A note on the words: pastrami is beef brisket cured in brine, coated in spice and smoked, then steamed and sliced thin. Sauerkraut is cabbage fermented in salt until sour. Thousand Island dressing is mayonnaise mixed with ketchup and chopped pickle. Akasaka is a business and dining quarter in central Tokyo. The Las Vegas Strip is the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard the big hotels stand on. Hangover Meshi is the name of this blog, and meshi means a meal.
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Earl of Sandwich Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Tabelog (in Japanese) — Tabelog has no English pages for restaurants outside Japan, so this listing is in Japanese. Opening hours and payment details are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. Right, for a little while from here the color of these posts changes: an overseas run! Work took me to Las Vegas, in America. Fifteen hours or so of travel plus the time difference had left me completely wrung out. I landed, and on the way to check in and drop off my bags I stopped at a sandwich shop inside “Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.” The first place I ate at after setting foot in America, ha.
It is a restaurant inside a hotel, but it sits right in the middle of the casino.
Everyone next to you is deep into the slot machines, and you eat your fast food watching them.
Rather good, is it not.
I suppose you get used to it before long.
There is a good range on the menu, but a lot of it is burgers and things like pastrami.
Reckoning a dollar at 155 yen, the prices are quite frightening…
There was a pastrami carrying the EARL name, so I decided to order that.
Available for a LIMITED TIME!!! I am weak to that sort of thing, ha.
Using my shaky English, I ordered the EARL’S PASTRAMI and a Bottled Water!
That wrapper, ha ha ha.
Or rather — is this more of a British shop than an American one?
In the photo the filling looked out of control, but it is not really like that.
Well, if that much really were in there I probably could not finish it, so you could say this is about right. And it is nice that they cut it for you. Easy to eat.
Peeling the bread open, this is what it looks like.
The combination of the rich Thousand Island dressing, pastrami and sauerkraut — delicious!
The bread is toasted a little, and that crispness together with the flavor of the cheese gives it a junk-food feel, but it is honestly good and it honestly fills you up. You can eat it one-handed, so it might be perfect for eating while you play the casino. Good stuff.
As the first place I ate at in the United States, I took on a fast-food shop, and it turns out English manages well enough (well, it was hardly a complicated order, ha). Also, contactless card payment has spread a long way here and works everywhere, which is convenient. Choosing the tip yourself when you put the card through was a new experience, though. (Not that a fast-food shop feels like a place for tipping, but when it comes up you can just pick 0!)
And then, after I got home, I noticed that this shop is in Akasaka too, ha.
Japan has everything, ha.
Earl of Sandwich Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino (Sandwiches / Las Vegas Strip)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.3
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
