Aisles snaking between the various shops and counters lead to bountiful displays of cakes, shiny unblemished fruits, packages of pickled vegetables and marbled cuts of marbled wagyu beef.

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The buffalo ribs, on the other hand, performed very well, and were to beef ribs what buffalo steak is to beef steak: leaner and thus lacking some of the juicy flavor and mouth feel that comes from the marbled fat in beef, but making up for it with the rich added slightly gamey flavor of buffalo.

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