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Question Mark Mound posted:If you're in Japan over December and don't take your chance to have a Christmas KFC then what are you even doing? it right.
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Dec 10, 2020 23:47
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Stringent posted:it right.  Either suck it up and do a proper Christmas, or make like the bubble and have a splurge Christmas date.
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Dec 11, 2020 03:17
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Between running KFC without mashed potatos or mac and cheese and calling that lump of poo poo they slather syrup on a biscuit, whoever runs KFC in Japan should be lynched.
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Dec 11, 2020 04:28
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Yeah, the Colonel would probably approve of a good lynching of some Japanese people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbin,_Kentucky_race_riot_of_1919 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel
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Dec 11, 2020 08:12
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gently caress off, that "biscuit" is a sin against God and men.
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Dec 11, 2020 11:13
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I'm still haunted by my decision to get a Megamuffin for breakfast one day in Kyoto. I didn't get hungry again for like 14 hours and I could feel my life expectancy tick downwards.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:50
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I will forever be haunted by the belgian waffle shop in Kyoto stn. That station always smelled like waffles but I was always heading somewhere so never stopped to get one :[ e: And now I googled it and it turns out it's a chain so I guess I have way more options to relive my train station belgian waffle fantasies.
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Dec 11, 2020 18:41
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There’s a Hawaiian burger themed place called Kua Aina which makes burgers that absolutely slap. The fries are great too. Burgers taste as good as any decent local American style restaurant burger you’d get in the states. Freshness is also decent. Mos Burger sucks, and any burger place with a pork mixture in the patty should go out of business for crimes against burgmanity.
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Dec 12, 2020 13:48
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AHH F/UGH posted:There’s a Hawaiian burger themed place called Kua Aina which makes burgers that absolutely slap. The fries are great too. Burgers taste as good as any decent local American style restaurant burger you’d get in the states. It's a drat shame to see the thread devolve into amateurish trolling like this.
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Dec 12, 2020 15:06
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I went to a Kua Aina in Odaiba on my last trip because the one in Belfast closed down a few years ago and I really wanted to taste it again. 
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Dec 12, 2020 21:15
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There are plenty of good burger places in the Tokyo area, this list is probably a pretty decent starting point: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tokyo/comments/cbddke/best_burgers_of_the_greater_tokyo_area_any/ Personally I'm a fan of JS Burgers Cafe and Martini Burger. For fish and chips Malin's in Roppongi is probably the best I've found.
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Dec 13, 2020 02:38
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Wow, no one's mentioned Whoppi Goldburger yet. I try to make it a point to go every fall (this year being the exception) when they bring out the mushroom cheese burger and get it with the mashed potatoes. Shimokitazawa has several good spots too. Eight Burger, Mary Stand, Burgers Tokyo, Coaster (which also has pulled pork and friend chicken sandwiches) and a few others I can't recall. I'm no connoisseur but I like the variety.
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Dec 13, 2020 03:05
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The point wasn't that there aren't burger places in Japan, the point is any of the ones listed so far would get wiped by like Five Guys or whatever, much less a gourmet place in the US.
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Dec 13, 2020 03:26
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Stringent posted:The point wasn't that there aren't burger places in Japan, the point is any of the ones listed so far would get wiped by like Five Guys or whatever, much less a gourmet place in the US. Haw haw haw haw haw. Five guys. Wow. Five guys is garbage. It's just another chain. I know there are shake shacks in japan now and that's a chain that is easily better.
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Dec 13, 2020 03:30
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That was the point. Shake Shack, Five Guys, and In-N-Out all wipe most anything going in Tokyo and they're all just chains. Even out in North Carolina we've got specialist burger places that destroy any burger place in Japan. You aren't getting that in Japan.
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Dec 13, 2020 04:03
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Man, I've still got leftovers in the fridge. Stop making me want fast food.
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Dec 13, 2020 05:30
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All this burger talk got me in the mood so I made one.   I reckon this is better than what you can get in 90% of Japanese burger shops, definitely for the price.
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Dec 13, 2020 11:13
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Legitimately how do people eat burgers that size? I don’t think my mouth could physically open that far without tearing my cheeks apart.
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Dec 13, 2020 12:35
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I will absolutely concede on the price point and even admit that Shake Shack is by far the best American burger you can get here. I wish I had an actual kitchen so I could try cooking them myself.
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Dec 13, 2020 15:32
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Stringent posted:That was the point. Shake Shack, Five Guys, and In-N-Out all wipe most anything going in Tokyo and they're all just chains. Now YOU are the one who is unironically trolling. Kua Aina is good as gently caress and way fresher and better than loving In and Out (which is overrated overhyped tourist trash anyways). Five Guys is hot garbage too. Cole slaw on a burger? gently caress outta here with that poo poo. I’m heated and postin angry about burgs!! AHH F/UGH fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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Dec 14, 2020 11:04
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Better, but still not convincing. Try it with Martini or Firehouse or something, might be more believable.
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Dec 14, 2020 11:17
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i like 5 guys more than shake shack tbh.
