What a utter nonsense.

It is funny to see self-proclaimed experts make up in depth analysis to explain something quite simple. What is not so funny is that it always hints at the backwardness of Eastern Europe.

You fail to notice that a lot of these sushi bars in Eastern Europe (I too have noticed them) are amazingly cheap; smashing any hints at prestige.

The sheer force of globalisation and the presence of cheap labour and materials have given rise to the copy+paste+improve formula. For a fraction of the cost you can get a lot of sushi and there is a market demand for it. Before the inflow of culinary ideas a lot of restaurant entrepeneurs sport the national cuisine; even too a point that the market was saturated. Some have started to diverse to become more competitive. This is no different to what happened in Western Europe 20 years ago. For all the pretentious ways we think of ourself; shushi was not a household name in the 80's in Germany.

If you want to see a could case in point; go to Place Lux in Brussels. You will find a KEBAB shop run by a polish family. The Kebab is huge and cheap, yet I dont think you would dare to see it is prestigious?

But I am sure we can find a overly difficult theory to put polish migrants in a bad light; maybe they sell kebab because they want to pretend they are turkish immigrants?

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