The third element is the charcoal used ... to cut and prepare the meat for skewering and to get the grill going, most of the quality yakitori places in Japan open in the late afternoon.

Y ou might feel like a character in Midnight Diner entering Yakitori Tsuta’s unmarked door in a Convoy strip mall. Behind the ...

Non-chicken yakitori options include shitake mushroom, quail eggs, tofu and okra. Each skewer is grilled over Binchōtan charcoal, a white variety made from Japanese oak which is considered the ...