It's just like something a great literary figure wrote: cabbages transported from one place to another are tied at the roots with red strings, hung upside down in front of fruit shops, and revered as "jelly vegetables"; wild aloe vera from some place, once it arrives elsewhere, is invited into a greenhouse and glorified as "aloe vera."
The beef from Wan City, once it reaches the Provincial City, is regarded by the locals as something from the countryside, no matter how much it's hyped, it's still seen as product from the countryside.
However, if this beef were from Magic City, even if it came from a village over a hundred miles away, it would be a different story. And if it were from abroad, regardless of which rural backwater it originated from, it would be perceived even more differently—with this understood, there's no need to elaborate further.
Because of such issues, even Will, the foreign chef, found himself downgraded along with the rest.
