We have already dealt with the Japanese Cooking Classes and of the recent research (Read the article) market that sees precisely the Japanese Cuisine among the most successful ones in Italy, especially in Rome and Milan.
A trend that gives reason to a culture that has rightfully entered the mores of big cities, which are increasingly open to Eastern culture, especially at the dinner table.
Also among the novelties of the moment are the sushi boat That is, a Japanese restaurant on a boat. The first example of this brilliant entrepreneurial idea related to catering comes from Ponza, where Murakami, a floating sushi restaurant, was born.
Actually calling it that is quite reductive: the innovative gastronomic-maritime project has as its location a charming nineteenth-century gulet off the waters of the Bay of Frontone.An exotic tone, with a maritime, pirate and summer atmosphere, which comes alive with the flavors and colors of the Japanese cuisine And is inspired by pirates Wako Japanese, who patrolled the Korean and Chinese coasts.
The idea of the Murakami is from Francis Santilli, a young Roman entrepreneur, creator of the first Avocado Bar, in Monti, and of Terrazza Glaciale, the sky ice bar in Trastevere.
The new floating restaurant will serve sushi and oriental food to those who come aboard daily with nonstop hours, but a delivery service via dinghy is also planned for boats moored nearby.
The sushi boat menu.
Murakami's menu is a tribute to gastronomic contamination. Among the dishes served, in fact, are:
- sushi
- Burger rice, with two discs of Japanese rice instead of the classic bun
- wako poke bowl, exotic Hawaiian-inspired raw fish salad bowls
- sushi donuts, already popular in the U.S.
- sushi burrito
- sea food
- Tiki, inspired by Japan, made with Nikka whiskey, yuzu, cold sake, beer sugar and spice liqueur.
What if the cJapanese cooking bears Would they be done by boat? That might be an idea for the future. Meanwhile, editions of the master of Japanese Cuisine by Italian Food Academy.