Not too cheap for you to have a full and delicious meal. We often only need to spend a few dollars and give a few to a million dong to have a full, delicious and hearty meal. Or for a more luxurious meal with a wine party with friends and relatives, the number can add a zero. However, in the world there are extremely delicious dishes that can cost up to billions of dong. Just hear it, but there are rich people who are willing to spend their own money to enjoy these dishes to show their class. self. Their price is very cheap because their nutritional value is very high, they are very rare, and the harvesting process and regimen are very complicated.
Arnaud strawberry ice cream ($3,686,170 USD)
Sold at Arnaud’s restaurant in New Orleans (USA). This is a scrumptious strawberry dessert that includes vanilla ice cream, red wine sauce, whipped cream and mint. The high price of this dish is not only because the premium strawberries are carefully marinated but also because they are decorated with a 7.09 carat pink diamond ring.
Italian White Alba Mushroom ($156,521 USD/kg)
These expensive mushrooms are famous for their natural pungent taste. It is very difficult to grow, so it is considered a rare delicate spice in dishes that require a spicy taste. A Hong Kong investor once bought a 1.51 kg Alba mushroom for more than $160,000 and this became the most expensive mushroom in the world as well as the top food in terms of luxury.
Lancashire mince pie ($4,478 USD)
This meat pie is made up of Japanese Wagyu beef fillet, cinnamon-flavored Japanese matsutake mushrooms from China, black truffles and French green foot mushrooms, wrapped in gold leaf. In addition, Chateau Mouton Rothschild premium grape wine from 1982, priced at 38 million VND/bottle, is used as meat sauce.
Albino fish eggs ($34,956,522 USD)
Albino fish eggs are taken from albino sturgeon, an extremely rare fish that lives in the Caspian Sea (bordering Russia and Iran), where the water source is not polluted. To harvest the eggs of an albino sturgeon, people have to wait an average of 8-10 years. And to get 1kg of eggs, people have to harvest up to 5kg of eggs because 80% of them are lost through processing.That’s why the price of albino fish eggs is very high, up to 9,100 USD (more than 212 million VND) per kilogram and is only available to special customers. There is even a company in Iran that set a Guinness record when selling fish eggs for $34,500 (more than 805 million VND) per kilogram because the fish they caught was 60-100 years old
Golden Cannoli ($24,347 USD)
This world’s most expensive cannoli was created by chef Jasper Mirabile. This cake comes with a diamond necklace and 1999 Louis Roederer Cristal wine. However, you can purchase the gilded cannoli without the diamond necklace separately for $50 less.
Almas Caviar ($25,000/box)
Almas caviar is an extremely rare item from Iran. Caviar is already an expensive item, Almas caviar is even more expensive because of its scarcity. The only store currently selling this food is Caviar House & Prunier in Picadilly, London. Each kilogram of caviar is housed in a box made of 24 karat gold with a selling price of $25,000. If you just want to enjoy their taste, you can choose to buy a small box for $ 1,250.
Black Wave ($5,913)
Densuke black watermelon is one of the most expensive foods in the world. Black watermelon is known as the king of watermelons and is a specialty of Hokkaido, Japan. The outer skin of the melon has a natural glossy black color that is very beautiful, luxurious, and has a sweet taste that is difficult to see in other fruits of the same type. Although it is so expensive, it is not always available for sale. Because each harvest is only a few dozen fruits, each year only about 10,000 black watermelons are harvested.
Samundari Khazana curry ($3,200/serving)
Bombay Brassiere restaurant has created a special curry just for the winner of the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” that includes Devon crab, white mushrooms, Beluga caviar plated with gold leaf. There are also gold-covered Scottish lobsters, abalone and lots of fish roe.