Okonomiyaki

There is a couple of routine things that I do when I go back to Japan. One of them is to visit my advisor in undergrad. He moved from Osaka to Tokyo a few years ago so I missed a change to meet him for a while (my home town is Osaka.).

Before I met him, I had about half hour to kill at the station where his campus is located. I walked around a bit and found a Okonomiyaki restaurant. Okonomiyaki is one of my favorite foods even after I lives in U.S. If you go to a Okonomiyaki place in Osaka, you would have good taste Okonomiyaki at any restaurant because people in Osaka love Okonomiyaki. I wanted to try in Tokyo if it is true. In Tokyo, there is a similar food called Monjayaki. It is much softer and the shape is not like a pancake. So people use a small steel tool to scoop and bring to the mouth. I am not sure nowadays, but people in Tokyo used to prefer Monjayaki to Okonomiyaki in old days.

The Okonomiyaki I had in the picture was acturally quite good. The mixture of flour, water, potate and eggs was very soft and the souce was a little sweet but spicy.

The one bad thing was that I had to eat in rush because I was almost late to appointment to meeting my advisor...