The Best Teriyaki Chicken In Seattle (w/ BIG BOY JOHNNY)

how you became local teriyak enthusiast oh my god guys look at that steaming you've seen this plate before aka Johnny's Trap Kitchen johnny's Trap Kitchen oh my god this is the version of chicken and rice that you need to try oh that piece with all the skin all the skin if you've ever visited Seattle you know that teriyak chicken is king not only is there an estimated 100 teriyak chicken restaurants in Seattle proper but within King County there's almost 200 so why are there so many and what makes it so good i'm in Seattle with big time foodie big boy Johnny to figure this out all right Johnny our first spot is Toshio's this is a classic spot tell me more real quick not just just Toshio is the Toshios okay the only spot in Seattle that does skin on chicken teriyak i would have to say this is the people's favorite i love myself some chicken there's teriyaki shops in little pockets of cities everywhere everywhere in Washington do you think we could convince them to to get back there maybe we could film them grilling i don't know maybe maybe we'll use a little charm johnny you're great at asking for things all right doesn't hurt to ask let's go all right Johnny what are we ordering there's only one thing baby chicken teriyak skin on extra sauce okay that's what you do got the goods baby let's go in the car all right all right we got the goods baby we got the goods and we're eating it in the car og style man that's a extra plate so what you got the uh is this salad dressing yes so every plate of Seattle style teriyak comes with uh usually iceberg or cabbage lettuce mostly iceberg lettuce with a very sweet and tangy kind of mayoy sauce i love it i love it very very good very good very good very addicting and this isn't your regular sauce like the way they do it look it's a little gelatinous oh look it almost looks like it has some collagen in it i was like well I'm trying to look at myself you're holding it up to the screen yeah I got the extra sauce just so you guys could see it but there's a lot of sauce on that thing already you know what we usually we just cut the top and use it as a plate but this plastic so as I saw so they actually had almost the chicken I almost want to say braised and then they put it on the grill just to char it it's like pre-cooked and then for process of making it quicker yes but this is the only spot in Seattle that will do skin on nowhere else does skin on this is by far I would say the most popular teriyak spot in Seattle we got plenty of pocket plenty of pockets you like it the sauce it's different from when you remember in college huh yo this is good i'm telling you did they say this fell off they said it's not some Some people say it tastes a little bit different but the nostalgia is still there no one is still doing this let me just show you guys the pieces of floppy chicken with the skin top tier i like chicken with the skin on i think the skin has all the flavor yep i think it has extra fat juiciness tenderness juiciness it kind of locks everything in yep oh man the char the char on the skin go ahead get the salad it's that fresh vibrance that you need to just cut that sweet richness from the chicken brother I don't even want a piece i just want to watch you eat it i would say the sauce is a little bit more on the saltier side but not in a bad way cuz I've had other teraki chickens they're almost too sweet so I kind of like that it's kind of tingling my mouth a little bit like with a tang right yeah so the thing about this you guys if you guys don't know about Seattle style teriyaki chicken it's like New York pizza every pocket in every city is going to do it slightly different their sauce might be a little bit different the ingredients might be a little bit different this right here I would say is top tier who Who would you say is like the top tier pizza place that people is the people's favorite people i mean in New York you got to go Joe's scars um there's Upside there's This is like that mama Toshio's is like that for us out here if you are in the Seattle area in the South End area this is what you want to try question i think the chicken I give it honestly I I can't give it five out of five yet because I got to leave room for improvement this is a 4.5 it really doesn't get much better than this i'm sad to say that the other places we go to might be a little bit different experience for you we'll see but what do you think about this rice it's a little wet this rice is a little wet i think the rice could be a little bit more uh dry like you're saying because you're putting sauce on it and I feel like when you put sauce on wet rice it just gets a little too mushy that's like the only complaint though all right they might lose 0.25 points okay for the squishiness of the rice but the salad is good everything's good everything's hidden i like to eat a little bit of salad with the little chicken piece salad cleanser oh my god this is the version of chicken and rice that you need to try toshios fresh toios yeah oh that piece with all the skin all the skin i I got the lyrics in my head i just don't got the the vocal cords for it no shame this is delicious so nostalgic toshio this is just the beginning spot but I got to say honestly if you come get teriyak this is the de facto teriyak spot and it should look like this rice salad chicken if you're visiting Seattle before you go to Space Needle before you go to Pip Place Market stop by Toshios get you some chicken teriyak for lunch you won't be disappointed perfect food for the car comfort food easy cheap high protein good macros you don't have to eat all the rice if you don't want to come on delicious all right we're pulling up to Toshi's toshi's one of the Oh this is not a standalone this is a This is the name of uh the godfather the godfather of Seattle style teriyaki all right all right all right we're here at Toshi's and uh yeah we're going to find out if it is like related to the original Toshi's you don't even know cuz the original Toshi Toshi Kasahara by the way the godfather of Teryaki he has one location that he