Sunday, November 25, 2007

Favorite Yatai

Ramen-ya (Yatai that sold Ramen)
Ramen are already known as the symbolic of favorite food from Japan in the Worldwide. So, it is not hard to find Ramen-ya in the corners of Japan. Usually Ramen-ya can be found in each station. Even there is Ramen-ya which provided bench for people who can eat and drink, but most of Japanese people like to standing while eating ramen. Even more if the ramen are known by its delicacy, people are willing to queue up. Why they eating ramen in standing position, so the time to eating ramen can be faster. In these days,
ramen-ya not only can be found in the wagon shop but there is some vending machine that also sold ramen-ya. We just need to buy a coupon or some coin that equal to the prizes of the ramen and inserted into the vending machine, then ramen which we order go out from the vending machine.

Yakitori-ya (Yatai that sold Yakitori)
Yakitori is Japanese food that looks like a beef or a chicken meat that stuck to a piece of bamboo stick in grill (BBQ). The costumers usually sit in front of the chef and paying attention to the chef that processes Yakitori that they order. On the Yakitori table usually available complement flavour to eat Yakitori like salt, soyu (briny ketchup), chili powder, shichimi (ingredient from 7 of Japanese flavors) and mustard. Yakitori price are counted from how many jab that already eaten not by portion.

Okonomiyaki-ya and Takoyaki-ya
These are two types of yatai that’s sometimes shown up in “matsuri” (Summer Festival). Okomiyaki is a pancake with mix of meat or mix of seafood and vegetables as it topping. The most delicious way to eat okonomiyaki is to eat okonomiyaki in hot state with sauce. Usually okonomiyaki-ya position are adjacent to takoyaki-ya; a yatai that sold flour balls grill which are fill with slice of squit. Takoyaki is served with nori, sauce, and mustard that are sow on top of takoyaki. These two types of food are identically with summer in Japan, and very fancy to children and youngster.

Oden –ya
Oden is like “siomay” (very popular food in Asia). Oden is a food which is consist of mix of various siomay such as fish siomay, shrimp, eggs and boiled vegetables. Especially the meat (fish and shrimp) we can ask to served it as boiled or fried meat. Oden-ya usually open up to 7 o’clock in the night, and can be more enjoyable if accompanied with beer or sake while eat Oden.

Yakiniku-ya
Yakiniku is a food from meat (usually beef) that is grilled and be eaten with sauce and complements flavour. Yakiniku is a food that is adapted from BBQ Korean menu. There are two kind of meat that is offered by these yatai, they are ruos and karubi. Ruos is a meat that is thin sliced; meanwhile Karubi is ribs that sliced rather thick and sometime there’s still a bone in the meat. Usually after we choose which meat we want, the servant will light the fire under roaster and give the seasoning to grill it. After the meat that we order are delivered (all the meat are fresh), we can grill it ourselves according our appetite.
There are some of Yakiniku yatai that are offered “all you can eat” only with 1000 yen. For these kind of yatai we must looking for yakiniku-ya with word “baikingu” in front of yatai. These Yakiniku-ya ‘baikingu’ usually also served noodles, kare, kimchi (soup of miso) beside yakiniku.



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