Taré

The meaning of the term taré isn’t consistent up and down Japan, but in Tokyo, where I learnt about it, it is essentially Japanese barbecue sauce. At yakitori restaurants, places where they grill skewers of chicken over clean-burning bincho-tan charcoal, they brush the chicken with a slick of taré just as it finishes cooking. One of the coolest taré-making systems I’ve ever seen was at a yakitori joint in Japan where there was a channel underneath the grill funnelling all the