Okonomiyaki - Okonomiyaki

Japanese: お好み焼 - おこのみやき

A type of teppanyaki. It is made by adding seafood, meat, cabbage, or other ingredients of your choice to wheat flour dissolved in water and grilling it. It can also be used as a sweet, sake snack, or light meal. In the Edo period, monjiyaki, which involved baking letters out of seasoned wheat flour, was popular, and in the Meiji period, it became a business aimed at children. As people would beat drums while selling it at their food stalls, it was also called "dondon-yaki," and the name was later corrupted to "monjayaki." It is said that okonomiyaki developed from this monjiyaki.

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Japanese:

鉄板焼の一種。水溶きした小麦粉に魚介，肉，キャベツなど好みの材料を加えて焼きながら食べるもので，菓子，酒のさかな，軽食にもなる。江戸時代，味つけした小麦粉のたねで文字の形を焼く文字焼(もんじやき)が行われ，明治時代には子ども相手の商売となった。屋台で売り歩く際に太鼓をたたいたので〈どんどん焼〉ともいわれ，なまって〈もんじゃ焼〉の名も生まれた。この文字焼から発展したのがお好み焼だという。

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