Culinary is a relatively luxurious hobby, especially if you are the “forgotten” type and always want to find the finest delicacies. Food that costs thousands of dollars is nothing new, here are 15 of the high-end dishes that are sold at exorbitant prices.
Matsutake or Tung Nhung is a species of mushroom found in many parts of the world, but usually distributed in year-round cloudy, snow-covered forests with high humidity in Japan, Korea, Korea, and Russia. .. This is also a precious mushroom in Chinese and Japanese cuisine.
According to master chefs, matsutake mushrooms have a “rich autumn” flavor with a fleshy texture and sweet aroma. Meanwhile, this mushroom is very popular with the aristocracy or members of the Japanese Imperial family.
This is a mushroom that is very popular with members of the Japanese Imperial family.
In the Japanese market, after processing, Matsutake mushrooms can cost up to ,000/kg (more than VND 46 million). The reason is so expensive because the habitat of this fungus is gradually depleting, leading to a decreasing supply. The total production of this mushroom in Japan is currently less than 1,000 tons/year.
Once considered a food for the low-income, but now, the greasy oysters living in Coffin Bay, Australia, have become a luxury food.
Close-up of a large, greasy oyster from Coffin Bay, Australia.
With a larger than normal size because Coffin Bay oysters are farmed for 6 years. They are more meaty than normal oysters, even costing close to 100 USD/fish.
Da Hong Pao is the name of a type of oolong tea that grows only in the mineral-rich rocky soil in the Wuyi Mountains, China. The name of this tea is roughly understood as “big red robe” related to the local legend.
In 2002, a tycoon spent nearly 28,000 USD (nearly 650 million VND) to buy 20 grams of this legendary tea. Although tea drinking culture has existed in China for a long time, this “heavenly” price makes many people surprised. Therefore, this is also one of the most expensive teas.
Da Hong Bao tea has many prices, but only the tea leaves picked from the old tea tree are rare and expensive.
But when coming to the land of Wuyi, visitors will be surprised by being able to buy Da Hong Pao tea at many different prices and much more affordable. Experienced people said that the old and expensive tea with leaves cut from the original tea tree is rare. As usual, its price is now “softer” a lot.
The Araucana is a type of chicken from Chile that lays blue eggs. In Tocquevill (New York), a plate of Aracauna eggs consists of just one soft-boiled egg served with risotto (Italian rice in a creamy broth) and your choice of tagliatelle or gnocchi (usually made with flour, potatoes, and cheese). . However, this dish is quite “bitter” for $ 100, probably because the eggs are decorated with purple Perigord truffles.
Going to Le Parker Meridien restaurant, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a scrumptious Frittata made with Sefruga caviar (for 30 grams, about 65 USD), 6 eggs, a lobster, shallot leaves and fresh cream. If you don’t want to spend up to ,000 on this dish, you can choose the cheaper version for $ 100.
The special cake of the fast food truck 666 Burger consists of Kobe beef stuffed with foie gras, topped with Gruyere cheese and caviar, Truffle mushrooms, lobster and drizzled with a special sauce made from mink coffee beans and wrapped in gold coated paper.
This is a hybrid cantaloupe that is grown only in greenhouses in Yubari on the island of Hokkaido (Japan). These melons are the perfect match between their parents: succulent like Earl’s Favorite and sweet like Burpee. People often describe eating Yubari melon as eating cantaloupe on the tip of the tongue, watermelon in the middle of the tongue, and the aftertaste belongs to pineapple.
This melon variety can be grown elsewhere, but is only called the Yubari King melon if you grow it in Yubari. Each fruit sells for 50-100 USD, but the first batch of round melons of each season can be auctioned for up to 26,000 USD / fruit.
The hops are also known as hops because they have been used to give beer a bitter taste since the 17th century. People grow hops on trellises and they will produce 20-50cm long shoots after just one week.
The harvest season for hub feathers (long buds, not buds) takes place only for a short time (in March-April every year) before they have time to develop into flowers. People look forward to this event so much that the first batch of buds is often auctioned for around 1000 Euros (27 million VND) per kg.
You can eat gold. They have no nutrients but are also not harmful (if you only eat a small amount and don’t choke). Eating gold is merely a way of enjoying wealth. Margo’s Pizzeria in Malta sells 35cm diameter pizzas topped with gold leaf and truffles.
White truffles (alba madonna) are the most expensive mushrooms in the world because they are rare and hard to find. The complex flavor of this mushroom has been described as “musty, garlic, natural gas, cheese, onion like but not onion, cabbage, earth and heaven”.
