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> Also, don't be the guy who goes in on a mission to dunk on the expensive restaurant. Don't burst your bubble, right? Jay Rayner would like a word :-) The we
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Also, don't be the guy who goes in on a mission to dunk on the expensive restaurant.
Don't burst your bubble, right? Jay Rayner would like a word :-)
The west's fetishisation of fine dining is so far away from the Japanese model that it allows for this idea that the most expensive thing can still be unsatisfying, laughable or misleading, because it's "in its own category".
It is a trope to say "people starve elsewhere in the world" but it is also a truism. If expensive food is not objectively better food, reject it, and seek better food that isn't expensive.
- hedora 5y agoHeh. Go watch the Japanese Iron Chef episode with the guy from SF. Japanese gourmets definitely do the "ridiculously expensive, questionable choice" thing too. The beef episode made me want to cry.