Chinese Tourists Find Japanese Store Name Strange: ‘Yoroya Store’ Isn't a Bird Food Shop

While traveling in Japan, you often see interesting shops like Yoroya, whose name might make you think it's a convenience store or a small grocery. If some clueless tourists don't pay attention to the characters, they might mistakenly think it's a bird food store, mistakenly believing it's a small shop selling bird food. If you think that, you're wrong and you might miss a culinary delight, and you'll feel very awkward upon entering.

Yoroya is a Japanese restaurant with a long history. The brand or its flagship store started business in 1980 and now has branches in many places in Tokyo and Osaka. Each shop has a different decoration. I visited the one in the Harajuku district, where you can go shopping and then eat. I wouldn't call it a restaurant, I would say it's more like a casual izakaya with open space.

There are many Japanese people sitting at the tables, ordering barbecues and beer, even if it's just two friends dining like this. Look, the two ladies next to me ordered two beers and some grilled meat first. As for me, who has been hungry for half the day, I still ordered the rice from the store. The store will give all the guests a secret 'appetizer' first, which contains seaweed and eggs, which is very refreshing, but this is not free, about 450 yen.