Eating Japanese Christmas Food Alone (All-you-can-eat KFC in Japan!?) 

There are 3 things that are absolute to every STJ food video: 1. Good food 2. Good atmosphere 3. Crying child

Thank you, my friend, for taking me to so many interesting places. Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Do people buy the KFC to take home or eat out? I never imagined eating mashed potatoes with chop sticks. Fun video.

I like KFC so I think that'll be my Christmas dinner since I'm alone too and don't really feel like cooking a whole meal for myself ☺️. Love your videos Solo!❤

I've always wondered why KFC is so popular in Japan for Christmas. Thanks for showing us the experience! I'm not a fan of KFC myself, but the Japanese version looks so much more appetizing than it does here in the US, even if it's still a little too much to eat haha. Happy Holidays everyone!

I live in Kentucky, and they did away with most of the all-you-can-eat buffets due to the pandemic. In an odd way, I kind of miss it. Loading up on chicken wings and biscuits was a craving I would get occasionally. Merry Christmas and hope you'll continue making great content in 2024!

This review only shows in how a food franchise can prosper in other countries outside of its original "home base". I grew up in the States loving Kentucky Fried Chicken and even got to visit the birthplace of the Colonel's cuisine when he ran a hotel in Corbin, Kentucky (there's a little museum and a KFC outlet there). While the quality of KFC varies with the franchises, and customer loyalty, in this video the loyalty is AMAZING! Wow! Great review.

I've heard for years about the whole thing with KFC on Christmas in Japan, so it's neat to see what it's about. They definitely have better food than we get at KFC in the US!

Merry Chrismas and thank you for waiting 3 hours to share the Christmas KFC tradition with us!

Our KFC is closed on Christmas here in the states. The KFC in Japan looks so much better than what we have. Enjoy!

It's amazing what one man started 50 years ago, became a tradition for a lot of Japanese people.

Wowzers - native Kentuckian here. I’m literally about an hour from Claudia (Mrs.) Sanders restaurant, but we went to an all you can eat Chinese buffet for Xmas. Isn’t the world a crazy place? Merry Christmas, Solo!

American fast food is always better in Japan!

Merry Christmas 🎄 Great Video! Funny enough I made a KFC Christmas food video too and when I saw yours, i was like oh I guess we all eat KFC for Christmas 😂at least we PovFood creators

I love this channel. I was so close to visiting Japan at one point myself. I had experience with modeling and in late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part and I can't forgive myself for wasting such an opportunity. That would've been a real dream come true to visit Japan, South Korea etc :)

🇯🇵 and 🇰🇷 KFC restaurants are so superior to 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 Still need to try 🇨🇳 or 🇭🇰 KFC tho 😅 Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸

Big fan in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee in the Southeastern U.S.A. We have KFC restaurants all over East Tennessee. Thanks for sharing this local Christmas tradition with us!! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Merry Christmas Solo and Thanks for always taking us along.. God Bless and be safe.

Merry Christmas to you and everybody 💖😊☃️🎄☃️🎄☃️🎄❣️☃️🎄☃️🎄❣️🎁🎀🎊🎊🎂

Kitsune udon is always good, but I prefer tanuki udon... for reasons! Was pretty funny that you needed that snack to quell your hunger while waiting for the KFC time! I'm a total sucker for abura-age (inarizushi is my favorite sushi!) but the crunchy "garbage" tempura bits atop tanuki udon are even more compelling for my palate!

It is so strange, for me, to learn that in Japan, during Xmas you eat at KFC...I'm italian and for us Xmas is a day in which you stay home, eating with your family only.😊

Yay! Love your work. Thanks! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays friend! Thanks for this year of videos, and here's to great success in the New Year!

That was a lot of food. I always enjoy seeing how food chains differ from country to country

You got too hungry to enjoy it. But I giggled when I saw you using chopsticks with the Chicken. KFC is "FINGER LICKING GOOD," so use your fingers, or is there a law about not using your fingers? As always, I love watching both of your channels and hope to see more of your culinary delights.

Thank you for posting this video on Christmas Day ❤

My Christmas dinner was a salami sandwich and Pringles. It's my second Christmas alone, and not happy. I hope you enjoyed your holiday.

Japan and most countries in Europe surely is different on christmas. Very few people eats American fast food on christmas eve in Europe. It´s a day of homemade food.

Merry Christmas, STJ-San! Of course it's already Boxing Day there!

Thanks for showing us the KFC Christmas celebration in Japan. I have been hearing about this for years about the connection between the Japanese and KFC during the Christmas season but this is the first time I see what it is all about. Wishing you and all here a Merry Christmas!

It's amazing that a Japanese tradition is to eat KFC for Christmas. How strange.

