Hamburger examples include the rice burger, where the bun is made of rice, and the luxury 1000-yen (US$10) "Takumi Burger" (meaning "artisan taste"), featuring avocados, freshly grated wasabi, and other rare seasonal ingredients. In terms of the actual patty, there are burgers made with Kobe beef, butchered from cows that are fed with beer and massaged daily. McDonald's Japan also recently launched a McPork burger, made with U.S. pork. McDonald's has been gradually losing market share in Japan to these local hamburger chains, due in part to the preference of Japanese diners for fresh ingredients and more refined, "upscale" hamburger offerings.
Mosa Meat cost $325,000 to produce and was funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The production process took three laboratory technicians three months to grow the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that made up the burger. In July 2018 Mosa Meat announced that it had raised a €7.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by M Ventures and Bell Food Group. Mosa Meat estimates that commercial availability of cultured meat could happen around 2021 in high-end restaurants at first, at around $11 per hamburger. Mosa Meat Mosa Meat is a Dutch food technology company, headquartered in Maastricht (the Netherlands) creating