Eat Me, World: Japan

We did this Japanese-themed meal for book club. Yakisoba was somewhere between this and this. I wanted it to taste really fried and griddled but I’m assuming it was an operator error; still I think it tasted pretty OK. Bought Aonori (seaweed flakes) and Benishoga (pickled red-colored ginger) at the local Japanese food mart and that was a great addition. Made okonomiyaki for the second time using a cross between this and this; I cannot get it to flip correctly; assume it’s an operator error. Then had tonkatsu — or pork katsu — except I used pork shoulder meat (butcher’s recommendation). It was only $13.15 for like 20 cutlets and it totally worked.