Each of your video is so interesting. Happy to see you have more followers at each one, you deserve many many many more!

this was super interesting as someone who basically came from a country that doesnt exist anymore, to hear of similar story. It would have been super awesome if you interview some of the people to hear their family story and struggle.

Amazing video, instant subscribe

Bro is johnny harris for food

Great video! good story telling, images, and soundtracks!

The quality of your content is so good, that your low viewership and subscriber count is a shame. You'll make it big soon!

That's some crazy lore...

Excellent quality again, absolutely love learning about the origins of different foods and how they change over time. Looking forward to more!

Hey Matthew! Fellow New Yorker here. I just wanted to add to the point that yakiniku simply means grilled meat, so I was always bummed out by the fact that KBBQ is called KBBQ, which is a bastardized Americanized term. ‘Gui’ is technically the the term used for grilled, and the full term would be ‘gogi gui’ (grilled meat). The restaurant that would serve gogi-gui would be called gogijip, which literally would be translated as a steakhouse. Just FYI!

Very informative and quality video. Keep up the great work 👍

Korean NETOUYOs should stop promoting far-right nationalism. It's unseemly.

So interesting! Thank you for the amazing video. I just bumped into your channel by accident, but immediately I subscribed to it, thanks to this video.

I guess one could say yakiniku & other Zainichi stuff are to Japan what southern bbq is to the US as well as the stuff of Irish USers & black USers are to the US overall

Always excited for your uploads. Insane quality, very interesting topics. Keep it up!

Asian version of Anthony bourdain. I love it!!!

Korean yakiniku is mostly pork grilled on an iron plate. Japanese yakiniku uses an iron net to grill meat over an open flame. Horumon-yaki, a popular Japanese dish (Horumon refers to the internal organs of beef and pork), was started by Koreans living in Japan, but yakiniku is different. It is a misconception that the Japanese did not eat meat because they were Buddhists. The Edo Shogunate banned meat eating, but many people ate it in secret. People called meat by a secret word so that the shogunate officials would not know about it. Horse meat / Sakura (cherry blossom) Wild boar meat / Botan (tree peony) Venison / Momiji (maple) Chicken / Kashiwa (oak) The nobles and samurai also ate beef marinated in miso in secret. It was not until the Meiji period (1868-1912) that beef and pork began to be eaten publicly. Horse meat has also been used since ancient times as a poultice to relieve heat in swollen areas.

in addition to bbq, the zainichi also started the yakuza

man, you knock these out of the park every time

Thai BBQ or “Mookata” used to be called “Korean Grilled Meat” too, but it’s more likely adapted from Mongolian BBQ.

I'm Japanese. I'm sad about that some people forget that they learned in their school, and they get mad about this topic. Ordinary Japanese people were forbidden to eat meats by the government in samurai's era until the modern times. Some people called meats "medicine" which to gain the vital energy, for avoiding the law, and ate it. Some people wanted to eat it and claimed that meats are flowers: botan, sakura, etc. However, for ordinary people, eating meats was regarded as taboo. In the late 19 century to early 20 century, food culture of European came from over the sea. Then, Japanese people started to eat meats from that time. This topic which "BBQ is not Japanese traditional food" makes sense.

I never knew this. I always thought there were similarities and it’s interesting how food evolves in different countries and cultures.

Damn your such a bright young man love your content keep up the great work 🍻

Matthew your channel is fantastic! I hope you get the attention you deserve! Every video is so well produced, and the content is very interesting.

~Brilliant video. This is the best channel for anyone interested in the intersection between culture, history & food. Its a profound window in to the world. Thank you for these well informed & researched videos. My very favorite from the first on Portuguese food & its impact. Please keep it up.

