**The Making of a Seattle Chicken Teriyaki: A Recipe to Remember**

As I stood in my kitchen, surrounded by ingredients and cooking utensils, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. Today was the day I would attempt to make a classic Seattle-style chicken teriyaki, a dish that has been a staple in my family for years. With a deep breath, I began to prepare the ingredients, carefully measuring out the soy sauce, vinegar, salt, and sugar.

I decided to use the smallest amount of water to boil down the sauce, hoping to achieve the perfect balance of flavors. As the mixture simmered, I added more flavor with sesame oil, garlic, and ginger, creating a fragrant and aromatic sauce that would complement the chicken perfectly. The aroma wafting from the pot was intoxicating, and my stomach growled in anticipation. Next, I turned my attention to the noodles, carefully draining them of excess water to prevent overcooking.

While the noodles cooled, I moved on to prepare the cabbage salad, a crucial component of the dish. With a drizzle of mayo dressing, vinegar, salt, and pepper, the crunchiness of the cabbage was balanced by the tanginess of the dressing. It was almost too pretty to eat, but I knew that would change soon enough. The final ingredient to add to the mix was the chicken, which I had carefully marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and sesame oil for 30 minutes.

As the chicken cooked in the grill pan, it began to develop a beautiful char, a sign that the teriyaki sauce was working its magic. The aroma wafting from the pan was incredible, and my mouth watered at the prospect of taking a bite. With everything ready, I assembled the dish, carefully placing the noodles on top of the cabbage salad and drizzling the chicken with the remaining teriyaki sauce.

**Comparing the Dish to Others**

After completing my Seattle-style chicken teriyaki, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. However, I also knew that there was room for improvement. To truly understand what makes a great Seattle chicken teriyaki, I decided to compare my dish to others.

The first dish I compared was from "beating delivery," which had a brighter, sweeter flavor profile than mine. The sauce was lacking in smokiness, and the noodles were overcooked, but the mac salad was creamy and delicious. In contrast, my dish had a deeper, more complex flavor profile, with notes of ginger and a hint of smokiness.

The second dish I compared was from "ichiro," which had a perfectly cooked chicken with a sweet and sticky teriyaki sauce. However, the rice wine vinegar that we added to our dressing brought brightness and flavor to our mac salad, which ichiro's did not. The iceberg lettuce in ichiro's side salad was also more soggy than mine, but the flavors were still well-balanced.

**Lessons Learned**

As I reflected on my attempt at making a Seattle-style chicken teriyaki, I realized that there are several key elements to consider when creating this dish. First and foremost, a sweet and smoky flavor profile is essential, which requires careful balance of ingredients such as soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and sesame oil.

Overcooking the noodles was also crucial in achieving the perfect creamy texture that complements the tangy dressing. Additionally, using rice wine vinegar brought brightness and depth to our mac salad, while a crunchy side salad provided a nice contrast to the dish.

