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Do Komeda’s beefy rice balls continue the chain’s hallowed tradition of “reverse fraud”?

• Master Blaster
  5 days ago
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Goodness gracious, great balls of rice and beef!

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• (beef • food • gyakusagi • Kome-Gyu • Komeda Coffee • Komeya no Taro • onigiri • restaurants • reverse fraud • rice balls)

Japanese airport offering 19,250-yen sandwiches as last Japan meal for international travelers

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2026

If you want one last taste of Japanese luxury, Kansai International Airport has a restaurant that says it can give it to you in just five minutes.

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• (airports • beef • fast food • food • Japan travel • Kansai International Airport • Kobe beef • sandwiches • steak • travel)

Wagyu ramen for foreign tourists appears in Kabukicho, with a very high price tag

• Oona McGee
  Aug 12, 2026

What makes this bowl of noodles cost around twice as much as a regular ramen, and is it worth it?

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• Japan
• (beef • food • Japanese food • Kabukicho • Mita Seimenjo • Noodles • ramen • ramen restaurant • ramen restaurants • restaurants • Tokyo • tourists • Wagyu)

McDonald’s Japan goes viral for Samurai Mac burger hack

• Oona McGee
  Jul 28, 2026

Turn a Samurai Mac into an expensive Omotesando gourmet burger by taking one thing out – and no, it’s not the pickles.

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• (beef • burgers • exclusive • fast food • food • food hack • hack • Japan-exclusive • McDonald's • McDonald's Japan • Samurai Mac • SNJO • social media)

Ginza Happo: One of Tokyo’s best all-you-can-eat seafood restaurants is an extreme buffet affair

• Oona McGee
  Jun 20, 2026

This breathtaking spectacle includes, beef, desserts, hot dishes, drinks, and a special grill experience, but it requires some insider expertise to properly wade through.

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • all-you-can-eat cakes • all-you-can-eat desserts • all-you-can-eat restaurant • all-you-can-eat sushi • all-you-can-eat sweets • Arcade Sushi • beef • buffet • food • Ginza • Ginza Happo • ice cream • meat • seafood • shinjuku • SNJO • Tokyo)

Japan’s cheap beef bowl chain goes upscale with Matsuya Premium, but is it worth the higher price?

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2026

Ordinarily cheap Matsuya opens a high-priced Matsuya inside another upscale Matsuya.

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• (beef • beef bowls • bento • boxed lunches • COK • department stores • food • Ginza Matsuya • gyudon • Japanese beef • Japanese food • Kobe beef • Matsuya • Matsuya Ginza • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)

Japan’s cheap beef bowl chain Matsuya opens gourmet Premium Matsuya with Kobe beef…inside Matsuya

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 8, 2026

A tale of four Matsuyas, and a whole lot of gourmet wagyu beef.

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• (beef • beef bowls • bento • boxed lunches • COK • department stores • food • Ginza Matsuya • gyudon • Japanese beef • Japanese food • Kobe beef • Matsuya • Matsuya Ginza • restaurants • Wagyu)

Is Tokyo Station’s startlingly expensive wagyu bento boxed lunch worth its high price?[Taste test]

• SoraNews24
  Mar 3, 2026

The Yukifuri Wagyu Obanazawa Sirloin and Rib Loin Steak Rice Box has a long name, a high price, and our stomach’s interest.

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• (beef • bento • boxed lunches • COK • Ekiben • expensive food • food • Japan travel • meat • SNJO • steak • taste test • Tokyo Station • tourism • travel • Wagyu)

Yoshinoya adds first-ever chain-wide ramen with new beef and pork-broth noodle hot pot meals

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2025

Japan’s gyudon king now has Gyunikutama Ramen available too for the winter.

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• (beef • COK • food • hot pot • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)

Burger King Japan now sells straight-up beef patties on their own

• Oona McGee
  Sep 26, 2025

Would you like rice with that?

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• (beef • beef patties • Burger King • burgers • COK • fast food • food • hamburgers • On the Beef • rice)

Evangelion voice actress reveals she’s been waiting 11 years for free condoms she was promised

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 5, 2025

Fellow voice actress’ lament at missing meat prompts Megumi Ogata to share her own story of unfulfilled promises.

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• (anime • beef • crazy • Evangelion • food • funny • manga • Megumi Ogata • voice actors • voice actresses • Wagyu • weird)

Yoshinoya’s new ramen doesn’t smell like it tastes【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 8, 2025

We head to the beef bowl king to try their first attempt at beef mazesoba.

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• (beef • beef bowls • COK • food • mazesoba • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • Yoshinoya)

Beef bowl king Yoshinoya to start serving ramen this summer with new beefy mazesoba

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2025

It has beef and it comes in a bowl, but it’s not a beef bowl.

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• Japan
• (beef • beef bowls • food • mazesoba • Noodles • ramen • restaurants • Yoshinoya)

Musical ekiben adds a tune to your train station bento meal

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2025

Japan’s only musical ekiben lets you sing for your supper.

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• (beef • bento • bullet trains • dining • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • shinkansen • SNJO • trains • travel • Wagyu)

Trying a pouch of instant curry that costs as much as a full meal at a nice restaurant

• Master Blaster
  May 30, 2025

Microwave-friendly fine dining!

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• Japan
• (beef • COK • crazy • curry • expensive • expensive food • food • instant curry • luxury food • Miyazaki wagyu • retort curry • SNJO • taste test • Wagyu)

Is Tokyo’s obviously for-foreign-tourists wagyu sukiyaki crepe delicious enough for a local?

• SoraNews24
  May 5, 2025

We could be falling into a tourist trap in Asakusa, or we could be falling in meaty love.

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• Japan
• (Asakusa • beef • COK • crazy • crepes • food • inbound food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • taste test • tourism • Wagyu • weird)

Yoshinoya serves gyudon beef bowls from a tiny truck in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Mar 10, 2025

Moving Yoshinoya is an Orange Dream on the food truck scene…for those who know where they’re hiding.

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• Japan
• (beef • cars • chain • COK • food • food trucks • gyudon • kitchen cars • lunch • Moving Yoshinoya • Orange Dream • Restaurant • SNJO • Tokyo • Yoshinoya)

Japan’s wagyu heart-shaped steaks are the perfect alternative to Valentine’s Day sweets【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 6, 2025

Japanese beef is beloved for its flavor and tenderness, and it can be really cute too.

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• Japan
• (beef • cool • cute • heart • Matsusaka beef • Matsusakagyu • meat • steak • Valentine's Day • Wagyu)

Yoshinoya teams up with famous curry restaurant to offer the aromatic Beef Roka Curry

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 28, 2025

Even curry skeptics might like this one for its masterful blend of several spices.

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• Japan
• (aromatic • beef • chain • collaboration • food • gyudon • Restaurant • shibuya 109 • spicy • Spicy Curry Roka • Yoshinoya)

Wish your loved ones great success this year with a slab of breaded beef in a sushi roll

• Master Blaster
  Jan 21, 2025

I love the smell of beef sushi in the morning – it smells like victory.

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• Japan
• (beef • Ehomaki • food • gyukatsu • Gyukatsu Kyoto Katsugyu • Katsumaki • setsubun • sushi • sushi rolls)

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