expensive food

This Tokyo rice ball takes 20 years to make and 2,000 yen (US$14.30) to buy, but is it worth it?

Taste-testing Manma’s premium onigiri in Shinjuku.

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Secret Kitchen bento serves Japanese flowers, birds, wind and moon in a box, but is it worth it?

Luxury meal has a lot to live up to.

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Our toughest blind taste test yet — can our writers pick out the more expensive mochi?

This rice cake challenge proved tough for even our most experienced mochi eater.

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We try a Le Lectier, the highest-quality European pear available in Japan【Taste Test】

This luxury pear is grown almost exclusively in Niigata. Is it worth splurging on?

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Can we pick out the Japanese premium priced persimmon in this blind taste test?

Premium vs. supermarket — we try to avenge our persimmon failings from five years ago.

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We make meat-stuffed matsutake mushrooms and learn something important about luxury food

A bargain deal on expensive ingredients makes our reporter think twice about her ideas of cooking. 

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This sumptuous strawberry dessert at a Tokyo hotel is almost too stunning to stand

After witnessing such strawberry peaks, how can we ever be satisfied with lesser desserts?

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Chuka Zanmai instant ramen offering ultra luxurious limited-edition two-meal seat for $50

Ever wanted to try instant shark-fin noodle soup?

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This ridiculously expensive Tokyo sandwich was worth every one of the 8,650 yen it cost us

Take-out from expensive restaurant in the most expensive part of Tokyo hurts the wallet, thrills the taste buds.

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What’s for dinner? A US$113/3.3-pound sushi bowl from one of Japan’s favorite cheap restaurants

Kappazushi is usually a friend to our budget…and maybe it still is with the Mega-size Crab and Salmon Roe Sushi Rice Bowl.

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Tokyo has a “phantom egg shop” with ingredients for the best tamago-kake gohan rice bowl ever

Don’t knock raw egg on rice until you’ve tried it, and especially until you’ve tried it like this.

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Eating a 6,000-yen (US$55) sandwich on the Tokyo sidewalk: The best way to wait for a new iPhone

Mr. Sato gets decadent by sustaining himself with caviar while camping in Ginza to try to be the first person in Japan with an iPhone 11.

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This is what a 10,800-yen (US$100) Tokyo sushi boxed lunch looks like【Taste test】

Mr. Sato goes mad with sushi power as he buys an ultra-luxurious sushi take-out set at one of Tokyo’s fanciest department stores.

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The most expensive fish sausage we could find in Tokyo divides our opinions, empties our wallet

When you send Mr. Sato out to do the shopping, sometimes he comes back with something crazy.

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We challenged ourselves to consume $886 worth of conveyor belt sushi

Will our heroic quartet be able to rack up an incredible 100,000-yen bill?!

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This ISN’T what a US$100 Tokyo sushi lunch looks like. It’s what a US$200 one looks like!

An ordering mistake sends SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato soaring into the bliss of his most rarified lunch ever as he learns there’s one sushi restaurant where not all omakase are the same.

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Is it possible to run up a 100,000-yen (US$885) bill at Tokyo’s cheapest Italian restaurant?

We gave our hungriest/thirstiest reporters a stack of cash for all the wine, prosciutto, and steak they wanted, but did they hit the six-figure mark?

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Taste-testing Japan’s crazy-expensive 3,240-yen (US$29) persimmon

We bought one of Japan’s shockingly expensive gift fruits as a gift for ourselves.

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This is what Tokyo’s ultra-premium 12,960-yen (US$117) seaweed looks like

SoraNews24’s Mr. Sato continues to live the high life (sort of) as he pairs the most expensive nori he could find with the cheapest rice available.

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2,500 yen for Tokyo ramen? High-end noodles in the high-rent Ginza district are totally worth it

Mr. Sato once again fails to secure a cheap meal, continues to win at lunch thanks to two gourmet ingredients.

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