In conclusion, making a Seattle-style chicken teriyaki is a recipe that requires patience, attention to detail, and a willingness to experiment. With practice and perseverance, anyone can create a delicious and memorable dish that will impress family and friends alike.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe're repping the mariners ichiro what hi i'm melissa and today i'm gonna make seattle chicken teriyaki faster than delivery i think it is possible to make a seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat they're probably going to be so busy hello oh hi i was wondering if you guys have chicken teriyaki yeah if i order how long is it going to take that would probably take about like 10 minutes 10 minutes okay i mean oh okay thank you for delivering oh no yeah for delivery okay thanks so it's on its way all right okay all right so first if you haven't made rice in an instant pot it is a lifesaver so i've got rice here oh my goodness the owl chicken teriyaki is native to seattle and it is so different from any other chicken teriyaki you'd get in any other city you always have a cider rice a salad the mac salad is creamy and sweet there's a lot of hawaiian influences here because the pacific northwest the keys to a really good seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken a thick and sticky sauce a creamy and sweet mac salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice that you'll get from the teriyaki is just standard white rice so we're not doing anything fancy here one to one water to my rice and then while i'm here i'm gonna get water for my pasta too and then i'm gonna make the chicken marinade so i've got a small pot here i'm gonna put soy then i'm gonna do rice wine vinegar for the tangy and the acidic flavor oh my gosh i'm gonna take this off to go faster and brown sugar it's gonna help with the stickiness this is the sweetness factor to the teriyaki i'm gonna add some dried shiitake and then i have konbu this is dried seaweed to add more flavor i'm gonna get my blender ready for us when we're ready i'm gonna need a grill pan for grilling the chicken got cabbage and carrots for our cabbage salad and i've got chicken that we can marinate i'm pretty sure that um they're marinating their chicken overnight so they've got a little leg up on me but i think having some extra sauce on the side will really help kind of bring back that flavor that we're looking for i think next is the cabbage salad right while i'm waiting depending on the restaurant you'll usually get an iceberg lettuce you might get cabbage as well i'm using cabbage because i like the flavor of it better it's a lot more sturdy and it holds the dressing my sauce is almost boiling carrots we're actually going to use two ways in the mac salad and the cabbage salad in the cabbage salad and the mac salad in the mac salad and the cabbage salad because there's trains my sauce is bubbling ginger is something that is very specific to the seattle chicken teriyaki traditionally chicken teriyaki doesn't have the ginger and so the ginger is something that's been added on i'm gonna just drain out my shiitake and konbu i don't want to blend this in the blender with that on it's just kidding the raw flavor of the ginger and garlic really comes through in the marinade so that's why i don't actually heat it up all right time check 18 minutes all right i'm gonna marinate my chicken so i've got boneless chicken thighs here i'm gonna use three quarters of my marinade and then i'm gonna save a quarter and put back the shiitakes and konbu and let that thicken up all right chicken is going to sit here and marinate my pasta water is starting to boil elbow macaroni which is super classic for the mac salad that's gonna go in and the thing about mac salad that makes it even better is that you have to make the noodles extra cooked if they're still crunchy it's not gonna be creamy got my chicken marinating my cabbage salad and i'm actually gonna get my grill pan hot while i'm here all right the cabbage salad is super simple it's literally just carrots and cabbage and personally my favorite part of that whole salad is the dressing it's pretty sure i could have that dressing on everything time check eight minutes holy all right that i'm gonna get the chicken going because that's gonna take a while to cook 13 minutes okay well all right chicken's going in the pan you can hear it sizzling i'm gonna switch it because that fire is hotter i'm gonna start getting the things ready for the mac salad which are the carrots and then yellow onion which provides a nice sweetness to it and to also add some texture bite and crunch yeah time check 10 minutes i've got seven minutes on the insta pot so that's a good sign my pasta is going you can see the sauce in the back is is starting to thicken my chicken's going on and now i'm just going to make the sauces and the dressing is really special because it's so simple it's kiwi mayonnaise qp only uses egg yolks and it also has msg which is amazing it's a lot creamier in texture and i like the flavor because it's a lot sweeter too i'm going to use some apple cider vin and that's going to help cut it and add more flavor to your mac salad so you can see the nice char that's what i want all right and then last but not least sesame mayo dressing sesame oil is really strong so don't use too much of it i'm going to use kewpie that's going to add to the creaminess rice wine vin and then sugar so an aspect of this dressing is that it's more sweet than regular so you want to find the balance between the sugar and the vinegar salt and to add more flavor and umami our soy sauce i picked the smallest boil to do this but it's okay you can smell the chicken just trying to break down the mayo oh that's so bomb okay i'm gonna drizzle this on the cabbage oh yeah time check four minutes and 30 seconds i