Japanese Food - Okonamiyaki and Takoyaki
Japanese meals are always very ornamental and neatly prepared with the freshest ingredients. My first introduction though, will be something that I haven't tried eating before... okonamiyaki - which is kind of like a Japanese Pancake type deal and you get to make it yourself at the restaurant that I went to, and takoyaki - deep fried octopus balls.
I'm not sure what is in the mix, but I see squid and an egg.
Here, we have the mixture from the bowl on the left and on the right, we have noodle with vegetables, egg and pork.
I find there are always things that accompany the main course. Here, we have miso soup, rice with raw fish on top and a cabbage salad.
I love dessert, here we have green tea ice cream (better than in Calgary), red beans and some whipped cream.
When talking to people, they always tell me that takoyaki is similar to okonamiyaki but I don't really know what they mean. Maybe something got lost in translation. Takoyaki is balls of octopus deep fried in a thin batter and then covered with thinly sliced dried onion. I burnt my tongue eating this so I didn't really enjoy it, plus it was really squishy.
posted by ~diana~ @ 12:33 AM
3 Comments:
so does that mean ur okonomiyaki expert now? as in u can make for me =)...and they are similar becuz they both are 'yaki' or grilled, and the batter that they use for both are similar....
Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Food looks so interesting and tasty! Is it as good as it looks?
Food is great here. I just miss the variety that we have back home, you know, like Mexican or Greek. Haven't had a good burger yet but the Japanese version isn't bad. With Japanese sauce though, it just takes like Japanese food. Anyways, more on food later...
:P
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