551 Horai Honten

551 Horai is an Osaka institution whose butaman (steamed pork buns) have achieved almost legendary status as the city's definitive edible souvenir. The flagship store on Ebisubashi serves the famous buns fresh from steamers, with a juicy pork and onion filling wrapped in a pillowy white dough that releases a cloud of savory steam with every bite. Beyond the buns, the restaurant section offers solid Chinese-Osaka comfort food including shumai, fried rice, and ramen. The butaman are so popular that the aroma of steaming buns wafts through every major train station and department store in the Kansai region, but the honten (main store) experience, eating them fresh at the counter, remains the purest way to enjoy them.