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  • Yakitori is basically grilled chicken on a stick.

    Yaki -> ‘cooked over direct heat’

    Tori -> ‘chicken’

    (well, most literally, ‘bird’. also, not to be confused with ‘torii’, totally different concept)

    Its like a street food, sorta like street tacos or hot dogs: relatively fast, simple, but still quite tasty… you could think of it as a very specific kind of barbecued chicken, sort of.

    Izakaya is the pub/eatery, the place, the building.

    Its … sort of a combination between a dive bar, and an all you can eat buffet?

    Probably the westernized versions, they probably aren’t having a section for people dining on tatami mats, charging you an entrance fee, and then feeding you for up to 3 hours, as you order things in the order of ‘you know what will be cooked quickly, and what will take a while’… id imagine they’re probably more like just a sit down restaurant, with booths or tables and waiters snd servers and what not… though a lot of izakaya have that as well, it varies.