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"9. A tiny little sushi bar in some random subway station. Yet people wait in line, people book a stool at his sushi bar as much as a year in advance, a pr
by keithpeter 14y ago
"9. A tiny little sushi bar in some random subway station. Yet people wait in line, people book a stool at his sushi bar as much as a year in advance, a prices starting around $600 a head. People have been known to fly all the way from America or Europe, just to experience a 30-minute meal. In a subway station!"
Can authenticity be scaled up?
This particular establishment isn't really a humble 10 seat Tokyo sushi bar in my (perhaps odd) way of thinking, it is a very good simulation of one but wrenched from the ecology of such street food places.
So by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the practice.
- dnewcome 14y ago> by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the practice. I'm somehow (without irony) enlightened by this statement.
- HalibetLector 14y agoSo by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the practice. by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the experience for the end user, but not the practice of creating the sushi. People may reserve a stool a year in advance, but for him it's the same - people come to eat, he makes sushi.
- nandemo 14y agoFWIW: there's something fishy about the "random subway station". Jiro's place is currently located in Ginza, a rather upscale neighbourhood in Tokyo.