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Let’s face it: delicious as they may be, beef bowls are not exactly the healthiest meal. Juicy, meaty goodness slow-cooked in a savory-sweet broth and served over rice, often topped with delicious things like cheese or even yakisoba…well, that’s a high calorie count if we’ve ever seen one. But Japanese beef bowl chain restaurant Matsuya is making sure that even health-conscious individuals can enjoy their food by allowing their customers to choose to replace their rice with a salad.
The option is called “low-carb change” (ローカボチェンジ), and applies to gyudon beef bowls, teishoku (set meals), curries, and bento boxes (so long as they have the regular size rice). You can do it for takeout orders as well as dine-in, so any time you order from Matsuya, you can choose to go low-carb.
By choosing the low-carb change, the salad you get has 95 percent fewer carbohydrates than the rice it replaces, and 93 fewer calories too, so for the health-conscious, this is an excellent option.
You might be wondering if, by replacing the rice with salad, the Matsuya staff ends up turning your beef rice bowl into a beef salad, but the answer is no. They put the vegetables on the side, so you get a bowl of beef, a bowl of salad, and a bowl of miso soup. And in the case of teishoku set meals, since they already come with a salad if, you chose to do the low-carb change you’ll get an extra salad, so you can get not one, but two helpings of delicious veggies.
The best part about it is that the low-carb change is a free option. Oftentimes such substitutions cost a little money, as it did when they offered customers the choice to exchange their rice for tofu. But not so with this deal–you can cut the calories and the carbs at no cost to yourself, so you don’t have to use the cost as an excuse to eat healthily.
As big beef bowl fans we can’t imagine ever eating a beef bowl without rice, but it seems like an easy and healthy switch to make, so we might try it out on days when we feel like we’ve been eating too much ice cream, bread, and sweets.
Source: PR Times
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factchecker
Good idea rice is too starchy.
Though I refuse to use their stores where the staff don't bring the food out to you. Very stingy, the customer might as well go to the kitchen and cook it themselves.
Pukey2
Anyone who really is health-conscious wouldn't be going to this place in the first place.
RareReason
You must be absolutely livid when visiting a yakiniku restaurant
kohakuebisu
This would be more appealing if the salad wasn't 80% shredded cabbage.
oyatoi
Nailed it there kohakuebisu. Ditto those overpriced supermarket salad packs too.
Jonathan Prin
Make your own salad indeed, not cabbage.
It looks like this article is an ad.
Why ever on Earth would they charge for something needing no cooking like a "salad" bowl ?
Saving money must be an art.
shogun36
So in other words, options? That is an amazing feat........in Japan.
The rest of the world, pretty standard where they have plate lunches / bento style type fast food meals.
starpunk
Beef is good. It goes with almost anything and I like it.
Besides, eating should be a pleasure, fun. Never a problem. You only live once, Mr. Bond.
Arrrgh-Type
A lot of complaints on this topic, but it's always good to have more options. I don't see a problem here.