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Tokyo restaurant adds special seat for live-streaming and social media posting [Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2026
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Yakiniku Like wants to help diners get some likes of their own.

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• (COK • foods • meat • restaurants • social media • weird • yakiniku • Yakiniku Like)

Solo travel in Japan: $3 all-you-can-drink deal at this conveyor belt restaurant is a fun time for one

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2026

No need to feel self-conscious when you can use this automatic ordering and delivery system.

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • solo dining • solo grill • solo travel • Tokyo • yakiniku)

The best yakiniku restaurant menu items to order if you’re surrounded by lovey-dovey couples

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2026

With the couples on either side of him as hot as the flames on his grill, our solo-dining yakiniku fan finds a mental escape.

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• (COK • dating • food • funny • meat • relationships • restaurants • romance • SNJO • yakiniku • Yuichiro Wasai)

Yakiniku without the niku? New Tokyo restaurant applies yakiniku concepts to sashimi-grade fish

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2025

Yakiuo Ishikawa Ginza Rinkaro serves up a very unique crossover of meat and seafood traditions.

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• Japan
• (COK • fish • food • meat • sashimi • seafood • SNJO • sushi • yakiniku)

Popular Osaka all-you-can-eat yakiniku chain Yakiniku Rikimaru opens its first location in Tokyo

• Krista Rogers
  Jul 24, 2025

In celebration of its opening, diners can also receive 20 percent off their bill if they hurry.

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • COK • food • Ikebukuro • meat • restaurants • Rikimaru • SNJO • Tokyo • yakiniku • Yakiniku Rikimaru)

Rare Mos Burger vending machine sells items not found in restaurants

• Master Blaster
  Mar 24, 2025

It’s Mos, Definitely.

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• Japan
• (burgers • COK • fast food • lu rou fan • Mos Burger • rice burgers • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vending machines • yakiniku)

One of Japan’s biggest restaurant chains calls three different sauces all just “sauce” in English

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 31, 2025

Would you like Yakiniku Sauce, Yakiniku Sauce, or Yakiniku Sauce today?

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• Japan
• (beef bowls • COK • crazy • food • gyudon • Japanese language • linguistics • Matsuya • restaurants • sauce • weird • yakiniku • yakiniku sauce)

Love yakiniku but dining solo? Here’s what it’s like to eat alone at Yakiniku Like

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 20, 2024

Experiencing solo yakiniku for the first time at a popular chain specializing in yakiniku-for-one.

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• (alone • clever • COK • cool • food • Korean barbecue • meat • restaurants • Saya Togashi • SNJO • solo dining • yakiniku • Yakiniku Like)

Meat Butler goes viral for space-age yakiniku train system

• Oona McGee
  Oct 2, 2023

We try it in real life to see if it’s as good as it looks in TikTok videos.

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• (beef • conveyor belt • cool • Masanuki Sunakoma • meat • Meat Butler • restaurant reviews • restaurants • review • SNJO • Taipei • Taiwan • taste test • travel • yakiniku)

Japan’s Ninja Bear shot and killed in Hokkaido, eaten as yakiniku in Tokyo, to become stew next

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 24, 2023

After four year of attacking dairy cows in Japan’s northernmost prefecture, the Ninja Bear ends up on the grill.

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• (animals • bears • crazy • food • Hokkaido • hunting • Ninja Bear • wild game • yakiniku)

Who does a yakiniku beef bowl better: a Japanese vending machine or Yoshinoya?【Taste Test】

• Shannon
  Jun 16, 2023

Our reporter tests a popular Japanese chain store against a machine.

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• Japan
• (chain restaurant • delicious • donburi • Japanese vending machines • rice bowls • taste test • unique • vending machine • yakiniku • Yoshinoya)

Smartphone-abstinence cocktail created by Japanese restaurant to put focus on friends over phones

• Casey Baseel
  May 27, 2023

Restaurant came up with idea after poll showed majority of people are bothered by dining companions staring at their phones during meals.

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• (alcohol • beautiful • clever • cocktails • COK • cool • drinks • food • phones • Smartphones • yakiniku)

New yakiniku hair clips from Japan make meat lovers drool

• Oona McGee
  Jan 22, 2023

Like dining at a yakiniku restaurant, but the grill is your hair.

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• (COK • cool • cute • fake food • fashion • food • hair accessories • hair clips • Japanese beef • Japanese food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • vegetables • weird • wtf • yakiniku)

Our reporters try a yakiniku sauce called “Even Women Garlic” to figure out what that means

• Dale Roll
  Dec 7, 2022

To garlic, or not to garlic? That is (part of) the question.

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• Japan
• (food • Ikuna Kamezawa • marketing • sauce • taste test • yakiniku • yakiniku tare)

Make restaurant quality food at home with Japanese restaurant Kitchen ABC’s vending machine

• Katie Pask
  Sep 15, 2022

Making restaurant quality food at home is as simple as (Kitchen) ABC.

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • Ready meals • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vending machine • yakiniku)

We attempt to conquer the 7-hour all-you-can-eat yakiniku deal at Yakiniku Like

• Shannon
  Aug 17, 2022

Did we bite off more than we could chew?

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• Japan
• (all-you-can-eat • food challenge • hard • Megaho Challenge • Megaho Set • tabehodai • tabehoudai • yakiniku • Yakiniku Like)

Yakiniku Simulator coming to Nintendo Switch and smartphones

• Master Blaster
  Jul 8, 2022

It’s the hottest game of the year!

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• (Android • food • iOS • nintendo switch • Secret Character • Steam • Thailand • video games • yakiniku • Yakiniku Simulator)

Is Daiso’s 500-yen grilling plate good enough for at-home yakiniku dinners? We find out!

• Dale Roll
  Jun 26, 2022

Maybe you don’t need to spend big money to eat yakiniku at home. Or maybe you do…

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• Japan
• (camping • cooking • Daiso • Go Hatori • meat • SoraKitchen • yakiniku)

Solo sukiyaki! Cook-in-the-counter hot pot is newest way to treat yourself to great food in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2022

Yakiniku Like wants to make sukiyaki something you can eat even if none of your friends are in the mood.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • cool • food • hot pot • restaurants • SNJO • sukiyaki • yakiniku • Yakiniku Like)

All-you-can drink deal in Japan puts the self-serve drinks machine right on your table

• Oona McGee
  Mar 16, 2022

This Japanese yakiniku chain wants you to get drunk on your own or with a friend for less than 5 bucks!

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• Japan
• (all you can drink • all-you-can-eat • cheap eats • cheap food • cheapo news • COK • dining • drinks • food • meat • restaurants • SNJO • solo • solo dining • solo grill • yakiniku)

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