31 May 2015

EDO - mojiyaki monjayaki

LINK
http://washokufood.blogspot.jp/2008/08/yaku.html

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monjiyakiya  文字焼き屋 selling "monjiyaki" in Edo

mojiyaki 文字焼き "frying letters", letting the dough drip from a spatula (shamoji) onto the hot pan, giving it patterns like letters.

This is the fore-runner of okonomiyaki.
moji . monji . monja . monjayaki


Most Monjiyaki-ya in Edo opened their stalls (yatai) during the many festival days of temples and shrines.

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monja yaki namae no yurai wa moji yaki

the origin
of the word "monjayaki"
is "writing letters "


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杓子程筆では書けぬ文字焼屋
shamoji hodo fude de wa kakenu mojiyakiya

with a spatula
he writes better than with a pen -
the "fried letters" chef



source : blog.oricon.co.jp/masuda


. Food vendors in Edo .



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