Is the all-you-can-eat KFC buffet in Tokyo really as good as they say it is?

Do you know KFC has an all-you-can-eat buffet in Japan? In reality, it doesn’t simply have one, it has three, with one in Tokyo, one in Nagoya, and one in Osaka, the latter of which was the primary to open again in 2015.

Our reporter Yui Imai has been eager to go to the KFC buffet in Tokyo to search out out if it lived as much as the hype, and he or she lastly obtained an opportunity to place it to the take a look at final month, when she arrived on the restaurant at 9:55 a.m. on a weekday, 5 minutes earlier than numbered tickets have been formally issued for the day.

▼ Tickets are issued from 10 a.m. on weekdays and 9:45 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays.

Entry takes place in numerical order, so even should you line up when the ticket issuing commences, there’s an opportunity you gained’t be consuming till after noon, relying on how many individuals are forward of you. Regardless of arriving 5 minutes early, Yui was 18th in line, which exhibits simply how in style the buffet is, so that you’ll wish to hold this in thoughts when visiting.

Weekday lunchtime costs are 2,480 yen for adults (junior highschool college students and older), 1,080 yen for elementary college college students, 540 yen for youngsters underneath elementary college age, and free for youngsters 3 and underneath. Surprisingly, all-you-can-drink delicate drinks are included within the value, which makes it a good higher deal.

Fortunately, Yui didn’t have to attend and strolled proper in to the brilliant and spacious seating space.

She made positive to take a seat near the buffet, which was but to be overrun by ravenous diners.

Losing no time in grabbing a plate to start her feast, Yui made a beeline for the fried rooster items, which have been arduous to tell apart from one another with out evaluating their shapes to the indicators above the show.

After plucking out a few items of fried rooster, Yui was excited to see different acquainted objects round her, like nuggets, Colonel Crispies, and biscuits, which you’ll slather with as a lot honey maple syrup as you want.

▼ There are additionally dishes which are solely out there right here, akin to steamed potatoes, Cajun rooster, garlic rice, pasta….

▼ …and soup curry, which is designed to be eaten with the Colonel’s authentic rooster, as a dipping sauce.

On the salad bar you’ll find numerous recent greens to chop by means of all of the fats, and there’s even the chain’s particular coleslaw. Subsequent to the salad part are different choices like corn soup, onion soup, and mini croissants.

Within the sweets nook, there are mini truffles, jellies, and fruit punch, which can make you surprise should you’re nonetheless at KFC. 

In the case of buffets, Yui prefers to see them as a chance to strive all kinds of meals relatively than an excuse to overindulge, so she began conservatively.

Every part was scrumptious, however what actually stood out for Yui was the fried rooster and soup curry mixture. She determined to observe the shop’s advice to dip her rooster into the curry whereas consuming it, which was an awesome alternative because it was spicier than ordinary, including a great kick of warmth to the meat.

Yui is now not a spring rooster so on her second journey to the buffet she grabbed just a few small parts of meals, together with one final piece of fried rooster, with a cup of corn soup on the facet.

As she headed again to the buffet for dessert, Yui handed a bunch of scholars who had their plates piled excessive with fried rooster, making her lengthy for the times when she might eat with such carefree abandon. Whereas these days would possibly now be behind her, she all the time has sufficient gusto for dessert, so she adopted the workers’s advice so as to add delicate serve ice cream to her biscuit, and picked up a cup of espresso as properly.

She additionally loved some espresso jelly, lemon jelly, and fruit, which accomplished her 80-minute all-you-can-eat meal.

Yui was suitably impressed with all the pieces on provide on the buffet, deeming it to be properly well worth the hype. Nevertheless, the massive query remained..did Yui get her cash’s value from the all-you-can-eat deal? Nicely, utilizing the menu on the official KFC web site as reference, she checked the costs of all the pieces she ate and in contrast it to her meal.

・Unique rooster 3 items — 930 yen

・Colonel Crispy 1 piece — 290 yen

・Coleslaw (small) — 290 yen

・Fries (small) — 290 yen

・Biscuit — 290 yen

Based on these tough calculations, Yui’s meal got here to a complete of 2,090 yen, which fell wanting the two,480 yen she paid for it. Nevertheless, contemplating she hadn’t accounted for the soup curry, sweets and low, she figured she most likely got here out nearly even on the finish of the day.

Yui won’t have eaten a lot, however when she left the restaurant she did so and not using a bellyache, which, by her estimates, is a consequence you possibly can’t put a value on. Whether or not you select to go all out or rein it in like Yui did, you gained’t be disillusioned with a visit to the KFC buffet.

Restaurant data

KFC Restaurant / KFCレストラン

Inside Minami Machida Grandberry Park / 南町田グランベリーパーク駅

Deal with: Tokyo-to, Machida-shi, Tsuruma 3-4-1

東京都町田市鶴間3-4-1

Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. (lunch) 5 p.m.-10 p.m. (dinner; final order 8:30 p.m.)

Costs range on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and dinner occasions so verify the web site for particulars

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