The first time i tastedrnshark-fin soup was at a business dinner a few weeks after I had moved to Hong Kong. Once favored by Chinese Emperors for its rarity, shark-fin soup-which can cost up to $100 a bowl-is now eaten at corporate celebrations and special occasions like weddings to demonstrate a host's good fortune. "It's like champagne," Alvin Leung, owner of Bo Innovation, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Hong Kong, says of shark-fin soup. "You don't open a bottle of Coke to celebrate. It's a ritual."
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