Inside the world’s most expensive rice and why it costs Ksh16K per box
The world’s most expensive rice, trouble at Rome’s Trevi Fountain, plus how the hotel bathroom door situation has gotten out of hand.
Kinmemai Premium has been certified by Guinness World Records as the most expensive rice on the planet, but what makes it so special?
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Only 1,000 boxes of the Japanese grains are made each year, selling for around Ksh16,544 each. Top-class, award-winning rice varieties are selected for flavour and texture, before their enzyme levels are tested for vitality and “life force,” explains Keiji Saika, the 91-year-old president of Toyo Rice Corporation.
One chef told CNN the rice grains were shiny like “diamonds,” but read the story to find out how it did on the taste test.
Another unusual item is on the menu at Les KaneKIYOs restaurant in Hokkaido, Japan. With fatal bear attacks an increasing problem in the country, Chef Kiyoshi Fujimoto started specialising in bear meat cuisine.
He tells CNN that diners find it “less gamey than expected” and “refreshing taste.”
La dolce vita
There’s a new fee to throw coins in Rome’s famous Trevi Fountain, but when the new system started on Monday, not everyone was playing nice.
Paying visitors were forced to take cover when some tourists stood behind the barriers and flung coins down on them from above.
In a formerly quiet village in the Italian Dolomites, the Instagram-famous church of Santa Maddalena attracts up to 600 visitors per day in high season. Now, authorities are stepping in to slow the flow, introducing new restrictions aimed at curbing day-trip tourism.
The Winter Olympics got underway this week in the Dolomites and across northern Italy. One Italian ritual is essential for visitors to understand, be they athletes or tourists: the unwritten rules of Italian coffee.
