Macau casino mogul bids $330,000 for 2 white truffles at auction

[somone]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/897933--macau-casino-mogul-bids-330-000-for-2-white-truffles-at-auction

Macau casino mogul bids $330,000 for 2 white truffles at auction
The Associated Press

MACAU — A Macau casino mogul has bid $330,000 for a pair of white truffles, including one weighing nearly a kilogram. That matches the record price he paid at the same event three years ago for one of the giant tubers.

Billionaire Stanley Ho made the winning bid Saturday at a charity auction. The combo also included a truffle weighing 400 grams (about 14 ounces). The auction was staged at Ho's Grand Lisboa hotel in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, with bidders participating simultaneously in Rome and London through satellite link.

In 2007, Ho paid $330,000 for a white truffle unearthed in Tuscany weighing 1.497 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds).

Ho is best known for his casino monopoly in Macau, a gambling enclave in southern China near Hong Kong.

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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2026406,00.html


This 1.6-lb. white truffle sold for $150,000 in 2009

[LisaL]

1. He must really like his truffles.

[Hannah Bell]

2. that's 28 $12k/year jobs. no doubt mushrooms for fancy omelets are a "higher use" for the money.

notice they're carrying the mushroom in on some kind of velvet pillow.

versailles & the sun king & our times -- besides more people, what's the difference?

[madmax]

4. Those mushrooms go with

his Golden Eggs omelet.

:eyes:

[Toucano]

3. Uhhm...where can I score some white truffle spores and a bit of manure?

I can't tell you why I want them. It's a secret.


I'm good in the manure actually. Just send spores.

[MicaelS]

5. I swear to gawd, when I first read the title

I read it as "Macau casino macaw bids $330,000 for 2 white truffles at auction"

I thought, "Oh shit, there's one bird that's in trouble." :blush: :hide:

[ruggerson]

6. Good for him

It's a charity auction.

[Hannah Bell]

7. no need for charity to have a mushroom intermediary.

and if rich people didn't monopolize money, no need for charity.

[Vinca]

8. Wish I had white truffles growing in the back yard.