What is Yaki in Japan?
Chef's answer
Yaki comes from yaku (??), which is one of the cooking methods in Japanese cuisine, meaning 'to fry or grill', and can be found in the names of other dishes in Japanese cuisine such as okonomiyaki and ikayaki (other famous Osakan dishes)..
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