Yum Yum Sauce (Japanese Steakhouse Sauce)

Home » Yum Yum Sauce (Japanese Steakhouse Sauce) Yum Yum Sauce (Japanese Steakhouse Sauce) June 19, 2020This post contains affiliate links.Yum Yum Sauce The famous Japanese steakhouse sauce that’s phenomenal for dipping, drizzling and enjoying with your grilled meats, seafood, vegetables, rice, noodles and more!  Super easy to make and at least a hundred times better than store-bought! One of our favorite places to go for date night is our local Japanese steakhouse for a hibachi grill dinner.  Todd usually gets his standard, sushi, while I enjoy sampling the grilled chicken, vegetables, rice and noodles….all drizzled with the deservedly popular sweet and slightly tangy Japanese steakhouse sauce known affectionately as “Yum Yum Sauce.”  Here’s our homemade yum yum sauce that captures the flavor you know and love! Where Did Yum Yum Sauce Originate? While this sauce is referred to as a Japanese steakhouse sauce, you won’t find it in restaurants in Japan because it is an American invention.  But it is a key component to the Japanese restaurant experience in the United States and Canada.  It’s uncertain who was the first chef to invent it but chef Terry Ho is credited with being the first to bottle and mass produce it.  He had been serving it at his Casual Japanese restaurant and it become so popular that he jumped on the opportunity to bottle it and make it commercially available.This Japanese-American is also known as white sauce, shrimp sauce, hibachi sau