Food is different, expensive and not very. But gourmets have long invented some incredible delicacies that, for various reasons, cost space money.
This is mainly due to their rarity, and for one portion of such food you will have to pay an amount comparable to the average monthly salary in our country, or even more. Moreover, it is far from a fact that you will like the taste of such a delicacy in general.
Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. This is the stamens of a plant that belongs to the crocus family. Its price (about $ 6,000 per kilogram) is so high because it is made by hand. To make 1 kilogram of saffron, about 500 thousand stamens are required.
Albasa beluga caviar Almas is generally the most expensive food in the world, because albino beluga caviar is extremely rare and this fish is very rare. This delicacy is packaged in 100 gram cans made of 24 carat gold. The cost of one jar reaches $ 25,000.
Matsutake mushrooms. Their rarity is the reason for the price of $ 1000-2000 per kilogram. These mushrooms come from Japan, and grow in several Asian countries, but their numbers have been significantly reduced by insects that destroy the trees in the shade of which they usually grow. And so far no one has learned to artificially grow Matsutake.
Japanese jubari melons are so rare that they are sold only at auctions. This is really very expensive food, and for one melon, it used to be laid out up to $ 20,000. From a botanical point of view, jubari are a hybrid of two varieties of cantaloupe, and they are incredibly sweet.
Vagu beef steak. It costs about $ 2800, and it is prepared from the meat of cows of the Japanese breed vagu. These cows are fed on a special diet, they are given beer, they are given a massage and they try their best to make the final product perfect.
Everyone knows that truffles are the most expensive mushrooms in the world. Especially white truffles, which are also sold only at auctions. On average, they cost several thousand dollars per kilogram, but the record-breaking large mushroom found in Italy was sold to a businessman from Hong Kong for $ 160,406. he weighed about 1.5 kg.
Incredibly expensive food you will not surprise? What about the most expensive coffee? The “mine Luwak” variety is produced on an industrial scale in Indonesia, the Philippines and South India, and its cost ranges from $ 250 to $ 1,200 per 1 kg. He is known for his specific processing method – coffee beans are first fed to musanga animals so that they are processed by enzymes in their esophagus. Then the beans that leave the body of the musangas undigested are allowed to make coffee.
Swallow nest soup is perhaps the most expensive food in China. The nests of these birds consist of almost one saliva, without any impurities or plant inclusions. The high price is simply explained: collecting swallow nests is quite a dangerous activity. Birds make houses on steep cliffs, where there is a high risk of breaking. The cost of 1 kg of raw materials comes to $ 3000, but a few servings of soup can be prepared from a kilogram of nests.
“Ayam cementi” black chickens are bred in Indonesia and the Philippines, but are not delivered to other countries because of the danger of the spread of bird flu. This breed is so rare that one chicken in there costs about $ 200. These chickens have black skin and meat, but they do not differ in taste from their ordinary relatives.
The most expensive tea in the world is called “Dahongpao”, which means “Big Reddish Robe”. It is produced from the leaves of only 6 tea bushes growing in China near the Tianxin Monastery. The age of these unique bushes has already exceeded 350 years.
