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This meal available at KFC stores in Taiwan apparently draws its inspiration from a popular Japanese dish that you usually wouldn’t associate with chicken.

Taiwan
(fast food • Kentucky Fried Chicken • KFC • okonomiyaki • Taiwan)

Demon Slayer themed okonomiyaki coming this July

Master Blaster
Jun 24, 2020

Dohtonbori to undertake a daring new anime okonomiyaki tie-in.

Japan
(anime • collaborations • Demon Slayer • Dohtonbori • food • manga • okonomiyaki)

Rice cooker recipe: How to make a giant cheesy okonomiyaki pancake in a rice cooker

Oona McGee
May 14, 2020

Epic Japanese comfort food is easy to make with just the push of a button!

Japan
(food • Japanese food • okonomiyaki • recipes • rice cooker • rice cooker pancakes • rice cookers • twitter)

Okonomiyaki sauce producer on damage control following heightened Iran-US tensions

Master Blaster
Jan 10, 2020

Company assures us a famous Japanese dish is not in danger of becoming collateral damage.

Global, Japan
(business • dates • food • Iran • okonomiyaki • okonomiyaki sauce • Otafuku Sauce • war)

Osaka’s Okonomiyaki Burrito is both classic Taco Bell and completely different【Taste test】

Master Blaster
Feb 15, 2019

A prodigal Taco Bell customer returns to the franchise and is surprised with what he finds.

Japan
(burritos • COK • cool • crazy • fast food • Namba • okonomiyaki • Okonomiyaki Burrito • Osaka • SNO • Taco Bell • taste test • weird)

Taco Bell Osaka branches now selling okonomiyaki burritos, promise delicious fusion flavor

Dale Roll
Feb 6, 2019

A tortilla stuffed with all the tasty trappings of okonomiyaki? Sign us up!

Japan
(burritos • Dotonbori • fusion food • Mexican food • okonomiyaki • Osaka • Taco Bell • tasty • Umeda)

One of Japan’s dullest-looking restaurants actually has an awesome robot waiter【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 25, 2018

Veteran employee has been quietly serving customers for decades.

Japan
(COK • cool • crazy • food • Okayama • okonomiyaki • restaurants • robots • SNOJ • video • weird)

Bizarre or brilliant? Takoyaki and okonomiyaki rice balls available in convenience stores now

Koh Ruide
Apr 2, 2018

New Japanese snacks lets you enjoy the spiritual food of Osaka with onigiri.

Japan
(convenience store food • cool • food • okonomiyaki • onigiri • SNJO • takoyaki)

Be Mr. Sato’s online friend, and he might take you to dinner, like he did with these foreign fans

Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2016

When two loyal readers from Hawaii said they’d be in Tokyo for a few days, Mr. Sato sprang into action.

Japan, USA
(cooking • food • Mr. Sato • okonomiyaki • shinjuku • takoyaki • Tokyo)

New Japanese beer brings out flavours of Kansai specialties like takoyaki and okonomiyaki

Oona McGee
Jun 8, 2016

The new drink is said to pair well with famous dishes from the region.

Food & Drink, Japan, Lifestyle
(Asahi • beer • Kansai • okonomiyaki • Osaka • takoyaki)

The only things better than Japanese cooking videos are miniature Japanese cooking videos!

Preston Phro
Apr 10, 2016

At this point, we’re not even sure we can even call it “bite-size!”

Culture, Cute, Food & Drink, Internet, Japan
(cooking • food • miniature • Miniature Space • okonomiyaki • sushi • tofu • YouTube)

Newly opened restaurant in Osaka boasts a new evolution of okonomiyaki

KK Miller
Apr 1, 2016

Your mind will say, “How beautiful,” but your stomach will say, “Let’s eat!”

Food & Drink, Japan
(okonomiyaki • Osaka • restaurants • teppanyaki)

Ramen Noodle Pizza and Natto Okonomiyaki Pizza now finally a reality!

Oona McGee
Sep 10, 2015

We’ve seen some strange pizza toppings in the past. From Kit Kats to squid ink, Japan certainly knows how to deliver when it comes to thinking outside of the box.

Now, there are two new awesome pizzas on the menu: Ramen Noodle and Natto Okonomiyaki. And that’s not all – both items are being offered as part of a collaboration using local ingredients that hark back to the 1960s. Available from Aoki’s Pizza from September 10, this is an opportunity that’s not to be missed!

Japan
(cheap eats • natto • okonomiyaki • pizza • ramen • weird)

How to make okonomiyaki at home【SoraKitchen】

Amy Chavez
May 27, 2015

Okonomiyaki is one of the most popular foods cooked at home in Japan. One of Japan’s Top 10 Comfort Foods, the dish is fun to make with family or friends and best of all, it’s easy! Okonomiyaki is also popular with foreigners who when visiting Japan can sample the dish at any of the myriad specialty restaurants dedicated to this vegetable-rich meal.

So, what exactly is okonomiyaki? And how do you make it? Glad you asked!

Read on to find out more about this simple dish: watch a how-to video showing you how to make it, check out photos that show you some unusual ingredients, and get inside tips from Kazuko who regularly makes the dish for her seven grandchildren.

Japan
(how to • japanese cooking • Japanese food • okonomiyaki • RocketKitchen • vegetarian • video)

We love Gudetama so much, we turn him into adorable okonomiyaki pancakes and eat him!

Kay
Apr 26, 2015

Remeber Gudetama, the lazy egg character from Hello Kitty owner Sanrio? Well, it turns out that the unmotivated egg with an extremely unmascot-like personality has gained quite a following in Japan. Apparently, his soft appearance and to an even greater extent, his lazy disposition, which prompts him to mutter phrases like “I have no strength” and “I can’t feel motivated enough to do anything” have earned him considerable popularity. In fact, he’s popular enough to have had his very own character cafe for a limited time in the past, and recently, he’s been collaborating with Dotonbori, a chain of restaurants that serves okonomiyaki, which are Japanese pancakes containing various ingredients such as cabbage, meat and seafood.

That’s right, at Dotonbori, you can use actual eggs to add realistic Gudetama faces to your food. Now, that sounded like too much fun to pass up, so our reporters from our Japanese sister site went to one of the Dotobori shops and actually tried it! Read More

Japan
(Dotonbori • Gudetama • okonomiyaki • Sanrio)

10 distinctly Japanese comfort foods

Amy Chavez
Mar 10, 2015

“Comfort food” is traditional cooking that tends to have a nostalgic or sentimental connection, often one related to family or childhood: the grilled cheese sandwiches your mother used to make; the thought of your grandmother’s bread pudding makes your mouth water; the way the whole house would be filled with the intoxicating aroma of roasted turkey or ham at Christmas? Because of such memories, these foods comfort us, especially when we’re longing for home or feeling especially vulnerable.

Not surprisingly, the sentimental Japanese have their own comfort foods. While you might think they’d be waxing over the octopus tentacles of home, very few of the dishes we’re about to talk about have much to do with seafood. Many Japanese comfort foods have a rice connection and may even center around the unique relationship between mothers or wives and their role in family food preparation. And in Japan, make no mistake about it–her kitchen rules!