Takoyaki Party...?
Since I'm lazy... if you don't know what Takoyaki is: I've wiki'd it for you.
Shige's parents got me a Takoyaki grill as a gift from Osaka <3
Since I've only eaten it twice, I had no idea how to make it at all, so Shige came over to help. Also I am really helpless at cooking..
He makes fun of the way I cut all the time. It takes me hours to cut a few veggies, and usually people watching get really nervous because the way I do it looks really dangerous haha
Shige calling his mom for instuctions on how to make a beef/konnyaku concoction:
Ingredients before cooking:
Step one, throw everything on the grill. At this point I was really skeptical that Shige knew what he was doing... haha
But mysteriously, they started taking the shape of Takoyaki!
Almost done:
And the finished first ever home-made Takoyaki (for me)!! complete with mayo, sauce, and katsuo :)
After a few batches of normal Takoyaki, I got creative! I like chocolate. So I made chocolate balls and used pancake syrup for sauce (which was really really good, exactly like pancakes but way less messy). But then I thought: "Hey, I also love beef"! So I made Choco-beef! Which I know sounds terrible, but it was pretty good, IF you use pancake syrup. Recommended.
One thing that I don't recommend is putting jam in. While it tastes good, it just doesn't cook properly. The jam came spewing out and the balls wouldn't hold their shape. An it took Shige a good 20 mins of scrubing just to get the burned jam off later (>.<)... BUT for the lolz factor, it totally looked like the Takoyaki was bleeding hahaha.
Note that the four normal-shaped ones on the right side are regular Takoyaki that Shige made for him since he wouldn't eat the strange things I was making haha
The aftermath:
Why is cooking always soooo messyyyyy?????
And I told many of my students about how creative I can be with Takoyaki, and none of them had ever done that. I simply can't understand it. They have been making Takoyaki at home for their whole lives, and no one thought about putting anything other than the standard Takoyaki ingredients in. Sounds so non-adventurous and boring to me, but every Japanese (that I've talked to) thinks that foreigners are crazy for challenging the standards. Ahh cultural differences.
Shige's parents got me a Takoyaki grill as a gift from Osaka <3
Since I've only eaten it twice, I had no idea how to make it at all, so Shige came over to help. Also I am really helpless at cooking..
He makes fun of the way I cut all the time. It takes me hours to cut a few veggies, and usually people watching get really nervous because the way I do it looks really dangerous haha
Shige calling his mom for instuctions on how to make a beef/konnyaku concoction:
Ingredients before cooking:
Step one, throw everything on the grill. At this point I was really skeptical that Shige knew what he was doing... haha
But mysteriously, they started taking the shape of Takoyaki!
Almost done:
And the finished first ever home-made Takoyaki (for me)!! complete with mayo, sauce, and katsuo :)
After a few batches of normal Takoyaki, I got creative! I like chocolate. So I made chocolate balls and used pancake syrup for sauce (which was really really good, exactly like pancakes but way less messy). But then I thought: "Hey, I also love beef"! So I made Choco-beef! Which I know sounds terrible, but it was pretty good, IF you use pancake syrup. Recommended.
One thing that I don't recommend is putting jam in. While it tastes good, it just doesn't cook properly. The jam came spewing out and the balls wouldn't hold their shape. An it took Shige a good 20 mins of scrubing just to get the burned jam off later (>.<)... BUT for the lolz factor, it totally looked like the Takoyaki was bleeding hahaha.
Note that the four normal-shaped ones on the right side are regular Takoyaki that Shige made for him since he wouldn't eat the strange things I was making haha
The aftermath:
Why is cooking always soooo messyyyyy?????
And I told many of my students about how creative I can be with Takoyaki, and none of them had ever done that. I simply can't understand it. They have been making Takoyaki at home for their whole lives, and no one thought about putting anything other than the standard Takoyaki ingredients in. Sounds so non-adventurous and boring to me, but every Japanese (that I've talked to) thinks that foreigners are crazy for challenging the standards. Ahh cultural differences.