Late night shopping and eating in Osaka!
There is this noodle store called yi lan that can found near the Nagahori-gawa canal in the Osaka Shinsaibashi area that serves the most yummy pork soup based noodles. Everything about it is perfect and the additional egg was really good! Cooked with hot spring waters, the egg is cooked inside out rather than outside in. Yummy!
After dinner, I took a stroll along the Dōtonbori street and there were just so many good food to be found. Fresh seafood and the famous tako pachi (octopus balls) with a crazy long queue.
The rest of the evening was spent shopping. There are so many departmental stores as well as little boutiques in the area. This place is probably the harajuku of Osaka. I also went to the Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping Street which is the longest straight and covered shopping walkway in Japan! 2.6km long with lots of shops on either side. It was a real shopping excursion for me! Which is probably why you don’t see much photos taken after my dinner 🙂
I am loving your itinerary in Osaka! May I understand if you’re on free and easy or with a tour group?
And the noodle store called yi lan that you featured looks so cool. It’s like a personal “slurp booth” for each patron, isn’t it? I would love to check it out so, I will revisit this post when opportunity to Japan calls for me!
Ivy,
It was a little of both actually. The Yi Lan was really good. They have a branch in Tokyo as well but I don’t remember where exactly because I forgot to take pictures then!
I am loving your itinerary in Osaka! May I understand if you’re on free and easy or with a tour group?
And the noodle store called yi lan that you featured looks so cool. It’s like a personal “slurp booth” for each patron, isn’t it? I would love to check it out so, I will revisit this post when opportunity to Japan calls for me!
Ivy,
It was a little of both actually. The Yi Lan was really good. They have a branch in Tokyo as well but I don’t remember where exactly because I forgot to take pictures then!