🍜 Food & Restaurants👍 187Is Kiji Okonomiyaki Worth the Queue? Osaka's Rule Says No — "You Don't Line Up for Okonomiyaki"
Show Osaka a video calling Kiji "the most famous okonomiyaki in Osaka" and the top comment (187 likes) answers with the city's house rule: "Okonomiyaki is not something you queue for — that's how Osaka people feel." The 148 comments split precisely along that line. On Kiji itself: a 45-year regular says the magic faded when the one-counter original expanded; locals grumble that the queue outgrew the food ("waited all that time and it's… normal," 44 likes) — yet others swear "it's cramped, but the food is seriously good," and the old master famously shoos away queuers with "you'll be waiting a looong time!" The deeper consensus is the same one Osaka gave us about takoyaki: almost any neighborhood teppan does it right, your mom does it better, and if you want names, locals offer Yukari, Okaru's mayo-art, and Kaze no Machi instead.
