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One of My Favorites in Little Tokyo

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Imagawayaki I grew up not too far from Downtown Los Angeles and Little Tokyo, so we spent a good amount of time in the area.  Remembering the places my dad would take us for treats and the restaurants we'd go to, most are no longer around.   Here's one of the memories, my sister and I were really young, we used to go with our mom to pick-up my dad when he had his office on 1st Street.  Sometimes we would wait for him by watching them make imagawayaki in the window at Mitsuru Cafe, before they moved to the Japanese Village Plaza.   Did I just show my age?   If you follow me on Instagram , you know that I sometimes stop to pick up my favorite treat when I'm in Little Tokyo. Imagawayaki is like two pancakes with sweet Azuki beans in the center. They're about the size of a hockey puck, but not as thick.   After all of these years, it still tastes the same as I remember.  This is the same griddle that I us...