December 23rd, 2014
After my parents have been googling for quite a while, they finally decided where they wanted to have dinner at.
It was a yakiniku restaurant called "Daitoen."
Really? You guys really want to have Korean barbecue all they way in Japan?
('Yakiniku' is how Japanese people call 'Korean barbecue')
Well, actually, it's not really a bad decision.
At least, most Japan's yakiniku restaurants seem to have amazing meat quality, and don't do anything dishonest.
Anyway, it was time for dinner, so my family went inside....
only to find that we had to wait several minutes because the place was full.
So I decided to take some pictures while waiting.
Nice lighting!
Seems like a very famous restaurant, since it has decorated the place with all of the signatures from celebrities.
After a while, we got our table.
as with all yakiniku/Korean barbecue restaurants, each table has its own grill.
It was time to order what to eat!
Hold on a sec...
There's "Samgyetang" on the menu??
Wow, quite contrary to my assumption that yakiniku restaurants would be selling mostly Japanized version of Korean barbecue, this place actually has a real Korean food on the menu.
Daitoen is more Korean than I thought.
This would be a nice place to try out some Korean food if you can't visit both Korea and Japan.
Anyway, we ordered our meat.
One of the workers turned on the fire of our grill for us.
and then came our first round of meat!
I think it was sirloin if I'm remembering correctly.
Anyway, it's cookin' time!
....
Oh, yes!!
That looks sooooo good
its making me want to have some again.
Well, these were the last of the sirloins.
and wow, would you look at that!!!
That's some gorgeously marbled sirloin don't you think?
I like my beef medium or medium rare! :D
with a little bit of garlic chips on top of the bite-sized piece of sirloin that was cooked to my preference...
You have no idea how good it tastes! haha
(Although it wasn't as soft/juicy as the steak we had from the Kaiseki dinner at Okunoyu)
Then there was the 2nd round of meat, which were mostly meat that were marinated in sauce.
First up were some beef rib meat, which the Japanese call "Harami"
and OH MY,
I've never seen so much marbling on beef rib meat.
Harami was pretty much the only "actual meat" of the 2nd round of meat, because the rest were organ meats, such as liver, intestines and etc.
I really liked the rib meat because, while they did have some sauce on them, they only had a small amount on them and weren't "drowned" in the sauce for a long time (which is how the majority of the Korean barbecue restaurants in Korea handle the rib meats.)
with an addition of some garlic chips, the meat were sent straight into my mouth.
and THEY TASTED GREAT!
Up last were the organs.
Though I'm not a big fan of organ meats, lot of Japanese and Korean people love them... if they're cooked right, as in this case for instance, at least.
I can eat them (except for liver, they're just gross beyond my preference) if they're given to me, but I wouldn't actively search for them.
I personally prefer non-organ meats! :D
Anyway, the Yakiniku dinner at Daitoen was great!
Despite the fact that I can always have a plethora of Korean barbecue in Korea, having some in Japan never disappoints me.
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