そもそもずっと肉食禁止だったわけでもないし、地方に住んでれば隠れて肉食ってたよ。 一般的ではなかっただけ。 ラーメンでもカレーでも餃子でも外国の食べ物なら日本名に変えたりしないから〝焼き肉〟と言ったのなら韓国焼き肉じゃなくて普通に〝肉を焼く〟という意味で〝焼き肉〟というネーミングになったんだと思う。 それを韓国人が日本の焼き肉は韓国式だ！とか言ってるだけだよ。

Oh Mr Matthew Li , You just making me feel like trip to Memory Lane Because in March 2020 , I ever in Shin Okubo just like you Oh Memory Lane Intensifies

According to a book written in the mid-9th century, Ono no Komachi, a female poetess of the time, was also a lover of chicken, bear, rabbit, and venison. In the early Edo period (1600 AD), there were recipe books for roasting and boiling raccoon dogs and otters in addition to those. The government had issued a ban, but common people ate them in secret. The missionary Luis Frois also reported, "The Japanese secretly prefer beef. Contributors who ignore or reveal their ignorance of such things that can be found with a little research are fools.

Agreed about Red Velvet being the best kpop group

Yes! I always tell my friends their favourite Japanese food aren't that Japanese. Tempura (Portuguese) Gyoza and Ramen (Chinese) Yakiniku (Korean) Japanese Curry (Indian via the British).

Imo there is something to be learned from the Zainichi experience for Asian people in western countries. Existing as a perpetual foreigner, always suspect when something bad happens in the nation your family originates from, and being scapegoats when domestic problems arise(please tell me you remember the times when crime happened in Japan, it was common to assume the criminal was Korean descent). The only real differences is, at least Zainichi can blend in, and if people didn't know your name, they won't assume anything and of course because Asian people in the west can have citizenship as it's not based on blood.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY YOU WERE PUT ON MY FEED, BUT I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. Looking forward to more of your videos!!

As I recall, Korea claimed that Christ and football also originated in Korea

Best video yet, Matthew. I learned a lot.

Great work man, keep it up!

Over the period time korean BBQs in Japan moved away from trends in their mainland. it has become Japanese food, first it uses a lot of marination sauces, where as in Korea minimum marination or no marination has become a trend with ssam vegetables wrapped in. Japanese yakiniku I would say that it has become a strange food for South Koreans.

At least they dont forget the origin of the foods and they really good at creating food culture, thats what impressive about japan, lets make the origin of korean corn dog video next 🤣🤣🤣

Japanese people should say Japanese instant noodles Conquered South korea when they are eating instant noodles made in south korea LOL

Red Velvet the best group. Correct!!

Jokes about the origins of cutting and roasting meat are hilarious. Wasn't it the Neanderthals who first cut up meat and roasted it over a fire? lol

I finally understand why I was able to order Japanese makgeoli at a yakiniku place now! Such an interesting video

Not so sure about some of the assumptions in this video. I was introduced to Korean cuisine before it was popular in Australia, by Japanese people. That was around 1990. It is widely understood that the origin of Yakiniku is Korean and there has been a sizable Korean population in Japan from way before the 1980s.

Liar

This video is inaccurate. Yakiniku in Japan is basically beef. In Korea, it is pork. The origin of yakiniku is "horumon-yaki," a dish made from grilled internal organs. In the Showa period (1926-1989), Japanese restaurants began to serve hormone dish, a dish made from internal organs. The term "horumon-yaki" came to be used to refer to the grilled organ meat served in popular restaurants. After the war, Koreans and zainichi Koreans who remained in Japan, especially in Osaka, ate and sometimes sold horumon-yaki, and it gradually spread throughout the country. the word "yakiniku" has been around for a long time. The use of the word "yakiniku" to refer to grilled meat dishes is older, for example, in "Seiyo Ryoriyotsu" (1872) by Kanagaki Rubun (1872), where it is used as a translation of barbecue. The same year, "Seiyo Ryori Shinan" also uses the term "yakiniku" to refer to a dish made from grilled animal meat. In recent years, in Shigeru Mizuki's manga "Graveyard Kitaro" series, "Kitaro Yawa Monogatari" (1961), there is a line in which a whole roasted chicken is referred to as "yakiniku" According to Michio Sasaki's "Cultural History of Yakiniku," it became popular in the 1920s to call all energy-boosting dishes such as offal dishes, egg dishes, and natto (fermented soybeans) as horumon ryori. According to Tsunekichi Uoya's "Longevity Cuisine" (1936), he notes that in the Showa period, the ryotei restaurant "Sansuiro" and the Western-style restaurant "Hokkyokusei" served offal dishes as hormone ryori. Under the influence of these restaurants, motsu-yaki, grilled offal served in popular restaurants before World War II, came to be called horumon-yaki.

