Sannomiya Ikkanro

There is always a long queue so we decided to join it. As I didn't want to have so much wheat in my diet, we bought 10 pork Shu Mais for 800 JPY. The staff was efficient and polite, and service was fast.

Not sure if it's a norm in Japan for Shu Mais to be starchy. Although they were served steaming hot and juicy, the meat portion seemed to be mixed with a lot of starch, resulting in a floury and mushy Shu Mai. I have tried 551 Horai's pork Shu Mai and the result was similar. Ikkanro's version is already the less starchy of the two.

The Shu Mais were not heavily seasoned so you can taste the sweet taste of pork, with some gingery notes and rice wine.