Lunch Time at Matsuya / Rice Bowls

So where do I go for lunch, you say? When I first started working, I imagined that I might have enough energy to cook during the evening, bring in rice and some okazu and zap it in the company microwave, just as I had done at my last workplace. How wrong I was! Not to mention, no kitchen in my office!

Akasaka (the general area where I work) has no dearth of restaurants in all price ranges, and all kinds of cuisines, including French, Turkish, Chinese, and Korean within walking distance of my office. But most of the time I end up eating at the restaurant pictured below.

It's like Yoshinoya, famous for its sliced stewed beef bowls, but (better than Yoshinoya) even the simple rice dishes come with miso soup: always a nice plus and filling too.

Matsuya's are slightly more expensive than Yoshinoya, but the taste is much better (especially the sliced pork bowls, which are made with -- I kid you not -- pork produced in Denmark). (Further irony: some of the waitresses are Chinese, you can tell by the accent and their name tags.)

When I get tired of eating regular-flavored sliced pork bowls (330 yen) I sometimes splurge on the BiBimDon bowls which are pork with green onions and kimchee sauce smothered on the top, for a slightly different taste sensation.


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