Okonomiyaki

Tonight I went to Naniwa for dinner after class with some friends. Naniwa is an Okonomiyaki restaurant where you mix up the ingredients yourself and cook on a teppan (grill) on the table in front of you. Okonomiyaki literally means (cook what you like), so you can really pick anything to put into it. It looks like a thick pancake - and is composed of cabbage, egg, flour, and then any meat or vegetable that you want. You can add anything to it you want, like cheese, noodles, or corn. You mix all these ingredients up in a bowl and then pour it onto the grill and flatten it into a pancake and let it cook. Then you flip it over and wait for the other side to cook. You then add a sweet sake sauce, along with fish and seaweed powder, and then on top you can add mayonnaise if you want. The Japanese put mayo on a lot of different foods, including pizza! The Okonomiyaki was delicious. Oishii!!!