Jingisukan
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Jingisukan (ジンギスカン? "Genghis Khan") is a Japanese dish prepared by grilling mutton on a convex metal skillet or other grill. The dish is particularly popular on the northern island of Hokkaidō.
[edit] 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 soldier's helmets that they purportedly used to cook their food.
There is a dispute over who invented the dish, candidates include Tokyo, Zaō Onsen [1], and Tōno [2]. The first Jingisukan dedicated restaurant was a Jingisu-sō (成吉思荘? "Genghis House") that opened in Tokyo in 1936. [3]
