Barbecue, Japanese-Style

Ever since Chad visited Japan in 2005, he has talked about about an awesome meal he had involving grilled meat.  Last night we convinced a couple of his Japanese co-workers to take us out to a yakiniku restaurant.  (We have to be a little careful going to restaurants by ourselves because if they do not have an English menu, or one with really good pictures, we can't really figure out what to order quickly.) 

Anyway, our "guides" told us it is actually Korean and it doesn't seem to be an very popular type of food here.  We had to drive about 20 minutes to get to a nice yakiniku restaurant (apparently you can find some cheap, dirty ones).  The gimmick with yakiniku is that you have a little grill built into your table and you order dishes of raw meat (mostly beef and pork, including some innards) and grill them yourself.  You get different kinds of sauces like miso and soy and a big dish of lettuce to make wraps if you want.  It was very, very good.

beef tongue, really tasty with some lemon juice