Robatayaki

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Robatayaki
Recessed irori stove
Ayu fish grilled in a bed of sand the Robatayaki style

Robatayaki ( Japanese 炉 端 焼 き ) is a grill method in special Japanese restaurants , where guests sit directly at the grill, which is modeled on the rural Japanese irori , but in a more homely manner. The traditional "sunken" irori stove is a rectangular opening in the wooden floor which is filled with sand and glowing charcoal, you sit on the floor around the stove. In a Robatayaki restaurant, the grill stove is built into a counter and guests sit on chairs. In many robatayaki restaurants (Irori-) oven is embedded in a higher pedestal, so the cooks on his knees or cross-legged work like on a traditional "sunken" Irori.

Robata literally means 'fire pit' in Japanese and robata-yaki means 'fire pit roast'. Some of the grilled dishes themselves are called robatayaki (also: robata for short ). The restaurants that specialize in this grill method are called robatayaki-ya, and they are now around the world. In addition to fish dishes, they offer many different grilled dishes, depending on the taste and experience of the cook and the demands of the customers.

A Robatayaki restaurant also provides a certain entertainment factor for the visitors, amid the background noise of screams and calls from the service staff and the cooks. The loud "Hello! - Welcome! - Sit down! ”Is the norm in such restaurants, as well as a special gossip ceremony for the chefs at every shift change. The food is served on long paddles.

Robatayaki method

In the robatayaki-ya there is a large counter in front of the “stove grill”, on which various grill ingredients are available to choose from. The guests sit right at the counter and tell the cook what they would like to have grilled. The cook takes the selected ingredients and prepares them in front of the guests. When an order is ready, the cook hands it over the counter to the customer on a kind of long-handled wooden scoop. In addition, beer and sake are served as drinks.

Typical dishes offered in the robatayaki-ya are, for example, kara-yaki ( shellfish in the shell), yaki -niku (grilled meat), yaki- onigiri (grilled rice dumplings), yaki -tori (grilled chicken), and yaki-yasai (grilled vegetables) and Yaki zakana (grilled fish), except grilled shrimp, fish, meat etc. also Nasu (eggplant) and Jagaimo (potato).

Web links

  • Video food preparation and service with long-handled poodles in a Robatayaki restaurant
  • Video gossip ceremony in a robata restaurant when chefs change shifts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Albala: Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 978-0-313-37626-9 , pp. 119 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Michael Ashkenazi, Jeanne Jacob, Michael Ashkenazi Michael Ashkenazi: The Essence of Japanese Cuisine: An Essay on Food and Culture . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-136-81549-2 , pp. 98-101 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  3. ↑ John Ayto: The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink . OUP Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-964024-9 , pp. 308 ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Lichfield, Patrick: Courvoisier's book of the best . [2nd ed.]. Salem House, Topsfield, Massachusetts 1988, ISBN 0-88162-375-X , pp. 244 .
  5. ^ A b Richard Hosking: A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients & Culture . Tuttle Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4629-0343-6 , pp. 108 f . ( google.de [accessed on August 24, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Boye Lafayette De Mente: Dining Guide to Japan: Find the right restaurant, order the right dish, and pay the right price! Robata-yaki. Tuttle Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4629-0317-7 ( google.de [accessed on August 27, 2019]).