"Central Yakitori" 2025 Michelin Recommended Restaurant — Second Visit Still High Quality

- Yakitori Kappo Kibird 🐣 On my second visit to Yakitori Kappo Kibird in Central, I really wanted to come back and eat again for a long time. This time, my trip to Fukuoka didn’t leave enough time to find yakitori, so I had to come back to find the most authentic Japanese-style yakitori specialty restaurant to make up for it 🥺 Kibird — a Tokyo-origin yakitori specialty restaurant focusing on yakitori dishes, using Binchotan charcoal grilling and Kagoshima Kuro Satsuma chicken as the main chef’s choice ingredient. This year, it was even awarded as a Michelin recommended restaurant, truly high quality 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ✨14-Courses Dinner Menu ($950/pp) Appetizer 🐣 Tataki Breast Meat with Tosa Vinegar Jelly and Grated Karasumi Half-cooked chicken breast grilled until the outside is slightly charred and fragrant, with the inside still tender and pink. Thinly sliced half-raw chicken meat retains its original rich aroma without any strange taste. Paired with Tosa vinegar jelly and mullet roe, bringing out freshness with a slightly sour and appetizing flavor 🤌🏻 Soup 🐣 Whole Chicken Soup with Chicken and Cod Fish Balls Clear chicken broth served with homemade chicken and cod fish balls. The genius touch is the addition of yuzu peel, which brings a refreshing and fragrant yuzu aroma. Yakitori 🐣 First Skewer of the Day On the day, you can choose salt-grilled chicken neck meat or salt-grilled chicken skin, both simply seasoned with salt but already very delicious: the chicken neck meat is crispy and tender with mustard; the chicken skin is grilled until slightly dry but still retains the aroma of fat, a great taste you can’t find elsewhere 🌟 🐣 Sasami Kombu with Salmon Roe and Wasabi Half-cooked chicken tenderloin seaweed hand roll, a first-time experience. The chicken tenderloin is marinated and lightly grilled to half-cooked, paired with fresh, sweet, and crunchy salmon roe and wasabi. The meat is soft and tender, with a salty and rich flavor. 🐣 Salt-Grilled Special of the Day Salt-grilled chicken heart with ginger paste, carrying a charcoal aroma. The texture is indistinguishable from chicken meat; the salt-grilled chicken kidney is crispy and tender, surprisingly juicy even when eating chicken kidneys. Main Dish 🐣 Fried Tofu with Chicken Miso Sauce Thick fried tofu grilled to a crispy outside and soft inside, served with a special chicken miso sauce that is salty and flavorful. Vegetables 🥬 Seasonal Vegetables Charcoal-grilled Italian cucumber topped with freshly grated Parmesan cheese and black pepper, sweet and salty 🌟 Palate Cleanser 🍧 Peach Sorbet with Dried Yuzu A refreshing and sweet-sour dessert to cleanse the palate and cut through the oiliness. Yakitori 🐣 Tsukune with Egg Yolk My most anticipated minced chicken skewer 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Chicken cartilage bits add a crunchy texture, the meat is rich in flavor, and paired with egg yolk sauce, it’s even smoother. 🐣 Chef’s Recommendation Juice-grilled chicken liver cooked to medium rare (30-40% doneness). The staff said since it’s freshly imported from Japan, it’s safe to eat this way. The texture is not grainy like usual chicken liver but dense and bouncy like konjac. The flavor is sweet and fragrant without any offal smell. 🐣 Yakitori of the Day Salt-grilled chicken skin roll, grilled to a fragrant crisp; or Salt-grilled chicken breast, firm texture and mild flavor, best paired with sansho pepper. 🐣 Momo Tare with Arima Sansho Pepper Juice-grilled chicken thigh inner part, tender meat paired with Arima sansho pepper sauce, salty and spicy, very flavorful. Meal 🐣 Truffle TKG (+$100) / White Soup Ramen I personally quite like the slow-cooked chicken white soup ramen — the broth is thick and rich with collagen, the noodles are chewy and hold the soup well, paired with slow-cooked thinly sliced chicken chashu, very fresh and tender; or Minced chicken black truffle rice — served with egg yolk and caviar, very luxurious. Multiple different fresh and fragrant flavors combined, especially satisfying. Dessert 🍧 Fruit — Roasted Tea Ice Cream with Japanese Fruit 🍰 Strawberry Chocolate Birthday Cake — This "cake" is quite special because the strawberries are frozen solid, tasting like a shaved ice cake. The plating is also very impressive, and the birthday friend in the group said it was very impressive and was very satisfied 😎 - 📍Kibird (Central) Shop 2B, 1/F, Man Nin Building, 48 Queen’s Road Central, Central - _japanese _yakitori _central