500 Yen Lunch
1,000 Yen lunches used to be the benchmark for office workers to seek out in order to budget for their daily meal. With the economic downturn and deflation, the 500 Yen lunch has now started to become popular.
There was a program on TV tonight talking about 500 Yen lunches in Shibuya, including a great pizza store, called Kinu. I might go and try it this week.
What do you normally spend on your lunch?
5 comments
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Orchid64
I cook my own - you can eat your own food for about 200-300 yen. ;-)
shibuya246
I dont think I would survive long eating my own cooking :)
Nick
Yoshinoya, Sukiya or Matsuya, and they can keep the change. :-D
Neksus
After reading this article and realted comments I need ice on my head... Compared to Italy, food in Japan is at a good price even with regular charge, at 500 yen it's bargain to me. Or it's just that conbini weeks trained my eyes and ears? (listening to the quadraphonic version of dark side of the moon by pink floyd, and it sounds great to me - this is totally unrelated but was good to share soul food too :))
HELLOKITTYLIMITED
I'm hungry now. Yum!