a small, portable Japanese-style grill or brazier, often used for cooking at the table or outdoors.
From Japanese 'hi' (fire) + 'bachi' (bowl or pot), literally meaning 'fire bowl'; it entered English in the 20th century as Japanese culture became more familiar to Western audiences.
The hibachi became famous in American culture through teppanyaki restaurants in the 1960s-70s, where the cooking became theater—but the original Japanese hibachi was actually just a modest heat source, not a performance stage!
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