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That bento looks amazing for 5 dollars! It really can't be that cheap and look this good.
On the up side, airport pricing doesn't seem so shocking anymore.
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On the bright side, at least I can buy fruit without being super wealthy. What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts, I guess.
There is expensive designer fruit in Japan(I guess that’s a good way to describe it), but there is also regular fruit that is around the same price as in the US.
You can get sushi that's actually good for 80% cheaper than the "California rolls with crap on them" you'll find in most of the USA, though, so it all evens out IMO
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There is expensive designer fruit in Japan(I guess that’s a good way to describe it), but there is also regular fruit that is around the same price as in the US.
Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities You can get sushi that's actually good for 80% cheaper than the "California rolls with crap on them" you'll find in most of the USA, though, so it all evens out IMO
It's also 2-3x the quality and taste. Strawberries in the US have no taste at all; in Japan, they're amazing.
That bento looks amazing for 5 dollars! It really can't be that cheap and look this good.
In my experience the cheapest convenience store bentos in japan are roughly equivalent to slightly better than fast food Japanese in California. And usually the price is much different too. Like 500 yen, which in America might be $4.50 or so, but the equivalent in America (or California at least) would cost maybe 3x as much. I joke about it with a Japanese friend I made on one of my trips. There's a Japanese family r…
It's not just Japan; every developed nation outside North America has much more reasonable prices for eating out.
Things have improved in my country since Christianity went out the window and supermarkets were allowed to open on Sunday/Christmas but Japan's 24/7 economy is out of this world! "Money never sleeps pal"
> Japanese speakers have a penchant for brevity. Long words get shortened to 3 or 4 syllables. True > 7-Eleven (“sebun irebun”) becomes “sebu-ire”. I don’t think so. We, in most cases, use “seven (se-bu-nn)”instead.
If you read Japanese: https://ima.goo.ne.jp/column/article/2059.html
tl;dr: It's shortened differently in different parts of Japan. Sebun in Kanto, Sebu-ire in Kansai.
Hilariously, there is apparently a small number of people who call it "BunBun"
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Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities You can get sushi that's actually good for 80% cheaper than the "California rolls with crap on them" you'll find in most of the USA, though, so it all evens out IMO
>Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities It's also 2-3x the quality and taste. Strawberries in the US have no taste at all; in Japan, they're amazing.
You can come close to Japanese fruit quality just buying organic in the US.
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>Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities It's also 2-3x the quality and taste. Strawberries in the US have no taste at all; in Japan, they're amazing.
That's more a product of our tolerance for GMOed-to-hell bullshit. Fruit isn't what it used to be in the US-- it seems optimized for water retention these days. The standard watermelon here now tastes like a wet sponge. It didn't used to. You can come close to Japanese fruit quality just buying organic in the US.
Sure, and then the cost for American fruit looks very similar to that "expensive" Japanese fruit.
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In my experience the cheapest convenience store bentos in japan are roughly equivalent to slightly better than fast food Japanese in California. And usually the price is much different too. Like 500 yen, which in America might be $4.50 or so, but the equivalent in America (or California at least) would cost maybe 3x as much. I joke about it with a Japanese friend I made on one of my trips. There's a Japanese family r…
Restaurant food in America is just hideously expensive, once you factor in the 20% tip that's expected. Even before tip it's very expensive. It's not just Japan; every developed nation outside North America has much more reasonable prices for eating out.