Japanese Fast Food: Gyuudon

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Yoshinoya:

chain restaurant found everywhere in japan. basic, simple restaurant with few options besides gyuudon.

>>9429465
looks yummy

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Sukiya

another gyuudon chain restaurant found nearly everywhere in japan. they have a few more options other than gyuudon, and have several toppings available.

a little sweeter than Yoshinoya

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Matsuya

gyuudon & a ton of other options available. flavor is rather bland compared to other restaurants, but does the job if you're just hungry.

this restaurant usually has a machine that takes your order. put money in the machine, press the button for the order you want, receive your meal ticket & any change, present the ticket to your server and get your food as soon as its ready. you literally dont have to talk to anyone.

that's all i found for gyuudon. as a broke student, cheap dining kept me alive.

>>9429465
how is this a fast food? to boil beef takes quite some time

>>9429515
the strips of beef are real thin, kinda like bacon-thin. only takes a few minutes to boil/simmer

>>9429471
>>9429491
ate at these pretty often when I was in japan. pretty decent, not much beef in the bowls but what can you expect for the price.

>>9429471
I didn't know this was Japanese. I thought the ones in America were shitty Americanized versions of Jap food like Chipotle and Taco Bell

>>9429515
Presumably the same reason you can get a mcdonalds hamburger in 3 seconds even though it takes about 3 minutes to properly grill and prepare.

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the usual additional toppings at extra charge:
-raw egg
-soft-boiled egg
-cheese

additional toppings at no extra charge (usually available in containers at your table)
-pickled ginger
-soy sauce
-other sauces

Where do I get this in the US?

>>9429465
is it any good?
should i try making some at home?
can you provide a recipe?

>>9429465
People always say Japan is really expensive, especially beef. I'm surprised you can get all this for $3

looks pretty good, thats what they eat in japan, huh.

>>9429601
are japs lactose intolerant?

>>9429795
there's a few Yoshinoya stores in CA, from what ive been told (LA, San Jose). not sure if it has the same flavor.

>>9429801
>is it any good?
its decent, but nothing to get excited about.
>should i try making some at home?
if you want. ive been thinking about trying to make some myself just for nostalgia purposes.
>can you provide a recipe?
no idea, havent tried any yet.

>>9429841
East coast here, no Yoshinoyas here

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>>9429471
>>9429471
RIP in peace.

>>9429471
I keep hearing this is what the most poor people eat

>>9429820

Most asians are

>>9429566
>>9429795
The Yoshinoya's in the US are pretty ass from my experience. Though even in Japan they aren't amazing. Egg is value though.

>>9429801
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mvYnRJX70

you can skip the pickled ginger and the soft boiled egg, but you really need to make the broth according to the recipe with every ingredient, even if finding dashi stock and mirin can be bothersome, it's bland as fuck without them.

>>9430102
>Francis
WHHHYYYYYYYY

>>9430102
>dashi stock and mirin
ill see what i can do
loca asian grocery is big and has lots of shit but i never can find what im looking for there

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>>9429875
Used to have one here in NYC on 42nd St for a good while. But then they closed up shop without a word back in 2012, it opened in 2007.

>>9429841
>tfw weeb who makes lots of japanese food
It's a very simple dish.
You can find a decent recipe on serious eats that will provide you with a basis on which to play around with.

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this thread made me break down and get a close approximation of the dish at a local shop

I live in los angeles and i hate this place, the beef is so stringy and chewy. the only good thing they have is their chicken and their sesame wings but then i'd rather just go to any other teriyaki place for that or better beef.

gonna give this a bump

https://www.sukiya.jp/en/
https://www.matsuyafoods.co.jp/english/menu/pre_gyuu/index.html
3-9$ I could see this being popular in other countries

in 2020 I will be heading to japan for the olympics. think I can learn enough of the language to function by then?

>>9432052
>>>/trv/
>>>/int/
>>>/jp/

nigger do you even 4chan

>>9429471
I wish a gyuudon chain that isn't Yoshinoya would open in Singapore. They charge extra for tiny single serve sachets of pickled ginger and chili flakes.

