Tried yakitori for the first time the other night. Yakitori is actually a style of Japanese barbecue, but it seems to be pretty popular in Shanghai. The restaurant we went to was a hole in the wall type place with only four tables and a few seats at a bar. All the food came out on skewers, prepared by a single chef behind the bar with a tiny grill (as you can see). Menu included:
beef tongue (delicious)
quail eggs (pretty good)
bacon-wrapped asparagus (incredible)
chicken hearts (terrible)
chicken liver (blech)
grilled ginseng nuts (amazing, why haven't these caught on in the states?)
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Let's grill some ginseng over Christmas. How thinly sliced was the beef tongue? We tried to make some at home and it ended in a not good dish.
Not too thin actually. I went to another yakitori place that slices it thin and it wasn't as good.
Oh, and I think it was grilled ginko, not ginseng. Need to double check on that. Either way, a great health food.
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