Midnight In Japan, you can get a hot beef bowl at 2 AM.
For about $4.
You walk into a Sukiya, a Yoshinoya, a Matsuya.
Open 24 hours.
Always glowing yellow on a quiet street.
You order at a screen
or you say “gyudon.”
Two minutes later
a steaming bowl of thin-sliced beef
over rice
slides onto the counter in front of you.
Slightly sweet.
Slightly savory.
A raw egg if you want it.
Pickled ginger free on the table.
You eat in 10 minutes.
You pay in 30 seconds.
You walk out into the night.
This food has fed taxi drivers,
salarymen,
broke students,
travelers with jet lag,
and grandmothers in a hurry
for over 120 years.
A meal designed to never let anyone down.
At any hour.
At any wallet.
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