【海外の反応】「日本の大阪の味なんて偽物！粉モノ料理は韓国が本場！」韓国人の主張に対して、美食家のイタリア人の意外な反応がw【日本のあれこれ】

The taste of Osaka in Japan is a fake! The taste of Korea is the real thing! Good work, everyone. I'm Aoi, your host. Bread, pasta, pizza, noodles, and sweets. There are so many kinds of flour-based dishes around us. Flour is eaten not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. According to statistics from the US Department of Agriculture, the amount of flour produced in the world has been increasing year after year since the 1960s. We can see the high demand for flour. When it comes to Japanese staple food, it's rice, but there are also many dishes using flour in Japan. And it seems that those dishes are also loved by foreigners. This is the result of Italians eating Japanese and Korean flour dishes. Hello, my name is Marika. I work in a magazine company in Italy. My job is fun and my private life is going well. But there is one thing that worries me. It's my weight. I've always loved to eat, but recently my appetite has increased even more. I eat a lot of pizza, pasta, and sweet sweets. Thanks to that, my pants are tight and my weight has been recorded as the highest in my life. At that time, my friend Aida invited me to travel abroad. She recommends Japan. To be honest, I wasn't very interested in traveling. Because you have to walk around wherever you go, and you use your physical strength. It's definitely more fun to watch TV at home and eat pizza. When I told Aida that, she said, That's why you can't lose weight. I'm going to lose weight, but I don't want to get tired. When I said that, she started talking about the benefits of walking and the fun of traveling. I was getting more and more tired, but at the end, she said something that caught my attention. In Japan, there are more delicious things than pizza and pasta. And it's healthy because it's filling. What? Is that so? I love pizza and pasta. But I can't believe there are more delicious things in the world. I changed my face, and Aida said, It's called okonomiyaki. If you eat Japanese okonomiyaki, you'll be satisfied. It's better than Italian pizza and pasta. And it's delicious and healthy. There's no such thing as a perfect food. But when I saw Aida talking so confidently, I got interested in that unknown food called okonomiyaki. According to Aida, there are various Japanese dishes other than okonomiyaki in Japan, and you can eat a lot of healthy and delicious food. I see. It might not be bad. Why don't we try this okonomiyaki? So we decided to go to Japan using our next long vacation. We took a plane from Milan to Kansai International Airport. From the airport, we took a train to the hotel. We were prepared, but it was still a long way from Europe to Asia. By the time we got to the hotel, we were both exhausted and hungry. But luckily, there was an okonomiyaki restaurant right next to the hotel we were staying at. When we checked in at the hotel, we went straight to the restaurant. As soon as we entered the restaurant, the waitress took us to our seats and served us cups and menus with water. It's a strange restaurant to serve water without asking for anything. And there was no water on the menu. I was hesitating, but Aida said, This water is a service. In Italy, the water in the restaurant is paid, but in Japan, it's usually free. This is normal. I was surprised. And even though the water was free, it wasn't bad. It was at a level where I was satisfied because it was cold. I thought, What's going on with the management of Japanese restaurants to be able to continue to provide such services for free? As soon as we talked about the water, we decided to order our favorite okonomiyaki. When I looked at the menu, there were about 15 types of okonomiyaki in total, and it was written that pork balls and sujiyaki were recommended. Butatama means okonomiyaki with pork. Sujiyaki means with beef tendon. We decided to order pork balls and sujiyaki one by one. There was a big iron plate on our table, and the waitress baked okonomiyaki in front of us. The waitress turned the dough over and poured the sauce on it, and it was like watching a magic show. The okonomiyaki was crispy on the outside, but the dough inside was fluffy and very delicious. The pork balls have a savory taste of pork that stimulates appetite, and the sujiyaki has a sweet and spicy taste of beef tendon soaked into the dough. In addition to pork and beef tendon, there are plenty of vegetables such as cabbage, so I was happy to be more satisfied than I thought. I used to love pizza with a lot of bacon and cheese. To be honest, before I went to Japan, I thought there was no food more delicious than pizza, but I was wrong. Okonomiyaki definitely satisfied my stomach. In addition to this, in Osaka, there are modern-style yakisoba with okonomiyaki, seafood okonomiyaki with seafood, and omurice-style omusoba, so we ate a variety of okonomiyaki every night. The variety of okonomiyaki is limitless. In addition, not only the ingredients, but also the sauce is exquisite. There was an okonomiyaki sauce in front of a store, so I bought it as a souvenir. After staying in Osaka for a few days, we moved to Kyoto by train. Unlike the bustling and urban atmosphere of Osaka, Kyoto has a lot of historical buildings that make you feel Japanese. Our accommodation in Kyoto is a hot spring inn that we made a bit of an effort to book. It was the best hot spring I've ever been to since I was born. I usually take a shower, so it was a valuable experience to soak in the hot spring. Also, the yukata that can be rented at the inn is Japanese-like and cute. I enjoyed taking pictures of the yukata with Aida. When we left the hot spring and returned to our room, we were surprised to see that the dinner was prepared in the room. This is the hospitality of Japan. The food was delicious, of course, and I was impressed by the food. The food we tried in Kyoto was takoyaki. Takoyaki is a small ball-shaped food with octopus in the middle, and the texture of the soft dough is addictive. Since it was sprinkled with the same sauce as