Okonomiyaki

On Sunday we tried out Okonomiyaki at a restaurant in the Sapporo Station complex.  It was very fun.  Okonomiyaki is do-it-yourself restaurant where you cook at your table.  It is very common in the Kansai region of Japan.  At the restaurant where we went the staff did the cooking for us, perhaps they did not trust us to cook the food correctly.  The table is mostly grill with a space on each side for our dishes.   We ordered one dish that was a shrimp omelet with cabbage, fish flakes, and topped with okonomiyaki sauce.  We also ordered a noodle dish (which I don't remember as well.)

Our friend Anton suggested we go to the Okonamiyaki restaurant.  Our friends Brigid and Michael from Seattle came with us.  I got a photo of Brigid and Michael at the restaurant.

This is a view of the end of the grill.  It is a gas grill and the dark slot on the grill (in the bottom right corner of the photo) is where the burned food and leftovers were pushed.  The grill is quite large, I couldn't get a clear photo of the whole thing.  It is about 1/2 a meter wide and 1 meter long.  There were several spices on the left.  One was a kelp powder.  I was surprised when I tried the kelp powder out how strong the flavor was.

In this photo our server has just broken the egg yolk and is blending the ingredients together.

Here she(our server) is starting to spread the Okonomiyaki out onto the grill.

Here it is after being spread out on the grill.  You can see the shrimp on the top of the pile.

Here is our noodle dish as we grab our portions from the grill to put on our plate.  Chopstick skills are a must!

Here the Okonomiyaki is nearly done and the server put the fish flakes on top.  They seemed to dance in the heat from the grill.

This is the final step before we can eat.  The okonomiyaki sauce is spread over the top.  Mmmmm, mmm good!

Thanks to Anton for suggesting a new food adventure.

That's all for now,

Kyle (and Bre)