actually reps which is in Mil Creek but but this I heard that this is part of a chain which would be his chain yes but maybe it just looks a little different he's licensing it out you know the name just so people get a little buzz but uh let's still hit this we got to do some journalism here all right man got the goods for this Toshi found out that this is actually not the same as the original Toshi's is its own brand and there's a lot of Toshi's out there apparently so uh it's okay we'll still try it there's a pocket of Toshi's everywhere in Seattle so we're going to give it an honest review absolutely all right so this was kind of like a typical teriyak shop you know it had uh also some other you know katsu uh items on there it has some Chinese items orange chicken of course you know spicy chicken which I did get because I just wanted to try it i'll let you do the honors all right toshi's but not the original Toshi's dang we just couldn't go up to Mil Creek today oh just switched it up on you guys got a little spicy chicken this looks pretty good though this plate is very hot yo this is a lot of chicken there's a lot of chicken a lot of weight whole thing is chicken this is one of my favorite spots honestly I feel like they do right with the rice and this is the Oh so you come here i come here cuz it's closest to the office that I like so usually chicken teriyaki comes boneless skinless marinated chicken thighs that are filleted so they're evenly cooked yep that's why you see what it is this is the most common chicken teriyaki you'll find in Seattle and I got the slight the spicy side with the teriyaki now let's try the teriyaki side real quick it doesn't look as saucy maybe not as salty but still actually wow this chicken is bouncy and it's fresh this is not that chicken that was sitting around under the lamp that they just regrilled there you go m not as saucy still got a nice little char no skin on it the sauce is not as strong which I don't mind but it I guess it lets the uh chicken thigh flavor shine yeah the char the char okay let's try the And like we said every salad iceberg salad comes with the white dressing nice tangy sweet let me try this spicy why can't I say it like that spicy chicken very spicy very delicious i can't tell if that's a Chinese or Korean accent i can't tell either but most Koreans are the ones owning these teriyak spots nowadays too tell me about how you became kind of like a local teriyak enthusiast oh my god it started from a childhood started when I was a wee lab no I know we did the video but like recently your last couple years I mean what what has propelled you man last couple years I took a a huge mental break as you guys don't know if you guys know but I was doing a food truck called Big Boys Burger took a huge mental break from my my health and just kind of figuring things out i was like what's the next move what's the next project and I was actually presented um an idea i believe in all of those things and I want to bring it to the rest of the world and that's why I started studying this yeah you a man on a mission man absolutely baby and you guys are gonna be along the way i love it so you like this you like this wait till you taste the turnup we got phase one R&D coming soon baby i'm not going to lie this one surprised me man for for a fake Toshi this is good and you know what's good about it too is that every single spicy is a different recipe so like no one's going to do the same spicy it's always going to be a little bit different everywhere you go you know you can never underrate how important it is this chicken tastes like it's freshly cooked from raw it almost I I What do you think it was without the poultry taste i feel like sometimes when you cook it too raw you can kind of still taste that weird poultry taste but this is Yeah this is feels like it was raw to the grill i said 4.5 i think the skin on adds more flavor yes like I said the toios was a little bit saltier yep flavor-wise I love how they let the chicken thigh shine and the char is still good and there's a ton of food if I had to be honest Toshio's the first spot we went to is more technically unique absolutely it's more different than the other teriyak and I tell you that for a standard plate I would call this a standard ter plate this place is good i was about to curse we're going to bleep it out anyways this spot's [ __ ] good this spot is [ __ ] good for a regular spot let me Let me You know how you addressed the rice last time let's address the rice it's actually a little bit grainier yeah it's a little bit i think it could be slightly wetter a little bit more moist i like but it compliments it well when you have marinated meats you can't have dry rice i'm just going to put out there right now if you ever go to your Korean barbecue spots and stuff like that your rice is not dry yeah so I'm I'm checking the stickiness of this rice let's do a rice sticky test it's true here um so the the previous rice at Toshio's was had way too much moisture yes and was on the mushy scale ranking too high absolutely here i would say maybe it's right there on the edge of not being mushy enough it's a little bit dry look like look it kind of comes together they probably have this for their fried rice the next day they know they got to make fried rice and like we got to keep the I just know that if you stick this rice in the fridge for like overnight it's going to be you're going to have to steam it up it's going to separate yeah yeah yeah it's berry and check it out at Fred Myers solid all right you guys we're at Saru Japan they are the teriyaki chicken i think most people know but are they the best or they just people's favorite extra sauce yeah I like that he He ready to be a star he ready to be a star all right so we're going to eat this in the car but I think it's only right that we eat the mall chicken at the mall so guys look at that steaming you've seen this plate before last time I remember the chicken is like kind of mushy it's slightly like a corn starch type of like All right so what do you think about the the veggies here they don't do the salad