Bankaku Sohonpo, Osaka Ikaten

Bankaku Sohonpo is a confectionery manufacturer founded about 130 years ago, well known for a Senbei, a Japanese rice cracker using seafood. A technique and a spirit are handed down for generations while a stance searching for the best quality taste takes is not changeable. Buyers directly visit a producing area to negotiate to get selected ingredients and carry out through quality control using their own strict criteria, with which this sweets maker extremely pursues for making particular sweets.

“Osaka Ikaten”, sold exclusively in Osaka is a Senbei in which contains the unique flavor of squid caught in the seas around Japan. Various special well-crafted process at each manufacturing step are scattered, for example, to prevent the loss of freshness, quick-frozen squids are chosen, once baked before frying to make rich flavor, and use domestic rice oil to make the bakery light and crispy.

A crispy and rich taste of squid and clean taste with a secret ingredient, aojiso (green perilla), will have you hooked once you try it.