Uama Teppanyaki Show Restaurant provides both visual and sensual enjoyment at the dinner table.

Uama is a word the manager created himself, based on the Spanish word "llama," meaning flame.

The medium-sized restaurant's specialties include sushi, sashimi, Japanese wines, and teppanyaki, as well as the bartender showing off his cocktail-making ability.

Its first floor is half bar, half restaurant, with a big teppanyaki steel board at one side for 15 people. There are three private rooms on the second floor, each with teppanyaki equipment.

Chefs from Taiwan and Fuzhou demonstrate their knife work with a range of tricks before cooking dishes like "Flamed Beef." A customer favourite, whisky is poured on the beef, which explodes into flame when lit by the chef, giving it a delicious charred flavour.

The decor is elegant, with a combination of steel and chocolate-coloured chestnut wood structures.

Set lunch costs 58 yuan (US$7.3) while set dinner ranges from 98-558 yuan (US$19.6-69.8), with limitless beef and seafood. A la carte is also available.

Uama Teppanyaki Show Restaurant

Location: 23 Lucky Street, 29 Zaoying Lu, Chaoyang District
Opening time: 11:30 am-2:30 pm, 5:30 pm-10 pm
Tel: 010- 58670238