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  • The Kuromon market, which caters to professional chefs, attracts overseas tourists seeking top-grade fresh seafood. The area is enjoying a recent surge in tourists from China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. (© Kō Hiroki)

    The Kuromon market, which caters to professional chefs, attracts overseas tourists seeking top-grade fresh seafood. The area is enjoying a recent surge in tourists from China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. (© Kō Hiroki)

  • The Kuromon market, with some 170 shops, styles itself as “The Greatest Kitchen on Earth.” (© Kuroiwa Masakazu)

    The Kuromon market, with some 170 shops, styles itself as “The Greatest Kitchen on Earth.” (© Kuroiwa Masakazu)

  • A Chinese couple tries fugu (puffer fish) sashimi while standing outside of Minami, a fugu restaurant in Osaka’s Kuromon market. (© Kō Hiroki)

    A Chinese couple tries fugu (puffer fish) sashimi while standing outside of Minami, a fugu restaurant in Osaka’s Kuromon market. (© Kō Hiroki)

  • The fugu store Minami has tailored a soup dish to the tastes of Chinese tourists. Japanese generally dip thin slices of fugu in boiling water and dip it into ponzu. For its Chinese customers, who are unaccustomed to this taste, the shop developed a dashi stock to match the fish. For an established restaurant to experiment like this is quintessentially Osakan. (© Kō Hiroki)

    The fugu store Minami has tailored a soup dish to the tastes of Chinese tourists. Japanese generally dip thin slices of fugu in boiling water and dip it into ponzu. For its Chinese customers, who are unaccustomed to this taste, the shop developed a dashi stock to match the fish. For an established restaurant to experiment like this is quintessentially Osakan. (© Kō Hiroki)

  • Osaka’s Shinsekai, brimming with the city’s ambiance. (© Kuroiwa Masakazu)

    Osaka’s Shinsekai, brimming with the city’s ambiance. (© Kuroiwa Masakazu)

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