Hot plate and okonomiyaki
Yoko “donated” her hot plate to the cookingwithrichard team.

This hot plate is a fantastic piece of kit and very rare — they simply don’t make the 240V (UK/EU) versions of these hot plates at all, and this one is a good 15-16″ in diameter so it’s large enough for the largest okonomiyaki or sukiyaki:

N-sama bought me these very useful bowls as a present:

The okonomiyaki, in fact not very nice as N-sama was quick to tell me. She said “マーマー”:

February 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Who is in the cookingwithrichard team?
February 17th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I have to say that you did well even you couldn’t get some very essensial ingredients for okonomi-yaki,such as
yamaimo and aonori and katuo-bushi…..
Anyway,I maneged to eat it all!
February 17th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
M-kun: Didn’t you know that I have a team of dwarves working away on this blog?
Watari: まぁまぁ?