We initially wanted to try out jus the pork belly and chicken skin, the 2 more unforgettable yakitoris that we had. We ended up with even more items in the end. We are jus so greedy.
Went to Meidi-ya to shop around for our ingredients and at the same time, have a great time exploring it out. Love this place for its wondrous selection of fresh meat and sashimi. TH and Gary always come here to shop for ingredients whenever we have steamboats or sashimi dinners. Absolutely good!!
I was so tempted by the wide selection of wagyu beef there!! They even have pork that had marbled fats like wagyu beef there too!! We wanted to get that for our pork belly yakitori but it cost like 10 plus compared to the 2 plus normal pork! We decided to get the cheaper one since we are jus experimenting this time round. hees!
Back home, its time to get down to work. (the pics were taken by my handphone, pardon the bad lighting and quality)
We started first on the pork belly. We seasoned the pork belly with jus salt and pepper. It was really hard work to poke the fatty pork into the satay sticks. We even poked our own fingers couple of times. Haf way through it, we decided that paying that kind of price that night was totally worth it. Our yakitori does not look as pretty as theirs, the size of their pork and garlic were so rectangular and uniformed. Ours looked more like satays and its sure wasnt easy work.
Next, we started work on the shitake mushrooms. Mushrooms were defintely much easier than the pork belly. Jus sprinkle with pepper and salt, its all set!
N after that, it was time for pork asparagus! I told my frn tat the asparagus was wrapped with very thinly sliced pork. His mum and him insisted that the asparagus was dipped into meat paste for its impossible to get such thinly sliced pork and all wrapped round the asparagus so evenly. In the end, we went ahead with the meat paste method. We made meat paste using pork and garlic and spread it evenly around the asparagus on the stick. Looks similar. But wierd to me. Ha!
We bbqed the pork asparagus with a bit of teriyaki sauce. It was delicious and the asparagus was nicely done like we had at the restaurent. TH agreed with me that the asparagus was individually wrapped with pork but we love our own version jus as much! hehe!!
Our yakitori feast! If u noticed, we also prepared chicken skin and beef cubes. both seasoned jus with pepper and salt. To our disappointment, our pork belly totally pales in comparison to the one we had at the restaurent. But our chicken skin and beef cubes were tasted good enuff to us. The skin was nice and crispy and the beef was juicy and tender.
Our conclusion: the price we paid for restaurent's yakitori was worth it. We are paying for the quality, the time and the effort in preparing the delicious yakitoris. Next time we have cravings for yakitori, we should just to a restaurent. But we did had loads of fun.
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