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my bombass lunch today for ¥616 (~US$3.94)
Well, university coop cafes are always gonna be comparatively cheap, but yeah, Japan's prepared food is generally cheap on a different level. Stuff in grocery stores for one thing, but I still can't quite figure out how sukiya or yoshinoya puts a beef set meal in front of you in 5 mins for less than 1000 yen
Impressive, you figured out it was a university coop cafe. Maybe I should have edited out the text to avoid doxxing myself haha.
True, the coops are one of the cheapest options. I also eat quite often at one of the beef set meal chains (one of sukiya, yoshinoya, or matsuya). Solid choice too.
Japan is a cheat code for healthy cheap meals.
I wish I could move to Japan…
If you have a college degree it's pretty easy to move to Japan. You just have to enjoy working for peanuts and singing songs to classes of little kids.
Looks very soupy.
It's actually rice topped with an omelette, and the with some sauce thing made thick with potato starch. It's called tenshinhan, which is a Japanese reimagination of the food they have in Tianjin, China. As far as I know this dish is just named after that city in China, but it's not actually from there.
Yeah so like I said, soup.
In the west this was first invented by Baron von Suppenstein, who first put proteins and starches into bowls of warm water. Truly a revolutionary. Sadly he died of dysentery at an early age.
Hmm I see. Interesting.
Well spotted
3.94? lies /s, at least $30 USD here
That's not gonna work in the US.