during our semester studying abroad. nevertheless there's a lot of nostalgia here with doutonburi (one of the main tourist walking areas) and ame-mura (american village where they love american hip-hop culture and 90's gangster rap).
in osaka, it's all about street food, particularly takoyaki (savory pancake balls with a small piece of octopus inside) followed by okonomiyaki (savory flat pancakes) and perhaps fugu (blowfish). thus a lot of the images here are of food-related stuff.
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| top down. chrome spinning. in ame-mura |
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| for you thugs out there.... |
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| takoyaki at kukuru on doutonburi |
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| fresh takoyaki |
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| two of kukuru's takoyaki makers |
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| btw, the crab moves |
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| we had to fight the crowd to get over to doutonbori |
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| a little fugu (blowfish) action for the daring |
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| plastic food to display the restaurant's fare |
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| glico, a popular snack company |
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| the narrow side streets always have the best things |
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| a happy buddha and fugu display on the left and an okonomiyaki guy on the right |
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| time to go to the hotel. i'm tired. |
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