Osaka is considered Japan's kitchen and you can see that from the cities over the top both Dhoton-bori shopping street

It's outrageous and packed with restaurants and delicious street foods

Back in Osaka the Dhoton-bori yep now we ate a lot of food here last time

In a previous episode Kevin and I ate until we practically exploded sampling tons of delicious street food on the Dhoton-bori

Osaka is the place to be if you're following your stomach to Japan and we're back for some more food

but we wanted to try something different and Kevin had heard of a place nearby so we left the Dhoton-bori

A short walk away

Japanese food is known for its beauty and presentation like Kaiseki-Ryori (traditional Japanese meal brought in courses)

But we're not here for that, this place is a wacky all canned food themed restaurant

They have dozens of shops around Japan, but of course it all started here in Osaka

It's a lovely place with a view of the Dhoton-bori River

Cans, cans and more cans!

There are over 300 kinds of canned food here, which makes this both insane and totally fun

Customers have to choose what they want to eat and that's no easy task

Here are some of the canned foods available

After Kevin, and I had decided on five cans to try we took them to the counter and ordered our drinks

This place is called Mr.Kanso, and I'd never seen anything like this before

Could one consider this concept the opposite to Japan's gourmet soul? Perhaps

But we're here to see just how good or how bad Japanese canned food tastes

Kampai (Cheers!)

First up was bacon honey mustard in a can

They had me at bacon

This is like big-cut bacon

with a little bit of the honey mustard sauce

Maybe many restaurants are serving this on a plate and we don't even know it

Right now this is the one to beat the bacon because it's the first one. We've had

That's really good. Next up

Takoyaki in a can, my favorite Japanese street food and well to see it in a can it kind of horrified me

But it also got me curious. It looks so good freshly made like this could it compete with the real thing

What makes this even more interesting is it comes in a can but if you eat it at the restaurant? They give you?

Katsuo-bushi (dried bonito shavings)

and the Nori (laver) and the mayonnaise as a set

So it's a total complete package here, so I guess the best way would to eat it like a little bit of mayonnaise

and then grab on

grab on to the takoyaki like this oh

Oh Yeah,

Oh yeah, I'm gonna try one of those yeah, Oh, just like

They need to be heated, but it's really good because it's

Just a ball of dough in a salty soy based sauce with in the middle

That piece of octopus (the Taco)

Mmm. This is good

This is really good

At the plate now is Buri-Daikon (Yellowtail and Japanese Radish) canned amberjack fish with Japanese radish the restaurant will dish it and heat it up for you

The Buri looks great and the Daikon not bad

Which one you going for it, the Daikon or Buri, I'll go for the Daikon all right

Buri - Daikon

Hmm, that's good

It's good! I like that

Slightly fishy taste hmm good texture to it. Yeah, okay?

Yeah, I like Buri too, it looks like a big piece of beef

To be honest are they look like a big piece of beef, but it's fish. It's a meaty fish really meaty mmm

Well, you know some fish is kind of a very loose and flakies

mediator

That looks nice Japanese food and a can isn't so bad after all

Then Mushi-Uni (steamed Sea Urchin) in a can hit the table

It's a seafood with a spiky shell that terrifies some foreign visitors to Japan it usually has a premium price, but in a can

It's quite reasonable

But is it good?

No normally, I like it fresh, I've never had it in a can before yeah

I know I go to Hokkaido every June to eat fresh from the ocean so this is going to be

Tested Kevin goes first like a brave seaman heading into a taste typhoon

Really it was pretty good. It's got that same ocean flavor when you get a fresh serving nicely done

Right

Still to me not good. I'm

Not a big fan of Uni I'll eat Uni

It's not in my top 10. It's not the same as it being fresh.

We're in Hokkaido

so, we can take it. This is pretty good

I'm surprised

Next up is Dashi-Maki, egg and a delicious fish soup stock. It looked like a cut-up omelet in a camp

Something I'd never seen before it's also the top-ranked canned food in the restaurant - Dashi-Maki

This is the number one of the top 10 can here

the most popular the most popular, and it looks weird, I mean who would put an egg in a can

No, this is so weird it's cool

It's so cool. It comes with Ponzu. Oh, yeah. Is it a vinegary sauce yeah?

Something you could dip it in let's let's give it a try

First

Ha yeah, that looks nice. You can see the rolls in there. It's so soft. Yeah wait. I'm just gonna go for it

Good

Mmm

Very soft, tasty, filling and good enough that you want one more I can see why this is the number one item here

Now the verdict

Now we have to decide what the top 5 canned foods add Mr. Kanso

Which one did you like the best Kevin okay? You know what I'm gonna stick with my original choice here

I knew you're gonna say that

I'm gonna go with the bacon as well. I think the Atsu-giri (thick slice) bacon

I have to go with that because it's just it's that good. It goes so well with beer what is it? Yeah?

It's definitely an alcohol

Right

Number two is a little bit in the air

I'm going for the Takoyaki and a close third is the

Dashi-Maki, fourth is the Buti-Daikon and those three are really close together

second, third, fourth and the last of course for me is the Uni because

It's Uni, but it's not bad. It's just it's better if fresh for me. Honestly. Yeah. Yeah it

Can't be fresh

I'm kind of a Takoyaki, aficionado

Who makes talking eating a high-class Takoyaki guy good yeah, I'm gonna take the Dashi-Maki over the Takoyaki

So I'll go - lucky then Takoyaki, but I think taking Uni are kind of tied for me

Oh really, yeah, so but it's still in the bottom now. It's still in the bottom of the unit. Oh, yeah, yeah

Just big guy. There's already so here are our lists

We both agreed that the Atsu-giri bacon and honey mustard sauce was the best and the only argument was between the middle three which were

all very close

Even the sea urchin was not too bad. Although definitely tried in Aomori and Hakodate where the taste and experience is the best

There is a whole world of canned food in Japan with items that you've probably never seen before

Some items are well known and all seemed to taste good enough to make these shelves

That's eating out in Osaka. No matter what's on the menu

It's always crazy fun and worth exploring the city for more and since our stomachs will be empty again Kevin

And I will be back for more food adventures around Japan's kitchen

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