

We recently had the BEST hibachi sauce ever at our local Japanese steakhouse.
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The main ingredients for yum yum sauce are standard but every Japanese chef uses different own ratios and some include their own special touches, so feel free to experiment.

This popular sauce is fairly sweet with a slight bit of tang. Yum Yum Sauce will keep for up to a week in the fridge. At minimum it should be made 2 hours in advance but a day in advance is better.

This sauce is extremely versatile and the flavors pair will a wide variety of foods. But whichever name you know it by the consensus is that it is indeed YUMMY! No Japanese steakhouse meal is complete without it – whether drizzled on grilled chicken, fried rice and noodles, vegetables and as a dipping sauce for shrimp, potstickers and sushi, it’s simply delicious! This Japanese-American is also known as white sauce, shrimp sauce, hibachi sauce and yummy sauce. He had been serving it at his Casual Japanese restaurant and it become so popular that he jumped on the opportunity to bottle it and make it commercially available. It’s uncertain who was the first chef to invent it but chef Terry Ho is credited with being the first to bottle and mass produce it. But it is a key component to the Japanese restaurant experience in the United States and Canada. While this sauce is referred to as a Japanese steakhouse sauce, you won’t find it in restaurants in Japan because it is an American invention. Todd usually gets his standard, sushi, while I enjoy sampling the grilled chicken, vegetables, rice and noodles….all drizzled with the deservedly popular sweet and slightly tangy Japanese steakhouse sauce known affectionately as “Yum Yum Sauce.” Here’s our homemade yum yum sauce that captures the flavor you know and love! What is Yum Yum Sauce? One of our favorite places to go for date night is our local Japanese steakhouse for a hibachi grill dinner. The famous Japanese steakhouse sauce that’s phenomenal for dipping, drizzling and enjoying with your grilled meats, seafood, vegetables, rice, noodles and more! This homemade Yum Yum Sauce recipe is super quick and easy to make and tastes at least a hundred times better than store-bought, and without any junk ingredients! Jump to Recipe Jump to Video Print Recipe
