alt Hacker NewsMy spouse and I grew up in Japan and then moved to America. We have never stopped hating the non-illustrated menus that virtually every restaurant offers. There’s no way to know what you’re really getting. The ingredients don’t really tell you much about the dish you’re going to eat, aside from simple things like steak and similar. Sometimes, restaurants also want to be original and write some mambo jumbo in the menu as if I was interested.
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_model
I miss Japan so much.
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rayiner • yesterday at 3:33 PM
> I miss Japan so much.
I grew up in the U.S. but this is his I feel whenever I come back from a visit to Japan.
The Americn economy leans heavily on lack of price transparency and opaqueness. You're not allowed to know what you're buying until it delivers, at which point you can either accept it or complain loudly. Adding on a million junk fees and not selling things for prices as advertised is also really important. Food samples would be a huge 180 from all this, culturally speaking.