I don’t think they use the tag line, “finger lick in’ good” in Japan. I remember my fingers smelling like lemon after wiping down with those towelettes they used to provide. Even better cold.

I have to applaud you for having a snack before having an all-you-can-eat meal. 👏🏼

3 HOURS!!!! Bit the meal looks very good. I haven't ate KFC For years. Maybe I should go for it again. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!

Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

I eat Lee's Chicken. The Colonel & another guy, Lee, started together but Lee decided to make his own brand. His chicken has honey in the batter & tastes FAR superior to KFC. Also better cole slaw & chicken tenders.

I think in the US we have learned to avoid KFC and their buckets of grease. But it did look pretty tempting here! I live in France now, and just roasted a beautiful turkey, worthy of sampling by you! Next xMas, okay? Thanks for this and everything else you share.

Hello! NICE channel! I'm a big fan of you ＋👍🔔

Merry Christmas

I knew KFC was popular for Christmas... I've never seen an all you can eat KFC in the US, however. And I've definitely never seen rotisserie chicken at KFC. Those looked to be breast pieces at the All you can eat...

This is a very fancy KFC

OMG!!! I really loved your video and btw, that KFC buffet restaurant in Japan is the best. 😊

So, in Japan, if you're alone on Christmas, you go to KFC. Here in the USA, I'm alone and I went to an all you can eat Asian buffet. Merry Christmas, safe travels, and Love from NC, USA

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Merry christmas❤

What does every country have better KFC than the United States? Don't ever try KFC in the United States you'll be sorely disappointed.

Merry Christmas legend! Me and my Mum watch this channel when I'm up visiting her when she is in bad health. It puts us both in a good mood fantasising about all the food and enjoying seeing how the buses and trains work.

KFC has go so far downhill. That original leg looks nothing like what KFC was 10 years ago.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. 🎉🎉

Sir, you are very brave, I never wait in line at a fast food place, if I see a line, I go somewhere else...

Appetizing and soothing video as always! メリークリスマス！

my older brother and I in the U.S. ordered Japanese food for Christmas dinner lol

wish over here the offers were as good, pretty boring in this corner of the world.

Porceline plates in a fast food restaurant, wow... I like the idea, though. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, thank you for sharing.

Merry Christmas STJ - sending ❤ from the U.K.

Merry Christmas ! 🎄 Thank you for letting us travel together.

I cannot believe how much different KFC in japan is from KFC in the US. In a good way. It doesn't even look the same. Two of us tried it after we went to the Ghilbi Museum and it was fantastic.

Best of Christmas for all 🎄

People in the U.S. would NEVER tolerate a 3 hour wait for KFC! They’d go to Popeyes or El Pollo Loco . . . drive-thru. I personally would not wait that long even for all-you-can-eat, just buy a family size bucket with all the sides and go sit at home . . . We don’t get all the fancy cakes and coffee jelly here . . . no reservations for Christmas either! WTF?! 😂😘

Thanks for sharing! Hope you and family are safe. God bless, from BC Canada🙏

I’m so jealous 😅 imagine an original American restaurant that doesn’t even do this in America, 🤦🏾‍♀️. I would love to experience it. ❤❤❤ Also thank you for waiting and sharing the experience with us, I truly appreciate it,🙏🏾.

Really not fond of KFC. Or Chick-Fil-A for that matter. El Pollo Loco is better, definitely healthier. But this was a fun video, although Chris Broad's was much more fun.

Merry Christmas, thanks for the video. It appears you went for lunch and had to wait till dinner. It's crazy.

Fried Rice & Soup Curry = CURRY RICE. MERRY CHRISTMAS SOLO!🎉🛳✈️🚀🚞♨️⛩️🌇

Here, restaurants are closed on Christmas. Everything closes. I love KFC! I would go there😍😋

Mmmm just curious are the chickens only come in original flavor or do they serve other flavors as well? Where I am, we have original and spicy flavors. Currently my local KFC is offering a Double Down with Samyang in the middle. 😂

Merry Christmas

I like the sound of the Yamanote Line train leaving Akihabara station in the beginning of the video

Thank you STJ for waiting so many hours and sharing this experience with us! I hope you have had a joyful christmas with many good and tasty meals 🎅 🎄.

Japan always has the best food! In Canada that wafu chicken burger would be $8.99 alone. And the all you can eat meal would be $30, so about the same as 3,000 yen.

i tried this one year ago, ate 10 pieces with some sides for lunch buffet and was so stuffed, only 30 minute wait for me though

Yeah ❤ kfc for Christmas 🎉

The desserts must be a life saver.

I love your videos. I get to see the food, read your comments and enjoy the scenery. That’s what I love about your channel. I don’t need to see someone eat, just the food. Happy Holidays and can’t wait what you got for New Years🎉

The food is totally unattactice.

