"Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here. Ready! Fresh as harvest day!" (aka Ms. Lauren's Squid Balls)

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So tell me about these squid balls.

JW (ex machina), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

cuttlefish balls?

bb (bbrz), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Cutty's balls?

JW (ex machina), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

(i wondered how long it would take to ge tto that joke)

bb (bbrz), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

"One...two...*CRUNCH*".

Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=takoyaki&sa=N&tab=wi

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006FLNDM/103-4459197-5600629?v=glance&n=284507 ?

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

what's not to love about deep-fried balls of batter stuffed with bits of baby octopus and covered with a mixture of sauces, mayo, and dried bonito?

lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

HOW TO FIND.

JW (ex machina), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

on 9th st between 2nd and 3rd. there's a stand next to the cloister cafe that sells takoyaki, those pancake things, and fried noodles.

lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Otafuku
236 E. 9th St., New York, NY 10003
between Second and Third Aves.
212-353-8503

You've got two choices at Otafuku, and both transport you to Tokyo. The first: okonomiyaki, which is often called Japanese pizza but is more like a savory thick pancake filled with cabbage, squid, shrimp, pork, or beef and topped with a special sauce, mayonnaise, dried bonito flakes, and seaweed powder. The second: takoyaki, little fritters filled with chopped octopus, ginger, and scallions. Think doughnut holes, only savory. It's very rare to find this stuff in New York. Consider yourself lucky.

I ate there a few times and the experience is... odd. Super cheap tho'; you can get lunch for five bucks.

Lately they've had a closed gate and a big sign in the window that declares them unsafe to eat at by order of the department of health. So you pays your money and takes your chances.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Mostly, they're more fun to roll up in katamari.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

You've got two choices at Otafuku, and both transport you to Tokyo.

Dear NYMag,

Both okonomiyaki and takoyaki are regional specialties specific to Kansai, not Tokyo.

Steve Shasta
Bronze medalist, International Wakeboarding Summit - Kyoto 1992

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not to mention they aren't THAT difficult to find in NY. Or maybe I was just lucky.

Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you, department of health. otafuku is GREAT. not sure what could be called odd about the experience of getting food from a take-out counter, but different strokes etc.

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

They make Spongebob cry!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Lauren, it's not that the place is odd, it's that the takoyaki itself is odd. I'm not quite sure what to make of the slightly runny, slightly rubbery, slightly crispy texture and the odd melange of flavors combined with sauce. It requires some adjustment or at least it did for me.

The Okonomiyaki just wasn't my thing.

I did go back a few times and may well go back soon if they ever open up again. It's a good experience to share with someone.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

i think they're back open full time. at least, they've been open whenever i've walked by over the past 2-3 weeks. having someone with you is good, if for no other reason than you've got someone to talk to while you stand around on the sidewalk eating.

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think they have kansai-style food at Taisho in the East Village.

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 26 May 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

fozi's monterey bay food web lab sea creature illustrations

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

i need help w/my physics homework, foz.

gbx (skowly), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

feel free to ask

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

vahid dot fozi at gmail dot com

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Friday, 26 May 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...
 Already, it is the [do] [tsu] [pu] [ri] music soaking, but music the normal white-collar worker of northeast district which completely is not relationship is done, zepy (XXMAL) with you say.
In a general way, music history (the specialty which is heard!)And so on.

 Elementary school student age song tune and the lock which flow average with TV has heard the air the way does, but the baptism of MTV and the industrial lock (M Jackson or culture club to combine) receiving at the time of the junior high school student, it starts inquiring about ocean ease, that interest to the traditional Japanese music lock vanishes simultaneously suddenly. (The traditional japanese music has done to handle the music which [gaki] is heard)
After that, the 溯 [tsu] [te] you hear ocean ease to the sixties, keep hearing the name board from edge, [purogure] and techno encounter, hearing also jazz and the fusion start.
 Hearing the Japanese band such as [bo] [ganbosu] and PINK accidentally in opportunity, as for taking a second look the traditional Japanese music lock the time where it has been about probably to enter into nineties. The world of [purogure] and jazz lock and electrification jazz being funny, again (it stops inquiring about the especially Japanese of real time) lock.
 It starts doing Internet among those, in the varieties and information while you collect, interest coming out suddenly in the current traditional Japanese music, and the ocean easy lock one after another producing the hand. You misunderstood what, being affected the music critic, appearing in the eccentricity which starts the music sight 99 end of years.
 Encountering [boadamusu] the just a little front. The album 'until now the impact which is not is received with super [a]'. The splendid artists where and, underground funny music is produced with the scene knew that Sawayama it is for the first time.
Then, while [indeizu] which name is not sold (especially Kansai spirit) with to try to find the jewel, the work of each member of [boadamusu] to search like the ogre you buy CD and search, reach to the present.

 Such hobby full opening sight “MusicMagic” to be possible.

roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Internet translators are pretty funny. [boadamusu] = Boredoms

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

yea, i figured that out from living with a dude who thought it was funny to talk like that

roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

i've wanted squid pancakes all day, since the minute i woke up, but can't find anyone who wants to go eat them with me. i'm going to go find some tentacles to eat lonesomely.

bell labs (bell_labs), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

So awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWSgcehrRg

forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

"Overwhelming, am i not?

forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 15:35 (eighteen years ago)


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