This is at "Kamakura Pasta" in Namba, the main shopping district in Osaka. Nozomi, on the right, works there and wanted to take us (it ended up being me and Cassie from New York, in the middle) to try out Japanese pasta, which we found out is totemo oishii (very delicious)! Along with the usual garlic and tomato sauce mine also had some simmered eggplant and little sliced up red peppers that gave it a nice kick. I also tried some "natto pasta," natto being a fermented soy bean paste most known to gaikokujin (foreigners) for its potent smell and to nihonjin (japanese people) for its delicious taste. So my first experience here with natto was interesting! I liked it pretty well I'd say haha, but I think the flavor was a little toned down mixed with the noodles and such, so I still have yet to experience pure natto... >_< I also really liked Kamakura Pasta because in addition to having both Japanese fusion-style dishes and seemingly spot-on Italian recipes, it also had traditional seating and some interesting interior design inside the small restaurant:
Afterward we explored the main street in Namba and unfortunately I don't have any pictures to show from that experience, but I do have a new denim shirt from UNIQLO to prove that I succumbed to the consumerist fever found in Osaka's #1 shopping district :P
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