Ahh Typhoon No.23 Tokage=lizard gave us serious trouble, Now as I check this fire dept report; it says 68 found dead, 16 are still missing, and over 40000 homes were flooded. Fortunately I did not have any damage, but we will all have to bear the cost of the damage this winter.
Look! A cabbage cost 598 yen. Hmm 6 US$ or so? I remember it was 198 yen or so a few weeks ago. Usually Tonkatsu has a lot of cabbage like this. I can find good TVCM(ram) about it. This TVCM says, take fibers! But it will be hard from cabbage, so try a drink FIBE MINI!. Anyway in this dish cabbage would be the most expensive stuff, more than the fried pork .
Hmm cabbage is a luxury food now. Actually is almost same as two Big Macs (262 yen), or six regular hamburgers (84 yen). Are you surprise at how expensive cabbage is? No? Because McDonalds is cheaper in Japan? Yes yes "the most expensive town in the world" Tokyo keeps Mac price lower than any other country. You can check here only set price here, Japan McDonalds. . And I enjoy this economic site; you can see the comparison of the BigMac prices across in the world.
Ah anyway Yoshinoya beef bowl " target="_blank">Supersize me has been released in Tokyo. Of course it’s scary, but Yoshinoya beef bowl will make same result if he eats it only for month.*
Prices of just about everything usually goes up after a natural calamity like a typhoon, but usually stabilizes in a week or so of fine weather.
Please inform us if this does not happen.
Posted by: proofreading prices | Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 07:14 PM
Heheheh, Big Mac and McDonald's are the lowest price's food in Japan, but how is the quailty of this food?!?
Japanese food is surely better!
Yakitori costs only 150yen and it is oishii.
P.s. I worked in Padova's McDonald's(Italy) for 3 years and 8 months.
Posted by: Max | Monday, October 25, 2004 at 05:05 PM
About the earth quake. I've been following it in NHK and its really horrible. Not only prices of food such as vegtables have been rising like crazy but more importantly, lots of people are getting killed, injured losing their homes! Terrible!
So...Yoshinoya has released a beef bowl dish finally - good news! (Butadon is not really as tasty as gyudon anyway ;) ). The funny thing is, I have noticed that in both Hong Kong and the Philippines branches of Yoshinoya there has been no ban in beef bowls - ever. So far no one has gone crazy of madcow.
Only in Japan ;)
Posted by: Cabbie | Monday, October 25, 2004 at 07:48 AM
i am always surprised to hear about Tokyo or Japan being the most expensive city/country in the world. i really don't think so. if you know a little bit about where to go, then many things are cheaper than in many other places. I live in Holland and for example going out to eat is much more expensive here. in Japan many places have lunch set menus for maybe 750 - 1000 Yen, really great food plus maybe tea or coffee or other drinks. also, no tipping in japan.
i guess the only thing which is more expesnive is housing, fruits, alcohol. Good thing i dont drink (anymore) : ) ..... but also consider this: the level of income is relatively high and income tax is low. I only paid about 10 % when living there. granted, i didnt earn THAT MUCH but still .... all taken into consideration I find japan anything but the most expensive place in the world.
Posted by: teejay | Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 11:03 PM
that's alot of cabbage for cabbage!! glad your were not hurt by the typhoon..lizard. hmmm I will step on the next lizard I see. u__u
Posted by: robert | Saturday, October 23, 2004 at 12:53 AM