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Dec 14, 2020 11:21
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man, really want to go to red robin and burg
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Dec 14, 2020 11:22
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Mr. Fix It posted:man, really want to go to red robin and burg always wanted to try one of those with the fried onions on it
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Dec 14, 2020 11:27
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Stringent posted:always wanted to try one of those with the fried onions on it i really liked the one with fried jalapeños, pepper jack cheese and salsa on it. bottomless steak fries with campfire sauce (ranch mixed with barbecue sauce) complete the ensemble.
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Dec 14, 2020 11:31
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As a California native I prefer Five Guys because I'm brave and confident enough to admit In'N'Out is pretty good but tame.
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Dec 14, 2020 12:47
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Eating at a lowly Japanese burger joint is a sacrifice I'm willing to make to travel in the future. I'll take the bullet on this one.
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Dec 14, 2020 13:33
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Being from a country where the only American burger chains we have are Burger King and McDonalds, going to Tokyo for the first time and seeing all those other chains like Five Guys and even stuff like BR made me feel weird. Like "Huh, I guess those things exist in real life as well", which I already knew but it still felt different seeing them IRL for the first time. Basically I was a country bumpkin in a big city.
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Dec 14, 2020 13:45
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don't think there's a Five Guys in Tokyo, I know I would've gone there by now. it's one of my planned stops when I go visit the States next (in like three years at this rate). there's a few other places with decent burgs like Bareburger, Burger Mania, a few others I'm forgetting. Some restaurant/pub burgers have been pretty good too. I dunno, maybe my bar is lower (I'm also a fan of Shake Shack on occasion) but I've found barbecue or Mexican food a harder get over here than burgers.
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Dec 14, 2020 14:00
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It's been a while, but I think Blacow and TY Harbor have been the best burgers I've had in Tokyo. I'm sure there's some better ones, but I haven't really looked into it.
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Dec 14, 2020 15:14
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Blacows was good from what I can recall and I found a little place tucked away in an alley in Kyoto which was pretty good too. But that's the extent of my Japan burger experience.
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Dec 14, 2020 15:19
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Forget burgers, where's chik-fil-a
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Dec 15, 2020 07:22
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zmcnulty posted:Forget burgers, where's chik-fil-a hopefully they never expand lol. here's a q tho, would chik fil a be closed in japan on sundays?
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Dec 15, 2020 08:51
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There’s a pun to be had about how’d they be closed 毎日曜日 but i can’t think of it right now
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Dec 16, 2020 08:34
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Magna Kaser posted:hopefully they never expand lol. Probably, there are enough Christian churches around to give them the pretext.
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Dec 16, 2020 08:40
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AHH F/UGH posted:Now YOU are the one who is unironically trolling. Kua Aina is good as gently caress and way fresher and better than loving In and Out (which is overrated overhyped tourist trash anyways). Five Guys is hot garbage too. I don't really get in general why people are psyched about their brands of fast food burgers. They're all precooked patties that are warmed up before serving and thus fundamentally dry. If all you want is meat taste + calories you might as well just go for Krystal/White Castle/FEBO (Dutch equivalent), or just some sort of calorie paste like Soylent. I had my first ever Five Guys recently. It was like "what if we served McDonalds burger and patty, but gave way more options for toppings besides pickles, and we charged a little over twice as much? Also the fries are the same but you can get terrible spicy ones that are not as good as Backyard Burger's." I don't mean to be down on fast food, I eat it sometimes, but they're all terrible compared to a real freshly made burger. Saladman fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 00:53
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I hate to interrupt the burger chat, but I have a question and was hoping someone in the thread might have some advice for me. I live in Tokyo, and my wife is 12 weeks pregnant with our first child. We're looking for a hospital where she can give birth, with the due date in July. I want to be there for the birth more than anything else, and we've called places both in Tokyo and in her home prefecture of Tottori, but every single hospital is telling us that I won't even be allowed inside the hospital at any point due to corona precautions. That basically means that I won't be able to see my wife or child until after my wife is discharged, which is apparently often up to a week after birth in Japan. Does anyone know if there might be some way for me to attend the birth or visit after the birth? For what it's worth, I speak Japanese fluently, so I won't need an interpreter or anything. I've tried offering to take a PCR test and isolate myself for weeks before she gives birth, but nobody wants to budge. I understand this is being done in order to protect the other patients in the hospital as well as the other women giving birth and their newborns, so if nothing can be done I'll just give up and hope things change by the time July comes around. I've wanted to be a father for a long time, though, and this is one of the moments I've been looking forward to ever since I knew I wanted kids, so it's a huge bummer. 
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Dec 17, 2020 02:21
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Would you really want your wife to be at the one hospital that is making exceptions to the rules?
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Dec 17, 2020 02:27
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I think it depends - friends of mine have had babies recently, and while one couldn’t visit his wife after, he was present for the birth. Also that’s likely the policy right now, and I would imagine it’s liable to change in the future should things change.
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Dec 17, 2020 02:33
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Saladman posted:I don't really get in general why people are psyched about their brands of fast food burgers. They're all precooked patties that are warmed up before serving and thus fundamentally dry. If all you want is meat taste + calories you might as well just go for Krystal/White Castle/FEBO (Dutch equivalent), or just some sort of calorie paste like Soylent. Uh, unless Five Guys in Japan is very different than Five Guys in the US the fries are nothing like McDonald's fries and the burger is cooked from raw after you order.
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Dec 17, 2020 02:41
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