Okonomiyaki restaurant "Yukari"『ゆかり』in Ohatsutenjin street, Umeda of Osaka.

Okonomiyaki is famous in Osaka.

”Okonomi” means "what you like".

"Yaki" means "grill."

I love this okonomiyaki restaurant and have visited many times.

What kind of restaurant is Yukari?

It is a long-established okonomiyaki restaurant that has been in Osaka since 1950!→The restaurant WEB page (written in Japansese)

It's famous chain restaurants, but it's delicious.

Many repertoire in Yukari

Yukari have not only the traditional repertoire of okonomiyaki, but they also carry flavors from competing restaurants on their menu.

Yukari has surpassed the taste of the rival restaurant.

This green onion yaki restaurant in Juso, near Umeda, is also very popular and there is a very long line.

This is green onion yaki of Yukari in below.

It looks delicious.

Yuakari also offer Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki.

Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki is different from Osaka style.

Hiroshima-yaki" is a grilled dish consisting of cabbage, bean sprouts, pork and yakisoba noodles.

The sweetness of the steamed cabbage and the sweet and spicy okonomiyaki sauce are a perfect match.

Yukarai offer that too, and you don't have to go to Hiroshima to taste it.

For YouTuber

Japanese people may think this is not okonomiyaki, but it looks"Instagenic" to foreigners and YouTubers.

Three or four people eat it together, saying "Yammy!" "Yammy"

So I don't know what it tastes like.

There are variety okonomiyaki in Yukari.

They also have Fromage yaki (Gouda, mozzarella, cheddar, hondue and processed cheese), which seem to have been introduced on TV.

Indian yaki is Not using beef and sea foods.

The okonomiyaki is curry taste with sausage.

My suggestions on how to eat at this restaurant

Ordering what you can eat first before making up okonomiyaki.

You will have to wait about 15 minutes for the okonomiyaki to be ready, so if you order something that you can eat first with drinking Beer or something alcholic drink.

So, we ask the waiter for a menu that can be done quickly.

Tompei yaki is the grilled pork covered thin egg omlet with tomato ketchup.

Share them, have a drink, and wait 15 minutes.

In Japan, it's not strange to share a meal nobody eaten yet.

you order different okonomiyaki and share each them.

If you have good friends or family, you can order different okonomiyaki for each of them and share them to enjoy various tastes.

So, when okonomiyaki is made up, we share a little each other.

Then, you can enjoy many different flavors of okonomiyaki.

If you can eat a lot, ask for fried noodles!

I recommend the fried noodles(yakisoba noodles) are also delicious.

Add the different sauce halfway through to change the taste.

On your table, there is a sauce can in which is rich and slightly spicy, so you can taste it from the middle of the okonomiyaki.

Try to enjoy the taste of okonomiyaki!

Cooking & Eating!

First, have it grilled.

Since many Chinese tourists visit this restaurant, the waiter who worked also seemed to be Chinese.

We ordered him.

Yukari's okonomiyaki ingredients are brought in a red plastic bowl.

We were fascinated by the speed of mixing up the ingredients by the waiter.

The thin pork was grilled first.

While waiting for it to grill, we made a toast with beer.

We didn't order any sides dishs because we can eat a little.

So, over a beer, we both reflect and talk about the today's events.

As the two of us were talking about that, the waitrer flipped our okonomiyaki over.

Okonomiyaki is alredy done.

The waiter asked us if we wanted mayonnaise and carefully poured it over our okonomiyaki.

Cut it in half with a large trowel and eat it even smaller.

Plenty of dried bonito flakes and sprinkle with aonori (green laver).

Enjoy okonomiyaki

The dried bonito flakes are moving on the okonomiyaki with the heat

It's delicious without any mistakes.

Yes, Yukari's okonomiyaki is crispy on the outside but fluffy on the inside.

We ate delicious ingredient of fresh cabbages.

From the middle of the meal, we shared each okonomiyaki and changed the flavor with different sauces.

The heat of the griddle was just right and did not burn until the very end.

Who will enjoy this restaurant and who will not.

Finally, I introduce the typical section.

Who can enjoy this restaurant?

That is, people who want to taste various okonomiyaki flavors.

At Yukari, you can taste from standard okonomiyaki to unique one.

There is sure to be an okonomiyaki you have never had.

Who doesn't enjoy it?

That is, those who are not willing to pay more than 1,000 yen(7-8$ USD) for an okonomiyaki.

Okonomiyaki is for the ordinary people, and there are Japanese who are not willing to pay more than 1,000 yen.

Such a person would think it is not cost-performance to come to this restaurant.

Other chain restaurants sell a okonomiyaki for 500 yen, but such okonomiyaki make me feel like a children snack or a lazy lunch.

That okonomiyaki, of course, has cheap ingredients, so there are no yams in it, and sometimes the okonomiyaki is crunchy both on the outside and inside.

So, if someone who is satisfied with cheap ingredients of a 500 yen okonomiyaki comes to Yukari, I am sure that the cost-performance is bad.