Pepper Lunch  

Do-it-yourself restaurants are popular here in Japan. Pepper Lunch is no exception to this – actually, this DIY theme is the basis of the franchise.

It is a DIY affordable steak fast food which promises a dynamic and fresh culinary experience for everyone by presenting the novel concept of a sizzling steak.

I ordered a set of garlic steak and it costs around hk$80. The set comes with white rice as well. The steak was served in iron plate which is using a special electromagnetic cooker to cook. The iron plate will heat up to 260C in 70 seconds and remain hot for another 20 minutes.

This is a good experience I had! Nothing much to complain but the taste is so so esp. I saw how the staffs were handling the un-cooked steaks & food inside the workshop when they were still in frozen form etc.

What I can say is that this is nothing special to me

Taste: So So
Service: Bad to a bit rude
hygiene: So So

P.S.: rice iss not hot

Today I was around Mong Kok and wanted some hearty food. I stopped by the Food Court in Langham Place and decided to get me a sizzling hot plate from Pepper Lunch.

The appearance of the shop is quite catching, loads of people do catch there sizzling plates and it smells really fragrant.

I ordered the Double Burger and Egg plate, which comes with some beansprouts, green beans and sweet corn, as well as a bowl of white rice aside. For $54 Dollars not that bad at first. I have to say, while the fragrance of the fresh beef and pepper is really good, the burger meat won't get well done within the time the plate keeps sizzling. I left the burger aside and finished all the rest from the plate, but the burger meat never became well done...

Taste-wise the meal lifts up to my expectations, the rice is spicy with the pepper and the sauces are actually well balanced. You can choose between steak sauce, honey and chili.

Next time I will try there famous beef rice, which should be possible to cook well done, since the beef is fine sliced.

I love to go here for my lunch and dinner. The curry one tastes awesome! The sauce are just right, not too wet, not too dry! Perfect! Even though it took me more than an hour to line up. But, it is worthy!!!! I cant wait to go there again soon! My perfect restaurant!

I went to dental-check-up that day.But before that,I had planned to visit a few restaurants!First,I visited Pepper Lunch in Mongkok.That day was a weekday but during lunch hours there are always a lot of people,so I went there at around 12nn.
I ordered pepper beef rice+cheese(+$3only) and I could take the food very fast.I chose orange flavour soft drinks.

bravely tried this when I found the long queue at early dinner time

- waited too long & drown in the kitchen smoke for > 15 min
- the dish was too heavy to carry a long way back to the table
- smell good but messy to mix before eat
- too oily & rice was soaked in oil... no longer suitable to eat

price - fair
options - not much

not interested to try again

first time visit after hearing or reading about pepper lunch.

had the most expense beef steak and salmon rice. Beef was disappointing because it doesn't taste like Japanese steak and with plain white rice on the side, it does not get the hot plate taste.

for the salmon, i think the salmon is not fresh as it is too fishy even for a fish lover but the rice is much better as it is served on the hot plate with the sauce provided

Disappointed but willing to give it another try next time with the sliced beef rice.

i got the most popular item on the menu - beef rice. I like it, it has super strong taste of pepper. the quality of beef and corn are pretty good. its a little too salty tho

I don't usually eat beef, but felt like giving this a try, so I ordered the Pepper beef rice,
it was presented neatly, beef surrounding the rice, topped with an abundance of sweetcorn, black pepper generously sprinkled over.

After mixing the beef and rice together, it smelt nice, espcially after the beef had been cooked.
The rice was not too soft and not too hard, and tasted just right after adding soya sauce to it.