Yoshinoya’s beef bowl is the archetypal fast, filling, and financially friendly meal in Japan.
So it might surprise you to learn that Japan’s most popular beef usually isn’t Japanese.
Yoshinoya keeps a pot of its standard stewed beef bowl meat on a constant low boil, so that customers can be served just seconds after they sit down.
The Wagyu Gyuju, though, is cooked to order, and it was only after we requested ours that a cook started preparing it.
Gazing down at our beautiful bovine bounty, we found ourselves thinking it looked a little bit closer to sukiyaki than a simple beef bowl.