Obentoyasan — Restaurant in New York

My workplace is near by so I come to this place buying lunch very often when I don’t wanna cook. But here is why my colleagues and I all stop buying from this place: Portion Size varies depending on who make your order!!!! If you’re lucky enough that your order is prepared by the lady who wear glasses with very short hair, then you’ll like this place. But if it’s other people who make your onigiri, you’ll end up either not getting enough filling of the protein, or just getting half of the size than the normal onigiri you can get. Like you can see from the review here. This is the most affordable and decent place in this Japanese food court. But you can definitely find other places with better quality and authentic experience. I don’t recommend this place. It’s okay if you just wanna try the first time....

Obentoyasan is one of the various food stalls in the food hall of Japan Village. They serve large handmade onigiri, ready-to-eat bento boxes, and sushi. Not only that, but they also offer miso soup and sake cups.

Since the ready-to-eat bento boxes are kept refrigerated, they are chilled/cold upon purchase. The bento boxes can be saved and taken home, or eaten in the food hall. If you plan on eating them in the food hall, you may use the microwave to heat them up. The staff members were kind enough to instruct me on it: remove the plastic lid and microwave them for three minutes. Please get here early as seats are limited! Hope you enjoy...

Today, I stopped by Japan Village to shop around and eat lunch with friends. After much browsing in the Food Hall, I bought a chicken yakitori skewer bento set only to find out 90% of the food was definitely past its prime based on taste and slimy texture (in regards to the cabbage, carrot, zucchini, and eggplant side). I thought the hijiki seaweed salad was fine so I finished that side with the rice. Later that night, I woke up from sleeping with food borne illness and regretted not speaking with the manager or any employee about the bento. Overall, I will be less likely to trust the bento sets going forward. Please be cautious if you...