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Popular Japanese fast food chain Mos Burger has opened a new restaurant that serves gourmet meals, alcohol and a special vegetarian burger made from a whole tomato.

Japan
(fast food • hamburgers • MOS • Mos Burger • MOS Classic • vegetarian)

Expats take note: California burger chain Carl’s Jr.’s first Japan location to open early next year

Mike
Dec 3, 2015

The legendary California burger joint says it will open its first Japan location in March 2016, to the delight of Tokyo expats and Japanese alike.

Japan, USA
(B Class Gourmet • burgers • Carl's Jr. • fast food • hamburgers)

Tokyo’s massive Monster Burger is the combining robot of hamburgers

Casey Baseel
Oct 23, 2015

With Halloween just around the corner, people across Japan are getting ready to transform into all manner of awesome creatures. As a matter of fact, even some restaurants are getting into the spirit with special Halloween menu items, and we found one that’s a genuine monster: Tokyo’s massive Monster Burger, which is actually five burgers combined as one!

Japan
(awesome • burgers • crazy • food • hamburgers • huge food • Mr. Sato • restaurants • Roppongi • Tokyo)

McDonald’s attempts to lure back customers with open kitchen concept in Japan

Oona McGee
Jul 27, 2015

It’s no secret that McDonald’s Japan has been on a slippery slope following several food safety scandals in recent years. In 2014, the fast food giant reported its first annual loss in 11 years, which amounted to 21.84 billion yen (around US$176 million).

In an effort to restore trust and reaffirm their commitment to quality assurance, the fast food chain recently fitted out two stores in Japan with an “open kitchen” design, allowing customers to get an inside view of operations to see just how orders are made, from start to finish.

But will this be enough to bring customers back to the golden arches?

Japan
(fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's • open kitchen)

McDonald’s opens fancy pop-up restaurant in Tokyo for one night only

Oona McGee
Jul 20, 2015

Around the world, fast food chain McDonald’s prides itself on its trademark menu, designed to feed the needs of busy customers on the go.

For one night only, though, the giant company will slow down the pace by taking a step into luxury dining, with a special multi-course meal that includes a platter of patties, a vichyssoise made from French fries and a gelée made with McDonald’s vegetables.

Japan
(fast food • Fresh Mac • hamburgers • McDonald's • Restaurant M • Roppongi Hills)

In wake of meat scandal, McDonald’s Japan losing not only customers, but employees, too

Casey Baseel
Nov 11, 2014

It’s been a pretty rough year for McDonald’s in Japan, in the same way that getting hit by a bus on your way to work would make for a rough morning. Following a widely reported scandal in which the chain had been supplied with expired chicken by a meat processing facility in China, McDonald’s has been trying everything it can think of to lure diners back, such as giving away Chicken McNuggets for free, replacing the meat with tofu, and trying to take our mind off the incident entirely by pulling our attention towards pork cutlets instead.

After all, a restaurant chain can’t survive without customers, right? There’s one other thing you need to run a business though: employees, and these days McDonald’s is finding itself losing those, too.

Japan
(business • economy • fast food • food • hamburgers • McDonald's)

Hungry? Travelers pick Japan’s 30 best restaurants

Casey Baseel
Jun 18, 2014

Travel website Trip Advisor recently released its annual list of the 30 best sightseeing spots in Japan. Featuring centuries-old shrines, futuristic cityscapes, and no fewer than four whale sharks, it’s an impressive collection of much of what makes Japan such a unique and awesome country.

Honestly, if you had the time, we wouldn’t try to talk you out of an itinerary that hits all 30 places. Of course, with that much sightseeing, you’re bound to work up an appetite. Thankfully, Trip Advisor is back again with its top 30 restaurants in Japan.

