Here in Seattle, the birthplace of chicken teriyaki, our streets are paved with the stuff. All strip malls are required by municipal statute to have a minimum of one teriyaki joint. Our faucets have a third knob for teriyaki sauce, and a fourth knob for that sticky sweet salad dressing. When you stop at a traffic light Koreans knock on your window and try to force teriyaki and evangelical Christian leaflets into your car. All restaurant meals are served with a side of wet iceberg lettuce mixed with three strips of carrot and one sliver of purple cabbage, just in case the main dish is teriyaki, which it is. I'm eating chicken teriyaki right now, and I don't even know how it got here or when I started eating it. Our state bird is chicken teriyaki.
Cameron Harris
>Evangelical Christian leaflets into your car.
Every fucking time.
Matthew Richardson
I visited some friends in Olympia earlier this year, and they were adamant about making teriyaki one of our meals. We went to Happy Teriyaki #3 (they insisted that the "#3" was vital), and it was good.
I guess all teriyaki chicken in the area is cut up the same way, in these strips?
Dylan James
I fucking love Sarku Japan.
Juan Cox
That's how proper Seattle teriyaki is constructed. There's a law.
My go-to place is Happy at the Bay #10 Teriyaki. There are not nine others, but there is a #15. Neither are near bays.
Henry Butler
I'm from seattle but live in Texas and just up the street from me they opened a 'seattle-style' teriyaki joint. It's legit for sure.
The teriyaki joint in the mall food court by me is a guilty pleasure
Chicken teriyaki with noodles and double meat. S/o and i split it and its only $10.75 with a drink. The best comfort food money can buy.
Tyler Butler
God damn it. It teriyaki the meme of this god damn month; kill yourself
Jace Miller
Yea dude happy happy was my jam in highschool.
William Wilson
Sarku Japan is very nice
Ayden Thompson
>Our state bird is chicken teriyaki. Is this pasta? Because if not this user is getting fucking slept on
Oliver Robinson
I too have discovered the wonder of mall chicken teriyaki. The Chinese place next to it has been closed and i was peeved i wasn't going to get orange chicken, so i tried the Japanese place. Their chicken teriyaki plate + fried rice + veggies was $6 and it was very yummy.
Ryan Richardson
I just make it myself desu
Most places either remove the skin or let it get soft in a warming tray but crispy chicken skin covered in good teriyaki sauce is downright orgasmic.
Hudson Wilson
>When you stop at a traffic light Koreans knock on your window and try to force teriyaki and evangelical Christian leaflets into your car. >Our state bird is chicken teriyaki.
Evan Ortiz
Not enough sauce on that chicken.
Aiden Williams
I lost my shit
Cameron Thompson
fuck off anthony bourdain
Asher Baker
Kek. Also a Seattleite and can confirm this is 100% true. Seems like pho has been giving teriyaki a run for its money here over the last 5 years.
Justin Bell
Got some Sarku tonight thanks to this thread.
>tfw you ask the Sarku man for an extra ladle of sauce. >he looks at you, smiles and obliges >cum buckets
Luke Price
Why would Seattle be a center for teriyaki? Seattle is an American city. idgi
Jason Butler
I had one in a mall in Illinois (Yorktown in Downers Grove/Darien). This shit was absolutely phenomenal >tfw i moved to Chicago and never found a replacement as good as this
Brody Russell
Because super sweet slightly asian/soy sauce glazed chicken originated in some immigrant in the pacific northwest creating "teriyaki chicken" at some point. Teriyaki chicken is not asian, it's northwestern American. It's the "Japanese" version of general tsao's chicken, and it's origins are unsurprising, but rooted in the pacific northwest. That's it.