Tepanyaki in GZ

Many of my colleagues ask me about Western restaurants in GZ...'what are your favorite?'  Well, in the grand scheme of things, there are only a handful of decent western style restaurants that Tai-Tai and I like going to.  With most restaurants in GZ, they are originally opened and operated by a partnership of Chinese and expat.  The expat puts forth the recipes, ideas and sweat into opening and building the business.  Eventually the local partner will see all the money flowing in from their venture and either buy or kick out the expat partner...resulting in a restaurant that looks western,  but serves chinese food.  The list of restaurants that have survived and thrived is very short...and we generally repeat visits to them.

If there is one 'foreign' food that GZ has an abundance of good restaurants, its Japanese food.  There are a selection of very good Japanese style restaurants that offer just about anything you can get in Japan...there are also a selection that are serving generally Chinese flavored Japanese food.  Fair enough...after all, there is nothing quite like American Chinese food!

Tai-Tai and I have found a spot that we like to go over and over again.  It is a chain, with 4 locations, but the one location we go to all the time is a familiar place.  The cooks, waitresses all know us.  We have our own bottle of sake on the wall!  And, we are always surrounded by loads of Japanese expats enjoying their meals as well. 

We will either sit at a table and have sukiyaki, noodles, or sushi on some days or nights.  But, if we want to have a nice long big meal, we'll sit at the grills and enjoy a big tepanyaki meal.  Sipping sake, a nice cold beer and course after course of perfectly cooked seafood and beef.

Shrimp Tepanyaki from GZ Expat on Vimeo.