A City’s Specialty, Japanese in Name Only:
“Seattle likes to talk about local foods, about ridiculous things like fiddlehead coulis,” Mr. Berger said. “Seattle yuppies love the idea of going to some obscure Chinese place for dim sum but won’t dare tell you that they eat chicken teriyaki. Those places are so much a part of the streetscape that we can’t even see them.”
New York Times article about teriyaki in Seattle. Most people notice that there are a ton of teriyaki places in Seattle. But I always thought that other cities were similar.