Paired with truffles are mozzarella cheese made from Campania water buffalo milk (in the west coast of Italy) and 24-carat gold leaf. The restaurant advises diners not to eat tomatoes because their acidity will spoil the truffle flavor.
This pizza is sold for 1,800 Euro (about 50 million VND).
Alcohol has long been considered a privilege of the wealthy. The production and enjoyment of wine is also so complex that there is a big difference between the same wine produced in two different years. The Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (France) covers 16,000 square meters and produces 3500 bottles of wine per year, of which only 500 are Grand Cru. The 2005 Grand Cru was labeled ,800/box of 12 bottles (equivalent to 3/bottle or 5 per glass). But do not rush, in the top list, Grand Cru 2005 is also considered to be of average quality. A bottle of Grand Cru 1990 was sold for 10,953 USD in May 2011 (ie about 60 million VND for a premium glass – who dares to say that wine is not a specialty of the rich?).
Here is an introduction to sushi ingredients from the chef’s own Facebook:
“12 year old Italian balsamic vinegar, Japanese rice, 70 year old purified water, Muscovado sugar, Norwegian pink salmon, pink roe, cucumber, mango, foie gras, sea cucumber (smoked and then soaked and steamed) ), whole crab meat, wild saffron, mayonnaise with butter, 12 Palawam pearls and 4 VVS quality 0.2 carat African diamonds”.
You can eat pearls and diamonds or you can keep them for other purposes. There’s one small detail that Araneta forgot to mention: each 0 piece of sushi is wrapped in 24-carat gold foil.
Chocolate truffle (chocolate mushroom) is a way to order chocolate in the form of small balls, usually with cream or jelly filling. However, Madeleine Truffle actually uses mushroom ingredients as the filling.
This mushroom grows in the Perigord region of southwestern France and retails for 3,940 Euro/kg (about 100 million VND). Perigord mushrooms will be dipped in 70% Valrhona dark chocolate along with sugar, cream, Indonesian vanilla and pure Italian mushroom oil. The entire filling is then covered with cocoa.
Knipschildt, a chocolatier genius in Connecticut, hand-crafts Madeleine Truffles per order for 0 for a 60-gram ball. Orders will be shipped worldwide for free within 14 days, including gift wrapping service in a silk bow box.
This ham comes from a small area on the Spain-Portugal border, where black pigs grow up entirely by eating acorns. This makes their meat taste completely natural and not affected by any chemicals. Unlike the usual Iberian black pigs that are fattened with barley, oats, and corn (their meat is also very expensive), these special few pigs are freed in oak groves where they can run around naturally. Running also makes their meat more special).
The hind legs of the pig are salted for 2 weeks, then dried for up to 3 years, and finally thinned before enjoying. It was not until 2007 that this type of ham was exported to the US for about 2 million VND for 1 pound (0.45kg).
The name may not sound very appetizing (in English, the word “donkey” – “ass” also means “butt”), but the makers guarantee it is the best cheese in the world. Each kilogram of cheese requires 25 liters of raw milk, and all the cheese comes from only about 100 Balkan donkeys in Western Serbia.
One food critic tried donkey cheese and said he was “blown away by the power of taste. A sweet, leerdammer-like flavor on the palate and finished with a tomato-salty parmesan cheese that really paralyzes the salivary glands.” Perhaps it is this impressive taste that has “blown away” the price of donkey cheese up to 700 USD / pound (about 15 million VND / 0.45kg).
This dessert is sold exclusively at Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York City. This restaurant is quite special because it sells everything you like, including the chair you are sitting on. Everything in the building has a price tag. Except for restaurant ownership, you can buy anything, especially specialty desserts only available here.
To enjoy the Golden Opulence Sundae , you must order 48 hours in advance for the restaurant to find the ingredients: vanilla ice cream from Tahiti and Madagascar, Amedei Porcelana chocolate (one of the most expensive chocolates in the world) and 24 gold leaf. more karat. The ice cream is then added with a variety of fruits/nuts such as: Japanese persimmon, pineapple, peach, grape, almond (dipped in gold), cherries… Additional decorations are golden snowflakes and a few flower petals. It takes up to 18 hours to carve. Even the spoon you use to eat ice cream is plated with 24-carat gold and inlaid with diamonds (after the meal you can also bring the spoon and glass back as a souvenir).
And the best thing? This entire cup of luxury ice cream will only cost you 00.