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By Naveena Vijayan/Feb. 10, 2021 12:10 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 10:21 am EDT
There are Asian restaurants, and then there is hibachi a class of restaurant that s known to provide doses of thrilling culinary entertainment along with its cuisine. If you ve been to a hibachi restaurant, you probably remember chefs in tall hats performing risky stunts with kitchen tools, while you most likely gorged on dollops of fried rice glistening with soy sauce.
For most of us, the word hibachi is associated with performing chefs and Asian food. However, a dive into the etymology of the word along and into historical records reveals that the word hibachi has come a long way from what it originally meant (