A savoury pancake is how people describe it. That description is technically accurate and completely inadequate.
Osaka has a different energy to Tokyo — louder, more chaotic, less self-conscious. Dotonbori at night is where that energy concentrates.
Osaka's signature dish — skewers of anything and everything, battered and fried — and the one golden rule you must never break.
Every trip involves at least one late-night konbini run that turns into forty minutes of genuine deliberation. This is not a problem.