As Heard On The Breakfast Bunch This Morning…

Well, us sushi fans can't complain about the cost of it, look how much it's worth!

A behemoth blue fin tuna sold for a record 32.49 million yen — or about $396,000 — in Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market on Wednesday, smashing the 2001 record when a blue fin auctioned for 20.2 million.

The fish, bought by a sushi restaurant in Tokyo's Ginza district and a Hong Kong sushi chain, weighed in at market at an incredible 754 pounds. That prices out to about $526 per pound wholesale and places it in the ranks of the most expensive foods in the world.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/06/giant-tuna-sells-for-nearly-400000-in-tokyo/#ixzz1AHL8L1kd

via Giant Tuna Sells for Nearly $400,000 in Tokyo - TIME NewsFeed.