DESSERT 14,500$!!!
The Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence @ The Fortress Resort and Spa ($14,500) // Galle, Sri Lanka. Now, this is a first-class dessert. It’s more of a delicacy, really, and probably the world’s most expensive act of satisfying a sweet tooth at that. The kitchen team takes a gold leaf Italian cassata, flavors it with Irish cream that’s infused with tender fruit, and then serves it with a mango and pomegranate compote as well as a bubbly-based Dom Perignon champagne sabayon. It’s then decorated with “a signature Fortress handmade chocolate carving in the shape of a local stilt fisherman clinging onto his stilt.” Somehow, that’s not even the highlight. What actually is the big finish is the 80-carat Aquamarine stone that comes with it, since the gem has a diameter as wide as a soup spoon. How the heck does anyone ever enjoy another dessert after eating this? You don’t.