Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Expensive burger

A hotel in Indonesia has created a hamburger priced at twice the country's monthly minimum wage.

The Four Seasons Hotel is dishing out the hamburgers, which costs one million Indonesian rupiahs (£57), and it's made up of Kobe beef with foie gras, Portobello mushrooms, Korean pears, and comes with a side order of chips.

According to the hotel, 20 of the burgers have been sold since they were launched earlier this month.

'One burger has 225g (half a pound) of Kobe beef,' says Erwan Ruswandi, the chief of the restaurant offering the burger. 'We import all the materials, and they are high quality [which is why] it is so expensive.'

The minimum wage in most parts of Indonesia is as low as £20 a month.

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