The meteoric price rise coincides with the new-found popularity of fajitas, grilled strips of skirt steak served with tortillas, grilled onions, guacamole and salsa.

One evening's risotto special was a luscious miscellany of grilled strips of veal, sweet Italian sausage, basil, gorgonzola and radicchio.

Called anticuchos ($8), the grilled skewered strips of marinated beef with all the tough tissue removed, are Peru's favorite street food, the equivalent of our hot dogs.

A better selection is the grilled strips of beef, nicely charred, served in an intoxicating ginger-perfumed broth, and the slightly peppery cod with sliced artichoke hearts in a potent curry.

One notable beef dish is grilled strips called tasajo which is served with a variety of sauces.

Tony selected the entrée, Veal Savatino, a specialita of the house, incredibly tender white-white veal with a thin brown sauce, pearl onions, and grilled strips of zucchini.

Vešalica (grilled strips of pork loin)

Some restaurants even sell pre-formed, frozen strips of ground gyros meat, grilled or pan-fried individually, to prevent waste.

Thesava when it was served turned out to be grilled strips of pounded meat, probably mutton, spiced and excellent, something like the meat you got in "gyros" in the States.

There used to be a 'yakiniku rice burger' ('grilled strips of beef rice burger') (available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Brisbane Australia branches).