Beef-bowl crisis update: Adding insult to injury

Latest installments in the beef bowl crisis:

Yoshinoya, biggest of the beef bowl boys, is having its sense of humour tested. One of its alternatives to beef, the yakitori (grilled chicken) bowl, is to meet with an untimely demise, disappearing from the menu in early March as chicken stocks run out. Yoshinoya had sourced all of its chicken from Thailand and China, which are now subject to an import ban due to the bird flu outbreaks. The company is currently considering introducing further new products; we suggest something vegetable-based.

Elsewhere, the smallest of Japan's four chains, Kobe Lamptei, is to keep gyudon on the menu using Australian beef.

[Yoshinoya story via today's asahi.com (Japanese)]