think we might got it instapot is done i have beautifully cooked rice my noodles are overcooked and that's what we want drain them over here and i'm gonna rinse it with cold water i'm slowing down the cooking processes and cooling it because you don't want a warm mac salad one minute 40 seconds we might be ready for plating so i've got my mac my onions my carrots i'm gonna add my mayo dressing oh my gosh all right i've got my large plate 30 seconds oh my gosh all right chicken is nice and charred 30 minutes is up but i have all the components for my chicken teriyaki and the sauce all right and there's our chicken teriyaki so i'm just adding a little bit of sesame but everything bagel mix has sesame onions garlic cause it's so good but sesame seeds on top are nice the delivery hasn't shown up yet so i think it is possible to make seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat i am pretty confident in the um cabbage salad and the mac salad but i'm really excited to see if the chicken teriyaki took the marinade that we made okay i think it's the delivery all right thank you thank you so much let's compare their teriyaki looks a lot different than mine their sauce is a lot um it's a lot brighter than mine it's not as dark um so i wonder if there's less soy in this this is their mac salad it's a lot smaller than mine and then their green salad is a cabbage salad nope there's water in it and then there's dressing um let's taste it it's still the sesame creamy mayo but i think they don't add soy that's why it's so bright which one would you eat all right it's cooked really well but it's really sweet coating is really really sticky which is a good note it has the teriyaki flavors but decisively sweet i don't have any notes of smokiness on this teriyaki at all the mac salad has the black pepper carrots and the overcooked mac i don't think that they're using kiwi mayo um but it definitely tastes like a maxal that i've had before and the mag cabbage salad i mean sorry the iceberg lettuce salad it's still pretty crunchy the dressing comes through but it's not it kind of gets watered down now i'm gonna try our 30 minutes seattle's chicken teriyaki is the char i think that my dressing could have definitely been a little bit more sticky because i should have added more sugar but i think the flavor is going to be there you can taste the notes of ginger there's that smokiness i'm gonna dip it in a little sauce no that's the chicken that i remember growing up eating that's really good next up i'll do my mac salad just by looking at this i definitely probably could have added more mayo but the apple cider vinegar definitely comes through there's kind of a brightness to it even though we put the dressing on a long time ago the cabbage is still crunchy it's pretty good i think i did an okay job beating it and beating delivery all right so the four keys to a seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken making sure that my grill pan was nice and hot to be able to get that nice cheer nice sear on the chicken a thick and sticky teriyaki sauce i think i could have added a little bit more sugar to help it become a little bit more thick and sticky but the flavor definitely was there a sweet and creamy mac salad so i made sure to overcook my noodles this is probably the only time that you don't want to have al dente noodles um because that overcooked noodle is going to add more creamy texture to your salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice wine vinegar that we put in the sesame and mayo dressing brings brightness and flavor the iceberg definitely showed up a little bit more watery and it was a lot more soggy i think using the cabbage adds a really nice crunchy texture that you know is going to hold against the dressing that you make if i had to rate myself between a one to five star bag i would give myself a four i would have been a perfect five if my sauce was a little bit stickier and a little bit thicker i think for the perfect marinated chicken it would be an overnight marinade but i think everything else is pretty good i really think ichiro would be proudwe're repping the mariners ichiro what hi i'm melissa and today i'm gonna make seattle chicken teriyaki faster than delivery i think it is possible to make a seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat they're probably going to be so busy hello oh hi i was wondering if you guys have chicken teriyaki yeah if i order how long is it going to take that would probably take about like 10 minutes 10 minutes okay i mean oh okay thank you for delivering oh no yeah for delivery okay thanks so it's on its way all right okay all right so first if you haven't made rice in an instant pot it is a lifesaver so i've got rice here oh my goodness the owl chicken teriyaki is native to seattle and it is so different from any other chicken teriyaki you'd get in any other city you always have a cider rice a salad the mac salad is creamy and sweet there's a lot of hawaiian influences here because the pacific northwest the keys to a really good seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken a thick and sticky sauce a creamy and sweet mac salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice that you'll get from the teriyaki is just standard white rice so we're not doing anything fancy here one to one water to my rice and then while i'm here i'm gonna get water for my pasta too and then i'm gonna make the chicken marinade so i've got a small pot here i'm gonna put soy then i'm gonna do rice wine vinegar for the tangy and the acidic flavor oh my gosh i'm gonna take this off to go faster and brown sugar it's gonna help with the stickiness this is the sweetness factor to the teriyaki i'm gonna add some dried shiitake and then i have konbu this is dried seaweed to add more flavor i'm gonna get my blender ready for us when