Bird-Nest-Soup $10-$4535

Most expensive soup is the Bird’s Nest soup. My mom was able to drink this as medicinal supplement. My aunt actually has a business in producing bird’s nest. I wasn’t able to taste it though. Known as the ‘Caviar of the East’, these valuable nests are actually made of hardened strands of the birds’ unique glue-like saliva – that’s right, spit soup. As you would expect, harvesting the nests of these cave-dwelling creatures is a tricky job, albeit one that has been refined over around 400 years. The birds nests come in a variety of colours and though all are prized for their culinary, nutritional, medicinal and even aphrodisiacal properties the rarer, and more expensive, ‘blood-red’ nests are prized most of all. Price per pound is $910 to $4535