Didn't know the word.
It stems from Japan and looked like this:
US: why not use a bigger table with longer legs and put a gas grill in the middle?
Not sure if I'm right. Search results where sparse. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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The one in the US is based on teppanyaki. You sit at a table with a large metal griddle while someone cooks for you in a very performative way. Usually squirting sake in your mouth and shooting fire out of onions.
Fire onions you say? I'm intrigued.
I think in the U.S.A. it is usually the latter nowadays, where a cook also preps dishes for you? With a grill plate in the middle made out of sheet metal.
The former is traditionally japanese