/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15808073]

Why is ramen in the US always served at high end restaurants and costs like $15+?
In Japan it's meant to be a cheap casual food like burgers

[Anonymous No.15808080]

>>15808073
profit

[Anonymous No.15808112]

>>15808073
i live in a small city, and the best ramen shops sell a basic tonkatsu for $7.

[Anonymous No.15808146]

>>15808073
ramen is weeb cringe and you can overcharge weebs for anything even remotely japan-related

[Anonymous No.15808150]

The best ramen place in Vegas sells Tonkotsu bowl for $9. For any Vegasfag it's Fukumimi Ramen on Trop&Eastern

[Anonymous No.15808156]

>>15808073
rip off gaijin who still see Japan as exotic and high class. Also profit, westerners won't really complain cause they think it's normal.

[Anonymous No.15808229]

>>15808073
Burgers cost $15+ in the west too you know.
I'm surprised to hear that though, in the UK while ramen is always priced at normal restaurant prices (interestingly, that's identical to what you called "high end" restaurant prices), lamian is always like £5 max for a bowl.

[Anonymous No.15808260]

>>15808150
koreans look so much better

[Anonymous No.15808267]

>>15808150
b00ba

[Anonymous No.15808315]

>>15808073
cheap ramen is just chinese noodles.

[Anonymous No.15809124]

>>15808073
It's a good way to make something tasty out of scraps. That's how Ramen became so popular in poor-ass post-WWII in Japan.

High end restaurants, generally, would spend the money and effort to get good ingredients. That, in turn, means you have lots of relatively valuable food scraps. IF you can turn those scraps into something people will buy w/o much extra resources and effort, why wouldn't you?

Stock made with scraps is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Restaurants can and already use them for SOUP, gravy, sauce, etc. Add noodles and a few extra seasonings/garnishes and BAM. Easy money from weebs and home-sick asians.

The other, important, bit of economics to consider is the reality of supply/demand. Compared to nip-land, the US has a much smaller percentage of its population that would regularly go out for ramen. McD's can get away with 50cent cheeseburgers in some states because they are still able to keep things profitable because of the high volume of product they can sell. This is also heavily influenced by supply chains and distribution costs (one of the main reasons why places like In-n-Out aren't in Alaska, etc.)

[Anonymous No.15810228]

>>15809124
this pasta is peak cringy

[Anonymous No.15810348]

It’s not filled with corn syrup (usually), so they can’t get it subsidised by the FDA.

[Anonymous No.15810357]

because people buy it

[Anonymous No.15810380]

>>15808073
Is it not both? A quality US burger will cost you 10-12+. Ramen is around 8-10 and goes up depending on what gets added. Only difference is we usually don't have fast food places centered around it.

[Anonymous No.15810757]

>>15808080
God damn I really hate people. This is often the answer to several issues. Lobster where trash only prisoners and the poor act then some cock sucker Andy warhol of that era shows up and changes it to the rich. Profit, eat the rich /ck/.

[Anonymous No.15810797]

>>15808073
Just buy some packets, add the stuff you like and voila! Why the fuck do you guys complain about prices of stuff that is so easy and cheap to do at home.

[Anonymous No.15811115]

>>15808229
>he buys burgers for 15 dollars

[Anonymous No.15811136]

>>15808260
>Koreans that get surgery look so much better

Outside of porn plastic surgery is very rare in Japan, whereas in Korea its a lunch time procedure to get your eyes done to look more Japanese

[Anonymous No.15811140]

>>15811115
That's about what they cost at any restaurant.

[Anonymous No.15811154]

japanese ingredients cost more to acquire in the US than japan. not to mention "high class" restaurants usually have a consistent range of prices on entrees.

[Anonymous No.15811177]

>>15811154
>We have a consistent price so charging $15 for something that cost $2 to make is totally normal

[Anonymous No.15811189]

>>15811177
that's just how it works

[Anonymous No.15811307]

>>15811189
>That's just how it works
Because retards keep paying these prices

[Anonymous No.15811318]

it is due to the economics that there is more demand for ramen in japan and less travel time between food sources and restaurants and more industries specialize and are efficient in only supplying ramen shops due to the scale of how much they are making on a daily basis. there is less wait time of a bowl of ramen to a customer so you can make bigger batches of ramen and get through more ingredients daily so you are actually making more money through a cheaper bowl of ramen through the volume at which you sell it at. and it needs to cost higher in the us because it lacks all of the above and ramen waits longer before finding a customer in the us and needs to cost more consequently because of that

[Anonymous No.15811373]

>>15808150
I will try this t. Vegasfag

[Anonymous No.15811464]

>>15811307
its a little more complicated than that cleetus

[Anonymous No.15811479]

>>15808073
same reason why pizza is $30 minimum there.

[Anonymous No.15811482]

>>15808150
thanks, fellow Vegasfag

[Anonymous No.15811592]

>>15808150
>fellow vegaschad giving good suggestions

[Anonymous No.15812370]

>>15811479
Japanese pizza is getting cheaper and cheaper these days.
Pizza Hut
Size is 12.2 inches.
Delivery $19.51
Take-out $13.94

[Anonymous No.15812372]

>>15812370
Jeez

[Anonymous No.15812403]

>>15812372
I can get a freshly made pizza at an Italian restaurant for $7.37.
A fresh pizza from a bakery is about $4.61.
They started lowering the prices when no one was buying from Pizza Hut anymore.

[Anonymous No.15813996]

>>15808073
I bet burgers are expensive in japan. Niche food will always be pricey

[Anonymous No.15814053]

>>15808260
15% of Korean women have undergone plastic surgery.
You are attracted to a surgeon's knife.