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On Sunday night, it was Shohei Ohtani’s turn to organize a team gathering, planning a private sushi and yakitori dinner for the group with the help of fellow Japanese stars Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.

For beer noshes, there are Ooshiba Yakitori & Sushi and the Osaka Street Food counter; the latter makes gyoza, takoyaki and other Asian street bites, like Taiwanese fried chicken.

A half-mile south sit two new Japanese spots: Midnite Ramen and Ooshiba Yakitori & Sushi, both located in the new tasting room of Figurehead Brewing Company.

Sushi Yoko’s chef, Tomonori Nakamura, likes to dust it over yakitori but wants his customers to use it on whatever they like.

These savory-sweet chicken skewers from our book “COOKish,” which limits recipes to just six ingredients without sacrificing flavor, are loosely based on Japanese yakitori.