On the other, we'd added rice cake and cheese. Hiroshimayaki with pork, vegetable, egg, rice cake and cheese 1026 yen / AU$11.30 The prawns, while few, are large and sweet. To one, we'd added Chinese noodles and shrimp. The basic okonimyaki with pork vegetable and egg starts at 702 yen or about AU$7.70. We transfer portions of hiroshimayaki straight off the heated grill and onto our plates. Hiroshimayaki with pork, vegetable, egg, Chinese noodle and shrimp 1134 yen / AU$12.50 It only takes a few minutes before our hiroshimayaki pancake is ready, cut into nine squares with metal spatulas for easy eating. The chef brushes a thick layer of fruity okonomiyaki sauce across the top. The springy mattress of cabbage cooks down and is flattened. The layered construction means we can watch everything added one by one, crowned with a luscious curl of streaky bacon.Ī fried egg forms the top layer of the hiroshimayaki pancake. Where okonimyaki can sometimes come across as being a bit gluggy or an indistinguishable mish-mash of everything, hiroshimayaki provides distinct layers of ingredients that aren't encased in pancake batter.Īdding bacon rashers to our hiroshimayaki I find that hiroshimayaki is more textural and less soggy.
What's the difference between okonomiyaki, and hiroshimayaki? Okonomiyaki mixes all the pancake ingredients together in a batter before cooking, whereas hiroshimayaki layers all your ingredients separately on the grill. Layering the cabbage and bean sprouts, hiroshimayaki style A row of bright red stools line the L-shaped grill, giving you an uninterrupted view of all the action. We choose a random stall, swayed by the chef's cheerful smile and friendly - but not overly desperate - demeanour. Watching our chef ladle okonomiyaki batter We later realised they were preparing for the onslaught of school kids on excursions, about to enter any minute. On a early weekday lunch, we were surprised to find so many stalls already cooking an army of okonomiyaki pancakes even though no customers had arrived. Hiroshimayaki being prepared for student groups You can take the stairs or the lift, depending on how many calories you want to expend before you eat them again.Ĭustomers eating at the okonomiyaki counterĮach stall claims to have a unique specialty, although the dizzying onslaught of Japanese characters - few have English signs but many will have a hidden English menu - mean that you'll probably just gravitate towards the first one that catches your eye. Okonomimura translates to okonomi village, an apt description for the 25 stalls spread over three floors of this towering building. Okonimura is probably one of the most touristy places you can eat at in Hiroshima, but it's one of the easiest ways to try hiroshimayaki, the local take on the Japanese national dish of okonimiyaki, a pancake made with cabbage and other fillings. I'd been to Hiroshima twice before, and so while half our group split off and explored the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Museum and Sadako's paper cranes, the rest of us walked in the shimmering heat to the city centre for an early lunch. And so even after we'd left Honshu Island and made our way down to Kyushu, we back-tracked from Fukuoka to Hiroshima for a day trip, a 70-minute journey by shinkansen. The beauty of the JR pass is the ability to do random day trips, perfect for fitting in new stops even after you've booked all your accommodation.
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But even as we ran, we were lethargic, our bodies sweating in the humidity and our bellies still full from a day that began with a mountain of hiroshimyaki, the okonomiyaki pancake served Hiroshima-style. We were outraged and indignant, chasing him to retrieve what we could. We'd laughed at everyone else's stories of Miyajima deer eating maps out of people's hands - oh those silly people - but that didn't lessen the shock when it happened to us, the deer sneaking up behind our backs and then quietly and efficiently removing the stapled pages from a handbag pocket. "He's eating my itinerary!" There was a wild and shrieking panic as we ran after the deer, already swallowing the first sheet of racy_staci's bundled papers.
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