Amami Superman Photography

I usually have to work late on Tuesday nights and my wife had a PTA meeting to attend (so she thought but really didn't). I had some time between my classes and we decided to catch dinner early before my wife left for PTA at a place called "Mangetsu". Mangetsu is an okonomiyaki shop.

Mangetsu means full moon in Japanese. Okonomiyaki is kind of like a Japanese style pancake. My wife loves okonomiyaki and I have come to like it a lot too, although, not as much as her. Okonomiyaki consists of chopped up cabbage mixed in with batter; that's the primary base for the pancake. After that you add in pretty much whatever you like. My wife always goes for the shrimp in hers. I wanted to go with something a bit different so I went with the fried pork and kimchi with a fried egg on top. I know, it may sound completely gross, but it's actually pretty good. Here are some of the photos I took. It was a pretty dark shop and I used my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 so these photos are a lot brighter than it actually was. I also got away with some pretty slow shutter speeds (bracing my arms on the table).

Hikari's Shrimp Okonomiyaki

(fried pork & kimchi)

Letting Them Cook

(just after they flipped them)

It's kind of cool how they cooked the egg to the top of mine. They just slid it over, cracked an egg, broke the egg and set the okonomiyaki on the egg to cook. I was expecting them to just come and fry and egg and set it on top.

Digging In