I absolutely love how Japan embraces the solo dining experience! It seems odd to go to a K/JBBQ place alone or any restaurant for that matter but with places like this, Ichiran, or Ikinari, it seems perfectly normal to just enjoy a nice meal and drink by yourself. Ultimate self-care/love
So true. I once sat in a café on a nice sunny sunday afternoon and because there were so many people on the streets the café was full. A couple asked if it is okay to sit at my table and so we talked to each other. But the woman was bewildered because I was on my own (as a woman). No, she would never do that! :D But hey it was just a spontanous trip and I was a single. But I didn't want to sit at home alone. I never had a problem going out alone but a lot of people are really bewildered If I do, especially as a woman. In Germany. Were woman can do that if they want. Oh boy ... society.
I LOVE resturants where you can do everything on your own, and don't have to talk to people ❤. This makes me (who is an introvert and a loner) very VERY happy 😁😁😁😁🤗. This needs to be a common thing, worldwide.
It would be even nicer if it's a soundproof room so I can slurp and burp all I want. Also, the food needs to be brought by robots or some conveyor system. No interaction with pesky humans please. 😆😋🤗
I really enjoy how you present the experience. Most RUclips content seems to feel the need to fill the air with useless prattle. I like the simple text and being able to hear the ambient noise of the space. It feels much more personal.
What an interesting idea for a restaurant. I really like how the table has a perfect cut out for the tray to fit in instead of just putting the tray on top of the table!
I keep coming across Stevie being mentioned in the comments lately. His best material was between '67 and '69, imo, and so now I have to listen to some of my favs from that era here on YT. Thanks for the idea. 😊😊
We don’t have anything like this where I live, I wish we did, I love the idea of being able to cook my own food like that as well as being able to sit alone and relax and enjoy my meal without feeling self conscious.
@@eatmeskivys so you have numerous meats at home, a grill, 6 dipping sauces, numerous side dishes and a professional chef preparing them and your meats?
While in Tokyo years ago, I ordered a strawberry shortcake. As a matter of fact I ordered 2 for my after dinner snack plus a coke. I enjoyed them immensely because real heavy whipped cream was use. I was in seventh heaven.
Your friendship with Satoshi is amazing. Most people would feel uncomfortable when there is too much silence, but it seems like you guys are able to hang out without even saying anything to each other. A relationship where you guys can feel comfortable in silence is very rare, respect!!!
I just love how Japan just completely min-maxed everything to suit the needs of a single person. From single portions in the konbini, to solo dining. That's one thing I hate about living here in NA where everything in store has to be in large sizes and portions
Gotta love the 70s/80s rock in the background. The food looks good too! When I lived in Japan "strawberry shortcake" was a completely different concept than what I grew up with in the USA. Here, we literally use "shortcake" sponge (usually it's just the bottom half of a biscuit) for the bottom layer (about a half inch thick), pile in a bunch of chopped and sugared strawberries, and then top it with whipped cream (fresh or from a can) and the other half of the biscuit and add more strawberries and cream on top. In Japan, it's an entire cake - which to me is not "shortcake" but just a "strawberry cake." lol...
I love solo dining. I wish I had done it more often, as I have a kid now and that makes it harder, but it’s still possible. It’s just nice to just eat and have time to yourself.
I love the Japanese style of pub food and Bbq it holds a nice class and a calm vibe and sometimes it feels okay to eat solo and just enjoy life the way you want with no consideration for others :)
Ahhhh only if that was anywhere near true in Japan rip. They have a lot of social norms people have to follow or else they will think you are weird and outwardly try to outcast you.
Thank you for posting this. I hope that this place still exists when I will finally be able to return to Japan without a quarantine. Whenever that will be.
I love yakiniku when I visit Japan (love all the food actually!), but my absolute favorite is fresh ramen after a night of beer, before going back to the hotel. Can't wait to visit Japan again...hopefully soon.
