We ordered a little dish of scallops as an appetizer. These were fantastic! Yum!
And we ordered three of these pancake things, one for each of us. They were MASSIVE! We didn't realize how much food is in it. I was completely stuffed after finishing it. It was quite a unique food! It is a pile of crunchy ramen noodles, 2 eggs, various vegetables, topped with a sweetish-brown sauce, and a shake of green herbs.
The line did not diminish late at night. This is the line we saw on the way out. It got even longer!
There is a restaurant here in Orange County that serves this pancake-like item. However, you are supposed to cook it yourself. We tried this once, and it was the biggest disaster of cooking I have ever had lol. We didn't realize we had to put oil on the grill.. We didn't know how to mix the ingredients. Overall, we were clueless on how to prepare this dish.
In fact two Japanese ladies next to us felt so sorry for our ineptitude that they felt compelled to help us and explain how it was done. Unfortunately by that time we had botched it badly enough that it was unsalvegable.
So we ended up with a mish mash of partly mushy, partly undercooked noodles, runny eggs, overcooked vegetables, partly burnt and stuck to the grill dish. Oops... It was MUCH better when properly prepared :)
When we got back to the hotel room I saw an interesting site. This little clock in the room was doing this for a good ten minutes! I thought we were in a time warp or something!!! It's just a normal battery operated clock. Hmmmmnh!
4 comments:
Dude... I try a lot of different food, but I am not sure I could eat the pancake looking thing. The green stuff on top freaked me out a little.
Those scallops look DELISH-USH!! The pancake thingy looks "ok". Edible but not my favorite probably. That clock is WEIRD. I would have freaked a little.
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just ran across this post here in 2009 and wanted to tell you that I loved hearing about your first "okonomiyaki" experience. It's the best late-night post-drinking food. Or pre-drinking food, for that matter. specialty in Osaka, where I used to live. thanks for the fun pics and post!
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