Okonomiyaki is the one of a Japanese savoury pancake which contains a variety of ingredients. You can add almost anything in it. Okonomi-yaki means, grille what you want. Therefore, literally you can add anything you want in it. Osaka is the famous okonomiyaki place. My friend Aki-chan from Osaka cooked this okonomiyaki for me and her husband. I used okonomi-yaki source which Saito-san left for us! In fact, source is very important and we must use ‘Otafuku source’ to enjoy proper okonomi-yaki.
Yey, this is how we cook Okonomiyaki. In japan, we use special teppan for okonomiyaki; however, here in Nairobi, it is hard to get one. Left side of picture below is ‘Before cooking pancake’ and the right side of it is ‘Now cooking pancake.’
You have to wait until both side of Okonomiyaki-grilled enough. DO NOT Push the pancake which you are grilling it. It will spoil the softness of Okonomiyaki.
On the top of grilled Okonomiyaki, we put some green laver an Japanese mayonnaise.