I truly appreciate all of the details, tips, and explanations that you provide. So helpful vs muddling through it completely lost or confused. I’ve saved so many of your videos as future reference for when I travel to Japan and need to figure out how to order/eat/sleep/drink/shower/pay/etc.
This was a fantastic video. It's like I could taste the beef tongue, though I've never had it. My son and I can't wait to visit Japan one day. I hope we can eat here! I subscribed to your channel and I'm excited to see where you go next.
Love the concept of an individual grilling station. The meats looked delicious...... As for dessert, I usually choose something chocolate..... I love dense desserts like fudge, peanut butter pie with a thick layer of fudge or ganache, ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes I want something fresh and fruity, like a key lime pie or chocolate dipped strawberries. Yummy.
Man, Japan has alot of places that really really really intrigue introverts, like solo ramen places, solo barbecue, automatic/vending machine restaurant, different foods vending machine........
This looks like a nice experience, but honestly I don't want to cook my food when I go out. I do enough of that at home. Looks delicious though and fun to do every once in awhile.
It's so thoughtful and respectful to create restaurants with areas specifically designed for solo diners. The whole process you showed us really streamlines and normalizes eating alone. The food, all cooked to your taste, looked yummy. Does Yakiniku Like offer vegan or vegetarian sets? Thank you for the interesting video. ❤️❤️
Japan is super difficult for vegans. I have some friends who do it but they cook a lot at home. People should tackle this idea in videos though- very interesting.
they did a vegan set for quite a few months with soy meat (iirc) last year to test the market out actually. i'm not sure if they're planning to bring it back again, but friends tell me it was good!
This is actually a result of the work culture in Japan being completely exhausting and toxic. There's less couples, less families and less children. Everybody is constantly working. They aren't here to normalize eating alone, they exist as a result of people having nobody to eat with.
@@GnomePuntTrainerYT I understand. My point was that whatever the reason people eat alone, at least there are specific physical accommodations made for them. In the U.S., people eating solo are generally seated at tables or in booths made to seat multiple persons. Or solo diners may have to sit at a counter and are made conspicuous in their solitude.
It's funny to hear pure American music there. "Panama! Panama-ha!" As for me, I would definitely eat there. I've fallen in love with gochujang and have loved Japanese food for decades
Everything looked so yummy! Especially the strawberry shortcake, which is my favorite cake. My parents knew I was super bummed about not being able to visit Japan for Christmas/New year again this year and looked online for a recipe and surprised me with a Japanese strawberry shortcake. 🥰 It was delicious!
@@maeudaou7347 do you not want to even try imagining if it was true? (Which i believe it is) Even so its wholesome to read so I don't see a point in denying how true it might be, just enjoy it or move on friend
The food you ate today in this video, they all looked delicious, but my favorite of them all is the Strawberry Short Cake. That cake looked so good, I wanted to be there with you and eat some myself. I love deserts, I can't choose a favorite because I love them all. Actually I love all food in general. I'm a girl that I will try something at least once, if I don't like it, at least I can say that I've tried it once. Lol. Great video. ❤❤❤
Cooking your own food like this would be a great first date maybe. You can serve your guest or allow her or him to cook for you. Wish there was restaurant like this in the US.
Oh! beef tongue is so good.😋 I wish more restaurants served it. You guys have such amazing choices when it comes to dinning out. Wish there was something like this here I'd eat there all the time. Take care and stay safe.😊
I honestly love it so much seeing this videos, i hope someday i can go to japan and eat as much as i can from everything they have. A big hug from Mexico! Merry christmas yall and happy new year! (not yet, but pretty soon :P)
also small detail just if somebody knows, when they were getting outside the Caffe Superiore they waited for a couple of ladies to pass first, then they said "sumimasen" which im sure is like "excuse me" or something like that. But then he says "Arigato gozaimasu" which is thank you but in a very polite way right? Im confused because in México if that were the issue, sure the ladies would say in that same situation "disculpa" or maybe "con permiso" which mean "sorry" and "going in sorry (this one you say it a bit before crossing what you need to cross so people know you are in kind of a hurry)" Actually maybe even something like the ladies looking at the guys and saying "Gracias" or "Muchas gracias" which mean thank you and thank you very much respectively and the guys doing a hand gesture saying something like "Sure no problem" idk i started thinking about that too much as you may have noticed haha srry
Some of you might be glad to know there’s an all-you-can-eat version of this as well, plus conveyor belts plus ordering on the phone. Total solo experience.
