Posted on 12/23/2020 8:21:21 AM PST by mylife
Take-out from expensive restaurant in the most expensive part of Tokyo hurts the wallet, thrills the taste buds.
Though most restaurants in Japan remain open for eat-in dining, a lot of us are choosing to get our meals to-go during the pandemic. So when he found his stomach growling, our Japanese-language reporter Mr. Sato decided the best thing to do was to just go pick up a sandwich and bring it back home to eat.
Ordinarily, we’d call that a casual lunch…except that the sandwich he picked up from a restaurant in downtown Tokyo cost him 8,650 yen (US$82).
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OK if Mr Sato is buying.
The only thing missing is that it didn’t come out of a vending machine...
Well, assuming that is a good steak, why would you ruin it by putting it in a sandwich?
MMMMMM...... looks great!
Eggslut looks better...
So’s you can hold it in your hand?
A meal for two at the French Laundry (Gov Newsom’s favorite maskless birthday restaurant) is more than $600...
I can confidently say I’ll never spend $82 on a sandwich unless we get Weimar-Republic levels of inflation. That sandwich does look tasty, though.
Get four reporters. Get each one of them to cough up $20.50 with no reimbursement. Give each journalist 1/4 of the sandwich. No drink. No sides. No ability to order a mid-afternoon snack.
Ask them then if it was still worth every penny.
I’d rather have a giant Original Italian sub from Jersey Mike’s (Mike’s way)....
You aren’t going to even get a sip of a beverage for that.
I’m pretty sure that $80 for lunch in Tokyo is not the least bit unusual. Ever been there? Yikes!!
Funny.
I think their unsold ones are packaged in cellophane and sold in American gas station convenience stores. With expiration dates altered.
After oncoming inflation for new Congressional spending bill we won't have a yen for them anyway.
Yes I have been to the Ginza
Normally it would cost $8, but there’s a tax in Japan for not eating dolphin.
Kudos to the Japanese for blending the finest from the east and the west - ritualistic and respectful tradition-bound service and presentation from the former, and a steak sandwich from the latter.
I remember when 365 yen would buy a dollar’s worth...
LOL - good one Intruder
Pastrami on rye.........................a match made in Heaven...................
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