Yakiniku is Japanese grilled meat cooked by you, at your table, over charcoal or gas. Bite-size cuts of beef — and tongue, offal and vegetables — are grilled a few seconds a side and dipped in tare (a sweet soy sauce) or lemon-salt. Order by the cut: karubi (short rib), harami (skirt), tan (tongue), and premium wagyu.
What it means
Rooted in Korean barbecue but refined into a Japanese craft, yakiniku is a study in cuts: a good house ages and slices its beef precisely, and the menu reads like a map of the animal. It spans cheap, joyful chains and hushed A5-wagyu counters.
Why it's wonderful
You control every bite's doneness, it's social and hands-on, and great beef needs only seconds and a little salt. Marbled wagyu melts on the grill; a cool lettuce wrap and rice reset the palate between rounds.
★ A5 halal-certified wagyu grilled over shichirin charcoal
Inside a creaky two-storey wooden folk house a short walk from Shibuya, A5 halal-certified wagyu sizzles over shichirin charcoal — with a prayer room upstairs.
A fifth-generation wagyu family's alcohol-free basement grill in Ginza serving 100% halal-certified Japanese wagyu steaks and burgers, so every traveller can taste real wagyu. (The halal kitchen is the basement venue.)
★ Nasi goreng, beef rendang and gado-gado using halal-certified beef
A Muslim-friendly Indonesian restaurant near the Indonesian Embassy; pork- and alcohol-free with a prayer space, serving meals made with halal-certified beef (the venue itself is Muslim-friendly rather than formally certified).
★ All-you-can-eat premium sushi, snow crab and halal-certified A5 wagyu
A sushi izakaya offering a dedicated halal-CERTIFIED course (100% halal ingredients with separate utensils and storage). Because the general venue also serves alcohol, it is best treated as Muslim-friendly with a certified halal course — request the halal course when booking.