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I absolutely love how Japan embraces the solo dining experience! It seems odd to go to a K/JBBQ place alone or any restaurant for that matter but with places like this, Ichiran, or Ikinari, it seems perfectly normal to just enjoy a nice meal and drink by yourself. Ultimate self-care/love
So true. I once sat in a café on a nice sunny sunday afternoon and because there were so many people on the streets the café was full. A couple asked if it is okay to sit at my table and so we talked to each other. But the woman was bewildered because I was on my own (as a woman). No, she would never do that! :D But hey it was just a spontanous trip and I was a single. But I didn't want to sit at home alone. I never had a problem going out alone but a lot of people are really bewildered If I do, especially as a woman. In Germany. Were woman can do that if they want. Oh boy ... society.
Ikinari is a godsend just for the fact I can have a decent quality steak at a decent price in Tokyo.
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Yeah I remember visiting Korea on a business trip and all the restaurants were for entire groups of people. I ate dinner at a convenience store :|
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For someone who dines solo most of the time, I so need this in my life.
yes I solo myself all the time
I agree!! In San Jose, California where I'm from, most restaurants don't have that type of space for solo diners.
Isn't it covid rn?
@@walkingsteak1719 covid rn?
And money
I LOVE resturants where you can do everything on your own, and don't have to talk to people ❤. This makes me (who is an introvert and a loner) very VERY happy 😁😁😁😁🤗. This needs to be a common thing, worldwide.
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Yes yes yes...my sentiments exactly!!!
It would be even nicer if it's a soundproof room so I can slurp and burp all I want. Also, the food needs to be brought by robots or some conveyor system. No interaction with pesky humans please. 😆😋🤗
You guys need a good therapist.
You know you can do that at home ? 😛
I really enjoy how you present the experience. Most RUclips content seems to feel the need to fill the air with useless prattle. I like the simple text and being able to hear the ambient noise of the space. It feels much more personal.
What an interesting idea for a restaurant. I really like how the table has a perfect cut out for the tray to fit in instead of just putting the tray on top of the table!
This is so clean and efficient. I love everything about Japan.
Food is always elevated to the next top notch level when you hear Stevie wonder music playing in the background!
I was very surprised by hearing Van Halen! I guess it is very closed minded of me to think 80s rock wouldnt be popular in Japan haha
Someone did do a good job on picking out the music for that place.
I keep coming across Stevie being mentioned in the comments lately. His best material was between '67 and '69, imo, and so now I have to listen to some of my favs from that era here on YT. Thanks for the idea. 😊😊
@@msr1116 My favorite song of his is "I Wish." Just heard it the other day on the radio and now I can't get it out of my head.... not complaining.😆
I love that they have Van Halen blasting in the background!
Acdc and Stevie wonder?! This restaurant and Japan as a whole still know what it is with real music!!!
And in the background plays Panama from Van Halen. Great ^^
We don’t have anything like this where I live, I wish we did, I love the idea of being able to cook my own food like that as well as being able to sit alone and relax and enjoy my meal without feeling self conscious.
why would someone pay for this?? lol , I can do this at home
XD when you are traveling alone I guess it works
@@eatmeskivys so you have numerous meats at home, a grill, 6 dipping sauces, numerous side dishes and a professional chef preparing them and your meats?
This seems kind of fun, I love that they are jamming out to the classics in there as well!
While in Tokyo years ago, I ordered a strawberry shortcake. As a matter of fact I ordered 2 for my after dinner snack plus a coke. I enjoyed them immensely because real heavy whipped cream was use. I was in seventh heaven.
