Lotteria a restaurant in South Korea

Although its name may seem otherwise, Lotteria is a chain of Japanese fast food popular in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It is owned by food giant Lotte , known for its line of candy and snacks .

Its first store opened in Ueno, Tokyo, in 1972 and is considered the direct competitor of McDonald's in Asia. Even the menu is very similar. But the sets burger chain Lotteria American, is certainly his famous Shrimp Burger. It is so successful that even McDonalds has been forced to include a shrimp burger between their product offerings.

Shrimp Burger

In South Korea is more popular in Japan and has become a true giant, has 45% market share and on the heels of the very same McDonalds. In Korean restaurants mimic the Western burger, but distinctly Korean style gives it a pop.

Lotteria changed strategy and began to offer products more healthy, free of saturated fat and wrapped in green materials, becoming a reference for other fast food chains worldwide.

So if you see a local Japanese Lotteria think not to buy tickets gambling, but rather Japanese-style hamburgers.

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Yesterday, we walked through the streets of Shibuya looking for somewhere for dinner. We were more than twenty minutes walking around looking for restaurants, we saw many restaurants, but none struck us in particular, we were looking for some kind of new food to try when we suddenly saw the light at a restaurant called Kemono .
A restaurant that had decorated the facade as palm trees and an animal. At first I thought it would be a Hawaiian restaurant, but looking more closely at the menu, I realized that was highlighted on the menu was meat: alligator, deer, boar, rabbit, kangaroo, ostrich, camel and seal.

Without hesitating a moment we entered the restaurant and asked for seal meat, crocodile and ostrich. I got to talking with the cook went out asking you where all this, and I mean that is the seal meat brought from Hokkaido , kangaroo meat is imported from outside and the crocodile and ostrich meat comes from about elders who have a kind of farm not far from Tokyo.

For my taste ostrich meat was a little hard, with a taste similar to beef and lamb. Was seal meat was served raw like sashimi but I thought it was not very good, but if you like to fish, but like a fish with a taste too strong. The crocodile meat was what I liked most was to soft and taste of chicken and snake .

The other day walking to Okubo Shinjuku restaurant I found this picture of this peculiar name. Smoke Restaurant. Has anyone come?

A few weeks ago when I was in Shanghai , my friend took me to a restaurant / bar called Hooters .
Hooters is an American restaurant chain which has restaurants all over the world, although most of these in the U.S..

The restaurants are very famous for the "Hooters Girls" which are the waitresses, which have a uniform very peculiar, since they carry a very small orange elastic pants and tight and a white shirt with a neckline considerable.
In the restaurant there are only waitresses, and bartenders (although cooks etc), so as you can imagine is practically a restaurant just for kids.
At Hooters, waitresses often take few tables, and talking to all the tables you are in charge and get to flirt with the customers (or as if ligated), so that customers are happy to talk to girls beautiful as they dine and drink. Besides this every so often, hooters girls dance to enliven the atmosphere.

One thing quite characteristic of Hooters restaurants in Asia, it seems that this very dedicated to foreign customers, as all English speaking waitresses and customers are almost all foreigners.

I find it quite curious that Japan has the fame of having devoted to sex establishments of all kinds, there is no Hooters in this country. Certainly I think a Hooters in the Roppongi area triumph over enough.

Surely, many of you have been to Japan once you have eaten at some Yoshinoya , "restaurants" specialized fast food more than anything in bowl of rice with beef (gyudon), but also have other kinds of meat.
In this type of restaurant is usually eaten in the bar and the service is extremely fast (like a McDonalds) and in turn is very cheap. A bowl of gyudon can go for about 400 yen (2.5 €), but also bear in mind that like any fast food establishment, food is not exactly the most healthy out there.

In Tokyo, only stopping to eat is usually an hour, and in many cases people want to take less than an hour to finish all the jobs that are pending, if we add that people often live far from their jobs , we have a lot of "salary man" who want to eat in a restaurant as soon as possible, so at noon you can see the Yoshinoya crowded with suits.

Many people I have ever known who has come to Tokyo vacation, also have told me they have eaten almost every day at fast food places such as a Yoshinoya, Matsuya etc. Tsutaya.
For the very Yoshinoya lovers or those who do not feel like cooking, Yoshinoya also sells sachets supers with the flavors of meat from its restaurants where you just have to put the whole bag in a pan with boiling water and after five minutes we just have to take the bag and pour it over a bowl of rice.