OKONOMIYAKI | SAVORY

Okonomiyaki is a pan fried, savory pancake with a variety of different toppings. It has a wide range of what can be inside of it, as the name suggests - okonomi means whatever you like and yaki means fried. The dish is widely available all over Japan, but it’s particularly famous in Hiroshima and Osaka. Usually it’s made from regular pancake batter, cabbage, green onions and meats such as pork and seafood. Almost anything goes with okonomiyaki. To best describe the dish, it’s kind of a hybrid between a pancake and pizza with your favorite toppings. To eat okonomiyaki, people go to okonomiyaki specialty stores where every table has its own iron griddle where you can cook the pancake yourself (sometimes the staff will cook for you or even be brought to you already made).

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