"Okonomiyaki are pretty much done too," Yamato says, flipping the last one onto a plate. "Let me just mix up the takoyaki sauce, and then we'll be ready."

He starts getting out ingredients for that, and a glass jug to mix them in.

"I'm flattered, kid," he laughs. "But I already have a rival. I don't think Taichi would like me rival-ing with other people."