we're ready i'm gonna need a grill pan for grilling the chicken got cabbage and carrots for our cabbage salad and i've got chicken that we can marinate i'm pretty sure that um they're marinating their chicken overnight so they've got a little leg up on me but i think having some extra sauce on the side will really help kind of bring back that flavor that we're looking for i think next is the cabbage salad right while i'm waiting depending on the restaurant you'll usually get an iceberg lettuce you might get cabbage as well i'm using cabbage because i like the flavor of it better it's a lot more sturdy and it holds the dressing my sauce is almost boiling carrots we're actually going to use two ways in the mac salad and the cabbage salad in the cabbage salad and the mac salad in the mac salad and the cabbage salad because there's trains my sauce is bubbling ginger is something that is very specific to the seattle chicken teriyaki traditionally chicken teriyaki doesn't have the ginger and so the ginger is something that's been added on i'm gonna just drain out my shiitake and konbu i don't want to blend this in the blender with that on it's just kidding the raw flavor of the ginger and garlic really comes through in the marinade so that's why i don't actually heat it up all right time check 18 minutes all right i'm gonna marinate my chicken so i've got boneless chicken thighs here i'm gonna use three quarters of my marinade and then i'm gonna save a quarter and put back the shiitakes and konbu and let that thicken up all right chicken is going to sit here and marinate my pasta water is starting to boil elbow macaroni which is super classic for the mac salad that's gonna go in and the thing about mac salad that makes it even better is that you have to make the noodles extra cooked if they're still crunchy it's not gonna be creamy got my chicken marinating my cabbage salad and i'm actually gonna get my grill pan hot while i'm here all right the cabbage salad is super simple it's literally just carrots and cabbage and personally my favorite part of that whole salad is the dressing it's pretty sure i could have that dressing on everything time check eight minutes holy all right that i'm gonna get the chicken going because that's gonna take a while to cook 13 minutes okay well all right chicken's going in the pan you can hear it sizzling i'm gonna switch it because that fire is hotter i'm gonna start getting the things ready for the mac salad which are the carrots and then yellow onion which provides a nice sweetness to it and to also add some texture bite and crunch yeah time check 10 minutes i've got seven minutes on the insta pot so that's a good sign my pasta is going you can see the sauce in the back is is starting to thicken my chicken's going on and now i'm just going to make the sauces and the dressing is really special because it's so simple it's kiwi mayonnaise qp only uses egg yolks and it also has msg which is amazing it's a lot creamier in texture and i like the flavor because it's a lot sweeter too i'm going to use some apple cider vin and that's going to help cut it and add more flavor to your mac salad so you can see the nice char that's what i want all right and then last but not least sesame mayo dressing sesame oil is really strong so don't use too much of it i'm going to use kewpie that's going to add to the creaminess rice wine vin and then sugar so an aspect of this dressing is that it's more sweet than regular so you want to find the balance between the sugar and the vinegar salt and to add more flavor and umami our soy sauce i picked the smallest boil to do this but it's okay you can smell the chicken just trying to break down the mayo oh that's so bomb okay i'm gonna drizzle this on the cabbage oh yeah time check four minutes and 30 seconds i think we might got it instapot is done i have beautifully cooked rice my noodles are overcooked and that's what we want drain them over here and i'm gonna rinse it with cold water i'm slowing down the cooking processes and cooling it because you don't want a warm mac salad one minute 40 seconds we might be ready for plating so i've got my mac my onions my carrots i'm gonna add my mayo dressing oh my gosh all right i've got my large plate 30 seconds oh my gosh all right chicken is nice and charred 30 minutes is up but i have all the components for my chicken teriyaki and the sauce all right and there's our chicken teriyaki so i'm just adding a little bit of sesame but everything bagel mix has sesame onions garlic cause it's so good but sesame seeds on top are nice the delivery hasn't shown up yet so i think it is possible to make seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat i am pretty confident in the um cabbage salad and the mac salad but i'm really excited to see if the chicken teriyaki took the marinade that we made okay i think it's the delivery all right thank you thank you so much let's compare their teriyaki looks a lot different than mine their sauce is a lot um it's a lot brighter than mine it's not as dark um so i wonder if there's less soy in this this is their mac salad it's a lot smaller than mine and then their green salad is a cabbage salad nope there's water in it and then there's dressing um let's taste it it's still the sesame creamy mayo but i think they don't add soy that's why it's so bright which one would you eat all right it's cooked really well but it's really sweet coating is really really sticky which is a good note it has the teriyaki flavors but decisively sweet i don't have any notes of smokiness on this teriyaki at all the mac salad has the black pepper carrots and the overcooked mac i don't think that they're using kiwi mayo um but it definitely tastes like a maxal that i've had before and the mag cabbage salad i mean sorry the iceberg lettuce salad it's still pretty crunchy the dressing comes