Finally ! Thank you for explaining that Yakiniku is Korean bbq, even Korean Americans don’t know this fact sadly

see a lot of parallels between this and different waves of Chinese/Cantonese immigrants on the west coast

Matthew Li is super underrated~

I agree with you, Red Velvet IS the best Kpop group! But this is such an informative view! I always wondered why Yakiniku and Korean BBQ is so similar.

no japanese think this food is korean things LOL this food is just BBQ or somthing. just grilling meat does not make it korean food. this is not even close to japanese curry or ramen LOL in japan korean food restaurants and yakiniku places are totally separated seriously japan has made foods like Shabu Shabu , Sukiyaki and Yakitori and Yakiniku is just one of them

It's absurd that the zainichi aren't given their citizenship.

Stop lying. Beef has existed in Japan since the end of the Edo period. Please refrain from stealing other people's culture.

Are you the guy from that other channel about anime figures? Similar script writing and feel to the videos... I wanna say similar appearance too but id have to go check back that channel.

i remember back in 2012 japanese wernt even that into kpop or koreans in general infact thwy where still pretty closed minded to koreans

Let's gooooooo

lie! In Japan, there was a variety of cultures where food was eaten while grilling, such as robata and irori hearths. Korea imitated the Japanese yakiniku and called it Korean yakiniku. It is correct to say that South Korea imitated Japan.

wow I remember more than a decade ago japanese always told me that korea like to copy japan product, now Korean product all the hype for Japanese people

Korean-style yakiniku in Japan was created when poor Koreans picked up discarded guts and vegetables and roasted them to eat them because the Japanese were eating meat and discarding the guts. The Korean-style yakiniku is still eaten today under the name "horumon-yaki.

After all, Koreans will always be Koreans, no matter where they live or what their nationality is. Spreading the lie that everything comes from Korea. What if you realize that you're embarrassed to do that anymore?

日本語のコメントが正しい指摘をしていてくれて安心。 これで騙された人は情報弱者として生きていってね。

Japanese had a Buddhist government that forbad the consumption of beef for centuries until the meiji restoration. That's why British curry became a staple in the Japanese pallet as the curry powder would hide the smell/taste of beef that wasn't very liked by the Japanese back then. That's why Korean BBQ became so popular with the Japanese, grilling meat really wasn't part of their culture.

Hey boy. You have many disinformation in this video. First of all, k bbq come from Japanese style of cuisine because Korean dont have meat culture before and table cooking style . Japan have so many style of Bbq Robata(炉端),shichirinn(七輪)IRori(囲炉裏)teppan (鉄板焼き).Korean use Japanese style of Bbq. And its called Korean bbq. Korean Bbq eats Pork. Japanese bbq eats beef. Korean eats Japonica rice. They dont even know they have been eating Japanese rice. . Second, You misunderstood about Korea and Japan relationship and history by Communism. They dont want China , Korea, Japan get together again. Three country were used to firghting together against Western European countrise. Japan lost the war. Commnism took over Asia.They splited and divided Asia . Third, China support North Korea. Japan help South Korea. Do u see this ?

Eating roasted or cooked beef wasn't widely available from Japan prior to Korean immigrants.

In the past, in Japan, cows and horses were a valuable labor force and were treated like family members, and they were rarely eaten. In some areas, wild boar was eaten grilled, but this is only a rare case. Originally, yakiniku was just one item at Korean restaurants in Japan. At that time, store staff grilled the meat and served it to customers. In Japan during the early Meiji period, it was popular for customers to grill their own meat, so this style was introduced to yakiniku as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingisukan Today's yakiniku cuisine is a sophisticated part of Japanese culinary culture, but many of the owners of yakiniku restaurants are Koreans residing in Japan, and it is also a reflection of Korean culinary culture. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of nationalists online who dislike the fact that popular Japanese cuisine has Korean roots.

Average Japanese definitely know Yakiniku has its origins from ethnic Koreans in Japan. Japanese bbq or yakiniku restaurants have been operated by zainichi for decades.