You guys always find such neat little places. Love it and keep it up!
No fast food, but feast food :)) love how polite Japanese are.... hope to come back soon!!
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solo japanese bbq and nightrain of the gn'r in the background, best lunch ever.
Barbecue. Cheap beer. The Stones, Stevie Wonder, and ZZ Top playing overhead. Man, that's heaven.
I am very hungry now watching your video make me more hungry nice video Japanese food are really delicious
Your friendship with Satoshi is amazing. Most people would feel uncomfortable when there is too much silence, but it seems like you guys are able to hang out without even saying anything to each other. A relationship where you guys can feel comfortable in silence is very rare, respect!!!
Cheesecake is my ABSOLUTE favorite dessert. I love watching you guys videos and your TABIEATS videos as well
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tokyo is such a gorgeous city, those shots at the end of the video were amazing, beautiful sunset overall
Barbeque and Stevie Wonder!!! Life doesn't get any better than that!!
I just love how Japan just completely min-maxed everything to suit the needs of a single person. From single portions in the konbini, to solo dining.
That's one thing I hate about living here in NA where everything in store has to be in large sizes and portions
Dessert looks fabulous..strawberry cream cake is my favorite!
Always such a great pleasure to be able to travel with you! I love your journeys! Thank so much!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@IWillAlwaysTravelforFood thought you said there was a English menu
Wow, nice! I like this restaurant! thanks for sharing
Gotta love the 70s/80s rock in the background. The food looks good too! When I lived in Japan "strawberry shortcake" was a completely different concept than what I grew up with in the USA. Here, we literally use "shortcake" sponge (usually it's just the bottom half of a biscuit) for the bottom layer (about a half inch thick), pile in a bunch of chopped and sugared strawberries, and then top it with whipped cream (fresh or from a can) and the other half of the biscuit and add more strawberries and cream on top. In Japan, it's an entire cake - which to me is not "shortcake" but just a "strawberry cake." lol...
Your comment makes me not have to. Excellent points. I am hungry.
why is there a comment posted 2 days ago exacly the same, from a different account?
@@TheGamingSyndrom good question
It's wild to hear Journey playing in a barbeque in Tokyo. Yakiniku to classic rock with friends sounds like a great time.
I love solo dining. I wish I had done it more often, as I have a kid now and that makes it harder, but it’s still possible. It’s just nice to just eat and have time to yourself.
I enjoy these kinds of videos
Oh wow , self serve and ordering . This is my style of dining 🍽 cooking great food just the way I like . Delicious 😋
Gotta love having Van Halen blasting while having an order of yakiniku
I love the Japanese style of pub food and Bbq it holds a nice class and a calm vibe and sometimes it feels okay to eat solo and just enjoy life the way you want with no consideration for others :)
Ahhhh only if that was anywhere near true in Japan rip. They have a lot of social norms people have to follow or else they will think you are weird and outwardly try to outcast you.
Solo dining is one of my most favorite activities. Love this.
Love this idea! Solo dinners 👍
Strawberry shortcake....love it when I was younger living in Tampa Florida, we used to have a strawberry festival. Shortcake everywhere.
Oh, THIS place! They have an outlet or two in Singapore as well.
It was great. Worth the rather long queue.
Thank you for posting this.
I hope that this place still exists when I will finally be able to return to Japan without a quarantine.
Whenever that will be.
I love yakiniku when I visit Japan (love all the food actually!), but my absolute favorite is fresh ramen after a night of beer, before going back to the hotel. Can't wait to visit Japan again...hopefully soon.
That looks so good. The added touch of egg was the finishing touch
Japan is so friggin cool such unique experiences in dining if they had this here it would be a smash hit!!!
They eat boshmeet. Some rabbis need to teach them some kosher.
I truly appreciate all of the details, tips, and explanations that you provide. So helpful vs muddling through it completely lost or confused. I’ve saved so many of your videos as future reference for when I travel to Japan and need to figure out how to order/eat/sleep/drink/shower/pay/etc.
