{"id":974,"date":"2007-08-08T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T07:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2007\/08\/08\/homemade-okonomiyaki\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T07:23:13","slug":"homemade-okonomiyaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2007\/08\/homemade-okonomiyaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Okonomiyaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okonomiyaki\">Okonomiyaki<\/a> stall at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayupmarket.co.uk\/\">Sunday Upmarket<\/a>, I thought I would try making this Japanese pancake delicacy at home. It shouldn&#8217;t really be too hard, after all, the recipe is a simple pancake batter with cabbage and pretty much anything else you want for topping. <\/p>\n<p>Okonomiyaki sauce is a key ingredient to the dish, and it took me quite a long time to find it as well, scouring almost every grocery store in Chinatown. Only one of them had a sauce properly labelled as Okonomiyaki though I was going to give up and just try the Tonkatsu sauce. For the record, I found the famous <a href='http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/okonomiyakisauce.jpg' title='Bulldog Okonomiyaki Sauce'>Japanese Bulldog branded Okonomiyaki sauce<\/a> at the New Loon Moon Supermarket, though I realised later I should have headed straight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japancentre.com\/\">Japan Centre<\/a> located near Piccadilly as it seems to have almost everything you would ever want from Japan.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img src='http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/okonomiyaki.jpg' alt='My Okonomiyaki' \/><\/div>\n<p>Since you can add pretty much anything you want to Okonomiyaki, I decided to follow the pork and prawn mixture I&#8217;ve enjoyed at <a href=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/03\/30\/okonomiyaki-abeno-too\/\">Abeno Too<\/a>, substituting smoked streaky bacon for the pork. I didn&#8217;t buy the fish flakes that dance like they&#8217;re alive, nor the seaweed bits but with the mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce still tasted delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Okonomiyaki stall at Sunday Upmarket, I thought I would try making this Japanese pancake delicacy at home. It shouldn&#8217;t really be too hard, after all, the recipe is a simple pancake batter with cabbage and pretty much anything else you want for topping. 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