Sakurako

Negiyaki comes with a choice of soy sauce, ponzu or sauce. The menu version contains beef tendon and konnyaku, and one diner remembered the fragrant combination of spring onion and soy sauce. Another review mentions that the pancake was served pre-cut, making it easy to share. Changing the seasoning gives the same dish a different character: go for the savoury fragrance of soy sauce, or try ponzu or sauce. Ordering different flavours with friends could make for a good comparison. The menu also includes sujikon-dama, an okonomiyaki featuring beef tendon and konnyaku, for those who want the filling to take centre stage.

For yakisoba, look out for the salt-garlic version. The menu lists pork, garlic and onion, and a diner describes the noodles as thick and chewy. It is a good alternative to the usual sauce-flavoured noodles. Other options include pork yakisoba or yaki-udon, as well as mixed yakisoba or yaki-udon with pork, squid, prawns, octopus and beef. Reviews describe the okonomiyaki as fluffy, with a flavour of dashi; others praise the crisp texture of the cabbage-heavy modanyaki and say they were surprised by its thickness and generous size. Choose a classic pancake with your preferred filling, or modanyaki, which combines it with noodles; the menu offers options to suit different appetites and moods.

For a meal built around teppan dishes to share, consider tonpeiyaki or pork kimchi. Diners who ordered beer say the mugs were thoroughly chilled. The menu offers draft beer in medium and small sizes, as well as bottled beer. One diner also reports having a lunchtime set of pork okonomiyaki with rice, a way to make a meal of these flour-based dishes. Near Abiko Station, Sakurako is an option when you want to choose between negiyaki, salt-flavoured yakisoba and teppan sides.