Pretty cool place to eat and seems that is close to schools, I remember wanting to finish high school in Japan.
Love this!! Always looking forward to your videos. Watching this makes me happy.
That strawberry shortcake looks amazing. Personally i prefer anything mango but that cake is a close second.
I love Japan
The beautifully charred meat looks so tasty! Great video as usual!
Thank you 😋
What a cool, yet unexpected place to be hearing Panama play in the background!
Woahh. If I ever visit Japan I'll definitely try this place out. Thanks for the recommendation 👍👍
I love the Van Halen music in the background, the restaurant and food also look delicious!
This was a fantastic video. It's like I could taste the beef tongue, though I've never had it. My son and I can't wait to visit Japan one day. I hope we can eat here! I subscribed to your channel and I'm excited to see where you go next.
Wish has a restaurant just like this in my country it's heaven for me.
i would like to visit Japan.Thank from Rome Italy
The meat looks high quality. I love places where you can eat solo. It's peaceful.
This is wonderful. I am a huge introvert and I would love to have something like that in my own country.
I love watching your videos! This is my excitement for a Saturday night lol
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I love the idea of solo Yakiniku. The food looked delicious/oishii ☺️ Watching this video close to 12am midnight was not so smart bc now I'm hungry 😭
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Van Halen jammin' in the back ground!!!! Nice!🤘
That was amazing. I love Japan's implementation of solo dining. So cool
That restaurant has some banging music playing! Van halen, guns n roses etc
Love the concept of an individual grilling station. The meats looked delicious...... As for dessert, I usually choose something chocolate..... I love dense desserts like fudge, peanut butter pie with a thick layer of fudge or ganache, ice cream, and chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes I want something fresh and fruity, like a key lime pie or chocolate dipped strawberries. Yummy.
Van Halen - Panama blasting in the background. Bonus points!
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Great video! Thanks a lot for it! I like to watch how ordinary people are living on the other side of the world i'll probaly never visit, thank You.
The food looks so good and the value is incredible!
Man, Japan has alot of places that really really really intrigue introverts, like solo ramen places, solo barbecue, automatic/vending machine restaurant, different foods vending machine........
That's incredibly healthy food for that price! That would get an A&W meal here in Canada lol. Someone take me to Japan!!!!!😄
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Genius! Solo Japanese bbq!!
This looks like a nice experience, but honestly I don't want to cook my food when I go out. I do enough of that at home. Looks delicious though and fun to do every once in awhile.
Thank you for taking us along, ooh everything looks so yummy! Looking forward to our next lunch together hehe! 😁
I would love to try Yakiniku 😋
Love the music in the background also!
It's so thoughtful and respectful to create restaurants with areas specifically designed for solo diners. The whole process you showed us really streamlines and normalizes eating alone. The food, all cooked to your taste, looked yummy. Does Yakiniku Like offer vegan or vegetarian sets? Thank you for the interesting video. ❤️❤️
Japan is super difficult for vegans. I have some friends who do it but they cook a lot at home. People should tackle this idea in videos though- very interesting.
they did a vegan set for quite a few months with soy meat (iirc) last year to test the market out actually. i'm not sure if they're planning to bring it back again, but friends tell me it was good!
This is actually a result of the work culture in Japan being completely exhausting and toxic. There's less couples, less families and less children. Everybody is constantly working. They aren't here to normalize eating alone, they exist as a result of people having nobody to eat with.
@@GnomePuntTrainerYT I understand. My point was that whatever the reason people eat alone, at least there are specific physical accommodations made for them. In the U.S., people eating solo are generally seated at tables or in booths made to seat multiple persons. Or solo diners may have to sit at a counter and are made conspicuous in their solitude.
And no distractions, you get to really savor the food and enjoy it.
美味そうです。いや絶対美味いやつですね。
まさに孤独のグルメ!
I love the way you cook it right there. That all looked so yummy 👍
It's funny to hear pure American music there. "Panama! Panama-ha!"
