I'm making okonomiyaki for dinner

[GirlinContempt]

went out and picked up seaweed, pickled red ginger, cabbage, and yakisoba noodles.

And a bottle of Sake.
And a new sake set, my last one got broken when I moved.
I debated getting a tea set, cause I finally picked up some more japanese green tea, but I think I'll stick with my Russian set. It's so pretty

[LaurenG]

1. It is pretty

okonomiyaki huh, I have never heard of it. Is it good?

[GirlinContempt]

2. very very good

Japanese style pizza

[karlrschneider]

3. I prefer the suki variety of yaki.

:D

[NYC Liberal]

4. Japanese food? LUCKY!

I could eat Japanese food every day! :9:9:9

Unfortunately, guess who goes to the Sushi place by my house? Bloomberg. :scared:

[Allenberg]

5. I did for three years, it was tasty.

:D

The mom and pop ramen bars/sobahouses in rural Japan have the best food I've ever had. :)

[NYC Liberal]

6. I had a friend from Japan, so I had homemade Japaense food too!

It's the best! :D

[GirlinContempt]

9. Lucky me I learned how to make it?

;)

[NYC Liberal]

11. Yes..I'd love to cook Japanese

:9

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I have no idea what okonomiyaki is...

But cabbage = nasty. Therefore I will just compliment you on your lovely tea set and go about my business. :P

[GirlinContempt]

8. You know not what you say

so it's forgiven... this time

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I've always hated cabbage...

But I'm sure your okonomiyaki is delicious anyway.

[GirlinContempt]

12. It was fucking delish

let me tell you wahtr



i'm drrrrrrrunk

[Nevernose]

13. Can you make something with fewer vowels next time?

That way I know what it is you're cooking?

For instance:
Chicken Fried Steak

It has roughly a 3:1 consonant to vowel ratio, which is where I like my food (generally) to be at.

[GirlinContempt]

15. If I could eat that

I would made it ;)
I'll try my best

[catzies]

14. Never heard of it until last nite from my cousin's Japanese girlfriend

while we were having sushi. It sounds delish! :9

Your Russian tea set is gorgeous. I've always loved that Lomonosov net pattern; it's almost hypnotic.

[GirlinContempt]

16. it IS delish

You should try it sometime :)

[GirlinContempt]

17. Oh, and thanks

for the tea set compliment :)
this is what I *REALLY* want

A samovar :headbang:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. For those who don't know, okonomiyaki is a cross between an omelette and

a pancake (a floury omelette), cooked on a grill and filled with cabbage and the eater's choice of Other Stuff (okonomiyaki means "cooked as you like"), topped with steak sauce and mayonnaise.

Lucky me, I'm going to the Kansai region of Japan (Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe), the homeland of okonomiyaki, next week!

There's nothing like Japanese food made in Japan, and all my fellow U.S.-based translators agree!

I'm going to be there for seven days, and during that time, I'll be eating Japanese food exclusively (except for breakfast--I need my coffee).

[GirlinContempt]

19. Not steak sauce

Okonomiyaki sauce, which has a plummy sort of base ;)
Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki usually has a fried egg on one side, stir-fried noodles on the other, and the cabbage stuffed inside as opposed to in the batter, & grated yam in the batter.