Residents of Sakae-cho, Ushiku City, Ibaraki Prefecture line up in the middle of typhoon-induced rain for this one day only offering of their flagship beef bowl “gyudon” product now that imports of US beef have resumed. Security guards were on hand to maintain order as previous limited offerings have resulted in violence from disappointed latecomers.
There are no such reports of crazed ojisan as of yet, but hopefully our correspondents in Japan will have some news for us later this evening.
According to Asahi, Yoshinoya will offer gyudon from the 1st through the 5th of October and November before restoring their flagship product in December on a daily basis for a limited number of hours per day.
Sankei reports that some gyudon fans waited all night for their chance at luscious beef in a bowl. I’d gladly do the same. Unfortunately there are no gyudon in Thailand, not even cheap knockoff gyudon. Decent katsudon though.
I’ve no idea how or why, but my local Yoshinoya (in Shiroishi, Miyagi) has always happily served yakiniku-gyuudon every day, as part of its regular menu, while every other Yoshinoya I’ve seen has been rationing it like crazy.
God knows where they’re getting that beef from.
See, the *yakiniku* kind is different from the real gyudon and has been offered at a few of the Yoshinoya as part of the replacement menu. There’s just something special about gyudon from Yoshinoya that the others lack. I think it has something to do with fact that Yoshinoya’s sign is orange.