Osaka: Food Tour with 15 Dishes & 3 drinks With Local Expert
The most popular food tour in Osaka 7 years straight! Discover 15 dishes at 5 local eateries & 3 drinks. Local foodie experts will take you to the whole range: Tachino...
Thin Osaka pancake stacked heavily with finely sliced naga-negi spring onion, often filled with sliced beef or squid, brushed with soy and Worcestershire and folded. The lighter, scallion-led cousin of okonomiyaki.
Negiyaki was trademarked in 1994 by Yamamoto, a Yodogawa-ku okonomiya in Osaka that had served the scallion-led pancake since 1965. The hostess invented it to feed her children, lighter on flour and heavier on naga-negi than okonomiyaki; customers asked for it on the menu and it stayed. Negiyaki spread across Kansai by the 2000s; Kobe pairs it with the local Doro sauce, while Osaka's defining version is still folded thinner and brushed with soy plus Worcestershire.
2 editor picks for Negiyaki in Osaka, ranked by editorial score. All Osaka signature dishes · Negiyaki across every city.
Kadoya Shokudo ★ 4.2
Horie and Nishi-ku · Capital Nishinagahori 1F, 4-16-13 Shinmachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0013
A Shinmachi ramen institution since 1957: house-made noodles in a chicken, black-pork and dried-fish shoyu broth. Queues form well before opening.
Dotonbori Imai Honten ★ 4.0
Dotonbori and Namba · 1-7-22 Dotonbori, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0071
One of Dotonbori's oldest udon restaurants; the kitsune udon recipe has been unchanged since the 1940s; dashi is simmered in a 70-year-old clay pot.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
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