Though gourmet food also seriously suffers from diminishing marginal utility, generally speaking, you get what you pay for.
Take this high-end Wagyu beef fried rice, for instance. It indeed tastes better than ordinary beef fried rice, but the price difference between the two is almost a hundredfold. To say their tastes differ by the same ratio would be a blatant lie.
However, if this meal could make his cousin happy, then it was worth the price.
Li Ang still remembered the year he went back to his hometown for the New Year's celebration. While everyone else was asking about his job, whether he had gotten a raise, or if he had found a girlfriend, only his cousin asked if he was unhappy working alone outside.
Before they started eating, Li Ang suddenly suggested:
"Do you want to take a picture to chase a bit of the pre-meal ceremony feeling?"