Hacker News Reader

Comment by c1sc0 | Hacker News Reader

I found just having access to high-quality ingredients at a reasonable price to be difficult in the US. More difficult than in Europe at least & waaay more difficult than in Asia (ok, one datapoint: China).

View on HN

Having lived in the US, Europe and Japan and currently living China, I'd say that yes it's very difficult in the US, but in China it's rather difficult too... For example, I find it very hard to find good quality fish to cook (most of the fish you get here have a strange test I find)...

It's easy to find organic produce here but it's not that cheap (at least compared to Europe), and I'm not exactly sure if I trust it as much as I trust organic produce in Europe or Japan...

That said from my 6 month experience living in Rochester, US is much worse... (and don't talk to me about university "food" there)

I hear this all the time but when I lived in Japan and Germany I thought the food was expensive and the produce was of poor quality. Japan had cheap stuff like noodles, but vegetables and fruits were expensive. I've found the produce in the USA incredibly cheap and good most of the time.

IMO it is way easier to eat healthy in NYC than in any other place on the planet (and i've been to several).

NYC is technically not "America" though, so i'm not sure if I've raised a point of contention or simply bragged about how my city is teh awesum.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com