Jingisukan

Jingisukan (ジンギスカン, "Genghis Khan") is a Japanese grilled mutton dish prepared on a convex metal skillet or other grill. The dish is particularly popular on the northern island of Hokkaidō and Thailand.

Etymology

The dish is rumored to be so named because in prewar Japan, lamb was widely thought to be the meat of choice among Mongolian soldiers, and the dome-shaped skillet is meant to represent the soldiers' helmets that they purportedly used to cook their food.

There is a dispute over from where the dish originated; candidates include Tokyo, Zaō Onsen, and Tōno. The first Jingisukan dedicated restaurant was a Jingisu-sō (成吉思荘, "Genghis House") that opened in Tokyo in 1936.

Gallery

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  Pan for Jingisukan

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  Jingisukan Restaurant in Malaysia

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  Golden Copper Pan for Jingisukan

See also

• Mongolian barbecue
• Yakiniku
• Teppanyaki

External links

• Jingisukan barbecue restaurant