>>9429491
>you literally dont have to talk to anyone
A major selling point when I visit, because my Japanese is basically nonexistent

>>9432061
Yeah except the order-machine is written in Japanese

sukiya is the best of the three,for the most part under 1000¥
t. weeb who goes japan multiple times a year

Food pics from Japan.

>want to open a real japanese fast food in France
>Importing things from Japan is fucking expensive
Can I replicate japanese taste with european or chinese ingredients ?

>>9429491
The great thing about Matsuya is how many of them are 24h. It's like the best aspects of western Denny's and McDonald's combined.

>>9429523
>boil/simmer
Sounds pretty bland

>>9432282
that's why they season it with soy sauce, sugar, mirin, and sake

like every other japanese dish

>>9432288
Also lots of pickled ginger.

>>9432292
In the dish itself? I'd expect that on the side.

>>9432295
Almost always as a garnish, so I'd consider it "in" in the same way as cheese or pickles on a burger.

>>9432305
That's a pretty poor analogy.
I would consider neither cheese or pickles as a garnish. I consider then component ingredients of the dish however it is cute your first thought was to use a hamburger as a comparison, it speaks volumes of your culinary experience.

>>9432315
>t. angry EOP

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>>9432315
>when someone replies to the poster that replied to you but they act like like a complete jackass and so now the guy with whom you were only trying to have an innocent conversation is likely to think you're rude as fuck

thanks

>>9432068
Some chains have pictures on the machine. Also, pressing a random button can be kinda fun.

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>>9432578
Stay mad, turd.

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>>9432578
no

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>>9432586
damn that's lewd

>>9432052
As someone who learned enough Japanese in 3 years to live there, you can, if you put enough work into it. But you will have to work at it, hard. At least 2 hours a day, every day. And after that, you're going to want to spend some time reading about learning foreign languages and Japanese in particular, because you study technique matters just as much as your time put in. The most important thing is that you are consistent though. 15 minutes a day per week is better then 2 hours one day on the weekend.

>>9432246
Can you get soy sauce, mirin, sake and dashi(hondashi is fine)? If so, you're set for this and most Japanese food in general. You can probably buy all of that on amazon.

>>9432305
Goddamnit, now I want a cheese-in hamburg steak. I won't be back in Japan for another 9 months, so I guess I'm going to have to get good at that.

>>9432058
Come to Malaysia

>>9430073
lactose persistence has no other source in East Asia other than western ancestry within the past 4000 years. so when people say most, they don't mean 70% or even 90% but for a place like Japan essentially 100%. there are field test methods of gauging phenotypic intolerance that aren't as exact but if you look at the genetics it is really almost everyone.

on the other hand, lactose intolerance is NOT the same thing as dairy intolerance. people from populations with high levels of lactase persistence tend not to understand the difference. many cheeses and yogurts have low lactose content

>>9433049
*lactase persistence

>>9432676
Plenty of shop selling that in France. That guy is a bum looking for an excuse not to get off his lazy ass.

>>9429465
I found a recipe for this and it's now my go-to quick comfort food. It's so delicious and soothing no wonder the japs like it so much. The delicious sauce with onions and beef boiled in it makes it taste a little like onion soup.

Fuck I just ate dinner and now I want to make some. I know what I'm making tomorrow.

OP missed an important phrase for gyudon: tsuyudaku.

Order it "tsuyudaku" and they'll add extra beef au jus, which makes the rice at the bottom of the bowl way tasty.

Yoshinoya is top.
Sukiya second.
Matsuya last.

Gyudon is great "walking home drunk" food. I take mine tsuyudaku with onsen tamago.

>>9431818
Not even close

nip food is a meme, they only cook by boiling water or microwaving, most places dont even have a stove

>>9429465
that looks delicious

i might just live off of that when i go there

>Didn't eat gyudon or sushi while in Japan
>Didn't know there was an unagi restaurant a block from my hotel until after I left

That's what I get for only staying for four days

>>9429479
Sukiya is superior to all others.

>>9429479
>That fucking Eel bowl they have

I WANT TO GO BACK

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>>9436481
eel (unagi) bowl was badass, but like $8. had it when i had a chance to splurge my budget

https://www.sukiya.jp/menu/in/unagi/900100/index.html