Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Japanese businessman spends $1.8 million on
massive tuna
At the first auction each year at Tokyo’s largest
fish market, Toyosu, the successor of the famous Tsukiji market, some bidders try
to get an iconic item like tuna at however high the price is. This year, a businessman
who owns and runs a chain of over 50 sushi restaurants in Japan spent 1.8
million dollars for a bluefin tuna. Since the tuna weighed 276 kilograms, he
paid about 6,500 dollars per kilogram, or 65 dollars per 10 grams, just about a
piece of sashimi, including non-edible bone.
He surely pleased the fisherman who caught
the tuna. But will his customers have to pay the price, or is that part of his PR
activities? In either case, he didn’t spend as much as he did last year. It was
3.1 million dollars last year for nearly the same size of tuna. Presumably, he was
ready to pay more than 1.8 million dollars this year. He may keep the saving
for next year’s auction. Will there be a counter bidder next year?
Enjoy reading the article and learn about how
serious to get and serve the first tuna of the year in Japan.
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