by Brandi Goode
The Kanto and Kansai regions, home to Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, have a history of rivalry longer than a line waiting to enter a Saturday-morning department store sale.
Just as each city?s people consider themselves unique, so too are their versions of the ?as you like it? dish -- okonomiyaki (okonomi = honorable choice, yaki = fried or grilled) to its supporters.
This savory pancake, sometimes referred to (by only the most literal na�fs) as Japanese pizza, is a popular snack food that goes back to a Buddhist tradition of serving crepe-like desserts called funoyaki during ceremonies.
From here on out the stories of both the ?original? okonomiyaki claimed by Kansai and its Kanto kin, monjayaki, (widely known as simply ?monja?) get a bit murky.
What seems clear is that the modern form of both okonomiyaki and monja first appeared on the tables of Japan around World War II.
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