through but it's not it kind of gets watered down now i'm gonna try our 30 minutes seattle's chicken teriyaki is the char i think that my dressing could have definitely been a little bit more sticky because i should have added more sugar but i think the flavor is going to be there you can taste the notes of ginger there's that smokiness i'm gonna dip it in a little sauce no that's the chicken that i remember growing up eating that's really good next up i'll do my mac salad just by looking at this i definitely probably could have added more mayo but the apple cider vinegar definitely comes through there's kind of a brightness to it even though we put the dressing on a long time ago the cabbage is still crunchy it's pretty good i think i did an okay job beating it and beating delivery all right so the four keys to a seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken making sure that my grill pan was nice and hot to be able to get that nice cheer nice sear on the chicken a thick and sticky teriyaki sauce i think i could have added a little bit more sugar to help it become a little bit more thick and sticky but the flavor definitely was there a sweet and creamy mac salad so i made sure to overcook my noodles this is probably the only time that you don't want to have al dente noodles um because that overcooked noodle is going to add more creamy texture to your salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice wine vinegar that we put in the sesame and mayo dressing brings brightness and flavor the iceberg definitely showed up a little bit more watery and it was a lot more soggy i think using the cabbage adds a really nice crunchy texture that you know is going to hold against the dressing that you make if i had to rate myself between a one to five star bag i would give myself a four i would have been a perfect five if my sauce was a little bit stickier and a little bit thicker i think for the perfect marinated chicken it would be an overnight marinade but i think everything else is pretty good i really think ichiro would be proudwe're repping the mariners ichiro what hi i'm melissa and today i'm gonna make seattle chicken teriyaki faster than delivery i think it is possible to make a seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat they're probably going to be so busy hello oh hi i was wondering if you guys have chicken teriyaki yeah if i order how long is it going to take that would probably take about like 10 minutes 10 minutes okay i mean oh okay thank you for delivering oh no yeah for delivery okay thanks so it's on its way all right okay all right so first if you haven't made rice in an instant pot it is a lifesaver so i've got rice here oh my goodness the owl chicken teriyaki is native to seattle and it is so different from any other chicken teriyaki you'd get in any other city you always have a cider rice a salad the mac salad is creamy and sweet there's a lot of hawaiian influences here because the pacific northwest the keys to a really good seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken a thick and sticky sauce a creamy and sweet mac salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice that you'll get from the teriyaki is just standard white rice so we're not doing anything fancy here one to one water to my rice and then while i'm here i'm gonna get water for my pasta too and then i'm gonna make the chicken marinade so i've got a small pot here i'm gonna put soy then i'm gonna do rice wine vinegar for the tangy and the acidic flavor oh my gosh i'm gonna take this off to go faster and brown sugar it's gonna help with the stickiness this is the sweetness factor to the teriyaki i'm gonna add some dried shiitake and then i have konbu this is dried seaweed to add more flavor i'm gonna get my blender ready for us when we're ready i'm gonna need a grill pan for grilling the chicken got cabbage and carrots for our cabbage salad and i've got chicken that we can marinate i'm pretty sure that um they're marinating their chicken overnight so they've got a little leg up on me but i think having some extra sauce on the side will really help kind of bring back that flavor that we're looking for i think next is the cabbage salad right while i'm waiting depending on the restaurant you'll usually get an iceberg lettuce you might get cabbage as well i'm using cabbage because i like the flavor of it better it's a lot more sturdy and it holds the dressing my sauce is almost boiling carrots we're actually going to use two ways in the mac salad and the cabbage salad in the cabbage salad and the mac salad in the mac salad and the cabbage salad because there's trains my sauce is bubbling ginger is something that is very specific to the seattle chicken teriyaki traditionally chicken teriyaki doesn't have the ginger and so the ginger is something that's been added on i'm gonna just drain out my shiitake and konbu i don't want to blend this in the blender with that on it's just kidding the raw flavor of the ginger and garlic really comes through in the marinade so that's why i don't actually heat it up all right time check 18 minutes all right i'm gonna marinate my chicken so i've got boneless chicken thighs here i'm gonna use three quarters of my marinade and then i'm gonna save a quarter and put back the shiitakes and konbu and let that thicken up all right chicken is going to sit here and marinate my pasta water is starting to boil elbow macaroni which is super classic for the mac salad that's gonna go in and the thing about mac salad that makes it even better is that you have to make the noodles extra cooked if they're still crunchy it's not gonna be creamy got my chicken marinating my cabbage salad and i'm actually gonna get my grill pan hot while i'm here all right the cabbage salad is super simple it's literally just carrots and cabbage and personally my favorite part