Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong

This is an excellent book which covers all aspects of preparation (including the chicken carcass), cooking, seasoning, and recipes. This is all you need to be able to learn and make top-level restaurant class yakitori. I've also been a few times to their restaurant in Hong Kong - well worth a visit.

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smacked full of flavour, vibrant pics and easy to follow recipes

Beautiful and inspirational

Presume it’s there first book 1/4 of the book seems to be dedicated to the restaurant and the staff . Never knew you could cut a chicken up into so many pieces. (Very interesting ) have done some of the recipes , would have liked more recipes in the book .

I had such high hopes for this book but unfortunately it completely missed the mark for me. From a restaurant that focuses on simplicity and letting the ingredients do the talking, for some reason the author has decided to fill the majority of the book with unnecessary brand endorsements and hipster lifestyle fodder. Don't get me wrong I love their restaurant and while there are a handful of good recipes in here the book is not really a cookbook, it is a coffee table picture book with a few recipes thrown in. The section on the variety of Yakitori and it's cooking process is so painfully unnecessarily dragged out it feels like they ran out of ideas. A simple before and after photo of each piece would have been plenty. It's such a shame as it could of had so much potential if they'd just focused on the food but instead they decided to fill it with a load of unnecessary waffle which ruins the entire experience.

Libro muy didáctico, claro y aplicable, en mi top 3 de mejores libros de cocina.

This is a masterpiece. Recipes, business, art. Amazing work.

Hands down the best book out there regarding yakitori. One of the most exciting parts for example are the over 80 steps of butchering the chicken correctly, shown in very detailed pictures. A must have for every aspiring chef or home griller.

You know when you find that special cookbook, that feeling like you just uncovered buried treasure? This book is very special. It is not just a cookbook. It is a yearbook, a collection of knowledge, a guide. From theoment I opened the cover I knew this would be "one of those books". I've a number of books on yakitori, but this one goes the distance. It takes the reader through a beautifully and detailed tour of yakitori, from how to properly butcher a chicken for yakitori (a perfectly illustrated guide, painstakingly detailed!), to the process, a very complete menu of items, how to cook each yakitori. This is the most complete and thorough book on yakitori I've ever seen. The book also covers the restaurant, Yardbird, the founders, and the staff in such a way that you really feel like you're a part of it all. It is very entertaining and the staff and founders of Yardbird must be very proud of this book. I am grateful beyond words to all who made this book possible. The secrets of yakitori are all here, from butchering, to skewering, to an abundance of recipes that all look amazing. It is to my knowledge the most complete compendium on yakitori available. The information is very accessible, orderly to a fault, and the love that went into this book is obvious from the moment you crack the cover. Everything is covered in great detail. What a book!! It's a must have if you're even just casually interested in yakitori. Come for the information, stay for the entertainment, this book delivers!

If you have an interest in yakitori I highly recommend this book. If you are looking for a ton of recipes you may find this book lacking. but between the VERY in depth breakdown of how to... break down a chicken and each skewer getting a full page on how to form and grill each skewer this is the most comprehensive guide on yakitori I have found so far.