Japanese Food Tricks Teppan-Yaki Style

The art of teppanyaki cooking has a 200-year history. Traditionally, these meals were prepared on a small grill by families. Now it has developed into a highly refined and beautiful form of expression, characterised by an intricate combination of presentation and knife skills. A fast-heating grill top, called a teppan, acts like a flat wok, quickly searing whatever meat or vegetable hits its surface. The chef performer demonstrates that knife artistry with a few other surprises, even as your meal gets a quick sauté before your eyes.
The chefs bring a selection of meat, fish, vegetables and other ingredients to cook at the guest tables on a gas-lit flat grill.

Here's how it works: You're seated at a large table with a griddle in its center and an exhaust hood above. As the griddle heats, you narrow your choice: chicken, thin-cut lamb, salmon, shrimp, scallops or prawns. It can even be vegetarian with Chinese cabbage, broccoli, leeks, mushrooms, baby corn and avocado and asparagus. Within minutes raw foods get cooked to perfection and are served piping hot with a choice of sauces. After a simple, delicious serving of miso soup and a salad with a lively dollop of ginger-based dressing, our tableside chef brings his wares to the teppan.

The routine begins with the tools: fork, knife and spatula, drummed and clanged together, tossed and flipped. Next, an array of jumbo prawns is trimmed while quickly sizzling, tails tossed into unexpected places. There's a volcano of flame created in a small mountain of onion rings. It can be argued that food service always has been a form of theatre, which underscores the need for this kind of show to stay fresh. But our chef seems to be just going through the motions. Skilled motions, of course, but without the slightly wild edge of exuberance. The limitation on exuberance is the special Japanese influence, unlike the Western chefs. The biggest draw is that the food is cooked right at your table. Whilst in other restaurants, you wait for your food to arrive, and chat amongst yourselves, in this place your eyes are glued on the chef as he begins his act whilst freshly cooking your food. He or she wows you with chopping skills and cooking techniques, and if you have never experienced it before, you will be truly amazed at how fast and spectacular this all looks.

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• teppan
• yaki
• style
• japanese
• food
• cooking
• tricks
• benihana
• japan

[helsbard]

Amazing!

[unclealbert27]

you need a kick in the face mutha fcka

[law23haha]

DIMMED CLIP

[rayanpkfreak]

I just LOVE these things,they always cook infront of you so you know when you like it and when not,and their cooking is also good entertainment just speed cutting stuff like that-RRRT TAKAKAKAK

[japa1990]

Benihana is basically japanese people making money by fooling americans into thinking that it is traditional in japan and it is "exotic".

[Hentakkun]

Teppanyaki is a style of food in Japan. Teppan = griddle (flat grill), Yaki = fried. However the Teppanyaki you get in America is much, much more theatrical.

[RevthePharaoh]

is Teppan-Yaki cooking Style from japan or china im just curious to know if it would be under japan service or china servica

[owenqz]

垃圾，一看就知道是泰国人烧得，

日本人不会这样做的

[sesshomaru1414]

Probably better skills you'll ever have.

It was fabulous. Thanks for posting the video.

And culturally, the Japanese respect foods from all cultures and are one of the best at preparing it.