To enjoy great food in Osaka, you absolutely must visit this place
Kuromon Market, the largest seafood market in Japan's Kansai region, is known as Osaka's kitchen.
Compared to Tsukiji Market, which is well known to all Japanese food lovers, Kuromon Market is better suited for tourists to stroll around. More than half of the shops cater to restaurant owners, but Kuromon Market also lets individual visitors shop to their heart's content and eat until they're satisfied.
Osaka's Kuromon Market. Image: Fast Japan
This month, "Guokr Store" has teamed up with the Japanese Kansai homestay brand "Zaichuan Lodging" to prepare a special Osaka eat-and-stroll journey for all friends staying at the "Osaka Chuan House series themed apartments" under Zaichuan Lodging.
At the beginning of the month, produced by Guokr Store"You Ren You Yu" (Skilled in Fish)the Japanese cuisine knowledge illustrated notebook, entered service as a guest room guestbook atthe Osaka Chuan House series themed apartments!
Next, "You Ren You Yu" will also step into Osaka's kitchen, Kuromon Market, together with travelers, striving to find the 40 fish included in the notebook on the dining table.
Set off with "You Ren You Yu"
and become an expert in Kuromon Market
Combining the rich knowledge of "You Ren You Yu," Zaichuan Lodging, which closely integrates travel and accommodation, has exclusively designed"Chuan Jie Guo Xiang"City Walk travel products.
"Chuan Jie Guo Xiang" takes its Osaka Chuan House themed apartments as the starting point, gathers a group of like-minded friends,with local leaders as professional guides, each person holding a copy of "You Ren You Yu", and heads to Osaka's kitchen, Kuromon Market, chatting while walking and eating while strolling.
The first group of tour members has already returned. What interesting things did they encounter in Kuromon Market?
In Osaka's kitchen
unexpected adventures happened
The enthusiastic fish shop owner
When the "Chuan Jie Guo Xiang" tour members walked into a fresh fish shop holding "You Ren You Yu," the sharp-eyed owner immediately became curious:
Your notebook has fish drawn in it? We have gyotaku here!
Gyotaku is a Japanese technique and art of printing the image of a fish onto paper using ink or pigment, and among the various gyotaku pasted in this shop, quite a few appeared in "You Ren You Yu."
As a "same-item" connection brought by traveling from afar, the cheerful owner insisted on giving everyone one as a souvenir - the enthusiasm of Osaka people is definitely not just talk!
Seeing You Ren You Yu, the owner also took out his own illustrated guide
Everyone held "You Ren You Yu," identifying fish and eating fish along the way, pulling out their phones at any time to photograph the notebook and the plates, and this action also caught the attention of the fresh fish shop owner.
The owner pulled out a booklet from the drawer and placed it in front of everyone. Inside were photos of fresh fish corresponding to various ingredients - it turns out every shopkeeper also has their own exclusive ingredient guide!
A copy of "You Ren You Yu" is not only a wonderful tool for appreciating Japanese cuisine, but can also bring you closer to other Japanese food lovers.
Before eating all 40 fish, first recognize all 40 fish
Talking freely in fish shops and at the dining table, even the owner can't help but want to join the conversation!
Produced by the Guokr Species Calendar team
Calendar authors @Desert Porcupine and @Sa Yu served as consultants
A notebook that is beautiful, substantial, and super scientificnotebook
Food documentary director
Chen Xiaoqing
Guokr founderJi Shisan
enthusiastically recommends
Ma Boyong says
Just flipping through it makes you hungrynotebook
How "delicious" is it really?
40 super fresh and delicious fish
How delicious are they really? Scan and you'll know
40exquisitely hand-drawn illustrations
Rich details, deliciousness you can see
40 kindsFish full of fun
Delicious knowledge armed to the teeth
Finally able to chat freely with the fish shop owner
For each fish
the best seasonal period and price range
Practical and reliable species information
Thoughtful little tags, super convenient for looking things up
Notebook-style
entries, funtrivia
And the deliciousness you must knowcooking techniques
Besides helping you meet the right fish at the right time
we also want to take youto dissect fish like a master chef
1 super scientific set of cutaway diagrams
1 setTuna cutaway diagram
Perfectly recreating top-grade sashimi treated with precision
Remember a few anatomy terms
and you andsushi chefscan also chat freely
To chat more freely
you also need richer knowledge of Japanese fish cuisine
5 super thoughtful encyclopedias
5theme insert pages that open a new world
Where to buy, how to make, where to eat, how to eat
covering the fishing, shops, knives, sushi, and style of sashimi
Fishing: famous
fish marketsyou must not miss
Shops: a food-finding guidewith real restaurant addresses in the appendix
Blades: theknivesfor preparing sashimi are full of particularities
Sushi: theclassificationof sushi is not simple
Style: various tips teach youhow to eatJapanese cuisine
Super rich content all contained in
1notebook
Of course, as a notebook
the key is still thatit writes well and is portable
A super practical 184-page notebook
Thoughtful design with 180° lay-flat pages and rounded corners to prevent folding
Natural-color cloth spine, wear-resistant and beautiful
Writing, carrying, photographingall comfortable
Also comes with three matching stickers
Super good-looking
Which season is the most cost-effective for traveling to Japan?
How can you chat and laugh with the chef at a Japanese restaurant?
How can you handle high-end fish cuisine with ease?
All the secrets are in the "You Ren You Yu" notebook
Take it with youand record your journey of seeking flavors!