teppanyaki

English

Alternative forms

• tepanyaki
• teppan-yaki

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese, 鉄板焼き (てっぱんやき, teppan'yaki), from Middle Chinese 鐵 (tʰet "iron") + 板 (pǽn "board", "plank") + Japanese やき (yaki "to fry").

Noun

teppanyaki (countable and uncountable, plural teppanyakis)

1. A Japanese style of cooking in which thin slices of meat, or fish, seafood, vegetables and noodles are quickly fried on a hotplate

Usage notes

In English (particularly American English), this mostly refers to cooking steak on a teppan (griddle), while in Japanese one instead mostly cooks お好み焼き (okonomiyaki) on such griddles.

Synonyms

• hibachi
• Japanese steakhouse

Translations

a Japanese style of cooking

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵板燒／铁板烧 (zh) (tiěbǎnshāo), 铁板烧 (zh) (tiěbǎnshāo)

• Japanese: 鉄板焼き (てっぱんやき, teppan'yaki)
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• Korean: 철판구이 (cheolpan'gu'i)
• Russian: тэппанъя́ки n (tɛppanʺjáki)