of that whole salad is the dressing it's pretty sure i could have that dressing on everything time check eight minutes holy all right that i'm gonna get the chicken going because that's gonna take a while to cook 13 minutes okay well all right chicken's going in the pan you can hear it sizzling i'm gonna switch it because that fire is hotter i'm gonna start getting the things ready for the mac salad which are the carrots and then yellow onion which provides a nice sweetness to it and to also add some texture bite and crunch yeah time check 10 minutes i've got seven minutes on the insta pot so that's a good sign my pasta is going you can see the sauce in the back is is starting to thicken my chicken's going on and now i'm just going to make the sauces and the dressing is really special because it's so simple it's kiwi mayonnaise qp only uses egg yolks and it also has msg which is amazing it's a lot creamier in texture and i like the flavor because it's a lot sweeter too i'm going to use some apple cider vin and that's going to help cut it and add more flavor to your mac salad so you can see the nice char that's what i want all right and then last but not least sesame mayo dressing sesame oil is really strong so don't use too much of it i'm going to use kewpie that's going to add to the creaminess rice wine vin and then sugar so an aspect of this dressing is that it's more sweet than regular so you want to find the balance between the sugar and the vinegar salt and to add more flavor and umami our soy sauce i picked the smallest boil to do this but it's okay you can smell the chicken just trying to break down the mayo oh that's so bomb okay i'm gonna drizzle this on the cabbage oh yeah time check four minutes and 30 seconds i think we might got it instapot is done i have beautifully cooked rice my noodles are overcooked and that's what we want drain them over here and i'm gonna rinse it with cold water i'm slowing down the cooking processes and cooling it because you don't want a warm mac salad one minute 40 seconds we might be ready for plating so i've got my mac my onions my carrots i'm gonna add my mayo dressing oh my gosh all right i've got my large plate 30 seconds oh my gosh all right chicken is nice and charred 30 minutes is up but i have all the components for my chicken teriyaki and the sauce all right and there's our chicken teriyaki so i'm just adding a little bit of sesame but everything bagel mix has sesame onions garlic cause it's so good but sesame seeds on top are nice the delivery hasn't shown up yet so i think it is possible to make seattle chicken teriyaki beating delivery kind of breaking a sweat i am pretty confident in the um cabbage salad and the mac salad but i'm really excited to see if the chicken teriyaki took the marinade that we made okay i think it's the delivery all right thank you thank you so much let's compare their teriyaki looks a lot different than mine their sauce is a lot um it's a lot brighter than mine it's not as dark um so i wonder if there's less soy in this this is their mac salad it's a lot smaller than mine and then their green salad is a cabbage salad nope there's water in it and then there's dressing um let's taste it it's still the sesame creamy mayo but i think they don't add soy that's why it's so bright which one would you eat all right it's cooked really well but it's really sweet coating is really really sticky which is a good note it has the teriyaki flavors but decisively sweet i don't have any notes of smokiness on this teriyaki at all the mac salad has the black pepper carrots and the overcooked mac i don't think that they're using kiwi mayo um but it definitely tastes like a maxal that i've had before and the mag cabbage salad i mean sorry the iceberg lettuce salad it's still pretty crunchy the dressing comes through but it's not it kind of gets watered down now i'm gonna try our 30 minutes seattle's chicken teriyaki is the char i think that my dressing could have definitely been a little bit more sticky because i should have added more sugar but i think the flavor is going to be there you can taste the notes of ginger there's that smokiness i'm gonna dip it in a little sauce no that's the chicken that i remember growing up eating that's really good next up i'll do my mac salad just by looking at this i definitely probably could have added more mayo but the apple cider vinegar definitely comes through there's kind of a brightness to it even though we put the dressing on a long time ago the cabbage is still crunchy it's pretty good i think i did an okay job beating it and beating delivery all right so the four keys to a seattle chicken teriyaki are a sweet and smoky chicken making sure that my grill pan was nice and hot to be able to get that nice cheer nice sear on the chicken a thick and sticky teriyaki sauce i think i could have added a little bit more sugar to help it become a little bit more thick and sticky but the flavor definitely was there a sweet and creamy mac salad so i made sure to overcook my noodles this is probably the only time that you don't want to have al dente noodles um because that overcooked noodle is going to add more creamy texture to your salad and a tangy and crunchy side salad the rice wine vinegar that we put in the sesame and mayo dressing brings brightness and flavor the iceberg definitely showed up a little bit more watery and it was a lot more soggy i think using the cabbage adds a really nice crunchy texture that you know is going to hold against the dressing that you make if i had to rate myself between a one to five star bag i would give myself a four i would have been a perfect five if my sauce was a little bit stickier and a little bit thicker i think for the perfect marinated chicken it would be an overnight marinade but i think everything else is pretty good i really think ichiro would be proud\n"