What To Buy In Japan.
Japan is the new Bali.
At 1 AUD to 99 JPY, everyone’s there with their family yelling “cheap, cheap, cheap.”
Just bear in mind, that feeling you have in Jakarta or Osaka, wallets filled with monopoly money, thinking you could snap up some abandoned house for $20k.
It’s the exact feeling Americans, Europeans, Shanghainese, Singaporeans, Taiwanese, and Hong Kongers feel about Australia.
Cheap, cheap, cheap.
It should be common sense by now that the net worth of a passenger is inversely proportional to the amount of luggage they carry.
It’s also ironic how airlines give a million kilograms allowance to passengers in first class when all they wear is a nice pair of leather shoes; thirty rows back, families, and students are busy building a Jenga tower with Rimowa suitcases, blue and red woven migrant IKEA Vuittons, and boxes of rice cookers.
The rice cookers.
I used to laugh at Asians with their Ta Tong’s.
Nowadays I laugh at Asians with their Zojirushi’s.
If you’d like to have some dignity in front of your children, do not buy rice cookers. They’ll get really confused, like, you refused to pay for a 5-star hotel for … this?
The Tiger and Cuckoo have much better support in Australia, a reason why most sushi restaurants in Melbourne use them. Remember, we don’t pay for the quality; we pay for the warranty.
The actual good Zojirushis need a transformer anyway. The overseas versions are like the Toyota’s they offload to Australia - basic as bitch.
Instead, buy:
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