Okonomiyaki お好み焼き
A savoury pancake of batter, cabbage, egg and meat or seafood, cooked on a flat griddle. The name means roughly "grilled as you like it".
About Okonomiyaki
- What it is: Flour batter and shredded cabbage with pork, squid, shrimp or other fillings, grilled on a hot teppan and finished with a sweet-savoury brown sauce, mayonnaise, aonori seaweed and bonito flakes.
- Styles: Osaka (Kansai) style mixes everything into a batter with grated yam, then grills it like a thick pancake. Hiroshima style is layered rather than mixed, with noodles (soba or udon), a fried egg and a large pile of cabbage.
- Where to try it: Osaka, where many places let you cook your own at a griddle table, and Hiroshima, where small counter restaurants cook it for you. It is also a classic at festival food stalls (yatai), where it is one of the most filling things on offer.
- How to eat it: Sit at the counter to watch it being made, and use the small metal spatula provided to cut and eat it straight from the griddle. It is often shared.
Checked against: The (Good-Natured) Battle of Okonomiyaki: Osaka vs. Hiroshima | Travel Japan (JNTO) · Okonomiyaki | Wikipedia · Japanese Food: 6 Yatai Festival Foods | Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi.
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