Accept to wait 30 years to eat famous Japanese beef sandwich

Meat & Delicatessen Asahiya, a famous butcher shop in Takasago, Japan has been making crispy beef buns since opening in 1918. Diners can come and order on the spot, but if they want to enjoy the food. The best cake Asahiya serves will have to wait. The beef sandwich here is so “hot” that many people accept to wait in line for years, even decades, to get their turn.

A shop in Japan that serves a famously delicious beef patty. Illustration from OddityCentral

Asahiya’s Kobe Beef Bread is already well-known in the Japanese culinary world, but its exclusivity recently gained more attention when a Twitter user posted on social media, about after a long wait. wait to be eaten. At the bottom of the post, many other people say that they have not even got their turn despite ordering a long time ago. One of them revealed that his Kobe beef sandwich delivery date is 2052. That may sound exaggerated, but Asahiya’s official website states that the waiting period is 30 years.

So how much does this excellent Kobe beef sandwich cost? It’s not really expensive, compared to other dishes, only 2,700 yen (about 21 USD) for a pack of 5 cakes.

Kobe beef is a world famous premium beef. Illustration from OddityCentral

According to the Meat & Delicatessen Asahiya website, making the croquette is a laborious process as the shop uses only the finest and rarest Kobe beef, with only 200 pieces being made per day. However, that amount is nothing compared to the needs of food enthusiasts. So the waiting list extends to 30 years, in the absence of delays.

Asahiya also serves many other delicious dishes, for diners who are not patient enough to wait for the “legendary” cake.

According to Phuong Kim