Pork belly isn't over till they flip it over.
These robust Osaka-style okonomiyaki also included cabbage, green onion, red ginger, and tempura crisps, bound by flour and egg. I'm pretty sure my pancake (below; $5) was served pork-belly-side up, though under pale yellow mayonnaise, dark sweet okonomi sauce, and a blizzard of salty bonito flakes, there's no telling now.
Also shown below: shina soba from the Tokyo ramen shop Chibakiya, in a ruddy pork-chicken-seafood broth with thin curly noodles and a half-boiled egg ($8.90); a deep-fried "burger" ($2) of minced aji mackerel on a rice patty; kushi-age ($1.75 each), or "skewers, deep-fried," flavored with spicy cod roe (orange), sardine (brown), and octopus-and-scallion (only this last had any textural interest); a wrap of mochi and chestnut paste ($1.80) in a freshly griddled (and freshly branded) sponge cake; and firm, not-too-sweet tofu doughnuts ($1). They'd be terrific for dunking, if ever you could find them outside the fair.
Autumn Food Fair
At Mitsuwa Marketplace, 595 River Rd., Edgewater, New Jersey
201-941-9113
www.MitsuwaNJ.com
October
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