Food, Food, and More Food Thread

i remember being in this restaurant in osaka where you cooked your own. i didn't know what to do which was embarassing and people were looking! :ashamed:

kenjilina wrote:i remember being in this restaurant in osaka where you cooked your own. i didn't know what to do which was embarassing and people were looking! :ashamed:

Awwwww poor ickle Kenji! :muack: :patpat:

But couldn't the waitor show you?

kenjilina wrote:i remember being in this restaurant in osaka where you cooked your own. i didn't know what to do which was embarassing and people were looking! :ashamed:

Yeah I think cooking your own is the norm actually...there must be hundreds, if not thousands, of okonomiyaki restaurants in Osaka :) In fact the two most popular styles of okonomiyaki are Osaka style and Hiroshima style.

Hell, I wasn't all too successful the first time I tried it either :P

Wynter wrote:

Awwwww poor ickle Kenji! :muack: :patpat:

But couldn't the waitor show you?

a member of staff did in the end. :beaten:

kenjilina wrote:

a member of staff did in the end. :beaten:

Hell I would have done the same thing! In the end. I want to eat! Not just burn the dayem thing and stare at it in shame!

Tu_triky wrote:

Hell I would have done the same thing! In the end. I want to eat! Not just burn the dayem thing and stare at it in shame!

once i got the hang of it, it was good fun. :thumbsup:

kenjilina wrote:

once i got the hang of it, it was good fun. :thumbsup:

yeah there's a local place here in l.a. that serves okonomiyaki....i went back with some friends....it's fun after you got a little practice under your belt.

You guys keep on talking about okonomiyaki, but I haven't tried it at all because I don't think there's a place on Maui that has it (unless I don't know the good places to go). Is it hard to make it yourself?

cori wrote: Is it hard to make it yourself?

if i can do it anyone can! :hehe:

cori wrote:You guys keep on talking about okonomiyaki, but I haven't tried it at all because I don't think there's a place on Maui that has it (unless I don't know the good places to go). Is it hard to make it yourself?

There are a lot of vids on youtube that demonstrate how to make it. Just type in "okonomiyaki". :)

cori wrote:You guys keep on talking about okonomiyaki, but I haven't tried it at all because I don't think there's a place on Maui that has it (unless I don't know the good places to go). Is it hard to make it yourself?

Given the likely availability of Japanese ingredients that go into makin it probably not...I've seen tutorials on the web....you could probably even find one on Youtube....I've never tried it tho..I like the stuff but not that much....since you have to get the ingredients for the batter and depending on what you put in to it, the prep work might be lengthy. You'd also have to have a griddle of some sort, electric or otherwise.

Wynter wrote:

There are a lot of vids on youtube that demonstrate how to make it. Just type in "okonomiyaki". :)

hey thanks. :thumbsup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGTBOUqMsA

Here's a video clip of the boats I was talking about above..actually it's Monjyayaki not Okonomiyaki, a close cousin, cooked in the same way, with slightly different ingredients...

Check out this short clip...it's subbed in English too.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&b=87&vid=1077&gid=100047

Tu_triky wrote:Here's a video clip of the boats I was talking about above..actually it's Monjyayaki not Okonomiyaki, a close cousin, cooked in the same way, with slightly different ingredients...

Check out this short clip...it's subbed in English too.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&b=87&vid=1077&gid=100047

you've done it again! i wanna go on the boat!! :drooling:

kenjilina wrote:

you've done it again! i wanna go on the boat!! :drooling:

i wish i had know about that when i went....that looks so fun! And you get enjoy a great view of the Tokyo night skyline.

At the current exchange rate you could get on that boat with all you can eat and drink for 22 British Pounds....I know the UK is expensive so that must seem like a steal for you guys.

Feed the delusion, 'racer

Birdland in Tokyo

http://int.kateigaho.com/jan04/yakitori-restaurants.html

Tu_triky wrote:Feed the delusion, 'racer

Birdland in Tokyo

http://int.kateigaho.com/jan04/yakitori-restaurants.html

Chicken hearts?? :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Chicken hearts?? :sweat:

that's traditionally offered at yakitori restaurants....don't worry, you can order a la carte and avoid whatever you consider unsavory. :victory:

[image]


Echikatsu

Established in 1871, Echikatsu is a long-established sukiyaki restaurant visited by such distinguished authors as Natsume Soseki and Mori Ogai. Currently run by the sixth-generation master, the restaurant was a forerunner in using beef. Guests enter a traditional world of Japanese gardens and traditional architecture. Bamboo lines a pond. Lush gardens, with their soothing sound of water, provide a healing effect for the spirit. The taste of famous Matsuzaka beef is enhanced when eating here. The special broth used for boiling the meat and vegetables typifies the salty-sweet Kanto (eastern Japan) style, flavored with soy and sugar. A waitress cooks the beef piece by piece on a table equipped with a portable cooking stove. Customers dine in 17 separate rooms.
2-31-23 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-3811-5293
Open 5 to 9:30 PM
Closed Sundays, holidays
Sukiyaki from 7,000 yen; shabu-shabu from 9,000 yen

Dayem this tempura looks good! :drooling:

[image]


Tempura Hatanaka

The shrimp, deveined and shelled just before frying, is crisp. And just one bite of maitake mushroom fills your mouth with flavor. Crisp-fried tempura at Hatanaka lets customers enjoy the taste of each ingredient to the fullest. Tempura requires the highest cooking skills. The batter must be thin and lumpy. To achieve this, it has to be mixed swiftly. Only the highest-quality sesame oil is used. Meticulous care is given to the smallest details. For example, the salt was produced in one of the remote islands of Okinawa and roasted in Tokyo. Some of Hatanaka's specialties include vegetable tempura of lily buds and peanuts, unfamiliar ingredients even for Japanese. The proprietor is very enthusiastic about continuing the adoption of new types of vegetable tempura.
2-21-10 Azabujuban, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tel. & Fax 03-3456-2406
Open 12 PM to 1:30 PM, 5:30to 8 PM
Closed Wednesdays; daytime Saturdays, Sundays, and day before national holidays
Lunch from 1,200 yen;dinner from 5,000 yen; a la carte items avallable