On Saturday night, we went out to help Marika celebrate her birthday in style at the Ginza Teppan Yaki restaurant in Melbourne's Chinatown district.I can help but feel that the whole setup was westernized to cater for the white clientele to the point of being cheesy, but nonetheless good entertainment when you're pissed drunk. The hostesses wore bright garishly coloured kimonos pottering around serving cocktails circa 1980's with little umbrellas in them. These girls were definitely non-Japanese (more like cantonese). The chefs entertained with high flying theatrics like throwing your food in the air and making you catch it in your mouth or in a bowl.
A quick search on Wiki reveals Teppan Yaki as originating in Japan in 1945 as a way of cooking Western Influenced food on a hot plate, which only really became popular with the foreigners and taking off in New York city.
No wonder it never got really popular with the Japanese, I mean if I was a Yakuza mobster and had a chef throw egg at my face, somebody will be losing the end of a finger on the Teppan by the end of the night!
Well enough of the ramblings and on to the photos and Videos !
Mmmm... Big juicy chunks of meat! Who cares if its artery clogging!
Big bad ass prawns
An egg roll goes flying throuhg the air!
The whole team.
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