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Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) is a type of Japanese pan-fried batter cake with various ingredients.

Okonomi means "what you like", or "what you want" and yaki means "grilled" or "cook" (c.f., yakitori and yakisoba) in Japanese, so this dish's name means "cook what you like." The batter is based on flour, grated yam, water or dashi, egg and shredded cabbage, and usually contains other ingredients such as green onion, meat, squid, shrimp, vegetables, Kimchi, and cheese. Okonomiyaki is often compared to an omelette or pizza because of the variety of ingredients it can contain.

Okonomiyaki is prepared like a pancake. The batter and other ingredients are spread and fried on both sides, using either a hot plate (teppan) or a pan. The finished product is then served with further toppings such as okonomiyaki sauce (similar to Worcestershire sauce but thicker and sweeter), noriNori is a Japanese term used to refer to edible varieties of seaweed in the various species of the red alga Porphyra including most notably P. yezoensis and P. A few other algae are used as well, including some cyanobacteria. Nori is also commonly used to, fish flakesJapanese cuisine Katsuobushi is the Japanese name for a preparation of dried and smoked bonito ( skipjack tuna). Katsuobushi is the main ingredient in dashi, a broth that forms the basis of many soups (such as miso soup) and sauces (e. soba no tsukejiru), Mayonnaise (optional), and GingerGinger can refer to the following: Several plants originating from the East Indies. Ginger root, a cooking ingedient from the plant Zingiber officinale''. Ginger”, a pre-release codename for the Segway Human Transporter. A reddish-brown or yellowish-brown.

In Japan okonomiyaki is usually associated with the KansaiThe Kansai region of Japan, also known as the Kinki region (; Kinki-chiho), lies in the middle of Japan's main island, Honshu. The Ki in Kinki is Japanese for miyako meaning city or metropolis. It stems from the fact that up until the Edo era Japan's capi region, where it is thought to have originated, and Hiroshima. Different regions prefer different toppings and batters for okonomiyaki:

• In KyotoToji Temple a symbol of the city, and the tallest pagoda in Japan Kyoto ( Japanese: ; Kyoto-shi) is a city in Japan that has a population of 1. 5 million and time zone UTC + 9 hours. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto p, okonomiyaki is usually made with darker greens.
• In Hiroshima, it is common to add yakisobaJapanese cuisine Yakisoba , lit. fried noodles, is a very simple dish and is sold very cheaply. It is probably Chinese in origin and integrated into Japanese cuisines like Ramen. Even though it has Soba as part of the word, noodle for yakisoba is similar noodles to the mixture and instead of mixing the ingredients together, they are all cooked separately and combined together on a stack; this variation is called modanyaki (モダン焼き) and a large part of the presentation is in the difficult task of stacking the ingredients. Most people from Hiroshima claim that this is the original (and correct) way to make okonomiyaki.
• A dish similar to okonomiyaki that originates in TokyoTokyo (; Tokyo lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the world's largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence. A little more than 12 million is called monjayaki (もんじゃ焼き).

Many okonomiyaki restaurants specialize in specific genres of the dish.