I was not planning on getting gyudon — a Japanese dish in which features a tasty mix of tender beef and onions served on top of rice — at the Tsukiji outer market, which is largely known for its abundance of fresh seafood. But then I saw an impressively long line and instantly knew that my plans had just changed.
(I just feel like if a restaurant is popular enough to generate a line-up, then its food has to at least be pretty good.)
And when I say that the line was impressively long, I mean it. The whole market was so busy that it was basically impossible to take a photo that conveys how long the line was, but it was long. I started lining up at around 8:20am (which is an absolutely insane time to find a massive line-up for a bowl of beef and onions), and I wasn’t sitting in front of my bowl until 9:30.
You can get your bowl topped with a runny egg, which is something you should definitely do; it complements the beef perfectly.
It’s a great dish. It’s extremely flavourful, and the beef and the onions are both incredibly tender. Was it worth the epic line-up? Probably not; there are plenty of delicious bowls of gyudon to be had in Tokyo that don’t require you to stand around for an hour before you start eating, and nothing about this particular one was mind-blowing enough to justify that. But it’s delicious regardless.
Location: 4 Chome-9-12 Tsukiji, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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