In Nagoya’s central shopping district of Osu Kannon, trendy vintage clothes, off-beat bargain shopping and eclectic international wares abound. And wafting from its heart, there’s the warm smell of Brazilian roast chicken from the humble Osso Brasil.
Serving up juicy, flavorful chicken, and lunch and dinner sets overflowing with Brazilian pastel (fried dumplings), cheese bread, rice, burgers, fries and salsa, Osso Brasil is an important representative of one of Nagoya’s emergent culinary scenes: Brazilian food.
A majority of the approximately 270,000 Brazilians in Japan live in Aichi Prefecture and its neighboris, Shizuoka and Mie — largely in Nagoya and the industrial cities of Toyota, Toyohashi and Hamamatsu.