TEPPANYAKI PART 1

Teppanyaki is a type of Japanese food that use metal wood kitchen to cook the food. It named from Japanese’s word “teppan” which mean iron plate and “yaki” which mean fried.

In Japan, teppanyaki can be referring to whatever foods that use iron plate including Okonomiyaki, Yakisoba, and Monjayaki with teppan in the center of the table. Teppanyaki shape that well known to the outsider of Japanese is containing meat or steak with vegetables.

The ingredient for Teppanyaki basically is meat, chicken, lobster and much type of vegetables. Soybean oil usually use to cook these ingredients. In Japan, majority of Teppanyaki’s restaurant sells the famous Kobe’s meat. This meat is from the black Tajima-ushi, the Wagyu cow that grow in strict tradition in Hyogo continent which cow’s food include sake and beer beside of daily massage to relax the muscle of the cow that the people believe it will make the meat softer.

In the United States, Teppanyaki was made famous by the Benihana restaurant chain which opened its first restaurant in New York in 1964.[2] Benihana and other chains of Teppanyaki steakhouses continue to place an emphasis on the chef performing a show for the diners, continuing to introduce new variations and tricks. The show can include juggling utensils, flipping a shrimp into his shirt pocket, tossing an egg up in the air and splitting it with his knife, and flipping flattened shrimp pieces into the diners' mouths.

Another piece of equipment in the same family is a flattop grill, consisting of a flat piece of steel over circular burners and typically smaller and round like a Mongolian barbecue.