lol yea i guess thats true. its hillerious how much of a price hike food gets because its foreighn even if the food is made and sorced like any other food you eat. go to a tapas resterant in the uk it will cost you £30 for the equivalent of 6 eros of tapas. how people pay that baffles me.
Supply and demand. If there's only a few places that make it, they can charge more because there's not much competition or the companies are in on it.
Place near me sells super basic Filipino food for a big markup. Some variants of the longsilog breakfast but just changing the protein and they're quite expensive.
People still go there because there's no competition. Only option is to drive to another place really far away.
Could be. I know that Indonesian food in my country is really not the same as it is in Indonesia itself. Same with Chinese food. Still tastes great though.
Haven’t seen any “korean” food pop up around me so honestly no clue what their cuisine is. I do use gochujang a lot in my own cooking though
Also because there's no solid supply chain around it to make it cheaper by volume. If you're a sushi restaurant in the Congo, it's probably going to cost a lot to get the same supplies compared to a sushi joint in Belgium or wherever, where there are probably a thousand other sushi joints.
Have a friend who never messages or calls. We only do friend things when we meet in person. We've gone months without contact before meeting on random days to continue friend-ing. So this friend goes to London. He calls me in the middle of the night(my time) to cry about how much he had to pay for, in his words, piece of shit shawarma. Dude was furious. He called UK cuisine 'rubber' and warned me to never come here. He proceeded to call every other week to complain about everything UK food. I literally had to google search 'good place to eat in London' for him. He was so distraught with the experience we became closer friends.
Sourcing is an important factor. Everything from the fish to the labor to the rent of facilities and permitting is more expensive in the United States.
For sushi it is not just that it is foreign, for fresh sushi grade fish the logistics is complicated and Japan does it at scale that makes it more affordable.
There's also just general cost of living differences. Median household income in Spain is like 30k euro or like $35k. It's $80k in the US. A lot of things are just more expensive in the US and people make a lot more. The restaurant's rent, payroll, etc is all higher in the US, for example, so they are going to charge more. That's one reason it's so nice to travel to poor European countries - everything is so damn cheap for people making US wages.
Luckily my town has a surprisingly authentic Japanese place with reasonable prices for everything. Too bad their ours are insane and their only open a total of like 12 hours a week.
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u/Deep-Neck 5d ago
Nobody willing to sell it for 9. None that anyone wants evidently.