Economy Yucky

[steepholm]

It's almost five years since I started learning Japanese. At about that time, inspired by watching Cardcaptor Sakura, I also made my first attempt at okonomiyaki. In the words of the Pokemon games, "It wasn't very effective."



As it happens, my Japanese class's homework this week was to make okonomiyaki, following a recipe in Japanese. It turned out rather better:



But of course, there's still a long way to go. Okonomiyaki here stands as a rather obvious metonym (or is it a synecdoche?) for my understanding of the culture and language generally. Vita brevis, ars longa, and all that.

Comments

[cmcmck]

A Japanese pizza, perhaps? :o)

[steepholm]

It's sometimes called that! But pizza doesn't usually contain quite that much cabbage.

[cmcmck]

That said, I've run into them with a sauerkraut topping in Germany!