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Originally posted by Cochese
Maggie, I've had okonomiyaki, it's not especially pizza-like at all (flat != pizza). Tastes more like a warm salad.
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From what I've heard about it there's quite a bit of variety to okonomiyaki. This makes sense since the word is translated as "cook whatver you like"...probably analogous to the US phrase "garbage pizza". And if your idea of pizza includes a leavened dough, I can see why you wouldn't call okonomiyaki pizza-like.
My point was that what this "world's first Japanese pizza web page" is actually describing come on very much like okonomiyaki....and that's probably why it's not really tuned into US ideas of what pizza should be. They're not trying to imitate yankee style so much, although the pictures do look like a leavened wheat dough was used.
And it's certainly *not* the first okonomiyaki web page, nor even the first web page to call it "japanese pizza". Fans of Ukyou from Ranma 1/2 have been calling it that for ages., although they describe it as more of a pancake.
My lifepartner Gwen, who hails from Chicago, swears that we don't really make pizza here in Philly anyway. She's learned to love calzone, though. I prefer stromboli.
<i>okonomiyaki
(n): pizza-like pancake fried with various ingredients</i>