Have you ever noticed?!
Have you ever noticed?
how much more expensive pasta dish compare to noodle dish? i mean they literally the same, yet a plate of pasta can cost up to $18 - $20 while most asian noodle dish cost under $10? if you think italian gives you more, think again, a hearty house special pan fried noodle (with meat, fish, shrimp, veggie) with large portion only cost around $8? what do you think of that? italian oversold or asian undersold?
Answers: Ha, my boyfriend says it's because Chinese people know the prices like the backs of their hands and would never stand for being overcharged - he's Cantonese, so I suppose he can get away with saying things like that.
I think, at Italian places, they're charging for the ambiance as much as they are for the food. Italy is associated with fine wine, romance, and a slower pace of life. Asian stereotypes don't tend to have that cachet.
Then again, I think Asian food tastes better, it's often healthier, and it's cheaper - who can argue with that? As a rule the ingredients the Asian stores use are cheaper, in my view. It probably has to do with two things. First Italian places can get away with high prices... chuckle. Second and probably the real reason is not the food cost so much as the overhead. Small Asian restaurants are still family owned and the whole family works. Also Asian restaurants aren't as likely to be in high priced real estate. people think of Italian food as being hearty and filling..thus more money for more food. I still love a plate of Lo mein Italian over rated
I prefer shrip lo mein, one pt. 3.75. I lived in Europe for almost 20 years and a really good pasta dish would cost an average of $5-$10 max. A really good pizza would cost around the same. Both Pasta and Pizza are at least 100 times better than anything served in the USA, where they use the cheapest ingredients and shortcuts to maximize profits.
In asia, rice noodles are common everyday meals.
There is no justification on how the Americans want to take a pasta dish or pizza and add another $10 to the price tag, none at all. Americans are being taken to the cleaners. 18 to 20$? I hope some other Italians living in Italy will read your question, so somebody will perhaps stop whining about prices in Italy! :) [in Italy a dish of Italian pasta generally cost less then 10$]
Anyway remember hat true cost of "raw materials" are responsible for no more that 10 or 20 % of total final cost you have to pay, so such price gap came from other reasons... That's always and everywhere true, not only about food. pasta then to be bigger than noodles. So I think it makes people feel like they are eating more. depends on what is in it and who is selling it.