Have you tried Takoyaki?

Takoyaki, in Japanese, IT means fried or baked octopus. I was first introduced to Takoyaki when I was in Japan early this year. My first impression of it was yummy and slimy. Well, it’s a craze in Japan. You can find it in almost all shopping malls and rest areas in Japan. It’s more like a fast food.

I was interested to know the ingredients and looked it up in Wikipedia. It is defined as a dumpling made of batter, green onion, octopus, tenkasu, pickled ginger, and konnyaku. Topped with some “mean” sauce - okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise and katsuobushi (fish shavings). I like the thin shredded fish or fish flakes which taste more like salted fish or what we call “ikan peram”.

Currently, my brother is also a crazy fan of Takoyaki, ever since he came back from Japan, he has been searching high and low for it. Oh boy, was he thrilled to discover that they do have it at One Utama’s Jusco. So guess where he went to today…Yup, he got all of us Takoyaki…I like the Malaysian version, as the batter/texture was neither too slimy nor soft, but the octopus waspretty non existance..hahaha..wonder where it went to ;D

The Takoyaki we had this evening :) Ouch, counting the calories..