The notorious Turkish steak chef Salt Bae has caused controversy again, this time by sharing a GBP 140,000 bill from his Abu Dhabi restaurant and saying “quality never expensive”.
Salt Bae – real name Nusret Gokce – who went viral in 2017 for his unique way of salting steak, shared the bill with his army of 49 million followers on Instagram on Thursday, 17th November.
The bill is from Salt Bae’s Nusr-Et Steakhouse in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and is dated 17th November.
Its total amount is a staggering AED 615,065 (GBP 140,656), with four servings of French fries priced at AED 180 (GBP 41.15), one Heineken beer going for AED 55 (GBP 12.57), and two Golden Ottoman steaks priced at AED 5,500 (GBP 1,257.39), with two, 300-gramme Golden Sirt steaks fetching AED 4,500 (GBP 1,028.77).
The punters also appear to have glugged down two bottles of 2009 Petrus for AED 200,000 (GBP 45,723.32) as well as other expensive drinks.
At the time of writing, it had 651,207 likes but the reaction appears to be mixed, to say the least.
User ‘vikavabik’ said: “170000$ the most stupid things ever to spend for the toilet. Yes it’s true, nice quality food should be in your daily menu. Organic 100%.
“But I think even the most expensive cow 🐄 will not cost this money congratulations for nusr_et to make good money and business in general . But please at least hide it from people. There is such a big difference from rich to poor. Think about people who didn’t even seem in their life meat steak. They are happy if they have at least bread” (sic)
While ‘pubgvideogames’ said: “If a person works for a lifetime, he cannot earn this money, this meal will not make you immortal. A person who steals the rights of others can only eat this ridiculous food.” (sic)
And ‘qaied_fuad’ added: “There are about 98 million people below the poverty line, homeless, and you are spreading lies?!!! what is the purpose behind publishing such things? I will unfollow you and I hope so from everyone to do same … shame on you” (sic)
Netizen ‘lika7890’ said: “This is very bad. It’s bad that you’re exposing it. When there is poverty all around.” (sic)
Meanwhile, ‘_the.noonlolita’ said: “This is lame, that amount of money will help a whole village from dying. This is horrible.” (sic)
