Today's Daily Double is... kuidaore!

osaka has a word, kuidaore, "eat until you drop" (the city renders it as a giant mechanical crab waving over a neon canal). al and i took it literal and personal. 19 dutiful minutes in the hotel gym as a down payment, then:

• takoyaki off a griddle worked by a man with two picks and the wrists of a jazz drummer. first one takes the roof of your mouth as a tax, paid gladly, went back for more
• okonomiyaki cooked on hot steel right in front of ya, bonito flakes on top curling around in the heat
• kushikatsu in a joint with exactly one rule posted in three languages: NO DOUBLE DIPPING. never respected a law more
• walked it all off under the glico running man, forty feet of neon sprinter frozen over the canal
• al, holding her takoyaki pick like a lil trident, says we gotta learn to make these on the boat. dock takoyaki. the gulls are not ready

now that is what they call..... kuidaore