A tiny storefront that dishes up Japanese takoyaki---trendy street food.
| This may be the most unique take-out in town. The tiny storefront, with a wood counter and no seating, serves up takoyaki, or octopus balls, a popular Japanese street food. A rice-based batter with chunks of octopus is poured into indentations in a contraption that, with much coaxing from the ball maker, wiggles and shakes and eventually produces perfectly round, piping hot balls. They are served five to an order, doused with a mayonnaise sauce and bonito flakes. Otafuku also serves okonomiyaki, scallion and egg pancakes flecked with your choice of squid, pork or corn with scallion, and topped with the shop’s ubiquitous mayonnaise and bonito. Still hungry? Try some yakisoba---seafood fried noodles. |
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