A sushi entrepreneur has paid a record 510.3m yen (\u00a32.4m) for a giant bluefin tuna at a prestigious auction in Tokyo\u2019s main fish market.<\/p>\n
Kiyoshi Kimura, who styles himself the \u201cTuna King\u201d, paid the top price for the 243kg (536lbs) specimen, which was caught off Japan\u2019s northern coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d thought we would be able to buy a little cheaper but the price soared before you knew it,\u201d said Kimura after the pre-dawn auction. \u201cI was surprised at the price. I hope that by eating auspicious tuna, as many people as possible will feel energised.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 510.3m yen price at the new year auction was the highest since comparable data started being collected in 1999. The previous record was 333.6m yen for a 278kg bluefin in 2019 after the market moved from its traditional Tsukiji area in central Tokyo to a more modern facility. The top bidder last year paid 207m yen for a 276kg bluefin.<\/p>\n
Shortly after this year\u2019s auction, the tuna was butchered and turned into sushi for Kimura\u2019s restaurant chain, selling for about 500 yen (\u00a32.40) a roll.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve begun the year in a good way after eating something so auspicious as the year starts,\u201d 19-year-old Minami Sugiyama told Agence France-Presse from a table at a Kimura restaurant in Tsukiji.<\/p>\n
Fellow customer Kiyoshi Nishimura agreed. \u201cEven without dipping it in soy sauce, there\u2019s sweetness. And the richness, the texture \u2013 it just makes you feel happy,\u201d said the 40-year-old Shinto priest.<\/p>\n
New year tunas commanded only a fraction of their usual top prices during the pandemic as restaurants scaled back operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sushi entrepreneur has paid a record 510.3m yen (\u00a32.4m) for a giant bluefin tuna at a prestigious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-389768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}