Teriyaki Favorites
Credit: Kevin P. Casey
Yesterday, our art director went to Okinawa Teriyaki, the teriyaki shop around the corner from the Weekly offices that we've been going to obsessively while I was writing this week's teriyaki story. Okinawa is the source of most of the photos that we used to illustrate the story (we paid for all the food Kevin shot), and so Chris asked them what they thought of the article.
"You took all those pictures and then we weren't in the article," the owner complained.
So, yeah, an apology to Okinawa for not crediting them in the photos. In the piece I mentioned that the point of teriyakis wasn't to hit any culinary high points but to be fast, fresh, and convenient, but I do have a few favorites that I want to give a shout out to:
Okinawa Teriyaki, 1022 Alaskan Way, Seattle: I know it's completely convenient, but I think Okinawa's pork katsu rocks, and I also get their tofu teppanyaki and their udon soup a lot. Ten steps above the norm.
Teriyaki Madness, 127 15th Ave. E.: I talked to the Ahns, who owned the 15th Ave. Teriyaki Madness, partially because I'm a fan of their food, which is good renditions of teriyaki basics. Recommended: the short ribs and the cucumber salad.
University Teriyaki, 4108 University Way NE: Though it was so far from the Japanese original as to be a completely different dish, University Teriyaki had some of the best chicken teriyaki I've tasted—the sauce is more overtly Korean than anyone else's (I'd swear there's a little bean paste in with the soy, garlic, chiles, and sugar). Plus they recently added a menu of Korean dishes that looks promising.
Toshi's Teriyaki Redmond: The teriyaki at this Toshi's, which has been owned by a South African Indian couple for almost two decades, is fine, but their spicy grilled chicken, which is rubbed with a delicious mix of Indian herbs and spices, is better (eat it with the chili paste, not the teriyaki sauce they serve with it). They now sell South African meat pies, too.
You have any other favorites?
4 comment(s)
Sarah says:
I love love love love Nasai Teriyaki on the Ave.
Posted On: Friday, Aug. 17 2007 @ 2:59PM
Matt says:
Is there really anything better for lunch than teriyaki? I work in Fremont and thus go to Yak\'s about once per week. Side note about Yak\'s... my mom took me there right after they opened in 1979. Nasai on the Ave is another favorite of mine. So much so that when I was a student at the U, I \"borrowed\" one of the bottles of teriyaki sauce from the tables. I think a lot of people did that, they stopped putting bottles out on tables. It was kinda whacky, they used old Sriracha bottles for their sauce.
I love teriyaki.
Posted On: Saturday, Aug. 18 2007 @ 1:57AM
Noah says:
Niko Teriyaki in Redmond, behind the QFC. Excellent Spicy Chicken.
Midoria Teriyaki in Seattle, near Yale and Howell. Also, lovely Spicy Chicken.
Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 21 2007 @ 1:07PM
Noah says:
Niko Teriyaki in Redmond, behind the QFC. Excellent Spicy Chicken.
Midori Teriyaki in Seattle, near Yale and Howell. Also, lovely Spicy Chicken.
Posted On: Tuesday, Aug. 21 2007 @ 1:08PM