Eat it and weep: The world's most expensive meals

IT'S the sort of food most of us only ever dream about devouring once we've won the lottery or become millionaires.

But for a lucky few rich enough to do so, dining on luxury dishes like these are just in a day’s scoffing.
BBC Travel has come up with a list of the world’s most expensive dishes, and if the cost doesn’t make you lose your appetite alone, then nothing will.
First on the list is the Golden Phoenix Cupcake - made two days in advance by Dubai’s Bloomsbury’s café.
Costing a mere 3676 dirhams, or $957, the world’s most expensive cupcake is made from 23-carat edible gold sheets, organic strawberries and plenty of edible gold dusting.


At $957, the Golden Phoenix Cupcake is the worlds most expensive. Picture: Bloomsbury's/YouTube 

While still in Dubai and if you’ve got money to burn, stop in at the famous Burj Al Arab hotel and try its famous ‘27.321’ cocktail.
Costing 27,321 dirhams, or $7120, the drink is named after the hotel floor its served on and its height, and includes 55-year-old Macallan single malt natural colour whisky from Scotland.
Still feeling like something sweet? Then fly to New York’s Serendipity 3 where you can indulge in Frrrozen Haute Chocolate. It will set you back a mere $18,713 or $17,913 but does have 28 different kinds of cocoa and is also served with an 18-carat gold and diamond bracelet.
Or if you’re feeling more frugal you could always try its Le Burger Extravagant made with Japanese waygu beef, infused with 10-herb white truffle butter, and only costing $293 (US) or $280.

Angelito Araneta Jr of Karat Chef has created his extravagant Sushi Del Oriente. Picture: Facebook/karat Chef

 

Fancy something lighter? Take a nibble on Sushi Del Oriente - nigiri sushi wrapped in 24-carat gold leaves and five 0.20-carat African diamonds - served up by celeb chef Angelito Araneta Jr of Karat Chef.
Or if that doesn’t tickle your fancy hop on your private jet and fly to London to slurp on Kai Mayfair restaurant’s Buddha Jumps Over the Wall soup costing £108 or $162. Want to know what’s in it? Only shark’s fin, abalone, Japanese flower mushroom, sea cucumber, dried scallops, chicken, Hunan ham (a cured ham), pork and ginseng, according to BBC travel.

A bottle of Penfolds 2004 Block 42 Kalimna Cabernet Sauvignon will set you back a mere: $168,000. Picture: Supplied

 

For those not fussed on travelling overseas, you could always indulge in some good Aussie wine.
Australian fine wine Penfolds unveiled a red wine that will set you back just that $168,000. But you’ll want to be quick there’s only 12 of the 2004 Kalimna Block 42 cabernet sauvignon bottled.
or try an extravagant meal a bit closer to home by indulging in Silks’ braised abalone with webbing from duck’s feet at a cost of $1380 per kilogram at Crown’s high-end Cantonese restaurant Silks in Melbourne.
Alternatively there’s the $425 caviar service at Astral restaurant, Sydney, which includes 50 grams of farmed sevruga with traditional garnishes and blini.

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This is article shows us how people are taking luxury to the next level becoming a little eccentric at the Burj Al Arab hotel selling cupcakes that is literally golden this tasty treat will set you back an astonishing $957. The whole experience at the Burj Al Arab is about being over the top as the hotel itself is on a man-made island in my opinion a little over the top however that may be because I’m fairly certain that unless I win the lotto me and many others will never get to experience this but I would believe that if I had $957 to spare I would find better use for it. The hotel was built off course to put in Dubai to put it on the map for tourist but in my opinion having only available to multi-millionaires is not a big enough catchment for the landmark to become as famous as other well know man-made wonders of the world like the Eiffel tower or Sydney opera house.