Tenth place: Matsutake
Matsutake is to the Japanese what truffles are to the French, and is regarded as the ultimate delicacy among edible mushrooms. Matsutake mushrooms are mainly grown in China, Japan, Korea, the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden. It is rare not only because of its slow growth rate, but also because it is difficult to collect. Once the matsutake mushrooms open their mushroom caps, a large amount of their fragrance will be lost, so they must be dug out by the roots when they first emerge, requiring collectors with extensive experience.
Ninth place: Westin Hotel Bagel
This may look like an ordinary bagel on the outside, but it comes from a famous family and has a lot going for it on the inside. Qiankun. Frank Tujague, the chef of the Westin Hotel in New York, added a small amount of white truffle cheese and wolfberry Riesling wine jelly to this bagel. It is also blessed with white truffle, one of the most expensive ingredients in the world, so it is naturally worth a lot of money.
Eighth place: Lobster Omelet
Omelette couldn't be easier to make, and Norma Restaurant at Le Méridien Park Hotel in New York once launched a deluxe version of the omelette. An omelette made from six eggs is added with lobster meat and 10 ounces of Sevruga caviar to create a $1,000 lobster-filled omelette. There is also a light luxury version of this egg cake, which only adds 1 ounce of caviar and sells for $100. The high-end version of the omelette has sold 12 copies in history, while the affordable luxury version sells about 50 copies every year.
Seventh place: Kraft Wagyu beef eye steak
Japanese Wagyu beef is recognized as the best quality beef cattle in the world. Its meat has obvious marble patterns, also known as "snowflake meat". The best Wagyu beef comes from Kobe, where the Wagyu beef is fed beer and regularly massaged while growing to ensure tenderness. The price of a wagyu eye steak at Craftsteak restaurant in New York once reached as high as $2,800.
Sixth Place: Bombay Brashear Seafood Treasure Curry
Bombay Brashear created a dish for the winner of the British TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? A nouveau riche dish, this seafood treasure curry is loaded with ingredients, including Devon crab, white truffle, gold leaf Beluga caviar, gold-plated Scottish lobster, 4 abalone and 5 quail eggs.
Fifth place: Dominic Crolla 007 Royal Pizza
Dominique Crolla is a Scottish chef who likes to use pizza to create portraits of people. Although the producers of the 007 movies didn't commission him, he decided to create his own 007 Royal Pizza. The 12-inch pizza is topped with cognac-marinated lobster, champagne-soaked caviar, tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, prosciutto, venison and vintage balsamic vinegar. The most exciting thing is that the pizza is decorated with 24-karat gold flakes.
Fourth place: Black-skinned watermelon
Black-skinned watermelon is a rare thing, and the Densuke variety of black-skinned watermelon is even rarer and is only produced in Hokkaido, Japan. There are only a few dozen of this kind of watermelon produced each harvest period. The reason why it is so expensive is not only the scarcity of production, but also because of its perfect hardness and crispness. Thirdly, its sweetness is simply unparalleled. A 17-pound Densuke melon costs $6,100.
Third place: Yubari King melon
Compared to the mountains of melons in supermarkets, Yubari King can be regarded as an aristocrat in the melon world. It is the ultimate melon that consumers covet. Special auctions were even held to sell this melon. At an auction in 2008, there were more than 100 melons produced in Yubari City, Japan. The most perfect one was sold for nearly US$23,000. The buyer was a seafood restaurant operator.
Second place: Emmaus caviar
Emmaus caviar is an extremely rare food produced in Iran. Caviar is already a valuable ingredient, but the rarity of Emmaus caviar doubles its value. Finding a store selling this caviar is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The only known store where you can buy Emmaus caviar is Caviar House &Prunier in Piccadilly, London. The store's Emmaus caviar is sold by the kilogram, packaged in 24-karat gold cans, and costs $25,000.
If you just want a taste, you can buy a small jar, the price is US$1,250?
First place: Italian Alba white truffle