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Tips on dinning in Japan
Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have
American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. |
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"zxcvar" wrote in message ups.com... Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. There are certainly many American-style fast-food places (McDonald's, Wendy's) in the major cities, plus some home-grown versions of well. But if all you're going to do is eat American-style fast food, you're missing out on some of the best things about a visit to Japan - the local cuisine! The average Japanese, for an inexpensive meal, will often choose one of the following: - Noodles of various types (ramen, udon, soba); often sold on the street, from temporary stalls or carts that are set up at lunchtime or late in the day to catch the on-the-way-home-from-work crowd. But the local noodle shop is generally a great place to go to get a very tasty, filling meal for not much money. - Sushi. While there are certainly "high end" sushi places in Japan, the notion of sushi as haute cuisine is really a Western invention; sushi was the original Japanese fast food, and there are a nearly infinite number of little local/cheap sushi places (often in and around train stations, for one common place). Also be on the lookout for "kai-ten sushi" restaurants; these are the ones which have the sushi chefs in the middle of the place, and a sort of oval-shaped conveyor belt or track carrying the sushi on plates around them. Customers sit at a counter on the outside of the conveyor loop, and pick whatever looks good as it passes by. The total bill is added up when you're done, by counting the color-coded plates you've stacked in front of you. (You can also order whatever you like at these places, but simply picking items from the conveyor is a great way to go for the language-challenged.) Bob M. |
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zxcvar;1340130 Wrote: Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. Yes, you'll find hundreds of McDonald's, etc. around Japan. They also have Japanese clones of American burger joints but they just don't cut it. If you wish to eat truly Japanese fast food that is truly fast, try one of the many noodle shops without chairs that you'll find around train stations (known as tachi-kui-soba shops). You eat standing and then run. Nothing is much faster than that. A meal will run you from about $3 or a bit more. Also there are 7-11 Quick Shops where you can pick up ready-made sandwiches and other Japanese fast foods on the cheap just as you might in the US. All over the place you can find ready packaged "bento" meals including chopsticks so that you can take them to a park, etc. and eat at your leisure. Enjoy your stay! -- Rik -- Rik Brown Message Origin: TRAVEL.com |
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The top floors and basements of most department stores [even on the
otherwise pricey Ginza] offer a wide range of reasonably priced local foods. If you can't describe the dish, bring the waitress out front and point. Small, local coffee shops offer set menus - $5 breakfast of coffee, egg, salad, toast. They won't speak English but you'll make yourself understood. Large hotel restaurants will be pricey and give you little Japanese experinece. -- Remove -NOSPAM- to contact me. |
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On 2007-08-28 15:47:01 -0700, zxcvar said:
Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Sure, and they are almost as bad as in the states. They also have good food and very good food and exceptional food. Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. Small noodle places that sell udon, ramen, and rice bowls. They are everywhere. Don't worry, there will be a lot of cheap simple food. Just look for a display of plastic food, point at what you want and you'll be in business. -- ///--- |
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You know, this is a really helpful crowd.
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"zxcvar" wrote in message
ups.com... Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. Yes. Particularly McDonalds and KFC, but why would you ever eat there? Japanese food is 100X better than American fast food. -- Donald R. Newcomb DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net |
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On Aug 28, 3:47 pm, zxcvar wrote:
Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. I found that the major rail stations (such as Shinjuku, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kaneyama, etc.) have built-in shopping malls full of fast food restaurants, both Japanese-style and Western-style. In addition, there seem to be lots of low-cost restaurants near almost every staton. Three of my favorite low-cost Japanese meals, widely available, are a bowl of chasu-men, tempura donburi (ten-don), and okonomiyaki, which should cost about JP¥1000 or less. Taco(octopus) balls are a popular snack that is often available from street vendors. |
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If you wake up your first morning in Tokyo at 4 am from jet lag (as we
did), jump on the subway and go visit the fish market, where the action is all in the early morning. The streets going there are lined with noodle, tempura and sushi stalls and you will get the freshest sushi anywhere. Forget hotel food and hotel food prices. People who tell you that Japan is incredibly expensive have only failed to follow this simple rule. The plastic food models in the windows of the restaurants are very helpful. If they fascinate you, take the boat up the river to Asakusa (the only old area in Tokyo), and about a mile west of the river is the street with the restaurant supply stores. You can buy plastic food to take home as a souvenir. zxcvar wrote: Greetings! I shall be going to Japan soon from USA. Do Japan have American style fast food restaurants? Where does the average Japanese eat themselves cheaply? With thanks. |
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On Aug 31, 10:50 am, Walt Bilofsky wrote:
The plastic food models in the windows of the restaurants are very helpful. If they fascinate you, take the boat up the river to Asakusa (the only old area in Tokyo), and about a mile west of the river is the street with the restaurant supply stores. You can buy plastic food to take home as a souvenir. The street is called Kappbashi Dori. It is highlighted in many guide books, and also in the free "Welcome to Tokyo" booklet that you can pick up at Narita or any of the tourist information offices. According to one web site, it is "5 minites walk from Tawaramachi Station , Ginza Subway Line, or 15 minites walk from Asakusa Station, Ginza Subway Line". |
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