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The Japanese dish called okonomiyaki is sometimes called “Japanese pizza,” and it’s not a totally inaccurate description. Though the bottom layer is more like a crepe than crust, it’s always completely covered with toppings, and while cheese isn’t a must-have ingredient, it’s definitely an option (the konomi part of okonomiyaki means “whatever you like,” after all).
▼ Okonomiyaki
But if okonomiyaki has some pizza-like elements, then why not make an actual pizza inspired by okonomiyaki? That’s the question Shakey’s Japan asked itself, and the result is the chain’s new Cheese Okonomiyaki-Style Pizza.
The okonomiyaki pizza makes use of several traditional okonomiyaki ingredients, such as crisp cabbage, tempura flakes, pickled ginger, and powdered bonito flakes and seaweed. The sauce is a mixture of the sweet yet savory okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise (the latter particularly popular in Osaka-style okonomiyaki). For cheese, Shakey’s is using camembert for an extra-luxurious richness, an upgrade from its previous version of okonomiyaki-style pizza from two years ago.
The Cheese Okonomiyaki-Style Pizza will be offered starting in January as part of Shakey’s in-restaurant buffet meals, prices for which range from 1,030 to 1,590 yen depending on time and day.
Unfortunately, there’s only so much space on the buffet counter, and in order to make room for the arrival of the Cheese Okonomiyaki-Style Pizza another of Shakey’s avant-garde creations, the Teriyaki and Egg Cheeseburger Pizza, will be leaving the lineup at the end of the month.
▼ Farewell, you magnificent monster.
But fear not. Shakey’s knows that a comprehensively satisfying meal not only requires okonomiyaki pizza, but a suitable dessert as well.
So its Strawberry Cream Cheese Pizza will remain available through the end of February.
Related: Shakey’s Japan location list
Source: Shakey’s via Entabe
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ebisen
Every time one of these is sold, the collective Italian hearts sink a bit deeper. WTF Japan?!
Mickelicious
Barf.
kyronstavic
Ugh!
Was disappointed when they closed their Osaka branch, though. Fond memories of eating a couple of days' worth of food one sitting for a cheap price.
Mocheake
Shakey's was incredibly awful when I first came to Japan and I hated literally being forced to go there. Haven't been there in almost 30 years but it seems like nothing has changed.
kohakuebisu
I used to go for the cheapo buffet way back when I did eikaiwa.
This okinomiyaki one sounds terrible. I like okinomiyaki, but the "Japanese pizza" analogy is very poor. It's nothing like pizza.
Peter Neil
It's nothing like food, either . . .
Kobe White Bar Owner
I love pizza but to make a comparison between that pile of mess and a pizza is an insult. Leave it alone
theResident
Should not even be allowed to use the word Pizza. An Insult to the word and those who over the last 15 years or so finally bought 'real' Pizza to Japan. I'm sure there are many who remember Pizza-La as the only option back in the early 1990's. As much as I love Japanese food, Pizza was something I missed a lot from Europe until realistically in the early 2000's.
I do remember going to Shakeys ONCE in 1992, Harajuku I think. Truly dreadful.