If your tastes range from prize-winning foie gras and the best Italian hams to James Bond's favourite cocktail ingredient or even fish bladders selling at HK$380,000 for 600 grams, then you are likely to find them at this year's Food Expo.
The five-day event is at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai from August 11 and this year's highlight will be the Gourmet Zone - featuring delicacies from more than 40 exhibitors.
Rarity will be the rule, as sellers display the utmost in luxury to attract mainland buyers, including the maws from a rare Malaysian fish weighing 20 kilograms.
'There's a market for this stuff from Southeast Asia, especially when prices of dried Japanese seafood spiked after the earthquake,' said Macy Liu Suk-man, of Hang Hing Prestige. 'Our family has had these for 12 years. They're going to be a hot item for many wealthy mainlanders.'
Other delicacies include premium Blue Mountain and Kopi Luwak coffee beans, Japanese seven-head abalones at HK$38,000 per catty, a HK$120,000 Puer tea cake made from the leaves of a 3,200-year-old tea tree and a 15-litre bottle of Haut-Chaigneau red wine priced at more than HK$20,000.
Meanwhile, more than 160 Japanese exhibitors will be flooding the hall with their ever-popular wares. This will be a 70 per cent increase on last year, said Benjamin Chau Kai-leung, deputy executive director of the exhibition centre.