Japan
(food • hamburgers • restaurants • sushi • travel)

We take on Thailand’s five-and-a-half-pound hamburger, and live to tell the tale

Casey Baseel
Apr 18, 2014

Our Japanese-language correspondent Kuzo is currently making his way through Thailand, and while we’re happy he had such a good time at the country’s famous water festival, frankly we’re a little worried about the guy. We think all the excitement may have frazzled his brain, since he recently sent us a batch of pictures of himself eating what appears to be a hamburger-shaped novelty pillow.

Wait, that’s a real burger?!

SE Asia
(crazy • fast food • food • funny • hamburgers)

Attack your hunger with Lotteria’s 10-patty Titan burger and bucket of fries

Casey Baseel
Feb 28, 2014

When you stop and think about it, the smash hit anime Attack on Titan is focused as much on eating as it is fighting. The titular Titans’ one and only ambition seems to be breaking into the walled city to eat the humans hiding within. One character is largely defined by her love of potatoes, which ties into the recurring concern about food shortages humanity faces in a world largely controlled by giant monsters.

You know what would make the whole situation less bleak? A couple of orders of fast food chain Lotteria’s 10-patty Attack on Titan hamburgers and jumbo French fry buckets to keep people nourished, plus some limited edition key chains to keep them entertained.

Japan
(anime • Attack on Titan • food • hamburgers)

Tokyo hamburger vending machine has a human touch

Casey Baseel
Feb 21, 2014

Japan is a wonderland of vending machines, and in many ways they’re great. They’re well-maintained, almost always take bills on the first try, and never judge you as pay for a bottle of hard liquor entirely in 10 yen coins.

Sometimes, though, doing a complete end run around human contact can make the purchasing process feel a little lonely. So when we heard about a restaurant where the vending machines had a human element, as well as delicious yet cheap hamburgers, we knew we had to check it out.

Japan
(cheap eats • food • funny • hamburgers • technology • vending machines • weird)

Manga legend Shigeru Mizuki’s longevity seems to come from lots of burgers and desserts

Casey Baseel
Feb 13, 2014

Shigeru Mizuki is one of Japan’s most loved comic artists, having created the manga Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro in 1959. Although the serial ended after a 10-year run, the light-hearted story about the traditional Japanese spirits called yokai still has a strong following today, thanks to multiple animated and live-action adaptations premiering as recently as 2008.

Mizuki isn’t resting on his laurels either, despite turning 92 next month. He started a new manga series just last December, and the energetic nonagenarian has recently released a book cataloguing the eating habits that have resulted in his long life. So what does his diet consist of? A surprisingly large amount of junk food.

Japan
(anime • food • hamburgers • health • manga • sweets)

Burger King has apple burgers (and cocktails) in Japan, and we’ve got them in our bellies

Casey Baseel
Jan 29, 2014

Even as someone who can always appreciate a tasty hamburger, there’s a quandary I face whenever I go out to satisfy my beef-based sandwich needs. Your standard burger gives you plenty of protein from the meat, some nice carbs from the bread, and even a scattering of veggies between the buns, but it’s hard to get your fruit fix at a burger emporium.

Or, more accurately, it was, until Burger King Japan started offering two hamburgers with slices of grilled apple. We traveled to one of Burger King’s branches in Yokohama to try both on the day of their release, but they weren’t the only discoveries waiting for us. So come along with us as we present the ABCs (apples, booze, and couches) that make Burger King different in Japan.

Japan
(alcohol • Burger King • food • hamburgers • taste test)

McDonald’s has maids in Taiwan. We’ve got videos here

Casey Baseel
Dec 27, 2013

As an American living in Japan, I often get asked, “Do you miss McDonald’s?” This always strikes me as a strange question, as living near downtown Tokyo puts me in closer proximity to more outlets of the Golden Arches than I ever had growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

Plus, it’s a little hard to get homesick for McDonald’s when you’ve got access to mouth-watering okonomiyaki and sushi joints, not to mention delicious Indian and Chinese restaurants. Being surrounded by the culinary delights of Asia means it takes something pretty special to coax you into a Big Mac run.

McDonald’s cashiers in Taiwan dressing up in frilly pink maid outfits definitely qualifies.