Japan is a highly developed country, after more than a hundred years of modernization, the Japanese people's character has changed dramatically, but also don't be Japanese thinking and spirituality, the spirit of contract is very strong, so it is difficult to rip off the phenomenon.

Will there be rip-offs when eating in Japan?

I don't think there will be. Most of the Japanese restaurants have marked prices, and the price of the same thing, although it may be different from store to store, is not that much different, only a difference of a few hundred yen at the most. Some restaurants will also put models of the same thing as the food in front of the store with the price written on them.

Some also have menus at the entrance. You can read the menu before you go in. You can also look at the modeled dishes that look just like the dishes that are made and see how much they cost. If you think the prices are expensive.

No dishes you want to eat. You can not have to go in. Avoid the embarrassment of entering a restaurant, only to realize that there is no dish you want to eat, and you want to go out but are embarrassed to go out.

Japan's dining consumption. In my opinion compared to the domestic to be considered reasonable. Ordinary office workers, a month's salary is an average of about 250,000 yen. The Japanese side of the dining establishments to the meal time are very crowded, usually need to queue. Why? Because spending money outside really isn't expensive.

Early in the convenience store inside to buy rice balls, coffee to solve. Inside the convenience store things are also clearly marked. Most restaurants open at 11 a.m. Go to one of the popular eateries: Hidakaya, Matsuya, Yoshinoya, or one of the ramen stores that line the streets.

A meal will probably cost you between 500 yen and 1,000 yen. That's about even with the Tokyo Metropolitan Times (Tokyo Metropolitan Times averages 1,000 yen).

In this situation, almost everyone is free to eat out. There is also a lot of competition in the restaurant industry. Many stores give out coupons, or points rolls to customers to attract repeat business.

I remember a chain ramen restaurant I worked at as a student. There was a ramen event. A bowl of ramen normally cost 600 yen. The half-price event actually attracted a very large line of Japanese people from the front of the store to the other side of the street.

Now coupled with the consumption tax rose to eight percent, next year the food industry may rise to 10 percent, once the consumption tax rose, the store will be posted at the entrance of a notice, stating that because of the consumption tax rose, the price may become more expensive notice. I'm afraid that because the price is too expensive the customer base will decrease, not to mention the rip-offs.

There is also a very important reason, in fact, because the Japanese people do not have a lot of pocket money, the price of 10 yen, 50 yen change will also weigh. So there are a lot of stores that would have kept their prices the same for years if it weren't for the consumption tax hike.

So there should be very little rip-offs in Japanese stores.

But seriously, I've traveled to Japan 2 times, and there is really no rip-off for foreigners in Japan. Japan is not like the Southeast Asian countries, where there is a very obvious phenomenon: the same thing is the same for the nationals and foreigners are two prices, and rip-off of foreigners is very serious.

Eating in Japan is more expensive, eat an ordinary lunch set meal is probably more than 1500 yen (equivalent to about 100 yuan), go to the restaurant in the evening if you order a meal, probably per capita are more than 300 yuan.

In terms of ingredients, fish is the most common, hot stewed food is rare, grilled chicken grilled meat is also common, vegetables are kimchi, accompanied by cold dishes are mainly.

But Japanese menus are clearly marked, seafood will be the weight, size, cooking method to do the labeling, and the wait staff will not give you to promote expensive and large, if you order more, he will also suggest that you order less, can not eat it all.

In addition to the marked price, the Japanese restaurant food, can be said to be absolutely fresh, which is quite rare, the Japanese chef treats each dish, treat it as their own work, to speak of perfection, rather than simply to sell to make money.

In Japan, it's almost impossible to get cheated if you've eaten unclean food, or if you've been cheated while eating, or even less if you've lost your wallet or had something stolen while eating at a restaurant. Getting scammed or stolen in Japan is extremely rare.

I think it all comes from, the Japanese people from childhood to cultivate the spirit of craftsmanship, Japan is a life-long employment system, the enterprise is a life-long employment of workers, so it fosters the workers to treat the work of absolute loyalty, rigor, obedience and meticulous. From a small aspect, the Japanese people do things with a kind of craftsman spirit.

In Japan, such as 60 years of focus on making sushi, 50 years of focus on steaming rice, and other examples, are present in many Japanese catering tuck stores.

Japanese people talk about "only one thing in life", so for many chefs, cooking is his life, he wants to do better and better, more and more perfect, rather than today opened a restaurant to make a little money, the big thing is to close down, and then go to run a drop tomorrow.