Hibachi? Hai Genki Desu!

I just came back from my first ever Hibachi dinner. It was fantastic, and I got bonus steak for using the little Japanese I learned. Great fun for all the family (at least the wife and I).

Anyway, my question is thus - are Hibachi houses common in Japan or just something for foreigners? I want to track one down with a karaoke bar when I visit on holiday :nod:

 

As someone that doesn't eat meat, this is the only hibachi I'm familiar with. Yes, he's dodging the bullets.

 

How is that possible? The spaces he's flying through are smaller than the ship!

 

I'll have to ask, What is a Hibachi? Embarrassing I know but I've never even heard of this word.

Yakumo

 

lol

thats what i was thinking of too :lol:

 

CAVE means -> tiny hitbox.

 

It's a small charcoal grill.

 

火鉢 = a Hibachi Grill
火蜂 = (Fire Bee) the TLB of Dodonpachi & Dodonpachi DOJ.

Back on topic, once back when I ate meat I used one of these things. I wouldn't say they're horribly prevelent. Just go to some Yakuniku place where you cook your own meet on your table. Should be plenty satisfying for a carnivor.

 

Hmmm, apparently they are called Teppanyaki in Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teppanyaki)

 

Ah, now I know Teppanyaki

Actually I enjoy Yakitori far more than Yakiniku. I remember taking my dad to Yakinku when he came over. He hates the site of blood so you can imagine what he thought of Yakiniku and once he had eaten some cows tong he wouldn't touch anything else. Shouldn't have told him what he was eating. He looked as if he was enjoying it until he found out :lol:

Yakumo

 

I always thought hibachi grills were the small ones you used yourself. I've been to a few Teppanyaki places. Get ready to shell out. They're not for the faint of heart either. Saw one cut a lobster in two long ways while it was still alive, and they fried a few gigantic shrimp.... they jump around a few times before they hold them down w/ a spatula.

 

That sort of stuff always makes me sick. In fact I had a discussion about this with one of my Japanese male friends. He was saying how it was cruel the way cows are saluted which I agree with, however when I mentioned about Japanese cutting up sea life when it was still jumping about he just would not admit it was just as cruel. Some times the Japanese amaze me with there ability to never admit they are wrong.

Yakumo

 

Could you explain how it is cruel to salute cows? Dont want to seem stupid or anything but in the UK its more a mark of respect used in the military or some such organisation!

Slicing up live seafood or cooking live seafood seems somewhat more cruel.

 

I think that is the Japanese name forr them, but as is common here they got it wrong originally and the name stuck. Or perhaps they just though Hibachi was more catchy a name than Teppanyaki :shrug:

Anyway, it was great! The meat was dead before it went onto the hotplate though!

 

Well, I don't really want to go off topic so I'll make this my last post on the subject. From what I know, in some parts of the word the cows have their throats slit so that they bleed to death. To me that is just the same as boiling a lobster alive or ripping the poor buggers back off then eating it ! No shit, they do that ! To me that is the height of sickness but to my Japanese friends they see nothing wrong with it. :noooo:

Yakumo

 

Well, anything "yaki" is more describing the method... not the actual item. In the case of Teppanyaki, frying on top of a steel plate.

 

Hibachi = "small" charcoal grill, Teppan = griddle.

Grills are what you cook yakiniku/kabayaki on. Griddles are what you cook okonomiyaki on.

I'm sure you're talking about teppan (ie Benihana)

 

A griddle is what a cowboy out on the range cooks his eggs on.

 

Or what I cook quesadilla on

 

never before played a dodonpachi? quite impossible to believeh: