Photos: Unique and expensive dishes in Vietnam Kobe beef noodle, King crabs, turtles and Dong Tao chicken feet are unique and expensive dishes in Vietnam.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Kobe beef noodle is priced at $50/bowl. It appeared in the menu of the Capital Park hotel in Hanoi several years ago, priced from VND750,000-VND850,000/bowl, 20 times more expensive than a conventional bowl of noodles. It is expensive because the beef imported from Kobe, Japan.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() But when the authorities stated that Kobe beef has not been officially imported into Vietnam, this cuisine disappeared. However, this restaurant now offers Wagyu beef noodle for VND450,000 ($23)/bowl.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() A restaurant on Ly Thai To Street in Hanoi sells a 200-300gr of Kobe beefsteak for nearly VND2 million ($100).
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Many people believe that eating anh vu fish will help them have luck. However, this fish is very expensive: VND2.9 million (nearly $150) per kilo.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() In mid-July 2012, a supermarket in Hanoi sold giant crabs weighing 2kg/crab, for about VND5 million ($250)/crab.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() This crab species is expensive because it only lives in very cold waters from 200-400 m deep like Alaska (USA), Russia, Japan, South Korea ...
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() One kilo of Canadian geoducks at some seafood restaurants in Hanoi is VND1.9 to VND2.5 million ($190-130).
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() The restaurants selling Canadian geoducks earn a great deal of money from customers who believe that eating imported geoducks could help enhance their vitality and sexual desire.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Even when many people have to tighten their belts, some rich men are willing to pay VND150 million ($7,500) for a meal processed from three gold turtles because they believe that these creatures are very rare and they absorb the spirits of heaven and earth.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Kim Ngan Ngu Thien restaurant in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi, sells gold gilded dishes.
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Referred to as the "ginseng of the ocean", 1kg of dried sea cucumber is priced for nearly VND2 million ($100).
![expensive cuisines, expensive food expensive cuisines, expensive food]() Shark fin soup is also extremely expensive. The price for a small bowl at restaurants reaches VND1.32 million ($60) and the price for 1kg of unprocessed shark fins ranges from VND10 million to VND20 million ($500-1,000).
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In early May 2014, a restaurant on Nguyen Chi Thanh road in Hanoi sold dishes processed from Dong Tao chicken at the price of VND1.1 million/kg and VND500,000 ($25) for one Dong Tao chicken foot. |
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