こんにちわハク。 モントリオールのクリスマスの夜です。 そして、あなたは一人でKFCを食べていますか？ ハクがお腹が空いているのは、お昼を食べていないからではなく、「KFC食べ放題をするために一日断食した！」という暗号です。 丸鶏1羽で44.00ドル、つまりカナダドルでは56.00ドル以上です。 その値段で七面鳥のディナーを丸ごと買って調理することができます。 ハク、今年のクリスマスは何を買う？今年あなたはサンタさんの「良い人」リストに載っていましたか？それとも「いたずら」リストに載っていましたか？

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, STJ.

Merry Christmas to you!

For everyone wondering why Christmas is so different in Japan, well, for them it’s just like any other normal day because all these Christmas’y things are 100% imported. The dominant religion in Japan is Shinto or Buddhism, and Christmas isn’t simply a thing they relate to from that perspective. It’s more like a romanticized part of the year they have adopted. That’s also why there is no Christmas turkey (very anglo-american only by the way), or similar stuff happening on Christmas Eve nor Christmas Day.

If I ever go to Japan, I will definitely go to an all-you-can-eat KFC.

Merry Christmas STJ!

we need a Japanese KFC in America!! yum!!😎👍

I consider KFC to be Christmas food too, but since I have it every month, it loses some specialness unlike a roasted turkey full course meal on Thanksgiving. Even so, I still had KFC for Christmas, though it let me down more than usual with a soggy piece of chicken that felt poorly chosen, poorly prepared, too greasy, given the specialness of the day, unlike their usual standard. But I won't hit them with a bad review over one moment of disappointment.

KFC? I’ll pass.

Merry Christmas to you

You know what is funny? I just got done watching a couple eating the all-you-can eat KFC. Also, 3 hour wait! That must be the best chicken ever 😋

As an old married couple with no children and our parents are gone, we go to Waffle House (Redneck hibachi) for breakfast as our Christmas tradition. With that wait I would have gone elsewhere, though. It's ok - your goal was to give us the experience and you did!

hope you have a wonderful & successful New Year, Solo! I've really enjoyed your videos this past year. I hope you have more sightseeing train trips, cause those are my favorites. Also LOVE your Mt. Fuji trip. Love, from the US

How exactly does all-you-can-eat work in Japan? It seems convenient to pay first, because you can just leave when you're done, or when your time is up, but it's the time part I don't fully get. Does the staff let you know when you have 5 minutes left, or do they know that most people will respect the time limit without reminders? I had KFC in Funabori, but of course, it wasn't all-you-can-eat. The chicken sandwich I had was excellent

STJ I love your channel. I've been watching for a few years now. I am saddened that KFC has inflitrated Japanese culture. This stuff is absolutely terrible for you. I just watched "Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zone" on Netflix. They featured Okinawa as one of the Blue Zones. It was truely amazing. I want to travel there. At the end of the series, they said, 20-years after intial filming, this blue zone has been shrinking and Okinawa now has one of the highest obestity rates in Japan. McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Coco-Cola etc are an affront on the citizens of Japan. I hope you will travel to Okinawa again one day. Those were one of my favorite videos! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I'll admit I don't eat KFC very often here in Australia but on my first trip to Japan in 2016 I tried some KFC in Kyoto and Osaka and it was bad, very greasy. So bad that on my second trip to Japan in 2023 I avoided KFC entirely. Same with the McDonald's in Japan, a disappointment. But the Burger King was delicious! Of course, the majority of our trip was eating local Japanese cuisine and it was both delicious and memorable for the right reasons.

Well my friend. In the U.S. KFC restaurants are very plentiful. I live where the very first Kentucky Fried Chicken was built and it’s not in Kentucky. I also met Colonel Sanders once when I was in Washington D.C. I love their extra crispy.

NOOOOOOOOO! At an 'all you can eat' buffet, NEVER eat carbohydrates.! They fill you up and you miss out on yhe star of the show - the protein. That said, it's another excellent video.

Chickens in Japan fear Christmas like turkeys in America fear thanksgiving… sucks to be poultry during the holiday season.

KFC chicken is always tasty. I was disappointed a little you didn’t eat the chicken with your hands. That’s why it’s called “finger lickin’ good” plus you could have eaten more chicken faster that way. But still interesting to see a kfc feast in Japan. Good job

Great video! Thanks for being patient just to share your experience! Is there only one Eat all you can Kentucky fried chicken in Tokyo city? What about being charged extra if you were not able to finish your plate? Other establishments charge extra for wasting food. Thanks!

I gotta admit, I like KFC but gave up their all-you-can-eat, Sunday buffet 20 years ago. The slaw and mash potatoes looked like here. Were the buckets for bones?

Definitely, you're not getting your money's worth, chicken will quickly fill up your stomach. Of course, this is a one time experience.