All you can eat restaurants are popular in Japan. They are known as 'tabehoudai' or
'baikingu' (Viking). Yesterday a few of us went to a pizza tabehoudai restaurant near to
the university campus for lunch. We got the cheapest option, which was 1000 yen, or
~£8.
For this, we got to choose a pasta dish to have as a main. Some dishes had a small
surcharge (50-100 yen) on top if they had any expensive ingredients in. I went for
carbonara which was no extra charge. On top of this, they bring round pizzas every few
minutes, offering you a slice. And this repeats until you get full or they close.
The pizza options varied from the usual (margarita, pepperoni) to the different (tuna and
pesto) to the strange but still delicious (cheese and curry).
If you pay for a slightly more expensive menu you can have a drink and dessert on top, but
after having a full plate of pasta and then many slices of pizza on top, this really wasn't
necessary ^_^
This particular restaurant also had a mix of traditional and modern seating. We were put in
a more traditional booth, where you take off your shoes and climb into a raised area and
sit on little cushions.
They also had honey to put on your pizza which I didn't try, but the Japanese women sitting next to us were quite enthusiastically using it...
Overall a nice lunch and a welcome escape from the miserable weather that day ^_^
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