Cabbage pancakes

 This had some other name that started with an O but I couldn't say it. We saw it advertised on a restaurant that we drove past, did a U ie and went back. 

Very traditional building and once they established that there were four of us, we were taken to the back of the restaurant and shown a low table with cushions about two inches off the ground, we all shook our heads, no way could we get down or up again. It did seem that there were only two such tables in the whole place.

Thankfully we were led back to a normal table with bench seats, the table had a large hot plate in the middle. Menu had pictures and then there was an instruction sheet, one side Japanese, the other English on how to cook. 

Our meal arrived in like a ceramic bowl, it looked like shredded cabbage two or three eggs and flour, possibly other stuff. Point one said to mix together for a couple of minutes. When the waitress took our order, she turned on the hot plate. Point two was put oil on plate when it was 180 degrees, there was a small bowl with a couple of blocks of I thought coconut oil. Point three tip mixture on to plate and mould into a round, turn after three minutes then three minutes on the other side.

We did peek at the other patrons to check that we were doing it right or at least not too wrong.

This was the bowl that was brought to the table.

Hot plate

Finished result, there were three different sauces to put on top, one was like mayonnaise one soy sauce and the other a hot sauce. Luckily we had only ordered one between us and it was quite big and filling.

Whoops bit out of sequence, during cooking.

I did say that it was filling but the boys decided that they needed dessert.

Think the cost was about 3800 yen or $41 for four, not bad.