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Hinano made me do it!

Zyl — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:34:48 +0000

Well, just the dessert bit from her hotcakes post. The okonomiyaki was due to Nabari no Ou. Luckily for me, Abeno could deal with both cravings with one hot steel table top!

Ordered a Spring special degustation-yaki with five mini pancakes with squid, black tiger prawns, organic beef, chicken and pork. GBP 18.50. Topped with dried bonito and seaweed flakes, they only needed a little soy sauce; the delicate flavours would have been overwhelmed by the sweet okonomiyaki sauce. Pricey but every thing was very good quality – from the batter flour, eggs,finely chopped carrots and cucumber to the exquisitely balanced miso soup with tender chopped leeks.

Hotcake with two mochi (goes whee!) inside. Whipped cream, green tea ice cream, red bean sorbet, organic butter and maple syrup. GBP 6.50.

I did have to wait for about 10 minutes before the teppan top was sufficiently hot for the staff to start cooking my meal. It’s been many years since I last had okonomiyaki (once in the Taka basement, the stall’s been taken over by a tonkatsu stall IIRC and the very first time in a Kyoto hill side street) so it was also a bit nostalgic. Overall, very satisfying meal though I did smell completely of okonomiyaki afterwards.

Interior.

Exterior.

Special Command A-17

Zyl — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:58:22 +0000

Essay crisis detected. A state of emergency has been declared in the blog area. HSNO, ordered Special Command A-17. Resumption of regular activities is forecasted for the weekend.

In other news, upgraded to WP 2.3.3 – that notification bar sure works. It’s as annoying as hell. All that blog jigging for just one xmlrpc file. Hope this isn’t the start of another flood of little ‘urgent security it’s the end of the wordpress’ upgrades.

BTW pocky is delicious but I feel Kagamin’s pain; have put on 2 kgs in just the past two weeks on a pack a day! OTL

Cabbage Roll Love

Zyl — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:07:24 +0000

No, this isn’t about Yoakena [obligatory link to suguru]. Inspired by Wilhelmina’s Hellraiser of a cabbage roll of love.

To think that I was LOLing at Wilhelmina for making a mess of this relatively simple dish but, due to various circumstances, I struggled a bit too, had to make quite a few mods to my reference recipe too: mixed cooked (leftover) and uncooked rice, didn’t use enough tomato puree, much less sugar, and half of the mince-mix wasn’t wrapped because I ran out of cabbage leaves that were big enough, added Tabasco sauce and sliced fresh green chilli as toppings.

But it wasn’t too bad taste-wise. The only problem now is that I’ve made a bit too much and probably have got two more servings to go. orz