By MAKOTO TAKADA/ Staff Writer
January 26, 2025 at 12:47 JST
Yoshitaka Nakao and Tomomi 7, which was crowned “queen” at a prestigious Matsusaka beef competition in Mie Prefecture and sold for 30.32 million yen ($194,000) at auction. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A Japanese restaurant in Dubai frequented by Arab royalty will hold a beef fair featuring cuts from a championship cow that sold for 30.32 million yen ($194,000) at auction in Japan.
The full course meal will be priced at 400,000 yen per person.
Tomomi 7, a 688-kilogram Matsusaka specimen from Mie Prefecture won the top “queen” prize at the 73rd Matsusaka cattle show in November.
It was selected for its “impeccable and superb degree of perfection.”
Asahiya Corp., a butcher in the prefectural capital of Tsu, paid the princely sum for the animal that stood 129 centimeters tall and was fattened for 1,082 days.
In Dubai, the most populous city of the United Arab Emirates and playground of the very rich, the number of restaurants selling Kobe beef is increasing, but Matsusaka beef, which is consumed mainly in Japan, is almost unknown.
For this reason, high-end Japanese TakaHisa restaurant purchased the beef, along with the cuts from Morimiyafuji 2, which won second place at the cattle show.
The full course meal to be served in February will include carpaccio, shabu-shabu, yukhoe Korean-style steak tartare, stew, chateaubriand steak, and sirloin cutlet sandwich.
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