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Restaurants in western countries in general need a reset. In asian countries (even Japan), good food is cheap enough that you can just eat out every meal.

In US, everyone should be able to (and learn to) cook because of high food price (>$10 a dish, really?!?). Eating out every meal here costs a fortune.

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Food is cheap in Asia because rice is cheap, there is no tipping, the weather is generally warm year-round and cities are dense (supporting outdoor food stalls).

Anyway, just buy yourself an electric pressure cooker - you can cook 95% of your meals at home easily and eat out for the other special occasions. It just takes additional planning to buy ingredients ahead of time in bulk, and freeze some of them.

Am I the only one to think that if a pressure cooker can cook 95% of your meals then you're a really boring eater?

I mean you can get 100% of your calorie need but you ain’t making sushi in an instant pot

Who has ever made sushi even with a full home kitchen? Cook and prep times have gone down from about 40 minutes on average to 5-10 minutes. Use that liberated time to find more interesting ingredients. With the saute mode and pressure cooking mode, about the only thing you can't do is bake stuff.

Yep and in Japanese culture, tipping is considered rude. In Taiwan, it is rude to not offer to pay first after a lengthy meal with friends or family and tipping is not commonly observed. In the US, some Chinese restaurants will force you to tip with threats of violence (my personal experience while dining with family in a Chinatown restaurant, in lower Manhattan.)

- Japanese culture's do's and don'ts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rLtlx7o1Y

What's with the nerds' fascination with Japanese culture? And those do's and don'ts are either wrong or hopelessly outdated.

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