Top Luxurious Food That Will Empty Your Pocket Get your appetite bright because there are few foods that are delicious but very rarely affordable. These are luxurious and very expensive in their own way. 1. Saffron Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, its cost beyond $2000 per pound. Saffron is three stigmas and style of crocus flower. Each stigma and style has to be handpicked and it takes thousand flowers to make an ounce of saffron. The spice is used for coloring and subtle flavoring in food.
2. Beluga Caviar This one is the most expensive food in the world costing upto $5000 per kilogram. Caviar is fish roe eggs from Beluga Sturgeon ,mostly found in Caspian sea. It can take upto 20 years for Beluga Sturgeon to reach its maximum size and weigh upto 2 tonnes.The eggs are largest of the fish eggs used for caviar.Beluga usually ranges from violet to black, lighter shade costing more. Beluga caviar is generally served on its own as it has great taste of its own. For those who have not tasted it, it releases bit salty fishy flavor once you eat it. You can try this delicacy in Restaurants in Perth. 3. White truffles and Matsutake Truffles are underground fungus from Ascomycetes family and reputed for their high prices. They are found in Italy and France. It has a pungent odour similar to that of deep fried walnuts. They are served as thin slices on top of other food and also sold in the form of truffle oil.Matsutake is common name for mushrooms found in Japan.It can cost upto 2000$ per kilogram and yearly around 1000 tons harvest is done. 4. Kobe Beef Kobe beef is taken from Wagyu cattle in Japan. It is bred according to a secret and with firm traditions. This breed of cow is fed on beer and grain, hence gives very tender meat. The beef can cost upto 300$ per pound. This breed of cow produces more oleaginous and unsaturated fat.
5. Bird’s nest soup and shark fin soup. The bird’s nest soup is made from the Cave Swift bird by spitting. The chemicals are dried in air and made in form of nest. While cooking this nest is melted again and becomes gelatinous in texture. The shark fin soup is another quite expensive soup having odd taste. 6. Lobsters and oysters Lobsters live in the bottom of sand along the coast or in rocks and very difficult to find. Lobsters must be fresh as they are actually boiled alive and served with melted butter and has a marvelous taste. Another quite famous sea food is oysters. Oysters is name used for different types of mollusks found in marine or salt water. Oysters are served raw in their own juices with a dash of lime.