Are there Mongolian restaurant same style as the ones in the states?

Question

At Mongolian restaurants in the states, you pick vegetables and meat and sauce, and let chef fried them...

Most of the restaurants do "eat-as-much-as-you-want" style...

Are there this kind of Mongolian restaurants in Japan??

Answer 1

In a Japanese Mongolian restaurant you cook the food yourself. It's usually referred to as "Ghengis Khan" style.

Answer 2

When I was in Japan, I looked for American style Mongolian restaurants too, but couldn't find it.

I guess that kind of style is not popular in Japan...

Answer 3

Yes, there are so many "eatーasーmuchーasーyouーwant" style in Japan.

Answer 4

The restaurant you are describing sounds similar to yakiniku. In a yakiniku restaurant you order whatever meat and vegetables you want and you cook it yourself on a little grill in the middle of the table. There's a  hole in the middle of the table and the grill is down in there. I think this kind of place is super fun, but of course in the US there'd never be this kind of place--too many idiots would burn themselves and try to sue the restaurant. One thing about yakiniku though, it is not cheap. All those little platters can add up in a hurry. I personally think $30+ a person is a little high, maybe you don't.

And when you said "Mongolian restaurant" the first thing I thought of was shabu-shabu, which is popular in Japan but originated in Mongolia. (It's also v popular in China.) At a shabu-shabu restaurant you also cook the food yourself, but it is boiled in an odd contraption that has a tall chimney in the middle. Usually the meat of choice is very thin slices of lamb. These restaurants are a bit harder to find than yakiniku, but every town has at least one, I'm sure.  

Answer 5

In Japan, Korean BBQ is much more popular.

All you can eat buffet style is everywhere but not popular about American Mongolian restaurant there.

It is because Japanese don't have any special feeling or particular interest on the name of Mongolian.

They prefer, if Asian food for the system by fixed price, Chinese or Korean or Thai or Vietnamese or Indian food for ethnic curiosity to have delicious and satisfactory meal rather than Mongolian food once if they pay same money.

Then lower demand makes fewer restaurants as a result there.