Pasta can pan cakes

More memories of beloved Tokyo and great friends. Okonomiyaki is the student saver when it comes to food. Buy a bag of flour and a head of cabbage and you can feed yourself for a week. Of course it helps to have some mayonaise and brown sauce available and idealy an egg and any other toppings you want or can afford. I think this was a kimchi okonomiyaki with cheese and various other sauces dribbled generously on top. My family came to visit so my friends came to meet them at Sunshine City (whee there it is again!) in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. We decided to have dinner in the basement area where there are a bunch of restaurants. The place was called Pasutakan Okonomiyaki , I'm not entirely sure what the name means o_o I don't think they are referring to the elusive pasta can. Oh well. Good service, good food, friendly environment and alll the toppings you can pile on (if you wanted a sauce, nori and mayonaise tabehoudai). Its always fun to cook your own food. Generous portions for a decent price, my kinda place. Also, if you're not comfortable flipping piping hot food with steel spatulas on a sizzling oil covered hot plate, the waiters/waitresses offer to do it for you. Little sand hour glass timers are on every table to help you time your cooking if you go solo. It's fun and a lot wasier than you think ;) Okonomiyaki power!