Visiting the most iconic Teppanyaki in the Western World. Since the lunch specials consists only of smaller portions of beef, I decide to try their best steak - Chateaubriand - and the lunch special spicy chicken.
I feel like a lot of people here don't really understand that Hibachi/Teppanyaki serves a completely different purpose and has a different atmosphere in the Sates than in Japan. It is not at all meant to be a quite/intimate fine dining experience. You do not go in expecting it to be. It is meant to be an entertaining (and often loud) show you go to with a large group of people and can get pretty rowdy depending on the guests. Could the chef have been less sloppy? Certainly. But that's not really the point in this setting. it's more about having a fun night out with friends or coworkers where the actual cooking does not matter. The chef is often interacting with the guests directly and literally flinging food at them and making jokes too. But because Aden went alone and speaks very minimally, it just makes everything awkward and worse than it actually is. People saying the Japanese videos are more "artistic" are not wrong, but that's because they are suppose to be. This is not.
BH is how I was introduced to teppanyaki cooking as a kid. I think of it now as McBenie's. I am so glad you shared how much better it can be from other places.
I noticed as well......sloppy prep. Maybe it's just me but over the past couple of years the whole "NYC" mystique thing has ... well .... rather be in Tokyo.
That’s considered a delicacy in most countries. Even in the states if you go to somewhere like New Orleans or a sea food hot spot in Florida it will never be taken out. I don’t like it but a lot of people do
Yup..I live in the states and have no desire to go to any of these ridiculous teppanyaki places lol. I would love some Japanese teppanyaki though. Excellently cooked food is far more important than a show! With all the ridiculous clanking and clattering and onion volcanos and crap added it seems to detract from the craftsmanship of good cooking.
Watching this video after all the Japanese delicacy and intimacy and masters of the Teppanyaki craft is like watching The Room the night after watching Gladiator
The chef looked like someone who has the skills to do the job, but was operating with a major hangover this particular day. Also hard for my brain to get past the poop-chute in the shrimp. Come on Benihana you're better than that... or at least I remember you to be.
if you didn't know that flaming onion is pretty much standardized American Teppanyaki... Seem like a requirement here in the states. Along with throwing shrimp around... i don't know why, just seems to be what they do.
the last few uploads have been appearing really blown out for me, but the preview in the scrubby slider is normal exposure. did youtube change something recently? burning my retinas here
@@monkeytennis8861, up until about 1990 ish, to me, hibachi was a small charcoal grill made from cast iron that you could buy at K-Mart for about $10. Locally in S.E. PA, we've had a half dozen of the Benihana type places open and all title their big griddle operations as "Hibachi Style" locations.
I’ve seen loads of people here saying that the entertainment he included is all because he is in America. This is half true but I also feel that it is just the way the restaurant Benihana do things. I went to Benihana a few months ago in London, and after watching this video I was surprised to see literally the exact same tricks and entertainment stunts when I went to Benihana myself. I highly doubt that there are Benihana restaurants in Japan, and I think that Benihana do these things specifically to target people in foreign countries who don’t necessarily understand proper teppanyaki. Interesting!
This is all so fast, loud and seems tacky. Japanese chefs are so much more delicate, truly honoring the food they make. This right here seems like a show for tourists, I don’t know. Hope it tasted good though
You can get proper tepppenyaki in America but this was filmed at Benihana, a very generic (although quite popular) chain of a very westernized style. It’s for entertainment value more than anything else. Often you’ll see the tables with large parties for birthdays, special events, etc. kind of like a Disney world novelty.
A lot of unnecessary gimmicks but at the end he just moved the food on the plate away to make room for the beef. This made me laugh. This is truly canteen style serving style.
If it was a full table of interactive diners, the chef's performance would have been livelier. Also, even at Benihana's level of service, the shrimps should have been de-veined. Still , I thought the chef was hilarious in a deadpan kind of way.
I love how, as in all things, japanese version of this can be defined as an art form where american version is only a cheap rip-off coated with a sloppy showmanship. Btw is it me or channel owner sounds like Bruce Wayne?