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Yoshinoya, Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain, is now serving fried chicken in Tokyo

Casey Baseel
Feb 24, 2017
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Not satisfied with dominating only Japan’s cow cravings, Yoshinoya adds karaage to its menu in Akihabara.

Japan
(Akihabara • beef bowls • cheap eats • food • fried chicken • gyudon • karaage • restaurants • Yoshinoya)

We try all-you-can-eat sushi for less than $8.50 at a restaurant in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward

Oona McGee
Nov 11, 2016

This impressive restaurant ticks all the right boxes in terms of quality, atmosphere, service and price.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • food • restaurants • sushi • Tokyo)

Customer gets more than expected after ordering the large size at a Japanese restaurant

Oona McGee
Sep 6, 2016

This cautionary tale proves that the Japanese word for “large serving” could result in having to eat a truly mountainous meal.

Japan
(big food • cheap eats • crazy • cuisine • food • fried chicken • Japanese cuisine • karaage • large portions • restaurants • rice)

Tokyo restaurant’s all-you-can-eat gyoza and all-you-can-drink beer starts at just 20 bucks

Casey Baseel
Aug 31, 2016

If you like delicious dumplings, cold beer, and having plenty of cash left in your wallet, you need to eat here.

Japan
(all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • beer • cheap eats • food • gyoza • restaurants • Tokyo)

Tokyo’s awesome all-you-can-eat deals continue with unlimited fried chicken for under 10 bucks

Casey Baseel
Aug 26, 2016

KFC Japan’s summer of all-you-can-eat fried chicken is ending, but at this Tokyo restaurant limitless chow can be your all year long.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • awesome • cheap eats • food • fried chicken • karaage • restaurants • Tokyo)

McDonald’s new toppings yield a cheap surprise: Hidden Chicken Crisp for 140 yen!

Master Blaster
Jun 17, 2016

By the look on Seiji’s face you might think he just discovered the cure to a rare disease, but the truth is much better. He found a way to get a delicious chicken sandwich for only 140 yen (US$1.34) from McDonald’s.

Food & Drink, Japan, Lifestyle
(cheap eats • Chicken Cheeseburger • Chicken Crisp • cream cheese • McDonald's • Seiji Nakazawa)

Shuko Chiichi restaurant in Tokyo boasts all-you-can-eat deep-fried chicken and other sides

Krista Rogers
May 2, 2016

What’s not to love about a good karaage deal?

Food & Drink, Japan
(all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • food • fried chicken • karaage • Mr. Sato • restaurants • Tokyo)

Japan’s biggest curry chain now offers a true vegetarian curry

Casey Baseel
Apr 5, 2016

Coco Ichibanya rolls out a new curry roux in select locations to better serve its health-conscious and non-Japanese clientele.

Food & Drink, Japan
(cheap eats • coco ichi • coco ichibanya • curry • food • restaurants • vegan • vegetarian)

Breakfast for a buck! Tokyo university offering ridiculously cheap, mouth-watering morning meals

Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2015

No one said the most important meal of the day can’t also be the cheapest.

Japan
(cheap eats • deals • food • health • schools • Tokyo • universities • Waseda)

We pig out at Aizuya, the Michelin Guide-featured takoyaki shop

Mike
Nov 3, 2015

In Japan, takoyaki (somewhat unappealingly translated as “octopus balls”) is known as “B-Class Gourmet” food. Takoyaki is the domain of sometimes shady street vendors and national chains where there are literally no chairs whatsoever on the premises. They’re meant to be consumed while still blazing hot, fresh off the special cratered griddle used to make them, chewed and swallowed at lightning speed while you suck in air to make them just cool enough that they don’t burn a hole in your esophagus on the way down.

Therefore, takoyaki is not, one would think, within the purview of the Michelin tire company’s prestigious Michelin Guide for world-renowned restaurants. But, surprisingly, the 2016 Michelin Guide contains not just one but several restaurants specializing in takoyaki, okonomiyaki, and other “B-Class Gourmet” foods famous around Osaka and the Kansai area.

One of those featured restaurants, Aizuya, is, it turns out, actually rumored to be the restaurant that flat-out invented takoyaki. And since that sounds like a good premise for an article, and gives us an excuse to stuff our faces with this delicious local street food, we went to check it out.

Japan
(Bib Gourmand • cheap eats • food • Kansai • Michelin Guide • Osaka • takoyaki)

We check out another all-you-can-eat yakiniku deal in Shinjuku, just 1,080 yen!

Mike
Sep 16, 2015

In short order, it seems we at RocketNews24 have found ourselves not only unwitting experts in fast foodology – what, with our near-constant coverage of McDonald’s new pie flavors and Lotteria’s most recent forays into madness – but we’ve also added quite a few notches into our cheap, all-you-can-eat yakiniku deals belt (which doesn’t even fit us anymore, if we’re being honest).

But, recently, our resident yakiniku fiend, Mr. Sato, reported he may just have found the cheap all-you-can-eat yakiniku restaurant to rule them all.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • deals • food • meat • Tokyo • yakiniku)

Ramen Noodle Pizza and Natto Okonomiyaki Pizza now finally a reality!

Oona McGee
Sep 10, 2015

We’ve seen some strange pizza toppings in the past. From Kit Kats to squid ink, Japan certainly knows how to deliver when it comes to thinking outside of the box.

Now, there are two new awesome pizzas on the menu: Ramen Noodle and Natto Okonomiyaki. And that’s not all – both items are being offered as part of a collaboration using local ingredients that hark back to the 1960s. Available from Aoki’s Pizza from September 10, this is an opportunity that’s not to be missed!

