Motoyaki

Motoyaki is a style of cooking, involving baked food topped with a mayonnaise-based sauce and served in an oyster shell. It is typically available in Japanese restaurants on the Pacific coast of Canada. Examples of motoyaki dishes are oyster motoyaki and lobster motoyaki.

In Japan
In Japanese cuisine, a sauce called literally:basis of egg (卵の素) (or tamagonomoto (玉子の素) / tamamoto (玉素) ) is prepared by beating egg yolks and oil together just like mayonnaise, but without any vinegar. Some variants also have miso or soy sauce added. Foods topped with this sauce and baked are moto-yaki (もと焼き) (or literally:tamamotoed-and-baked (玉素焼き) / moto-yaki (素焼き) ). Although motoyaki is considered a traditional Japanese dish, the names motoyaki, tamagonomoto, and alike are not well known in Japan, while its variant using mayonnaise: mayonēzu-yaki (マヨネーズ焼き) (or mayo-yaki (マヨ焼き)) is far more popular.

Canadian motoyaki is similar to Japanese mayonēzuyaki in using mayonnaise, unlike Japanese "motoyaki".