it's the center of the Kansai region and Japan's second-biggest city

it's also full of really exciting things to do

like eat! In this episode

we will focus on DOTONBORI and if you're hungry , this is the place to be

Right!t Well, here we are in DOTONBORI in Osaka

OSAKA is known as Japan's kitchen DOTONBORI is famous for its

cheap and really good food! And joining me

for this report is Kevin Reilly who's been in OSAKA for what? Eighteen-year. 18years!!!

What can you tell me about DOTONBORI? Well, DOTONBORI is kinda

like the... and always has been entertainment center of OSAKA

Right! So it's a fun place to come at night and day

we have lots of cheap fast-food! Right

There's a word that I learned that's very famous with DOTONBORI

which means a

like eat until you drop. Yeah, or pop

Which is what we're gonna be doing today We are gonna go up and down DOTONBORI

very famous for its street food and see what we can find starting with this

RAMEN from KINRYU RAMEN, yeah!

ITADAKI-MASU (bon apetit!)

Let the eating marathon begin Kevin quickly discovers a place serving fantastic

street food cheap

GYOZA! (dumplings) but what's Osaka Gyoza?

Not too sure what this is all I've never heard this OSAKA DUMPLING before

well the most important difference is that it's made in Osaka

of course that makes it better. Each Gyoza Dumpllings is made fast.

they also make a lot of them DOTONBORI can get crowded

and customer start lining up before dark especially on a Friday night

they need a big pile up of GYOZA to keep

every customer happy until closing. 6 GYOZA for 200yen

that's a steal!!

"TARE" sauce is available inside with chopsticks

eat inside or out. At DOTONBORI,

its all good

oh yeah! hot, real hot!

DOTONBORI is like an amusement park of food

Iits over-the-top amazing

You could smell it!! food !!! DOTONBORI, yeah!

my mission here was to find OSAKA's most popular Street snack

You never know what you're going to find on the way.Like this character

oh! takoyaki! C'mon!

TAKOYAKI!

This is TAKOYAKI, probably the most famous street food in all of Japan

done best in Osaka. Making TAKOYAKI requires a lot of movements

left speed it up

Batter, octopus tentacle bits, TEMPURA bits, green NEGI (onions)

and a little red ginger add some color to it all! It takes 10 to 15 minutes to

make each one

so you have to prepare a lot of them. Keep turning

those gas grills are hot

even at normal speed

the hand movements are fast

I don't know about you but I'm getting hungry

the basic TAKOYAKI is only 450yen

It's steaming hot

it's a good idea to wait a few minutes before taking a bite

make sure you have some water with you to put out those flames

if not, be prepared to suffer the consequences

Oh ha ha hot!

each one has Octopus. It wouldn't be TAKOYAKI without it

this shop has several ways to prepare it like this

half boiled egg with green NEGI(onion) smothered in mayonaise and sauce

it's the most popular and the most bizarre

The taste, pure awesomeness

See that big moving crab? it's for KANI DORAKU

a popular restaurant chain with the shop right by Evisu Bashi (bridge)

you can smell the sea food grilling

check that out

oh wow, it's got that char-coal taste

crab legs, chopsticks it's a real challenge. what else they got?

KANI MISO or crab brains for 500 yen

YUM

It's got that flavor from the sea

It's a little matured

time for those brains to meet Davey's locker down the hatch

all of it

kevin has found another popular food

KUSHI-KATSU!

Oh hey, here's an OSAKA especially you gotta try

he orders from the menu below the register.Prices in red for each stick

order a bunch of them KUSHI KATSU is skewered

dipped in batter, breaded

and then deep fried

each one costs between eighty and 200 yen

so here in osaka

what we doing here, we dip our KUSHI-KATSU in sauce, but there is a big rule

only dip once

two times, AKAN!(not allowed)

A bin of sauce is always on the table

or near the register. It's the final flavor to bring the KUSHI-KATSU

into perfection

the perfect ending to the afternoon KUSHI-KATSU on DOTONBORI

the whole NAMBA area is loaded with street stands

so there's really no end in sight to this food paradise

DOTONBORI is a place to bust your gut

if it's not enough just keep going

and make sure you wear elastic pants you're gonna need it