Everything Can Be Grilled – A Second’s Trip to Japan, Delivered from Chiba Prefecture on a Wooden Oar in Taoyuan

On a regular weekday lunch hour in December, we visited “Tori Jō Robatayaki” located in Taoyuan’s Dajiang Shopping Mall. Stepping into this restaurant designed to resemble a traditional Japanese home, with a curtain bearing the kanji for “charcoal” hanging at the entrance, the first thing that catches your eye is the open grill counter. The chef up front serves grilled fish using a wooden oar, while the grill area chefs light straw to sear chicken with fierce flames, creating a lively cooking atmosphere.

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Tori Jō Robatayakiis a brand from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its “originals” in Japan consist of three types of restaurants: charcoal-grilled skewers, creative cuisine, and kamameshi (rice cooked in a pot). After coming to Taiwan, the three concepts were unified into one, bringing together the “family menu” all at once. Restaurant manager Long Tsai-fu describes it as: “It’s very much like a Japanese teppanyaki eatery. Compared to an izakaya, it offers more imperial-style dishes; compared to a skewer shop, it has more sushi and seafood. From time to time, there’s also a tuna slicing show – the variety is rich.”

“The specialty of robatayaki is that everything can be grilled,” says Long Tsai-fu, who trained at the original restaurant in Japan. Compared to the Japanese-style yakiniku or barbecue restaurants familiar to many, all the grilled dishes here are prepared by skilled chefs, so customers don’t have to worry about grilling themselves.

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