I can go out and buy a Bahn Mi for $10AUD which includes fresh bread baked that morning, fresh vegetables and grilled chicken. It's basically impossible to match this without doing it all from scratch and baking your own bread/grilling your own chicken. At which point you have to produce like 20 in a single go to match the value of the one I can buy pre made.
The weird thing is in Melbourne, you can get top quality food for less or around equal to buying groceries. It's an actual "economy of scale", same with Tokyo. It's hard to comprehend for folks in places like the USA, where it's definitely way more expensive to eat out (and typically worse for you).
When I lived there you would be able to get a gyudon for roughly 300-400 yens
It will get you full but it’s not very nutritive
You can eat many eastern / western fast food dishes for around that price, but if you want to go to an actual sit down restaurant it’s much more expensive
I didn’t cook in Tokyo because I was on a scholarship so I didn’t care, but friends told me it would be cheaper to cook too
Gigachad|2 years ago
arroz|2 years ago
I can get the same dish in Canada for 8 AUD and can cook for less than half the money, and Canada is not a cheap country
diob|2 years ago
arroz|2 years ago
When I lived there you would be able to get a gyudon for roughly 300-400 yens
It will get you full but it’s not very nutritive
You can eat many eastern / western fast food dishes for around that price, but if you want to go to an actual sit down restaurant it’s much more expensive
I didn’t cook in Tokyo because I was on a scholarship so I didn’t care, but friends told me it would be cheaper to cook too