Otafuku Sauce Co., Ltd. is established in 1922 in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.
Its Okonomi sauce is the most popular and best know sauce for Okonomiyaki dish, a kind of wheat-batter-based pancake with wide varieties of ingredients inside.
Mostly it contains shredded cabbage as a main part and mixes any food stuff that you like to add such like sliced pork back ribs, shrimp, squid, cheese, kimchee, boiled potato, and many others. Literally, Okonomi means "your favorite", while yaki for baking, pan-frying. At house and home, then, they frequently add anything remains in the kitchen and inside fridge, sometimes leftovers of dinner last night.
Otafuku sauce is, therefore, a key to settle and adjust the basic taste of Okonomiyaki. You may try other line-ups, Takoyaki Sauce and Yakisoba Sauce.
NOTE: Our sauces naturally contains some amount of wheat and soya beans elements, meat extracts. (Main ingredients are vegetables, fruits, vinegar, soy sauce and the others.)
Okonomiyaki, kind of pancake of a Japanese style, must not miss this Otafuku Okonomi sauce in Japan. You will easily find the difference from the other simple sauce in a market, in its mildness and good balance of acidity and luscious sweetness. Otafuku Okonomi sauce is also widely used as a dipping sauce for various fries, simple salads, hamburgers and stir-fries.
Otafuku Yakisoba sauce is the handiest and easiest sauce for fried noodles that does not need adding other seasonings. Oil, food materials like pork, veg, noodles and final sauce will make your perfect Yakisoba, a Japanese style fried noodle. Simple Yakisoba of pork, cabbage and noodle with this sauce is highly recommended to try. It's amazing.
Takoyaki literally means yaki, baking or pan-frying, of Tako, octopus. It has become popular nowadays thanks to Japanese animation movies, in which those characters are having this unique Takoyaki frequently. This dish, however, needs one special griddle plate designed for Takoyaki, and that is the reason why we have big business size only for Takoyaki sauce.
Mixed batter baked on a pan makes Kansai (western or Osaka) style Okonomi-yaki.
Lots of cabbage, fillings and fried noodle, sandwiched by thinly-baked dough like crepe is called Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki.
Japanese style fried noodle with various mixings of proteins (pork, shrimp, squid or your favorite), cabbage, onion, carrot and the others.