Japan
(cheap eats • natto • okonomiyaki • pizza • ramen • weird)

Tokyo restaurant’s crazy huge rice omelet has 600 grams (1.3 pounds) of rice

Casey Baseel
Aug 20, 2015

It’s not uncommon to describe a meaty dish by listing how much beef it contains. McDonald’s has had plenty of success with the Quarter Pounder, and some American restaurants will tout their steaks as being 10 ounces or more.

But have you ever stopped to think about how much rice is on your plate? We recently sent one of our reporters to a restaurant in Tokyo to take on a rice omelet, one of Japan’s favorite comfort foods, made with a staggering 600 grams (1.3 pounds) of rice.

Japan
(big food • cheap eats • crazy • food • omu rice • restaurants • rice omelet • Tokyo)

Mr. Sato travels the distance to try 100-yen takoyaki

Cara Clegg
Jul 5, 2015

When one of our Japanese writers grew frustrated with Mr. Sato spending so much money on his lunch while at the office, they decided to show him that it’s possible to get great food at a fraction of the cost. And not just any food, but takoyaki!

Cheap takoyaki? This place must be in Osaka, right? Wrong! Mr. Sato soon found himself on an altogether different flight from Haneda airport, bound for octopus balls and adventure.

Japan
(cheap eats • fast food • Mr. Sato • takoyaki)

Who needs fast food? Tokyo restaurant has awesome cutlet lunch sets for less than five bucks

Casey Baseel
Jun 13, 2015

Given Tokyo’s reputation as one of the most expensive cities on the planet, you might think that dining out in Japan’s capital requires either a large fistful of yen or the fortitude to put up with a growling stomach after an undersized meal that leaves you only half-full. That’s not always the case, though, and it’s not like budget dining restricts your options to Yoshinoya or 7-Eleven, either.

We recently found a restaurant right in the heart of Tokyo that has filling, delicious lunches that are so cheap, we sort of felt guilty eating there.

Japan
(cheap eats • food • Kanda • restaurants • Tokyo)

In the mood for love and pizza? Domino’s will deliver your pie with romantic kabe-don wall pound

Casey Baseel
Feb 11, 2015

Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year, which makes it a perfect opportunity for an elegant dinner out with your special someone. Of course, if you’re single, you may want to bypass a meal in a restaurant surrounded by couples making kissy faces at each other and just call Domino’s for a pizza instead.

But even if you’re not headed out, Domino’s understands that maybe you’re in the mood for both pizza and love. That’s why this Valentine’s Day the popular pizza providers are offering a deal that includes a cute heart-shaped pizza, and, if you’d like, a romantic kabe-don wall pound as part of the delivery service.

Japan
(cheap eats • dominos pizza • food • funny • pizza • romance • Valentine's Day)

Burger Decision 2015! Which crazy Lotteria sandwich will you vote for to make a comeback?

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2015

Hamburger chain Lotteria has to walk a difficult tightrope. On the one hand, it’s got its reputation as the mad scientist of the Japanese fast food industry to uphold, meaning it needs a sizeable roster of unusual, outlandish, or just plain massive sandwiches on offer. On the other hand, in order to ensure each item has plenty of impact and novelty factor, the chain doesn’t want them hanging around on the menu so long that customers start to get bored with them or take them for granted.

As a result, most of Lotteria’s most interesting items are only available for a limited time, sometimes as short as a single day. But just in case you missed your chance to try one, Lotteria is bringing back just one of its special sandwiches from last year, and its letting fans decide which by tallying the number of Yahoo! searches for each of the candidates.

Japan
(awesome • burgers • cheap eats • crazy • fast food • Lotteria)

Kobe beef burgers coming to Japanese fast food chain Lotteria

Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2015

It’s kind of ironic that the hamburger gets saddled with a stigma as the lowest rung of entrées. Sure, it’s a staple of cheap, low-quality fast food chains, but it’s also beef, the highest form of our three most commonly eaten meats, and as such deserves a certain measure of respect.

That goes double for the newest hamburger from Japanese hamburger chain Lotteria, since it’s made with the most respected beef of all: Kobe beef.

Japan
(burgers • cheap eats • fast food • food • Kobe beef • Lotteria)

All-you-can-eat cake is all you need to convince us to eat at this Tokyo café

Casey Baseel
Jan 2, 2015

Sometimes, less is more. For example, earlier this year we heard the happy news that Denny’s in Japan was offering all-you-can-eat pancakes. But as enticing as that deal was, there’s an easy way to improve on an unlimited supply of pancakes, and that’s by losing that “pan” restrictor.

So when we heard a popular Japanese bakery has an all-you-can-eat cake deal, we were ecstatic, and then we were out the door to try it for ourselves.

Japan
(all-you-can-eat • cafes • cakes • cheap eats • deals • food • restaurants • sweets)

Sayonara, spuds! McDonald’s Japan halts sales of medium and large orders of French fries

Casey Baseel
Dec 16, 2014

I’m heading back to the U.S. for a couple of days at the end of the year, and as much as I love Japan, it’ll be nice to spend some time doing things I can’t here. Aside from seeing family and friends, I’m looking forward to watching a college bowl game or two, plus soaking up some warm January sunshine, which tends to be much more plentiful in California than Kanagawa Prefecture.

And as long as I’m making a list of things you can’t do in Japan, I should probably add getting a large batch of French fries at McDonald’s, since, for the time being, the chain will only be selling small sizes of spuds in Japan.