Gastronomy

Rather than eating sandwiches, Japanese people use “bento”, which allows you to compose your meal with various ingredients contained in a box. Prepared at home each morning, it is more convenient to eat at work. Bento often consists in rice, fresh or macerated vegetables, and animal protein for a balanced meal. Gochikuru, Japanese delivery specialist, now offers its own version of the luxury bento, a wooden box in which the compartments correspond to the different parts of the animal, the whole set being shaped like an ox, offering a selection of delicious pieces of Wagyu beef (4 kilos in total) .



On the menu, for the tidy sum of 2 500 euros : beef rib, tender sirloin, tongue, glutinous rice, raw wasabi, lime, and a Yakiniku sauce made of Asian pears. For the record, Wagyu beef includes several breeds of Japanese oxen, including the famous and rare Kobe beef. At a time when war was raging in Japan, this massive and powerful ox was isolated, giving this breed a unique genetic purity. Weighing nearly 600 kilos, this overpriced beef can be distinguished by its tender marble-like meat, its low level of cholesterol and its butter flavor.This beautiful bento justifies its price by a quality meat from oxen fed with high quality diets, rubbed with sake and lulled by soothing classical music to avoid the nerves, hence their nickname "caviar of meat".