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chicken disassembled by an artist, fed to fire, sold by a salaryman's third drink
means A Japanese dish of bite-sized chicken pieces skewered on bamboo and grilled over charcoal, usually seasoned with salt or a sweet soy-based tare sauce.
from Straight from Japanese: yaki (焼き), 'grilled,' plus tori (鳥), 'bird' — literally 'grilled bird.' The yaki here is the same grilling verb you'll meet in teriyaki and sukiyaki, while tori is the everyday word for chicken. Skewered grilled fowl has been eaten in Japan for centuries, but the dish boomed as cheap, smoky street and izakaya food, the natural companion to an after-work beer.
- whole bird
- Heart, liver, skin, tail, even cartilage get skewers
- two camps
- Tare sauce or plain salt divides loyalists
- binchotan
- White charcoal burns clean and screaming hot
- yakitori-ya
- Smoke-stained alley joints fuel Japan's after-work rituals
- one bite
- Skewers sized so the bird never touches a knife
kushikatsu daruma — osaka chain specializing in deep-fried skewers, evolved from yakitori traditions, 20+ locations
tori no ana — legendary yakitori restaurant in shinjuku, tokyo, operating since 1962, standing-room only bar