Best Takoyaki Places in Osaka | Osaka street food

"Is there a recommended Osaka street food place? "This question can definitely be included in the top 10 questions asked every month.

When it comes to Osaka snacks, the most authentic one is Takoyaki. Although Osaka braised(Takoyaki) is also famous, it always feels like it has more than twice the amount of small meatballs and is more like a staple food.

So I began to wonder if the octopus grill in those overly commercialized octopus grill shops was equivalent to the listed price.

I began to deliberately pay attention to the nearby octopus grill shop and listened with interest to the stories of Japanese friends and octopus grills around me.

The conclusion is that as a foreigner, I am willing to accept octopus braised for 800 yen per box in downtown areas and octopus braised for 200 yen per box in street corners. The reason for this cannot be shared in a few words.

Most of the existing octopus restaurants in Osaka have given up seasoning in batter. After uniformly making tasteless meatballs, they can add different sauces for seasoning according to the guests' choice, sprinkle bonito festival (firewood fish slices), seaweed foam, etc.

It is said that every household in Kansai has at least one device for cooking octopus.

So, when the tourism industry in Kansai was not yet well-developed, there were not as many octopus barbecue shops as there are now. When my little son came home from school and suddenly made a noise about eating octopus barbecue, my parents would take out octopus barbecue utensils, from mixing dough to cutting octopus, and take the children with them to watch each piece of noodle soup roll out steaming small balls.

You can imagine when a child, the whole family gathered together to make dumplings. The old man took out a rolling plate and a rolling pin, from making noodles to rolling out skins, from chopping stuffing to cooking. Sometimes I even go and shout to the little flower next door, shouting together, "Grandma, wrap us a sunflower."

Apart from the increasingly high rent and labor costs in popular tourist attractions, watching the skilled operation of the shop owner in front of me, listening to him talk about his love for octopus barbecue and Osaka. This passionate work attitude made me feel a strong sense of Kansai culture.

After all, it's just a shallow taste of tourists who have hurried by and experienced it, and can turn around and leave at any time. Perhaps the reason for over 300 yen is here.

List a few street food shops near the tourist center of Osaka - Nanbo and Xinsaiqiao.

Takoyaki Shop near American Village in Osaka:

Kogaryu Takoyaki (Click to see Google Map)

The octopus grill in American Village is very affordable and has a great taste. I would like to recommend it.

The old brand, which has been operating for 42 years, has now grown to 13 stores. I have appeared in many Japanese magazines.

だいげん章鱼烧 (Click to see Google Map)

Address: 1-7-11, Nishinsai Bridge, Nakano ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

Located in an alley near Triangle Park in the United States, it is not far from Jiahe River.

This shop, which has a history of ten years, is very popular among Japanese people. It is said that the original octopus fairy shell (たこせん) was born here. The walls of the small shop are adorned with the signatures of famous people, as well as the awards from the 2013 National Snack Shop Competition.

There are too many octopus barbecue shops near Dalton Hori to analyze one by one, but it was also found that different shops have their own unique characteristics for the same octopus barbecue.

Huijin House (Click to see Google Map)

On a sunny and leisurely afternoon, with nothing to do, we regained our composure and took the subway to the small shop where octopus grills originated place

Huijinwu is located on the Subway Siqiao Line, Exit 1 of Yuchu Station, on the other side of the road.

Address: 2-3-1 Yuchu West, Nisei District, Osaka City

When waiting for the traffic lights, I stood in the shade of the road and looked at it. I didn't imagine that the shop assistants were talking to each other leisurely.

What surprised me a bit was that the octopus stew in Huijin House still maintains its original tradition, starting from batter to seasoning. There is no hassle of choosing sweet sauce or vinegar, and no salesperson will ask if you mind adding mayonnaise.

It's rare to have leisure, so I choose to enjoy it in the store and take a break from the heat. Sitting in the small corner of the small shop, watching the busy backs of the clerks empty out.

Ordinary tourists who thought they knew that the world-renowned octopus grill was born here, but were surprised to see the small octopus grill without any sauce and asked the shop staff how to eat it.

An ordinary tourist who couldn't help but swallow a steaming small ball and wanted to shout out how hot it was, but found that there was no one around to listen. From this, it can be concluded that octopus stew is still an ordinary tourist who wants to eat with friends.

If you have an amazing Takoyaki., be sure to share it with me as well. But the happiest thing is to be able to share the delicious food at hand with the important people in your heart.

You may not know me in the small corner, but I hope to help you in the big universe, even if it's just a little bit ♥

May today be ordinary and beautiful, see you next time.