Roast goose (as distinct from roast duck) is a popular item in Cantonese-speaking areas (and some others, I guess). In E/SE Asia, and where the Chinese (Cantonese) diaspora has taken root. There are places in Hong Kong where the specialty is roast goose, and aficionados argue about the merits of this-vs-that place, and many prefer roast goose over the duck equivalent.
Duvel, how much is a whole roast goose at the better places in HK running nowadays?
Roast goose in HK - Google image set, Google answers set.
Discussions (general search) on the Asia & SE Asia sub-forum (nowadays rather inactive after the last "update") of another forum.
As for pricey food in a general sense in the US, good fish has always been "up there", hasn't it? Particularly in places where one cannot just walk down to the docks and buy stuff (when allowed) off the boats (if allowed). Here in Indy, relatively cheap fish (although undoubtedly farmed) can be had from Chinese groceries, including live fish; while good stuff from Western places (all dead fish) can run up to $25-30/lb or even more sometimes. The last piece of nice halibut I got from a well-regarded (Western) fish shop here at not much over a pound set me back about $40. Of course the source of the food and where one is and what the prevailing clientele is at a place influences what one pays for stuff. At the Farmers' Market nearest me, in season, a bunch of carrots (say, around 6-8 smallish-to-medium-sized carrots) would typically cost $3.50 – $4 depending on the farmer/grower. Very nice stuff, but a far cry in price from the stuff in a general conventional Western supermarket. And so on. I posted about lovely ramps I picked up from the tail end of the Indy Winter Farmers' market one year, from folks who harvested it from their farmland just south of Bloomington and drove up to Indy to sell them – at $5 a bunch , each of which were maybe a 1/2 lb to 2/3 lb each (at least initially) and I remember a poster here exclaiming how expensive they were and wishing he could have got that price from folks when he had them available in abundance on his (former) farmland. A lot of this stuff is relative in nature. I once had a frosty - but civil - discussion with a vendor/grower at one of the farmer's markets about the small bundles of small bok choy she was selling, for something like $3 per bundle or something like that, and pointing out that I could pick up heaps of very nice and fresh bok choy at my local Chinese grocery for the price of 2 of her bundles. She icily lectured me about how superior and organic and so on her stuff was, and how her labor as a small-scale farmer and so on affected what she charged - and I could choose NOT to buy from her. All true. And, in most cases, I would buy the non-organic stuff from my Chinese grocer instead.
