Ramit Sethi explains why he skips expensive Tokyo restaurants for conveyor-belt sushi and yakitori instead. The key: be explicit about what you actually love enough to spend on, and what you can skip. Food choices reveal your real spending priorities.
You know what we're not spending a lot of money on while we are in Japan? Really fancy food. We have done fancy restaurants before in different places around the world, and it's fine. We appreciate it once in a while, but we realized that especially here in Tokyo, we would much rather eat at our favorite conveyor belt sushi or yakitori place, and we'd spend money elsewhere. I think it's awesome when I hear people who are really specific at what they love to spend a lot of money on and also what they're just like, it's not for us. We tried it. But it's not our thing.
