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About Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki
Okonomiyaki is a dish made of dough where wheat is dissolved in water and mixed with vegetables, meat and fish that are cooked on the iron plate, and eaten with seasonings such as sauce on top of it.
Its roots is a children’s snack that become popular about 100 years ago, where it was originally an iron plate dish made of wheat dissolved in water and leek, called the Issen Yoshoku.
Okonomiyaki is not the so-called tourist dish, but it is a dish that you cannot miss when you visit Hiroshima.
Cheap, delicious and healthy — full of vegetables, if you visit Hiroshima, the Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is a must try.
The dish was born from a food stall village around the 1950s in the central area of Hiroshima City, and around the 1960s it evolved into its current style with Chinese noodles and sauce.
Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki is known as one of the two major styles of Okonomiyaki along with the Kansai-style Okonomiyaki.
And though the two dishes are both Okonomiyaki, they differ greatly.
Kansai-style consists of a dough and ingredients such as meat and cabbage, and it is mixed together before being cooked, but the Hiroshima-fu is not mixed.
On top of a crepe-like dough are heaps of cabbage, Chinese noodles and pork meat that are placed in a layered manner, and are flipped and steamed with the dough covering the dish.
The basics for Hiroshima-style is to add Chinese noodles for the ingredients, but Kansai-style is different.
In addition, the sauce is generally sweet in the former and rather spicy for the latter.
As a side note, there are roughly 1,700 Okonomiyaki restaurants in Hiroshima Prefecture, which is the greatest per capita in Japan.
There are no restaurants that have earned a Michelin star, but there are 7 restaurants that have been introduced as Bib Gourmands.
- 3 restaurants from the Hasshō group
- Icchan
- Sora
- Hiranoya
- Lopez
Recommendation
The most orthodox menu is the Soba Nikutama with ingredients such as Yakisoba noodles, pork meat and eggs.
If you are a big eater, it is better to order a double.
With an additional 100 yen, you can enjoy twice the normal amount of noodles, which is plentiful.
Furthermore, the people of Hiroshima have a strong pride for Okonomiyaki.
Try condemning the Kansai-styke Okonomiyaki, and praise the Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki.
The people of Hiroshima will be filled with happiness, and they will love you for sure.
Eat
The Hiroshima-fu Okonomiyaki has two mangate stores, Mitchan and Hassho.
Mitchan is a long-established restaurant that continues from its food stall village times, and it is the restaurant that completed the current Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki restaurant.
Hassho is a restaurant that invented “crispy noodles”, and it is the most popular restaurant in Hiroshima.
Both stores have several branch and franchise store.
There are lots of delicious restaurants aside from Mitchan and Hassho in Hiroshima; if you do not have a strong preference, there’s no need to line up in their long lines to try their dishes.
Yagenbori Hassho
Among many Okonomiyaki restaurants that gather in Hiroshima, Yagenbori Hasshois known for having the reputation of “the most delicious” okonomiyaki restaurant. It is a Michelin awarded Bib Gourmand restaurant. It uses a dough with a pint of sweetness to create cake wheat, and on top of it is a strictly selected cabbage with the best […]
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| Address | 10-6 Yagenbori, Nakaku, Hiroshima-shi |
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| Access | ● 7 min walk from Kanayamachō[…] |
| Tel | 082-248-1776 |
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Mitchan Sohonten Hatchobori
Mitchan Sohonten Hatchobori is the oldest Okonomiyaki restaurant in Hiroshima. The restaurant owner and chef, Mitsuo Ise , has been working for more than 60 years, and he is known as the pioneer of the modern-day sauce for the Hiroshima-fu okonomiyaki and the dough that consists of yakisoba noodles, cabbage and bean sprouts. Of course, […]
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| Address | 6-7 Hatchobori Nakaku, Hiroshimashi |
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| Access | 5 min walk from Hatchobori st[…] |
| Tel | 082-221-5438 |
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Okonomimura
Okonomimura is a lively restaurant facility on the 3rd floor of a building located in the central area of Hiroshima City, where 24 stall Okonomiyaki restaurants gather. It is known as an “okonomiyaki beginner” for tourists, but it actually has an honorable origin of a food stall village that spurred after World War Two in […]
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| Address | 5-13 Shintenchi, Nakaku Hiroshimas-hi |
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| Access | ● 3 min walk from Hatchobori […] |
| Tel | 082-241-2210 |
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Hiroshima Okonomi Monogatari Ekimae Hiroba
Hiroshima Okonomi Monogatari Ekimae Hiroba is a facility nearby Hiroshima Station with a collection of okonomiyaki restaurants. On the floor are 16 okonomiyaki restaurants, and each restaurant is unique in terms of the visuals and toppings of their okonomiyaki dishes they serve.
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| Address | Full Focus Building 6th floor, 10-1 Matsubaracho, Minamiku Hiroshima-shi |
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| Access | 3 min from the south exit of[…] |
| Tel | 082-568-7890 |
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Sightseeing
Wood Egg Okonomiyaki-kan
Wood Egg Okonomiyaki-kan is a facility with okonomiyaki as a theme, run by Otafuku Sauce Company, the No.1 okonomiyaki sauce producer. You can enjoy viewing the sauce factory and exhibiting the museum, as well as cooking okonomiyaki yourself. Reservation required
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| Address | 7-4-5 Shoko Center, Nishiku Hiroshimashi |
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| Access | From JR Hiroshima Station |
| Tel | 082-277-7116 |
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