I made food!

The title says it all. The other night I made takoyaki with my host family and tonight I made okonomiyaki with my host family. Here, I'm going to walk you through the process of what I made.

Takoyaki

This stuff is delicious. Basically it's a ball shaped pancake with octopus and other fillings with a special sauce and Japanese mayo (which tastes very different from American mayo).

The first few steps are simple, prepare the batter and fillings then oil and fill each cup in the pan.

After waiting a few minutes a skewer is used to check if the bottom of each one has hardened. If so, the skewer is used to rotate the bottom to the top to thoroughly cook the entire takoyaki. 

Once cooked sauce, mayo and seaweed is added on top. Looks good huh?

Okonomiyaki

To be honest, the taste of Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki is very similar. They are both basically pancakes with special sauce and mayo. However the differences come in how they are made and what goes inside. For Takoyaki, they are ball shaped and there's always octupus in side. Takoyaki literally means fried octopus. Okonomiyaki on the other hand, is flat and you can put whatever you want in it. Okonomiyaki can be roughly translated to fried "whatever you like". 

In Okonomiyaki, you can put larger fillings on the skillet first before adding the batter. In my case, we added bacon. Because you know, everything's better with bacon.

Next, batter and some smaller fillings are added. In my case, we added shrimp and squid.

From there on out, it's just like cooking any other pancake. When it seems ready, flip it!

Once cooked, the process is exactly the same as takoyaki, add sauce, mayo, and seaweed

The two foods above are my two favorite foods. They really are that good.