A very popular and common thing to eat here is: a beef bowl (gyudon - beef bowl in Japanese)
Beef bowls consist of thin strips of beef and usually with onion (in some sort of sauce) and placed over a bowl of rice. This is a pretty inexpensive meal in Japan as you can get a beef bowl for about $4 - $5.
Places:
Yoshinoya
Sukiya
Matsuya
There are other local beef bowl restaurants but these are the 3 main chains that sell beef bowls and there always seems to be many people in the restaurants, even if only to scarf their food down and leave. (I think one of the reasons these places do so well is: you get your food really fast and even with chopsticks it is a relatively easy and speedy thing to eat).
You can get your beef bowl plain, with cheese on top, with a mayonaise sauce on top, or the one thats the most interesting to me: a raw egg on top. (yes the person who ordered the bowl in the picture got a lot a bit aggressive with the eggs.
How would you eat that you ask? In Japanese slurping is allowed and very much apart of the culture. Sometimes I think people might overdo it a little, because.......well, because they can. But with this dish the eggs would get mixed in before you ate it and not slurped off the top)
Beef bowls consist of thin strips of beef and usually with onion (in some sort of sauce) and placed over a bowl of rice. This is a pretty inexpensive meal in Japan as you can get a beef bowl for about $4 - $5.
Places:
Yoshinoya
Sukiya
Matsuya
There are other local beef bowl restaurants but these are the 3 main chains that sell beef bowls and there always seems to be many people in the restaurants, even if only to scarf their food down and leave. (I think one of the reasons these places do so well is: you get your food really fast and even with chopsticks it is a relatively easy and speedy thing to eat).
You can get your beef bowl plain, with cheese on top, with a mayonaise sauce on top, or the one thats the most interesting to me: a raw egg on top. (yes the person who ordered the bowl in the picture got a lot a bit aggressive with the eggs.
How would you eat that you ask? In Japanese slurping is allowed and very much apart of the culture. Sometimes I think people might overdo it a little, because.......well, because they can. But with this dish the eggs would get mixed in before you ate it and not slurped off the top)
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