When someone mentions ‘sushi,’ images of a wholesome meal, comprising vinegar rice and raw fish, is sure to crop up in our minds. However, the simple Japanese dish has now been revolutionised. And so much so that upscale sushi restaurants are serving sushi meals that are not just exquisite and loaded with flavours and variations but extremely costly too.
So, if you wish to know more about these, we are here to take you through some of the most expensive sushi meals served by various high-end places across the world. While most expensive sushi meals are part of Omakase menus (specially curated meals by expert chefs on requests) at expensive sushi restaurants and require prior reservations, some are available round the clock for sushi lovers. However, the most expensive sushi as per Guinness World Records is not a meal at the finest restaurant or a chef’s choice sushi dinner at a Japanese restaurant, but a standalone dish made in the Philippines, created by using premium pink salmon brought straight from Norway and foie gras (a duck based delicacy).
It was garnished with African diamonds and Palawan pearls and rolled using a 24-carat gold leaf. Created by chef Angelito Araneta Jr. in 2010, it was one of a kind and priced at USD 1,978.15. It was officially termed ‘world’s most expensive sushi.’ Going back to history, sushi originated in China in the third and fifth centuries (BC) and came to Japan only in the eighth century. Known as Narezushi earlier, it was a way of preserving rice and fish for a long time and was modernised much later.
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