This article made me mad. Why don’t we have an okonomiyaki truck in San Francisco? Why is it so hard to even FIND okonomiyaki in San Francisco?!
I wonder how an okonomiyaki truck would do in San Francisco. Perhaps it would advertise as “the bacon pancake” truck, and specialize in okonomiyaki with bacon and egg.
Now I think I should start an okonomiyaki cart!
This article also gets the distinctions between the different styles of okonomiyaki wrong. “Hiroshima style” doesn’t necessarily include noodles, and usually doesn’t. It’s MODAAN style that’s all about adding extra carbs (noodles)!
It’s fun to read other people’s okonomiyaki obsessions, especially when they are good funny writers, so I had a great time reading subarashiiblog: On the hunt for a good Okonomiyaki.
The post is all about the desire to find good okonomiyaki in Melbourne, after having had Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki in the past. They heard about a place called Teppansan and headed straight over with their foodie hats on:
Being sophisticated travellers and food coinessuers, naturally we took our little monacles along with us, and our handy dandy mental notebooks to make an adequate (personal) review of the fine establishment, let me take you on a journey… to flavour town…
This little excursion doesn’t exactly go as well as hoped, which really just makes it all the more fun to read. Sorry to hear about Melbourne’s lack of good okonomiyaki though!
Hey Aussies, if anyone should be able to make a good okonomiyaki in the English-speaking world, it’s you! Get on it! ^_^
Nippon Phile: Okonomiyaki and Monjayaki
Over at NipponPhile blog you can read about a group outing to a restaurant called Sakuratei, situated near the nifty Design Festa Gallery.
I’ve been there! It’s a cool place, and you get to walk through the amazing fashion district of Harajuku to get there.
The gallery itself is affiliated with the Sakura Hostel of Asakusa, a place I heartily recommend spending some time at. The cost is under 3000 yen (about $30) per night for any dorm bed, and the dorm rooms are actually pretty spacious with good privacy and access to your own power outlets. Plus, free WiFi! It was my favorite budget accomodation in Japan.
The best part about spending your nights in the Asakusa area of Tokyo: you’re about a 5 minute walk away from about 10 different places to eat okonomiyaki! Hee hee.
