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Chop the cabbage finely.
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Slice the green onion thinly.
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Cut up all the other filler ingredients such as the pork into easy to eat pieces.
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Add the tofu to the flour without draining.
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Add water little by little, add the mentsuyu sauce, and then add the grated yamaimo yam.
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Mix to make the batter.
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Prepare the other ingredients for 1 portion.
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Combine the cabbage, egg, green onion, tenkasu, and dried shrimps.
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Add 1 ladle plus of the batter, and mix together.
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Heat an electric griddle.
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Lay the pork belly strips first, and cook the okonomiyaki with the fat that renders.
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Make the pancake as thick as possible, and don't spread it out.
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Once you pour the batter on the griddle, put the other ingredients on top.
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Flip the pancake over when it's done on one side.
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Don't press down!
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Don't ever press down on it!
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When the center gets fluffy and the added ingredients are cooked through, flip the pancake over one more time.
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Don't press down!!
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Stick the edge of the spatula into the pancake in several places.
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If it comes out clean, the okonomiyaki is done.
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To decorate the top of the okonomiyaki with sauce: Cover the top with lots of okonomiyaki sauce.
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Draw stripes on top with mayonnaise.
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Make stripes perpendicular to the mayonnaise stripes with a thin object, like a chopstick.
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First from top to bottom...
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..and the next stripe from bottom to top.
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Repeat these two strips, Up, down, down, up...
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Done!