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KFC set to open all-you-can eat buffet restaurant in Japan

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By Casey Baseel, RocketNews24

If you’re walking into a branch of KFC, it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re there to eat fried chicken. You could even argue that the whole process of ordering is partially redundant, since the question isn’t whether you want some of the Colonel’s deep-fried bird, but simply how much.

And if your answer to that query is “All of it,” then head on over to Osaka, where the first all-you-can-eat Kentucky Fried Chicken buffet is about to open.

Actually, KFC and Osaka go way back. Not only is the local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, said to be cursed following some of its rowdy fans tossing a statue of Colonel Sanders into a river 30 years ago (which was also the last time the Tigers won the Japan Series), in 1970 Osaka hosted the Japan World Exposition. Inside the event’s United States pavilion was a Kentucky Fried Chicken trial restaurant, the very first to operate in Japan.

45 years later, the Expo City entertainment complex is set to open in the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park, and from November 19 one of its tenants will be a buffet-style KFC restaurant.

For 90 minutes, diners will be able to enjoy all the Colonel’s original recipe chicken they can eat, along with roughly 60 other menu items. In addition to standards such as fresh-baked biscuits and coleslaw, the restaurant will also serve rotisserie chicken, soup, salad, and macaroni and cheese made according to a recipe from Colonel Sanders himself. For dessert, there will be a selection of fruit, cake, and other sweets.

KFC is also promising an atmosphere of Southern hospitality, which in addition to piles of fried chicken means a woody interior and Colonel Sander’s actual suit on display, since the late chicken mogul’s iconic duds are now in Japan.

Adult prices range from 1,880 to 2,480 yen, with weekday afternoons being the lowest-price dining time and weekend evenings the highest. Children between the ages of 4 and 12 eat for reduced prices, and those under 4 dine for free, which should free up some of your budget for when your kids ask you to take them to the Pokéemon Gym that’s also in Expo City.

Restaurant information Kentucky Fried Chicken Lalaport Expo City /ケンタッキーフライドチキン ららぽーとEXPOCITY店 Address: Osaka-fu, Suitashi-shi, Senribanpaku Kouen 2-1 大阪府吹田市千里万博公園2-1 Open 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Source: IT Media

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all you can eat KFC??... sounds pretty fowl to me....

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Wish they had this when I still lived in Japan. Wish they'd bring this overseas too!

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all you can eat KFC??... requires some pretty major nuggets.

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http://www.kfc.com/nutrition/full-nutrition-guide

Check it out...two pieces of chicken, a small side of mac and cheese, and one biscuit and you're already over the recommended daily allowance of sodium for a healthy young adult, and approaching twice the daily limit for ojisans like me who should watch their BP.

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Well... KCF Japan already operates "All-you-can eat buffet restaurants" in Northern Osaka, actually: http://www.kfc.co.jp/search/detail/?shop_id=225

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The new Fried Salmon Sandwich was awful. The photo of it looks great but when you get it it is tiny and tasteless.

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The new Fried Salmon Sandwich was awful.

It was awful.

As far as all you can eat KFC, why bother. Aren't there all you can eat pizza places featuring fried chicken, mojo potatoes, pasta and salad bars/drink bars anymore?

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Personally, I'd rather get a smaller quantity of quality food than all-you-can-eat low-quality food.

I used to be the other way around though. I'm not sure if it's old age, or that I've been in Japan a long time.

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I love me some KFC, but I don't get how people can do the all-you-can-eat thing there. Much more than two pieces and a side and I'm stuffed to the gills.

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I cannot imagine ever wanting to spend 2,480 yen in KFC.

You can get a decent quality meal for that in most of Japan.

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I remember the first and last time I ever ate KFC. It was when I was about 7 or 8 and it was the first KFC to open in Auckland, New Zealand.

My family and I contracted food poisoning from it and were sick for 3 to 4 days.

Now I get nauseated just at the smell of it.

Anyway - with Japan's amazing food, why would anyone go for this (frankly) awful stuff?

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All you can eat, just like North America! What a great way to increase the population of bipedal megafauna, just like North America!

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KFC is J-U-N-K food. If you have any sense you will stay away from it.

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