Japanese Restaurants Succeed By Gaslighting Sinkies Into Paying $200 For Pickled Ginger

While dozens of Japanese chains are collapsing under the weight of rent and logic, two brands have discovered the secret to immortality: making customers feel intellectually inferior.

Industry experts suggest that as long as a menu contains the word "Omakase," Singaporeans will willingly hand over their entire salary for three slices of tuna and a single edamame bean.

"Actually hor, I don't mind paying $300 for fish if the chef looks very serious and refuses to acknowledge my existence," said local diner, Tan Ah Kow.

The survivor restaurants credit their success to sourcing ingredients from the most expensive-sounding Japanese prefectures they can find on Google Maps.

"If I say it's from Hokkaido, they will pay triple, even if I just bought it from the Sheng Siong frozen section," whispered one manager.