Okonomiyaki

Today’s topic is also my favorite Japanese food, Okonomiyaki. It is Japanese style pancake and it is also very popular in Japan. The basic ingredients are vegetables, cabbage and green onion, and meat, which is mostly thinly sliced pork. However, you can put in anything you want, such as shrimp, cheese, rice cake, or noodles. You can make your original. Okonomiyaki has two different types, Hiroshima-style and Kansai-style. The difference between them is how to make it. Hiroshima-style is made from several layers of ingredients. Conversely, Kansai-style is mixed ingredients and the dough before grilling and it has a more soft texture. I prefer Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki to Kansai-style. I think it is a little bit unique because you can grill it yourself in some restaurants! It is not difficult to cook Okonomiyaki, so I am going to introduce how to make Kansai-style Okonomiyaki. You can get the dough at Don Quijote, so if you have the interest in Okonomiyaki, please try to make and enjoy it.

 

←Kansai-style


                       Hiroshima-style→

  How to cook Okonomiyaki!

   Mix the dough quickly from the bottom.

  Flatten it.

Turn it over after 3 minutes, and press the Okonomiyaki with a spatula.
Turn it over again after 4 minutes.

Turn it over again after 2 minutes. Spread the sauce around the the top of Okonomiyaki.
Sprinkle some dried bonito and green laver.
  Cut it into your favorite size.

Sushi

I want to start my blog with my most favorite and the most famous traditional Japanese food, sushi. I guess most people have eaten it before. When I went back to Japan for winter vacation, I ate sushi more than five times in a month. In Japan, there is a lot of Kaiten-sushi, which little plates of sushi go around on a circular conveyor belt. You can take any plates or you can order the sushi chef what you want to eat. Many sushi bars are very cheap! Some restaurants set every plate same price and some restaurants set the price depends on the plates’ colors. The side menu is abundant varieties, such as ramen, french fries, and cake, and it also come to your seat on a conveyor belt. Genki Sushi is one of the most famous Kaiten-sushi in Hawaii. When I went to eat sushi in Hawaii, I got a culture shock because inventive roll sushi, like a California roll or a rainbow roll, is the most popular sushi instead of Nigiri-sushi, which is the basic sushi. It was strange but interesting to me. I love these roll sushi. When I watched these pictures, I felt like eating sushi and going back to Japan.If you go to Japan, please try real Japanese sushi!

Rainbow roll

Kaiten-sushi

Nigiri-sushi