As for me, I would definitely eat there. I've fallen in love with gochujang and have loved Japanese food for decades
I like the social distancing and hardly any contact eateries. Perfect for this pandemic. Food looks yummy especially with egg.
Brilliant concept. Wish we had it here in Los Angeles. Great video!
Thanks for watching!
Food looks great. Meat looks so juicy and cooked to perfection. Beer looks ice cold. Cant go wrong with beef and beer!!🥩🍺😩😋
Hearing just dance playing in the background got me 😂
Everything looked so yummy! Especially the strawberry shortcake, which is my favorite cake. My parents knew I was super bummed about not being able to visit Japan for Christmas/New year again this year and looked online for a recipe and surprised me with a Japanese strawberry shortcake. 🥰 It was delicious!
@@maeudaou7347 do you not want to even try imagining if it was true? (Which i believe it is)
Even so its wholesome to read so I don't see a point in denying how true it might be, just enjoy it or move on friend
great parents! 😊
@@maeudaou7347 Your life sounds boring.
1人焼肉は好きな部位の肉を1人で堪能できるし、味に集中できるから良いよね
The food you ate today in this video, they all looked delicious, but my favorite of them all is the Strawberry Short Cake. That cake looked so good, I wanted to be there with you and eat some myself. I love deserts, I can't choose a favorite because I love them all. Actually I love all food in general. I'm a girl that I will try something at least once, if I don't like it, at least I can say that I've tried it once. Lol. Great video. ❤❤❤
Awww, I missed the live premiere, I checked too early and then too late. I love grilled meat, especially beef tongue!
great vid! made me so hungry and wished i was there with you! keep up the good work!
You guys are always so much fun! Makes me want to come back soon to see these places!😊
Cooking your own food like this would be a great first date maybe.
You can serve your guest or allow her or him to cook for you.
Wish there was restaurant like this in the US.
Oh! beef tongue is so good.😋 I wish more restaurants served it. You guys have such amazing choices when it comes to dinning out. Wish there was something like this here I'd eat there all the time. Take care and stay safe.😊
All the American rock and pop playing in the background is great! More David Lee Roth.
I freaking love Japan.
Never been but would really love to go. Would LOVE to try all of this and especially Kobe beef & local whiskey.
Tongue is my favorite for yakiniku too! We have a few branches of Gyu-Kaku here in Chicago and it's one of our favorite places to go.
I honestly love it so much seeing this videos, i hope someday i can go to japan and eat as much as i can from everything they have. A big hug from Mexico! Merry christmas yall and happy new year! (not yet, but pretty soon :P)
also small detail just if somebody knows, when they were getting outside the Caffe Superiore they waited for a couple of ladies to pass first, then they said "sumimasen" which im sure is like "excuse me" or something like that. But then he says "Arigato gozaimasu" which is thank you but in a very polite way right? Im confused because in México if that were the issue, sure the ladies would say in that same situation "disculpa" or maybe "con permiso" which mean "sorry" and "going in sorry (this one you say it a bit before crossing what you need to cross so people know you are in kind of a hurry)" Actually maybe even something like the ladies looking at the guys and saying "Gracias" or "Muchas gracias" which mean thank you and thank you very much respectively and the guys doing a hand gesture saying something like "Sure no problem" idk i started thinking about that too much as you may have noticed haha srry
Damn good music in the background. Awesome video! 👍🤙🏼
Япония - потрясающая страна. Хотел бы я там жить ))
Japan is the no.1 country for introverts. Best place to solo travel I swear.
Random question, but do they check vaccination cards in Japan like the US to dine in?
No, they don't check here.
Some great songs in the background! Kanpei!
Some of you might be glad to know there’s an all-you-can-eat version of this as well, plus conveyor belts plus ordering on the phone. Total solo experience.
Awesome
Conveyor belts? No getting up?
@@jasong428 No getting up. Even the drinks are delivered to you.
Yumyumyum that looked delicious 😊😍
There should be more solo restaurants all over the world~!