A Pekingese walks with its handler in the Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y.

The dog won the blue ribbon in Best in Show.

A Pekingese walks with its handler in the Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Sunday in Tarrytown, N.Y.

(AP) — The flavor of the year at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show: Wasabi.

A Pekingese named Wasabi won best in show Sunday night, notching a fifth-ever win for the unmistakable toy breed.

He has that little extra something, that sparkle, that sets a dog apart," said Wasabi's handler and breeder, David Fitzpatrick, who guided the Peke's grandfather Malachy to the Westminster title in 2012.

And I'll have Champagne," Fitzpatrick, of East Berlin, Penn., said with a laugh.

Boy had come a long way to Westminster — all the way from Thailand, where one of his owners was watching from Bangkok, according to handler Rebecca Cross.

"He always makes us laugh," said Cross, of Gettysburg, Penn.

At age 9, he showed a bull terrier named Riley on Sunday alongside his parents, Kurtis Brown and U.S