okonomiyaki, takoyaki may be easier to eat than okonomiyaki. I want to stay in Japan longer and eat delicious food. We left a regrettable feeling and returned to Italy. In short, the trip to Japan was the best. Besides, there was a lot of delicious food in Japan, so I ate too much, but I had a lot of time to walk around, so I thought I might have lost weight. Since I came to Japan, I was completely fascinated by the number of wonderful Japanese dishes, including okonomiyaki. There are okonomiyaki restaurants in Italy, but the number of shops is still small, and it is somewhere inferior to Japanese okonomiyaki. So I thought I'd make it myself, and I made it at home while looking at the recipe site. Reproducing that taste was a difficult task. No matter how many times I try, I can't reproduce the crispy texture on the surface and the fluffy texture inside at the same time. Maybe the type of flour is different. Maybe Italian water is a perfume, so it doesn't work well. No, no, the way to cut cabbage... I thought about various things and changed the ingredients, but no matter how many times I do it, it's still different. As I was researching on the Internet, I learned that okonomiyaki is popular as a home-cooked dish in Japan, and I was envious of the fact that such delicious food can be eaten at home in Japan. One day, when I had lunch with my co-worker Soyoon, a Korean, we suddenly talked about Japanese okonomiyaki. You know, Korea is a neighboring country to Japan, so I was hoping that Soyoon might know how to make okonomiyaki. Maybe there are foods that are similar to okonomiyaki in Korea. Then Soyoon said this with a sarcastic smile. Japanese okonomiyaki is a fake just because it has a Korean twist. According to Soyoon, okonomiyaki is now called Japanese food, but it was originally one of the Korean dishes, and okonomiyaki is an inferior version of Korean food. Japan is deceiving the world. Soyoon, who said that harshly, was a little offended. And Soyoon made a suggestion to me. The origin of okonomiyaki is a Korean dish called chijimi. Why don't you come to my house for chijimi this holiday? I felt a little bad for being told bad things about my favorite okonomiyaki, but the original chijimi must be delicious. I thought you might be able to teach me the recipe, so I decided to take the invitation. And the next holiday, I visited Soyoon's house. On the kitchen table, there were ingredients such as onions, carrots, chives, and kimchi, and flour, potato starch, salt, and eggs were used for the dough. Huh? Do you put chives or kimchi in okonomiyaki? The ingredients are a little different from Japanese okonomiyaki. I felt a little uncomfortable, but I decided to watch Soyoon's recipe. And the chijimi was completely different from okonomiyaki. And if you eat it with the sauce Soyoon prepared, it's pretty spicy. The dough has a chewy texture, and it's delicious, but it's completely different from the texture of okonomiyaki, and it feels like the spiciness of the sauce dominates everything. I was expecting to be able to eat something like okonomiyaki, but that expectation was betrayed. Even so, Soyoon said confidently that it was better than okonomiyaki. So I said, Chijimi is chijimi and delicious, but it's completely different from okonomiyaki. I explained the difference between okonomiyaki and chijimi with all my heart. And when I looked it up on the Internet, I found out that chijimi has nothing to do with the birth of okonomiyaki. The origin of okonomiyaki is a Chinese food called zhenbin. This is a simple food made by melting wheat flour with water and frying it thinly. It was passed down to Japan, and in the early Showa period, it was developed into a one-line food with a dough of wheat flour and a sauce. At that time, it was a snack for children, but in the era of food war, it became a valuable food, and ingredients such as pork were gradually added, and it evolved into okonomiyaki. Knowing this fact, Soyoon was quite shocked. But I didn't mean to deny either okonomiyaki or chijimi, I just wanted you to know that they were just different. And the other day, I invited Soyoon to my house. In order for her to eat my homemade okonomiyaki, of course, it was not a satisfactory result, but Soyoon said it was delicious and ate it. And she said, if you like, can you teach me how to make it? It seems that Soyoon also became a fan of okonomiyaki. One thing that is indispensable to okonomiyaki is mayonnaise. However, you have to use something like Kewpie or something similar for okonomiyaki. Even if you make a mistake, you should not use appropriate things. Western mayonnaise is too sweet and lacks spices and umami. When I visited Japan the other day, I ate okonomiyaki, and it was the best! Okonomiyaki may be the most delicious food in Japan. When I was asked to flip okonomiyaki at a okonomiyaki restaurant in Hiroshima, that was the most nervous moment in my life. The American who was baking at the table next to me was flipping it well, and he looked like a hero. By the way, I made a big mistake and messed it up. If you ask me, okonomiyaki and chijimi may be quite similar. However, okonomiyaki is more voluminous and filling, so I like it. What I like is takoyaki. The soft octopus goes well with the soft texture of the dough. When I make it myself, I make the octopus bigger. Summary It may be surprising that Japanese okonomiyaki is popular even among foreigners. By the way, okonomiyaki is famous for its sweet and spicy sauce. However, okonomiyaki has become more diverse recently, and you can eat it with various sauces. For example, in Hiroshima, you can eat okonomiyaki with sambal sauce, red wine-based sauce, yogurt-flavored sauce, or okonomiyaki with meat miso sauce with Chinese pepper. Okonomiyaki has evolved in Japan. I hope that Japanese okonomiyaki will spread more and more to the world in the future. How was it? I would be happy if you could tell me your impressions in the comments. Please give me a high rating and subscribe to my channel. Thank you for watching until the end. See you in the next video.