Great news. The spirit of Chuck-A-Rama's all-you-can-eat fest is alive and well in Tokyo. Except for here it's just meat. Unbelievably good meat. And this coming from the one who prefers to just avoid meat when possible. And this eating fest is what we like to call "yakiniku."
So when you visit a yakiniku joint, ordering is rather simple. You choose what type of "broth" you want your meat and vegetables to cook in and you choose if you want beef, pork, or both. They then bring you a bowl of your "broth," plates of the most thinly sliced meat I've ever seen and veggies, turn on your burner, and let you go wild. You have ninety minutes to go crazy - and they refill your meat plates as you go.
So it's like Chuck-A-Rama meets Benihana. And it is so delicious. I didn't make it long, but the boys kept putting it away. For ninety minutes.
Oh, by the way. It's typical to take your cooked meat and then dip it in raw egg. Gag. Me. The left is Jess' raw egg, the right is mine (untouched and untasted - some things just aren't right).
So when you visit a yakiniku joint, ordering is rather simple. You choose what type of "broth" you want your meat and vegetables to cook in and you choose if you want beef, pork, or both. They then bring you a bowl of your "broth," plates of the most thinly sliced meat I've ever seen and veggies, turn on your burner, and let you go wild. You have ninety minutes to go crazy - and they refill your meat plates as you go.
So it's like Chuck-A-Rama meets Benihana. And it is so delicious. I didn't make it long, but the boys kept putting it away. For ninety minutes.
Oh, by the way. It's typical to take your cooked meat and then dip it in raw egg. Gag. Me. The left is Jess' raw egg, the right is mine (untouched and untasted - some things just aren't right).
But all in all, pretty much the best meal ever. By the end of our adventure, we had swollen bellies and a pan of bubbling grease.
I say yakiyummy.
1 comment:
My brother worked at a shabu shabu restaurant in California - basically the same thing but you cook the food in boiling water. So good. No raw eggs, but my brother would eat the kobe beef raw :O
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