Kansai Street Food

7 dishes in Japan

7 street foods from Kansai, Japan: Kushikatsu, Ikayaki, Negiyaki, Yatsuhashi and Doteyaki and more. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Kansai

Shinsekai Classic · No Double-Dipping Skewers Kushikatsu The communal sauce trough at the table comes with one hard rule — one dip per skewer, no matter how much sauce is left on the stick — and regulars… Bite-sized cuts of meat, seafood and vegetables are skewered on bamboo, coated in a thin layer of breadcrumbs and deep-fried, then dipped once each into a shared tonkatsu-style sauce and… Department Store Snack · Pressed Squid Pancake Ikayaki (Osaka-Style Grilled Squid) Outside Osaka, ikayaki usually means a whole squid grilled on a stick at festival stalls; Osaka's pressed pancake is a different snack that shares… Chopped squid is mixed into a thin flour batter and pressed between two scorching iron plates for about a minute, cooking into a thin, chewy pancake that's brushed with sauce and folded in… Osaka Original · Green Onion Griddle Cake Negiyaki Negiyaki is traditionally eaten with soy sauce and a squeeze of lemon rather than okonomiyaki sauce, so the green onion's sweetness isn't buried… A thin batter loaded with a heap of sliced green onion instead of cabbage is grilled on a teppan into a lacy, light pancake, then finished with soy sauce or a dashi-soy dip rather than the… Kyoto Souvenir Sweet · Cinnamon Rice Cake Yatsuhashi It started as a stiff, cracker-like baked rice wafer — the soft, folded raw version tourists eat by the box today only became the norm after mass… Rice flour, sugar and cinnamon are worked into a dough, either baked thin and crisp into a curved cracker or left soft and folded raw ("nama yatsuhashi") around a dab of sweet red bean… Shinsekai Standby · Miso-Stewed Tendon Doteyaki (Miso-Stewed Beef Tendon) Dote means embankment: the name comes from the way miso is banked up around the edge of the pot like a riverbank. Beef tendon and konnyaku are simmered for hours in sweet miso and mirin until soft, then served in small cheap portions at the counters of Osaka's kushikatsu joints and standing bars. 🥟 Kobe Chinatown · Steamed Pork Buns Butaman (Kobe Pork Buns) Roshoki, a shop in Kobe's Nankinmachi founded in 1915, calls itself the birthplace of the butaman, Japan's pork bun. Small steamed buns stuffed with seasoned minced pork are sold hot from steamers at takeaway counters in Nankinmachi, Kobe's Chinatown, and eaten on the street. Akashi Original · Dashi-Dipped Octopus Dumplings Akashiyaki It's widely considered takoyaki's ancestor, but instead of a sweet brown sauce, these egg-rich dumplings get dunked whole into a hot bonito dashi… Small round dumplings made from an egg-heavy batter studded with diced octopus are cooked in a special copper mold until barely set, then dipped into a hot dashi broth rather than topped…

More of Japan

• Hokkaido7
• Kanto7
• Kyushu7
• Okinawa7
• Chubu (Nagoya)7
• Tohoku7
• Chugoku & Shikoku7