How to make Okonomiyaki Hiroshima style

 

Hiroshima is famous for its okonomiyaki. So we went into an okonomiyaki restaurant. Unfortunately I could not make a video or take better pictures because we were sitting further away and not directly at the counter.
Okonomiyaki is a Japanese dish. You could call it a Japanese pizza, but it is far away from pizza, which we know from Germany or America. There are different ways of making okonomiyaki. It is hard to describe what is in it and how it is made, because there are so many different styles. Usually it is made of a batter consisting of flour, water, and egg (Tokyo style is without egg). You could compare it to a pancake batter. Further ingredients are vegetables (especially shredded cabbage) and meat (for example bacon, pork). You can add sweet okonomiyaki sauce, bonito fish flakes, mayonaise.
I saw an okonomiyaki restaurant in Hiroshima, which showed these pictures of how Hiroshima style okonomiyaki is made:

 

The foundation: a thin crêpe-like pancake topped with spices

  

A whole bunch of shredded cabbage and soy sprouts is added

  

+ Bacon

  

Then is it flipped over and put on top of fried soba noodles

  

An omelett is made and the whole soba-vegetables-pancake mixture is put on top of the egg and then again flipped over

  

+ okonomiyaki sauce

  

 Done!