The word ‘dora’ actually stems from the Japanese word for gong, which is, well, dora. According to one legend of how dorayaki came by its name, the samurai, Benkei, had supposedly left his gong at a farmer’s house where he had been seeking refuge. The farmer then took the gong to cook pancakes, leading to the name dorayaki.
It could be that the shape of dorayaki is coincidentally similar to the shape of a gong, so that story was invented to support the creation of dorayaki’s name. It is said that the earlier version of dorayaki only consisted of one layer which was folded like an omelet instead of like a round sandwich. The double layer version was invented by Usagiya in the district of Ueno in 1914.
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