How do you say "all you can eat" in Japanese?

Name: This Sign Means All You Can Eat. The Number Next to It Is a Countdown.
Uploaded: 2026-07-29T01:57:00Z
Duration: 54 s
Description: Learn to say 食べ放題 (tabehoudai) — all you can eat. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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This Sign Means All You Can Eat. The Number Next to It Is a Countdown.

To say all you can eat in Japanese, say 食べ放題 (tabehoudai).

A restaurant sign in Japan is promising you unlimited food. The small number beside it is the part nobody reads.

食べ放題 tabehoudai all you can eat

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In this video

食べ放題、お願いします。 tabehoudai, onegai shimasu. All you can eat, please.
ラストオーダーは何時ですか？ rasuto oodaa wa nanji desu ka? What time is last order?

Kanji in this phrase

食べ放題: たべほうだい
飲み放題: のみほうだい
何時: なんじ

Why this phrase

「食べ放題」 is all you can eat and 「飲み放題」 is all you can drink. The number printed next to them, usually 90, 100 or 120 minutes, is your seating clock, and last order lands twenty to thirty minutes before it runs out. Read all three and you can price a whole yakiniku dinner from the pavement.