japanese food - making takoyaki

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Takoyaki, or Octopus Balls is one of Japan’s best-known street food originated in Osaka.Takoyaki is very popular Japanese street food,hot snack, shaped like a golf ball that has crispy coating around the outside and soft filling inside, made of wheat flour, diced octopus, and ginger. Because of the octopus filling, foreigners like to refer takoyaki as octopus balls.
Yaki is derived from "yaku" which is one of the cooking methods in Japanese cuisine, meaning "to fry or grill", and can be found in the names of other Japanese cuisine items such as okonomiyaki and ikayaki other famous Osakan dishes.