A Japanese friend once said it's easy to copy, the Japanese stuff. I agree, to a certain extent. When you look at restaurants such as this, for example. Many years ago when I first arrived in London I craved for an izakaya, now there are all kinds of "izakaya" popping up.
Throw in some trendy tablewares, wooden desks, pictures with kanji on the wall, fancy presentation of the food, probably some bonsais and plants and matcha thingys and etc., in this case, a receipt in a manga and there you go, you have a Japanese restaurant.
But it's lacking, the shell is always easy to copy but never the essence, you can always have the pretense but not the soul.
People just don't know jack do they, okay just take the money and go.
Meh.
