Wealth BlogHullett House serves world’s priciest club sandwich

And now for something completely different. The world’s most expensive club sandwich, price HK$480, available at The Parlour restaurant at Hullett House in Tsim Sha Tsui until August 31.

How often do you consider the price of that humble staple of the hotel coffee shop and room service menu, the club sandwich? For those of you who have never eaten one, it’s a pretty bland stacked toasted sandwich combination of bacon, turkey or chicken, mayo, lettuce, sliced tomato and sometimes egg.

It needs to be eaten quickly or the toast goes cold and chewy, and once the lettuce and tomato have soaked through, the whole thing resembles a soggy brick that falls to pieces in your hands. They are usually served with a swizzle stick to anchor the three or five pieces of quartered toast together.

Usually they are garnished with a tired bit of salad and some potato crisps or French fries. Club sandwiches look much nicer than they taste, usually, and it is fair to say few people can eat one without dribbling some of the component parts down their front.

I’ve never understood their universal popularity. Chefs hate them: fiddly and messy to make and at half time during the football in any hotel the room service phone rings off the hook with male guests bellowing for a club sandwich NOW.