Dome, a leading restaurant in Damascus, runs a popular sushi buffet on Fridays, when customers happily pay $38 for a meal, a hefty amount, seeing that Syria’s annual GDP per person is a mere $2,700.

大马士革顶级餐厅Dome每周五的寿司自助餐上总是人头攒动。食客们很乐意为这样的自助餐花费38美元——考虑到叙利亚的人均年总产值只有2700美元，这可真是价格不菲。