Record Y56.49 mil paid for single tuna fish at Tokyo auction (Oh Japan)
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Record Y56.49 mil paid for single tuna fish at Tokyo auction (Oh Japan)
TOKYO —
A deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out 56.49 million yen ($736,500) for a tuna at Japan’s Tsukiji fish market on Thursday, smashing the record price for a single bluefin.
The 269-kilogram fish was caught off the coast of Japan’s northern Aomori Prefecture in the first auction of the year.
The figure dwarfs the previous high of 32.49 million yen paid at last year’s inaugural auction at Tsukiji, a huge working market that features on many Tokyo tourist itineraries.
Thursday’s winning bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, president of the company that runs the popular Sushi-Zanmai chain.
At around 210,000 yen per kilogram, a single slice of sushi could cost as much as 5,000 yen, but the firm plans to sell it at a more regular price of up to 418 yen, local media reported.
“The flesh is colored in magnificent red and the quality of fat is very good,” Kimura said. “It is very delicious. The taste is unbeatable.”
A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner bought the previous year’s record tuna, and Kimura added: “I wanted to win the best tuna so that Japanese customers, not overseas diners, can enjoy it.”
Bluefin is usually the most expensive fish available at Tsukiji.
Emiko Misumi, a 44-year-old woman who tasted a slice, said: “This tuna is so fatty and very delicious.”
“It was sweet even without sugar or sake. It was a very delicate sweet taste,” said another female customer Noriko Nakai, 63.
Decades of overfishing have seen global tuna stocks crash, leading some Western nations to call for a ban on catching endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna.
Japan consumes three-quarters of the global catch of bluefin, a highly prized sushi ingredient known in Japan as “kuro maguro” (black tuna) and dubbed by sushi connoisseurs the “black diamond” because of its scarcity.
“You know, good things like this are appreciated in the whole world,” said 22-year-old male customer Hirotaka Higurashi when asked about the overfishing issue. “There is nothing we can do about it.”
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Picture is broken dude...Come on man I wanna see the big fish...
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How is that possible when it shows up for me?
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HOLLY MOLEEEEEEEEEEEEE
That thing is huuuuuuuuuuuge. I bet it was delicious indeed.
That thing is huuuuuuuuuuuge. I bet it was delicious indeed.
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MvRaM wrote:How is that possible when it shows up for me?
You see how often it does that to me right?
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^yeah idk whats going on.
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Maybe it's blocked for some areas in the world? idk
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