Tam Kah Shark's Fin Restaurant,
16 Upper Cross Street, Tel: 6223-1611, and 27 Smith Street, Tel: 6225-1059
This Cantonese dish is usually served on special occasions such as Chinese New Year. The restaurant uses premium ingredients like a 16-head dried abalone from Japan ($1,700), quality bird's nest from Indonesia ($280), 30-year-old fish maw from Australia ($1,200) and shark's fin from Norway ($680).
2. Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne Mooncakes, $888 for a box of eight
These mini snow skin mooncakes have a Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne-infused Swiss chocolate truffle embedded in them. The champagne is a premium brand that costs more than $500 a bottle.The mooncake skin is also infused with the same champagne and a piece of edible gold foil is used as embellishment. Only 25 boxes are available and 10 have been sold.
3. Otoro Sashimi, from $65 for four slices
Akashi Japanese Restaurant, The Paragon, Tel: 6735-8887, Tanglin Shopping Centre, Tel: 6732-4438 and VivoCity, Tel: 6376-9972
Marbled with fat, every slice of this premium tuna belly, which is 0.3cm thick and weighs about 15g, melts on your tongue.
The restaurant, which has an office in Tokyo, flies in the tuna belly from Japan's famous Tsukiji Wholesale Market twice a week.
4. Smoked Salmon With Osetra Caviar, $150 with a 50g tin
Saint Pierre, 3 Magazine Road,
01-01 Central Mall, Tel: 6438-0887
This decadent appetiser is not on the restaurant menu but diners can ask for it. Savour the caviar from Bordeaux, France, slowly because it's gone in three mouthfuls.
It is accompanied by premium Balik smoked salmon from Switzerland. The restaurant gets, on average, one order for it weekly.
This flaky, 350g palm-sized pie is stuffed with shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish maw, conpoy, dried Japanese mushrooms, chicken breast and pork tendon. The cafe sells eight on average every month, and it must be ordered two days in advance.
Additional reporting by Lin Xinyi
Photos: Tam Kah Shark's Fin Restaurant, The Oriental Singapore, Akashi Japanese Restaurant, Saint Pierre, Orchard Hotel
1. Pen Cai, $5,000 for a pot, which serves 10
2. Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne Mooncakes, $888 for a box of eight
3. Otoro Sashimi, from $65 for four slices
4. Smoked Salmon With Osetra Caviar, $150 with a 50g tin
5. Heavenly Pie, $60, serves one
