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A Guide to The Best Wagyu Ever

Updated : Sept 2021

Once we heard "wagyu", Kobe beefiness is the most common prototype that comes to our mind. However, did you know that Japanese wagyu is available in diverse kinds with different levels of deliciousness?

This will guide you to enjoy the best wagyu ever!

What Makes Wagyu so Popular?

Wagyu has a smooth all the same beautiful marbling with the highest season and quality. It let you experience the melting-in-the-mouth texture and luxurious sweet notwithstanding non-greasy taste that meet nicely in every dish. The wagyu beef is available in the market after inspection and grading for its attributes, such as marbling, color, and texture.

In producing super loftier-quality meat of wagyu, the cattle need to be stress-free, breeds free in nature, eat a carefully chosen fed, and have a strict yet careful health check, that makes it reach an exclusivity.

Practise Wagyu Drink Beer?

This is ane of the nearly common topics we heard when talking about wagyu. However, according to an exclusive interview held by The Japan Times (click for full article), it is mentioned that "this myth started 30 years ago when a eatery did a promotional stunt in which a Tajima cow was fed beer". Furthermore, quoting to the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association mentioned on Japan Info (click for total article), feeding beer or alcoholic potable to a wagyu is not a office of the standard practice of rearing wagyu.

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Kinds of Wagyu in Japan

Wagyu includes 4 Japanese native breeds, those are shorthorn, polled, chocolate-brown, and black. Since wagyu is the native Japanese breed, in that location is no wagyu raised and breeds other than in Japan. Among the Japanese native breeds, the Japanese black cattle (or chosen "kuroge wagyu" in Japanese) are known equally the representative of branded wagyu.

The Halal Wagyu

Aim to serve the-best-meat-in-the-world to Muslim customers, now Japan has a variety of halal wagyu, which is slaughtered according to Islamic Law, do by Muslims, and at the halal-certified slaughterhouse, then processed at the halal-certified processing constitute earlier distributed to retailer/butcher. It makes halal restaurants serving halal wagyu are rapidly increasing throughout Nippon and overwhelmed numbers of Muslim customers that look for ultimate satisfaction in enjoying meat.

Halal Branded Wagyu You Should Endeavour in Japan!

Ozaki Beef

Ozaki beefiness refers to Japanese black cattle raised on a subcontract owned and managed by Mr. Muhenaru Ozaki in Miyazaki Prefecture. Ozaki beef is the just Wagyu beefiness in Japan named later the farmer. The Ozaki beef breeds and raised with the most avant-garde techniques which are different from others, makes the Ozaki beef's meat has a very beautiful marble with a lite and sweet withal luxurious addicting taste. It has an extremely smoothen and melting-in-the-oral fissure texture, has a sweet gustation without greasy. The most delicious meat ever.

Premium Ozaki beef at the Origami Asakusa (Tokyo)

Ozaki beef had been served on the get-go-class ANA flight lath from Paris to Tokyo (Haneda) in March 2015 in the western-mode menu, which fabricated it gain high responses and overwhelmed world-class celebrities.

Ohmi Beef

Ohmi beefiness is the oldest wagyu brand in Japan, comes from the Japanese black cattle raised at the Ohmi surface area in Shiga Prefecture that is blessed with the freshwater of Lake Biwa, known every bit "the mother lake". The Ohmi beefiness has the longest history amidst the branded wagyu, well-marbled with tender fatty and mellow odour, and has a chewy however juicy texture.

Halal Ohmi beefiness at the Ohmigyu DINING Iyasaka (Tokyo)

Kobe Beef

Talking about wagyu, "Kobe beef" maybe is the start keyword that comes to our heed. Yes, Kobe beefiness is well-known worldwide and highly appreciated internationally. The Kobe beefiness comes from Japanese black cattle raised in Hyogo Prefecture which has a beautiful marble, soft yet tender texture, and a superior flavor.

Halal Kobe beef at the Teppanyaki Steak Misono (Kobe)

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Wagyu Grade

Before goes to the market, wagyu beef must go through strict inspection and important grading. Japanese beefiness grading is decided by aspects such as; marbling, meat color and brightness, firmness and texture of meat, and color, luster, and quality of fatty.

In the grading, A5 is the highest grade given simply to the finest beef, particularly have an extremely polish melting-in-the-oral cavity texture, juicy flavor, and good balance of fat.

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