The most expensive piece of seafood at Tokyo’s largest fish market sold for a ton of money at an auction on opening day.
The gigantic bluefin tuna, weighing nearly 525 pounds, was purchased by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and a sushi chain for nearly $800,000.
Yamayuki and the sushi chain Onodera group have bought the most expensive fish in the new season market for four consecutive years.
“If we were going to do it, we wanted to win,” Yamayuki president Yukitaka Yamaguchi told a crowd of journalists who had gathered as the auction concluded.
The next stop for the large tuna, caught off the coast of Aomori prefecture, will be Onodera, a Michelin-starred sushi restaurant in the luxurious Ginza district of the Japanese capital, The Japan Times writes.
Although the sky-high price of the quarter-ton bluefin tuna did not set any records (in fact, it was the fourth-highest sale since records began in 1999), it was the highest price paid for a tuna in the bustling market. of Toyosu fish since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuna sold for more than triple the price of the most expensive fish sold at the first auction of the year in 2023, raising hopes of a market rebound after the pandemic put downward pressure on fish prices along with tourism and the Japanese restaurant business.
The massive 525-pound bluefin tuna sold at auction at Tokyo’s largest fish market for nearly $800,000. ZUMAPRESS.com The winning bid was submitted by seafood wholesaler Yamayuki and sushi chain operator Onodera Group, a team that has won the auction for four consecutive years. ZUMAPRESS.com The enormous bluefin tuna is destined to be served as sushi at Onodera, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Tokyo’s exclusive Ginza district. ZUMAPRESS.com
The record was set in 2019 when Kiyoshi “Tuna King” Kimura, owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain, paid 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million) for a 613-pound bluefin tuna at the annual auction. , and later admitted to reporters that he paid five times as much. he had waited.
“The tuna looks very tasty and very fresh, but I think I did too much,” Kimura said outside the market after the 2019 auction.
Categories: Trending
Source: vtt.edu.vn