This is another Japanese hoppin’ we are doing.

Bought fresh tuna slice…I forgot to take note of how much it was per kilo!  Bummer!  I really can’t rely on my memory nowadays….so many notes in my mind…numbers specifically!  Confusing for this ageing mind of mine!  Anyone can suggest how I can boost my memory?

Back to the tuna…it was fresh alright.  Finished it right away!  We didn’t let AD eat it because he might not be able to take it well so the 2 adults happily munched the tuna down into their hungry stomach.

I’m just the accessory in this photo…HB was trying to take photo of the man cooking Takoyaki balls on my right side.  I think they prohibit taking photos anything inside the store.  New Hatchin Japanese grocery cook takoyaki balls (P78/8pcs) and gyoza (5pcs) every weekends only.  My HB knows I love Takoyaki balls so he surprised me just this Saturday and we bought 2 orders of it.  We asked the cook what are the ingredients of the balls, here’s what he enumerated:

• Red Ginger (Benishoga)
• Octopus, sliced to bits
• Cabbage
• Shrimp powder
• Tempura powder (hmmm?!)
• Secret White liquid (I wonder what they put there? Flour, water, salt…hmmmm, what else?  Would you know?)
• Okonomiyaki Sauce
• Nori flakes as toppings

Verdict:   True, it was far from my usual fare of Samurai balls (that’s the first takoyaki balls I’ve tasted) simply because of the ingredients of New Hatchin’s Takoyaki ball. If you are familiar with Samurai balls, you’ll only see that they only put 2 ingredients inside samurai balls and those are dyed octopus and fish flakes.

When eating the balls alone, the red ginger was the most evident taste of all, followed by the shrimp flakes and octopus. The balls are now with taste than being bland.  The cabbage was barely noticed.  I think that’s just to add color.  When eaten as a whole, the okonomiyaki sauce was too strong that I got turned off eating it.  I decided to just dab a small amount of it.  To be honest,  even if the cook says their takoyaki balls are authentic unlike Mang Chito’s (where’s that?  He says it’s in Robinson’s malls) or samurai balls (for me) , I still love Samurai’s sauce version than Hatchin’s.  I can’t stop rolling the balls over and over again until my takoyaki balls are drenched with the red sauce and powder.  I think I just love to eat Samurai balls just because of their sauce!  Maybe I just better discover what their sauce is so I can just buy that instead and use it on New Hatchin’s takoyaki balls.  I’m sure it would taste perfect (and I’d be fat because I keep on eating those balls!)!

How about you?  Do you like Takoyaki balls?  What’s your favorite?

You just wait there and I have more Takoyaki balls adventure to share!

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