夕食に来ている推測 (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?)
Eiji hosted a pseudo dinner party at his new crib last night, and guess who was lucky enough to be invited? On the menu were takoyaki and mabodofu, two foods I've traditionally hated in the past. But what you gonna do when someone invites you over to their place, slaves away in the kitchen, and puts free food in front of your face? Turn it down and you might get punched in the jaw.
This is takoyaki before its finished and served up to drooling mouths. With your handy dandy little takoyaki maker, you pour in a mix that looks suspiciously like pancake mix, throw in some octopus (the titular tako), whatever the hell else you like and let the batter start to set a bit. Then you use a stick to move the hardening batter around until its in a perfect little ball shaped form. If you haven't had octopus before it's ridiculously chewy, which is one of the reasons I've avoided it as much as possible. The other reason being that it's hard to wrap my head around eating octopus tentacles.
Megumi, one of Eiji's classmates, is from the Kansai region of Japan. That area, Osaka in particular, is famous for takoyaki. She got a little adventurous with the takoyaki, replacing the tako with cheese weiners instead. They got the MaryAnn seal of approval.
All the while MaryAnn serenaded us with the sounds of Kenny P. You don't know Kenny P? He's like the Okinawan Kenny G., playing smooth jazz like sanshin music.