Once in a lifetime meals : asians are splurging on food , from truffles the size of soccer balls , to thomas keller 's $ 835 dinner , dining with a prince , and even a simple , but expensive , bowl of beef noodles that takes more than one week to prepare .
Even white truffles , the prized culinary delicacy , could not escape the slump .
即便是食中珍馐松露也难逃贬值的命运。
Each region boasts divine local specialities try truffles ( black in umbria , white in piedmont ) , asparagus from the veneto and sicilian capers .
意大利每个地区都有其特产松露(翁布里亚的黑松露,皮德蒙特高原的白松露),以及威尼托西西里岛的竹笋。
At london 's fortnum & mason , for example , sparkle-encrusted trees revolve to display a mouth-watering excess of champagne , truffles and other culinary delights .
At the moment , the plant imports large blocks of chocolate from across the atlantic to make into its " lindor " truffles , but according to peter breed , the engineering manager at stratham , the operation expects to begin processing its own cocoa beans into chocolate in the first quarter of 2010 .