Yayoinoki Nishi Shinjuku

In the area and need cheap and quick meal? Yayoiken might be the place for you.
Outside you see the regular Japanese plastic food displays. And it looks pretty good. So we came in on our first night in Tokyo. Our hotel was a few establishments up and we were starving.
This was our first encounter with the ordering machine. No English explanations, just pictures and number of how much it is. We stood there a few minutes trying to figure that thing out lol. Insert money and fire away!
I got the dinner set shrimp with beef and onion. We also added chicken karaage (fried chicken) to our meal.
The dinner set came with a bowl of white rice, miso soup with clams and some kind of cold tofu. It was served on a hot plate. My meal was somewhat tasty and reminded me of a donburi. Goof ball didn’t like his pork Tonkatsu. It was mediocre almost like American Japanese.
The best out of everything we got was the ckicken karaage. ¥180 for two pieces. That’s 90 cents each. Not bad I suppose.
A must visit? Maybe not.

Nice plastic picture displays out front. Once you walk in, make sure you feed the machines money before you select your entrée. We didn’t know this until after 5 minutes. Once you select, hand the receipt and ticket to the server and enjoy.
For our first meal in Tokyo it was good but wasn’t great. We were just really hungry and need something to fill that void.
Pork tonkatsu was edible but soggy. Wasn’t horrible for $ 10.