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\u201cMake sure you eat lots of okonomiyaki!\u201d was the advice of a friend of mine when she learned I was enroute to Tokyo<\/a> for a summer of house-sitting<\/a>.
\u201cUm….sure!\u201d I said, temporarily having forgotten about the sheer existence of this little gem of Japanese cuisine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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When I arrived to my house-sitting gig, the homeowners were gracious enough to leave me with maps, guidebooks, and a few recommendations. Among their recommendations was an okonomiyaki restaurant they said I simply must try. Although they didn’t mark it out on one of the many maps they left for me, they did leave me with a business card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I met up with my friend Tim of Spirited Travelpreneur (who I originally met in Ecuador), I suggested we eat at this restaurant.
Finding the place wasn’t nearly as easy as you might think. My navigational skills are normally top-notch, but the business card was in Japanese, and given that many streets in Japan don’t actually have names, googling the address was far from an exact science. Thus when I googled the address it showed me a location quite a few blocks from where the restaurant was actually located, which started us on our wild goose chase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, it took us a very (very) long time to find the restaurant. While we were aimlessly wandering, I turned on the camera and chatted with Tim about some of the culinary experiences he’s had in Japan.
We chatted about the thing Tim has eaten the most since arriving in Japan (hint: there are 21,000 of these restaurants in Tokyo alone).
We also discussed wagyu beef in Japan, and how I happen to know that this Japanese food isn’t actually Japanese.
Then we went on a tangent about coffee, and why Vietnamese coffee is the best ever (even better than Colombian coffee in my opinion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we finally did find the okonomiyaki restaurant, we were rewarded with a delightful experience of watching our server prepare it in front of us on the hot plate that was our table.<\/p>\n\n\n

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