Tamagoyaki aka Akashiyaki in Akashi city, the noble twin of Takoyaki

Akashi city, Hyogo, is a famous place for seafood such as sea bream, conger and octopus.
Also there is a nice food which is famous among people in Kansai region.
It is Tamagoyaki aka Akashiyaki.
Akashiyaki is a small ball shaped dumpling.
The food is called tamagoyaki by local people in Akashi, but generally tamagoyaki means Japanese omelette in Japan, so in outside of Akashi, it is called Akashiyaki to distinguish.

Akashiyaki was one of origin of Takoyaki in Osaka, thus they look almost similar.
But there are differences between Akashiyaki and Takoyaki.
For both foods octopus is used as a topping, however in contrast to Takoyaki which has various toppings such as green onion or dried bonito shavings, Akashiyaki has only octopus.
It doesn't have another toppings except octopus.
Moreover, the quantity of eggs in the dough of Akashiyaki is more than Takoyaki has.
The most big difference is, we don't put any sauce on Akashiyaki as we do for Takoyaki.
We eat Akashiyaki with dipping it in a special soup.

The egg flavor in the dough is stronger than Takoyaki, using a soup instead of a sauce, so Akashiyaki has very different taste to Takoyaki.
If you have known the taste of Takoyaki before you eat Akashiyaki, you will have strange feeling when you eat Akashiyaki.
Both Akashiyaki and Takoyaki are different but tasty foods.
However in my opinion, I thought Akashiyaki is a bit more refined, because we need chopsticks to eat the food and we need some manner to dip the dumpling into a soup.
It is not similar to eat Takoyaki.
I am sure you will have new experience with Akashiyaki.