they give you the steamed cabbage that's shredded all when I think of this the first one I think is just process just process process process let's make it as easy as possible right saru Japan the uh a lot of people's original teriyak chicken this is what people are most familiar with when they think teriyak chicken good old Saru solid that's like the only thing you can take solid it's salty saru it's salty it's not too sweet it's definitely more on the saltier side um there we go it's definitely more unique in the way that is uh kind of cooked but I I wouldn't say that this is authentic Seattle style teriyak chicken but I think anybody that calls teriyak chicken teriyaki chicken is literally just grilled chicken then putting sauce on it right so technically this is teriyak chicken i'm not going to lie for 10 bucks it's not a bad deal they obviously give you a heap of right this it's mostly rice yes so for $10 the overall plate is cheaper but they probably didn't give you as much chicken as like the last Toshi spot i bank on you ordering the double i will say this beats a nonfresh teriyak joint yes meaning that I think the hotness and the freshness gives it so many points here that even though I don't think the chicken is the best or I don't love the sauce the fact that it is fresh indeed and that sometimes at the other teriyak joints you will get chicken that has been sitting around for a while that's reheated real quickly that's the worst that's the worst which I understand listen people got to run businesses they have systems there's not maybe their business is not super busy but Saru is running through this chicken and it's always hot off the grill so I got to give it a 3.75 i like the salad but I like that they give you a complimentary uh cabbage all right everybody our last location is an undisclosed location somewhere in Reton but aka Johnny's Trap Kitchen johnny's Trap Kitchen johnny so we had teriyak chicken yeah at all these different spots but now we're about to have I guess my rendition of teriyak chicken man what I think would make it just a little bit better all right let's take a look guys what do you mean rendering we got to make sure the skin is crispy we're rendering this is the R&D phase part one and uh I'm so happy that you're here to try it man i can hear it all right moment of truth come on come on we got the marinated side skinless right here boneless and then we got the skin on boneless non-m marinated okay this is a nice char yeah y'all like that wet wet huh all right man i'm so excited for you to try this i know you you probably teriyakied out from today but you call it secret teriyak is that the name unmarinated chicken yep uh with the skin on and then you have uh marinated chicken skinless boneless and then you have the chicken skin right here and then you have I'm trying to play around like I said this is R&D phase one you guys are a part of it i'm going to have a popup soon so stay tuned to me I'm saucing that thing down baby okay cooked perfectly crispy that salty and that saltiness and the skin was still there and it made it crispy one more bite the rice came out in between less moisture than toios in the beginning but not falling apart still clumping together m on a little bit sweeter side charred marinated i love sauce so you guys going to get a sauce perfectly bro so my favorite bite so far is the skin on with the sauce i get the different textures i get the crispy skin fattiness and then I hit that salt skin which you salted the chicken earlier not to give away all the palette dude i think the marinated chicken is also comparable to some of the other spots I've had but the skin on is is the standout allar i would say texture-wise it's a max salad that little extra hint of pepper I think is nice and I think it pairs really well it actually is the most peppery thing of everything here there's no pepper in anything else yeah small sauce $9.99 on Amazon it won't be $9.99 forever guys because $9.99 is very cheap let them know try the max salad with some smalla cuz I know you know your mac salad is good try it with some smala cuz I think smalla goes with mayo very nicely wow i know the smal is like sheswan inspired oil but it gives it more of an American taste for some reason it definitely made it a little bit more Americanized for some reason which is very odd it's funny cuz we grow up eating so much teriyak chicken in Seattle and we don't think too much about it until you leave and you realize wait New York LA they don't really eat teriyak chicken like this no they don't have just teriyak spots so we don't really think about it that it's it is one of those uniquely Seattle super west coast maybe Hawaii but mostly Seattle things another chicken and rice everybody loves chicken and rice hello guys chicken and rice something different is teriyaki chicken and rice exactly so I just wanted to get down the base first and then I'm going to turn this thing up different sauces maybe different flavored rices right i don't know yet but I want you guys to be a part of the R&D so the pop-up I'm going to get a lot of you guys' feedback and I really want it to come from people from Seattle no so the pop-ups are going to be in Seattle based and I haven't made an announcement yet but please stay tuned to Big Boy Johnny on Instagram or Secret Teriyak that's where I will make the announcements but I'm super excited to present this to you guys man I think that teriyak it seems like just a basic thing that you just overlook and take for granted it's good out here it's different all right everybody thank you so much for watching follow Big Boy Johnny down below um you know him from our channel early on started man in the jungle the mighty jungle of Vietnam and just uh you know we grew up together spent many many years together so I'm just happy to see you man i'm I'm excited to see where this goes so thank you brother thank you likewise for updates follow Big Boy Johnny man this was the only food video I filmed in Seattle while I was here so hey I appreciate it brother we made it happen shout out to Richie and Hype Talk till next time we out peace