- Hey everyone, I hope you're having
an amazing day or evening.
It's Mark Wiens, I'm in Sapporo on the island
of Hokkaido in Northern Japan.
And tonight for dinner, you've heard of Japanese barbecue,
Japanese barbecue is very popular, it's amazing.
But in Hokkaido, in Sapporo, they have a special type
of Japanese barbecue which is called Genghis Khan.
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So actually, I'm on a family trip in Sapporo,
but Ying and her sisters, they're off shopping,
and so I thought this would be a perfect time
to go eat some Genghis Khan barbecue.
Again, Japanese barbecue is wonderful,
it's amazing, I love Japanese barbecue.
But you won't typically find lamb cooked,
used as Japanese barbecue except in Sapporo.
So this is gonna be a first for me,
we have just arrived to the restaurant.
And we're gonna go have some Genghis Khan barbecue.
Kay, this is the spot I believe.
(door creaking)
Hello just one, yeah.
(mutters) And then draft beer please.
Okay so you immediately step inside of here,
you can smell the lamb smoke, it's all lamb,
Genghis Khan, they serve lamb barbecue.
Some say because it is lamb, and lamb's not typically
eaten in Japan,
but it's typically considered from Mongolia.
And then number two, some say
it's called Genghis Khan barbecue because of the metal
grate that they use to grill
which resembles a Mongolian warrior helmet.
As soon as you step inside, you sit down,
they put a metal grate on your table,
they fill it with onions, they put a piece of fat on.
(meat sizzling)
And you gotta beer with me a little bit,
it's really kinda tight in here,
and I'm trying to like only film myself
so that everybody can eat in private,
but this is an amazing environment.
It's so smokey, it's so warm in here.
(meat sizzling)
Dip it into the sauce,
you can eat it half raw, I think it's fine.
And it looks like a soy sauce,
but there's also sesame seeds in it.
(distant chattering)
Wow,
it's so tender.
It's so smokey, and that's actually quite lean,
and then that sauce is like, it's like soy based sauce,
but you taste the sesame seeds in it.
Oh that is stunning, oh wow that's tasty.
(speaking foreign language)
I put some of the chili and some of the garlic
into the sauce.
I'm just blown away by the tenderness of that meat,
it's unbelievable.
And I think you can even cook it just rare as well.
Plus I'm gonna try my next piece more rare.
(meat sizzling)
Okay, this is more of a rare piece of the lamb.
That's stunning.
It's so flavorful, the sauce is amazing, this environment,
like the whole like, smokey lamb grill atmosphere.
Okay, the onions.
Mm,
oh it's delicious too.
Oh, she is chopping up an entire piece of lamb over there.
Can I have a plate with the bone?
(speaking foreign language)
That first plate went down so fast and so easy,
I immediately ordered another plate,
this one I got with the rib.
(meat sizzling)
Okay, that's definitely a fattier cut
than the first plate that I had.
The first plate that I had,
it tasted juicy, and it's so ultra tender.
(meat sizzling)
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Okay time for my rib,
and I love how they wrap it in a napkin
so that you can hold it by the bone like a drumstick.
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Wow,
the juicy tenderness is almost unbelievable,
it's so good.
Okay, one more plate.
Can I have one more?
One more bone,
thank you.
(speaking foreign language)
(meat sizzling) (distant chattering)
One more plate of lamb joy, I just couldn't resist.
It's just as good as the plate before.
(meat sizzling)
Every bite is spectacular.
It's all good, but this drumstick is just unbelievable,
it is, you have to get the lamb drumstick, final bite.
It just bursts with,
the ribs have a little bit more of a lamb pronounced flavor,
the rest of the meat is just so neutral tasting.
So juicy, so tender, so like ultra flavorful,
that is spectacular.
And one of the reasons why it's so good
is because she slices it right in front of you
before you grill it, it's so fresh,
it's so clean, it's so unbelievably good.
Oh, to drink like soup?
- Soup. - Okay, thank you.
Thank you very much.
She takes your sauce, she actually like
dumps out a little bit if you have too much stuff,
sauce left, puts in some hot water into your sauce,
and that makes the soup, that's the final thing you drink
to wash it all down.
Mm, oh yeah it's very light.
She did like take out a little bit of my sauce
so that it's not too strong.
But that's good, that's like,
it has a little bit of lamb residue left in it.
You taste the sesame seeds,
you taste the soy sauce base
kinda I think flavor of it,
but then very light because of the hot water,
it has (stammers) diluted it,
and that's a good way to end.
(slurps) Ah!
(speaking foreign language)
(door creaking)
Oh wow, I'm just blown away.
That was one of the most memorable
meals I can think of that I've had in Japan.
So good, the meat was so good,
the atmosphere was just absolutely spectacular.
I loved the entire like smokiness of it,
the lamb, oh man, that was amazing.
The bar counter seating, you get to see everything
that they do.
They make your fire, they put the Genghis Khan helmet
grill right on top, they fill it with onions,
it happens so fast, as soon as you sit down.
And then yeah, that meat wow,
it will blow your taste buds off your tongue.
This place is called Sapporo Genghis Khan,
and this is the main branch.
A couple things to know, it's all bar counter seating,
it's really small, it's only about 10 seats.
But luckily, I think if you come at a non-peak hour
or time, you usually don't have to wait too long.
I got right in, but luckily I got right in,
and then right as I got there it just filled up completely.
The plates of meat are 1000 yen each, so I got three plates,
they go down so easily.
Yeah, this is an amazing little place,
I love it, it's on the upstairs floor.
But you walk in, it looks like a warehouse.
More and more people are coming in now,
but such a, such an amazing place.
My mouth is just, it's rejoicing now with flavor,
and with smokiness lamb-iness.
And also I filmed a few more videos
on the Sapporo Hokkaido trip,
some amazing seafood, so I'll have all the videos
in the description box below that you can click on
and watch if you haven't already watched.
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